skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's the truth about the medical profession, based on my internet search over the last couple of years as an enthusiast on this topic.

It's a sleeping giant. It's like the mechanical engineers of 1880s who had the idea of the impossibility of flight so entrenched in their minds that not only they kept claiming that it's impossible, they were quite proactive in dismissing the efforts of those trying to do something about it. (I always like to use this link: http://www.spacequotations.com/predictions.html).

If people had attempted flight in 1690s, it would not have gotten us anywhere. The science and engineering wasn't developed enough. But at some point, someone had to realize that "yes, now we have enough knowledge, resources and tools, to give it a last push". And that was what flight pioneers realized in 1890s, and 1900s.

For aging, are we in the 1690s, or 1890s of flight?

If it comes down to medical community agreeing to seek an answer to that, consider that a solved problem for someone like me.

The problem is, most medical researchers simply dismiss the idea as over-ambitious, resort to ad-hominems, socioeconomic criticisms, and (surprise, surprise) the pro-aging trance, instead of technical critique. So the honest discussion about the technology gets lost in all that noise.
Awesome resources, thanks!
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I'm running some astrophysics code from that resource now. This is awesome. B) Thanks for the heads up!
Data. You bring data to the table and let them make the rational decision. No reason to convince them of anything, let the stats speak for themselves.

It's marketing; its point is to drive sales and increase brand exposure right? These days (especially with digital campaigns) these things are measurable.

But you also need to be open to the fact that your opinion really doesn't matter. Maybe the ugly banners have higher click-through-rates or lead to a lower cost-per-acquisition than a prettier alternative. If that's the case, pretty doesn't matter. But if your hunch is correct then you should be experiencing substandard click-throughs, higher than normal CPA, etc; and you can point that out to them without being confrontational.
Interesting for WSJ to include a chart about the role of housing in wealth accumulation that cuts off in 2008.
Doesn't having an electoral college, by definition, make the US not a democracy?
It's the anti-spam zealots, and not the spammers themselves, that "ruined email for everyone"?
This is what Ethereum is for, but it's much lower level than 'web applications'.
Justine Musk Interview on Divorce from PayPal Founder Elon Musk (2010)
>The rocket is paid for with its primary mission. Elon has said that the fuel is a very small cost compared to the entire launch, so I would assume the cost to refly a "used" rocket is going to be orders of magnitude cheaper than the original flight.

Engineers have been scratching their heads for decades trying to figure out where all the money goes. For shuttle launches, depending on who's doing the accounting, fuel was something on the order of 2% of total launch costs. And the shuttle was reusable as well.

I think it's that disparity that attracted Musk to the rocket business in the first place. You look at the cost breakdowns and think "What? How can this be so expensive?" If everything goes his way he'll have cut the vehicle cost by a factor of at least 20 by the time he's done.
well but there is a difference between a free project run by unknown people and a for-pay product run by a huge multinational product.
E.g. there has been a C3PO project in java for more than a decade.
Only if you're Westerner.
South East Asian can enter Myanmar freely, but Myanmar is the only country that doesn't have free visa for other ASEAN country.
Using bash parallel for fun and profit
Great point.

Interestingly, I see several tech startups of this nature started by folks having a deep understanding of a specific business problem due to their prior work experience tend to create such startups.

As a service provider for small businesses, I see many amazing bootstrapped services & products come up around the world, that serves a very specific need for a small subset of customers. These viable businesses tend to make enough for the needs of 2-3 folks for a long time. I have a strong inclination towards finding many of them as a service provider because they just tend to be some of the best customers with great ROI.
Crash outcomes are worse at high speeds.
It sounds like you're really trying to ignite in your students a passion for this topic (so that their new passion will drive further inquiry on their part).

To achieve that, I think you should just teach whatever you're really passionate about. Show the students what it's like when you get to do what you love; your genuine interest in whatever-that-topic-is will shine through to the students, and hopefully show them the way.

