skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've never created a facebook profile but facebook has a "shadow-profile" on me based on people tagging me in photos and inviting me and what not. So I never put things on facebook but there's still tons of info on me there.

And maybe forks would be banned if they were constructed in a way to make it extremely difficult to use, even for experts, without stabbing yourself? I'm thinking of a fork with some sort of magnetic pull, either towards the plate or towards your own forehead, so you can chose whether it tries to stick to the plate (making food not come to your mouth) or switch to the forehead pull and try to steer it into your mouth without stabbing yourself. That IMHO would be a more adequate comparison to what these dark-pattern infused sites/apps are doing.
Information-theoretic death
The entire "Good Eats" series on the food network with Alton Brown? Light food biochemistry combined with entertaining pop culture references?

The network is pretty boring now, focusing mostly on extremely shiny and polished aspirational personalities and the usual "reality" game shows, but in the old days the network used to be about food...
It looks like you have a good background on things. As a polyglot with experience in plenty of languages, I'd minimize the number of syntaxes to pick up. I would focus on leveraging your javascript background as a starting point.

Let me tell you why.

Not much has changed since the 90's in one area: there are as many opinions and interpretations running around as facts. There's no shortage of time being spent re-inventing the wheel over and over in frameworks that really don't look much different. The end result is most languages have pretty decent frameworks to work with.

A better question is what would be a best path forward for you to dip your feet in and move forward?

The web and mobile landscape is a lot nicer now with the tools that aim to help you get things done quicker, as long as you don't go off their beaten path.

Which two swiss army knife tools could you use to roll out into one thing?

The first big shift is to think mobile first, including mobile web based apps that also work on desktop.

I've jumped into Javascript more so in the past year as node.js has continued to mature. I use my strategically limited time to build value and not spend my time learning like I had to in my 20's.

The frameworks I'm playing with at the moment that provided a good coverage for web applications as well as doing mobile web app dev, as well as mobile app development.

Sails.js (forked to trails.js now) will be familiar to you. This will cover writing web apps and not having to build your own entire stack. Has worked wonderfully for the few projects I've used it for.

To cover mobile development, I recommend looking at ionic framework to start out with. It can connect just fine to a backend like parse.com.

There are no shortage of business and information driven apps (that pay well) that this technology can create with one code base for all end points. There is a great case to build native apps once something like this solves a problem.

If you want to get into mobile development from a higher level to explore, I really recommend a tool like appery.io. It was dicey before in places but now has ionic built in, it's a fantastic prototyping tool for JS apps.

Beyond this, I've always had a crush on Python and want to spend more time with it, but for now Javascript keeps me moving along.

Feel free to reach out if you wanna chat, you sound like you have a lot of experience already.
Yahoo is prepping to lay off 10% or more of its workforce
I'm looking forward to seeing "over the top" added to https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
It entirely depends on what kind of mileage and what kind of time. 100tkm in city traffic only could easily be more devastating than 500tkm on highway. (Or some similar-ish proportion.) Conversely, time spent in controlled storage, with appropriate precautions taken before and after, doesn't necessarily count much. Yet time spent in active use even with low mileage (say, a single one-stretch 100 km trip per week) will wear out parts and components. Changes in temperature and humidity have an effect there. I've also observed common replacement cycles mostly regardless to mileage for some parts: a ten-year car is likely to need similar parts replaced regardless of whether it has 100tkm or 250tkm on it. Some parts are more worn by miles, some parts more by time in active use.
I lived in Harrisonburg on and off from 1992-1997, punctuated by a job in Northern VA. At that time JMU was a typical cow college surrounded by farmland with poultry processing plants (Tyson, Rocco Turkey in Dayton). The whole oxycontin-heroin problem was just getting off the ground at the time. Fortunately I was pretty far removed from all the bad stuff in town, living on a farm outside of Bridgewater and running my first BBS via modem on a FreeBSD box.

Now the drug problem in rural America has really gotten out of hand. There have been quite a number of meth labs, and crack and heroin have become a public health problem on the other side of the tracks.
Facebook plans to take the messaging war to the Mac
Sorry if my comment seemed snappy. I actually am a current mutt user -- so I know its advantages. It's awesome when it is set up.

I think you're getting downvoted in this thread because while you're trying to make a distinction between difficulty of setup and difficulty of use, the waters have already been poisoned by so many people that (wrongly) say "FOSS tools like mutt are easy to set up" that people are lumping you in with that group, even though that's not what you're saying.
The handwriting recognition was the Newton's oversold aspect, leading to (in my opinion) many to overlook some unique system-wide architecture decisions for data representation; the data soup [1].

