skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As someone who had contacts and got LASIK later on, I would still highly recommend considering it. For me, the deciding factors included 1) hassle of putting on contacts, 2) ability to lose them when swimming and 3) lack of access to new contacts when traveling or outdoors.

I've since found that my contact prescriptions were, apparently, never that great, since after getting LASIK my vision feels noticeably better. The first few days it felt like switching from 1080p to 4k, it was that significant. I think it might have to do with how LASIK is done nowadays, where they make a topographical map of your eye and adjust the curvature with extreme precision. You just can't get that with contacts.

Anyways, it's been 2+ years for me too and I can truly say it was one of the better life-changing decisions I've made.
It's not true. All you have to do is to assert that you instead have copyright and that you indemnify the hosting party from any fall-out and your content will be right back up. They can still sue you after that but they could do that regardless. So the DMCA is actually pretty good when it comes to this aspect.

And in the case above you'd have to sue the party claiming to have copyright on your creation but that's optional.
Did you ask them for money? Did you describe the nature of the bug you discovered? Hard to believe a company will ignore a "I can reset any account's password" bug report. And if you're asking for a bounty, maybe they just can't afford to pay it.
e.g., http://lists.ding.net/geeks/96/dec/msg00007.html
My anecdotal experience is that eyesight is mostly genetic. As a developer and before that avid gamer, I've stared at screens and tiny text far more than the average person, yet my eyesight remains perfect (mid 30's). My wife, as a counter-example, works in healthcare, not a screen person at work or home, but her eyesight has always been poor. Heck, my brother is a developer too, no glasses or contacts.
It's great that gmane displays monospaced text big enough so you don't need a microscope to read it.
I think that's a "you forgot Poland" response, though. I'm an avid audiobook listener. I particularly like listening to them while I'm exercising or doing housework.

But the occasions when the thing I'd most like to do is just sit there and passively listen to an audiobook while staring off into space are few and far between. And I don't feel that doing it while sitting in a car is a significant improvement over doing it while sitting on the sofa.
David Shaw is a hero to all scientists that hate writing grants. The best part is that once he was done terrorizing Wall Street for 20 years, he went back to research in protein folding.

Now there is a role model for you.

Disclosure: DE Shaw paid for some of my research long ago.
> Commodities without an alternative (e.g. water) and natural monopolies (e.g. networks) should be owned by the public.

Why do you think there's a water shortage in California right now?
Yeah, instantly reminded me of Dave McClure's "How to pitch a VC" presentation from 5-6 years ago:

http://bit.ly/1g9aTMP
That sounds like it's dangerous so I'd avoid that :-)

Thanks for the confidence builder; much appreciated!
I developed an allergy to contacts during college. After wearing them for more than 15 minutes, my eyes would swell up. I was on a sports team and didn't want to negatively affect my performance with eye wear. So I got the lasik. I had a hell of a problem with dry eyes for years, obviously not helped by spending 10 hours a day in front of a CRT monitor. Finally I got diagnosed with Blepharitis, which is an inflammation of the eyelids caused by tear duct blockage. I treat it with a warm compress every morning and get by all right. I often wonder if the lasik caused the Blepharitis, the contacts caused it, or I had it and the contacts irritated it.
I researched LASIK heavily before deciding not to proceed. A few things that fed into my decision:

(1) 1% have serious complications, and another couple percent say they would've abstained if they could go back in time. Basically, ~3% of people were unhappy with LASIK. That means that you'll see a lot of echo-chamber about how it's amazing (the 97%), but 3% is not negligible.

(2) By the time you're 45 y/o, you're going to get presbyopia -- ie. you will require bifocals because your eyes lose the ability to accommodate. You'll need some form of correction in the future.

(3) Most of the lifestyle improvements were relatively minor compared to donning & doffing soft lenses once in the morning and once at night.

