skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As noted, some drugs do create genuine chemical dependence, even when you're trying to be responsible with them. Heroin is the default example, and is now mostly considered a recreational drug because of this (i.e. it is no longer considered safe to prescribe at any dose), but that recreational "market" grew out of what was originally prescription drug abuse.

The benzodiazepine class of drugs also has a chemical dependence problem, and serves as a good example of the medical establishment's reaction to prescription drug abuse. When prescribing a benzo-class drug nowadays, your doctor will work with you to create a dosing schedule that includes its own "taper-off" period (and perhaps secondary therapies to counter withdrawal effects) to avoid addictive potential. They will also try to find a drug which not only fits the effect profile they want, but which you can safely afford out-of-pocket, or they will attempt to get you on a manufacturer's discount plan, and so forth, to ensure you never encounter the "I can't get my dose this month, but I'm at the height of treatment and addicted so I have to do something else" problem.

In the modern day, just prescribing the drug instead of the treatment program as a whole is medically irresponsible.
Parent post is clearly talking about domestic printers that come with a scanner too, and not photocopiers.

But, actually, scanning+printing photocopiers (rather than traditional photocopiers) suck too: http://www.dkriesel.com/en/blog/2013/0802_xerox-workcentres_...?
I would far prefer to hire a passionate hobbyist to someone who went to school just to get credentials for something that pays well. People with passion tend to improve their skills on their own and genuinely care about the craft.

But you can't hire based on their resume.
How many billions are MS making from Windows? Why aren't they doing that static analysis??
Every once in a while, spin the metaphorical wheel and just listen to whatever it lands on. Maybe the most recent song/album, maybe a random search on the letter "M" and take the first result, anything that just completely jumps you out of the groove. In the long run, I suspect this is a critical component of any exploratory plan.

On the one hand, the average result is disappointment, but every once in a while you get something you like, and then from there what you get is a new seed for exploration, which from there I get to do a new local hill-climbing exploration of. The rate at which new music is currently coming out exceeds the rate at which I can explore in this manner.
Smartphone theft drops in London, two U.S. cities after kill switches added
Given all nodejitsu products are being shutdown and they are going to help with GoDaddy products, I believe that qualifies as an acquihire.
In Canada it's like he said though. Press a button, there is just enough of a delay to wonder if you pressed it hard enough, then it starts moving... slowly.
Would I? No, there's a few too many typos.

Exempting them, it'd be the sort of resume I'd accept for filling an intern or temporary single project position, potentially leading to full-time.
sitting on their browser for 5 years and doing nothing with it

This was a consequence of the backfiring of the "embrace, extend, extinguish" strategy and the enforcement of the consent decree. IE could no longer be a product distributed free with Windows; it had to be part of the OS, because that's what they'd argued in court. So nothing could change until the release of Vista.

Remember, IE was reactive (in the strategic sense). Microsoft didn't really want rich portable web applications to become a thing, they much preferred businesses to tie their internal processes to VB client-server apps or implement their functionality as ActiveX controls. A lot of them did and ended up stuck to IE6 for a decade.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Internet_Explorer
For one, setting up your environment takes 30 seconds and you can access it from anywhere. Those are just the most obvious reasons.
Continuous Integration, Delivery or Deployment with Jenkins, Docker and Ansible
How would brewing/distilling your own ethanol through fermentation create methanol? I've heard about methanol contamination, but I've always though it came about by adulteration (someone adding methanol).

When you think about the fermentation process, there isn't really a mechanism to create large quantities of methanol.[1] Yes, there are often traces of methanol and other longer-chained alcohol, but nothing that would be toxic.

[1] http://homedistiller.org/intro/methanol/methanol
Unfortunately from what I understand, IPv6 has the option for NAT. Once it goes mainstream we'll probably find ourselves right back in this situation with multitudes of users stuck behind firewalls as second class netizens.
It was a pain to find the list on their site, so here are the languages supported by the editor:

