skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Turns out it DOESN'T change the worst thing about the paperwhite, because it's new buttons PLUS the touchscreen page turning 'zones'. You can't disable touch to turn pages.

Accidental page turns will be as big a disaster as ever.

Big fail at Lab126
Four weeks ago my girlfriend, 32 yo, had a brain stroke because a deep venous thrombosis at her left side of the head. It was intense to see how much she deteriorated in the course of just a few hours, starting with a seizure and some very acute headaches she had together with vomiting the previous days. We were in intensive care around 10 days, and then 3 days more in hospitalization. The investigation of her tendency to hypercoagulate yielded as main culprit sedentarism and the previous uninterrupted usage of oral contraceptives (mercilon) for almost ten years. We were fortunate in some sense as the cause was easy to point out and also as we discarded autoinmuse diaseases (my biggest concern) and now she is under low molecular weight heparin, hoping that the clot is reabsorbed in two or three months.

As part of the recovery, I'm reading to her My Stroke of Hindsight, of Jill Bolte Taylor, and her symptoms and the description of the episode of the acute phase match largely: speech loss, paralysys of her right part of the body and rational disconnect with external stimuli.

This article highlights also how sensible we are to the changes of what we are at the end: physicochemical interactions. I was worried my girlfriend would lose her essence, but thanks to God her recovery has been amazing so far.
,8,1 was for loading stuff from disks IIRC.
> For example, egg protein is different than soy protein. If you switch from the former to the latter while keeping everything the same, you will notice a difference.

Do you have a citation for this? For what it's worth, I avoid soy products in general because of concerns about hormonal effects, but I'm not quite up on the state-of-the-art in terms of the research.
Why? The conclusion is always the same. I'm genuinely curious as to what these "other reasons" are.
Yes, I was disappointed. The title implies genetics rather than environment.

Which is an interesting question. The fact people can learn fear is not very interesting.

I feel snakes for instance are a genetic fear. Large animals fear them, which makes no sense unless they are personally bitten and learn.

Although perhaps enough in a herd get bitten to teach the others.
It would be nice if articles like this didn't attack a strawman: Most people who think that eating less and exercising more can help obesity don't think that 100% of obesity is caused by laziness.
Hey I fully agree with your overall point. If you don't eat more than you need in calories, you won't gain weight. Simple as that.

I did have an objection regarding egg protein v.s. soy protein - perhaps you meant impurities etc. If you are feeding them protein, and protein only, you won't notice a difference. Proteins = amino acids. Egg protein is the same thing as soy protein, which is the same thing as "meat" protein.. All of life uses the same set of amino acids, which are made according to the blueprint in genes (i.e. DNA), using essentially the same genetic code. It's literally the same physical thing.
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The NHS run a great advertising campaign on this. Here's one of their adverts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KG_2OEH8UM&list=UUoFX8yfaEw...
Not sure why @rodcul tweeted (and submitted) this -- or why it was up-voted -- his tweet links to an out-of-print publication on Amazon from...1978, i.e. 36 years ago.

And, to be clear, there wasn't any kidnapping -- the author of the publication that @rodcul links to -- Robin Broad [0] -- has an article (from 1980), "Our Children Are Being Kidnapped" [1] which would appear to cover similar ground (the title is the same as that of the linked publication on Amazon). And it's clear from the article that the kidnapping thing is the rural equivalent of an urban legend:

The people of Bukidnon are talking. They whisper their stories to me--in jeepneys riding, in rivers bathing, in fields plowing. One story is repeated time and time again. it becomes their theme: "Our children are being kidnapped," they say.

"Each night during the full moon, some disappear".

Why? Supposedly because corporations building bridges have killed mermaids or perhaps because they've built buildings disturbing the tree spirits or Imelda Marcos angered the mermaids. The nature-gods demand sacrifices. Really -- Broad says she was told all of these things by different people.

