skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your description doesn't show why a pharmacist selling illegal drugs is dissimilar to a website selling ad space to illegal ad-space buyers. Any time where you've got multiple producers and multiple retailers, you get middle people like those you describe that must juggle demand and supply. Pharmacists have an equally complex path from producer to customer as ads have from ad-space buyer to website visitor. However, let's instead look at the chain of events:

An innocent gets malware from an advertisement. The publisher blames the ad-network who in turn blames the criminal. The ad-network claims that they can't curate the advertisements or the margins becomes to small. In the end, the innocent has to take the full fallout of the crime.

An innocent gets mistreated by a fake doctor. The hospital blames the hiring agency, who in turn blames the criminal. The hiring agency claims that they can't do background checks and verify CVs of applicants or the margins becomes to small. In the end, the innocent has to take the full fallout of the crime?

Why is there such discrepancy between the two cases? Why can one agency do curation and still function, while the other can't? Why can the publisher get away with using a bad ad-network while a hospital is fully legally responsible for using a bad hiring agency? Those seem to be very simple questions, ones that should have very simple answers.
A couple of years ago someone died on a mountainbike trail I use. This can really spook people, even those of us who didn't know the guy. Ultimately people want that feeling to go away and be able to enjoy the sport without such things hanging over them. It felt like people wanted closure so that the fun could continue rather any deeper sentiment.

Also I think that these sport are about more than just adrenalin. There is joy in mastering the difficulty without getting a rush.
It's not the same as planting evidence. Planting evidence is fraud. It's exactly what it is. It's an illegal search and then lying about it.

Judges do throwout illegally obtained evidence, the problem with this is, that the judge can't tell if it was illegally gained or not.
Maybe because their motives are purely financial, rather than what's good for the rights of the people?
Archive.is is your friend:

http://archive.is/Efd68
I heard there are people who doubt the existence of anything, hardware or software, that was not written in JS.
No, you're simply wrong. Road construction and maintenance is heavily subsidized by taxes other than the gas tax (which of course works more like a user fee).

You're missing the distinction I'm drawing: If all funding for all transportation schemes was entirely user-derived, roads would survive (as you admit in your other comment they do in Europe at much higher rates). Very few public transportation systems would.

If your definition for "subsidized" is "receives some amount of funding from general revenue, or forbearance for hard-to-capture externality", then just about every commercial aspect of our lives is "subsidized" in one way or another and the term fails to have much meaning.
And i just discovered that all of the articles can be downloaded in epub form. I guess i have some reading to do.
jignly?
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Ask HN: Anyone making a living off of desktop applications?
I have this side project that has been stuck for quite some time, because I can't seem to make up my mind if I should go with a desktop or a web application. Is any single developer or small team making a living of desktop apps, and are they still relevant?

My side project is a kind-of productivity application, and my target users are not really technical people and will probably have one computer, but as I'm a "lonely" developer (working alone) I have to think about the future, and so I have to try to make the right choice on this..

It would be great to hear both successful and unsuccessful experiences made by single or small teams of developers..
I was also disappointed that the example list didn't get into people issues.

But it is not as simple as prevention vs. cost-cutting. In any place, there are thousands of things that might prevent a problem, but which of them are worth doing? One of many strategies for selecting the right precautions is an evolutionary one: fix the ones that caused problems in the past.
With javascript you have ASM.js which should get you close to native C speed for exactly these types of operations.

But I don't know how well you can talk to the GPU
I would guess the automatic parts will be like a toolkit of tasks which the surgeon can delegate to an algorithm. You could imagine that an algorithm could sew skin together with a level of accuracy to prevent scarring, rejoin nerve and small blood vessels quicker and more accurately, or remove cancerous tissue tagged with a biomarker, while avoiding nerves or important structures nearby.

The surgeon could put the surgery into the controlled situation that the algorithm understands, and make some over-arching decisions through a UI (for instance, he could say 'join this nerve on this side to this nerve on the other', which might be difficult for the algorithm to work out), and then the algorithm would accomplish that task, and return control back to the surgeon.

More simply, a program could prevent a human surgeon using a machine like a Da Vinci from touching a nerve, or define the limits of bone removal.

The latter example does already exist in clinical use:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGYVhSymNN4&t=3m20s
Potentially interesting story of how I found HackerNews :)
I'll keep the story short and jump right into the point: Last March I attended in IxD16 conference in Helsinki, Finland.

In there I saw a great speech from Josh Seiden who talked about Learning from Live Systems but it was basically about Lean UX.

