skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are JS Mobile Apps Worth It?
So a few years back I wrote a few simplistic mobile applications for android using the sdk. I was new to the programming world and was excited enough by novelty to power through the verbose nature of the library. In the two years since I last touched android I have been working as a full stack developer; mostly in JS. Today I attempted to dive back into android only to be jarred by the over-complexity of its sdk. Needing to instantiate four managers to get one piece of data was something I haven't experienced in awhile, and it got me thinking. Has the performance of JS mobile apps(created with apache cordova or whatever) reached a tipping point where non graphic intensive apps are close to indistinguishable from native?
The term comes from those who have been empowered by these services to go into business sharing what they already have, e.g. sharing their residence with Airbnb, or their commute to work with Sidecar.

Obviously people aren't sharing these things for free, but they are sharing them nonetheless.
I can't actually get Chrome to allow my microphone. It blocks access, I say "allow to ask" on reload which it blocks again on next reload.
>Except that Verizon's phone service over fiber is priced

Yes.

>and regulated in exactly the same way as their copper service

Sort of. It's required to support number portability and E911, but there's no uptime requirement.

>It is still effectively the same landline service.

Also, no.

http://www.verizon.com/support/residential/phone/homephone/g...

"Call Restrictions: You cannot receive Collect or third Party Calls, and you cannot place 900 calls using FiOS Digital Voice"

"Battery Back Up In case of a power outage, FiOS Digital Voice will operate on battery back up for approximately 8 hours if an active battery is inserted in the Battery Backup Unit"

That is not the same quality of service that I expect from my copper POTS service.
Ever think maybe the dude is just happy?
Burnt, as in boiled?
I drive for Uber too, or used to anyway. I applied because I heard stories of drivers earning $2k in a weekend during a conference which seemed like the perfect side income source. After a number of drives I jokingly told my coworkers that I'd quit because the money seemed easy. But then uber dropped their rates and I went from earning $35 / hr to $20. And now all of a sudden I had to work twice as long to make the same income.

It wasn't worth it for me to continue as I value my free time from my normal job more than $20 /hr. But there are many more people who don't have that luxury. There are drivers who sunk in a lot of money to become drivers - bought cars, dropped jobs, moved cities, etc. When a company has that power to cut your wage so easily with the sending of an email or text message, that's disproportionate power.
One Of Microsoft's Best Kept Secrets: Python Tools For VisualStudio (PTVS)
I understand Xanax, but why Adderall and Provigil? Both of those are stimulants, and if anything they would only increase the anxious tension you are already feeling. Maybe you meant Ativan? Not sure about the modafinil though.

Are you dealing with EDS as a significant symptom in addition to anxiety? ADHD?
Mapping Migration in the United States
I was under the impression it couldn't be forked. Incorrect?
That would involve maintaining healthy research funding levels, rather than continually making cuts.
Greed is always optional. The thing that is not is free and strong will to stand against VCs. Thats why VCs love to get in to sturtups run by geeks instead of business veterans.
So the internet's winners are finally chipping in? About time...
With Subway in the Sky, Valley Meets Plateau
Anybody use this yet? What's the legitimacy of this compared to Truecrypt's fallen domain?

I see that actually list the developers which is nice. But unfortunately I'm not too familiar with the big name's in cryptography software.
In theory, sure. You can get POTS service over fiber - and Verizon used to install it all the time, but now they try very aggressively to steer you towards their digital voice product.

I'm not in Verizon territory, but I did try ordering the Verizon Freedom Package earlier today from their website (POTS + unlimited LD, an asston of features) just for the purposes of arguing in Manhattan, an area where FiOS service is offered.

Nothing I tried would let me order that; I'd always, inevitably be redirected back to the digital voice order page.
I suspect some of the popularity[1] of unboxing, opening, revealing, unwrapping, pic-a-boo, lookie here videos can be attributed to the SEO community.

