skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An aspect worth noting is, that our society is more and more redefining the meaning of "health" from the absence of illness to perfection of some universal subjective standard, which disregards factors like age or sex.

White teeth have at least some roots in biology - generally the younger you are, the whiter your teeth - still it makes no sense to compare the whiteness of different aged people and judge their health based on them.

Ethically we are on a dangerous path: Orthodontics for children are standard in Europe and the US, countries like Japan are catching up quickly. Teeth-whitening is common in the US and is becoming more popular in Europe, too. Orthodontics includes oral surgery more and more often. Korea is all in and full blown plastic surgeries are becoming the standard [0].

These surgeries cause pain and hinder you to eat properly for months. Still we are on a path to include them in our definition of health. In Korea parents often pay for them as a present for graduation.

People who the majority perceives as disabled or even just ugly are not necessarily unhealthy. We should make a clear distinction between body modifications and medicine. Unfortunately our ape brains see a high status individual and cluster these things together. This lets us worry about health problems we previously did not even know we had, making us psychologically and often physically unhealthier in the end.

Another big problem is, that we ignore the fact that we age. I do not think that care for the elderly should be an area of medicine. When your body breaks apart at 80 years old, that does not make you unhealthy, you are just old. You should not get the needed social interaction from doctors, who try to fix something that is perfectly natural to fall apart.

Some of the plethora of pills an 80 year old takes surely increase his or her life expectancy, I feel like others might not be worth the hassle. I surely do not want to ruin my last moments on earth organizing my calendar of doctor appointments trying to squeeze out the last couple of days I can possibly get.

[0]: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/03/23/about-face
Do you mind elaborating on your diet ? Did you followed a particular book or something ?
I agree with everything in your comment but the "bad guys" are sentiment. What is bad about it?
There’s no display with infinite contrast. #000 and #FFF are some sort of gray on any display. If you lower the display brightness to save battery life, high contrast is the only thing that works OK.
Bird’s-eye view of world’s larges radio telescope under construction in China
Germany is not quite Italy, but tracksuits in public are not common either. It is just a thing in certain subcultures. When I visited Ireland, I saw not a single child, who did not wear one.
I commented in this case because of what the website is 'providing'. It's a 30,000 word collection of essays, of READING material. It greatly bothers me that such effort is put into the content but such lip service has been paid to the presentation.

To divorce the content and the presentation is simply not feasible and pretty insulting to the good work of designers/typesetters and indeed readers.

I suspect the frequency of this sort of comment is due to the frequency of bad design.

Perhaps in other cases this sort of comment isn't relevant, I can accept that argument. I argue that here it is relevant because the entire premise of the material is that it's for reading and the presentation makes that unviable.

Do we also stop positive comments like this[0] one?

Perhaps what I should have done is make a more detailed post outlining the issues with the content and perhaps linked to well accepted design practices that help improve the reading experience. But to suggest 'these types of comments' are without relevance (*and deserving of flagging) is to deny conversation about an important part of the submission content.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9990140
Oracle preps 'Sonoma' chip for low-priced Sparc servers
Imagine reading a website where pages come up in milliseconds—that's Usenet on a local feed.

Now that you mention it, I think the web has never reached the speed of Usenet ages ago.

I propose the following law:

"The size of web pages must expand so that, regardless of CPU and bandwidth improvements, a page will load slower than a Usenet post on a 9.6kbps modem in 1993."
It's hard to get the real data. I wish Uber would provide individual data, so naive, potential drivers would not go into debt (buying that Uber approved 4 door vechicle--some even buying new) thinking Uber is their answer to making money.

Isn't Uber a company that hired employees now? Their website still looks like Independent Contracor B.S.? "Buy a new black Prius--drive drunk rich kids around on Friday and Saturday nights--make big money--you're the boss! (Sorry, but I have seen this company do some nasty things. Why don't they have more competition--other than Lyfy? The app doesn't seem that innovative? (In the 80's we had rent a wreck. The cars were cheap, and got you where you wanted to go. Their are some of us who just want to get from point A to B. I a really suprised someone haven't pushed Uber to the curb, along with their fancy boy app? "Rate my driver? I'm not 15?".
> There's no data at that stage

There can be. The initial SYN can contain a payload.
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I'm still working on the brain!
Astra Linux Review – Russian Government/Military Debian-Based Linux Distro
I didn't until the Americans told me it was a significant problem. I was a bit surprised. Minneapolis.
You may be putting the cart before the horse on heart attacks. They may have retired because they weren't healthy enough to continue working.
>#000 on #FFF (or vice-versa) rarely ever occurs in nature. It also tends to strain eyes. Optimal contrast for most people tends to involve a dark grey,

Is there actual scientific research that supports this?