That technical description doesn't easily convey the benefits for those who have never seen data soups before, but this blog post [2] gives some idea.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soup_%28Apple%29

[2] https://blog.mozilla.org/faaborg/2007/06/29/why-the-iphone-i...
Reading the Hippocratic Oath right now, it's painfully hilarious how far removed that pledge is from the way medicine is practiced right now

(taken from wikipedia)

"Whatsoever house I may enter, my visit shall be for the convenience and advantage of the patient;"

"I will remember that there is art to medicine as well as science, and that warmth, sympathy, and understanding may outweigh the surgeon's knife or the chemist's drug."

"I will remember that I do not treat a fever chart, a cancerous growth, but a sick human being, whose illness may affect the person's family and economic stability. My responsibility includes these related problems, if I am to care adequately for the sick."

How quaint! That's what a Norman Rockwell painting would sound like if it came to life.
Disruption all around...1.8l gas engine that gets over 35mpg and produces 170hp on regular gas, cars that are reliable ten years later, fully electric cars, self driving cars...it's awesome.
Why I carry a Newton...

... because it perfectly compliments my Macintosh LC III.
... because I'm a hipster doofus who also carries a rotary phone for some reason.
... because I fear change even when it makes perfect sense to do so.
This doesn't seem like a realistic mistake to me. The printf is just at the wrong indent level; this is the same mistake as:

for(i=0; i<imax; i++)
printf("i=%i\n",i)
{
//...
}

Which also compiles and which is wrong in the same way. I don't recall ever having made or having seen this.
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There's an engaging account of this incident in an American Airlines training seminar that's now on Youtube - it's even more dramatic than your summary suggests:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfNBmZy1Yuc&feature=youtu.be...

(Incidentally, this is the video series that includes the famous "Children of Magenta" lecture, which is a must-watch for anyone who designs or thinks about how to use a system with multiple levels of abstraction: https://youtu.be/pN41LvuSz10)
The author left out a comparison on graphics cards. There is a recent trend in computing (starting around 2008 when GPUs became freely programmable) where GPUs are the new real measure for horsepower in a high-performance computer due to their raw speed and usefulness in scientific computing and games.
lol title change
Best of luck with that union, it might win you a little reprieve but that profession is now more susceptible to foreign trained Doctors coming here to take their place.

Unions of professional workers are last resort actions. If you are at that point the chance has blown by to take corrective action, all they can do is slow it down.

Plus, if the ACA doesn't get axed next year hospitals and management companies won't be the biggest threat to their pay or number of patients they will see. The government will set rates and if they want to eat they are going to have to see more patients, if they even get them as there will be nurses who will step into those roles too
From those times (nineties) only html tags <HTML> and <BODY> are not changed, and javascript alert. Everything else you can consider to be absolutely new, and just vaguely familiar to what it was before. So, get started with some technology tutorial (any you like or plan to get job with), don't waste any more time waiting!
I'm sure that the issue can be fixed so it might have been.

But I have the mail conversation here (10 people at least and dozen of back and forth).

This was 2 months ago and I gave up on it for this specific reason.
> Especially older people, who are the largest consumers of healthcare

the old bigots can learn to live with it.
yeah, agreed with Candelabra - that title got lots of upvotes and was what it was
yeah, agreed with Candelbra - that title got lots of upvotes and was what it was
Really? Where? No need to provide half an answer. I'm sure you meant 30 minutes on the train. I live 3 miles from Manhattan. It takes me between 20-90 minutes by bus.
You seem, particularly in 2, to be understanding the article demanding payment only to women. That doesn't seem to be the case:

"It’s an odd kind of reparations, you may object, that goes to fathers as well as mothers, the unattached as well as those with family responsibilities."
Thanks for the feedback!

The reason I chose Libreswan [1] (over Openswan) is that it is more actively developed with recent patches [2]. I have not tried strongSwan as of yet.

Regarding the firewall rules: The VPN scripts are intended to be run on a freshly installed Linux system. By adding those IPTables rules, the OS would be better protected from network attacks. For example, the L2TP port UDP 1701 is closed for traffic other than those via IPsec.

[1] https://libreswan.org

[2] https://nohats.ca/wordpress/blog/2014/02/16/development-of-l...
Would love your opinion of my site. I publish office design photo tours and then pair the content with ads for office furniture, plus a product listing area :)
If thought is merely chemical gears spinning, doesn't that remove any kind of control or responsibility of the person for their actions? It would be morally wrong to punish someone for an act they had no control over for example.
Well, not really, because in the example you just gave, you would put the printf right between the braces as it should be. In the case originally discussed, you have no braces so you would have to add them, and that can be forgotten.
The request was there because this [1] response was entirely predictable.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10877103

It's great to see lutusp back. It's a shame he comments on psychology articles. His comments on any other subject are interesting, fascinating, useful.
My work/life balance is all unbalanced
Yahoo’s Brain Drain Shows a Loss of Faith Inside the Company
Well seeing as anything Dell (or any other large PC manufacturer) pumps out is in .NET and seeing as most users leave that crapware installed I would say they definitely do not account for 1% of programs. Most of the software you listed is pretty specialized, with the exception of a couple I don't think Joe Bloggs would have even heard of them, let alone use them.
The solution is to not try to verify the content of a rest service.

