skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> the dickheads might be those who use the purchase of expensive handmade gear as an exclusionary mechanism

haha, you pretty much hit the nail on the head here. surfing is really bizarre. when you start out, the guys who are better and probably have more expensive boards are the dick heads in your mind. when you get better, you slowly become one of the dickheads, and of course, you're not a dickhead, so the other guys who you once were become the dickheads in your mind.

i personally try to keep it at a balance... i'll help new ppl out, won't freak out on anyone in the water, tell a new surfer to go if they're in better position, etc. that said, i will burn you (snake you or back paddle) if you've missed a couple takes offs and we're going for the same wave as long as it's not a critical take off or anything like that.. i know, i know, shitty thing to do. though, i don't discriminate based on board type in these situations. i don't care if you're on a foam board, pop-out, or custom shape. i'm just kind of a greedy asshole like most dickhead surfers from the perspective of beginner surfers.

so i guess to answer your question, it is about making sure nobody dies, but is less about cheapening the subculture and more about serious surfers getting serious with their equipment. people do go gear head with surfboards, and that can be used by some people to show perceived hierarchy in the surf ecosystem, but like the other guy said, most people surf handmade boards because they are of higher quality and you work with the shaper to come up with a shape that works for you - your style of surfing, how you want to board to surf, the waves you will surf the board in, your weight, your height, design or artwork, etc. there's really nothing better than picking up a custom stick from a guy who you know made it by hand for you, and often, you can get a custom board from a shaper for roughly the same if not less than the heavily marketed big name brand but still not total pop-out companies (the ~$500 high performance boards i mentioned earlier).
Well, cats don't have hands, so that's pretty easy to answer...
Well, I don't think what you say is based on reality if you look at all the broken, half-designed stuff they are trying to ship. (Not understanding (yet) why some design decisions are bad, doesn't mean they aren't bad.)

It feels like they are digging through Scala's graveyard of discarded ideas without even realizing it. Most of what they try to do differently has already been considered in the past and has been rejected by the Scala developers for good reasons – years ago.

Kotlin's struggles are a good example that knowing how to build IDE support for existing languages doesn't give you the skills to design a programming language from scratch.

The Kotlin designers specifically call out Scala's
mistakes when discussing why they do things differently.

Yes, I have to give them that. They (and their "fans") excel at PR, marketing and FUD.
> You realize that although [the thing that makes all the difference]...
any time data is shown in the article, it should be best to provide access to raw data as anyone can analyze with their own angle. When I see static graphs and analysis I smell distorted facts. (of course in this case you can do search, but giving access to raw data would be more useful.)
I would guess the 99% will report you in and road law and the courts will do the rest. Perhaps the 99% will gang up on you ;-)
Spacewar Halloween Edition, only this weekend – 2015 code for the 1960 PDP-1
FHIR is probably the best hope that we've got. I am biased of course, but I've bet a few years of my life on it. :)

Happy to help anyone learn more about the spec @medhacker

[1] http://www.annemergmed.com/article/S0196-0644(15)00226-7/ful...
The business case for continuous delivery
The different attitudes now are certainly a result of a slow shift on attitudes about drug use. Some of that is a weariness with the failed drug war, some of it is that people are more educated about the effects of drugs, and some of it is the fact that other countries have decriminalized successfully.

But another aspect is that people are responding to it differently because it is ravaging their own communities. It's easy to demonize drug users when they're people from other groups but not as easy when it is your child or neighbor.

That doesn't necessarily reflect racist attitudes but US drug policy has been absolutely shaped by racism in the past. Drug abuse was seen as just another aspect of black pathology and compassion for addicted users wasn't even on the table. Some of that was because there was a sincere belief that incarceration was the answer but enforcement and incarceration were (and are) disproportionately used against black communities.

And let's not forget that part of the reason marijuana was banned in the first place is because it was thought that black jazz musicians used it to seduce white women.

