skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I actually haven't seen a physician in roughly five years. So that doesn't happen to be a concern for me. However most people I meet, you included, are simply dismissive. I appreciate that you haven't been ugly about it but your response -- that I have an attitude problem of some sort, that my views are filled with logical fallacies and so on -- is the typical response of the majority of people in the CF community whether they are patients, family members or professionals. So I really see no reason to believe that getting a different doctor would make some sudden, radical difference in that regard.

Folks who are genuinely interested in my experiences and my understanding of the problem space are few and far between. I leave the site up for the benefit of the small number of people who are interested in the information. These days, I spend a great deal less time posting on health lists than I used to. It accomplishes very little and gets me loads of very negative attention. So I see little point in pursuing such activities. Having gotten myself basically well, my main focus is on other things these days.

Take care.
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Sorry to hear that. We went with the smaller font to fit everything on one page. Working on it now. As far as FB, we only ask for your email.
If you think he would have broken the rules explicitly then you are simply being cynical. If you are judging him based on that speculation then you should reconsider, because I highly doubt most people you've read here actually know Sam.
Especially since it's requesting offline_access. That's shady status for sure.
IdeaPaint: Dry Erase Boards everywhere
Ah, in that case it might be my GPU: ATI Radeon X1550
Passed because of the Facebook requirement.
I also seem to remember seeing the Automated Postal Center machines (the vending machines for stamps and scales and things) in post offices long before I saw automated cashiers in grocery stores everywhere. There's a lot of things going against USPS right now, but finding extremely usable technology that's casually ahead of its time doesn't seem to be one of them.
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Fails the three primary market advantages that Apple always goes for:

- Lots of opportunities to innovate (regulation and spectrum issues with the FCC, patents on the major wireless technologies involved, all the infrastructure equipment is produced/procured from 3rd parties)

- Large profit margin (carriers aren't generally 40-60% margin operations like the rest of Apple)

- Low ongoing overhead (lots of maintenance on a large, nationwide physical plant of towers)

Sounds to me like far more trouble than it's worth.
I am planning on this actually! HTTP lends itself well to running a process.

It will likely be very call+result oriented at first (no interaction w/ a running process)
If I create a new product (an achievement) what does that take away from anyone else?

Attention.
Now, with a little googling, I learn the following things:

"Most viruses encode proteins that can inhibit apoptosis"

There is actually already cellular machinery for triggering apoptosis when a cell is infected with a virus

Some viruses induce apoptosis themselves, to their own benefit. When the cell falls apart during apoptosis, the virus ends up packaged with bits of the host cell, which stops the immune system from responding to it!

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10547702

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apoptosis

EDIT: here is an article that gives a sense of just how complicated this all is, and how much existing machinery in cells and viruses target it:

http://www.nature.com/cdd/journal/v8/n2/full/4400820a.html
This makes me wonder then why some cultures frown on public displays of altruism. Basically, do good but please don't brag about it.
A very simple Twitter app -- Retweet Stats ( Alpha )  
Code base is : https://github.com/atsiddiqui/ReTweeted
Any suggestion for improvement in code will be highly appreciable.
Binary file formats make it worse, because you are dealing with untrusted data disguised as a C struct. For example, even multiplying with an integer that is too big can result in an integer overflow, and C will silently truncate.
Apple had every opportunity to sell the iPhone standalone, without any participation from the carriers. Given the iPhone's obvious lure, especially when first released, Apple might have succeeded in upsetting the long-lamented model where devices are locked to and subsidized by carriers. They could have easily directed customers to purchase the iPhone and direct customers to purchase service separately.

Why didn't they?
I do agree with everyone she is a techie.

What did people think of the article's use of opening night at the opera and symphony as examples of attaining insider social event status in the bay area? I am a bit skeptical of this since opening night is not by invitation only, seats are available to whoever wants to buy a ticket. On the other hand, most charity galas and such that end up on the social register page are also available to whoever has the money to buy a ticket as well.
This echoes the Einstein quote I regard as my personal mantra:

"Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value." - Albert Einstein.
Because they collaborated with then-Cingular to do Visual Voicemail. Also the thinking then was that they could earn a kickback from the carrier for exclusivity.
JQuery challenge - draw tally marks on click event
My examples are merely illustrative and not meant to be analogous to the situation at hand. I want to illustrate that there is a difference between being disgusted by something and whether or not there is an explicit rule. There luckily aren’t as many rules as there are behaviors that are considered repugnant by someone. I’m quite happy about that.

