skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Imagine an oncologist saying, "Yes, you have cancer, but I have a Website with some pictures and words, that will fix you right up." This isn't likely, because, unlike a psychological condition, cancer is a real disease.

Oncologists do say "you have cancer, I have a website with words and pictures on". CBT is used with cancer patients to manage their pain.
Why do we love repetition in music?
Thanks! I haven't looked into Chromecast yet, but I agree it would be a good idea.

Don't tell anyone, but at the moment you can pick the party URL by changing the id parameter in the URL after clicking start party... Though it is definitely something I'm considering adding official support for.
Tim Cook has a company with a decades long track record of successes behind.

A startup, by definition, does not.
Given the issues encountered it would make sense to split this into two passes: 1. identify files with bad blocks and log; 2. do the block-level copy. The disadvantages of file-level copy weigh heavier than the doing this in a single step.
Making new ids every now and then is strange

Cycling through IDs online seems like a great way to prevent stuff from haunting you later. It's hard to predict what will turn out to be embarrassing or can cost you your job later.

In theory, you would need to be very careful to prevent a determined adversary from chaining those IDs together and back to you. In practice, it seems unlikely that anyone would be that determined.
So you're happy to use mental illnes to stigmatise and discriminate against people, but you dismiss it as nonsense when people seek treatment?

Another example of you using mental health diagnosis in a stigmatisig way: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8250828#up_8251567
When Steve Jobs returned to Apple as CEO, he found a lot of variations of Mac getting developed. There was Mac for this, Mac for that, separate Mac for everything. He asked one question to the people developing, “If I had to buy one for my nephew, what would you recommend me?”

He got several options. Then he asked, “If I had to buy one for my nephew, what would you suggest from the ones you just suggested?” He got more fine-tuned answer.

He kept asking this question until a lot of the variations were rejected. Then he went up to the board and drew a 2x2 matrix. On one axis, he wrote, “Personal” and “Professional”. On another axis, he wrote, “Desktop” and “Portable”. He concluded that Apple would make only four variations of Mac, and they would shut down development of every other variation.

Steve always went for 'less'. While current leadership released 2 versions of phones, many versions of the iWatch, Steve always wanted the company to focus of a subset of users.

The simple flaw in present Apple's mindset is 'lack of focus'.

First time ever, I am disappointed by the Apple. And yes, Steve would have fired every 10th person for the glitch in the live stream and the Chinese woman.
Ok for the multiple user support. I didn't think about that. However http://www.engadget.com/2014/08/06/android-smartphones-are-a...

Furthermore if the phone is as large as the tablet maybe your tablet is your phone or viceversa. There are tablets that can make phone calls with regular phone SIM cards. Example: the Galaxy Tab 3 which starts at 7". I've seen people doing that without a earpiece. An odd sight.
You should try Haskell for size before complaining about Rust. IMHO, it's really a matter of taste, and something which most people get over with quickly if they find it an issue. Actual semantics are much more important than a small number of language keywords. Libraries, on the other hand, should definitely use easy-to-understand symbols.
The rise of the jargonist or “how to leverage toss”
Equilibrium: A chaos simulation
How is Ambit 2S at monitoring HR in water? Don't you need the strap for this?
Man whose entire business at risk from Apple's new design says design is rubbish.
https://github.com/wcchandler/swamp

swamp - super web app monster pinger.

it's slow in the making. main things i focused on was ease of use and quickness to deploy. it's designed to be a quick and easy way to monitor a bunch of stuff via ping or port checks.
How much money would that be precisely?
People are entertaining themselves more!
Since there are already x86 emulators in JavaScript, surely Google could implement an ARM emulator running Linux and the Android NDK stack in (P)NaCl? :)
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Life Extension Factor Klotho Enhances Cognition [pdf]
I don't think anyone is anywhere close to "understanding perfectly how the brain works".
What do you find wrong about variable declaration and type annotation? Most variable declarations are like 'let foo = ' with the type auto-inferred. I admit that the diamond notation for type parameters is a bit aggravating, but it's not the end of the world. On the other hand, the little rust I've seen had a large number of as_slice() calls...
As others have commented, it's not necessary.

If you wrote cp in such a way that it's a reusable C library that other programs might use, then I can understand why they do this. It still doesn't make much sense for the command-line version to call this. Of course, it might run on some weird platform where the OS doesn't reclaim the memory of a process on exit(?).
> It could be ... Ξ

Thank you.

Somewhere, a transliteration vim plugin is struggling to escape. Based on user preferences it will display:

def Σ():
print("LOL WUT?")

Σ()

-or-

define sum():
print("LOL WUT?")

sum()

-or-

Ξ Σ
⍋("LOL WUT?")

Σ

-or even-

IDENTIFICATION DIVISION.
PROGRAM-ID. Abomination.

