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> ETA for restock: 10 November 2015. No preorders, sorry!

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>Apple has a moral and ethical onus to make the right choices be it related to the confederate flag, changing drug laws, or using emoji to fight bullying, and we respect that.

Do you, or do you fear retaliation from Apple if you bad mouth them?
What about something ala Neovim? I've only ever looked at Tex from the perspective of a user (I don't program my own macros too often), so I don't know how hard it'd be, but why not a language overhaul?
"Of the almost 3,675 medication administrations in the observed operations, 193 events, involving 153 medication errors and 91 adverse drug events, were recorded ... Almost 80 percent of those events were determined to have been preventable. One-third of the observed medication errors led to an adverse drug event, and the remainder had the potential to cause an adverse event. Of the adverse drug events that were recorded, 20 percent were not associated with a medication error."

that tangle resolves to:

3,675 observations
122 (3.3%) preventable medication errors
31 (0.8%) un-preventable errors
18 (0.05%) adverse drug events not caused by medication error

3% preventable error rate is shocking - but does include things like documentation problems as well as incorrect dosage

btw, the clickbait headline (which is Harvard's fault, not OPs) is seriously getting in the way of communication since I went in to RTFA primed to find garbage.
I'm a bit torn on this. On the one hand, I hate how not having ultra strict UX guidelines turns Android app ecosystem into shit (with every major app maker providing their own crap experience). On the other hand, I firmly believe the right of a company to control the "experience" I get from using a tool I bought from them should end the second I walk out of their store.

If they are to tell me how I can and can not use my device (above what the law says), then it's not my device, and it's not a tool.
There is at least one popular brand that does use toxic chemicals: http://d4of2brjuv1jo.cloudfront.net/assetfiles/9fffc54c-1b49...
You can get a blood test for IgG antibodies without an outbreak that will differentiate between HSV-1 and HSV-2.
Thanks for your feedback! All feedback is really useful to us, as it helps us to continue to polish the product. The articles themselves are crowd-sourced, and they certainly show signs of being a community that is still growing. It's possible to create richer articles like this one: https://www.expii.com/t/gravity-weight-642

The main point of our post tonight was to share the current product of the Topic Map. As the rest of the site continues to grow, we hope that you will soon learn about it as a useful resource.

Regarding the split of Algebra 1 and Algebra 2: we fully agree that math should be more connected. We actually experimented with that here, in the "Theory" section of "Math". You can find that by clicking into "Algebra Revisited", which you can also find by first going here:

https://www.expii.com/t/2829

and then clicking on "Topic Map" to see a fully connected version of Algebra. This is much more theoretical though, and does not align so easily with standards used in mainstream schools. We chose to make the main sections of our maps align with standards so that they could be more immediately useful for the mainstream audience. However, we ourselves are a bunch of enthusiasts who love to think about how to push the envelope. :)
Serving workers in the gig economy – by Nick Grossman (my detailed notes)
Sadly, there is a systematic problem in which many must plead guilty because they will be punished beyond measure if they do not. It is structural and endemic in American justice:

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2014/nov/20/why-inn...

(EDIT: And this one)
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/16/magazine/the-bail-trap.htm...
Honest question, how is this #11 right now with 901 points? It's below a story with 199 points that was posted an hour before.
How is the headline clickbait? It's a true finding of the study. I would say that a headline leading with the 3% figure would be much more misleading, since the relevant figure for someone considering whether to receive medical treatment (for example) is the "1 in 2" figure. I don't care if the doctors only mess up 3% of my medication interactions; just one is bad enough.
I like the project, but I'm not a fan of the designs they're going with for the first run - I'd prefer a model more similar to the one they first teased a few years ago, if only in terms of form factor [1]

[1]: http://www.geeky-gadgets.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Open...
> Explain to simpletons like myself how pornography distribution is like measuring weight. I'd love to draw the connection but I'm afraid logic prevails.

