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We teach things like bash by assigning each user to a virtualized Linux server. That gets really expensive and hard to manage when you give one to every anonymous user who hits the site (especially when our courses pop up on sites like HN). With that said, I have been wanting to change the UI to be less intrusive, so you can better see what you're signing up for.
It's insane how unfunny and ignorant this comment is.
Some amount of mistrust of doctors is good.

An important question to ask a doctor is "what happens if we do nothing? What happens if we do watchful waiting?"

Doctors are human and they're subject to cognitive bias, so it's useful to check what they say against the science.

But that means using reliable, reputable, sources (eg the Cochrane Collaborations) and not some guy on the Internet making money selling goji berries as a cure for all cancer.
> The pharmaceutical industry has no influence whatsoever.

It's not true to say they have no influence. Pharmaceutical companies constantly try to entice doctors to prescribe specific medicines.

But most mainstream medicine is backed by hard science. You can go out there and read the evidence. Trials are conducted and we know that, for example, chemotherapy can be effective in treating certain types of cancers, while, for example, Traditional Chinese Medicine is not. We know this because we've studied it, not because we've been bribed.

The pharmaceutical industry lobby's power is worrying, it's true. But that doesn't mean that pharmaceuticals are full of shit.

> Some people might say that doctors make far more money from doing traditional medicine, than they would from offering dietary advice

Actually, "alternative medicine" is incredibly profitable. There's a number of large companies which make massive profits off this stuff. It's incredibly profitable because there's no research involved, no expensive ingredients to source, no testing necessary. You can stick anything you want in a pamphlet or a bottle, and sell it at any price, and people will buy it if you have good enough marketing.

You were specifically talking about dietary advice, though. That's also profitable: many people make a very good living off quack dietary advice. People are willing to pay almost anything to get non-"traditional" medicine.

Heck, it might be more profitable than prescribing medication, because the pharma company isn't taking a cut!
All the residue that was splattered around the circuit board from burning the epoxy off probably isn't being too kind to the laser optics, either.

If you haven't used a laser cutter before, there's a long list of materials that you're not supposed to work on. Usually because the fumes are toxic, corrosive, or otherwise damage the optics. On the other hand, it could just be a particulate mess that needs to be wiped off. Tough to tell without knowing what that black epoxy is made of.

That said, knowing that it's possible to deencapsulate an IC this way is pretty cool.
Aline Lerner, though she is not doing recruiting any more - she's now working on interviewing.io

http://blog.alinelerner.com/
May I ask who this was?
Lol. I read the headline as 'diets cause cancer', that 'cures' for diets were causing cancer in young people. I expected something about diet pills.

There is a great Perry Cox speech out there about a patient eating red peppers to cure cancer.

Found it...

"Dr. Cox: And now I have to take your laptop from you, as I've deemed you just too darn stupid to use it. You see, those bell peppers that you're munching, they aren't gonna do a truckload of jack against the cancer raging inside of your body. Of course, I've only been a doctor for some twenty years, and the person who wrote that Wikipedia entry also authored the Battlestar Galactica episode guide, so what the heck do I know? But if you feel like living, page me."
I think there's a LOT of interest in Hillary Clinton's deleted email.
They would be able to be shut down if they're using Twitter's own API keys - or iOS's built-in keys. These types of things can typically be easily found with strings or a proxy (Charles).
schadenfreude

I don't exactly have a lot of sympathy for this woman. Or any one caught up in this mess.

"My institution has a morality clause in all contracts."

Choose to sign the contract, choose to sign up for the site, choose to (maybe) have an affair?

Aside from my lack of sympathy, I don't think this woman has done something unforgivable, or that makes her "unhireable". People make mistakes all the time, shit happens. I have to say that if your in a place where this "matters" then you need to address those issues, and move on. Its a big world, your an adult and free to make your own decisions both good and bad.
I've had great experiences with Nancy Soni and her team at FILD http://www.fildit.com/

She was incredibly helpful on both a personal and professional level. She reached out, and up an interview at a top Ecommerce company in NYC.

The company wasn't a great match for what I was looking for at the time (earlier stage, smaller team, building the groundwork) and she introduced me to an (at the time) much smaller company that I had never heard of.

But it was a great fit, and I loved the job for 2.5 years and used her to help grow that team.

She was probably the first person to convince me that not all recruiters are terrible.
This page was very useful when I was teaching a (particularly clever) 12 year old kid about complex numbers. He really wanted to render Mandelbrot/Julia fractals (using Processing), had done some googling on the subject of complex numbers, but most of the articles he found were ever-so-slightly above the level of math he had learned in school (turned out he hadn't yet learned about the distributive rule for multiplication, that (a+b)*(c+d) = ac + ad + bc + bd, which is kinda important if you want to work out (x + iy)^2 given that i^2 = -1).

