skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While I've switched to a box with ample RAM so that this isn't really a concern any more, my old habit was to open up the Chrome task manager, and just kill any tab that I was just holding in place to read later. All the RAM gets freed up, but the tab is still held in place if I close the window. A simple refresh when I actually want to look at the tab would bring it back up.
Except that that theory requires common knowledge, which certainly is not a correct assumption. What exactly is common knowledge is almost entirely the debate between religion and science.
That's not the power the President is claiming. It's much narrower than that.

The President has not stated what limits there are to his power. He has stated limits to what he will authorize. However if we accept that he can authorize it without having laid out limits to his authority, what stops another president from authorizing more?

Bear in mind, one of the most common ways for a democracy to become a dictatorship is for there to be broad emergency powers granted to the president - and then for the president to declare what effectively becomes a permanent state of emergency. Lest this seem paranoid, remember that the American experiment is 237 years old. If we assume that we are in a random point in time in the history of the USA, there is an a priori over a 10% chance that the USA will no longer exist in 24 years. There is a similar chance that the USA will survive another 2370 years. When we look across how long different types of government have lasted in different countries, the prospect of our system of government ending inside of 24 years is much more likely than its lasting 2370 years.

Does that seem absurd? I remember what the country was like 24 years ago. If you described what the USA would be like today to me back then, I'd have called it a dystopian fantasy. Democracy is more fragile than we want to believe. I'd like to keep it longer. And yes, I'm very willing to accept more trouble preventing terrorism if that is the cost. (And I'd also like to stop having to take my shoes off to get on an airplane...)
To help, spread this message: you often don't want an antibiotic.

If you have a viral infection, taking an antibiotic is like setting mousetraps to kill mosquitos.

Meanwhile, your unnecessary antibiotic 1) has side effects, 2) costs money, 3) helps breed superbugs.

Many patients feel that "if I waited 2 hours to see the doctor, he/she had better give me something." Many doctors cave to these demands. We need to stop both.
Correlation and Causeality strikes again.

I have a family member, who suffers from depression, they are on the dole (UK state benefits) and hasn't ever had a full time paid job.

This is because of the illness, not a cause of the illness, in fact from what I've seen depression can be so all consuming the thoughts of money never enter the head. In some ways their drepression would prevent them from ever being concerned about their lack of money, or motivated enough to do anything productive.
Start with a proper billing system either third party (I like fresh books) or the one built into QuickBooks. By built in I mean an add-on you have to pay extra for btw... Then you can keep it all straight and even give it to an accountant at the end of the year! I love me some accountants! (Attorneys too, I have never had either NOT save me money or headaches)

EDIT: Also, no html tags needed in posts here.
I've used webmin, but found the management of virtual hosts/apache to be quite clunky, and on a low-end (256mb ram) VPS it's a bit too heavy to run all the time.

However, if you've got multiple VPS, and multiple webmin installations, it does a nice job of letting you tie them all together, for example having a separate VPS for mailserver, webserver, etc.

I'm looking forward to seeing some of the replies/suggestions this question gets!
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yeah - confirmed. http://www.forbes.com/sites/kellyclay/2013/03/10/seattle-bar...
Maybe you live in a bubble where you never book alirline tickets and medical insurance, then use those airline tickets to go abroad and then use the medical insurance when you hurt yourself.. You are the sterotype american silicon valley bubble boy.
>This is condescending, and relies on the assumption that I don't know anything about anything and just fell off the turnip truck last week.

Well, obviously you didn't get it.

> but for something this long you should do me (the reader) the courtesy of speaking directly to me.

Your comment is also full of pointless vitriol.

I think it's one of the most succinct and well done explanations of an abstract academese concept loads of people quote but few people seem to understand. I refer to this blog post often.
The essence of Frankenstein was about human nature. Specifically that we hate ugly things and love beautiful things even when the beautiful are evil and the ugly kind [1]. The only reason the creation wanted to destroy the creator was that the creation had no place in this world and was denied even a small amount of peace by the creator that condemned it to existence.

[1] When the beautiful doctor started working with dead bodies and so on, it was a "phase" he was going through. Not a bad person at all. When the monster saved a man's daughter from drowning he was shot for his trouble because something so ugly could only be evil.
I use Ubuntu for both work and home use. Chrome is the only browser I use and I never have any problems with it.

I don't use sites like gmail or google docs, though, so maybe it has more to do with the sites visited than the OS platform.
And of course, if you're interested in JavaScript and in LA, you should come to the next meetup on 3/28. For updates follow https://twitter.com/LosAngelesJS
It's a man standing in a corner.
The quote marks are confusing, maybe make the outer or inner ones single quotes. Or remove the outer quotes altogether.
How about fun?

