skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would disagree about the UNIX standard being a) comunity developed, as the UNIX the specification describes was mostly developed by AT&T/Bell Labs and b) being an open specification, as it is owned by Novell, who only allows usage of the UNIX trademark after verification and a large sum of money.

That said most moden NIXes are community developed and although they are arguably superior to non-NIX systems, they are (again, arguably) about as much of a mess as HTML.
Almost every single one has borderline nonsensical services, leading to some very "creative" APIs or workarounds for weaknesses.

The pitches that I have heard in regards to a lack of initiated prewarming or synchronization/transfer methods or architecture optimizations is pathetic at best and fraudulent at worst (Highwinds CDN, shame on you). Akamai has been inconsistent or failed to meet any sort of standard on a given test run from 2005-2008 (the last time I was considering them). Akamai continues to be opaque and stonewalls any attempt to assess why individual failures occur. Whatever your particular needs are, there is absolutely NO REASON that you should have to do any kind of workaround, without a discount in price where you can measure a tradeoff. As per my original comment, a shitty CDN is not an objective assessment. Being unhappy with your CDN because of an API is just plain laziness. I don't want to go to a CDN host website, ever. The API should be robust and performant. Storage, caching, availability by geo, pricing. These are solved problems. If you are using a CDN and are unhappy, go find a new one and move. If you can't do that, you have larger problems.
The talisman (called just eye in Greece) isn't a cure but protection. Garlic —real or a ceramic one— may also serve as protection.

The bad eye (bad as in person) is something like a mini curse, usually caused by envy. It is generally accepted that some people cause it more easily than others, whilst others are incapable to cause it. It may have to do with the character of the person.

The cure, or antidote is an encantation which would roughly translate to ”eye gouging”. The encantation is also interesting. It is believed that each encantation can only be owned by one person and should be kept secret or will lose its power. The owner may transfer it under certain conditions and usually old people transfer it to younger ones. It is monks that usually are able to create new encantations and pass them to the rest of the society. Also some encantations can only be passed to one sex.

Although it sounds crazy, both evil-eye (or eyeing) and eye-gouging seem to work but it probably is a placebo like effect. :)
Still means a lot. Cherry-picking a pair that differs little ignores the vast differences between other pairs. I moved from NY to GA; there's a deep cultural difference, and much that's desirable norm in one is nigh unto intolerable in the other (both ways). Wyoming is a very different lifestyle from California from Florida from Virginia from Maine etc. Drives many of us crazy that concentrated urbanites in one region want to boss around country folk living very different lifestyles/values/history, and do so due to sheer concentrated numbers.

Whatever happened to "celebrate [and protect] diversity"?
Yes, a lot of classical scholarship stands the test of time and, once done, need not be redone. On the other hand, a classicist's job has always involved more interpretation than discovery. A brief look at the classical scholarship from 100 years will probably convince you that interpretation is the kind of thing that needs to be updated from time to time.
You misunderstand. I don't mean an HTTP proxy, I mean a computer with no keyboard (technically, a keyboard usable only in a small whitelist of places). There are a small number of loopholes left (assembling messages with copy-paste from the right-click menu, and finding a website somewhere with an on-screen keyboard) but they're pretty easy to either close or to enforce with a small amount of human monitoring.
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If you have any good leads please let me know :)
Do you have any reason to think brand of deodorant and diet are strongly correlated with Parkinson's? (Especially pre-diagnosis.)

Ideal would be to check large numbers of undiagnosed people, and then see how many of those she "alerted" on developed the disease, but given the generally-low incidence of Parkinson's I suspect this approach would be impractical. Larger sample sizes than 12 would always be nice, of course.
Very interesting. Are you planning to do a firefox extension too ?
Also because, they say, there are costs to the prison in having phones including monitoring to make sure prisoners aren't breaking any laws.