Most printed books have dark black ink instead of grey ink. (Although the paper of the pages may not be #FFF white but an off white.)

In the office, the laser printers lay down dark black toner on crisp white paper. The paper brightness can be ISO 98 or even ISO 102 and the black toner is extremely comfortable to read.

If your statement was true, I would think there would be a massive demand for dark grey toner printed on light grey paper because it is "less strain on the eyes."

The evolution of Amazon Kindles are also moving towards better contrast. Early models were dark grey e-ink on light grey background. The latest models are getting closer to the ideal of black text on white background and the customer reviews support that improvement.

A comparison datapoint: Using F12 inspector, I notice that sarahwerner.net paragraphs uses rgb(68,68,68) while HN posts' text use rgb(0,0,0). I think most of would find HN text to be more comfortable to read.
Yes. When I tried it about a year ago, it took me about three clicks in a Windows installer program. Without any research into Cyanogen and its installation whatsoever.

Only downside: Cyanogen had a different ring tone as default, and later that day I was in a restaurant. It took me about fifteen seconds to relize this was indeed my mobile phone ringing.
Tom Hanks has an obsession with type writers and had an app made: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/hanx-writer/id868326899?mt=8
You seem to jump between ideas a lot, you have to get at least somewhere with something before following the next idea.

HN isn't the best place to ask for this kind of advice, better find a community specialized in the environment you want to use and look there + ask specific questions on Stack Overflow.

That said, you should try to find and use basic resources on your own, people are way more willing to help you with specific problems than with "I have this idea, what do I have to do?", like this or your post yesterday asking for step-by-step to build a specific python website. You likely won't get a good answer to tht, unless someone magically knows a tutorial that uses exactly that example.

Follow a few tutorials or simple examples, then try adapt them for what you want to do (e.g. for the python-image-site thing, there are tons of Python website tutorials e.g. for blogs and such. Follow one of those, then modify it or try to build an image site among similar lines), ask specific questions if you get stuck. (e.g. for python, reddit has /r/learnpython).
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Written by Bruce Tognazzini, this program was released by Apple Computer, Inc, on the DOS 3.2 disk for the Apple II in June 1979. It ran under Integer BASIC, and made use of some special tricks, which Tognazzini made available for interested programmers to view, from within the program (notice the menu choices at the start).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfMDWhc_ohU
The NHS approach of putting monetary value on a year of life and comparing the drug costs to that is a good approach to reducing the spend on tired old bod's.
It stopped working after I pressed enter, didn't know if it was part of the simulation.

Awesome work.
Simulation of a crappy typewriter, sure. In the 1990s even a $100 typewriter had a correction button, and in the years before that any office would buy a decent model that had correction. This simulation also does not register keys if you type too fast; no decent typewriter required you to type this slowly.
Why TDD makes me a happy developer
Wow. This old guy, who learned to type on a machine like that, sure has become dependent on stuff like rollover and backspace. Humbling.
The fact that Amazon offers Direct Connect shows that on-premises platform growth are certainly numbered but not the mere existence of them. Plenty of companies are still forcibly keeping their data in their own datacenters due to regulatory reasons despite desperately wanting to use third party providers. So until these regulations change (I'd bet it'll happen for PCI-DSS level 2+ before several federal ones unless FedRAMP supersedes them all) the largest possible users for AWS (and sadly, the most likely to benefit from it the most) are likely to be stuck operating stupidly expensive datacenters for pretty much no good reason besides making last-generation tech jobs.
> the correct answer really ought to depend on the domain

This is correct. However, if you use C, your domain is bits and bytes, not abstract things — because this is what C is created to work with. I love using appropriate abstraction levels for different domains, but if your actual problem has nothing to do with systems programming, you probably shouldn't use C in the first place.
I noticed that too, my hypothesis is one must be a little off to stay in those small, shrinking echo chamber communities for decades. In the instance I'm thinking of, some of the members did indeed have mental health issues.
Also logical is integration with existing program UI dialogs, print to file and other features.

