skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Medical appointments are pretty much the same as when I was a kid.

I have a young child, and I have had enough conversations with doctors and nurses to see that standards for medical care _do_ change rapidly enough to matter. Some examples:

- At the hospital where my wife gave birth, the SOP is an epidural and continuous fetal monitoring. This means that very little equipment is available which supports mobility. The hospital staff had a hard time wrapping their heads around the idea _lying on your back is painful_ for someone in labor. The human body hasn't changed, but the medical practices are currently optimized around the assumption of an epidural and keeping to a schedule. Doctors who have let this assumption ossify will force the hands of patients who simply don't know otherwise.

- My pediatrician's practice currently recommends avoiding peanut butter until age... three? I think. However, there is recent research on some children of Jewish ancestry in the UK vs. Israel, suggesting that their very low rates of peanut butter allergy are probably due to environment rather than a genetic predisposition. If further studies confirm that finding, the AMA will probably revise its suggestions, causing all pediatricians to start offering the _opposite_ advice.

- Recent research (sorry, don't have the reference) showed higher rates of food-related allergies when children were exposed to solid foods earlier than 3 months.

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Vancouver Island represent! :)

I am also in Victoria BC (moved here in the summer of 2012 with my three young children and it's been great).

Anyone else in the area? Any interest in a small meet-up?

(NB. Your email address must appear in the about field of your profile if you want to get email from people. The "email" field is only visible to HN admins)
Ooops ! You are right. My bad.
The main thing C needs from C++ is object destructors and RAII. It would be easy to denote a function as the cleanup operator for a struct, and the compiler already knows when variables go out of scope, valuable information that is currently not used for much. auto/shared pointers would save a lot of memory management pain in C.

Also function templates that would allow such things as a fast generic sort routine without lots of function pointer dereferences would be nice.

There's nothing else in C++ i can't live without.
Yes. Looks like a case of explotation of CVE-2013-0156.
Recreating the Image Viewer UI from Blade Runner
Does anyone know if sitting at an angle is actually significantly better for you? The coworking space I work out of in RI just got one of these:
http://www.focaluprightfurniture.com/ergonomic-benefits/
What is it that distinguishes a "Java freelancer" from other programmers? Java is just another programming language. Why do you limit yourself to Java? And what does that tell us about you?

Good programming does not have a lot to do with the particular programming language involved, IMHO.
I guess those that represent future as shiny are correct then...
Despite what others may say, on balance, there really isn't a good reason for this to be on top of HN.

Also, it's important to recognize that the fundraisers have lost contact with those in custody of the video. It's likely that we may never see that video and, rather than contributing to original intent of the fundraiser, the donations will instead go to fund Gawker's arbitrarily chosen charity. Crowdfunding's double-edged sword strikes again.
Thanks. I didn't realize that! Will check it out.
I'm talking about his impact on history, not necessarily the validity of his arguments in the year 2013. Almost all work in history morphs into something else. He influenced others who have build the computer industry a great deal as far as I can tell. For example if one wonders where Steve Jobs got so many great ideas in the early years it's probably in part due to Nelson, for example understanding computing as an expressive medium, as a replacement for paper. Clearly the work of Berners-Lee is directly influenced by Nelson. Unlike Gutenberg he didn't actually build the printing press. But he should be mentioned as a major contributor to the modern computer world. I very much doubt that "thousands of other people" can claim anywhere such things. According to wikipedia: "The crucial underlying concept of hypertext originated with older projects from the 1960s, such as the Hypertext Editing System (HES) at Brown University, Ted Nelson's Project Xanadu, and Douglas Engelbart's oN-Line System (NLS)." So there are perhaps 5 or 10 people who are the first level input nodes for the web. Not "thousands". By this line of reasoning Bill Gates contributed more to the web, because the Internet Explorer was widely adopted.
I'm on an iPhone and going to dinner in a second, but can someone tell them that Gem::Requirements line is a pretty dead ringer for the YAML exploits from January? Servers that haven't been owned yet should update Rails, see my article from January. Owned servers need to get rebuilt from metal, as per usual.
Knives, Forks and Internet Money
Update Rails. Exploit of known issues.
Glad you liked my post! V.I. represent! Yes definitely hit me up, would love to meet-up in Victoria. You can grab my e-mail from my blog.
Technically, you're right. More generally, it helps an awful lot with time management and household bliss, thus allowing one to focus more on a business/consultancy/startup and reduce distractions.
Quebec government targets Airbnb ‘hosts’ for offering unlicensed accommodations
The double unescape in the comments felt kinda like "Enhance!" "Enhance!"
Monkey web server v1.2.0 is out
This is unrelated to the article, but is anyone else experiencing not being able to scroll with a mouse scroll wheel on this page? I'm using Chrome on Win 7 64 bit and the scroll wheel does nothing, though it still works on other pages.
I know, for this service specifically I will spin it in a different direction, more towards of a professional contracting network.

