skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not in a huge recession (or depression). Even in the current environment capital is extremely cheap and plentiful. In a depression with deflation there is a strong incentive for capital to stop investing because the literal zero-risk rate of return is positive (sit back and watch your dollar go further and further!)

The economy has many variables and assuming that a condition holds for all situations is ideological, not factual.
I think that if a consumer is to be considered to be obligated to follow the ToS, they should be presented with the ToS /first/ , and also have it be of a length which is actually reasonable for a typical person to read.

A person should generally not (there are exceptions in e.g. emergencies) be expected to agree to something without specifically choosing to agree to it, and knowing what they are "agreeing" to.
Agree 100%. The corollary is that, if you must play, make sure that you yourself are the best expert of your medical history, symptomology, and candidate hypotheses about what may be going on with your health. This is difficult, and perhaps futile, but the sad truth is that due to time issues (and probably information overload) it's your job to a) bootstrap the MD with whatever is relevant about your condition, and b) sanity-check the MD's decisions.

Failure to do either of those things is likely to result in either suboptimal care in the best case, actively misleading care in the worst. I guess the silver lining is that Google + intelligent and motivated person >= most MD diagnoses in my experience.
And the microcode is built into the CPU so skipping microcode updates would be useless.
I, too, am an org-mode fan, but there are a few good ones missing:

- Zim (http://zim-wiki.org/, Open Source)

- WikidPad (http://wikidpad.sourceforge.net/, Open Source)

- ConnectedText (http://www.connectedtext.com/, Windows-only, $$$)
The strategy of proxying real usage to a second code path is incredibly effective. For months before the relaunch of theguardian.com, we ran traffic to the old site against the new stack to understand how it could be expected to perform in the real world. Later of course we moved real users, as incrementally as we possibly could.

The hardest risk to mitigate is that users just won't like your new thing. But taking bugs and performance bottlenecks out of the picture ahead of time certainly ups your chances.
The slippery slope of discrimination
I haven't gotten around Emacs yet. I'm on a MBP and the Emacs controls are bothersome (to say the least) compared to Vim. I tried using Spacemacs, but it kind of assumes one is already familiar with Emacs and seems a bit too bloated for a newcomer.

So, how do you suggest I acquaint myself with Org-mode? Vanilla Emacs + evil-mode?
You mean like using a wrist watch stars to manually re-enter a space capsule?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Cooper#.22Spam_in_a_can...
This is an interesting project (I'm all for approachable learning) but it seems to be missing almost every chapter...maybe not ready for the spotlight?

Bash scripting and its array of tools is a poorly designed language. Writing a non-trivial program, even for an experienced developer, is a painful process. The syntax is uneven, hard to read, and easy to get horribly wrong. I would say mastering Bash has diminishing returns past the intermediary. Any time you need to write a non-trivial program, you will save time and life expectancy from stress management by using ANY other language, even Perl or C. Writing complex shell-modifying code in my .bashrc has been one of the more tedious and non-rewarding parts of my life.
I am an EU citizen, so I don't know much about your chances of getting an US visa, although from what I heard and from what the other commenters say, I think they are slim. However, can you try to get a job in UK? Since you are Greek, you can go there without visa and don't require any work permit - you can try other European countries as well (here in Barcelona there are jobs that don't require to speak Spanish, I suspect there are similar jobs as well in Netherlands, and maybe Germany or Belgium.
Apparently I'm not cynical enough, because I was surprised by this. Does Reddit's front page work the same way?
Feel free to post to Ask HN with DevOps related questions. "DevOps" is just a newish term for something many people on HN have been doing for decades.
I suspected as much, but I've never tried it.

Thanks for the reminder!
Firefox 43 released with 64-bit version for Windows, better Private Browsing
I meant the original 1955 publication of “The Powerful Placebo” that put the idea of the “placebo effect” into the public consciousness. (Use of the term really takes off starting then [1].)

