skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
another zenefits incident not too long ago http://www.businessinsider.com/zenefits-ceo-rescinds-job-off...
"The economics of U.S. healthcare are also at play. To address the root causes of anxiety takes more time, patience, dedication and, yes, money."

Big Pharma companies drive drug development in the first place, so obstructing the benzo revenue without a suitable alternative may lead to better drugs taking longer to develop. I'm assuming the non-benzos (SSRIs like Lexapro) aren't functionally equivalent to the benzos in how they "help" patients, by some measure that is unknown to me.
When I read the headline I immediately thought of When HARLIE Was One[1] and of the Great Machine[2] from Babylon 5.

Apparently some people at HP are also Sci-Fi fans.

Edit: BTW I think it was Henry Spencer who, long ago, quipped something like "it's not a supercomputer unless it costs a billion dollars". Looks like they're actually budgeting for half of that so with inevitable cost overruns they might get there.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When_Harlie_Was_One
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Machine
And web and Android. Goalie looks nice though. (but also, thanks for the Coach.me mention)
Part 1: http://vnev.me/implementing-a-programming-language-in-c-part...

And previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9555972
Don't forget banks and wall street.
The link is a nice writeup.
Doesn't that just prove my point building a country wide mobile network is not a minor or cheap undertaking.
How is Git commit SHA1 formed? (2012)
One where all odd numbers are even numbers.
I had a bad experience with the people who run that site.
None of this is an argument in favor of a fork. Even if what you write were true (and that hasn't been my impression), somebody would still have to do the work of improving QtWidgets even further. They might as well do that work in Qt itself without producing a fork.

It's obvious judging from other comments in this thread that Qt has some problems making people unhappy. However, where those problems are genuine, the author's energy would be better spent to fix those inside Qt rather than creating a new project/fork. (If the goal is actually to help other developers; of course, if all the author wanted was to create an interesting proof of concept, then more power to them.)
Unitarian-Universalism is a big tent which includes both a (heterodox, from the perspective of mainstream Christianity, which is Trinitarian) branch of Christianity and a diverse array of non-Christian congregations.
I can see a shining future where all shit jobs are automated, and where so much productivity is gained from automation, that a large majority of the population won't need to work to enjoy a comfortable standard of living.

But I can't clearly see a way to get to there from here. We need to find a way to tax automated productivity as well as labour. We need to find a way to reverse the wealth concentration trend.

But we can try to build this world in the ways we know how, we can automate more and more and more and try to steer the future in the direction we wan't, because the alternative, some weird sort of labour preservation is clearly wrong.
The application of Betteridge's law of headlines is amusing on a story like this.

It's actually arguing againstthe popular notion that they're necessarily a disorder (or at least positing that as a possibility), so the common interpretation of the headline law actually supports their argument, rather than refutes it like is normally the case.
Rajit Manohar's Puzzle Page
On of the other reasons the developing world uses mobile is its easier to defend against insurgents and from people nicking the copper.
How I Chose Great App Ideas for Development
Automated vulnerability checking with bundler-audit and Travis
I am of the opinion that SMIL has been dropped prematurely - there is no real alternative for the time being, web animations aren't finalized nor supported yet, and just keeping SMIL in the current state without developing it any further would be still better than the other alternatives (CSS/JS).
Surely this is something each individual should decide for themselves. Why should you or anyone else decide that I cannot use morphine and friends?
Never mind that Brazil has had its "fair" share of dictatorships.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazilian_military_government

And i really wonder how long the democracy will last if they get too uppity towards US policies...

In the end the Monroe doctrine still seems to be adhered to:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monroe_Doctrine
Just for the record this is not the regexp for matching IP addresses. It is for matching 4 multi digit numbers separated by dots.
This isn't really usable by retail investors, due to the massive transaction costs, correct?
>the problem is that people like to get high on downers, and like to be addicted to them

Why is this a problem?
Just providing that as an example. The same points hold true for temperature. Why is it more simple and more uniform from the perspective of a society that is mostly non metric? What problems would switching solve that people actually deal with on a semi-regular basis? I ask this because unless there are such problems what is the motivation to switch? Why should we?
Absolutely true, but "well, we've replaced entry-level jobs with working for free" is a terrible answer.

