skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just watched the intro video for the water-cooled EC12. I know nothing about mainframes other than what I've learned reading this thread and scanning IBM's website, but man that thing looks wicked.

I really like the "RAIM" stuff that's apparently new. It seems like a similar idea not only to RAID, but also to this "lockstep execution" thing I just read about. I suppose the idea is that you can configure all or certain memory slots to be slaves such that all reads and writes are identical, or does this RAIM stuff also have RAIM with parity for reconstruction plus storage size increase?

Also, is the ability to install this thing on a normal (non-raised floor) pretty new, or has that been an optional feature of larger mainframes for a while?

Finally, the guy in the video mentioned some Java stuff. Do these things typically see lots of Java use or are they mostly programmed closer to the metal?
It's an English idiom.

Doesn't necessarily mean cashmoney.
It's not clear from the report whether they're talking about people who had the intervention and who did exercise, or if they're talking about people who had the intervention but who didn't do the exercise. (Or maybe it is and I just missed it?)

> Nor was there evidence that the intervention reduced antidepressant use

People are recommended to stay on anti-depressants for at least 6 months after feeling well, and for at least two years if they're at risk of relapse.

(http://publications.nice.org.uk/depression-in-adults-quality...)

So it's difficult to use antidepressant use as a guide to whether people feel recovered or not.

It's also unclear whether the intervention offered matches current NICE guidelines, which says

> 1.4.2.4 Physical activity programmes for people with persistent subthreshold depressive symptoms or mild to moderate depression should:

> * be delivered in groups with support from a competent practitioner

> *consist typically of three sessions per week of moderate duration (45 minutes to 1 hour) over 10 to 14 weeks (average 12 weeks).

About prescription: Yes, some people think exercise is a wonder drug. I'm not interested in those people unless they're treating patients. Your wikipedia article says:

> While positive psychology can inform clinical psychology, it is not helpful to stretch beyond this point

I live in the UK. Clinicians should refer to the NICE guidance. The NICE guidance is pretty specific about what constitutes physical exercise. That's because the evidence for exercise isn't great. The Cochrane review (http://summaries.cochrane.org/CD004366/exercise-for-depressi...) has a good summary of the evidence - when you only include high quality reviews there's only small benefits from exercise.

But, even if the benefit for depression from exercise is slim there are other reasons to do exercise, and it's important that people are helped to exercise, especially if they're at risk of self-neglect.

More research is needed. It's great that this study has been done. But it's incredibly frustrating that this one study is reported in terms such as "Exercise does not help depression".
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similar:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4432343
I guess one point is that carbon fails catastrophically more often, your metal links
point to breaks where the bike still stayed in one piece. Yeah, they're not unheard of with metal bikes, but much more rare.

The injury quote was about her getting injured because the
carbon frame just fell apart with no warning (no crash,
except after the frame failure of course).
Absolutely. It's actually a terrible situation compared to the flexibility of NY, which had great livable areas in Queens and Brooklyn that still had fantastic access to public transit.
Right, Duo is great. Love the fact you can install it over the whole enterprise including applications, blogs (Wordpress), vpns, and ssh.
How big is your client? I think, in general, the larger the client, the more time they take in paying up. If your client is large (hint: any contact you have in their finance department is at least two levels removed from CFO) you should probably have to wait for more time before worrying (and also, in the future, raise your prices to factor this in).
Exactly and that's plenty of sandbox to play around in. I have a few apps set up with them right now, nowhere near my limit.

AppFog has a ton of options, and their setup is super easy. Deploying apps is as simple as doing a git push and the service is super fast. I am a total fanboy.
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similar:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4446400
i have to wonder if JumpCrissCross is a shill for theatlantic. two posts on the front page at the same time, from the same site?
There's a discussion in "The Practice of Programming" of which is a better style when programming in straight C. The argument for casting was that could make porting to C++ easier. The argument against it went like that (hope I'm not botching it): if the appropriate header file was not included and consequently malloc() was implicitly assumed to return an int, then without a cast assigning the return value of malloc to say char* would likely trigger a warning, but the cast will silence the warning. This could be a real bug if the convention for returning an int was different from returning a pointer (say if one was returned via a register and the other wasn't.)
Also, if you work in San Fran, you can take your high wage and go spend it on a cheaper house out outside the city. You've got BART and caltrain and lots of roads to take you to work. Here in Hawaii there's no such escape.
So if you think that everyone to date is wrong and that there really is money in it--why aren't you doing it yourself? If you think it's a lack of "balls" keeping others from catering to your niche, do it yourself. But rather, I think that you're not giving people enough credit. Why would they cater to you when they can cater to people with lesser expectations and freer, larger-in-aggregate wallets?

