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>> Find any thread on HN that deals with Facebook primarily. The comments will run along the lines of (evil/intelligence gathering front/destroying communication) and all manner of other emotionally loaded and/or objectively incorrect nonsense.

I know them, they all express hatred for Facebook, but curiously, they never explain why.

>> There's not liking or not using a service, and then there's pathological hatred.

There is, but the reason is unknow to me.

>> I have never read a single positive thought on Facebook on this entire site in my entire time here.

Neather I, but again, the reason of so much hatred remains a mistery.

My theory is that those people hate Facebook because it is something that Google can't be, no matter how hard it tries, and they think Google should have that spot.

But why?

Are they getting pay to do it, it is because they are die hard fan boys?, or maybe both.
There are plenty of B players, some of them lifers and some of them just there for a time due to other circumstances (young child, old parents, etc), but they(we) very much do exist.
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Interesting how the poo icon is interpreted differently by different mobile developers. Looking at the iPhone, Android and Windows poos: Apple thinks poop is happy, Android thinks its smelly, and Windows thinks its purely utilitarian.

[edited for clarity]
Ah, that's sad. Ticketmaster and "joy" do not go in the same sentence.
"But there are B players out there, and A players are doing better work than them."

Yes, but it turns out the correct question is why, not who.

When you ask why, you find out how to make everyone succeed. When you ask who, you get a slew of negative cultural consequences.
Wow, could you imagine building a computer so resilient that it still works after a part equivalently important disappeared‽
> I'm in assloads of pain with every keystroke but I will rip you a new one on this matter.

Let me ask a common-sense question. What's my incentive to continue an exchange with someone who is obviously psychotic and probably dangerous?
Normally I'd be right there with you, but at this DPI there shouldn't be any visible scaling artifacts. Normally scaling looks terrible because you're upscaling low res components to a higher res version, but since their source is higher resolution and they're downscaling to an already extremely high DPI screen, you'll probably be hard pressed to find aliasing artifacts without a magnifying glass.

The other reason why I think this might be a good thing is since 1080p is more of a standard than the other resolutions they're playing with, which might help unify things moving forward.
Thank you so much for the information! This is very encouraging. I will definitely give 0.6.3 a whirl!
I've often thought about establishing a medial tourism non-profit. Think Watsi.org, but for first-world consumers of healthcare, taking them to near-first-world country locals where the cost of the same quality service is much lower.
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The cerebellum is a much more primitive neural network, though. It's feed-forward only - it actually looks like a tree in MRIs - so it's a lot harder to encode anything. Normal neural networks ("connectomes") in the brain are massively interconnected in all directions, which allows for parallel computation; with the tree-like, feed-forward-only architecture of the cerebellum, neurons from different "branches" don't communicate.
Actually no. Or maybe: yes, but...

My first MPB was one of the "high resolution" ones that ran at 1680x1050 and I loved it. So when I first got my 15" retina MBP was miffed that now it felt like I was running a 1440x900, just with double (well, quadruple) pixel density. So I opened scaling preferences and set it so the retina screen would "emulate" a 1680x1050 display. It was terrible. Blurry and SLOW. Good lord it was slow. And impossible to do any design work on. I went back to normal 2x scale.

So sure, this kind of scaling has been available for a long time but the reality is most people don't scale their MPB retina displays to anything other than 2x.
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I love how these kinds of discoveries challenge, if not out right shatter, our current scientific understanding of human beings.

Again, I recommend Gattaca movie http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119177/

Don't let medical science try to dictate your potential based on gender, race or anything about your DNA. They're only right until they find out they're wrong.
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So basically your argument is that phrenology just wasn't advanced enough yet?
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>It does not necessarily follow that commnist/marxist ideology on its own was the cause of the atrocities.

Nor does it necessarily follow that capitalism on its own is the cause of the problems in the US that were being compared to communist atrocities.
Her experience is the same as mine.

I've had most of my medical care over the last few years done in India. This includes LASIK (34k per eye), a selective nerve root blocker injection (8k) and a micro lumbar discectomy (85k). I expect to have a second discectomy done in the next month (being really tall sucks), provided my condition doesn't worsen and I'm able to fly.

Overall, my experience with India's medical system has been fantastic. I've found clean hospitals (not all of them!), total price was all completely transparent (+/- 10% of quoted price), and the doctors have generally been as good as in the US.

Overall, for anyone needing significant medical work done, I strongly recommend medical tourism.