At any rate, I don't think that focusing on the fact that white folks affected by the heroin epidemic want more compassionate solutions is going to help things. Everyone should just be happy that rationality is beginning to prevail in our response to the drug problem.
Better a neck jarring autopilot incident than a neck jarring collision!
The future of digital messaging
If you gave every 18th century American a vote there would be an official church in every state along with all the marginalization/oppression that brings along. Not extending the vote was part of the checks and balances negotiated as a result. Right or wrong it was a valid existential problem for a young democracy.
That was one film where piracy offered an experience that the legitimate film experience couldn't have. I worked a swing shift, so my coworkers and I would have a bunch of free time at work and a coworker of mine had gotten into downloading movies from Hotline to fill the time. When he downloaded BWP, all we knew about it was that it was a file name 'Blair_Witch_Project.mpg' on some internet-connected server. There had been no publicity for it and it wasn't released in any theater in the area.

When I watched it again in the theatre, it wasn't nearly as gripping as it was on the 17" monitor we used to watch it the first time. Plus, the lack of a steadicam made it actually better on a much smaller screen.

All in all, I don't agree with the premise of the article. I'm not even sure I'd call BWP good. It was creative, but I don't know that it worked without the uncertainty that surrounded my first viewing. Also, for me, there was a much better horror film that came out later that year called 'Stir of Echoes', so even if BWP is considered great, it's not, for me, the last great horror film.
My wife and I ran an experiment to find this out on our cat, too.

He already uses his paws to reach into several narrow cups to pull out food; so this was nothing out of the ordinary for him. What we did was, put food in 1 cup and watched as he continually used his left paw. Then, we rotated the device so the cup with food was against the wall and difficult to reach with his left paw; hoping this would force him to use his right paw. Wrong. He rotated his body and walked to the other side so he could use his left paw. We rotated again as did he.

We've done this several times now and he always moves his body instead of just simply using his right paw.
Yes, it's a shame that they went for sensationalism. I really wish the Blair Witch Project had worked (for me) because it was an excellent idea. Unfortunately it just came out as sloppy, amateurish, and boring. The "big reveal" at the end simply elicited an "Oh, that makes sense" from me.

But it's probably the only film that successfully tiptoed that line between reality and film.
> (Personally, I think the most valuable things gained in college or in any education don't happen to have much monetary value.)

Well, someone does, because they're charging for it.
I'm not convinced that Apple's secrecy has anything to do with Siri and Maps lagging behind Google's offerings. I suspect a large part of it has to do with the fact that Apple is not willing to compromise user privacy in order to do this stuff. Siri does require the internet[1] to parse your spoken words, but all of the data that Siri actually operates on is only local to your device and is not known to Apple. Similarly, Apple doesn't know anything pertaining to your mapping[2], that's all device-local too. Meanwhile Google aggregates everything it can, and AFAIK all of its email-related capabilities (e.g. finding invitations in email and whatnot) actually require you to be using Google email too, so they already have all of that. Because Google has such comprehensive knowledge about the user's personal information, they can do more intelligent things. But this comes at the cost of the user having given up any semblance of privacy. Also, I imagine that Google can run more powerful algorithms if it's all happening in the cloud, instead of being restricted by what can reasonably run on a mobile phone.

[1] Although I'm not sure if it does everything over the internet or if it's moved any of that to the device now that we have more powerful devices. I'm guessing they haven't, but it wouldn't surprise me if they've changed aspects of this.