You're not gonna prepare them for a career in a few weeks; I don't think that's a healthy goal; but you can inspire them! Shoot for that!
Doxing is not allowed on Hacker News.
Running common tasks straight from your CLI might be easier then you think
Cервис поиска пассажиров и водителей для совместных поездок по городу
Speed is sexy...
Also, they used Neat/Bourbon as their css framework!
Well, my company uses ROS for two different robotic systems currently in production.

We use ros serialization quite intensively and I would have to say it "works fine". I previously came from a more enterprise-centered environment working with a rabitMQ/Protobuff&Json stack, so I probably wouldn't have created ROS serialization the way the maintainers did, but it hasn't gotten in our way at all.

I don't think it's that great of an idea to place too much validation in a serialization framework, as your are just asking for rigidity, which is why Json went the way they did and is much better for it.
>It is bittersweet for me, the opportunity lost to keep funding NASA at a reasonable level...

We spent more than enough money on NASA to have been decades ago where SpaceX is today. Unfortunately, Congress sees NASA as a source of patronage funding and not a space agency. If it had been run as a space program the shuttle would have been cancelled in the early '80s when it became The Monster That Ate The Budget.
From my point of view, these signs always seem to be WAY brighter than corresponding neon.
Diabetes’ Patient Management by EHR System
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Used this technique myself and I can recommend it, Also Best practices are using only on specific areas of the web page, since this kind of testing is fragile and change prone.

Might be your only option when testing non DOM parts of a webpage (such as canvas based) from the outside (e.g selenium or casper.js for example)
Cost is however a lower bound. Insulin at $200/month pales in comparison to generic herceptin at $20k for a six month? course. Of course herceptin is made in mammalian cells; going to a microbial platform might result in a 10x decreasr but that's still about 300 a month on razor thin margin.
Why the tautology then? ;-)
OSX Yosemite, Firefox latest beta.

Similar problem on latest Ubuntu running the latest stable release of Firefox.

Adblock+ installed on both.
Sugar does not have the same level of addictiveness as alcohol, so not really.
Not easy but I'm sure it's being worked on.
> Here's the truth about the medical profession, based on my internet search over the last couple of years as an enthusiast on this topic.

You say this without irony?
Steve Jobs: Lead with customer need, not engineers and new technologies (1997)
I dunno, I used to drink a lot of pop and juice. The easiest way to stop is to just start drinking something else, since you're usually only drinking pop in the first place because you're thirsty.
Are there any other viable open source traffic analysis tools than Piwik? I'd hate to have to roll my own.
Having read Marcus Aurelius extensively, he doesn't seem to expect a personal afterlife at all but rather as a dissolution back into one's constituent parts--material and spiritual--from which new life could arise. He writes repeatedly about the futility of worrying about one's place in history, because of the inevitability not only of one's own death but of the deaths of everyone who could have possibly cared about or remembered one's accomplishments anyway. It's definitely worth a read; the Hays translation in particular is extremely approachable.
Eloquent JavaScript, The Annotated Version
How do you plan to circumvent the second law of thermodynamics?
This is an annotated version of the second edition of http://eloquentjavascript.net/.

There are two objectives for this project:
(1) Add comments to make the text easier to understand.
(2) Allow you to ask me questions using comments so you don't get stuck.

The big idea is that you’ll be able to get through the book without any issues and understand everything on a very deep level. I’ve heard from too many people that the first few chapters have been smooth and then the middle to later chapters have been a struggle (which is a big shame). I want the entire book to be a smooth experience so that you can feel confident about JavaScript and can move on to bigger things.

My goal is to create a really useful and lasting resource that helps a ton of people. Please let me know what you think!

If you've struggled through parts of the book before, I'd love to hear about it so that I can spend more energy on the parts where you need it most.

