skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed. Unless you're a cancer patient on palliative care, turning to opiods for long term pain management (particularly as a first line of defense, which so often seems to be the case) strikes me as completely insane.

Part of the problem is that, prior to the Oxy epidemic, the reality is doctors were probably under-managing pain, particularly for chronic pain sufferers.

Unfortunately, the reaction (again, in part due to drug company marketing) was to swing the other way and over-prescribe these drugs.
I was a bout to say: as a Dutchman I'd like to see some comparisons between our population and the neighbouring countries.
I like the idea of using web technologies for desktop application. The only major problem right now is that each application uses at least 1.5-2g of RAM each since it basically launches a full web browser under it (and chromium loves ram). We will need enormous amount of RAM soon if all applications starts to go that way...
fun little anecdote: Lucas asked Lynch to direct Return of the Jedi. The mind reels… http://www.slashfilm.com/david-lynch-talks-about-not-directi...
spoilers

Dune had a lot of water. It wasn't circulating in a normal precipitation model but was instead sequestered underground via a few different means. And that doesn't even mention the sand-trout.
The comment implied that repeated doses to a given person are wildly unpredictable. This is false.

Further, you absolutely can approximate how long tolerance lasts, but my point was that you can predict that your tolerance is reduced after abstinence, as opposed to the original comment which suggested that all dosing was unpredictable.
JavaScript conferences in 2017
Thank you for sharing, the gitmarks looks very interesting.
Great story!

I don't have a memory of caller id being around when I ran my BBS, or maybe I just didn't have it.
Some VR users (and IMAX 3D customers) have reported 'learning' stereovision.

I'm pretty sure I'm stereoblind. I think my brain is too lazy to combine images into 3D. Pot seemed to kick my brain into overdrive and process that signal. My friend laughs at me for "seeing in 3D for the first time" and doesn't believe me.
"Our country is now a surveillance police state, and our civil liberties have been traded for a false sense of security. Meanwhile, everyone I know and love is a slave to a casino financial system that has robbed my entire generation of our youth, health, ability to own a home, and start families of our own. To make matters worse, everyone is trapped in echo chambers, and divided by the mainstream media and social media due to identity politics because the technology that was supposed to set us free has instead been weaponized against all of us."
I've been cycling since I was a kid, I would never consider moving to a cyclist-hostile area in the first place. On an average day my morning commute is the best part of my day, I would sacrifice a lot of things before I sacrifice that.
I did the same. I got fed up with constantly tweaking my Emacs config so I switched to VS Code. A month later I was back because VS Code was missing too many things I wanted and didn't really work the way I wanted it to.

So the way I feel about it now is, yes, it would be nice to not have to deal with these configurations. But so far, editors like this aren't as good as the ones that do require more complex configuration, at least in my opinion.

But as others have mentioned, it's not so bad. Once you get your config right you can mostly leave it alone.
Very surprised to pop in and see discussion of Dune without mention that Denis Villeneuve is rebooting Dune. [0] Villeneuve is also working on the Blade Runner sequel scheduled for release in October.

For anyone who has seen Arrival, Sicario, or his other movies, I wonder if you're on the same hype level as me. He's absolutely excellent. He also seems to loves sci-fi, which can't hurt.

[0] http://www.theverge.com/2017/2/1/14468876/dune-reboot-denis-...
I first saw it as a teenager, right after I had finished reading the Frank Herbert series. It was so different from what I expected - I HATED it! But over the years, it has grown on me, and has really made me appreciate the difficulty that creators face when they are adapting something into a different medium. Lynch is a master filmmaker, and he was ruthless in his re-molding of the source material to make it work on the silver screen. The books are very focused on the internal lives of characters, and the grand designs of powerful people - and I think Lynch instinctively knew that a lot of that wouldn't translate well. Indeed, the awkward inner thoughts that you hear all through Lynch's Dune are one of the worst aspects of the movie... despite being faithful renditions of Frank Herbert's Dune.

