skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> When I first looked for something to let me be "always on" I ran into the same advice you're giving. It didn't help me at all. Most people looking for the answer to "how can I have always-on IRC with a backlog" don't want to learn about what a BNC is or the pros and cons of the various BNC solutions out there, they want something actionable.

This is a really strange comment. If the question is "How do I get always-on IRC" then the answer is "Use a bouncer". Following up with "People don't want to learn about a bouncer" is the same thing as "People don't really want the answer". I'm confused.

How is "Install ZNC" (as an example of a bouncer) not "actionable"?
I agree. I regularly post the amazing work such people produce. A good example is Cyclone, which contributed to Rust's success.
As I said before, it depends on the circumstances. With regards to what those circumstances are, there are a few different combinations of circumstances that would drive rapid growth in a city, and whilst superior public transportation isn't enough on its own, improving infrastructure across the board can be, especially in an area with a high volume of economic activity. For example, look at the growth of Singapore and consider whether that growth would've been possible without a focus on infrastructure.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singapore
Visualizing relationships between Python packages
Thank you very much for your comments, to which I will give careful consideration. I'm thinking of putting the program on sandstorm.io (if they'll accept it), so that people can try a real demo there (and continue to use it there, if they want to). I agree that my website needs to be re-worked, and the program's menu too.
Lz-string: JavaScript compression, fast
The original POSIX and OS/2 1.x subsystems was dropped in WinXP.
Not sure what the source is on that chart, but I'll assume it's credible. If that's the case, then despite what the article says, it's hard to believe that most of this decline is not accounted for by the decline in smoking. Surely the decline in smoking accounts for the vast majority of the lung cancer decline, and the peaks for colon and prostate cancer are very close to the same time.
Pokemon Go Best problem to have
For my house in New York, I paid about $900. That was a little high because there was an issue with an adjoining parcel that was purchased and mishandled when the lots were joined.
CURES works but at the cost of completely negating any type of privacy protection on medical records. Pretty much anyone (prescriber, dispenser, law enforcement) can pull up CURES reports knowing a persons last name and birthdate.

What is the point of HIPAA and medical privacy if anyone can log in and see what scheduled drugs you're taking? From the drugs you take I can pretty much derive your medical history. I consider this a much larger problem than the 'war on drugs'.
As a fabric user, I'm curious what makes it less general-purpose than ShutIt ? (or trying to understand the differences between them)
It's not you until you tie it to your identity. I leave "DNA" all over; people cannot match it to me unless they have an existing sample that is definitely from me.
In the later 50's the FDA also put strict limits on the amount of sodium nitrite allowed in cured meats. And required the addition of ascorbic acid. The latter supposedly neutralizes the nitrite when the meat is heated/cooked.
Constrain the time you have to do something.

Work often fills the time you give it. If you try to achieve something in a short amount of time, you'll be forced to work at 100% with full focus to get it done ASAP. I'm always amazed at how sometimes a dreadful task takes 10-20 minutes when I'm forced to do it in that timespan, but if I have an hour to do it, it'll take an hour.

To make the constraint feel real, put yourself in a situation where you only have a short period of time before something else must happen, like a meeting. Then you can trick yourself to get started and see how far you can get in 20 minutes.
> Let’s say this again, “email client”. The notion of email client itself is gone at this point.

Really? Is it lame to be using an email clients these days?

I still use an email client (Thunderbird) because I can't stand the thought of all my mail sitting forever on Goggle's or whoever's servers. Yes, I know that they could have secretly archived all of my email the moment it was sent or received, and that my privacy is not necessarily enhanced by downloading and storing my mail offline.

That's my main reason, but I can think of many other reasons to prefer email clients to a web interface.

I'm surprised by the sentiment that email clients are passé.
Given the tendency in Japan to blame criminal activity on foreigners or Zainichi Koreans (despite most crime in Japan being committed by the Japanese,) I think it would also be naive to assume xenophobia isn't a factor.
The syntax highlighter isn't really a parser, per se. It's just a lexer / tokenizer / scanner / what-have-you, which tend to be fairly compact state machines.

As an aside, I agree with your edit. As someone who started programming back in the DOS days, whenever I do Web development, I'm always floored by how much it feels like one step forward and two steps back. So many simple things just aren't simple when it comes to the browser, and even certain protocols on the backend like FastCGI seem way more complicated than they need to be (SCGI seems pretty nice, though I feel it's missing a way to signal out-of-band information to the Web server, the way you'd use stderr in CGI, for example (though perhaps I'm missing something there)).

As much as I love the idea of sending semantic markup over the wire for document transfer, I can't help but wonder if a more terminal-like protocol would be better for application "delivery", the way we used to do with telnet and BBSs in the 90s, with an upgrade for multimedia. But I digress...
LDL cholesterol and triglycerides are harmful. Higher values of those cause higher risk of coronary artery disease and earlier death. HDL cholesterol ("good cholesterol") appears to have no effect, at least the scalar quantity that we measure with current lab tests.

