skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I tried accupuncture last, I should have tried it first. I love how western medicine calls any mechanism it doesn't understand "placebo" (reference to child comment) or "psychosomatic". Acupuncture worked for me after I exhausted everything western medicine had to offer (short of surgery). I had serious injuries (MRI showed this). I had verified radiating nerve pain, tests showed the nerves were innervated (activated) by these injuries to the spine. Acupuncture did what steroids, gabba blockers, physical therapy, et.al. could not.

Western medicine has some amazing things to offer for serious conditions. Its really silly how most other ailments are covered by crap in the drug store. I say crap because after my wife started treating the family with essential oils, and my acupuncturist's herbal remedies I'm sick less often and recover faster. I even avoided having to have my gallbladder removed. On fucking herbs ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Do I know why all these organic compounds and odd treatments work? Does that mean they don't? Does it mean it's all psychosomatic? sigh Maybe, just maybe people in the east figured out a system for treating many ailments. Maybe western medicine needs to zoom out from the molecule and start looking at the whole patient.

You want a lesson in the limits of western medicine? Watch your child die slowly of cancer. Losing my daughter disabused me of any fantasies of cures just around the corner. Meanwhile top doctors kept saying "we've never seen this before". Western medicine doesn't have answers for half of what people think it does. This isn't CSI. Humble out. If some herbs and acupuncture can heal people then deal with it.
The black market is noticing; the article ends with this:

> "The cartels, of course, are adapting to the new reality. Seizure data appears to indicate that with marijuana profits tumbling, they're switching over to heroin and meth."
> Carefully poke someone with needles anywhere (and pretend there's some meaning behind the placement) and the effect is the same.

Citation needed.
Vietnam Is the Focus of Foreign Investors
Yes, that's the second order analysis. But the mantra stating that war brings wealth and competition, that war is "sane and natural" from civilisation point of view, is wrong. Peace is the "sane and natural" state for human civilisation, and while some degradation can occur in an extended period with no major conflict, this is a side effect of peace, not the main effect (which is, again, that people can gather wealth and transmis it to their offsprings)
I've paid for Spotify, Rdio, Google Play All Access, and Apple Music. I've used Amazon Prime music, Pandora, and a bunch of others I've completely forgotten.

I love Apple Music. I can upload my library of obscure & old stuff to the cloud. There's a good selection. And, most importantly, Apple Music has Trent Reznor, which means I get hand-curated industrial playlists suggested with themes like "Intro to Front 242". It just suits me well.

Spotify was ok. I paid for it for most of a year. But take the industrial group My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult. They changed labels as often as most people change their underwear. So Spotify, Rdio, and the rest only have their newest albums in their catalogs. I have all their older stuff ripped, and I want to listen to it. Apple & Google have me covered there.

I almost feel like there needs to be some laser-focused streaming services. I might pay $5/month for a service that just negotiated the rights to 80s & 90s industrial groups' complete catalogs. And another $5 on top of that for hand-picked ambient playlists and an expansive catalog, including early albums from the genre.
It's based, I think, on interpreting the evidence of the way we prosecuted recent wars, the money flows spent in waging war, and the overlap of military, industrial and political interests.

My understanding differs though. My understanding is that the commenters understanding comes from finding it difficult to believe human beings, especially people seemingly smart enough to reach the top, could be that stupid. If they couldn't be that stupid or misguided, then they must have had some ulterior motive.

I go with the 'yeah, the neocons really were that dumb.'
Thanks for the link. I find most of the analysis logically dubious (in particular, there’s no mention of astronomy, the author seems to me to have limited imagination about possible methods for constructing charts over the course of decades or centuries of work in a field considered an important economic advantage, and the statistical analysis begs the question more than a little bit), and the conclusion “13th century Italians weren’t sophisticated enough to do this, and I don’t know any prior group who was sophisticated enough, but it must have been the Byzantines or Ancient Greeks or something, who knows” is entirely unconvincing. Calling this paper a “proof” of anything is a rhetorical stretch.

But at least we’re now dealing with something more concrete than a press release.
> was WWI

You mean "wasn't" ?
The stinging is your sunscreen. You can simply look under water in seawater.
It's even sillier than that. It just retrieves the terminal window with XGetInputFocus, and then stomps on top of another client's window, along with a pile of heuristics to prevent drawing on top of tabs, scrollbars, etc.

https://github.com/shinh/w3m/blob/d286acbf58b72d05a55453c134...
The only thing this PR is doing is teaching the criminals how not to get caught with tech.
I think soared's answer mostly explains it but also I think the demographic/general theme of this particular site has something to do with it. Tales of growth hacking and doing much with little are more interesting and relevant to people interested in starting their own businesses or having success with their own projects than tales of big marketing spends are.