PROCEDURE DIVISION.
DisplaySummary.
DISPLAY "LOL WUT".
STOP RUN.
Sex and back pain
Before reading that I mentally added 'in google cloud platform credit' to the title and I'm really not surprised that that's how it is.

So, this is more likely $30K worth of costs to google rather than what you get for it and once you're on that stuff and need to scale the lock-in you'll experience is going to be worth a lot more than that $100K to you.

Remember how people get started on crack, the first pipe is always free.
The US and Israel now have what the Nazis could only dream about.
Yeah? I'd just refuse to pay, what are they going to do - publicize it?
I did see a documentary about some young girl with a brain problem. I can't remember exactly (severe form of epilepsy?), but they wanted to do something pretty severe to her brain, and do it within the first year, as it still had the neuro-plasticity to recover at that stage.
Are you aware that this is not a new idea and that are already a lot of these services running out there?
Lately, as I hear of extremely-cool startups being acquired by Google, I feel rather sad. I would much rather see them succeed on their own, than disappear into the belly of Google. And I really can't see how Google, which is an advertising company, can bring value to this acquisition.
https://nachapp.com

Personal goal-setting / task management platform which is more in-depth and feautre rich than the typical to-do list app. Unlimited hierarchies, analytics, email/SMS reminders, etc.
I would like something that broke out of the standard CV model.
Philip Wadler: Monads, Arrows, and Idioms
Too bad that I don´t have it.

It you have a 23andme.com account, you can check it by browsing your genetic raw data and searching for SNP rs9536314.

TT is the normal one. I got this one.

GT is the one this article talks about.
Wouldn't it somehow have to keep about the same data as cp for preserving hard links?
I expect that it'd be difficult to find any major region in the entire history of the world with 60 years without war.

Hell, I wouldn't be surprised if that was even built in to humans on a sociological level. The recurring need for sword/spear/arrow/cannon fodder has been a socially acceptable way to prevent accumulation of an excess of (male) population. As soon as there are too many disgruntled people, those in power start to worry. Sending this cumbersome segment of population off to be killed has been, historically, a perfectly valid way to deal with the problem. (It has also provided a very convenient way to direct attention away from domestic problems.)

Nature shows the same tendency. When a local population of a species grows too great, lack of resources forces some of them to migrate outside their "normal" region. The inhabitants of the regions under invasion fight back, and eventually things return to an equilibrium.
This is awesome!

Here in Brazil internet on mobile is expensive and limited, and the SMS is easily found free and unlimited. This project can potentially improve mobile Internet here.

Remember me the Opera Mobile case that was largely used in Africa where 3G was too much expensive. I remember to saw in some news that Opera brought digital inclusion to many African countries with their browser that basically shrink the requested pages at server side before sending to the phone.

I don`t know about the speed and reliability, but at least, it would be a option.
The Chinese woman?
Brilliant. progrium is really good at identifying the single purpose components out of that ecosystem.
It would be useful if the guide folded the Unix/Windows examples up into a single view (something like what the Spark docs do: https://spark.apache.org/docs/latest/quick-start.html#Basics)

And then, perhaps, used some platform detection to display the more appropriate form by default.

That way less space is used up by the parallel examples.
Lol. Yes and garbage collection.

Funnily enough I'm now at the stage where certain German expressions and mannerisms have started to surplant my native British English ones. Germans often have one word for something where in English you need a whole sentence. Somehow these words creep into your vocabulary and merge across the language boundaries.
From the canonical source of all questions fitness watch related: http://www.dcrainmaker.com/2013/04/suunto-ambit2-review.html

> Note that the ANT and ANT+ transmission protocols that the Ambit2 utilizes to transmit heart rate don’t transmit well underwater (about 1-2”), thus, you won’t get any heart rate data.

I believe Polar's ultrasonic sound transmission is still the only one which works reliably underwater.
Essential Sketch Plugins for Web Design
Becoming a Security Culture Practitioner
Are there any pills that contain this factor ?
Crack? WTF?! All cloud platforms come with some level of inherent lockin.

As for pricing they are AFAIK the only platform committed to always lower costs to match the cost of computing: https://cloud.google.com/pricing/

Not to mention that this deal includes: "24/7 support, and access to our technical solutions team."
Building Bytengine https://github.com/johnwilson/bytengine in my spare time. Started out as a back end for a DMS but it made sense later to develop it to be a CMS repository.

I initially wrote it in python but when I needed to write a query language and saw Rob Pike's talk on a lever for the Go template language, I rewrote it in Go. It was/is a good way to learn Go!

It borrows a few ideas from couchdb and mongodb and I'm in the process of changing the architecture so it can use other storage engines such as rethinkdb or tiedot for the json docs and couchdb for the BLOBs.
I've experienced it occasionally. More often, I've (at least had the impression that I've) solved it in the night, been aware of solving it, and then forgotten the solution by morning.
The Need of New Robust Security Systems
I don’t know in which categories this post of mine falls .But I am writing and sharing some links with the gentle peoples present here in this community.

