skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Look - I get the point you are trying to make.
If you discount infectious diseases and surgeries, there are a lot of things off the table as far as a 'cure' full stop goes.

But that is incredibly disingenuous to medicine. You're removing all the things we do incredibly well - to the point where infectious diseases, for the most part - until we reach this disaster warned about in the article we are commenting on - have ceased to be a major burden of disease in the modern world.

That is just remarkable. The reason people are able to make claims like 'all we do is treat sick people, we don't cure them' is because the things that we do well, we do so fucking well it isn't a major issue anymore.

I know very well that my job in a modern first world country hospital revolves largely around treating people with chronic diseases, and that for the most part, I can't do much for them.

For example, when I work in the Emergency Department (Most of my work these days) It is rare for me to 'pick up' a patient that has never had a hospital admission. Most people swing in and out and and out and in and out until one day they don't make it out again.
They have chronic diseases caused by a lifetime of either 'just living' or living hard (smoking, drinking, eating too much) and the accumulated damage is BEYOND modern medicine's ability to fix it.

Personally, I think that for many of these chronic diseases, we are beyond any quick fix ever being developed - i envisage a future world where we literally grow someone a new body and attach their head to it so they can go again... the damage occurs on such a cellular (and slightly above that) level - and is so widespread that it is beyond my comprehension how any treatment we are looking at could fix it - although I am an optimist and who would have ever thought we would have the biological treatments we have now for certain diseases, modern miracles that they are.

But we are still WINNING - as pointed out elsewhere in the comments, we now have a cure for Hepatitis C.
Hepatitis C is a horrible condition. When I was at med school (graduated 2013) we were taught the 'Rule of 20' for Hep C: 20% clear it, of the remaining 80 20% have no issue, of that remaining 80 20% go on to develop fulminant liver failure. Now we can cure the fucking thing. Absolutely amazing. And there's talk of stem cell injections for damaged cardiac muscle; and since I left Med School the average life expectancy for Malignant Melanoma has risen from <12 months to close to 4 years and growing. This is remarkable. and anyone who says differently doesn't understand the facts, and is being willfully ignorant of the enormous efforts of thousands upon thousands of people who work tirelessly in labs and hospitals all over the world to bring about a better quality of life for the sick
Apparently they refused entry to, detained, and searched people wanting to go to the protests in DC yesterday. So just wait until an event like that happens again, which is likely to be fairly frequent now.
Why biodegradable? I mean it's nice, but it's not supposed to go down in the woods and not to be found.

I guess making it cheap is the real reason for for paper. Though the expensive part is allways the motor and electronics anyways...
You are late to the party. I remember receiving this kind of questions in 2006 when hotmail and msn messenger were still popular. I think it was part of a game to measure how worldly you were.
It's a problem I deal with daily as my personal notebook takes 5-10 seconds to connect to my home network, annoying when I expect near instant connectivity to a known network.
Quite a few light "drugs" are herbs-based.

Over there, it's common for (real, medical, certified) doctors to prescribe (as in, write on a sheet of paper and stamp) specific herbal teas. Which are sold in pharmacies. And they do help for sure.
Eric Weinstein explains Russell conjugation and its use in determining bias
1.5mi is walkable, though. (My commute is 3 miles a day, every day, on foot. Bay Area.)
e.g funded by George Soros

Careful -- you've mentioned his name twice in this thread. Do it a third time and he'll appear in your bathroom mirror.

Also, nothing in the article was particularly surprising, nor is any of it outside the realm of what we already know is technically possible at Facebook. Give it four years and see if Zuckerberg makes his rumored run for President, after beta-testing the tools in 2016...
Thanks for the channel 4 link.

The (scarce) details are anyway enough to understand how essentially it is clickbait, in those massive hacks millions of passwords were found, it is not so improbable that they affected also some of the now appointed people.

As you pointed out without knowing if those people still use those leaked passwords for some accounts they may have somewhere the article is essentially non-news.

I am a bit surprised that Troy Hunt somehow gave such "alarming" statements of purely speculative nature, in a nutshell:

let's say that ... and if ... and if ... potentially we have a problem ...
Good point about the multi story garages. And I apologize if my comment came off as too dismissive. As you said, we're all dealing in anecdata here and your anecdotes are just as valid as mine. Although, I will reiterate that in my experience both as a normal resident and a homeless resident of SF, I found the homeless population particularly aggressive and at times unstable and violent.

Regarding the narrowly escaping pooping incident, yes, I was waiting for the lights to change and not paying much attention when an older woman crouched down on the curb 3-4 feet to my side and relived herself. Without getting into too much detail, what came out was rather liquified and I only noticed her as I saw it hit the pavement in front of me.
maybe its not prudent to say, if so i apologise but its also available on sci-hub for those who would like to read purely from an interest point of view
It's an unpopular opinion because it's childishly simplistic.