I'm highly unlikely to find myself in a position any time soon where I've got a $500m marketing budget. So someone turning that in to $1b+ is of less interest to me than the guy who went from 0 to whatever cheaply.
Please do not take this recommendation.

That is certain to make you face a lot of uncomfortable irrealities, but let's not conflate that kind of "being tripped out" with the sort of introspective, lucid and refrshing experience LSD can give one.

(Edit: let's be clear, DXM+DPH is taking a very dirty but powerful dissociative and a schizophrenia inducing deleriant. That is not a road that leads to self analysis and catharsis, but paranoia and confrontation.)

You could "trip out" on DXM and DPH. I've done it more times than I ought to have. But it's a far cry from the beautiful mind state that is "tripping".
From what I understand some families were/are allowed to have two children if the first was a girl.
They can't circumvent the encryption. They can only bypass the failsafe mechanisms to allow for a brute force attack rate limited by the hardware (80ms per retry). Those two mechanisms are: exponentially longer password retry attempt delays, and deleting all data after 10 failed attempts.

I imagine they are working hard on preventing themselves from being able to bypass the failsafes.
I'm 31 and can also see pretty clearly in freshwater; don't recall trying to see in sea water though.
You're right in that the system is vulnerable, but this doesn't mean that it's not "secure" in practical terms.

One could argue that the phone is secure because even Apple has no way of recovering your passcode, nor do they have a master key that might give access to your data. That's fairly secure.

On the other hand, the system is insecure because it can have updates applied (which is what the FBI wants Apple to do) without requiring user consent, only physical access.

Imagine that updates required a user to put in their passcode, or otherwise wiped all the encrypted data; it would be more secure, but is that enough? Theoretically, there are still ways of getting at the data - someone might find a bug in the software, or they might physically crack open the CPU to get at a piece of needed data.

Security is always a balance - we want to trust Apple as little as possible, but I know of no way to create an invulnerable system.
I wouldn't say sting like crazy, for me it's a mild irritation that goes away quickly unless the water has a lot of suspended sand. Been swimming in sea water with eyes open since I was young; it used to be more painful.
He has a some good points, but the "switch" statement needs an integer for a reason... a switch can be converted a jump table in assembly language, so that the "case" can be arithmetically determined and instantly jumped to. The reason being: MOAR SPEED! A jump table is a lot faster than a sequence of else-if statments.
> But from 1999. There's been progress since then.

well, take a look at the latest tun_alloc(...) from linux-kernel-git then, and you would see, that sore points that you have raised are still there :)
Submission from 4 hours ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11236213
The article is old, but the comic in the story is fun and worth clicking on the link
It depends on your definition of "standard." POSIX is a standard, and it's the standard nearly everybody has used for networking and filesystem access.
While Butler was quite spot on with his early 1930s post-mortem assessment of WWI, a less isolationist approach might have possibly lessened the scale of WWII.

Some aspects of it's stance, like home territory limited military presence and exclusive zones of interest are simply obsolete in an era of ICBMs and satellites.

For some context and general description of sentiment in the 30s:

https://www.americanhistoryusa.com/power-of-isolationists-be...

https://history.state.gov/milestones/1937-1945/american-isol...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nye_Committee

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutrality_Acts_of_1930s
Kosovo independence was not a result of a referendum. It was the parliament's decision. The legality of the declaration is being disputed.
Yes, fixed. Mobile is the foot rub.
It certainly is. They keep adding user interface paradigms all the time.
Oh, that's interesting. Sorry for stereotyping you as a torrent user. What kind of large files are you downloading?
I'd say the Mongols and Aztecs were more advanced after their conquests than before. Expecting the radio or flight to have been invented just because there were many centuries of conflict belies the incremental nature of innovation.

And WWI certainly drove innovation; I think this always manifests most in military facets, obviously and tends to cascade into commercial sectors more slowly. Not much time separated WWI and WWII and a great deal of it was mired in the largest modern economic depression.

I don't support any of this, but it's literally competing with a gun to your head.
> The Wrights had earlier demanded and gotten 20% royalties, and had a history of liberally and repeatedly suing other aircraft manufacturers.

Because all the manufacturers were using the technology they had invented, the very technology that made controlled heavier-than-air flight possible at a time when people were starting to doubt that it was possible. Many chose to fight the patent, but courts time and again found it to be valid and infringed. The Wrights may have gotten a bad rap for being litigious, but only because many like Curtiss tied them up in court for years to avoid paying royalties on technology they clearly owed.

> It is also pretty clear, despite the paper's claims, that the leaders in manufacturing and innovation were in Europe.

Not so sure about that. Most historical accounts still show America as being more innovative than Europe. Things like the seaplane were invented by Curtis in America.

>... hard to see any evidence that such patents have promoted the arts and sciences in any way.