Also, would edit my original reply if I could to say that things seem to be heading this direction, not that they definitely or inevitably are.
Thank you for the praise :D. It made me wonder if this thing would still run so I got the ol xcode project from my archives, blew on it a bit to dust it off, inserted it into xcode, pressed play and ducked (in case of an explosion). But there was not even a spark. It ran immediately, albeit with a black frame around the old iphone aspect ratio.

Surprisingly, three or four clicks later I had it running full screen and even full iPad screen (which was but a dream when I made this app).

There's still a few loose ends such as making icons of proper dimensions but I will email you once I'm done if you are still interested in trying to get it past the guards.
Show HN: Gulp AWS Splash, an Open-Source LaunchRock Alternative
> Social Security and Medicare expanded to everyone, regardless of age.

That's an idea, but its not the idea of UBI. Medicare is a complex health insurance system consisting both of government provided and government-subsidized-private health insurance, it isn't anything like UBI.

Social Security is, aside from age or disability test to withdraw from it, a system with benefits governed by your (or your spouse's) past contributions, as such its also (even ignoring the age/disability part) very much not like UBI.
This is the crux: "The goal of having Web Animations to take place of SMIL makes sense..."

Web animations are the modern approach forward. They are actively being developed in all browsers and work in both html and css. You can start developing this today using the polyfill: https://github.com/web-animations/web-animations-js
I'm an extreme minority.

I have CSS disabled and if your site isn't easily navigable without CSS, I leave.
I cured aids
I agree. I will just to copy one sentence of the first comment of tokenadult:

> [...] In actual practice, placebos only look effective when the statistical tests in a study are poor, and most especially when the symptoms are self-reported by patients. Placebos are NOT effective in treating actual disease states or improving "hard endpoints" such as reduction of all-cause mortality or major morbidity from specific diseases with verifiable physiological signs. [links with support information]
I think you're underestimating the network effect barrier to entry (or infra cost in ZipCar's case).
Look at what eBay's head start bought them and what they've done to drive up margins since they won their market. A viable competitor would need to have a significantly better product.
The Right to Waste Water Is Parching the West
The conclusion they've drawn is rather naive because this is definitely a chicken-egg problem.

They've completely disregarded the possibility that the lack of effective tab management is limiting most users to use only a tiny number of tabs.

Tree Style Tabs for Firefox has been an integral part of my browsing experience ever since I discovered it: http://i.imgur.com/PnpZwos.png

I just wish some browser vendor would release an official vertical tabs solution that had a more seamless implementation of autohide/autoexpand (for non-maximized windows where horizontal space is at a premium).
SMIL does not work in IE and is fairly broken in old Android browsers. It's not a viable solution anywhere, today.

I'm sympathetic to hobbyists and SMIL enthusiasts who are losing out here, but removing SMIL isn't changing what common sites can deploy to users today.
So much this. The fear of failure in cooking is a bit like the fear of failure in maths ("I'm just bad at maths") or fearing technology ("I'd never be good at computers!").

I do get it. It feels extremely wasteful to throw out a ruined meal. Many people are taught from very young that the stove is 'dangerous' and that hot pans are something to be feared. It's potentially really really embarrassing to ruin a meal for guests, etc.

It's a fear of experimentation though, which is a shame.