What finally won me over was the realization that Lynch's movie in no way devalued the books. Sure, it left out a lot... but it more than made up for it by giving me some visual glimpses of what a Dune universe might be like, how live-action representations of these characters might behave. The aggressive weirdness helped give it that otherworldly feel that I felt when reading the books. I would never recommended it as a substitute to reading it... but as a companion work, it's excellent.

I hope the scuttlebutt about a new Dune movie is true. The more the merrier!
OK, I read the linked article now and apparently you have to change a setting in Firefox in order to see the URL in punycode as Mozilla decided it is "not a bug".

Eg. about:config and set the "network.IDN_show_punycode" to true to avoid this trap.
The increased probability of being killed by a motorist reduces your net probability of dying from anything else regardless.

Joking! (Well, mostly.)
What is it with tech companies and fucking terrible name/branding analogies?

Docker. Ok, works with containers I get... wait. Your logo is a WHALE with a bunch of shipping containers on it. You know that whales DISAPPEAR underwater for hours at a time, and shipping containers are NOT MEANT TO DO THAT?

Ok ok maybe it was an honest mistake hey whats this new thing moby.. wait. Whales. Moby. Moby dick? Your project is named after a mythical white whale that sank boats, the very thing that actually carry CONTAINERS.

Having said all that, based on this [1] summary of Docker's usefulness in production from February, maybe both names are absolutely on-point for the reality of this abysmal 'product'.

1. https://thehftguy.com/2017/02/23/docker-in-production-an-upd...
Microsoft snuffs out Wunderlist
Ask HN: Name for an AI screencast website
Hi Friends,

I am going to build an ai screencast website.

Given some of you would be interested in screencasts on various ai-related topics, I thought I'd reach out to see what you thought would be a good name for the website.

First choice: aicasts
Second choice: aiengine
Third choice: aicodex
Fourth choice: something else?
A big French ISP and mobile phone carrier is announcing banking services
> Pretty much everyone knows the price of admission to using tools like Vim and Emacs is the time investment in config and learning the quirks.

To me, the real hurdle to vim (or emacs) isn't configuration : it's learning vim (or emacs). That muscle memory doesn't come from a .vimrc file, and it doesn't come overnight. Is that what you meant by "quirks"?
I was impressed by the author's plan, actually. They listed many forms of leverage that _wouldn't_ work on tech monopolies and then arrived at one that would:

> The one effective lever we have against tech companies is employee pressure. Software engineers are difficult to hire, expensive to train, and take a long time to replace. Small teams in critical roles (like operations or security) have the power to shut down a tech company if they act in concert.
If you're not interested in a constructive conversation then don't comment in the first place.

If I've misunderstood what's going on with C then by all means tell me what does happen. To the best of my knowledge, if we're talking about 8 same-typed coordinates then there's no alignment/struct-packing issue, so whether you have 8 named doubles (say) or a struct with 8 double members (or indeed an array of 8 doubles), the in-memory representation on the stack is going to be the same; function calling convention is platform-specific but could easily have the same behaviour for the struct vs the named doubles (an array would be different in that case since you can't pass them by value). If that's wrong then talk constructively about what does happen.

> you want to load your 8-dimensional points from a file, where else could you possibly be getting them?

My point wasn't that you want to load them from a file, it's that it would be rare to want to have a point literal directly in your source. But why let that stop you leaping to a good ad hominem?
Bangalore Angular Meetup
What problems? I have the same computer and love it.
Chris Foss?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Foss
I had to google MBP :).

I would buy none of these two btw, unless they tell me that they didn't rip off little children in some remote place... In that case I'd even pay lil bit extra.
What exactly is the difference between Moby and Docker CE?
Unfortunately the Bose QC35s also have ANC on all the time with no way to disable it.
"vast minority" threw me for a moment there.
Oracle will pay more than $850M for Moat
If you think there is insight to be gained by this analogy, you clearly do not understand the magnitude and the background leading up to the Rosa Parks incident. They are not comparable in any way shape or form. There is literally no insight to be had. It's a horrible analogy.
Except that you'd be required to reboot the OS every time you swap. Which is what a lot of developers would rather avoid.

