skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh gosh. For every one of the 'miracles' of full recovery from brain death, there are thousands more about people being kept alive waiting for a miracle.

It disgusts me how okay people are with mechanical respirators, TPN feeds, and the like even when there is a <.01% chance of recovery. The family says 'do everything you can.' We don't want to pull the plug, we are playing God if we decide if someone lives or dies. Except we already are playing God. This is a person that left alone to God (sans medicine) would be dead! We simple can keep a brain dead person alive indefinitely and essentially take away their option for death.

As far as heart rate spiking when organ donation operations are performed? You do know this happens during normal operations. Pain medication is given not to help control your pain, but to help control this reflex. In a normal operation pain meds are technically necessary as when you are under the gas your body either doesn't experience or doesn't remember pain. The actual mechanism of action for anesthetic gas is not fully understood. My point is the pian medication is not given for the brain.

yes organ donation can be shady, but that doesn't necessitate boycott.
I personally, as a programmer and a person, would rather work with Gabriella than Rodrigo. While it is definitely true that Rodrigo is a much better person, if I can't depend on him to get me his good code by the deadline, I would rather have Gabriella's "working" code, because, hey, it WORKS, and it meets the deadline -- the biggie here. If I can't depend on him to communicate with me and who ever else we work with, it is another negative for him.

I don't know about other programmers, but for me, the better I understand my teammates and/or colleagues, and the better we perform as a whole, the better I perform individually.

I also would rather optimize Gabriella's code than have no code at all from Rodrigo. Although, after reading one of the comments below, if Rodrigo was missing deadlines by a small margin, let's say only by a few days, I would much rather get code from him. If I was his manager instead of his project teammate, I wouldn't mind his in-depth technical explanations as much, mostly because I do the same thing, and I value expanding my own knowledge well beyond its borders over just getting a brief overview without the how and why because without them, the what is almost worthless by itself if the manager has to turn around and provide instructions to the team based on the how and why that s/he was not given.
My beaglebone consumes about 1.7W so that sounds about right.

One interesting thing is that the USB port being activated (even idle) can blow any power consumption by the CPU itself out of the water.
PG is an investor and he has stated multiple times that he'd prefer that all of his investments were aimed at the high end of the range of possible outcomes (mentioning Google's exit more than once in this context). Of course he has also stated that he understands that it is usually not in the best interests of the founders, so no pressure.
Freedom Not Fear: David Lyon on Contemporary Surveillance
I'm the plugin writer. The should/should_not dance is something I keep doing when I write tests. Say I create a user with certain properties and I assert something about them:

create(:user, :active => true).should be_active

Now, I want to change its properties and assert the opposite. I duplicate the line, change the property, and switch the "should" into a "should_not":

create(:user, :active => false).should_not be_active

This is a very simple example, but I do things like this on a regular basis while writing tests. I assume other people have different workflows around this, but this works nicely for me. That's why I mentioned in the video that these are my own little timesavers, so you might not find them that useful :).

As for the predicate stuff, it's actually "true or (predicate?)". The idea is that switching to this would result in the first branch always being executed, unconditionally. I use this for view templates when I want to see how the page looks when, for example, there's no logged in user (it'd take more time to log out and then back in :)), or when the user has no trading accounts, or some other simple condition that I want to disable for just a sec to check out if some div got misaligned.

Really, the basic idea is simple -- if there's some code that you often need to change into some other code, you could store that transformation as a "switch" and avoid repeating yourself.
Note: I'm aware that this analogy is metaphorically and intellectually broken.

If I had time / inclination, we'd re-work the OP's example into Facebook and Steam etc being protozoa, Zynga would be some bacteria living inside Facebook with our users as the host and introduce all kinds of biology comparisons. Zynga-as-Virus as an analogy wouldn't be too useful as it's not a case of simple self-replication in attacks / predation on the host; it's also camouflaging itself as other fauna to fool the hosts' current anti-body set, as EA, a much larger protozoa, is trying to eat it for as competition. There's also the fact Zynga would have to live inside Facebook in a mutalistic relationship, while they both feed off each others' intakes from the host.

