skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Text formats should be readable forever. PDF, while generally excellent in this regard, has already broken backwards-comparability on several occasions (or rather: Acrobat has, which is not formally the same as the format doing so, but in practice there isn’t a whole lot of difference; you might as well just read the raw xml in an “unopenable” keynote document).

Adobe’s marketing will tell you otherwise, of course. I used to share an office at Berkeley with Paulo Ney de Souza, who had a wonderful collection of “legacy” pdf files that could no longer be opened in Acrobat that he would trot out for the Adobe sales people when they came by (he was helping to get MSP off the ground at that point).

PDF is probably the best choice for preserving “design”, but I wouldn’t trust it for preserving content any more than any other format. Always keep a plain text copy.
Let's admit that is a terrible user experience. Buy a piece of obsolete hardware you will use only once, just because Apple didn't make an installer available for an old version - or better yet, a conversion tool - either stand alone or built into the "Open..." action of the new version of the application.
An Emergency Phone Plays Distress Calls From Servers Hit By DDoS
Apple is pretty obnoxious about this sort of thing. They recently stopped printing photo books for the version of iPhoto my mom used, with no warning at all. I had to upgrade her iPhoto, which required I upgrade to Mavericks, which required I add more RAM to her computer.
GitHub suspends founder over sexual harassment claims
There are FOSS implementations of PDF. Mozilla has one, I think.

Edit: yep.

http://mozilla.github.io/pdf.js/
He probably just mixed up Zimbardo's Stanford prison experiment with Milgram's electroshock experiment. They're often discussed together.
> and how that may effect the "Are we living in a simulation?" question.

Not at all.
The plane reportedly flew under the radar after turning away from Kuala Lumpur.
>Many states have their own protections as well - a common one is sexual orientation.

Sexual orientation is protected federally as well.

In 2011 and 2012, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission ruled that job discrimination against Lesbians, Gays, Bisexuals and Transgender individuals classified as a form of sex discrimination and thus violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

"The EEOC has held that discrimination against an individual because that person is transgender (also known as gender identity discrimination) is discrimination because of sex and therefore is covered under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. See Macy v. Department of Justice, EEOC Appeal No. 0120120821 (April 20, 2012), http://www.eeoc.gov/decisions/0120120821%20Macy%20v%20DOJ%20.... The Commission has also found that claims by lesbian, gay, and bisexual individuals alleging sex-stereotyping state a sex discrimination claim under Title VII. See Veretto v. U.S. Postal Service, EEOC Appeal No. 0120110873 (July 1, 2011); Castello v. U.S. Postal Service, EEOC Request No. 0520110649 (Dec. 20, 2011), http://www.eeoc.gov/decisions/0520110649.txt."

http://www.eeoc.gov/federal/otherprotections.cfm
> No, I don't "don't like Haskell" for any reason, I just see many people talking about how cool and productive it is, so I want them to stop talking and show it in practice. Because, as I said, there aren't many (should I say "any"?) successful apps written in it, so it's a little hard for unenlightened people like me to grasp how good it is.

I can't even be bothered to look at what who is using what language for, so I'm not going to debate this... I use Haskell every day, as well as a bunch of other languages, some of which nobody heard of, and they all work fine.

> so why won't you prove on practice that Haskell is better?

Because I don't care?

> Because, once again, for PL "to be better" is to make its user more productive and more able to write quality software.

Which you can easily do in Standard ML with no surprises, because it's a straightforward simplistic language and it's been like that since the 70's. But you dismiss it because it's not popular or something (despite being used by hundreds of thousands of people).

> Python — way too slow

Do you have any results to show this? I already pointed out, even if the language is too slow, you can just run C or assembly or whatever in a separate address space for each CPU intensive process. Your claim implies that the latency of passing the output of the worker in C/assembly back to Python (and passing new input from Python to the worker) would be too high.

> Java — well, maybe, but it's not the perfection itself.

So... you agree?
This "rings true" to me. That getting rid of formal managers and formal management just lets "petty office politics" rule more than usual.
I was recently asked for my resume, a document which I created in Pages and then exported to PDF. So sure, what I had was readable, but it was out of date. Thus began the painful cycle of getting Pages (09) back on my machine - for some reason I had deleted it in the interim. Boy was that a mistake. I'm just lucky I still had a disk image of the old iWork - without that I would have been hosed.
He can't "cure ADHD" because it is a symptom of many different things. He has to diagnose the patient and determine the underlying cause. He gave a list of potential causes that included vision problems, iron deficiency, and sleep problems. I imagine each of these have their own cure which in turn fixes the symptoms of ADHD. You are implying that ADHD only has a single cause, the author is disagreeing with you.
Great quote, thanks. Never heard of him before, but definitely a man ahead of his time. Here's another cherry:

"it is a fact that excessive data do not enlighten the reader or the listener; they drown him. He cannot remember them all, or coordinate them, or understand them; if he does not want to risk losing his mind, he will merely draw a general picture from them. And the more facts supplied, the more simplistic the image"

- "Propoganda" (1965)
Customers will have the choice to buy fraud insurance and might save by deciding against it when dealing with a reputable sellers. Also fraud insurance can be cheaper thanks to the protocol's escrow capabilities that are unavailable with traditional payment systems.

