skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Giving addicts methadone may not be a cure, but it's better than the heroin trade and all the risks attached.

A nitpick - actually, it may well be the only reasonable cure we have, and it beats all "traditional" methods.

C.f. http://slatestarcodex.com/2015/02/02/practically-a-book-revi...

> Almost all clinical trials have found treatment with methadone or suboxone to be more effective than traditional rehab. Even Cochrane Review, which is notorious for never giving a straight answer to anything besides “more evidence is needed”, agrees that methadone and suboxone are effective treatments.

> Society is fixed, biology is mutable. People have tried everything to fix drug abuse. Being harsh and sending drug users to jail. Being nice and sending them to nice treatment centers that focus on rehabilitation. Old timey religion where fire-and-brimstone preachers talk about how Jesus wants them to stay off drugs. Flaky New Age religion where counselors tell you about how drug abuse is keeping you from your true self. Government programs. University programs. Private programs. Giving people money. Fining people money. Being unusually nice. Being unusually mean. More social support. Less social support. This school of therapy. That school of therapy. What works is just giving people a chemical to saturate the brain receptor directly. We know it works. The studies show it works. And we’re still collectively beating our heads against the wall of finding a social solution.
I'm not informed on this topic - but isn't this dangerous? I mean, if your numbers are correct, an average adult loses 6% of their bodyweight doing this over 5 days. How does this affect your productivity and sleep?
Classic Programmer Paintings
the healthy diet..

lots of vegetables, fatty meats, rice for carbs, and no addded sugars, and nothing you see in bakeries ( ie no breads etc) and virtually no pasta.
When i turned off scripts via NoScript it turned to readable again
This also explains why VCs look to fund billion dollar opportunities even if they look a little risky. VCs are in the game for big exits and that's how the math works out.

Something to keep in mind when you're planning to raise money.
Similarly, "legacy code" is a pejorative that means "Code that I didn't write and don't understand yet because I haven't had a chance to look at it for long enough, which I would really like to rewrite simply because reading other people's code is harder than writing your own and it would be easier for me to do that than to understand the existing code and the context in which it was written".
> And I thought it would be possible to throw a dlopen in a Linux program and load Windows DLLs.

No. Execution mode incompatible - see e.g. https://github.com/wishstudio/flinux/wiki/Difference-between... for details.

What would really interest me: how was fork() implemented by MS here? The same method as http://stackoverflow.com/questions/985281/what-is-the-closes... or have different interfaces been created?
But didn't they support Oracle's suit against Google's free software Dalvik on this very basis?
What goes wrong when you try to install Java?
Quite a few IDE's have the inherent flaw of being super bloated.
Pretty handy service. Any idea what's the mechanism behind the recognition software?
Thanks man! Any notes would be helpful. Like any startup, we're just trying to figure this out as we go.

Agree, this is definitely not a homejoy type of business. I'd be interested to hear your thoughts on how you think we should take fees on both sides? Initially our thought was to model it like an Airbnb rental where as the couple are the guests, and the vendors are the hosts. Build in the proper technology to make the system work better and you can easily take a service fee, which we will take from the couple looking for services.

Yea! We envision that the couple has a go to service to handle everything down to the last payment. We envision the bride/groom signing off at the end and paying all the vendors by pressing a button. Currently they literally write checks at the end of the event.

Thanks for the help!
is it a derived work of the NT kernel if it's contained in a separate loadable driver? my understanding is that's where this system call interface is contained, and as I understand it, you can have GPL NT drivers..?
Wear your accent with pride, if your co-workers' stereotyping persists then they're the bigots. Otherwise it becomes a cool personality trait others can't fake.
Hello,

Excuse me but I don't think that you are a "good coder".

First of all, I have found nothing about you on LinkedIn and even less on GitHub.