I was lucky that someone explained me complex numbers when I was 15 (I also had wanted to plot Mandelbrot fractals for a long time, but back then I didn't even have the Internet to help me), using a very visual approach similar to the featured article. That is, multiplication by -1 is the same as a 180 degree rotation around the zero ... so what would happen if we decided we could rotate by 90 degrees?

So I took a similar approach. Then I remembered this article about "folding Julia fractals", the visualizations in this article were a great supplement to the graphs and scribbles we made on paper, exploring the weird world of complex numbers.

I did a little video interview with him to show off his work (cause, you know, I was kinda proud): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rR6klRdtjsg -- It's in Dutch and I'm not a very good interviewer, also no editing (and yes I should've held my phone horizontally, sorry).

But the best part was two weeks later, I kinda feared I had dumped too much information onto him at once (especially given I also had to explain the distributive rule), I asked him if he had made any improvements or additions; "Yeah, I had to wait at the dentist's this week, and I had Processing for Android (APDE) on my phone, so I wrote the Julia version of the Mandelbrot zoomer" ... Oh, if only I had have a powerful pocket computer when I was 12!!! (so jealous!)
> I'm not rich enough to be an investor

It doesn't take much money to invest in the stock market. Do you consider yourself thrifty? That's the major criteria for becoming an investor. Living below your means and saving. I have been in the working world for ~8 weeks now and already have some investments lol.
In the thread he mentions that his 10 year old is through Algebra II. That's definitely advanced for his age.
I simply disagree.

Many of these sites didn't originally spring up to serve the public interest. They're an offspring of something that started a couple years ago: internet bots that scrape for anyone's deleted messages and then highlight them.

Those services are extremely toxic. They meant that as friends of mine joined the service I'd have to warn them: don't delete things on internet, because there are asshole bots that will use deleted messages to fuck with you.

The public interest implications of some of these new political internet services are more straightforward, but that doesn't mean it's internet's obligation to sacrifice user experience for what is probably a marginal public interest benefit. internet is legitimately caught between the public interest and their own interests, and I'd have trouble blaming them either way.

Why do I think the public interest implications here are marginal? A bunch of reasons:

* Politicians are quickly going to learn how hostile the internet is, and assign professional spindroids to their accounts (or to filter the messages that they themselves post).

* It's not like the internet can prevent deleted content from leaking. They'll get screenshot anyways. This just keeps the delete-shaming phenomenon from being shoved in everyone's face.

On a previous thread about the internet, someone pointed out that the internet shouldn't do this because they should behave like infrastructure. But the internet doesn't want to be infrastructure; the infrastructure market position is very bad for them.
I linked this in another comment: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craigslist_Inc._v._3Taps_Inc.

Scraping a site that doesn't want to be scraped is legally dangerous in the US.
That would work, but just finding a key with strings is much less effort (no code changes required).
Nice guy whose been contributing here on Hacker News for years:

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=Peroni
I love the MX 127.0.0.1 trick. I'm curious if that works as well as I think it does.
I feel kind shamefully guilty now. I'm sorry.
Any aircraft that is useful to the poor buggers on the ground will be close enough to worry about having RPGs fired at it, let alone "advanced anti-airfcraft systems."

Calling that out as a reason to retire the A-10 is kinda bogus. The A-10 was designed from the very beginning to absorb that sort of damage and continue it's mission.

Fairchild Republic got on someone's bad side some years back and that resulted in the production contract being cancelled. Since then, it's performed like a superstar in every deployment.

There is no viable replacement available.

Just ask anyone who's called God for one and see how happy were with the service.
I can second Dave. He's a good guy, spends time getting to know you, your likes, and requirements. He also ran the Philly JUG for the last 10 (15?) years and kept it a place free of recruitment or sales pitches.
It's not, bootstrap gives you a nice starting point to design your application.
I feel betrayed. I want a clear answer!
From TFA: [The] decision was the result of "thoughtful internal deliberation and close consideration of a number of factors" ...

They should address this truthfully on their blog. Letting something like this twist in the wind while their base users go apeshit is a surprising decision. They did this on a Friday- they've had all weekend to craft a statement.
Not a Javascript problem per se, just a ton of animations and interactive graphs/maps.
There's definitely a negative effect on your health from one glass of coke. Small, but still an effect.

For starters you're exceeding the recommended daily intake of added sugar with one can of coke. No big deal, but if your liver could talk, it wouldn't be happy. Your blood pressure rises, again no big deal, but still not good.

The only good thing is the water in the coke.
I've found trying to teach statistics via dice is a good start for people without background. Learning by observing to separate "the last roll" from "my expectations concerning the next roll" is surprisingly powerful and enlightening once they can generalize that into one-off claims.
> Have you ever been poor?

Very, yes.

