skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed. The ability to paste some data I may or may not need after a couple more hours of debugging, and have that buffer save through a reboot -- without needing to save it to a file -- is something I've come to rely on. I only realized this when I tried Visual Studio Code, and noticed that it wasn't doing the same thing.
Preventing fraud and breach of duty are about enforcing ethics in a very narrow sense. In a broader sense, it might be unethical for a PE firm to relocate manufacturing to China and lay off employees. But the SEC has no role (and should not) in enforcing that kind of ethics.
"Superbugs" are most prevalent in hospitals.
I fail to see the mystery. In my opinion, state machines are the most straight-forward parts of programming.

There is a learning curve with lex and yacc but if you cannot ever use these programs then what can you really call yourself a programmer?

It's the endless search for a "new" programming language and the layers upon layers of needless abstraction created by today's "programmers" that I find mystifying.
How about bounce rate comparison?

From a user perspective - I spent more time on the site than I do any other real estate site...because I was trying to figure out where to find things, and it took significantly longer to look at multiple areas than any other site.

I'm not sure time on site is a reasonable measure of success - but I also think 9 minutes is impressive regardless :)

You definitely have me thinking about doing some experimentation in minimalism (we, apparently, service a very similar niche).
> It embeds some bitcoin into each copy of a file that is sent to a licensed recipient, usually a reviewer

I wish the article had more details about how the Bitcoins are embedded - because the obvious question is whether they could be trivially stripped out.

Interesting idea though (which is why I submitted): embed a "reward" in a file, which can be claimed anonymously. But if claimed, you know it's claimed, and you then have cryptographic proof that the file was leaked - and, if you only sent the file to one person, by whom.
Over 840,000 Cisco Devices Affected by NSA-Linked Flaw
I wouldn't say that they are always mutually exclusive. I think there is a variable ratio between advantages gained by 1. and disadvantages caused by 2.

In other words, at first, reducing repetition will net nearly no negative results - you just recognise different areas that do very similar things and write a common functionality. The most basic example would be programming languages providing standard libraries, even though everything could be done with regular operations. At this point, abstractions are even simpler to use than implementing things yourself.

Problems start to arise once you hit a certain point beyond which your abstractions become harder to use and maintain than simply writing things multiple times. This is where you should stop abstracting/modularising things away (assuming that the reason is purely overengineering, not bad engineering).
How many Chromium instances does Gallium create? Why would it ever need more than one unless you need to spawn a new window? We're way beyond the old WinForms days of making new windows that often.
Lack of communication when looking for a job
So, I'm looking for a remote job. This is quite disappointing. I have applied to about 40 job offers. 25 companies didn't even respond, which is strange. 5 replied with "no way, sir".

However some of them did it in a strange way. One replied "you have no suitable experience", although I met all the requirements (which is not common). One of them even gave me a task to do. I did, they also replied with the above answer. Two of them gave me quite complicated algorithmic tasks to implement during the interview, in 10 minutes. I had to think about that because those were not things I was doing for the last 14 years. I almost did that. "Almost" - that's why I didn't get those jobs.

The most disappointing part is answering a question about the salary. There is just one shot. They ask, I reply (giving not a huge number adding that I can accept lower figure depending on many other factors, so let's talk). Then they answer "this is too much, thank you, you don't get this job". That's all. There is no way to negotiate anything. They don't respond to any further emails.

Also some people asked me through HN to send them my CV. I sent. Just one person replied.

Another funny problem with the job hunt is that too many companies are so funny that they don't add the set of technologies which are required on a position, including programming languages. They have a job offer on their website without any technology information.

So, I'm disappointed by the lack of communication, 80% of my emails is without any answer. If someone writes "I will reply in a week" there usually won't be any reply within the week. And there is no salary negotiation, just one question, one reply. I know that the dream employee will work for free, but come on.

On the other hand there was always a salary negotiation in all my non remote jobs.
Agreed. It could be as simple as improving how negative results are reported. Mythbusters was all about disproving theories and the general public loves it.

(Yes, most disproved hypotheses don't involve explosions, but you can still make the reports interesting, because everything that is not true has broad implications)
>Actually I think the standardization of HTML5/CSS3/JS as the UI framework is preferable to the extreme fragmentation that exists in the "native" UI space

We've already solved fragmentation in the native UI space, with GUI toolkits like GTK and Qt. If someone extended those to mobile devices, then we'd have something a lot less terrible than HTML5/CSS/JS, which performed a lot better.
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That's because MBTI is about as scientific as astrology. Frankly, when I studied psychology in college (real psychology, not e.g. some Scientology 'psychologists are evil space aliens' claptrap), I came to the conclusion that most of it is equally unscientific. It has the form but not the substance.
This is the reason I stopped using Atom and returned to ST. It's just so practical.
> Why are EpiPen substitutes not allowed?

