skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Something like that seems crazy to us, but I can sort of understand why it made sense to the family in China. China's medical system is presumably a lot less regulated, and probably full of its fair share of hucksters, snake oil salesmen, and fraudulent service providers. Demanding to see proof that a surgery was performed would be understandable in those circumstances. (An unscrupulous doctor could still fake the proof, of course.)

This is thematically, if not completely, similar to the American practice of running a battery of expensive, redundant diagnostic tests on a patient as a CYA measure. It's not enough to have a reasonable guess at a diagnosis; you need five different kinds of proof to back up your decision. You are performing not just to the standards of medicine, but to the presumed standards of insurance companies, lawyers, and WebMD self-diagnoses.
That's the point, HTML is just a hobbled lisp with an awkward syntax. If you're building a template engine in a lisp, it's much nicer to just use the native lisp syntax instead.
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Exactly. At least make it obvious that the user needs to sign in beforehand.
I don't know exactly, It is good news or bad to all user of Mad Mimi. I have been using Mad Mimi as my email marketing service and as much as I know, GoDaddy supports SOPA. So, I think This acquisition can be Bad news for us and If Mad Mimi Remain the same just some improvements, Thumbs Up!

Today Morning, I received a main from Gary Levitt confirming that they are joining with Godaddy and Here is the Main That I received: http://www.techiesmith.com/godaddy-acquires-mad-mimi/

Anyway, We are looking for some improvements of Mad Mimi. As Gary Levitt Says, The Support of godaddy, I also think That, Mad Mimi just took the right path to improve their support but will they still remain free for beginner?
SSL, private boards, and some kind of assurance that what we're drawing truly is being erased.

Add that, and we'll pay you money to let us use it. I suspect other companies will, too.
So for every class in Java, we just create a corresponding builder class, because we lack certain features in the language?

This is not a solution, this is a workaround.
“I like to show my clients evidence that disasters can happen to them”
The ERCIM Magazine
The ERCIM Magazine

(ERCIM stands for European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics)

http://ercim-news.ercim.eu/?view=featured
I've made the point several times that people do in fact expect to be able to mmap() files far bigger than physical memory on larger systems.

Purely for RAM we can survive with 64 bit for maybe a decade extra.
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That's a fair point and I understand why you'd argue that.

However, you'll notice that most people consider rich to be "having more than what I have" or "having more than other people". Many millionaires don't think themselves wealthy -- and they're not necessarily wrong. They've reached a point where many of their peers have more capital than they do. Others may consider them "poor".
Hi—I built that extension! Thank you for using it. You can view the source code here:

https://github.com/mrcoles/full-page-screen-capture-chrome-e...

It’s malware & spyware free. I built the extension to take a screen cap of a seating chart that I built as a web page for my wedding—since all the other extensions at the time were broken. Why a web page for my seating chart? IDK, I wanted to play with CSS3 columns, alas I should have used photoshop…

I have been contacted by people who want to buy the extension, but it seems too dangerous, since they could easily install their own malware—I wonder if anything like this happened to “Awesome Screenshot”? My own conscience and, more importantly, my personal brand is too important to me to sell it.

In terms of the permissions, when I built it, I had to ask for those permissions in order to make it work. If you find any changes to chrome permissions that let me ask for fewer, please let me know or, better, submit a pull request.

Also, instead of PhantomJS, if you have a Mac, try out `webkit2png`, which works great as long as you don't need to login or interact with a page before the screenshot:

http://www.paulhammond.org/webkit2png/
Anyone who designs algorithms dealing with image manipulation should have at least a basic understanding of colorimetry and color perception. It's absolutely not hard to understand but it is not trivial either. I can only suggest to read [1]. It's a rather thick book but you only need to read the first few chapters to avoid such mistakes.

[1] Wyszecki, Stiles: Color science
> a plasma tv is a minor rounding error in the cost of living.

Also true compared to college tuition, bills for problem pregnancies, and other major medical events including the last two or three years of life.

It's probably time to admit that the child tax credit hasn't been keeping up with the cost of living and needs a major adjustment.
The stealing the network series is awesome. I just read "The Director" which was decent.

There are a lot of non-fiction books that read the same as a fiction though; Ghost in the Wires, The Art of Intrusion (really fun read), Fatal System Error, and of course if you haven't read Cuckoo's Egg, you should.

