skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lovely article, as an orthopaedic surgeon I can tell you that most of us know this. Treating chronic pain with surgery is generally a bad idea, I spend a large share of my time explaining this. Some patients are grateful for this, but I think that many go and try to find "a real doctor".

An interesting development is that there is generally an increased acceptance for psychiatric diagnoses. More are accepting that just as the pancreas may stop delivering insulin, the brain may fail to uphold the proper seretonin levels. Unfortunately it is not as simple as that, fixing seretonin or any other substance is like pouring oil over an engine and hope that it reaches the target. Still, I'm sure that we will see a huge change as true targeted treatments are no longer just sci-fi. Getting people to the right specialist is until then a good start.
To be fair, spotify was able to thrive because the pirate-solution alternative got shut down (grooveshark).
Electron does have native menus on OSX. I always got the impression that OSX is the main OS the team is interested in supporting.
And a stepper motor for head stack positioning.
Or just because ads is not viable before reaching 5M views a month. While convincing 1000 fans to give you 5$/month is easier. Patreon allow people with small community of dedicated fans to make a living while YT allows people that make crap watched by millions of people to make money. So they are complementary.
Well, we're up against limits of nature now. We can't go smaller; CPUs won't get much faster automatically. They'll only get wider and use existing space more efficiently.
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So unfair competitive advantage to the local companies? If it were so easy I wonder why they don't do this already.

Additionally what about services or products that don't exist or haven't had time to be replicated in one's country. Then that country cannot be on the cutting edge of new technology simply because they penalize buying from international companies.
And the point is that using a free search engine is cheaper AND more convenient than reading through a journal. Like, would you subscribe to a poorly curated version of HN and Reddit instead of just going to the source?
It costs money to maintain the distribution network to every additional client. But then they are regulated to (theoretically) cost just enough to ensure such goals. If the network is self-maintaining and already serves every client, then that business would be over, too.
They've never been really great, but my point is that they added more value then than they do now.

One critical value they once provided was to discover and popularize new styles. They don't do that anymore at all. Last time they did in a big way was probably grunge in the early 90s. Since then any new movements have had to go around the major labels. They've retreated to endless retreads of copycat pop.
The development of the scientific method, as advocated by Francis Bacon and other empiricists seems to me to underlie so many of the achievements that followed Bacon.
Were publisher really adding zero value ? honest question.

Did they help people finding books, or organized events, helped authors in any albeit indirect way ?
Pretty sure that the value of Dropbox doesn't come from the storage. It comes from their software. The magic thing that allows to replicate all your data seamlessly between as many computers and phones as you want, without the need to click any button or understand what the word storage even means.
I search for racist phrases.

Earlier I was fact checking my response to The Daily Mail ironically blaming web giants like Google for terrorism and extremism in the UK. I searched "Hurrah for the blackshirts", and that's extremely mild compared to the some of the stuff I searched for re: what Pewdiepie said, or in the wake of Charlottesville.

Not everyone who searches racist phrases are racist.

I think being able to target people searching for racist material is potentiality as valuable to those who oppose racism as to those who are actually racist.
Maybe you disagree with him or perhaps think his position is ill-considered or too woolly or somesuch. But 'bad faith'? You really believe he's being intentionally duplicitous and deceptive?
Pretty sure Condors need a clear path. You usually don't see them flying below the tree tops low to the ground.
Yes. Then add a service on the OS that fetches the libraries for any binary. It's not a complicated thing. It's been obvious to me for years that this is how exact version linking should work.

Linux at least has library versioning so this is less of a problem. Windows has foo.dll and foo.dll and foo.dll, so pretty much the only way is to ship your own foo.dll.
Thanks a lot.

ps: project list is cool http://harc.ycr.org/project/
If you use rebase or squash merge with something like Phabricator, you can always open up the Diff URL in the commit message and see the granular history (and discussion) if you care to.
Agreed. I should have been more clear on my criticism. If the author had the goal of convincing people beyond their existing audience then explaining their terms would have helped significantly.
Publishers don't have a natural monopoly, just a circumstantial monopoly. (Yes I just made that up.)

That produces a completely different implication: Zero marginal cost means that a competitor can come along at any time and charge a zero price. This is the power of advancing information technology: it empowers people with little to no capital & operational budget to have a proportionately huge effect on any information system that has zero marginal cost.
Neat. Has anyone created the diagram for 2012, 2016, or other historical Olympics?
Pretty much.

The value is in the brand. The brand value includes editing and keeping up the quality.

With open access model, high prestige journal could ask much more per publication than $1,500 - 3,000 normal open access journal does.

