skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had the benefit of taking some time before leaving to build a client base so I wasn't leaving "cold turkey". Have been living in the developing world and working remotely for nearly four years now and I really enjoy the freedom it has given me.
Some of the challenges are:

1) Being alone all the time can make it hard to maintain motivation

2) Having multi-day fights with local ISPs when they randomly cut or throttle my connection (always have a backup mobile dongle)

3) In a hot climate, being tied to a laptop doesn't do great things for your body. I was previously working on physical construction projects 50% of the time and the other 50% was spent on the computer designing and managing those projects. Now I'm just on the computer 100% of my working time and find it hard to stay in shape - I find gym's unnatural but I have to deal with that in order to stay in shape.

4) Not seeing people eye to eye means you have to get good at written communication, fast.
CVS fits their development methodology just fine, so far. Having a central CVS repo, where development is done in "head" which gets branched every 6 months for a release.
Contributions are supposed to never break "head", so mostly small easy to review patches are commited. Even big changes are committed on a per patch basis, working towards a bigger goal.
Also there is AnonCVS, which mirrors the central CVS repo on dozens of mirrors. The same way you can mirror the CVS repo for yourself locally.
Sure CVS+AnonCVS+diff(1) could be better(whatever that means), but it does the job. Switching is hard, losing history is bad and putting off old developers is way more dangerous than discouraging new ones.
Using mailing lists and CVS is the price to pay to partake.
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One can make money in the stock market without any trading at all; Merton Miller often emphasized that prices could adjust to new information without any trades taking place, if asset holders and potential buyers agreed on the impact of the new information on the asset value. Trades only take place when asset buyers and sellers have differing valuations for the same asset, whether it be for reasons of uncertainty, asymmetric information, or subjective values. You are also assuming that stock trading is like gambling, where the amount of money at the table is not variable over time (except for players coming and going); this is the zero-sum fallacy.
After a bit of digging I found another article that discusses the skepticism a bit more. The comments are worth reading as well.

http://pathologyblawg.com/pathology-news/new-yorker-theranos...
Seems like it just lets u decide how much u want to donate, theres a small field beneath where it says 0$
I guess it's time to stop calling engineering estimates an "opinion!"

But yeah, I see the same thing all the time. We say "this isn't going to work unless we do X,Y,Z," which of course aren't done, and then of course things don't work out, and it's our fault. I blame it on a lack of intuitive understanding (and pressure to cut costs, resulting in a RDF).

Most people would understand that a bridge won't hold if you left out all the rebar from the structure, even if it wasn't visible from the outside. With software, though, people's eyes just go blank at some point, and they simply ignore everything and piece together what they want to hear. "X dollars in Y days, got it."
A post can't be a Show HN unless there's something for readers to try out. Please see https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html.
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I use this + Rosetta code to get a grasp of a language. I would be able to write something big in the language, but learnxinyminutes.com and Rosetta code allow me to translate bits of code or understand a language I otherwise wouldn't know.
Can we create a rule that the submitter must provide a comment when submitting wikipedia links?

There's a ton of interesting stuff on wikipedia but I'm often left wondering why a submitter felt a particular article was worth submitting here on HN.
Something is a bit off by that description.

I was born before 'the tail end of the 70s and the start of the 80s', so by rights I am supposed to be "feeling slightly alienated from [computers] the way Gen X did".

This is because "Gen X individuals were already fully-formed teens or young adults when computers became mainstream."

But that's not true. The 1977 introduction of the Commodore PET, TRS-80 and Apple II marks the start of the home computer generation. I had a computer starting when I was 12, as did many others in the neighborhood. By 1982 and the Commodore price wars, a home computer cost ~$200, which is under $500 in 2015 dollars. I remember reading magazines directed towards schoolchildren which include BASIC programs to type in and run. So I'm pretty sure that computer were "mainstream" before I even became a teen.

Also, Oregon Trail was first written in 1971. But the specific characterization is:

> If you can distinctly recall the excitement of walking into your weekly computer lab session and seeing a room full of Apple 2Es displaying the start screen of Oregon Trail

The Apple //e came out in January 1983. By definition, anyone born in 1969 would be a teenager when it came out. But it would lose a period cachet to say this was simply "Apple //" generation. And for some reason the sort of people who write about their early involvement with computer prefer to talk about Oregon Trail, even though "Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego" from the same era made Brøderbund tens of millions per year.

Quoting from http://www.filfre.net/2014/08/apple-carmen-sandiego-and-the-... :

> Together Oregon and Carmen became the twin icons of 1980s edutainment, still today an inescapable shared memory for virtually everyone who darkened a grade or middle school door in the United States between about 1985 and 1995.