I also posted this on Reddit and it's currently at the top of /r/learnjavascript if you'd like to see the discussion there.
http://www.reddit.com/r/learnjavascript/
I'm actually about to start setting up something similar myself. I had a pretty basic setup using Wraith a while back, but it wasn't terribly useful during heavy development since everything was intentionally changing.

Last I checked (not too long ago), Phantom didn't support flexbox properly, and I'm heavily invested in it now. Hopefully I can find something that works.

https://github.com/BBC-News/wraith
Of course they are. If Windows Defender solves the problem it would be crazy and pointless for them to go mucking with inventory or changing every install process.
Way more cars are needed during rush hour than other times, so I think even in the future cars will stop rolling.
"¿Por que no los dos?" I think the spirit of Patrick's response is "Knock yourself out." And I get the feeling, having followed what he's had to say about how programmers typically negotiate salaries and consulting opportunities, that he's encountered MANY who truthfully don't know the market value of their skills and are subsequently under-paid. I suspect the condescending tone you're picking up is really just him just trying to shed light on a place he's seen members of the community routinely overlook. There's definitely nothing wrong with earning money making videos. But there exists a group of programmers who honestly don't know how much more they could be making, and I think all he's trying to do is let them know.
But stop signs are designed according to international conventions (that's why they look the same in almost every country). Open signs are not. In fact, they are notoriously uncommon here (Denmark).
I'm sure those interested enough in checking this thread may already know this but before the Battle of Midway, Japanese admirals ran a wargame to see how it may turn out.

Their wargame showed Japanense navy would lose with losing some big carriers. However rules were bent during the wargaming (or result ignored) and it erroneously showed Japan would win. Of course history proved their wargaming (unpolluted version) proved to be correct.
Battlefield 4 Cheats Hacks Tool (Android-IOS)
yes what I meant is that MIG doesn't seem to give root access to the "investigator" through this. Of course the tool has to run as root.

GRR/osquery will actually let you run arbitrary code remotely.
Crap so if you open the file now you may get a message at the top of the page that says:

"Wow, this file is really popular! Some tools might be unavailable until the crowd clears. Try again. Dismiss."

This sucks because comments don't show when this happens, which is the whole point. Hopefully things will die down later and the comments will be visible again soon.
what sort of "replication issues"? if you use archive_command and ship/rsync wal files somewhere you will safeguard against falling too far behind (past an arbitrary wal_keep_segments limit). Also, in 9.4 you have replication slots so you can get rid of wal_keep_segments altogether: the master knows the replication progress/status of each slave and keeps required wal files around until they are no longer needed.

or were you referring to some other issue with failed replication? something that mysql handles better/differently?
https://github.com/divolte/divolte-collector is quite nice and can handle extreme loads
I'm a bit confused by the question: If you want to support the websites you're visiting, why send false information? Wouldn't that have the same effect as blocking their ads (since you'd be killing their ability to serve relevant/contextual ads to you)?
Actually, they've slipped behind China into the #3 slot.
This comes up a lot on various forums.

The more technical the crowd the more you hear this kind of thing but it really does bear mentioning that if these engineers could be doing it without these figureheads then really, they should do that.

They fact that it's plausible has no bearing on the fact that it is often simply not the case.

Why did Apple nearly fail before Jobs return?

Why are Tesla and SpaceX a direct result of one mans vision?

I'm not saying that no one else is involved in these businesses, I don't think anyone is stupid enough to assert that these are not examples of fantastically great organisations made up of brilliant engineers and probably project managers and lawyers and all of the other parts that make up a great companay but yet the fact remains that the 'figurehead' is there.

Why is that if these 'figureheads' serve no purpose other than to court the media?
The present and future of Marketing
The thing that I find most disconcerting when riding the train from Narita are all the gaudy signs that read "本" with the kind of lowest-common-denominator flashing lights and gaudy font that I expect from sex shops or gambling establishments. It's weird to get off a plane, where I previously thought "reading: the activity of the smart and elite" and show up in Narita where it's "reading: the lowest-common-denominator activity that appeals to everyone".

