skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It has been an established medical principle since 400BC that letting people die now to save others (whether more or less) in the future would never, ever, under any circumstance, be considered valid medical practice.

Besides, many say it's too late. Resistance genes are in the wild and bacteriophages will spread them. Nothing can prevent that. Banning it's use on livestock at this point will most likely be an exercise in futility, like shooting the evil queen after eating the poisoned apple.

In order to kill the resistance of the existing bugs we'd need to start letting people die from both kinds of bacteria, resistant ones and non-resistant ones, so that the energy efficiency the non-resistant ones gain very slowly wins out over the advantage of treatment resistance that the resistant ones have. If any small subset of humans for any reason deviates from this, it negates the effects, so effectively you cannot have even a small country disagree. Nor can you get away with only treating the rich. Not for a year or two, but likely for centuries. And even when that does happen, you still have to limit usage of the drugs.

Please note that it isn't necessarily so bad. Viruses have won the resistance battle against medication decades ago, and aside from a few incidents, effects have been relatively limited. There has not been an even medium-scale pandemic. But there are quite a few viruses where getting infected means it's curtains, and no treatment is possible. One particularly scary one is rabies. Fortunately, inoculation still mostly works, with only a few exceptions (like HIV).

We've lost this battle, let's just move on.
It's so scary to read an article like this and realise how much engineering knowledge retires each year. Problem solving skills that were honed in the Second World War and sent mankind to the Moon and built so many factories just isn't being replaced.

Those young engineers couldn't just pick up the phone and talk to the engineers who made the engine and that's potentially a real problem for our culture.

The obvious solution is that staff need to document what they did and why they did it. So that those who come after can read it and understand. We all know it's necessary and so few companies seem to have it as part of their procedures. Corporations don't seem to be able to plan for more than 5 or 10 years in advance.
Entrepreneurs Can’t Win By Pushing Their Startup
Isn't the system, and the whole concept of money in general, all entirely a confidence game?
If You Think You're Good At Multitasking, You Probably Aren't
This article reads like some kind of sad science fiction scenario.

A team of scientists today reported the first results from their analysis of the "F-1 Engine", an artefact from the First Empire which was serendipitously discovered last year in nearly pristine condition in the storeroom of a museum. Although the documentation meant to accompany the engine has long been lost, the team is confident that they can apply recently developed scanning techniques to discover how it worked. These engines were said to be capable of developing an incredible 1.5 million pounds of thrust, and were instrumental in powering the First Empire's legendary voyages of exploration. It is hoped that the knowledge recovered from this engine will eventually enable the construction of similar devices.
To be fair, as an Android user, whenever I use Google's apps on iOS I think "Dear Google, please learn how to design Android apps that don't suck."
As I understand it there's more to it than simply being a hashmap without collision resolution: performance.

They mentioned hundreds of thousands of events per second. At that level typical Java objects and locks simply do not cut it anymore. That is why, for example, LMAX wrote their disruptor pattern using gigantic primitives array and fast CAS, no locking, operations.

So here they're using a very fast "hashmap" updated by using CAS operation which do not lock.

Why would it be a joke that said!? There are use cases for Bloom Filters, so there probably are for what they created here too no!?
Needs more paragraphs.
I found HL1 to be unplayable but loved Black Mesa. I didn't have any nostalgia factor for HL1 (I was ten and computerless in '98) but had always wanted to enjoy the game. Black Mesa made that mostly possible.
Milkshake: A WebGL Milkdrop (music visualization)
the reason these banks aren't prosecuted is because it is basically government policy not to

And the reason for that is that it was government policy that created the situation in the first place: wanting everyone to own a home, whether they could afford it or not, and allowing banks to play games to offset the inevitable losses from being forced to give mortgages to people who couldn't afford them. And it was government policy that called a lot of the shots once things started to go south: they were telling banks who had to merge with who, who had to declare bankruptcy, etc.

I'm not saying the banks aren't culpable: they took risks with money that wasn't theirs to risk, it was their depositors'. But the government is culpable too.
That's actually the problem with focusing only on cost. Costs are in a lot of cases a calculated number and do not necessarily involve a cash component.
The high inventory turn Amazon and Apple have DO have a cash component (they are almost only a cash thing). And that's where the big advantages are compared to others.
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Font made from HTML form elements
Mostly because the icon was on the same screen, and I'm already logged in on my home system, and I didn't want to type my email / password in again.

Maybe I should do that in the future.
Dota2 works on wine. All I want is League of Legends for linux.
That's right, socialists are the ones to blame. Good citizen, you've been well trained to see socialist enemies hiding around every corner.