Reread thread. This grew out of discussion about Apple forbidding apps with confederate flags etc. Inflammatory, controversial content.

Y'know, like pornography.

The weight thing is obviously much simpler: Apple doesn't want to be the punchline on a lolpiece on the 6 o'clock news about "Are people breaking their iPhones with controversial new 'scale' apps? Find out after news and weather with chuckles the rain stooge"

> Furthermore, if Dateline is an influencing force in Apple product decisions - remind me to smash my iPhone into a million proprietary pieces.

News Organizations are absolutely an influencing force in any major brand's decision making processes. All brands live in utter terror of being on the wrong side of a "won't somebody please think of the children??" shit-storm.

You're kidding yourself if you think otherwise.
Fantastic synopses, thanks.

I'll readily grant this can reasonably be construed as suggestive but not "a lot of accumulating evidence", my bad for phrasing it improperly. To me this line of research is raising interesting questions warranting further digging, in a "hm, I wasn't expecting that result going by the received wisdom" way.

Following the sporadic posts of Type 2 patients in online forums self-reporting success at getting off conventional treatment protocols, what appears to come up in common among them is what is currently considered (by the ADA and similar outfits in other nations) radically aggressive methodology to blood glucose control; <100 mg/dL post-prandial is not considered out of line in that crowd, and they avoid spikes as much as possible. A very small number have been at it for 20+ years and well into their 60-70's, and are reporting no long-term disabilities commonly associated with advanced stages of the metabolic disorder. They tend to be in very low (<50 mg/day) carb or even ultra-low (<20 mg/day) carb regimens, or constant ketosis, or varying fasting cycles, with varying amounts of exercise, or a combination of all of the above, with lot of nuances thrown in by each individual. A lot of what they practice directly goes against published large institutional guidelines, but it is really difficult to argue against the end results in their comprehensive blood panels and other bio-markers, so it is a fascinating case to me of the impact of an N=1 / DIY / Quantified Self ethos that increasingly more people are embracing with the aid of increasingly better technology. I find it really exciting that increasingly more laypeople are empirically "science'ing the shit out of this" (to paraphrase "The Martian") with a continuous hypothesis-test-adjust loop upon themselves. It is definitely not science by any conventional means, but as haphazard as it is, it is yielding in a startling number of cases exceptionally better results than the average and mean Type 2 patient experience.
http://www.businessinsider.com/aaron-cheung-brings-homejoy-c...
One use: grocery stores will stop bother cheating on you with miscalibrated scales.
Managing your dependencies on external bits is distinct from someone upstream dealing with the packaging and distribution of those external bits.
I was rejected after getting and responding to a follow up question during the application review period. I did some research and discovered that such follow up questions demonstrate that YC is strongly considering your application. That's as good as an in for me! :).

I honestly didn't think I was ready for YC cause I'm a solo founder and unnaturally focused on upcoming pilot deployments to the detriment of almost everything else. If curious, we're building http://www.smartersocket.com (rebranding as https://www.BeaconGrid.com in like 2 days.)
Herpes is said by some to be an early example of "disease mongering" to sell medication.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herpes_simplex#Society_and_cul...

Herpes simplex was not always stigmatised. It was merely a cold sore in an unusual place until the 1970s. As late as 1975, a study of "Psychological morbidity in a clinic for sexually transmitted disease" does not mention herpes simplex because at that time, no significant morbidity problem (i.e. mental anxiety or illness) was associated with the virus.[98]

Pedro Cuatrecasas states, "during the R&D of acyclovir (Zovirax), marketing [department of Burroughs Wellcome] insisted that there were 'no markets' for this compound. Most had hardly heard of genital herpes..." Thus, marketing the medical condition – separating the 'normal cold sore' from the 'stigmatized genital infection' was to become the key to marketing the drug, a process now known as 'disease mongering'.[99][100]

