skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes! Of course that's your point and I agree because the whole idea of this design concept was for Google to show us how much they care about usability and they somewhat failed at that if you had that experience. It was more of a joke from a grumpy old man who had flashbacks from scary moments where deals where made with much money involved and where the specifications changed daily.
I expect that there are people reading this thread for whom it is the last straw that makes them move back to Europe or Canada. And there are some Americans for whom this thread convinces them to emigrate for good.

The Internet is making the world a much smaller place where people know what life is like in other places. Over time, this forces everyone to raise their game. The old ideas of independent nation states are fading and being replaced by the global village in which we are all family.
Don't do anything rash. Be prudent sure, e.g. move assets around before a big surgery. But don't retire early, don't upset your daily existence any more than you have to.

Collect as much clinical data as you can. My oncologists encourage me to troll the internet, and give me URLs to check out. Be data-driven. Don't sweat the unpleasant possibilities so much, and deal with what is.

You may have more than one oncologist: I've got a surgeon, a radiation oncologist, and a GI oncologist. Keep them all informed of what the other is doing; you shouldn't count on them to touch base with each other regularly.

I went totally open-book with my friends and family and employer. Anything they want to know, I deliver in clinical detail. Some folks don't want to know and that's okay. I've gotten tremendous support from everybody.

Keep a positive attitude. That's key. Better for you and better for your loved ones. Tell jokes. Co-worker: "How are you doing?" Me: "I'm glad to be at work! You can't wipe this smile off my face. How weird is that?"
This argument is really rough. Many programmers surely will only want the content, but websites are interacting with the whole world, and they have business models which cater to the general public. If they only exist to serve simple, static contents then the companies running them might add well just shut up shop. Why even bother spending expenses maintaining such stuffs if they don't appeal to the general public and easily call them to actions anyways.
I've been practically bedridden for 9 months with medical problems. I've also been producing code that entire time.

Everyone is right that you should not freak out until you get all the info from the doctors.

But lets assume you are going to be sick for a while. Once you get into that phase, figure out 2 things:

1) When can you be focused and productive? Work at those times.

2) How can you take care of yourself, stay sane, have fun, and not let a disease ruin your emotional stability. This is just as important,if not more so, than the work.

One last thing - this is your life we are talking about. Startups are just jobs. Keep your priorities straight as you make decisions.
I'm sorry to hear that. As others have noted, find out all the details asap before you start making decisions.

On the COBRA side of things, you have 60 days at minimum: http://www.dol.gov/ebsa/faqs/faq-consumer-cobra.html and it must last at least 18 months and can go as long as 36 depending on how they have it set up.

Also, I hope you have people around you to get support and talk with. I've never dealt with cancer personally but I have to belief your mind is racing and you're flooded with some mix of panic, fear, and more panic than I can imagine. This is not the time to keep close friends and family in the dark.
Agreed. I remember Sourceforge when it was just getting started and it always had a terrible interface and bad usability. I remember always being annoyed when I was forced to download something through them.

On a side note, looking now at their Wikipedia page, I'm shocked to see that they only started in 1999. I would have place them a year or two earlier in '97 or '98. Anyone else feel this way?
Here's the RTL BTW: https://github.com/ProjectVault/orp/tree/master/hardware/mse...
Sounds like what ipfs guys are doing for naming:

> We plan to transition to hosting it on IPFS as soon as DNS -> IPNS -> IPFS naming proves robust, so we can use nice looking URLs.

http://ipfs.io/
This looks like a great project! It looks pretty similar to PhantomCSS, but you're taking the pain out of hosting, which I appreciate: https://github.com/Huddle/PhantomCSS

One of my biggest struggles is introducing development practices like regression testing to traditional designers, a problem which is compounded by a lack of good tooling. Hopefuly Percy (and other tools like it) can help to alleviate this Problem.

I wonder if we could eventually even have TDD for designs. So once a component is designed in Photoshop, the first step would be to submit an image into Percy and then subsequent commits would check if the CSS had evolved to the point where it matched the original static design.
> I think he means that if you have object references, then those references are interesting for the application itself, and not just for the GC tracer.

What I mean is that either those refs are permanent -- in which case they won't be traced -- or arbitrary -- in which case it's really more of an "arbitrary" problem than a "permanent" one.

> The "arbitrary" scope better not be really arbitrary since even GCs are typically tuned for the generational hypothesis

By arbitrary I mean long-lived (old-gen) but not permanent. In short: database data.

> For things like databases where object lifetime is in the hands of the user, arena/slab allocators work just fine.

What you are saying is that you never truly have arbitrary-lifetime objects, and I strongly disagree with that.

> the time spent there may end up exceeding arena impl costs.

