jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Uncommon? Yes.. The newish beta-blocker meds are reported to work for a pretty large percentage of sufferers (85% or so, I think). If you look at the percentages across the different types of meds, I think you and I are in a relatively significant minority of people that can't find relief without narcotics.
Well, then you can explain that to the Shankaracharya himself who clearly disagrees with you:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uks3lIJ3wR0
I think Pharaoh does a good job at that, although it is quite old. Currently getting a remake though. Cultures: 8th Wonder of The World is leaning heavily into the society aspect as well. However I did find the controls to be extremely irritating by today’s standards
It's behind a paywall, but I was able to find it here.

https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/uw-grads-story-rev...

Looks like it was more the drug policy of the U.S. Air Force that lead this man to fall apart more than the droning of people far away.
If Uber can’t turn a profit then how did cab companies (essentially Uber but with a worse product, no software efficiencies, and bad UX) turn a profit for over a century?
> Oracle founder Larry Ellison noted that Uber’s app was less sophisticated than something his cat could have developed.

That is the equivalent of "I could build that in a weekend" that you often hear from inexperienced devs that have no idea what they're talking about.

In fact, we had the perfect experiment in Austin, TX, where a couple years ago the city essentially voted to kick out Uber and Lyft (required fingerprinting of drivers) before the state legislature passed a law overruling the city. There were lots of competitors that flooded in to fill the vacuum. They ranged from "barely if even functional" to "OK". I was even a big fan of Ride Austin because it was a nonprofit, but I'm not going to pretend its apps were anywhere close to Uber and Lyft's.
So many great talks at 31C3 this year, but particularly looking forward to this one, especially given the previous discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7829357

It does look like some of the talks at 31C3 are being subtitled in near-real time, it's evident in some cutaways showing a slightly delayed text feed underneath the presentation slides. Really nice to see.
Neel Krishnaswami wrote a quite readable description of the proof on his blog: http://semantic-domain.blogspot.com/2014/06/g-ontological-ar...
I lived there for a few months in the summer; the weather was perfect. I hear the rest of the year isn't as enjoyable, but neither is SF.
And, FWIW, it appears (to me, at least) that the Asia testing likely only happens from Japan, Hong Kong, and Singapore. I imagine the latency from any of those locations to "Central Asia" is probably pretty high anyways.
I'm sorry to be the one who has to point this out, but you have no idea what you are talking about.

http://www.skype.com/intl/en-us/security/universities/
No worries, publishing on the Internet for years has given me quite a thick skin. I'm also always willing tondo use counterpoints. It's the best way to refine an argument, or startup idea for that matter.
Why does Netflix even bother with DRM or studios bother to pressure Netflix to use it? By the time something's on Netflix, there's often already a decent quality torrent. Their customers aren't going to steal their videos and neither will pirates.
You can install Windows XP on a Macbook.
It's not even preinstalled, so it shouldn't be that difficult. Foxit and Sumatra PDF are both great choices.
WHM cPanel? Seriously?
I hear gunshots in my North Portland neighborhood - in one weekend 3 people were shot and killed this last summer. My neighborhood is the predominant black neighborhood in Portland. Now, I don't believe it's black/white but driven instead by poverty and lack of education, however these areas exist. Granted, even though I have heard gunshots and people have been shot I still consider this neighborhood relatively safe. I don't live in the "real hood" like you'll find in Chicago, LA etc, and the cops certainly aren't afraid to be here (they dropped a precinct a few blocks away to help with the crime rate).
The ongoing extreme volatility of bitcoin is the news here. If bitcoin backers want it to be taken seriously as a store of value the massive price swings need to be smoothed out. Otherwise, bitcoin will just be a purely speculative asset.
Maybe these publications are hesitant to comment because they realize they're not economists. They write and think about products. If we concede for the moment that, as product, Bitcoin is sound then we are left with what Bitcoin's role in the economy is. This is uncharted territory and lots of people have already been burnt being overly optimistic or pessimistic about them. But no one knows.

