skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Woah, are you seriously comparing immunotherapy to homeopathy? One has no basis in reality and no known mechanism of action. The other has a solid scientific and biological foundation behind it. Nor is immunotherapy the "latest scientific research," its been around for decades.

James Randi famously starts out talks swallowing an entire bottle of homeopathic sleeping pills. He's not dead yet despite being almost 90.
They definitely don't have equal value. The potential revenue stream for the treatment is much higher than the cure. You have to subtract the probability that someone else finds a cure from that revenue stream, amortized and discounted over its lifetime.

So, it may be that sometimes that causes it to make sense to search for a cure (if there is a particularly promising pathway that someone else is likely to explore, for instance), but all else being equal, it probably makes more sense to fund treatments.

The initial cost of developing any new drug is extremely high. We're talking hundreds of millions to billions. That's just to break even. That means if you have a cure for a disease that 100k people have, you have to charge them each $10k just to break even.

That is insane. The numbers of course scale directly with the number of patients, too. If only 10k people in the world have the disease, you need to charge them each 100k, just to break even (the average cost of developing a new drug is actually 2.5 billion, but for these purposes let's say you get lucky and it's 'only' 1 billion).

If you want to actually make a profit, you'll need to charge even more than that.
Precisely. Bay Area is unlike any other.
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My questions are just there to get people talking about what they have done. Sometimes you ask about malloc and people haven't used it. I think they serve as a pretty decent initial screen. You choose some basic things that people need to know, then some more advanced things that someone who uses a language regularly would know, and ask until you have an idea of where their knowledge ends.
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Yeah... google domains' management tools are what got me to switch pretty much everything over to them... some domains you can move to them after registration, but can't get new ones for the given tld.

I can't say how happy I've been with their mostly out of the way tooling... the two times I needed support using the callback option worked out for me. Far easier than getting support for anything else google, but it's been great so far...

Even tried the dyndns for an a-record, which has worked well enough.
I didn't understand this, but it is probably because I am a machine.
Yesterday I found a copy of The Influencing Machine by Brooke Gladstone at Half Price Books and spent the evening enthralled. The beginning chapters cover the same ground in this article but she then goes on to relate these ideas with the modern media landscape. Highly recommended book and she cohosts a podcast generally about the same subject called 'On the Media' (also highly recommended by me).
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Make November 21st #proofoflife day
Hello all. Dark times, here. Please post a proof-of-life of yourself somewhere on the internet today. http://imgur.com/9Gn8tRr

I know this is a long-shot. But it seems to me that our government has just disappeared one of the most high-profile journalists in the world, and there is a media black-out on the matter. I'm doing this because I believe our only hope is through bottom-up, collective action. And it's going to be really tough to break through.

It's a hail mary.
That you have to put parentheses around expressions does not make the syntax go away in Lisp. The 'has almost no syntax' is mostly a misconception. Syntax in Lisp is provided by special operators (LET, ...) and macros (DEFUN, ...).

Often people assume the relatively simple syntax for s-expressions is the syntax of the programming language Lisp. It isn't. Lisp syntax is defined on top of s-expression.
I've started work on a Go library for Katello/Foreman if anyone is interested
That's because that's what a lot of these bootcamps sell. I've interviewed several grads, and while it's not universal, many of them literally tell their graduates they're going to be better prepared for the Real World™ than their college educated counterparts. Almost like, "You'll be better than a CS grad. All they can do is explain and apply the fundamental thinking process behind all this 'engineering' crap. You, on the other hand, will be able to select elements based on their CSS class. Way more useful."
How would the interviewer know that you wrote the code on your github?
Lol. I was thinking similarly. If this is what you need to do to get Kubernets up in production, Kubernetes is far from production ready. Sadly, this type of UX is the norm in the ops world and everyone is expected to build out a custom in-house solution on top even though everyone is doing the exact same thing. AWS was built on this insane model, promising companies that they don't need operations when the need was shifted from hardware onto software, not eliminated. The devops movement has decided it is also fine with this as long as they can automate the dozens of moving parts using dozens of other moving parts. Surely nothing will fail then. Even products that manage a really great UX like Docker itself fail when it comes to providing a proper UX for higher level tools like docker swarm.

I'd like to think that the industry is moving forward towards better, higher-level abstractions (like Kubernets or Heroku) but it seems to me it's only moving sideways, just like it did with the adoption of VMs.
May be unrelated... but what happens when I purchase goods with a foreign currency which I had bought before (and reported the purchase) and said foreign currency value had increased 15% since the moment I reported its purchase?
Pour some pills in the trash and tell her it didn't work. TCM is possibly worse than homeopathy in that at least homeopathic medicine is just water, while TCM is god knows what garbage.
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That would be a mistake. Companies have replaced humans that can actually solve your problem with humans that just placate you and occasionally sell you on something else.