Maybe they could have a tiny low power battery that could last 5-10 mins to reboot-less battery swaps
duplicate, please check before submitting! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14154378
Life Expectancy vs. Health Care Spending Curve
And there are also many specialized competitors, while Wikipedia is very generic. For instance, I can't think of anyone I know that would go to Wikipedia first to find out about a movie. First choices would be Youtube for trailers or IMDB for detailed data.
Yet it was unusually popular in America:

> When first launched in Japan by Namco in 1980, the game received a lukewarm response, as Space Invaders and other similar games were more popular at the time. However, Pac-Man's success in North America in the same year took competitors and distributors completely by surprise.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pac-Man#Reception
That's not quite how it works.

- Decision maker googles and finds there's this Docker company that will solve their problems. Heard good buzz about Docker in the news, how open it is, and how many companies use it.

- Decision maker to engineer: "Hey can we use Docker software to solve problem X"

- Engineer: "Sure, the software is actually called Moby now though"

- Decision maker: "Meh, I don't care what it's called, I just want problem X solved. Docker solves it?"

- Engineer: "Yeah I guess"

- Decision maker: "Ok here's your budget. Pay Docker to solve problem X."

- Engineer: "Alright"
As long as I am an expert in any and all disciplines, I will find success. Got it.
My Documents, My Downloads, My Computer... and now My Day.
The criticism reads like superficial snark, and misses the wood for the trees.

It's not a terrible film. Not by a long way.

It's a difficult film. It's risky. It's not entirely successful.

But terrible? Wisecracking CGI Superheroes Episode Number Actually I've Lost Count Now is a terrible film. (One of a long, long series.)

Men With Guns and So Very Much Shooting is a terrible film.

Too Many Explosions Looking for a Plot That Isn't All About Running and Shouting is a terrible film.

Dune was one of many drug-assisted weird things that fell out of the 1970s and never quite left. It's not a terrible film - it's a museum piece.
Well, the web is evolving.

If you're a sysadmin and you test everything in an ancient version of Firefox that doesn't display SSL errors, you're not getting an accurate picture of what the product's users will see. The latest browsers might entirely block people from visiting your site, display a huge warning, etc. and you wouldn't know. Maybe being a sysadmin requires getting the fixes, refreshes, rebranding as they come down the pipe? I'm also not a fan of the recent changes, just take a more defeatist attitude I guess!
This is not the performance you were looking for
The problem is that it has been proven that it is easy for large pharmaceutical companies to deceptively represent these drugs. Oxycontin has been marketed as being effective at managing pain for 12 or sometimes even 24 hours, but this is not the case in many users and this is a big factor in why the drug is so addictive.
http://www.latimes.com/projects/oxycontin-part1/

What about the Portugese model described in the article (legal for consumption, illegal to commercialize), with some of the funds spent on controlling drug related violence instead being turned towards treatment centers where addicts can get something like Methadone?
Why Telegram Voice Calls Are Blocked in Countries Like China or Iran
Serde 1.0.0 for Rust released
Funny you should mention the Mars series, as in Red Mars one of my favorite characters actually says “Everything is political!”.
Maybe not, but they spend an hour a day wandering through the feed.

Google is more transactional. Facebook are display ads that are displacing TV.
I agree entirely with your first point. Sadly though, the free healthcare bit works against a sensible legalization path.

The pearl clutching puritans have a legitimate gripe with drug use if they, the taxpayers, are forced to fund the fallout of drug abuse. Turning a personal, though be it poor, decision to use hard drugs from a personal issue into a public one.
I was hoping to see a little more analysis as well. We did a study[1] about people moving for marijuana and we were surprised to find people were fairly open about discussing the topic. But I'd be very curious to see more about how conversations online are forming around marijuana.