[1] some of the rest can be attributed to how views are counted.
echo rm *

echo chown -R nobody:nobody *.php

echo chmod 000 *

echo tar cvvf archive.tar *

echo tar cf archive.tar *

echo rsync -t *.c foo:src

This article starts with the premise that the person executing the command has no idea what files are in the current working directory. That is itself a more serious problem than the behaviour of wildcards.

Later in the article we learn that it also assumes GNU utilities. That is a second problem (IMO), and arguably also one more serious than the behaviour of wildcards. GNU userland and unneeded complexity (e.g. more features than any user will ever use) are practically synonymous.

Then there is the peculiar assumption that someone can place arbitrary files beginning with - or -- on this system. That itself is a far more serious problem than the behaviour of wildcards; I would say with that capability it is more or less "game over". In BSD you have, at the very least, mtree. How does the Linux user know she isn't executing some substituted executable?

Moreover, if caution was important to the hypothetical user in the examples, I think they would be in the form

/path/to/program *
Ask HN: How much money does early startup spend on UI?
I'm web frontend developer myself, and I was always wondering, how much money average startup spends on UI team: good team, good UX, hight quality of product and design.

Any experience?
My guess is Microsoft would flag you as a scammer
I don't have any citations, but I would venture most people working on these platforms do it because they need extra money. Nobody quits his day job to drive people around in Uber or to spend 8 hours a day in Amazon turk.

Most of these startups try to create a monopoly at the level of the platform, but force workers to compete against each other, undermining solidarity between them that facilitates an unfair exchange
Needs an instructional level.
Verizon's POTS over fiber product is nearly impossible to get. It's unavailable online. Calling in they claim they've never heard of it according to multiple people who have tried.

It doesn't matter if you force Verizon to maintain copper or not, Verizon cancelled all new FiOS rollouts back in 2010. Unless you're in an area already serviced by FiOS and under an agreement, you won't get fiber from Verizon. Note that they will finish the few bits of neighborhoods where they have an agreement and most of the fiber laid... eventually... unless they decide to renege on their promises, of course. Verizon agreed to set FiOS up for all of NYC by 2014 and has been trying to weasel out of that agreement for over 2 years. My neighborhood has no fiber service yet.
I think that government regulation is at least as likely to result in less healthy diets than in healthier diets.
Thank you for using MediaCrush! We publish regular transparency reports[1] about several things, including our finances. We don't have any seed money, it's just coming out of our own wallet.

[1] https://blog.mediacru.sh/2014/07/12/State-of-MediaCrush-2014...
Same. I used to procrastinate and play Hextris for so long I'd enter a trance and zone out.

Remembered it recently and based my own game on hexagons!
I used Truecrypt heavily for years, but since all the kerfuffle happened I've switched to other stuff. I like Truecypt and would like to move back, but I'm not sure when I'll be able to trust a fork. I can't audit the code myself so I have to rely, I guess, just on mind share and the opinions of security people who are smarter than me.

I'm curious about what other users are doing in this situation. What are your criteria for trusting a fork? How will you know when something (not necessarily CipherShed) is mature and safe enough to use?
I think it applies more to the middle class than the rich. The very rich still have easy access to lucrative investments, but the upper middle class (and perhaps the slightly to moderately rich) don't. The result is a shift in incentives away from stock trading and toward entrepreneurship.

I think this is very healthy.
https://github.com/senotrusov/march

A social content creation tool with cartography features.

A document consist of sections, sections contain paragraphs. One single paragraph may have many instances across different documents.

Users can repost paragraphs, createdby someone else. When the original author updates the paragraph then that update propagates to all the instances.

Similar, one section may simultaneously exists in different documents. Any changes in that section are visible in all that documents.

Forced anonymity but you can track individual contributor in the scope of a single discussion (visible user ids started from 1 for each thread).
The TrueCrypt author is anonymous and would have to reveal their identity in order to enforce the license, which they would be very unlikely to do.