If they the cost of publishing in Nature would be $15,000 and they would continue publishing 800 articles per year, it would make $12 million per year. If they would double the number of articles published they could make almost the same money with smaller fee.
Looking at the page I remembered the first HDD I even bought: a 13GB from IBM (before the deathstar chapter). Coming from a 1GB drive, I thought this thing would never be filled. Didn't took long before I revise my billgatey judgement.
You can also get a radio controlled watch
Scilab is ancient; I was using it in grad school. They also made a decision at one point to make it just slightly incompatible with Matlab, which was probably a mistake. Octave is actually better at this point; they've managed to reproduce the best of Matlab's UI, which was always quite good.

While I rarely develop things in Matlab, it is worth noticing that it is a very elegant way of expressing linear algebra and numeric oriented programs. Python is a vastly more useful language, but numerics are an afterthought, and expressing numerics is abominable in Python. When I'm looking up how to implement some classic numerics algorithm, the Matlab way is usually concise and its vector oriented operations are usually the right way to express it in any interpreted language, as it keeps you in Lapack-land (remember, Matlab's origins were a repl for Eispack/Linpack).
There's a more embedded/low-power device friendly language called NesC that's embedded in a (mildly popular) distro called TinyOS. https://github.com/tinyos/nesc

The compiler for TinyOS produces whole-program-optimized, statically linked binaries, which alone is worth it to me.
It costs some money to get a DOI. Publishers can still be content aggregators and indexers, or curators. Sci-hub is merely an archive.
Javascript is not easy to learn. Many language quirks, and doing anything fancy with asynchronous code will require an understanding of closures, functional programming, and perhaps promises.
dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15262717
That spring will be connected to drive the escapement. The resonator is the equivalent of a pendulum, even though it contains a spring. The escapement wheel is driven by a non-constant force from the drive spring. The resonator regulates its motion to tick at a regular rate, and in so doing draws power to keep resonating. The rest of the watch is driven from the same source.
This video lecture might interest you:

http://techtv.mit.edu/videos/15895-an-electrical-engineering...
So true! Sadly, the relevant Econ agencies work opposite to your logic. The worst example was when a Fed banker insisted that faster iPads cancel out food inflation:

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-fed-dudley-ipad/ipad-p...

You're right, 10x the transistors is less than 10x as useful. 10x faster CPU in an iPad is not 10x better, because you won't be able to harness all that speed before you hit another bottleneck. And you can't buy a fraction of an iPad. And you definitely can't eat one.
Consul-tree for hashicorp/consul
Agreed l. Also network effect may happen IRL and on FB, no need to rely on Patreon for it
+1 to this. I suffered from back pain for a long time. Long distance running made it worse. Running made my core weaker and my back pain became worse. Physical therapy did not help. MRI scan revealed a 5 degree scoliosis and a slightly bulging disc (L5/S1). What has helped since then is massaging my glutes thoroughly with a lacrosse ball regularly. Foam rolling my back, glutes, ITB and quads. Strength training for the back, core and upper body in general. Before starting strength training, focus on relieving tightness for a couple of weeks.
I have created a Tree representation of the Key/Value Store part of hashicorp/consul, take a look at it and give me your opinion, Version 6.0 is the latest release, demos ( screenshots are available also ) https://github.com/vagharsh/consul-tree
Migrations and self hosted infrastructure don't do themselves. Netflix can get quite a lot of stuff done on AWS for the $200k+ dollars it would take to hire one single employee.
I mean, you were wrong then, and you're wrong now, and if you read the law you'd see that.

Your bbc example is telling: he's an admitted paedophile, who was offending against children. The OPA isn't new law, it's very old law.

> He admitted at Preston Crown Court to storing hundreds of child abuse images and posting on a paedophile website.
I'm curious about that original passage - is the real reason for that something like that a native Chinese person writing a letter to another native Chinese person telling them that they were sick and had to cancel something would not phrase things like that, using the literal word for "to sneeze"? Is some other phrase or wording more commonly used to communicate things like that?
In hindsight, it might be the ultimate achievement.
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Simply don't hold conferences in the United States anymore.

And it is already happening, though only sporadically.
That depends on how the Amazon business is organized. It's possible that the P&L never join on the same spreadsheet.
In theory, an IDE should be able to toggle between a literate programming layout and the actual structure that gets executed. Both views are valuable. If we take your argument to extremes, all programmers should write in assembly. Clearly programming supports very abstract levels of indirection, and in some cases a story is a natural way to organize code, such as when programming to a spec, implementing specific features, or developing a user experience. Interestingly, Git commit messages, branches, and tags have taken over some of these aspects of literate programming.
I'd heard vim does, but when the situation came where I needed it, it turned out I'm fine with just moving back in time.
I think Guix has the potential to do that. At least the hash for the reproducible build is part of the package definition.

