skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "All three of those have very different goals and trade-offs from GHCJS."

And therein lies the problem. In my view, the most important goal is to have at least one really good AltJS-Haskellish language with a fully-featured ecosystem of libraries. (I'm fine if that language is PureScript, btw. PureScript is fantastic.) The problem -- which Clojure and Scala programmers seem to have sorted -- is that our community is too small to support several Haskellish-AltJS compilers. Do we really want several perpetually nascent solutions?

> "One of the nice things about AltJS is that several languages can coexist in the same codebase."

Theoretically, you're right. But how many production code bases are there in AltJS-Haskell (vs. say, Clojurescript)?
Code Climate for Atom
It's nothing Washington-specific. It is about very well-known biases intrinsic to the human condition. Sometimes, some people rise above the crude tribal politics and things like Portugal happen.
I'm desperately hoping that, despite the name, "Blood of the Slaves" mercury isn't actually produced from slaves. ISIS injecting slaves with mercury to produce magic metal that summons genies would be a new low -- although I wouldn't put it past them to do it.
Having leading zeros does make the length of the source code itself smaller though.
My conjecture on why it works (for non-SAD cases of depression): People who are depressed are likely socially isolated (by choice, perhaps because of depression, or by circumstances, perhaps causing depression) and also physically isolated in homes or offices without good natural sunlight (again, the physical isolation may be a consequence of depression and wanting to be alone, or causal). I've spent several hours a day outdoors or in buildings (mainly a gym) with large windows providing lots of natural sunlight this year. I'm also in the best mood I've been in years. Of course, two factors have changed here for me: more light, more physical activity. Both are correlated with improving mood for people with depression, so I can't say which has had the greater effect for me.
SNES is a 12 bit shift register, as well.
The 4021 and 74LS165 are similar, inasmuch as they're both PISO shift registers, but they're not the same part. Here's representative datasheets for both parts from TI:

http://www.ti.com/lit/ds/symlink/cd4021b.pdf

http://www.ti.com/lit/ds/symlink/sn74ls165a.pdf

I don't think the differences are relevant in this application, though.
> I've read Linus' numerous public outings of what he thinks are less talented developers

He doesn't. He just thinks they're in the wrong _that one time_.
Oh hell yes. The main one peaople ask me about right now is Marcumar/Warfarin, a drug many patients with atrial fibrillation have to take for the entire rest of their life, despite the fact that it has awful side effects and requires them to go to their doctor every two to four week to have a blood test done. Many patients are quite excited to hear that there's now new alternative drugs (NOAKs) that let you skip the biweekly blood draw. I get asked about Pradaxa, Eliquis and Xarelto so often, my standard Marcumar pitch now includes a whole paragraph about how those alternatives are just as bad. This is getting harder to sell as new studies are coming in and my arguments against the new drugs are steadily being reduced to "They're a lot more expensive." Patients really do NOT want to hear about how they have to get stuck with needles every two weeks so their doctor can save a few Euro a month in the prescription budget.

The whole NOAK advertising scheme seems like a huge win for the pharma companies to me. (Possibly also for the patients. Not so much for the affordability of our medical system.)
Indeed, all of that is true. Not saying any of this is easy, but when I see giant closets stuffed with clothes that are rarely worn I continue to see opportunity. Feels like someone will crack it eventually.
There are precious few professions that don't require constant skill-sharpening, and if anything, I would expect doctors to be amongst the best at keeping up to date. They spend more time than any of us being formally educated, so the informal self-education necessary to do the work seems like it should be natural.

But I don't know anything about this stuff, and I'd love for someone who does to teach me a thing or two.
>This used not to be a problem when pension benefits were shifted to the public sector (which doesn't have a solvency problem by definition).

There is no definition of public sector that makes bankruptcy impossible.

Pre-funding is about honesty of the obligations. If you say you're going to pay the workers $X at time t, apportion the money now. Put your full faith and credit behind it now. Make it so you can only renege by reneging on bonds in general.