According to CipherShed's forum the main thing they have to do is remove all references to TrueCrypt from the code: https://forum.ciphershed.org/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=48

I'm not sure if anyone on this site is actually a TrueCrypt developer but there is a new forum: https://forum.truecrypt.ch/

They have some discussion about CipherShed and some other TrueCrypt forks: https://forum.truecrypt.ch/t/working-with-ciphershed/22
They have Android and iOS apps. They also have an API [0] and several blog posts about how to use it to add photos from other types of devices [1].

[0] http://www.mapillary.com/developer.html
[1] http://blog.mapillary.com/technology/2014/07/21/upload-scrip...
Is that really on Duolingo? The wording "seu rabo é bonito" would be considered hugely gross regardless of context or location.
I think this is great; I know for a fact that when I try to describe a series of symptoms to my doctor he will be typing away, and I think there's a lot of what I'm saying that gets lost going from the ears to the fingers. I also think, having both patient and doctor "on the same side" makes it seem more like a team effort and empowers people to take more of an active role in their health.
As a complete outsides I don't see why anyone would be surprised, going to the doctor is quite often an expression of powerlessness, you have no idea and no control over what is going on in your own body and you need this powerful semi-stranger to do some divination on you and tell you what's wrong. Of course giving someone even a semblance of control over the proceedings helps them feel more engaged and more knowledgeable about themselves.
Coincidence -- I wrote a G+ post not two months ago talking about this same idea (what Graydon calls the "Not Rocket Science" principle). I was surprised to find that (as Graydon says) there doesn't seem to be a lot of tool support for this: https://plus.google.com/108917965951523281393/posts/6ERd4fha...
This is exactly what I wanted to say. The colors chosen are very difficult for me.
Career wise, I'd say don't even worry about what stack you choose. Ignore all those posts about ".NET will land you corporate jobs."
Companies should not worry about what languages you have experience with. They should care for how much programming (not languages) experience you have and how fast you can learn new concepts and new languages. Know your algorithms, and data structures etc.
you wouldn't wan to work for companies (especially startups) tht require "3 years of Ruby." That's just shallow.
That's why Google Apple amazon MSFT hire the best folks. They don care what langs you know. They care if you can code and solve problems
Agree, this is from 9 months ago.
MoodGym is the one I used, I highly recommend it :)
Shouldn't, but could:

> On 16 June 2014, the only alleged TrueCrypt developer still answering emails, replied to an email by Matthew Green about the licensing situation. He is not willing to change the license to an open source one, believes that Truecrypt should not be forked, and that if someone wants to create a new version they should start from scratch.[1]

(Copy of the email on pastebin[2])

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TrueCrypt#End_of_life_and_licen...
[2]: http://pastebin.com/RS0f8gwn
"Is this like saying most hospital patients should take responsibility for their own society's health-care system?"

Yes, they should.

Look, you're right, it is beyond the scope of the average person to research alternatives. However, we live in a democratic society and it is out of our political apathy that the healthcare system has become what it is: an utter disgrace. If we were a truly compassionate society that prioritized ensuing health-care for all, then this is what we would have.

Same goes for online. We love to bitch and moan about the government taking away net neutrality, our friends and parents thinking the internet is just Facebook, and of course the NSA. But it is us - you, I, our communities - that are creating this situation; not the government. Why? Because we are the government.

Am I aware of how idealistic that sounds in 2014? Absolutely. But we are the ones who, ultimately, decide what level of lobbying and influence corporations have. We are the ones who ultimately decide what level of survelience we allow in our lives.

That was my initial point. But of course, HN folks can be super-reacitionary to anything detracting from the open-source caliphate. Believe me, no one wants a more bio-diverse online ecosystem than I. I've written extensively about it. However, this is the issue it comes down to. We get what we deserve. What's more, if these were important issues in society (which I, in the minority, believe theyt are) then it would galvanize into actual policy being created.

