skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm out of words. Here everybody seem saying smart words about being mentally disable/ill, about politics and so on but you all miss the pivot.

This (young) adult was diagnosed with schizophrenia. If the US wouldn't have the health-care system it has, this guy would receive proper treatment without hassles. Being hospitalized and so on. But he wasn't, and now he's just the last of the leasts. Why he wasn't? Because he wasn't elegible according to the insurance. Obviously he wasn't i'd say. Companies exist to make profit, this is old story, no insurance want really to treat people who are going to require life-long medications and care.

So, try to learn something from this story and realize how the US system is broken when it comes to care about people who isn't Paris Hilton.

I heard Romney saying "nobody is dying in this country because of lacks in terms of health-care, they jsut go to the first aid". He said this because he's just evil. Anyone smart realizes that being stabilized and being treated are 2 different things.
Good to see more implementations of Promises/A. It would be really nice if everyone settled on one promise API.

Check out "Q" as well: https://github.com/kriskowal/q

There are adapters for many of Node's APIs (and it's easy to create more)

https://github.com/kriskowal/q-io

https://github.com/kriskowal/q-fs

https://github.com/kriskowal/q-http
I agree with you at least for me thats how it was :) Don't get me wrong both are are great, heck an editor you write yourself in a day will do the job. But since we developers spend so much time with the editor I think it does sort of become a personal thing where you just have a "good feeling" in whatever you use (for me that match was emacs :)
Would you please clarify if you have learned vim or not?
The point is that it's an imperfect solution, and maybe if we fund research in this area a bit more, we can find a better one.

Also, this is a bit tangential, but I don't really perceive schizophrenia as changing one's personality. I have a close friend who is schizophrenic, and when she has episodes, hardly a bit of her real self remains. It's not a personality shift, it's more like a personality stroke/seizure.
Can you elaborate? Are you saying in other countries the family/extended family generally care for the individual? Why are they more likely to hold down a job?
If you are looking for more power, you can use mixins rather than extends. This way, you do get an additional and very signficant power boost - what previously were utility classes are now functions, which take parameters and have the ability to adapt and flex if you write them correctly.
pretty bold claim... source? below you said it was tried on "tens" of people. both ethics and finance differ quite a bit at any larger scale.
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Hello there,

I am Carlos Chinchilla, I am from Costa Rica, and I have 10 years doing cool and serious stuff on the internet.

I am currently looking for a new place to hack things. I really like to solve unique problems in a very technical and clean way.

I am in San Francisco, and if you know someone who needs a true software engineer, please let me know :)

Skype: calufaxp
Email: calufa@gmail.com
Phone: 415 758 8719

Here is a little resume about me, you can find my full resume at this link:
http://www.linkedin.com/in/calufa

About me

I currently serve as the charismatic CTO of Giga-Lab. In Giga-Lab we collect (web scrape) and transform several gigabytes of information every day using a high distributed application running in the cloud. In Giga-Lab I manage, design and develop most of the applications, while maintaining a smart, clean and intuitive development process. Giga-Lab is all about team synergy, best practices, complexity management, and clean interfaces.

Prior to Giga-Lab I built several web-based applications including audio editors, game engines, web scraping tools, touch screen applications, online video processing applications, image galleries, video portals, and tons of flash templates.

...

I like to build abstract tools or systems, from the ground up, with no stupid frameworks or other type of unnecessary complexity. I like to inject essence to software. I really like understanding and building the interactions within the objects. For me its important that code make sense in a logical and semantical form.

I may sound idealistic, but still I build systems that works, that makes sense, and that have value. I am very good at inverse engineering, brainstorming, abstracting functionality and value, understanding the pieces that builds a system - holism -, and coming up with cool ideas with technical fundament. I am also a big dreamer.

Thanks alot for your time,
CCH
Used contact lens solution hosts giant virus, ecosystem of parasites
"I'd argue that it's more correct to describe a class once and apply it to many elements (OOCSS) than it is to describe it many times over and apply it to each element individually (Sass @extend)."

What makes you say that the Sass approach is describing it "many times over"? It's described in one place: the %placeholder declaration. There are three steps in the process:

+ Describe the pattern.
+ Apply the pattern to components.
+ Apply the components to elements.

In OOCSS, you:

+ Describe the pattern once.
+ Apply the pattern n times per component.
+ Apply the component n times per element.

In OOSass, you:

+ Describe the pattern once.
+ Apply the pattern once per component.
+ Apply the component n times per element.

The OOSass is much DRYer because if you've decided already that all .dropdown-menu-item's are going to be `.media` patterns, you do that once. You don't have to keep repeating that decision every time you write a new dropdown.
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I did coursera ML and Octave was whatever.

