skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reading this currently, with a lot of similar skepticism, mostly because of this blog post: http://aaroniba.net/articles/tmp/how-i-cured-my-rsi-pain.htm...

I avoid books like this because they are almost all "wacakaloons" like you say. But this one seems to be much better. At least the entire first half of the book is the author making the medical case for his treatment. It is well cited, based on both his clinical experience and other studies.

Sarno doesn't claim that slipped discs are caused by suppressed anger. He never says that all backaches, headaches, slipped discs, and chronic pains are due to this and stresses the importance of getting examined before judging for yourself the cause of the pain. He believes that the pain from things like a slipped disc sometimes is, though. He cites a multitude of instances where people have slipped discs and aren't in pain.

Again, I'm not finished with it and am still a bit skeptical, but I would say it's probably worth a read.
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"Why would you quit without another job lined up? "

If you make the decision in your head that you are going to quit then it's quite possible your work and your attitude will decline and either co workers or management will have a negative view of you by the time you do quit. In a sense this is similar to why many performers go out while on top (thinking of Seinfeld as one example) instead of waiting for ratings decline. You don't want to just be going through the motions.
> We do let osteopaths prescribe medicine though, and that's almost as dumb.

D.O's have an education that AFAIK is equivalent to that of an M.D. Why should they not be allowed to prescribe medication?
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Well, if it's made it onto the front page, I guess it's safe to assume some people think it's interesting.

I submitted it because I hadn't seen these details before. Seems an admin has now added (2009) to the title, which is helpful since there's no obvious date on the page.
He was using the conditional tense which maybe explains things.
Check wikipedia: Android was bought by Google, not created. Also, a critical element of its success was adoption by partners: in this context, preferring Java (very much the "enterprise language") over Python (hackish open-source language with minuscule enterprise presence) was a no-brainer -- hence the "it's political" answer Guido himself got from the upper echelons.

As a python-aficionado, I stopped kidding myself a few years ago: Python will never be mainstream in the way Java or C# are, the number of people working with it will always be small, unless something dramatic happens at the commercial level. It's like Linux on the desktop: the masses are simply elsewhere.
I did more or less the same thing for the company I'm at now, and included a separate note in my response indicating what I changed and why. They seemed more than happy to sign it.

The next version of the agreement (we sign it once/year) actually included language very similar to my changes. Admittedly, I don't know if I impacted that or if it was independent, but it did make me feel good.
It is one of the few titles that hits the sweet spot of things like Pirates of Silicon Valley or The Social Network. It tells a gripping story of a successful underdog in tech that is accessible and entertaining. Kushner did a great job, though I wonder how much artistic license he took with the D&D campaign stuff.
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I really think the JS madness is getting to an absurd level here on HN.

I understand how it's geting more popular but there really is a whole world outside of webdev.

Systems programming, AAA games, simulators and embedded software are not switching over to JS any time soon.
I think they answered that question, and you can probably find it with a Google search - but the reason was this: Python was too slow, especially for the time, which I think is already an uncontested fact.

But for the future? Yeah, I can only hope Google is working on switching Android to Go in a few years. It doesn't even have to be an abrupt change - which definitely won't be - they're not insane. But they can add the language in the NDK or something, and then just promote it to developers as the main language they should be using when making new Android apps.
I should imagine it's a bit like cigarettes. I have one friend that was stupid enough to start smoking in his 20's, but he's an outlier. I'd imagine if you did without fags or dope until your mid-20's, you'd be unlikely to bother starting.
You are entirely correct. When I used to smoke, medical marijuana was essentially viewed by me as the thin edge of the wedge.

That being said, that doesn't mean there isn't good evidence for it. But, as with most things, we tend to believe the evidence that fits our preconceptions (and argue with the evidence that doesn't).
Go is portable... you just need to compile on the target. Go is write once, compile and run everywhere. Compiling would be part of the app install process; Compiling Go is much lighter than compiling C anyway.
I'm quite fascinated by the fact this is on the first page so quickly.

It's evident what all of you get up to in your free time :)
I don't think he claims that, but rather that slipped discs being painful is.

Not really sure about this (I haven't read that particular book), but I will say that Sarno's theories cured my RSI pain, which crippled me for over a year. I'm not sure if his explanations of the mechanism for the pain are correct (they seem very hard to test), but I'm pretty sure the pain was all psychosomatic.
What action is a giant red flag?
There is a lot of rhetoric in this comment, but leaking hundreds of thousands of unveiled classified documents has nothing to do with bombing the shit out of anyone.