It's mind-boggling how ostensibly pro-worker advocates are okay with the mentality of, "don't worry, we'll find your pension money later, if Congress appropriates enough down the road".
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When there's a brand new drug for your semi-rare condition, your family doctor might not yet know such a drug even exists were it not for you seeing the ad and asking about it.
The problem with that idea is that there wasn't an orderly way to replace rulers when they ceased to govern effectively

Fair point, but it's not unheard of. Pepin the Short is probably the most famous example of how it could happen.
I have yet to meet the person who, when asked for the reason for their decision, replies "it was irrational". The truth is that people take the action they feel is the most rational, and there are many factors influencing that conclusion.

It's also important to consider that addiction is far more complicated than a dependance on a biochemical reactions to a stimulus. There are strong psychological issues at play as well. If we were to outlaw every addictive substance or action, surely no form of entertainment would remain legal.

A person always has a decision to engage an addiction. Deciding to not be addicted is the foundation to recovery. This choice cannot be removed at any point in a person's life, be it before, during, or after an addiction.

To say that an addict is not making decisions is like saying that someone you disagree with is not thinking. Just because you don't like their opinions or their behaviors does not justify denying their freedoms.
Which is such a bullshit reason... but you are correct, unfortunately.
- "SSL": use lets-encrypt, save 11$/yr. (there were other gratis CAs before that).

- "must use Mac or Ubuntu": what?

- "must use vim (with as many plugins as possibly)": what? Try a good IDE, like the ones from JetBrains, and you'll be amazed how much it does for you. Aren't you tired of doing refactorings like renaming variables with search/replace? (It even has an excellent VIM emulation, and I'm a heavy vim (real vim) user.)

- EV SSL cert: dubious advantages

- fail2ban, non-standard SSH port: Just disable password logins instead. fail2ban isn't all that useful for SSH. Non-standard SSH ports will keep your logs clean, but thats it.

- root login: just use "PermitRootLogin without-password" (prevents password login, allows ssh key login) and you're good. A modern Debian does this by default. "SSH access only"? What the hell are you talking about?

I stopped reading shortly after (80% due to lack of time, 20% lack of interest).
We just got new tenants in our (commercial) building.
I'm honestly a bit upset as there are now _four_ new access points for a single tenant.

"TWC WiFi", and "CableWifi", both unsecured (!!!), and then "TWC WiFi Passpoint" (which requires a TWC subscription to use.)

I sure wish people wouldn't blindly trust the cable technician to configure their wireless network properly. Now there's just tons of RF noise, and people can leech bandwidth off our building. -- I frankly find it ridiculous, given the premium we pay for commercial internet (which is slower than my residential subscription), that we are expected to share it with their "mesh network."
If the effect is to stifle the speech then functionally how is it different?
I've spent some there and can confirm a few things:

- English is spoken by a lot of the Dutch (esp. in bigger cities it's almost everyone)

- The Dutch are friendly people and are generally happy to help a stranger

- 30% tax ruling is a boon in a place where the cost of living is high. Please do your calculations carefully before you consider moving to The Netherlands and ensure you have some clarity from your potential employer about the 30% tax ruling. Also remember that if you lose the 30% tax ruling, you (almost always) lose it for good.

- unlike the usa where the visa process treats you like a potential (or a convicted) criminal, the Dutch treat their guests well. I only have good things to say about the process of moving to The Netherlands.

- no amount of reading or watching videos will help you understand how the Dutch are, unless you live among them. They are straightforward, down to earth and a relaxed people.

If you have made up your mind to move to The Netherlands (please do your calculations on earnings vs cost of living before that!), let me know how I can contact you and I'll refer you to the employer who got me to move to Holland (if this prospect interests you).