Even if you're right about arenas (which I don't agree with), you believe that a runtime designed to target the vast majority of server software should force developers to figure out lifetimes and that that may be beneficial to them? I mean, I even mentioned arena just to get that much closer to 100% performance. Even without them Java gets to at least 90%. Are you suggesting that the vast majority of projects in the world are interested in doing more work that is likely error prone just to get that 10% at best?
Why is it damaging?
I see a lot of (rightfully) upset comments but this doesn't really come as a surprise to me given that Twitter (and others like FB, GOOG, ad networks) already track websites you visit.

I know there are ways of blocking that but I would have a hard time believing that many (outside of HN readers) block that type of tracking.
Does Canada have an armed forces? Is everyone in it deranged?
I would go so far as to say that if you're in a dispute with anyone and they tell you you're not allowed to have a lawyer present, you damn well better have a lawyer present.
Don't have a coverage gap and don't use COBRA instead of your employer's group coverage.
The allegedly defaming statements that the professor was suing over are irrelevant, since she is citing these lawsuits for their existence, not their content.

> You can make a lot of propaganda by choosing facts.

Like you did by choosing to only quote half of her sentence? The full sentence was "The professor sued for defamation various colleagues, administrators, and a former grad student whom, according to his complaint, he had previously dated; a judge dismissed those suits this month".
ROSS ULBRICHT has been sentenced to life in jail for his role in the Silk Road. This article shows what a waste of resources this trail was. Online markets for illegal substances are going to follow the path of file sharing, both are nearly impossible to stop.

"Closing down the web’s biggest drug shop has simply cleared the way for competitors."
That would be kind - please. I shall delve, kids holiday permitting !
what is headroom
Dont pull a Jobs and go all homeopathic, and follow your doctors advice.... But smoke, eat and otherwise imbibe a shitton of cannabanoids (eg marijuana). Including drinking the juice of the plant (non-psycoqctive). There is.a large lack of scientific studies on cannabanoids due to its schedule 1 status, but the majority of the stuff that is used in government approved programs is actually extracted and then sprayed onto plant matter (eg its not the real deal, some of the 400+ cannabanoid compounds are missing), so be wary of stufies using the missisipi university stuff. (Im a combat vet with ptsd so it helps me in a different way)

Then i would make sure your legal stuff is taken care of, just in case, such as power of attorney and your will. The last time I went to Iraq i included my will and video messages yo my family and friends in a safe deposit box only accesible to my executor.

Then I would start getting all philosophical and reading while doing chemo and hope for the best, and live life a day at a time.

Much love to you through this tough time (talk about understatement eh?)
> I see an issue with treating drug users (esp. recreational drug users) as somehow "less than human" because of their choices.

The justice system only sees them as "less than human" until they can conveniently be used to create an emotional scene which can be used as ammo against someone the government doesn't like.

See: the poor defenseless kid who would still be alive today if it weren't for the silk road forcing him to buy drugs and take them
This is one of those times where you are literally allowed, even encouraged, to think of only yourself.

You have cancer. You can't avoid that. It sucks. It's one of the worst hands to be dealt. Get treatment. Get the best damn treatment. If you don't already do so, start taking care of your body 100%. If you do, bump it to 110%.

Cancer is not easy. It is a vicious plague that wants nothing less than to overtake your body for its own growth. It's ugly.

But you can beat it.

Take the time and effort you need to fight this, and use what you have left doing what you love to do, which if you're anything like me, it's the work that you'll be starting very soon.

It'll be exhausting. When you get into chemo, and maybe into marrow transplants and stem cell procedures, you won't often have much energy--both physically and mentally--to contribute, so do it now.

Sorry if this is blunt, but I don't want to give off the impression that everything is going to be fine and everything is going to be normal. Shit is going to hit the fan.

But you can do this.

You're fucking dammit_lump; you can do this.
When his code causes problems I wouldn't fix it directly. Put the fix as a comment in the bug tracker and kick it to him. If he can directly see what he is doing vs the correct way and why the correct way is correct, maybe he will take a hint.
Or without polluting global namespace:

export PATH="$PATH:$HOME/node_modules/.bin"
> If anything should be open and free, it's art.

We've had free (both gratis and libre) art for ages. It just hasn't been convenient, and often only really free for the wealthy and/or those who have a lot of spare time to track it down. Otherwise, it's limited and controlled.

Want a book? Go to your local library. Want to see inspirational paintings/statues? Head to your local museum! Music? It's being broadcast on the radio 24/7! Movies? They're also being broadcast for free on TV (you don't even need cable!)

Oh, your local library/museum isn't very local, you can't afford a taxi and there's insufficient public transport? Too bad. At least they're free for wealthy people.

Saved up, spent a lot of time, went there, and they didn't have what you were looking for? Too bad, it's free if you can travel to another location or wait (who knows how long) for it to arrive there.