I had a problem with T-Mobile, where I tried to convert my month-at-a-time plan to a family plan, and T-Mobile completely disabled my phone, irrevocably broke my SIM to the point where I had to buy a new one (paying the setup fees).

I spent HOURS on the phone (someone else's phone - mine wouldn't work) with various reps in various departments before I finally just ejected and changed to another phone company.

They even filled their subreddit with paid shills who will just shout down anyone who comes there with a problem.

Honestly, Google isn't doing that bad in comparison.
Not a coding post for once
Best usb-c dock for the new macbook pro?
My google searches for docks are coming up blank. Features I'm looking for:

- brick style. i.e., usb-c cable separates the laptop and dock. More like an adapter/hub I guess. Prefer something square/rectangular, not round, with all the ports on the front, except for the usb-c charger that would go to the wall.

- Respectable build quality. Maintains the apple aesthetic

- USB 2 (4+)

- HDMI (1-2)

- Micro SD (1)

- SD (1)

- Ethernet (1)

- USB-C (2+, one to wall, one to laptop)

- provides power to MBP

That's all I can think of. Are there any options available now or will be soon?
I'm trying to spread the word. Please post a proof-of-life of yourself today somewhere on the internet.

http://imgur.com/9Gn8tRr
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Thanks for the links, I had to setup a Mesos cluster on ~200 machines for my university (which is what got me interested in DCOS in the first place).

I was then trying to replicate the same in the cloud but with more constraints (security, networking etc.) and found both Kubernetes and DCOS complicated.

Recently Azure seems to have DCOS (and Kubernetes) as it's orchestration tools for Azure Container Service and I wanted to learn more about each.
I work with government people and contractors a lot and I've never heard it not pronounced "foya."
I think the quote "If I had more time I would have written a shorter letter" applies.
tl;dr: It is an "assemble yourself" 140X microscope, targeting students and enthusiasts.

The early-bird teacher package for $20 gets you 20 Foldscopes, plus $19 delivery. It is the most economical option.

The microscopes are expected to be delivered in August 2017.
Not even true. I have had this problem and had it traced to water ingress in a junction box some distance away.
I mean, the product itself is named Slack...
It is also about time we force this for vitamins too. The disclaimer of "not been validated by the FDA to cure or treat a disease..." is a bunch of crap. It goes beyond false advertising, it is straight up untrue claims. They should be forced to do true double blind studies with several universities and show tangible benefit or don't advertise.
Mother in laws and their daughters always are a difficult canyon to navigate. White lie may be best? Pretend to take it, and ask her occasionally if it's working..?
Did you actually except to be able to exchange an unlimited amount of money without having to declare it on your tax returns?
I would cringe when I would hear pronounced acronyms like "sequel" and "scuzzy" (SQL and SCSI) back in college; some acronyms simply aren't meant to be pronounced as words, especially if the pronounced word gave an uninformed listener the wrong impression. "Eww, why does my computer need to be scuzzy??"
I think there is a difference between identifying and supplying workers with what they know they want (family in the providing sense), with cults, prostitution rings, and organized crime (family in the extortion sense). The former doesn't necessarily mean the latter.

Also, in trade guilds, apprentices and journeyman rarely owned their own means of production.
http://www.bmj.com/content/321/7259/471 not conclusive evidence by a long way, but still.
I love how this conversation devolved into pedantry, honestly. Worry about the a/an usage, don't address the root issue, why don't you. Yup: programmers are grammar nazis.
Correct. Since I can't get through account creation at all I'm mostly stuck. I've tried social media, but without much luck there as well.
500ish sq ft is pretty typical for a 1 bedroom apartment in the cities I've been in.

Studios are usually around 400 sq ft.
Who cares whether the plant works or not? The point here is that you have no idea what is actually in those pills. Odds are good that it doesn't include any of the plant that it indicates and no law is currently broken by that fact. Meanwhile, hair dye is tested on many people and has its ingredients listed.
From my experience I would say that what you are describing at the end there is a full-stack developer. It's someone that works across the application stack, not setting it up to make use of it. Although many probably can, it's just likely not their responsibility.

Of course, all bets are off if it's a small shop.
Why do we need a normative debate at all?
If you literally sold tap water, it seems like you could be prosecuted for fraud. And maybe a lawsuit for emotional damage.