Would be fun, modelling it all.

Now I urn for the Spore-that-never-was, damn, but we wouldn't want to scare the hosts when they realised the real lions, tigers & bears out there, I suppose.
For me has been extremely hard to find a cofounder. Hey there people from Dallas TX, do you want to create something awesome and needs a developer!? Please contact me.
To me, the bare minimum for success in software development is clear direction, continuous communication, and continuous verification of the product. Scrum is a simple process to ensure that all three actually occur and aren't merely good intentions left up to individual discretion. I guess you could come up with alternatives, but it would be tough to make it much simpler and still cover all three.
Java exercises
Mates, I do have one problem. While I regard myself as a full-stack engineer (C,C++,Java,JavaScript,PHP,HTML,CSS, etc.) I get bombed at every single interview exclusively with Java questions. I know Java and I can solve problems in it, but in my last two interviews my Java code was not elegant enough and my solution not fast or smooth enough.

Can you guys advice me a Java exercise reference that includes nice short problems for Object Oriented Java including advanced data structure stuff. It would be important that it also comes with a solution section such that you can actually compare your solution with a suggested one ...

Thanks!
Apple’s New Nano-SIM: Freeing Up Valuable Space Inside The Case
I haven't used the new version, so can't comment on quality. My point was just that the "biggest thing" part of the announcement was probably based on the software updates. In terms of impact to user, the addition of turn-by-turn directions is a pretty big deal.
Let's not gloss over the fact that the sole purpose of organ transplants is to save lives. I have a hard time believing his argument about financial motivation for organ donation - a surgeon's salary should preclude the temptation of "making a quick buck" through questionable organ transplant practices.

On the other hand, I absolutely think that potential donors need to give INFORMED consent when they fill out their donor card - whether advised by a medical professional or with their own research. Obviously, no one should ever be coerced or manipulated into consenting based on false pretenses. I'm aware that I will still be "alive" - at least physiologically - at the time an organ is harvested, but I trust that my family can make the right decision if I'm unconscious, and I'd prefer to have a shot at saving someone's life when I'm on my way out.
Even if someone was just having a Nerf battle outside my office while I was trying to debug something, I'd probably want to strangle them. I can't imagine a bunch of people playing quietly with Nerf guns, and it's not likely that everyone within earshot will want to take a break from their work at exactly the same time.
I would've completely agreed with you even a year ago, but it's just not true anymore. Any "useful" app on iOS has an equally useful equivalent on Android. Hell, one of my favorite "elegant" apps, Any.DO, originally launched on Android.

As for the music player? What are you talking about? Not only is the Google Play Music app great, it supports 20,000 songs in the cloud for free, it autoconverts FLAC to 320 kbps, and you don't have to use some bloated music suite to upload it all. Plus, it's not like there isn't a ton of viable replacements out there (Apollo, PowerAmp, Winamp, GoneMad, VLC).