FWIW I'm a kitchen gadget nut as much as the next person - this could be a really good tool for convenience, not criticizing it at all in that way.
Example of this in action: https://youtu.be/I5QyNA6H6rY
Love bud! Fedor does a massive amount of the work on node's TLS implementation. I recently remarked to him that that bud's OCSP code would be better as a separate module - merely as a suggestion - and the next thing I knew https://www.npmjs.com/package/ocsp was released.

bud is one of the few node based TLS terminators and easily the best maintained. Modulus (the hosting company) use a Go based implementation. I think Nodejitsu had a node TLS terminator too but I'm not sure what happened to it post-GoDaddy.
I agree with everything he says, but not much actionable information in the interview.
Surveillance Backlash Could Cost Tech Companies More Than $35B by 2016
What if you have 2 iPhones?
I think the most frustrating one is "Is there something wrong with X?" without any accompanying details. That's not a helpful question at all. What part of X isn't working? Is the server not responding? Are you pressing a button and it's not doing anything? Are you pressing a button and getting an error message? Are you loading the page and seeing something unexpected?

Followed closely by the aggravating design critique/question, "Can't you just make the page pop or something?"
I think the companies that profit on the back of all the OSS should give back too. They should donate respectable cash amounts for projects that are not already bankrolled and rely on people working in their spare time. Of course most companies wont. But it only takes a few to make a difference.
For reference:

Jeff - Jeff Hobbs, aka Tcl Guy, currently CTO and VP, Engineering at ActiveState (http://www.activestate.com/company/management)

Larry Virden - a well-respected Tcl community member (http://wiki.tcl.tk/16)

Richard Suchenwirth - Dev Engineer at Siemens Postal Automation -- famous in Tcl community for coming up w/ seemingly infinate brilliant small solutions and demos (http://wiki.tcl.tk/496) and happens to be a voracious consumer of cinema

Dave Welton - our own @davidw, a recovering Tcl'er (http://journal.dedasys.com/2010/03/30/where-tcl-and-tk-went-...)

Jean-Claude Wippler - prodigious developer, respected community member (http://wiki.tcl.tk/10)

Richard Hipp - Tcl Core Team emeratus, SQLite (http://www.sqlite.org), fossil (http://www.fossil-scm.org), among other things

Larry McVoy - ex Sun, Google (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_McVoy), of lmbench (http://www.bitmover.com/lmbench/) and bitkeeper (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitKeeper) fame, among other things...

Gerald Lester - respected developer/community member, Tcl Board of Directors.

John - John Ousterhout: Brilliant thinker/developer (http://www.highlyscalablesystems.com/3525/favorite-sayings-b...) who brought us Tcl, log structured filesystems (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Log-structured_file_system), great articles on event-oriented programming ([pdf] http://web.stanford.edu/~ouster/cgi-bin/papers/threads.pdf) and testing/life-cycle-management (http://web.stanford.edu/~ouster/cgi-bin/sayings.php), as well as the raft consensus protocol (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raft_%28computer_science%29).
Yeah, but none of that actually needs docker and images and such. If you want to take advantage of the whole server, you can simply run more regular processes on it, and you can launch them on different namespaces using systemd or other process manager. You don't need the whole workflow that comes with these new tools.
Graph Coloring: Enabling higher parallelism for GPU computing
I went through a similar struggle when switching to a Mac about a year ago for work. I still miss the ability to drag windows around from anywhere by holding the alt key, and dragging any part of the window.

Never found a good replacement in OSX.
>Even now, increasingly autonomous drones are killing people in the middle east.

Increasingly? No, they're the same amount autonomous as they've ever been.
Epic Nerf Wars: Episode 1
Any good resources regarding building risk systems for someone who is new to the field?
Reboot of ReBoot officially coming to TV with 26 new episodes
But you won't learn anything this way. Buy a copy of The Joy of Cooking, get some decent non-stick pots and pansresist the temptation to turn the heat up too high and practice. Yes, you'll have a bunch of failed meals along the way and you'll feel incompetent when that happens and you have to throw the food out and get take-out instead. This is OK.

Honestly, it's not that hard. You probably have a friend who can cook, get them to teach you some stuff.
Is that true? I wonder how the trueness of that has varied over time. At first, who knew what computers could do ("pray, Mr. Babbage..."), then the magic wore off and mechanical buttons were still what got things done, now we're headed for "what's a mechanical button"...
I agree with you that labor preservation is wrong, but:

>But I can't clearly see a way to get to there from here.

