skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>But anyways, they don't get a free ride especially in Puritanical America.

They don't? Where I live they get money from the county and free medical care. They occasionally get free beds in a shelter (which some of them refuse). When they attack each other the cops are left to try and figure it out. And the rest of us are paying for it all.

I'm not opposed to helping people who need it, but I think the idea people who behave antisocially ipso facto have some sort of mental illness and should therefor be supported by the rest of us is corrosive and wrong.
I think this is because blood moving at higher speeds and pressure gets nutrients to cells that don't always get all the nutrients they need. And it also removes waste products better, like a power washer removes dirt from your car better than just pouring water over it.
Looks fascinating, relevant and useful, especially for those of us on the privileged side of the paywall...

But will there be slides/transcripts available? Most of us aren't in the UK and I suspect that most of us aren't able to travel there on such short notice.
If you hear that, are you allowed to paean ycombinator?
The DEA needs to lift the 100 patient limit on bupenorpine.
I don't know why this drug is regulated this way.

Bupenorpine is here. We have a problem with opioid addiction. Doctors should be able to prescribe the drug without going to a class, and then limit the number of patients who can take it.

The drug is expensive. Even the generic version is expensive?

I'm not a conspiracy theorist, but something is not right with the way this drug is regulated, and manipulated?

Some of my details are fuzzy, but the original manufacturer
of this drug fought hard to extend the patent.

When that failed, they scared Physicians into thinking your patients will abuse the drug if you don't use our expensive strips.

Antidotal, but I can honestly state it's a hard drug to abuse. It's not a fun drug. It is addictive though. This bit about having a low affinity for addiction might be true for some individuals. The people I know on it have a hard time getting off the drug.

I think people would be surprised to find out just how many people are on this drug; they shouldn't be nickeled and dimed by the cost of the drug, and endless expensive office visits.

(The average patient has usually suffered in life. Why give them a addictive drug and let doctors use the 100 patient limit as a excuse/incentive to raise the cost of mandatory office visits? The office visit is essentially--ok--you showed up and payed me--I will refill your addictive medication.)
> Very brave of Ken to call out women, black people, and the LGBT community.

He didn't do that.

He used the term 'safe spaces' to talk about something else, which was obviously a mistake but please don't get hung up on the terminology and read the whole and follow a few of the links.
> Your points are disingenuous

Thanks for the ad-hominem, but I honestly couldn't care less who "wins", I'm looking at the incentives purely as a third-party observer (well, as an EU citizen, I guess I have an interest in keeping the peace over there).

> In case Serbia wants to join the EU they need a vote from Croatia too

Sure (well, until certain procedures become a matter of majority vote -- the EU is constantly changing, but I digress).

But let's be honest here: if everyone else wants Serbia in, they will lean on Croatia to make it happen; and a few square kms of swamps are not worth souring relationships with the likes of Germany. That's why I said Croatians will likely get as much compensation as they can, while they have the chance; after all, they are not going to take back those swamps with tanks anytime soon.

> In case it doesn't enter the EU it's just status quo

Yup, which is my scenario 2; and considering the status quo matches Serbian views, the only country with a problem remains Croatia. A rational actor would then pack it in, if maintaining a claim with very low chances made it not worth the trouble of dealing with a silly micronation on their doorstep. In fact, if I were Serbia I'd give Liberland all the help I get, trying to force Croatia to take charge of the area and add further legitimacy to the status quo.
This is a question that comes at the right time for me.

I just went two weeks with a Asus UX305 and Ubuntu 14.04. Everything worked out of the box. Beautiful hardware, too.

Since I run all my servers on Ubuntu LTS I really wanted to go with Ubuntu Desktop.

However, after two weeks I'm going back to MacOS X. Reason is that I'm just way faster with MacOS X. Additionally, and I hate to say this, but it is not the OS alone anymore theses days.

Applications can make or break your decision. Something like Sourcetree is awesome, Arq (for backup) is a simple no-brainer. The option to use Time-Machine and re-install a Mac is painless. Dash for documentation simply rocks, Slack as an independent app is very convenient, etc.
The idea that women are a minority group on college campuses is laughable. How can you be marginalized when you control public opinion and make up 55-75% of students?
The disconnect you're referring to is precisely due to his misuse of the term. Leave the term out and it will make sense.
>He didn't do that.

You must have read his writing differently than I considering he wrote:

>I call these young people out for valuing illusory and subjective safety over liberty.
Fear is a slippery thing. You can't eliminate it. You can't ignore it. You must bear it, when you have it. Bearing it causes suffering, of course. Putting it off means you'll suffer later, perhaps more than you might if you just handled it when it was smaller. I tell my daughter it's like piling up laundry in the corner of her room. At some point you are going to suffer a lot more by not having clothes to wear to school AND you still have to do a crap load of laundry all at once.

