skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It actually wouldn't be much more complicated to have a machine into which you pour a bit of bakers yeast, sugar and water and out comes a highly-enriched biomolecule of your choice. Most (recreational) drugs can be created via natural biochemical pathways. Honestly, not that much more complicated than your espresso machine.
Graduated from the school, or ditched the school and got a GED from the state?
Thanks for the tip. I created a real poll here http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5161302.

I'll delete this if possilbe.
Anecdote: my girlfriend has never bought anything off Amazon. She did just spend ~500 on a bunch of clothes online though.

Also, in terms of Amazon's electronic offerings (music, app store, movies, a surprisingly large amount of the Kindle catalogue etc) none of that is available outside the US and a couple of other markets, so they have lots of room to grow still.
Having spoken with experts on the experimental (and theory) side at IBM Watson, the general answer for an over/under estimate to a quantum computer performing a useful calculation is 20 or 30 years. Most people put wide error bars on that, though, and I think the 2-sigma range is probably 5-100 years.
Agree with @michaelpinto. Designers (I'm one of them) get inquiries all the time, as devs do, where people are offering ownership instead of pay. There's only so much room to accept projects like that. And generally, it takes far too long to recoup the costs for the time spent working on those types of projects.
Why we bought a cheap house for $130k
192!

Though I died on the last char of the line :( WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU REACH THE END OF THE LINE!!!
> There are countless therapies that are dangerous and/or ineffective and plenty of unscrupulous or incompetent people who want to flog them.

The FDA forces their own therapy of "do nothing for yourself" on the patient when the patient has run out of options. If something costs me my life, I don't care if something else would have cost me my fortune. At least my right to defend my own life would not have been infringed on by the FDA.
The college I attend only uses narrative evaluations.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_college_of_florida
A look inside the Final Fantasy 7 Game Engine [pdf]
Why I hate iCloud
Will reputation metrics open scientific publication?
Why is it the key that a company helping people doesn't make a profit?
How to not get hacked by China
Clickable Link:

http://pypi.python.org/pypi
For anyone eager to have a go at writing a small roguelike, the 2013 seven day roguelike festival will be March 9 to March 17. http://7drl.org/2013/01/31/we-have-dates-for-7drl-challenge-...

Roguelike Radio episode on making a 7drl: http://www.roguelikeradio.com/2012/03/episode-26-how-to-make...

This year's developer conference is in Poland, http://roguebasin.roguelikedevelopment.org/index.php?title=I...
IPhone 5  Mars Rover
TVine.co a Vine App That's Actually Designed Well
I think the problem described in this post is easily explained by information given at the very beginning: His developer friends posting things on twitter from Apple-made devices.

His developer friends is still living in the bubble that Apple is cool, Apple is leading the pack, Apple is the future. They get offended when someone hints the world is not so.

All the stats, you know cold facts, speak the other way though: Apple, or at least iOS, has seriously peaked and the only way is down now. Soon into sub-10% marketshare.

And with such a dismall marketshare, will it be able to hold on to developers? As we've seen with BlackBerry and Windows Phone... What good does the hardware and OS do without a good ecosystem?

Apple's ecosystem is at a risk of starting to fall apart. And if that happens, iOS and related devices, now accounting for more than 50% of Apple's income, risks collapsing too.

Shareholders see this major risk. And they weight this risk against potential for new, revolutionary products in the future. This value proposition is not good.

Amazon on the other hand. Amazon is killing it. In every single field they enter. Nobody can compete with them in any field they decide to enter.

And they just seem to find new fields to enter all the time, and they leverage everything they do as a service they can sell to others who want to achieve the same.

For future value, there's no doubt Amazon is the good bet.
Three points.

First, many (most?) medical advances seem crazy and kooky because they haven't been tried before. So it's not usually as obvious as "this is a proven scam" vs. "this really works". It's much more frequently "this is unproven". And like Barry Marshall's famous self-experiment with H. pylori, someone has to be first for it to ever get proven.