Since the creation of the herpes hype, some people experience negative feelings related to the condition following diagnosis, in particular if they have acquired the genital form of the disease. Feelings can include depression, fear of rejection, feelings of isolation, fear of being found out, and self-destructive feelings.[101] These feelings usually lessen over time. Much of the hysteria and stigma surrounding herpes stems from a media campaign beginning in the late 1970s and peaking in the early 1980s. Multiple articles were worded in fear-mongering and anxiety-provoking terminology, such as the now-ubiquitous "attacks", "outbreaks", "victims", and "sufferers". At one point, the term "herpetic" even entered the popular lexicon. The articles were published by Reader's Digest, U.S. News, and Time magazine, among others. A made-for-TV movie was named Intimate Agony. The peak was when Time magazine had 'Herpes: The New Scarlet Letter' on the cover in August 1982, forever stigmatizing the word in the public mind.[81] Herpes support groups have been formed in the United States and the UK, providing information about herpes and running message forums and dating websites for sufferers. People with the herpes virus are often hesitant to divulge to other people, including friends and family, that they are infected. This is especially true of new or potential sexual partners whom they consider casual.[102]
> a lot of The Hobbit's issues were in the writing rather than direction, sure, a better director may have made it "less bad" but overall given the same script you'll get a similarly flawed set of films.

I don't disagree with this, but I think if GdT had directed, he would also have had a lot of influence over the script and general direction the movie went in. He's not just a hired gun.

Sadly, we'll never know for sure... TT
This is a couple years old...
Thanks for your comments! :) We have plans to build on top of this to create a way for you to learn an entire "course" of topics. That's our next stage of development.

For now, we're happy to share the Topic Map as it is of independent interest. :) We hope that it might be helpful for people who are either already at a topic area within a course, or just like exploring maps.
You can already define functions that work on every type that implements Foo, no? I've never coded in go, but I thought that was the whole point of interfaces.

And I don't see how adding generics would solve the problem of being able to add a FooImpl2 to a slice of FooImpls. Java has generics and they don't allow covariant generic collections for this same reason.
XeTeX and LuaTeX are projects you might be interested in.
I wrote a response to your comment: https://medium.com/@firasd/things-i-read-on-joel-on-software...
The promise of entrepreneurship as a field of research [pdf] (2000)
This should be dated 2014.

Also, the followup report is now available. See:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10407757

http://www.nytco.com/wp-content/uploads/Our-Path-Forward.pdf
> Don't websites get paid for(most of?) the ads only when user clicks through?

Depends on the inventory. CPM (cost per thousand impressions) and CPC (cost per click) pricing models are both common in the online advertising industry, though CPM is more common with higher end publishers:

https://written.com/blog/51/cpm-cpc-cpa-pricing-online-media
How else could they conduct this study? It would be completely meaningless if observers had to second-guess after an observed harm or injury whether or not it was an "error" or just bad luck. It makes no sense to catalogue interactions which could have caused harm (but may or may not have done so) while ignoring the ones which did cause harm (but weren't obviously errors).
Interested in hearing what sort of experiment would be worth doing with one of these (I'm genuinely clueless).
The biggest reason is in case the original source goes away (the author removes a particular version for example). A lesser reason is to make it easier for others to get up and running without needing the build tools.

I tend to leave them out if it's a personal, open-source project. For a commercial project I tend to check them in.
I wonder when the cartels will start running rocket companies. Or startup accelerators.
The issue is that so many man-centuries (man-millennia?) are invested into TeX & LaTeX that sinking time into something else is very, very expensive (much like trying to build a better CPU than amd64 or arm64).

TeX is really, really amazingly powerful. It can do almost anything a typesetter could want to do, fairly easily, and it can do just about everything, one way or another. And its output is heart-achingly beautiful. Sadly, the code necessary to achieve that output ranges from…heart-achingly beautiful to heart-breakingly ugly.

There are other projects out there, of course. I do think that TeX & LaTeX are close to a local maximum, if not al the way there.