We're in the West. We have democratic ideals. Utilize them. Our entire system and culture is based upon these. It's what justifies wars. If you're not happy about the system, lobby your friends and create movements.

Ironically, this is what the Pirate Bay guys have done. they've gone out and come at IP in a major way, and have felt the might of the law against their favour. I'm not going to comment on whether that's right or wrong, because it isn't the issue. The issue is that we, now, through the sum part of a billion tiny actions, have the chance in this moment to influence the future of this space. The future of IP. The future of rewarding creators fairly. So instead of whinging about Big Internet (which is what happens a lot in this forum - where cries go unheard) - actually take some practical steps to lobby.

So that is why. We get the internet we deserve is that we must take collective responsibility for what kind of world we are creating. Unfortunatley, this is a highly unfashionable stance in age of cynicism and entitlement.
I did switch, and immediately after began complaining about it, because I've been a big supporter and user of Imgur for years until now. I switched to mediacrush weeks ago and am spreading the word to others so they can realize it's a better alternative, and then do the same.
https://github.com/senotrusov/workety - A library to run Ruby classes as daemons. Process start, signal handling, logfile/pidfile, restart by watchdog, exception handling, reporting to Airbrake and Exceptional, Rails environment load, multithreaded workers.

https://github.com/senotrusov/redis-call - A Ruby library to access Redis using Hiredis takes care of thread-aware connections, handy API for keys' names construction, transactions and queues.
https://github.com/kennethrapp/phasher - a perceptual hashing class for PHP, abandoned because I suck at algorithms. It's also old and badly written. But it works and for some reason people fork it so have fun.

https://github.com/kennethrapp/journalist - general purpose livejournal client (PHP), created so I could write my own blog client for my website and crosspost, but I no longer really care about livejournal so meh.

https://github.com/kennethrapp/embedbug - page crawler and attempt at an open souce embed.ly-ish plugin (PHP) - it does work but every project i've started which uses it has been abandoned because I don't have the time.

I've currently got a PHP/Laravel clone of Hacker News which kind of sort of works but not well enough that I'd want to push it to github unless people really want to dig into that. I barely work on it anymore and there's no documentation all.

Also i'm working on some c++ and C# projects, including a todo list based on my final project this semester. I'll probably either post it in a week or two or just forget it ever happened.

And this (https://gist.github.com/kennethrapp/0ef17d2145f2a6e38cca) was going to be a general purpose Hacker News userscript. I got as far as getting the callbacks to work before just giving up and using other people's already working scripts. Someone might find it useful.
It's hard to get except in the exact situation the original article is talking about. They will give you FIOS pots when they are just trying to get rid of copper.

They stopped rolling out fiber because they needed to improve adoption in areas where they already deployed. Supporting copper is slowing the whole thing down.
Wouldn't this also have disastrous effect on the atlantic fisheries of the gulf of mexico/Caribbean ?
Might I suggest "hormetic", which comes from similar hypotheses of biological processes?

E.g. the idea that low levels of radiation might even be beneficial overall by forcing your body to continuously use strong healing mechanisms is known as radiation hormesis.
I would imagine a lot of the concern over this is more of the existential fear resulting from the balance of power between patient and doctor than anything else. The Internet started that, with patients able to become much more knowledgable about their own conditions (with the unfortunate side effect of every symptom being cancer).

Once patients become knowledgable, the doctor moves from a pillar of all knowledge to a (hopefully) trusted, knowledgable advisor. That change frightens many in the medical community[1], but it will yield better outcomes.

My own story is one of overcoming obesity and, at times, nearly crippling depression using that ability to gain knowledge to learn how to feed my body. In the process, I've stopped medications and have had to teach my doctor certain things (like why I'm not gong to either worry about my cholesterol or take any drugs for it).