Second, when the government gets it wrong, it gets it catastrophically wrong. The USDA Food Pyramid recommending "6-11 servings of grain" is still being slavishly followed, and in the fullness of time we might well find it partially responsible for the epidemic of obesity and type II diabetes. The FDA is still doing Phase I/II/III clinical trials despite all the evidence in favor of adaptive trials. And tens of millions of people were irradiated by TSA x-ray scanners fast-tracked through the FDA approval process, scanners criticized by UCSF scientists, scanners which have now (finally) been withdrawn. These errors are magnified in impact because no one can opt-out, because a .gov has a bully pulpit, and because strong political incentives exist to silence criticisms.

Third, if people have the right to euthanasia, or the right to walk near bridges, I do believe they have the right to try what treatments they want. Frankly I don't consider someone else's medical affairs my business, anymore than I'd ask why they had an abortion. You can argue that vaccinations present a public health issue, and I might agree with you there. But otherwise this strikes me as a right to privacy and right to bodily integrity issue.
> ... by this logic, neither gravity nor string theory are scientific. You can't weigh them! Or define their location!

False analogy. As to gravity, its properties are open to experiment, which leads to theories that can be tested and falsified. Gravity has gone through many revisions over the years -- from being instantaneous action at a distance obeying a 1/r^2 rule, to resulting from spacetime curvature, and all tested, and always open to revision. And the book on gravity is by no means closed -- we need a quantum theory of gravity to be able to unite gravitational and quantum theories.

As to string theory, its practitioners agree that it needs to produce testable predictions in order to become scientific. Which is more than I can say about psychologists, who are in the same position but who insist that what they do is science.

At the moment, physics only understands 4% of mass-energy, while the rest (dark matter, dark energy) is unknown. The difference? Physicists freely acknowledge what they don't know.
To add more social proof, it’s also featured on the personal mba (http://personalmba.com/best-business-books), which is a highly curated place.

Tim Ferriss also talks a lot about stoicism on his blog.

When I saw it on the personal mba, saw it with a note of 10/10 in Sivers’s books notes, and understood it was about “the weird thing Tim Ferriss was talking about constantly” I knew this book was worth my attention. I haven’t been disappointed, even without practicing the principles depicted in the book as much as I should it as substantially made my life better.
OK, I can see how some people might regard this as "humblebragging" or whatever. But I think it's a valuable discussion, so have an upvote.

I'd say that being "gifted" is relative. Relative to my high-school senior class, I'm fairly sure I was "gifted" in terms of IQ or whatever. I definitely experienced the whole thing of "coasting" a bit and relying on my inate smarts, and not studying and applying myself as hard as I could have. I was mostly bored shitless in high-school and my grades reflected it. So, yeah, I was "that kid" who always got the talks from his teachers "You could accomplish so much if you'd just apply yourself". I mean, I'd goof off all year, rarely turn in any homework, cut class constantly, goof off, almost fail, and then make it up by acing the end of year exams. Drove my teachers batty.

BUT... relative to the population of HN readers, I expect that I am - at best - fairly average. Everybody here was smarter than most of their peers in H.S., and there are some folks who post here who are just off the charts (pg himself, for example). So for me, it's not too hard to stay humble by simply paying attention to what's being said around me here, and the articles that get posted here.

What is the point of being extraordinarily gifted, if in most cases I don`t feel challenged,. and in the end, I don`t accomplished much more than a average joe?

Hmmm... so, for me, college was a whole different experience than H.S., for example, exactly because I had more control over my direction and I could choose things that did challenge me. I sought out the things that A. I found interesting and B. challenged me. I've also always had this "thing" where I tend to jump into the deep end of the pool and take on challenges that should be (and sometimes are) too much for me.

