skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
that's not necessarily true.

As a mechanical engineer I used to work in an electronics factory.
there is still a lot of soldering done by hand. not to mention that the operators of the automated soldering machines.
during this soldering process there is a considerable amount of fumes, even though you're using blowers and filters, that the workers are exposed to.
Lead is known to be hazardous for long exposes. So I guess keeping the manufacture-workers safety is as important as the end user's one.
I didn't take part in the previous thread, but I kind of took umbrage with the question. It's really hard to take a question like that seriously when it appears that the OP has put zero effort into researching the subject. How can you not be pessimistic about that? If you're not the kind of person that can do even the most basic research of how cable companies operate, then I don't have one iota of confidence that you would be successful building one. I'm not trying to be mean - just realistic.
A Narrative History of BSD, Dr. Kirk McKusick
I feel like the load is way too high for getting relevant results. Imho it doesn't really matter if response time is 15 or 35 seconds when most users except responses in <1s.

Also it would have been nice to see some low-power x86 system for comparison.
I am surprised that third-party URL shorteners aren't time-limited by default. Why would you use a short URL for a long-lived link?
Only one comment: WOW!
> the Malthusian crisis has not happened, and will not ever happen.

Obviously a scientist talking -- or is it "astrologer"?

Avoid making ignorant predictions, especially about the future. :)
>> On the other hand, I found reading it as a child in the 80s a great disappointment. At the time I was learning about chaos theory and the butterfly effect. It was painfully obvious to me that the Seldon theory of psychohistory was impossibly simplistic. Human society and culture is just too unstable and susceptible to disruption for long term predictions of the kind the plot relies on to be viable.

I would disagree on that one. Of course, it would be impossible to predict particular events - like Harry Seldon does in the book - but I find it completely possible to foresee general trend in the future. For example, Immanuel Kant predicted the rise of an European Union back in the 18th century [0]. For example, I'd take the prediction that at some point in the future, technology will be so advanced to make travelling across the Earth or remote working completely seamless and costless, so people will have the ability to access to the same kind of jobs or activities wherever they are based, resulting in an homogenisation of the whole planet. You could argue that this trend started already when travelling in plane and internet were made affordable to most.

But yeah, the potentiality of prediction in the book are completely exaggerated, with Seldon being able to time the major events. On the other hand, it my be realistic if he can set up a secret group of telepathic people to influence the future and prevent anything to disturb his visions.

[0] http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2012/07/11/european-integr...
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Note that Apple doesn't discuss vulnerabilities until after they are patched. Will unpatched ones even show up there?
Except homeopathy practitioners are not medical doctors and even "correctly applied" homeopathy will not cure anyone to begin with.

Drinking water (homeopathy) is not going to cure my (hypothetical) cancer, it will kill me since I (hypothetically) refuse other treatments.
Okay, really, GP asks a genuine question, and you respond with this kind of misinformation? On the off chance that you're actually this confused - or on the likelier chance that someone else comes by and takes your comment seriously - let me make some corrections for you.

> There is no such thing as a vanilla Linux you can run

The phrase "vanilla Linux" doesn't even make sense. Linux is a kernel, not an operating system. If you're talking about the entire GNU/Linux operating system, it doesn't make sense to talk about a "vanilla" version, because there are thousands of different utilities that can comprise a GNU/Linux-based operating system, and there are combinatorially many ways to create a Linux distribution.

That's like saying that there's no "vanilla" BSD - only [Open|Free|Net]BSD - except worse, because some of the Linux "distributions" are really no more different than adding an extra package (eg, KDE) to an existing distribution and giving it a different name. It's as if you called BSD by two different names depending on whether or not you pre-installed Emacs.

> All the distros that have varying degrees of incompabilities and infelicities between each other.

This is vastly exaggerated. A properly compiled binary or a compatible source file should run on any distro - not just any modern distro, but any older one as well (assuming that it has the correct dependencies installed, etc.).

> And every now and then some figure who knows which political strings to pull uses that clout to load your favorite distro with pre-beta crapware.

If I wanted to get really snarky here, I'd say that the same thing could happen to BSD too and point to OS X. This is just ridiculous - Linux is open source and free-as-in-freedom, so just because somebody else packages your favorite distro with some stuff you don't like doesn't mean that anybody else has to as well - you can just as easily remove it and create your own "distro" as a fork.
It is an attempt to get help, but not in the sense that you're thinking.

Writing helps me solidify what I'm learning as I go, because I have to formalize and explain what I'm experiencing. When I wrote my first gist-post, I was simply trying to capture my own thoughts so I could move on to the next learning experience.