You could say the same thing about the internet providers, where streaming media of copyrighted content consists of the majority of their traffic.

The providers do not know what streams are valid or invalid, and we do not want them to have the ability or right to monitor all of our internet traffic to determine that.

They know that many of their users are likely streaming or downloading media from sources that do not compensate the content creators. But they also know that if they start identifying that, then they'll start being liable.

Kim Dotcom was in the same situation. He knew that people on his platform were likely using it for file storage of files they didn't own the distribution rights to or own a license to have a personal copy of.

He was legally been unable to start going through those and removing access (unless reported through a DMCA-like-mechanism) because then he would be moderating his platform and that opens him up to liability if his moderation tactics are not 100% effective.

Safe Harbor provisions are important and he was trying to keep them in place for his service.
AWK is still my go-to scripting language for quick tasks, like simple computation and basic data analysis. It is still the best thing in its problem space.

Given, AWK's problem space is very small, but still...
> with one officer stating that I made her feel "uncomfortable"

This is becoming a common reaction in the UK, not just at borders and not just with customs and immigration officers. I encountered a similar attitude once when I was accosted by a security guard in Tesco who demanded that I put shoes on. When I politely asked him why he immediately called his supervisor on the radio and told her that I was threatening him.
> For so many reasons, we need to end crop subsidies in this country.

We also need to reduce consumption of meat, and work towards raising it more healthily. It should be common sense that an unstressed animal fed the diet that it's evolved to thrive on would yield better meat (e.g. grass fed beef is objectively superior to cows fattened on corn.)

Of course it is more expensive to do this, but so be it. There are plenty of cheap sources of nutritious proteins; people could be directed to adjust their expectations. Of course, there are many deep pocketed industry resources that would be against such an adjustment, and there's a new deep-pockets friendly administration in charge, so there's little hope of this happening in the near future...
>This prohibits them from barring me from entering

In practice, you can be barred from entering the US for effectively any reason at all, unless you are a citizen. At the border you have almost no rights at all.
Yes, I agree, but I also think the most interesting comparisons are intra-ecosystem. It does not make sense to use stars to compare a JS framework with a Clojure one, for example
No one can detect a joke when it involves Trump...
One of the few advertised products he's ever delivered, really. There's a decent writeup [0] for some of his past run-ins with the law and crazy claims. Come to think of it, there are some Trumpesque parallels.

https://www.wired.com/2012/01/kim-dotcom/
> Having kids with two full-time working parents totally changes you. So much that it took 3 job changes to finally find the right balance - no more interesting startups, it's relatively boring web stuff as freelancer for me.

You can still do interesting startups! But I would strongly recommend:

1. Startups which support remote work well. (If you can survive and thrive as a freelance consultant, you've got the discipline to make this work.)

2. Startups with enough money to pay you salary.

3. Startups where at least some of the cofounders have kids.

So no more pre-money startups in dubious makeshift "offices" in San Franciso run by brilliant and ambitious 23-year-olds, basically. I know, that spoils some of the fun, but it also reduces the outcome variance.

(I also wake up at 5am and start my working day very early, giving me more flexibility later in the day. It helps.)
Joe Biden: ‘I Wish to Hell I’d Just Kept Saying the Exact Same Thing’
homeless crazy people, gay BDSM-parades and human feces on the streets

One of those is not like the others.
Frank Herbert: The Meaning of Success
What about s6?
"You may wait but time will not"

Additionally failure is a big part of the learning process, and each failure brings you closer to success because you now have a life experience that you can use to shape your future choices.
At the end of the day they have to cover their ass. So they are doing things that if they end up in court, they can use to defend themselves.
> And how do you ensure compliance when half the Eurozone wants to exit?

Half the Eurozone? Last time I've checked, Britain wasn't half the Eurozone. Even better, Britain has never been part of the Eurozone, so what exactly are you thinking about Mike?

Do you really know the topic at hand? Mind you, it's OK to give your opinion without knowing the topic; but it's also OK to point out that the above is wrong and based on misinformation.

EU != Eurozone

P.S.: I'm sorry I've stalked your profile for exactly 2 minutes in order to get some context of who I am talking to. You claim to be studying economics, yet you fail to understand the difference between the EU and the Eurozone - being the latter purely economic and the former mainly political. I have also noted you are very keen on commenting about EU disintegration and passing biased opinions as facts (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13406733).

What's your agenda, Mike?

P.S.2: Ok, just spent 2 more minutes (I just scrolled down your last 4-5 comments) and I know now what's your agenda.
Well the contact centers I know are not going mobile but going to soft phones on the pc.
This is no longer true as of about three weeks ago:

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-tsa-changes-policy-201...
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It used to be to show off what I could do (which was a big high), then after my wife died unexpectedly (She was 36 and I was 35), I've only done stuff to help my co-employee's to their jobs (which is a high, but i'm most lack luster in my attitude in wanting to get it done). Depression is a bitch.
I think the down votes come from him equating crazy homeless people and human feces with gays and BDSM practioners.
I've been depressed on and off for as long as I can remember.