After a lot of years of doing all sorts of shit career wise and having some bizarre adventures (ask me about my years as a volunteer firefighter sometime), I've reached the conclusion that the best path forward for me is to start a business. So I've been working on Fogbeam Labs for about 2 years now and that's been a tremendous experience. I've been forced to branch out into so many new areas and fields and learn so much, that it's just ridiculous. But it's also fun and exhilarating in it's own way.

I guess if there's a point to all that, it's to say "Yeah, I understand where you're coming from... but realize that - no matter how gifted you think you are - there probably are big challenges out there for you. But you have to take some initiative and seek them out".
Visualizing Asteroid 2012 DA14’s Upcoming Near Miss
I fail to see how this "revealed" the PS4
Well given you can't know what your family would be like, or your kids education levels would be without home schooling... your can't make too many meaningful observations.

From all the reading I've done on educational outcomes for kids, the number one predictor of educational outcome, is socio-economic status of the parents. Sometimes exceptional teachers can move kids outside of that, but most of the time, it's what (socio-economic) 'class' you are in, not classroom.

EDIT:

Surprisingly this doesn't hold true in Asia, their focus on education is amazing at bridging socio economic gaps (though the above observation still holds true, but to a much lesser degree).
I have often thought of using a similar system for power distribution in a robot. a single powerful motor with flywheel, and multiple cables to transmit power to each joint.
JavaScript requires whitelisting for me (NoScript). I wouldn't have even known about his protections without this news article. They do nothing to stop scrapers, so in terms of accomplishing his goal, this measure is worse than useless.

The basic solution, incidentally, is to do right by your fans, monetize the uncopyable parts of your performance (access, exclusivity, etc.) and turn piracy into free advertising.

You can see that sort of model in action with web comic authors. Howard Tayler of Schlock Mercenary is a great example of a very business-savvy web comic author and is doing very well for himself in spite of giving away the goods for free.
I wonder if this isn't susceptible to statistical methods. The idea would be to both issue requests and to operate onion nodes, feed a big number of requests for the Silk Road into Tor, use timing and size information for the requests at your nodes to identify those that are possibly yours. Every request to the Silk Road has to terminate there, so the IP-numbers that it uses should sum to 1/(# of onion layers) of your total, minus a factor for packets you falsely identified as yours.
Holding it wrong?
People can inject just about anything they want into themselves (the Controlled Substances Act being the exception). The issue is when 'doctors' get involved and use their position of trust to scam, harm, and kill. These regulations control what doctors and companies can do, not what individuals can do.

btw: "mainlining bleach" is not an exaggeration: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7tkyK8r3yw
Agreed! I moved to Berlin almost two years ago from Amsterdam (not a bad city either!) and I'm still happy to be here. If you're a RoR developer or front-ender needing work and a push to come here, hit me up :).
One of the more interesting things about this article, for me, was the fact that it's one of the few places where the author's [I assume unintentionally incorrect] use of the phrase "affect change" actually kind of makes sense. It's very common to make this mistake (http://grammarist.com/usage/affect-effect/), but it's very rare for it to make sense.

As in, architects may be able to "change" change. And that's maybe more interesting than the idea that they can create change.

"Planned and curated by dissident artist Ai Wei Wei, each pavilion represents a new path forward for architecture, at least in the mind of the designer." — Surely that's affecting change (changing "change").
Nobody told Alexander the Great about the Indian monsoon season? Surely he could have gained some information about the country he invaded before committing.
I love ambitious projects like this, but I can't help but think this is a waste of some formidable developer talent. First, running Windows apps on Android will give Android even more of a battery life problem than it already has. Second, this will possibly increase the chance that some software shops will be even lazier in making native ports of popular applications and just tell people to use WINE. Third, if people want this kind of experience they should just buy a Surface Pro or some kind of Ubuntu touch device that can already run WINE. Again, I applaud anyone who will undertake a project of this difficulty but I just don't see the point.
JavaScript has to be whitelisted before my computer will even run it, so I wouldn't even know that his protections existed without the news article. Even if I had JavaScript on, I don't use right click to copy to begin with.