I think these costs should be a cost of doing business as a prison, whereas they consider it should be "user pays".
You just said they help the presentation differences of these controls, so they solve some of this, even though they bring a different set of problems.

The JS API isn't that bad as everyone makes it out to be, especially since Microsoft is getting more standards compliant. And where it is bad, we see things like jQuery spring up, that solve more than the original problem (perhaps too much, but that's easier to fix than the browser differences).

Perhaps you might define "proper" and provide any compelling examples how the current APIs aren't up to snuff, besides not being able to programmatically select text in a number element and unused checked properties. I'm curious.
Outside of evaluating the risk, are there an good calculators out there for doing the math on this with various exit scenarios?
CERN+AT+IT+AGAIN,MEET+LUCIFER+SOON+-+YouTube
I can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not... But the "research" is literally just concluding "Hey, there may be a simple way to test for this incredibly hard-to-diagnose disease".
FCC proposal regulating radio frequencies could end some free software projects
Google parent Alphabet tops earnings estimates
We don't typically distrust people to not spend on their dependents to appropriately provide for them. But, let's say we don't we could compensate with vouchers.
Most prisoners are allowed phone calls. If it's reasonable to let them do that, then it's unreasonable to worry about refresh-button-morse-code messages.
Expensify’s CEO on the Tactics That Doubled Its Customer Base
Only if an unrelenting stream of verbal abuse & degrading profanity constitutes "talking about their problems".
I feel a strong motivation to punish companies who commit bait & switch product promotions. Don't promote ad-free premium service to me, then send me ads.
"Her accuracy was 11 out of 12. We were quite impressed."

Dr Kunath adds: "She got the six Parkinson's but then she was adamant one of the 'control' subjects had Parkinson's.

"But he was in our control group so he didn't have Parkinson's.

"According to him and according to us as well he didn't have Parkinson's.

"But eight months later he informed me that he had been diagnosed with Parkinson's.

"So Joy wasn't correct for 11 out of 12, she was actually 12 out of 12 correct at that time.

"That really impressed us and we had to dig further into this phenomenon."

Reminds me of the story I heard about a doctor who was diagnosing an STD a lot earlier than average. They put two other doctors in the room with him to try to spot what he was seeing and identified the eye flutter as a new symptom, I think for syphilis.
If you think about it, the only thing you're buying is freedom from ads. If they show you ads, they're taking back the only thing you paid for.
> What would be the harm in doing it and then seeing if the courts struck it down?

That's a pretty terrible way to run a government. When you elect someone you expect them to follow the law and do their job.

Not just do anything they want and say "it's fine, if we are wrong the court will fix it".
This makes a lot of sense. What do you think of the other term often used to describe the same idea: "level playing field" ? Sure you can (inevitably so, maybe) have unequal distributions of wealth but we at least want to rid 'systematic bias' from the list of reasons why.
We should talk; My goals with Penmate[1] are somewhat similar. Technology can and _will_ disrupt this

[1] http://penmateapp.com
Read the history of the <blink> tag if you want a example : http://www.montulli.org/theoriginofthe%3Cblink%3Etag
Because it takes a whole lot of energy to constantly invent imaginary earnest justification after imaginary earnest justification for a group of people who consistently come out against making life better for the less fortunate at every turn. No matter the cost or savings or lack of either, no matter the circumstance -- it's always vote against the interests of the disadvantaged.

And it doesn't help when it's literally the focus of their stated ideology. Or when the leaders of their party say things to the effect of "Our goal is to destroy this president at all costs no matter what it does to the country or the american people"

I get that it's easy to say it's always a mistake or oversimplification to call a group of people evil, but what if they actually are?
But in the real world, we do less rigorous studies first and follow up with more rigorous studies if our preliminary investigations show promise.
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Students should pitch in for one copy, scan it, make a PDF.