That article's more recent (2010) link supports its conclusion, which wouldn't need to be stated unless it contrasted with what it calls “pharmacological folklore” from the original publication, which the author says he “took literally” for many decades after.

The point being that the 1955 version of the idea is currently much more widely known than modern no-treatment comparisons, and most people don't realize that its research basis is so flimsy.

[1] https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=placebo+effect...
Hey, I found spacemacs a bit intimidating. How do you get started with it? I have plenty of text to write in the coming weeks, so I already have the substrate to practice on. I just need a good introduction to evil-mode+org-mode.
Need to list related videos along with their published date in YouTube?
That will require a socialist restructuring of America, which while greatly needed, is never going to happen.
I wish they would add the ability to fast-forward merge from pull requests. I know many large projects (including Django) accept pull requests but don't merge them on Github simply because of the mess it makes of the history.
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We do similar thing but with workflow plugins.
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Show HN: Continuously scroll a given string
Absolutely! its definitely a stumbling block when you first start getting into golang.

Are the startup penalties for importing a package really that significant? Are there ways of reducing them?
Yes and no. You can build concurrency with just atomics and it will work. If you design the architecture of your program well it can be incredibly fast. Atomics on Intel processors at least are amazingly fast.

Mutexes though have a special property in that when a thread waits for a mutex to be unlocked, the processor can idle (this is all Intel knowledge).
If you click the 'X' next to ComSpOC - removing the filter - there are a TON more satellites. What is that filter and what are all the additional satellites?
That's not mutually exclusive - see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10739693

Most people use it for planning, but it's also a very nice personal wiki. The great thing is that you can define your tasks inline, if you want.
Jira is awful too
Every time software economies of scale come up, I can't help but be reminded of Jira's pricing model (https://www.atlassian.com/software/jira/pricing?tab=host-in-...):

(Per month:)

Users	Total	Per user
----- ------- --------
1	$10	$10
5	$10	$2
10	$10	$1
15	$75	$5
25	$150	$6
50	$300	$6
100	$450	$5
500	$750	$2
2000	$1500	$1
The Kokua License, a simple open-source license for any kind of content
What Will It Take to Build a Virtuous AI?
We'll give the original submitter credit and treat the others as dupes. Thanks!

Btw, we're working on a better deduplication system, so this hopefully won't be this big a problem for too much longer. The advent of random hashes at the end of every page (especially on medium.com) was the last straw.
Micro VCs Are Coming
Excited to finally start playing around with this.
Hint: it's not Bash. That would be sh, which is not really portable--if it were, autoconf wouldn't spend so much effort on portability.

So yes, can anyone provide such a list please?
And gender-neutral singular "they" is steadily growing more popular!
Does it include military/spy satellites? If not, then there's likely even more satellites both operational and non up there.

[Edit] Scanning the skies above Russia and China for satellites with a non-specified mission doesn't bring up a single US satellite. So it appears that this data does not include spy satellites.
>Standard accessibility disclaimer to people developing websites: please do not set "user-scalable=no" in the viewport meta tag, as this prevents users from pinch-zooming the page.

100% this. I immediately leave any site that I don't absolutely have to use if it doesn't allow me to pinch, and I'm not visually impaired. Part of the annoyance is knowing that they disabled it on purpose. I realize that there are design considerations that factor into it, but the fact that they designed the site in a way that disables such critical functionality makes me not want to stick around to find out whatever other annoyances it has in store for me.
I have had very similar thoughts, but I have to wonder if it turned out to be wrong. Jerry's Brain:

http://jerrysbrain.com/

Apparently started in TheBrain in 1997 and now has more than 250K "thoughts". That's breathtaking for both the longevity and the scale. I'm guessing that most mind mapping programs wouldn't handle that well.

Gathering the legacy stuff is not as important as getting started with something, I think. The legacy will make it into a new system as it's needed.

I've been using Evernote for a number of years. I don't particularly like it (cumbersome UI without great navigation), but the search has worked well enough for me to find things and its ubiquity has been great.
> Android Studio is one of the worst pieces of software I've ever had to code with.