Doing coursera stat one and R is pretty easy. It remind me of PHP. Syntax wise, I don't know why it's just a feeling. This article made it a bit clearer. OOP was an after thought...

I'm getting more and more into R now. Hopefully one day Python.

So I guess what I'm saying is I think it's R that I wouldn't be surprise and that I have to respectfully disagree with your Octave statement.
I'd be very surprised if this were true. Care to elaborate?
First, I'm not sure how accidental infringement goes to the heart of whether whether the laws are ethical or not. They're all fundamentally restraints on free expression.

Second, you can accidentally infringe on a trademark, and can be prevented from using a trademark even if you came up with the term independently.

Third, there is no reason why you couldn't add an "independent invention" defense to patent.

Fourth, you have no basis for your claim that people "often" accidentally infringe patents.
Alpha Centauri and the New Astronomy
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"This month marks the nine-month anniversary of the most natural and obvious, most joyful and energizing decision of my life: to fully commit 100% to my life's work."

Nine month? This article lost me at the beginning of the first sentence. How can you take someone serious who has been working hardcore for nine month and now believes he can go on working like this? Let's see how she/he does in a year, or ten, or 50.
[...] I used to pay for good ones.
Every single one of them got stolen.

When I didn't work from home, I biked to work. None of my bikes were stolen. But they were folding bikes that I carried indoors. ;-)
The author is arguing that his son would not be homeless if institutional care had not be shut down, not that his son would be a productive member of society. It's practically tautological.
> On the other hand, you have to ask whether the cost of trying to make sure not a single dollar is given to the undeserving outweighs both the monetary savings and benefits to society overall. Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater.

based on no data, what-so-ever? I believe the parent claiming that there would be no monetary savings at-scale or in the long term
It's a PHP site. It's not supposed to be secure.
Huh. Part of me says "get off my lawn" with your web publishing from your dropbox blah blah ...

But that's pretty cool ...
Microsoft was busy with Windows Mobile 6.5(1) which after many years of revisions was complicated to use and in dire need of a complete reboot. Motorola was living high off the Razor (which I purchased at launch at $300) creating a million different versions of it until they watered down the brand name.

Apple even teamed up with Motorola to do an iPod phone(2), which I think stands as the poster boy of what was wrong with the industry at the time, the echo chamber I refer to, everyone was so caught up with refining the innovations of the past that they ended up blind sighted by the original iPhone and scrambling to catchup; Many say that Google was finally able to do that with the Jelly Bean release of Android, the much more polished look of the OS combined with Project Butter for an overall very refined experience. In Microsoft's case it's clear Windows Phone 7 wasn't what it need to be necessitating another reboot of the mobile OS, maybe the shared Windows kernel, Direct X, native SDK and product integration Microsoft is promising will be the push it needs.

The funny thing is I think Apple as of late is falling into the same trap the mobile phone industry found itself in before the original iPhone. Most everything out of Apple lately is iterative and not innovative; it's very difficult if not impossible to keep an innovative streak going and not get bogged down on endlessly refining the original innovative product.

From the wiki (1)
"Ballmer also indicated that the company "screwed up with Windows Mobile", he lamented that Windows Mobile 7 was not yet available and that the Windows Mobile team needed to try to recoup losses."

(1)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Mobile_6.5

(2)http://www.engadget.com/2005/07/03/say-hello-to-the-motorola...
"Moral decisions"? In modern British politics? Unless you're talking about Robin Cook or David Davies, it's really hard to find any "moral" motivation behind political moves, and this is no exception.

This was an easy and popular choice to take. McKinnon was not a threat, and the US "World Police" stance has weakened a lot since the GWB days. Even better, it's an election year in the US in which an incumbent President has to motivate a disillusioned left wing; he really doesn't need the backlash following a potentially unpopular extradition.

The point had already been made: subjects of the Empire (which Western Europeans people are, de facto, especially if living in Britain) who dare attacking US military infrastructure, even in jest, will be hunted, and their lives made miserable. Whether they're actually going to be sent to Gitmo is irrelevant in practice: McKinnon's life is forever compromised on many, many levels.

So, in practice, Obama(/H.Clinton) doesn't give a rat's ass about McKinnon, and the Coalition has enough problems as it is, there's a good chance to score some cheap political capital, so why pass on it? Add to that the recent announcement about opting out of some EU laws, and you can see that May is positioning herself as friendly towards the right wing, classically "individualist" Tory faction which is currently threatening to "tea party" Cameron, and all without spending any money (which, in government, is always the best sort of action). I don't think there's anything "moral" in that; it's just another day in UK politics.
Thanks for the great feedbacks asdfprou. I think I will redesign it so that call to action or registration module is more prominent. If you ever need help with something, just send me a quick email at 1[at]simonsayz.ca
Ha, that’s exactly what I was thinking. It seems you can only ever build the same kind of boring city in Sim City, one fundamentally built around streets and cars. It seems even worse with this newest incarnation: Streets form the backbone through which everything runs. You can only build along streets, they are (or at least seem to be) the only thing that carries water and energy. It seems you cannot deemphasize the role streets play even if you wanted to.