EDIT: formatting
I wrote this to Pavel Durov, and maybe it will help bring some more clarity to the freedom vs security debate:

Listen, as a fellow social platform developer and someone who has to seriously consider these issues, I have a suggestion. Why don't you consider terrorism as an epidemiological model, using your network to spread a certain undesirable virus/meme (whose symptoms include violence). Then you can borrow from known bio literature about battling viruses:

Markers (based on previous samples

Antibodies (preventing recipients from getting infectious messages)

Obstacles (making difficulty of spreading organically harder)

And work to promote herd immunity. You can add this to the system without any government or yourself being aware of the contents of the messages. Have the computer system be like an organization that maintains herd immunity in its population, while at the same time (being electronic) having zero interest in reporting people and message content to others.

One of the first things you'll notice is mass media (one to many transmission taken to the extreme) is the biggest risk to herd immunity. Free speech like every other right may have limits... speech to 100 people may be totally unenmbered but speech to 1,000,000 comes with responsibility, or else it's just a freerider on a system. YOU Pavel have a responsibility since your code is your (meta-)"speech" once such a large audience engages with your product!

Stop shutting down ISIS channels. It's GOOD that they use your software. Look at the incident of Craigslist shutting down its prostitution section -- people just moved elsewhere. Instead, think about whether "right to free speech" and "right to privacy" must be absolute or whether there is justification to BALANCE them against public welfare at ANY point on the continuum. Perhaps if the system can detect with good confidence some violent speech, it is better to LET IT HAPPEN and alert the operators so they can refer it to the authorities. Either way, Pavel, as long as the developers are few they have the power and can be bullied by governments. So use this power to set the lead: build VIRUS DETECTION not BANNING into the system, and only drop privacy in the case of some imminent danger. Make the networks have an immune system. But do not simply make people move somewhere else.
To be precise, it was the GUS PnP. IIRC it could handle up to 8mb.
I returned my Arris TG862 because you can't really shut off the WiFi. Even though Comcast assured me that the public hotspot was disabled, I could see (with my SDR receiver) that it was still transmitting on channel 1.

http://www.w6rz.net/comcastwifi.png
Thanks for explaining the discrepancy to me (though I'm not sure why you started by denying its existence). It would have been nice if the article had included that info.
> It would be fraud, unless the seller believed that it was actually a weapon because intent comes into play. But the victim would have to come forward to file a complaint with a legal authority.

No, they wouldn't; its not generally mandatory, as a matter of law, for the victim to enter a complaint for criminal prosecution to proceed, though often the government will prefer a complaining and actively cooperative victim, since that both demonstrates that there is a problem to address and makes prosecution easier (since the victim will be an important source of both direct evidence and information that will lead to evidence.)
Ogg objections (2010)
Scientists discover smartphone which can detect parasite in the blood
A smartphone has been used to automatically detect wriggling parasites in blood samples, BBC reports.
The CellScope system films a drop of blood and an app then automatically analyses any movement in the sample to detect the parasites.
According to results obtained from trials in Cameroon, which were published in Science Translational Medicine, the device was successful in making detections and experts lauded it saying it marked a fundamental advance in tropical diseases.
Previous efforts to eradicate 2 parasitic diseases, river blindness and elephantiasis, have been suspended because the treatment can become fatal in some people.
One treatment, the drug ivermectin, is risky in people with high levels of Loa loaworm, so people need to be screened first.
But testing is time-consuming and requires laboratory equipment.
However this new process solves this problem as shown by a team at the University of California, Berkeley, and the US National Institutes of Health, which used a modified smartphone to automate the process.
A pindrop of blood was collected and loaded into a handheld box. The phone on top then kicked in.
One of the researchers, Prof Daniel Fletcher explained that "with one touch of the screen, the device moves the sample, captures video and automatically analyses the images".
The new process means very little training is required, while current screening procedures require someone to be skilled in analysing blood samples by eye.
It also means that diseases such as as TB, malaria can be much more conveniently be detected, even as there are now plans to test it on 40,000 people.
Source: http://www.fusiongists.com/2015/10/scientists-discover-smartphone-which.html
Sometimes benefits and externalities depend heavily on social structures. Various complex financial arrangements would qualify. Sometimes they're entirely natural, like if I make a fire for warmth and the smoke blows to where you are. Antibiotics in farming looks much closer to the latter than the former to me.