Added support for 3D printers (basic types only, no built-in filters) based on PWG white paper. ... can anyone find the white paper?
NewYorker also has a bunch of enjoyable shorts available: http://www.newyorker.com/contributors/haruki-murakami
The most productive places in the US also have relatively strong labor laws and labor unions. I'm not implying a causal relationship, just saying that it can't be that bad.
Mining 1,952 usage patterns for the Android API
The comments SciRate gets at the moment are pretty decent, I think because people mostly just integrate it into their existing review process. https://scirate.com/arxiv/1501.07071 is a good example. If the community were to grow though we'd definitely want heavy moderation.
The problem there is that the various rights encumbrances are a near-insuperable barrier. Not just copyright, but the rights of the performers. Everything is designed to work right with television broadcast.
That I do not know.
However, that is not always the case. AFAIK Hypnosis after Milton H. Erickson is also part of NLP and similar terminology (if not the same) is used there.
I got banned on Stack Overflow for asking what the moderators deemed to be "low-quality" questions. I plan to master Lisp first ... it seems to be the most powerful language. Just trying to find a way to create a personal site using Lisp ...
I think it's fairly easy to give honest feedback about a paper you dislike without it being politically disastrous, just something along the lines of: "Is there a reason why you used method a instead of method b?"

It hasn't been long enough to see how these specific groups would act with anonymity, and certainly some groups are more resistant to trolling than others, but I think in general anonymity will tend toward the nasty part of the spectrum.

Even in public, recorded lectures, I've seen full professors just go to town on the speaker trashing their work, especially if the work is controversial in any way. It's nice to be able to see who's acting that way.

A friend of mine had a paper response written to his first ever paper that point-by-point tried to discredit his whole point. Then his professor had to step in and write a point by point rebuttal, because someone with just one paper has no clout to deal with that really. It's nice to see that happen in public because now the guy just looks like an ass for jumping on first year PhD students.
Customs officer confiscates passenger's phone and then uses it to secretly text
Most contracts are at large enterprise size companies, like isp's, banking, government. Those companies don't do direct business with contractors but post their contracts through brokers, here some large ones:

https://qualogyportal.secure.force.com
http://www.it-staffing.nl/
https://www.headfirst.nl
https://www.freelance.nl/
Uber in India faces 'last 1bn person market'
Except that in this particular case, the point is right: Open Source does not stand for the same thing as Free Software at all.
re Stackoverflow: yeah, that happens, but if you have better questions you can always create a new account. Just make sure to actually ask fitting questions!

re lisp: a bit of an odd choice for first web development, but if you feel comfortable with it why not.

re "build a site in lisp": Okay, what have you searched for and found out by now?
And how is it relevant? If taxis drive more, they move more people too (who would use a private car otherwise).
That is true, but ref reports can definitely be nightmares, especially in niche areas where only 3-4 groups qualify to ref something. And some journals can be particularly bad about the feedback, especially some of the lower tier journals, but I guess that's why some people go to the low impact journals...

I would also guess that most social media like comments would be "have you seen my paper vaguely related the topic", which is not ultra-useful.

But if you could somehow emulate the conference feel, where people are constantly walking up to you and saying "oh this is neat, I think Prof. X is working on something similar, you should find him," that would be optimal.
I'm looking for socially responsible investments. Quite hard. What do you think of SCTY (SolarCity) in this regard? Overpriced from overhype, or a decent bet given their execution? I'm ok with trading off increased risk or lower returns for doing (investing in) the right thing.
This is how QEMU and its TCG works: http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=blob_plain;f=tcg/README;hb...
Is there actual scientific research that supports this?

I don't know about OP, but in painting and in video/film art pure black and white are encouraged to be avoided. There they are called superblack and superwhite. In paintings it's because there is rarely (or not at all) such color in nature and in video (same for painting) also because it used to degrade signal for some reason in analogue era (strong yellow was avoided as well).
That does look like a refreshing exchange. The pessimist in me thinks it's a pretty optimal "showcase" example though :P

On a related note, don't some fields/journals (like pharmacology is in my head for some reason) require ref reports to be made public?
Agents interact with their environment while actors interact with other actors.

If one actor isn't aware of another actor, it can't send a message to them. An agent can broadcast a message through the environment, and any other agents who notice can respond.

You could turn agents into actors by limiting what they respond to, and you can turn actors into agents, by having an environment actor and agent actors.
One of my side-projects was to convert all of Project Euler into a straightforward offline flat text file:

http://kmkeen.com/local-euler/

At the time of the last hacking incident, this was pretty much the only mirror of PE. Since then the textfile has been updated and includes some (hashed) answers.
You can listen to Jean Shepherd himself tell the story of the "I, Libertine" hoax during a radio show here: http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2008/06/the-i-libertine.html It's 40 min long, but well worth it and hilariously funny. I've always been fascinated by this story, it speaks volumes of the world we live in and how people are easily influenced and manipulated.
Maybe he wanted to show this feature to people who were mere mortal typists?

But maybe the instructions page should have explained, if so.
I had a mechanical typewriter I bought in the '80s, and it was pretty basic, no real features at all, and the same classic type-bar mechanism that would jam if you pushed it too hard... but I rather liked it. Lots of typewriters of that class were very nice well-built reliable machines.