It's not that there isn't a market. It's that that market is very high-maintenance and, if you look at other similar products, probably extremely difficult to effectively monetize. Targeting users who come with the twin attributes of being touchy and quick to leave and are probably unresponsive to advertising and other straightforward "you don't pay" models does not strike me as a brilliant decision. The success stories in the described niche--Tarsnap comes to mind--seem mostly to be very small businesses or strange attempts at capturing the zeitgeist a la App.net. (Tarsnap being a small business isn't an inherent negative; I personally have little use for the "startup startup startup, business plans optional" silliness that seems to be infecting the tech sector and cperciva has built a great product. But you're not complaining about Dropbox, you're complaining about Quora and Facebook, which have very different business needs.)

.

Or, put another, admittedly more cynical way: I don't know many people who want to cater to a market segment that will hate them as soon as they start needing to find ways to make payroll. Some people price themselves into or out of a market segment. You behave yourself out of what have heretofore been economically viable ones. Which is totally fine if that's your bag, but following that up with complaints that people who want to make money aren't interested in catering you is...curious.

There are generally easier ways to make money than to build low-barrier-to-departure services for demanding, temperamental people. So it goes.
Going nuclear with software versioning
Vancouver, BC here.

Medical science will have to make strides in prolonging life if the average person wishes to ever to buy their own home here.

Average Weekly wage = $860.57
Median Price = ~$700/sqft
This is all kinda sad really. The tech media is pathetic and the same publication "exposing" this unfortunate waste of space (who wouldn't have been able to pull the wool over the eyes of any company that had the self confidence to reference check instead of jumping on every potential hire who can name drop) is largely responsible for the phony tech-celeb culture that's invaded the valley in recent years.

It's a serious business what we do here in Silicon Valley. Sure we can enjoy our work, but most of us are committing our lives and livelihoods to working hard at what we do. The trivial nature of the media covering the tech industry right now, the desperate need for people to feel they have some sort of celebrity cachet because of what we do, and the fact that too many people watched the Social Network and want to pretend that's their life, is just a sorry state of affairs.

Word gets around about people like this. It's really not necessary to post an article on TechCrunch like you're exposing some mastermind criminal. Well I suppose it is if the generation of journalists currently staffing the tech press is really just taking umbrage that someone else with scant qualifications wants to run around the valley acting like they are somebody when they've not created anything themselves.

Yeah, this article just reminds me of the sorry state of media coverage of our industry.
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Why the limit of 50 keys?
I am missing details about how to communicate with testers using your platform.

You do not have a single sreenshot of the interface that the users will see.

Do you allow relabeling of the platform (a subdomain + logo + custom images inside the interface) for the companies corporate design?

I do not know what it will look like to my potential customers, so i would not use your service.
Right. +1 for that :)
Thanks for the feedback logn. I appreciate it. It's a good point that I did not consider.
Here's another interesting Silicon Valley case... http://www.quora.com/Whats-the-deal-with-Larry-Chiang
The courses you took in a University hold merit in the system. Other people in University can evaluate you better by knowing which classes you pass or fail, because they know the difficulty of said classes. It works well in a closed system. But if you ask someone who hasn't even been to the school to evaluate a student, how are they. supposed do it? Yet so many people do when they hire out of college.
Same here!! One of my startups failed because we chose Flex/AIR as the development platform. Nearly tripled our development time, working around bugs in the platform.
They used to be commonly programmed very close to the metal. The assembly languages for the System 360 and 370 machines (40 - 50 years ago) were well suited to processing records of data. These days, I believe using these as hypervisors to hundreds of Linux VMs is more common. IBM has their own Java implementation, but I don't know what it's adoption is like in the mainframe industry.
Is it really good, or is it just not bad like the last one, with a header image that took up a huge area of the screen.
Don't laugh, the old porous BART seats are objectively filthy and I'm glad they're being replaced (albeit slowly): http://www.baycitizen.org/transportation/interactive/intimat...

Me, I live near SOMA so I can stumble home when essentially everything but taxis is shut down.
I found myself in a similar situation and decided to just 'walk' to get my mind out of the funk.

I just made sure I was going for at least 30 mins and just listening to some music with no real goal in terms of fitness.

Eventually I just got to the point while walking that I would get little energy bursts and turn it into a jog instead of a walk. Now I'm working my way through one of the couch to 5K style apps and loving it.

Forcing myself out the door the first few times was really key though (regular times I could stick to easily was great as well)
One of their editors was banned from reddit for spamming:

http://www.dailydot.com/society/atlantic-slaterhearst-jared-...