APL,
Asterisk,
C,
C++,
Cobol,
Java,
C#,
Scala,
Clojure,
CoffeeScript,
Common Lisp,
CSS,
D,
diff,
ECL,
Erlang,
Gas,
GitHub Flavored Markdown,
GO,
Groovy,
Haskell,
Haxe,
ASP.NET,
Embedded Javascript,
JavaServer Pages,
HTML,
HTTP,
Jade,
JavaScript,
JSON,
TypeScript,
Jinja2,
LESS,
LiveScript,
Lua,
Markdown (GitHub-flavour),
mIRC,
Nginx,
NTriples,
OCaml,
Pascal,
Perl,
PHP,
PHP(HTML),
Pig,
Plain Text,
Properties files,
Python,
Cython,
R,
reStructuredText,
Ruby,
Rust,
Sass,
Scheme,
SCSS,
Shell,
Sieve,
Smalltalk,
Smarty,
SmartyMixed,
SPARQL,
SQL,
MariaDB,
sTeX,
LaTeX,
Tcl,
TiddlyWiki,
Tiki wiki,
VB.NET,
VBScript,
Velocity,
Verilog,
XML,
XQuery,
YAML,
Z80
Remove those unnecessary lines of code and you will be surprised how the security holes close by themselves.
Generalize just a little bit and you got parser combinators.
Reminded me of the movie the Great Escape. There's a scene in which they make potato moonshine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Md2GFtBCIh8
Seiki makes cheap dumb 4K TVs.
Fantastic work! It is exciting to see a project like this take off. I'm trying to dive in right now, and I noticed something interesting. Pardon my ignorance, but can you explain what this is?

module.exports = { route, routes };

I got an error when I tried to do this:

var a = {1, 2};

What is it setting in that case, since there is no concept of tuples in javascript? It doesn't seem to be an array, dictionary, or function. Appreciate any advice!
How to make toast – really
For that extra sense of perspective, trying opening one of the many cargo tracking apps and make them display all the ships in the world.

http://www.sailwx.info/shiptrack/shiplocations.phtml
http://www.marinetraffic.com/
To put it more bluntly, this resume is really just not very visually pleasing. I definitely wouldn't recommend drawing so much attention to your HTML/CSS skills unless they're really outstanding. And even then, going through Codepen is unnecessary because anybody who's going to be evaluating your front end code knows how to open the console and look at your code anyway.
That's not possible on codepen
Piggy backing off of this, I have an invite to https://careers.stackoverflow.com/ if you'd like to set up your resume there. I set up mine there and it's gotten me a lot of interviews.
I'd also want to know community activity and support. This is a handy chart for getting a sense of that.

The entire chart? Wouldn't the first column be sufficient? Number of repositories gives you some idea about language popularity.

Well, kind of: there's bias of hype here. Obviously choices behind open-sourced projects on GitHub aren't representative for the industry. It's the software's world avant-garde, if anything.

And even so, that's just one parameter out of five, and it can be very well be considered in isolation from all the rest.

I wouldn't make business decisions based, for instance, on the average number of open issues. Because it's an outcome of many different variables. So how would you know what it means? Is high good? Is high bad?

Interrelations between data - shown by this clever chart - are even more mysterious.

TeX has a very high number of pushes per repository (second best), while there's fairly few repositories, and they are rarely forked.

At the same time R has low number of pushes (second lowest of all), whereas it wins in the "new forks per repository" category (#1).

What do you make of that, businesswise?
The World's Worst Website
Why Design Students Should Freelance
So FB wants to own the platform for exchanging security threats. Right now you can publish information to everyone or specifically to a group. It seems maybe they're trying to fill a space in between with information being distributed based on algorithm. I can imagine the argument eventually being that you should join the platform as it's the safe and responsible way to publish threat information. Am I being cynical?
Node.js Gets a Foundation – Is It Rock Solid?
a look here (https://github.com/stars?direction=desc&sort=stars) shows that from the top 10 all-time-stars 6 are javascript related.
I agree that the desired outcome is for juries to make decisions based on fact and good purpose, but I don't think anonymity helps to achieve this outcome.

I think that a neighbor openly questioning the decision or a business deciding to cut off ties with a morally reprehensible actor are more likely to promote good decision making.

If anonymity is desirable, why have public trials at all?

Anybody can go to a trial and see the jurors' faces, so what difference does it make?

If they were to be truly anonymous (ie, not visible), then how do we even know they're real people?
> As near as I can tell the graphs seem to be mirrored around the origin - that is, they're graphs of abs(x), not x. Which naturally causes a discontinuity for any function whose slope isn't zero at the origin...

I think that you mean they are graphs of x ↦ f(abs(x)), not just f; and that this causes a point of non-differentiability, not necessarily a discontinuity. Of course, the even extension x ↦ f(abs(x)) of any continuous function `f` on the non-negative real numbers is again continuous (because `abs` is).
>>> get out of the myopic SV culture.

This seems to be a recurrent theme throughout the article. All of the sideways conversations he hears and lamenting how we've become slaves to the data, and how all the people around him fit this stereotype or that stereotype.

It's interesting to note my father worked for Control Data in the 70's and 80's during its heyday. He spent a lot of time in SV during those formidable years of the valley. When I got older, I asked him why we never moved out there, and why he never took a job in the Valley if it was the coolest place to be for tech.

He said a lot of the same things mentioned in this article - about the suffocating culture, people "faking it until they make it", the tons of businesses being built on what he called, "bullshit and blue skies". He said it wasn't a place he wanted to raise his family, so we stayed in the Midwest instead. He's always maintained he was fine living as a passive participant in how technology took off and where it is today.