I want pedestrian only streets and avenues, bike lanes, subways, different kinds of trains, etc.

I can see why they didn’t (making only streets the fundamental building block simplifies the game), but the cities you can apparently build with this Sim City are not very appealing to me.
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy first, and Nightfall (both the short story and the later novelization) second.
The causality of that is highly suspect.
The "spaced repetition" theory is similar to something I read in Wired[0] long ago, of a guy and his note-taking "SuperMemo"[1] app. The article drifts aimlessly about the guy, but the theory behind the app is very interesting. And the chart is excellent[2].

For example, say you're studying Spanish. Your chance of
recalling a given word when you need it declines over
time according to a predictable pattern. SuperMemo tracks
this so-called forgetting curve and reminds you to
rehearse your knowledge when your chance of recalling it
has dropped to, say, 90 percent. When you first learn a
new vocabulary word, your chance of recalling it will
drop quickly. But after SuperMemo reminds you of the
word, the rate of forgetting levels out. The program
tracks this new decline and waits longer to quiz you the
next time.

[0]: http://www.wired.com/medtech/health/magazine/16-05/ff_woznia...

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SuperMemo

[2]: http://www.wired.com/images/article/magazine/1605/ff_wozniak...
"I hope, you know, wages are high in the rich world because of high productivity"

I'm pretty sure productivity has been rising rapidly over the last decade in the U.S., with no increase in wages.

"Their inhabitants now have the right to work everywhere in the EU. Did wages in the rest of the rich parts of the EU fall down to Polish levels? No."

What levels did they fall to (I honestly don't know)?
no love for J?
OP here, nice article! As long as you always group your selectors, mixins would do exactly the same thing as I'm describing. What's awesome about Sass @extend though is that you can ungroup your `.post, .comment, .friend ` selectors and Sass will regroup them for you! If you did that with mixins you'd end up with code duplication. Cheers!
"The only editors on the machine are ed, ex, and vi/vim. You're dead int he water and useless to me."

I wonder how many devs actually don't ever read man pages? Seriously, everyone should know how to surf man and do it well, start with man man.
I don't know how it is in "nicer" climates, but where I am, my commuter bike has gradually accumulated various things:

- taillight which I don't bother to remove

- expensive headlight which I do remove when parked (but I leave the mounting bracket)

- pedal straps (a must, in my opinion, for safe riding in traffic; feet slipping off pedals can mean a crash)

- thorn resistant tires

- stronger wheel (I'm above-average height and not fat, but the cheapo wheels kept getting bent)

- fenders to reduce splashing in the rain

- rack to hold saddle bag

The bike itself is rather old and worth less than $100. All the accessories add up to maybe another $400. So, I do have a cheap bike, but it's still not so cheap to replace, and doing so is a rather big time commitment.
I know about it because I manage a network of 100+ regular users. It is my responsibility to make sure they don't bring files from old job or take files to next job.
I am fully aware of this. My phrasing might have a shot was meant to indicate that he would face an uphill battle and success was still a somewhat unlikely proposition.

However when he's left to drift around homeless and without medication, his odds of success are currently 0. "Somewhat unlikely" is a significant improvement on that present reality.
Yup, I've been using mixins for a while now to reduce code bloat. It seems like placeholders are degenerate forms of mixins.

edit After more reading, they are most definitely not degenerate forms of mixins. Placeholders FTW!
CSS Regions Polyfill
As a security hacker, I always enjoy when servers leak juicy tidbits like version numbers, PID numbers, timing information, load use, client/server IPs, configuration of the webserver's limits, vhosts served, URLs served, TLS stats....