(4) You cannot wear soft contact lenses anymore after LASIK. If you need contact lenses in the future, they'll have to be rigid (eg. gas-permeable). Those suck. It also means you may not be able to take advantage of advances in soft contact lens technology, such as the glucose-sensing lens and the "autofocus" lens. [1]

[1] Disclaimer: I work on these devices. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/16/business/international/nov...
that's the sad part - few photos available made each of them worthy inspection, bringing memories etc.

now, having 100 GB of photos & videos from somebody's childhood will either produce ignorance of whole content (no, nobody will ever want to go through all of them, guaranteed, and if yet they would hate it), or some automated way (yet to be invented) to take out best maybe 100-200.

By not selecting few good worthy now, you're just pushing the decision into the future, to your/somebody else's shoulders.
For those wanting to create Deep Dream images without the setup hassle, I had a good experience using the Docker image from https://github.com/ryankennedyio/deep-dream-generator

Gives you the IPython notebook so you can install different training sets, try different parameters, etc.
I don't think so. Perhaps you'd better stick with contact lenses.

(I had LASIK and the procedure is not bad at all and over very quickly).
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My prescription was approximately -8 in both eyes. I was a pretty fringe-y candidate for the surgery and had to do the most expensive one (laser flap, wavefront) to get it done.
ah, the power of propaganda over homo sapiens...when we they learn that medicine is a business?
Do you mean client-side decorations?
https://blogs.gnome.org/mclasen/2014/01/13/client-side-decor...
Ads?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVYArjS-Ee0

;)
Absolutely life changing. I have so many bad memories from growing up with the burden of glasses. One of the worst is when my school took us to the beach for a couple of days and I lost my glasses in the sea. For the rest of the trip (3 days) I wasn't able to be active, just sat at the beach, and worst of all I was a burden on my friends. They had to walk me everywhere.

I'm so glad I got it done -- I did PRK -- but in recent years my vision started deteriorating a little bit. It's not too bad though -- I passed the DMV test. I hope it doesn't get worse than that. However, my understanding is that I can do it again if I had too. Anyone here had to do it multiple times?
I never asked for any money. Here's my full initial email to them:

"Hi

I would like to inform you about a critical security vulnerability on your site.

The vulnerability allows an attacker to reset the password of an account by simply knowing the targets email address.

Please reply with a signed S/MIME message and I will precisely explain the vulnerability to you.

Kind regards,
..."
How automatic Twitter/Facebook pages give you income?
I+thought+you'd+be+interested+in+this+job+at+Trustwave
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I got PRK. No long term issues (other than occasional minor dry eye, and maybe a tiny bit of light sensitivity), but yes, the 3 week period after you get it can be very rough. You usually have to take at least one week of work off.
You probably don't. Kotlin, for example, seems like a great language. No big deal. Why does anyone have to convince you? Carry on. Now, those of us that use Go would like to carry on too.
Reactive Extensions and ReactiveUI.
> we could have solved that entire problem simply by adding an attribute to <img> telling the client which HTTP byte ranges it needs to request for various sizes

You would never have a range start anywhere but the top of the file, as the whole point is that the later octaves are refinements of earlier ones. What makes JPEG2000 so amazing for this use case is precisely that you don't need to care about "ranges" (if you needed ranges, we might as well just have multiple files..). Instead, browsers just keep downloading the file until they either achieve the level of quality they need to render at the scale they currently care about (being able to continue later, if required) or run out of file. At worst, only as a "hint", I could see a benefit to having a table of sizes, but I feel like the cool solution for at would be to have an encoded version of the octave offsets, sort of like a zindex but for JPEG.
You can evaluate the risk and consider your anxiety separately. If you think the risk is worth it, then you can take care of the anxiety with medication. After enough diazepam, you won't be anxious anymore. You won't care. Not only does this help you feel better, but I'm sure a less anxious person is better for the surgery as well.
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As far as I know the only fix is vitrectomy.
Which is why it was a great fit for MySQL, which would silently store invalid dates and truncate over-long strings with no warnings.
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Issuing stock is not the principle way they maintain positive cash flow. The float between the time their customers pay them and the time they have promised to pay their vendors creates enormous, ever-increasing operating cash flow:

