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"there are miraculous, mysterious things that we do not understand about natural products and the human body"

"It lies in the fact that we are applying something very strong in a way that is not balanced or integrated."

Magical thinking detected.

There is no evidence that taking combinations is inherently a good thing. Some things work well on their own, some work well in combination, some combinations antagonise horribly and can kill.

"yet as the more sensitive among us have realized, each different concoction effects us differently -- even though the principal ingredient is the same"

Meh. Alcohol gets you drunk. The main difference in effects you'll see between different types of alcohol is how concentrated it is, how fast you drink it and how much you take down. Drunk is drunk one way or another.

"Moreover, we need to embrace treatments that work, even if we can't explain them"

We do, what we don't need to embrace is stuff that hasn't been shown to work, contains all sorts of stuff in all sorts of unknown quantities.

No, an established LD50 does not mean a drug is safe. This absolutely does not mean that bizarre concoctions of unstandardised plant material are safe in any way at all.
I would really like to see it with random selection of countries every time your reload the page - and then to see it in primary schools during geography lessons - that would be a killer!
IPhone 5S, 5-inch iPhone 6 allegedly spotted at supplier
Heroku is a fast and easy option.
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The gist of the nytimes article was "don't eat poison" -- eg subtract stuff. Arguments against superstitious and irrelevant additives are missing the point.
Google App Engine is OK, too.
I think you're right. This article is the new benchmark in Aaron Swartz articles. A late entry, but has completely obliterated the field. Anyone thinking of writing a Swartz article take note, the bar is high. You'll need a team of people and a decent budget to approach the same quality. Good luck.
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Seriously, I need to watch West Wing I think someone posts an awesome and politically relevant clip on HN once a month (that I see and watch).
There was no claim that a language that is easy to parse for a computer is always easy to parse for a human. And you don't present any data that easier to parse for the human makes it better other than that you like it.

I like Ruby too, it's actually my favorite language because it's so easy to do metaprogramming, but sometimes I wish it were clearer what the execution will be even if that comes at the expense of some clarity elsewhere.
Thanks Jonathan for telling it like it is (and enduring the flames). As much as I hate Windows and like Linux, I agree on all your points. (Audio sucks ass on Linux!)

gcc/gdb tools suck because Stallman wants it this way. See Chandler Carruth's talk "Clang: Defending C++ from Murphy's Million Monkeys". Apple wanted to make gcc/gdb more modular, but Stallman doesn't want gcc/gdb to be modular and allow better tools because that would allow those tools to be non-GPL. So Apple spearheaded LLVM to ditch gcc.

LLVM/LLDB might be the way to improvements, but you are also right that the skills in building these higher level tools are not the strength of the current open source community.

So I don't end with a completely negative post on Linux development, Valgrind rocks!
Blogspam of an HN comment.

OP is https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5124476
Benvenuti nel Paese dell’”innotiziabilità”
Go through your old tax returns for the last 10 years (or just extrapolate or use your memory). Add up all of your total gross income for those years then ask yourself where all that money has gone.

The answer is: your life. If it was spent well, having fun, making friends, deepening relationships, making meaningful connections in life, etc. then it was worth it regardless of the cost. Money is just paper, the best use of it is in the service of creating happiness or well-being.
I'll take the time to say thanks too, since they seem to be following this.

We've long had lots of open source infrastructure like Linux, Rails, Postgres, Apache, and so on and so forth that was very much a "by programmers, for programmers" affair. It's very nice to get some "design" infrastructure - Bootstrap has made my sites look a lot better, and I get compliments from people.

So, a big thanks to the bootstrap guys!
We're running JIRA behind nginx with https. To get it to work properly we had to edit JIRA's server.xml, duplicate the connector but append (e.g.) proxyPort="8443" and scheme="https". In addition, in JIRA's general settings you should make sure that the base URL is set to use https to avoid the SSL warnings.
I suppose this is why the FSF has gone on and on about "free as in freedom", and not about the practical benefits for developers in releasing source code to the public.

I understand that Gabe does not want to play by the app-store rule, be that Apple or Microsoft. They want to be free to develop their business, their business model, free from dictated rules of a third party.

In a world where every user device is locked down under DRM, there won't be a get-out-of-jail free pass called Linux. If all obvious and commonly used aspects of computing are patented, then we won't have a Linux that can be shipped by something like Steam. Anti-DRM and anti-patent clauses, like those in GPLv3 and the Apache license are not anti-business. They are pro-freedom for companies to decide their own fate.

If we want to keep this get-out-of-jail free pass for the industry, we need to maintain it and banish DRM and patents to the dustheap. It's that simple today. It won't be that simple tomorrow.
Bokeh: An Implementation of Grammar of Graphics for Python
Oh OK, then I did see correctly after all. But still, on many modern systems (e.g. with non-executable stack) it would require fairly sophisticated trickery in the payload to make this do anything. I mean, getting control over EIP is a very good first step, but this isn't 1995.
any hope for us poor souls that dwell outside of the United States?
Changing my position.

The fact that I can hold it like a book/piece of paper/clipboard means I can shift my position whilst using it - whether that is leaning back in my seat, or walking around the house/office - in a way that's just not practical with a laptop.
I really enjoyed this! Like a good jigsaw puzzle only better...
Don't do it from your home computer. FBI will be at your door before Friday is over.
Dropbox for email: Killer idea revolutionizes email
But is this that only 7% of all IP addresses are allocated to real live hosts, or (more likely given the amount of 0% counts) large swathes of the Internet just routinely ignore ICMP and drop it on the carpet.

