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I am not a fan of homeopathy, but there is probably some underlying truth to that concept. I think it is more complicated than that, but the immune system works by identifying threats and going after them. It is a little bit like what happened in WWII in the U.S. when lots of Japanese Americans were rounded up and sent to camps because they were deemed a potential threat. I have found that strengthening the body first and then re-exposing myself is a way to get healthier. That was not a plan and most re-exposures for me were unintentional. But, having worked on strengthening my body, I have found that re-exposure triggers mop up of old problems along with new.

I have not used homeopathy nor read up on it. I don't really know exactly what they do. But my impression is they are skipping that first part, that their mental model is missing something and thus results are rather hit or miss.
exactly. The ideas this guy cites, like Elon Musk, are completely unrelated. Elon Musk actually researched these markets, figured out what to do and did it. To equate that with asking a completely unresearched question on Hacker News feels like the author was really grasping at straws here...
I would be interested in seeing that research split into two cohorts: work where you are pushed around by bosses and customers, and work where you are practicing your craft and pursuing whatever directions come naturally. Also, is that 60hours plus a bachelor life, or 60 hours plus chasing kids around at night and in the morning?
You've derailed my Sunday. Thanks. Is this the nzbmatrix core?
> Dislin (Looking for a replacement, since it's a real pain to use)

Have you tried MayaVi?
Bastards - the "back" button in my browser just loads the page again, or does something equally useless.

People - don't do that. You'll confuse people who don't really what's going on, and those who do will get really annoyed. I'll certainly think twice before going to the NYTimes site again.
Quick, someone grab his wallet while he's still convinced he's a superhero.
Or maybe "two wrongs don't make a right"
I'm interested in how the hardcore-casual Black Ops 2 market (if we can call it that) was created. It didn't seem by mistake. I remember essentially seeing its rise around the release of the Xbox and Halo. Suddenly real multiplayer FPS gaming was available on a console, but lots of stuff changed too. It wasn't the multiplayer of QuakeWorld. It was something different.
absolutely, and it peeves me to no end when so-called "rationalists" on hacker news aren't able to understand the distinction between legitimate GMO concerns versus the more fringe cultural system that embraces the anti-GMO stance. UOCS is definitely concerned about Monsanto's profit motive taking precedence over sound ideas that benefit society, and that is a political stance, for which they've offered many reasoned and fact-based arguments. But right wing patriot/militia groups also embrace the same free market/libertarian ideals so popular on HN, yet it of course would not be at all reasonable to label any free-market enthusiast as being a wild-eyed member of the john birch society.
There's a lot in that thread to sort through, but...

The exchange that zhou founded had about 60,000 bitcoins stolen in two instances. Plenty of evidence pointed to an inside job, probably by zhou himself.

This link provides Zhou's explanation of what 'really' happened, where he claims a Chen Jianhai, Chinese multi-millionaire with ties to organized crime who hunts for ancient relics and artifacts in his spare time, was the 'real' thief.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=95795.0

I'll leave it to others to assess the plausibility of this scenario.
I'm a BitcoinTalk mod.

Zhoutong is a scammer, he operated an illegal bucket shop known as Bitcoinica and tried to hide the true nature of the operation just so he could close it down at its peak and steal several thousand BTC from customers trading futures on his platform,

He then tried to cover up the theft by selling it to the people who run Intersango and tried to blame them for the missing Bitcoins. He also tried to blame "hackers" for it.

In addition, users are suing him for close to half a million dollars for his lies. His defense is hes claiming he was 17 at the time (early 2012).

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/08/bitcoinica-users-...
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Sadly, my high school, in 1989, was teaching BASIC on TRS-80s, the same computers and language I had mastered in the 3rd grade. It seemed like computers were not progressing; I had no idea so much had changed because that was all I had exposure to.
What a lot of computer scientists don't know is that Dr. Strangelove was DIRECTLY modelled on John von Neumann.

They don't talk about this in CS departments.

Your hero was Dr. Evil.
I think that is at least as mid-leading. For instance, in a competition to create an algorithm to automatically grade student essays, fourteen amateur teams who had never worked in the field beat all eleven essay-grading specialist companies that entered.

Both titles are, strictly speaking, accurate. However nowadays so many fields are effectively "data prediction" that the scope of this is extremely wide.
There is also the problem of absolute versus relative numbers. Even discounting the number of people saved, mainstream medicine has possibly still killed more. But it has also been used on more people, hence the "mainstream" designation.
DayZ, yes. The problem however is that its so unbalanced that it destroys the game for so many. I've played it a reasonable amount and actually uninstalled it for now. Some day. Just not now.

