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I have to agree. This keeps on happening: fundraisers for people in the US whose insurance is failing to cover their medical bills. Such fundraisers only work if there's a community (such as HN) to appeal to. If your path in life did not lead you into a community to fundraise from, you're just plain doomed.

And I'm going to get very political for a moment here: There is a lot of enthusiasm on HN for "market forces", and a lot of hero worship of people who could build their wealth in part because things like a lack of decent healthcare make doing business in the US very cheap.

I wish Jonathan Dale nothing but the best. Supporting him because he needs it is great and compassionate, but supporting him because he's One Of Us, when HN is usually so happy to cheerlead for a system that caused this in the first place? It makes me cringe.
Vitamin B17 helps according to the books 'World Without Cancer: The Story of Vitamin B17' by G. Edward Griffin, and 'Laetrile Case Histories: The Richardson Cancer Clinic Experience' by John A. Richardson. Vitamins cannot be patented, so companies promote other treatments instead of them. Apricot seeds and apple seeds are great sources of vitamin B17. The vitamin B17 is also called Laetrile in its purified form.
A few links to the sources:
http://realityzone.com/lch.html
http://realityzone.com/worwitcan.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGsSEqsGLWM
http://www.amazon.com/World-Without-Cancer-Story-Vitamin/dp/...
http://www.amazon.com/Laetrile-Case-Histories-Richardson-Exp...
I have a very strong feeling that we will definitely find other non-earth life forms within the next couple of decades.
Reading the article, sounds like a hostile work environment (here come the down votes).
> But it sounds as though you think that not donating to this individual will have some indirect effect on improving things for other people in the future.

No, if you have the funds to both campaign for a systemic solution and help the individuals that are currently in trouble because of the systemic problem, then you are of course free to do so.

Suggesting that one is more important of our time, energy and money than the other is, however, a valid opinion [1].

[1]: It is valid if my assumptions about the insurance not covering Jonathan and other such cases were true; that may not be so.
i hear you. however my b2b saas business does 2M+ arr with 12 employees and still i would not consider us "massively profitable". no doubt there's a big difference between our cost structures and the biggest is probably employees. i'm assuming you must be paying below market for your technical employees in exchange for more equity.
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That's why, at least in the UK, we use "dub dub dub".
I think the comparison to Red Cross/Red Crescent is not quite up to the point: my impression is that, for some things that Europeans see as a matter to be regulated (i.e., force health insurances to include "expensive" patients in their coverage, have the state provide subsidies) people in the US rely on local communities (churches, clubs) or their social network. Hence the notion of "paying it forward": by giving to your community, the community acts as an insurance and is likely to reciprocate if or when you are in a bad position.

This is why, for many people, it's a big deal to be an atheist: if the main community for you is the church, you're not just foregoing religious and moral support, but also the material kind.

It's certainly an understandable reaction to point out that the problem is bigger than one person on giveitforward.org, and that the US health insurance system with insurers being given cheap excuses like coverage ending with your employment contract (rendering your health coverage useless whenever you have a severe disease) or allowing insurers to retroactively (sometimes by 10 or 20 years) invoke a preexisting-condition clause means that many more people have to beg the last months of subsistence off of their friends, family, and community. Or just sit in a corner and die, if they're not well-connected socially.
> then you'll start playing with tabs, splits and buffers

I want to like vim's window management but it's pretty quirky, at times it seems to be following the principle of most surprise.

Ideally one could use tabs (that aren't renamed to the buffer name when populating a named tab), splits, and buffers together in such a way that one's layout never, for example, collapses, leaving a single displayed buffer and N hidden ones, or a buffer getting cloned across 2 splits (the latter is pretty disorienting, unless I'm diff'ing versions of a file I don't ever want to see 2 versions of the code consuming visible screen area).

Granted am only 3 days into the vim WM experiment here, lot's to learn...
Good luck finding someone under 30 that uses Office by choice though. That stuff matters.
Will I be able to uninstall the one that was preinstalled on my phone?
Hey, randomly clicking around your Pen Japan site, and got the form to request review stuff. Looks like you copy/pasted from Candy Japan, as it refers to Candy Japan instead of Pen Japan.

Cool ideas!
This question was directed to GOG (CD Projekt Red sister company) regarding their own preorder. I.e. whether preordering there will include the Linux version (since it was supposedly announced on Steam). GOG representatives answered like this (this was all by e-mail):

> Hello

> As for now there were announced only PC, Xbox One and PS4 versions of the game.