And then just to be a dick, post it online on some Chinese/Russian server and email the link to the professor anonymously.
I was thinking / hoping that language was SPARQL.
I don't think anyone is arguing that. But the private prison issue is certainly overblown - their existence is not the reason why things in the U.S. criminal justice system are so bad. They were created in _response_ to prison overcrowding in the late 80s to reduce costs. And the number of prisoners in private prisons is tiny compared to the general prison population. They are a problem, but not the problem.

Don't take it from me, take it from a prison reform organization: http://www.prisonpolicy.org/blog/2015/10/07/private_prisons_...
AMZN stock has almost doubled since January this year... that's insane
Most Americans don't even know what the word equality means, and wouldn't be able to explain how equal differs from equitable.
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Also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10433010.
You've calculated how long it will take to break even on your salary alone via becoming a successful blogger... and it's an optimistic 18 month crawl in which helping other entrepreneurs is some sort of priority alongside programming and kitten blog posts.

Some thoughts:

1) if traffic's not coming to you for your product the vast majority of it won't care for your product, your best case scenario on product-irrelevant blog posts is awful traffic and most won't even deliver that

2) don't worry about other entrepreneurs', they can find blog posts in lots of places and they're nowhere near as important as your company

3) Buffer and Groove each have the luxury of over a $million in investments to pay people to write content that falls off HN, Reddit etc like it never existed while other people focus on building their businesses, you're on your own so you're doing one or the other really

You have a finished product that some people are paying for, why isn't $3000 MRR your goal for this year? That is surely possible somehow.
You could more or less argue the same thing about phones.

They all have the same apps that 90% of people use (Facebook etc), they all have the same core features that 90% of people use (texting, internet and calling) and yet.. many people upgrade often.

I expect its just a newer = better mentality that humans share.
You really need me to tell you this? should we allocate votes on that basis?

Hint think how single people will see this.
Because they are mean and evil. Their irrationality comes from the zealous belief that anything conservative must be defended to the death, and without compromise.

At the end of the day, though, the "why" of their cruelty is not all that important. The fact is that they are evil, and relish in it.
And if you exclude victimless crimes, it also punishes the victims. A bit of a stretch, but you could say so if no active and meaningful attempt is made to rehabilitate incarcerated individuals.
Fair enough. It's still a good line :)
I said things about key revocation. You said nothing about key revocation. How is that a retort?
React-Experiments: Experimentation with React.js and PlanOut
Apple Announces Extended Warranty for MacBook Pros Affected by “Staingate” [pdf]
I wonder what stops a professor of a required class to charge $1,800 per book. Or $18,000.
You write a revocation message to the blockchain signed by your key. Now anyone who is trying to verify your identity can prove that it has been revoked.
Except, we're not introducing something new :) We're taking what's already used by 70-80% of graph database deployments and opening it up for other vendors to collaborate with us on the design and implementation of it.
Custom elements can have their own JS apis! They're not just for style. Check it: http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/webcomponents/custome...
I'm going to keep reiterating this: private prisons are not the problem. They are a problem, and a relatively small one at that compared to other systemic abuses.

> Far more influential are political benefits that elected officials of both political parties harvested over the decades by being tough on crime as well as the billions of dollars earned by government-run prisons’ employees and private contractors and vendors.

http://www.prisonpolicy.org/blog/2015/10/07/private_prisons_...
Spotify loves Chromecast
Do you actually have a relevant point? You are comparing apples to walnuts. Sure, a handful of entertainers make a lot of money because they make a little from a lot of people. However, most entertainers make very little money. As a society we don't pay you more to be a struggling actor, singer, or comedian.
This link is the original intent to pursue class action. The below is Apple's reply:

http://www.droidreport.com/apple-fanboys-fangirls-rejoice-ap...
Ah, the hypothetical "entire new pie". Just produce it, bro; then there will be no more arguments about inequality.
I'm too lazy to do the math, but I'm just going to say a test like this needs more than a sample size of 12 to show significance for detecting something that happens 1 in 500. The woman also was predisposed to thinking that at least some of the 12 had Parkinson's and the sample selection ensured that at least half did have Parkinson's. An actual test would need to allow any possible sample including those that had zero Parkinson's patients.
Indeed, this looks like an easier description. Beware, however, that "directly to the right" could be misunderstood. If the first two are B and R, the third has to go between them... but I still like your rule. Will think about it, Thanks!
That... was a surprisingly good read. I think most of those points can be applied to project management for developers especially freelancers. You've sort of made me rethink how I attack a few things...