"Is the tale true? On a literal level, perhaps not. But on a mythical level, undoubtedly so. The people of Bukidnon are wise. They see what is occurring around them. They see the destructions the corporations leave in their wake--the ecological and human damage. They see the tremendous costs associated with this form of development. They see the hard to their land, to their families, to their whole way of life.

The stories that follow, about land-theft and the like, are unpleasant, but are not about kidnapping children. And...they are from decades ago. Is there any reason to think these are still issues today? (From what I can tell, looking quickly, Google does not appear to think so).

[0] https://www.american.edu/sis/faculty/rbroad.cfm

[1] https://www.american.edu/sis/faculty/upload/our-children-are...

(A PDF of the entire issue of the journal with this article can be found here:

http://criticalasianstudies.org/assets/files/bcas/v12n03.pdf )
Same as what everybody else is saying. Solid SDK, but downtime is a major issue. Worse, some partial downtime scenarios or bugs get next to no attention for days. It may not be a "site down" situation, but it may be critical for your app. And yes, documentation is extremely sparse, with few real world examples if any.
Yes, all those <form post/> base games were soooo much fun.
That isn't how these questions work.
A former friend blocked me: what I learned about myself First
Why associate natural with organic? Natural is utterly meaningless label marketing while Organic (USDA) and Non-GMO are actual certifications that have requirements, the latter of which is more trustworthy. There is absolutely a scientific basis behind them, and that is that there is a lack of transgenic crops in the ingredients.
CARDIAC simulator in JavaScript
The C-64 booted into Microsoft Basic by default. The ",8,1" was part of the LOAD command. 8 is the number of the device, 1 tells Basic to load the program to the address where it was originally saved from.

It was contemporary to the original Nintendo. The NES even used a CPU that was based on the C-64/VIC-20 6502 CPU. The 6502 was designed by MOS Technology (a Commodore company).
This is as uninformed as it is vigorously stated.

Different foods have different amino acid profiles, meaning that the amount of each amino acid varies, in some cases considerably, from food to food. Some amino acids the body can make itself; others can be gotten only from food. As ever, Wikipedia has a good starting point[0].

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essential_amino_acid
In the smaller startup I worked in, there was already a formal hierarchy. We had a VP of Engineering, two lead engineers, and what amounted to a QA lead and a data architect. And all engineers worked mostly in their own areas of responsibility and expertise.

The difference was that most of these senior people did quite a bit of grunt work that in a larger organization would have been delegated. The VP did a lot of program manager work and the leads did a lot of design and development, since they only had a couple of subordinates each.

But because the roles and hierarchies were established, it was usually clear whose responsibility it was to make any particular decision. We had on paper a formal organization suitable for a much larger team. We could have telescoped out to three times the number of engineers without adding any more senior people; the leads and VP would just have spent more time on leadership duties and less on direct implementation. I suspect the presence of the formal hierarchy was why the organization felt very mature.

Are things different in other companies of the same size?
There's physlock[0] as well, as vlock (apparently) has some limitations according to physlock(1):

physlock is an alternative to vlock, it is equivalent to `vlock -an'.
It is written because vlock blocks some linux kernel mechanisms like
hibernate and suspend and can therefore only be used with some limita‐
tions.

I can't attest to this as I've only used vlock, so correct me if I'm wrong.

[0] http://github.com/muennich/physlock
If you could direct some improvements to our docs, where would they be?
It's not a mystery to me: OpenGL is a scene description API, not a real-time graphics API. It comes from the environment where frame times under 5 seconds (not milliseconds, 12 frames per minute) are considered real-time and the compatibility is much more important than performance. Apple was the only ARB member that had been pushing for the OpenGL to become game-grade real-time mainly due to lack of any other real-time 3d graphics API on their platforms (both Mac and iOS), which is not the case any more as Apple is pushing its own API now.
This is where the article pulls that quote from I believe [1]:

> Herman cited a consumer survey suggesting that after an air-conditioning breakdown, restaurant sales drop dramatically.