Minecraft, no. The majority of Minecraft players have actually never been ganked. It happens, but it isn't a critical part of the game. I've played 50+ hours of Minecraft MP and never been ganked. Fell in lava, but never ganked.
This

Especially in the 1800's where medicine was only slightly better than doing nothing (if you were lucky and it didn't go horribly wrong)
I will work on that. I don't currently have a one sentence pitch. (My background is not in business. I have a lot of room to grow in that regard.)

The goal is to share the mental model that helped me get well when I was sentenced to death. It does not neatly fit with current mental models. Conventional medicine uses a disease model. This is a wellness model. I struggle to communicate it. People think something is deadly, thus we must nuke the body with something equally deadly. They miss that the body is the battlefield and they are turning it into a wasteland which cannot defend itself. Your body can produce its own army. You need to supply it the means to do so. Then support its effort to defend itself.
No, it's a GPLv3 clone of an nzbmatrix-esque site. Somewhat popular sites like nzb.su use it. It has a Sickbeard compatible API too.
That's a very insightful connection you've made. Both approaches can be considered "ensembles of weak learners". However the wisdom of the crowds is more likely to suffer from systematic bias, which can be a drawback of that approach.
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Programmers are the most optimistic bunch of people I have ever come across. Ask us how long something will take and chances are our estimates will be way off.

It’s not because we hate...
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How is it possible for these nutbars to get influential positions overseeing the very field they are nutty in? There are a bunch of US examples as well, so I'm assuming it's a global phenomenon. It doesn't make any sense, and honestly there should be a process to prevent people who believe in magic from informing policy.
I would add the brilliant, venomously-biting 2009 political satire In the Loop to that list. Its characters are over the top, yet their interactions and the ensuing consequences have a ring of political verisimilitude unlike any similar comedic piece.
> However, why does everyone assume that the inquiring mind is an idiot?

Because the inquiring mind did zero research and asked a question so broad and so vague that it was impossible for anyone to answer it without months of work and very specific knowledge.

To quote Carl Sagan: "If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe." I don't think anyone was wanting to sit and spend hours explaining to the author how to do something incredibly difficult and complex without the author putting anything forward. Why not just take that knowledge and do it myself?
Still ... the cpu affinity "plays" the ondemand governor and avoids using the more power hungry performance governor so it has something to do with it. I have edited to post to reflect on tweaking the ondemand governor, but it can affect other workloads on you system.
The veteran cynic in me asks who benefits from this action. After all, the behavior that the code of conduct seeks to get on top of is unacceptable in any environment anyway. Yon don't change bad organizational culture with paperwork, you do it with enforcement of standards.
I know "medicine" happily sentenced me to death. I declined its offer. I lived.

I also know it is nearly impossible to talk to people about that. My views and experiences are dismissed wholesale before I even open my mouth.
I upvoted this so hard.

I agree there is a very large snarky dick contingent on HN who pollute potentially productive conversations with "What a stupid idea" type of comments. (Unfortunately I think this is a symptom of the human race, not just HN.)

However, there are some exceptionally bright people who hang out here who I would love to just brainstorm with--throw ideas out and see what happens. This site has an above-average level of these people I think.

I would love to see or find a group of people who are just interested in getting together and banging heads together and see what comes out. Even if I have no interest in starting a new courier service or whatever, I find it quite enjoyable to take the lessons and skills that I've learned and apply them in a new problem space. I especially love hearing feedback on those ideas from people who've worked in those spaces.

The most promising ideas are the ones that might sound dumb to someone entrenched in tradition.
Living in a free, democratic and gender-equal country, I have a hard time understanding how programming languages (their organizations, such as PSF) should play an active role in political issues. If sexual harassment are not covered by local laws, maybe residents in this country should invest some time pushing that through.
Nicely written!
I'd give nzb.su a try. I started using them a few weeks ago as an auxiliary when I was having issues with nzbmatrix.

In my short few weeks of using it, the API seems better than nzbmatrix, but the community / comments on files is near nonexistent. If you're only looking for something to hook up to sickbeard / couchpotato though, it should do the job just fine.
> there should be a process to prevent people who believe in magic from informing policy.

That would require the abandonment of religion. Good luck with that plan.
He could make 10x as much money in doing this in New York. We'd be all "ohhh, from LA? How exotic!"
I was pretty floored when I saw homeopathy cold remedies on the same shelf as actual cold medicine at a US Walgreens. I'm sure people who aren't very careful end up purchasing the homeopathic item by accident.

