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A vision for nursinghttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8960eca5dd4873bb9a0218d7fd89cd&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bc.edu%2Fbc-web%2Fbcnews%2Fscience-tech-and-health%2Fnursing%2Froy-adaptation-model.html&c=17103578683295252158&mkt=en-usA half century ago, a nursing graduate student developed an idea that the goal of nursing practice was to promote patient adaptation. She theorized that a patient is a being of interrelated components ...Jul 19, 2016 5:00 PM
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A vision for nursinghttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a88f513a3a642aba89745b208fccf03&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bc.edu%2Fbc-web%2Fbcnews%2Fscience-tech-and-health%2Fnursing%2Froy-adaptation-model.html&c=17103578683295252158&mkt=en-usA half century ago, a nursing graduate student developed an idea that the goal of nursing practice was to promote patient adaptation. She theorized that a patient is a being of interrelated components ...Jul 19, 2016 5:00 PM
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Inside reviewhttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8b5ecc335d46c985eb30ceedd803cb&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.polygon.com%2F2016%2F6%2F28%2F12049410%2Finside-review%2F&c=11366214248891968731&mkt=en-usShow me the facts Explain it like I’m 5 Give me a lighthearted recap Inside is a better game than Limbo. I don't make that claim lightly. Limbo, the first (and, before now, only) game from Inside ...Jun 28, 2016 5:00 AM
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Ask HN: Visiting Bulgaria and Romania: Where to Stay? What to Do? Who to See?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11523542Looking for advice on getting the most out of the city from a startup perspective. I'd love to have the potential to meet a few freelancers or dev shops in the area face to face.I wouldn't mind having some advice as far as where to stay, anything I have to see or do while I'm in the area. As a first time visitor, is their anything I just cannot miss?I wouldn't mind building a good network of contacts that have a potential for friendships or working relationships.To put it bluntly, what would you share with an American coming to Bucharest, Romania. Then Burgas and Sofia in Bulgaria.Apr 18, 2016 10:19 PM
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How expensive is SF rent? Use Unix commands to find outhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10597772How expensive is SF rent? Here's a coding challenge that uses Unix command line tools to find out.Hacker friends suggested I post the result and code here because I'm writing open source statistics software and this is a practical example of results and code.The results for a one bedroom in SF: mean $3348, median $3475, interquartile range $1514, and standard deviation $1130.How to use Unix commands to find out: use `curl` to fetch Craigslist apartment listings, then `sed`, `grep`, and `tr` to filter and parse the data, then `num` to calculate the statistics. curl -s http://sfbay.craigslist.org/search/sfc/apa\?min_price\=1\&bedrooms\=1 | sed 's/\(Nov 19, 2015 9:20 PM
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Ask HN: Why does some music labels hide their albums on Allmusic.com?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10412420Now and then when I visit http://allmusic.com and click an album I get an error page saying "Due to label restrictions, we are no longer permitted to display this information on AllMusic."I find this very strange, why on earth would a label restrict information about an album they have?So I asked Allmusic that question and got this response from Zac Johnson, Senior Product Manager: "If I felt as though I was comfortable going into the intricacies of the deals that are in place between a specific worldwide distributor and our data provider, I would detail it further, but the truth is that it's an area that I don't want to poke further."Example album: "The Definition" by Jon Bellion. http://www.allmusic.com/artist/jon-bellion-mn0003006966/discography (click the album link to see the error message)To see the response from Allmusic, go here: https://getsatisfaction.com/allmedianetwork/topics/some-albums-are-unreachableCan HN shed some light on what's going on?Oct 19, 2015 12:27 PM
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The Windows Start menu saga, from 1993 to todayhttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a88ce1524fb4188ad282d0149f8936c&url=https%3A%2F%2Farstechnica.com%2Fgadgets%2F2015%2F08%2Fthe-windows-start-menu-saga-from-1993-to-today%2F&c=17802006806300686057&mkt=en-usWindows 95 launched exactly 20 years ago today, and though the operating system is long dead many of its ideas still live on. In celebration of 95's 20th birthday, we're revisiting our piece on the ...Aug 23, 2015 11:35 PM
