skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Palytoxin is actually pretty well known in the reefing hobby. There are plenty of stories about people developing strange and frightening symptoms after exposure to Palythoa, but fortunately none of them (to my knowledge) have been terminal.

My SO is into this stuff, and I've learned that it's a fascinating and extremely technical hobby, and an expensive one too. Most of the danger is to your bank account.
What if you see the ad, and decide to check the movie out, and it's terrible - a waste of your time and money? What if you see a slick ad for a restaurant, and it turns out the restaurant spends more money on ads than on being a good restaurant, and it is a waste of money? Are you better off?
This amused me - about twenty minutes ago I'd noticed Firefox using way less memory that it usually does, but thought nothing more of it.

Jung would have something to say about synchronicity, I'm sure.
Honestly, if I know what the database looks like, I'd rather use babel with string templates for building parameterized queries against the database directly. [1] [2]

It seems to me that the layers of ORM (in JS) don't really buy you much more than some simple validation wrappers and a simpler client for SQL queries. After having used a number of ORMs in static environments (mostly C#), I'm much more inclined to prefer a simple SQL client that's easier to make direct SQL queries in than having an ORM in a system that actually complicates things. It'd be one thing if an ORM generated typescript so that you would get auto-complete in your editor/ide, but I don't see much point to this. I'm not a huge fan of typing in JS/TS, but I could at least see the value to some in that case.

[1] https://github.com/felixfbecker/node-sql-template-strings

[2] https://github.com/tracker1/mssql-ng

disclaimer: I wrote mssql-ng and used it for a lot of data migration/manipulation scripts and it was a joy to use with async/await syntax.
- Radio Diaries

- Radiolab

- Freakonomics

- Invisibilia

- Love + Radio

- Criminal

- Serial

- Meanwhile in the Future

- TED Radio Hour

- Tim Ferriss Show

- The Truth

- Mystery Show

- Planet Money

- Fresh Air

- This American Life

- WTF with Marc Maron

- The Moth

- Strangers

- Skeptoid

Loads of great stuff from the BBC:

- Click

- Seriously

- Desert Island Discs

- Great Lives

- In Our Time

- Kermode & Mayo

- Witness

- Thinking Aloud
That's why I qualified "for most of them".
* Death Sex & Money

* Reply All

* KCRW Good Food

* Freakonomics

* KCRW's DnA: Design & Architecture

* From the Top

* This American Life

* Return to Soil
The Pitfalls of Upgrading to Windows 10
If a single tracker gets through, it's missing the point, at least for me.
Ask HN: Clojure vs. Haskell or Clojure and Haskell, why not both?
I was spending time debating which to use. There are pros and cons for each in my domain. It seems more powerful to combine them then, and for that matter any other languages that have immediate use. Basically I want a F# that is Clojure and Haskell.
Re:the novelty

Is there any practical use for this? My understanding is that movie theaters are preferred to home theaters because the distance from your eyes to the screen is far enough that you can focus to infinity, which is easier on the eyes. Could a vr environment make viewing Netflix 'easier' on the eyes? Anyone have an opinion or link?
You're confusing a statistical claim for an absolute claim.

You're right that if the claim is "drugs are never, ever the cause of any violence" then you just need one counter-example.

But the claim is actually "statistically, violence caused by drugs does not occur at a rate detectably above the rate of violence in general" which means something like that the number of violent acts with drugs as a cause is extremely low, or that violent acts caused by drugs would still have happened just with a different cause if it were not for the drugs.
What Basic Skills Should Developers Know?
How the Mollusks of Fangataufa Came Back AFter a Nuclear Blast
> I'll say again, if sites make it clear I'm not welcome without viewing their ads, I won't go.

Considering a needed mechanism for an ad-blocker to function is to be undetectable, they could be trying ten different ways to detect if you are blocking ads so they can display a note that you aren't allowed to view the content, and you would likely never know.

Or do you think they should put a banner at the top of ever page, inconveniencing every user just so the ones that don't want to view ads and are running ad-blockers have a chance to notice the content producers don't want them skipping the ads, after purposefully blocking their ability to determine if the message applies to them specifically?