However, I discovered a side benefit: Ruby-ists cannot resist commenting on Ruby posts. The comments, even if critical of me or my approach, have been HUGE in helping me understand what I'm experiencing at a different level. That alone is enough for me to want to post more.
Radio shack had a good early start, the first personal computer I saw was a TRS-80 (model 1) looked nice and the software was cool (think I saw backgammon as the first program) the monitor was cheesy though, literally a cheap BW TV in a somewhat nicer case. School went for Commodore PETs which I really enjoyed. I did get to use a TRS-80 for a few months the BASIC was great had simple character block graphics, program line editor kinda sucked. (except for the Commodore, all of the other computer BASIC line editors were pretty bad.) Another recollection of TRS, was the disk drives were pretty expensive - had to buy an expansion bus, a disk controller then the drive(s). I just used tape.

Radio Shack by then was it was long on the tooth with soundless black and white computers (OK, you could get sound by using a radio to tune into RF interference - not kidding). The color computer was kinda of a late comer, with the Apple, Atari then Commodore already on the market with compelling color systems... and games.

Another trend that was emerging was they were pretty much working on a lock-in strategy, it was buy only their stuff or the highway, all the way down to printers. They kept with that MO into their PC clones which had slightly incompatible card spaces in their PCs to force customers to buy RS cards.

RS users seemed to be a pretty nice sort though, I'm sure a lot of HAM radio guys got them since they frequented the store already. Their magazines like 80 Micro were informative.
I liked this idea better when it was called Busy Building Things.
Can't be true.

Homeopathy says that the potency increases with dilution - since the blankets were very wet, they couldn't have had any effect.
who would have thought... I remember the 2000-in-1 electronics kit
Hydration, which requires more than mere water. You need electrolytes and other things to stay properly hydrated. That piece shouldn't be "news" to anyone. We have an entire industry built on producing sports drinks which contain sugars and electrolytes.

I find sea salt is better than table salt. Certain carbs, like aloe drinks, better than sugar per se. And I find that I stay better hydrated when I get enough of the right oils and avoid oils that I personally have issues with. I find butter and palm oils helpful, but I would suggest you try an elimination diet and figure out for yourself which oils are helpful for you as an individual and which are a problem.
HERE HERE!

But I do always find myself needing to point out: Hacker News is the most constructive and positive community on the internet. Yes there are lots of dicks and know-it-alls with "why didn't they just do this?" syndrome, but you won't find another anonymous discussion based community of this quality anywhere.
> This is naive scientific triumphalism of the first order ...

Translation: "Okay, science works. Stop gloating!"

> Centuries of debate quelled in a single utterance.

Yes, and correct.
Except if parents refuse to allow proper treatment for their children because of religious or other beliefs, such as being in favour of "natural remedies" rather than lifesaving medicines.
Iran launches own 'YouTube' website: state TV
You're being downvoted because your comment (or any comment in the style of 'but Y does this already!') adds no value to the discussion.
Has it actually been established that merely linking to copyrighted content is illegal in the United States? I'm not trying to troll, just genuinely curious.

My technical understanding of this could be incorrect, but it seems to me that there is a meaningful difference between a BitTorrent tracker actively coordinating copyright infringing downloads vs. a website like NZBMatrix hosting nothing but static links to another location on the Internet.
I think the issue isn't about how feasible the start up idea is in general, but how feasible it is for YOU. The comments may have been directing you to another idea for this reason.

Using your example of Elon Musk, you can see even his start ups have a progression of ambition. That is, space travel and electric car companies are much less feasible than a payment system or news site.

What is the difference between Musk and you today? Simple. Investors trust him with large sums of money since he has led successful companies before.

There is a reason YC companies generally have low capital requirements. That is the lack of track record of the founders (and that business experience does matter).

For your cable idea, the path towards that goal may very well be starting other companies first. Or be an industry insider who has the experience and connections to convince the incumbents to invest in you (like Pandora).
True, but they aren't readily apparent to someone who isn't digging through the weeds of both languages.

I looked at 'Hello world!' and FizzBuzz written in both Python and Ruby, and thought that the implementations looked fairly comparable. I haven't seen enough to convince me that Ruby is vastly different - not to say that it won't happen, but I haven't experienced it yet. I think that's why the gut reaction is to think of Ruby and Python as parallel languages.
They have some pictures of the food - http://wolvesmouth.com/blog
This is an amazing discovery. I'm surprised it isn't more prevalent in the news. This whisker issue has been a thorn in the side of many since ROHS was implemented. The biggest impact with this I see is safer, more reliable planes. How exciting.
ZhouTong founded bitcoinica.

Bitcoinica was an advanced bitcoin trading platform.

Zhou Tong stole customer funds.

That link has all the evidence you need to make up your own mind.
Java : lots of syntax to fuzz, all have to be right.

Haskell : few tokens, stronger checking (i.e no corecions), though Rosetta code is not as type-heavy as real Haskell code.