The comment I made states it is illegal to host classified material if you aren't authorized to do so. That's it.
You see quitting a job as a red flag? I'm sure that's not actually what you meant. What do you mean?
When a customer submits an app review from a beta iOS, that review should just be emailed directly to the developer, and not show up on any of the "official" review lists that other customers can see.

That way the developer is getting feedback about potential problems with the upcoming iOS, and can fix them, but it doesn't hurt their image for the 99.9% of customers running the non-beta iOS.
Apple provided way to hide the address bar didn't work on my app. But I have figure out a way to do it. I will add it soon.
I have the same problem. Also on 5.1.1. The display is refreshed if I rotate my phone back and forth.
I would go with "compile on install"
It's a downward spiral. A lot of people would not invest because they know that the target amount won't be reached. I think the collection rate will slow down further.
Maybe he is rational, but the way he was yelling and carrying on did not help him in my assessment of him. I also note his financial interest in maintaining drug prohibition, which he disclosed. I don't know why he kept carrying on about recreational users, because Gupta merely came out in support of research into medical use.

>He just was pretty clear on the fact that most of the users of marijuana are in it for the high,

I may be overly skeptical but I got the impression that he felt most medical marijuana users are just recreational users, and he meant for us to think that was a fact, but offered no evidence to support that notion as a fact.

>and that politically medical marijuana is more of a stepping stone for folks interested in recreational use,

Well, it is probably true that many people who support medical use of marijuana also support something on the spectrum of decriminalization:legalization. You can include me in that, I support both politically.

> rather than a deep seeded concern for those who need it medically.

Despite the fact that I support legalization, I do have a deep-seeded and personal concern for those who need it medically. As a teenager, I got to watch a close relative who I was very fond of die (in agony) of cancer. It is my personal belief that those in hospice who suffer from pain or are unable to eat, or whose care is complicated by the use of opiates should be denied no drug if it might improve their life/death.

As for lesser ailments than agonizingly painful terminal cancer, it appears IMO that marijuana is less harmful than almost everything, and potentially has a wide potential range of medical applications, and therefore it is immoral (and idiocy) to deny its use to people.
Once your tolerance has been built up to such high levels, taking a week off (in my experience) is all you need to get a "90% reset."
I know this is _wrong_, but that's the point where I start writing side projects at work.

If I'm finishing all my rote work within regular day, at previous jobs I've started working on stupid side projects.

A physics engine in Lua, a maze generator in PyGame, and so on.
Cash is regulated. Bitcoin isn't.

Looks like that's gonna change pretty quickly.
From my limited understanding THC is the aspect that causes the 'high' whereas the CBD's are effective at pain relief, seizure control, and generally the medical benefit side of things. Around Denver there are a whole class of food additives and edibles that are high in CBD's because of this effect.
This article is riddled with factual errors, outright deception, and logical fallacies. It makes a variety of attempts to scare the reader (what if "Bitcoin gets hacked"? utter nonsense). They even make a claim that Bitcoin's anonymity may appeal to users, but it's been stressed repeatedly and constantly that the BTC transaction network is far from anonymous.

Here is an excellent 3 minute video summary on Bitcoin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdVVECKKSXo

Far more informative and far less spin. It's even from Bloomberg -- the same news organization that's affording blog hosting to article's author.
This is a great overview. I would be very interested in seeing a followup on the "air war" subject: not just PR, but social proof and validation in general. Getting a warm introduction and a set of meetings is not a trivial task, and "hacking" the organization's structure and needs even less so. But oftentimes, the final barrier to a sale -- especially for early startups -- is social proof.

In the back of his or her mind, the buyer is probably thinking things like: "Will these guys be around in 5 months?" As a small startup, the burden of proof rests entirely on your shoulders. The bigger guys have already proved themselves, and, while your service may be much better -- and while the potential customer may totally understand that -- the incumbents have incumbency going for them. That's no small advantage.

Another key thing to consider: departments (or people) within any given company tend to be profit centers, cost centers, or some hybrid of the two. They have very different goals, and hence, their people have very different motivations. Some people are empowered to take risks, and others are extremely risk averse. Pitching topline growth to a department mainly concerned with managing downside, for example, isn't going to get you very far.

To your point, it's typically more effective and realistic to pitch topline growth. But if that's going to be the case, then figuring out who at Company X is actually empowered to take chances on growth is a big priority. The number of these people in any given organization can be extremely small, even at large enterprises.
Well, it sounds weird for me that place with at least 300 years history you refer as "nothing interesting".
To name just two completely different things to visit - place of battle of Gettysburg and village used to film Silent Hill (Centralia) - just to start with.