I agree that neither point of view is canonical. That is basically my point: it's only madness from a certain perspective, and it's completely rational from another. Neither is right nor wrong, it's simply that the different perspectives are in conflict.
You're right! It wasn't until the second game, Frontier: Elite, that they started using real stars around Sol.
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Does that make it better somehow?
Source here:

https://github.com/apache/incubator-geode
This is interesting, I didn't know about shorting stock. I'd guess the best move is just to ride it out. Seems to me that KBIO might still go bust.
You don't need a wall if it's easy to get in legally. You still need some border security, but walls are mostly symbolic and easy enough to route around in other ways. It's a lot of wasted money.
Andy had great vision. Predicted the battle for eyeballs where entertainment consumption soul transition from TVs to computing devices and that the biggest consumers would be kids, rather than people doing work.
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Are family doctors able or willing to keep up on the flood of new medicines available, each of which may only apply to a handful of their patients?

Aren't drug ads, in a way, a good method for matching medicines to the people who need them? As far as I know, your family physician isn't going to call you when a new drug comes out that better treats your semi-rare, non-fatal condition - and patients aren't going to read medical journals to discover new drugs to ask their doctor about.
You should travel more. You would never complain again. Berlin public transport is amazingly consistent compared to anywhere else I have lived (bar Singapore).
Don't forget, you also need to have some cooking skills, access to recipes, and time. Lots of time (relative to fast food.)
So for a family of 4 you are talking about $6/day, which is $2,190/year. For a working class family with an income of $20,000-$40,000/year it represents roughly 5-10% of their total income for the year to eat healthy.

That's not a small chunk of change for families like that. Sure they'll almost certainly earn that back in lower medical costs in the long run, but in the short term it's a serious burden.
Would it be possible to just fake the cert or generate your own, in the same way that some people self sign SSL certificates instead of paying Verisign?
Hah I love this in the arris_backdoor.py output:

> Bypassing EULA...
> EULA served over HTTP
> MiTMing EULA to include permissive clauses...
> EULA bypassed using technique [1]
How to be a delightful open source contributor:

* Of course you are not obligated to respond at all or in a timely manner, but if you do, it's a real treat for the person filing an issue.

* Respect the other person's abilities and skills. When troubleshooting, use language that recognizes the abilities of the other person. For example, instead of "Did you read the documentation?" say "Can you double-check the documentation, especially the section on ____?"

* Keep issues open until the person who filed the issue feels like their problem is resolved. Of course, if the person does not respond for a long time, then there's no harm in closing the issue.

* Get invested in the user's use case. Perhaps this is a "won't fix" scenario, but to truly understand that the issue is out of scope, you should understand exactly what the user needs, up to and including suggesting an alternative solution that is not your software. Sometimes when doing this you realize that in fact the user was correct and their problem is in the scope of your software.

* Be ready to embrace humility. It is common for a user to stop by and drop a piece of information that makes you realize you made a design choice long ago that would be costly to change, both in time and emotionally. At this point you have two choices: humbly admit that you made a mistake and that your software has a limitation due to the mistake, or, humbly admit that you made a mistake and that you'll be working on fixing this mistake in the next major version bump.

* Don't leave code rotting in the main development branch for a long time. Release that code!

* When someone submits a patch, don't nitpick the code conventions. How hard is it to change tabs to spaces and rename a few variables? If the idea behind the code is sound, just merge it and fix the conventions yourself. Style conventions are arbitrary and meaningless. Reduce the friction here for people who bother to look at your source code.