The medical community currently has an abysmal record with treating chronic health problems. There are a lot of reasons for that, but, IMO, the most glaring is people abdicating their health reonsibility to somebody else (whether doctors, pharmaceutical companies, or government guidelines). As people take control back...when they realize they have some control...they will become more healthy.

1. Source: my wife is part of that community and sees it regularly.
Nothing suprising, just take a look at the Intel iAMT ;)
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Speaking of cat food, 1/3 of pet foods contain brewers rice which has little or no nutritional value http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brewers_rice
For cats being completely carnivorous, I can't imagine carbs are doing them any favors.
I'm struggling with a couple of VoIP services vs the occasional Skype call. As much as I dislike Skype, the call quality is much higher, especially when I'm using HSPA or similar.
There are and have been plenty of small Hitlers. It depends on where you set the bar for "a Hitler" as far as significance. Hitler was significant because he was leader of one of the world's most powerful countries at the time.
Might be worth trying it in Wine.
> But you do understand, in principle, why people watch sports rather than play them themselves, right?

Nope. Generally speaking, I don't understand second-degree entertainment (ie. watching other people have fun & do things: sports, video games, unboxing videos, reality TV).
A drug might make things worse, it could allow a patient to live a bit longer after their friends have rescued them from the isolation ward and enable them to infect more people.
The algorithm doesn't currently take the time of submission or number of comments into account, but we're working on a new implementation that will handle all of this.
Obviously, foods are not only about energy supply. One needs all sorts of nutrients, so just eating lots of Doritos is a terrible idea.

Maybe I'm wrong on this, but isn't every calorie source fairly acceptable if one hadn't got enough yet, and they're still far from a limit on how many one should get? I.e. a slice of pizza isn't "healthy" (nutritionally dense) but brings more good (+200-300 Kcal, and some protein from cheese and meat, and possibly some vitamins from vegetables if topping contains fresh ones) than bad (possible excess supply of triglycerides and some gastritis risk) if one had only consumed 1500 Kcal today and they really should get at least 2500. Especially if one has to force themselves to eat oatmeal, but would happily eat some tasty "junk food".
I have this problem to a very bad degree and I deal with it through brute force. I recently broke my elbow and was put briefly on hydrocodone and it had a side effect of serving as a "miracle" anti depressant. I finished my first node.js app while on it which I had put off for months because I hit a "you're never going to figure this out" road block. The fluency by which I was working while on the hydrocodone was like night and day and couldn't believe that life could be that "in the moment" and fluent. It was like a weight was lifted off my shoulders and everything just 'connected'.But of course it was a drug and I couldn't stay on it. I haven't found a way to deal with these issues so I'm curious about the responses to this thread.
> I think within the context of civilized discussion your style borders on abuse.

I don't have a dog in this fight, but you're replying to this comment in a thread that contains a literal unsourced accusation that Taleb was a "hack".

In fact, you replied to that comment. Where was your sense of propriety about the level of discourse expected on HN at that time?

On that note, is "out-Gladwelling" someone intended to be civilized or insulting to Gladwell?

eruditely's comment was certainly abrasive, but I don't see how it was substantially different from other such "unparliamentary" language on this thread.
If it is a long-term problem, there are therapies you can try. The standard-issue therapy I have encountered is CBT (Cognitive Behavioural Therapy) which you can do by yourself. It is not, however, an in-depth, psychodynamic therapy in the psychoanalytic tradition, so you won't be unearthing profound insights into your personality. The focus is on specific symptoms and quick results. In spite of those limitations it might be worth trying. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_behavioral_therapy
Spaced repetition is indeed awesome. For a month now I've been working through a deck of hard English vocabulary using Anki, and already my speech and reading comprehension capabilities have increased dramatically.
Sure thing. The ASMR triggers do absolutely nothing for me as well.

What really interests me is that there are probably other sensory phenomenon that are equally fascinating that very few people experience that aren't generally known (like synesthesia).