Which refers to this paper [2], it references this survey to support some conclusions in the paper.

> This literature has been supplemented by a survey designed specifically for this chapter (consumer survey, University of Toronto, unpublished data, 1991). Because of the anticipation that the scientific literature, especially on humans, might be skimpy, a questionnaire was sent to a number of restaurant and grocery chains in the metropolitan Toronto area asking about shifts in customer purchasing behavior as a function of environmental heat. This survey is by no means scientific, but it reflects the accumulated experience of merchants whose livelihood depends to some extent on accurately assessing how people's food purchases vary with the heat.

> More parochially, one Toronto restaurateur (unpublished data from consumer survey, 1991) conceded that "sales plunge during a heat wave .... People do not have the appetite for a large heavy meal when it is hot."

So not that much of a study...

[1] http://www.nature.com/ijo/journal/v30/n11/full/0803326a.html...

[2] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK236229/
Most folks will be unfamiliar with this, but back in the way back times Bell Labs sold or gave away a small cardboard kit to educators to help them teach computation to students. They called it "A CARDboard Illustration Aid to Computation" or CARDIAC. Described on the Wikipedia page here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CARDboard_Illustrative_Aid_to_C... it had a wonderful manual that came with it. This is one of the nicer simulators for it.
Or glide/dive from a high altitude?
Michael Pettis is one of the smartest guys alive covering China - well worth a read. Though I wonder if he thinks the demand-side issues are truly fixable in any systematic sort of way (ie, he doesn't seem like a Scott Sumner type) - can we shift the basic nature of an economy?
Cool sideways bike
s/This would wonderfully/This works wonderfully/
It's useful to detect problems not prevent them. One of the symptoms of interracial pressure, a significant risk with head injury, is drowsiness. But, other symptoms are also fairly easy to detect in a responsive patent. However, in cases of significant head injury this can be directly monitored allowing the patent to sleep.

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/000793.htm

PS: From you link "If the person who is injured is awake and holding a conversation, you can let him or her fall asleep as long as they are not developing any other symptoms such as dilated pupils or issues with walking. "
It almost always means "bugs blocking release" in my experience. Usually the sentence I quoted is developer speak for "it's framed out, and the core functionality has been shown to work under this scheme," or "all of the known-to-be-risky stuff is done and all that's left is tedium," or perhaps some cross between the two.

It's not malicious. You could argue it's negligent, but I would only agree with that assessment if the Dev in question doesn't include the "it just has some bugs that need fixing" bit and is attempting to see what he/she can squeak by QA because he/she doesn't want to work on that thing anymore.

Otherwise it just reflects the difference in focus between writing code and building a product.
Yes, and anyone should be able to hold their breath for 3 minutes. Oh wait, that's hard? Is it possible there is a strong biological drive that makes it difficult? So does that mean these drives affect our behavior? Imagine there was a similar drive for food. Let's call it "hunger." If such a drive existed, it is conceivable it would vary from person to person, and things would be more complicated than "a calorie is a calorie" because there's this whole strong drive drive influencing things. What if other factors could mess with the strength of this drive?

Thank goodness this is all hypothetical, otherwise "a calorie is a calorie" might be just a meaningless platitude.
The most important thing about staying awake is that a more complete neurological exam can be performed. There's always ways to wake someone up, but the unfortunate part is that any treatment may alter the results of neuro tests
I really hope the above was not downvoted due to you guys taking mentioned amounts of aspirin every day :)
I can guarantee if she had voiced any of the things she wrote here it would've immediately been recognized by any competent medical practitioner
Over the past couple years I've been building little libraries in ruby for a boxing simulator I plan to make some day. I've already built the name generator, region generator, coordinate system for the ring movement, json file db, etc.

The problem I've had is figuring out where I bring this all together, I've debated making it web enabled, standalone app, etc. I think I might just use this library and make it CLI based, the table library makes things really interesting for managing stats and events- I actually have a pretty strong use case for this to all be plugin based. I'd love to have my little sim running in a terminal window while I'm hacking on my web projects.