Carmen is more strongly tied to that specific generation than Oregon Trail, no?
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As someone with "aa" in my name, this annoys me. My name has one correct spelling.
Then, it's probably a good thing those scientists and investors back in 2004 trusted their own expert judgements about what a suitably promising "record" would be, after actually meeting her and reviewing her proprietary research.

Had they waited for the decade-later opinion of a layperson web-developer who's skimmed the first patent abstract, they might have missed out.
I think in fairness PayPal were already very much on the Dark Side; now they've just gone bat shit mental.
Sectioned layout with thin separator lines, white background, lots of padding. Each section alternating between Header/text and Image blocks on left and right.

This is a fairly common layout, but when it's all set in Roboto - Google's primary body font that they developed for the branding purposes - it starts to look like an "over-influence". Except Google's version is more refined and doesn't assume everyone has a 24" monitor.
Agreed.

Who says social comparison (discarded by this article as "carnival tickets") plays no role in satisfaction? Research shows that making more than peers is a better predictor of happiness than absolute income (http://e-archivo.uc3m.es/bitstream/handle/10016/15313/happin...)

Great article.
All you need is a positive correlation between an action taken on a weighted evaluation of a headline containing key words, and profit. You're overestimating the difficulty of the problem. It's model training; there's lots of historical data to tune on.
Never heard of that website, seems useful. Unless I am missing something, however, it seems that while the OpenBSD, NetBSD and DragonFlyBSD sources are up to date, the FreeBSD sources are out of date from 09-Dec-2013.
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I really like the Intercom and Mailchimp home pages. Good use of text combined with visuals to quickly and clearly explain the value as soon as you land on the page.
As usual for this kind of complaint, this is a person who does not understand copyright very well: without being granted a universal license to reproduce, store, and modify modified your content, websites on the Internet would not be allowed to resize, truncate, or cache your content, and quite clearly would have right to show it to absolutely anyone else. Therefore, essentially every website not only will but must have a clause that reads similarly to this one. In the case of PayPal, while this user waxes on about not even providing content to PayPal, 1) if that is true then this clause has no effect (so he should stop whining about it), and 2) that isn't true for everyone else: I believe PayPal caches the brand images one posts for hosted buttons (and if not they probably should), payments themselves can have descriptions that might themselves be trademarks or even long enough to be copyrighted... what I imagine happened is that PayPal had previously made essentially the same argument that "we don't host content" and so never added this boilerplate, and someone just recently realized that there really is at least small amounts of content involved, so they added the required language.
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Thanks for the great reply.

I want to end my trip by spending 3 months in Spain learning Spanish. I'm thinking of Valencia because I think it'll be fairly warm there even during winter months, it's somewhat central, I hear it's fun, and everyone speaks Spanish... Barcelona would be a really fun city to live in also but I think it'd be better to be surrounded 100% by the language I am learning instead of Catalan :-)

Before now, I've only heard of living with a foreign family as a thing younger students do. I'm approaching 30... would it be weird to do at this age or is it normal?
Does your nickname come from Merlin's Owl (Italian translation) of Walt Disney's "Sword in the Stone" movie? :-)
>>*Correction, April 21, 2015: This article originally
>>misstated that a purchase of options on March 27
>>immediately followed a tweet by journalist Dana Mattioli.
>>It occurred 19 seconds before the tweet and followed a
>>newswire post by one second.

So the title of the whole article is totally misleading. It has nothing to do with Tweets & Twitter.

Maybe the same bot (script) has done dozens other trades (false positives) at a loss before.
Unless of course the language is designed and optimised for it. For instance, Jane Street use OCaml - in which recursion is a standard language primitive - and they sometimes prove their mission critical code correct.
I guess you're right about their use in words in general. I'm not sure you're right about their use in names in particular.

Firstly, people and places are still named with "aa" rather than "å". They aren't simply spelled alternatively depending on the mood or the keyboard of the writer. So it seems that, since they deliberately choose one over the other, they care whether it is spelled in a certain way.

Secondly, we make a distinction between whether someone is named "Christian" or "Kristian", for example. According to your logic, it wouldn't matter since there is no difference except spelling between these two names. But it does.