Here's the video of that speech:
https://vimeo.com/159385449

Notice that at 17:48 he mentions Hacker News. I was instantly sold! :)
Because I was exited of this great new community I went and search the post he refers:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9197147

And I tried to find the website also but it's no longer running. So, this left me puzzled. :/
Why to present such a project that doesn't even exist anymore? I really liked the speech and all but I don't understand why this project was selected to be presented.
To me it seems like it wasn't that successful after all or it was so successful that it was sold. Does anyone know what happened to it? I would really liked to know. :)

Anyway that was my story which I wanted to share. Keep up the good work! :)
I disagree. The idea that you need to "improve" what you say and treat social situations as some kind of game where you evaluate your performance afterwards is just crap.

What about just saying the truth for godsakes? How are you ever going to connect with people in a personal way if you frame the interaction as a game right from the start?

If you want to improve at social situations, analyze what you feel and why you feel that way. There is probably something wrong there if you treat them with too much importance.
A clever front-end feedback and task management tool
Reddit is also routinely gamed by bots or paid upvoters.
There's no current down in these caves. The logical solution then is to drop a trail of breadcrumb beacons to relay your signal along, either via light or some radio band that penetrates water halfway decently.
The sub-niche would be the smaller number of people that recognize your list of concerns and choose SmartOS over Docker.

Just as Betamax was a technically better solution than VHS.
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Random: replace urandom pool with a CRNG
Another issue: In my experience, in north america, navigation is more focused on compass points (take Road XYZ north, southwest, etc) whereas in Europe it is more focused on semantic directions (turn right on highway towards Groningen). The european way allows for easier verification if the road is actually the road you want to take (as in: do I really want to drive to Hobbington? The street sign says I should take the second exit, so I go with that.
Why are the five whys one of your favorite tools?
This thread and the Reddit thread amaze me with the level of ignorance, but complete confidence in that ignorance, displayed in relation to how ads and ad blockers work.
It is very paradoxical because access to Internet on one hand can expose you to new ideas and cultures, but, on the other hand, if you are inclined to, virtual communities can reinforce pre existing closed worldview (or at least pretty weird like otherkins). This is all the point of algorithms governing the Feed and filter bubbles.

I really wonder in the end which effect will be more prevalent.
> VS, Eclipse, and IntellijIDEA very likely won't.

VS was first released in 1997; Eclipse in 2001; and IntelliJ in 2001 as well. I wouldn't take that bet.
These animals have the most interesting and mysterious brains
Yep, that's what I meant. You in advance had at least few points that your bullshit detector should have detected:
- Up to 9 hours for the test assignments, too time consuming assignment. Usually that indicates to a lack of respect for the candidate and probably to the potential employee. So you might be a lucky that you was not selected for the next interview stage :)
- Proposing to do something pointless in OO for the senior position.

Considering that points absence of the company feedback should not surprise you :) Thanks for sharing experience with that company.
why don't you force it 5x?
The market paid Cisco and the like to develop the ever advancing hardware that powers the internet as it exists today.
A perfect metaphor :)
I guess you could do that. The key difference between this and the Stingray parallel construction is that the random bystander is a legitimate witness with no connection to the police. Now if the police called up some friend and said, "Hey, I meet me on the corner of blah and blah at noon tomorrow, knowing that a crime was going was going to take place there and then, then that's something else.
Especially if you remove voting rights from everyone who's actually experienced such prisons.
I totally respect your stance and Joel's too. I know many devs like this.

I guess maybe the point should be that there is no one size fits all solution for stuff like this (and also floor layouts - I find myself MUCH more productive in open floor layouts. I find a private office a productivity killer . Joel disagrees)
PLOS uses this logo for open access: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Open_Access_logo_PLo.... (an open lock) Based on that Wikipedia uses a closed lock to indicate paywalled sources: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Closed_Access_logo_a.... So how about these: [Closed lock] [Open lock]? (TIL HN doesn't support emoji) I think reddit also allows image use via CSS.
Just looking around, I found a programmable calculator from the same developer with BASIC support - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.visualisat...
Then don't use bad ORMs. What you are describing is caused by devs with poor understanding using ORMS as a crutch. That same dev would probably make a crappy schema without the ORM.
This is a good move being completely spun around to make it sound like Google is bullying startups. Snake oil should be outed as such, and if those hyped SV darlings like to shroud themselves and their shady techniques in a veil of secrecy (or rather, thick dense clouds of smoke), then they shouldn't be part of an information-sharing network like VirusTotal.

In the end, this is good for everyone's security.
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"Development felt cool"

"Being a programmer was hip, at least for a while"

"we were in a monolithic nightmare of JSP and PHP and over-architected home-brewed frameworks"

I don't like Rails at all, but it reads like an article a long term fan of a technology got let down.
You can now see it in these live images:

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http://cesar-tools.cosmos.esa.int/sun_monitor/image_hel_visi...
Funny thing for a C++ programmer to say...
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I can ask - send me your cv and the sort of roles you're looking for, and I'll send it to the right people to answer
I've tried forcing it 5x and found that the fifth Why is exactly the point where they get annoyed and stop talking to you. So there may be a magic insight at the fifth Why but you'll never hear it :)
Obviously redditors like their articles, so they will have a problem too. I don't think this is black-and-white "ads are bad/readers are good" issue.
>There must be some economic incentive? Any time people die from a disease, that alone creates an incentive for those left living to find a cure.