There is a lot of good that Amazon can do with their certification process - things like helping a developer figure out appropriate example phrases, or making sure that all of the appropriate fields are filled in (like providing a thumbnail for the appstore, etc).

Their weird pedantism about an arbitrary set of rules, however, serves only to scare off those of us who are actually interested in advancing the default user experience. Out of the box experimentation is frowned upon, and the result is that they're basically handing the ecosystem to the shovelware creators.
For you kids who don't remember the Newton the first time around, this is the egg freckles reference:

http://doonesbury.washingtonpost.com/strip/set/24
UBI proposals typically do not print new cash for distribution, but rather pay for it with taxes. I actually do expect some inflationary pressure from a BI, but not because there is more money.
also helps explain why the author would refer to smartphones taking 3-4 hours to charge, which is no longer the case. I was initially confused by this claim and thought he was stacking the deck in his comparison.
Similar story in the UK. My aunt, who works for the NHS (not a GP), has cried in the toilets a few times because she is forced to use bad software to the point of utter frustration, and she is not of the computer generation. There are ~10 people in her team in a simular situation. They should just have a dedicated person doing data entry in to the computer system.
Screen's not so bad.

You can select a difficult small amount of memory for code and storage with slow CPU and slow access to bulk storage with an arduino, or somewhat complicated I/O and software stacks with high power use on a RaspPi.

There's a hole in the market around many megs of storage and a tenth of a watt or so of power and 10 MIPS of non DSP or so. Below there's tons of offerings, and above there's tons of offerings, but in between theres not much. Probably because there's not many applications. The world's full of engine computers and toasters, and tablets and phones, but in between not so much.
Verizon Routing Millions of IP Addresses for Cybercrime Gangs
A white man strangling a Native American. No, it's a friendly wrestling match
> In all consumer Windows up to Windows 7

So XP and Vista then.

Most of the software that comes pre-installed on Windows machines (by the OEM) is .NET. That fact by itself means the amount of software written in .NET is far far far above 1%.

> In Windows world you are very wrong.

So you're saying after the shedloads of money, effort and development Microsoft has pumped into .NET it hasn't even amounted to 1% of applications running it? That's preposterous.
We Really Don't Know How to Compute (2011) [video]
I agree with the handwriting component of this, especially during sales meetings. I have found the Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 really fantastic for sales meetings. Battery life is all day, but not "measured in weeks" (alas). Handwriting recog is about as good as Newton ever was but I never really use it -- I like sharing notes as PDFs in Drive then linking to them from todo lists (I use Highrise so my workflow is to create a PDF in Drive from the S-Note app then share the link via email to Highrise or someone else on my team).

Unfortunately Samsung stopped making the Note in a tablet -- the new Tab A or whatever that has a stylus is a bit underpowered.

Get a 10.1 on ebay while you still can!
Being that you are already familiar with HTML/CSS and PHP, I suggest getting updated with those first. Learn responsive design or Bootstrap to get started on the front-end (HTML). Do some reading on the latest CSS best practices and go through a couple of JavaScript and jQuery tutorials. For PHP, I suggest reading through http://www.phptherightway.com/ because a lot has changed with PHP over the last few years.

All of this will give you what you need to built out a robust site. After you are updated and comfortable with these, you may then decide to move onto learning other things such as React, Node, etc.
First, don't worry about new frameworks or languages right away. You can stick with PHP/mySQL on the back end to start.

Learn all the updates to CSS first, to understand how pages are structured without tables. That will help you to move on to jQuery, which will in turn help you understand how JavaScript is used nowadays to work with the page. Once you are that far, you can pursue node.js to get up to speed on server-side JS.

After that, you should be as caught up as you need to be, and will better be able to evaluate all the other frameworks and languages out there, and set your own direction.
As of ~2012, physician compensation was something like 8.5% of healthcare spending in the USA. This means that in the United States, physician compensation is actually a smaller component of healthcare costs than it is in the UK (where it's ~10% of overall cost).
What if you could only carry things to/from that closet in a fixed-size box?

Typical L1 cache size for the x86 family is only a few times larger than on the 486. Cache is getting faster, but transistor shrinkage should affect cache speed and instruction execution time in roughly equal proportion.