https://hbr.org/2014/10/at-amazon-its-all-about-cash-flow/

They are essentially borrowing from their own customers (or maybe more accurately, vendors), at zero interest, to continually build the business.
I got it done when I was 22 (The Navy paid for it) and my vision was considered severe low vision[0] and an astigmatism. I am 28 now and I have no problems (last test I was 20/15). I was told, however, that my vision would might start to taper off around 40 (I may need reading glasses), but I am sure it varies for everyone.

[0] http://www.aoa.org/patients-and-public/caring-for-your-visio...
At my company we spend so much time on reviews it borders on the ridiculous and everyone is pretty much of the opinion they really don't matter unless the company wants to get rid of you at some point.
Maybe sometimes. I was unsure whether to mention it, because I'm not totally sure it's because of the eye surgery, as I only feel it on days after using sleep medication, so I figured it was more likely to be a side effect from that (or perhaps an interaction).
Perhaps somewhat related. The other day I read that DMT produces psychedelic experiences that often involve a common thread that is somewhat similar to a "council of invisible cosmic entities:" multiple technologically advanced entities.

Strassman (2001) reported that “about half” of the 60 volunteers entered
what he described as “freestanding, independent levels of existence” of a
highly unusual nature. These places were inhabited by what volunteers
described as intelligent “beings”, “entities”, “aliens”, “guides”, and
“helpers”... ...Strangely enough, reports of these kinds of beings seem
to be unique to DMT, as Strassman was unable to find anything similar in
the research literature on other psychedelic drugs.

There were some consistent themes in experiences of entity contact.
Participants frequently reported that the beings seemed to be waiting for
them. Volunteers were subjected to an examination by these beings in what
appeared to be a technologically advanced setting. Volunteers felt
like their mind and body was probed and tested, or even modified in some
unexplained way. The beings communicated with the user through gestures

...Strassman noted the striking parallels between these entity contact
experiences and accounts of alien abduction.

Intriguingly, many volunteers refused to believe that these experiences
were hallucinations or dreams, as they seemed too real. Strassman reported
being initially quite baffled by and unprepared for the frequency of these
entity experiences among his volunteers...

As an atheist and somebody who has never used psychedelics I find this fascinating.
More and more sites (twitter is a major offender here) are switching off their RSS feeds because they can't control the readers.

See for instance:

https://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline.rss?screen_...
Indeed, musl is more about correctness/standards compliance and robustness than targeting any specific platforms (provided it's Linux).
Your surgeon is lazy. He wants you as a patient for 2 days for his fee, not for two weeks. All my research indicates that PRK is substantially better.
IIRC I had 5 diopters in one eye, 6 in the other (not sure if that's how you measure eyesight in the US, I'm from Spain). I was farsighted (I've heard shortsightness is healed better with LASIK?) and had some astigmatism as well.
Is there a python/clojure/java version of this?
Actually there is no evidence that contacts affect myopia progression. I had bifocals for many years as a teen under the same impression, but this has also been disproven. It is likely that any slow-down that you had in myopia progression was caused by your eye-ball size stabilizing.

Sources: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1771373/,
My Optometrist
That kind of old-school journalist. Sounds pretty cold doesn't he.
There are a couple approaches.

One involves using a YAG laser to burn the floaters:

http://www.eyefloaters.com/index.php?option=com_content&task...

Sadly, it's done rarely enough that it could be snake oil or in-progress research.

A full vitrectomy is possible (replace the vitreous humour fluid in the eye):

http://www.allaboutvision.com/conditions/vitreoretinal-proce...