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Ask HN: Staying Happyhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10104051I really remember it, back to the time when i was in college, i have so much tasks. I needed to attend campus club. Lots of assignment. But the fact i was happy still surprises me.It has been ~1.5 years since i graduated from my college and got to work as a software engineer. I got decent job with decent salary (at least pretty good in my area). The workplace itself considered as a "fun" environment: sleeping pod, ping pong table, coffee machine and no cubicles. Also, workload is lighter than class assignments. But it seems like i am not happy anymore -- i don't know why. (Btw, yes, i do love coding. I do some of my pet projects in weekend)I tried to do so much things (to try) making myself happier: Cycling around the city, playing some game with friends; but none of them seems to be working.After all, i want to create happiness, not to "do something" or "buy something" to make myself happy. I know happiness is intrinsic and subjective. Two persons doing a same thing may perceive that Aug 22, 2015 10:41 PM
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Ask HN: Blockchainshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10032099More and more noise seems to be appearing about blockchains. I see the small benefit of use in transactions between organisations, but am struggling for the case for private blockchains and some points of cryptocurrency in general. I don’t know if this is the best place to ask, but everything online is full of jargon and is inaccessible to me.I have a few questions:- What are the benefits of using a private blockchain (should I be thinking of it as a replacement to a General Ledger?)? Is this just another name for a ledger with auditable history?- Can a blockchain exist without mining or without a currency/coin? Will all private blockchains need a “coin”? (eg the Goldman Sachs coin or ABC plumbing coin?)And another couple of broader questions- What keeps people interested in a blockchain (and currency) once all of the easy mining is done eg, for people joining later?- I see that transaction costs for bitcoin keep rising, is that related to the size of the blockchain?- I thought bitcoinAug 10, 2015 12:27 AM
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Ask HN: Why crossing light beams don't collide/decrease each other's brightness?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9963813Why light doesn't interact or interfere with another light? For instance: http://mrclarkrbhs.wikispaces.com/file/view/galarie_psl.jpg/339906824/440x277/galarie_psl.jpgJul 28, 2015 7:08 PM
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MacOS is the new Windowshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9816994I'm typing this on my late 2010 MacBook Air. Recently I was starting having problems with it (you know when you type your password and the system does not recognize your key presses, etc.). And I thought, “Oh, ok, I have to accept that we live in a world of planned obsolesce (how else faster-than-a-gigahertz multi-gigabyte-RAM machine could become slow? If it is capable of real-time response to user's actions, it should respond in real-time) and I have to upgrade to get my job done”.So I switched to this new aesthetically marvelous wonder: an early 2015 13 inch MacBook Pro. In 5 days I'm using it the machine restarted two (or three?) times "because of problems" though it has much less software installed than my old rock-stable-in-comparison MacBook Air. And now I'm installing an OS update which already restarted my system twice. First it restarted the system, than it said, “Ooops, I cannot verify the update”, fiddled with it for several more minutes, restarted-downloaded-restarted... WJul 2, 2015 5:20 AM
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For More Results, Make the Switch to a Minimalist Managerial Stylehttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8a53acdf04418dae9f7f6de789ec76&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.entrepreneur.com%2Fgrowing-a-business%2Ffor-more-results-make-the-switch-to-a-minimalist%2F244450&c=3408063635306911601&mkt=en-usThere’s a management problem in the working world today: there’s too much of it. Management, in theory, is a tool for improving productivity. The reality is that too much management can actually ...Apr 15, 2015 8:30 AM
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Ask HN: Does anyone get numbness in the pinky?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6620337I recently started getting numbness in my left pinky. Here is a little background on me: An amateur coder who spends many hours every day on his laptop (although recently I haven't been doing enough coding practise). I'm left handed, mainly stick to ubuntu and tend to use gvim, I hardly ever use emacs. I looked up "emacs pinky", but this seems to be associated with pain in the finger (here's a nice picture http://www.flickr.com/photos/gabrielsaldana/4468068807/in/photostream/). I had a quick look at carpal tunnel syndrome, but this is associated with the median nerve. The pinky is innervated by the ulnar nerve, and I can't recall any injuries in the past few days. Also over the last few months I have made an effort to keep a reasonable sitting position when typing. Anyone with similar experiences? I am not asking for medical advice or an "online diagnosis", since I can make an appointment with the local witch doctor after the weekend finishes.Oct 27, 2013 1:23 AM