Do you have any authoritive source (linguistic, or etiquette) that says that such names can be spelled however the writer feels like?
And someday this happen:

http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/onepercent/2012/08/robot-t...
Oh, that mentions that the startup happened 15+ years ago. I feel like that might've been relevant to mention in this post too... It's a fast changing world in the valley.
I like this one: http://mochajs.org/
Gets the job done and stands out amongst todays usual landing pages.
Ok great. Thanks for your feedbacks.
Your comment fascinates me, as if you feel you can uniquely tease out the objective from what most consider largely subjective. I'm not contesting, just curious for elaboration. Is it designer hubris, like audiophile, or wine tasting hubris, or a reproducible, measurable thing? Are you implying that he'd be a bad consumer as well, because he responds abnormally, and that other laymen would have less appreciation for the Next logo? Does your experience let you tap into something fundamental? Do people universally react similarly to certain design features in an exploitable way? Is it a percentage game? Or do designers design mainly for other designers? Is it all post-rationalization?
> And (once again, correct me if I'm wrong), the options themselves were purchased before the information was made public

No, according to the article, the options were purchased one second after the information first became public in some news wire headline. The fact that it was also 19 second before a journalist's tweet was apparently irrelevant, since there was that headline before the tweet.
I didn't do it and don't know why this guy thinks I did.
I didn't create the graph, but the data is consistent with what I've seen referenced using FRED ( http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/ )
I liked this. Particularly:

I’m a fan of all the betentacled linguistic lifeforms that have emerged from our cambrian explosion online. These days, people write insanely more text than they did before the Internet and mobile phones came along. So the volume of experimentation is correspondingly massive and, for me, delightful. One joy of our age is watching wordplay evolve at the pace of E.coli.

and

Most of these syntax-morphing memes consist of us trying to find clever new ways to express our feelings.

The effect of image boards really is fascinating. What at first seemed to be childish screwing around is proving to be an amazing engine of new culture and language. such wow
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I better understood now, why I have hard time to switch my job now. I am working at high visibility projects in a very big company: cloud computing, SDN/NFV, etc. I have a master degree in engineering and a MBA from fairly reputable universities. I had my professional engineer licenses in 10+ states before (I have not keep up with annual fee). And, I received 20+ some patents on wireless and devices for my company.

But, I feel I am under used and under paid. The things they want me to do is too easy. My working life is easy for me, and I want to do battle. So, I am training myself with by finishing on 2-3 Coursea classes per year (math, ML, SNA,..), attending workshops and Meetups in the valley. I worked 10-12 per day for many years now.

It works, I have fair knowledge on new areas and hands on development skill now. I get average 2-3 Linkedin head hunter requests per month for link or discussion job opportunities. I turned most of them down, because some of them too narrow scoped and I also do not want to embarrass myself: I gave my links/phone number to some, but they never call me back.

I will be 69 years old in few months. It took me a little efforts to get here.

No problem, I will create my own battle ground. I am not done yet.
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It's a good thing that another layperson web-developer is on hand to let them know that their investment, which still hasn't made a profit after 11 years, and has no credible evidence that it ever will, was a wise decision.

What the company does now has almost nothing to do with her original patent applications, so it looks like her original proprietary research didn't amount to much.

They paid a smart person millions of dollars to essentially build a research lab. And after 11 years of research, they now have a way to maybe do some blood tests with a finger prick instead of a blood draw. But there are still questions remaining about the accuracy of these very small sample sizes. Some of the doctors and lab techs opinions I've read, say that even if the technology is flawless small finger drawn samples are much more prone to contamination. The article mentioned on HN even mentions that their tests would be more sensitive to inaccuracies caused by poor operator technique.

How many PhDs out there could have done something similar with 11 years and $400 million.

There are also plenty of experts who are skeptical of Theranos' claims. http://pathologyblawg.com/pathology-news/new-yorker-theranos...

Also you can read here about a first hand account of their procedures. It doesn't sound nearly as revolutionary as the hype is making it out to be.
http://decibio.com/blog/theranos-small-sample-big-opportunit...
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Maybe the U.S. should switch to loser-pays in general, but I don't think it makes sense to make patent litigation a special case.
Dead simple pastebin service, with extra aliases
Right now I don't see karma being particularly generous to me, that's what makes me bitter the most I think, more than these guys being unrespectful. I mean in terms of material life I know this freelance guy is making a fortune and constantly on vacation at luxurious places. I don't care much about money and abroad holiday, all I'm looking for is the money to afford a small studio where I wouldn't have to deal with relatives or roommates, and even something as simple as that is too much to ask :\
Feedback: Ascetically looks good, but it's really slow to load. I took my time to read the first part, and then I scrolled down. When I reached to the bottom the big image was still loading. I'm on a 30Mbps without anything chocking my traffic (that I am aware of). Geo: I'm in Portugal
Wow, can't say I like the landing page too much, but it does gets the features across, which many other landings pages fail. I like it that it's very simple.