But, to prove me that I am wrong, show me your strength on Codewars and a few Katas later (1 kyu for you, as you claim to be "experienced", language of your choice), we will be able to talk. These ones could be a great fit :

-Tiny Three-Pass Compiler

http://www.codewars.com/kata/tiny-three-pass-compiler

-Simple Interactive Interpreter

http://www.codewars.com/kata/simple-interactive-interpreter

Before having tasted the power of Codewars, I wasn't able to
assess the coding abilities of developers whom I met. Now, it's not the case anymore ;)

(but don't get me wrong : I too do believe that school with its strong theoritical foundations is necessary and that a bootcamp could only have all its meaning by being an addon to it)

Très cordialement / Best Regards,
Really? I find it in the UK (Tesco) quite readily. Tastes extremely bland though (like eating uncooked porridge oats) which might explain its unpopularity.
Italian Undiscovered Startups – April 2016
Do you really think a multi billion dollar company like Microsoft wouldn't have their legal team all over this? Do you not think they would have researched this out. Discussed their implementation, and made sure everything they were doing was going to meet the GPL copyright standards?
My friend logged on last night to see the response to the decision and found a huge number of players online. They were gathering together and mourning, doing things together one last time. It's kinda sad to think about a community destroyed.
You can print to a pdf on Chrome. That comes out nicely for me.
Because a machine is playing, so as with any computer code, you have to formalise everything and leave nothing implicit.
Will Durant's Story of Philosophy is a great start!

Bertrand Russell has also written a highly regarded introduction, though I haven't read it.
Public Speaking and Its ‘Seven Faces of Intention’
Apply HN: Browsed – Make Sharing Obsolete
Vision?

http://browsed.xyz/blog/2016/02/01/what-is-browsed/

Crux of the idea?

Get rid of FOMO. Focus on building a people network and, content will follow.
Rather than going to a bunch of websites to finding stuff your folks share everywhere, get them via one stream. Always be implicitly aware of what people in your network are interested in rather than what they want to appear when they choose to share selectively.

How it works?

- Install Chrome/Safari/Firefox extension for your favorite browser.

- Signup using Facebook (Or, some other online network) where you have built your social group.

- Every time you discover new stuff online (links, text, images, videos etc) they are transmitted to people in your network anonymously and vice versa.

- Initially, software will display content to you in the order of frecency with an expiry of 24 hours. But, because extension has access to your local browsing history, it will evolve to digest that data to always order the content based on your recent interest.

- This may include options to allow sharing by applying filters and type of content user wants.

- Also, sharing data exists just in your browser and, platform memory lasts for the period of delivery, similar to Whatsapp.

Concerns?

- Privacy

AFAIK, Most people would love to have a read access to their network info but, will be concerned about providing read access. It is likely that if you intimately know someone, you might be able to pinpoint the person it's emanating from but, that should be OK in future where people are willingly sharing most stuff about them via Instagram, Twitter, Facebook etal. There has always been tradeoff between privacy and access and, I, personally believe that we are moving towards the direction where latter trumps former.

PS: I have been thinking about this idea for few months now. I'd love to get your feedback on this. And, if this sounds something few people will be interested in, can get to work on this.
Loved it. I didn't know that you are doing in-browser editing. Is that done with document.designMode ? On top of any particular rich text editor?
Urban solar energy potential in the US
yeah, but more people are on Facebook than Meetup.
Looks fine here: http://imgur.com/0pQ3a53.png
The tl;dr is "Netflix has no way to request 'plastic discs' via the mobile app or mobile website".

I guess that's fair. Personally I don't even own a device that can play "plastic discs" anymore, which I think is kinda the point (of Netflix not making that a first class use case).

Some commenters for some reason have seemingly just taken the title and extrapolating to the entire content industry (did all these people actually click on the link?).

A lesser point is finding content. Movie A is on Netflix and Amazon. Movie B is on Hulu. Movie C is on plastic discs only. This is a general problem (for consumers) as the content producers fight the inevitable commoditization.