Compared to Eclipse?
Spacemacs has pretty good docs: http://spacemacs.org/#learning-spacemacs

org-mode and evil-mode alone, without Spacemacs, work pretty well already. It's just additional glue to make it more seamless.
It boils down to "don't change the implementation and the interface at the same time". It doesn't say "don't ever change the interface".
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AngularJS 2.0 Beta is out
Beware the rule-following co-worker, Harvard study warns
Some links:

http://www.voicesofliberty.com/article/a-beginners-guide-to-...

http://www.peakprosperity.com/forum/keynesian-vs-austrian-ec...

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-09-22/illustrated-guide-k...
Angular 2 Beta
I've been working with own "PK" for about a year now. It's been an interesting experiment so far. My concept is based around random re-exposure to information. For whatever reason, the thought of "Let me look through my old bookmarks" never occurred to me and wasn't part of my daily workflow. So one aspect of my system is that it randomly selects bookmarks from different categories every day and shows them to me. It also has spaced repetition for facts and miscellany, or things I'm trying to learn about (like the US Presidents or Shakespeares plays), vocabulary, etc.

There were a few interesting things I've noticed by randomly viewing old bookmarks. The first is that linkrot is a very real thing and the web is decaying at a measurable rate. Second, it's amazing how limited my memory is. Half the time I don't remember something I bookmarked from years or even months ago at all. It's new to me, all over again. I'm going to bookmark this discussion and then completely forget it existed within a few months at most. Regularly reviewing old web pages and notes makes me feel like my mind is a sieve, as well as highlighting how my interest and thought processes have changed over the years.

I'm really interested in this topic, feel free to contact me to discuss.
This article feels like it's from years ago. Using Jenkins today is an anachronism - poor UI, poor configuration, poor scalability, poor distribution. My current employer has poured so much well intentioned effort into Jenkins' black hole. Never again.
Thanks! For some reason I never saw this page before. I wasn't satisfied with the README on Github. Off to read!
That's Google for you, having to present your exciting MVW toolkit on the crash accident of a website that is Blogspot.

Right now, there is a massive cookie consent form blocking my view of the actual article.
I think jerf was trying to say that when re-implementing something, re-implement it first then improve it, don't do both at once.
I don't really know about that. Right now I'm promoting muscle products. I've promoted diet products and email submits before.
I wonder if smartphone capacities grew we would one day hit a point where most meaningful data is already preloaded on every device: A full copy of Wikidata, Wikipedia, OpenStreetMap, dictionaries.

The trend goes the complete opposite direction: the devices get faster but we only use it to draw the data from our servers faster. We push all our data into the cloud, although our devices share a private network most of the time.
No. Reddit's front page ranking has no hidden metagaming from the mods. (The most they can do is hide it)
[not-a-physicist]So why can't time be a ball, just like the earth, neither beginning nor ending? At some point we meet all the anti-matter going the other way...[/not-a-physicist]
How to Design Your Exit Strategy Before You Resign from the Military
HIV dating app leaks sensitive information, company threatens infection
Same thing that happens to any other service provider: they might lose the ability to do business in Germany or even get blocked if they knowingly continue violating German law.

Granted, for Wikimedia there would be less at stake than for, say, Facebook, but it should be obvious why an organization offering a localized service might be interested in staying within the bounds of the laws of whatever locale they are targeting.

I doubt Wikimedia Deutschland would fare well if their US-based parent organisation disregarded rulings of German courts, especially when it comes to protecting the privacy of German citizens.

Compare it to, say, US courts suing a EU or Chinese company. Sure, they don't necessarily have any means to enforce the ruling against the foreign company but it would likely be in the company's best interests to follow the ruling if they want to continue providing their services in the US.
For operations that don't have any side effects, I can definitely see how you could use the Science library.