My understanding is if the prescription says "EpiPen" (or any non-generic drug brand name) the pharmacist must provide an EpiPen (or the brand-name drug). If the prescription says "epinephrine auto injector" or "EpiPen or generic," then the substitution is allowed.

> Are the products that different?

IIRC, they all the current alternatives deliver the same medicine, but they use different injector mechanisms to do so. I think the last alternative withdrew from the US market for some reason, because their mechanism wasn't as reliable with dosing.

IIRC, EpiPen's mechanism is apparently off-patent, so a true generic could enter the market if approved.
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You presumably don't know that the HCO period of warming correlates with the periodic changes in axial tilt. The Northern Hemisphere warmed as you state, and the Southern Hemisphere cooled.

It wasn't a global warming, but an increase in solar to the North. Globally temperatures were probably similar to today. Any runaway effects in the North and Arctic would have been compensated by increased glaciation in the South.

That's why Antarctic cores go back further - it didn't melt like the Arctic did.
Curious as to what other operating systems come with that bevy of tools, since you said "I have to install at minimum 10+ 3rd-party apps on a clean OSX install just to reach baseline feature parity with other modern operating systems these days."
Hacker News is a forum with very few additional features found on more popular sites like Reddit, and is significantly more narrow in topic scope and userbase.

That's...better. But it also depends on where you prefer to talk tech.
Introduction to large-scale recommendations using Apache Spark and Python
I thought the same, but then in the rest of the post the gamma adjusted images looked better.
Python driver for ArangoDB, NoSQL graph database
The notebook of the presentation is here: https://github.com/perone/spark-als-intro/blob/master/spark-...

If someone is interested.
How Customer Experience Induces Management to Launch Process Automation
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12555858
Pretty much my entire graduating class in Canada moved to the US immediately upon graduation.
You used the word "evolve" - I don't think this means what you think it means. Evolving means that positive mutations are occurring that assist these organisms; what is really happening is Natural Selection; where already present genetic capabilities are being favored and those populations are thus surviving.
and yet you do the exact opposite - you label the guy pathetic simply because he has a viewpoint that is different to yours.
You can even wire up an arduino into a vga monitor. There are a few vids on youtube showing simple games displayed this way.
I do wish you'd put the XML example next to Lisp, just for laughs:

<plus>1<times>2 3</times><plus>

Great article, though!
It already does, in git master GEGL/GIMP does averaging of pixels contributing in the area when scaling down. The previous development releases in the 2.9 series would only do proper downscaling for the nohalo and lohalo samplers. But since may of this year GEGL also does an area/averaging box filter for cubic and linear samplers.
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I switched to ST2 after about 20 years of VI(m). I happily paid the money to NOT have to deal with 50 different plugins designed to get VIm to, essentially, work like ST, with the side bar and tabs. I switched to Mac as my primary desktop not long after, and looked at TextMate. I WANT to support the Apple "ecosystem" in ways like using a "Mac" text editor, but I still work on Linux (and Windows). Not having cross-platform capability is a deal breaker for me, and ST is just as good as VIm in this regard.
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It wasn't profitable to research the old antibiotics either. They were developed with government money.
This would be great training, too. Not only would grad students learn how to conduct experiments in their field, they would also learn the value of a good Methods section in a paper.
The current model is just not efficient for science and I'm honestly continually surprised that it manages to accomplish anything at all.
A very informative tutorial on high performance edge-function based rasterization:

https://fgiesen.wordpress.com/2013/02/17/optimizing-sw-occlu...

(articles 6, 7, 8, others are not closely related)

As far as I know modern hardware has been non-scanline-based for ages btw.
Just an FYI, Atom does these things too. Tracks all of your open windows, tabs, which tabs you were on, keeps unsaved changes, etc...
This reminds me of a low res vision system I read about 20 years ago:

http://www.seattlerobotics.org/encoder/jan97/lowresv.html

I've always been kind of intrigued by what is possible with very simple hardware.
Yahoo is going to confirm data breach that exposed 200M Yahoo accounts
Someone should write an exploit for IE 8/9 that upgrades them to Firefox.
I wouldn't say "very expensive". It's about $2000 all in. Most people can scrape that sort of money together if they really want. It's not like 5 years ago, when it would have cost you as much as a small car to get just a headset. That's "very expensive". Quit going out to eat and drink every weekend for half the year? Not very expensive.

And again, I wouldn't say they are "not that great". They aren't 20/20 vision great, sure, but there is still a lot you can do and it's still possible to hit "presence".