[2] IIRC Apple said that they take routes, chop off the beginning and end (so you can't identify the addresses), and upload those using a unique anonymous identifier (i.e. UUID) and no device-specific info, possibly with information on the actual driving (e.g. traffic) but I'm not sure, and they use that info to help improve the product. But that sounds like pretty thorough anonymizing (no way to associate routes with each other or with a device, and the routes don't include the potentially private source/destination) so I'm happy to give them that, and even then I assume it only uploads this if the user has already opted in to sending Apple data to improve their products (which it asks about during initial device setup, and there's a switch in System Preferences for this).
He's talking about the speed of code-breaking changes... and now a fragmented install base (similar to the Android problem).
One thing ACA did which at least is plausibly useful (though whether it'll move any statistics remains to be seen) is to include an annual physical plus all CDC-recommended vaccines with $0 billed-to-patient cost. So even if you otherwise have a high-deductible plan, you don't pay a copay or deductible for those services. This isn't quite an active incentive, but it's an attempt to remove the price disincentive, with the hope that'll result in higher vaccination rates (the flu vaccine is included).
Argh, there's autoplay music [0]! Please don't do this, it's so annoying.

Cool site, otherwise.

[0] http://www.vertexshaderart.com/art/nL6YpkW8YvGKNEKtj
I was thinking, "won't Twitch ban this for not being a game?". But the I realized that this itself is a game.

I wonder what Twitch's policy on meta-gaming is.
Money Managers Go on Offense Against Speed Traders
Flexible or fiasco the great debate over unlimited vacation policy
I'm not sure why you're being sarcastic.

I'm not saying it'll be bug-free. My point is that it'll have exactly the same bugs on either platform. This may be preferable to having different bugs on different platforms.
The typical libertarian argument, huh? I don't necessarily disagree, but there's no chance this would ever happen with drugs like heroin. Marijuana, sure, but you're dreaming if you think the libertarian treatment of "hard drugs" is possible in our lifetimes.

There is a chance, however, that we can actually tackle the issue realistically and improve the ease of access to mental health services and community programs that decrease the demand for the drugs in the first place, thereby removing the incentive for dealers to sell the stuff. It's literally basic economic theory.
I got lost a the word "space-age". I don't mean to be the pedantic one. Sorry. But why would an outlet like the NYTimes use a word that means 1976 when they don't mean it. Meh.

returns to article
Source of AmigaOS 4 Firefox port Timberwolf now open to the public
How Tasers Became Instruments of Excessive Force for the Border Patrol
>>it's just a game<<

http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/sometimes-people-jus...

>>"realistic" programs<<

For example?

"The performance of a benchmark, even if it is derived from a real program, may not help to predict the performance of similar programs that have different hot spots."

http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/dont-jump-to-conclus...
It would be better to give HN an idea of what are your capabilities. Of course not all ideas can be something to hand over to in 1 month:)
"This kind of behavior by incumbent vendors leaves a lot of young digital health startups at risk of not being able to scale fast enough before their seed rounds dry up."

And the incumbent vendor would say ... "so what?" Why would they care that young startups can't gain traction? What's in it for them? Pretty much nothing, from what I can see.
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Definitely interesting to see these twitch events. For those curious Twitch has a IRC backend for the chatrooms, so if you can code an IRC bot, you can easily allow twitch users to automate many interesting things.
> these boards are, basically, cheap bath toys that parents pick up for their kids on Saturday morning before they head to the beach. I think they are great for beginners who don't want to spend money before trying to learn how to surf, but the reality is that most people buy a "real" board almost as soon as they learn to stand up.

Are you talking about sponge boards in general, or Wavestorm boards specifically? Not like anyone's going to win the Eddie on a Wavestorm, but they're WAY better than previous sponge boards.

> the market for custom boards isn't really going to get hurt all that much by these

Agree 100%
I first saw it a few years back, and it ranks with Prince of Darkness as one of the scariest things I've ever seen.

