skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are diagnosing and recommending medical treatment to a complete stranger based on a comment on an internet forum.

Worse, you're doing so with all the experience and wisdom of an avid googler of nootropics.

Getting shitfaced on beer and Scotch works for some people as they self-medicate their social anxiety. For some people that turns from harmless social drinking to alcoholism and can destroy their lives.

In this particular case, excessive energy drink consumption (I personally tend to self-medicate with coffee to avoid the sugar in red bulls) can lead to heart attacks, high blood pressure and associated complications.

"Taurine is involved in a number of crucial physiological processes. However, its role in these processes is not clearly understood and the influence of high taurine doses on these processes is uncertain"

L-Theanine has more studies and is slightly better understood, but there still have not been full human trials and studies sufficient for you to provide medial information to a stranger.

Advancing a supplement as a cure can be harmful even if the supplement is harmless. If a person takes it for a cure instead of, say, talking to a therapist/doctor/psychologist, they could be missing out on an approach that actually DOES help. You may be familiar with Steve Jobs who delayed medical treatment for his cancer in an effort to use "alternative" cures.
There's nothing wrong with anecdotes and observations. If they're interesting, that's more than enough for good HN conversation.
Can someone explain why it's a good idea for android to provide data binding? Does their implementation of data binding allow for great performance?

Everyone was super excited about two years ago with data binding in the web, until they started having tons of performance problems (e.g. angular.js).
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That feature has been requested a lot and is on the backlog. Just trying to figure out how to make it super easy and intuitive :)

Any ideas?
One of the really neat things about Android is this type of thing is generally backported via the Support Library. In fact Data Binding is available all the way back to Android 2.1:

http://developer.android.com/tools/data-binding/guide.html
Perhaps you can do a similar study for owner-managed vs owners and managers being different persons (like in a public company).
It's an interesting historical article about someone remarkable. It's unhelpful to flame the entire thing based on one sentence you don't like, and your comment adds nothing but lighter fluid to the GP's observation.
Those benefits ultimately came out of higher prices for consumers. So if the public still wants the benefits to continue, it just has to campaign for public provision for those benefits through higher taxes or contribute to private income transfer programs. That would be fairer since who gets the benefits will be decided on a democratic basis and not on who was well-connected or lucky enough to land a job in a unionized industry.

I'm not in the US, but from the news it seems that higher taxes are very unpopular there. So demonizing corporations seems to be an easy way out where you can empathize with unskilled workers while at the same time enjoying the benefits that come from the cheapening of their labour.
The article doesn't seem to address the actual cause that the articles linked at the top highlighted, background updating. The Verge article especially was all about background processing issues which the tests and power saving advice don't seem to address at all.
while it does deliver trending articles to you, they are sorted into categories and it seems to always default to the entertainment tab, which I hate. I usually click to the science tab, but somehow it doesn't want to learn that
At least theyre thankful for all the fish
I liked Your game, put some color brother.
I spent about 12 years as an employee in companies of various sizes in different industries. Purely anecdotally, I can tell you that sh*t rolls downhill. Bad people at the top make for unhappy teams and poor performance. The opposite is also true. The CEOs I respected most also inspired their teams to achieve the fastest growth.
Have you guys tried User Scripts? I just tried this one and it seemed to work pretty well. (In chrome this can be done by saving the script as collapse.user.js and dragging into chrome://extensions).

https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/2960-hacker-news-collapsib...
I've messaged someone I know who works on this project. Here is an example: https://github.com/ReadyTalk/hello-ios
I was thinking it was an amazing way to avoid telling people why the product hasn't shipped yet. They've been doing pre-orders for more than a year. Sometime in there it went from $149 a pair to $199 a pair. I admire the desire to make something "absolutely perfect", but perfect products don't ship.
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I would really dig it if you could talk a little more about what this is. Without a description here or on the landing page, you're gonna slide off this list without making it to the front page of ShowHN
The lack of a consistent address system in India is definitely a challenge for a lot of provisioning (my address includes the phrase "Lot where the Cotton Mill was").
That's nominal; it's much higher by PPP. (Still much lower than the global West and North, of course.)
They are "advocating" for a regulatory environment that lets them operate, with most of the "advocating" being simply breaking the law and not caring. Competition they so far tried to extinguish.

By the way, what sane company would ever want to facilitate (real) competition for themselves? The natural goal of every company is to have a monopoly. Market economy works by hanging that carrot in front of everyone and then trying to make sure no one reaches it.
Yesterday I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got in my pajamas, I'll never know.
Still, multiply that by 3, then 1.5 for the overhead… that's still about 5 months of QE :P

A post doc at who worked at ATLAS came to visit our lab a couple weeks a go, and just listening to the workflow they have for the events coming off the detectors… and all the BS they have to deal with working in academia… yeah… I'll take that money, erect a CSP system up in Spain and ask them to come do this with me, just to start off with a fun side project :P
Just like on land, not all parts of the ocean are equal.