We do not live in a socialist world. If you had any comprehension of what the word meant you would stop using it.
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"Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart." - Steve Jobs
Node CSV:  Async, event based parsing of large CSV files
I responded to a first comment but then read the others...

I think you guys are all missing the point: they're talking about crazy high perfomances.

They've implemented it using non-locking algorithms, like LMAX's disruptor pattern (gigantic primitives arrays, CAS operation).

It's not a "joke" to be able to process 12 millions events per second on a single core in Java (that's where the LMAX disruptor patter is at right now, and it shall go higher once Oracle fixes the JVM so that it uses a faster CAS operation when possible [it's possible on many mainstream CPU and there are RFEs for this]).

The point here is that it is fast. As in "faster than anyone commenting here that is a joke could have ever build".
agree that the change is slow, but R is increasingly finding a place in the world of large datasets. Check out these
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/options/advanced-...

http://www.revolutionanalytics.com/why-revolution-r/whitepap...
It's a one off tool, unlikely to be used in any project you are writing software for. She provided the source code freely, and the code isn't bad at all.

I fail to see why you will ever need to rewrite this?
"that's where we're arriving now"

you know, years ago the deficit scolds said the US would turn into Greece "within two years". they were wrong. they said inflation would spike. they were wrong. and here you go doing the same thing again.

the US will never default on its debt. period. it's the law. they will just use inflation to pay it if they have to. more likely the economy will return to growth and a combination of forces will keep it under control.

yes this is a tax on savings. act accordingly. it's not the end of the world, we have all kinds of taxes. this one exists for a good reason.
There have been other tools that do this, but I like the simplicity and cleanliness of settings this one up.

I remember some of the other tools required a server access, which was great in that they allows us to do a lot of things, but as a potential user I needed to make sure that they have a business and would be around for when I needed it.

The problem that I have had with some of the jquery plugins that do similar is that I had to worry about customizing the plugins with my site's theme. With bootstrap plugins I hope that the plugins just look good with the bootstrap customizations that I have done.
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Can someone explain to me why they even bundle this extra shovelware in with their JRE installer? Surely the revenue gained from this is a minuscule fraction compared to their total revenue. Plus, this can't be good for their brand. So, it raises the question - why?
Seems similar to AeroFS.
No, it doesn't. I remember an anecdote of a bagel delivery man that calculated the percent of people (donations to the bagel plate were anonymous) that screwed him up was only 15%.

So majority people are actually nice even when anonymous. And penny arcade is a comic site, not a dispenser of truth.
Amazon could have had a margin of zero and still made money.

What?
Ug. So many misconceptions and conspiracy theories, where do I begin?

1. The US and the Eurozone are suffering from very different problems. The debt in the US is likely to stabilize at around 80% GDP (source: http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/01/24/tim-geithner-is-...). European countries are in quite a bit of trouble, but it will most likely take the the form of a slow and painful recovery. Greece has already partially defaulted on its debt (and the world didn't end).

2. There is no reason to assume that many (American?) banks will collapse anytime soon. The realistic worst-case scenario is another multi-trillion dollar bailout at the expense of the taxpayer.

3. The trillion dollar coin idea was a legal gimmick to counter another legal gimmick (debt ceiling). Minting a trillion dollar coin is not substantially different from conventional methods of "printing money" (there are some differences: e.g. no interest is paid on currency). The trillion dollar coin wouldn't be used to pay off the public debt. Minting coins to pay off the public debt is a bad idea, and not a single economist seriously suggested doing that. To reiterate: the trillion dollar coin is a legal trick and has almost no impact on the actual economy.

4. The cost of printing money isn't zero in all situations. Which is why printing money can partially fix some financial problems, but not all of them. Printing money is a good idea for instance when there is a shortage of money in the economy (i.e. risk of deflation). Printing money is never a substitute for real economic activity.

5. Inflation certainly works like a tax. Those with money are hurt by inflation and those with net debt benefit from it. It also encourages investment, which is why most economists think a little inflation is a good thing.

6. US Government bonds are in very high demand. Hence the low interest rate on them.

7. Your crazy rants about how the US is a socialist state don't have any bearing on reality.
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The Genetic Programming community offers annual awards for 'human competitive' solutions in different domains that match or exceed the designs of human experts. A number of these automatically generated solutions rival recently patented technologies.

http://www.genetic-programming.org/combined.html
Note the comment you are replying to qualified it to 'desktop' framework. Obviously Java is very popular on mobile, servers and in enterprise. On the desktop, beyond Minecraft, Eclipse, Azure and OpenOffice there aren't a lot of other popular desktop Java apps.