Yesterday, I read a news article that was saying that around 4.9 million Gmail accounts have been compromised. According to the report, the data has been compromised from websites where a user used his Google account to signup. That reminded me to have robust security system for our online account.

Few months back, I think in Feb’14, I found a patent application filed by Sony that is about website security. The patent application’s features are mentioned in the link I have provided below. Just read that and you will know that the tech is really impressive.

What is perplexing for me is that the patent was filed in 2011 and it get published in USPTO in Mar-2013, but still it has not been implemented anywhere.

Similarly, another patent application of Sony mentions about expression and gesture based security system. It alleviates the need of remembering a password again. It is combining facial recognition, voice recognition, facial expressions, gestures, and IR sensing.

In short, I can say that you can login into your computer or can enter into your office by smiling in front of the camera. Here is the link to that post –

http://greybmusings.wordpress.com/2014/06/03/sony-forget-passwords-and-now-smile-to-unlock-your-smartphone/
http://greybmusings.wordpress.com/2014/05/20/sony-access-your-email-account-without-entering-your-password/

P.S. -> the content of the links is written by me after studying the patent. I tried to avoid jargons so that a less tech savvy person can get what is the main theme of the post. Spill the beans and share your thought on comment box.
RadioShack says it’s on brink of bankruptcy
Only the block where the byte resides. A block is typically 512b to 4096b. (So it's not that unlike a normal drive, where you also have to rewrite an entire sector even if just a byte changed)

Venti doesn't know about files, it only knows about blocks of data. It's a key/value store where the key is sha-1 and the value is a block(blob) of data.

The filesystem running on top of Venti will ask Venti to store the new block where you changed the byte and the filesystem will update the metadata that assembles all blocks to a file.
I haven't used LetsLunch in years but the last time I did it was random pairing. You couldn't actually decide who to meet although you could submit who you'd be interested in and what general areas of interest were. If they changed that aspect then it sounds like you're building the original LetsLunch concept.
But before that, does having a PCI-E tunnel mean that you have to turn off the USB protocol? Or can you use both at the same time? How many pins are necessary to transmit a basic (no power, just data) PCI-E 1x? And 4x, which would be the minimum viable for gaming? I'm interested to know more about this PCI-E tunnel thing.
One app the HN crowd may not be so aware of is UC Browser.

UC Browser aggressively optimises for page size by cutting out javascript and sending out only 10 kb segments at a time.

I owned an old Nokia feature phone and used to browse the internet all the time almost as if I had a smartphone with a good internet connection.

On slow 2G connections here in India UC Browser can be a god send.

But there are privacy risks.
Wow, it's not every day I hear about a filesystem feature that Windows has and Linux doesn't. (On a recent windows system: fsutil hardlink list <path> -- you can try any random exe or DLL in system32 for an example of a hard link.)

I forget what the api for that looks like if I ever knew. Might be private.

I am surprised, usually Linux is way ahead of Windows on shiny filesystem stuff.
not a dead language.. greek language is still alive
and indeed it sounds like "born without a cerebellum"
(but to be fair the syntax reminds of medical term)
https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/smartass-the-wacky-brain-gam...

My friend and i have been working on this for 18 months, contending with family and our day to day job, it's been a bit of struggle to finish it. Just released a week or two ago, still working on polishing the website (outsourced but that was a disaster), and video. Once that's done we're going to do marketing a litte more aggressively. I'm currerntly working on an android port.

edit: Forgot video link: http://youtu.be/DW6TWF1_QUE
Ask HN: How long can you code before got stuck and start googling?
Is this a good trend? I mean, there's too much knowledge to pick up, technologies are changing too fast, and you can find good enough solutions for problems in google, so why bother solving it on your own?

I'm wondering to get into something algorithmic stuff just for kicks to ease my greed for REAL programming :)
Also, no more external power required for external 3.5" HDD! It can provide 12V.
I've been looking at Elixir more and more over the last few weeks since it seems to incorporate many of the things I find lacking in Python. So far the only real hurdle was that I found the introduction text a little obtuse when it came to Mix and OTP (I'm often slow to get through introductory guides, since I'm a learn-by-doing person).

Would love to hear from other people who have come from a JavaScript / Python heavy background what their experience has been with the language. Or from people who do web development in general if they feel its a good fit.
The later versions let you bundle multiple channels (at n times the cost) to reach 57 kbps http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Speed_Circuit-Switched_Dat...
Heroku Ghost JavaScript example config file
Dig up that tax report 5 years ago you accidentally did wrong. Unofficially point the MAFIAA towards the fact that your kid pirated few songs and a movie last month. Or find something else entirely. You'll end up in jail or with no money for reasons (on the surface) completely unrelated to the case.
'schadenfreude'.
> Honestly, I'm terribly confused why all filesystems haven't
been broken into these two easily-separable layers. Is it
just inertia

They are. Pretty much all operating systems provides a block layer, on top of which filesystems are normally layered.