Android played catch-up since the G1 launched. It caught up with Ice Cream Sandwich, and it got in front with Jelly Bean. No, it's not in every Android phone, but it's unfair to compare the Android ecosystem to the iPhone. Nexus vs. iPhone? I think it's pretty clear now...
Funny, I seem to recall that the disillusioned techie reaction to the 4S was that it was also a non-update. Same shell. Modest internal updates and the only feature of note (Siri) was panned as an app that Apple bought that merely caught it up to other phones that already had voice control.
Without commenting on the rest of the article: The claim being made, as I understand it, is that the anesthesiologist is there and administers drugs to paralyze but not to anesthetize. So the presence of an anesthesiologist administering drugs does not necessary contradict the claims of the article unless you wife can confirm that the drugs both paralyze and anesthetize the patient. </pedantry>
Wow! I really enjoyed the movie, but this analysis by the author and the seemingly cohesive picture he paints of each of the 'heroes' is quite astounding ...
Considering that Amazon knows about most of my online purchases from the past 10 years, the kinds of ads they show indicate that they are not at all targeted. Almost disappointingly so.
after getting used to my galaxy nexus, 4" screens look seriously cramped. i'm actually kind of surprised apple hasn't jumped onto the 4.5"+ bandwagon yet.
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It's just speculation.
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Music startups are ok so long as you don't have to license label music.
Depends on your definition of bulky. Considering it has a larger screen and all the other features mentioned, your argument is invalid. The GIIS has a larger, wider screen, three times the battery, and a microSD slot weighs only .7 oz more and will be getting jelly bean soon...dude, you're rationalizing. It's sad. I know, it hurts. But you have to grow up and realize that Apple is not a God. You can leave the cult. Dear Leader is dead.
Everybody delivers NFC in their high-end handsets now.

http://www.nfcworld.com/nfc-phones-list/
Firstly, ecosystem is a bit more than advertising, dude. iTunes, iCloud, AirPlay, and the App Store are all real, tangible things, and much richer than their Android counterparts (my opinion).

Secondly, you're looking at speeds & feeds, and not the design of the thing. It's the best designed phone in the market in terms of look, heft, hand feel, not even beginning to get into the UX of iOS. These are little things, but they matter to people, and they're not easily quantifiable on a data sheet.
You forgot that Steve told us focus is about saying no.

http://techcrunch.com/2011/10/06/jobs-focus-is-about-saying-...
Steve Jobs personally saw that Siri had a contextual future
With a little bit of 'shopping', you can reduce that number to 1/2 a million. Look at Mr.Money Mustache for example.
If this was NOT a joke...

No, do not md5 as you will lose hash type info.

edit: To be clear I am assuming it IS a joke. I hope.. oh god I hope.
RaspberryPI price in Croatia - only $130
Dear Mister Obvious,

Every marketing team ever has created hype. Ever.
tosh has replied already, but I'll offer my explanation as well: Scrum is not Agile because it's all about ceremonies (the planning meeting, the daily standup). The only ceremony that brings some value to the project is the retrospective.
Sounds like a job for /var/cache.
The S3 weighs 4.7oz and is 8.6mm thick.

The iPhone 5 is 3.9oz and is 7.6mm thick.

The iPhone 5 is around 18% lighter and 12% thinner than the S3.

I often see people fumble with the S3, especially one-handed, so I'm not sure the size is a good thing.
Can I ask what you switched to after dropping Effexor? My email is listed in my profile if you wish to answer privately.
While I agree that being skeptical about self-help books is a good thing, I think you made a big mistake in your specific example. I have not looked at "The Feeling Good Handbook" that you linked to, but I am quite familiar its predecessor (by the same author), "Feeling Good", which is excellent. It has helped a couple of my friends, and at least one other HN reader.[1] Further, its efficacy is supported by at least one clinical study.[2]

You're right about the image, but the book is worthwhile.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4509281

[2] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2738212 (The book is not cited in the abstract, unfortunately, but I believe this is the correct study.)
That's what people in semiconductors do -- they try to take a bunch of features and package it in a single chip to reduce costs. There are chips out there with temperature, accelerometer, and proximity sensors packaged in a single unit. There was a time when an actual quartz crystal was needed as a resonator, and now those are replaced with mems technology so that one can package more into a single silicon chip.

I'm sure we can all remember the time when the cpu & gpu were separate chips.
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They're not comparable: PBKDF2 is a mode of operation, bcrypt is an actual instantiation of a password hashing scheme. Saying one is (objectively) better than the other is meaningless, or at least very misleading.
Anesthesia is always used during organ harvests. Anesthesiologists treat the donor just as they would any other patient undergoing surgery. This account by a Georgia anesthesiologist rebuts many of the points made by the article, and does so much better than I would do.

http://theunderweardrawer.blogspot.com/2012/03/death-or-some...
While I agree that starting a company is vastly different then starting a disruptive startup, other than the valley having a heavier density of VCs what you've stated about supportive startup ecosystems practically not existing anywhere else but in Silicon Valley is utterly false.