I think the transition from Lovecraftian "cosmic horror" to modern jump scares is one of the biggest shames of modern cinema. It's easy to copy gore or other ick factor stuff that are part of the classic great horror flicks, but getting the essential creepiness of The Omen, or the alienation of Rosemary's Baby takes talent.
Yeah, habemus spread operator! I also hope v6 Will be full ES6. Right now classes can be user only in strict mode :(
Yale is also in the bottom bracket. I imagine at least Yale and Caltech have similar problems: attracting people who could be bankers (Harvard) and sending them into liberal arts (Yale) or engineering (Caltech).
I agree. Great movie, but you miss a lot if you don't know the history.
I wonder if there has ever been studies into automated vehicles that only move considering the amount of energy that can be dissipated at any time.
If a college has a huge communications program and a smaller engineering program, it would be ranked less because of pay disparities. This methodology is simply inaccurate
The latest buzzword is precision medicine. Also if that's from 2008 then it is missing all the advancements in mobile (iPhone is 2007) and digital health monitoring like FitBit. So one of those three things could easily make an improvement over what that paper says. (Did not read the paper.)
That may be one component, but I think it's more that the idea of 'treatment instead of punishment' has gotten more widespread in recent years. That and the fact that the drug war has been waged for over 40 years now and it hasn't really reduced usage.

I think minority complaints about certain issues did fall on deaf ears in the past (police brutality being chief among these) but America is a different, more tolerant place now that it was in the early 80's.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inetd ?
But if it works out badly in practice (enough times, for some value of "enough"), don't you have a basis for saying that the idea doesn't seem to work in practice, no matter how good it sounds in theory?

You don't want to do that after one failed attempt. You probably don't want to do so after two or three. But after enough attempts, you probably have a basis for saying that, no matter how good the theory sounds, it won't work in practice next time either. And if each time it fails produces large amounts of human suffering, there comes a time to quit trying the same stuff that has worked out badly over and over.
I'm not sure where this mantra that pgsql is slow comes from.

My sense is it's more from the monolithic nature of a typical install which makes it difficult to scale horizontally to handle supreme amounts of load.

For most development use cases, and even most production use cases, pgsql is plenty fast for almost everything if you design your schema well and leverage things like indexes.
This is hilariously bad. Schools that produce academics as opposed to those who go into high-paying professions are penalized, when in fact (at many of the top institutions) producing academics is one of the main goals.
> I'm not sure why so many people are freaking out.

Probably because you don't use any binary packages that haven't even made it to 4.x yet. My app requires one so I'm still stuck on node 0.12 until they update. I've filed a bug report but before they could even respond 5.0 is out. Not they have a quandary: do they support 4.x or 5.x when they update? Npm doesn't support forks, so they can't get one version for users of 4.x and one for 5.x.

The only sensible way to fix this that I can think of is to build in an extension layer into node so that binary packages don't use raw v8 APIs (since those seem to change a lot). Then that layer can be made (more) stable, even in the face of constant v8 upgrading.
I don't know Twitch's rules that well, but they have a Programming genre and I rarely see games there. But, I have seen Twitch developers stream non-game related stuff.

http://twitch.tv/directory/Programming

They have a separate directory for Game Development.
Oh man, this is exactly what I've been looking for for a long time. What a brilliantly simple implementation!

FYI: it looks like they have a really generous referral program[1], so post your referral link (shameless example: https://hook.io/christiangenco?s) and I'll tweet the developer to see if you can get retroactive credit.

1. https://hook.io/referrals
Yes, for once, business, economic and political incentives line up quite well. I don't mind it. I would like to see a more decentralized internet anyway.
Honestly, I'd pick what you know today and go with it.

Node.js is a good way to go and has served me really well on a number of projects/fronts. However, Python is totally viable as well. Where node.js will not serve you well is if your api is blocking in nature. For those cases when we have a blocking call, we will send that call off to a queue and let a worker node pick it up and deal with it, saving our API from having anything blocking.
Yeah, I thought it was wrong, too--even after doing the math.

One joule is a kilogram meter squared divided by seconds squared (J = kg m^2 s^-2) . And Earth surface gravity is about 10 m s^-2. So one ton raised one meter is 1000 kg x 1 m x 10 m s^-2, or 10000 J.