Or how about we just assume that if a site attempts to display ads then they intend their users to view them? Is that too crazy to assume?
Why Managers Are More Likely to Be Depressed
One could argue that governments do false flags all the time. Create the terror then swoop in with draconian laws to further control their population. http://www.presstv.com/Detail/2015/07/08/419371/Turkey-NSA-S...
'Reflections on Trusting Trust' https://www.ece.cmu.edu/~ganger/712.fall02/papers/p761-thomp...
Ask HN: Best developer screening tool?
Can anyone recommend a tool they use for 1st or 2nd interview screening for any type of developer? HackerRank? HireVue? Saw TalentBuddy is going out of business.
Same here. I haven't used eclipse in the past two years because I've been doing non-java work. Before that I used it since the beginning of my career, around 2000. I don't recall having issues with slowness and plugins randomly not working. When I first started using it, I remember being a bit confused by projects vs files. That's when I didn't understand the concept of IDEs (as opposed to text editors). I feel like I'm living in an alternative universe.
> The goal of a chess game is total annihilation

This isn't true at all. The win condition in Chess is undeniable threat of assassination of the King. You can win without taking a single piece.
The only reason Apple didn't bake an ad blocker into iOS themselves is because they didn't want to get into legal trouble for what is obviously anticompetitive behavior toward Google (AdSense). They instead encouraged devs to be the patsies for the damage this will do, and they boosted these devs' blockers to #1 in their app store so everyone would see them and download them.

Spare me any preposterous claims of corporate altruism; this wasn't enabled and encouraged by Apple to reduce page load times on the web. If Apple had their way, the web wouldn't even exist anymore.

It's been transparently obvious for years that Apple would like to replace the web with their own walled garden app ecosystem. Apple would also like to replace web ad networks such as AdSense with their iAd network. This is what we are seeing unfold currently. Their News app with its unblockable iAds is another tentacle of this plan.
You can do this just fine with IntelliJ! IMHO, IntelliJ support for multi-project with maven is better. There are no duplicate resource or type when looking for something. There is a correct hierarchy view in the sidebar.
If the work is interesting and such, sure, but my take is that beyond simply being unable to value your own equity, behavior like this suggests lack of maturity in the founders and implies amateur-ishness.

Having been around the startup block a few times now, there are some tells that are definitely warning signs for me.

The most ridiculous are things like demanding a NDA to even discuss the company. If a founder asks for a NDA just to have coffee, I am out - in my experience it's a 100% indicator of someone who has no idea what the fuck they're doing.

Secrecy around valuation, options pool, etc, are less damning but still very much a yellow flag when it comes to how they treat employees and how much experience the founders have. In general I find that inexperienced and immature founders tend to focus on secrecy in the wrong places (and conversely, lack of secrecy where it matters).
I understand your frustration! Everyone wants to believe that what they create has value and that people should pay something to enjoy it.

But we can't escape the reality that the world is being changed dramatically by technology and that the concept of "cost gravity" is unstoppable.
Pieter Hintjens has a very good essay on this at http://cultureandempire.com

This is what we're seeing with adblocking - the technology to control which information is allowed to enter our brains is now available to everyone. Your brain is your most valuable organ, and it is highly susceptible to persuasion and influence through positive and negative images, greed, fear and jealousy. All of these can be, and are, manipulated by advertisers for their benefit.

It has always been an arms race.
In the "good old days", when everyone watched TV in the evening with their family, advertising was probably necessary to support the content. Then after a few years the ads got louder (the volume was actually increased) so that people would pay attention during the commercial breaks. People discovered that their remote controls had a mute button, and then they had some welcome silence between movie episodes.
Commercial breaks started to get longer and people discovered that they could record everything and fast-forward through the commercial breaks, saving much valuable time. A president of the MPAA (Jack Valenti I think) actually said that it should be illegal to skip through the advertising when viewing time-shifted video because that deprived the broadcaster of the revenue to which they were entitled.

Even movie theaters, where the assumption was that you could watch the movie since you paid for admission, started to show advertising at the beginning. At first it was just a couple of quick minutes before the feature, but that soon became many more minutes and now is at about 30 minutes (advertising thinly disguised as games and quizzes).

My simple proposal is that this downward spiral can be stopped, if advertisers accept that people want to control what they see and hear in an increasingly noisy world, and that this is both legitimate and necessary.

Regarding your question about why an advertiser should also pay me to watch an ad in addition to a Game of Thrones episode: Because, if they paid me, I would listen to their pitch. That's much more valuable than blindly displaying ads with the hope that 0.1% or less of the ad recipients would pay any attention.
Yeah... unfortunately that's not editorialized, that's pretty much a fact per the article. WSJ really buried the lede here.
Post open sourcing, Eclipse development was supported by IBM for strategic reasons, in opposition to MS. When Oracle bought Sun, the strategic relationship changed, and IBM saw less reason to invest in Oracle tech.

IMO Eclipse is a product of a particular type of engineering, one that is done on a 9-5 payroll, and never as a labour of love. I've always found it awkward to use and surprisingly difficult to configure - even simple things like syntax highlighting is spread over multiple locations in the byzantine preferences. The whole perspectives thing, and its obsession with you selecting a workspace, up front, which is distinct from the project you're working on - it forces the user to adopt its internal idioms and jargon, rather than the other way around.