No matter how altruistic you are, as a private company you can't put billions of dollars toward a drug that's going to lose money.

>I don't buy the argument that only Big Pharma who can deliver cures. As the article pointed out, Gilead didn't develop the cure. They bought the company that did.

... which they would not have done without the expectation of a profit.
My "tips and tricks" include how to read email and RSS/ATOM feeds in Emacs, which I do using Gnus.

In fact, reading email and RSS/ATOM in Gnus is also a tip/trick, since it was originally written (in 1987) for Usenet.

I'm not at all saying that others should use Emacs for their email. I'm pointing out that Emacs customisation can involve far more than "basic editing functions", and that these customisations can continue working for decades.
What does this bring together mean? At the end power is distributive and a zero sum game. Power can never be truly distributed because there is a limited amount of it. Therefore we really can't come together. That's what love is by the way a distributor of power. So as long as we have distributive systems that are resource limited like economics, there is no hope of love conquering all or power no longer playing a factor.

Just because you know someone does not mean you love them, you really can't, because it will effect your own well being and resource utilization. At best you can learn to tolerate people because you understand them... and integrate them into the global slave economy to serve your desires. But there is no hope of ever being together. We don't have that level of capacity to love. Only our ideas do and they too often fail.

At the end of the day why is the Middle East or Africa suffering simply because they are not willing to be a productive part of the global slave economy, therefore they get no respect and are exploited. It's not that we don't understand them. We don't like them because they don't work for us and consume and produce on our terms. Therefore, we don't respect them. We don't love them, and they don't love us. Their distribution of power is based in religion (the Middle East), ours is based on economics.

Why are Jewish people and Israelis held in such high esteem. For the same reason, they produce and consume with us. They have contributed massively to the economy and many other fields. They serve our desires, and we are one with them.
One reason to not do that is to avoid the "wound a soldier, kill the rescue party" trap, or the boobytrapping of corpses.
Could it be a play on the word 誤解 [1]. As in '誤解のなぜ’.

[1]http://eow.alc.co.jp/search?q=%E8%AA%A4%E8%A7%A3&ref=sa
My understanding is that they store all https traffic to be decrypted later.
Because they are secretly unhappy
Where do they still do that? I live in a developing country (some people call it third world) and the private hospitals here have been using all electronic medication ordering and fulfilment for quite a while, at least since 2009[1].

Doctor enters the prescription into a networked computer. It goes to a robotic pill picker/packer that affixes the label with instrucitons. Outpatients pick up the medication at the desk on the way out. For inpatients it is sent to the nurses' station on the floor of their hospital room.

It's been a while since I've been to a hospital in the US. I just assumed they were already doing this.

[1] http://medicaltravelsite.com/blog/bumrungrad-utilitizing-med...
I like Rails a lot, but mostly program in C++, and I can assure any disheartened Ruby programmers that many of Ruby's perceived issues are minor compared to the ones I face when programming in C++...

Incidentally, it may seem odd to say - I enjoy programming in C++, even with its problems there is a lot I like about it.
> regardless of costs

Anything with that phrase in it inevitably leads to major problems, along with other phrases like "zero tolerance" and "safety always comes first".
I wish people think twice before calling troll. That word has so lost it's original meaning, and is now a days used to shoot down any dissenting opinions.

I say this as someone who 100% agree with the first part of your comment.
A corollary of Parkinson's Law is that, whatever language you start with, your neural net project will expand to fill the processing power available to it.
Nice work! Translators use this kind of tool every day, known by them as concordance searching, where finding other uses of a term in context can give nuance and new word-choice options. I can see how this can be used in language learning but it really helps to know the multiple uses of any given word, and that assumes prior knowledge.

One way to incorporate this prior knowledge could be to add dictionary definitions to the search results. Is there a way to scrape or API the wiktionary? That might be one way to do it on the fly without the impossible task of building a dictionary.
It can be done without just seeming rude. You just have to practice a bit.
Just signed up to London, if anyone fancies a beer instead of waiting for the next meetup just shout (Email in my profile)
You rank low because of your history. Germans are proud to be Germans, they just don't feel right to say it. An interesting and very good consequence of this feeling is that Germany has not only very open policies towards immigrants, but also an overall good attitude versus expats which you rarely find in Europe.
Mafia (party game)
The 22% strongly agree in US worries me

Edit. Wow, 44% in Spain? Seriously guys? 35% Greece. Somebody should correlate this with GDP per capita, I believe there is a negative correlation there to be found...
The 22% strongly agree in US worries me
I sometimes think this when I watch the Isle of Man TT races (which, incidentally, happen later this month).

