skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Once I worked too hard trying to get some bad software installed. I clenched my teeth and cracked two molars. One molar soon got a root canal procedure and a crown. Some years later the other cracked molar got sore. Apparently the crack let bacteria into the core of the tooth.

One day about each 30 minutes, the pain was awful. Eventually the explanation was that the bacteria generated CO2; that built up pressure inside the tooth and pressed on the nerve; at the peak of the pressure and pain, finally the CO2 escaped out the crack and the pain went away for another 30 minutes or so.

I tried this and that. It was a weekend, and I had a dental appointment on Monday, but for the weekend the pain was beyond belief. I called around, and eventually a sympathetic person in a hospital emergency room explained that people commonly rushed in for opioid prescriptions. No such thing occurred to me at all.

But eventually I just drove to an emergency room and said "I'm fine now, but in about 30 minutes I will be climbing the walls in pain."

They let me stay and wait. When the pain started, right away the attending physician dipped a Q-tip or some such and painted my tooth. Pain gone.

He explained that he just used benzocaine which is the same as dentists use just before giving an injection of a stronger local anesthetic and is over the counter and not very expensive. GOOD!

The dentists had told me to take one of the standard aspirin alternatives -- I did;
took enough to threaten damage to my kidneys; and it was useless. Not good dentists.

So, I left the emergency room with a bottle of benzocaine and a prescription. I looked at the prescription -- it had lots of super serious markings about a controlled substance, special numbers, etc. Okay, maybe it was an opioid. No thanks.

I rushed to a pharmacy and stocked up on little bottles of benzocaine and Q-tips and didn't suffer again. At the dentists on Monday, I still didn't like their work and walked out.

In a few days, the pain quit. A week or so after that, the tooth was loose. A few days after that, an oral surgeon extracted the tooth. No problem.

So, sometimes, really, whenever possible, to heck with opioids. Instead, just get some benzocaine for the night or the weekend and then go for some good medical care. As far as I know, I never took an opioid. Dangerous stuff.
Nice list, thanks for posting it!

Prototyping in unity is not as fast as flash back in the day (for me at this time anyways). Can anyone compare GameMaker: Studio or another modern product that is good for fast prototyping?
The next time this topic comes up, notice how quickly people run into the weeds to discuss all of the social impacts. Happens every time.

There are a handful of people working on the tough problems in the world, the rest are just bullshitting about why if it ever happens, society will collapse.
Travis is on it!?!? Oh boy now I'm interested..
Coroutines would still run on top of std::future, it would be Just syntactic sugar to avoid callback hell via then chaining. In same case this might save some allocation as the callback would be a plain pointer to the control block, but that's about it.

I'm not part of the committee nor I attend meetings, but I follow the papers and the public online discussions.
That game went through so many revisions and prototypes. I remember playing an early version which was just a HL2 mod, barely resembling the current incarnation.
When will cost per capacity of SSDs become cheaper than that of HDDs?
Lets not forget the US either
A promising side effect would be the removal of CO2 from the atmosphere. Although burning the fuel probably returns it back, so it's only helpful inasmuch as it replaces other sources of fuel.
That's a great clarification. Thanks for that!

I'd argue that while it may technically not be "criminal punishment", that is ultimately the final outcome. People for whom a criminal conviction cannot be guaranteed are instead "punished" by having their goods taken. However IANAL, and that is simply my perception of the effect.
I'm going to defer to the people that say that the cesspool aspect of it all is actually harmful. And no, I don't mean that Stacy is, like, omg, such a bitch. Or that 14 year old /b/tards are brigading some corporate account with gore and porn.

I mean the actual harmful harassment. The article mentioned that one of the co-stars of the new Ghostbusters quit online media due to the cesspool, but there are many many more instances of people taking the endless microphone of online social media and making it horrible. Though it is incredibly rare, some people are in fact driven to suicide due to the targeted harassment.