But this is dangerous enough that it's almost never performed simply for floaters.
Dang, that's terrible that they did not respond immediately. Goodluck. I hope you get a favorable resolution.
needs (2013) added to the title
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This company? https://www.deshawresearch.com

It looks quite large. What are the goals of their research?
It may be worth mentioning that the Halo-ing is also present with contact lenses, at least for large lens strengths.
I've always wanted to correct my eyes and was hoping for a story with a happy ending this time but no, there's the halos!

I hate my glasses with a passion. Some form of allergy made my eye doctor tell me I should stop using contacts. But still, I won't do LASIK(1). For a few reasons.

First, there's this thought of having a software-controlled laser beam digging pits in the cornea. And pits they are, it's not like the laser pulses create a smooth surface, we are long ways away from that.

Second, there's the corneal flap, which never fully heals.

Third, related to the second point, there's the fact that the cornea is cut and some nerves are permanently damage, which could create a dry eye condition. Apparently people commit suicide over that. And my eyes are not that moist to begin with, AC already bothers them.

Reason four is the fact that, even if 100% successful and a 20/20 results is achieved, your vision can still be really poor. Halos are just one of many (common!) conditions that aren't really correctable and you'll have to live with forever.

Last, LASIK surgeries are rather new. The first LASIK patients should be now reaching old age. And the first generation LASIK equipment was pretty poor, so any problems they have are blamed on that. But what if I do a LASIK today, and have really nasty complications as I age? They are unlikely to be corrected.

Does anyone remember that procedure where surgeons would cut the patient's eye radially to try to correct nearsightedness? Some of those patients tried LASIK later, with really poor results due to a weak cornea. Not to mention the nasty complications. That procedure sounds barbaric now.

I just hope LASIK won't be seen like that too in a few years.

[1] I'm still on the fence about LASEK. Recovery is reportedly horrible, but at least there's no deep corneal cutting.
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"It's as if everyone Apple fanboy who was rejected by Apple's UX department is now making GTK themes."

Or most of them probably just gave up making GTK themes.

https://github.com/QtCurve/qtcurve-gtk3
https://igurublog.wordpress.com/2012/11/05/gnome-et-al-rotti...
The complicated thing about an article like this is that her experiences are definitely valid, it isn't hard to see where she is coming from, and I'm actually glad to read a piece from this perspective. Yet I can't help but already hear the ugly gloating and coopting of the MRAs before I even got to the predictable comments at the bottom. Can we separate intent from effect, of should we expect every blogger to be politically savvy enough to preempt such coopting by explicitly distancing herself from the MRA/gamergate toads?
Do you have a good idea on how to make it for the web? I couldn't find a good solution to showcase it with good zoom capability, so I opted for an app.
How would you have implemented it?
To be fair the pay was actually pretty good. I think the problem with a system like this is that it forces employees into one of two strategies with no middle ground.

1. Be super competitive and always aim to be ranked at the very top, to the detriment of working on your technical skills that don't help here.

2. See that the only winning move is not to play and ignore the ranking, focusing instead on gaining experience and forming a long term exit plan.

I saw lots of examples of both tribes but not much in between.
I'll pass on both of them. Thanks for the info!
It's actually a long story haha.

If you want to read it, it's here: http://www.wellingtonstravel.com/hand-drawn-map-of-london.ht...
The GP's point as I read it was actually that if sending take-down requests was _made to be_ expensive, it would be less abused by RIAA types but also would become totally unavailable to the garage-band would-be enforcers.
I don't know how much sense it makes to argue with "feminism" since it's an umbrella that covers a bunch of different schools of thought that have pretty serious disagreements among each other.
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> sorry if this sounds like a plug, I do feel strongly about users re-claiming control about where their computer connects.