[1]https://www.movebuddha.com/blog/moving-for-marijuana/
I'm not really a right-wing guy either, but I think anyone can agree that the current "magic numbers" involved in H1-B visas are very much central planning at its worst.
> (btw tmux and vim are perfect for phone keyboards, try it yourself)

What terminal emulator do you use on your phone? Android, right?
So it's like Chromium, Google Chrome, and then imagine an enterprise version of Google Chrome?
A quick note about using natural language/sentiment APIs: trained machine learning models must be used apples-to-apples on similar datasets; for example, you can’t accurately perform Twitter sentiment analysis on a dataset using a model trained on professional movie reviews since Tweets do not follow AP Style guidelines. (e.g. for some reason, training Python's NLTK on the IMDb movie review dataset to predict the sentiment of Donald Trump's tweets is a oddly common Hello World, even though the results are misleading and may cause confirmation bias)

Reddit comments are very idiosyncratic, and in this particular case, even moreso than usual. As a result, I am skeptical of trusting the output of such APIs as gospel, even one trained on massive datasets. (however, training a model on a Reddit-only dataset might be interesting, and is an idea I have in the pipeline.)

Last year, spaCy trained a model, sense2vec, on the Reddit dataset and got interesting results: https://explosion.ai/blog/sense2vec-with-spacy
Thunderbird has browser engine to display html emails anyway. And probably most of Thunderbird's code is already in javascript, but using XUL instead of HTML DOM.
Please rename to Moby Dock instead.
I'm really intrigued by what all you're doing that you have this kind of problem. I maintain a pretty complex vimrc, and deploying it is normally just a git clone. I've never had any of these issues, and when I started at google (which provides a nice collection of internal vim configs and plugins), combining the two and getting everything set up took me O(hours), not O(days). What are you doing?
Maybe I've skimmed this too fast but I saw nothing in the article that looks at the source of people doing the drugs in the first place.

I had friends that did drugs merely because they were in bad situations and there was no public support they could reach out before resorting to doing illegal things to avoid feeling hopeless.

There are people that got roped into doing these specific drugs because of the hell they went through with injuries/diseases and the painkillers gave them a bit of sanity. Do we have public programs that assign mentors and counselors to these people for a year or longer?

Regulations, criminalization, legalization will never ever deter drug use in this country as long as we continue to have lackluster support systems for these folks. We need to stop looking at the drugs and start looking at the people and stop treating them as subhumans.
I concede that I neglected drug interactions; however when you said vastly different effects, I interpreted it as meaning unique effects based on dosage, similar to something like DXM, as opposed to two ends of a relatively linear scale of analgesia->sedation->death. Which is untrue.
Are you really implying writing a bunch of print statements is more "professional" than a debugger? Debuggers are incredibly useful in tracking certain things down and don't make you write and then remove a ton of logging statements. Sometimes logging is easier, sometimes debugging is, and not just for "junior devs".
addendum: turns out things are better in OCaml as well since OCaml threads will yield at not only IO but also memory allocation points.
A Mastodon-exclusive week
IMHO leaving out Liet-Kynes turns Dune into too much of an unironic hero-story, which is emphatically not what Herbert intended. Hence why he followed up with Dune Messiah.
Yes, d3-interpolate does a lot of the heavy lifting, but claiming that react-move doesn't provide any value is clearly untrue.
- Animation frame management, skipping frames if the cpu is overloaded
- React component API: you may not put value here, but some people find that easier to use, especially given the lifecycle hooks

Feel free to wire together your own solution if that works better for you. As for me, react-move is exactly what I need.
> Heck, maybe they could just skin Nylas Mail and call it Thunderbird ;-)

Skin it or Fork and Skin ;)
How Office Culture Can Crush Women’s Ambitions
Lifetime with children is more valueable when the children are younger.
An even better metric is someone who publicly makes investments. An excellent non-VC example of this is David Gardener of the The Motley Fool, who publicly announced his stock purchases and rationale before making them. He bought AOL in 1994, Amazon in 1997, Amgen and Starbucks in 1998 and eBay in 1999. In many cases the trades were unpopular for a year or two but you can be sure that his analysis of businesses has carried great weight ever since.