Now we can debate facts and the amount of thickness your skin should be until the Zuck finally kicks the bucket. But the point I want to make is that sometimes the cesspool gets away from itself and steps over some invisible line into true harassment that can't be defended to a lot of people as simple freedom of speech (lawyers assemble!). I love that we have freedom of speech in this country, and I know that it is not meant for the things that you or I like to hear and that it is explicitly for the lowlifes and assholes to say what they want to. Still, I don't know where that line is, but I do know that it gets crossed a lot; and that from the media I consume, the line tends to be crossed a lot more if you are female or black.

So, I'll defer to the people that have been bitten by the cesspool, as I have not been in their shoes and have had to stare at their phones while hate comes blasting in and all they are trying to do is order a pizza. If a lot of the people that have had these experiences say that Twitter et al need to be better, then I think I have to trust them.
AIR goes back at least as far as 2007, when I saw it presented at Adobe Max. I have a mobile app developed with AIR that runs on both IOS and Android.
It's fairly hard to give a list of links and tell you „here is how you'd learn”. If that's the approach you're looking for, most likely there are some books for absolute beginners (take a look on "For Dummies" series)

But in very vague terms, you will do it exactly like you'd learn to code:

- start reading why/how electricity works[1];

- start making basic circuits with light bulbs or small motors (light bulbs NOT leds) with various switches and try to understand how/why is (not) working;

- start reading to see what basic components are doing: resistors, transistors, diodes, capacitors, transformators/coils; what they do, why they do.

- start combining basic components with the above light bulb. See what happens if you add a resistor or a diode, what a capacitor do and stuff like that.

Jumping from the very begining to arduino boat will only leads to major frustration overtime.

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[1] http://www.instructables.com/id/Electronics-for-Absolute-Beg...

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If you want to also practice, make this as step 1:

- get a soldering iron and some old boards (from an old TV, old radio, stuff that are not build only by integrated circuits) and start exercising (de)sorldering.
Please consider integrating into an existing browser with userbase instead of making your own. This is the only way IMO to get IPFS used by real people. I mean to make sense publishing content in IPFS in the first place.

The two candidates I'd suggest are Firefox (obvious) and Vivaldi. The latter has already reached stable release stage and desperately needs a feature to set itself apart from other Chromium forks. It's only partly open-source now but the team have plans to go full in future.
I remember a post earlier today about how open source projects needed better marketing. prime example. I had to dive in to know what was the project all about...
The Logic-Defying Double-Slit Experiment Is Even Weirder Than You Thought
It worked for marijuana, so do it for the other things too (but with more regulation for the harder drugs).

Instead of reacting to the symptoms we need to look in the other direction.

* Cartels are a symptom of opportunity for profit that isn't being serviced in a legal way.

* Drug addiction is a symptom of a sick society.

* People chemically (or psychologically) addicted to the affects of drug treatment are a symptom of incomplete medical treatment.

Maybe if everyone had a place to be and a job they could do, a sense of security in work and health, as well as the opportunity to have a life worth living we could actually win the 'war on drugs'.
> I doubt you'd have something as fun as the hit title.

I doubt it too.

> Prototypes are not good indicators that something could be fun.

This is what I disagree with. The prototype won't be as fun as the final product (because otherwise, why bother polishing in the first place?).

Take Infiniminer, an obvious source of inspiration for Notch. It's only got the very minimum of features; it's kind of a Minecraft prototype. It's also got the features that originally got me into Minecraft: building arbitrary structures in a large virtual environment. Minecraft is better fleshed out, of course, but the core of the game is there.

There's going to be a point where you've got the irreducible kernel of a game concept. That is the prototype. Remove items, crafting, mobs, infinite world sizes, lighting, and textures from Minecraft, and you've still got the kernel: a virtual building kit. It's an awesome idea, fun on its own, and expandable into a "real" game with goals, achievements, etc. It's a great indicator that a fleshed-out version of the game may be fun.

