skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Therein lies the challenge. And I agree with you that it comes down to dedication. Heck, the stuff I'm most interested in today I didn't even know existed five years ago.

The article said:

| "Passion is something that will follow you as you put in the hard work to become valuable to the world."

Which I agree with. But then it went on to say

| Then apply this test: Will people pay you for it? Will they pay you a lot for it?

| "Money matters, at least in a relative sense," Newport says. "Money is a neutral indicator of value. Potential customers don't care about your passion. Potential customers care about giving up money."

Which I really disagree with as a first measure, to which I say - go work in finance. Your expected value there is far higher than doing anything else. Even if you'll go on to sell a company for $20 million to Google, you'll probably make more money in finance. Money is a side effect - it's important, but if you're looking for money first, I think that you'll miss the forest for the trees. Self actualization should be everyone's primary passion, I feel. And it's hard.

What I was getting at more was people who make excuses about not trying for that - always external, "I would, but I have kids", "I would, but I'm married", which I think are the worst kind of excuse (blaming your wife for preventing you from even trying to make anything of yourself! Can you imagine?). "I would, but I want more money to pay off more debt I used to buy a middle class car and a middle class house with a garage and a lawn and an iPad and a pool and and a vacation to some curated hotel in some third world country every couple years. So that's why I'm not trying to figure out who I really am."

I will check both of those out, thanks for the recommendations.
Please encrypt your communications whenever it's possible. Not because you have something to hide, but because there are many entities handling our private data that do not necessarily have their interests aligned with our personal privacy (probably an understatement).

For text messaging (Android only) I use the excellent 'TextSecure' app, which is an open source drop-in replacement for the standard messaging app on your phone. You can read more about it at http://www.whispersystems.org/

The aforementioned Whisper Systems also has an app called 'RedPhone' for secure voice, but I have yet to try it. If anyone uses it, I would be very glad to hear your opinion.
I think it's mostly due to the fact that modems used just the audio bandwidth of the telephone line, which is about 3 kHz (by design). This limits the maximum speed, earlier versions probably had problems with transceiver complexity.
One thing to keep in mind is that an inclined treadmill is going to make your head bop up and down a little bit. I'm not sure whether or not it'd be distracting, but you might want to try just walking up a mild hill some time and pay close attention to the movement of your head.
BlackBerry is very popular in the UK and it is a larger market. Canada is only a few days away. I imagine it has a lot more to do with the carrier acceptance process then anything RIM (now BlackBerry) has done.
I don't want to speculate too much around this, but I think it shows that the space is starting to heat up, so this is actually good for us.

Obviously, we would have liked to see a higher price tag for that acquisition ;)
Great!

I know dealing with this stuff is no fun. Try to keep in mind, though, that people like Ben Murphy and Hal (Postmodern) are on your side. Again, maybe consider formalizing that relationship a little!
at least you can submit a patch to that :)
Me too. It's amazing what you do to get by. You probably simplified your vocabulary some too, I expect? I know I did. Living in Austria was hell on my previously prodigious vocab!
Journal articles are short because journals have limited space. In the year 2013, this is no longer a relevant issue. Just add appendices, online only if necessary, covering placebo composition and other details so that people who want to dive deep can.
You're totally right on "сырая земля", that was a tougher one. Perhaps "bare earth"? Anyway, thanks for the alternate translation and the perspective!
Went to see one of the Boeing leaders talk specifically about the dreamliner's development a few years ago at a Georgia Tech symposium.

He made a point to mention how many different international suppliers were involved and how that was a huge challenge. e.g. They had to custom modify several 747s to increase the cargo hold to fit some of the sub-assemblies.

He gave the impression that part of why there were so many different sub-contractors is to appease foreign governments--especially since many airlines are nationalized. The corporate equivalent of pork-barrel spending.
That's a good point. Tormail is 'produced independently from the Tor® anonymity software and carries no guarantee from The Tor Project about quality, suitability or anything else.' Further information is not available.
> I especially liked the part where they transmit data in order to measure the status of the phone line.

Afaik not-so-ancient ADSL does the same thing.
Probably the Canadian telecoms have something to do with it...
a) the solution assumes you can put two cars on a turntable... can you?
b) couldn't the solution have been to just manually move the TOILET sign on the toilet-less cars as appropriate?

Finally the real take-away here is that cost-cutting always has external costs that are seldom thought of, and especially when they harm the product experience, should definitely be re-evaluated :)

edit: I realize I was wrong, you don't need to ever put pairs on a turn-table as long as you keep them paired correctly.
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His cited example of a placebo that could skew data is olive oil, which by reducing heart disease would make the drug appear less effective than it might actually be.