So it seems like one should be able to just have that hash, and then rely on the backend to just go fetch a blob that has that hash from a list of possible sources (centralized repo, bittorrent tracker, IPFS, etc.)
"Rule 5. Data dominates. If you've chosen the right data structures and organized things well, the algorithms will almost always be self-evident."

This should have been #1.

Really. In all of my 20 years of designing and writing software products, I have the learned that pretty much all of the work depends on the data model/the data structures.

(And also: once you have you have understood the data structures of a program, you kinda understand the program too.)

It is by far the number one mistake for juniors to do - focusing on the code rather than on the data structures.
Toys vs tools. I want paying my electric bill to by trivial. If I'm doing real work, I want all the power software can give me.

I can forgive my retired grandmother for not getting copy and paste. A professional however, should constantly strive to improve their mastery of their tools.
I believe the Black drives have a reputation for being pretty noisy.
On Hackernews there was once a skeptic of postmodernism who got into a debate with a Derrida fan. The skeptic said "If deconstruction is not BS, how about you explain to us, in plain English, what it's all about." The Derrida fan replied "No. How about you demonstrate that you've read Husserl, Heidegger, Hegel, Nietzsche, Freud, and Levinas. Then we can begin to talk about Derrida."

If Alan Kay were like the Derrida fan, then he could have rebuffed anyone who came asking what the Dynabook was about with "How about you demonstrate that you've studied the achievements of McLuhan, Montessori, Papert, Minsky, Engelbart, etc. Then we'll talk." Of course he's not like that so he's going to try to give the reporter a bit of the background he has in those things and let them figure it out for themself.

The Dynabook is supposed to be, roughly, an iPad with a keyboard, stylus, and a Lisp Machine-like OS. Of course Apple and third parties have closed the gap with keyboards and styli but it's the OS that's the really important bit because in order for a Dynabook to be a Dynabook it must not be a thing that you can just download and run preapproved apps on. You have to be able to discover -- and change -- the entire system from the bare metal on up. Think "Stallmanism on steroids".

It's like a television you can talk back to. Computing is a dynamic medium that demands interaction from its user, so to deny the user the ability to question and change the assumptions of the medium is to lock them in to certain stereotyped modes of interaction and deny the full richness of the medium. This is where Kay's "real guitar vs. Guitar Hero" analogy comes in. You can either have a device that offers its full potential up front, like a real guitar, or you can have a device that can only be used in circumscribed ways, in vague imitation of having the full richness of the original device, like Guitar Hero. The price you pay for having a real guitar, or a real Dynabook, is what we call "ease of use" -- the ability for a complete neophyte to pick it up and immediately display something resembling proficiency with it. (It is much easier for a trained data-entry clerk to operate a 3270 terminal than it is for that same clerk to fill out a modern Web form, but that sort of ease doesn't count.) And Apple has really doubled down on ease of use, at the expense of everything else wonderful about having a powerful computing device you can hold in one hand. To the point where it's become just like regular, can't-talk-back-to-it television.
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Glad to see the Socratic method in the list.

BTW there is a guy on youtube using it to discuss religious beliefs with random people. It's fantastic.
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I see your point, but I don't think that it needs to be a surprise to be announced or made well-known. No one is surprised that Microsoft releases loads of patches every Patch Tuesday, but they still publicize it and make it well known and easy for people to find out about.
It's interesting that what you consider a great provider is only doing 6 times cheaper than AWS. That's not much of a discount.
I agree there is value added by curation. But today, academic publishing is an industry worth over $10b, and they don't actually pay for the original access or license of the content
or the editing and peer-review. Publishers do add value but not to the extent of the cost that's passed on to the public today.
You'd be surprised the kind of people who's able to create functional applications and complex data models in my office. The point for common users to define software behaviour is doing it iteratively, with every step being based on a previous functional version.
> brought forth a roar of policies and mandates that aim to oblige authors to change their publishing habits

Right. Blame the authors. Not, say Elsevier, who demands authors remove their own research from their own sites and charges exorbitant prices for access to journals.

> Now, some European countries are trying a new approach: to demand of the major publishers nationwide open access contracts, such as Projekt DEAL in Germany

Indeed. Because it's not the authors who are to blame.

- In July 2015, the Association of Universities in the Netherlands (VSNU) announced a plan to start boycotting Elsevier, which refused to negotiate on any Open Access policy for Dutch universities

- In December 2016, Nature Publishing Group reported that academics in Germany, Peru and Taiwan are to lose access to Elsevier journals as negotiations had broken down with the publisher

etc etc. etc.

"What I find startling ... [that] 15 years on from the Budapest Open Access Declaration, a pirate site is needed at all." asks the author of the article. Why, indeed.

> Sci-Hub, which is self-reporting more than 60 million articles freely available (Sci-Hub, 2017) and could have harvested nearly all scholarly literature (Himmelstein, Romeo, McLaughlin, Greshake, & Greene, 2017) – if true, Sci-Hub has single-handedly won the race to make all journal articles open access.