An AA (LR6) battery is about 600-3400 mAh, depending on composition. A joule is also a coulomb-volt, or ampere-second-volt. So an alkaline AA battery with 2500 mAh and nominal voltage 1.5V is 2500 mAh x .001 A/mA x 3600 s/h x 1.5 V = 13500 J. A NiMH AA with 2300 mAh at 1.2 V is 9936 J.
Military installations, if you can get on one. Trestles being the best example. Although that is not a beginner spot.
Someone needs to write a JAPH of "sudo shred /dev/sda1 &" <Begin obfuscation contest>
True editid the post. Should be bit more clear. And all is open for discussion
US to Send Special Operations Forces to Syria
Exactly. Vista has pretty lousy UX, but it's implementation across most of the VA it a central part of the VA's much greater efficiency that other systems with similar populations.

Of course, being written in MUMPS (just like some of the other biggies) doesn't help, but the failure of Vista to be implemented commercially has to do with market and human reasons that could have been engineered around. Missed opportunity for the US, really.
On Arch, vi is the original Bill Joy vi.

$ vi --version
vi: illegal option -- -
Usage: vi [- | -s] [-l] [-L] [-R] [-r [file]] [-t tag]
[-v] [-V] [-w size] [+cmd | -c cmd] file...
$ pacman -Qi vi
Name : vi
Version : 1:070224-2
Description : The original ex/vi text editor
Architecture : x86_64
URL : http://ex-vi.sourceforge.net/
Licenses : custom:ex
Groups : base
Provides : None
Depends On : ncurses
Optional Deps : s-nail: used by the preserve command for notification [installed]
Required By : None
Optional For : None
Conflicts With : None
Replaces : None
Installed Size : 290.00 KiB
Packager : Evangelos Foutras <evangelos@foutrelis.com>
Build Date : Sun 06 Sep 2015 03:34:15 PM EDT
Install Date : Fri 18 Sep 2015 10:33:33 PM EDT
Install Reason : Explicitly installed
Install Script : No
Validated By : Signature

(ok, I'm not actually on Arch, but I'm downstream of Arch, and that package is directly from Arch)
Pay to Play: How Investors Get Burned Fast in a Downturn
This is not bad. It is simply one of many possible ways to rank colleges.
It's not just the lack of API's that makes it hard for digital health startups, a big hurdle is the perceived lack of security of a cloud based solution in regards to health care data.

A friend of mine works for a digital health startup, and the majority of the RFP's they receive automatically disqualify them if they have anything hosted in the "cloud", so they are forced to buy and maintain all of their own servers.

In addition to these costs (which could already be considered prohibitively expensive) they have to use enterprise versions of proven ETL and BI tools for the perceived added security benefits (i.e. they can't use open source).
As a cyclist I see this daily, and it creates some deadly situations.

People will often stop at 4-ways before you yet insist you (the cyclist) go first. This is annoying but only results in a little wasted time.

The more dangerous situation is traffic in a two lane road, one lane comes to a halt thinking that you want to cross and then frantically waves you in front of them (frantic as they're literally stopped in traffic for no reason). Meanwhile in the other lane traffic continues at high speed, blind to your crossing the road due to the stopped car.

It feels extremely rude but you have to ignore the waving person or try to signal them to move on and stop wasting everyone's time.
just look at the s-class, anything that shows up in a s-class will likely be in an accord in about 10 years

radar guided cruise control in s-class around 05, accord gets "adaptive cruise control" in 2014 and standard on 15.
> I commute on foot in Boston and I regularly witness pedestrians cross streets in front of traffic when they know they can get away with it, for example, when they're part of a crowd of pedestrians or the traffic is moving slowly. Every time I see that I wonder how much worse it'll be when they don't have to worry about being hit. Our sidewalks are narrow and crowded, will pedestrians just move to the streets?

Once upon a time, streets were for people. And then the automotive industry coined the term jaywalking...
May I suggest taking a look at https://ricochet.im/ for exactly this.
I think the impression lingers from the early days when MySQL with myisam was the scaling "secret sauce" for everyone, because it leaves behind so many features. I don't know that MySQL was ever significantly faster after InnoDB became the engine most people used.