These are only the advantages compared to national transfers, when looking at fees and regulations in the world of international transactions, the advantages are even greater.
Are You An Old Git? And Other Questions For Apple’s Jony Ive
People have explained, multiple times, why Google's DNS is better than their local ISP's (it is for me as well). Why do you continue to be antagonistic in your responses? A considerate person would acknowledge that they were misinformed (or failed to do a simple google search before trolling), instead you seem to have doubled-down on being obnoxious. Why?
I agree, it always make me cringe when privately held companies want to define an "open standard" for scientific citations that (surprise!) relies completely on their proprietary infrastructure. I still remember the case of Mendeley, which promised to build an open repository for research documents, and which is now a subsidiary of Elsevier, an organization that does not really embrace "open science", to put it mildly. I think what we really need (and the article mentions this at the end) is an open standard that can be implemented by anyone, most notably universities and research institutes.
A #16 seed has never beaten a #1 seed in the history of the tournament, yet the percentages of moving on for #1 seeds against #16 seeds vary from 96%-99%.

I wonder if there would be any of this variance (4 percentage points from 100%) if computers, without human input, were used to place the likelihood of moving on.
Your 5-Minute Guide To UX From Squarespace and MailChimp
I feel like this version is subtly easier.
How the Invention of the Alphabet Usurped Female Power in Society
Congratulations to FOBO ! I am curious about their pivots and paths taken so far. Wasn't YCS11 a long while ago ?
"Implicit meaning?" I never meant to say a fire in-flight is no big deal, if that's what you inferred. I hope you never experience one or anything like it, but if you do my advice is to try to stay calm and not to call the gas company.
'even MS'

MS is one of the best in supporting old formats. That's part of how and why the managed to keep their monopoly on the desktop. There's not many OSs out there where you can start a 20 year old software and it runs almost always perfectly. (Try that on Linux or OSX.)
It's like TV-shop. They always compare their product side to side with "other products", where "other products" is always the most low-end equivalent you can image.
AT&T celebrates nerdy engineers failing to pick up girls
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Ask HN: Isn’t it time for graphics in terminals?
Wouldn’t it be great to have full-featured interactive graphics in terminals, maybe with similar UI mechanics to those of notebooks in Mathematica?

Are there already projects persuring this idea?
I agree the article is potentially harmful. The paradox is that people who DO NOT have ADHD easily get hooked on meds but people who DO have ADHD hate taking meds. Saying ADHD doesn't exist is cruel and shows how badly it's misunderstood. The newer drugs that have countermeasures that prevent snorting/abusing should change the debate. Older meds that can be easily abused should be taken off the market. Then let's see who wants to abuse them? Anyone with any proximity to ADHD kids knows getting them to take their meds is a chore, they enjoy just being themselves and perhaps the bigger questions is WHY DO WE HAVE TO MEDICATE PEOPLE TO MAKE ENGAGE IN AN EDUCATION SYSTEM THAT SUCKS?! EH? I'm proud I don't sit still and do what I'm told, I don't think that's an illnes... so in that sense they are right ADHD doesn't exist! (steps down from soapbox, exit stage right) :)
I wish it would offer iCloud as an alternative to OneDrive (and remove the need for an Microsoft Account) but I can see that MS wants to use their own services and get you to use them in the process.
So just to clarify, this is only the measurement of an artifact most likely caused by gravity waves during the period of inflation. We still have not directly measured gravity waves in our current universe, right? I think the fact that gravity can't be measured is a subtle clue about one piece of the puzzle for a unifying theory of everything.
From word2vec to doc2vec: an approach driven by Chinese restaurant process
>The fact that we couldn’t speak freely without the fear that our communications would be monitored by KGB is in part why we moved to the United States when I was a teenager.

>Respect for your privacy is coded into our DNA

It is not respect for the user's privacy that keeps the NSA, the FSB or any other agency from listening to, storing or censoring your user's communications. Respect for privacy is a good principle, but if the technology does not reflect the principle, it's there only to make some people (founders, employees, investors, customers and users) feel better.
> If partnering with Facebook meant that we had to change our values, we wouldn’t have done it.

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Hi, Ryan from FOBO here. There's actually an advantage inherent to local selling in that you're able to inspect the item before the seller is paid (when you confirm that you've received the item in the app, transferring payment to the seller).
Don't feel too bad about it. The official OCaml tutorial is also confused:

http://ocaml.org/learn/tutorials/structure_of_ocaml_programs...