Just look at New York, while it's honestly pretty much on par with SV in terms of cost of living, it's got a fantastic startup ecosystem in which many startups burn cash equally as fast.

Step outside the SV bubble, I'd venture to say that two thirds of the states within the continental US have fantastic and thriving startup communities with plenty of talent and venture funding to boot. You just have to know where to look.

As fellow nerds you should realize that with the power of the internet as well as the sheer amount of interconnectivity we now experience, there are virtually no location barriers.
but the products were more innovative.

Apple held back calling last year the iPhone 4S, the 5 because it wasn't good enough to bare the name, but this time there are hardly any core feature upgrades, and you get pulled further away from good google services.

the iphone 5 is more about flashy hardware and dumping google than it is about wowing customers.

the iphone 4s had a focusing lens, siri and was twice as fast as the iphone4.

this phone really doesn't wow me at all.
Python numbers for humans
Curiosity Close-Ups: The Rover’s Detailed Photoshoot of Itself
Links with relevant pictures:

http://www.apple.com/support/ipodshuffle/

http://www.apple.com/support/ipodnano/

http://www.apple.com/support/ipodnano/4th_5th_generation/

http://www.apple.com/support/ipodnano/3rd_generation/

http://www.apple.com/support/ipodnano/earlier/

http://www.apple.com/support/ipodmini/

In short, this styling has roots that can be traced in a continuous chain back to an ancestor that hit the market 7 (nearly 8) years before the Lumia came out.
I'm really not sure this is true. I'd like to see evidence of it because certainly the people I know who buy android do it for features. That's also how they evangelize. It seems to work. Apple has a great marketing strategy but that doesn't mean the best competitive response is to mimic it.
University degree programs come with some of the scariest shrink-wrap licenses I've ever seen. If colleges really thought this was a problem they wouldn't need copyright.

The public perception of universities as some kind of noble public service needs to end.
Well, in your case, you could put a definition for javascript. The built-in "ruby hash style" transformation should work for this:

" in ftplugin/javascript.vim
let b:switch_definitions =
\ [
\ g:switch_builtins.ruby_hash_style
\ ]

With this, in a javascript file, you can turn ":foo => 'bar'" entries into "foo: 'bar'" ones.

If you do need global (non-filetype) switches, you could define some by placing them in the g:switch_definitions variable. Read up on the docs if you want more information.
Take off your undergarment and count the number of pubes.
To talk about the software, I've been using Apple Maps in beta for the past couple of months, and having no transit directions while living in NYC is enough for me to consider a switch to android.

Trying to take the subway to unfamiliar parts of the city forces me to use google maps in the browser. Addresses seem to be hit or miss -- I've often spent time searching for an establishment or address just to give up and use google maps in the browser.

I've basically had to revert to how I got around the city prior to having a smartphone -- use my computer and remember how I need to get there before I leave.

Apple Maps is potentially a huge fail for anyone living in a major city.
I think people complaining about the tag line are missing out on the obvious pun.
http://www.theonion.com/ has a write up on a new feature.
The RFC was accepted. So it will be in PHP 5.5 (unless some serious flaw with it comes to light in the meantime).
Google recommends a hierarchy of tests. Say, (1) a quick test to make sure no REST URL crashes that runs in seconds, (2) a full functionality test that runs in minutes, (3) a fuzzer test that runs for hours, and (4) a stress test that runs for days or weeks.
The point of bcrypt is you can't use a rainbow table.
A-GPS is about downloading the almanac over the fast ground data link. Solving the equations for partial signals is DIFFICULT and is where most innovation is these days.