Of course, the marginal value of spending development time improving performance can vary a great deal; but when performance matters, the key considerations are going to remain location, location, and location for the foreseeable future.
That sounds incredibly expensive to route. Every flip flop?
P-Values and Han Solo (using R and Python)
Completely this.

If I teleported here from the 90s, first thing I'd need to wrap my head around is how HTML and CSS have changed. I'd be learning a responsive framework (or even hand-rolling it, so you know how it works) like bootstrap. And doing a very basic website.

And if html5 & responsive css aren't enough to wrap your head around at once, I'd create a github account, and start with github pages. That'll let you use the static site generator Jekyll. The combination of all three will do pretty much all you need for 90% of the sites out there.

After that, then I'd look at a stack that lets you have some degree of interactivity and persistence in order to build web apps.... But for now, clean responsive websites would be the way forward.
The Newton was much, much larger than a 2011 cellphone, let alone a modern one.
> How can you be promoting the life of the poor in the 19th century when so many of them didn’t eat every day? Well yeah, it’s bad, but is it really any worse than the situation today when everybody’s fed but you have an incredible percentage of New Yorkers who live in the shelter system – including people who have regular jobs?

For somebody who's an expert on this, I'm shocked at such a reduction. Infant mortality rates, for example, are more important to me than awesome jazz clubs.
Some end up in the banking sector and begin a career of counterfeiting money, making numbers look good and move faster than others.. I suppose the economy is more important than society.
I can't agree more. The tons of frameworks and libraries coming out are suited to specific use cases, more web applications than simple sites, and using them unnecessariy will not gain any advantages. If you just want to "setup a website every now and then", your current skillset is more than sufficient. Don't fall into the trap of using new technology for the sake of using new technology.

You may notice that when late 90s/early 2000s sites get posted to HN, there are often a set of comments on how quick-to-load and readable they are.
It's a bit pedantic, but most medical schools don't actually require a bachelor's degree. They do, however, require something in the order of 80+ credits worth of classes, at which point you might as well finish the degree.

Personally, I think it's a good requirement. It forces people to spend a bit more time maturing before they finish school, and it also providers an opportunity to pursue a different field before entering medical school, or provides a different background when practicing clinically.

I also can certainly agree that not having it can be beneficial in points you mentioned as well
Yeah, now they immediately desanguinate the body at the funeral home, just to make sure you don't wake up.
Note that the MacBook Pro has had an HDMI port since 2012 (in addition to Thunderbolt/mDP).
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That is great for updates (errata, etc). I think the parent was talking about upgrades (major revisions). That said, I use openup[1] for updates and it is pretty great.

I do wish the openbsd project itself adopted something similar in an official (signed) capacity.

[1]: https://www.mtier.org/solutions/apps/openup/
While nobody died and the morgue did get hit, there were definitely people inside:

However, hospital officials said three doctors and a patient were in the building at the time of demolition, and that some hospital workers were injured when they tried to stop the demolition, Jinghua news reported.
I second this. Additionally, if the choices are still overhelming and you have an idea of what you really want to build, I would suggest trying something like writing cucumber features[1] and running them in a headless browser.

I'm sure many people will tell you about their negative experiences and how writing these kinds of "tests" are slow or misleading or a waste of time. But I would say that deciding what your software does--even in an abstract and gradual fashion--gives you tremendous freedom in knowing that all the other choices are just implementation details of a larger design. (As the parent says, a "lower level of commitment".)

[1] https://cucumber.io
The idea of whether rats with exciting lives would indeed be less likely to become addicted to cocaine / morphine is quite controversial, and there have been some failures to replicate that original study (references here: 1. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9148292?dopt=Abstract and 2. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2616610?dopt=Abstract). I think the argument is that social isolation can and probably does make animals and humans more prone to drug addiction, but it's definitely not the only factor, and both animals and humans with good lives can still become hooked.
PLOS ONE Shrinks by 11 Percent
You know your problem is that you are completely in the wrong, yet try to make it look like you have it all figured out.

I never say Women or Girls are evil. They are not that cute creatures that you think they are, though. They are completely acting on their own self-interest which is fine and logical.

You'll be in for some surprises/lessons. But that's how we all learn I guess.
IPFS (the InterPlanetary File System): The Permanent Web
That's what I have, too. Yeah, they both work fine on Comcast.
I don't own a TV, much less a cable subscription. Projector + streaming + big old speakers is where it's at ;)
I can sympathize with folks unhappy with their project management tools. My team and I went one step further and tried to build the tool we weren't able to find out there, htt://taiga.io.

We think our free, agile, open source tool has satisfied people. We're 1 year into it, gotten 100,000 registered users, and have been highlighted as one of the top 10 open source tools of 2014 and won the 2015 most valuable agile tool from the agile awards.

Hope it can help some of you.