Statins reduce risk of death in proportion to their reduction of LDL cholesterol, so most likely this effect is a consequence of decreased LDL cholesterol.
>I know k is up, because I constantly <ESC> k in bash

What is ESC-k supposed to do in Bash?
Yishan vs. DHH on Twitter (2014)
Unless I'm super motivated to read the page, I usually slam it closed the moment I am hit with one of these "join our email list" prompts.
IMO lack of initialization in a language should be explicit, not implicit, e.g. DLang:

import std.array : uninitializedArray;

int a; /+ defaults to '0' +/
int b = void; /+ not initialized +/
bool[5] c; /+ defaults to array of 'false' +/
auto d = uninitializedArray!(bool[])(5); /+ not initialized +/
After the downvotes, I decided to check out the numbers, and looks like I'd lose the bet. According to the CDC [0] the ratio is almost 2:1 for Opioid analgesics versus Heroin. What's interesting is that this is very different to the statistics for the UK [1] and Europe.

[0] http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/health_policy/AADR_drug_poisoni...
[1] http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20160105160709/htt...
Or you're making assumptions based on your own skills?

Have you seen what e.g. Notch can do in a few hours of live coding?
You make a very fair point.

The drug war has been a total disaster. It's thrown much of Latin America into chaos, with their governments unable to contend with the sophistication and brutality of drug cartels that rake in billions from the most lucrative drug market in the world, the United States. It's also a massive source of revenue for the criminal gangs that plague our cities within our country.

The laughable propaganda from the government has also totally undermined important anti-drug messages. The ridiculous claims about the dangers of weed, for example. The reefer madness stuff. The DEA's insistence on keeping weed Schedule I. It's actually given rise to an equally ridiculous myth: that weed is totally harmless. But more importantly, it's undermined the message against harder drugs. If the government is lying about weed and shrooms, then people will think they're lying about other drugs as well.

If we don't win the cultural battle against drug use being acceptable, then all is lost. You're right that no amount of law enforcement can change that in a liberal democracy. But assuming that battle can be won, this is what I think needs to happen on the legal and military end:

I say legalize weed and other drugs with lower abuse potential; this will immediately destroy the largest segment of the illegal drug market. For hard drugs, stop imprisoning people for possession. Withhold the first arrest for simple possession from the public record, so it doesn't show up on background checks and destroy people's ability to get a job. This will create the public support for what must come next: come down like an iron fist on the weakened organized crime groups that have lost their largest source of revenue. Exploit internal strife caused by dwindling revenues, turn some people into informants, and then put away the rest for a very long time.

The second biggest drug market is cocaine. Almost all of it comes from Colombia. Once the current peace process falls through or fails to stick, the US needs to help Colombia finish off the FARC completely. Unconditional surrender should be the only acceptable outcome. A complete commitment to ending mass coca production in Colombia should then be a condition of their friendly standing with the United States.
And if you want it to be available, it should be. I haven't seen anyone arguing that people who consent shouldn't be able to make their info public.

My concern is for people who don't want that info to be made public
Yeah I think there was a large study done comparing a newer cholesterol lowering drug with statins. The result was the new non-statin drug wasn't effective at all even though it lowered cholesterol levels.
This one seems rather personal, anyone know the story behind it?
I have a sneaking suspicion that this whole "we will build robots to solve our demographic crisis" is just a ruse to allow entrenched corporate/political interests to continue down the softly-padded path to their graves, with the only cost being a few gimmicky displays of technology. This is not to mention that accomplishing their stated goal would require that Japan massively expand immigration to attract the necessary STEM talent. We in the west are probably being duped in the same fashion with all of the hype surrounding AI.
They can get close if they have your relative's DNA.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-somerset-36245888

A man killed a girl. His DNA was gathered at the scene. 26 years later his daughter committed a minor crime, and had her DNA taken as part of her arrest, which led them back to him.
Show HN: WebVR with A-Frame and Angular 2
Laws can change. Health insurance can't discriminate now, but what happens if Obamacare was repealed, or if the ADA was amended?
"Using throwaway so customers don't find this comment."

Question - Why would you care if they did?
I don't know much about what I'm about to say, but I've always thought it would be cool to embed some proof language like coq inside the rust compiler so that devs can write proofs that their unsafe code obeys some properties that the rust compiler can use.
Source in Russian: https://lenta.ru/news/2016/06/22/teleportation/
I agree! although, as an import from CA myself, I actually found a healthy divergence in viewpoints rather refreshing.
I didn't even know that that site had a source of revenue. Where does it come from?
I've personally had success with starting small and simple. I pick a habit that promises improvements and do one small and simple thing every day related to it. As it becomes a habit I can see results and adjust accordingly.