* When you feel you do not have the resources to continue maintaining one of your projects, but users are still filing issues and sending patches, try to hand off the maintainer hat to someone competent. Keep the project alive!

* If your software has a bug, but it's the fault of one of your dependencies, keep a bug report open in your bug tracker too, with a link to the dependency's open bug. Your dependencies' bugs are your bugs too.

I'm sure there are more; that's just what I thought of off the top of my head.
a well balanced diet helps alleviate depression too.

too many weeks of staying cooped up in the basement eating pizza rolls will take its toll both physically and mentally
But they used cell phones. So we need to ban cell phones. Ban cell phones, or the terrorists win!

Oh, nobody's arguing for doing that? Hmm, why not?
Biggest takeaways from the video (in my opinion):

- "Notation matters"

- "Start with domain specific languages [like regex/AMPL/etc], rather than big general purpose ones - don't build the next C++"
> Now to show how a debugger work, by writing a blog post about it, is surely possible but, even a purist like me writing articles in courier, will resort to a video from time to time. So here is longish video showing the main features of the Redis debugger. I start talking like a bit depressed since this was early in the morning, but after a few minutes coffee fires in and you’ll se me more happy.

Stay awesome, antirez.

I wrote some semi-complex Redis Lua scripts recently... didn't need a debugger, but it's great to have.
In his defence, most people starting with tinkering nowadays start off with something like an Arduino (8-bit or even 32-bit micro) and there's not much besides the micro on those boards... which easily explains the confusion about the nomenclature, mixing up the subset (µC) with the superset (IC).
Can you explain why ? I remember reading a ton about off-heap memory work they were doing
Yep, they still run Motorola firmware.

I discovered a few months ago Comcast is able to push firmware updates to customer owned modems without permission. So even if the backdoor is not present now there is no way to trust it will never be pushed to the devices.
But both of them do hurt other humans, regardless of the design.
Cuba's Only Email Service Has Been Mysteriously Shut Down
Email security CEO has a suggestion for govts that want a back door
Yeah that would actually break it.
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American travelers tend to purchase tickets based solely on price. If your consumers are very price conscious, you move as much as you can out of the base price.

Don't blame airlines in the US, blame airline customers.

Personally, I like the nickel-and-dime scheme, as you call it. I rarely take cross country flights. My typical travel is 3-4 hours of flying at the most. I absolutely prefer a cheaper base ticket price, because I don't care if they give me crappy food for "free" in that time frame. At 6'2", I fit comfortably even in Spirit's closely-spaced seating. I travel very light and typically have a single bag.

For me, a lower base fare with extra charges for the rest is something I prefer. I am very happy that the US air-traveling market agrees with me and has pushed the industry in this direction.
She gave a talk at Startup School 2013: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSEeFxq2X_c
I can do it here.
There should be an html fallback everywhere.
if your drug is the best, doctors should use it anyway

Amazingly that is untrue. Doctors have to know that it's the best drug and they often don't. Doctors are often creatures of habit. If I gave my last patient Crestor and it lowered their cholesterol, why not try the same with the next patient?
NSA doc reveals ‘sheer luck’ needed to find useful info in surveillance data
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That is a really well written piece aimed at popularizing quite complex, mind boggling topic.
Slight OT: How much more expensive does the stuff have to be that biweekly doctor visits for blood tests are cheaper?

(Not even getting into the topics of "how much is not having to do that every 2 weeks worth" and "can't the patient pay the difference if they want to?")
Did you check comment history?
How about banning reps from visiting doctors and pushing their products?
Even though many commenters here write about how creepy these ads are, I don’t think many people realize how weird this looks to the rest of the world. The US and New Zealand are the only two western nations which even allow them to exist.

As I am not residing in the US myself, the only experience I have of this phenomenon is in parody form: Progenitorivox!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYodDH4qZQo

(I may or may not have written this comment with the exclusive purpose of linking that video.)