Also, while you are there, have a custom suit made (particularly if you are really tall, and ordinary clothes don't fit). But be warned - I spent more on my suit than on the root blocker injection.

[edit: numbers in INR. Quick reference: 1 lac INR = 1600 USD. In spite of a few years worth of inflation, I don't expect to spend more than 2k USD on back surgery.]

[edit 2: 1 lac = 100,000.]
Another Hacker News reader recommended in a thread a month or so ago the book series by historian Richard J. Evans on the Third Reich. In the second book in the series, The Third Reich in Power, Evans points out that the Nazis had a law against making jokes about the regime leadership, and many neighbors informed on neighbors to the Gestapo about jokes they heard. But few of those cases were prosecuted, and even people in the Nazi leadership, according to archival records, thought it was important to let people blow off steam about the Nazi leadership.

Yes, what a dictatorial regime most fears is concerted, fearless action, not just talk. Taiwan's largely peaceful transformation to free and fair elections, a free press, and general protection of civil rights came about only after there was an organized opposition (the 黨外 movement) counteracting decades of attempts by the former dictatorship to suppress the development of independent civil society organizations. The eventual transformation in China will most likely take the same form. The regime is trying to delay that transformation.
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> Do you believe that some "phobia" exists?

Do you have the required electron micrograph? How about a cell culture? How about anything about which different, similarly equipped observers can come to a consensus? In other words, how about some science?

> Because current best treatment for phobia is a talkin therapy, which could be applied online.

If you were a scientist, you would realize that anecdotes aren't evidence.
That's a bit hyperbolic, rude and unfair. It's a stupid example, but it's not advocating violence. Maybe a little property destruction. But nothing that would harm a person.

I get his point though. There are expectations you have in using all kinds of things. And it's really not fair for somebody else to usurp that use and then complain when it's not perfectly suited for their unintended use-case.

It's like complaining that bikes don't make good airplanes even though I've jumped my bike thousands of times. When I ride, I'm aware that I'm also not a particularly good automobile and try to plan my route to not end up in circumstances where I might get hurt from a careless driver. It would be the same if I was on a moped or small dirt bike or something.

I used to have this amazingly beat up old van when I was a teenager, and I don't think it could even make 100kph (about 60mph) downhill with a tailwind. So I knew I also shouldn't be bringing it on fast roads because I'd be a menace to everybody else on the road. It just seems like common sense to me.
BTRFS is still maturing. Kernel bugs involving BTRFS are still popping up pretty regularly.
I was thinking of doing something similar (not spreadsheets, but open editable pages). How to do generate the ids?
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Linux Mate is gnome2. I, like you, stuck with an older fedora for a long time, and I'm typing this here now on a F20-Mate install.
Seriously, not everyone is a genius, and not everyone will work to stretch out what they can.

The vast majority of people are just middle of the road.
One common question is, how is this different than any other virtual assistant business?

Firstly, one thing we're conscious of is avoiding being placed in the same bucket as the multitude of sites where you can hire an overseas VA. We want customers to see us as a service that solves their problems, rather than another option for a place to hire a virtual assistant. It shouldn't matter to a customer how we're solving their problems, as long as it's being done well and they're getting their requests completed in a way they're happy with. This may sound like a subtle difference so I'd be curious to hear other people's thoughts on this.

We did some surveys and found that around 50% of Americans over 18 would be willing to pay $10/hour or more to have someone take care of tasks on their to-do list. A very small portion of those people have actually gone out and found a service or even could name one. We're currently targeting those types of people, though we're still figuring out if that's the right approach.

But when it comes to actually comparing Perssist to other options out there:
-Quality at this price point. We hire less than 3% of the VAs that we interview. We've already filtered through mountains of assistants for the customer.
-Accessibility. 24/7 availability, no vacations, no sick days, no disappearing acts
-Flexibility. Some services targeting customers charge by the task rather than by the amount of time it takes. This prevents them from accepting many types of requests (e.g. vacation research), and also encourages their assistants to rush work, leading to lower quality.
According to Arstechnica, developers do not need to port or modify their code. Though Google is manually adding apps to ensure good user experience.
> Would an Indian facility in India treat me for a relatively small amount of money?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-10837726

While there are some good ideas the ruthless efficiency is a bit scary.
> I would be curious to know how it works exactly. Did Google write a port of Dalvik/ART that runs on ChromeOS ?