Pointing out a study where the pharma company might have used a placebo that made their drug harder to approve is hardly in keeping with the insinuation that they're using placebos for "disturbing" ends.

Seems more like a case of "throw all the mud and hope some of it sticks" to me. Sorry.
The code is real good.
From the article:
It's inconceivable (to me, at least) that there are no laws requiring drug companies to list placebo ingredients.

From CFR 21 Part 312.23 (a)(7)(iv)(c):
A brief general description of the composition, manufacture, and control of any placebo used in a controlled clinical trial. [is required to be supplied for an Investigational New Drug Application]

What is the difference? It seems the law clearly states that for new drugs, you must list the composition of your placebo to the FDA. It would seem the article is mistaken. I am not a lawyer nor do I work in the pharmaceutical industry. I just did a google search for "placebo composition site:fda.gov"
The point is, as it's a hidden service, you don't know. It would defeat the purpose if you knew who was running it. I know there are concerns with that, "It could be a honeypot!!" etc. Though it's also the reason why you would use GPG/PGP to encrypt your messages with the people you are conversing with. So, even if it is a honeypot, they wouldn't see your data.
The biggest problem with "follow your passion" is that, in truth, if you're passionate about something, you'll absolutely fucking hate doing it as a subordinate. This means you'll probably never reach the level of autonomy at which work becomes fun, and your "passion" will die.

Occasionally you're lucky and fall into a mentor/protege relationship where you don't feel like a subordinate, but that's not common. You shouldn't count on that, especially in the "cool" careers that are spam-clogged with incompetent wannabes and in which it's hard to distinguish oneself.
They also have strong leadership. I have a feeling that as long as Elon Musk is at the helm, he won't let that kind of stuff seep into their operation. After he's gone? It could be anyone's guess. Pulling in defence contracts could affect the corporate culture long-term, but I have a feeling the Elon will try to keep it at bay while he's there. I mean, he has aspirations to be on a Mars mission himself. I can't imagine he would want the equipment to be skimped on.
A thousand of them :)
There's a similar hack floating around:

javascript:document.body.contentEditable='true';document.designMode='on';void 0

(lets you edit currently loaded page.)
Are you sure the added congestion in the yards didn't mitigate the cost savings? It's not so cut and dry from the parable.
The phrase "rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic" comes to mind.
Also nearly half of Feynmann's 2nd book "What Do You Care What Other People Think?" covers the shuttle enquiry in great detail.
There's no conflict here. You can build it on Git/Mercurial/DARCS/whatever and make it easy for those who are capable to use the command-line or their favorite Git GUI, and at the same time have a visual interface that hides all of that under the cover (e.g. creates a branch when you begin editing). The hard part of this would be conflict resolution, but that's already a hard problem for an online editing system like this (and I didn't look at it long enough to see what the solution here is).
That's not all the blog post says. Your implicit summary is inaccurate.

The blog overtly implies that drug companies use active placebos to minimize advertised side effects, and later suggests that active placebos be outlawed.

In fact, active placebos are a requirement for drug trials, because without them, the trial can't be effectively blinded.
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What would the PGP key be for?
Traditionally the waste went on the track
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The Rubygems team (or even just the person who writes the security page) can just generate a new one, for "security@rubygems.org" or whatever, and it can be shared by the team.

The purpose of the key is to allow people to report security vulnerabilities without worrying that by doing so they're giving ammunition to people snooping emails.
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It's actually about 120 watts (a food calorie is actually a kCal), but those 100 calories are being spent through a lot more than your legs. Humans burn over 1000 calories per day just by living, so the additional amount that you're burning from walking is only a fraction of that 100 calories that get burned in the hour (assuming 2 MPH). Some of that fraction of effort is directed downward while some other fraction pushes back against the belt and moves it backwards, and then of course to your point the efficiency of capture is never 100%. The law of conservation of energy also tells us that adding a motor to capture output will add resistance to the belt, requiring you to expend more effort to walk the same distance. This is because you don't exert force against a motor in place of the ground/belt, but rather in addition to it.
Haha, no. But the Viennese are not a very welcoming people and it was hard to make friends, and my husband and I ran a company together so it was very easy to be just by ourselves. Vienna is not a place where you can chitchat with your waiters or the people on the bus. It's considered rude.
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You don't want to send an actual exploit in clear text to a possibly compromised email account. PGP encrypts, and provides some level of validation that the message can only be read by someone on the security team.
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I'm still waiting for a JS library to call it's self heavyweight, or bloated ;)

Nice work though
Thanks for your points... Worryingly English is my first language, I'm just dyslexic. So apologies there!