Anyway, very cool stuff, I will be investigating much deeper very soon!
I think we should revisit the meaning of the word "democratic."
Yes.. and there was a very similar command (,8,0 maybe?) that instead formatted the disk. In my case, the disk contained several of my first programs.

Several years later, not having learned my lesson, I tried out the fdisk command on my win98 machine. It apparently worked as advertised.
The great thing about the Commodore 64 and the Amiga was that they were gateway drugs into producing your own stuff.

The Commodore 64 was really neat for those simple BASIC text input parsing games, I did do a text adventure a few times and that was great fun. Even went as far that I had a song playing in the intro and a sprite moving. Wow! Now I am still doing some stuff on it and maybe I'll fulfil that dream of creating a real sideway scrolling platform game for it.

Though I only realised yesterday that the CU Amiga 016 cover disk actually contained a copy for Pro Tracker 2 as well (where I started later with FastTracker II on the PC and I was totally hooked since then to making music), I did do a lot of graphics with it and made some bad games with SEUCK. But I never programmed anything with it, I guess the lack of default programming environment, preferably one you booted straight into was the cause of that.
Capacity to "put in effort" varies, for person to person and task to task. And trying to do the same thing and expecting a different result is obviously crazy. For most (myself included) it is sufficient to be educated in diet and exercise and have access to simple healthy foods. But not everyone's brains are wired the same way.

You won't fix that minority of people no matter how often you shame them or say it is their fault. You need a different tool, be that professional counseling, restricted environments where they cannot access their drugs in the doses they desire, gastric bypass surgery, or, in many cases, simply accepting that they will lead uncomfortable lives and die early.
Medieval Selfies
Show HN: A generic memory and disk cache in Swift
Yes, but with some nuances, each has differing amounts of the various amino acids. That said, soy stands up well to egg as a source of essential (and non-essential) aminos.
Why do bubbles in Guinness sink?
A trend that started with Algol 68, followed by Mesa/Cedar at Xerox PARC, Modula-2+ at DEC Systems Research Center, Modula-3 at Olivetti Research Center, Oberon at Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Sing# at Microsoft Research.

Still, no one seems to listening.
Excellent article. This paragraph strikes me as a bit odd though:

> When you aren't your own master, the rest of the personhood contract breaks down. This is true, but to a lesser extent, among e.g. husbands who are "whipped" by their wives. A group of men who want to stay out late playing poker can't reason with their whipped buddy; all of their reasons fall on deaf ears. And thus he loses a bit of personhood within that community.

Wouldn't the more obvious example be wives who are "whipped" by their husbands? And wouldn't that example be better at explaining why in most societies, women feel like they're only half a person?
This was created as part of Realm's Summer of Swift and presented last friday at NSSpain. It might very well be the first implementation of a generic cache in Swift.

Feedback and contributions are more than welcome!
Microblogging – Taking control over your content
It is entirely unclear to me how they 'pick' what are the things they put into the feed. I have wondered if the initial decision to stop doing live coverage of launches was to enable more operational stuff to be done "live" but hard to know.

One of the more interesting parts of the ULA discussion of on orbit refueling capacity was how you might "settle" the tanks. Gravity does that wonderfully, and of course while you're accelerating you have it covered, but when you want to 'restart' you are in a microG environment and the fuel might not be at the end of the tank where you want it. Simple pressurization doesn't help, the fluid gets evenly distributed in the volume. Not much help. A fuel bladder might work but you'd something that was very light and compressed well. I also discussed with one of the ULA folks a movable "piston" on one end of the tank. Basically do it like a pneumatic cylinder without the rod, You just pushed it to the other end. He pointed out that there aren't any pneumatics that work with hydrogen. It is just too "small" a molecule for wall seal to hold. That leaves things like spinning to create a centripetal 'hold' on the fuel with a narrower 'top' than bottom so that an axially spinning tank will accumulate fuel to the bottom. Ok for payloads, not great for astronauts though.
Japanese Company Plans Space Elevator by 2050
Having used XEmacs for a very long time, I recently tried switching to GNU Emacs just to gain access to one particular Emacs-only feature that seemed supremely useful to me. I spent a couple of days hacking my .emacs file to get GNU Emacs configured more less the same as my XEmacs config, but even then things weren't quite the same. In the end, the "one feature" proved not to be as useful as I thought it would be, and I went back to XEmacs. Reason: call it a combination of my old habits and the silly but nigglingly painful differences between the two.
I do have health insurance but it only covers around 47% of my medical costs (at least when I go for a primary care visit, I suspect they might even cover less for a more expensive procedure).