The movie industry is suffering not from piracy or streaming (IMHO) but from TV. Streaming and "plastic discs" made long form serial content viable. There's something deeply satisfying about the almost 48 hours of Breaking Bad vs the 2-2.5 of almost all movies (most of which these days seem to just regurgitate the same superhero formula time and again).

Additionally, good TV can be produced pretty cheaply too compared to any modern movie budget.
It is indeed comforting.

We lost our investors 150k GBP, and I've been feeling guilty about that.

Investors invest what they can afford to lose.
I'm inclined to agree with this - I've got a backlog of albums to listen to, either recommended by friends, new releases by artists I already know I like, or from monthly playlists like BIRP. According to Banshee, it would take me about a month of 24/7 listening to hear all of it once. By the time I polish off that backlog, I'm sure that I will have found another couple hundred albums to replace it.

So, right now my biggest problem is search and categorization by mood, rather than supply or even discovery.
The font is "Computer Modern," the default LaTeX font. Nothing screams "I'm an academic engineering textbook!" quite like Computer Modern.
I can think of plenty of reasons: he might not care (or care enough to change his life style to the degree necessary). He might have a disease that causes it. Or maybe he doesn't know how to get slim, but still knows that reducing fat is not the answer.
Yeah and also literally no-one says "25M" when they mean 25000.
And then complain about evil government not doing enough about half-ton metal bricks falling out of the sky and killing people.

Humans are too dumb to be able to drive cars safely, as evidenced by over a million people dying in traffic accidents each year. That the air travel industry has so little accidents is a miracle, and in big part owed to all those pesky and annoying regulations that can coordinate thousands of people on the same task and make them do their jobs right.
Chrome on Mac OS X works fine for me.
>no alternative

There is Ello which was a kind of anti-facebook pitched as a "simple, beautiful & ad-free social network.”

Didn't do great though it's still there.

http://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-what-is-...
XML grew out of SGML/HTML, and there's no denying that its age shows. It's kind of like going into a house built in the 90s and seeing all the little things that just scream "90s house - that looks so dated!"

Did you know that web browsers have native support for XML? Try fetching an xml resource and pulling the responseXML value off the XHR - you have another DOM object right in your hands, that you can treat just like a regular Node.

The reason that XML is better than the alternatives has nothing to do with the syntax itself, but the tooling around it. Browser support, XQuery, XPath, XSD/RelaxNG, XSLT - please tell me where I can find the equivalents for any other markup language. You don't have to use them, either - but if you need them, they are there in pretty much every framework. XML had the first to market advantage, and was picked up in enterprise systems and made powerful and ubiquitous. If you need batteries included, XML is right there, the others are not. There is really nothing wrong with it, the syntax is clunky for some applications but great for documents, whereas e.g. JSON would be horrible in that scenario.
And how do they continue to "farm" you for gold if you unsubscribe because you no longer feel a part of the world?
> Does it build with LuaJIT?

I'm not sure. I think a few Lua >= 5.2 dependencies have crept in, but it shouldn't be difficult to fix this if desired.

LuaJIT's FFI is indeed very nice, but it is unfortunate that Lua has essentially been forked after the 5.1 release. The current C->Lua interface has been manually written.
I think those comments are there to put emphasis on the key properties which are required for the trick.
Is there a technical meaning when he refers to fund years as "2008 vintage" vs. just "2008"?
Clickable link from the post:
http://browsed.xyz/blog/2016/02/01/what-is-browsed/
>But the problem to me is when people think chocolate bar, cake, pizza or milk shake.. these are food items with 75% calories from fat.

Those are all junk food. Use sparingly. Try eating a piece of fruit instead.