Because of this uncertainty, Bitcoin has had a major PR problem since the moment it went mainstream. And since the perceived value of a (quasi-)fiat currency means a lot, it has been a net negative for the future of Bitcoin. It has suffered under the weight of tremendous doubt, however slight.
This is how things worked in the Cold War. Country after country was swallowed up by the "Evil Empire." "Unpatriotic" intellectuals began declaring that something needed to be done to stop the totalitarianism. Unfortunately, by the time the masses were ready to listen to these intellectuals, it was too late. Everyone was frozen in fear and the only thing left to do was assimilate.

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. Doing something now is the only way to prevent things from getting worse. I just wish there was a clearly defined, nonpartisan plan to fight back (peacefully). The sooner someone can create this step-by-step plan, the sooner the masses will know what to do. It must be spelled out for them and packaged right, and maybe advertised on the Discovery channel (little joke).
Right, but as noted in the blog you link the application is still only exposed to 1x or 2x scale (where 1pt = 2px), and then everything is scaled back down.

On Windows the app is exposed to the scale factor (for better or worse): https://blog.qt.digia.com/blog/2009/06/26/improving-support-...
I'd venture to say just 40% of those pixels were sold to real ppl.
The best argument I heard against Bitcoin is the need for miners to continuously sell coins to pay their electricity bills, putting continuous downwards sell side pressure on prices. With a normal asset, buy & sell demand is roughly equivalent and prices are roughly stable. But with bitcoin if buy & sell demand by consumers are roughly equal the miners additional sell pressure will result in lowering prices.
So how do you decide what to sign up for?
The search feature you note is by far my favorite part. Finding good resources on very specific topics can be really hard using google, but delicious has always been an incredibly accurate source for those.
I'm not sure I'd be very interested in HDMI connectivity on a phone. I'm much more interested in the direction Apple seems to be taking with the AppleTV and AirPlay.

With HDMI on a phone, not only you have to go to your TV to plug your phone to it, but you then can't use your phone anymore or switch tasks easily. Also HDMI cables and connectors are usually pretty stiff which doesn't really work well with a light device. What I mean by that is that your device is kind of flying around on your TV stand until the cable finds a good position. (this doesn't happen with heavier things like a BluRay player)

AirPlay, in principle, (I haven't tried it yet) would bring the same benefits wirelessly.
Looks like Pinboard has gotten popular.

"Due to massive traffic today, imports may take a while to complete. Sorry for the delay!"
I'd settle for a well-written perl/python script.
He said he stopped reading.
I usually find the best wines run between $7-$14.

In fact my current favorite wine runs about $8-9. http://www.penfolds.com.au/brand_penfolds/wines/koonunga-hil...

And I've found this gem for under $12. http://wine90.blogspot.com/2007/12/zaccagnini-montepulciano-...
I am all over this.
I can't say I've run out of anything like this in years, no.

Why not order it on your phone at the moment you notice that you're running low? You can do that right now, without a special Amazon button.
GitHub Repository:

https://github.com/AZdv/meteoro
Is there some other reason that companies like Google and Facebook or trying to move away from open standards that does not involve money? I am trying to think if there is a good technical reason for doing this.
My understanding is that tablet devices will have some defaults to keep them closer to 8.1 than the desktop-friendly changes made for Win10. I am currently running Win10 and can confirm you are able to set the default behavior of the start menu to the 8.1 screen or Win7 menu behavior. Not sure if that addresses all of your concerns but it does seem like Microsoft understands at least some people enjoyed the start screen.
RMS now prefixes all his public emails with:

[[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]]

[[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]]

[[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]]
How to Hire Sales People: A Guide in 6 Steps

