skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Ketamine has major issues with bladder damage when taken repetitively.

At recreational doses, doctors aren't going to be prescribing anywhere near that.
That is the Win32 XCOPY (the DOS XCOPY I am talking about was in the DOS stub)
Thank you for the detailed answer. Best of luck!

Incidentally, I just complained in another post about the way that needing to "invoke" voice mode makes it much less fluent. You may at least want to pop that one on to the mental back burner to see if there's a solution you can think of for it. I don't know what, but something that makes the friction of invoking a voice app less would help a lot. (I assume this is where Amazon Echo idea comes from.)
The Washington Post graph isn't adjusting for inflation and it's cherry picking specific specialities that have experienced pay growth.
that was fast!

beside cable, any real improvements?
Two questions - first, did you reply to the wrong comment? Seems like you might've meant to reply to thinkpad20's comment, which is about not needing to know everything to be productive.

Second - where do you work?
I've Now Been Working with the Same Company for 5-years and I Still Love It
You can read, Caesar's version here:
https://en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/Commentaries_on_the_Gallic_...
The DNC data breach
I have personally experienced a drug test with a technology company for a pre-employment screening, and heard of others that do the same. The company gave ample notice, but I don't think it's fair to paint a picture where drug tests are non-existent within tech.
That's interesting! PHP 7 is getting one too - https://marc.info/?l=php-internals&m=144990711202803&w=2 - i wonder which will be completed first?
I have been depressed a significant fraction of my adult life. I am also a biologist who abhors the medical description of this problem. I don't even like the word 'mental illness'. This shit is not an illness, its a normal response to a fucked up life! Can I get at least some acknowledgment of this fact?

The sine qua non for me was an issue of Nature a few years back that focused on depression, talked about how prevalent it is, how it is a 'drain on productivity', etc. Included therein was a graph of the worst affected populations, topping the list was Afghanistan. This passed without comment. How about: 'hey, the cause of depression seems to be human misery, like war, unemployment, alienation, etc.'

But you can't sell a fucking pill to cure war and alienation, so ...
Gillette sues Dollar Shave Club for patent infringement
All economic players are in theory subject to antitrust law. Anticompetitive behavior is in theory illegal. Union supporters negotiated an exception back in the day. So did the AMA, in part because it pretends to be a professional society. But in fact, the AMA has engaged in profoundly anticompetitive behavior from the start. For example, it regulates the physician supply by influencing policies of medical schools.

It was modern pharmaceuticals that professionalized doctors and hospitals. Previously, symptomatic mitigation and surgery were about the only options. Doctors were not high-status professionals, barely above blacksmiths. National healthcare was the sane response to this clusterfuck. But not in the US, because that would be socialism. So it goes.
Someone should add [2004] to the title
Early Television
Winter is coming to startup investing
Good, now that everything seems to have calmed down just think how it would have felt if instead of a celebrity feminist taking offense at pycon there was a conservative Christian that made reported two developers ultimately causing them to lose their jobs.

Would that be different?
You could've easily edited your comment to make sense, rather than just complain about my editing.
> They don't realize that over all traffic is still the same.

They do, which means that mobile traffic is increasing while PC traffic is decreasing. i.e. Optimize for mobile.
That's a sort-of-misconception, I think. AFAIK the client has to "advertise" the general location of the standard buttons, so if it's generally well-behaved, but just randomly locks up (via bug, not malicious intent), then you should generally still be able to close it.