I mean, FFS, I really like chocolate, but of course it's unhealthy. Salads and fish are healthy. Everyone knows that.
Good thing he's got bitcoin to fall back on when the vc bubble pops
If only we could convince publishers to publish GFDL or Creative Commons licenses the way we've convinced some software companies to commercialize open source software...
Yes, you're right. I think we're starting to see many reactions like "oh, it's just another diet fad" because exactly of what you describe, things being taken to extremes. Anyway, what I recommend - from what I gather by my little research here and here - is to limit, not abolish, added sugars.
Cool. It is still free to use though.
MS doesn't seem to think that long-standing programming practices have suddenly been outlawed, as it is continuing to implement Apple's proprietary iOS frameworks in Project Islandwood (https://github.com/Microsoft/WinObjC). The ruling on API copyrightability does not set precedent in any of the courts that normally hear copyright cases.
Concrete Roman could compete: http://www.tex.ac.uk/FAQ-concrete.html
Does technical debt lead to the rejection of pull requests?
I was working a sales development type role, which involved some pretty fierce competition to "claim" inbound leads (contact form submissions basically) before anyone else did. Also there were a series of clicks and repetitive tasks you had to perform on each of these leads after you claimed it.

So I automated getting a list of leads, opening them in multiple tabs and sequentially performing all the repetitive tasks so when I eye balled them, they were at the right point in the process. I reckon I save myself about 1.5 hours per day doing this.
And SI uses 'M' as a prefix for one million. Oxford defines 'm' as million(s) in a money context, Merriam-Webster includes 'M' as an abbreviation of million.

It seems odd that anyone would think $25m should be read as $25000. It's much more likely that I would read $25mm as 25 millimeters instead.
For now, it is true that most "professional" productivity apps are on laptops / desktops.

Yes, there are ways to take photos and create music on tablets and phones. You can do some basic editing on them, even. But the "professional" tools for photography and music, with all the bells and whistles you can think of, are still dominated by laptop / desktop computer programs. (The dominant programs being Photoshop for images, and DAWs like Logic, Ableton Live, and Pro Tools for music.)

The distinction between "production" and "consumption" devices is indeed kind of too rigid in a sense that, of course, professionals will utilize the creative tools that come on tablets and phones, even if the desktop / laptop programs are the primary tool. Tablets also can shine as an extended interface for desktop programs. (EG: Logic Pro (and others) have apps that turns an iPad into a remote controller for the main DAW. There are programs like Astropad that turn your iPad into a Wacom-like tablet for Photoshop, etc.)

The obstacle is interface. The fine-tuned control of a tablet or (especially) a phone is much poorer than using a mouse and keyboard with a large screen. Until that gets resolved, I doubt desktops / laptops will go anywhere.
A prudent developer might make the expansions a mandatory purchase that adds the new content in cosmetic ways.
There are lots of reasons that systemd will probably never run on the Windows NT Linux subsystem, a few reasons that upstart won't run, and the possibility that one could run daemontools family toolsets with a fair degree of success; but a likely overall problem with invoking a service manager such that it is in a daemon context (outwith a login session) in the first place.

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11416376
"Hey guys, look what I did!"

crickets

"... with JAVASCRIPT!"

thunderous applause and/or retweets
I think some people had a full open source toolchain (or were close to it) for some of the Lattice FPGAs, but I think only the really feeble ones that have 10s of LUTs.
>so they should be prepared to learn another language (for life outside the University course).

Maybe, maybe not. University itself is not uncommonly taught in English and English competency in northern Europe is generally high. If you're just planning to stay for the education then learning the language might not be necessary.
Is there any hint of any evidence of that - it's an enormous accusation. Stupidity and near bankruptcy of the state have always been the assumptions I have worked with on why PFI was so popular. Actual corruption is a real step too far though. Then again maybe the people pf Iceland thought the same
I have several reactions to this report.

First of all, I think it demonstrates that American university tuition is way too high. So much of that money goes toward things like sports teams, climbing walls, emotional support dogs, and other things that just don't have to be a part of the college experience. American universities have an unbelievable amount of staff that isn't about education or research.

The thing is, there's little incentive for universities to cut back, because no matter what they charge, they have willing customers. And those customers aren't paying the bills -- not at the time of purchase, and perhaps never at all (as this article states).

