skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It isn't that bad in the vast majority of cases, and in many ways it's better. 5 year cancer survivability rates for instance are top notch, ability to see specialists with little to no wait, etc.

Example: My friend's son was diagnosed with leukemia on Monday. They went to their primary care doctor Monday morning for some gum bleeding that wouldn't stop, were referred to a specialist Monday afternoon, and is already in a children's cancer hospital receiving treatment where he will be for the majority of the next 8-9 months.
Me too! Nice way of validating that it seems like a good idea though.
Bravo, you hit the nail on the head.

Growth is the metric for success because we currently use the wealth of the richest as our benchmark for success. How much marginal gain in terms of quality of life do these richest people even get from the growth?
There are enough (good) browsers out there, that you can just dedicate one of them to those services which are intent on sucking up all your personal habits. Makes it easy to not confuse the issue as well.
I love my AppleTV, and I would buy an Apple TV if one came out, for a few reasons. I actually only use my ATV to watch Netflix and buy Doctor Who and Archer off iTunes, but I'd buy a TV made by Apple because I feel like they would do a good job.

My TV, when I hit the power button on the remote, takes about 5 seconds to give me any indication that it heard me; I then get another 5 seconds of the LG logo before I get dumped onto whatever input I was last on.

In comparison, when I move my mouse on my computer, my Apple cinema display wakes up almost instantaneously (display), and my AppleTV goes from sleep mode to showing me the last menu I was on in less than a second (processing).

Thus, I expect an Apple television to be on and available to use within moments of my requesting it, and off as soon as I tell it I'm done.

The AppleTV 3rd Gen also maxes out at about 1W of power used[1], which means that there's no reason why the brains of a smart TV shouldn't be able to be on 100% of the time, ready at any moment to power on for incoming content, rather than having my television add 30s to the simple act of showing someone a YouTube video.

That said, Apple make their money by making high-quality, high-margin devices, and not by racing to the bottom of the price structure and selling out customers to make ends meet.

[1] http://www.anandtech.com/show/6834/apple-tv-2013-a1469-short...
Maybe they are and this was already documented internally, but potentially marked as a low threat, but now that it was found outside of Microsoft it's a bigger problem? I'm just spitballing here, one would have to assume that Microsoft is doing static code analysis.
The studies I've seen show productivity falling at 40 hours and dropping off a cliff at 50 for most activities.

I don't think the blame for the workaholic culture lies primarily with VCs, though some do encourage this. I think it's mostly a part of the cult of male ego. "I worked 70 hours last week! How many did you work? 50? Wuss! I'm so much more hard-core than you!"

People also lie about how many hours they worked. In reality they work maybe 20-40 and then do things like... uhh... hang around in here... for the other 20-40. Again part of the macho one-upmanship thing... putting on an act of working ridiculous hours to look hard.
Nope. "Who" in the headline is used as a relative pronoun, which is considered correct even when it is the object of the relative clause.

Who can act as the subject or the object of the relative clause:

The woman *who* I saw yesterday was Sheila.
(who refers to the woman and is the object of saw in the relative clause)

http://dictionary.cambridge.org/grammar/british-grammar/rela...
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Another nice feature: WP and Tumblr both have iOS and Android, which can be very handy when it comes to posting photos and videos.
This is well written.

I gave a talk at the (unaffiliated) Hacker News London Meetup on composing a microservice architecture and why I think a framework to bind today's disparate components needs to exist: http://vimeo.com/118895501

I don't so much believe that any language is perfectly poised to implement this, however - we're working on a framework[1] that focuses on making every language a first-class participant.

Furthermore, it's self-hosting, with most of the core itself implemented as communicating microservices.

It's possible to reimplement bits of the core in different languages!

We've been waiting to finish a polished implementation before releasing anything (and talking to individual companies about their needs), but I'm starting to think that's a bad idea. :)

[1]: http://wym.io/
Maybe, but that doesn't mean it is correct.

I wouldn't call them bumbling idiots, but to think they were as knowledgeable as the average modern person in the first world is rather absurd.
You might want to provide shareable URL's and obfuscate your REST URLs... maybe.
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This is false. The UK has a national health service and private provision running side by side. Any doctor is free to work outside the NHS to provide private practice.

Maybe you're thinking of Canada?
where does it show that moderate alcohol consumption is bad for health promotion??
There was a recent ReactConf talk that included something like this.

Check out the examples referencing 'magic move'. There is a YT video of the talk where this is shown but you can install the examples locally to see them yourself.

https://github.com/ryanflorence/reactconf-2015-HYPE

I think does what you describe.