The best habit I have formed is to see the benefits of actions and forcing me every day to do them (by starting small and simple).

Its not a race. It takes time. Sometimes years. Be kind to yourself. You will make mistakes. Identify the mistake and learn from it. Then move on.
Here's a thread from a while back: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7652018
I agree that the hyperloop itself is a white elephant designed to attract investment. However, Elon Musk may be trying to use the hyperloop to obtain the funds for r&d on a space launch loop.
Can there ever be an experiment which proves which interpretation of QM is correct? I have heard that there isn't but I find that so weird. Don't they have any difference in their predictions at all?
Type II.

Type II is insulin resistance. Which is probably caused by our industrial diet and maybe other factors. The rate is increasing dramatically.

Type I is an autoimmune disease. I think it's not increasing. (no idea)
Key Roles of a Software Project
The nice thing about a framework like Unity is that they do have a textfield object that behaves a lot like a standard text object in the .NET Framework. It has a lot of shortcomings but rendering the text is the easy part.
Over the past year I've developed a good grasp on the modern consensus, by reading everything I can find that might shed light on the subject and lurking on physicsforums.com. Despite the common physicist trait of shying away from philosophy, there is a general acceptance that decoherence can lead to an effective collapse, which reproduces our classical world (and many others).

Some arguments deriving the Born rule may be circular; I don't know - I don't see how that matters - because others are not.

There are some critics but they mostly start from philosophical considerations: that a multiverse is untestable outside the quantum scale, imposes a high cognitive burden or requires us to redefine probability. Those objections are only valid if you consider a multiverse a priori unlikely; the evidence and math is clearly in it's favour.

If you want better answers I would look through that forum, or consult a recent review of the literature around decoherence.
I don't see why you're drawing that conclusion.

As a customer, I'm happy with what I got:

(1) Fairly high-confidence data about known "big" inherited conditions. This was useful when my wife and I decided to have a child - there were several things we could safely rule out screening for. No surprises, but "no surprises" was what we were looking for. :)

(2) lower-confidence data for less-substantiated issues (who knew? I'm a fair bit more likely to get venous thromboembolism than average. So now I take more walks up & down the aisle when I'm on an airplane.). Is this life-changing or even particularly important? Nah. But on the other hand, it costs me nothing - and probably makes me happier - to change my behavior to wiggle around more. :)

(3) Some infotainment, primarily in the ancestry information. It was interesting. <shrugs>

(4)a copy of my SNPs that I store locally and may someday upload to another analysis service.
Whatever happened to 3D printing?
Yes, but my adversary in that case is the NSA. Even if Google (or other similar companies) didn't exist, NSA would try to get that data one way or another.

Also, though it may be naive, I believe Google does not intend to cooperate with the NSA any more than they're absolutely legally required to.
It would be interesting to see what people exit the process with - what choices they made, and what they had "in transit".

I've reached what seems to be the end, but I'm not sure. I'm keeping the window open to see what happens next.
Have something I really, really want to do, and do that thing until it's done. Sort of the top idea in your mind: http://paulgraham.com/top.html.
But you have to get to the point of developing interest in the first place. Developing Passion needs hardwork.
I agree. In Swift, an uninitialized variable must be set to nil and have the properties of an optional for it to compile. Not a bad idea.

Using 'auto' in C++ forces out uninitialized variables as well.
Actually in my experience the people who learn the language form a double distribution: those who are more educated/successful and those who have nothing but the will to survive. It happens in Spain, where poor foreigners know Spanish, highly educated ones also know Spanish, and the middle group can say some words or don't bother at all.

In Japan the main fear comes probably from China, since it's a lot easier for Chinese people to learn Japanese (similar characters) than for occidental people, and there is also a "relatively" high inmigration from poor Chinese people.
Smoking also increase the time it takes to recover from surgery fwiw
Yes, and what they have chosen - in Estonia for example - is to still claim to be 'Russian' but not actually live in Russia; this is because even such 'true patriots' realise their lives are better and freer not being inside the borders of the country they claim first allegiance to. This then leaves Estonia with a bunch of malcontents not properly learning the language, and then complaining when they are discriminated against when looking for jobs.
1. Does it look like legitimate "referendum" to you? http://pda.pravo.ru/store/doc/image/20160316120226.jpg

2. Constitution of Ukraine states that only citizens of whole country and not locals can decide such questions, _ANY_ local referendum regarding sovereignty is illegal.

So NO IT IS NOT LIKE BREXIT or referendum in Scotland. Ukraine is unitary country.