I used to shoot at targets with a bb gun as a kid. I sure as hell wasn't practicing to be a bb gun killer....
You don't need a UX specialist
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Completely disagree. We've seen too much complacency in recent years when it comes to memory usage. Developers think it's ok for their applications to bloat out and have a huge memory footprint. I'd rather applications were developed in such a way that they were more memory efficient.

I've had a recent incident in which Chrome was consuming about 7GB of memory, just because I had about a hundred tabs open! It was really, really, insane. This reckless disregard for memory usage caused more problems in terms of performance, and it wasn't apparent what was happening until things started OOM'ing. (Swapping is really just as bad as an OOM - the computer's practically useless if it's trashing due to low memory.)

Your ideal situation of having more memory used will, in many cases, lead to degraded performance.
Sparkfun also has an exceptional write up on how to get into the microamp ballpark:
http://www.sparkfun.com/tutorials/309

The article's try and see approach is very detailed and a great read for anyone looking to get into prototyping with AVR for battery based projects.
It says it goes to their warehouse first for "relabeling", then sent to you, "so you can shop anonymously".

It probably also has the benefit of not triggering merchant anti-fraud mechanisms for shipping to all manner of different addresses.
Agreed. There is no bonus here. Now if you can hot switch between tabs, or rather use some key shortcuts to better manage the switching, that would bee good.
Making Decisions Is Easier Than You Think
Are you kidding me? Both sites have users that need to access various portals from foreign countries. That's the basic similarity between the two sites.

Wait for a better connection... oh yeah sure, I'll just go look for another internet cafe in the middle of nowhere on my travels.... Seriously, you're an idiot.

So many companies get this right. A few don't. I serioulsy hope you suffer

EDIT: I'm specifically referring to people that travel here. As you live in a bubble, I doubt this applies to you or the sort of work you do.
Why do the code text boxes have a scroll bar when the code does not leave the text box bounds? Doesn't look very good.
It is not about money, it is about sloppy programming. Sure you can use more memory, but not at the cost of disrupting everything else on the system. For example most of the netbooks / ultrabooks or whatever you call them (including macbook air) used to come with 4GB at most. Upgrading them is a pain, and having a memory hog is definitely an issue in those cases.
I thought that's already done by silk road.
How to Minimize the Red Tape and Taxes of a Startup
When Chrome launched, Opera was faster than Chrome and everything else.

It took about one year and a half of JavaScript engine development for Chrome to surpass Opera in performance.

Since then, Opera has not been the faster browser anymore.
I don't know anything about Socrates but I sometimes find that internalising an idiot who doesn't know anything and then trying to explain my ideas to them (sometimes whilst walking round in circles audibly talking to myself) is a useful thought process.
I really like the functionality of OneTab, as I'm someone who frequently has 3 concurrent Chrome windows, each with dozens of running tabs.

The one thing that's going to prevent me from using this regularly, though, is that once you reopen a tab, there's no back state. I find that some of the most valuable information that I can get from a webpage isn't necessarily the page itself, it's the process leading up to the page.

That being said, this is an absolutely beautiful Chrome extension and I commend the developers on what they've accomplished.
After 9 months all we get is a new streams interface?
That would be too many words without a paragraph break, I think.
> Chrome greets me with… sigh… Chrome greets me with a fucking advertisement for a Chromebook.

I have always used Chromium as opposed to Chrome. I am not sure why people would go for the Chrome version if they really care about freedom.
"I've been where some of these people are. I haven't been outright homeless and sleeping outdoors, but once upon a time I did have everything I own to fit basically in the same area as half a mattress. In the town I was in at the time, the only comfort was that I knew were food and basic services were. You just don't up and leave those behind cause it "might" be easier elsewhere."

Perhaps I misread the thread but most everyone here appears to be quite empathetic to the problems raised by high housing costs.

I'm relatively certain the parent was referring to the entrepreneurial set rather than those who cannot currently (and will be even less able to in the future) afford to live in San Francisco.

If anything living outside SV might have made the process you went through easier if you could avoid a large portion of your earnings going solely to housing.
It's true that it has history in technological circles, but the politically correct wording appears to now be "primary" and "secondary". Interestingly, in 2003:

"Los Angeles officials have asked that manufacturers, suppliers and contractors stop using the terms "master" and "slave" on computer equipment, saying such terms are unacceptable and offensive." [1].

[1] http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/ptech/11/26/master.term.reut/
I assume it depends on a state basis, but IMHO the OP comment doesn't read like speculation, it reads like someone making a factual statement with the intention to influence the readers perception of the company in question.
Full Stack Dev looking to do a joint side project
Tried this before but nothing substantial came of it. I'm looking for someone to do a side project with. Mostly to meet someone with similar interests and to have a little fun coding something interesting. If we end up getting customers, that's a nice little bonus.
"Guns have no useful purpose"

Correction: guns have no useful purpose that you can personally imagine (or that you are personally willing to accept).