It inspired me to take public positions for many years afterward. While my returns weren't quite as good as his, I learned a ton and absolutely crushed the market for 7 years until getting reckless with margin and learning a less pleasant lesson.

I'm not sure if this blog makes many actual predictions but if so it would be very instructive to track them.
More on Windows phone app -> http://gunnarpeipman.com/2017/04/microsoft-to-do/
I was surprised to discover that MAME can emulate the Genesis, because a small number of arcade games actually used Genesis hardware internally.

It's my understanding (which could easily be wrong) that MAME uses near-circuit-level emulation of hardware in order to be as accurate as possible. This is why it is so resource intensive.

Could the MAME Genesis emulator run this demo?
I suppose they want to use their own UI and maybe link to some services or tools from Mozilla. But they should contact you to unite their effort with your: development time reduced from 3 years to 3 months (that is an approximation)...
Its just bad because the .git folder means that any time you delete an old git repo or anything, you get a fevered email from dropbox reminding you that you just deleted 10000 files.
I'm currently involved in writing a hex editor for big files (i.e. disk images), because I felt world needed one as well :), I already have a significant amount of code, it would be a waste if I'd switch projects now. Thanks for asking though. Working solo is hard, both for motivation and the amount of work that needs to be done. If I wouldn't have my current project I would definitely pair up with someone!
You keep on projecting. I never once stated that I visited any red-light districts, I just made the comparison and you automatically assumed.

Like I stated in my previous post - which it seems you did not read or comprehend - is that the sex industry is very visible everywhere in Thailand, even in "family-oriented tourist areas".

I stayed at a western-brand, seven star hotel in Bangkok and even there it was visible, and very gaudily so.

> The fact that you don't see what's creepy, if not outright sick, about describing people you consider to be victims of sexual exploitation as "young, lithe girls" is what's telling.

Hah, you're more obsessed with my words and my criticism of the sex tourism and judgement of sexpats - local and foreign - rather than the seedy sex industry itself.

Pretty obvious to me what type of person you are. You just love your "surfing" and "sightseeing" trips to SE Asia don't you?
It's funny how often people conflate these. I can be pro freedom of religion but an atheist. Support of the freedom to do anything != an endorsement
Not if the law forbids encrypted connections over Ham frequencies :)
Einstein only got one Nobel prize, in 1922. And it wasn't for relativity.
crossorigin.me is a reverse proxy that will make requests for you and add CORS headers to them. You can specify the API endpoint of a proxy you want to use or let it default to crossorigin.me.
I didn't need to call. I canceled last year via chat. It took me 15 minutes, answering about 10 quite annoying questions.
The linked article claims that they only pay 31% tax, but that's only a part of the tax they pay, not including VAT or the part of your salary paid by your employer, that you don't receive.

Martin Borgs made a movie about swedish taxes: Somebody Else Pays. It's watchable on youtube, with english subtitles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdi-Lg9pwkY

I really recommend watching it.
Then stop wasting your time talking to people that make you feel like talking to them is soul-destroying. Either that or go get help for your sociopathy.
Golang is focused on scaling/concurrency, is very compact and fairly quick to learn. You can compile a single binary and deploy it anywhere. You can build a web server in a few lines of code. It's really strong for processing tons of requests, web API's and backend code.

Java requires a whole app server which is more of a pain to setup. (generally speaking for web dev, think Tomcat, JBoss). It's way more verbose and you really need to rely on the power of an IDE to help code for you, importing class libraries, etc.

Spend a few hours with each, they're very different. Coming from Node/PHP you should be able to pickup Golang faster.
That was a very small section of the writeup, and I feel you've missed the point. The author isn't arguing that taxes are lower/the same as the US. He's stating very clearly that they are higher -- it's even in the title.

The argument is that we have the wrong mindset about taxes here in the US.
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I have wished those two wishes before. Haven't seen a solution.
Relevant, and why I am a member of Represent.us

https://promarket.org/argue-government-can-buy-government-qa...
Merino wool is really great, especially in a high humidity environment (e.g. Singapore). It's pretty comfy as well, not as comfy as cotton, though.