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World's Roundest Objecthttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMByI4s-D-Y%3Fhd%3D1The world's roundest object helps solve the longest running problem in measurement -- how to define the kilogram. A kilogram isn't what it used to be. Literally. The original name for it was the 'grave', proposed in 1793 but it fell victim to the French Revolution like its creator, Lavoisier. So begins the tale of the most unusual SI unit. The kilogram is the only base unit with a prefix in its name, and the only one still defined by a physical artifact, the international prototype kilogram or IPK.But the problem with this definition has long been apparent. The IPK doesn't seem to maintain its mass compared to 40 similar cylinders minted at the same time. The goal is therefore to eliminate the kilogram's dependence on a physical object. Two main approaches are being considered to achieve this end: the Avogadro Project and the Watt Balance.The Avogadro project aims to redefine Avogadro's constant (currently defined by the kilogram -- the number of atoms in 12 g of carbon-12) and reverseAug 3, 2013 12:21 PM
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Tools to monitor website performance?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6068848Hi,I'm curious what the current state-of-art for website performance monitoring is?Most of the tools I've seen are either Pingdom-style applications, which simply tell you if a website if up or down, or they're like YSlow-style, which run a bunch of tests to see if you're following best practices.But is there something like say, Chrome's SpeedTracer that you could run as a service, and monitor your website's performance over time? Or before/after each commit?What would you guys recommend to track the performance of your own website over time, or gather deep-level metrics?Could you use something like PhantomJS to achieve this?Are there any existing open-source projects that already do this?Cheers , VictorJul 19, 2013 8:06 AM
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Inside Telenovelashttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a88d3a6862143cf962c435034f09f7b&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.backstage.com%2Fmagazine%2Farticle%2Finside-telenovelas-29239%2F&c=12338625357373913097&mkt=en-usPerhaps only slightly more addictive to their audiences than to the many actors who earn their livings in them, Latin American telenovelas are an international sensation. In the United States, ...Mar 25, 2013 1:35 PM
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Inside Telenovelashttp://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8928726d3d4a5bb4ac7526016e5f0a&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.backstage.com%2Fmagazine%2Farticle%2Finside-telenovelas-29239%2F&c=12338625357373913097&mkt=en-usPerhaps only slightly more addictive to their audiences than to the many actors who earn their livings in them, Latin American telenovelas are an international sensation. In the United States, ...Mar 25, 2013 1:35 PM
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Combines: where are they made?http://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8a41eaabd140bbbaf193fab7a5b588&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.fwi.co.uk%2Fmachinery%2Fcombines-where-are-they-made&c=12092747380548863556&mkt=en-usCombines used to be made in Britain. But the days of Lely Fisher-Humphries production in Wiltshire and of Massey Ferguson combines emerging from a factory in Kilmarnock, East Ayrshire are long since ...Jan 21, 2013 5:56 AM
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Combines: where are they made?http://www.bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&aid=&tid=6a8a7a1975eb464ab1ab8b40aad2fb01&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.fwi.co.uk%2Fmachinery%2Fcombines-where-are-they-made&c=12092747380548863556&mkt=en-usCombines used to be made in Britain. But the days of Lely Fisher-Humphries production in Wiltshire and of Massey Ferguson combines emerging from a factory in Kilmarnock, East Ayrshire are long since ...Jan 21, 2013 5:56 AM
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Has minimalism gone too far?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4721593I am a minimalist at heart, but practicality & utility override any and all desire for a minimal UI.To a degree minimalism increases usability, cuts down on distractions with other links to other articles,media,etc and lets the user focus on the article or whatever work they're doing if its a desktop app.To be quite frank I'm sick of websites with three miles of whitespace on both sides of an 80 character wide column article text and no navbar or links to get to the website's homepage.examples (from HN's top articles about 30 mins ago) http://mkronline.com/2012/10/30/you-arent-imagining-it-the-web-is-a-mess/ http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2012/10/googles-most-advanced-voice-search-has.html http://joel.is/ I'll admit, to a degree, some of it is bad coding/design using fixed sizes in pixels instead of relative sizes for things (em) so the page renders the same independent of screen resolution.The same sort of thing is going on with desktop applications, menus and options are getting gankOct 31, 2012 7:17 AM