You never really think about these sorts of things until someone mentions it, so thanks for that!
Sure. But the idea here is that there are many things wrong and that there is no reason to just tackle one of those things or do them serially. Some parties chose to challenge some elements of the criminal system directly, others choose to focus on other aspects of the problem. There is room for all of these. For the 7% or so that is in private prisons (commercial prisons would probably be a better term anyway) the situation is bad in ways that it isn't for the others and it is worth addressing those problems (to them for sure).

To say this doesn't warrant any attention is similar to saying that we don't need to do space travel or fundamental research before we've cured world hunger, cancer and aids because those address bigger and immediate problems.

There is room for all of the above.
Thank you for the reference. I have never seen this page. Looks very promising.
Opening the HN app on iOS actually loads an input field in the title of this article for a split second. Anyone else notice that?
It absolutely is a fundamental problem. Just because government-run prisons have some overlap in their human rights abuses with private-run doesn't excuse the business model of the latter.

When you are paid by the bed, it is in your best interest to lobby for stronger sentencing guidelines[1] to gain and keep as many inmates as you can, and bleed as much cash out of them as possible in the process. In some cases you even have detention centers bribing judges[2] to lock away children in exchange for cash.

1. http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2013/09/private-prisons-occu...
2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kids_for_cash_scandal
Yep, it's its own project. Google then takes that project and wraps their proprietary pieces around it.
The HN iOS app actually displays an input field for a brief second in the title of this article. Anyone else notice that?
Don't we all want to be super rich?

If we aren't rich, fairness is the next best thing.
Accreditation organizations being the solution only holds if you accept the premise that a four-year degree with any course material is necessary to be a successful developer -- if that were true, figuring out what the right stuff to teach in that four years was would certainly be the challenge. But while I share a lot of people's skepticism of bootcamps, I personally haven't seen much evidence that that's true.
I doubt your CPU/GPU can do color/fx at 1200 MBytes/second. Heck, I don't doubt, you're making it up.
Issues with Parse
So are you a techzing listener, or was it a coincidence?
More went wrong with Aviator than that: they munged up the code rebranding it and made it much harder to track upstream. It also didn't start out open source!
I agree. The only issue is that assigning people to shifts is legitimately a tough problem to solve, and I'm worried about high support load without much upside potential from small businesses.

Medium and large-sized businesses known that scheduling is hard and they are willing to pay for a good solution.
Haidt's research actually suggests this behavior is more common amongst progressives because they subscribe to a narrower moral framework based on fairness and harm-reduction while conservatives incorporate other elements such as loyalty, respect for authority, and purity. Thus, when the two disagree, conservatives, being concerned with fairness and harm reduction but not exclusively so, are able to understand the progressive position and understand why progressives disagree with them, but progressives are unable to likewise understand the conservative position and why conservatives disagree with them, so they assume wickedness instead.
Edge and Firefox are getting native shadow dom too!
The question is: why have disability claims skyrocketed at least since the 90s? Are Americans that much more disabled (than people of the Depression, WWII and Vietnam generations, and beyond)? It strikes me as being highly implausible. Based on some of the data presented here and elsewhere, it seems like it's become another welfare program for many people, with some "deserving" individuals in between. Some people, when not forced to work for their survival, will eschew it. Others see it as free money, and just work for cash on the side.