Java on the desktop failed because of .Net, because the UI widgets on Java looks horrible and nothing like the OS, and because Sun wasn't a consumer focused company and neither is Oracle.
Have you seen Afterquery?

http://afterquery.appspot.com/help
Hansel And Gretel Witch Hunters 2013 is a very nice Action, Comedy, Fantasy and Horror movie.In the sphere of this dark spin on the fairy tale, siblings Hansel and Gretel are a astounding team of bounty hunters who track and destroy witches all in excess of the humankind.Tale is resolute 15 years in the same way as the siblings killed the witch who kidnapped them,

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The Blocks extension for C provides you with anonymous closures, if you wish.
I am mostly critical of claims like '20 lines of code that will beat A/B Testing Every Time.' Multi armed bandits are also not as useful for inference as the frequentist methods that Ben presents in his posts.
> There aren't any criminal prosecutions because it's hard to prove that there was fraud.

No it's not that hard to prove their was fraud. It just takes forever to bring up Federal Grand Juries for some many cases of fraud.

The Fed Grand Jury I was on one was dealing with financial crimes from 5-6 years ago. They had so much evidence. My lesson was that only the big fish get fried in federal financial crimes, because everyone else gets immunity to compel their grand jury testimony. (if you can't be prosecuted you are unable to take the 5th and remain silent -- you must testify)
This may not be the best place to respond, but you say something I've seen a few times in these comments:

"if you go sob in a corner because you receive criticism, then you're not going to improve."

The corner part is up for discussion, but who says crying renders you un-improvable or non-adult? It's what you do after you cry that matters. I did not know harthur's gender until it was brought up, but women cry more easily than men and it isn't really relevant to their coding nor is it calibrated to feelings in the same way it is for guys. It's not the nuclear option guys think it is.

As for evaluations of code quality, I'd be thrilled to read a discussion of the actual "issue" somewhere. That would at least be interesting.
Margin don't relate 1:1 to cash flow. You can have small margin and pretty big free cash-flow (Amazon seems to have that, a German example would be Aldi, a low cost retailer that used to be famous for his "pay suppliers 3 months after I sold the product" approach).

High margins and a low or even negative free cash-flow are possible, too. And my opinion is that more companies collapse due to cash flow issues than too high costs (given they don't sell below production costs).
link to the code: https://github.com/1800joe/LoResForm/
Apple Ipad mini is cannibalizing sales of the larger Ipad
"I think we’ve developed in our society an idea that any time we see a problem, we can create a law that’s going to prevent that problem from happening in the future. We don’t need new laws. We need to enforce the laws that have been on the books before." -Tom Leonard (Mortgage underwriter)

That's the duty of the Executive branch.

"we have a responsibility in the person of our President; he cannot act improperly, and hide either his negligence or inattention; [...] far from being above the laws, he is amenable to them in his private character as a citizen, and in his public character by impeachment." -James Wilson (a Founding Father of the US)

"Not but that crimes of a strictly legal character fall within the scope of the power [of impeachment]; but that it has a more enlarged operation, and reaches, what are aptly termed political offenses, growing out of personal misconduct or gross neglect, or usurpation, or habitual disregard of the public interests, various in their character, and so indefinable in their actual involutions, that it is almost impossible to provide systematically for them by positive law." -Joseph Story (Supreme Court Justice, 1811-1845)
In Finland, there hasn't yet been a vote about a petition in Parliament. The first petition with enough signatures was submitted in October, and the signatures will first have to be verified.
Writing tip: say the opposite
You enjoyed Black Mesa then, not Half-Life! Sorry for being so nit-picky, but I find the distinction important. You would not tell some Star Trek Deep Space Nine nerd that watching Star Trek Voyager is the same. The biggest similarity between BW and HL is the general story/setting and general level layout.
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Probable cause of death - drug induced heart attack, according to this http://m.nydailynews.com/1.1247410
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5108820
Peter Schiff fascinates me. He's had many right predictions and he's been making money off of these, all while telling the world exactly how he'll do it.
Please don't follow up a false dilemma with circular reasoning.
btbilly: I read your article but before I digg into the math and try to understand it - can you please take a look at the tool I use now http://mystatscalc.com and see
1) how it might work
2) do you think it's giving correct results?

Waiting for rest from the series!

Grzegorz
It wasn't "launched", only "revealed".
Didn't Sun start this practice before the Oracle acquisition? Maybe it continues due to a long-term contract that must be honored.
I know you were trying to be funny, but you weren't.

