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Actually I thought this is going to be one of these cases where people update their Twitter status before calling for help[1]. I'm glad it wasn't.

1. http://scitech.blogs.cnn.com/2009/09/08/trapped-girls-update...
American slaves in 1850 were much better off than American slaves in 1650. Should we acknowledge what great things slavery did for black people in the U.S.? Do you see why your argument is worthless?
No, I don't get what yummyfajitas is getting from his own sources. The Oregon experiment article he linked to stated, verbatim, that 25% more people reported themselves healthier thanks to increased health coverage, and 10% better mental health. Yet he is using this link to claim better health insurance does nothing for poor people.

Also, using a pre-2008 crisis census report to argue that everything is fine today is extremely intellectually disingenuous. It's almost like he's openly trolling.
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bullshit.

as it takes a magnitude more energy to refute bullshit than to produce it, i'll be brief.

1., the complete soviet block collapsed due to its economic system and policies. growth, consistently from 50 to 80s, higher than in the west? are you delusional?

2., the "saurer regen" was a) never that bad and b) still tackled and fixed. what exactly did the east ever fix?

as someone who travelled into the old eastern block due to my heritage i have to say that your revisionist bullshit is deeply offending.
This is an insightful thread on Macscripter.net, about how bad the javascript implementation on OS X really is.

The dev team has even been provided with a reference implementation that does stuff the right way, but no . . .
Yes, it is. It is well known that the battleground in all these areas is over what should be "default" settings because most people can't be bothered.
Yeah, I'm simply throwing out a strawman. I have no idea what's possible or important.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man

The important idea is that I'm not asking the wearable to tell someone that they're having a heart attack but simply indicate some one "test" is not within range.
I have heard good things about [2] from colleagues. Also, Boneh is a capable cryptographer.
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If the chest pain is not relieved by resting (i.e. sitting down), it points towards a heart attack.

But if you have repeated episodes of chest pain relieved by resting, it might point to angina pectoris -- not technically a heart attack but potentially serious. If it's unpredictable pain and not relieved by rest, it could be unstable angina and much more serious. Yet another thing that makes heart trouble difficult to distinguish from anxiety.
I've heard the idea that banks are keeping foreclosed houses off the market a few times. Do you know of a reference that describes the scale of that?
the technology is very simple and very old so without knowing what sort of machines they are (if they are like [1] then they are more for monitoring abberant rhythms than detecting infarcts or ischaemia - it doesn't have enough leads to properly detect a heart attack) they may do an ok job; the real question is of benefit.
There is little benefit to be obtained from regular ECG in an otherwise healthy person. You can't/shouldn't perform a home exercise stress test as you need to be in a hospital environment so that you could be resuscitated if things go badly.

For data collection or your own interest, a proper 12 lead ECG is a great reference item; but again if the machine is like [1] you are only going to get this simple trace that doesn't tell you much; even serial ECG's on a normal healthy patient (or even someone with moderate heart disease) will be almost perfectly normal day to day, month to month at rest.

So I would be inclined to suggest that it is a bit of a waste of money from any attempt at home diagnostics, however if you were concerned about your cardiovascular risk you should discuss it with your doctor.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Medical-Real-Handheld-Portable-Monitor...
This is one of those things that sounds true but I think probably isn't. Business isn't an RTS, and most startups aren't really in an APM race.
Thanks to couponing, I can get most frozen veggies and rice for free or very close to free. A month ago, I secured a year's worth of toilet paper and shampoo and only had to pay the sales tax on it.

But these "free" products are going to me, my wife, and our family. We're both well-educated, have good jobs, and live a comfortable life. What ultimately gets me the free stuff is time, access to technology (computer, printer, etc.), relationships built to acquire extra coupons, ability to drive to a nice suburban store that runs deals and doubles coupons.

I guess what I'm getting at is that a lot of people don't have access to get these good deals or aren't prepared for them. In many urban environments, if you don't have a car, your only access to groceries are small convenience stores or very small local grocers, who tend to have bad prices, bad selection, old items, etc. Either that, or you take a bus to the bigger grocery store, wasting a lot of time and having to adhere to the bus' schedule.
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In some places it's treated as an asset rather than cash. In some it's illegal.