Firstly let me tackle the spam RSVP point... Over the last couple of years at SXSW there has been an increase in the number of "bots" that you can sign-up to and RSVP to all events! This allows the attendee to turn up anywhere and be "on the list", which is great for them but not so great for the organiser! The organiser hasn't just put this event on as a public service, they usually want to promote their brand and product. But with the current system they have no idea how popular their event is, who is actually going to turn up and how many of these attendees are worth the marketing budget! (They may as well not had an RSVP... Which is fine, some events are for the masses!)

RocketLi.st aims to solve this by allowing everyone to RSVP with their email address (even the bots), but then incentivises those attendees who actually want to be there to carry out small tasks in return for "at event" perks (such as priority entry, cool swag, etc.)!

With regard to the tasks... We are talking about simple things such as signing up to the mailing list, following the organisers on twiter, etc. (Definitely no captchas)!

You can actually see this in action on our "test event" - http://2012closingparty.rocketli.st

I hope this has made it slightly clearer? But I definitely need to work on my pitch.
I'd wager that most gem developers don't understand how it works, and there are basically no resources out there on it.

Here's the chapter on it in the RubyGems manual:

http://docs.rubygems.org/read/chapter/21

And that's all that I can find. Try to find something else, like a blog tutorial.
"ext3 / 4 seem nice, but not easily cross platform"

They're a lot better supported than any system you plan to create. Much better to work on porting a proven filesystem to Windows than it is to design a new filesystem.
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For encrypting the email with the exploit details. This is quite a common practice in the security industry.
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From what I've understood it's so you can identify if the line is, in fact, a modem. Easy to diagnose the issue when you hear "Mach Pizza, can I take your order?" coming through the speaker
Usually companies want to restructure their corporate initiatives away from a dying brand. This makes it all the more obvious that all of their eggs are in one basket.
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Had this stupid AngelList profile forever, nobody follows it, could you?
I don't think trivial is, or has ever been, a synonym for legal.
I've never done this with a desk, but in my experience, it is much more comfortable to walk for long periods of time than to stand for long periods of time.
What are some tech sites that startups in NYC read, specific to your region? 
I'm curious if NY startups/entrepreneurs have/read media outlets specific to what's going on in your scene? (Beyond TC, Pando, and HN of course)
They made a plataform that you could turn any blog or rss into an app. And worse, they were paying 100$ for any app you published, in the known Port-a-Thon. So certainly it has a lot of crap.
>> so the conclusion from that is that there is a concerted effort by drug companies to unscrupulously modified the outcomes of their studies

> The author didn't claim any such thing.

Actually, the author did claim any such thing:

> Active placebos are designed to mimic the side-effects of drugs under study. So for example, if a new drug is known (or thought by the drug company) to produce dry mouth, the drug company might use a placebo containing ingredients that produce dry-mouth. That way, of course, they can say things in their ads like "[drug name] has a low occurrence of side effects, such as dry mouth, which occurred about as often as they did with placebo."

The author here is accusing drug companies of using active placebos to make the side effects seem less critical, when there's no evidence of that presented.
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>I just switched to a sit/stand desk.

I did this too: http://jseliger.wordpress.com/2012/09/23/the-geekdesk-writin... and went with a Geekdesk, which seemed to have the best combination of price / features. I haven't tracked the numbers, but I estimate that I work standing about 60% of the time.
My website gets a handful of single-page visits, referred from some real sketchy domains, every day. They are very regular and appear to be automated. I wonder if it's part of a broader scam to get website owners to visit sites which root their dev machine via 0-day browser or server vulnerabilities?
Now when people make snide references to "that fruity consumer electronics company" one can be deliberately obtuse about which one.

As a bonus, they're even "beleaguered".
How would they not? Latency between servers would be near zero, and if they all handled point to point transactions while broadcasting their state on each transaction, you're getting all the power you need. We're not talking about complex processing here. It's an RNG coupled with simple health and xyz.
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Even with pgp you'd need a whole lot of infrastructure. Where to get the public key from etc. Ubuntu requires pgp keys for their ppa and provides a keyserver. Since a lot of gems seem to use github nowadays, maybe an option to provide a pgp key on github would be great. That would allow to trust at least the most interesting projects - rails, db-layers, rack, etc. which could limit the fallout of an attack against rubygems.org
You're attributing to malice what is more likely stupidity. Doctors with patients on experimental trials want the drugs to succeed. They expect the drugs to succeed. That impacts their evaluations.
It should be noted that it's not just Philly, but by extension, not far up north in the Lehigh Valley, with all the engineering universities, there is a growing and thriving tech and maker community. The two groups (LV Tech, and Philly Tech people) seem to work together and assist one another in many area. Living half-way between both areas gives me lots of options.
Like the UI of your product alot - I take it there isn't a way to get the frontend without hooking up to your backend (e.g. simple IMAP setup?)

