skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
as ghaff says, dramamine is used by many though I think the side effects can be harsh. I've heard good things about the patches and especially using a smaller dose (cutting the patch in half) to reduce the side effects. I've also heard that it can take a while for the drugs to pass through the blood/brain barrier and therefore its useful to actually take the drugs the day before you go on board. We have a different drug over here in general use in the UK (Stugeron) which is cinnarizine which is an antihistamine. I am dubious about the pressure bands but then I have used them and was not sick and when I took them off I didn't feel very good for a while so perhaps they do something I don't know.

I know of many people who join a sailing club and sail all size boats in the evening/weekend races but never really go out into the sea - for some of them, the whole social scene at the sailing club afterwards is important, perhaps some of them because its actually pretty exciting to be sailing in close quarters in that way. Some might do it for nausea related reasons I don't know. I am more of a cruiser though, I like to spend some weeks on board poking around in little coves, etc.

In my experience of sea sickness, I may feel funny the first day and not want to eat or drink, then (especially if cold and bumpy) would be sick overnight or the next day - then I would be feeling strange for a day but mainly I think because I was low blood sugar and dehydrated but I would eat some, then the next day I would be ravenous but having bowel problems probably because the food I ate the day before was having difficulty digesting as my stomach had been cleansed. after that I would be fine. Also around the 4 day mark (I have done a 29 day passage) you become much more attuned to the movement of the boat, you become much more comfortable with everything swaying around, you have started to tidy away all the bits and pieces that keep falling on the floor or clanking in the lockers and the whole experience can turn very pleasant.

I think people work out their own method for dealing with sea sickness, but I think that often its just denial that its happening and trying to stave off the inevitable (lying on a bunk down below, clutching the bucket works well). If you work out a technique for vomiting (head well back, mouth well open) that doesn't leave any residue washing around in your sinuses then thats probably best. I always feel better immediately after getting something out, though I pity anybody else around as I can't silence the hideous choking sounds. In order to treat the secondary problems I have some high sugar high caffeine drink handy (flat coke) and some high sugar biscuits (gingers are great - supposedly ginger is good for nausea too) and keep getting it in. I don't care if it will come out again in 2 minutes because you absorb that stuff into your blood pretty quickly, and you can eat healthily once you get over it.
I think that "Business in America" is a invalid concept altogether; there are just some companies that happen to pay taxes in america and are small enough so that they haven't expanded in other regions yet.

But all the markets that these companies operate on — labour markets, capital markets, produced goods markets, resource markets — are global ones. It's like that Sargasso sea: it's not really a separate body of water, it's just a part of Atlantic ocean that was named differently because of very small degree of separation.
Well, that's the thing — how the fuck do you know what western-looking, english-speaking, democracy-loving rebels turn out to be jihadist or nationalist when you give them enough power? You don't.

In the 1900s, Russian left wingers were educated, nuanced people who were trying to lead the country to a brighter future. 20 years later, Russian left wing consisted of ruthless fighters who burned down entire villages, performed brutal performed mass executions of thousands and built the biggest terror machine world have ever seen. These were, for the most part, the same exact people.
I really fail to see what that has to do with living in a democracy.

No matter which system of government, rules (in the broadest sense) can always change. Democracy is just the attempt to better align those rules with the interests of the people (in the broadest sense).

As long as the FBI keeps within the rules they can obviously try again. And that’s got very little to do with democracy and much more with the rule of law which is really central here.

Everyone – even and especially the government – has to adhere to the law, but there are mechanisms to act within the law or to settle questions or even to change the law, all through some sort of proper and defined process. That’s just what the rule of law is.

However, within the system of rule of law (and the particular implementation of that system in the US) there are certainly ways for questions to be more or less settled. Things that are easy to change (e.g. executive orders) and things that are hard to change (e.g. constitutional amendments). There are graduations to this – and graduations that exist on purpose.

Behind that is also the realization that quickly changing things – while sometimes necessary – is not really always desirable. So there is a certain sluggishness built right into the system on purpose. And achieving constitutional amendment levels of sluggishness is actually pretty hard to overcome in the US. It’s hard to get an amendment, it’s hard to remove it. Quite on purpose. It’s for settling questions for years.