From what I can gather from the articles, they run in the "App Runtime for Chrome (beta)", which is an Android VM for Native Client.
Not really a computer but some distributed systems already work that way. I've read somewhere that Netflix (might have been Amazon?) is designed in such a way that it's capable of satisfying certain requirements even when services are down.
"App runtime for Chrome..."

floor->add(jaw);

Think about that for a while...
This also reminds me of Hemispherectomy[0] where an entire half of the brain is surgically removed in extreme cases to prevent seizures. And amazingly, especially if you do this on younger children:

"Studies have found no significant long-term effects on memory, personality, or humor,[4] and minimal changes in cognitive function overall."

If you don't _really_ need half of the brain and you don't _really_ need the cerebellum, I wonder how little (and what part) of the brain we actually do _really_ need. And then there are so many people living just fine with lesions in so many parts of the brain.

It's just amazing. Imagine going into our code bases and tearing out entire classes or modules; That wouldn't go down well.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemispherectomy
Just a note: Most often, it is not the doctors' salaries or time that is the major contributor to the cost of surgery. Instead, the ridiculous fees are created by the hospital administrators as a result of a long history of negotiations between insurance providers and hospital admins. Simple parts that cost $0.10 to manufacture will be billed at $20, rooms will be billed at $8000/night, etc.

To my knowledge, most doctors are trying to actively reduce healthcare costs on the end user. They don't see much of the profit, that just lines the coffers of the billion dollar for profit hospitals out there.
I've been using "emoticons" for quite a long time (1980s) and to me :\ means basically what bellerocky described... you might be sad, or you might be happy, but basically you're just kind of confused.

In any case, there may be a generational component to this, or it might even be "regional", though the regions would be more about which forums, etc you hang out on rather than a geographical region.
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What you need is something slightly better than the CONS: the lazy CONS: LCONS.

The LCONS is a binary cell which has an associated function. It begins life in a "promised" state. When the CAR or CDR of a LCONS is accessed for the first time, the LCONS is "forced": the function is called, and stuffs values into the CAR and CDR. Then it is dissociated from the LCONS, which behaves like a CONS after that.

In the Lisp dialect built into the TXR tool, I have conses as well as lazy conses. Lazy conses satisfy the consp function, and behave like conses for most intents and purposes.

Lazy conses give you structures that you can feed to functions that expect ordinary conses. Many of those functions instantly become empowered for lazy processing; suddenly they can handle infinite lists.

For some functions, you can easily provide lazy equivalents. A lazy mapcar returns a lazy list, which applies a function to tuples of other lazy lists.

Add the infinite sequences {0, 1, 2, ...} and {10, 11, 12, ...}, then take the first ten elements of the result:

$ txr -p '[[mapcar* + (range 0) (range 10)] 0..10]'
(10 12 14 16 18 20 22 24 26 28)

If you use regular mapcar, it will hang in a loop up trying to construct the whole list as it fills memory.
> perhaps this is just due to the runtime being very much in active development and not supporting the entire set of Android APIs yet.

Probably this: its in beta, so they are probably working with individual, high-demand apps to assure that they work (and by doing so validate the runtime itself) to manage the scope of potential consumer-facing bugs.
Great read. This just show how evil for-profit medicine really is.

There are no for-profit hospitals in India? From what I've seen from a quick google search, all the best ones are private, for-profit.
Is the picture of the CT scan real or just an illustration? Because I would assume that even if the woman doesn't have a cerebellum the brain should expand to occupy that space.
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Hi HN,

A little background: I'm a 25 year old engineer that is trying to figure out what to do with my life. I currently work in the midwest for a large engineering company as a software developer, but my interests do not align with my work whatsoever and it's safe to say I don't really like my job. I love the people, but the work is extremely tedious and boring. I have 15 months of full-time experience writing embedded systems code, two startups that lasted around 18 months (iOS app) and 8 months(web/iOS app), a little freelance work and a couple of small side projects of my own. I have internship experience (not any huge tech company) and kept a part time job as a sys admin/developer for my university. I am an extremely extroverted person.

With all of that: I, like most of HN, am very much so interested in startups. I have been a part of two in the past (one of which had an interview with YC but didn't get in) and think that I would like to get involved in a new one in the coming months as a job change. However, I don't know that I want to be in an engineering role. My interests lie less in engineering and more in interacting with other employees/people/customers (where I have a lot of talent) and doing product design/management (which I don't have very much real experience in) both of which my engineering background is obviously extremely useful. I have no idea where I fit into the road map of a small company (or really a large one for that matter). So my question to you is, what job am I looking for and how can I best pursue getting it?

I hope this wasn't too vague, if you have any questions feel free to ask.