At least one of the top riders is a family man, he brings his wife and kids to the island every year.

There is an excellent documentary about the races [0] which I highly recommend. The wives of these people seem very accepting of what they do.

The bereaved wife of a TT racer is featured quite prominently in that film. She is very philosophical about the whole thing, basically saying that his obsession was so great that it wouldn't have been reasonable to ask him to stop.

[0] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1698010/
Direct stream is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WM688ZNSyWQ
When you're dedicated to code [video]
Adding random citations to straw man arguments proves nothing.

Did we even read the same articles?

Here are some examples I picked up in five minutes that look like completely reasonable referencing to me.

Anyone with an Internet connection can easily verify as much for themselves by visiting the Food and Agriculture (FAO) website, and checking the per capita intake of sweeteners in Japan for that year. Do that, and you’ll see the Japanese were averaging 52 calories per day from fruits, and a far more significant 174 calories daily from sugar. “Sweeteners, Other” and “Honey” supplied another 86 cals/day[7]

So just from sugar alone, the Japanese were obtaining 22 grams, or 4.4 teaspoons, of fructose per day. The Japanese do indeed eat fructose-containing sugar, and have been doing so for hundreds of years[8].

The same FAO data we just checked out shows that in 2009, the average per capita energy intake in Japan was 2,674 calories/day. The corresponding figure for the USA was 3,652 calories/day[7]

Unlike the US rise in obesity, which stems from both declining activity and a marked increase in per capita caloric intake[11, 7], Australia’s rise seems to have been caused almost entirely from decreasing physical activity.

The indignant paediatrician then completely refuted himself a moment later when he admitted that Americans were indeed eating more than they were in the 1980s[13]. And at 7:30 in his “Bitter Truth” video, Lustig acknowledges to his audience: “We are all eating more now than we did 20 years ago.”[4]

Taubes cites a 2004 CDC article reporting that since 1971, total fat intake increased among women by a mere 6.5 grams but decreased among men by 5.3 grams[14]. This gives the impression overall fat intake has remained relatively unchanged.
In this case, high-profit ads include dynamic content (JavaScript or Flash). Safe (but boring) ads would simply be an image or text link with no tracking capabilities that doesn't use CSS hacks to interrupt your page reading. It just sits up there saying, "If you want it, check this out."
Minimum wage is NOT Job loss
My university started locking the balcony doors of its library building after a suicider jumped off. Nobody complained that they should have provided better studying conditions for students and left the doors open. It seemed like a completely sensible and thoughtful thing to do to prevent more suicides.

I've been inside Chinese factories and they seem just like factories anywhere else. Americans need to stop imagining China as some giant North Korean slave camp. It's got very low unemployment, a huge middle class and quite reasonable working hours, pay and job mobility, especially for young people like those Foxconn workers. Health and safety is a wash though but that's another matter.
Great! Less stupid junk video stuff on internets — the better. Consumers of this popcorn crap must pay and must suffer from DRMs.
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Charting the Most Popular Clichés in Movies (2015)
"To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible." - St. Tomas Aquinas

I completely understand that my reasoning sounds rediculous from a scientific point of view. However, God is not finite, therefore you will never find or prove God using the scientific method, a method for gaining meaning from finite things.

As the Danish philosopher and theologian Søren Kierkegaard expressed, it comes down to a leap of faith. Are you willing to believe something that you yet cannot see?
The problem they think they need to solve is usually not the problem that needs to be solved. Hence the 5X (or more) to reveal the actual problem to solve.

I think this really old article addresses it better. It's self-explanatory.

Managing Complex Design Projects (1995)
http://www.dubberly.com/articles/managing-complex-design-pro...
>>Does this scheme apply to jails as well?

Yes, it does. Not all jails (nor all prisons) gouge in this way, but the temptation is strong, as companies like Securus share the spoils with the facility.
Isn't it something similar that poor would want more equitable distribution of wealth and lower rungs in corporates would want a more normal salary rise all the way to CEOs. Pretty obvious thing.

I would think that global citizens would not be so interested in nations with similar number of high aspirants.
Interesting Video. Very well explained.
This is a nice way of looking at it. Thanks.
Air Spectral: The Nano Drone with multispectral camera for mineralogic mapping
Air Spectral intends to conceive the world's first turkney nano drone with a multispectral camera integrated to do mineralogical research and more. There is some scientists or engineers which use these technology, drone and multispectral imagery, for their works? Who is interested by this kind of solution? Nice to open a discussion
> By Google Maps instructions they follow blindly into the worst areas. You might see it on TV but you heard it here first.

sounds very similar to the beginning to Bonfire of the Vanities