(someone really should go through these tutorials and fix the various misleading parts)

Basically, the rule is to use "let () = ..." for your main block / top-level code and don't use ";;" ever.
And we're back - sorry overloaded our servers!
I think the article is trying to say that ADHD is an umbrella term used for a range of symptoms, rather than 1 disorder. I can imagine this being true for at least some of the cases, but it didn't provide much in the way of evidence. Although it does have a sensationalist headline, it's asking for a better look at ADHD rather than saying it should be ignored.
This guy is putting on his white overcoat and trying to look like a scientist, but he doesn't actually cite any real research in favour of his claim, and instead uses anecdotal evidence ("Usually, once the original condition is found and treated, the ADHD symptoms go away" and such) rather than statistics to support his conclusion and sell his book.

This isn't to say he's incorrect in his conclusion, he just isn't supporting it very well. I would hope the book has referenced stats but this article isn't very promising. He's not too far removed from a pilot claiming his story about a flying saucer must true because he was in the airforce.

For the record, I've been diagnosed with ADHD and have plenty of anecdotal evidence that it's for real, but may be suffering from confirmation bias.
> Humans have used currencies such as gold which has a relatively fixed number of units in the past, which may have been less flexible but still worked

It worked, horribly. Europe didn't industrialize until it embraced fiat money. They had a few false starts because they didn't fully understand how to handle it - "The Moneymaker" [0], a short biography of John Law, is an enjoyable read and survey of the history of this economic development.

[0]: http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Moneymaker-Janet-Gleeson/dp/0857...

A currency should have an inflationary mechanism, because trade is the basis of wealth. In general, inflation encourages trade, and deflation discourages trade.

Anyway, that's just the belief of the field of economics.

> it doesn't explain why BTC is worth more than LTC

Momentum and confidence.
It's back - our servers got a bit overloaded due to the rush.
So I agree this article is kind of a mess, the title misleading. This is the nature of ADHD. It's a magnet for people wanting to cry "overdiagnosed"!

However, tolerance is a big question. Taking an ADHD medicine for the first week or so after not taking any for months prior is a pretty profound experience. But that tapers off. And leaves one to wonder... is my condition still improved?

I have seen very few studies (though the ones I saw were positive, indicating positive effects even a year out). I've heard of doctors prescribing drug holidays to minimize tolerance (and also heard this was no longer current practice from an expert in the field).

It's an area I'm always somewhat concerned about. I've read anecdotal stories suggesting that one becomes tolerant and experiences less of certain effects (such as appetite loss, and the 'buzz' feeling) but not others (such as attention span).

I will say that as physical effects go dependence is not an issue. But it is for mental ones - without the medication I'm just exceptionally tired and hungry, and almost entirely useless for anything that requires focus.
I was expecting some clever css and js to draw them in perspective.
Just because it's never happened doesn't mean that it won't happen, just as the percentage's suggest it's very unlikely.
Die Craigslist, Die!
"...Facebook created ... a statically typed PHP variant..." - so happy to see another major tech company understand the merits of static typing.
I just want to chime in on how frustrating it is that you can't save Outlook emails in a standard non-mircorosft format that another mail client can understand (even Outlook on Windows) - apparently it saves it as ".olm" format (Outlook for Mac). Serious WTF here.

For this reason alone, I'm still using a Windows VM simply for the "real" Outlook for work purposes.
probably englithenment will get you the closest
What hackernews has become:

I remade this simple game!

I was getting really fed up with the flappy bird stuff and was happy to see it go. Now this? Don't get me wrong, love the game, but god damn can we say beating a dead horse?
Imagine reading an article on punctuated equilibrium with the headline "Darwin is Wrong". Technically true, but WTF? Or a discussion of potential side-effects of the H1N1 vaccine with the headline "Vaccines Kill People".

Just because it's true doesn't mean you don't need some tact.

Also, I notice you've assumed I'm a sufferer. You might want to put away the "jump to conclusions mat" and maybe just try having a little empathy?
It's like the news that majority of the world's ATMs run on Windows XP or earlier. Or lab equipment that's air-gapped because it only works on some obsolete OS that's horribly insecure.

Proprietary software is fine, but if long-lasting hardware is dependent on it bad things happen when that software company decides it's no longer worth supporting.
Just look at the exponentially rising number of bitcoin ATMs which are currently deplyed around the world. So your argument somehow shows that the comparisons with the early internet actually makes sense. Because at these early times people argued exactly by assuming that there is no network growth. So in the early 90th most people had the opinion that the internet is useless because there are only a few connected computers. Don't underestimate network effects and exponential growth.