If you want to see something cool check out the '06-itunes-style-interface' example. Implements the drop down that iTunes uses for albums or how Google Image Search has an inline drop down when you click a result. The item being left closes gracefully when you switch to another item at the same time the new item is opening.
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The core of the issue is

1. Obesity is unhealthy (i.e. persisting in obesity is self-destructive)

2. Obesity is obvious (i.e. ignorance of your obesity is not an excuse)

3. Obesity is treatable (whether from a mental-health angle or otherwise)

I'm honestly not sure what the mental-health roots of obesity has to do with anything. It may be hard to quit smoking, that doesn't stop me from correctly judging that people who smoke are engaging in a self-destructive behavior. It may take professional help for some people to stop gambling, but I'm still going to judge harshly the parent who gambles away money that should be spent on their children. I would not humor the excuses of an obese person who fails to get help anymore than I would humor the excuses of someone who broke their arm but refuses to get it fixed.
Good point, how about

grep -f - 10-million-combos.txt
<password>
^D^D
So, if you know a little HTML, you can write a simple diagnostic page for your drone, or a product page for it.

If you know a little SQL, you can throw a SQLlite database on the drone to easily track points and query the data of multiple drones being collected.

If you know ARM assembly, you can write optimized math routines for your MMO running on mobile clients, or on low-power boards in a server farm. Or figure out why your web server is crashing in weird ways on your server. Or why certain overflows in your tax software aren't being trapped.

"Full stack" means knowing about the rest of the tools so you can improve things beyond what CodeProject would let you do.
Direct healthcare costs estimated to account for £3.5bn by 2011-12 ($4.1bn; €3.6bn) of annual National Health Service expenditure in England.

Meanwhile :

Health problems associated with being overweight or obese cost the NHS more than £5 billion every year. [1]

[1] https://www.gov.uk/government/policies/reducing-obesity-and-...
I had a friend whose printer wouldn't scan because it was out of ink. Needless to say she threw it in the bin and bought one that was slightly less worse.
US GDP per capita is still almost 8x that of China

One reason this might not be the right metric is because absolute power of a country matters more than power per citizen. Imagine a country with only one citizen, but a trillion dollars. The country wouldn't be very relevant. Even if the citizen tried to hire a military and use it, they wouldn't get very far. They wouldn't exert much influence economically either, in the sense of causing other countries to become dependent.

Also, total number of citizens is an important metric in itself. People in both the US and China will pretty much do whatever their power structures tell them to do. If that means beating a war drum, there are going to be a lot of people agreeing with war on both sides, but far more in China. Overwhelming forces can be stopped with tactics and technology, but when technology is comparable the casualties are usually comparable. And China has been gathering our technology for a long time.

War isn't the concern right now, though. The example was just meant to illustrate that China seems to have more options than the US.

As China grows richer, I expect the US will too. In modern inter-connected economies with few trade barriers growth in one generally benefits the other too.

History seems to disagree. As one country grows richer, other countries tend to become subservient. There's no such thing as modern human nature.
- How will load shedding affect this conference?

- Does the Theatre have generators?

I find it funny and sad that a technology and digital conference is held in a country that can not even keep its power on, a basic need for digital technology.
So is the UK not concerned about mandating lower prices and squeezing the R&D funnel for new drugs... because Americans are making up the difference?
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We've already chosen the race to the bottom, friend.

The Chinese have a head start, but don't worry, we're following as closely as we can manage and as our nation-specific bonus we already have the klepto-capitalist class in place.
I wrote a custom monitoring service for our internal helpdesk system. It goes down a lot, and the team for managing that is real slow to even notice issues. One thing that I realized that it wasn't enough to just ping the server, as it would respond just fine, even though the website might not be loading properly, giving error messages etc... I had to write the monitor to actually log into the site, and check for key things to be displayed on the page to ensure it was actually up and usable.
Not to be snarky, but that's incorrect if the power is out for a few hours. Not saying that is a normal case in the "first world" - but it happens occasionally.
Is American exceptionalism a glorified term for "we're special just cuz?" Isn't every country special by virtue of its individuality? Or is America thought to be exceptional because it excels on generally accepted criteria (wealth and military power.) Criteria whose importance, funny enough, was determined in the first place by...America. Like being both judge and participant in a beauty contest.
The article debunks the idea that there was some sort of blanket fear of water. It makes it pretty clear that when clean water was available and recognized as clean, that people had no problem drinking it.