(I get a similar feeling when going to London. I can read all the signs and overhear all the conversations, but everything is ... different. It's weird.)
I just wish he'd keep posting. I got the distinct impression someone complained to his employer, though, and he was told to stop. I used hit that site up all the time looking for a new post.
'Commonwealth' movement petition gains 35,000 backers
> a few homeless people under bridges

Reading books.
I have both. Advantages/disadvantages compared to Google Apps:

+ Far more configurable

+ Sieve scripts

+ The web interface is faster

+ Easy to access their engineers (hang around on emaildiscussions.com)

+ The contribute to Cyrus, etc.

+ Family/business accounts where not everyone needs to be
an an expensive tier.

+ Standard IMAP, so works a lot better with most clients.

+ Some Dropbox integration.

- Mail gets blocked more often (e.g. there seem to be ongoing issues with Craigslist).

- They don't support labels. If you have a label-driven workflow, you are going to be frustrated.

- Extra storage space is much more expensive than Google Apps (which has e.g. 1TB for $10 per month).

- No real 2-factor auth, there is always an account with full access. Not a possibility to make a restricted IMAP account.

- Obviously fewer apps than Google Apps.

- Relatively slow support times (though I have never contacted Google Apps support).

- The Google Mail client is still much better than the Fastmail client (e.g. reflowing text, when the internet connection is spotty).

o Australian company with servers in the US (and Iceland). So, no real advantage wrt. the NSA et al.
LeadGenius is hiring a JavaScript Guru
This information is very easily found from searching based off their username. Is HN actively preventing people from registering with usernames that are on other sites and services? If not, what are the limits and connections between one's username and one's username on other websites? Further, what is the limit between one's username and full name and/or projects that are indexed on every major search engine? Should we not title this post "Tesla CEO" else we dox that individual?
How to get good supervision for a CS B.Sc. or M.Sc. thesis (2014)
The way fractional reserve currencies work it's literally impossible for everyone to pay off their debt, and if a substantial portion of people did there would literally be no money.

So... no.
So torn on this because I fall into the chest beating, love to drive my car set but I also remember how much reading I got done when I was younger and used to use the train to commute.

Having that time back is a very seductive proposition.

What I do wonder though is what's the point of having your own car, if all cars are autonomous then isn't that essentially a tram system? How long would it take before there are established routes and taking your car to a given location is no different to hopping on any one of the other cars that are heading there anyway?

Surely the one of the first businesses to be radically impacted by widespread autonomous vehicles is the taxi industry?

I can't see an outcome where pretty soon it's not just a fancy tramway.
> The fulfillment of the job

Irrelevant

> The privilege to work on cutting edge tech

Irrelevant

> The satisfaction of their customers

> Their salary and so on and so forth

Irrelevant, that is/was part of their contract regardless of outcome (otherwise R&D departments wouldn't exist, failure tolerances wouldn't exist, etc).

Musk merely gave directive, he didn't implement or do this R&D on his own. Calling this Musk's success is like saying Einstein design and built the atom bomb thus he is solely responsible for the death of many a Japanese. But society doesn't take that point of view, instead only that he contributed to it, not that he owned it through and through. A good leader leads their subordinates, but they are not the sole factor in their subordinates achieving success. If a leader does not recognize their subordinates, they will soon find they have no subordinates to lead.
What is the difference between marketing and PR?
Smart Phonebook That Updates Itself Automatically
Fake Suicide Attempt Tests Facebook Prevention Tool, Lands Man in Asylum
While I agree with the approach's effectiveness the risk of doing that in government is high because breaking an official policy can be construed into violating a federal law which could land you in jail. Something as simple as installing software on a government computer w/o permission. At some point you have to ask yourself why taking such a risk is rational.
Kazinator is right. Don't think vegetarian. Think "herd animal sluggishly grazing in the fields".
I think this a great option. I've also heard good things about AWStats (awstats.org), but I think that might be intended more for the backend (log files and such).
You can also turn that income equality into something useful:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6c/Social_m...
Funny how tastes differ. I certainly wouldn’t disagree that the US has great architecture (such a rich, diverse, and big place is practically guaranteed to have that), though the examples you picked seem like the blandest bombast ever to me. All interesting and even fascinating buildings, certainly, though not something I find aesthetically pleasing.
After delaying publication of his work until he could figure out how to spin it.