If I got unwanted cash, in a new currency, from enthusiasts keen that I take it regardless and refusing to opt me out of their system... I might think less of that new currency too.
It was derided by everyone because for years, it was difficult to use Windows as an unprivileged user because so many consumer apps assumed every user account had admin permissions.

Microsoft broke this chain of bad decisions in Vista--which itself resulted in the much-derided flood of UAC warnings.
It's not like anyone has taken that away from you.

And as for the new tool, since it also shares the Mozilla engine, it's as if you're using Firefox (+ some plugins) with regards to web behavior.
> I don't think this is accurate - though London might just be very different.

London is its own micro-world. In the same way SV != USA, London != UK. Perhaps moreso here, seeing as the country is smaller.
This looks like a pretty good resource, thanks for sharing. But even the search functionality for this seems to be lacking/not-so-straightforward.

Maybe this is an idea to make into an app :) Been looking for a small project to do.
It sounds like an apocryphal story (more a fable), especially given the variant on the quote "People don't want to buy a quarter-inch drill. They want a quarter-inch hole.” which is pretty old.

Still, it's a good piece for reflecting if you're really delivering value to your customers.
I can see where a dedicated browser for development could be a little more helpful during the 80% phase of development. My main concern however is that some of that remaining 20% is cross-platform stuff that you can't get right in a single browser.

Unless they incorporate tiled views from different rendering engines. That would be awesome.
> The lines are close enough to each other that the computer you need is almost never there.

I felt this precise pain last night. A burglar took all my computers yesterday. Luckily, a friend of mine is coming for a visit and offered to bring replacements for us from the US. I went to Dell for a simple, no frills, Linux-friendly, inexpensive laptop.

There seems to be no such thing.

The only machines that came with Linux were more expensive than similar Macbooks. There are cheap and light Windows boxes, but their friendliness is unknown and, with the current drive for touchscreens enverywhere, I am anything but sure about which one will run smoothly.
I choose Dell for their business offerings, specifically PowerEdge rack servers and Precision series laptops, both of which provide beastly specs at reasonable prices.

Wouldn't touch their consumer level "Home" product line, nor would many here on HN I asssume, given that programmers and designers abound (who typically need/want quality hardware).

If expanding outside of their niche helps Dell survive/thrive for years to come, I'm all for it, just keep the business products alive and well, we needs them ;-)
Wow, started in 2000 on 18k ... that people are getting less than that now astounds me.
Yeah, I spent a while hanging out in Malawi where malaria is rife and it's a nice place with friendly English speaking people but very poor to a large extent due to the malaria. If you fixed the malaria things would be much better there.
There's certainly ideas and actions to respect from povertycure.org

However, povertycure.org seems to be embraced by quite a few neo-libertarians, neo-cons and the specific page you linked to is high on platitudes and fairly low on facts, in my opinion.

Between the strange mix of a libertarian worship of a unicorn "free market" combined with religious overtones, they strike me as a somewhat confused group with quite a few ulterior motives running in the background.

For example, this charmer from povertycure.org's board:

http://www.theguardian.com/business/2009/oct/21/executive-pa...

That's not to say I think povertycure.org is all bad and I disagree with everything they all say and do, but I take them collectively with a grain of salt. For example, I think Michael Fairbanks has some very smart ideas here and there, but I'm still wary of anyone that embraces a "free market" blanket solution to so many issues as well.

As far as the crisis in Europe goes, I think the damage that austerity measures have caused aren't given enough credence by a lot of the corporate media for obvious reasons.

More on this:

http://www.social-europe.eu/2014/09/europes-austerity-disast...

It's ignored too much, in my opinion.

edit: spelling
At Mozilla we know that developers are the cornerstone of the Web, that’s why we actively push standards and continue to build great tools to make it easier for you to create awesome Web content and apps.