Though the block layer isn't content addressed, it's just indexed (store block number 55, read block number 9. etc.)
I personally still consider XFS a very mature and reliable filesystem. Both in terms of utility programs and kernel implementation. If I remember correctly, it was ported to linux from SGI/Irix where it was used for decades. It also was the default fs for RedHat/centos for a long time, so it might still have stuck at many shops.

Heres my anecdotal datapoint on which I base my personal believe:

From about 10-6 years ago, when I was doing sysadmin-work at university building storage-systems from commodity parts for experimental bulk data, we first had a load of not-reliably working early raid/sata(?) adapters, and those made ext3 and reiserfs (I think...) oops the kernel when the on-disk structure went bad. Whereas XFS just put a "XFS: remounted FS readonly due to errors" in the kernel logfile. That experience made XFS my default filesystem up to recently when I started to switch to btrfs. (of course, we fixed the hardware-errors, too... :-) )

Also, from that time, I got to use xfsdump/xfsrestore for backups and storage of fs-images which not even once failed on me.
As ifixit included Ars' update in their teardown, there is no need to switch back.
Oh wow, I'm back in 1994!
I do not like how Israel is always portrayed as some thug that is pulling the strings. Israel is a small satellite state of the US in a very important region, therefore Israel is very important to the US in realizing its goals to dominate this region.

Also, the comparison with Nazi Germany is wrong. The US does not have any racial ideology, it wants to dominate economically and militarily, not destroy if it doesn't have to.

A government that is fascist doesn't mean automatically that it has any policies towards certain races. It just means that it gradually removes freedoms of its citizens in every sphere to excert greater control over its population.

The only reason that muslims are victimized on this scale is that mostly muslims live in that region. If the region was mostly habitated by a buddhist or jewish population that isn't compliant with US demands, then buddhists or jews would be the victims.
How a determined scientist taught an ancient species to migrate again (2013)
If it's changing? You'd snapshot (assuming either LVM or BtrFS) then rsync of the snapshot.
They already have an ARM emulator: The Android emulator. Those who have suffered through it's excruciating performance presumably wouldn't wish that on their worst enemy..
Startup Funding in Africa
Buzzing in My Ears
Show HN: Finance Jobs – Jobs Board for the Finance Industry
The CEO of a global firm did get put in prison in the telecommunications version of this sordid story - Joseph Nacchio of Qwest (a phone company that was driven into bankruptcy for refusing to play the NSA's game). All the Serious People just agreed that this was entirely normal and OK.

(See http://www.businessinsider.com/the-story-of-joseph-nacchio-a... for details if you haven't already heard about it. The "illegal stock trading" was selling shares in his own company while knowing about classified business with the NSA itself - which they deemed insider trading after they had a reason to punish him.)
I dont know much, but I REMEMBER the finger gesture of Linus or
the LINUX founder about no no vidia and the big hassles on
no no vidia drivers for BSD and FreeBSD.
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The iPod is a great counter-example: there have been times Apple was selling 4 different lines of iPod at a time, most of which came in an array of colors. The apple watch basically comes in two sizes with an array of 'colors' (metals) and watchbands.

The difference between that and the history is that each iPod has a clear niche. The problem Apple was having with such a selection of products is that it was hard to figure out which one should be purchased as they didn't have clear, differentiating roles.
It had to happen one day. My second (unpaid) saturday job was at a RS (called Tandy here in Europe) in Amsterdam-North. The quality of the stuff was appalling, the service worse. And every now and then they had some good stuff too but the brands ('realistic', 'micronta' etc) were so tainted that you only went to Tandy if everybody else sold you 'no'.

The mix of consumer electronics, toys, party gear and components and test stuff (and later computers) didn't really help with focus and training sales people either.

Their redeeming feature for me was the fact that at that time it was the only place where I could access microcomputers and the traffic to the store was low enough that I taught myself programming when there were no customers. For me that was payment.

When they pulled out from Europe it was totally disgraceful. One day they had a whole bunch of stores and people were still turning in equipment for warranty or service, the next day all the stores were shuttered and the gear had disappeared. Incredibly rude. They also left a ton of unpaid bills and wages. Somewhere in Nanine in Belgium there was a warehouse full of inventory and this got seized by the creditors.
The author of the post here. It seems Steele might be vindicated at the end, not on the technical level but on the social level: get rid of cons, and all the mental assumptions coming with it, for truly parallel solid data structures and algorithms that would go with them.