So this is all kinds of useless.
Complete nonsense. Macs in the late 90s were awful, and most Mac fans I know agree with this, at least in retrospect. Slow, expensive, hardly any software ran on the things.

Windows machines thrived for many reasons, including being faster, cheaper, having the best office programs, by far the best games, as well as all the advantages they had in enterprise.

I don't think any competent observer could say that late 90's Macs were good value machines.
If it gets to the point where a school official asks a parent to leave, my advice would be to walk away and call your favorite education lawyer. Do you really think refusing to leave is going to change their mind?
This is so strange - I feel a disturbance in the Force!

Hackers are getting into Stoicism now? The world really is coming around to points of view that I thought were my individual peculiarities. Fantastic!

Couple of links to contribute something other than my amazement:

https://sites.google.com/site/thestoiclife/the-course

http://www.ibiblio.org/stoicism/
Sure, but at that point it isn't a printer, and let's not forget that while any one particular chemical may have a simple synthesis process, different chemicals don't generally have the same process, which makes synthesizing an arbitrary chemical in a printer-sized box that sits on your desk a difficult prospect.
> What's a content producer to do?

Make it easier to get the content legitimately than, say, downloading it via torrent.

That's the problem with complex DRM schemes. In their effort to make the product more difficult to pirate, they also make it difficult for the legitimate user to consume it.
Your analysis seems to ignore a fundamental number - the Price/Earnings ratio. Looking at a forward PE, which is a number that help drive stock prices, Apple is around 10 and Amazon over 100. No matter what you thing about Apple vs Android, etc, this fundamental valuation number is way out of whack for Amazon. BTW, I hold Amazon stock and think it's a great company.
What are the potential risks of using Tamoxifen 20mg?
Tamoxifen had been used widely for more than 30 years in the treatment of breast cancer in both men and women; from the early stage of detection or even when cancer cells spreads to other tissues of the body.
When I was in fourth grade, my teacher pulled my father aside and told him, "I think your son may have ADD or ADHD." His response: "No."

While I understand his desire to believe I was okay, I wasn't. I've had extreme difficulty focusing since I was very young -- it's impacted my school work, my career, my relationships, everything.

After dropping out of college, I began to try to understand my problem better. I bought books for behaviorally challenged kids, came up with strategies to help me focus -- but nothing really worked. After over a year of trying to avoid medication, I went to my doctor and asked for a prescription for Adderall.

It worked flawlessly.

I'm a 6' 2", 180lb male, and I take a maximum of 10mg a day, up to three days of every seven. I know it's not good for me -- for all intents and purposes, it's speed -- but it's actually helped me function "normally." I'm not addicted to it. My prescription will run out, and I'll usually wait a month or two before renewing it -- but it's nice to have it there when I need to focus.

ADHD is hard to diagnose properly, and people can get addicted to Adderall, but that's why good doctors only prescribe it as a last resort to people that have the self-control necessary to properly use it.
> You literally have no idea what you're talking about.

When you have a coherent argument, post again. It may interest you to know that the sitting director of the NIMH takes the same position.

> "Replication is nearly unheard of?" Are you kidding?

In psychology, replication is nearly unheard of. Richard Feynman commented on this at length many years ago, and much more recently, the same comments appear for the same reason:

Source: http://www.nature.com/news/nobel-laureate-challenges-psychol...

Quote: "Nobel prize-winner Daniel Kahneman has issued a strongly worded call to one group of psychologists to restore the credibility of their field by creating a replication ring to check each others' results. ... 'For all these reasons, right or wrong, your field is now the poster child for doubts about the integrity of psychological research,' Kahneman writes. 'I believe that you should collectively do something about this mess.'"

Did you think I just made it up? Psychology is in the midst of a credibility meltdown, and replication is one of the key issues.