(That's my understanding from the pro-CSD crowd, I'm personally pro-SSD, so I may have misunderstood unintentionally, but I think I'm being as charitable as possible in the above interpretation/description.)
Ditching Scrum for Kanban – The best decision we’ve made as a team
Did you read any of his linked articles? The smartphone use comment is backed by market research. And his PC internet comment is addressed in the same article, describing the additional capabilities of smartphone internet over PC internet.

http://ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2015/9/1/forget-about-mob...
I've been toying with something similar (mostly on paper so far) involving custom GStreamer elements for voice recognition/synthesis, a Wit.ai-like intent resolver for command & control, and ChatScript-like pattern matching for conversational dialogue. My goal is to put it all behind a WebRTC and SIP gateway and have a low-latency personal assistant that I can access from virtually any device (even an old landline telephone) and that runs on my own private server. That's the dream anyway. I'm stuck on the voice synthesizer, at the moment...
Eggless condiment can still be called mayo says FDA
So CISA is now law.
shrug It'd be one more special case for the compiler to handle (and one more feature for my brain to hold onto when reasoning through code... "This is being called with two arguments, is that a typo or does this function take default arguments? Guess I'll have to go look up the function's declaration...").

I can see the alternate viewpoint but given that we can use structs and default fields to get the same effect I'm happy with the current solution.
Diversity Starts at the Beginning
Sure, there can just be 150 million jobs in the United States that all pay more than $100k/year, right? Everyone can be rich!
I used to argue against conflating property and immaterial rights along those lines. But it gets kind of interesting if you realize that all property titles are state-granted exclusionary privileges. So the distinction might not be that important.

When John Locke argued for the moral right of property as a result of labor, he also argued that it only applies when there are an abundance of resources.
An extension of that though could be, why not look at all rent generating propert with suspicion. Property rents, as a result of exclusive rights to scarce resources, could be seen as an externality, as a result of everybody else accepting those exclusive rights without compensation for being excluded.
I'm confused. The writer of the article seems to think that modern photographers are unacquainted with the golden ratio. However, it's mentioned in just about any web link on composition just after the "rule of thirds". This shouldn't be surprising, and it's not at all accidental. It's entirely planned by the photographer. Kind of a weird article to write. Did they not have any photographers on staff to ask about it? (Serious question - I know that the Chicago Tribune recently fired all their photogs and now have reporters use cell phones for their photos.)
In non RT java this is nearly impossible. The best way is to use a specific allocated off memory byte buffer and zero it once done. But GC/deallocation and JIT compilation will fight your zeroing attempts, and it can easily break existing code :(
And, given the treatment of medical students who graduate outside the continental US, this is still in effect today.

Even Americans have a hard road ahead when their only med school options lead them to the Caribbean. Even if they went to Ross.
Duplicates https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10750188 .
Or all out geo-libertarianism

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geolibertarianism
Physicians income is only 8.6% of healthcare costs. Maybe 15% includes nurses?

http://www.jacksonhealthcare.com/media-room/news/md-salaries...
Except that Benedict Evans is not a clueless manager, he's an analyst at Andreessen Horowitz. Everything he writes is worth a read, a lot of it is really insightful. Seems like it's your loss to stop after the first 3 sentences.
How the Mast Bros fooled people into paying $10/bar for crappy hipster chocolate
If you're talking about total compensation, 250k is on the low end. Base of $140-190k is common. Add to that $10-30k of cash bonus and $100k of stocks.
That bug seems to be setting back Bernie Sanders, which sucks.

The media going to have a field day with this.
TLDR: Article about lifetime earnings that fails to mention cyclicality. Good luck with that.
It's defined as 'economic rent', of which housing rent is a type.

"In classical economics, economic rent is any payment made (including imputed value) or benefit received for non-produced inputs such as location (land) and for assets formed by creating official privilege over natural opportunities (e.g., patents)."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_rent
Part of the problem is a 'relative' lack of material covering practical development in haskell, compared to material explaining/exploring fancy type featues ( i.e. Prosemicofunctor type classes ) , and those that do blog about more mundane issues dont get voted up or are as visible in the community since its not interesting to those that have already passed that level.
Google Online Security Blog: An Update on SHA-1 Certificates in Chrome
Rents can be seen as a future cash flow stream, at least partially protected from erosion by competition, that is a reward for past efforts.
In a world where interest rates decline after the establishment of the rent, super-normal profits flow to the rentier. Keynes missed this in his 'euthanasia of the rentier' tirade.
There's no 'about us' on the site