Your phone takes two seconds (and so does mine) probably because you have WiFi on and you live in the States. Try living in the middle of nowhere in, say, Serbia, and see how fast you get a lock, regardless of WiFi.
It's not your client's job to care about your vacation - it's yours. The reality of freelancing is that you are responsible for your vacation, taxes and healthcare. That's one of the reasons people hire you - They don't want to have to think about it! Raise your rates accordingly.

Also, don't be a 'freelancer.' A 'freelancer' is a mindless drone who is told to do something and does it. Be a consultant. A consultant is an expert who provides value to the business, either in terms of time / money saved, or increased revenue. How you market yourself is important.

Here's a gem from tptacek:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4245960

Also, go to hnsearch.com and do a search for 'patio11'. Read everything he has written - it covers marketing yourself and charging appropriately. Do it now. That proposal you're working on can wait :)

Good luck, and welcome to the crew!

Edit: Freelancers vs Contractors vs Consultants:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3420396
I wasn't suggesting that forcing 32-bit mode was a solution. I was just pointing out that comparing the memory footprint of 32-bit and 64-bit applications is not apples-to-apples.

Also, Mac OS X 10.6 and earlier do not support ASLR for 32-bit applications and ASLR's effectiveness is reduced with a smaller address space.

See Chromium Issue 18323 ("Need more bits: 64-bit Mac version") from 2009: http://crbug.com/18323
"In my mind, I can’t find a great reason for Apple to sell a nano. Everything it does one of Apple’s other devices does far better, especially for $149."

i'm confused. what other apple device costs $150 or less and does the same? the shuffle doesn't have a screen. everything else is more expensive. what am i missing?

(nice to see the classic still there. will it get the updated connector?)
Sprint has almost no LTE coverage currently. They bet heavily on WiMax, which flopped. They're working to rapidly fix that, but they're way behind for now.
But it's not costing me much. My devs still need to be in on planning their own work, and if they're all on the same scrum there should be a lot of overlap. Listening in on the planning for work entirely unrelated to their own should be pretty rare.
Oh, I'm an idiot. Misread it as 370mW.
iOS has much, much higher quality apps available

iOS has visually slicker apps, but they are less functional, because iOS is more locked down. With Android, I use a custom home screen and a whole bunch of widgets that make the device far more useful to me than iOS devices which seem like toys in comparison. For example, the 3G Watchdog's widget showing quota usage, and calendar and weather displays. The fact I can use rsync to sync folders between my phone, tablet and home NAS without storing my files in the cloud somewhere or having the files siloed in a specific application or generic "photos, movies or music" buckets is a game changer for me.

The only time I use my iPad these days is on transatlantic flights when I want to watch my own movies or play some slick games. But that's even being transplanted by my Nexus 7, which is much nicer to use owing to lower weight - and bonus, I get most of the apps that also work on my phone.

iOS reminds me a little of DOS circa 1993, while Android feels a bit like Windows 3.1 of the same era. DOS apps were typically silos using custom graphics libraries, while Windows apps were drab but more consistent and had some pretense at integration (early OLE).
Many android devices support actual GPS, not just aGPS, so you can use them in places where you have no cell signal (say, while hiking).

Your iPhone takes 2 seconds because it's never a cold start. You're always connected to at least one cell tower you know the location of, you have several nearby wifi access points, etc. It might not be a feature you need for your limited use case. Cool. Then you won't miss it.
Yes, but the original article is spreading misinformation. Anesthesia is always used during organ harvests.
Regarding the stigmatization I often find uninformed discussions tend to come to the conclusion that people should "suck it up" and that medication is the "easy way out". That isn't really true. The easy way is staying the same, curled up in a ball of darkness or however it manifests itself. Doing whatever it takes to get better and start living is what is uncomfortable. Even if it would be a side-effect enhanced placebo effect, if it gets you better I really don't see the problem. Unless it's really about the other persons own need to feel good by "uncovering the truth".
Actually the 4S is much faster at a fix than the 4 because it has more satellites to look at (GLONASS). More satellites means a faster, more accurate location fix.