In the case of the door, just imagine you had eye contact with the person who slammed the door and he grinned. At that point I’m perfectly willing to infer the intention and consider the behavior rude.

Sam Odio has written a lot about his intentions, those aren’t really the issue. They are public and clear and I’m disgusted by them. Simple as that. “But it’s an experiment” completely misses the point.
There recently was a more interesting article on viruses in the news. Because a virus relies on DNA codons having the same meaning (i.e. maps to the same amino acid) for the host organism, you could engineer an organism immune for all viruses. Sort of like switching to another CPU architecture with a different instruction set.
http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2011/editing-genome-0715.html
Good memory works for me.
faster is better
Way to miss the point, Anon. In one of the incidents they talked about the suspect did have a gun and reportedly did shoot at police. I mean seriously, do they really think the police are in the habit of shooting people over fare evasion?

I'm no fan of police, and I support protest groups - but there's a difference between protesters with a grievance, and hooligans looking for an excuse. From what I've seen, previous BART protests have been more the latter than the former.

I am sick and tired of "anarchists" subjugating every legitimate cause under the sun so they can have an excuse to deface and destroy. Not only is what they do juvenile and unproductive, but their presence taints what are otherwise very legitimate and important grievances and seriously compromises public opinion and support of these causes.

There is not a single group I despise more than your average black bloc "anarchist protester". I'm disappointed (but unsurprised) that Anon has confused real protesters with these guys, too.
College was awesome.

Every time I read a critique of college education, my thought is this: you paid too much to do too little because you were focused on "getting a piece of paper". A better strategy is to use that time trying to know everything and probably not going to the most selective--and thus generally most expensive--school you can find.
Increase the width of the page if you want to fit more in there. Your line length wasn't too long.
It could be left unpublished. Most things people create aren’t released.

If you don’t like that example, pick another: learning a programming language. What is lost by me learning a new programming language? It takes time for me of course but that time would have passed anyway.
Works for me on FF8 on Linux, NVidia drivers.
Cool Illusion - Motion Induced Blindness
Lettuce doesn't require 100% of sunlight to mature. Also the sun is not at full strength over a set piece of land for 12 hours, I don't think.
Expect this one to fail too.
It is amateurish and raises serious concerns about data safety.
To even the playing field maybe? If you brag about how awesome you are, you're putting the pressure on everyone else to be as awesome. Some people don't like that ...
It's probably more of a driver thing than a browser thing.

The demo works great on FF8 over here. Linux/NVidia.
Interesting! I've created an open-source library in Go to hide text on images: http://strogonoff-demo.appspot.com/
I feel like this blog post gets a lot of things wrong, but it doesn't really have a conclusion or coherent argument. So I'll just point out what I feel is wrong:

• I don't see how social capital or track record is zero sum. When you build something awesome that gives you a reputation, that doesn't take away from other people's achievements.

• Techies are low status people except for a few elite (kind of like 99% of regular people as well?). I'm not sure I understand what it means to be low status and its implications on a person.

• "Manipulating people is hard". I think you mean "managing people is hard". I understand your bias against non-engineers being responsible for product development, however just because someone isn't a programmer does not make them bourgeois to proletariat. The truth is 100% of people who get paid to work are also told what to work on.
Arguably, if we're going so far as to factor in food, we should factor in health benefits. If bicycling reduces your demand for medical care, it also reduces the portion of your carbon footprint taken up by treatment. Hospitals and medical equipment don't grow on trees.
Social networking as conversation is a good analogy, and one that Gabler doesn't follow through on in this article. Yes, the vast majority of conversations are banal, and always have been. The only difference is that, because of social networking, we now have a lasting record of how mundane our conversations are. Most conversations are not three-hour monologues about the End of History (and thank God for that). That doesn't mean that the quality of discussion has declined, or that we are in a post-idea era. It just means that throwaway small talk is located on the same global platform as the big ideas.

A positive side effect is that the interesting conversations are now available to everyone. For example, most chatter in a Philadelphia bar in 2011 is of no interest to anyone except the people having the conversation, but chatter in a Philadelphia bar in 1776 would make a fascinating read. I sure wish we had a record of that. Take Twitter as an example, since Gabler singles it out for criticism. Most of the time, I don't care what Muhammad Everyman in Cairo is tweeting about, because the quality level is the same as that of ordinary conversation. But when a revolution breaks out, I can listen in on tens of thousands of conversations talking about what is happening on a street-by-street level. Conversation is mundane, except when it isn't.