What is your business model for it? Since it's free, are you parsing all the mail and providing data services to interested companies looking to mine information?
I think it is easier to do, but harder to muster up the commitment. People will come up with all manner of reasons to remain in a job where they are unhappy.
The article says that it won't save billions, but will only save 0.2%... but 0.2% of the 2.7 trillion they mention is still almost 5 billion. Obviously a biased article.
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I wonder how much profit was left on the table though because of this "innovation". :-)
Isn't he?

He released evidence of scores of crimes and warcrimes. His actions were a major catalyst for the Arab Spring, yet something for which he has literally been tortured.
Aha, thanks for the update. The one at the Internet Archive? I watched her speech last night (and her tearjerking poetry reading at the end) but I don't remember anything about that.
Placebo effect is not a 100% effective substitute for the real deal. If the drug makes you pee more, you could convince yourself of that. If the drug makes your pee turn purple, that'd be harder to achieve just by willing it to happen.
Hmm, I run Chrome 24 on a Mac and haven't seen any issues.
While the article might have pulled a few cheap shots at pharma companies, the point stands. We need disclosure of this incredibly complex placebo matching methodology (for lack of a better term), at minimum because the experiments cannot be replicated by a third party without it.

Another reason for disclosure is the ethical risk assessment. What is to prevent a misguided executive from arranging a placebo with minimal doses of active components that produce adverse effects... just to push the results of a marginally effective drug. I am sure that 99.9% of people in the industry would not do that, but there is no reason to avoid putting checks and balances in place, for the day when some random sociopath decides to push it a little bit and get away with it.
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In addition to what has been pointed out about money -

Shooting poor people like horses and dumping their bodies in ditches when they get sick would save a great deal of money (ammunition costs pennies), but it doesn't mean it's the right way.
Elon might know a thing or two here, as just last year Tesla's battery testing facility caught on fire [1]. In the absence of more information, allow me to publicly speculate that perhaps that facility is fundamentally unsafe. <g>

[1] http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/local/peninsul...
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Several game publishers I have worked for have banned Skype and made it a fireable offense to use it. And that's just games...
I'd argue these are the main points of his blog posts. Or at least the ones he emphasized.

Active placebos are designed to mimic the side-effects of drugs under study. So for example, if a new drug is known (or thought by the drug company) to produce dry mouth, the drug company might use a placebo containing ingredients that produce dry-mouth. That way, of course, they can say things in their ads like "[drug name] has a low occurrence of side effects, such as dry mouth, which occurred about as often as they did with placebo."

and

The current anarchy that prevails with regard to placebos calls into question the reliability not just of drug-company research but of virtually every placebo-controlled study ever done. Which is a hell of a thing to have to say, or even think about. In fact it's nauseating.

Sounds to me like he's saying drug companies are manipulating the outcomes of studies and implying that any study containing a placebo shouldn't be trusted.
He doesn't simply call for active placebos to be outlawed. He lists several problems with the current system and then says:

FDA needs to review its policies on placebos and either outlaw "active placebos" or rigorously define acceptable conditions for their use.

That's like saying "The US Govt either needs to outlaw medicines OR rigorously define acceptable conditions for their use." Which is not a statement most reasonable people would disagree with… hence the FDA. Everybody would obviously choose the second measure. It's a classic persuasion technique: give an extreme choice so the other choice will seem more reasonable. It gets attention. Nobody is going to outlaw active placebos.

As for overtly implying drug companies manipulate their results, he had a small handful of examples and one of them is a counter example where the drug company looks to be undermining its own results by using a too-good placebo (olive oil) that made its drug look useless.

Finally he raises the question: If you kick people out of the study when they improve on placebo, are you still actually testing against placebo?

How can you know, if the trials don't document what's in the placebo, and the FDA doesn't regulate it?
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When inspecting data during debugging (particularly for an issue that hasn't occurred before and doesn't have enough logging), I certainly may want something like this. Most of the time, I need permission from the sysadmin though to use my shell access in production to do these things.