Secondly, the notion of work -- not work-study programs, but real work -- should probably become more prominent among US students. In Israel, where I now live, most students work at part-time jobs, and juggle both work and school. It's not ideal, especially since many of them also have families, but it does help to keep debts relatively low.

Thirdly, I think that it's too easy to take out loans. I took out loans for my undergraduate degree, and was fortunate to pay them back within a few years of graduating. I then took out loans for my PhD, and while I've been managing to pay them back faster than expected, no one ever asked me at the time, "Are you sure you'll be able to pay these back?" A bit of discussion at the time of taking out loans, and looking at options, or even giving financial counseling, might have helped me or others to take out less.

Finally, the notion that you cannot ever get rid of your government-sponsored tuition loans is crazy. I'm not saying that people should declare bankruptcy at the drop of a hat, or that there shouldn't be consequences. But people have issues, and excluding student loans from bankruptcy -- which is intended to give people a new start -- seems extremely unfair to the people who need this tool most of all.

No wonder people are just not paying their loans back; if declaring bankruptcy isn't an option, and they can't pay, then they'll just not pay.
I would like to see a tool, perhaps even a companion app, that does this HMAC gymnastics to prior discussions to make deniability actually plausible instead of just theoretically plausible.

"Your honor, the defendant is clearly not Moxie Marlinspike. She said these things." "Objection! My grandmother can use Axylnotly to forge previous discussion and she is also not Moxie Marlinspike." " ... sustained."
Why we chose Akka for our Cloud Device solution
This exactly. None of my machines can read plastic circles anymore anyway. Behind the stream and the physical object there is a file that could be downloaded.
Augmented reality != virtual reality.

Also, the real reality sucks. ;).
At the beach, where is the opposite coast?
There's absolutely nothing "free" about active addiction.
No, it is not only the mandatory account, but for a free platform this is a huge red flag for me. See, I come from using the N900 (to some extent I still do). While not everything was/is golden with maemo, Ubuntu Touch in comparison sucks big time:

- on UT all packages you want to install have to be "click"-packages (bye bye debianic universe of free software)

- good luck with using a microSD to extend storage; as per permissions it is impossible for applications to use a folders on SD (great fun if you want to download podcasts).

- webkit based browser with no plugin/addon support. With some sarcasm, I am actually grateful for this: I had no idea how terrible the world is without an ad/js-blocker.

And for the account thingy: can you enlighten me with a good reason why one needs an account to download free software?

To me, the platform feels terribly "corporate", as if more effort was put into allowing for monetization instead of distributing linux for smartphones.
Except if you expect a snappy UI.

OS X and Linux with X11 or even Wayland are easily 20 years behind windows in terms of UI responsiveness and snappiness. The constant input lag of unix desktops always drives me back to windows for my workstations, although I am a fullheart windows server hater and despite everything that comes with it. It's stable, extremely fast and when edited/hacked right also privacy aware.
I agree with the sentiment of the article that aesthetics are often mixed up with good overall design, whereas good functional UX design is an even more important part of it IMHO (of which craiglist is an excellent example).

I don't like his usage of the word cluttered though, which implies disorder and bad UX design for me. An audio mixer or Craighlist are not disordered, but have quite a lot of order. I guess he means dense interfaces, which can be the right thing to do for a UX design, if use cases demands it.
It appears to me that G+ has found a different niche than Facebook. Facebook is for seeing posts from people you know (mostly people you know but don't see often or at all, like college friends or your aunt). G+ is for seeing posts from people you share interests with. Yes, FB has groups and pages for that kind of thing, but it just seems to have clicked better on G+.
No. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11415671 .
The court can't read the mind of the accused. So either there is an implied level of guilt associated with mere possession or it would be impossible to ever get a conviction under that part of the law.

I now agree that the "they planted it" defence would work but in practice that would be impossible to prove, which was probably what happened here.
How many people use Ubuntu?
what is the relation between Vivaldi, Opera, and Qihoo?
Just to say that I agree with this but you could do it on way less than $40k in SEA. I spent ~$10k in a year and did not live frugally.