And the site was later banned altogether by reddit:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffbercovici/2012/06/13/reddit-...
"Effect," not "affect." See also: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4447337
Second Lulzsec Member Arrested for Alleged Involvement in Sony Pictures Breach
I really don't understand the obsession with owning a home. So many people I know expend their entire savings on buying a town home or a condo or some other place where you might as well rent an apartment. But the dream of "being a homeowner" is somehow worth it. It's always struck me as something of a con. Any tax benefits you might see are offset by the much higher monthly mortgage payment.

* note my experience is based on living primarily in SF and LA, so if you are willing to put up with Middle America I'm sure you can find much better value
That's all nice, but where are the threads support we have been promised since years back?!
He did work for a couple of years. When he tried to quit - it ended on uncomfortable terms because they didn't want him to quit. Now, he can't even use them as reference or something, because he's afraid they might say bad stuff about him (I highly doubt this! He fears too much). This is the situation he's trying to avoid.
I generally prefer:

var banana;
if (!banana) babana = "banana";

or

var banana;
banana = banana || "banana";

I have a strong dislike for implicit globals — even at the toplevel — and the global object isn't necessarily `window` (it's not in the Spidermonkey or Node shells for instance, I'm not sure it is in Web Workers — there's a WorkerGlobalScope object but i don't know if it's bound to a global called `window`).

If `undefined` has to be checked for explicitly (because `null` or `0` or `""` are valid values), check `banana === undefined` (or `banana === void 0` if your coworkers are assholes)
Yes, you can meet at the DMV and transfer ownership and registration together, in person. But, that can be a colossal pain, especially when you're busy all week and have to do this sort of thing on the weekend, when the DMV is closed.

These days I phone in to the police records department and ask them if the plate is stolen, but you just wouldn't think that would ever be necessary when you've got the keys, title, etc... Even the officers I spoke with were surprised & confused.
People estimates weather as a major concern in their daily life when considering moving to another city, but that's not really true.

It's like buying a brand new car. Sure it's nice and cool looking, but eventually it becomes just a transportation option to get you from point a to point b. Or it could be like that you're going to buy a house with a pool. However, you'll rarely actually use the swimming pool.
OSM uses postgres: http://blog.cleverelephant.ca/2009/04/openstreetmap-moves-to...
Good, we agree.

The comment you responded to was clearly talking about the hygiene hypothesis and autism. I'm not sure how you read it otherwise.

Since the post you responded to was saying that there is no evidence for the hygiene hypothesis (as a cause for autism) and you then replied to say that there was strong evidence for the hygiene hypothesis it's a reasonable assumption that you're still talking about causes of autism.
Proactive Routing vs. Reactive Routing
Virtual Humans in Virtual Environments
The participant should animate his virtual human representation in realtime,
however the human control is not straightforward: the complexity
of virtual human representation needs a large number of degrees of
freedom to be tracked. In addition, interaction with the environment
increases this difficulty even more. Therefore, the human control should
use higher level mechanisms to be able to animate the representation
with maximal facility and minimal input. We can divide the virtual
humans according to the methods to control them
Plain TeX/LaTeX on iPad for real
Interesting to see Detroit has a similar average wage as prosperous southern California cities...
Google Chrome on iOS trashes saved passwords, don't sync
Speak for yourself. My happiness went up massively when I finally left Seattle for California. And my feeling about that hasn't changed over time.
Last weekend I was adding a map on the listing page for CLMapper and noticed Craigslist beat me to it! I spent that saved time making the star icons save favorites ;)
Mayla Spring/Summer 2013, Stockholm
OpenSearch as an Application UI
My reasoning behind wanting to own my own home is that i am tired of renting and having to do exit cleans and paranoid about any damage that may occur. Its also a sense of security for me, to know that i own this piece of earth and this is my base. Although i don't own a home yet but would love to. Another reason is that i could pass on the property as an asset to future generations. But i suppose everyone wants different things in life :)
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You might be right about the use of Google Alters subscriptions, but there are actually a number of trademark enforcement (brand protection) companies out there.

In regards to turnaround time, more interesting than the "how?" question is the "who?" question.

> Net Promoter, Net Promoter Score, and NPS are trademarks of Satmetrix Systems, Inc., Bain & Company, Inc., and Fred Reichheld.

The "Bain & Company, Inc." implies political motivations in closely watching and protecting the assets of Mit Romney during his campaign. Even if Romney is no longer involved with Bain, the current executives at Bain are most likely on high alert.
Search Suggestions as an Application UI
someday maybe PG will use Facebook, til then meme on
Yeah, I'm gonna second that. Once I moved from the UK to Silicon Valley - no matter how much I love "back home" and the fact that London truly is one of the great world cities in which to live - there's no way I'm moving back to that weather. It is very hard to leave.
Don't take these as being accurate portraits of What A Particular Drug Does To You. My experience, as an artist who has dabbled in recreational chemistry, is that you can get a multitude of stylistic effects from a single drug, let alone many different ones.