XML, in comparison, is a booger joke.
> let's not forget that x86 itself could have been a Motorola 68000 if this company had not decided in Intel's favour. That's the extent to which this company defined the computer era.

Except if IBM had it's way, we'd be using PowerPCs, not x86 and ARM.

IBM existed for 50 years before any of the products you mention. It did financial services before that.

Edit: I slipped and said Intel instead of IBM!
Why NoSQL DBs will only let you perform transactions on a single data item
Do you know how civitas compares with all the invisible ink based systems like Scantegrity?
There might be some currency manipulation, but it is not the 600% difference that would be required, plus we probably get an equal amount of benefit by being the reserve currency.

It's cheaper to live in China than the USA because Americans expect that they will have a salary + medical benefits that will allow them to afford a 3 bedroom house of their own in the suburbs built to rather more exacting construction standards than China, 2 cars which they drive 20k miles/year, a family vacation every year, medical prices that cover the cost of doctors purchase insurance to protect against litigious Americans' expensive lawsuits, and pay taxes that support large social programs and one of the world's largest standing Armies. Prices for American workers and goods reflect these expectations.

It's a lot easier to live cheaply when your expectations of housing are a concrete room (shared by a number of friends if you are single), no car, no overseas vacations via plane, medical care provided by the state, and a system where doctors are not at risk of multi-million dollar court cases if they get something wrong.
> When you run a business into the ground, some decisions about what you sell get taken over by courts, at the direction of your creditors.

This is true, but a lot of this "story" still seems strange, especially in light of the fact that all of the sites that appear to be associated with Cheung's new venture have been taken offline.

There are a number of well-funded players in this space, some of which might have an interest in acquiring Homejoy's data. How did the twenty-something co-founder of the failed business come to acquire the data? Did outside investors provide funding for the new venture and its acquisition of the data? Were any of those investors also investors in Homejoy? Why weren't former Homejoy customers simply informed that another company had acquired their information in an honest, transparent fashion (the way most companies handle transactions of this nature)?

It's worth pointing out that the email Cheung sent to former Homejoy customers about FlyMaids stated that FlyMaids "work[s] with Homejoy's best cleaners."

If that is true, it would appear this new venture is essentially just Homejoy reincarnated, begging questions about Homejoy's liabilities. Assuming the lawsuits against Homejoy haven't settled, I'd imagine the attorneys behind those lawsuits might have an interest in what's going on.
Ahh, but do you then commit your .gitignore file
AFAIK risk of transmission is highest before an outbreak. Ie: before it's easier to diagnose visually (and as others have mentioned, not all outbreaks get to a stage where they're easy to diagnose).

In response to another question in this thread, the safest way to "diagnose" herpes in others, is probably to ask them. If they don't know (haven't been tested lately), assume they're infected. And if you can't trust them to tell the truth, you probably have no business being (physically) intimate with them... (Not meant as a moral judgement, just as an observation).
Oh just looked at the cached version of the Flymaids website on google and searched for some of the text they had on google.

Such as 'Add your specific cleaning instructions and pay securely online by debit or credit card. No cash, no fuss.'

Which prompted https://mopp.com this time, but also willowmaids and urbahome. This is getting beyond ridiculous haha.

I'm starting to wonder if this isn't just the lorum ipsum of cleaning websites.
The Tragic, Forgotten History of Zombies
I'd guess the first model case would be more expensive to manufacture, and the current model they've chosen is more 'modular' and adaptable to ad hoc engineering situations?
The trouble is the ecosystem of packages that people would have to redo.

If you replaced TeX, LaTeX itself would need replacing, as would every single LaTeX package and class that you ever want to use, ones like microtype and stuff, would have to be rewritten.

To be honest, the multi-pass deal isn't that bad, but the macro expansion system is crazy complicated. Every once in a while after working in LaTeX I'll get the feeling I understand it, but that feeling inevitably dissipates after ten minutes or so.
Oh, I didn't understand they made AW to open source the SoC..
The configs for .net I would definitely consider part of the code - they can have some really intense setup for the project!

