skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There have been many studies that have shown that while extreme cases of wealth disparity do cause unhappiness (I'm talking extreme poverty) most of the time it is not the case. This is discussed in laymen and great length in the documentary "Happy.

There is some indication that certain forms of non-chronic adrenaline producing stress (even life threatening ... ie sky diving) may help prevent depression (I'll find a reference shortly).

I honestly believe that increased opioid usage is playing a huge part here and not wealth (at least through my own observations). In fact wealth and health care availability might actually be stimulating opioid usage (ie getting pills from doctors).
It's not antithetical, because in reality you could never accumulate enough of those natural resources in your very finite life to dent the context. The scenario is nothing more than a nearly impossible potential - like pretending that some rich person could bottle all the oxygen on earth.

The richest people in world history never came even remotely close to accumulating even a tiny fraction of global wealth. The same goes for the world's biggest commodity corporations.

There will never be a corporation more dominant in oil than Standard Oil was in its time, and even they couldn't corner the global oil market. Oil is far easier to corner than real estate. The richest / biggest private land-owners in the world, hold a comically tiny slice of land compared to what's out there.
FWIW, the title on this post scans like the number 28 as opposed to the number 2 billion (to my eye, anyway).
I'm currently building my own static site CMS. Basically. Word press like interface (at some point). Spits out a static site. My blog http://adnanissadeen.com runs on it. I'm building the CMS over at https://github.com/spartakode/static-cms . Been inactive for a while because I'm just a horrible procrastinator. I'll be finishing up (read: making it usable by public) end of this year hopefully. Will try and offer a hosted service a little later.
http://www.snopes.com/business/misxlate/nova.asp
Interesting package but I'm curious about the choice of Firebase. Seems like Firebase's data binding model is antithetical to the patterns React encourages (unidirectional flow/Flux).
Sounds like a terrible idea.

Haskell is written for the Haskell compiler to understand.

Specifications and designs should be written in a spoken language of choice and maths. That's where all the high-level modelling and problem domain specification should go.

Programs, on the other hand, should be written with the greatest amount of mechanical sympathy for the target platform as is necessary to achieve your engineering goals. That means we should prefer to write directly in the language understood by the platform, usually some form of assember, but where this isn't practical we write in something a little bit more complex but staying as close to that lower bound of complexity as is possible.

Before people start piling on and saying, "It's not the 80's anymore you dummy, we have spare cycles and plenty of memory," think about why I have a laptop with so much power under the hood and yet it still takes almost a minute to load up a spreadsheet... long enough that I get to stare, blankly, at a splash logo while my multi-core super-computer chugs along on the code designed in such a frame of mind.

Engineering is applied maths. Specifications are blueprints not implementations.
I'm genuinely curious what you're talking about here. Hearthstone alone acccounts for around a quarter of all of Activision/Blizzard's digital revenue.
I found another bug :-)

I think it shouldn´t be possible to upvote a gist more then one time.
http://gitlist.io/git/gitlist---changelog
I'm investigating combinations of proprietary and OSS models that combine benefits of both. I explained in the essay below that countered that false dichotomy as it applies to security/verification.

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2014/05/friday_squid_...

My main stance, for now, is dual licensing. Any commercial use requires a license. Any other use is free. Both are perpetual, come with source, and allow modifications. Core staff of paid developers do most work. OSS contributors get free licenses, name recognition, and possibly gifts (esp money) for big contributions. Any improvements to the software must be sent back to software owner that redistributes it under the same license. Contract requires this happen post acquisition. If company stops meaningful updates or wants to abandon it, product is released under full OSS license and that's in the contract. Company is also a non-profit, public benefit, or just private with certain structure that helps force this.

What do you think of such a setup? Again, main point is to force any user to be contributing to its development or maintenance while ensuring it stays available and has key FOSS benefits. Would you contribute to such a dual-licensed, carefully-setup piece of software?
Wow, I am already sick of hearing about this. Star -> heart. Got it.
Intellectual property is hard to steal
I think this happens almost every year in Indonesia. Some years it's not really bad, but this year it's been really - really bad. A lot of the year, we're somewhat relying on the rain to reduce the number of the hotspots but last I heard, not much rain happening this year (a few days ago, there were rain and it kinda help it a bit).

I'm somewhat agree with one of the sentiments thrown in this discussion that a lot of people who doesn't get the haze directly (mostly the high ranking government official in Jakarta) won't understand the dire situation in the fields.
Why the Internet of Things and the Cloud Should Get a Divorce
I don' believe that the wording could be more condescending if they tried to make it that way.
That would probably make me feel better about getting on one of these.
IBM Acquires Gravitant to Boost Hybrid Cloud
With what software?
The problem is that you don't care about paying, you care about other people paying. Email exists already, and email sent without paying must continue to arrive.