This bizarre experience made me wonder about the companies that formulate and produce this stuff. Do they actually go through the trouble of diluting things to ridiculous level or do they just skip the tedious part and sell inert capsules? You have to believe most people that work for these companies are con men and not actually true believers.
OK, so why can't anyone get those licenses? Google was able to get the licenses for the TV service that goes along with Google Fiber, for example.

Why is this always done by the companies that own the infrastructure? Why was Vonage, a company with preexisting no phone infrastructure, able to get into the VoIP business, but no one has been able to do that with TV?

Is it perhaps because some of the cable companies also own the content companies, and so they don't allow this sort of system to develop?
Userspace programs already can choose what very vague preferences they have, using the taskset (processor affinity), nice and ionice commands.

But the main problem is that workloads are very complex, and often changing. A single userspace program is not even aware of other programs running on the machine, nor how the user thinks they should be prioritised.

If you are compiling something, do you want to to finish ASAP or a bit slower in the background without desktop sluggishness? What priority should a minimised browser window have at the same time? What if that browser window is also playing music from youtube?

At the moment, the scheduling hints that users can figure out is marking some processes as low-priority background tasks. Optimal scheduler tuning is too complex, because starting or quitting any application can completely change the optimal resource usage, and users only have a vague idea of what they expect from the scheduler ("everything should be fast").
I shouldn't have been wearing such sexy clothes or walking alone in the park at night. It's my fault.
Do you have a sense of how much computational resources matter? I remember reading an article on "overkill analytics." Do you see any victories by amateurs who don't have access to particularly powerful clusters?
This article makes me curious to see how an FPGA based http server would perform.
Probably not the same level, as the tea has a lot less. I think for white tea it's probably on the order of 5-30mg per cup, although this is quite random and varies greatly from season to season and with when the leaves are picked. (I suppose using this reasoning that the first flush teas are more loaded than later pickings)

I order my teas online at jingtea.com and palaisdesthes.com

A side note; I just ordered another 250g bag of this: http://jingtea.com/tea/type/white/white-peony which I highly recommend!
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Many of my friends have a very interesting trait: pose any sort of problem in front of them, and they'll practically drop everything to work out a solution.

Trebuchets using only materials in the office. Conquering South Africa. Lesbian strip clubs. Realistic world domination. What the world would look like if D&D rules actually applied. AI for storytelling. Etc.

Regardless of how ridiculous the premise, they'll work on it until they have at least a plausible solution. Ignoring impossibilities and slim chances and jumping straight into brainstorming and crazy ideas is a lot of fun. I'd rather have more of those conversations.
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Homeopathy has never kept anyone alive.

I'm sure there are cases where it did, e.g. by virtue of offering something benign in place of something in the mainstream that might have killed.

People are comforted by the thought that modern medicine has completely transcended the barbarity of its own past, but doctors are humans and, on average, are subject to the same kinds of irrationality as everyone else is, and if you're unlucky enough to have to get up close to modern medicine and if you pay attention, you'll see the barbarism very clearly.
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I caught the made-for-tv adaptation of Harrison Bergeron one time at least a decade ago. Since then I've dropped “I'd say that's proof positive!” into conversation lots and lots of times. Still waiting for the awesome moment when someone catches the reference :)
Taking responsibility for most every occurrence in one's life is a common theme in successful people.

http://www.chuckrylant.com/it-is-your-fault/

No need to get carried away though...
I've started building this exact same thing so many times, but never had nearly the follow-through you did. Fantastic job. This has been sorely lacking for many years, and I'm excited to start using it!
One characteristic that all successful systems that we know of share is a division between "us" and "them". And our greatest revulsion is reserved for "almost us", who presumably are competing with "us". Any group that gets painted as "almost us" can receive intense bigotry - be they Jewish, black, LBTG, muslim...

One of the characteristics of current Western moral fashions is that "us" should be painted as broadly as possible. It is not in fashion just to talk of rights for ourselves, we talk about universal rights. We do not just grant those rights to people we like, we grant them to people of different religions, different races, different sexual orientations, etc.

To me this aspect of morality - that there are universal principles granted even to those we don't like - matters a lot. Yet if we go off of evidence from nature, it is exactly this that there is the least evidence that is innate.
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Funny you should say that. It reminds me that I want to write a piece titled "Your body is not a car". Unlike a car, a body can repair itself. If you get a minor cut, it closes on its own, without repair by a doctor. Not so with a car. Scratch the paint, the scratch is permanent -- unless you repair it.