With that said, the service is also killer, if you're interested, I wrote some shorthands (aliases/functions) that you (or any user of the service) might have for, check it out: https://coderwall.com/p/l-7kqg/dead-simple-pastbin-service-f...
As a counterpoint to this, I like this essay: A Maze of Murderscapes: Metroid II (http://forums.selectbutton.net/viewtopic.php?p=1384825#13848...). Regarding the level design of Super Metroid vs. other Metroid games, the author writes:

> Return of Samus is the only 2D Metroid with buildings the player can walk on and enter. Every door in Metroid II is located in abandoned buildings, and behind every door is an item that’s been sealed away like a time capsule. Each door is a barrier that is hopelessly locked, necessitating that you blast through it with missiles.

> Compare this to Super Metroid, where the continuity of the map is constantly sabotaged by the ridiculous bottlenecking of doors meant to transition into the next room. These doors are, of course, the perfect size for Samus to pass through and only her arsenal can open them. Some doors are located in outside areas where the sky is visible, making the game world feel like a box with holes poked in the sides of it. This problem endlessly reveals the artificiality of areas intended to seem organic and makes the game designers’ guiding hands hamfistedly obvious.

> The Space Pirates—somehow an entire species—mill around inside rooms between these doors as if they’re doomed to wait forever. Space Pirates don’t have missiles or Power Bombs, so how would they be inside places where these weapons are needed to ingress? It doesn’t feel like aliens on Zebes built those damn mazes or that they’re natural formations; it feels like sleep-deprived game developers built them

And as far as essays about level design go, this one about the level design in Super Mario Bros. is one of my favorite: http://auntiepixelante.com/?p=465.
>> The Camry ETCS code was found to have 11,000 global variables. Barr described the code as “spaghetti.” Using the Cyclomatic Complexity metric, 67 functions were rated untestable (meaning they scored more than 50). The throttle angle function scored more than 100 (unmaintainable).

>> Toyota loosely followed the widely adopted MISRA-C coding rules but Barr’s group found 80,000 rule violations. Toyota's own internal standards make use of only 11 MISRA-C rules, and five of those were violated in the actual code. MISRA-C:1998, in effect when the code was originally written, has 93 required and 34 advisory rules. Toyota nailed six of them.

How the ACTUAL FUCK did this happen!? The article makes Toyota's engineering team seem egregiously irresponsible. Is it typical for vehicle control systems to be this complicated? I would love to hear the other side of the story (from Toyota's engineers). Maybe the MISRA-C industry standard practices are ridiculous, out of touch and impractical.
This is just stupid. If you start reading English language texts and sites a bit more you will find it is common for them to substitute our Nordic characters with various combinations depending on what style they have chosen to follow.

Usage is authority. Write the way you feel it should be written, read with the intent of comprehension, nothing more. Relax and move on to more worthwhile causes.
I simply tried (and failed, it seems) to say that they are generally considered to be equivalent, and that it's okay to use “aa” when translating a name with “å”. Reasons for this could be not knowing how to write an ‘å’ (or Ł, đ, ç, ì, etc.) or simply not wanting to distract one's readers. I do not have an authoritative source.
So i open the page and Disconnect shows 36 tracking items blocked, and uBlock shows 18 more items blocked.

Awesome :)
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Is this normalized for full time employment or just an average of everyone employed? The latter is far less interesting, as it may just indicate an inability to find a full time job.
I use Tor browser quite often, and this is a primary reason why. I have several times thought "hmm, I should not be typing this into the search box", especially when at a work or at a public network.
I just recently discovered an awesome visual intuition for what a determinant is, and why one cannot solve a linear system with a zero determinant. I'd love to contribute to this!
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Like when you commit to a detached head, change branch and loose one week of work.

Git doesn't lose your commits that easily; they're still there, you just need to find them: http://gitready.com/intermediate/2009/02/09/reflog-your-safe...
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They got a special mention https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bxcc3SM_KA so they must have a website! Good episode by the way.
Just a reminder that uBlock now blocks Google Analytics by default as well as Addthis:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8919523
Thanks. Really helpful.
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I wonder how much this has to do with the logistics of getting to work every day? In Germany its so much easier to get around than pretty much anywhere in the US ..
I think Wonderboy III: The Dragon's Trap could be mentioned here for some of the same reasons. The animal upgrades you get along the game open up new possibilities and make the game awesome.
I'm sorry to hear that what I choose to preoccupy my time with right now is stupid and not worth your time. It breaks my heart.
I must have misunderstood. Thanks for correction!
LOL.

You nailed it.

Really nice catch.
But that's not the problem: the problem is you need to study how the test behaves on given conditions. There's a serious issue that a bunch of the type of people you could recruit for such a study, are likely to have ordinary looking bloodwork. Designing a test which mostly gives results that show "ordinary" is actually fairly easy - designing one which correctly picks up unusual or important conditions is harder.

To be valid, you'd want to go in and supply a bunch of baked-samples which should produce a certain definitive result, without the tester knowing this in advance.