> Regards

I see it as an official refutation. There is some hope still, since they said "as for now", but I definitely won't preorder anything until it will be officially confirmed.
I think a big difference might be cash flow - we are getting paid up front for annual contracts. So our ARR doesn't fully represent our cash position. We pay market rate salaries, benefits, etc.
The core of RPG Maker is closed source, but a surprising amount of it is written in user accessible Ruby.
Well, if we're talking about "millions (or more) of page views per day", as the article is, the cost of buying an extra domain for static content is insignificant. You could also serve your static content from your CDN provider's domain.
True.
Unfortunately, that is possible only in the city schools. Many people who come from villages touch a computer for the first time when they enter their college.
Oh, no - I use A all the time. My use case is generally more v$ followed by some other movement backwards then c,d or y, or Ctrl-V $ and move upwards/downwards.
A friend and I are tired of using the Google Authenticator app to manage all of our 2 Factor Authentication codes, so we are planning to build our own set of tools to improve the entire user experience related to 2FA. We are going to treat the project as an experiment and attempt to follow the principles outlined in Ash Maaurya's book Running Lean as strictly as possible. We are planning to start a blog so that we can share all steps of the experiment with the community. This will likely involve documenting the original motivation, our Lean Canvas, the Problem Interviews, the Solution interviews, how/why we made certain engineering decisions, experiments we run and the learning gathered as a result. The first step will be to find and interview as many people as possible to understand if others have a pain point relating to 2FA. If you are interested and/or have a pain point relating to 2FA, please send me an email at conorgilsenan - gmail so that we can arrange a time to chat!
Colon? That sounds painful, map it to some single keystroke. I use back slash on my tiny cherry keyboard.

noremap \ :
> The Supreme Court makes decisions in Bioscience; I think they can handle stuff on technology?

Some of their decisions in biology are equally suspicious. For example, should genes, proteins, or DNA be patentable? That one has gone to the Supreme Court on occasion. But patenting human genetics can lead to crazy scenarios like "suddenly the entire human population in the United States is violating Monsanto's patent", which is patently absurd. Of course, I am purposefully exaggerating and twisting some of the arguments, but you can see how the courts can get biology just as wrong as any other technology.

On a related and amusing note: In March 2000, President Clinton announced that the genome sequence could not be patented, and should be made freely available to all researchers. The statement sent Celera's stock plummeting and dragged down the biotechnology-heavy Nasdaq. The biotechnology sector lost about $50 billion in market capitalization in two days. see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Genome_Project
This society is gradually, transparently bending to the will of those in position of high influence. It appears the public does (a) not seem to care or (b) lacks knowledge of the happenings since the government info spill. I wonder how long it'll take to transform into Continuum (series).
There is no actual dispute about the wrongness of rent-seeking, the only people who might think otherwise are either misanthropic Machiavellian jackasses who are themselves wrong or people who don't know what rent-seeking is. It's like saying "that's only wrong if corruption is wrong." Well no kidding corruption is wrong, does anybody actually want to dispute that or are you just asking for a link to the collected works of John Locke and Thomas Jefferson?
Isn't this what the SRV[1] record type is designed to solve generically?

Getting adoption at the client end is likely the limiting factor.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SRV_record
In Denmark we usually say V-V-V when we spell it out. Confusing? Defenitely yes. But we also call a BMW a BMV and a WC is just a VC.
Please, spread the word about that wishist item on GOG. I'm sure more people would be interested in it, than 1600+.
- They don't mention in the presentation that you should port your current projects to 3.x Use it for your new projects.

- It would take a lot of time for Mercurial team because they work with files and have to support a lot of cases, encodings and stuff. Python 3 does a lot for the developer now.

- Mercurial is not the best example because you aren't supposed to use their internal API anyway. It's their choice to port it to 3 or not.
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What particular innovation has been stifled for centuries due to a Supreme Court ruling?

If it's incredibly easy, surely it must have happened a number of times.
I wonder whether HN comes close enough to the effeciency of curated sources, conferences or some private circles to mention it as a proxy for staying on top of current developments, because the gems on HN are usually burried under a lot of comments and submissions without any societal significance. I can’t really form an opinion on that since I have never attended to technology assessment conferences and don’t read tech magazines.
Potentially depends a bit on the language and what plugins &c you have installed. For C on a basic install, you can say [{ to jump to the enclosing { (and there is the symmetric ]} as well). You can also use { and } to step over "paragraphs". And of course, if your goal is to replace the body of the for loop, ci} will delete everything inside the innermost containing {} and switch you to insert mode.
I suspect there are fulfillment companies that you could inventory with who would have the required volumes per country.....if you weren't doing custom orders (every package is the same each month, or only a few variations) this could work very well. I'd say the revenues are enough that you could even hire a locally based person to do some part time quality control.
For the state, it's "MassGIS" data. Many of the points are from road center lines that are a lot denser than is typical in OSM, but there is also land use/classification data (like wetlands or whatever).
we're also annual. in that case i'd say it's a growth rate difference - you guys are growing faster than we are. good on you!
Keep in mind that a lot of the keyboard features we take for granted weren't always present on early terminals. Navigating is a lot harder if you don't have, say, arrow keys. In that case, a separate mode makes a lot of sense for getting around (no arrow keys? Just map hjkl to them in navigation mode). Plus the same command can do different things depending on mode, so there are less distinct patterns of keypresses to memorize. Yes, you could do everything as a series of chords (like in emacs), but I don't think it's necessarily superior.