There are alternatives to eating bad quality food that are just as cheap and fast, sadly people are not made aware of it.

Why would you take the time to find an alternative if you are not aware of the health problems coming from eating frozen french fries daily? A lot of poor parents would avoid such solutions and find alternative if they were truly aware of how bad the food they ingest truly is.
And beaten isn't even the worst of it. Kids are sometimes made homeless, or in some (rarer, more often non-Western) cases, murdered.
If we're just talking about access points then check out Meraki's from Cisco.
Ask HN: What's a good real-time stock trading platform?
I was just wondering what you all would recommend for doing real-time stock trading online for an individual investor?
I'm still trying to get over the fact that politicians actually use twitter to discuss politics and convey their message.
Not really complaining about this specific game's lack of a port.
More of a general complaint about software that leverages other open source software but cannot run on Linux.
I've never used Racket, maybe it doesn't even run on Linux.
Earlier discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10096990
Good luck, I'm afraid that you're up against a really difficult problem. I earnestly have no doubt your girlfriend is a wonderful person, but thought patterns that lead to such beliefs, once established, appear to be very hard to change for a number of reasons.

Hope you can work it out or work around it, stranger things have happened.
When I was in Japan someone offhandedly told me that too, and I thought it was strange. They said it as an explanation of why there aren't massively muscular Japanese men walking around everywhere like there supposedly are in the US (it's probably just because weight-lifting isn't as popular in Japan as in the west).
I suspect that the reason is simpler. People want something to make them feel better, not something that has a chance of actually making them better. To many people, homeopathy and other alternative medicines offer a superior "feel better" package than traditional medicine. Modern health care can feel clinical, confusing, uncertain, and expensive. On the other hand, alternative medicine is cheap-ish and usually sold by "true believers" who will gladly spend time with you to assure you that everything is going to be OK.

The anti-big-pharma spiel is just a red herring that prevents people from worrying about whether or not they've made the right decision in rejecting real medicine.
I agree completely. I'm only pointing out that it's a messier story than the one we want to tell (Jobs signing his own death warrant by refusing prompt treatment).
Other environments don't have the ease of administration that chrome os and apple devices have. If a device is stolen, you can lock it down. The settings are automatically pushed to the device, so kids and teachers don't need to fumble with trying to figure out how to print to the classroom printer. Because it's using google apps, sharing documents is built-in, so kids don't need easily-lost thumbdrives, and don't have the frustration of losing homework due to computer problems. Finally, it's relatively inexpensive. You can get a chromebook for $150, which is a lot easier on the budget if a kid accidentally breaks their laptop.

If you want to give another option, you need to bring something to the table that's as easy to use, as easy to administer, as easy to share content, and as inexpensive. Until you can bring those things, then all you have is an inferior product for the average teacher.
That's not what Twitter is doing. If that was their goal they'd be suing Gawker and TMZ.

The point isn't to stop deleted tweets from being disseminated at all - that's impossible and I'm sure they're smart enough to know that.

The sole purpose of sites like Politwoops was to undo a feature of Twitter's product. Not only that, but they were using Twitter's own API to accomplish that. Twitter's goal is to set the precedent that that's not ok.
Will games that run on Steam OS be compatible with regular linux ?
Always irked me how Adobe are supporting NPAPI on Windows but not Linux. They support Linux. They support NPAPI. They support x86 and x64. All 3 together? Nope.
Well, seeing that 80 MB every 15 minutes is over 35 Tb/s (at only 50 million Win 10 users [1]), and 12 Tb/s was the reigning speed record...

[1] http://www.winbeta.org/news/there-are-now-over-50-million-pe...
The best way I've been able to describe it:

When I'm out socializing, I'm often the life of the party. I was called a "social butterfly" over the weekend at a tailgate. I'm usually the guy at the party or whatever being loud, having a good time, talking to everyone and getting all of them to have a good time too.

I also have no trouble talking to people. I often just strike up conversations with strangers in lines, elevators, just walking down the street, etc. I can approach the pretty girl and talk to her, and not be nervous about it. I can speak in public, and I've been essentially a "door-to-door salesman" (cold calls instead of doors, but you get what I mean).

But, at the end of the day, I need to have my "anti-social" time. I get burnt out on all of the stuff above, and if I do it too much, I'll get annoyed and tired, and end up not being very fun to be around. After too much partying, I need a few nights to just chill at home and relax, maybe with the people closest to me (at most).

I'm outgoing. But I'm also introverted.

Introversion is a quality that can't be (easily) changed. Being outgoing is a skill that one can learn.
Shumway is a solution to your last point.

https://mozilla.github.io/shumway/
This is just a personal anecdote, but my first experience with programming was in an introductory CS course where Visual Studio was the default (but not mandatory) dev environment. Naturally, I used it instead of any CLI because I was an absolute beginner.