So it is how russian troops work not democracy.
As a (somewhat) seasoned sysadmin, I tell you that mixing responsibilities of
services is a Bad Idea[tm]. You wouldn't put disk access into your HTTP header
handling code, would you? So why do you think overloading an interactive shell
with configuration management is a good idea? It doesn't even work well,
considering that you need to manage SSH keys, which quickly gets ugly when the
number of hosts grows, and then there's the need to re-send configuration for
each host that happened to be down or otherwise unreachable at the time of
issuing it the first time.

You need a) interactive shell, b) configuration management tool (which works
in scheduled batch mode and in "pull" style, not "push" as in Ansible),
and c) system for running ad-hoc commands synchronously (this one is "push"
style). Yes, all three. Yes, separate, not a weird mix of them. Been there,
done that.
Looks like a very interesting tool, but I would reallllly recommend hiring someone else to narrate your videos. That woman has a very "unique" voice that made it hard for me to sit through.
Forget Beanbag Chairs. Amazon Is Giving Its Workers Treehouses
This is difficult when you have 3 things that all tie for #1, and since they need to be sorted into #1 through #3, that sorting isn't stable sorting, so each time you mentally sort it, they might end up in another order. So #1 changes all the time.
Pike has at least 15 years of experience using stateless client devices on a large LAN (at Bell Labs) and being one of the leaders of a team providing the infrastructure (Plan 9) to make those devices usable.
The chart looks amazing! Will be good to see the result of other programming languages such as scala and java.
Propellor: deploying properties to hosts with haskell
Gmail's web client also non-optionally auto-wraps text before sending, which is very annoying when you're trying to send a patch or part of a log file.
Judging by the downvotes you're getting, I'm not alone in getting a "my job it totally harder than their job!" vibe from your post. (If you spend more of your professional time doing marketing than coding, saying so might have helped.)

Why do you say that there are no inherently hard problems in marketing? Winning market share against a competitor with a bigger ad spend than you sounds like a hard problem. Achieving minimum customer acquisition cost and optimum market segmentation sound like hard problems. Getting customers to self-select early in the sales funnel so that your salespeople don't waste their time on looky-loos without cutting into actual sales sounds like a hard problem. (I don't know, because I'm not in marketing. Educate me!)

Also, saying that there are no hard problems in marketing other than "people are complex" sounds a bit like saying that there are no hard problems in computer science other than "math is complex".
I've worked on some bad codebases. You can convert a little bit at a time, treating the remainder of the codebase as a large library with a poorly factored interface. You absolutely will need unit test coverage at the boundary, which will probably exist for several years.
Every word Putin utters in public is recorded on video and lenta.ru is small opposition media.

If Putin really said this it would be all over the largest media in Russia.

Edit: The article you link to doesn't even state that Putin said this, why do you even link it here?

Edit 2: The only teleportation mentioned in the article is using a quantum effect to "teleport" information, not physical objects.
What does one have to do with the other?
Ever consider CFEngine?
Hash Tables
That's far too little logic to be a counterexample here. Rain correlates with a lot of things. If you were to stop all of those things, you could surely stop the rain as well. For instance, if rain is correlated with clouds, and you get rid of clouds, you'll get rid of rain. The fact is, there does not exist this thing you've called 'rain' that causes people to be wet and does nothing else relevant to your argument.

There's plenty of reason to believe that causal relationships are structural simplifications of correlative ones. We just don't have any great formalizations of them.
Why don't active smokers cough up phlegm?
What about widespread use of painkillers? Aspirin, paracetamol and ibuprofen have become common place over this period. Calming the body's immune response might have a beneficial effect on overall health.
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When I started programming, the basic digital world already existed for me. I never had the experience of typing in a program from a magazine.
This is one of those odd experiences where you remember that self-hosting[1] can involve far more components than just the compiler, spiraling an unexpectedly deep path into the development stack.

I just used @antirez's 1k LOC kilo editor to edit his 1K LOC editor and it was an oddly pleasurable experience :)

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-hosting
Robbery suspects used Pokémon Go to lure victims
cancer is caused by swelling, thus anything that reduces it will reduce cancer incidents.
I would generally agree about raising prices, but not in this case. At least not until you get better traction and reputation. Pingdom is probably the market leader in this space(?), and you will probably need to beat them on pricing initially (even though there's so many things to do better than they do...).

Agree about yearly plans though. Makes more sense for businesses.

I know it's usually not about features, but I'll definitely look at adding SMS or more specific alert integrations (PagerDuty). Building for developers with webhooks and slack is great, but I would imagine not enough.

Love the design and everything else (also Apex the OS tool is great, even though I only looked at the code but didn't actually use it). I can imagine getting traction is tough in such a busy space. Best of luck!
Ukraine is sovereign unitary nation. Only brainwashed with russian propaganda can say that some country or nation is no more then someones project and putting war on it means nothing.

It's about people and there will to be protected against crazy militant russians with stalin and putin in their minds.