(All of this is not to say that some states don’t try to have some core values enshrined for all eternity. The German constitution has such an article that explicitly forbids amendments of two other articles. No amendment can change that Germany is a democratic and social federal state, that there are elections and three branches of government, that there is rule of law, that every German has the right to resist against anyone attempting to remove that order, that human dignity is inviolable, that human rights are the basis of any human society and that the basic rights defined in the constitution bind as law all three branches of the government. Even if you agree that there is really no way to amend this in any way – something which constitutional scholars aren’t super-decided on – there could still be a revolution of some sort that just abolishes the old constitution … things can always change, also in technically illegal ways.)
Yup, companies want regulation that isn't onerous for them. There's a big problem today in how the public talks about regulation, generally it's a very unsophisticated talk about the amount of regulation. This is like talking about programming in the form of SLOC, it's practically useless. The problem with regulation is making it effective, efficient (in terms of costs incurred by the government and by those being regulated), and not onerous. Unfortunately, in many cases we've missed the mark on all three of those. The result is that regulation sometimes actively drives out competition (because it's streamlined for the megacorps) while not being nearly effective enough to protect those it's intended to protect (consumers, workers, etc.)
Exploring Angular 1.5: Lifecycle Hooks
HTTP Archive – Interesting Stats
Wabi-Sabi
Time Capsule campaign for AI startup
This is pretty much how every language does generics except C++, so it's not actually an issue with Rust.
Why pop culture’s zombie fixation is really the Internet’s fault
You can add files to the index before doing find/replace and then go back to that if something goes wrong.

When you only add files to the index right before you commit, you are wasting a lot of your VCS' potential.
I've looked at h2o website and seems that someone asked this question and there is an example of a stronger configuration.
Using it I did a test on a raspberry pi 3 and here https://gist.github.com/mingodad/e5a46c809ee030befc18 is the output.

What I noticed is that with nginx there is more connections even using keepalive (h2o 4 connections, nginx 102 connections).

h2o-default: 4123 rps

h2o-strong-256-first: 3849 rps

h2o-strong-384: 4233 rps

nginx-default: 2309 rps
What's the most inspiring article you've read in the last 4-5 years?
Rather than calling it human behavior and psychology I prefer to call it human weakness.

Human weakness, bias, ignorance etc are like software bugs in systems that mostly can't be patched.

We have got so good at detecting and exploiting these bugs at speed and scale that all I see happening is another Greenspan type moment, where a future Google\Facebook CEO is sitting before a committee wondering how everything imploded.

I mean Google\Facebook\Twitter etc benefit from the traffic Porn, Trump and ISIS pay for and generate much more than anyone else does. It's ridiculous.
> Of course this is a monumental task for humans, but AI might just be perfectly suited for this type of analyses.

How? AI doesn't magically solve problems, it still has to be programmed by a human, and as yet we really have no good models to assess exactly how, for example, cocaine abuse affects a CEO's performance.
Pomodoro and developer life
Archaeologists confirm the use of non-stick cookware during the Roman Empire
JS decorators: monkey patching, prototypes, proxies and middleware
>When the tests do run, flaky tests tend to be a fact of life.

Flaky tests are indicative of bugs in your tests.

Google is literally advocating treating your bugs as a fact of life, not fixing them, and avoiding harder engineering challenges because they are harder.

This is the worst possible advice.
I'm thinking in file transfer apps between different platforms..
This is a great post, but I think what the op is asking is how many business fail because what they thought was a mvp was not actually a mvp.

I should add you can still fail even if you have customers. In someways having customers can be worse than having none. If you have no customers you know what they problem is, but if you have customers and no growth then it can be hard to work out what to do.
> never meant for government to have so much power that lobbying it would be able to buy much influence

I don't think lobbying is a problem because the government has too much power, but rather because of the electoral system.

When voting is voluntary elections are won by the party that is best able to get out the vote. In order to get out the vote huge sums of money must be spent on political advertising and organization. When political parties are desperate for money it requires them to devote a lot of their time to fundraising and it makes them vulnerable to special interest groups with deep pockets (aka lobbyists). Voluntary voting means more opportunity for money to buy influence.

Compulsory voting, in contrast, means that almost all eligible voters will vote. Political parties can spend less money on advertising, less time fundraising, and more time developing policy and doing the job. Because the electors have to vote they're more likely to take an interest in the election, more likely to listen to the ideas being presented and vote accordingly. The only downside of compulsory voting is that there are more votes to count, but that cost is worth paying.

Compulsory voting is a practical step towards getting the money out of politics and improving the quality of a democracy.
A fair but common criticism of new languages. Clojure is famous for this problem as well.
The only way to always win at war is to fight on both sides.
Why not predict using simple spreadsheet of salaries?
Putting spy satellites in space presented many challenges and lessons that could be directly transferred...
- Building, Launching and Orbiting very sophisticated sensitive sensors, lenses, elements and equipment into space.
- Developing compression algorithms and comand and control protocols.
- Calibrating readings against known ground-based objects

There were, of course, self-destruction and counter-intelligence measures that probably won't be needed...
Has anyone tried some of the newer css frameworks? Lots of them are listed on cssdb [1]. I especially like skeleton [2].

[1]http://cssdb.co/

[2]http://getskeleton.com/
John, congrats on being a new dad...I'm one as well. Having a kid affords you an interesting sense of clarity and vision. For me, it's allowed me to look further down the road and make better decisions for my family's future..not just mine.