There are better means to support the body's own repair system than nuking it with toxic chemicals. Attempts to discuss that tend to get dismissed as quackery. I posit you are throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
When people travel from around the country and world for conferences, the legal route is a nightmare. Moreso than normal.
Except pneumonia is from bacteria - you don't get it, or get worse from it based on temperature or wetness. It is important to be sure you are actually on the side of science before laughing at those who aren't.
It's been remade for Windows Phone 8. It currently matches Combinator's features, but I plan on adding additional features to it in the near future (such as live tiles and dynamic lock screen).

It supports multiple tile sizes.

It uses the device's theme/accent instead of the custom Hacker News theme. I may add an option to set the HN theme if people request it.

The comment view is a bit different. I think it's cleaner.

The name is different, which make it look like an "official" app. I believe people prefer to use an app named "Hacker News" than "Combinator". I'll probably drop the Combinator app in the near future.
Super Mario 64, and I think most of the other top-end N64 exclusives, had a $70 MSRP in 1996 dollars. According to that calculator, that's $99 in 2011 dollars.

I can't believe how cheap games are today.
Life in general is not one of polar opposites. It's not victim or martyr, it's something in between. He needs to get some balance in his life.
Exactly. This attitude is a double-edged sword. There is a time for assuming responsibility, even for things that you didn't do directly (that is a huge part of the CEO's job) but extending it too far can be disastrous.
"Everything is my fault" is entrepreneurs' wishful thinking so that they can believe they can fix whatever situation they're in. However, not everything is under their control, no matter how hard they try to believe.

You don't control the weather, the people in the streets, the companies sending you checks, the currency exchange rates, etc.
I've found this attitude very useful, especially in social and personal situations. My reaction to everything that doesn't go my way is to examine myself first - what did I do wrong, or what didn't I do, or what could I have done different.[1]

This normally yields useful insight, understanding, and actionable ideas. Blaming others or the situation normally does not.

At it's core, this is about accepting and embracing agency - you have the power to effect changes. I think that so many people in the modern world suffer from learned helplessness[1], where they think that the situation leaves them with no ability to impact events. This is false. Something went wrong? Try something else!

[1] Important Note: This is about things that I do, not things that I am. If you blame yourself innately, that's bad and leads to low self-confidence. It's not yourself, it's your actions - and actions are changeable.
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learned_helplessness
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Saying that homeopathy is harmless if you ignore the opportunity cost is like saying that guns are harmless if you ignore all the damage the bullet does when it hits your body. Both are true statements that are also completely useless.
No, homeopathy is 100% a scam. The principle is that a compound (say, penicillin) has some amount of vibrational energy that is imparted into the surrounding molecules. As you continually dilute out the original "active" molecule, the "energy" of the molecule is imprinted onto the remaining solute.

Even better, the more you dilute, the more potent it becomes. You literally get to a point where there is no active molecule left...just H2O.

What you are saying (exposing your immune system to a small threat so it can safely build a response) is a valid argument. In fact, that's how vaccines work. Give your body a little bit of non-infectious virus so it can build appropriate antigens before you encounter it in real life.

I have no idea what you are saying about Japanese Americans though.
From a scientific perspective there may be a decent case for putting placebo cold medication next to the real stuff. If the real stuff has 50% efficacy but has side effects x, y, and z, there's something to be said for selling someone a 30% effective placebo with no real side effects. It makes us queasy, since you're effectively selling nothing, but at the same time nothing is not always nothing.
The first step is to establish a shared understanding of what is acceptable (i.e. code of conduct). Without that code of conduct, there's nothing to enforce.

Actually, I'm not even sure that "enforcement" is all that relevant. It's more about articulating the norms of behavior so that people can learn from them and grow.
The argument isn't that she was a homeopathic "doctor". The argument is that she was influenced by the ideas behind homeopathy, and because of that influence the "treatment" she administered made sense to her. Her logical reasoning had been clouded by her belief (essentially a religious belief) in homeopathy. This is akin to religious groups who refuse to allow medical treatment for their children, who subsequently die.
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I'm a huge fan of BSD and would love to see it on EC2. :)
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I love the thermodynamic school in dieting. If it works for a combustion engine, than it is a perfect model for the human body.
> My views and experiences are dismissed wholesale before I even open my mouth.

Try describing your experience scientifically, rather than emotionally (as you are doing). See how that works. You might learn something you don't already know, as might your listeners.

The chances are very high that your story is one of coincidence rather then repeatable effect, but until you actually think about it analytically, you will never know.
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