I think it's unfair to label them as "crappy typewriters," because they weren't.

I will note that my actual typewriter was much less annoying than this simulator, because there was a lot more feedback from the physical mechanism, both by touch—the keys were directly connected to the type bars, and one could feel their momentum and how hard they hit the paper—and sound. One could relatively easily judge if you were pushing the mechanism too hard (and adjust accordingly), how evenly you were typing, etc. Using this feedback, one could easily get into a nice typing rhythm and type pretty quickly with a decently low error rate (much faster and more accurately than this simulator allows).

[Certainly as typewriter manufacturers at the very end of the typewriter era began to be aware of the threat of computers, and started employ some of the same technology, there were a lot of features added to try and compete.]
Any personal tips or advice for helping such people cope with onset of Parkinson's.
Good to know the name for the phenomenon. It's incredibly common among people and it seriously infects thinking, to the point some seem to believe objects have little tags attached to atoms that say "this can be used only for X", and they'll act as if you're breaking the laws of nature if you use the object for something else than its "intended purpose".

Current society itself also seems to encourage functional fixedness. Whenever there's a problem, there's always a dedicated tool to solve it, marketed for a particular purpose. Like e.g. various safety razors for different sexes and body parts that are all basically the same, sans color and packaging. Or cleaning tools that are just cheap rolls of tape wound backwards. People learn to solve their problems by mindlessly throwing money at prepackaged solutions instead of realizing they could reuse something they already use to solve a different problem.
Amazon Data Pipeline and Cronally solve different problems.

ADP is a complex service designed to transport and process data between AWS products in a time-sensitive manner. Minimum intervals of 15 minutes and the inability to run jobs on a set of existing machines (i.e. running a shell command pipeline requires a separate instance launched for each execution) doesn't support a number of use-cases.

Cronally is a simple platform that augments an existing AWS cluster by allowing those same machines (or others) to perform work, while handling locks transparently and supporting resolution down to the minute.
My mistake: it's a Nokia 130. (I'd assumed a 103 would be close to a 106 in specification.)
You could print copies of your own patents.
At least I'm fairly sure that no non-crap typewriter would skip characters if you try to type at any speed that's not glacially slow (basically normal touch-typing is impossible with this simulator.)
here is the script that I use for doing this: https://gist.github.com/ilyakava/47aedca7bc39483d7a94

All you have to do is input a txt file of links, in this case: http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=8PTFJ2x4

Here is the output epub for all to enjoy: http://cl.ly/022V1Y1t2I24

In cases when I care about formatting/metadata, I might use pandoc to merge all the \d+.html files, regex or edit, and then use pandoc to output *epub
Despite the one person who still works because he needs the money, this is almost mocking the younger generations who will never be able to afford a house and have a miserable pension (if one at all) and have had their retirement age increased by years.

I am scared to death about my retirement. I only have 25 more years in this industry, at most, I have no pension (no employer has ever offered one), a student loan, I'm struggling to save for a deposit for a house while prices rise at eye-watering rates and I'm supporting a parent who has no assets or job.
"Tired old bods". Will you feel the same when (touch wood) you reach such an advanced age? :)
How putting $10M into UBeam illustrates what is wrong with tech investing (2014)
It's not its main business, by a very long way. It is, however, Google's main business, and the main business of quite a few free Android and iOS apps.

> until the final day when I uncover the secret options

So you did an Express install instead of actually going through the options? More fool you.
Monolith by ASD wins the Assembly 2015 real time demo competition
How Google cannibalized itself
[BTW, I edited my comment to add some more detail, which might touch on the reason for this...]
Thanks for the feedback!

We support JSON in the CLI so users can access the response data with tools like jq (http://stedolan.github.io/jq/), but leaving off the json parameter will respond with human readable output.

The pricing is regrettably not up yet, but we'll definitely work on some other examples.

Cheers!
Tim
'Second plane part' found on Reunion
Back when I didn't have a day job and had some free time to spend outside, I took it as a point of honor to always fix everything with duct tape and whatever I could find on the spot. This was a conscious exercise to make sure I don't get that "functional fixedness" (I didn't knew the name back then).

Needless to say, my mother wasn't always satisfied with the alternative applications I came up with.

By the way, this is how I think a lot of people become functionally fixated - unfortunately the typical parent's reaction to child's creativity is "WTF did you do? Please put it back the way it was before.". By the time they reach maturity, improvisation skills get beaten out of them.
I didn't introduce the topic. I only made the typical HN/Reddit-like comment so prevalent on anything like this if it were to show men/non-whites/Americans in a positive light.