To the moral question of the safety net: is it just for one to have earned X dollars (and spent Y amount of one's life) working at a job, only to have the fruits of one's labor forcefully taken away to fund his neighbor's welfare/housing/food/schooling/etc.? I would argue no.[0] If someone is disabled or destitute, he can appeal to the charity of his family members, fellow human beings, or philanthropy to help him out. There are plenty of people (many on these boards, I imagine) who have excess resources and would surely help a starving man in the street or an orphan.

Indeed, voluntary aid would fix the issue of worthiness which you raise: if you are worthy of help, you will be judged worthy to receive it. (Charities and mutual aid societies have existed since at least the 19th century, and have proliferated even more-widely since.[1]) If not, time to start providing value to others (i.e., labor) and receiving money in exchange. There ain't no such thing as a free lunch.

[0] http://philo.abhinav.ac.in/Objectivism/Ayn%20Rand%20-%20The%...

[1] http://www.forbes.com/sites/objectivist/2011/11/18/america-b...
You're right, in an ideal world it would mean nothing, as country distinctions are mostly arbitrary. However, there doesn't exist, and most likely won't exist in the near future, a world government that can realitistically replace all of the country governments, which is why it's not worth calling for the imminent removal of 'country rights'.

However, in the case of states, there is a organizing body that can, and is increasingly governing in their stead -- the federal government. And as many people believe the federal government has on average done a better job, that is why there are calls for the retirement of the 'states rights' concept.
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I never said "X is illegal/legal therefore it is immoral/moral", and I don't agree with that sentiment.

consider:

x ∈ X
x ∈ I
X ⊆ L
Y ⊆ L
therefore ∀ y ∈ Y, y ∈ I
or even just ∃ y ∈ Y, y ∈ I

that doesn't make any sense.

That's basically what Lawtonfogle was saying, where X is some other country's laws, Y is our country's laws, L is the set of all laws, and I is the set of immoral laws. The fact that slavery is legal somewhere else only proves that's it's possible for a bad law to exist. Doesn't mean that we have bad laws in our own countries (which of course we do, however)
It may ward off the "evil eye", but at least in italy, it will fail at warding off a "black eye".

edit: "ward of"
>There's almost certainly a "big data" angle as well, potentially describing the polymorphisms in majorhistocompatability (MHC) molecules between people.

Where's the big data angle on MHC polymorphisms? Aren't they mostly succinctly summarized by HLA type (which is an awfully small piece of data, even if catalogued for every human alive)?
That's the rub, isn't it. Financial literacy is as contentious a field as nutrition is[1]. I recently got Tony Robbins' Money: Master the Game [2]. It claims to use both common sense principles and tips from investment masters, and ultimately settles upon pretty reasonable ideas (such as choosing index funds and avoiding mutual funds). Sure, he might be a motivational speaker- but he echoes advice from people in the know, right? Turns out some online investment bloggers do recommend it [3], while others don't [4]. Still others have created a three-hour podcast critiquing it [5].

At some point, one just gives up looking for the best class to take and settles on whatever comes along. To his credit, Robbins did teach me that investment advisors are not to be trusted to keep your best interests in mind- what you should be looking for is a fiduciary.

[1] http://www.psmag.com/business-economics/quest-improve-americ...

[2] http://www.amazon.com/MONEY-Master-Game-Financial-Freedom/dp...

[3] https://investorjunkie.com/38192/money-master-game-review/

[4] http://www.basonasset.com/yes-i-actually-read-most-of-tony-r...

[5] http://radicalpersonalfinance.com/a-comprehensive-review-and...
I'd use Jackson.
Ditto. I learned the media wasn't a reliable source of information when I was 10. What baffles me is so few people feel this way, even here on hacker news. A large percentage, if not most, of the submitted links on HN come from media outlets.
What about speed? Camera quality?
Impressive but I don't see the point of diagnosing Parkinsons in early stages when there is no cure available.
That's such a manifestly unjust arrangement that whoever made that deal with that company should go to jail.