These days I know it pretty well and basically manage it out of habit and experience.

This doesn't prevent events from pushing me into a depressive episode, but it does mean I know what steps I need to take to get through and get out. Because in the depths of suicidal depression, I know in my bones that it's pointless, meaningless etc. But I know in my head that this is just a feeling, no matter how real it feels, and that it won't last forever.

I did a talk about living with depression and ADHD last year, which might be of interest[0].

[0] http://original.livestream.com/pivotallabs/video?clipId=pla_...
I think there are degrees of this.

Like, once you have

* first class functions that you can pass around
* anonymous functions
* closures over functions

you can get by. This is what enables you to create the usual higher-order function toolbox, all those nice functions that convert your code to long list of composable map/filter/reduce/zip/walk e.t.c.

I remember reading that python got here iteratively, i.e. you could pass around functions, but they needed to be defined top-level, then you had anonymous functions, but you needed to pass in variables from enclosing scope explicitly, and finally you had closures.

But I agree that fast, immutable datastructures make all of this much nicer. But not having them is not as much of a deal-breaker.

Similarily tail-call optimization. I used clojure at work while dealing with haskell on a school projects, and from that time on, I found "loop/recur" kinda ugly :-) NodeJS with --harmony actually supports it now.

Similarly, pattern matching. Don't you need to pull that as a lib in clojure as well? With destructuring this almost is a js feature.

So, I wouldn't loose much sleep over it anyway :)
gitea was initially just a fork so development could continue - with every intention of merging it back into gogs.

However, Unknwon, responded here [0], let me point out his main reason for not merging back:

> Gitea won't be merged back to Gogs, it's not about merging work is huge and hard, it's the differences of fundamental philosophy. I personally do not like to push hard to release new features, but make code neat and clean, it's not good for business, but Gogs isn't a business, making it is what I love to do.

[0] https://github.com/gogits/gogs/issues/1304#issuecomment-1246...
I run openRC on Arch. If you want to escape from the horrors of systemd, it's a good way to do so.

But I've ranted far too much about systemd here on HN to write another one without explicit prompting.

The point is, I really like OpenRC: generally speaking, it's well-designed, reasonably simple, easy to manage, and actually does what it's supposed to. What systemd-isms that have invaded haven't effected me yet.
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A direct quote from Unknwon:

> In my point of view, it's a sign of success of Gogs that Gitea forked it. Gogs is under MIT license and there is no problem with me totally that Gitea is developing its own version. It happens often in open source community(when you are not satisfied with upstream version, I fork a lot actually). [0]

[0] https://github.com/gogits/gogs/issues/1304#issuecomment-1246...
> minor releases of a supposedly stable branch included backwards-incompatible changes that broke applications and themes.

No, the releases broke only themes and exactly that was communicated - that the CSS engine was work in progress and that themes were going to be broken.

Those, who didn't want to listen complained afterwards. Color me surprised.
Since this is Hacker News my plea may be answered: does anyone have the artwork or an actual example of the infamous AWK T-shirt? From memory it features a bird jumping (pàrachuting) out of a plane and is titled with AWK's most famous error message: "awk: bailing out near line 1."
What else can you do? If you have a target or want to achieve something, the only option available is to try again.

What helps me is knowing that I have people who care deeply for me,and who I care for just as much.

I could quit, but, given all my blessings and the support I have, I wouldn't be able to face myself if I quit.

I've had / survived some very difficult times (borderline starvation, seen my partner pass away due to cancer, been subject to significant violence and have been the source of similar violence..), so I don't think I'm being facetious.

What keeps me going is my friends and family. And ironically, given all my experience(s), an enduring faith in humanity, that, over time, the future will always be better than the present.

To paraphrase Churchill, "you can always count on humanity to do the right thing after it has tried everything else"
If he felt strongly about it, simply saying something like "I don't believe that you are a police officer" and refusing to obey would probably eventually work.

(And yes, I know that CBP are not the same thing as police but this seems to more reasonably be the sort of thing that someone would say.)
When you compare things, you will end up, that today those people have for more elaborate techniques for spying on us. When the people which have done it in East Germany, look at what is done in the West today, they have tears in their eyes, because what they did was Kindergarden in comparison.
Last commit: 11 Aug 2015, maybe add (2015) to the headline?
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My wife and I just moved from SF to Minneapolis two weeks ago.

She's an SF native and I'm from Minnesota.

I work in tech for a company based in SOMA. Our daughter was born in April.