Also, I'm sure the Wild will beat the Blackhawks in the playoffs this year....I'm just sure of it.
What's the best way to prepare for a Y Combinator interview?
SMS Marketing: Why Texting with Customers Boosts Conversion
Doubling the latency – 63% more users lost
The problem with not intervening is that it doesn't work unless every other actor in the region agrees not to intervene as well. Russia likes Assad because Syria gives them influence in the region. They're going to give the Syrian army aid and resources whether the US is involved or not. The US got involved in this ethnic conflict in part because they generally don't want Russia to gain any more influence in any part of the world. So they try to give equal amounts of aid and resources to the Syrian opposition. One side makes a move, the other side makes a counter move.

Whether or not you agree with those actions, or the whole system, is a matter of politics. I'm not condoning anything, just trying to explain the potential reasoning behind the decisions. I do hope that radical islamism runs its course in the same way that communism did. One big complication is that there are a lot more foreign powers involved in the Middle East than there were in the Soviet Union. It could be harder for them to find their own way while being manipulated by so many other hands.
All good points. 'The West' didn't instigate the uprisings in Tunisia, Libya, Egypt and Syria. They were started by local people for local reasons, often with westerners cheering on from the side lines or occasionally providing a bit of air support as in Libya, but mainly keeping out of it.

For goodness sake, we'd been trying to topple Gaddafi and the Syrian regime for half a century and getting exactly nowhere, then as you say one Tunisian street vendor makes a desperate gesture and in the chain reaction from that the whole region falls into chaos. That's history for you.

As for IS, the reason they're such a nuisance isn't so much due to the invasion of Iraq, it's due to the power vacuum in north western Iraq caused by the withdrawal of US forces in 2011. The fact is the surge worked, but all of that was willingly thrown away.
Using Machine Learning to simplify text while preserving its meaning
I am not extremely familiar with North Korea but my understanding is that there would be an obvious and peaceful political solution if we overthrow the current regime. The country would reunite with South Korea, a bit like East and West Germany.

What we are dealing with in the middle-east are dictatorships that keep a lead on ethnic tensions, very much like in Yugoslavia. I would expect that any diplomat would have predicted tensions between Sunni and Shia in Iraq. Exactly like similar tensions exist in Saudi Arabia and will most likely blow up if the regime becomes unstable.
It's not for me only, of course! It's now in a fleet of telecines.
Indeed, an Octane 2!
It's 2016 and Bootstrap still doesn't have native RTL support. Foundation had it (excellently) since 2013.
When I'm building something for the local market, this has a major affect on my decision.
This is Danny here. I didn't expect this much traffic so I am sorting out the database connection issues. The server is overloaded. Sorry for the inconvenience!
Rust's traits seem similar to Haskell typeclasses. I saw the error at once, perhaps for that reason: I could almost hear ghc whine about not being able to deduce Show for arbitrary types.
You didn't do that work for a water treatment plant by any chance, did you?
Wasnt there an article recently about how 99.9 measurements can still hide lots of bad stuff with high volume services?

I seem to remember the article noting that 99.9995 was more useful.
However, Branson (Virgin) has three of them. https://www.virgin.com/gateways/virginairlines
Hyperbolic Geometry of Complex Networks (2010) [pdf]
>Regulation is rarely a case of being good or bad. Rather, various competing interests have valid points and some arbitration must be found between them.

A lot of the time it's just plain bad -- just the result of monetary influence and lobbying for unfair advantages.
I've put up a convoluted but working workaround here - https://bencollier.net/2016/03/how-to-fix-ios-9-3s-broken-sa...
>And now my favorite part - is there a connection between advertising, corporate profits, pollution and climate change ?

Sure, unless there is real popular pressure for change, they the all increase together ad maximum, reinforcing one another...
When profits are too easy there's not much incentive to innovate, there's no hunger. You can see this in google who have dominated their niche of the market so strongly that they've lacked the drive to seriously pursue other markets and to invest in their products to bring them to true maturity. Or look at Apple, who have been coasting on their momentum for years. Initially the iPhone was ahead of the curve in every way, now they are in the traditional Microsoft space, adapting innovations from around the industry and, one hopes, implementing them well and integrating them into a cohesive experience. Yet you have some major design missteps that haven't caused them to stumble.