There are regions teaming with life, but there are also regions that are barren and life less, just like the deserts found on land. It all comes down to winds and currents as to which is which.

Now the problem is, humans, like the dolphins don't want those desert parts of the ocean.
Bacteria have their own protection mechanisms. That being said, your question belies an assumption. Is it not brain-like if it's damaged/attacked? The blood-brain barrier is a structure the human brain has developed that provides a kind of protection. Things still get through and affect the human brain. So the idea of "protection" is a matter of vector, intensity, and the nature of the interaction being "protected". e.g. If a pain receptor is no longer registering due to an opiate, has the brain been disrupted?
Thanks, that was exactly what I did - quit
> it's a transportation service to connect professional drivers to people getting driven.

It looks more like a "service" that destroys a job in which people can support their family and replaces it with another hand-to-mouth subsistence job.
This is reeeeaaaalllyyyy cool. Perhaps you should be targeting this at the college kids a whole lot more than the people on HN? (just a thought!)

Apart from this, could you elaborate a lil more on other use cases for a messenger which can hold conversations on a temporary basis?
Yes, but in some places the local laws can make up for most of the protections of a lease. At which point it mostly just protects the landlord.
Not exactly true. They had a good team lined up, and a founder who had previously started and sold some companies. The idea was sound. Fortunately for all, TA made sufficient progress between Day0 and funding to tell his investors that, in fact, it was not as good as it sounded.

In today's environment, many founders (by the looks of it) would choose to do otherwise - burn money until it's all gone, knowing full well their business is vaporware. That might work today, and one might even be able to pivot their way out, but that's not the greatest idea ever. IMO
Difficult to correct for survivorship bias too (unless the study specifically did so - I couldn't get the full text)
magda_wang,
God bless you for bringing this piece to HN.Keep it up.
I just can't resist those dangerous thrills ;)
If you've ever read How To Win Friends and Influence People you'll know that a great strategy is to listen while others talk about themselves. So, in fact, you're probably well-liked when you do this.
Ask HN: Americas Greatest Makers (TBS Reality Show)
Has any other hackers, makers, devs, designers, etc know about this show, submitted an idea for this show and or went through their consideration process?

America's Greatest Makers is an inventor/maker reality show that is set to air on TBS (Turner Broadcasting; major US Cable TV channel) in Spring 2016. Intel and Mark Burnett (Shark Tank, The Voice, Survivor, etc) are producing it and it will have 20 makers competing for a million dollars.

We would love to hear if you have heard of this show, submitted an idea and or have been considered to participate.
Microsoft must be minting money from their subscription and Azure services. We replaced three servers with Office 365 online and Azure virtual machines and Azure AD. It has several advantages but cost is not one. Anyone that says moving to the cloud saves you money is likely wrong.
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Not sure if anyone in the know is reading and wants to comment on this, but even if bacterial cells are exchanging messages, do they have connections back to other specific cells or are they just broadcasting to the local soup? If it's the latter, then it's definitely not going to function like neurons.
> It leads me to believe that the restrictions described do not apply to them.

Which restrictions? The table of delays is on the same page as "six-digit, four-digit, and arbitrary-length alphanumeric passcodes", about 3 paragraphs away. If this is what you're referring to, I see no reason to believe PINs vs. passwords are treated differently.
Are you seriously confused at the difference between JavaScript performance in the browser and native code?

Yes, native code by definition runs faster than javascript in the browser. Orders of magnitude faster.

Databinding in the browser also wasn't designed in, there's no direct support. AngularJS is a wrapper around a ton of functionality.

If an API is built to support that natively, it will fly. Period.

It's also something iOS and OS X have had FOR YEARS. no one can complain about those being poor performers.
One of the core contributors here. The trick is that Avian doesn't do JIT compilation on iOS - instead, we run everything through the "JIT" compiler ahead of time, as we're building the app. This is the only possible technique, outside of interpretation (which Avian can also do, but slowly), and compiling to Javascript to run with JavascriptCore. It's also what I've seen most other VMs do for iOS (including, for instance, the Unity game engine, which used to embed Mono).
Doesn't seem like any of them work with my E3 Xeon.
On common, reporters. IBM has a cloud too!
It's almost as if HN folks need some hard data even in their light reading.