I understand that my coverage is not all that common, although most providers do an 80/20 split. So for a procedure costing $100k (an ambulance ride and a few nights in the hospital would easily run this high) you'd have to pay $20k out of pocket.
Workflow: Powerful automation for iOS
Why I'm sick to death of being a woman in tech
This brings back fond memories for me. I was only young, but I remember fighting to get some TV time with the Commodore 64 (considering it connected to your TV). The one game I absolutely loved was Ivan 'Ironman' Stewart's Super Off Road. I played this game repeatedly, I still remember the noise of the tape deck playing the game. I wish I kept my C64, I would probably still play it if I did.

I don't think it really matters how many units the C64 sold, it was a great computer and the first computer I can remember using. It was this computer that made me become a developer, I remember thinking as a kid how exciting it was and how I wanted to work in computers when I grew up (most kids my age wanted to be police or firemen).
> A ton of people have been able to successfully lose weight by paying attention to what and how much they eat. Go to any bodybuilding forum on the Internet and look at before-and-after photos and read accounts of how the transformation was accomplished. It really, really isn't rocket science.

Survivorship bias. We have no sense of how many failed using the same methodology. The incentives to post results are biased heavily toward the successful end of the spectrum, for both internal and social incentives. More cognitive science, less rocket science.
Perhaps the author was writing that taking into mind the audience and what they might more easily relate to.
It is how logic works.
How does Tim cook's donation matching program make his employee quit
From the blog post, I think the point isn't that developers need to learn differently. Their contention is that developers need to unlearn some of the things that make us good at what we do. For example, as developers, we're trained to think about the data model first which leads to scalable architectures, well-structured code and UIs that are little more than CRUD interfaces. The blog post lists a few other developer tendencies that sabotage our designs.
Mmm... pound of cure.
Please discuss it with a doctor first if you're considering continuing to do so.

My father ended up in the hospital with internal bleeding after he decided to start taking low dose aspirin on a whim because "it's good for heart health". I just straight up don't have it in my home because the last time I did, it predictably didn't work well because I was on prednisone and checking every little interaction gets tedious. Taking more than you need to of most things is kind of pointless.

Outside of this particular cause, you can live a healthy lifestyle to help prevent/control hypertension, diabetes, high cholesterol, and other problems that can increase your risk for stroke. There's a lot of ways to get sick or die - no point in stressing too much about one particular problem that is otherwise out of your control.
Tim Cook Q&A: The Full Interview on iPhone 6 and the Apple Watch
When I was younger, I always felt like Moogs were expensive, maybe even overpriced. Last year, I was in Asheville, NC for the Mountain Oasis Electronic Music Festival, and took the opportunity to tour their factory, which by no coincidence is in that same town.

It really changed my perspective on things. There are a couple dozen people there who design, assemble, inspect and repair everything right there in that little shop. Sure, you can get a reproduction Korg MS-20 for $600, but there was something charming about seeing exactly who puts together a Moog Voyager or Sub 37 - the latter of which I pre-ordered this year, and I never pre-order anything.

It's well worth seeing if you're ever in Asheville - but the tour is typically only open during the week, during regular business hours.
,8,0 would load from device 8 to memory location 2048.
I think formatting was done with the OPEN command.