Now, you can't build something smaller than a kernel of the concept, call it the prototype, and make a judgement based on that.
That appears to be on purpose.
OP's comment was about the smuggling of drugs, specifically heroin, into the country. You said "bullshit" and then cited that NPR article as your source. The article discusses a decrease in apprehensions, but it clearly states the following:

> This is still an active smuggling route, especially for drugs.

I'm a little confused as to how this article supports the argument that building a wall helps limit drug smuggling. Care to explain?
Nope, but it works for me. The short version is that 130 hours isn't adequate for a proper night's sleep each night, let alone a functioning family life, and if pursued regularly will lead to declining work performance and health problems.
But mis-estimation goes both ways. Most academics were very optimistic about early general AI, for instance.
Hehe, sure, and you could say Android is HiptopOS-the-next-generation. FWIW, I've also omitted Travis's Jawbone work. I mean, it was very public where Travis worked after Be, but I didn't really know what you have been up to, sorry that I didn't know more.

BeOS stands out to me, and I honestly don't care how long ago it was. WebOS was nice, but Android and iOS don't even register on my personal radar of cool tech. I hope you're not offended by that. For instance, while it was possible to do low-latency audio on BeOS in 1998, it's only possible with a lot of trickery on Android. You can do low-latency audio on Linux and Windows too, but again it needs special tooling and config, though not as hard as on Android's Java-based stack.

Think of it like this: people will remember artists for certain work during specific periods because it touched them in a special way. BeOS was that during my formative years, and you could say it was the Amiga of the 90s. Sadly, there's nothing that replaces the innovative features of it, even though we've improved other parts of the stack.

It's just such a shame that BeOS is locked in some IP locker in Japan (Access Ltd) now.
I've always used React Router for routing. It's super flexible and plays very nicely with Redux and server-side rendering. In terms of syncing up state to views, you might want to look into 'redial' and 'react-redux', which are just higher-order components that ensure your React components can injected with the necessary state.
Needs more D3..
Given what we know about brains so far, doesn't it need to be proven, rather than disproven? Surely the burden of proof here is on people claiming a non-biological and non-predictable basis for brain function?
Or you know the universe is a simulation and you and I are already temporary characters.
You'd be surprised, a mutual friend brings up your occupation (I'm a computational astrophysics grad), and then they inevitably ask you about black holes, and then you have to start delving into pretty complex topics.
They fought unionization, moved their factory to the South to beat the union, and the new factory was worse than the old one.
U.S. Intelligence to Help Companies Avert Supply-Chain Hacking
Hi Yev, offtopic but I have a b2 question/request:

When we switched from Amazon S3 to b2, we lost the ability to do signed requests: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/RESTAuthentic...

Our iOS app uploads photos, and we (used to) sign each one and then upload directly from the phone to S3. With b2, we currently have to proxy between the phone and b2 because it doesn't support signatures. It's not a huge deal (we're using $5/month Digital Ocean instances), but it'd be nice to have support in b2 for the same thing.

Best, Erich (happy b2 customer)
They need a control to make sure their science is good.

Measure C-14 in other aquatic animals with known ages to make sure the technique actually works.

(Maybe they actually did it.)
In a similar vein : urine into fuel

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=urine+fuel

Usually with a platinum catalyst or something rare & expensive

"all we need to do is find a cheaper catalyst"
An automatic gearshift doesn't belong in the center console, it belongs on the steering column. I've driven Ford trucks and SUVs too long for me to think otherwise.
Having lived in Papua New Guinea twice while growing up, I have a certain fondness for the language Tok Pisin. I can’t really speak much of it, but I can understand a fair bit.

You’ve got to love a language where “gras” means “hair”, “bagarap” means pretty much the same thing if you say it out loud in English, and while expressing how full your tummy is after a good meal you accidentally say you’re pregnant[1].

It’s charmingly idiosyncratic to an English ear.