As for the comment about the Internet following a sort of Gresham's Law, with trivial information pushing out the big ideas, I think it's off the mark. Nothing is getting pushed out because there is nothing to get pushed out of. More bytes of kitten photos does not mean less bytes of Nietzsche. The amount and availability of big ideas and trivial data are increasing concurrently. The issue is one of attention: You can seek out and pay attention to big ideas, or you can look at cats. Most people look at cats. But that's always been true.
The carriers probably have many ways of making phone manufacturers miserable if they choose to do so.
What about the startups where scale is the product?

Such as Reddit, Etsy, Quora, Airbnb, eBay, or any network effect/marketplace business?
http://news.ycombinator.net/item?id=2883043

A filter and a kill file would be nice.
Just 2.

But, they are each 10,000 characters on average. ;)

It's kind of a difficult metric to extract any measurable data from.
Ideas are never truly unique. No matter how special they might seem to you, rest assure that at least a sufficient amount of people have been sensitive to the zeitgeist to pick up the same, seemingly weak, signals that lead you to that idea of yours. Ergo, you need to be agile, to iterate fast and competently to flesh out and develop the idea into a business.
Clojure--it makes writing Java code easier than Java itself does (one example: Clojure altomagically casts arguments to the needed type).

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You mean all this time what I thought was spam was actually someone sending me encrypted messages?

Or, less humorously: this will turn your encrypted message from "suspicious" into "spam."
The original iPhone wasn't carrier subsidized - you could walk into the store and buy one, without a contract. You'd set up the contract when you got home, through iTunes.

It was locked to Cingular/AT&T, but that was, as the other commenter said, more of a Visual VM thing than anything else.

I'm thinking this started because Apple wanted to change the way phones were sold, but changed because selling a $599 (or $399 after the price drop) phone wasn't tenable in the US market.
If you do business with me, and you're an asshole, your moral defense can be that you didn't know you were being an asshole. I'd personally give you the benefit of the doubt. Of course the next time you do the same thing it'll be clear.

>But the question of whether his actions were in accordance with the “rules of the game” has very little bearing on whether they are repugnant.

If you break an explicit rule or request, then it's clear that you knew you were being an asshole, doing things other people don't want. When that rule is not explicit, it's hard to say if you knew you were being an asshole. The rules weren't explicit, and could have very easily specified not to scrape.

If Sam took advantage of anyone it would have been naive experiment participants who donated money under the false assumption it would be used for a specific purpose. But even then, Sam's actions could be interpreted as Robin Hood-esque by some.

There is NO DOUBT, from the view point of the supposed victims that Sam's actions are repugnant because they go against what they wished, but so did the people who Robin Hood robbed from I bet. However, from a more global perspective, who's to say they're repugnant? Assume some of that Stark Card money actually reached some unfortunate children in the third world and made their lives slightly better... Would a non-victim really believe that to be a worse appropriation of that money than buying coffee for some first-world person (assuming the money actually reached those kids)? Many would argue that is a better use of the money, regardless of what the original experiment participants expected the money to be used for, because the experiment participants wrongly assumed in the first place.
> Without enforcement of the social contract, society would quickly collapse

When you're dealing with strangers' money, an unspoken "social contract" is entirely inadequate. You need an explicit contract, real enforcement, and oversight. This is why charities have things like mission statements, operational guidelines, and independent audits, and why the law gets involved when there's misappropriation of funds. This is why we have things like Charity Navigator.

When you don't have those things, you get a situation like this -- funds get directed to causes the donors did not intend. As misappropriations go, this one was relatively tame; rather than giving coffee money to starving children, someone might use "feed the children" money to bomb a bus in the Middle East, or "stand up for the Constitution" money to fund McVeigh type domestic terrorism.

Some sort of abuse was inevitable with the way Jonathan's Card was set up. I'm sad that Sam chose to abuse it, since he's a valued member of this community and it sucks to see him alienate so many. But I'm also glad that he's the one who abused it, as many others would've actually bought themselves an iPad instead of sending the money on to charity.
Knife.

http://www.sfexaminer.com/local/bay-area/2011/07/bart-shooti...
Yea, I am well aware of the advice to not talk to the police. But I wonder why the police would go to such trouble to get confessions as to write a letter to trick people into doing so etc.
There’s another problem with the managing/manipulating people being hard statement: people vary a lot. Some people don’t need any managing at all; others can’t be trusted at all. By contrast computers are very consistent.
Sorry, but I don't use Facebook so I'll pass on this.
The amount of calories we burn does not contribute to the net carbon excess per se; after all, we're part of the natural carbon cycle. The number that matters is the amount of energy used to acquire the calories we do consume. The carbon that matters is the amount desequestered as a result of burning fossil fuels.
hmm...