There are a number of studies showing how patents help the arts and sciences. For instances, there are studies showing a direct increase in r&d expenditures and increase in strength of IP laws. Patents have been shown to increase the chance of finding from VCs and other sources. This has also been shown to apply to the tech and computer industries. It may be hard to see because few think of the huge role money plays in the vast majority of innovation.
Actually, I worked in the defense industry for a while, so a lot of it is based on my understanding of that work.

It's not fruitful to dump some 5000 word diatribe about it though. I'm not interested in convincing anyone about it ... and anyone who doubts it or feels I couldn't produce a compelling argument if I was pressed to should absolutely feel free to disagree and I am not at all endorsing my fleeting comments as justification.
AROS meets Linux = AEROS
All government programs tend to work like that. Recession ? Private players to be blamed and government needs to act. Economic boom ? Government programs caused that boom.

The legalization of marijuana is a much bigger battle. We will not get all the benefits of the free market unless government regulations are substantially reduced. If you cant buy Marijuana in Target or Wallmart it probably wont suffice.
I updated in app and don't seem to be, an official confirmation of how this happened and why in-app updates were seemingly not affected would go a long way.
I admit I clicked this thinking it was going to be another post explaining all the reasons why hamburgers are bad/non-ideal UI patterns.

The animations are kind of cool, but I don't feel like the cost is worth it. This is 26 KB your site does NOT need. Though I suppose you can reduce that substantially by only including the specific hamburger animation you want to use in your site, and deleting the rest.
I can do this. I've noticed that it's bringing my focus to a point closer to my face. I guess I can do it the other way because I can refocus, but I've noticed my eyes out of focus close and in focus at distance. I'm curious if this ability correlates with good vision, because my distance vision is ridiculously good.

I can also (through conscious effort) expand my pupil size. Looking in the mirror if, instead of focusing on one point, I try to look at a larger area (without moving my eyes) my pupils will expand.
To be fair, Obama campaigned on winding down the war in Iraq and scaling up the war in Afghanistan. A lot of people just pretended not to hear that second part. But he by no means campaigned as a pacifist - and if he did, he might have lost.
That has been shown to be a myth as well: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1589712
Aww, I was hoping 'nanolight' referred to sub-microlight human-carrying aircraft...
More pure CSS Hamburger icon animations: http://codepen.io/designcouch/pen/Atyop
I found it funny how many of the complaints were really about the preprocessor. Many of them have already been addressed. If you don't like defining a macro as "do { ... } while (0)", try using an inline function. Even C has inline functions nowadays, and that's been true for more than a decade.
> Rust seems to be starting out at the complexity level it
> took C++ two decades to achieve.

You say this every time that Rust is compared to C++ (which is a lot!), but I have yet to see an elaboration. What in particular are you talking about?
I've used it in the last month. Maya's weak point is also modeling (although it is used for modeling quite a bit for some reason). Manual 3D modeling is also basically a solved problem. It is everything that comes after that that can throw a wrench into the process.
I work at AutoDesk and here is my unofficial opinion. Your data is secure. They take cloud security very seriously. They undergo standard, external audits to verify that security standards and processes - the same kind of standard audits that other vendors go through. Check the AutoDesk Trust Center for more information.

The points you make may be accurate but they have no bearing on the security of all our customer data stored with us. I take its confidentiality and security very seriously and I believe my co-workers do the same.
> The message is that being forced to create a backdoor is bad for everyone, and they're doing it to Apple today but they'll do it for everyone else tomorrow.

I still got that vibe from the article, despite the one line you pointed out.

That message becomes more clear when you see the support coming from Google, Facebook etc. It's clear they stand with Apple on the side of keeping encryption legal, secure, and backdoor-free. Apple doesn't need to speak for them too much, and I think Apple can still argue backdoors are bad for the whole tech industry while speaking about their own perspective, experience, and products.
For those who are interested, a good book on the history of opposition to war is:

http://www.amazon.com/We-Who-Dared-Say-War/dp/1568583850

It was written by a leftist and libertarian/paleoconservative working together, so you will likely find something you love and something you hate in it, as with all good books.

I very much regret my early support for the Iraq war.
This fact isn't so much drilled into heads during bootcamp, but anyone who reads from the Commandant's reading list (or any light research into MajGen Butler for that matter) will have known this. I was specifically addressing your first statement though.
You have some valid points about how we use javascript for many parts of our web pages that don't need javascript. I would love for the web to be fully accessible without javascript, but we have to remember that there are a small percentage of people currently using the web without javascript. Im sure twitter has their reasons for using javascript for the simple tasks that are solvable without the assistance of javascript. I would imagine that it wouldnt be cost efficient, if nothing else, not a top priority to make their site accessible without javascript due to the small user base that doesn't use javascript.
Has anyone here got any experience with using SMTP.com for sending transactional and bulk email via SMPT relay? I would love to know what you think of their service? I'm looking at potential services, and this is one on my radar that doesn't appear to be getting discussed here. But that makes me wonder if there is an obvious reason why not...
Funny you linked to this Wikipedia entry because the relevant sections correctly calls human wave a misnomer in the context of Korean War.