I'm curious though if there are any strategies folks use for experiments that do have side effects like updating a database or modifying files on disk.
check it on github: https://github.com/divyum/youtube-dater
They aren't doing this. The main thing to blame is Intel not officially supporting anything greater than 4Gbit with DDR3 (they want to push DDR4 instead). In reality 8Gbit DDR3 does work with Broadwell and Skylake, and Purism is already doing it.
Tangential: A discussion on STM vs Locks between Cliff Click (Cheif JVM Engg at Azul Systems back then) and Rich Hickey (of Clojure fame): http://h2o.ai/personal/2008/05/clojure-stms-vs-locks/

And the classic KiranDave/Aphyr vs Ryah thread on "NodeJs Concurrency" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4306241
What are you going to use instead?
It's a common mistake. The word "adverse" almost makes some kind of sense but the correct word is averse.
I was once a warrior on the PK front. I built a PK Chrome extension called Deeper History http://lifehacker.com/deeper-history-searches-the-contents-o.... It compressed and stored pages you visted in IndexDB. You could then search your history by keyword form your url bar.
An example use case was trying to recall a comment of an article you liked. If you could remember a few of the words DH would pull it back up.

I stopped developing it once I realized it was a security nightmare. I built a version that encrypted the data before storing it but that ballooned the DB size and I also didn't have a user-friendly way for users to obtain a key set.
Mobile Cross-Platform Development in C++ (slides SF-CPP Meetup Group)
> You can walk into any emergency room in the country and receive whatever care you need even without insurance or payment on-hand.

While this is a benefit of sorts (you won't actually be allowed to die due to lack of funds), it's not like the work you receive is free. You'll end up paying it back to someone.

Where I live, for example, the county tends to pay off debt like this to the hospital for a significantly smaller portion of the cost. They will allow you to finance it for a very long time, but you will still pay for it. Until it's paid for, even if it takes a very long time. If the county decides not to help you (maybe, for example, you're not a taxpaying resident of the place you ended up going to the emergency room in) then the hospital will bill you for it. They might, after hounding you for a while, charge you only pennies on the dollar to pay it. Or they might be convinced to write it off - which they do occasionally, but only occasionally.

The only sure way to avoid paying debt accrued through emergency medical services is to have no assets.
Speaking of "PH is rigged by insiders," it's worth noting that a "top user" is selling a book on how to best pander to the PH userbase: http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00TP3MFHE/ref=mp_s_a_1_5?qid=...

This is an odd racket, to say the least.

Re/code wrote a relevant article a few months back (http://recode.net/2015/06/18/product-hunt-the-startup-kingma...) about Product Hunt elitism, which I was interviewed for and the response from the PH team to the article was essentially "haters gonna hate." It's disappointing that nothing has changed since then, and arguably, things have gotten worse.
This is the problem that Dropbox Paper is solving—both for teams and for personal use. I use it now to write all of my blog posts, store research about everyday life things, and keep track of things like doctors, lawyers, etc. I think it solves the problem very well.

Early on they hadn't quite nailed "findability", but with the new (more generic) folders ported from the desktop metaphor and "starred" items this is largely solved. And the search is very fast.

Not only that, but it makes it incredibly easy to share with friends and even have them comment or contribute to individual files, without having to expose everything you write. Learning curve is near-zero.