You seem to fail to take your audience into consideration. It is common for HN to resist facebook login.
Maybe this could be interesting to you. It was done by Peter Van Roy, of Concepts, Techniques, and Models of Computer Programming fame.

http://www.info.ucl.ac.be/~pvr/paradigms.html
I checked you HN profile and found your about section interesting:

I am unemployed and possibly unemployable.
You haven't included Digg - a perfect example of getting big instead of polishing the product.
Apple would be spending half its cash pile to acquire a domestic company.

Nearly two-thirds (62%) of the company's sales are international [1]; furthermore, I would guess that much of the company's growth is in international markets, especially in Asia.

Unless Apple is seeking to improve its operational expertise in running carriers in order to buy up carriers throughout the world, this acquisition would be a very curious one.

[1] http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2011/07/19Apple-Reports-Thir...
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Attention doesn't automatically default to the next product should a superior product not exist.

Any product worth seeing/writing about/using has to be attention worthy enough in the first place, and then competes with other products for attention. Just like if two hot dog stands compete on the same street and one leaves. If the remaining hot dog vendor produces the ugliest nastiest worst tasting hot dogs, he does not capture the rest of the market afforded by the absence of a competitor. But if they were the two best hot dogs stands in the city, people flock to them and their market size actually grows.
The history of HiFi
"At long last, iPhone users will enjoy the level of carrier service and support that is their birthright."

Birthright? Fuck you.
This guy isn't for real? Surely?
This guy paints himself as some sort of guru but he can't be real? Scammer or parody I can't work it out. Says he received money from some nigerian entrepreneur? But he's affiliated with some well known companies (The FT - ft.com - and KashFlow http://www.kashflow.com/blog/tugg-on-social-media-success/)
I was resistant to the FB login, but clicked it anyway. I balked when I saw your app requesting access to my information any time. Nope, not gonna happen.
For such a new module, the API for subprocess is remarkably bad. I have to look it up absolutely every time.
The thing is, if you have enough money (e.g. work is an option) and are bored, you will want for challenge and diversion. Money doesn't cure the human need to be recognized and to be connected and to be relevant. If anything, it makes it more of an isolated and pure drive.

I know someone who used to be a very successful fundraiser for a museum. The unwritten subtext is if you want to be 'Chair of the ball' is that it is a sizable donation ($25-$50k to start).

Money is the price to entry but navigating the social hierarchy (e.g. socialite) is something that requires acumen, not just money.

I am reminded of a Brasilian girl who moved to our neighborhood/school district in middle school (most of us had known each other since early grades). She invited literally everyone to a big party (not extravagant by any means). Quickly become integrated into the social circles. But her ongoing popularity was more due to her acumen and personality.
Unfortunately not a lab test, I saw this on Frontline recently and it was very disturbing to see that confessions could be so easily had: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/the-confessions/etc/...

Essentially, the story involves these sailors individually confessing to a crime (and allegedly tailoring their confessions to the investigator's words) when they were implicated by someone already being interrogated. With each additional person being interrogated, more people were implicated (who were previously unnamed), and previous confessions were amended accordingly.

Quite saddening indeed.
As far as FB, we only ask for your email.

"thirdplace is requesting permission to do the following:

* Access my basic information - Includes name, profile picture, gender, networks, user ID, list of friends, and any other information I've shared with everyone.

* Send me email - thirdplace may email me directly at <email>

* Access my data any time - thirdplace may access my data when I'm not using the application
"
LoseThos has some outstanding bugs that can make it crash. God can make it more or less stable than normal. It seems pretty stable to me, but I know changing usage patterns can reveal lots.

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Here's a more permanent home for it. http://www.atomitware.tk/games/box2dwebdemo.html
Because Apple returned to back to Intel from the "real" 3D chips in latest Airs?
What I'm Building and Why
Yeah, what this needs is just a regular openid login...
from the article:

"...was detained by Officer Asif Kahn for taking pictures..."
What exactly does it solve to list customer contact info from mybart.gov?
Digg's product is crowd sourced news. They failed through poor community management not a lack of innovation in their UI.
Can write easily few thousands of lines of code in a day if I really want to do that, but SLOC is not good metric like others have already said. One reason for this is that you can write much code, but is it worth it when you could possibly do the same thing with way less code.
Unfortunately, with FB all apps are required to ask for basic information. All we have control over is the additional data (email). You are right though, FB sometimes asks for/gives away a lot of data unnecessarily.