Here's a list of some navigation mode commands. You can probably come up with reasonable ways to do them with only the keyboard & none of the alphanumeric or punctuation keys used alone, but would that be any easier?
http://www.thegeekstuff.com/2009/03/8-essential-vim-editor-n...
Ok, we switched it back.
Can't get past the first slide on phone (IE 11, WP 8.1). That's pretty lame.

Edit: I guess that's why the PDF link is there.
because wordpress.org doesn't use www?
OK, now it should be visible.
Most inventory management software is fairly generalized. If you're doing anything outside the box, it can be very difficult to rely on off the shelf solutions and, at best, companies may require additional software to interact with the inventory management programs.
It was approved by an IRB.
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Yes, absolutely. It'd be a little odd if they hadn't picked up that skill, but I don't see what relevance using or preferring vim could have to, say, teaching functional programming.
Do we? The most common time-saving pronunciation I have heard simply uses the initial 'w' sounds from the three words, and therefore has three syllables.
> and ‘Esc’ to move around again.

For me personally this is the reason I stopped using Vi(m) except for occasional config file editing on unfamiliar servers, and started looking elsewhere (Emacs) for my goto text editor. I'm not looking to switch, but it genuinely interests me how Vi users put up with the constant need to strain their pinky to switch to command mode.
Ditto! Not to mention the fact that Xbox controllers (wired ones, at least) seem to be truly plug-and-play. They just work. I play BattleBlock Theater almost exclusively on Linux.

Of course there are still some glitches. I can't play games while using Xmonad since the games don't play nicely with non-reparenting window managers. But if I load gnome it's fine.
I think the problem with Go coming from Python is that the paradigm shift is a lot more substantial than it appears at first blush. My experience was quite the opposite: Go is pleasant to write in, exceptionally simple, and once you fully grok (and appreciate) slices and channels, the expressiveness of the language starts to take a life of its own. I never missed exceptions much (again, because you have to completely accept Go for what it is) and the fact the language specification is so short makes it easy to understand and relatively fast to pick up. Plus it's fast.

My problem with Go has nothing to do with the language per se. Instead, my reservations fall mostly on the ecosystem. It's immature and compared to more established languages like Python, it isn't nearly as rich (after all, it isn't as old). I gather from reading the mailing list archives off and on that there's been some inertial resistance toward certain frameworks (I can't really fault anyone for this--Martini and Revel have too much "magic," for example), and in some cases, prospective users are advised to "roll your own" if it's not something in the standard library. But when it comes to certain odds and ends, it's just downright difficult at times to find something that works as well as its Python counterpart out of the box and is relatively API stable (blackfriday, the Markdown parser, comes to mind--but then I guess offloading that to the client using JS might be better these days?).

Also, the abuse of the word "idiomatic" grates on me a little. There was someone on HN a number of months back who joked (paraphrasing) "Great, we're going to see 'idiomatic' abused as much as 'pythonic' and 'pivot.'"

But, that's why I do agree with you: Sometimes performance doesn't matter quite as much as the ability to avoid "not invented here." And Python has libraries for almost everything--SQLAlchemy is probably one of Python's "killer apps." (I expect Go will progress there, one day, but for some use cases it's not quite at that point in my experience--so the answer is probably to contribute to those Go libraries/projects you find of use.)
That's actually an incredibly cool idea... I would definitely read that newspaper.
Efficiency really depends upon the keyboard you're using. If you use a keyboard with thumb clusters, the control and meta keys are under your thumbs and you don't need to twist your pinkies at all.
Has that been profitable? I've worked on a few "subscription box" startups and found that churn always surpasses customer acquisition at a certain point.
In that case they are being idiotic.

It only takes one person doing something on a compromised internet connection (Captive portals that replace certificates, etc, etc) for your "confidential" information to be leaked.