Eclipse killed off JBuilder's original IDE back in the day, undercutting it. I far preferred JBuilder's UI.
1. No it doesn't still stand. If a mother's presence is biologically necessary for her child's development in the same way her uterus is necessary for fetal development, then the OP is right and childbirth does innately biologically necessitate that women spend more time with their children than their male partners in the same way that it's a biological fact that fathers do not carry fetuses to term and give birth to them. If their presence is, instead of "ESSENTIAL", "optimal" then my question becomes: "optimal" for what compared to what and for whom? It becomes a case of people and the groups they form making decisions to optimize for certain goals by behaving in a particular way, not raw biology empirically operating.

2. Yes, I did. It didn't seem relevant to the point I was arguing, see #1.

3. For optimal, see 1, and for midwives—yes, and that's a societal trend rather than a biological fact.

4. True but still irrelevant, see #1.

I'm not arguing that biological mothers aren't generally inclined to want to spend more time with their children than their male partners, or that newly born infants aren't going to instinctively want to spend time with their mothers. It's just OP's original claim didn't logically follow from the evidence he presented—nothing about childbirth necessitates women having "the first choice to spend time with those children, and [...] bargaining power in relationships."
This is the tough part about both sides.

Being all or nothing means good ad networks and publishers are hurt but removes any arbitration and slippery slope issues.

Or they can try to do an "acceptable ads" list but in this case it's always inevitable abused and turned into some extortion scam with the highest bidders (who usually have the worst ads) getting through.

It would be best if there was an neutral industry group that didnt make adblocker software or sell ads and worked with all 3 sides to come up with a real democratically approved list of vendors.
Are you denying that :
1. The chart screenshots are not from your website?
2. the screenshot of New and Noteworthy is not correct?
3. The screenshot of mailing list is not correct?
4. the screenshot showing website not update in years is incorrect?
> This is something you likely almost never face as a man in the world of work.

I agree. Stress is something each person must decide how much they're willing to tolerate. Harassment of any sort (sexual or otherwise) should never be tolerated.

I can't truly appreciate the difficulty of being a woman attempting to climb the corporate ladder (just because I'll never have the experience, being a male). I can argue that society as a whole should be working actively to prevent the sort of behavior you described. Shifting an entire generation's attitude takes time unfortunately.
Combinatorics.js JavaScript Library
You are so right !
Sorry to hear about your wife predicament. Unfortunately this is how society views roles, and it won't change anytime soon. Maybe when all the old people die and the younger ones learn to view things differently...

But rest assured that the day your family faces any degree of financial distress, it is going to be your fault, only your fault, and nothing but your fault!!! Such is the fate of he, the breadwinner.
It might be hard to believe, but the browser is not the be-all and end-all of software.

I'm starting to think theres a JS Bubble forming, inside which people who only ever touch JS and nothing else proclaim that the world and the moon are made entirely of JavaScript.
This is treating a symptom though...

The US is a full blown police-state-for-profit.

The changes we need to do are far more fundamental than what you mention -- even though everything you say is 100% valid.

The US is a broken, defective, state. (regardless of how stable/profitable/functional it may be)
They did. Very late. And they most likely deliberately 'smeared' the one part of the page that showed that they had, all along, evidence that they did not own the copyright.
Note that this is not an argument for following tradition, merely an argument for understanding traditions before you attempt to change them.
I disagree with you on this one. The headline no longer represents why the story is of interest to HN and the original headline was factually correct and, actually, pretty similar to the WSJ's subhed, "Software promises to cut clutter; some ads skirt filters—for a price"
Good point. I forgot about the submarines and the lily pad bases through out the world.
Done and done. Link for anyone who wants to do the same: https://itunes.apple.com/app/id1022177308
If you have 2000+ emails in your inbox, you need an assistant and/or you need to delegate. Most people who need an assistant do not realize they do. In fact I will say most people should have one, even if part time, even if in another economy where they can afford.
Also interested in this, mainly to know which ships with drivers that don't require too many driver shenanigans.

Xubuntu "looks nicer", but Fedora is more familiar to us CentOS users on the server side.
This is exactly what the most popular desktop browser ad blockers do.
All About That Bass writer says he got $5,679 from 178m streams
Stop Thinking About How Hard Your Team Is Working
We've banned this account for breaking the HN guidelines egregiously.

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> The electricity costs you mentioned are externalities and not really relevant here.

This is very relevant here, because a big part of issue with ads is about dumping externalities on people. When you multiply that small electricity costs by number of people exposed to a bloated, flashy ad you'll see it actually adds up to a decent amount of coal unnecessarily burned. But that's beside the point, I only brought up electricity because it's commensurable to the amount of money ad-serving site makes on me.

> When you go shopping, it will likely cost you gas, time, wear/tear, etc just like anything else but do you tally that and ask for a refund on the purchase price?

I don't ask for refund, but I do tally that and include in my decision about which shop to go to.

> why are you continually going to sites that you consider to have no value?