I tweaked them about this a few weeks ago, and got a detailed answer here on HN. But I guess they haven't gotten around to updating their site yet.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10674029
In a literal sense, yes. But, and perhaps I am understanding this wrong, the article in the join primitive section states: "Once they have both finished, it will return". If you ignore the cost of spinning up and tearing down the threads isn't this conceptually the same as the implicit join at the end of an OpenMP loop?
How To: Converting Recorded Files to Mp4 for Seamless Playback via Red5 Pro
Computer Scientists and Mathematicians Stunned by This Chicago Professor’s Proof
If you look at the detailed breakdown, those are not counted towards the fingerprint.

But I think there is a big inconsistency in their data. My Moto G3 is identified as "1 in 3 million browsers have this value" based on just the user agent (which does not contain anything region specific). Since more than 0.5 million Moto G3s were sold just in India in the first 2 months after release [1], their numbers imply there is more than 100 unique browsers for every living human.

[1] http://www.bgr.in/news/motorola-sold-over-5-lakh-units-of-mo...
I factored a^2 + b^2 in high school and my teacher made me write the Math textbook author. (a^1/3 – b^1/3)(a^2/3 + a^1/3*b^1/3 + b^2/3) using fractional exponents. Turns out factors can't be irrational numbers but he called it a brilliant derivation for a high school student. Made the local paper..not bad for being wrong...lol.
I call bullshit on the theory that Gtk devs decided to focus on touch. There are exactly 0 projects for tablets running vanilla linux distros (i.e. not Android).
Quite the opposite, in fact:

> Q: I’m pretty sure that you are familiar with Realm. I want to know your opinion about Realm and Core Data. Should we use one or the other, or which one is more suitable for you?

> Marcus: Realm has a few things about it that I’ll discuss. First, my opinion on third-party code is well known: all code sucks. I think Realm is trying to solve a problem that is the incorrect problem to solve. They’re trying to be faster than Core Data, whereas Core Data is trying to be fast enough, but maintainable. In my playing and working with Realm, I find that the amount of code you write is about equal. Their migrations to me are little bit more voodoo than I’d like. They’re trying to be fast, good for them, but that’s not what I want. As a project leader or a developer, I want maintainability and consistency. My big concern with third-party frameworks is that they go away. It happens over and over again. We don’t know how long Realm’s going to be here. I don’t understand their business model. Core Data for me is good enough; it’s mature, it’s been around long enough, and it’s fast enough. If it’s not fast enough, I’m probably doing something wrong because I’m in object space anyway. There’s a lot of unknowns about Realm. The storage is opaque, for instance, and that make me little jittery. Whereas, for Core Data, it’s a known quantity. Apple’s not going to throw it away tomorrow. The SQLite is transparent. I can look into the data. I can get the data. Even if it does go away tomorrow, I can still look at it. To me, it’s good enough, but then again, it’s my hammer. That’s the thing that I use the most. Is there anything wrong with Realm? No. Play with it, use it. It might be great. But, to me, it doesn’t solve the right problems. It’s not significantly better than Core Data to the point where you’d say, “Wow, this is so much better, why would anybody use Core Data?” Instead, I see it as, “Okay, it’s faster. Awesome. Good for you.” It’s not less code, and it doesn’t have the maturity of Core Data yet. Ask me again in a year, I might change my mind.

I fully agree with Marcus here, Core Data has its issues but at least they're well-understood.
Thank you for this comment. I'm a member #400 or something and it just seems like there are 'gangs' that run ProductHunt now.

Then (correct me if I'm wrong) they also got funding so... things do not really seem kosher to me.
That isn't the point I was addressing. I was concerned with the absolute numbers being floated in this conversation. They are thoroughly unrealistic for people outside a certain few areas.