If I was forced to put credentials in there, then I would ignore web.config, but commit a web.config.default file without the credentials. Part of the setup instructions would include copying the file after cloning the repo and putting in your own machine-specific credentials.
The concern here is likely that some idiot will try to measure their own weight with it or some such nonsense, and then break their phone. I'm sure Apple still remembers "bendgate", and has no desire to get a bunch of bad press about how the screen's glass is fragile. Like bendgate, they'll probably be vindicated when actual experiments are run, but that is of little comfort.

Also, the parent was responding to why the same argument doesn't apply to Safari. I'm afraid what prevailed was ignoring context, not logic.
> Where do you keep your configs then?

In a different git repo.

In my mind, the developed code and the deployed environment are, or should be, quite separate. I've been pretty successful with this in the past, and when I've been on teams which violate it…suffering has happened.
Is it contagious? Herpes is. In the scenario at hand the virus would transmit to others.
Also see Joanna Rutkowska's recent paper: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10458318 (fun reading).
I still haven't seen or found a good way to deploy secrets in environment variables. My current practise is to keep secrets in a file on the build server, and the build server is responsible for positioning it correctly.
Why does Facebook have untrusted load balancers?
Interesting that now when you to go to http://www.homeaglow.com/ you get a Heroku app not found error message.
Subtle.
This is a really good question! We don't think we're doing anything suspicious, and there aren't even any payment gateways anywhere on the site. To be honest, we weren't familiar with BlueCoat. Do you know what tends to make them rate a site as Suspicious?

We're just trying to create a valuable free resource, through crowd-sourcing. :)
The Future of Spree Open Source Software
>3. As far as I can tell, neither FlyMaids or Homeaglow were ever featured by Oprah, The New York Times, etc., yet this claim is/was being made on their sites.

Thank you. I asked the same question below and got some downvotes for it. Falsifying things like that is a big sham. I see on homeaglow, the company claims more features on Rachels (whatever that is).
I use Hacker News (YC)[0]. It's very feature complete and frequently updated.

[0] https://appsto.re/us/7uRIQ.i
14:2.6 million years
Weather Underground makes nearly all climatological data available in easy-to-consume formats (csv mostly). Using your rainfall example, here's how I'd get a listing of rainfall by day for the month of September, from my local National Weather Service monitoring site:

$ curl -s "http://www.wunderground.com/history/airport/KMSP/2015/09/31/MonthlyHistory.html?format=1" | grep -v Precip | cut -d "," -f 20
I bet Richard Branson did say that.
Seriously. Does no-one remember ReplayTV, and the shit-storm that went up against them?
A lot happens
Legofy – Python program to make an image to look as if it was created with Legos
"Product-Market fit"
Completely Agree with your view point. Why was it down voted?
As an instructor, I want to provide printed handouts, assignments, problem sets both printed and online, and having reflowing HTML is a great advantage for students when working though a problem in a split screen.

I was looking for a workflow that would produce PDFs and HTML, and I reached the same conclusions as the article.

I was hoping they had some sort of solution.
Theranos, Facing Criticism, Says It Has Changed Board Structure
That's why 'malandrew asked, "Are you at liberty to elaborate?" - in other words, "does the langauge of NDA or whatever other contract you have signed, or the risk your boss getting medieval on your ass, preclude you from elaborating?".
YZRA
As someone who bought Bunnie's Hacking The Xbox book many moons ago, it's been enjoyable to follow along project after project.
> XML, in comparison, is a booger joke.

A dried up booger on the floor.
Um, we must have different ideas of what that phrase means. "A weak or imaginary opposition, set up to be easily refuted". I'd have had to set up something, for that to be the case. Instead of, just exploring the previous comment's setup.
Then the headline shouldn't call them all errors, if they do not have evidence that they were in fact errors. "Medication errors or adverse reactions found in 1 out of 2 surgeries" is a less sexy but actually accurate title.