Also note the myriad issues associated with mailing lists and similar.
If there is no government stepping in to prevent Starbucks from doing terrible things, it's no longer vigilante justice.
It's a damn poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word.
Use Java ThreadLocal with caution
there should be a mandatory note detailing significance when any academic paper is submitted that is more than 6 months
I assume that’s in line with them adding the birthday field on user profiles. People used to Facebook will like more tweets than with the previous star/favorite system and thus provide more accurate data for ads.
First step to solving the problem: Identifying the Problem.

I doubt many people know of the plight of the Indonesian peoples.

Heck I live in the US so I'm conditioned to believe that the people in most trouble are black people. Their lives are the ones that matter the most.

Have I been misled?
It took a team of more than 11 people at Twitter 'a few weeks' for 'hearts'
Apple should offer double the bounty in exchange for having these Zero Days reported directly to them.
I just made that comment with some specifics here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10500298

I'm curious what you and Mario think about my scheme of paid, perpetually-licensed, OSS software. It's in alpha stage obviously with potential for improvement.
Maybe we need a way of life that doesn't drive us all to depression in the first place. Get out of the house, into the wild once in a while. Move, play, exercise with a purpose instead of those dreadful torture chambers of stationary bikes and mills. They used to put criminals on treadmills as punishment!

And increase socialization to a daily activity. No more trudging to a faceless cubicle, then trudging home to an empty flat for some TV time. Then drugs to sleep, and drugs to wake up again.

We need no antidepressants; we need to stop actively inducing depression!
The findings discussed in this study make an interesting side note to this (older HN) discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5424241

The generation of "middle-aged whites" (which the article describes as being aged 45-54 between 1999 and 2013) probably doesn't get enough credit. So... lack of college education is a common denominator in many of their deaths. But people keep forgetting the information economy came after we had our hefty physical infrastructure.

Alcohol and drug abuse are how people self-medicate when they can't afford expensive / professional medical care. We're only barely starting to scratch the surface of this problem with AHA; but for many of the "uneducated" people in this generation who were/are employed in construction / physical labor... it probably seems like too little too late.
The original article is the problem, the one this refers to for context, so-called researchers do just enough work to publish a paper, but don't bother to make it production-quality, so the next researcher comes along and says "this is bullshit". Well, it's called open source for a reason. Less complaining and more code is what's needed.
University of Michigan | Ann Arbor | Full-time | Onsite

This may be the only "Who's Hiring?" posting this month (possibly ever?) that offers the opportunity to work directly with brain surgeons in an operating room. The Neurosurgery Department at the University of Michigan is hiring for a unique position in a lab developing tools to distinguish cancerous tissue during surgery. The HR-sanitized posting of the position is here:

http://umjobs.org/job_detail/117286/research_laboratory_spec...

...but we are really looking for someone with a software passion who wants to gain experience in a biomedical environment, perhaps as a pathway to graduate studies or medical school. A C++ background would be ideal, but any numerical computing (Python/NumPy, MATLAB, R, Julia) or functional (Ocaml, Haskell, Scala, Clojure/Incanter, any Lisp...) programming experience is a plus. Experience developing in any of OpenCV, ITK, VTK, Point Cloud Library, or ImageJ would also be a plus as the position will include microscopy, image analysis, and surgical navigation (look up "BrainLab" or "Medtronic StealthStation" to see what this looks like). At least initially, it will also require some hands-on wet-lab work (training will be provided -- the listed lab experience is negotiable). Above all, we are looking for intense curiosity and a willingness to get your hands dirty with software, hardware, and wetware.

I am the lab PI, and I was referred to this board by a friend who said he frequently sees HN posts asking about getting in to the biomedical field with a CS background. This job provides such an opportunity. We are a small, young, and ambitious clinical-translational lab with an extremely productive (multiple publications in a Science journal) collaboration with one of the top spectroscopy groups in the world. Do note that this is an academic lab position, so we can't offer anywhere near Bay Area salaries. (but Ann Arbor's QoL/CoL ratio is absolutely fantastic!)
We could have been following any economic ideology and recovered strongly post-war, for the reason caseysoftware gave. We can attribute zero to Hayek because the Keynesians have been running the economy for decades.
Look up Tragedy of the Commons. That's how capitalism works in the real world that we need to share.
The model works if you rename your company to Red Hat :)
Many European countries have very large (dominant even) state owned power companies that work pretty well.