For instance, THC will SOMETIMES give me a huge boost to my visualization powers, and I can hold enough in my mind at once that I feel like I'm tracing the image instead of drawing it. This doesn't happen all the time, or for the duration of the entire trip. It doesn't even always happen with the same strain.

YMMV, of course. But that's my experience of (far
fewer than this guy has done) drugs plus art
The mainframe scheduler is fantastic. z/OS has the capability of limiting the resource usages in different dimensions, including memory use. You can give priorities to processes, which means that you can define what is business critical and what is not. If the workload goes too high for the machine, then low priority work just waits.

In any case, I'd advise anyone who can have a try at mainframe to give a look, even if just because it's one of the still used non-Unix based systems.
...or when (like the weekend of the first AngelHack event) you are delayed because your train hits a pedestrian (a horrendous sound by the way - you know exactly what's just happened immediately) then the replacement train is delayed because the next train in front hit a second pedestrian. They need to sort out the grade separation, it's just ridiculous, not to mention tragic.
Wasn't this pretty much when they were created? If anything Zynga was considered to have even lower ethics earlier on, when they presented people with super low quality offers like SMS signups for people to earn things ingame.
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If you think it is particularly about her and nothing more then yes, this article is pants. But maybe it has some value as an example+warning of a general phenomenon.
Or more cynically he supported the Zynga way and is only jumping ship now because the company is sinking.
I think only IBM would offer such a service...
It is impossible to figure out who is a NRI by just looking. But it becomes obvious who is a NRI by the 'Topics of their discussions'. Which are generally how awesome things are outside India and how horrible they are here.
Vim for Rubyists
Me too.

IANAL, sadly; interpreting this thing would take a lot of time and effort for a lay man.

I can understand them getting hit on willful infringement, but the way the verdict was read out, they got hit for infringement first, and then willful infringement.

I'm confused too.
After a decade of scraping ice off my windshield in the dark in the morning California looked like nirvana. It would take a lot to get me to move back to a city with a real winter again.
You mean like Cyc? Its not an easy project as facts are not as tidy as you might hope http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyc
Please don't post news that are 2 lines or that we have to pay for.
I wear a suit to work year-around... DC is miserable for about half the year. :)
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This is often tightly coupled to hosting providers. I've worked before at a company where we did hosting + full sysadmin services for high-performance computing.

The big challenges included finding talent (good sysadmins are not easy to find), keeping the right balance between employees and customers (you always need more employees than you think), and setting realistic expectations for pricing. When coupled with hosting, customers are often unprepared for how much extra management really does cost... If decoupled, would be interesting to see how you could price it.
Sorry, if you actually read the claims of his patent before making your comment, you would have seen the phrase "consisting of one tuner" on the second line. Apple TV has no tuner. You can't cherry pick the claims.
I don't disagree; it was just the briefest example, which assumed that window was the scope -- couldn't really think of a reason I'd warrant an inner scope to have uninitialized vars.

So, to the OP, you can always check that your var is a member of some object, including window. The typeof example is bad form.
It isn't very different from an email client. I was comparing against web based discussion forums.
I expect them to not to have loopholes they can take advantage of that ordinary citizens can't. For example, Bain converted fees for service into capital gains. A plumber or electrician can't treat his fees as capital gains, they are treated as income.

But if you're in financial, you can use all kinds of loopholes -- equity swaps, blocker corporations, fee-waivers+fund-investment in order to treat income as cap gains.

Then, if America votes in Romney and Ryan, we may end up with even lower capital gains rates, meaning financiers can escape most taxes, while ordinary people are faced with inescapeable income taxes.

I don't mind people investing in risky ventures, but they must pay taxes on their winnings like everyone else. And as Buffet said, the idea that higher taxes will scare away entrepreneurs isn't historically supportable. There are risk takers in every environment, it wasn't like before 1980 there weren't any entrepreneurs.
Windows 8 will support multiple DPI values, at least for Metro.
Yosemite disease warning for 1700 - San Francisco Chronicle
Davey vs Bandits
That sounds like a very minor inconvenience. Just keep proof of ownership with you and the problem is solved? After all, the only way the system can work, is if it's actually policed.
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Yes, absolutely.

We're still using dedicated boxes (10 of them) with a traditional hosting model for many of our clients. Right now, it's myself and a (great) part-time sysadmin I have on a monthly retainer.

I'm well aware of what I should and shouldn't bother a sysadmin with, so I'd be an ideal client for you.
Does anyone actually use this feature? I'm always waiting for better tab managment in Firefox, and this just isn't it.
"Platform as a service". If you self host its just a platform!

It is true though that you can automate and provide yourself an infrastructure and keep separation of concerns.