Reamde by Neal Stephenson is also good.
I am not emotionally prepared for Twitter to suck
It's not, but we've recently rolled out the ability to add the wihteboard to your own site, which is a paid subscription-based service.
This is only beneficial to one side of the userbase. For users clicking the links it's only inconvenience.
Sorry about that. I thought it was better to link right to the data explorer for the new data, rather than the press release about.
I think the font size has something to do with it. Maybe the description should be in bigger font outside the code block?
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Doesn't work if cookies are blocked. Well, it is a "white board," anyway.
San Francisco, Manhattan, D.C. -- they're all outliers. My great-aunt runs a day-care facility in Kentucky. They charge $200/month/child. (This is definitely an outlier on the other end of the spectrum)

It's very difficult to talk about wealth, as wealth means different things in different places. My argument for a $100k/year salary being "rich" falls apart in expensive cities.
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Author is wrong about hygienic macros – they are not more powerful. They are less powerful, and more complicated, in order to enforce safety. Whether this is preferable or not is a matter of debate.
The "dot" part is a bit confusing, at first I thought it was something in dotnet.
I made a simple open source alternative a couple years ago after seeing that nothing in the webstore could accurately take full page screenshots:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/full-page-screen-c...

https://github.com/mrcoles/full-page-screen-capture-chrome-e...
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Additionally, they published this paper last year with an early demo of the editor linked on Youtube. I've posted it on here a few times but it hasn't had much response.

http://soft-dev.org/pubs/pdf/diekmann_tratt__parsing_compose...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMzrTb22Ot8
Yeah, they shouldn't be doing it like that. they should have control of their own shortener.
True, but keep in mind, 100k is a lot easier to achieve in those cities. Registered nurses and dental hygienists (and software developers), who all earn about 110k a year (median) in SF, tend to fall well below that threshold outside these centers.
The video shows Mark explaining to Sally how a Facebook login would work on her website with the whiteboard.

A killer missing feature seems to be microphone support, which the video alludes to.
Love the "text me a link" feature!

The app itself looks nice and clean as well, with some great animations (the pull-to-refresh one, for example).
"Bacterial superinfection in viral respiratory disease is a clinically well documented phenomenon."

http://www.hksid.org/pdf/bult200305.pdf

"Respiratory viral infections may facilitate secondary bacterial infections"

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15166819

The doctor might have had some information about his patient, which you don't?
Thanks! I added ClipMenu as well :)
Surprised to learn this is Java and long-polling. (These features scream Meteor / DDP to me.) Regardless, it's a v good start. Thanks for sharing!
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* @Input1: an array of strings
* @Input2: a separator that will be used when concatinating
* the strings from @Input1
* @Output: a concatinated string
* @Example: myConcat(["Code","Fight","On","!"],"/")="Code/Fight/On/!/"
*/

Guess s/concatinated/concatenated/g wasn't the bug...
> So if one wanted to live like in the past it is certainly attainable on a single reasonable income... That may mean "only" having a 1700 sf house with one bathroom and one car.

I agree with the attitude here but cultural norms have shifted so much that there isn't nearly enough supply of those sorts of homes. The reality is that people typically "downsize" by moving far outside of town and commuting long distances, which isn't really a solution to the problem.
Outstanding! But I would not think to look under "Options" for an active feature like this.
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"There should have been only one"
You didn't read far enough...
I think it's a bit weird that instead of using this to promote their values (Decentralization, Freedom, Privacy as mentioned on their landing page [0]) they are essentially pressuring pod admins to take down the content.

I know they could just setup their own Pod but these values are what makes them any different from the likes of Twitter and I would've expected them to stand by them a bit more.

[0] https://diasporafoundation.org/
I tried Clojure, and I quite like it as a language (especially the thread-first & thread-last macros [1, 2]).

I don't, however, like the ecosystem surrounding it. I find Leiningen (while an excellent tool) far too heavy for the majority of my purposes. I much prefer other functional languages (e.g. OCaml, Haskell) that don't need such an intricate project structure.

With OCaml & Haskell, I can start with one source file in one directory and gradually build up to a more sophisticated layout as needed, rather than have a complicated layout imposed upon me by the project.

[1] http://clojuredocs.org/clojure_core/clojure.core/-%3E
[2] http://clojuredocs.org/clojure_core/clojure.core/-%3E%3E
Okok I didnt know, Im spanish speaker, now i know :) Thanks
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Question, if standing desks are so great then why is standing at work considered bad? Only reason I can come up with is that with the desk you can set its height
Foil's by Rich so that isn't the best argument :).
In our office, we have "Quiet Rooms." Many people go there to grab a fifteen to twenty minute nap, but I find myself going there when the noise just gets to be too much.

I've found that many problems, even software problems, can be solved in a completely dark, quiet room. At the very least, it helps reduce stress levels and allows you to try to tackle the problem again when you get back with a fresh mind.
"It's absolutely inevitable that organisations like IS are going to be among the early adopters of this sort of innovation."

That would have been a great quote to have on the crowdfunding page.
Maybe Diaspora will finally take off now that the other social networks will begin to get heavily censored.

I for one would like Twister to take off as alternative to Twitter:

http://twister.net.co/

EDIT: It also seems to be compatible with Tor now:

http://twister.net.co/?p=366
I find this interesting not so much regarding the CCl4 itself, but for its implications with respect to CO2 and climate change.