That music you wanted? It's playing for free, but on a station that your receiver doesn't pick up. That movie? It played last December. If you wait 8 more months it'll probably be on for free again. But not right now, the station wants you to watch something different.

Free art is not new, nor is it a threat to artists. Writers never got paid more because you had to pay cab fare to get to the library. Actors never got paid more because you had to wait several months to see reruns of their movies. Ancient Greek sculptors aren't suffering just because you get to see their statue for free at the museum.

What's new is that it's much more ubiquitously and evenly accessible. And that you are free to choose/explore anything, rather than just what someone allows you to watch/listen to/read/view.
Interesting points you bring up. A point to consider is that many companies, even surprisingly many of the Fortune 500s, have very dedicated IT teams to support a web infrastructure, and so choose to make their applications using web frameworks to emulate native. I give you that it's not ideal, but when looking at the bigger picture, it just makes sense to use web rather than to force them to spend months getting ready for native support; so there might be a place for each use case.
Upon reading this, this is the first thing that came to my mind: https://i.imgur.com/WiOMq.jpg

Now, how do we get people to pay for the services they use? Is that even desirable for us, the consumers?
(A) Don't give up. You're young and probably have a good chance of beating it.

(B) Do not let your employment impact or hurt your health. Your first priority should 100% be getting great healthcare, not saving the startup money. (On other hand, you absolutely should allow your health to impact your employment. If the startup isn't considerate about your health, drop them like a hot potato.)
> GC does help with ABA style concurrent problems

I wasn't just referring to that. GC helps with pretty much any concurrent data structure, lock-free or not. For example, read-write locks don't scale too well (certainly no beyond the core count we're quickly coming up against on servers), and GC enables easy optimistic locking.
If you and your significant other were to drink five bottles of wine a week

That's 12 1/2 to 15 glasses of wine a week. I'm hardly a teetotaler, but that seems excessive.
As an Australian living in Canada, it shocks me that a thread like this even exists.

That someone has to consider money when they get diagnosed with a life-altering condition is saddening.
This wasn't something Java brought to OOP, it was borrowed almost verbatim from Objective C (protocols). You can google your way to Java's designers specifically mentioning this as a direct influence.
First, I wish all the best of luck to the OP. It's such a scary thing to go through, but it's something you will get through, like many others said, the outcomes nowadays are so much better than even 10 years ago.

As for the insurance, could someone explain this to me. I thought that with ACA (Obama Care) the pre existing condition was not enforceable anymore an you could get a private insurance based on your age, income, etc, not medical history. Am I wrong about that? If that's not the case, than what's the point of all this ACA nonsense to begin with. I thought that forcing me and other people to buy insurance was exactly so someone like the OP wouldn't be left out in the cold when they really need the help. Am I missing something.

Also, if pre existing conditions do not matter any more, how can the insurance company raise the premiums for the company the OP would be working for. It doesn't make much sense to me. In any case, take care of your self first and foremost.
If too many people use this site, Google (and probably others too) will ban the IP.
Because it upsets people like you.

It's also the way I personally choose to protest the corporate and government surveillance state we're living in.
Their stated goal is to "organize the world's information" but notice there's never a qualifier of the world's public information.

While they've been able to determine a ton of information about social circles from interactions (gmail, voice, gchat, hangouts), the real understanding comes from G+ where we've categorized our contacts.

Odds are you have circles that represent locations, employers, family, friends, clubs, etc. By analyzing those groupings, they can determine the relationships that aren't obvious just from the interactions.

Now, combine that with the previous information and they know when you're talking with someone from HR from another company and how closely that company is linked to yours via shared/common circles. Sounds like a opportunity to sell an ad for 401k rollovers. :)
Except presumption of innocence is supposed to be a cornerstone of the american justice system. Until that he hired a killer is proven in a criminal court, we all ought to refrain from making the assumption that such accusations in any way reflect the truth of the matter.
>> I feel horrible about joining a young business as an albatross instead of an asset.

Stop that. Did you get cancer on purpose? Then don't act like you foisted it on them on purpose. Don't worry about the company, worry about yourself.
I didn't down vote, but it might be because it doesn't appear that btdollar is hell banned. I though hell ban = all their comments are dead, but it's plausible that his [dead] comments were just down voted.
A a social business where profits are used to subsidize NGOs campaigns.

The technical side is also fun: µservices, Python, Go, Java, Docker, Ractive.js ...
And that is why we have the popehat signal. Ken and his cohort would have jumped on that like crazy.
How Body Clapping Bring Problems?
how do you know? did you do experiments or something?

https://news.usc.edu/63669/fasting-triggers-stem-cell-regene...