So does it matter whether dolphins actually seek us out? I just get a kick out of thinking they do, and this article put a smile on my face.
That was a very interesting video. Could you tell us why you disagree with the video's thesis?
If I try to send you a message and your phone is off and my phone is off by the time you turn your phone on, where does the message live until you turn your phone back on? It has to live somewhere not controlled by either of us if we don't want unacceptable degradations in usability.
Not alone there, Microsoft is especially expensive for what you actually get but the more common players such as AWS and Rackspace are highly cost ineffective in many situations. I really wish people would stop calling it 'the cloud' and call it what it is 'outsourced hardware'.
> Needs an energy source

Sun. Fission. Fusion.

> you'd have to come from an entirely different angle

Not me personally, but tens of billions of new people who would be born in the next couple of hundred thousand years.

> If there is some totally out-of-the-blue breakthrough

If in 1900-2000 food production increased 5x then it is reasonable to expect that in the next 100 years food production may increase 5x again (or more if needed).

It looks like you want to have enough food now (in 2015) in order to be able to feed world's population in 2215.

Why do you need to have that food 200 years ahead of the actual demand?
The main problem with that series of videos, if I remember correctly, is that it only ever gives high-level descriptions of experiment outcomes. Those are interesting, but they aren't really good explanations. Then to top that off, they get some of the important details wrong.

For example, in the quantum eraser video referred to by the video you linked, it's said that there's an interference pattern for B when you don't measure the entangled associated photon A (and that there is one when you do measure A). That's not the case. If it was the case, we'd have a handy-dandy FTL communication mechanism.

What actually happens is that there's never a visible interference pattern for B in this experiment. Instead, you use the measurements of A to filter or split the measurements of B into two groups (e.g. Bs when A up, Bs when A down). Within each group of measurements, you'll find an interference pattern. The two interference patterns will complement each other so the sum is an apparent lack-of-interference; you need the As to do the separation.

I personally think the the quantum eraser experiment has a terrible misleading name. It's more of a "use entangled measurements to find the interference" experiment.
This is literally months old and has been completely superceded by an actual release.

OP's article: June 2015.

From the same blog, 4 days ago: Announcement of a alpha-ish release of the thing the OP's post talks about http://blogs.msdn.com/b/powershell/archive/2015/10/19/openss...
What cloud platform services have they shutdown? Project churn in other parts of the business doesn't mean I shouldn't trust their container service or load balancers.
I tried reading this article, but the horrible color scheme and irritating (parallax?) background just hurt too much :-(
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You're right, it's almost as if the piece was written purely as content marketing to promote the gotenna ;) Interesting nonetheless!
I suspect Canada is the next country to legalize cannabis.
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Migrating off Google would be much less painful than trying to migrate off of Amazon's large group of proprietary services. e.g. Google's Container Engine is based on Kubernetes.
I wonder if universal basic income is going to change the ad hoc basic income we already have in place -- the one where I'm supporting my retired parents, my wife, and my pre-workforce kid.
I don't think anything like Android's Data Bindings exists first party on iOS. Cocoa Bindings are only for OS X.
Nope, it just requires you to know what the glyph means :o
>How would you propose I monetize creating my own free open-source programming language?

Forget it, work for the man, save your money, retire young, then work as much as you want on your GIF art syntax programming language.
From yesterday:

"We recently heard reports of some people experiencing battery issues with the Facebook iOS app and have been looking into the causes of these problems. We found a few key issues and have identified additional improvements, some of which are in the version of the app that was released today."

https://www.facebook.com/arig/posts/10105815276466163
Azure, EC2, and Google Cloud are overpriced in most cases. You can do the same with cheaper (and often similarly reliable) VPSes managed with tools like Puppet/Chef, Consul, Vault, Docker, etc. Plus you avoid lock in. Your stuff is yours and can be deployed anywhere.

I don't see the allure of the costlier cloud other than the "nobody ever got fired for" factor so common in enterprise purchasing. Amazon is the only one that might have a stronger case for it based on its huge managed service stack, but much of that is not too terribly hard to duplicate with other tools and more a la carte services. There also really isn't a reason you can't use some of Amazon's stuff while also using more commodity options.

On a more principled level I'm starting to see huge proprietary cloud as a potential threat to the open Internet. It's not quite there yet but at some point I could see it, especially with the walled garden plays you see around IoT.
If you're the guy on the ground in cardiac arrest? Priceless.

Just checked Amazon - you can buy an AED for $959 minus $100 coupon. The recommended lifespan of an AED is 5-8 years, so for a smalltime operator you're looking at an amortized cost of $107-175 per year.

$10 per month is a rounding error in the operating budget of a public accomodation, and I don't see how you can possibly get upset about that. Let alone something like a ship that's multiple hours away from the closest possible medevac. A container ship likely burns more fuel than that in an hour of operation.

Won't someone please think of poor Maersk's quarterly profits? Or even worse, my Amazon crap might cost another $0.01 per tonne...