Personally I think the Japanese are blessed for having a homogeneous society because it means they don't have to devote time in every discussion to race issues.
I'm sure if the budget was there, NASA would worry about aesthetics.
It's a funny position to hate regulation on the one hand, and say it's useless on the other... Imma chalk this one up to Thiel saying things more in service of his ideology than relating to reality as she may exist.
I think Greatfire is evading the GFW by hiding their mirrored content behind innocent looking websites such that the GFW does not block it. Once the censors discovers a Greatfire node, they block it, but then Greatfire just moves on to another IP address or domain name.

With this DDoS, they are taking the different route of attacking the infrastructure of Greatfire such that they can't serve traffic from China at all. Causing massive bills and outages for Greatfire is probably a bonus, but I don't think that is their main intention.
seeing "1931" in there is so depressing. I realise we've made progress since then, but that still isn't very far on a "cultural mentality" scale
PIA (https://www.privateinternetaccess.com) are reliable, have a new AU node and are well-regarded on WP forums (http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum/87).

Also check this list for Oz VPNs: http://www.vpnanalysis.com/5-best-vpns-for-australia/
Indeed, even while giving complete satisfaction, they have no forward vision about the possibility of pursuing a career at CERN.

This lack of an element of social responsibility in the contract policy is unacceptable. Rather than serve as a cushion of laziness for supervisors, who often have only a limited and utilitarian view when defining the opening of an IC post, the contract policy must ensure the inclusion of an element of social justice, which is cruelly absent today.

http://staff-association.web.cern.ch/content/unsatisfactory-...

Indeed, this change will only increase the uncertainty for the staff on an LD contract, who by the time they are offered an IC contract will on average be more than 40 years old, quite a long time before knowing whether they can look forward to some long-term stability for themselves and their families.

http://cds.cern.ch/journal/CERNBulletin/2014/49/Staff%20Asso...

Un salaire suffisant et une couverture santé adéquate font souvent défaut aux travailleurs

http://www.tdg.ch/geneve/actu-genevoise/suisse-prete-aider-e...

symmetrymagazine.org:

Special Seminar: How to deal with the media: maximising opportunity and minimising threat / Pryce-Jones, Jessica (speaker) (Managing Director of the consultancy iOpener Ltd) ; Pillai, Nisha (speaker) (news anchor for BBC World)

This session will cover how to work effectively with the media including print, radio and TV. You'll get an insight into how journalists and news rooms operate and what they would like from you [...]

http://cds.cern.ch/record/1127343
Deep stuff about deep learning?
Read the comments on the blog posting :-)
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With the speed that things pop on and off the front page these days some times it's nice to see frequent stories about the same thing at least when there is something new to tell. I hadn't heard about the microcorruption site until it was mentioned in the first post about starfighter.
What's really amusing is that a previous generation of art critics had exactly the same complaints about the "spectacularly flexible and inarguably lovely" neon signs that this guy likes.

The business owner just cares about letting people know whether or not the store is open. He's not out to give the customer a transcendent esthetic experience.

"It works" and "it doesn't cost much money" are really the only criteria here. The neon signs were free/cheap because they generally also served as brand advertising. The LED signs are just plain cheap. Both serve their necessary function.
I was convinced it was a typo before I looked it up. It's so horrendous what we did (and still do) to eachother.
Indeed - we live in a sanitized world thinking that civil rights happened with the civil war. I'm ashamed to even look at these pics.