Of course nobody knows at the current point where this is going. But you also cannot make arguments ibn which you are assuming there is no growth. Of course the price could go up or down but it is really hard to imagine that it would go to zero.

I have no statistics about it, but I personally think that most people who are once in possesion of some bitcoins will not sell them all, but will always keep a few of them. So the growth measured in number of users seems to only increase. I would consider a net decrease in the number of users as very unlikely as long as there is not a better technologically advanced replacement for it.
[What the hell are you using to give presentations](http://hypertexthero.com/logbook/2011/11/dont-use-powerpoint...)?
Why steal a plane if you could just buy it (assuming state level actors can gain control over a shell company with an air operators' certificate; aircraft cost really isn't an issue when for scrap value you can get old 747s with plenty of range and capacity) or charter it (leaving you with only pilots to dispose of, probably on the ground, if you're looking to do something nefarious)?

The first rule of being an armchair intelligence analyst is to rule out the ridiculously silly, and "maybe they just wanted a 777-200" falls into that category along with "maybe those 9-11 planes were just a cover for a controlled demolition"
> It sounds like you have a very language-centric view of the world.

> Having a solid implementation for your target platform is very good reason to pick a language.

I'm not sure where you got that out of my comment; it was exactly the opposite.

My point was that neither OCaml nor Haskell have particularly strong implementations in this area (to my knowledge). Last time I checked, the ability to write Javascript using both languages was of experimental and/or novelty use only (hence the "cupholders").

And that still doesn't change the fact that a web app can be written in any language - the only part that needs to run in Javascript is the client-side. Depending on how you architect your app, this may not be much at all. (There are very few webapps that actually need much logic in Javascript - if you want to avoid JS[0] while writing complex webapps, it's actually very easy to do so in many cases.)

[0] or anything else that is translated into JS
Yes very annoying especially when paying them, also Outlook.com was having issues too :(

and blockchain.info is down too
Speculation to the contrary isn’t just baseless and unfounded, it’s irresponsible.

Easy now, you got bought by Facebook. Whatsapp may be retaining it's autonomy (for now), but the speculation that your messaging/other business records would be hooked into the greater Facebook data hoover was ANYTHING BUT baseless, unfounded or irresponsible.

Facebook's business model involves very heavy user surveillance. I'm not even saying that pejoratively, that's just how they operate. C'mon son!
I just tried making an order on Tiger Direct which came to $137.94 and they want 0.2208 BTC. You can buy BTC on Coinbase at $628.41, so it would cost me $138.75 or a 58 bps surcharge over paying with my credit card, where I get 1% cash back, so really more like a 158 bps surcharge, plus I have to pay Coinbase immediately through my bank vs. having 30 days to float the balance on Amex interest-free.

How is it safer? I'm not giving the seller my CC info, but paying through Paypal has the same effect, and I'm not liable for CC fraud anyway. In the event that I have an issue with my purchase it's a hell of a lot easier to call Amex and do a chargeback vs. getting Coinbase to convince the merchant to reverse the transaction, or attempting to get my bank to fight Coinbase. I can also do the transaction at a set price in one step on my CC vs. buying bitcoin and incurring currency risk.

What's the upside for the consumer here?
"128" or even "64" is more my cup of tea :)
Really cool way to increase your productivity...
I spin up xspringies[1] every once in a while to waste some time. It's well over 20 years old and runs like a charm.

http://www.cs.rutgers.edu/~decarlo/software.html
What's often quoted in Warren Buffet's Billion dollar NCAA contest are the odds of randomly picking the perfect bracket of teams, but I have to think that Buffet's insurance actuaries actually calculated the odds of randomly selecting the right bracket with a millions of random guesses around a locus of likely guesses informed by analysis like the posted page (and from other stats analysis professionals.. vegas oddsmakers for example...). Otherwise the risk of taking that bet is actually much higher than a fully random pick, yes?

Edit: As it turns out, Warren Buffet, as usual, seems to have done his homework and even adds the interesting angle of "buying out" a possible winner partway through the contest:

http://www.slate.com/articles/sports/sports_nut/2014/03/bill...
What about the data Whatsapp does collect? Like other people's phone numbers. What happens with that within Facebook?

And of course being principled about not tracking or getting more information than necessary and then partnering with the company that does nothing but just that is a bit perplexing to me.
I think you're wrong there - ADHD is generally associated with a higher risk of abusing drugs than for people without the condition. (And myriad other conditions, including getting in car accidents).

And as someone with ADHD I never hated taking the medication. It was, like for the OP, a great experience that let me do a lot of things I didn't think I was capable of doing.

I do hate taking too much of the medication, granted. Accidentally doubling my dose is always something that I really regret.
great point, I fully agree. Thanks!
You are right, I should have elaborated. Just like most people, I first learned about it from using the Google Authenticator app.