I have a conjecture that Haskell examples designed by experts - with types in mind as we do in production systems - would have lower compile rates than the Rosetta examples, that are written mostly by non-experts without regard to maintainability.

In production Haskell code, I will usually wrap Double values with newtypes, to e.g distinguish currency amounts, percent data and ratios from each other, specifically to guard against typos where I accidentally pass doubles parameters in the wrong order. Designing code with an intent to make it less vulnerable to fat fingers is certainly possible.
That's impressive. Dealing with forms is harder than most people think. Ever try positioning or styling input fields? It's not trivial like other html elements. That's why wufoo is popular and bootstrap puts so much effort on forms.
Show HN: I'm bootstrapping and launching my first startup. Thoughts?
Much of older science fiction doesn't connect with readers that have read authors that are better technically in the writing craft. Also many of the themes and "science" hasn't aged well. The best vision of the Foundation universe is Donald Kingsbury's "Psychohistorical Crisis". It is more up-to-date and crafted well as a large novel.

As a side note, the one author that has built a multi-book "Future History" that I recommend is John Barnes. Not celebrated as someone like Ian Banks, but as well crafted and readable.
Sure thing.

Here is the original site:

http://www.healthgazelle.com/oldsite/archive.shtml

Here is the site I am trying to migrate everything to and trying to figure out how to better present what I know:

http://www.healthgazelle.com/

Because most people do not believe me, I am up against a brick wall. I cannot get people to talk to me and it is making forward progress very challenging, to put it mildly.
I agree with this. It reminds me of the guy who, when his family members would as him fix their computers, he would ask them to drop it off. The idea was that he had them "put some skin in the game." It seems that OP did not do that.

Perhaps if OP worded it differently, he may have gotten different results.
IIRC you weren't forced to by the default client in the past. Fees are actually optional, but there is no motivation for miners to include your transaction if you pay none. Hence the client tries to make you pay a fee. If you pay a higher fee, that means it goes through sooner since miners will of course priorities high-fee transactions.
> If I am doing a desktop search for local files

Part of the issue is that many users do not understand the concept of "local files". For example my mother when looking for papers for her class will do a search through the universities page find a paper. Because the online PDF viewer sucks I showed her how to download the file and open it in Adobe. Now when she needs the paper again dose she just goto downloads and open it up? No she goes through the whole search process again. Even if the window with the document is just minimized she will end up going though the whole search process to download another copy. I showed her how to search for documents on her computer which helped but she was confused why documents from the "internet" showed up sometimes. Now the more shocking thing she is apparently one of the goto computer people at the elementary school where she teaches.

Really this shouldn't be a shock to us anymore we have to realize that most people are very, very non-technical and easily confused. These features are designed for them, so they don't have to figure out which search box to use. Especially when you realize we are likely to be storing more stuff in the cloud because it's more available and reliable (how many redundant offsite-backups do you have of your data?), these features make sense. There are issues about how they are communicated so people aren't surprised but I feel these are reasonable attempts to improve a product.
why so? Mac is a lot like Linux. I've been having little problems with the vast majority of mature gems even on Windows (especially with ruby devkit around, which automagically temporarily puts a GNU environment in my path to build gems that contain c/c++ code, none of which you'll need to worry about on Linux)
I don't think it's specific to Ruby-ists. Hackers in general cannot resist commenting when you criticize something that they've devoted time and energy to, and found to be cool. I think this is a good thing.
So if someone says they want to jump off a cliff naked, should we all applaud and encourage them? I think it's better to tell them it isn't going to work out well and why.

There was some interesting analysis and procedures in that thread about how to go about it, but the best post for the OP was really about how, as a company, he would be paying to license certain channels, and if users only subscribed to one or two instead of all of them, he wouldn't make enough money to keep in business.

As a user he can whine and complain all he wants about a la carte being rare, but as a business, he has to make enough money to keep running and he didn't understand that. Pointing out big problems in his plan is doing him a favor because he can then change the plan or address them.
I'm just reading the series for the first time, and the time jumps in the first book really threw me off too. However you should be aware that it mostly stops after the first book. The second book (Foundation and Empire) has two stories, but most of it focuses on the second one (The Mule), and the books after that are more like regular novels with no jumps.