We managed in our one bedroom in the Tenderloin for nine months. We probably could have stuck it out longer, but we certainly weren't saving any money and the looming thought of child care costs and school were enough to push us to our decision.
Last versions of MemTest86 (>6.0) have Row hammer test too:

"Version 6.0.0 13/Feb/2015

New Features

New "Hammer Test" for detecting disturbance errors caused by charge leakage when repeatedly accessing addresses in the same memory bank but different rows in a short period of time."

http://www.memtest86.com/support/ver_history.htm
Personally I look towards people I admire; especially times they screwed up. For example, right now Donald Trump is somebody that's very inspiring to me, because I consider him a great and admirable man, who has also made many mistakes over time. I admire his ability to pick himself back up and keep going.

You will probably have other people you admire; look for times they made mistakes. What's important is realizing everybody makes mistakes all the time. In the end, what makes a great person is their ability to pick themselves up and keep going. Never stagnate.
And yet for all their magic, they were just as wrong about the outcome of the election:

You might think from a casual reading of the Cambridge Analytica press release that they predicted the outcome of the election. They did not. A company spokesman called reporters before election day to say that Trump had only a 20 per cent chance of winning.

Source: http://www.spectator.co.uk/2016/12/the-british-data-cruncher...
Possibly not that different, but I (and I think a lot of other people) aren't very happy with those rules either. And TPP undeniably expands the scope / makes it more likely these kind of judgements would be made.
Amongst the worst HR practice now is 'keyword searching' CV's against a job spec by people who have no idea what those terms mean.

An acquaintance told me he saw a downturn in contract work offers due to X qualification becoming widespread in his sector. He changed his CV to say 'I don't have X but..' and found traffic returned to normal!
Most people don't realize that companies can get salary history from a number of sources. ADP actually provides this as a service to larger customers.
because that external demand could disappear tomorrow if fashions change
That's the kind of standardization I had in mind :) Building such a system, we must make sure to have all the etc files in repos, even if we do not edit them, and copy them on build, instead of just having them in repos if we want to make a change, or using `sed` in dockerfile to edit them.

That is, for people who want their etc files easily lookable, of course.
I doubt you have done this kind of development. The advantages of fast edit/compile/run cycles are widely acknowledged (as are the advantages of compiled languages). Many development domains profit greatly from instant feedback.

"Should I put more space here? Is the border too thick? Let's see".

"Oops! I know why it's failing. I'm quickly going to fix the order of the arguments".

It's great if you can do these things in 3-10 seconds instead of minutes. Not everybody is designing airplane control software.
Experiments with this type of program have found that it mainly acts as a windfall to people who would have had children anyway. Demand for children seems to be pretty inelastic with respect to money. As far as I can see, it's a matter of social expectations and convenience.
Then you can answer in a way that doesn't violate §1001(a). Honestly though, I don't think the scheme is smart in the first place because it can put you in trouble if authorities question you.

A much better method I have heard is to ship your electronics beforehand, travel with only a burner cellphone, then pick up the electronics after you arrive. Repeat when traveling out of the country.
Not to take away from challenges of the legacy telecommunications industry right now, but this article slides in the private equity LBO part of Avaya's story at the very end - and then only hints at what happened here.

I hope the pensioners and benefits obligations get paid the money they are owed ASAP, because this is a classic story of private equity (Silver and TPG) financially engineering a cash-siphon from a dying dinosaur and then "phoning it in" when it came to the manage out/re-price of new risk.

I don't have a problem with mega private equity and I can see some kool-aid drinkers saying "any acquisition made in October 2007 (the technical peak of the pre-crisis market) was going to have a tough time working out as played". But this was a deal designed to fail from the start.

Basically the private equity stunt here was: find a company that has $100, take $99 of it, use the company's last $1 to buy a lottery ticket, try to convince other investors that $1 ticket is a winner. They failed huge here.
We need to become less sensitive to disclosures. Everyone has something private they don't want shared online.

Also, we need software to protect us from accidental disclosures, implemented as a browser extension, proxy or filter in the OS (like an antivirus). Privacy should be made simpler.
Might be a long shot, but I often find I link my body state to my mind state unconsciously. Meaning if my body is struggling because of lack of attention in some area, the mind interprets itself as being depressed/sad/angry. I know when I look after my body - striving to drink a min of 3L of water a day, limiting sugar, getting up and away from the computer when I can, doing simple exercises throughout the day (yoga, presssups, pullups) - all leads to a much improved body state which in turn makes huge differences in my mood. This in turn increases productivity, outlook on life and so on.

It's a marathon though, and you have to keep it up. The body doesn't exactly make it's feelings clear either! Anyway not trying to simplify your problem, best of luck.
Right. And a lot of people, taking a look at those advantages and disadvantages, determine that SaaS repos make sesnse for them.