Fear based security is stupid, wasteful and simply puts off what fears you might have until some point trust is violated by those doing security. Then the real suffering begins.
It would seem there is less than 92% support for flexbox yet.
The first two Commonwealth novels by Peter F. Hamilton (Pandora's Star and Judas Unchained) would be an very amenable to TV if it wasn't for the required length I think.

It has a enough different plot-lines to interest many different audiences I think.
Xdo – for renaming a lot of files at once
Digi-Comp II: Classic 1960's Binary Digital Rolling-Ball Mechanical Computer
I couldn't find out how to do this with standard bash commands. Maybe someone can enlighten me with that or better tools, but until then, there's this.
Hey! Get those facts out of here!
The Forever War by Joe Haldeman
History really distorts things. This story is always portrayed as a failure, and the soldiers as "fought with honor and gallantry". They were invading another country and killed hundreds of thousands of people. We wouldn't say ISIS fighters "died for no good purpose" or are "brave soldiers".
This isn't tumblr...
CSS multicolumn layout is four years old. It's implemented in all the major browser engines, and many popular sites like Wikipedia use it. http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-multicol/
I'm risking feeding the trolls here, which dang has scolded me for in another thread, but...

Everybody views the world through tinted, inaccurate lenses. Including you, michaelochurch - perhaps especially you, since your view is pretty far off the mainstream. Personally, I'm glad that you share your perspective, even though I disagree with much of it, because it's only through having a dissonance of voices that we can get to some approximation of the truth.

But what you're asking for in this thread, with the accusations about Dick Costolo and Evan Spiegel and then the claim that a moderator of the site holds a biased, rose-tinted view, is for readers to consider your view of reality as reality itself. It is not. It's a perspective on reality, an interpretation, just like everyone else's post is. It's fine to leave out the qualifiers and just assert a view as fact as a rhetorical device - I've certainly been guilty of this a lot, and PG does it all the time. But most people, when an alternate viewpoint or interpretation is presented, will at least listen, consider their points, and possibly adapt their worldview.

It doesn't advance the discourse or our understanding of the truth to say "You're just biased", because all it invites are posts that say "No, you're biased." Duh. Everybody is biased. The point of critical thinking is to take in a bunch of different viewpoints, understand everyone's biases (including our own), and then work out what's actually going on.
Interesting -- this study referenced another which focused on the effects of color on individuals with and without ADHD (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21854630/). The game was designed for and taken from study for use in this one -- the results were nearly the same. The other study came back with similar results due to the structure of the game favoring ADHD individuals for level 1 and favoring individuals without ADHD for level 2.

The results in the original study were nearly the same proportionally and the game was found to favor the performance of an individual with ADHD.

The linked study, in fact, goes on to misrepresent the study it references in stating it was conducted "to quantify the performance of people with ADHD characteristics," when in fact the study stated it was conducted to describe "the development and the testing of a virtual environment that is capable to quantify the influence of red-green versus blue-yellow colour stimuli on the performance of people."

The referenced study concluded: "The game proved to be a user-friendly tool capable to detect and quantify the influence of color on the performance of people executing tasks that require attention and showed to be attractive for people with ADHD"
No link to content.
There's an undying belief in the mobile app community that once you have a spot on user's screen, you can cross-promote other products, so the customer lifetime value is higher than 99c. That didn't work for Rovio (with Amazing Alex), but so far "a growing ecosystem of apps" is a business plan for a lot of those startups.
Is it really worth that much though? I'm a Ruby developer and I've only very rarely actually wanted a type system. I've often found that I could work around its lack by implementing class checking and raising an error whenever the wrong type gets passed. It gave me everything I wanted without having to give up dynamicism.

I think types probably work well in situations where you don't know what kind of code you're going to have to deal with in the future. It depends on the type of organization you're in, not the type of problem you're trying to solve.

I think any respectable programmer should try to avoid having to have people hook into his code at any level other than the level he defines. To interface at the level of data, not client code. If you are needing typing to solve your own inadequacies as a programmer, you should become a better programmer rather than expect your language to do that for you.

With a dynamic language, you can get all you could have wanted from a type system without having to infect your whole codebase with it. Most of the time, you just don't need it.
They also at times routed their lobster tails through Canada to avoid detection --- for lobsters sourced in the jurisdiction of Honduras and destined for Alabama.

People love to fixate on the "undersized lobster" part of this story, but that's an irrelevant detail. The important fact is that all fishermen were required to take lobsters under a specific set of rules, and report their compliance with those rules. This particular fisherman cheated the rest of the market by ignoring those rules.

Nobody bats an eyelid when "banksters" are convicted and serve sentences† for violating rules far more abstract and far less connected to real-world consequences than overfishing regulations.