I guess the more things change, the more they stay the same huh?
I'd imagine some of them are impulse followed by "that's not really in my budget this month".
I strongly believe the modern American prison system is something our descendants will look back upon with disgust, much like how we perceive slavery.
I would suggest some changes to your resume, mainly to bring out your programming skills and expertise and then to highlight that you have significant work experience with system engineering so you are not a neophyte and can actually add something "else" to your team.

Starting with the Summary, I would change from "Expert Systems Engineer with a passion for programming seeking an entry level development position in a fast paced environment that will leverage my existing self-taught skills and provide and opporunity to grow as a developer." to

"Passinate programmer with a history of custom software development and systems engineering ...etc"

Good luck!
I agree that fanaticism over an arbitrary paper standard seems silly, but I don't buy your analogy. The reason Swatch time probably feels dumb is that the notion of changing the time format used by essentially the whole globe is itself dumb. The transaction costs are almost certainly higher than any benefits.
Toddler First Usability Testing
These days, having the IE renderer process running in the "protected mode" sandbox jacked is theoretically not "screwed enough"; I think this vulnerability would allow escaping from that sandbox. Correct me if I'm wrong, as I don't use Windows.
How to join Facebook without giving up all of your and your friends’ privacy
The company I work for isn't set up to incorporate remote workers, so no.

That reasoning is pretty much entirely about my companies position, and not your strength as a job candidate. Similar reasoning happens at tons of other companies. I'd recommend sending out 100-200 applications to see if you can find a company that's in a position to hire someone like you. It's a fairly cheap way of getting information.
Damn. It's always nice to see things i was working towards 15 years ago, now coming into fruition.
> One approach to avoiding the whole question of abs(x) would be to use cosine instead of sine, since cosine is symmetric across x = 0.

I don't think that this would work, since the division by an odd function would just make it odd again (that is, `sin(x)/x` is even precisely because `sin` is odd). Note, however, that blaming `abs` for discontinuity (or non-differentiability) is a bit of a red herring; any even function on the real line, no matter how smooth, can be written as a composition with `abs`.
Also, keep information short but impressive.

Startup founders and HR people tend to be very short on time and will most certainly not go through a wall of text just to figure out if you're good or not.

Your resume should make people interested in your skills and curious how you got there.

Once you have an interview you can still tell them all your additional information.

Furthermore: there's a cool open source project called json-resume that separates your resume data from design: https://jsonresume.org/themes/
I think it's only a matter of time until projectors get "dumb-smart" as well, unfortunately. So yeah, you'd better get a projector now.
One could just imagine Letter to be 11" x 7.7781" (preserving the sq. root ratio) but with a 0.7219" side margin for bindings. Feel better now?
If I were you, I wouldn't worry that much -- it's already easy enough to find on the internet the instructions for making alcohol. Additionally, it is next to impossible to censor this kind of stuff out of the internet.

As for your second point, making concentrated methanol from fruits or grains by accident is unheard of.
Not really. Chemical weapons are applied unselectively and have a great potential of using against civilians. I don't think many people would mind guided poison arrows.

But I appreciate your irony. :-)
Dice Tech Salary Survey [pdf]
Rich from HipChat here. I haven't looked at all the various Flux libs out there, but since Facebook's initial announcement of Flux, they've made their example a bit more generic and it can actually be used as a starting point https://github.com/facebook/flux.

The big thing with flux is the dispatcher. You don't want to get into the habit of using your dispatcher as an event emitter. Once you have a proper Flux dispatcher, the rest falls into place.
"He fails to notice that "we" is not universal. For high-tech types living in crowded cities, yes, but there are a whole lotta people much less, and even un-, connected to the Web."

I live in Michigan and work in Ann Arbor. The stretch of road I drive on to get to work is poorly designed and clogs up easily, and what alternate routes there are aren't very good and also tend to rapidly clog up if the main route clogs. I started using Google Now for its ability to alert me in advance of traffic jams, and yesterday it did one of those textbook cases where it got me off the highway at precisely the correct exit and back on at precisely the correct exit to avoid the accident-based congestion. Saved me 15-30 minutes easily. It isn't always that textbook, but it often saves me substantial amounts of time.

What was interesting about it, and what prompted me to reply to you, is that there are literally thousands of cars stuck on the highway, and yet, within plus or minus thirty seconds of me, there was a sum total of about three other cars that drove in such a way as to suggest they also had Google talking in their ears. At one point there was five of us appearing to dodge around pretty well, but two of them got back on at an entrance that would be tempting to a human but was still a bad choice (the alternative requires driving through a village for about a mile at 25 mph and two out-of-sync traffic lights, which on this day was still a win over the highway, but usually a bad idea even when the highway is "normally" clogged).