But for now I'm more curious whether the whole buying into a project is realistic.
I would at least like to raise the bar a bit. A $50 buy-in would shave off 90% of spam bids, and I would do the same for buyers with an even larger buy-in cost. If there are no offers then you lose the money, which means something's wrong with your specs.
The PGPi scanning project
Welcome to the club! I come from the country that voted one Silvio Berlusconi to head the government. Multiple times. For 20 years.
This is state sponsored entrepreneurial propaganda IMO, reflecting the Chinese regime's push towards a more entrepreneurial focused free market. And I love it, I'm hoping Chinese individuals continue inventing products to help all of humanity.
Perils of Convenience – In Technology, In Life
Yes, there are many ways you can work around the problem of ssh needing manual inspection of individual host keys, and the method you propose is pretty reasonable. But building the verification into the infrastructure is a very sensible and nice way of handling it, and lets everyone throw out their individual ad-hoc solutions to this problem.
JackDB Adds Support for Postgres Extensions
On exactly this subject, I'm in the process of building a SaaS app that will alert you of security vulnerabilities in Gems in your Rails and other Ruby apps.

Sign up at my landing page to here more when I'm closer to launch

http://www.rubyaudit.com
At this point I feel that I might as well have a working theory of "if it is pleasurable or comfortable, it kills me" and go from there...
We have vote/flag links for a reason.

I'm going to go out on a limb here and guess that it's here because a large majority of HN users voted it here... because they found it to be of interest... Just guessing...
Doesn't seem to be anywhere to sign up.
I'm not making any assumptions and certainly not assuming they'd be farm hands or that only government can create techology. It's all around us in the details.

The fact is that a businesses number one aim is to make a profit and that restricts most businesses to seeing no further than the end of their nose and limits their capacity for risky investments. When it comes to research, corporations should be looking for profitable applications of research before anything else because it's their number one aim. This means that a lot of research that doesn't have any clear practical application to a profitable model or doesn't meet a percieved profitable timescale is unlikely to be pursued.

I'm not denying that some companies do some groundbreaking research just that the inherint nature of corporations prevents them from taking risks that governments can take and which a lot of corporations capitalise on. Corporation and government funded research are two sides of the same coin. They both bring their respective benefits to society but one won't work without the other.

Most corporations would never have taken the big initial risks and government would likely never have practically applied the findings to a valuable product.
Thanks, that is a helpful answer.
Watch this homemade ‘lightsaber’ quickly burn through everything
The thing is, Wordpress is used by people who don't know and do not want to know what those things are.
I dare say, even PHP is mostly used by people who don't know what most of what you wrote is.

I've seen even Magento forum members (Magento being a complex e-commerce solution written on the Zend framework) saying they do not know how to write more than a couple of lines of PHP.
An interesting email on the actual scanning process is available here: http://www.pl.pgpi.org/files/pgp55scan.txt

There's a link to the same content on the main page, but it seems to be broken.
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5773117
That should be easily testable..and wouldn't that mean that the colourblind men can do it too, since they have the same non-ideal cones?
Why not just follow the Agile manifesto to the letter and not buy into product-management buzzwords and methodologies?