Though you could look at the entire smartphone/tablet industry in general as exemplary of the problem of easy money. Tablets have only slowly adapted to the role of content creation and work, because selling toys has been so insanely profitable there hasn't been a drive to do so.
The Daily Show – Lindsey Graham – The Senator Picks His Poison: Cruz vs. Trump
The last major war of religion there was from 1618-1638

And it was one of the most destructive in European pre-WW1 history, essentially crippling Germany's economy for centuries. (Also the Thirty Years' War lasted until 1648)
Leonard_Koren
Do any modern CSS frameworks not rely on jQuery? I'm rather surprised that so many still do.
Tenjin (YC S14) Is Hiring Data and Mobile Engineers
Book: Amazon Web Services in Action
The Clintons’ fund has served as a vehicle to launder money, enrich friends
I'm interested in collecting old machines, mainly older British machines like the ZXSpectrum and BBC Micro. I have nowhere near the space required though.
Then there's also the question of what would I actually do with them all? Especially if I got into collecting old mainframes
Pandora Counts on Founder to Strike Crucial Music Deals
Sure. But if it works, it's amazing for the shareholders. Just look at Anheuser-Busch Inbev (and their history of merging/consolidating) and their soon to be merger with SABMiller.
So this does not affect app developers, but rather firmware developers, right?
Also, do these libraries end up talking to Google backends or there is a choice to use some other backends with compatible API? Sorry for a newbie question, I tried my best to avoid Google APIs in my APKs so far, so I don't really know much about them.
But what I'm interested in is to measure the general health of the living. Counting in the dead (from the entire history) makes no sense.
Justice Department cracks iPhone; withdraws legal action
That makes sense, I would be interested to seeing that too.

For the purposes of assessing the industry's profitability though, we cannot exclude them - if losses are because they were badly run and lost market share to other players, then their losses will be offset by the survivals (who then buy them out).
I know physics professors who enjoy the show.
Tragic world map
This really deserves more attention. Insanely cool hack - the "by Hand" means using the Nintendo game controller to move sprites in such a to inject processor instructions into Super Mario World via glitches in the game
That's what I assumed... sigh.
I added also test with h2load, but with this tool h2o/ngix performs basically equal.

nginx-default: 1067 rps

h2o-strong-384: 1009 rps
Learning to Launch – Stop Failing. Start Launching
It's not that economists ignore human psychology / behaviour, rather economists are interested in finding simplified models that provide some kind of generalizable insight. The models will include varying levels of complexity depending on what question the economist is trying to answer and what data the economist could reasonably access.

In many cases what motivates a particular individual provides little insight into what happens in the economy as a whole. For example, a model of start-up success that included founder education level and sci-fi movies watched by founders would provide little, if any, greater insight than a model the model that looked at just education level. It's similar to over-fitting in machine learning – the extra parameter is probably harming the usefulness of the model by making it less general.

On the other hand, CEO cocaine addiction might be a very good predictor of company profits, but you would have a hard time getting accurate data for that regardless of how good your AI is. Furthermore, I could reasonably hypothesize that some CEO's would respond to cocaine by out-performing non-cocaine users while some would under-perform depending on physiological factors. Again, without massive invasions of privacy, economists will not be able to factor this into their models.
I don't think it is an issue either. In fact I was pretty happy when I understood the concept.

Unfortunately I haven't got experience with generics in languages other than C++, so thanks for pointing this out.
Ah, you mean those rebels also supported by democracy loving pakistani general Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq. Who started a "policy of aggressive islamization". Indeed, "who the fuck" could have seen those chickens coming home to roost.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Cyclone
As a society we should totally rethink how we handle children.

Employment is as personal and customizable as ever, but we increasingly treat kinds not even as blue-collar workers but as poultry on industrial farm.

Stick them in cage with artificial light, force feed with unnatural excuse for knowledge, disregard their personality, rank on how good they pass tests (we weight poultry at this point)
So it does, I've never noticed this section before:

Indirect references to such addresses should be contained within the
enterprise. Prominent examples of such references are DNS Resource
Records and other information referring to internal private
addresses. In particular, Internet service providers should take
measures to prevent such leakage.
At the same time some people are just more neurotic(and genetics has a big role), it's not so simple
Not sure why you say "very, very close". The efficiency for heating of all electrical devices is identical, unless they're somehow transmitting energy to a different location.
The advantage the PS4VR headset has is you don't have to buy or upgrade anything if you already own a PS4, you just need the headset, camera and (optional) move controllers.
"standardized tests like these take a fraction of the time"

Preparing for standardized tests ruins a fraction of life.
The Company Formerly Known as Rap Genius Is Once Again Enmeshed in Controversy
It builds on FreeBSD (soon OS X), but it's not working yet.
If you are interested in the general health of the current companies over the last few years, that would make sense.

But it does not properly assess the profitability of the industry - unless you think you can pick in advance who the survivors are going to be.

If you systematically ignore the companies that go bankrupt, you will have a picture of the industry that is far healthier than the reality.

Further - especially in the airlines industry - you can't even go back too many years with the examination of the current companies - because they are the results of many mergers. So you should also be including the companies that used to be, but got merged in the existing ones.