The snake oil might be completely ineffective, but it better at least be oil from an actual snake.
I find it easier to read with the exception of the anonymous variables. In scala, I would write

val persons = names
.map { name => Person(name = name) }
.filter { person => person.isValid }
I thought this was about League of Legends at first, and I was terrified that Riot was going to make it harder to chase down toxic chat in their game.
I don't think the "it's harmless" argument holds water whether or not they screw up the dilution:

http://whatstheharm.net/homeopathy.html
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I've only heard "foya", and I find "sequel" for "SQL" to grate like nails on a chalkboard. YMMV!
If you're already on Google Cloud, and wanting to deploy a containerized app, then the side benefit alone is probably worthwhile because Kubernetes takes care of dealing with both Google Cloud and Docker, with little or no downside.
The good news for your liver is that sounds exotic and expensive and lawn clippings are cheap so the odds are excellent its just some oregano or garlic or something from the landscape, not the real stuff that might rot out your liver.

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/02/03/sidebar-whats-in-th...

In before the stereotypical MiL jokes along the lines of "of course the pills are pure cyanide" etc.
powerline is an option as well
In some contexts, you may be legitimately concerned only with the absolute level of "works" and not the level relative to a placebo baseline.

The (understandable, traditional) reason for measuring relative to placebo is that, "well, you don't need the drug if it's only as good as what a placebo gives -- just use the cheaper placebo! You should only bother with some special drug if it's better than what mere belief-in-effectiveness yields."

But that assumes that people are equally credulous of every placebo; if a person is more credulous of homeopathy, and credulity is hard to manufacture, then it's not quite wrong to say that it "works" under a relevant definition.

(I know this is kind of an angels-on-the-head-of-a-pen technicality, but eventually we'll want to actually understand why belief-in-effectiveness can matter at all, so we can exploit it, and reasoning like yours tends to give the idea that such an effort, by definition, can't work.)
IMO, cost is a big factor here. Adding things like insulation, EM sheilding, or anything else other than the minimum needed water water and electrical lines to the inside of walls raises the cost of construction. So if it isn't required by the function of the room or building code, you're unlikely to see such fanciness, unless it's some high-end luxury place where the shielding is a selling point. Expect higher rent in such a place to cover the additional costs of constructing those fancy EM-shielded units.
A lot of the worsening/improvement is a perceived one. Also the point of doing double blind experiments with a placebo as the control is that if the new medication doesn't do better than a placebo then it effectively proves that it doesn't work.
The original 802.11g AirPort Express only works with the old AirPort Utility. Which is really unfortunate, because they're perfectly viable otherwise, for things that don't need speed, or just as a place to plug in some speakers.
Trump has a financial stake in the pipeline

http://www.ecowatch.com/donald-trump-dakota-access-pipeline-...
Eh, maybe for more complicated examples, but I think that comprehension is a lot more complicated than:

filter isValid (map peopleNamed names)
Only a third of UK consumers' plastic packaging is recycled
Two driving factors, I think: dominance of the advertising industry, and a rise of "wicked problems" with no good comfortable answers. Global warming leads this: would you rather believe we're on an inevitable path to doom, or that everyone is lying to you?
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My Crohn's went into total remission as soon as I stopped consuming alcohol.
> Coming out of Hack Reactor, my weaknesses were data structures and algorithms.
...
> At Hack Reactor, we’re trained to mask our inexperience. In our personal narratives, we purposely omit our bootcamp education.

I fail to see how they prepared this student for a career in software development. Sounds like they get a Masters in technobabble.
> is misinformation some sort of virus that slowly spreads

We're paying the lack of accuracy in "scientific truth". Journalists and political groups (on the Liberal side, especially) aren't innocent here.

I see that a lot with feminism.

For example: Scientific studies such as "Women in average are able to execute a parallel task in 169s, while men are able to execute in 177s" transforms into "Women 'better at multitasking' than men, study finds"[1]. Wait, what? 169s vs 177s!? Which serves the political group of feminists (hence, my stance about Liberals).

It is also widely accepted that women are paid less than men. When we dive into studies, we don't find a 30% difference; We find a heavy distortion and fact extraction, so that the worst possible interpretation of the scientific study becomes the headline of the article, and that helps liberal political groups to make us believe that women have a worse situation than men. Which, of course, conveniently forgets to mention that far more men are killed, homeless (2x in France), beaten up, harassed or commit suicide (3x in France) than women, and more are workaholics, which justifies a part of the pay difference.

I've talked about feminism but the same un-demonstration can be made about other groups targeted by the new wave of politics (=Trump).

Any normal person would be legitimate to disbelieve journalists, political groups and scientists who forget to mention some interesting fact that completely overturns the picture: 169s vs 177s means that a large part of men performs better than a large part of women on this test.

Maybe a lesson is, Liberals may have gone so far in misreporting science that they've discredited science altogether?