And there’s even an edition of Wikipedia in Tok Pisin: https://tpi.wikipedia.org/

[1] True story. My dad did this and all the locals fell on the ground laughing.

[2] Brief blog post I wrote in 2009 which is the source for this comment: http://www.michevan.id.au/content/wikipedia-really-does-have...

[3] Another blog post about the Vanuatuian cousin, Bislama: http://www.michevan.id.au/content/by-any-other-name/
The people who grow my coffee beans also live much better than they used to. We're enjoying a before unseen period of peace and prosperity. Globally.

Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbkSRLYSojo

Over the past 200 years, the difference between 1st world and 3rd world has all but vanished. We still have a ways to go, but no utopia is perfect. Even in the movies.
Your citation actually supports that claim:

" At any given time older people are likely to be more conservative than contemporaneous young people. But relative to themselves as young people, today’s older folks have generally become more liberal than they once were."

It seems your thinking of the latter half of that quote, but the claim was regarding the first half.
I genuinely think these type of thoughts come from having extensive experience as a programmer, that can consider building out systems that might reach the performance ceiling of R. For 99% of people multicore/distributed architecture will never even be a consideration. But I'm with you, in that having these things from a system engineers perspective would be incredible. There are other implementations of R out there (not just R GNU): Hadley Wickham's discusses them in Advanced R somewhere.
> Just because you create a "crypto currency", which rewards some activity, does not mean people will start performing this activity.

Context matters. When they say "Miners" they describe a model with miners who are people whose objective is to gain this cryptocurrency. Providing a way to do it is the same as providing incentive. If you're a random uninterested Jo Blogs, you're not a miner in this scenario.

> So miners perform DDoS attacks to earn coins, and then send these coins in a transaction which incentivizes others to perform DDoS attacks? This makes no sense.

It doesn't mean that this is the only way to earn them. The currency could start pre-mined for example so it could be a private network of someone organising a one-time attack. Or the coins could be traded for another currency,
>> "Why does current life expectancy matter?"

It doesn't - I was using it as an approx. number instead of putting a specific age. What I meant was living into my 80's is sufficient for me.
Job Hunting 101 for Coding Bootcamp Graduates
So with people here talking about opioids from docs leading to heroin, a question came to mind:

If you have been given opioids for pain, did they work? I ask because for me they don’t. I get buzzed, euphoric, but they don’t do squat for pain for me. Same with marijuana. No effect on my pain at all.

In fact, for me, marijuana makes me even more accutely aware of physical discomfort. Am I just an oddball?
> And second, ignoring the fact that non-free software (mostly) got us where we are today in terms of progress.

Did this progress happen because or despite it is/was non-free? Would there be less progress with free software? I don't buy that without a really compelling argument why everything being free software would actually hinder progress to a strongly noticeable degree. Software not practically being free is also a relatively new concept, a lot of progress did happen before nevertheless.
GameMaker is usually the go to recommendation for rapid prototyping, and game development at a higher level of abstraction than Unity.

I've lately been hearing some positive buzz around Godot, particularly for 2D games. But I also get the impression that there is a learning curve.
https://godotengine.org/

If you want to bring your flash skills into the modern world, Haxe might be worth looking at:
http://haxe.org/ particularly with a framework like OpenFL. http://www.openfl.org/

Here is a good article on the post flash gamedev world:
http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/LarsDoucet/20150915/252693/Wh...

I haven't tried any of the above. But I've heard good things about all of them.
I accept that its impossible to forecast the future with certainty. Sometimes humankind makes amazing breakthroughs that domain experts did not see coming (and sometimes progress is much slower that anticipated).

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

I wouldn't assign a probability of 0 that humans make the breakthroughs needed to see many of us becoming double-centurions.