† yes, this actually happens, probably more often than it does to fishermen
> The table layout algorithm might be incredibly complex, but I'd rather have a browser writer have the headaches than me.

Completely disagree. The Unix philosophy is right when it comes to layout: you want to be simple, fast, and predictable.

This attitude is also why we are in a situation where the Web is slow compared to native platforms. Simple things tend to be fast things. Complex things tend to be slow things.
Yeah; unfortunately the "flaws" aren't something that most people can control. HTML5+JS+CSS+[insert JS frameworks] is inherently inefficient because it's a lot of band-aids on top of band-aids. But we as front-end developers just have to live with those band-aids; we don't get to reengineer the user's browser. If jQuery and Angular were implemented in C

Compare the loading speeds of these two on your own Google account and you'll see.

https://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=html

https://mail.google.com/

Like seriously, even opening a message is faster in the basic HTML version (on my system about ~300 ms vs. ~600 ms) despite it re-loading all the page chrome. I'm 99% positive that's because of all the bloat caused by the all the UI framework they used to make it happen in the regular version. The basic HTML version is so fast that it doesn't even need a progress bar on load!

But of course, you as a developer want to develop the full-blown HTML5 experience because there are tons of features you can't do with basic HTML only. Also, basic HTML makes your site look dated (want a nice-looking button? You'll a bunch of jQuery bloat instead of just a <button> tag. Want a nice-looking text box that maintains a consistent height across browsers? That's a bunch of CSS bloat and putting a text box inside a fake <div> to ensure its height because different browsers have different interpretations of your CSS. Want a text box with tagging ability? That's going to be a massive, inefficient bloat of JavaScript because you essentially have to re-invent the text box from the ground up in JS)

In these cases, sometimes using effects to play tricks on the user to make it "feel" faster does help, because there's nothing we can really do about it ...
Ask HN — Native ads in education: What would this look like? Feasible? Ethical?
Native advertising is advertising that matches the form and function of the platform on which it appears.

What could this look like in education?

Example contexts: textbooks, tutoring tech, MOOCs, LMSs, OERs, testing platforms, adaptive learning tools, VLEs, study materials, etc.

Obviously this provokes hard questions. Is this ethical? Is this even feasible? What would the model look like?

All thoughts/arguments/questions welcome.
Wow, it surprises me that it's that high, but you clearly know your numbers. Presumably the rest of your house is quite energy efficient?

If it something that interests you, you could probably reduce the power usage considerably by switching to a smaller pump that runs for more hours. All else equal, the power required for pumps increases much more than linearly (proportional to the cube of the flow), so a pump with half the flow rate that is run for twice as long would use less than half the total energy per day for the same amount of water circulation.

Martin Holladay is a trustworthy source with a good writeup:
http://www.greenbuildingadvisor.com/blogs/dept/musings/your-...
You can be marginalized if you only make up a small percentage of the executive and administrative staff. Students don't have significant power on most university campuses...administrators and wealthy alumni tend to hold the reigns. And, at some universities, the football team administrators hold a stunning amount of power.

Just like in a city urban center that is predominantly black, but the police, judges, city council and mayor are all predominantly white.

Number of people does not necessarily equal power.
Sincerely: Thank you for engaging with me on this.

Given what you've said, I really have two options with this article:

1) I can read it as fundamentally misreading the politics of people who use safe spaces on campus
2) I can read it as misunderstanding the generally accepted meaning of the term "safe space"

In both cases, my conclusion is that the author does not have a high level of understanding of the subject matter. I hope this isn't taken as a refutation of criticism broadly, as I've attempted to make clear.
This was never meant to be public and was sent as a reply to a personal email, not like the guy is trying to win a Nobel prize in economics with this analysis.
Safari needs prefixing and I think that site doesn't have prefixes.
In my opinion the most interesting number when it comes venture investing, is what the hedge funds are putting in now:

"While venture capitalists poured $11.3 billion into startups in the first quarter, up only 11% from a year ago, non-traditional funds invested $6.4 billion, a 167% increase, according to a report on Tuesday from CB Insights, which tracks the market. Two years ago, the outsiders contributed less than $1 billion."

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/hedge-fund-money-going-to-vent...
Most of the commenters here didn't seem to read James' whole article. He's not saying that you should throw away isolation but that isolation should be taken care of from your architecture, not your programming language. Of all the places that should be up on a microservices architecture and see the sanity of it, you would think that would be here on HN, no?
YC is not going to be completely transparent in their selection process because doing so would make it easier to manipulate the interview process. Jessica Livingston already mentioned in an interivew that they've revealed too much. Now founders are going in lying about working together for years on projects and being life-long friends.

Entrepreneur: "Hey YC, what do I have to tell you in order for me to get in? You know, so I can practice it and avoid being weeded out by your process. So I can tell you all the things you want to hear during the interview. I promise I won't lie during my interview."
"Massage", really?