Would you install an extension that, when clicking a link to the verge, it pops up a message that says "this site is considered by the community to be a site that employs intrusive advertising techniques" to remind you not to connect to it at all?
Wow I didn't realise I received so many upvotes (and it's of interest to people) until I checked HN today! Thank you everyone :) I really appreciate it. It's a pretty simple app, so I didn't think people would be so impressed, but I'm glad :)

Thanks!
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> There had been interest, but one of the committers had dismissed the idea out of hand because a woman had proposed it.

It blows my mind that this stuff still happens. In the OSS world of all places. I can't even compute how someone can apply such "logic".
The monolithic kitchen sink has won, because the OS bundled libraries have different APIs (not only among different OSes, but also among different versions - and OS vendors are interested in pushing the latest), so app vendors just said to themselves "screw it" and bundled library (like jpeglib or libpng) that has same API on all systems and versioning is under their control.

That's the short version ;).
I really wonder about people who believe that they have the right to not be offended. It is a disturbing trend. Religion offends me, but I seldom bring it up. The biggest issue I have, though, is that the people who are "invading" these public repos are in no way contributing to the project. They throw a fit and then vanish into thin air. It is some of the most vapid bs I have read about in recent weeks.
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No, I'm not sure what's the best implementation for a web version. Any ideas?
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This is from 2013. It seems like a response to something, possibly one of Shanley's essays that's now no longer on Medium; I can't help but feel that I'm missing context as I get towards the end.

This also seems like a straightforward example of how mainstream feminism is bad at intersectionality. Arguably both sides in this discussion are not great at it: I feel like there's probably a good answer that involves neither belittling people for having different reads of social interactions nor asserting that everyone else should read social interactions the way you do.

I wonder what the people in this disagreement would say today. I think tech feminism has been getting more aware of intersectionality of late, so I'm curious if the problems the author identified about have gotten better.
It's central London.
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I had LASIK done 3 years ago, the cost was $6,000. It cost more than usual because I had 'laser cut flaps' and the 'wavefront' option. My contact prescription was around -9.00 in each eye.

Very simple procedure, I wish I had done it ten years ago. It was worth every penny. I had halos at night for a few weeks afterwards, and my eyes are a little bit dry to this day, but it's slowly gotten better. I used to have to keep a bottle of eye drops at my desk but haven't even bought a bottle in a few months.

I was happy with just using inexpensive daily wear contacts. But at some point my eyes changed, one got a little worse than the other, and I had noticeable astigmatism. This required me to get toric lenses and they were much, much more expensive. Like $99 for 6 pair vs $29.99 for 50 pair.

Having worn thick glasses since the age of 7 it was a dream to finally not have to wear them or deal with contacts any more. The only real complaint I have is my vision is still pretty bad in low-light situations, and I can't focus on anything that isn't at least 8" away. I used to be able to take my glasses off and look at a part or something very close and see it quite well.
Its also useful for creating statically linked executables, which is usually not possible with glibc if you use certain functions (getaddrinfo?).
From another article of hers, [when nerds collide](https://medium.com/@maradydd/when-nerds-collide-31895b01e68c)

>[ ... ] much of the backlash from weird nerds against “brogrammers” and “geek feminists” alike. (If you thought the conflict was only between those two groups, or that someone who criticises one group must necessarily be a member of the other, then you haven’t been paying close enough attention.) Both groups are latecomers barging in on a cultural space that was once a respite for us, and we don’t appreciate either group bringing its cultural conflicts into our space in a way that demands we choose one side or the other. That’s a false dichotomy, and false dichotomies make us want to tear our hair out.

Also, I'm not sure I'm seeing the "predictable comments" that you are.
To be fair, that is not an uncommon situation elsewhere either.
Interesting that she is autistic. Autism is apparently more common among boys than girls. Could this be one reason why tech attracts more men than women?

Arguably, a slightly autistic personality is helpful for a programmer. Possibly it could also be a big reason for many future programmers to turn to tech in the first place, where you deal with strict, deterministic rules instead of emotions.

This would obviously not excuse misogyny in tech, but could help explain the gender imbalance.
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