[edit, additional thought] It seems like if you're having a problem with Agile development being too process-heavy, you're doing it wrong.
I think that Ms lightswitch is designed to make it easy for developers to add features and extend the software later on.
Yup, that's exactly the idea with massed fire. If you can't hit a point target, just designate it an area target and get enough rounds together to be effective on the entire area. When it comes to taking down a blimp with a round that barely has the energy to get there, though, I imagine that number of rounds is measured in thousands at least. Less of "keep firing" and more of "we're gonna need a lot of guys".

And also don't forget the numbers I'm using suggest this is only plausible if you're firing more or less straight up, meaning the area you're ultimately targeting is where you are.
Would love to see the same thing for Racket. Anyone else have this are want to start it?
Entrepreneurship is Not about Innovation, But Commercialization
>* Web != Desktop. Large desktop apps are the wrong paradigm on the web. You won't see a Web-based Mathematica rewritten by hand in HTML/JS/etc. You will see Emscripten-compiled 3DS Max (see my blog on OTOY for more). The reasons behind these outcomes should be clear. They have little to do with JS lacking Java's big-OO features.

I am actually not defending big-OO features (I think, 90s style big-OO is obsolete). I like mix of OO and functional programming and like the results which it confers to code (see for example, Reactive Extensions, it's very easy to learn, expressive, and compact). The feature which I miss in JavaScript and which platforms such as JVM and .NET have, is ease of maintaining code, mainly through sound type system and languages created with tooling in mind.

>* Glad you brought up refactoring. It is doable in JS IDEs with modern, aggressive static analysis. See not only TypeScript but also Marijn Haverbeke's Tern and work by Ben Livshits, et al., at MSR.

The problem with algorithms similar to Tern's is that it works well until we use reflexive capabilities of the language. However, most of the libraries do use them, and as long as it happens, algorithms such as Tern's infer useless type Object.

>But automated refactoring is not as much in demand among Web developers I know, who do it by hand and who in general avoid the big-OO "Kingdom of Nouns" approach that motivates auto-refactoring.

There are refactoring which can be useful in any language. My favorite one is rename, I usually can't come up with a good name from a first attempt. Others are extract/inline method (extract/inline variable is easy to implement in JavaScript).

Another maintainability related feature is navigation to definition and find usages. Unfortunately, language dynamism makes them imprecise and code maintenance becomes nightmare especially if you have > 30 KLOCs of code. You have to recheck everything manually and it's very error prone. Tests can help, but they also require substantial effort.
Age and Great Invention [2005]
Don't know if anyone knows, but is Gawker allowed to use the donations as a tax write off? Always been curious about that.
It seems likely to me that other members in their gang or community must have taken care of these guys by now. Who would buy drugs from anyone associated with these guys after such a major leak of personal information? The "Somali" brand has undoubtedly taken a huge hit now that its clear that, like so many young operations experiencing growth, they didnt take security seriously enough from the start.

The guys at the top must be in full damage-control mode, because they're going to lose a magnitude more revenue than a measly $200k. I don't know who their competition is, but there's a big opening for a mid-sized crack dealer to rapidly expand their marketshare if they can convince their customers that they take the security of their personal information seriously.

As for the guys with the video, think what happened to David Barksdale

http://gawker.com/5637234/gcreep-google-engineer-stalked-tee...

...but cross it with what happened to D'Angelo Barksdale.