But I've never heard the myth that people avoided drinking even seemingly clean water. I've always heard that many people didn't have regular access to clean drinking water (particularly in non-Roman cities) would drink alcohol as a safe substitute.
It's the straight line fallacy: the belief that a trend that's operating today will continue to operate in the same way in the future. History doesn't work like that. It is much more like the biological model of punctuated equilibrium (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punctuated_equilibrium), where things don't change until suddenly they all do.

China over the next 50 years has a lot of promise, but it has a lot of challenges to face too: environmental degradation, systemic corruption, authoritarian politics that increasingly clash with the needs of a more educated populace, the temptation to flex its new muscles by knocking over some of its more annoying neighbors. There's no guarantees that China in 2065 will look anything like China does today.
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Hi guys,

I could not close a gig because my skills in change management in an agile consultancy were not at the desired level...

What are the tenets of change management in an agile environment?
My HS (1998 - 2001) offered one half semester computer science course taught by the AP math teacher. It was using Pascal. I believe 1999 was the first time it was offered.

I don't remember much of the course, I believe it just covered keywords, syntax and control structures. Most of the projects could be completed within minutes for some students.

The school also had mandatory club period that met once a month, so they had a web development club. The club was tasked with developing (html only) the school's website.

Checking the website of the school today, seems like it's still just that one course but now in C++.

This was a rural high school in Pennsylvania.
Golang just needs more database drivers for enterprise products (Informix...), and some libraries that make office products and the windows enironment (active direcory...) more assimilable.
This comment was into 0 territory. It's actually a very important point that people often miss when discussing things... you don't do "population statistics" when you're getting data from every member of the population. So in this case, "sample size" is irrelevant.

Many other elements of the analysis can and are being challenged, which is fine to discuss, but there's no need to discuss "sampling" issues, as there is no sampling going on.
"In summary, the study is grossly underpowered to convincingly prove a plausible protection, and they have committed the cardinal sin of saying that non-significance is the same as 'no effect' in a study lacking sufficient events, in this case, deaths in non-drinkers. Maybe epidemiological studies should include power calculations, which make sure there is a reasonable chance of detecting a plausible effect, and which became standard in clinical trials after too-small studies were being used to claim that drugs did not work."

http://understandinguncertainty.org/misleading-conclusions-a...
Which is pretty much what every capitalist ever has wanted from his workers.
I agree. I wasn't going to turn this into a general conversation about branching, but since others are going there...

I really dislike gitflow for release-to-web projects. Any form of branching creates integration debt to be paid later. Maybe it's worth it, for instance, when discussing a new feature in its own branch. But gitflow's assumption of a heavyweight "release" process just isn't an accurate reflection of how the best companies work today. For a high-frequency deployment cadence (once/day or more), the level of ceremony required to get a release out is too much. And companies really do have to release that frequently, as high-priority bugs come up, integrations with third-party systems break, etc.

github-flow or the "Continuous Development Flow" as we call it, is much better-suited for high-velocity web development.

I'd be interested to hear what people are using for mobile projects. Maybe gitflow makes sense there, but I don't know that a "hotfix" ever happens, I think people just fix the bug and release a new version to the world?
Thanks sathyabhat. Didn't know about Aardvark.
Our back-end is completely built on Go and the app is hybrid.
The historical track record of the largest economy being
overtaken by another is not good. Sometimes it’s
violent. (For example, Germany and the UK in 1914.

To give WWI as an example of the consequences of GDP league tables seems like a bad reach to make the event sound apocalyptically important when it doesn't represent any radical change in balance of power at all.

As I understand it, the Kaiser's geopolitical motive was to avoid being dominated by the Dual Entente given Russia's growing strength. He expected GB to stay neutral given it was generally more friendly to Germany than Russia and was fairly isolated from European mainland issues given its interests in the colonies.

In any case, why compare UK GDP and not British Empire GDP which at that time would have dwarfed Germany?
Frankly, I'm cool with the idea of the quantum corrections being inserted into general relativity's field equations. And I'm cool with the idea that this might imply a universe that didn't start with a bang.. But how does the new hypothesis explain the (increasing and accelerating) red-shifts found when observing distant galaxies?
You just confused 8000 years of post-agricultural society and culture, with medieval western Europe.