So... WHY IS THIS A BAD THING?

> Set against this are the combined efforts of stakeholders in scholarly communications who, after two decades, have managed only to get around half the world's research articles open, with the rest still behind a paywall 3–4 years post-publication

WHY ARE THEY SET AGAINST THIS?

> For books, despite initiatives like Open Access Publishing in European Networks (OAPEN), Knowledge Unlatched, and Open Book Publishers, progress has been glacial. At the time of writing, there are just over 8,000 titles listed in the Directory of Open Access Books (http://www.doabooks.org/), which – considering that Springer alone offers nearly 280,000 titles from its online bookshop – suggests that the proportion of books published open access has yet to reach 2%.

"What I find startling ... [that] 15 years on from the Budapest Open Access Declaration, a pirate site is needed at all." asks the author of the article.

.... and then he goes on blame authors, and only authors.

> On the author side, peer review management, copyediting, and language services could be offered along with services to promote the publications and make them more accessible to non-technical audiences.

Peer review is already done mostly for free. Why does he keep blaming the authors?

Surprisingly, after spending the entire article vilifying the authors, the author of the article reaches this conclusion: " Critically, only one actor is needed to start this process of unbundling: the publisher. In making a basic, legal version free for anyone to read, gratis open access is achieved at a stroke, and it would start to make the pirates redundant."

orly?
Pay to read an article? No, but I'd pay to talk to somebody who understood it, or who could answer questions about it. Is that a viable extra service that the publishers could move into?
my first hard drive was 500mb and was about $500. also bought an external 2x CD rom drive, which had a caddy and came with Myst, for $700. this was around the early-mid 90's.
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I'm not aware of anything in the HN guidelines stating that matters that have been discussed before, opinion or not, should not be posted or are not worthy of further attention or discussion?

If it's not interesting to people it'll probably never make is out of newest. By now it's on the front page, that should tell you something about the interest HN has in this topic.
It's not a two doller item, my friend. So how many tens or hundreds of millions do they have to sell for it to become a thing? lol https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eywi0h_Y5_U
We have the situation in the UK where people on minimum wage get top-ups via the welfare system which makes no sense, I'd like to see an increase sufficient to negate that, because it's just taxpayers subsidising businesses! But £15/hr for unskilled work can't be justified. £9-10/hr is probably about right.
This highway is insanely beautiful!!!
No, startups need to worry about surviving the starting up phase and getting to the 10000 users stage.

The few 10000 users companies then need to worry about getting to the million users stage.

And so on.
> Different people have different conventions for how to rank the Olympic medal results.

The newspaper in my country sometimes used another method, where they divide the medal count by the population of the country. In 2008 that put Jamaica at the top, followed by New Zealand. Both China and the U.S. were well down in the chart.
There are hard quota enforced on storage. You will have to fill a truckload of forms to get your quota raised to 500PB.

I personally never asked for that much but I'd speculate that they won't give you that in any single region.
Any sane bean counter should be able to work out a way to segment the market, like every subscription service ever, but it would require distributor content control, like DRM or streaming.
If you are like me and prefer to mount things manually, it is a real friend.
If starting with WP is faster, do so. Assuming you'll have some form of business model way before you get to 180M users, you'll probably want to switch at some point. It won't be an issue, focus on scaling to 100k users first ;)
The Barracuda Pro 10TB is reportedly pretty quiet. I'd hope so, as I've got one coming in.
No one wants to be left behind. Even if they had no plans they don't want to be seen as not keeping up after recent announcements from Mercedes, VW, Volvo etc.
This is IBM's formerly-proprietary J9 JVM, which I believe was developed entirely from scratch, independently of Sun's HotSpot JVM.

J9 actually has its roots in an earlier Smalltalk VM (VisualAge Smalltalk, I think). The source copyrights go back to 1991. Eclipse, of course, was what IBM started after abandoning VisualAge.

It's not a JDK/JRE. J9 must be combined with OpenJDK to be able to run apps.
You're right, that's known as nociceptive pain, the other is known as neuropathic pain, here's a nice piece, it's moving on the knowledge that these types of pain, emotional and physical if you like, cause a similar area of the brain to 'light up' (http://www.pnas.org/content/108/15/6270.abstract), and how advances are allowing more fine grain observation of these reactions http://healthland.time.com/2013/05/06/a-pain-detector-for-th...

Although to be a pedant, tooth drilling is apparently not quite nociceptive as it's the nerve being vibrated that causes an intense sensation that's easy to interpret as 'pain', I try and think about fireworks instead...
"Do you consider all of the Cubans who fled to the US also defectors from Cuba?"

I suspect Cuba might.
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