It's so ironic and weird that Gawker was involved in poisoning David Barksdale's employment opportunities, and is also involved in the Rob Ford case, while still living under the shadow of the millions of passwords they leaked last year.
A vey interesting post. I'm actually excited about the ability to pa by mail and in general paying for things online in a more convenient way than having to create accounts at all these web sites and then having to fill my personal and payment details. Having said that, I do agree with the author that indeed we are moving (albeit sometimes too slowly to realize) into a more passive state of existence where more is done for us and we sometime loss some of the subtle qualities of human connections. Having siad that - what can you do? progress is progress and while we might feel sentimental sometime we have no option or alternative but to adapt ourselves to it.
It's impressive to see how many of those games have working ports on my OpenPandora... good times
That's not all that HN is. If that's what you want, then hit up https://lobste.rs/ it's got the same articles as HN, but without the cruft.
Don't forget the astronomers, for whom a metal is any element that isn't hydrogen or helium.
Is there a study that doesn't assume correlation == causation? Yes, lots of people who are generally unhealthy also have jobs that require sitting for hours at a time. But what does that mean for someone who lives an otherwise healthy lifestyle?

Let's say person A burns 1000 calories a day at his job, and only sits for a few hours when he goes home. Person B burns 1000 calories in his off time, but sits at work for 8 hours. Is person B still more likely to suffer health defects and die early? If so, why?
This political story is at the top of HN despite the guidelines for the same reason that your remarks are at the top of the comments... despite the guidelines urging us not to comment on why something doesn't belong on HN.
"The local government halted Wu's plan to fly the helicopter out of safety concerns." (#37)
Heh - check out the text on the circuit board mask just under the 8 pin header on the edge that's at the top in the image on the dev blog page: http://dev.moorescloud.com/2013/05/28/holiday-hardware-at-a-...

Nice! (you'll probably need to click through to the large version of the image to read it)
> the speaker of the house cannot count on all of his own party's votes for that reason

This is diverging from your original point so I won't push it too hard... But you don't think this has more to do with the larger trend in GOP members of congress over the last few decades? There has been a pattern of primary challenges against moderates for some time; it did not start with the 2010 election, it was only slightly re-branded and allowed to have a majority after a 4 year hiatus.
Twenty years ago, this might have been true. I don't think it is today.

I'm 60 years old, and while I'm somewhat unusual in that computers and tech have been part of my life, both personally and professionally, for half my life, I would have to think pretty hard to come up with someone in my circle of friends and relatives in the 50-80 age range who doesn't use the Internet. My 80 year old aunt has a desktop, an iPad and an iPhone. My 81 year old landlady spends an average of 4 hours a day online. Just examples.

We could debate their "expertise" in using the Web or software/apps in general. On the whole, given the kinds of questions I end up fielding from them and others, it isn't particularly high. But then again, that may actually be the fault of the software itself, much of which is difficult for someone for whom tech is not an abiding interest to understand. I spent 10 years reviewing software full-time, and it was often a struggle for me to forget what I knew and judge it from the standpoint of the average Joe.

At any rate, I think it's a canard to say that older adults (or even senior citizens, since I guess I am one now) don't use the Internet. They may not use it the way someone younger does, but that doesn't mean they don't use it.
Lately I've been using my phone to do a cycle of 15/5 minutes sitting/standing, with standing time also being a break from the computer. It's worked really well. The break time is not really an interruption; 5 minutes is enough for most small chores, and if I don't have any of those, I can use it for mindfulness practice. Plus chopping it up gives me better estimates about time usage and how much I can get out of any given work day - after a certain point it becomes clear that I'm spending most of each cycle on distractions, so I'll start adjusting my plan to match reality.

I could probably use Pomodoro or any similar cycle and also get good results, I just happened to try this first.
The study: http://bjsm.bmj.com/content/46/13/927.full
This is seriously cool! this really brought up some very fond memories of a movie I really really like. Thanks for posting.

Growing up I always like the UX they had for things in star-trek TNG. Back then in the nineties touch based interfaces were really something out of a sci-fi movies, and now 20 years later they're commonplace, which gets me to the point - is there anyone working on a starr trek like JS UX framework? That would be so cool!
> I guess the problem with these small internet cafes is that the most likely early adopters are these 419'ers.