How could both the video poster and OP mess up this quote?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_medium_is_the_message
I can see how that sounds but take a look a the preceding paragraph and the links in it:

"For some time I've been mean [0] to university students who feel entitled to a "safe space" [1] — by which they seem to mean a space where they are insulated [2] from ideas they don't like [3]."

He does not mean "I hereby call out out these young people ..." but rather "This is what I did in the preceding links". This is a sticky topic and it's really easy to read stuff into things that isn't there - especially when the author expropriates a term like 'safe spaces' but if you read it critically and follow a few of the links I think you'll discover that he is in no way attacking minorities.

0. http://popehat.com/2014/11/05/breaking-existence-of-u-of-ore...
1. http://popehat.com/2015/04/14/fear-and-butthurt-at-uc-san-di...
2. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/22/opinion/sunday/judith-shul...
3. http://www.dailytarheel.com/article/2015/04/opinion-campus-s...
Has anyone figured out how to distribute an android wear app outside of the play store? How would i get it on f-droid?

In development i can load the APK directly to the watch, but how will my users do it?
Android Studio packs the wear.apk inside of the mobile.apk but your phone won't upload the wear.apk to your watch unless it comes from google. (at least in my experience.
You don't have to be in a minority in order to be marginalised. It's like saying that since black people make up the majority of South Africa, the idea that the white minority could oppress them is laughable. It has more to do with power than numbers.
Good lord, if it was a mini-series, with the kind of production values of Michael Shara's Gettysburg? Where can I sign up to give over my money?

Especially since there is a remarkable lack of WWI era movies after Paths of Glory that were anything like decent.
> If I wanted to do those things, I should write "margin-collapse: disabled" and "vertical-align: center". Making your abstractions leaky on purpose doesn't mean you're justified in doing it.

Adding "margin-collapse: disabled" would increase the complexity of CSS for no real reason, because now there would be three modes instead of two: static block, static-block-with-margin-collapse-disabled, and absolute position. There would be no benefit other than increased complexity of what is already a quite complex spec.

The real problem, IMHO, is that margin collapse exists at all. But that is not a CSS problem: that is a problem that goes way back to ancient, pre-CSS versions of HTML. A design goal of CSS, which was vital for its success, was to be backwards-compatible with HTML, in that you can describe every HTML layout in terms of CSS. (This is still not fully realized, because there are some bizarre corner cases involving things like <center>, which for example Hacker News relies on, but it's mostly there.)
Existential Vision
Extension of that logic requires closing all R&D departments across all industries.

As outlined in the manifesto it is a long term investment.
The debate is also settled this way in real politics, it's just that outside some universities, Jewish feelings win.

EDIT: for downvoters: why is it ok to point out diversity politics in universities and not in US politics?
A technical comparison of open source drone autopilots (2012)
Uh... did you read the article you just linked?

"McLuhan frequently punned on the word 'message', changing it to 'mass age', 'mess age", and 'massage'; a later book, The Medium Is the Massage was originally to be titled The Medium is the Message, but McLuhan preferred the new title, which is said to have been a printing error."
Imagine that you're a football (aka soccer) player. And of course all your teammates are football players too.

To communicate explicitly on the football pitch, you use a combination of names, pronouns, short phrases, hand gestures, head movements, etc. But actually most of the communication on the pitch is implicit--players observing each other, inferring the mental state of each other, and making changes based on those inferences. That's how players running at full speed are able to improvise complex plays involving long passes.

This is how I think of the communication between smart social animals like wolves or dolphins. They are like a football team. Every individual is an athlete, with essentially similar physical characteristics and skills. And they interact to accomplish essentially athletic goals, like hunting, or asserting dominance, or mating.

So, I'm not holding out hope that dolphins have a secret rich language, or even an interest in developing one. Heck, even among humans, professional athletes do not have a strong reputation as deep thinkers. But they think a lot about their particular sport.

The movie Avatar, while terrible overall, got this right, I think. Scientists failed utterly to make a connection with the big blue natives. It wasn't until a warrior (by accident) took on the task that the connection was made. The big blue natives were themselves warriors, so of course that is the type of communication they valued most.

Edit just for fun:

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xqrzuj_the-life-aquatic-wit...
You can't just request informed studies without providing funding.
Sure, and we have that now, with flexbox. "align-items" is the property you're looking for.

I find it hard to fault the designers of CSS 2.1 for not being more complex than it was at the time. CSS 2 was a huge advance over CSS 1, so much so that a common feeling at the time was that CSS 2 had so many features no browser vendor would ever implement it all. The authors of CSS 2.1 had to maintain a delicate balance between giving authors the tools they needed and exploding the complexity of the spec, and making vertical alignment fall out of "margin: auto" was one of the ways they did just that.