All in all, super impressed.
Modify it how? We have some fairly blunt instruments like seeding clouds to modify weather, but those wouldn't be of much use here.
Of course, it seems a lot more straightforward to build solar farms in Arizona or Algeria, though transmission is still a problem. Possibly they could be used to generate hydrogen for synthesizing fuels...
Providers of the cell phones want to charge you for your data usage over their network. They aren't going to pre-load the most commonly accessed data on the phones.
And anticlimateic. :]
I don't agree with him, I just understand his point. Actually, I wouldn't really trust either product at this point - there have been too many vulnerabilities in OwnCloud for my taste, but buying a proprietary application is not an alternative either for my personal use.
The belt shape is an aggregate. Each individual orbit's plane must contain the Earth's center. So the "belt" is an aggregate of many orbits at various inclinations relative to the equator.
Building M2M Networks with Arduino
I know poverty is on a much larger scale in Flint, but honestly those streets don't look very different to the rougher areas in most towns I've been in.
The concern with not having access to data on a device is that the platform controllers are in full control over the data then. Whether it's a control method or simply a connectivity issue, it will be nice to have access to data. Having device differentiation focused on speed of data transfer vs. stored data seems reasonable.
I would try pitching established companies in the same space. Incumbents often invest in newcomers in other industries -- might work here too.
Given the history of cinema, I predict that this will be used excessively by some directors, who will fall into an "uncanny valley" the perceptive and intelligent will find disturbing while others will find it to be a "super-stimulus."

Then the industry will mature, and this will be used with greater subtlety.
The CPU is fused to allow running unsigned binaries, but they’re "still working on" creating FOSS firmware for the chip. They’ve done some good breakdown and analysis of the different pieces, but nothing concrete has shipped so far. https://puri.sm/posts/bios-freedom-status/

Until Purism has actually shipped a working alternative to the management engine firmware, their laptop is hardly any better than most commercial components. If you buy the laptop, you're purchasing hope.

You would be better off getting a Libreboot. http://minifree.org/product/libreboot-x200/
yes ditaa, forgot to mention that, but I don't yet know how to use ditaa etc to make those blocks as in the bash site, it just looks nice.
Not to mention skipping microcode updates is useless (you are already running nonfree microcode on reset) and not a good thing if you are running VMs.
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Wow. I'd be fascinated to know how well this book sells.
Depends how old you are and if you had any previous experiences with programming. I tried this with Java and it was difficul to go through the sometimes idiotic jokes, dialogues and pictures. If you are 13, they are cool. I was 29 and they were less so.

And also it's really boring to read basic stuff about variables, objects, pointers if you already know anything about these.

When I was learning HTML when I was 12 my math teacher told me to open any website and mess around with the source (and get hosting from Anglefire ;))

Later I read a simle step by step description of html tags. CSS and styles in general were a novelty back then. I later learned about JavaScript. Based on my experiences I'd recommend w3school - I think the basic html course is very good. Take notes - no more than 10 pages from the entire course, use two colors - one for the code, another for your comments. Use plain text notepad for editing code.
Fair enough :).
Migrating to Travis and a SWF-based solution, all driven by versioned configuration and code.
How long until we start seeing this algorithm in Google interviews?
Anyone has the experience working with NativeScript and Angular 2? How's it compared with React Native? And is there any chance this will evolve to a viable alternative to developing native apps using web technology?
My faith in Doctors is pretty much at an all time low.

I kept having bouts of extreme pain with really strange symptoms, Doc's said Reflux but I kept saying it didn't fit the pattern, a dozen AE (ER) visits later and I got a Doc who told me to insist on an MRI.

Turns out I have Syringomyelia, a serious and rare spinal condition which the radiologist spotted by accident as it was on the edge of the scan, he then did a bunch more images and they saw the syrinx.

The next doc I saw I needed an endoscopy and they said the results where abnormal, so I looked into the condition, when I went to see the gastro doc I asked him if the cells where "high" or "low" grade dysplasia and his snarled response "Oh, trying to be a doctor eh", "no, just trying to be an informed patient".

I requested a different gastro doc after that, I read everything I could get my hands on and I'm not stupid, I understand my condition well enough to ask good questions at least.

So yeah, not a massive fan of Docs at the moment.
Not just Mechanical Engineering. Their EE and Management programs are incredibly solid too. I graduated with a CS degree there a couple years ago too, haven't had too many issues. They also had a fair bit of R&D coming through there and a startup incubator being built when I was graduating.

It's a sad place but there's some really cool stuff going on there between the universities.
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Dogwatch is like a newly-gentrified expensive hotspot. I question the author's knowledge of SF, as well.
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