It's a treasure trove.
"Social working" -- I always thought this was the most important takeaways from XP and agile methodologies, that the highest quality work gets done when we tell each other what we're going to do ahead of time (agile/scrum), and then collaborate in the most literal sense by sharing one screen (pair programming) to see that the work gets done in the best possible way. Granted there are surely lots of other takeaways, but those are two things I did take, and I only do one of them.
Welp, it looks like there's going to be a localhost server hack.
I've been thinking of using spaced repetition in the upcoming semester to help me study (computer science). Does anyone have any tips on when to review, and what kind of material should I be preparing for review?
Do I just re-do parts from previous homework assignments?
Please explain in what way that comment was beneficial to this discussion?
I'd speculate that anyone "political" enough to be elected to the legislature at the tender age of 25 will never be able to step outside the mentally-crippling assumptions of the total-services state. Note the unrecognized contradiction between "the state should provide this service and provide it well" and "when I was in charge of things for the state, the LAST thing I or any of my colleagues cared about was providing this service".
I’ve got 99 problems, but one that customers actually run into ain’t one.
Do you have evidence that alcohol and tobacco are worse in the specific context of schizophrenia?
As a former TA, this sounds like an amazing approach.
Thanks! And definitely agreed - I never used @extends too much previously, but I'm starting to see some use cases for it. The placeholder class is an especially nice new feature outlined here, also props to Chris Eppstein for his awesome work on this.
From the (briefly explained) sound of this experiment, they showed a big difference in the same people based on sleep levels, so it's more than "fat people slep less, therefore lack of sleep is the cause".
You lose a CD or Manual (with install code) and you're SOL when it comes time to play the game again.

I hate DRM as much as the next guy but installing from server accounts is amazing.
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Learning emacs or vim is worth it if only just so you can use it in a tmux/screen session.
It was intended as a general critique.

> In general its Clarity, Brevity, Precision = Pick 2

One of those would be a good start ;)

Those three actually go hand in hand. I reread your initial post - I'm still not sure what you're trying to say. You and the post you reference seem to be saying the same thing.

Footnotes are supposed to be extra bits, not central to your argument, and you seem to ramble, and have complicated sentence structures, rather than cutting to the chase.
The one advantage that extends provides is less code bloat (if you use them right) in the compiled product - rather than inserting the same code, extends will add the select to the list with the previous selector. So if you were to write something like this:

.hello { color: red; }

.world { @extends .hello; background: blue }

...it would compile to something like this:

.hello, .world { color: red; }

.world { background: blue; }

na'mean?
I switched my Hakyll site from NFSN to Amazon S3 back in June. My basic observations here would be:

1. I don't see why you would bother with Amazon's CloudFront. CloudFlare is as easy to use and free, unlike CloudFront; it's worked well for me.
2. s3cmd is a good utility, but there are occasional cornercases. On my Debian testing system, use of '--guess-mime-type --mime-type=text/html' may have... unfortunate consequences for quite a few files you would not expect, such as CSS or image files.
Jaundice
Neat! Is there a way to tell the backend "run this bytecode, please"? If there is sqlite would make a great test bed to try out new query languages. Or, inversely, you could write a distributed database whose wire protocol was sqlite bytecode. Or you could write code translator to let you run sqlite queries on hadoop.
It might just be me, but personally I don't understand what is so bad about plain old Notepad. Everythng I've ever coded (except when at work where I'm forced to use others) has been done on Notepad (or, if I'm feeling in the mood to have some colours on the screen, Notepad++) and I've never had any issues.

Why spend so long worrying about your IDE of choice when they are all effectively glorified text editors?

edit: I'm glad that my comment provoked such a fantastic discussion
I think it's a neat and creative idea, but I wonder about its long-term effectiveness as they get to know one another better. It's easy to be embarrassed when making mistakes in front of someone you don't know at all, because there still exists that social awkwardness between the two. But get to know someone well enough and it's much easier to shrug off. Maybe he should just hire someone new every few weeks to keep things fresh?
I feel like emacs is being unfairly lumped in with vim as "one of those powerful editors that are a million years old".

The difficulty he is describing here applies to vim/vi only (modal text editing). With emacs the default setup has menus, typing inserts text into the document. You can do file->save. It is newbie friendly because you can learn bits and pieces of the powerful stuff as you go
Your concern is absolutely reasonable and we appreciate your notice. The reason for such inconsistencies is that Contrihub has been created during RailsRumble 2012 hackathon so, as a prototype, it is rough around the edges and bumpy in between. By the time the competition ends (this is now judging period), we will work on refining and extending its functionality.

Projects are currently scored and sorted upon weakness, taking into consideration factors like open and closed pull requests, issues, collaborators, watchers, forks, downloads.
As a productivity system, this is idiotic.

As a blog post that serves as link-bait, it is GENIUS.

...which is to say, I think it excelled at the REAL goal. ;-)
I heavily doubt that there we'll find a single cause for what essentially can be described as faulty wiring in the brain. Drugs, genetic predisposition and a whole lot of other causes could be the trigger just as well.

Upvote for the first point though.
I think the author knows there are better options for compressing large streams, but still chose to use the situation as a simple benchmark to test the performance of his (admittedly trivial) packing and unpacking routines.

You're right that the benchmark is biased due to cache effects/etc from processing in a large stream, however. A more honest (and useful) benchmark would be to test the performance of packed and unpacked integers under a random access pattern.