We can't leave that part up to chance! I think this is the future many of us want, but it is not inevitable.
I wish they revamp their existing web dashboard because it's poorly done.

Features I'd expect from the dashboard at the very least:

1. Number of new customers per interval.

2. Subscription renewals per month.

3. Total income per month stacked by subscription type.

Unfortunately none of these basic features are available.
UNSTOPABLE Epic Nerf Wars: Episode 2
You can try it out at http://hackers.cool/~darius/gravity.html (the same simulation I posted last time this came up).
Etcd2 in the CoreOS Linux Stable Channel
Mindhacker News.
Shark jumped thusly.
Radiation-resistant computation comes to mind.
Because society has to clean up the mess, financially and in terms of dealing with addiction via medicine and/or incarceration. Particularly when opiates are bulk resold to addicts.
>That way we can increase our efficiency as a country...

How are you measuring efficiency here? If it makes sense to hire someone to do something and instead you go entirely robotic, that's the less efficient way to do something.
These interviews are great.

FogBugz search algo is not :)
You should consider uploading that file to the Github repo in the "Releases" section so people can find it easier.
a) I wasn't speaking from a historical perspective but rather about the present. b) the limitation and example cited is the bonobo one we keep chasing our tails over.
Yeah, I don't see any indication there's a shortage of software developers. There are a lot of 50+ year old software developers out of work, and a whole lot of companies refuse to hire people without a degree.
Yeah, we're using configuration management, but that still seems too low level. I haven't tried CFEngine, but in the ones I have, there's no concept of an instance (essentially some configuration files and a few databases) that you should be able to treat as a single unit (e.g. delete instance or move it to another server).

I wonder what's the architecture behind WPEngine and similar services. It must provide some isolation since clients can install their own plugins, but on the other hand I don't see them creating a new Docker image for each client, especially since they're self-managed.
Is that really a reasonable thing to say, though?
I think it is more reasonable to assume that there are N perspectives (via our unique configurations and variations in sensors and systems) on reality rather than different realities, as there is no indication of different realities (of this type, in this context).

While it's true that we have to agree upon certain facets of reality to get anything done, faulty perception and cognition exists (and can in many cases be detected).

I tend to agree with striking, in that "There is only one reality, the one we share" - but this is not necessarily (nor probably) the one we perceive.
> That's an idea, but its not the idea of UBI. Medicare is a complex health insurance system consisting both of government provided and government-subsidized-private health insurance, it isn't anything like UBI.

Single-payer healthcare removes a HUGE problem with providing basic income. I don't see how providing universal healthcare interferes with UBI.

> Social Security is, aside from age or disability test to withdraw from it, a system with benefits governed by your (or your spouss) past contributions, its also (even ignoring the age/disability part) very much not like UBI.

And.....? The SSA is already extremely efficient at distributing funds. Allow them to issue no-fee debit cards they issue, remove age/disability testing, ignore contributions, and then get funding from the general fund.

I'm not saying its easy. I'm saying its how you eat an elephant: one bite at a time.
> "again this is only relevant for advanced production builds"

So, all real-life builds that anyone would care about.
And then that data center has a fire, your server is gone, your data is gone, your business loses X thousands of dollars per day, all because everything was on one server.
Cook double portions to make your friends and family think you met someone!
> Whoever knowingly alters, destroys, mutilates, conceals, covers up, falsifies, or makes a false entry in any record, document, or tangible object with the intent to impede, obstruct, or influence the investigation or proper administration of any matter within the jurisdiction of any department or agency of the United States or any case filed under title 11, or in relation to or contemplation of any such matter or case, shall be fined under this title, imprisoned not more than 20 years, or both.