If you are more into hacking, I also don't know why you asking advice, you should have pretty good idea of what you havent touched yet but want to.
Lodsys Agrees to Dismiss Case Against Small Developer for Charitable Donation
Seems like a legit reason to leave. Personally I would've used the position I was currently in as leverage in finding new employment, though. It seems to me that you're in a better negotiating position if you don't need the job because you already have one. I'm sure you have your reasons, though. Did you think that staying on the job while looking elsewhere would've impacted your performance? Was it personal stuff maybe?
I do know those things. It doesn't change the fact that you can _easily_ break out of a Container and compromise neighboring Containers. No matter how much to harden the system you implement.

Who is using LXC in a _shared_ hosting environment?
Google should've never cared about making Android work on x86. The ARM environment is an order of magnitude more competitive than the x86 one. So it's not like they need it for the "competition". If they'd like to have Android on PC's eventually, well they don't have to worry about that either, since ARM is disrupting Intel anyway, and will be the architecture of the future, being pushed by both Android and iOS, the most popular platforms right now (and even Windows is promoting it, although in a smaller way).
Yeah, it sucks to be fired. But, if you were worth more to your company than you are being paid, then they wouldn't have fired you.

This is tough to hear, but it is the truth.

Some might say that the company was wrong, and that may be true, but if the company is wrong about who it fires and hires, it will no longer be a company.

Your company is extracting value from you, that is how they make money.

If you are not looking for a way out or up, then you are going to lose.

Managing your career is something people just don't think about enough.

They like to think, "If I am loyal and work hard, then I will always have a job."

That's bullshit. I have known lots of people who worked hard and were loyal, but still got axed because they didn't create enough value.

This article has a "it's not fair" quality to it.

Well, no shit it's not fair.

Because we spend so much time at work, we project loyalty and security onto our company. We are fooled into thinking they are loyal to us.
Sorry not supporting WP7. I will have to rewrite the whole thing and performance will suffer for non-WP7 users.
Thanks. I'm glad you found it useful.
Kleiner Perkins finds new profits in an old dotcom
where are you from? you can get 10 people stoned on marijuana for USD$ 3.00? Thats not true in the US
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I think you need to append/change the page with the "I want to work for Airbnb stuff":

http://www.lorenburton.com/

If you want to keep it up you should overlay something that says "I used to want to work at airbnb" but leave the rest. (Doesn't matter if you still want to work there or not saying "used to" doesn't mean "I won't still").

Leaving this up makes you seem like the jilted guy with high school puppy love. Not very attractive to other "women" who want to possibly date you.
They need to make $20/sec from now on in order to reach their funding goal.
> Serious question -- have you taken vacations? Real vacations -- not the kind that turn into "work from home" days?

No. Almost never. But I've thought about this extensively (before I quit as well as after), and I do regret not taking more real vacations.

But something made it just feel not okay. I probably have myself to blame more than anybody, but whenever I took vacations - even weeklong vacations (which was rare), I found myself checking in often. I was always near a computer. I felt obligated, and had strong loyalty to the company and my coworkers. Everybody worked extremely hard. Days off to take care of important things, or when I just needed a break - always became 'work from home days'.
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Reread my comment...I said I felt safer with Python over C.

I'm well aware that, e.g. a buffer overflow is something you'd want to worry about in writing C code. I guess I worded my comment strangely? I said I would "rather have that" than C, to which I was referring to a high level language like Python.
So at what point (if ever) did you hire someone to be in charge of customer acquisition?
I've added it to the home screen. It's fantastic apart from 2 issues (iOS):

1. Swapping between comments and the article (like 5 times) and then wanting to get back to the main page. (I have to hit back the same amount of times as I swapped.)

2. When clicking a link, there is no way to get back to the main page. (is there a way to get the status bar back when browsing via homescreen?)
Well, while I probably wouldn't say "much more" than Tesla or Space X, I would think that hyperloop could be just as important as at least Tesla. It has the potential to eradicate most of the commercial airline industry.
Ha, yeah. Valid points.
Finally i can now control Google Ads i see over the internet
Linux Journal recently went digital only but the quality and range of topics has remained good. Linux Journal covers most open source topics, it's not really limited to Linux.
+1. I don't know what are your plans with this app, but I would love to learn more about how you did that.
Do you plan to open-source it?
If you're content with the 2048x2048 pixel limit for your stored photos, picasa is ulimited and free. (You do have to sign up for Google+; without it, the pixel limit for photos that don't count towards the quota is smaller.)
Why would Apple spend the energy to fix this? They'll be happy to see developers update their apps to work with iOS7 and the sooner the better.