1. Build a great product.

2. Find people with a good attitude that are genuinely excited about the product.

3. Hire those people.

4. Give them the chance to talk to other people about how excited they are about the product.

5. Track metrics and provide sales-based bonuses but don't overincentivize/gamify the sales process.

6. Enjoy healthy, sustainable sales growth, happy customers, happy employees.

Disclaimer: I have little to no experience in sales. This just seems like common sense to me.
What video card/drivers? Open source or closed binaries? It's working great for me on Debian 7 (wheezy), which is similar to Ubuntu 12.04, w/ non-standard Firefox 38.0a2 Dev Edition and nvidia/GL closed-source drivers.
Neat. I recently saw a similar service: surge.sh -- but netlify seems to be a bit more robust on the feature set. Good luck!
Or a couple hundred car crashes/fatalities. I've already seen two people try to stream from their driver's seat with the phone in one hand and the steering wheel in the other.
I could have written your comment! My father bought me that book when I was about 16 or 17 years old, as a birthday gift. At the time, I too was an atheist, but not a very skeptical one, and TDHW had a huge impact on me.

That book is one of the only gifts I can remember recieiving when I was a teenager, and I still have it on my shelf. It is fair to say that it can be a life changer.
I used to cycle in Dublin until I got knocked off my bike and constantly aggressed/verbally abused by taxis and busses. There just isn't space on the road for cyclists and motorists to go safely. Pity.
Hi Hoboon. I'm the editor of the story the OP put up here. Would you mind dropping me a line? bobbie at medium dot com
It costs like 3$/year (or less probably) to register a domain name. But once you build your brand/website/etc you are tied to your domain name, which is tied to that registry.

This gives the registry huge leverage over you. That 3$ that it actually costs them to run it can increase to whatever price they think you will be willing to pay and you can't not pay it...you would lose your spot and identity on the internet. Its not like with registrars, like godaddy, ghandi, bluehost, etc... that you can switch between in like 24 hrs.

IIRC .orgs were price controlled, so the price couldn't rise, but with this takeover, the price controls have gone away.
Those APIs are only superficially easy, especially in the case of Twitter — their API is purely based on a hideously broken pagination model that counts up from the present, and is cut off completely at 3200 tweets for your own account and 800 for others. It's completely impossible to access anything older than that through any means!

Nearly everyone makes the fundamental pagination mistake (Blogger being the sole exception), but calendar-based archives are a basic assumption that everybody implements. Facebook doesn't expose it in their interface but it's possible through the API. For Twitter it's completely fucked — the only people with access to your old tweets are the Library of Congress.
For anyone considering using RDS -- make sure you set your character encoding properly. Out of the box (at least in mid August), RDS used latin1_swedish.

Changing the database parameters is pretty painful, and the ec2 tool documentation is a bit misleading. Here are instructions, including how to verify your setup: http://matthew.mceachen.us/blog/howto-configure-an-amazon-rd...
Software could be written to do the same thing for OSX or Windows if there were enough interest. The fact is that the use case for what X offers nearly never comes up (relatively speaking). No competent software developer would base his whole system around a use case that 99% of all users will never use once in their life.
In this case, wouldn't a leaked CA private/signing key constitute "abuse"?
This argument would be more compelling if MobileMe / Ping weren't so awful.
continues in the fine tradition of http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=975624 (http://blog.awesomezombie.com/2009/12/analyzing-y-combinator...)

i am not trying to turn YC into a cult, but i do think it's helpful to see how hundreds of founders and their situations turned out. there are some real characters buried in there.
They may also have had plans to do some of these things themselves and the projects people are publishing could count as prior art, preventing them from patenting various things.

This is pure speculation and I have no information to support it, though. It's kind of sad that they appear to be hostile to the notion of people hacking this nifty device into something even greater.

I don't think they're selling it at a loss, but who knows? Apparently, they've been shoveling profits around to hide weakness in the Windows division, or at least InformationWeek thinks so.