Yes, people are much more educated now, because technology lets them get better access to information, but I think it's inaccurate to say there were no educated societies in the past. Think about Roman engineering. Arabic and Indian mathematics. Baghdad with its libraries. On and on. Modern people didn't invent most of the knowledge we now take for granted... we inherited it from the past, where people found it out through trial and error. Just like we discover new things now.
Basically,

boolean shouldComponentUpdate(object nextProps, object nextState)

Here is a good talk from ReactConf which goes over improving performance, largely including this method, here:

http://youtu.be/KYzlpRvWZ6c
I completely disagree with your notion that U.S. is less interdependent than China. The exchange is clear: U.S. needs cheap Chinese manufacturing to proliferate its innovation, and in turn, China gets direct access to U.S. blueprints, and is able to leverage and improve upon them to produce their own products. This is basic economics, not a question of "who is genuinely innovating". American companies need cheap manufacturing as much as the Chinese needs technological know-how. Why? Because if no one buys "innovative" products (because of how much cheaper they get) then we wouldn't get that innovation in the first place.
It's inconvenient to discuss inequality if you are a VC in SV... let's be honest, it's their game to win, and the losses won't hurt them that badly anyway.

It's more comforting to rely on the "didn't work as hard as me and therefore don't deserve as much cash" line.

Wage growth has been stagnant since the 70s, and a working wage is all the vast majority of people can expect as a way of gaining money.

Additionally, there is an important distinction here: VCs deal in wealth with income being derived from that wealth, and normal people deal in income, with wealth being derived from that income.

VCs get dividends from their stocks. Normal people save up to buy a house, or put money into a retirement account.
I don't understand economics enough to address the point on debt, but I have to comment on that:

> American culture of honesty; fraud and cheating are national scandals, not the norm

Wait what. Fraud and cheating are sometimes national scandals if media bothers. But there's absolutely no honesty. Corporations lie and steal. Journalists lie. Startups... well, things like astroturfing, lying to users, tricking them into doing things that are harmful to them, "growth hacking", etc. are not only tolerated but encouraged.

Call it selection bias, but I don't see much of this "culture of honesty" anywhere in the western world, and especially not in the United States.
There is no qualitative explanation as to why that should be true.

I think there are plenty of qualitative explanations especially if look back a few decades (since most CEOs are in their 50s).

Women didn't obtain the name number of university degrees as men until recently. Women often step out of the workforce in order to care for family, etc, etc.

All of these would explain where there would be a smaller pool of qualified women to take a CEO role.
My company relocated to San Fran a few months ago, I had to quit because moving there from Dallas made no financial sense.

Even with a massive raise my monthly savings would be cut in half (or more), and spending in excess of a million dollars on a home is way too risky (look at all the people who went upside down during the last recession). Barring something incredibly unlikely, such as the equity I own actually being worth something, I would likely have to add an extra 10 years or more to my expected retirement age if I chose to live and work out there.
Sorry, which library do you mean? The OP is a javascript library..

I just wanted to point out that regex is much faster in javascript than doing things 'by hand'.
I already answered that very directly:

> ELF is the current modern standard file format for specifying executables. It's just how you store executable machine code in a way that Linux/Unix systems know how to load the program into RAM and begining execution.

There is no other way to implement executables. And if there were, it would look just like ELF, from twenty thousand feet.

ELF has nothing in particular to do with shared libraries, and shared libraries still exist if ELF does not, they just have some implementation difficulties in some cases.

It's like saying, what if you didn't need any networking code, would you still need ELF? Yes you would. What if you didn't need GUI code? Yes, you still need executables.

You seem to have gotten a misconception about ELF really fixed in your mind. It is the one and only way to store executables. Without it, you have no tools, no commands, no apps, no way to run any software, no nothing.

Shared libraries are a small side feature and don't have very much to do with ELF, despite the fact that ELF made it easier to implement them.

Also, I mentioned that people have questioned the need for shared libraries, but I fail to see any motivation whatsoever for why anyone might want to get rid of ELF.
I've been using a native mac app called ohmystar that looks very similar to astralapp!!! http://www.ohmystarapp.com/
> How does React know that only that sub-component needs to be re-rendered?

It doesn't. By default it will render the whole tree again. This happens in javascript and is probably much faster than you think.

However, when an app grows large enough, this can be a source of performance issues, which is why React provides ways you can inform it about work it shouldn't have to do, namely shouldComponentUpdate. If you can compare the data and determine that a particular sub-tree doesn't need to be updated you can implement a shouldComponentUpdate callback that does this. Immutable data that can be cheaply compared by checking reference equality is the preferred way of doing this.

More info on this was recently added to the docs: http://facebook.github.io/react/docs/advanced-performance.ht...