Problem for whom?
Let's ask God for recipes. Muses were real (God).

The deal is, you exchange love for stuff.

http://www.templeos.org/Wb/Accts/TS/Wb2/Hymns.html

Praise God, it's even barter. Mostly, it's fun.

My first recipe was cottage cheese, laurey's salt and chive from our garden. (I was 4-years old with Mom)

God says...
silly_human mine soybeans smoke muddle venison Jerusalem
crystallized Seasoning nuts baguette Moamb application
Essence I'm_grieved pistachios meek chili who's_to_say
what_would_Jesus_do rose Goji eau I'm_the_boss Moreton
panko bacon I'm_tired_of_this recaito flour mange-tout
spearmint Quick barley Altitude piety Marnier I'm_not_sure
maraschino jobs Quick sweetener sear Parmesan celeriac
It's_nice_being_God rusks brown pan don't_worry vote mangoes
glace sky chili ladyfingers kugel in_theory caviar bruschetta
you_do_it lemons you'll_see hype Church W FBI zabaglione
okra nope manie groats doh ginkgo coulis amaretti Bouquet
parsnips turmeric Zzzzzzzz if_anything_can_go_wrong hype
Blue dance listen_buddy turkeys whazza_matter_for_you
dice yeast nigella Sauce when_hell_freezes_over mort juice
You_can_count_on_that Latte kumquats gras Quick guilty
basically Moreton palm cursing I_pitty_the_fool mange-tout
where's_the_love chips how_goes_it spinach how_about_those_yankees
cornstarch doh turtles dredge kumquats glam cookies revolution
berbere Japan harder_than_it_looks puff edam curry Latte
cassava ordinarily bean tablets bouquet patience french
are_you_feeling_lucky provolone lime Creole dente Moreton
earnest if_anything_can_go_wrong rip_off jambalaya poppy
spearmint what_the_heck K for soba in_a_galaxy_far_far_away
pimiento swordfish marshmallows oyster apple Cheese

----

This is what you should shoot for:

I asked God "Was stegosaurus lame like turtles?" God said, "Not pet rocks"

Jacob tussled with God.
That usually happens there has been a new action related to the post (i.e. someone liked it and/or someone commented on it) which I like because some people use facebook infrequently and it allows you to see their comments.
You're downvoted but you're spot on. People just don't want to accept that what THEY trust is as wrong as Fox et al
How to relax with all the powers of the universe at your fingertips
How do I deal with a compromised server?
Its the product of growing up in a destabalized war torn country. Russia invaded Afghanistan in 1979 to fight a proxy war with America. Most of the Afghan population since has had to etch our some kind of post-war anarhic life.

Is it no surprise that you think their lifestyles/societies are backwards when you write your comments from a first world country that hasnt seen occupation and invasion in however many years (assuming you're from a western country that is).
Are you familiar with the word "salary"?
Ashton Kutcher: Facebook Is The ‘New Religion’
Doh! I just got the landing page setup, and the signup configured, but never pushed it out.

Try it now.

Thanks
We're discussing this a bit downthread-- in my opinion it's not a realistic threat. To kill a blimp at a couple of km you would need a modern ground-to-air missile (and know how to use it), or mass small arms fire of similar expense. It wouldn't be a good investment for a poor warlord, you'd only need to worry about organized military or other very well-financed organizations.
I think it good that developers in the city are able to meet the demand rather than ignore it. I'd like to see this level of development happening in US cities. It looks like progress.
It's not the view of managers, it's a view of the numbers.

If approximately half the workforce is between 40 and 60 and half is between 20 and 40, then half your staff are managers. That would work if only two people report to each manager (branching factor of 2), but it seems very inefficient to have so many levels of management: log_2(#staff).

On the other hand, with a branching factor of 10 only 1/9th of your workforce are managers, so management positions only support those between 55 and 60.

The point of the original comment was that you can't have "move into management" as the default career track for people in their 40's. There just aren't enough management positions.