For me the first book was by far the worst and I consider it more of a background filler than an actual story. I enjoyed the rest of the series far more, especially Foundation's Edge.
Well yes, idiocy is the cause of such deaths, but to live life just as "well, idiocy strikes again" is to live life a little more fatalistic than most of us prefer. At the very least, if we can legitimately show that homeopathy is the result of idiocy, than it becomes easier to identify the idiots who may someday harm us if we leave our healthcare in their hands.
Ask HN: Is this type of engineer common at startups?
At the last three startups/small companies I've worked at, the following type of engineer has had a principal role:

- 40+ years old
- single not by choice
- possibly virgin (or can only get laid via sexual tourism)
- sexist
- juvenile sense of humor
- overly emotional/bipolar
- creepy around women
- talented

As a founder it's great to have these smart neck beards bust their asses for you since they have no responsibilities outside of world of warcraft, but they make life hell for their "well-adjusted" coworkers.
The Playbook browser is a webkit variant.
I didn't participate in the discussion because the question was so vague. "I want to colonize Mars. How would I get started?" The same way NASA got to the Moon -- they didn't log onto ARPANET and ask around, they got to work.
If I use sql parameters in my queries, am I still vulnerable to SQL injection? What about using a (sane) ORM?

Basically, is it only php apps that hand-build queries that are vulnerable to SQL injection?
For most of those questions, the answer is capital.

Elon Musk started from very low hanging fruits for him, whose success enabled him to move on with more ambitious goals. This model is easily replicable, so if you have ambitious goals, first build capital with something easier. Which, I think, most of people here are doing.
Good to Great Python must reads
I'd say there is a big difference between 'asking for feedback' and 'fishing for ideas'.

"I want to launch a new courier service. How would I get started?"

This seems much more in the 'fishing for ideas' stage and hoping you can crowd source the process of creating your business while paying nothing for the privilege. Most people aren't going to help you.

"I've started planning my new courier service. It will be mostly in the healthcare industry as hospitals are over-paying on delivery costs of fragile medicine. I've worked out some ideas on how I can better fit and transport fragile medicine. However, I don't know how I would get contacts in the medical industry to test drive the technology. Who should I try and talk to and does anybody know of any existing studies into this? Anybody work in the field of transporting fragile goods and know what certifications are required?"

This is much more in the field of 'asking for feedback' and is very unlikely to be brushed aside.
No, please read. There are no conclusions to be drawn here.

Just because someone does something stupid does not mean anything.

There is no evidence that this woman ever studied homeopathy, or that this whole wet towel thing is even a treatment used by homeopaths.
I think his comment was quite appropriate, and did not feel there was an implication that he thought anyone was dumb for not having known about the alternative approach to getting Reddit data.

Often times programmers and the managers that drive them are way too quick to get going building or solving something with brute force. If they would just be patient and stop for a moment. Spending even a mere 30 minutes extra doing your homework on a problem can save hours or days in dev time.
Prescription drugs kill lots of people too. No one ever cites that as reason to skip seeing a doctor.

Not to dismiss your valid concern, the problem is that when doctor's kill someone, the death gets blamed on a disease or on the patient not taking the medication correctly, etc. But when an alternative treatment is used and death occurs, it is used to smear all alternative treatments. The climate is already biased against meaningful discussion of such things.
Unless you're a frontend developer, most people don't use labels. That and fieldsets. I still don't use those.
Their safe harbor protection is not in question at the moment.

They have allegedly shut the site down because they lack the resources to handle the growing tide of takedown requests.
I was tempted to reply to the original question because it implies that there is (only) one correct way to build an operating system, and once you've arrived at the correct answer any duplication of effort is pointless. I find that a quizzical approach.

I suspect the downvotes come from the way 'diminish' phrased the question. Linux is implicitly being used as the standard against which FreeBSD is measured, but the question implies ignorance of FreeBSD. Imagine the tone of the responses if the OP has written, "I know linux but not FreeBSD. From a technical perspective, where do they not overlap?"
go to the root project in the shell, stop rails server if it's running and type:
bundle install

then start the server again:
rails server
You have misread the essay. The author wrote:

Ruby makes heavy use of gems, which appear to be like more complex Python libraries. I say "more complex" because they appear to bolt onto each other far more heavily than Python libraries. If I want to make a complex application run, chances are I'll need five gems to do it... and versioning is extremely important.

The point is that the interconnections between Ruby gems appears to be much stronger than between Python libraries, and I interpret the above to mean that version mismatches occur noticeably more frequently in Ruby than in Python.
> My assumption is that devs in Python try to stick to the Pythonic way of doing things across modules, which helps maintain interoperability.

Yep. And that's also what I tried to do when I first started with Ruby, until another commenter explained to me that Ruby is different.

We were discussing the syntax of RSpec, and I was griping that RSpec was so linguistically different. Commenter explained that RSpec is very clear that it wants to have a different flow than pure Ruby because RSpec looks like a set of user stories. That means I'm going to have a hell of a time trying to stick RSpec into another use case, but I can't argue that the rationale for RSpec's DSL makes sense.
Excerpt that if such people live in a modern society, society bears the cost of such malpractice. And so it behooves other members of that society to at least argue against ineffective practices.