Source: http://www.informationweek.com/news/storage/reviews/showArti...
Would you enjoy chopping vegetables if you had to do it for 40 hours a week? Would it become a little less pleasurable, perhaps, if someone were sending you emails asking why you haven't updated the carrots ticket with your current progress, or moved the potatoes card on the Kanban board?

(I have a bit of a thing for grating cheese - I find it strangely therapeutic.)
It would cost the sum of as what it costs now, probably?

There's not much of a market-based solution to a legally protected monopoly. The best you can hope for is to higher demand at lower price points that makes a lower price profitable
What you say is true, but (as far as I can tell) unrelated to the issue at hand. Yes, if you return holding a lock, it's a potential disaster. And if you pause a thread from outside while the thread is holding a lock, it's a similar disaster. But RAII and scoped_lock won't save you if a thread is paused from outside, since the paused thread never makes it out of the scope that took the lock.
Isn't it obvious? /s
> So any long term effects manifest within weeks and months.

So long-term effects should really be called short-term effects?
Maybe not his specific VCR, but I found out that Roku has a remote control app (controls it over wifi).

But you just gave me a great product idea. Wifi accessible infra red remote controls that you'd mount in various rooms in the house that contain IR-remote controlled objects (TVs, ceiling fans, etc) along with an app to control them from your handheld.
There are environments that do not allow http2 or websocket traffic on the network. Most government/big enterprise have these restrictions.
Start by solving the problem for two robots lost on Earth. Mars will be a bit more dusty but there is a much smaller search space to cover.
Prior discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8900779
I totally understand! The outbound can get pricey. The thing with moving to a vimeo or YouTube is you are giving up some control for the reduced price. They will add ads around your videos. They have rules about how you can display them. I have been in scenarios where I have been shut down by YouTube. So there is that to keep in mind.

However, I have had some good success with vimeo and their pro level accounts but they aren't all cheap. They do have absolutely fantastic api support!

You might also look into reserve instance pricing on cloudfront. They will give you quite discount for the commitment.
If you dont want ChromeOS but a real laptop, why not just get a proper laptop instead?
That has to be the best paper I've ever read
I think that this is very insightful. At least in my experience, maintainable code isn't something that naturally arises. It comes from experience and interest in writing code that will need to be maintained. A lot of students (or academic researchers in general) don't really pay much attention to these things, which is totally understandable given their overall incentive structure.

I'm working with a computer science undergrad at the moment who put multiple full versions of his code to into the Github repository. He didn't use branches, he didn't use pull requests for updates, the diff log is just a new file that is the previous one with changes, all of which sort of defeats the purpose of using source control like git. But, as you say, it's something that takes some guidance and experience to understand. I do find that it makes me lean towards tools that encourage good coding practices by design and which make untying knots easier, which it sounds like Julia might not make super easy (I don't have any production experience with it). Obviously, the practices you laid out definitely help to make sure things don't slip through the cracks, though!
If you have waterfall, there is usually not enough time to make the product itself, and documentation is much lower priority than that.

If you have agile, in theory all developers are replaceable. In reality, a few have writing skills, but most don't.
The people who continue to work the supermarkets definitely are heroes. How can they not be scared?
finally you can run `npx prettier --write .` and get a folder formatted without any installation or configuration. This is a great decision. Congratulations on the release team!
Qt5 can be made to look pretty close to a native Mac app, but one thing I haven't figured out yet is if there's a way to get that "bouncy" effect you get when you scroll to either end of a list.
Yeah, a mechanism that is almost pointless. There's still user data that needs to be upgraded. User data is the very thing upgrades are difficult, and CoreOS doesn't address it in any way. Otherwise running `apt-get upgrade' on a second root in LVM would be really just enough.
> European Commission admits Safe Harbour framework cannot ensure privacy of EU citizens’ data when sent to the US by American internet firms

Press 1 if you would like to send your data to the US to be processed by the NSA. Press 2 if you would prefer your EU country's intelligence services to take care of it instead.
There's already a term, and we (the UK) uses it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upper_house

Edit: And the Commons is called the Lower House<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lower_house>. In a parliamentary system, the lower house actually has more power.
Look, I know it's Product Blogging 101, but it always amazes me when I see a product blog like this one that has:

a.) No description of what the product is

b.) No direct link to the product website

So now, after visiting that site, I know that Wakemates are ready. But I have no idea what a Wakemate is, and short of manipulating the URL by hand, I have no way to get to a website that will tell me anything about them.