Most of those clamoring for worldwide attention to climate change have as the foundation of their plans, international control on CO2 emissions. And one of the arguments against such plans is that getting all the polluters on-board is rather impractical. Such cooperation is pretty much unprecedented, with the only example I can think of being the treaty on emissions of CFCs.

If even that one example - of something that is, in comparison to the burning of fossil fuels, barely a drop in the bucket - then it doesn't bode well for humanity's ability to get a handle on CO2 emissions.
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Yes, in this day and age, making a new ISA worst than the MIPS ISA (which had TRAP on integer overflow) with regards to integer overflow behaviour is really annoying.

IMHO this is cost saving going too far..

I wish that the mill succeed instead, at least it brings new things regarding security!
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Easter eggs wouldn't be considered features (even if management-approved) because they are not advertised, and they do not perform a function related to the application. For example, if management approved a flight simulator in Excel '97, would you still consider if a 'feature' of Excel '97?
Linus Torvalds still wants the Linux desktop
Instead of working on a URL shortner, I suggest you work on not sending usernames and passwords in clear text via HTTP POSTs.
I find it hilarious that you're upset with easter eggs in principle because kids were distracted during class. I'm sure all those kids couldn't hack it in the real world because of these awful distractions.
He fled people, not the world.
There isn't really an explanation anywhere, but the colors that the game changes to in pride-mode look like original Apple logo colors - is that a hat tip?
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IMO our "costlier manufacturing" would be capital intensive but not high amortized cost.

If we didnt have trade relations with China we'd automate the terrible jobs that we get chinese citizens to do for low wages. I believe the only reason we export work is because once you include capital cost (upfront investments) its cheaper/easier to have a human do it.

Of course, there'd be some ramp up time required where our stuff would be really expensive. Its going to happen anyways as Chinese citizens become more and more affluent and demand the middle class life of the rich world.
They gave people the power to post really offensive and harmful things, but that doesn't mean they have to be happy when it happens.
Not it sure as hell does not mean one is "rich." It is, at best, an indicator of marginal affluence. It certainly is stretching the bounds of credulity to call it "merely" middle-class, though, and forget calling it "poor."

"Rich" means more than having a relatively high income. It means having the means to obtain in relative short order, or having already obtained, relative financial independence. An income of $100,000 doesn't qualify in most places. Such a person would be required to find some income if he loses his current source, and he would almost certainly suffer financially and take many hits to his credit during a period without income. This person isn't "rich" until he's amassed enough savings that he can weather such a period without significant risk to his finances or credit, which will take literally decades in most cases.
actually, I’ll try out the activeTab permission… hopefully that will work. It’s hard to find time to maintain a side-project :)
The more trouble they have taking down IS content, the safer I know my pod is.
I got the exact same feeling after using it for 2 seconds. Then watched his video demo and understood why he did it that way.

He did the product with tablet users in mind.
I think the parent meant only a sum type, not a concrete example of it such as Either of Haskell, which would surely not suffice here. In Haskell you would probably define a new sum type for this occasion, e.g.:

data ForkResult = Failure | Parent Int | Child
In print: I like how net magazine uses netm.ag/description-123 for any links so it's easy to type and doesn't take up too much space. This also gives analytics for print articles where you normally can't watch whether anyone followed a link

You don't need to rely on routing through Twitter. Works when Twitter blocked or down. Branding.

Also tracking.

Also you can modify where the link points after distributing it in case you notice a mistake.
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Isn't that kind of what it was created for? They had to know from the start that not all the people and groups who used it would have noble intentions.
The kind of situation(of identity loss and connectedness to nature ,etc) is kind of a goal in eastern meditation traditions. But another goal is creating compassionate people who care about others while carrying that identity-less feeling with them. And true, one risk is that one would be happy with himself and isolate himself. But those traditions know and try to manage those risks.

And i don't think this loss of self comes from self introspection, but more from long solitude(which tends to break the psych construct we call ego).

And no wonder he like solitude so strongly - he didn't find happiness among humans before. Hopefully after he get released , he can find some way to make a living while having the ability to live mostly alone and in nature.
I just finished re-reading the series last week, including the last 2 books by his son. Those last 2 weren't completely awful, but they certainly didn't live up to the standards set by the original author. The only point that I was truly disappointed with the writing was when I read the following words: "male bene gesserit".

There were plenty of other inconsistencies as well, but as when watching any good movie, you need to suspend reality (in this case Frank Herbert's reality) and allow the story to play out.