I spend a lot of time exercising with Fruit Ninja and Space Pirate Trainer. I've spent hours at a time in Tilt Brush and Fantastic Contraption. Job Simulator has some bugs, but the gameplay is fantastic and it's not just a one-and-done demo. Jon Favreau's Gnomes & Goblins is cutting edge story telling that is fitting the VR medium explicit, it's incredible. I think your waiting for some time of lots of good content that is already here.

If you fancy yourself an "innovator", you should be getting in now. You need the lead time over consumers to get a handle on how different UX design is in VR.
I remember a push for JavaScript support a few years ago, but these days I think the most well-supported non-Scheme language is Emacs Lisp, as part of the Guile Emacs project.

I suppose that might not help since you "hate lisp", but Emacs Lisp is actually very different from Scheme. In many ways I'd say Emacs Lisp is actually closer to scripting languages like Python or PHP than it is to Scheme, since it has all of those classic Worse Is Better anti-features common to scripting languages from the 80s and 90s: dependence on imperative execution order, heavy reliance on side-effects, emphasising mutation over copying, making awkward distinctions between named and anonymous functions (it's a "2-lisp"), very poor encapsulation and modularity, extensive support for, and use of, monkey-patching, etc.

If you only "hate lisp" due to s-expression syntax, then keep in mind that the best feature of s-expressions is how easy they are to generate programmatically, e.g. from alternative syntaxes, such as

http://srfi.schemers.org/srfi-49/srfi-49.html

http://breuleux.net/blog/liso.html

http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/1646

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-expression

http://readable.sourceforge.net/

http://dustycloud.org/blog/wisp-lisp-alternative/

http://xahlee.info/comp/lisp_sans_sexp.html
I understand that you're trying to make a division between the purposeful killing of people and the more passive, "just letting people die" by supporting the status quo. For sure, all of us are guilty of the latter and we become more guilty with every passing minute.

I disagree vehemently and fervently that the medical industry as whole should be lumped into the latter group: letting people die by passivity. In the poster's story, it's very clear that the US company is they very opposite of passive and worked quite hard to exclude the company with the less expensive product from the market. For sure, this isn't all on the US company and corruption in the state played a big role as well. Still, I don't think it's reasonable to excuse the US company as "just trying to make money".
I agree, social media is creating new social disorders and providing a platform for people to knowingly or unknowingly destroy their lives. Facebook enables people to display a very skewed version of reality and enough of that in someone's social circle leads to feelings of failure, unworthiness, depression, rejection etc. So whilst this is not a disease to be cured, it is still a health issue.
No, I do know that, and it is completely irrelevant. It doesn't matter why the artic was seven degrees warmer, all that matters is that it was seven degrees warmer.

And there was no methane burp or PETM was there?
It's a good idea, and as a random browser it'd make me happy, but people wouldn't be too thrilled if the price went up from the initial quote. Also if the initial is too high, it may scare some people off.
My experience is that that ceased to be the case about a year ago. Now everyone also has Chrome.
Competitor Group are being sued in a class action lawsuit [0] by a road race volunteer claiming that volunteers were actually laborers being exploited by the defendant and in breach of the Fair Labor Standards Act.

Competitor Group argued for dismissal but their arguments were denied and the case is moving forward. So the courts will decide if, despite "knowing upfront" that they were volunteering, such "work" constitutes "labor". This could have a huge impact at (for-profit) races all over the country that rely on unpaid volunteers, not to mention other for-profit entities use of "volunteers", including YouTube/Google.

[0] http://digitalcommons.law.scu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?articl...
Mustard Systems Ltd|London,UK|Full Time|Python/Linux|Senior&Junior Position
At Mustard we research and manage automated sports betting algorithms that we use to trade and make profit. We run multiple systematic strategies that connect to sport betting exchanges and are semi-supervised by humans. Our stack mostly consists on Python plus some Go using ZMQ and PostgreSQL running on Ubuntu bare-metal servers on LXC containers. It's mostly backend work with minor JS UI stuff and a bit of systems administration.

We have a very flat hierarchy and relaxed environment. We work on kind of a mix atmosphere where devs cooperate with quants and sport traders.

We are looking for developers who have solid fundamentals in programming and maths and an ability to pick up new technologies. You don't need to be interested in sports or betting.

If this appeals to you, please send your CV and covering letter to:jobs@mustardsystems.com
I live in India and despite some improvements, the level of antibiotic abuse here is shocking. They're available over the counter and people self-medicate with antibiotics all the time. The attitude is, "if my sore throat doesn't go away in a couple of days, its time to take antibiotics. No point in going to the doc coz they'll prescribe antibiotics too and this way I save money."

People self-medicating on antibiotics end up taking an incomplete dose without fully understanding the implications. This has lead to the rise of superbugs like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Delhi_metallo-beta-lactama...
If you're an amateur photographer, you don't have the resource to do anything other than occasionally google image search your own stuff and send a few DMCA notices.