Science!
"We took risks, we knew we took them; things have come out against us, and therefore we have no cause for complaint..." - Robert Falcon Scott
I've seen multiple security audits that didn't see fit to mention such ethernet ports as a problem. I don't know why; it's possible management told them it was "out of scope".
You mean sizeof(survivors whose references changed since last collection). You pay for those write barriers for a reason.

> Stack allocation (either explicit or deduced) is probably the fastest method of object allocation there is. Generational GC is on average going to be fast but can suffer horrendous worst case scenarios unless you GC is designed/engineered to switch between thread local allocation arenas.

I agree, but on large servers with lots of RAM, the total amount of memory that can possibly be managed on stacks is < 3% of total RAM. What do you do then? Most of the RAM will be filled with database data, with arbitrary lifetime and concurrent access for both reads or writes, because that's precisely the kind of data that would most significantly help the program's performance if it's in RAM.

Now you can say that with all that data in RAM, the GC heap is a huge waste of RAM and the worst-case GC pause would be terrible, to which I say (I write in-memory databases in Java) that most of that data is user data and is kept off heap. Its lifetime is indeed arbitrary, but objects are deleted precisely when the user chooses to delete them, and that happens when they're protected by a lock. The much more interesting data is the indices, for which a GC helps greatly by allowing optimistic locking and other forms of scalable concurrency, and only those are kept on the heap.
"the guy tried to have people killed", allegedly.

And the alleging being done by someone who is himself in quite a bit of legal trouble for stealing from Silk Road and embezzling bitcoin during the course of his official duties.
First: Go get a second opinion on that lump. It's possible that it's a benign cyst caused by your pores not being able to do their job by being clogged with anti-persperants. If it's a cyst and you switch to deodorant only, it could go away on it's own. I've had this happen before, and it is exactly as you describe. Regardless of what deodorant you use though.. go get a second opinion.

Second: Don't be scared if it is cancerous. If it is, it seems you've found it at such an early stage that a small surgery and some follow ups will ensure you're fine. If you're worried about the insurance affecting the rest of the startup, get insurance on your own (you don't actually have to purchase insurance through work).
Yep, and the easiest way to fix this is something like: @@||piwik-domain.tld^
Questioning feminism has become like questioning religion in the dark ages.

Let's hope more people like her continue to speak out against these persecutions.
This just seems like an ill-informed piece written by someone who is determined not to enjoy wine. If cheap wine tastes okay to you, buy cheap wine. If you can detect and appreciate a difference in more expensive wine - that's you, not "studies" or the "wine industry experts" sneered at in this article - then buy more expensive wine, if you can afford it and it seems like a priority in your life.
Do you have a map of destinations?
Backporting bug fixes or new features? I wouldn't be going out of my way to try adding new features to 5 year old versions of Android. If a user reports a crash for 2.3, sure, I will fix it. I know I have a fair amount of devices showing as Android 2.3 for one of my apps, but I've noticed most of them seem to be inactive. The app in question is a tool for testers and power users, so I would expect many of them to keep old devices around for fun/hobby, but not really using them actively.

Just something you might want to investigate. You may not have as many actively using 2.3 as you might think. Creating a new branch for active build really isn't that much complexity and then a branch for legacy when the legacy is just maintenance mode only.
"Most voters said no"

I'm curious about your argument. The death penalty was suspended, limited, limited again, and finally the last loopholes allowing it in special case were closed by the passing of more than one bill by parliament, none of which were referendums. Are you basing this on polls?
I think it's unfair to compare U.S. consumption with that of Europe. It is a much larger part of the culture to casually drink a glass of wine with, let's say lunch, than it is to do so in the U.S. Because of this, it makes sense that Europeans don't place too much social stock in high quality, expensive wine when providing for guest. As an American, I drink wine typically on special occasions or nice, intimate dinners.. so of course I'll shell out a little extra because it's part of the sentiment.
I don't read this as an argument at all. I read it as a reflection on the power of software.
I think that the social discourse is moving in a place where badthink, crimethink, goodthink and so on can be used unironically. That makes me feel unsafe, chilled, terrified and having a visceral reaction.
That's a common fallacy. "Our business is profitable. Therefore, every decision we make is correct."
In "basic syntax" I suggest you to move the doc about "Splices" after "Elements", since the latter it's used in the former example (or even later since it's more complex than other things).
He was stopped too soon; if he'd have earned billions he'd have been "too big to fail" and given bail money.
The start of the next paragraph already mentions your point, and says on average people drink 1 bottle/month.
The issue I see here is that a cheap bottle of wine in France is not the same quality as a similarly priced bottle in the US. Per capita demand is so much higher in Europe and a more saturated supply has risen to meet it. Firms compete on quality and consistency as prices have approached cost.

In the US, a cheap bottle of wine really is of lower quality.