However, the last hundred years of medical research hasn't made much meaningful progress in preventing the rapid death of centurions, so I assign a probability far lower than 1.
Absolutely. Also, there was a lot of misplaced optimism about helicopters replacing cars. But either way, I don't think the pessimism is justified.
From the last Gor paper, coroutine don't need to run on top of the std::future class. The type traits required allows for more computational patters (like generators, agent/actor, full coroutines) etc...
haha, I have a couple of friend who are handy at that too. I wonder, there ought to be a more interactive HN thread on this than the monthly job postings from the Gods
Challenges of Getting a Product Made in the U.S.A
Yes, that's addressed in the paper. If a website owner notices a bounty on their own site, they can very quickly generate the proof needed to collect the bounty without suffering any downtime.
Photosynthesis is between 0.1% and 2% efficient.

Seems that increasing the efficiency of photosynthesis could lead to another agricultural revolution.
8 Things Every Woman Needs to Keep in Mind to Lead a Healthy Life
Good to know that. I guess the revenue thing is very attractive. Not sure if maybe others may be interested in Remote Work or in Open Source? I don't know.

The problem I'm realising now is that my site is maybe too generic and that makes not clear enough its purpose. I didn't want to saturate the list items with lots of info so I tried to summarised it with the "Champion" icon, but I agree it seems not 100% clear. I will work on that.
You are confusing my argument with yours. It is not a matter of scarcity, but of the fact that a copyrighter's property is wholly intact and unaffected by a third party producing a copy of something the third party possesses.

The same does not hold under eminent domain seizure.
Better to recycle the existing co2 than remove oil from the ground and put that into the air.
360 video could become the next big medium
Reddit Is Down Following Routine Software Upgrade
The tweet: https://twitter.com/redditstatus/status/763864243015790592

Main Status Page: http://www.redditstatus.com/
> I barely make it through a week without thinking about not wanting to live though

That.. is not normal. Are you ok? Do you have a support network to just.. talk to about stuff?

Maybe try talking to a therapist just to see what's going on, no shame in that at all. Can work wonders just to talk about what you're thinking...
but solar panels don't grow out of dirt and replicate themselves.
I eventually settled on universal-redux-router, but I'll check out redial. I have found the redux ecosystem to be generally high quality.
Hi emeralds. Thank you so much for the feedback. I see your point. I need to work on removing ambiguity, making the front page very clear about what is Transparent Startups.
So far society seems to deal with long-term (multi a generational) problems poorly. This is fine up until it starts to cause significant damage and can't be reversed in a short timespan. Global warming may be this problem.

Elon Musk may be having success changing those huge incentives, but relying on revolutionaries like that isn't ideal and might not work.
Nobel laureate’s death highlights struggles at Egyptian science hub
Pretty sure he means people like you when he talks about his non-physicist friends.
Would be useful if this project explained the difference between React and ReactServer. It seems they are as similar as Java and Javascript.

Instead of the render() method in React to output JSX, it appears that ReactServer uses getElements() for a similar purpose. So the entire model and object lifecycle is probably different as well?
Does anyone know what the evolutionary bottlenecks/tradeoffs are for more efficient photosynthesis?
Heck, obesity correlates well with life expectancy but that's probably because sickness causes weight loss.
Asynchronous Python vs. OCaml (2013)
As Rental Supply Grows, Landlords Negotiate in NYC
Well you stopped reading at a bad point for a silly reason.
That's basically the non-endorsement clause from the BSD license. Nothing unusual about that.
> If you've got electricity, why make fuel?

Because fuel is in lots of cases a better way to store (and transport) energy to be used later and a different time and potentially place.
> especially given that it's a private company

Twitter has been a public company since November 2013. (http://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/twtr)
r/K selection theory[1] can help explain why some creatures favor longer reproductive timelines.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R/K_selection_theory
donald trump supporters now yelp. It wouldnt be too hard to believe google stooping to hooli level stuff, but how could you even prove it?
I wouldn't say amateur science is frowned upon, more than a lack of proper foundation can lead you astray pretty quickly, which is why most "amateurs" manage to convince themselves of some big metaphysical truth. The learning of science is heavily encouraged, but it should definitely be done through proper means.