> ... as if you understand anything about the field.

I just proved that I understand the field better than you do.
Agree. Names should not matter. You are going to have to document name construction. If your library users use IDEs you are going to have to get them to understand names.
I disagree. There are two main economic reasons to own stock: to earn dividend, or to sell the stock later at a higher price. In Amazon's case, they make almost no profits, so only the second reason applies. Then, what you're really predicting is not how strong Amazon's position is going to be in the future, but how strong other investors are going to think it is: a subtle but important difference.

But what is the endgame? Amazon's business can still grow a lot, but it cannot grow forever. At some point, the growth will be too slow for the crowd that wants to flip stocks fast. The stock is going to end up in the hands of people who want to hold it long-term: the question is whether they will hold it willingly or not. To make it worth it to them, Amazon will have to crank up its profit margin, taking advantage of the near-monopoly position it will have reached by previously undercutting all competition. If it does not, then there will be no reason to hold the stock, and the people stuck with it are going to try to sell lower and lower to recoup part of their investment.

In other words, as far as I can see, there are two possible long-term plans for Amazon from the investor's point of view:
A) "cornering the market" on online sales, and then jacking up margins to squeeze gold out of it;
B) a multi-level marketing game which inevitably ends with the bubble bursting and less-savvy people getting hurt.

I think that rather than the price of Amazon's stock, it would be far more interesting to know who is holding it. If it's savvy investors, we're either in A or in the growth part of B. When retail investors, pension funds and the like start growing, it means we're in B, and nearing the burst phase.
Huh, learned some new things:

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Are_diamonds_flammable
Says diamonds are combustible around 1520 degrees.

But temperatures were 1000 degrees at the high-point in the 9/11 events (page 10 end of first paragrah):
http://eagar.mit.edu/EagarPapers/Eagar185.pdf

Interesting enough. The bigger issue would have certainly been the buildings crumbling before they ever burst into flames/disintegrated.
sorry, that was a bug.
You get to the next level of course!
Postel's Principle was very important for bootstrapping adoption of TCP/IP, but it's mostly a curse in mature systems. It doesn't even help new implementors; instead, it deceives them into thinking that they've achieved interoperability when instead they've accidentally built dependencies on other people's implementation details.

That said, I wouldn't suggest that our Insertion, Evasion paper presented an argument regarding the Principle in either direction. Even if we forbad leniency, there'd still be ambiguous standards.
Most expats I know here have done well, sometimes 5+ years, without ever properly learning German. So language is not an issue.

That said, you do need help when dealing with the bureaucracy. It can be complicated, and they often do not speak English. But it's trivial to get this help from colleagues or expats.

90% of those I work with are German, and yet I can get by speaking only English as 1) they will switch to English, like I suspect most German developers can and would, and 2) our CTO and a few others in the office are not German either.
A distributor, sure. Some people are that dumb. But enough to make a dent? I doubt it.

There are site rules and best practices and distributors are ranked (among other factors) on how well they keep to those. The rules say (among other things) to only communicate through the site, to PGP encrypt any sensitive information, and never to store any information longer than necessary to complete the transaction. I'm not saying there are no possible attacks against that surface, but I don't think the one you've described gets there.

Anyone who breaks those rules puts themselves and their customers at risk. If a distributor got busted because they clicked an off-site link, I imagine the community would say good riddance. And keep trading drugs.
Sounds good in theory but I don't think the average doctor, let alone the average patient, is capable of independently weighing the pros and cons of every novel treatment. And then you have desperately people who might normally be more skeptical but will believe just about anything in the pain and torment of a moment when they or a loved one falls ill.

No thanks. I'll take the imperfect regulation over the "free market" any day.
Clay is inanimate and there's no potter in evidence around here.
Most interesting thing to me: this month is my fifth anniversary with an HN account. I actually started lurking before that, in the Startup News days, but I didn't really have anything to contribute until it broadened scope.