Infantry assaults with men marching shoulder to shoulder has not happened since the Russo Japanese war - even Somme and the Japanese Banzai charges are significantly less dense than how they tend to be portrayed in the media.
The similarity between according to" + "ratio," and “of or pertaining to speech or reason or reasoning, rational, reasonable” is just too simple and striking to be missed and forgotten.

No linguistic reasoning is needed however, to see that an analogy essentially needs logic to work in any language. It helps however. EG in English tongue still language in an idiomatic metaphorical sense, analog to the original meaning of logos, tongue, metaphorically referring to speech.

My argument is not ignorant, anyway, it's arrogant.
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Cheers mate!
> It's easy to think of much of modern web design as tiny, frivolous details that just wastes a ton of time to create, but click through all of these and tell me when you get to the last one that the lack of animation isn't jarring.

I got to the last one and I didn't find it jarring.

I find meaningless animations a waste of time ==> i.e. anything but a spinner to indicate "currently busy" I get frustrated at because it's forcing me to wait before getting to the next step.
It is an adapted quote from The Princess Bride.
So the current system optimises for sociopaths.
Thanks for sending that through - some very useful information in there. Appreciate it.
If you could write it as a function why would you be writing a macro in the first place?
I was initially going to disagree with you, but in many ways you are correct. You are probably only going to use one hamburger for your site, so why download all of them. Would be nice to see the css split out into the different hamburger types, and then just select the one you want to use, rather than loading all the css which does not get used. Maybe that brings it down to the 2-4kb range.
The compiler knows the type of the value it switched upon and generates code accordingly (efficient code on int values, dumb if-chain on other values), doesn't it? Sure it may become hard to tell if the code is efficient or not, but that property has already long been lost with operator overloading.
I don't see why that follows. If switch is given an integer, the compiler could create a jump table, otherwise it can use an if statement block (or some other kinds of implementation). There's nothing in C++ that says certain statements must always have the same compiled code.
Accelerationism.
So why can't the compiler be smart enough to use a jump table when this is possible, and fall back to a sequence of else-if statements when it's not? The compiler should even be able to make a more optimal sequence of assembly tests and jumps than by writing this code manually.
Yes, and they appear pretty passionless, too. Weed does that to people. Not that I would care.

In a more serious tone, I was alluding to the Domestically grown weed that casual weed smokers buying from passionless business will never get to see.

Either way, I could have pointed out that quality control is one of the more often noted benefits, in theory.
> Mongols more advanced after their conquests than before

Maybe, but the point is that Mongols, for some reason (maybe geography and weather?), did never stop being fighters. They never "settled down" to grow wealth, which is a very long process with many parameters (cities, knowledge stores, trustable and transmissible commercial bonds, etc.) So they are very good warriors, and have been very successful in their conquest, but compared to their Chinese neighbours (which are not the prototype of the aggressive people, to understate it a bit), they are just much smaller, and grew much less wealth.
AEROS for Raspberry Pi
How does it compare to flatbuffers [1]? Facebook apparently uses it, but their usage is from java [2].

[1] https://google.github.io/flatbuffers/
[2] https://code.facebook.com/posts/872547912839369/improving-fa...
Or we could vote for people who voted against these wars...
By way of comparison, NYC is 53/47 in favor of females, and it is famously difficult for women to find men in NYC. That ratio is way more off-balance than you might think.
Are you implying it's Apple's fault they must defend themselves against the DOJ's attempts to get a backdoor?

Apple's job here is to educate the public. If this ever becomes a political issue, we want the public to be informed. We don't want the public to be reactionary.

Criminals already know how to use tech. We need a security force who can figure out how to maintain public safety without relying on backdoors.
That's an obvious question. A lot of macros should be functions.

The most common case I'm aware of are functions like toupper(), islower(), ispunct(), etc. that the C Standard allows to be macros for performance (the actual work in the function is testing or setting a single bit, and the overhead of a function call really matters in that case).

Inline functions would have the same performance, and you can get a pointer to them without doing the #undef rigamarole you see when a macro definition might muck things up.
Yes, there are many factors. But too many men can increase aggressive restlessness.
Seagate Phish Exposes All Employee W-2’s
Or if you heard a baby crying inside and the door is unlocked.
>Keshif will present your data in its effective visual design

What criteria does it use to decide which visual design pattern to use?
This raises some interesting questions about the ethics of what these researchers did. Similar to when JK Rowling was "outed," although IIRC they asked her permission before revealing it.