But really the argument about Russian privatization is that it ought to have been executed less poorly, for example not donating most state property to a few corrupt oligarchs.
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Yes, and they decided to build on an OS that is known for its poor security track record and privacy invading features.

Even if by some miracle they will decide that they want to offer real security, they can't secure customers from the OS developer.
Honestly, it was for me when I started with twitter for real in 2010 (my account is from 2006, but I haven't really used it until 2010). It was unclear to me whether I should be using this as a kind of bookmark-feature as a help for me to remember tweets to get back to or whether this was a social signal I'd be sending to the author of the tweet.

The would make that much more clear to me, though of course, I have since learned how to use twitter properly (I hope).
Like George from sales making a new page or editing a call to action.
Yahoo Europe's progress was from Perl generated static html, to Perl generated PHP.

What Rasmus' hire did was push Yahoo to allow server-side scripting languages on the web server. And that's where PHP was the blindingly obvious choice. (though, I would not be surprised if there was a bun-fight with mod_perl...)
I think I needed a irony indicator ;)
Complete straw man argument but not surprising from a self-hating liberal.

The article details the increasing causes of mortality in this group.
Ksplice-based Userspace patching
China just bought 130 Airbus from Germany: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-34665546

"Airbus has headquarters in Germany and France."
Is Onedrive hosted on Azure storage though? During the last two Azure outages, O365 services remained unaffected and someone on here mentioned that they're completely separate. You may still be right about the scaling problems though. Why else would they take such a huge PR hit?
Defeat is a state of mind.

Besides, all it takes is using a different web-browser to obtain a new "browser finger-print", using a virtual machine should work too.
Perhaps if we expand the meaning of Keyensian "Government investment in infrastructure" to include human infrastructure and provide stimulus, or at least a stable platform, for the actual nodes of demand (the people) we can get back to optimal growth faster.

The idea that we can have a quarter of the people or more (the poor and working poor) in a state of playing zero sum or negative sum games -- exploitative economic relationships -- non-convex factors in what should, ideally, be a convex efficiency curve, and still reach market efficiency is silly. We just reach the state where the convex portions of our economy cannot compensate for those massive destructions or stagnations of value during times of contraction so it is easier to shake those results out of the aggregate. But that destruction of value happens even in times of relative prosperity and overall growth and it would be wise to whittle down the problem while is relatively painless.

Take pain and death out of the equation for the people through direct stimulus. Create a market where everyone must be enticed with value-add to trade. Watch demand bubble up and create the strongest growth possible.
How do you find an agent to perform QC?
So, basically, the "right people" need to colonize Indonesia?
No, it's like saying "These adults already have matches. Lets stop locking them up for having matches."
Addiction ruins lives predominantly because of the way society reacts to it.

If addicts were provided with what they need a whole slew of society driven live ruining will go away.

If you step away from all the moralising you'll realise its better to simply pay addicts off. Society won't crumble because of it, in fact a lot of the problems will go away. A minority of the at 10-15% of people with addictive personalities will find a way to get high and you can nothing about that.

Addiction is a medical problem and should be treated like it.
The problem with FFDD is the code, full of "if"s. Some branches stay dead for months and years. When a feature is released, the flags need to be deleted and this becomes a challenging and boring task. Teams usually postpone these removals, setting the lowest priority. In my opinion, Module Flag-Driven Development gives much better results. Management agrees which set of features is released in a group as a module. Instead of "if" or "ifdef" engineers have a configuration of enabled modules. There is no need to delete a flag.
In a hypothetical where the government doesn't exist to provide justice, "vigilante justice" would be the only justice. Whether vigilante justice is preferable to a total absence of justice is the question.

More generally, the whole point of vigilantism is going outside the established judicial framework. If there is no such framework, the concept of vigilantism is meaningless.

As to what prevents/discourages this behaviour, the answer is mostly going to be "the presence of an existing judicial structure, backed by force, which disallows such behaviour".
Does that make the search engine GoOgle?
Are there any good services or packages for doing this, especially for RoR? I don't need it for advertising, but for banning abusive users who are able to evade the usual means of detection.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_suicide_r...

Denmark's ranking for number of suicides is much lower than the US.
Inside Amazon’s first bookstore
Ping me over email (tabbott@mit.edu) and we can discuss; I'd definitely like to add a federation story. Haven't looked at Matrix's technical approach before...
I think what he's asking is if there is some unofficial way to get money out.