Thanks for the help,
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So that last paragraph has a link kind of uncalled for.
Thanks for sharing this, hope it gets more traction.
A good academic article on the topic is "Set Up to Fail: How Bosses Create Their Own Poor Performers" by Jean-François Manzoni and Jean-Louis Barsoux. http://www.insead.edu/facultyresearch/research/doc.cfm?did=4...

Abstract: This paper explores how managers behave differently
towards perceived higher and lower performers - and how a manager's
expectations of subordinate performance tend to get acted out by the subordinates. It focuses particularly on the way boss behavior towards "lower performers", while intended to increase performance, often ends up discouraging and alienating these subordinates. The boss and perceived lower performer become entrapped in a vicious circle which is costly for the bosses, the subordinates, team and the wider organization. The paper considers how to recognize such a dynamic and how to break out of the vicious circle.
First world problem, this "too much meritocracy" thing.

It's a good thing. First world problems are good to have, discuss and overcome. "Third world problems" in the internetspeak are those for which the solution is known, but the general culture isn't ready for.
ZFS, and most* other file systems are all about _one_ computer system.

While ZFS data integrity features may be useful, they don't prevent the wide variety of things that can go wrong on a _single_ computer. You still need site redundancy, multiple physical copies, recovery from user errors etc.

Large, modern enterprises are better off keeping data on application layer "filesystems" or databases, since they can more easily aggregate the storage of hundreds or thousands of physical nodes. ZFS doesn't help with anything special here.

For the average home user, ZoL modules are a hassle to maintain. You are better of setting up FeeNAS on a 2nd computer if you really want to use ZFS. Otherwise there is nothing much over what XFS, EXT4 or btrfs can offer.

The 'ssm' set of tools to manage LVM, and other built in file systems, is more easier for home users with regular needs.

GlusterFS and others are distributed file systems, but suffers from additional complexity at the OS and management layer.
This condition is known as cerebellar agenesis. A review of many of the case studies was done by a prominent cerebellum researcher [1]. Typically the individuals that survive past birth live relatively normal lives but with impaired motor skills which are slower to develop. Their abilities are remarkable given that acute lesions to the cerebellum result in much more significant impairments (e.g. not being able to touch your nose with the tip of your finger in one smooth, coordinated movement).

These individuals probably also exhibit diminished cognitive function as well. Only recently has it been recognized that the cerebellum is also involved in cognition [2]. It's interesting to note that you don't need a cerebellum to move or think, but the loss of it impairs both. Contrast this to damage to your motor cortex which can result in paralysis.

[1] Glickstein, M (1994). Cerebellar Agenesis. Brain, 117, 1209-1212.
[2] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23996631
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the built in $http cache isn't at all suitable for what i described.

I do currently use angular-cache (from the author of angular-data) and build on top of that.

I specifically need to invalidate the storage if the user is different, the server generated session id is different or if the app version has changed since the last page load.

this is a service called UserStorage which can safely be used knowing that it gets dumped if somebody tries to mess with the user or they just logged out/in.

the site I built this for is not a single page app, people load pages often. persistence is essential.

the whole site appears to be server side personalized with menus, saved notes added to property listings etc. but its all frontend enhancement and the server can cache all the pages.
The question is: would you be comfortable being treated in India if India had 19th century medical equipment and a 19th century medical practicum? Because that, effectively, is what you are condemning your great grandchildren to.
I tried uploading a computer science research paper from IEEE - detects "capacity" as jargon haha.
It's not quite that simple, but essentially "yes". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDoxReEkHe8
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Great read. This just show how evil for-profit medicine really is.

I think you mean how evil semi-socialized, heavily regulated medicine really is. India's medical system is as close to free market health care as I've ever encountered.

You walk into a hospital, ask the price, pay it. If you don't like the price, you can go to a different hospital and ask them. If you have insurance, you send them the bill afterwards. That's basically it, and most hospitals are for-profit. In my experience, the government hospitals are significantly dirtier than the private ones. Employer sponsored health insurance isn't a big thing. Doctors who won't talk to you without insurance [1] are more or less nonexistent.

Most likely an Indian facility can treat you. The cost is unlikely to be more than 1 or 2 lac (e.g. $3k tops), depending on your condition. Throw in another $1k for the flight + $1k for a decent hotel. If you want to learn more, send me an email.

[1] In the US I'm willing to pay cash for care before treatment, but most doctors won't talk to me. I'm told it attracts undesired regulatory attention.