I don't think I have the stomach to read the prequels, but I'm sure I'll come back and re-read the series again and again. Very few authors take the time to create such immersive universes.
Sometimes it seems like people are more upset about the words of killers than the fact that they go around killing people.
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Just because we dont know ~why~ the ozone is depleting, doesnt mean we dont know the effects of ozone depletion. Maybe we've tried a half dozen things that havent worked. We probably want to keep trying due to the consequences of ozone loss.
>#1 is cheapest, but ties the family down to where the grandparents are. Both parent jobs need to be located relatively close by.

Also, it's kind of shitty to your parents. Is watching your kid from 9-5 on weekdays really what they wanted to retire for?
I do not mind their books too much, the stories were interesting and some of the explanation given for various technologies was fine.

The Tleilaxu background was good, however the fault I give the son's work is far too often he would try to out do dad, as in one up the ability of the foes faced. Still I liked the Titans and found the idea of how Mentats originated was valid; whom else but a computer could train them?
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Do you have any plans to have a 'broadcast' mode where the person who creates the whiteboard is the only one who can draw on it? I can see itchy student fingers abusing it otherwise in a teaching context... ;-)
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This is like saying "E-Mail cannot stop X mails" or "XMPP cannot stop X chats", which is pretty obvious. The whole point of a decentralized service like Diaspora is that it can't be completely censored. Internet providers could partially block the access to pods that don't censor this kind of content, but then they could setup their own Diaspora pod in a Tor hidden services...
I agree with you. But with many people, I would classify the safety premium with the other things that those people "need".

When I first arrived in Austin a few years ago, so many yuppies told me to NOT go east of I35. They were paying outrageous sums of money (actually quite tame by San Francisco standards) to live far from the side of town they perceived as dangerous.

However, once I became acclimated to the city, I realized that they were blowing a lot of smoke due to irrational fears. The east side was certainly more diverse. It wasn't as white-washed as the west side of Austin. It has more graffiti and was generally poorer. But, it was not dangerous.

Again I'm making some pretty broad brush strokes. I realize that other places have dangerous neighborhoods and many cities have a legitimate need for a safety premium. My main point is that for many people, the necessity of the safety premium is perceived unjustly.
Excited to finally release our iOS app, created by the amazingly talented David McKinney (http://davidmckinney.com/). This version is still very early and we're working through some bugs but you gotta ship sometime, right? :)

AMA!
You'll find this a fascinating read:
http://www.oreilly.com/tim/herbert/

Tim O'Reilly made an interview with Frank Herbert on how he created his universe, and describes the huge effort that went into it. Worth to read. Unfortunately they don't print it anymore, but hey, at least it is available online.
In this case, I think it has more to do with the spreading a message that has recruitment as one of its aims. In the US, the freedom of speech doesn't apply if you are, for example, spreading a message that says, "You all need to kill [ethnic group]."
Hygienists make 110K in SF? Do you have data to support this? These seem like outlier numbers to me even in a place like SF.
They gave people the ability to post things without threat of censorship.

Whether or not they thought through the ramifications of all edge cases, how they feel about it, and what they do about is another matter entirely.
>Instead, the commonly understood meaning of the word "functional" is that the language's design emphasizes and encourages use of immutable data and Clojure fits that meaning.

I would say a language which relies on functional composition as its primary abstraction is "functional." Immutable data is a side effect of that.
> I think it's a bit weird that instead of using this to promote their values (Decentralization, Freedom, Privacy as mentioned on their landing page [0]) they are essentially pressuring pod admins to take down the content.

Yeah that's probably because the ISIS is known for suicide bombings, cutting off heads, video taping it so that the families and friends of the victim can see how gruesome their loved one died, killing unbelievers and tying multiple women to poles at the Mosul Dam to be raped. Not exactly the kind of thing you want to use to promote your values unless you're a psychopath. What the fuck.
Imo, latency difference shouldn't be huge between a tree/graph data topology. Graph traversals for our read requests takes less than 10ms.
https://diasporafoundation.org/about#features

"diaspora* is completely Free Software. This means there are no limits on how it can be used."

Sounds like the IS people are using it as intended.

(Life will get complicated for any pod admins in western countries though.)
The issue I see with same-day delivery is that for it to be possible for a startup to beat FedEx, UPS et. al on price, there has to be some aspect of delivery that the existing companies are doing wrong (or inefficiently), or there has to be some key innovation.

Take Uber, for instance. Uber succeeded because they were able to 'fix' the problem of taxi company monopolies- a problem with the existing market. Alternately, look at Google, which introduced PageRank, a massive improvement over existing search algorithms.

Existing delivery companies seem to be fairly sophisticated, and to be focusing only on the core problems of delivery. Unless I'm missing some crucial aspect of delivery, I don't see anything that FedEx or UPS could do differently [1] to cut costs & improve speed without massively increasing cost.

[1] The obvious exception is drone delivery, but I think that's a far too difficult problem to be solved by existing technology. I would love to be proven wrong though.