Since I'm on an iPad, it's orders of magnitude easier to simply hit the back button and write this comment, before forgetting about whatever this product was forever.
Like hell it won't. Microsoft's approval isn't the only way to get code running on a 360, and the Kinect is wide open. I give it a couple of months before everyone can happily thrust their hips at their televisions and rack up orgasm points.
The closing account fee could easily have been negotiated into the arrangement, but even still it's completely separate. What I find stunning is that he also wrote a $60 check for the 2% interest on the $95,000.
I can't help but feel that while the treatment is severe and terrible that this isn't an appropriate post for Hacker News. This type of thing is a shining example of something that belongs on Reddit, where there's greater exposure and it's more on-topic. Is it interesting, yes (to some, although I'm sure there's plenty that could say not on hacker news as it's tied to wikileaks).

I would say that while the treatment of him is terrible, it meets the off-topic criteria (crime, politics, TV news). I'm posting this separately to my engagement in the discussion.
I am disappointed your comment is being upvoted. Just because the conditions are terrible, outright and false hyperbole should not be used on the site like HN. We don't need propaganda here.

Being in regular contact with people (every 5 minutes), being able to watch TV for hours each day, corresponding via mail and being able to read books means he is not even remotely in the same league as people being tourtoured with real sensory deprivation [2]

While the military can do and has done [1] sensory deprivation , this is not it.

"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity." [0]

It sounds to me like they are trying to prevent him from committing suicide. But the prevention is probably doing him a lot of damage.

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[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon%27s_razor

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Jose_Padilla_at_the_Navy_C...

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensory_deprivation

Edit: formatting.
Is this terrible treatment? Yes. Is it inhumane? Possibly. It's important to bear in mind several factors:

* PFC Bradley Manning signed up to all of this. He will have been aware of the treatment he should expect in this situation if he was exposed.

* He confessed. Innocent until guilty in a military scenario is different to a civilian scenario. Given that he's confessed guilt, there's little to defend.

* This is a military case, not a civilian one. Things are different. You might not agree with the way he's treated but there are specific rules and those rules are in place for a reason.
This makes me think the most. The restrictions seem a good reason to actually commit suicide or any other form of harm to yourself just to keep yourself occupied or to end the current state a subject is in.

So the feedback of the rule would actually be that it causes the thing it was meant to prevent. Are those restrictions common and is there any research that ratifies them?
Few webapp concepts can't be reimplemented in a short amount of time. Seems to me often the key is in user base and quality of execution (tech & non-tech) which stealth doesn't really help with.

Of course startup founders can think differently and may be right, I just think the support for this in the community is amusing in light of the "radical transparency" chic we're all into now - do YC startups have more important/valid secrets than the US government?
> If that was the reason then why are they telling the positions they're hiring for?

I've yet to see a job posting that did not have that bit of information in it. Sort of helps when you let your prospective hires know what you're looking for ;)
switch(getJurisdictionalPrecedence(&law)){

case FEDERAL: {
setPrimeDirective(law[FEDERAL]);
} break;

case STATE: {
setPrimeDirective(law[STATE]);
} break;

case CITY: {
setPrimeDirective(law[CITY]);
} break;

default: {
setPrimeDirective(this->ExterminateAllHumans());
} break;
};
If you don't have $10,000 to risk, you probably shouldn't attempt to trade in an automated fashion. You need enough capital, because any one trade is likely to have a small percentage upside and you need to turn it over frequently.