(As a tip for the future: It helps if you make it 99.9% clear that your kidding. Making the joke less horrifyingly creepy would help too.)
> inflation would spike

Inflation did spike but what happened was that the definition was redefined in a deceptive way.

Look at cereal prices and volumes. Prices have spiked and the containers/volumes have shrunk, but that's not taken into account under measures that exclude food prices. Energy prices have spiked. Gold prices have been running for more than 12 years.

It's not to say we are seeing hyperinflation, but the CPI and other measures have changed in such a way that it makes inflation appear low.
This is what I've been waiting for. A dropbox-like service that uses BitTorrent. Seriously, with the way BitTorrent is integrated into all kinds of services and devices, it would be like instant Dropbox integration, with everything. You could start using the cool Torrent scheduling stuff to, for example, automatically transfer large files to a partner, quickly, as they're produced on the other end. Or to your TV, whatever.
Love it. Really! How difficult would it be to embed a D3 chart in one of the columns? Would that be something tricky to add or could it be made into a column type easily?
No competition in europe as far as I know. BMW is more "low volume high margin" while Ford is "low margin high volume" (huge generalization here).

Some time I can't fight the feeling that german premium car makers are the Apples of the automotive world...
A similar proposition has been put forward on the openSUSE development mailing list:

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-factory/2013-01/msg00298....
Seems like Tonido Sync (http://www.tonido.com/app_sync_home.html)
I just want to know if it does client-side encryption.
It's absolutely clear how "Wall Street" assesses any company.

"Wall Street" assesses stocks based on whether they can make money at a given valuation. Full stop. They are not investing. The are not acting as agents for investment. They are identifying and executing trades.

If you're trading, an undervalued company you can't convince anyone else to pay more for (or less for, to profit via shorting) isn't a "value".

Because it's simply not about fundamentals.

I fully expect that when Wall Street can no longer convince anyone to pay less for Apple shares, they will begin building the "Apple is unstoppable" narrative and attempt to make money on increasing share price, driving it back up to a record peak. At which point they'll start the cycle over.

Over and over. Because it keeps working.
CS Education is fat and weak (2011)
I cannot agree more, and cannot express more my wish that we had more programs like Frontline that "go deep" and focus on topics that are important to society not just trending.
A Rockstar Programmer Isn't the Same Thing as a Smart Asshole
Ask HN: Suggestion for a mobile marketplace please? 
Hello,

we're working on our mobile app that will include a marketplace between users.

I was wondering if please any of you could suggest me some mobile app to study - I'm on iPhone -

I'd prefer with a "cart" system so users can buy multiple object from the same user.

We started to work taking DePop - ex Garage - as example.

Consider that we're not planning to have a website were manage order etc

Best,
F.
This is really useful. Thank you.
With the scrolling list would it be possible to make the header row stay in place? Some people prefer to scroll with large amounts of data so that they can just use ctr+f to quickly find the links to what they want.
How to solve problems if you are stupid
Thanks for this, I'm gearing up to move into freelancing myself either this year or next, so I'm glad to read about other people's experiences wherever I can!
The petition asking for Steve Heymann's firing still lacks 14.500 votes, and it won't make it in tome at the current rate. From what I read he was more instrumental than Ortiz in the aggressiveness the prosecution.

https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/fire-assistant-us-... No need to be a US citizen to sign. An email address is enough.

Once again, sorry for insisting, but I think it's important.

Not that the witch hunt is very useful in itself, but it keeps people involved and the more shit we stir, the most likely things will move.
I'd take this article with a grain of salt. It has a very hand-wavy feel to it.

It's my understanding that the SpaceX team draws at least some inspiration from the F-1 design. There's a mention of the F-1 under the Merlin 1D section of this Wikipedia article:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merlin_(rocket_engine_family)#M...

The next time Elon Musk does an AMA (or something similar), I'd love for someone to ask him about the F-1. It would surprise me if every rocket engine designed since the F-1 simply ignored all previous designs. We may not have a complete, detailed understanding of the design, but the article comes across a bit on the "breathless amazement" side of things.

A lot of the comments here follow a common pattern where a layperson looks at a system and makes seemingly rational comments, but in reality they have an inadequate understanding to even form a relevant opinion.

I certainly don't have enough understanding of rocket engine design to hold an opinion. Even after reading that piece, I must consider the source and the tone of the article. Also keep in mind that programs within NASA are, in essence, in competition with companies like SpaceX.
I can imagine this being useful to explain how a "difficult" UI element works. It seems easy to set up, I like that.

The way it's used in this demo, though, I found it's very distracting from the actual content. All my attention went to the little popover, which resulted in not reading any text on the page itself. I think this is partially because the popovers didn't point at anything directly.