/edit In no means am I saying that it is a good idea. I'm just saying that Apple's desires are not aligned with those of well-meaning developers here.
Hundreds of millions is a bit more tolerable than an entire planet. I'd like to also point out I agree with you - none of my statements here should be interpreted as support for the NSA's excesses. Rather, my incentive is to:

1) Prevent people on the forum from using it as a buzzword to make points devoid of strong, reasoned arguments,

2) Prevent people from believing the NSA should be burned to the ground and disbanded entirely, when it does serve a very useful purpose.

Historically, there have been far worse totalitarian measures. To give one that is relevant to privacy and this particular issue: consider that in the KGB, the secret police could raid your home at any time without a warrant, and when you picked up the phone an operator immediately told you what you said would be recorded. Oh, sure you knew about it. That makes it so much better, I suppose, even though it was far more reaching than what the NSA is currently doing.

I want it very well understood that while the excesses of the agency should be corrected, and Americans should be entitled to privacy, we can't allow ourselves to just attack things passionately because the NSA scandal tells us to. That, and we should maintain a historical perspective so we understand how bad things are and we don't freak out as if it's the worst thing ever, when far worse things have happened in previous generations.

A level of outrage is appropriate - losing sensibility in debates is not.
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Er, I didn't say that he said the OP was stupid either

> E.g. "That is an idiotic thing to say;
The hyperloop will never work due to a non-engineering problem known as the NIMBY. The California species is particularly nasty.
You can actually achieve pretty good results without even using different versions of letters. I did an experiment with this a few years ago when I was playing with an idea of a tool to produce artificial hand-lettering for comics.

Here's the basic algorithm:

1. Generate two maps of low frequency noise. Perlin noise would probably work well, but just blurred noise will do. If we're thinking in terms of blurring, the radius should be on the order of x-height/2. Call that scale "S". One map is for X and one is for Y.

2. Convert the text to Bézier curves.

3. Process those curves, subdividing any long curve segments until they are no longer than S.

4. Now, process the curves again, and for each point, look up the corresponding point in your two maps. Displace the point's position according to the map value, with maximum distance somewhere on the order of S/4.

5. Render the new curves.

The parameters would need to be tweaked (I'm reporting them from vague memory), but that basic outline can provide surprisingly convincing results when applied to a handwriting font. Note that I did not mention what order of Bézier curve to use. You can get good results even by converting to polygons, but the segment length will need to be shorter.
transform: translate(0, 100%) or transform: translate3d(0, 100%, 0) for hardware acceleration. I have tested with both, and it works great. Trick is try not to do anything else when animating.
I made the Palo Alto <-> Mountain View ride 4/week for four years. My ride was bout 9 miles, which is longer than I'd expect most people to ride, but I couldn't afford to be closer.

Biking on the same roads as cars is generally not fun. I first used Middlefield most of the way, but that meant biking in with the cars. It wasn't until much later that I discovered Bryant street, which prohibits through motor traffic but allows bike traffic through. It's pleasant enough, but you are still sharing a road with cars and I've seen many simply blow through the stop signs on those residential streets (there are rarely any other people around anyway). Even with Bryant, half my ride was on a major auto thoroughfare.

The position of bike lanes on American streets is stressful for bicyclists. You basically have cars on either side. On one side you have cars driving and who want to make right turns across your lane. On the other side you have parked cars with drivers-side doors that completely block the bike path when open. These people also want to cut across your lane to enter traffic.

In my roughly eight years of bicycling around the bay area I've only been hit once by an auto, and that was one where he was fully at fault for making a left turn into me when he acknowledged he saw me in the opposing lane and thought I was slowing for him (I slowed because it looked like he was going to turn without having right of way). It was low speed and I wasn't injured. However, bicycling around the bay is not fun, despite having a few decent bike paths.

I've also biked in Amsterdam and I can attest that we have a long way to go. I believe we need to change our cultural attitude towards bicycling first, then the rest will follow.
You can, but you can also make the value calculations in your head and decide that instead of learning how to properly cultivate it, keeping bad plants out, and the time/money consumed in a quality growing op, you'd rather just throw a bit of cash at someone else and use all that time for other things.

There are only so many hours in a day, and outsourcing those hours for a little money is a perfectly reasonable explanation for how a real industry will pop up around this.
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Veteran civil rights leader: Snowden acted in tradition of civil disobedience
I guess my point is that breaking the law isn't a huge deal there. Russia is characterized by "weak rule of law and the high corruption levels." [1],[2] Putin stole some guys super bowl ring in broad day light. [3] I just don't think their would be a lot of outrage from Russian citizens if Snowden were to be extradited. They have other stuff to worry about.

I think "rule of law" is not the constraint here. Not say the Falk is wrong.

[1] http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-03-28/russia-s-corruption...
[2] http://www.cnbc.com/id/100805382
[3] http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-06-21/putin-makes-super-b...
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