Whereas tumblr is built on - literally made out of - the reproduction of images without the permission of the copyright holder.

There's no RIAA or MPAA for photographs that has the clout to force platforms to redesign their systems to pro-actively check for copyright infringement.

(I'm trying to scrupulously avoid saying which side is right here, just describing the situation)
Yes. Especially if you can deliver them at the same rate as the Java team and with the same or fewer bugs.

That bar may be surprisingly more difficult than you think...
Do messaging apps cause too much distraction at work?
I love the comment from the OP, saying he's "figured out how it happens", and it turns out the R and B color components are swapped for some rotational angles.

That's clearly explained, then. :)

I don't suppose Safari has a public bug tracker? This sounds like such an awesome "WTF" it'd be fun to read the developers' take. :)
Don't usually do this, but seconding this response because I'd really like to emphasize it and I'd love to hear some of these answers. Why not just return the extra as lower rates in the subsequent month or refunds instead of donating?
I am two days away from death right now, and there's one product that stands between me and death, but yet that product (water) is abundant and cheap- even though it is priority #1 in my life. I'd literally spend my entire net worth, and go into debt to get just a glass of it if need be.

Price is not representitive of value. It's why diamonds cost more than water.

For certain things, I'd expect cheap prices in healthcare- if the market is allowed to function (i.e. Patents, regulation, etc are not in the way).

For others, high prices could actually be beneficial. Profits in an industry attract additional investment. When photo apps get bought for a billion, more people want to make photo apps.

Recently, specialty drugs for rare diseases started charging enormous prices. Do you think that led to more or fewer specialty drugs being developed?

In fact, there's been a boom in specialty drug development, which wouldn't have happened without the profits- but are saving many lives.

Fix prices, and you'll fix innovation to today's level. Allow profits, and the system will continue to magically improve.
I switched over to another browser and it's working fine, thanks for the links. I agree that it was definitely worth the read.
Oh, so they have claim to a percentage of my labor? without my consent? That sounds like something...
Because they could.
which probably isn't the best tool to use here.

http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/85249/why-not-use-wh...
Maybe there's something to be found between dreams of an ivory tower, and just laying there and taking it with a smile?
Honestly having to give the page all of my information before even being able to see a price or actually really even find out what it was selling turned me off.

Didn't bother finishing.
actually today, I think for most applications, a HTML based UI is good enough performance wise and certainly provides much higher scope for design creativity and flexibility over native framework widgets and views.

The performance improvement has basically come from the massive market that web is and consequently Google, FF and MS optimizing their JS and rendering engines (plus Moore's law)
You could have followed this:

> Societies work when all the participants interests are aligned.

with:

Regulation ensures that people don't work against the greater good for their own narrow profit and we all lose out.

But you went with people "getting rich".

Some would argue that if some people are getting rich, and there's no competitors entering to bid down their profits, by providing more of what is desired at lower costs, then economic interests are not aligned properly.
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Probably just https://bugs.webkit.org/ ? This sounds like something that WebKit handles.
I was speaking more broadly to what we should all be doing, all of the time.
Actually the tensorflow implementation he uses does both segmentation and classification and returns a probabilistic graph of objects. For his application, it's only returning the top result, so it looks more basic than it is.
I believe the reason people don't want to use the OS-native web interface is because of the need to support multiple frontends. It's easier to keep your presentation layer consistent across OS when you have a shared rendering platform.
Each bacteriophage typically targets just one or at most few types of bacteria. The targeted treatment in many ways is an advantage because a phage treatment to target a pathogen wouldn't also wipe out the symbiotic bacteria that we are increasing finding act as part of our natural defense mechanism against pathogens.

The challenge for drug companies is that they would need to isolate and get regulatory approval for each pathogenic bacteria that they wanted to treat. Today one of the challenges that drug companies face with developing new antibiotics is that the profit models for antibiotics are poor compared to drugs that treat chronic conditions. With an antibiotic you sell one course of treatment per patient but with a diabetes drug , for example, you're selling a lifetime supply. With a phage your taking the already small pool of money for antibiotic treatment and dividing it by a hundred or a thousand.

The other challenge is that using phages as part of a treatment protocol the diagnosing physician would need to culture and identify the pathogenic bacteria and then order a specific phage for treatment which would increase the cost of diagnosis. One possibility would be creating cocktails of phages that would target many different strains of phages but that would require complex revenue sharing agreements unless all the phages were developed by one drug company.

And while phages work great in vitro the don't always work as well in vivo because they are ... viruses ... which the immune system will attempt to identify and destroy them. Phage therapy for a sore throat, for example, requires gargling a phages in liquid. Not as simple as popping a pill to treat a blood infection.