On this specific point I don't have a good opinion. I don't know much about the startup scene here because nobody is doing things I am interested in, but from what I can tell they seem to be saner than what you get in the Valley because nobody has delusions of unicornhood there. Similarly, there are plenty of bust-your-ass BigCo jobs around here. So both camps seem to pay similarity and seem to have the same scattergun of stress levels.
Getting stuck on "Completing login..." screen, with the URL of https://www.openhunt.co/login/callback - just sits there and nothing happens. Using stock iPad.
Well, at least the media blackout is over.
The point of joining a start-up is to take risk and make more $. I'm not sure there is anyone who doesn't get that. Obviously joining a large stable company with consistent growth will net you high stable pay, the point is if you want to make an above average amount of money that moves the needle and makes your life feel different, a start-up is the way to go.
Luckily in the tech industry, employees have a lot more power than in other industries. We can just leave and get another job.
He links to three articles with probably 15,000 words explaining that point, right under the paragraph.

Basically his point is that your phone comes with a camera, GPS, and persistent internet connection. Your desktop may have a webcam that is annoying to point around the room. The internet is fundamentally more useful when you have it all the time and the services you are using have an idea of where you are.
How about we take it a step forward and say "woman caused two developers to be fired"?

Or even better.

"A person at a tech conference caused two developers to be fired".

That way we can judge the situation within its own context, rather than letting our own affiliations or views bias us.
Yes, the key is whiteboards are for diagrams, not coding.
Certainly, and your interpretation is logical. I agree the original commenter didn't necessarily mean to imply that. However, they appear to have bought into a kind of false dichotomy that gets applied to women and minorities all too often. It's a mindset where there are "fake" woman developers (or gamers, or whatever), and there are "real" woman developers, and you only get perceived as one of the "real" developers if you meet an unusually high standard. It's tiresome to be on the receiving end of it.
Top Cameras and Brands on Flickr in 2015
You're assuming someone has to win.
It used to be that you didn't need any specialized degrees to make medical prosthetics, just training and a place willing to employ you, until there was suddenly a flood of interest into a well paying field. Then it rapidly self-organized and now basically requires a Masters to have employment consideration.

And yes, the underlying technologies and skills required have gotten _a lot_ more advanced recently, but this all started happening before that.
Sorry, looks like a bug. I'll log it in github issues and try to repro. Can you email me at jacques@openhunt.co? I'll reach out with questions if I hit snags trying to repro it.

Thanks for the heads up!
wrong "rent". rent in this case is "rent-seeking" which means seeking favor from government disbursal, regulation, or generally something which tilts the economic landscape in their favor (e.g. bailouts, FOMC operations, first-access to government-issued loans, etc).
> Some cost of living calculators make $150k in Dallas equal about $250 in NYC. It's worth noting that $150k is high for Dallas, but not impossible for people with Principal, Fellow, or Chief in their job titles.

I'm not challenging that. There's a reason after all why I have not yet and never will move to California (well, a bunch of reasons, but most are irrelevant to this). As I said to my other respondent, I'm taking issue with the absolute numbers.
This 2012 article starts off with a claim:

> The old-fashioned custom known as “dating” (as in: guy calls up girl and asks her out next Friday, takes her to a movie and a meal, picks up the cheque, takes her home, kisses her goodnight and, if he’s lucky, gets to third base) is something their grandparents did. Today, people just hook up.

Did the author get this from watching old TV shows? Because if you read, say, the Feynman stories about picking up women in the 1950s, you don't get the same opinion.

> “Today’s young man faces a sex life that probably would have exceeded the most optimistic imagination of most men throughout history,” Roy Baumeister says in his book Is There Anything Good About Men?

It's like the 1960s sexual revolution, and the era between The Pill and AIDS, when most VDs could easily be treated, didn't even happen.

Consider this scene from the 1969 "Alice's Restaurant" movie - https://youtu.be/sP05C_agI3k?t=1316 (note: shows a topless and purportedly underage woman), where the self-described 'teenybopper' lists the number of people she's had sex with, and how she want to sleep with Arlo - someone she's just met.