Even if you don't care that it's The Right Thing To Do, the cold truth is that if someone dies there's tons of expensive things that happen. If an employee dies there's insurance or comp to pay, there's the cost of hiring a replacement and so on, etc. And on a social level we lose their economic output and its effect on the aggregate economy.
Well you're probably saving on manpower though right?
Appalling: "Stealing is not corruption"
Corruption involves kickbacks, bribes to allow for activities that would lead to an economic gain otherwise unachievable by those not participating in the corruption.
Stealing involves achieving value by extraordinary means not condoned by law.
Stealing may not be === corruption, but it definitely is == corruption. Anything else is a lie you tell yourself when on the receiving end of a kickback.
And the author is very very naiive to imagine that corruption is chump change. Nigeria has vast reserves of oil but horrible infrastructure; it's pretty obvious that the corruption is ruinous out there.
Most of success in business are due to chance, contrary to popular myths.

But character matters also, it is, perhaps, second most important variable, but chance outweights everything. That's why people are saying that chance favours the prepared.
Many here are misuderstanding "firm performance" with employee quality of life( that's fair!).

But, from the "shareholder value" perspective this might actually be true. Some despicable CEOs may actually be just as good as a friendly and passionate founding CEO
Right, my bad, I missed it.
Medium also lets users bring their own custom domains - for example, https://500ish.com.
And a whole bunch of other capabilities. My company couldn't exist if we had to buy & configure our own servers, storage, switching, load balancers, databases, monitoring &c. Characterising the AWS & Azure clouds as "outsourced hardware" demonstrates a real lack of awareness of the services that are available. As a third-party offering, they are about as far from old-style mainframe bureau computing as you can get, in every dimension from the architectural to the commercial.

Cloud computing means the entire DC is programmable, and I use it as such.

Moreover the unprecedented level of automation means I can spend a lot more time on creating customer value rather than faffing around with admin. The shift I've seen in the last three decades* has been phenomenal. Teams aren't smaller but they are vastly more productive.

* yes I have been in tech that long :~
Some times people do, often they don't. We learnt that dealing with 3rd party vendors is a very time consuming and costly ordeal, especially when you realise that they don't care about your business, only about your money.
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As someone who was diagnosed with Aspergers Syndrome in my teens, please shut up. It's not offensive to anyone if it's not being used as a derogatory term.

Please stop advocating for less-descriptive language.
> Customers do know one important thing. Uber is beneficial to them and taxi regulations are not.

There are a lot of things that are beneficial to some parties while being destructive to everyone else. Strip-mining is beneficial to those enjoying the cheap metals. Dumping toxic waste into a river is beneficial for those upstream, not so much for those downstream.

> The taxi regulations were set up to protect the taxi companies, not the customers.

Some, maybe, and many eventually grew to serve taxi companies more than the customers. But not all and probably not most, initially. A lot of regulations and the monopoly taxi companies get exist, so that you:

- can actually get a ride if you don't live in the city centre

- can actually get a ride if you're sick, elderly or disabled, in a car that's equipped to handle you

With Uber you can't get either of the above, because it's unprofitable for the company and the drivers (actually, a friend is reporting that people are now lying about their location and then calling to the driver directly to ask them to start counting the fare on their way; we'll see how that dynamics evolves).

> I don't think it's likely that any business is going to start flouting regulations that actually protect customers from something, because harming your customers is not a good business model (tobacco industry aside).

Of course they are, and they're constantly doing it. Things like safe medicine, safe food, safe clothes, etc. were all things we had to fight them in courts for. If you're the only provider of something your customers need, you can be as evil like you want to them, and they will still buy from you.

Also, regulations are not usually about company vs. their customers, because those are not the only parties of the transaction. Regulations also serve to protect the rest of society from externalities that are being dumped on it through the transaction. In case of Uber, they have a good value proposition for customers. But they dump a shit ton of externalities on the rest of us, including fucking over their drivers, destroying the taxi industry while not covering for all the parts they dismantled like catering to elderly and disabled, and eroding the rule of law. Oh, and fucking us all over again with taxes that should have been paid.

To take your tobacco industry aside, they're not really hurting their customers. The customers were obviously participants in voluntary trade. And the families that have to take care of them and bury them when lung cancer finally ends its work were not the customers, so why would a tobacco company care about them?

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I understand the appeal of Uber. People who like them like them, because they're breaking the law in their favour. But that's a stupidly childish attitude. The next company will break law in favour of someone else, and then you'll be pissed.
One is welcome to use staff that cost $20k per month (e.g. DevOps engineers who understand those four technologies well enough to use them in production) to shave ~50% off one's AWS bill, but one needs minimally two to three of them, so your friendly neighborhood insurance company should probably pay their $15k or whatever a month without blinking.
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Wave. Of course that depends on your definition of cloud platform services.