[1] "Women 'better at multitasking' than men, study finds" – http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-24645100
3 months of applying? Wow. Seems like whatever he got was well-earned to me. I really stick to projects too, but this is massive. I just don't have the time/patience for 3-months of searching while I am currently working.

Kind of makes me think that the market is selecting people who have someone else supporting them so they can do all this interview research. Seems backward in my opinion.

I keep hearing "interviewing is a skill too." Sure it is, but should it be? I mean, why are hiring managers looking for people who are good at pretending to know things rather than people who demonstrate real aptitude through getting things done?
I never said it wasn't? Email often ends up passing through other servers you or your counterpart don't control.

You could in theory have it communicate directly with your counterpart's server over TLS, which would provide a good deal of privacy, but then you're trusting your counterpart's server. Given that most people aren't capable of running a mail server, it's not an ideal solution.
Do you have a source for that? Quick Google search indicates the global poverty rate has been steadily decreasing.
or the feed goes black
Bitcoin was originally designed with the intention that if you were a Bitcoin user, you were probably running a machine that was running a mining client.

This is not true - from early on Satoshi was describing how you could have thinner clients that didn't run a full node.
It is a bit snarky, but also has a ground truth: pointers to functions aren't functions.

More importantly, you cannot make functions in C. For example, one cannot write a function that, given pointers to functions that compute 1/x and sin(x), returns a pointer to a function that returns 1/sin(x)
The calorie/nutrition application I use is able to do this, CRON-O-METER. It has many existing food products, and even allows you to add your own recipes or custom foods and generates a nutrition label for them. It also generates many aggregate trackers. I use it to keep track of my food and exercise, which works well for me as I follow a diet of--each whatever I want as long as it fits in my calories and hits my nutrient quotas, which means I no longer feel bad if I want some junk food as long as it's those bounds. The only disadvantage is you can't view historical aggregated data, only "raw" data without paying for a subscription, but I've gotten by without a subscription for a good while.
I am highly skeptical of any claim that an email provider is more private than other providers. E-mail is fundamentally not secure and not private, unless you enhance it with PGP, which requires you to, of course, have something you want private.

Most people don't encrypt because they're not scared enough. It usually takes some time before their wordlview is repeatedly shattered enough that encryption is the only choice they have.
Is it due to be updated by today? Or is it not late until the last quarter of 2016 passes without an update?
For what it's worth, CircleCI is going all-in on containers: https://circleci.com/blog/say-hello-to-circleci-2-0/
I posted another comment but will follow up here because you are getting downvoted, unfairly I think.

As you say modern medicine embraces like cures like for multiple conditions I can think of off hand, including, as you mention immunotherapy for allergies. Others I believe include anti-venom and flu vaccination.

Also, the article itself is clear: many are diluted to be rendered useless and in general aren't based on science. Well there is a clear gap and what I consider an acknowledgement some of these therapies are based on science and do contain the active ingredient. In my mind that makes them not far off from vitamins, many of which if you buy off the shelf and break open will be filled with flour and other fillers. Still that is not to say the science behind vitamin supplements isn't real and there aren't some reputable companies making quality products.

Now I am not encouraging deception in the marketplace, or giving peanuts to kids with peanut allergies. Though that is part of real science and modern medicine using like cures like.
> Even though the site is simple development time has been severely dropped thanks to choosing a fairly heavy platform.

I don't think it is because the platform is "heavy" (I assume in productive features) but rather it is what you are probably most recently familiar with.

For example I have built similar CMS tools for internal documentation with Java + Postgres (markdown and mustache.java) in less than a day. The development time was quick because I know Java and SQL... and basic HTML + request response handling.

The fact is it is even easier to pump this stuff out if you don't do Javascript heavy stuff because you can use so many different languages for basic HTTP + HTML + storage. Hell you might even be able to have a RDBMS (like postgres) with a couple plugins itself power the whole thing.
I find the really tender pieces of meat to have little taste. I don't mind having to chew on my flank or skirt steak, the flavour from those is worth it!
“You know what they call alternative medicine that's been proved to work? - Medicine.” ― Tim Minchin
Here's the mayhem:

https://www.gearslutz.com/board/12262310-post249.html
And yet.. you're doing the exact same thing.
I have gotten both stellar and not-so-stellar replies from AWS Support. They used to be slower than ideal but these days it's pretty good. We also have a great line of communication with someone who coordinates SAs to help clients (not sure what his title is) and he can get stuff escalated/sped up. For the most part, we haven't needed that despite his repeated offers to, except in one case, when he was quite insistent which it turned out was for good reason.

Either way I would greatly rather deal with AWS support than Google Support, which as far as I can tell is an oxymoron.