If someone who is very affluent wishes to visit Paris or New York for two weeks, how would he or she go about taking enough money to rent a room in a luxury hotel?
I assume they have data to back that claim up. And I can understand it. Putting all the knowledge and assumptions you have as person who (presumably) uses Twitter and is generally tech-savvy: what would a person assume a "star" button does?
Another easier comparison for anyone not familiar with how good 2:45 marathon is (like me). Right now current programs are around ~2500 ELO in chess, or about the weaker part of most International Grandmaster in chess.
I don't think he's being entirely serious, but you obviously can use it that way:

char foo[] = "this is a test\n";
foo[strcspn(foo, "\n")] = 0;
Amazon is opening a physical bookstore
Sadly no, there are only a few actual derived general search indexes (english language search) in the world, Microsoft's, Google's, Baidu's, and Yandex's. They are expensive to build and maintain and the only way to monetize them requires driving search traffic your way. Google is paying $4B/year to third parties to send search traffic their way.

My guess, having been at both Google and Blekko, is that "whitelisted" search will be the next wave in the industry. For those old enough to remember Yahoo!'s original "directory" model, once Yahoo!'s contract with Microsoft is up one could hope they rebuild their search team and technology into something with a strong editorial bias for "quality" content.
This looks great - producing a video course like this is very different from writing a book. Did you find the transition difficult?

Thanks for the additional discount!
"So why in the world would I pay more money for less storage vs. Google or Dropbox?"

If that's the premise you're starting with, then you're already wrong.

DropBox 1TB = $9.99/m

GoogleDrive 1TB = $9.99/m

OneDrive 1TB + Office365 = $6.99/m
More than a like, I understand it as a "I acknowledge your response, but I have nothing to add. Have a good day!"
I've always viewed and used hearts / stars / likes as a way of saying 'I have nothing else to add to this conversation.'
Oh yes! I needed to perform some quick maintenance on my phone just after my first use of twitter but I'd forgotten to close the app and it took 10 minutes to work out why I couldn't get my Torx screwdriver to undo all the little screws in the screen!

Thankfully after today's change to hearts I feel much more comfortable to provide Twitter with more accurate interest metrics so that they might monetise my preferences more intelligently and thereby serve me ads more targeted to my needs.

EDIT: Oh fine, here's the /s

EDIT 2: Jeez, we don't do light hearted rambunctious rib-tickling round here then? Not even for such silly and transparent changes by a company desperately flapping around to improve it's monetisation? We do all see this is because of ads, right? This isn't for the users benefit, the thing works exactly the same way, Twitter just wants us to actually use it so they can get better data. That's worth a little jibe.
I think nothing (or as fche said "none of the above) was an option. The economy is sick because we insisted the sickest companies in the economy were "too big to fail". We're keeping them on life support when they're sucking the life out of the economy.
This problem makes me very sad, because of all the affected people in the region, because of the poor orangutans and because of losing hundreds of years old trees in the rainforest. But could it be solved if you think about it from this direction:

Singaporeans are badly affected by the smoke. On the other hand, Singaporean business apparently are quite involved as the cause of the burning (for palm oil growing). Shouldn't therefore the SG public push these companies to stop it? Could there be a petition or some sort of protest? I would even try to help such a movement as I can (though I'm in HK, not SG).
I've only done static websites for a long while now. I created ThinCMS as a browser-based tool for building and publishing static web sites. It came about after I learned XSLT well enough to bend it to my will. I used it to build several public and private web sites, including two iterations of longwoodgardens.org (they've since moved to Drupal) and pittsburghtoday.org (where it is still used). XSLT ( and probably other static templating engines) is perfectly capable of generating complex nested navigation. The templates themselves are nested three layers so as to keep things DRY.

The PittsburghToday site is representative of the idea that a static web site is only static in the technical sense of the back-end content serving. The front-end is still dynamic since the data for the charts is being obtained from Google Docs and the Twitter feed from Twitter, etc.

I always felt like the odd man out, so I am glad to see strong interest in static web sites nowadays.
I would suggest keeping it simple and scripting wget instead: https://www.gnu.org/software/wget/manual/html_node/Following...

Often all that is needed is -r --no-parent
> Also, there is simply no place for you in society anymore. In your 50's, you are almost completely judged by your status in life; your house, your cars, your relationships...someone fighting addiction for 30 years will have little to none of this.

Much of the country is not that way. My father in law is that age, and I think very few people in his community would judge him by that standard. He's a prominent member of a popular foodie Facebook group in his town, to the point where people stop him in the street and take selfies with him. In his community, that's a much bigger deal than owning a Porsche.

Almost all of my wife's side of the family (from coastal Oregon) is like that. Most of her cousins are doing great things with food, art, or in the church, and people praise them for that. When they ask what we do (we're both corporate attorneys), they nod politely. I am sure they would be horrified--rather than impressed--to hear how much we spend on rent.