To a first approximation, "everybody" is on Facebook, but beyond that, honestly, the penetration of "wiredness" is much more shallow than those of us here can easily assume.
As long as they are making sugar wash (or wine as the article calls it) instead of a fruit based one the chemistry does not allow for methanol to be created, is my understanding having researched this fairly heavily in college before making my own still.

Also if you did make a fruit based wash when you ferment it the methanol will evaporate first (or at a lower temperature than the ethanol if you have that level of control).

This whole article is rather poor as a guide and there are much better and more complete resources on how to build better distilling equipment with a tea kettle, some copper tubing, and a bucket. It is a good article for understanding how prisoners do it, which is its intent.

I mean if you are a prisoner or you are limited to the same resources as a prisoner; then sure, I guess its a guide that you could use. Otherwise a better guide and $20 bucks at the hardware store will have better results, for home distilling experiments.

Keep in mind home distilling is illegal in most states, some have alternative fuel creation exceptions or small allowable amounts.
An amicus brief isn't a big deal...
isn't there a distinction to be made between design skills and coding ability though?
A family member who was wary of facebook asked me how to join facebook while maintaining a semblance of privacy, so I wrote this. Tried to make it accessible to someone with average computer skills.

As an aside, I joined facebook to write this, and I was blown away by how good facebook's recommendations for friends were, presumably just based on other people's uploaded contacts (Facebook made me confirm a phone number).
I have a Smat TV from LG and basically what it does is update itself through wifi.

I don't have Netflix to watch on it. I don't share files on the network to stream from it. I don't watch Youttube on it, either through my phone or through the TV's app. I just plug my laptop into the HDMI port, my wife watches cable (most basic package with internet), I maybe play Xbox 360 twice a year. Most of the non-smart features are also useless for me. The standard settings are so good enough for me that I only switch input ports and change the volume.
In this they're starting with wine - why not just drink the wine? It says they make 5 gal (40 pints) of wine down to 6-8 pints; then drink half a pint - isn't it easier to just drink 2 pints of wine. Presumably the answer is in secretion of the drink.

How do they get hold of 5 gallons (~20 litres) of wine?
Looks like Linq (from .Net/C#). Pretty sexy way to write Regular Expressions if you ask me.

I've "learned" regular expressions multiple times but it just never sticks, I have no idea why. It certainly doesn't help that there are several different incompatible syntaxes (so what I remember and think "should" work doesn't).

I'd prefer to write RegX's in this style, however I would pay attention to performance (not that Regular Expressions are high performance, however I wouldn't want to see a large performance loss either).
Perhaps we need to contact the FSF about this? That's a good question.

For any curious this is the page that details what they need for such a report. I will be doing this sometime this week and sending all of it to them.

https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-violation.html
Why is Reddit more popular than the more beautiful Stumbleupon?
It's not even 2k? Ewww.
So the TLDR is if youre >= 65, decrease alcohol consumption.
If you're <65 optimal range is 15-20 units per week, better if it's even consumption per day.

"One unit of alcohol is about equal to: half a pint of ordinary strength beer, lager or cider (3-4% alcohol by volume); or. a small pub measure (25 ml) of spirits (40% alcohol by volume); or. a standard pub measure (50 ml) of fortified wine such as sherry or port (20% alcohol by volume)"[1]

So in short: have 2 weak pints of beer xor 1 strong pint of beer xor 150ml of 13% wine.

Can someone confirm,refute this understanding of the text.

[1]:http://www.patient.co.uk/health/Recommended-Safe-Limits-of-A...
This is awesome, would love to hear recording of what others have put together.
Apply both rules at the same time. a - > (a)(b) -> (ab)(a), etc
Don't get too hung up on the drive letter. It's a bit like saying UNIX is out of date because everything starts as '/'. Besides, the Windows filesystem is actually modular under the covers. https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/hardware/dn... And Windows CE is (mostly) source-compatible and has no drive letters.

You can have filesystem drivers, filesystem filter drivers, and pseudo-filesystems. It's just that the documentation is buried in the DDK. And there isn't a "community" of users for Windows in the way there is for Open Source.
Fundraising Wizard? Who is it?
>Your resume should make people interested in your skills and curious how you got there.

this is a great point. I actually tried to accomplish this with the skills highlight section, but since you mention it maybe i did not.

edit: thanks for the link. I'll check that out.
The thing that irritates me is that naive users would assume CB Insights were the ones who copied, as they don't have the YC brand.

Not YC's fault per se... just how people generally use brands as a shorthand for merit. At this point YC is almost more like a meta-corporation with its individual startups as departments.