This is coming from someone who loves VS, but it is not something beginners should have to deal with. Some of my questions that distracted me from actually solving problems (note the technically incorrect usage of certain terms; this is intentional):

- Why is the options menu so huge?

- What the hell is a project?

- Oh my god I clicked in the thing and this red ball popped up and now the code won't move past it!

- Why do I need to build the project? Can't I just run my code in the file?

- Why do new menus pop up when I click "Run"?

- What the hell does "step into" and "step over" mean?

I think that a CLI or super basic IDE with minimal options and capabilities is the way to go when dealing with people who are beginners. On that same note, I do find it disheartening that many upper-division courses at college never bother with IDEs, and teachers tell students to just "figure it out on your own".
That's a security nightmare.
Specifically, this:

>"Indexing between elements, instead of indexing elements, helps avoid a large class of off-by-one errors."

It only replaces them with indexing-method errors. Instead of remembering if my ranges are open or closed, I have to remember if they are using between-element indices or on-element indices. It's still going to cause the same kinds of problems.
I wonder how long until Microsoft has that Target moment[1] and tells a father that his daughter is pregnant. I also wonder what happens if someones medical information leaks via this data gathering.

1) http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/19/magazine/shopping-habits.h...
I called it a competition myself. My issue is only with the part where people look for an overall “winner”. It’s an evolutionary process, there is no winner. Your ending question will likely never have a meaningful answer.
Nice paywall you have there.
It depends what you mean by holdings. If you mean a basket of holdings that is adequately diversified, then most people assume it is true because it has (almost) always been true. So while Apple may never again be as high as it is today, a portfolio including Apple and 50 other companies can reasonably be expected to go up in the long term. The simplest explanation for this is that the economy generally grows over the long term due to an increase in the productivity of the workforce due to both population growth and technological improvements.
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Ok, we changed the title to say "professions".
Mostly about mechanical processing. Of course, the circulating epigram "don't eat something your great grandmother wouldn't recognize as food" refers to processing with additives: artificial flavors, colors, preservatives and conditioners of various kinds. Not to mention almost completely synthetic concoctions.

It doesn't mean, for instance, "don't use soy sauce that has been processed the same way by the same company in Japan since the 1600's"; that is a horribly strawman interpretation of the idea.
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>Fatties know that, but that doesn't mean it will in any way make them change what they are doing.

Obese people who do nothing about their health and weight suffer all of the consequences. It's no skin off my teeth of someone dies in their 40's of a heart attack.

Any weight loss solution that says "obesity isn't your fault" fails to address the #1 cause of obesity: Unhealthy habits.
>... what made you go from thinking "this was you" to thinking another lifestyle could make you happier, which lifestyle? Why?

There are a lot of things that have gone into that question. I would say the biggest thing was that I became aware of the fact that I was always 'in my head' instead of having a more direct interaction with people/environment, and realizing (from a number of sources, but importantly, through meditation) that being not 'in your head'—direct interaction with things—is a major part of feeling content or satisfied (as well as being effective in... most domains). Makes sense if you think about it: you think when you are trying to change something; if nothing needs changing, you don't think and you're content.

Now I'm looking for a balance with social interaction, physical activity, and intellectual work. Since I've been unable to earn money from my own projects, I am giving them up to just do a normal 40hrs/week kind of programming job: if I try to do the job and the projects, there's no time for the balance I want.

After a few years I may get a job that's more physical/social and return to my projects, but for now I need to catch up on finances, and programming is the only way I know how.

Edit: another way of saying the above: anxiety/depression became a problem, and the balance I describe seems to be a major part of the solution.
E) the risk of ending up on a sex offender registry for child pornography (if any of the parties are under age).
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I wouldn't even think of giving some random person my SSN. Although there seems to be a phenomenon of recruiters contacted people and then falling off the face of the earth. I think they just work by numbers. Send as many emails out as possible and hope they can find a candidate. It kind of upsets me when I get something that I'm clearly a good fit for. Then I think "maybe this recruiter actually filters before submitting people" and then they never respond when I reply to their initial contact.
Hi! Blog post author here. My initial draft had this at the bottom:

"Disclaimer: If you have a recurring problem, power cycling will not fix your root cause. "

At some point I must have decided the whole thing was too long and that sentence didn't make the cut.

I personally would not go as far as to say:"it's not acceptable to power cycle to fix problems".

I see it more like:"not all problems can be fixed with power cycling".
By default, unless you log in and explicitly disable it, Windows 10 collects kids' usage activity and uploads it to Microsoft's servers. Presumably the same mechanism is disabled for adults. Presumably.

And this is legal under COPPA? If so, the law needs to be fixed sooner rather than later.
Yeah, that's not happening :-)

Really _close_ air support really isn't a job for fast movers.

F-35 is too fast for close work.