(Note: if said cloud storage does encryption on top of HTTPS and/or proper certificate pinning (although this can cause other issues), this may not be the case. But that is not true too often, for example with web interfaces.)
Steam on distros other than Ubuntu (or a distro with similar package versions) sucks ass. I know they're working on the issue, but until then, Steam on Linux is completely useless to me.
Foresight.js vs. Retian.js vs. Retina.js
Has anybody got any experience using Retina JS and/or Foresight JS?

Apologise for my lack of understanding but I'm unsure of the difference and therefore unsure which one is the better choice for delivering the appropriate image.

From my little understanding Foresight will deliver a different image based on screen size whilst Retina will deliver @2x images to retina screens.

Does this sound right? Is using both good practice?

Additionally are Foresight and Picturefill.js?
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I'd consider someone a programmer if they can program. Whatever their preferred workflow is, is completely irrelevant if they can deliver.
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You've got a couple of options here - I personally have remapped my Caps Lock key to escape (not many downsides, besides limiting my ability to post humorous trolling messages).

You can also use Ctrl-[ which I believe essentially sends an escape character to whatever program you happen to be running.

Both options should save your pinky!
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If nothing else, I think it serves as a barometer for some sectors of tech's outlook on various visible events. As long as you keep in mind what sort of echo chamber/groupthink to look out for (a task when reading _any_ media) it's served well for me as a jumping off block for finding vectors to explore to better understand an issue.
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lost me at "webmasters", lol.
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It shouldn't make you cringe. This is actually (part of) the whole point of Free-Market/Libertarian/Randian/Austrian/Lassez-Faire economics, that people can elect to join social groups for exactly this kind of mutual support rather than being forced to participate in a single support network run by the government. (Note: I personally don't subscribe to this theory, but it is certainly defensible.)
Since the original TBL web server was at 'info.cern.ch' I think everyone has been Doing It Wrong since then, and we should replace 'www' with 'info' everywhere. I'm off to create 'info.not-www.org', I think...
Sure thing, feel free to send me an email when you'd like me to take another look.
First time I hear about the luapower package manager - but it appears to be by the same author as the excellent winapi binding, which yielded great results in my experiments.

I'm not sure how it differs from LuaRocks (which is the "original" Lua package manager) and LuaDist. I guess it aims for more simplicity? The website definitely outshines the other two, I like the clear and simple overview of the available packages.

EDIT: Upon closer inspection, it seems that it's the first package manager to properly integrate LuaJIT. So yeah, I'm converted!
I've heard of people rebinding it to caps lock. It makes sense as long as you don't mind holding down shift for the occasional all-caps text.
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It's used for text manipulation, too - the advantage lies in the fact that the same navigation keys are used to operate on blocks of text. For example, move to the next close-parenthesis can become copy everything up to next close-parenthesis, move to the next blank line can become indent everything up until the next blank line, move to the end of the line can become delete everything up to the end of the line, etc.

(For the record - I think it was a legitimate question. Upvoted!)
"when you willingly, nigh joyfully, watch as they take over your healthcare you cannot then truly expect privacy can you?"

I have no idea what you mean by this. Could you elaborate?
I've heard that but primarily with inexperienced users.
I remapped it to 'jk'. I don't think I've seen any vim users using 'esc' key to go to normal mode.
I like to think of it this way:

Why should I have to hold down a modifier key for 5 minutes? Just make it toggle.

Take that to its logical extension and you get modes, and they are beautiful.
Large websites maintained by many teams tend to accumulate cookies over time. When you have dozens of cookies for various one-off purposes, getting rid of a cookie means tracking down all the places where it might be used. It's easier if it's set on a subdomain.
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I'm a software dev so I don't really have a need for Excel, but from what I've seen/heard from my friends in business and accounting, Excel is unparalleled in the spreadsheet game. Especially when it comes to advanced features like macros and forumlas.
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Similar to the complaint about Alito's comment about James Madison's views on video games. That clearly was a joke about Scalia's legal philosophy, not an actual misunderstanding about video games.
Osembe Japan (with quality rice crackers) would be something I'm very likely to sign-up for!
Both of these quotes seem to come from a place of awe for computer science as if it is magic and only wizards can do it. "I might have been able to do it" is scoffed at because how could anyone say that! If you could do it you'd be a millionaire now! Only the guy saying it is the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court and that's a much bigger accomplishment than ebay. And all the justices are intellectual titans. Even the ones everyone hates.

Similarly the dismay of many in the industry thing. The author wants comp sci to be some kind of arcane lore that olds cant possibly understand because they're not hip enough. Tech stuff is also presented as kind of a black box that can't be compared to anything but itself, and if you aren't using silicon valley jargon 24/7 you just dont get it. The person who wrote the article in the OP is a tech cultist rather than a reasonable thinker.