Like canning WebSQL for spurious reasons and forcing people to use a half-baked spec like IndexedDB instead? As much as I applaud most of what Mozilla has done to further the interests of the open web it's hard to forget how profoundly they sabotaged the development of the browser as an application platform with this particular piece of political NIH grandstanding.
While I think your point is valid (that the majority of suffering is not in the United States), I just want to point out that there are still some people who don't have enough food or basic utilities in the States, and I'm not even referring to the homeless problem that some cities have. Look to deeply depressed rural areas like small mountain-pass towns post-industrialism, and look to the poorest of the poor inner city neighborhoods. Hunger, illiteracy, disease, these haven't been eradicated yet.
> Consumer-unfriendliness: It's 2014. Why do I need to lug my power adapter with me? Couldn't we get a standard that worked with Dell, HP, IBM, and everyone else, and when I go to a conference, hotel, or family, I just plug into their adapter?

> (sans Apple)

Oh, is it like the mobile world is SO, SO MUCH better? Like Apple-only accessories? Apple-only cables (with specific, non standard ports)? How about changing the battery on the shiny MacBook? Well no luck, you have to bring it back to the Apple Store. That's unfriendliness to me.

I like it when people pay a grey picture of the PC world while Apple is all shiny on the other side, while having exactly the same practices or even worse.
count all the deaths by border guards plus the victims of 1953.

plus hard to meet someone who has been murdered...
^Tiled views would be really awesome!
Nice one. I'll definitely use this.

If you're looking to do something similar, this exact same app for books would be welcome too. Also podcasts, audio content (recorded letters), music, etc.

Discovery is an interesting problem. Between mobile apps & google's overall approach a lot of discovery seems to be based on giving you the right answer. Sometimes what you need is not the right answer, but a good way of browsing. I like filters and dials as a way of searching for things. It's fun.
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It's hardly grandstanding when it's the standard everyone agreed on.

I agree that IndexedDB is awful and WebSQL was much better, but go shout at the W3C, not Mozilla.
THe only sure fire way to check your heart is to have them pump some fluid in that allows them to see your heart and arteries pumping real time on a screen. A catheter operation in the cath lab. This can be expensive though I have heard there is a good deal in CHicago for a few hundred dollars. The rest, i.e., ECG is not a guarantee of diagnosis, I had several before my infarction as routine check ups and none revealed a 90 percent clogged LAD (Widow maker) and similarly clogged RCA and 50 percent clogged circumflex (which they didn't stent yet because stent cut off line is %70). Perhaps a stress test with the ECG is better. But taking a live camera look is the way to go if you really want to know, you can go in in the morning and be out by the afternoon if all goes well.
that is the right term - it happens when there are long term arterial subacute blockages - ischaemia/reduced oxygen flow triggers tissues to release vessel growth factors that will lead to extra artery growth.

Bizzarely this leads to situations where diabetics (who develop lesions all along their vessels, and thus have lots of areas of narrowing) can potentially be more protected from a sudden blockage compared to someone with an area of only one blockage - they have enough collateral circulation that the area of infarct is smaller with less damage resulting
In response to the comment on Reddit, Joel mentioned this in one of his points. His response related to the part where I mentioned maintaining a high level of quality in the content. It's not that everything is bad on Reddit, but it sure is easier to filter out the bad when we have these rules on what belongs and what doesn't. In other words, things must be sacrificed if you want to have lower troll density. Even HN has it's rules, even if they are community driven at this point, but that's how many of these rules begin on other sites (citing Joel's experiences with SO and his knowledge about wikipedia).

I don't think casual fun interactions should be banned on the internet, it's just more likely to involve undesirables that certain websites are a million times more effective by avoiding. Imagine if you searched up a question on MO or SO and the first number of responses were bloated indefinitely by other answer threads discussing the topic, but maybe not in the same context, their website becomes that much more ineffective for it's desired purpose.

As far as not seeing a place and the discussion on it, I think that is more indicative of the fact that people would like a place, but nobody has been particularly motivated enough to make it happen yet. Not to mention, at least currently you can get a similar discussion by linking the historic thread on a comments section with upvotes, so it seems another competitor for that community would be sites like HN and Reddit rather than MO where you can't post on it anymore.

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Is there a firefox plugin that lets me edit CSS in the developer tools AND lets me save the edits back to the actual CSS stylesheet on my machine? I'd love to see that functionality.
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It was Mozilla's insistence on IndexedDB that tipped the balance. WebSQL was already well supported in Chrome and Safari and if Mozilla hadn't inexplicably come down on Microsoft's side we would have a reasonable client-side database solution today.