Yes, I am a gun owner. I own three rifles, and at least two have a clear utility argument:

1. .22lr is for basic practice (aiming, breathing control, etc.) at low expense.

2. .270 is for hunting deer. Where I live, there are more whitetail deer than there were when Europeans first arrived on this continent, and the only way to keep that population under control is by hunting. Deer are the cause of numerous automobile accidents and cause quite a bit of property damage. In some suburban areas where deer hunting is not allowed, towns occasionally hire people to exterminate deer because they have become pests.

Right there, you have useful purposes for a large class of firearms. Killing pests on farms is another common use of rifles.

"We can eliminate unnecessary risk (like guns)."

So what you are saying is that anyone with children should not be a hunter or farmer, or that they should store their guns somewhere other than their home (and hope they are not stolen)?

The problem with your argument is that it is a blanket statement -- you are talking about guns as a general thing, which covers little BB guns all the way up to naval canons. Some guns have immediate and obvious civil uses, but you leave no room for that.
Starting an online business is cheaper than ever. Beyond that, you live below your means for a couple years and save up the money.

And, about side projects: work on them on your own time, on your own equipment, and don't compete with your employer. (And most importantly, don't brag to your coworkers about your moonlighting ventures.)
At low levels, it's possible to enter scaleable businesses with relatively low risk.

I started writing e-books for an affiliate. Took ~2 weeks to make the first couple books. Early sales justified continuing. Then mid-run sales justified continuing on a longer term scale.

I ran out of books to write, so I didn't scale that high - but I produced some recurring revenue with very little risk. At each point I knew my efforts would pay off at a certain level.
Being able to share the results of a hashtag would be nice, e.g. http://tweetfarts.com/?hashtag=%23foo
Will money-laundering as a service pass legal muster? It'd be interesting if it does. Anyone know of case law that protects an idea like BitSpend?

Anonymous purchasing power is a Good Thing; going through a third party seems like it adds wrinkles.
I am so tired of this senseless Reddit bashing.

Subscribe to some smaller programming, math and technology reddits and tell me who has the better comments.
They are too sexy
So, in that case, when you are developing, you are actively using multiple VMs and 30++ tabs? Maybe I am just bad at multitasking, but while I do see the point of the VMs, I don't see how they fundamentally change the overall picture.

I don't doubt that you can manage to fill an arbitrary amount of RAM running multiple browsers, VMs and other programs, however, I do fail to see how that in turn enhances (or constricts) productivity. Multiple VMs? Sure. Multiple browsers? Sure. Multiple VMs and browsers? Sure. Multiple VMs, browsers and multiple dozen tabs? I don't see a use case here.

If you have multiple multi-gigabyte VMs running, chances are its not your brower's RAM usage that is hamstringing you by using all available RAM.

edit: I'm not saying I don't see a use case were theoretically there are tangible limits on RAM which become a problem, but to me, it remains exactly that: theoretical.
Having 100 open tabs would be unmanageable from a UI perspective. I can't deal with more than about 8 open at once, per window. I just bookmark stuff to come back to later if I'm dealing with more.

So ... it's not a technical problem.
Common knowledge at your work place that will be mind blowing to the rest of us
As one of the main drivers of Python at Netflix, this one is near and dear to my heart. Let me know if you have any questions, or come visit our booth!
Every single point is spot on from my own experience. Subsequently many of the points won't sit well with the techie crowd.
How the Art of Shaving Led to a Six Figure Per Month Income
Just browsing through the first Google hit for "one bedroom mountain view" got me this: http://www.apartments.com/California/Mountain-View/Avalon-at... One bedroom for "$1565-1725".

I don't know if that apartment is actually available at that price, but $2000/month for one bedroom looks doable.
Selling kitchen knives: not illegal.

Selling kitchen knives, and giving tips and instruction on where to stab to inflict maximum damage: I'd be very surprised if you're not legally liable for the actions of the third party. But, IANAL.

EDIT: as for free speech, the "imminent lawless action" [1] test is AFAIK the current standard in the US. I'm sure there's case law around this that I'm not familiar with, but I'd argue giving killing tips is likely to incite "imminent lawless action" in the knife analogy.

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imminent_lawless_action
Early iPhone sported 5x7 display and a serial port
Excuse Us While We Kiss The Sky (on urban explorers)
> "drug-resistant MRSA"

Also antibiotic resistant c-diff. I have heard about klebsiella pneumoniae, but don't know any cases personally.