And I think there's a discussion in Heinlein's "To Sail Beyond the Sunset" describing how the people of some era (1960s?-1980s?) feel as comfortable giving a blowjob as previous generations might have shaken hands. Heinlein was a proponent of sexual liberation and free love, but surely his writings give an indication of what what's underneath the sanitized sexual history of the US.
It's not even that mysterious: Productivity gains haven't been evenly distributed any more than income gains have been. Even discounting demographic changes like substantially increased rates of immigration, it's statistically suspect to compare the median wage (typically of only non-supervisory workers) or living standard with the sum total productivity of the economy.

The
disparity in income growth rates across households can be related in part
to productivity. Changes in technology do not have an equal impact on
all workers in the economy. Over the past 30 years, improvements in
technology, such as computer innovations, have led to increases in labor
productivity for workers with technical skills ... These high-skilled workers experienced greater
increases in compensation than lower-skilled workers.

...

For a select group of “economic superstars,” technological innovations
have expanded the size of audiences, leading to strong increases
in income ... The rapidly growing demand for video games has
resulted in similar income growth in a narrow segment of the software
industry. In the late 1990s, creators of video game software experienced
average annual income growth rates estimated to be 6 percentage points
higher than workers creating non-entertainment software products, such
as for computer databases.

https://www.kansascityfed.org/publicat/econrev/pdf/1q07will....

The whole paper is well worth perusing. You'll be surprised how much of the total income gain in the U.S. is attributable to movie stars and pro athletes, and that is nearly entirely (economically speaking) a result of their exceptional "productivity". That is, being one of only a thousand or so people capable of producing something people will collectively pay billions for.
Yup. Mobile has a camera, video support, NFC, bluetooth. While these are technically usable on a laptop, they're not very useful since they're much less mobile.

Cell connectivity and the ability to access internet anytime, almost anywhere trumps the limitations of a smaller form factor. And mobile device browsing speed keeps increasing every generation.
Go on ...
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I would like to believe this is the dominant factor. It would provide a good argument for the abolishment of rents quickly (copyright length, patent length) and make another argument against extending patent protection to genes or software less compelling.

That said, the "boom" in startups is all about creating rents as a way of funding the business. Whether its the percentage cut that Uber or AirBnB takes or the price you charge advertisers for access, those are by this definition just rents transferring wealth from the consumers and workers into a third party's pocket.
Searched around for the PostgresRaw repo, think this is it? https://github.com/HBPSP8Repo/NoDB
Agreed. We'll probably add comments (in addition to private feedback for product owners). Just need a bit of time. Maybe by monday? ;)
The number of people that are commenting 'I stopped reading after X' is appalling.

When you find something you disagree with coming from a reputable source, shouldn't you be insanely interested in reading it? Contrarian viewpoints are what teach you something you don't already know. Are people coming to HN everyday to get a pile of articles that affirm their world view?

My reaction to the article was a disappointment because most of these are regurgitations of his previous posts. It feels like he is beating a dead horse because to me all of these points are non-controversial. Apparently not.
I believe that one of the reasons that it looks strange to us is that the image is captured using a "push broom scanner," where the satellite captures one line of the image at a time as it flies above the Earth, so the usual rules of perspective do not apply. The image is the same geographical width at the bottom as is it at the top.
Yes. Just tested starting a gedit and sending it Ctrl-Z in the terminal. Completely unresponsive window, can't drag titlebar, can't click on X. But that's what users want, right? Feature parity with Mac OS X and Windows.
I don't have much insight with regard to protectionism, but it's worth pointing out that physician income is low (~8%) as a fraction of the (high) US healthcare spending, compared to other Western countries.

http://www.healthcarefinancenews.com/news/physician-compensa...

Given the large fraction of physician income that goes toward medical malpractice in the US, as well as the higher overall wages in the US, the differential that protectionism needs to explain is nothing like the factor of 2 you suggest.