Lest this particular piece of villainy be forgotten:
https://hacks.mozilla.org/2010/06/beyond-html5-database-apis...
Yup! http://www.elections.state.md.us/elections/2014/primary_cand...

They have all of the information there but I would have to know all of my districts to get a complete view... it's not as simple as I'd like and from what I can see there definitely isn't a nation-wide site/app which can tell me who is on my ballot so I can educate myself prior to an election.
Nope, not even metaphorically.

In fact, even the other thing that's directed at them ("it's just because of marketing") is not true either.

While they had good ads, their marketing spending was historically miniscule (especially compared to companies such as Samsung and Microsoft) and of course they began from near zero budget (actually near banruptcy) circa 1997 and grew with products that made people want to buy them and the press write about them, not ads.
I like to think the German people as a culture changed twice or thrice over the past 100 years; WW1, then the economic problems which helped bring the nazi party to power and change the Germans' culture, then WW2 (as a continuation therof) and the post-war fallout and separation of the country for two generations. Then the post-cold war rebuild, the period we're in right now. I doubt much of 'classic' German-ness remained out of all of those events and cultural changes.
It's obviously somewhat prone to failure, as the script can't possibly work in every environment. But other than that as long as it's over https is there a security issue?

Obviously, a better alternative is a package manager, pulling from a repository for which you have gpg keys installed (such as Debian provides). But that's not always an option.

Even checking out a git repository and building from source seems as bad a curl | sh to me.
have you tried http://proxy4.us ?
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"He may have played loose with the rules" does not mean "I don't know if he played loose with the rules". It means "Yes, he played loose with the rules, but on the other hand..."
Reading and ECG is not as easy as it sounds. Without training no a chance in hell it will mean anything to you unless your flat lining and then you won't be reading anything.
I've run my OS X machines from a non-admin user for at least 5 years. I do developer-y type stuff like SSHing into Linux servers with key authentication, running a local web development environment (MAMP), installing brew applications from the command line, editing my /etc/hosts file, etc.

It all works fine. For most things, like software installs and updates, I just get prompted for admin account credentials. For a few things (brew and editing hosts file), I su to my admin account in Terminal, then run the command.

I can't remember the last time I actually logged into my admin account, though.
> When I was just learning to program, I was afraid to ask questions, to talk about what I knew or thought.

I suppose you're right. When I was learning, there was no one to ask questions to. Glad that's changed.
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I guess the allocator would be able to manage blocks so you could view them as a single heap. At least, that's how I'd like to deal with memory as a "user". However, a "pointer" then has two parts: first, it should point to the block, and second it should have the index within that block. A stored pointer (a pointer stored within the heap) then would need 2 lookups for a dereference (first, determine the block-number, look up the block from a small array, and then lookup the index within that block). This sounds a little convoluted to me. Shouldn't there be a simpler and more efficient way to deal with growing memory?
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I wonder how difficult, or even possible (no security architecture at the processor level) it would be to port NetBSD to the z80.
Thanks for the link. Lots of good information out there, just I think there is a real need for it to be made more accessible for lazy people like me.
You're quite lucky that you could afford that hospital trip. In the US, it would typically go like "My doctor made some tests and he said that it doesn't look like a heart attack but something is wrong with one of the lines on my ECG. He asked me if its ok to call the ambulance for doing more checks at the hospital. I said no, I can't afford that. So I died four weeks later."

This isn't an exaggeration. Many people live paycheck to paycheck and can't afford the thousands of dollars a hospital trip would entail.
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Is this the final version?
Clicking outside the code examples also seems to update it. I'd prefer it to 'live' update while you type, which should be a small tweak. Unless that has unwanted side-effects.
The interesting thing about stacked based languages is not what you can build with them; it's the fact that you can build them yourself.

The whole idea of picking a Forth or another concatenative language off the shelf is spoiling 3/4th of the concept. The point of stack languages is that they are very easy to implement.

So don't learn a stack based language, make one and grow it until you can actually use it to make useful tools.
>not even Taco Bell quality

Seriously now, come on...
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