The complaint appears to be that (a) the investigation does not actually have to have commenced for the law to apply and (b) the penalty for destruction of records can far exceed the original crime's penalty.

e.g. did you do videotape you and your friends doing something stupid and illegal that might merit you a citation? And then, upon sober second thought, delete the video? You just committed a far greater crime.

That this law, which was created to rein in corporate crime, is being applied in other contexts suggests that the legislators didn't really think through the ramifications of how this tool might be used by prosecutors.
Wow, they secured the card against driver paychecks.
Well said—completely agree.
This is clearly an example of out of control DOJ. An assault on speech the won't pass the most cursory constitutional challenge. Unfortunately the process is the punishment. Kudos to Popehat for reporting on this.
Haha, I get those as well! Thanks!
Lessons from a Study of Perfect Pitch Decks
While I'm not a data scientist, I have been doing Euler problems in Julia for fun and the situation seems better there, at least when it comes to the foundations.
I wish I knew of another way to enable this - but if you use the FireGestures addon there is a special menu for tab switching you can access no matter where in the window your mouse is.

Hold right click and scroll your mouse wheel down (you have to tweak a setting to have scrolling up also bring up the menu). Your tabs will appear where your cursor is as a drop down list, sort of like a context menu.

Combined with tab groups (ctrl+shift+e, or make another mouse gesture) and I can sort my tabs into categories and quickly switch between my tabs by either switching tab groups or using my mouse wheel, no matter where my cursor is.

So much time saved from not having to go to the top/side of my browser to switch tabs. :)

E:

The setting is under "Advanced" -> "Wheel Gestures" and the action is "[Popup] List all tabs"
I've managed to get a job interview in Oslo
and would be grateful to know if there is anything worth doing/seeing/meeting in Oslo before going home?
Nice solves a different problem: Making sure that less important programs don't hog cpu time.

I use cpulimit to force a CPU bound program to slow down. I also use it for programs that always max out the CPU for no good reason, and work fine with less CPU.

Nice won't help with either of those.
> Pi, after all, is no fraction, but its handy to keep around anyway.

You actually only need a surprisingly small amount of decimals of pi to calculate the circumference of the visible universe (just about the largest circle you can possibly have) to the accuracy of a single proton (just about the smallest scale you can realistically want to measure).

I think it was about 50 decimals or so.

Take that, crazy hundreds-of-decimals-of-pi memorizing people! ;-)
What is a good product roadmap process for a seed stage (SaaS) company?
We are thinking of implementing a product roadmap process something like what is described in this article:

http://firstround.com/review/This-Product-Prioritization-System-Nabbed-Pandora-More-Than-70-Million-Active-Monthly-Users-with-Just-40-Engineers/

Curious if anyone has implemented a similar system. If so, what worked well, what would you change? Does this type of approach promote positive dynamics between business and technology sides of the company?
Culture Is the Spec; Process Is the Code
Apple to charge $99/year to publish Safari extensions (claims developer)
Maybe "subsidy" is the wrong word, but she started out paying taxes on $300k of annuity income every year. If she bought e.g. $50k of scratchers in any particular year and didn't win anything, she lost $50k * (1 - top_tax_rate), not $50k. If I spend $50k on scratchers this year, I won't be able to write it off, because I've never made any money from the lottery, so my lottery spending will be considered a "hobby" rather than a "business".
> Single-payer healthcare removes a HUGE problem with providing basic income.

Whether or not that's the case, single-payer healthcare is a different idea from UBI, not a component of UBI (and, indeed, something that conservative supporters of UBI -- of which there are quite a few -- are more likely to see UBI as an alternative to rather than to see as part of UBI.)

> > Social Security is, aside from age or disability test to withdraw from it, a system with benefits governed by your (or your spouse's) past contributions, its also (even ignoring the age/disability part) very much not like UBI.

> And.....?

And so your claim that the idea of UBI is Social Security and Medicare for everyone regardless of age is simply grossly inaccurate.
NewNRG on-demand personal wellness coach, recently launched
You can read the email Apple sent out here:
http://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/397bn6/apple_wants_me...