As I said, if I go to a website regularly, it means that I have some concept of value I may expect to get from it. Bust most of browsing today is driven by a) search results, and b) link aggregators. Most of the websites I visit I visit only once or twice in a lifetime, because there was a link to a particular article on HackerNews, or maybe because it was the first search result for my query. In such situation I do not have concept of value I am about to receive.

> It's very a fair and low-risk trade.

It could be, in principle. It probably would be if the only ads displayed were AdSense ones. But as it is now, getting scammed or catching a drive-by malware is not low-risk trade.
There's a reason Android Studio exists now.
> If Apple had their way, the web wouldn't even exist anymore.

Apple certainly doesn't run any web technology—they don't have skin in the web-app game like Google and Microsoft and Amazon do. (They have a web store, but on iOS it heavily suggests its native-app equivalent.)

But that doesn't mean they want their users to not use the web. Web-browsing is a feature; Apple invested a lot of energy into WebKit for a reason.

Apple just don't give a damn about the supply side of the web; they don't care if they kill every web business in the process of giving users the best web-browsing experience possible.

I have high confidence that if Apple could integrate something like e.g. Tor into Mobile Safari without a latency hit, they'd jump at the chance. Better privacy for their users! Breaks analytics and ad targeting? Who cares?
No, I don't think that the cops are to blame. It's a far bigger problem than that. They don't make policy, they just enforce it. Why blame policy problems on the police?

By your reasoning, though, one might surmise that ending the drug prohibition would then also end gangs, wouldn't one? The gang exists to defend illegal drug territory. Illegal drug territory only exists because drugs are illegal. Ending prohibition would make drugs legal, not illegal, and thus the outsized profits would go away. This would then make operating the gang unprofitable and it would disband or "go out of business".

I'm sure you'll bring something else up like "but drugs are bad!" or some such. But that line of reasoning works, doesn't it? Changing the subject because you don't like the moral implications of legal drugs isn't an argument.
No, it really isn't. This may surprise you, but it's possible to point out flaws in an argument without making any statement about the merits of the conclusion.
Using the right tool is an inportant skill. And if you're using javascript on the server side and feel it's right, you dont have this important skill.
Ah you're right. Thanks. That was driving me crazy. I should have learned by reading substantive comments found elsewhere. This one below, for example, struck me as exceptionally substantive and now I can see why it hasn't been voted below zero:

"I don't want to show up to work sweaty. And I want the utility of a vehicle if my plans change. So I'll drive regardless."
I finally got on the Adobe train this year, because the cost of the photographer bundle is trivial. It's less than a Dropbox subscription at this point.

If ~$10/month is too much for the best photo organiser and the market leading photo manipulation software, then you're basically saying no-one should be able to make any money out of software, ever.
Vim Creep
> because things were so awesome back in the day...not

are you trying to credit technological advance to democratic government?

what are you talking about?
What I don't get is why payment is involved in this process at all. If you want to build an adblocker as a project, fine. If you want to allow ad companies to apply for whitelisting, ehh, but at least make the option off by default.

Taking money for the process just screams corruption.
No, he is saying that the website is generated from a different branch to the one that is being worked on at the moment.
> Because Haskell's design has always placed verification as a top priority. Indeed, Haskell tries (IMO, unsuccessfully so far) to combine programming and verification in a single language.

No it doesn't. Troll.
Turns out "lent" is actually the past tense of "lend". Not sure where my head was this afternoon.
True. A related article: http://reefbuilders.com/2015/08/26/palytoxin-dangerous/
We know that a drug addiction is a weak predictor of violence.

We know that previous violence is a predictor of violence.

We know that mental illness generally isn't a predictor of violence. Even when you limit mental illness to just personality disorder and psychotic illnesses it's weaker than an addiction or previous episode of violence.

But if you combine any two you get stronger predictors, and if you combine all three that's the strongest predictor.

The article correctly points out that this gets misinterpreted as "drug use predicts violence".

Frustratingly putting people in prison for their drug use exposes them to violence, which this raises their future risk of being the perpetrators of violence.
Please only post civilly and substantively to HN. You can always help it, because you can always edit out the uncivil bits after you post them. That's what most of us do.

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This is completely ridiculous. What possible justification could they have for this?
Don't miss the "high resolution" link:

http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/cro... (8000x8000, 67.5 Mb)
A lot of people on HN (and general tech sites) seem to think that VR will be used primarily for something other than gaming.

If I were working on any kind of VR software in the next five years, it would be a game, absolutely no question about it. (A game that does not involve the character walking around, by the way.) As long as the hardware requirements for a good VR experience are high, anything else is a novelty.

Serious PC gamers are your audience. Period. Alternative hardware that doesn't rely on a beefy GPU will (for now) be extremely limited and uninteresting.

And even after a few years, you're still going to need a very good reason to spend at least a few hundred dollars on a VR set. I will be very surprised if home users are buying them for something other than games.