Eventually, advanced societies will realize that immune systems need to be exercised just like the rest of the body, but good luck telling helicopter moms that Jr shouldn't have antibiotics for his ear ache.
v0.10 comes after v0.8(0)? That's like launching Chrome v3 after Chrome v25.
<blockquote>
Make a site accessible and search bots have no problem crawling and indexing your site. Create quality content. Read the webmaster guidelines. Google wants your content to rank on its own merits.
</blockquote>

At risk of sounding bitter, this is really not the best advice to share with any group of startup entrepreneurs who might believe it and stake their business model on it. As with many of us here, I've struggled with this issue for years, and the reality is that Google is a saturated distribution channel that is horrible at identifying quality content that is not heavily branded or pushed in mainstream media.

There are ways to tweak the signals, but it usually means having someone working fulltime on spreading word, and smaller teams building good sites often have better things to do than linkbait blogging (something I believe many of us would personally define as poor quality content). And even then this approach simply does not work in highly competitive fields where there is literally a decade of competition over search queries at this point, and competition from highly-funded startups and incumbents.
Be very cautious with easy and intuitive explanations in biology.
>Are you kidding me? Both sites have users that need to access various portals from foreign countries. That's the basic similarity between the two sites.

That is the most superficial comparison between two disparate industries that I've seen in some time.

Yes, both are websites that you access.

By this context: I visit mobile gaming websites from foreign countries. According to your analysis, mobile gaming == travel industry == healthcare.

You do, of course, realize that the regulation requirements behind the systems that deliver those websites are dramatically different?

Between HIPAA, ARRA, a bevy of other national regulations and 50 separate state implementations of Medicare/aid with additional privacy and other regulations on the state level, I hope you can appreciate that medical software requirements are fundamentally different.

Implementing a medical portal is an order of magnitude more difficult than a travel portal from the regulation and control side alone.

Put it this way: if you leak user data on a travel site, all you might have to do is write mea culpa and force a password change.

If you leak user data on a medical site: the fucking hammer comes down, public disclosure is mandated and _heavy fines will follow_.

These kind of systemic differences absolutely affect the end user UX and the kinds of priorities that developers have going into it.

Making sure spotty data connections work is less of a priority than making sure a secure connection is present when dealing with HIPAA protected data.
The REST API looks like its halfway to being an OData one. Why reinvent the wheel and not go the whole hog?
There's two types of packages:

- Standard Order, $2 flat fee

- Anonymous Order, 5% fee
I set up the beginnings of my first Node app this past weekend with Express, Stylus + Nib, and Handlebars (plus nodemon and livereload, though I think I may need to add a little Grunt + regarde to get the most out of livereload). Very enjoyable to get started with, and there are plenty of other solid options for your stack if those selections aren't to your liking. [Feel free to email me if you want another Node newbie for discussion.]
I just tried this. It broke chrome and I needed to create a new "User Data" directory. Maybe it'll work in a future version.
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I used to volunteer for the Samaritans in the UK (A well known and respected suicide helpline http://www.samaritans.org/).

What you are taking on is a laudable thing, and I would honestly suggest talking to these people (or an equivalent US one), and find out their "ways of doing things".

Providing such support alone can take a toll on you, and there is a difference between sacrificing time and sacrificing you. If you can find others who can "man the phones" too, and if you establish good guidelines (policies on abuse, on anonymity, on sharing data between calls and working with other services and oh a thousand things more) you I hope will do some good here.

Oh and one last thing, I learnt you "worked the phones" for a year or for life. If like me you only do this for a yer, do not feel you are abandoning others. And maybe you will leave something that lasts beyond you

Good luck
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> This is condescending, and relies on the assumption that I don't know anything about anything and just fell off the turnip truck last week.

I would not overlook the possibility that they were just excited to formally reference something called "Socratic dialogue". It seems we like finding formal names for things on HN.
Memory is cheap in the the first world. I live in Argentina, which is not a particularly poor or undeveloped country, and my 8GB of RAM are almost impressive. I know of no one who has 16 GB, and a few of my friends have 8. Most people I know of have between 1GB and 4GB, with 2GB being by far the most common configuration.
In Sweden, running a service is deemed illegal if the majority usage is of an illegal nature. The appeal court explicitly wrote this in their decision regarding the pirate bay case, in answer to a question regarding search engines like Google. For evidence, they refereed to the screen shots of top 100 charts made by the - since employed by MPAA - investigator.

I always wondered what that would mean to an email service, since the primary form of email can easily be illegal spam/scams. I would also be careful if I ever contributed to projects like nmap, because how can I prove what the primary usage of such program is? Could it be defined that I was performing a service if I contributed code?
I agree with you, but 7GB for 100 tabs sounds likes something unusual happened.
I usually have around 200-350 tabs open (Yes, I'm hoarding, I'm aware of it). I usually terminate their processes and respawn them when I need them (their state is not lost) but IIRC, when I don't I get around 3GB for 200 Tabs
One love, One tab...