This has been complained about for years and means the most obvious approach to diagnosis of problems fails 93% of the time...
When someone, particularly a beginner, is reading the code and come across, say, an unfamiliar function name, then they know straight away whether to look for it in the language docs or a definition somewhere else in the code. Not essential, but handy.
Ask HN: Hacking a video wall.
Hi,

I'm working on a project to convert the use of a 9-screen video wall into an information point. We have a spare one at the school I teach in and I've commandeered it for my own propaganda :)

I plan to use 9 raspberry pis (which I already have laying around), one to run each of the 9 screens in the array.

Initially I was thinking of using Synergy to share the keyboard and mouse of a control laptop in order to configure the screens and change the content as required, but it seemed inelegant and I wondered if anyone had any experience with doing something similar - it strikes me as the sort of thing that might have some development done already but I didn't know where to start.

I'd like to be able to do different thing with them over time - show different mixtures of slideshows, webpages, videos and other applications. Eventually, I'd like to include some cool interactive things using cameras and maybe a kinect or something.
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Just signed up. The main reason of signing up is to check your recommendation quality. Will check when have more time. A calendar showing episodes airing date is a good feature.
"Magical thinking detected."

I didn't interpret his post as containing any magical thinking or handwaving, per se. Rather, I think's saying that there are interactions and compounds in drugs we use that we don't (yet) fully understand. Where you and he differ is that he advocates the use of compounds that seem to work, but whose mechanism of action we don't fully comprehend -- whereas you appear to take a more cautious view of said compounds.

Personally speaking, I sort of fall in between your two positions. There are a lot of treatments in modern medicine that are effective, but whose precise workings science does not fully comprehend. I support the use of these treatments, so long as longitudinal data shows them to be safe and effective, and their benefits to outweigh their drawbacks. However, I don't support remaining ignorant about them -- I believe we should keep striving to fully understand what's going on underneath the hood, so to speak.

"Meh. Alcohol gets you drunk. The main difference in effects you'll see between different types of alcohol is how concentrated it is, how fast you drink it and how much you take down. Drunk is drunk one way or another."

The same quantity of alcohol does, indeed, have different effects on different people. This is correlated with gender, body weight, the liver's ability to metabolize the alcohol, individual neurochemistry, etc. There is a panoply of systems within the body that react to the presence of something like alcohol, and that differs from person to person.

In a macro sense, yes, alcohol gets everyone drunk. But the rate at which it does so, and the quantity needed, and the long-term damage, can be quite variable.

"We do, what we don't need to embrace is stuff that hasn't been shown to work, contains all sorts of stuff in all sorts of unknown quantities."

Agreed. We may be living in a golden age of snake oil. The unregulated supplement industry is enormous and growing. Much of the unproven stuff is useless, some of it is dangerous, and more of it will probably be shown to be dangerous in future studies.
I'm confused by Ubuntu being called out as specifically having "great [..] hardware compatibility". I've been using SUSE for 10 years now and I've never had a single peripheral which didn't work out the box. This is down to the great work of the Linux and driver developers rather than Ubuntu itself.
I like all the stories about him. It is like seeing him from a different angle every time. Pieces by pieces, I start to see the whole picture. I feel I understand more of him each time. But at the same time, I feel there are more and more things I still don't know about him.
> even though the principal ingredient is the same (people report calming, yet stimulating effects from Yerba Maté as opposed to caffeine, etc.)!

> It turns out there is a very simple explanation for this. There are other constellations of chemicals in these concoctions which, in concert create an altogether particular and unique effect.

The simple explanation is 'Placebo Effect'. Don't ignore that, because it's powerful and poorly understood.

> Rofecoxib (better known as Vioxx) has an established LD50. For mice it is 300mg/kg, for rabbits it is 3.2g/kg, and for rats it is 980mg/kg [2]. But you know what? Vioxx exacerbated heart disease for at least thousands of people and should have been recalled years earlier than 2004[1]. An established LD50 does not mean a drug is safe.

That's exactly what the author is saying. Be sceptical about information presented to you. Ask questions. Don't blindly accept advice from anyone. A side effect of this is that you have to ask questions of people able to answer; you have to get advice from people trained and experienced enough to give it.
Emacs Undo and Redo
And home broadband providers should advertise their contention rates. And, if that starter is free with the main course, I'll just have the starter free on its own please.
Agreed. It defeats the purpose of Facebook login.
According to Keith’s calculations, if operations were begun in 2020, it would take 25,000 metric tons of sulfuric acid to cut global warming in half after one year. Once under way, the injection of sulfuric acid would proceed continuously. By 2040, 11 or so jets delivering roughly 250,000 metric tons of it each year, at an annual cost of $700 million, would be required to compensate for the increased warming caused by rising levels of carbon dioxide. By 2070, he estimates, the program would need to be injecting a bit more than a million tons per year using a fleet of a hundred aircraft.

Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth" included a clip from Futurama, which shows their method of combatting global warming: dumping increasing amounts of space ice in the oceans.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqVyRa1iuMc

I'm not criticising the idea, I don't have the required background. But it doesn't sound like a permanent solution.
They were so handy to have for those corporate and/or data-oriented web sites and doc archives.
You'd be surprised... I recently got pre-approved with my girlfriend for over that amount from the bank for a home loan and it ain't easy getting a loan in Australia compared to other countries either. I say to your sarcasm, check mate.
I think we do need to reduce the amount of carbon emitted though - it causes ocean acidification + if we kill off the oceans we will be screwed.
Definitely man, easily. It would be good to see these go to a serious collector or someone who will treat them right and keep them in pristine condition. A gaming museum would be the best choice.
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Your Kindle got stolen? Don't count on Amazon's help
2^32 pings in 10 hours is ~120kHz. So I imagine that the complaining companies were the ones assigned /8 blocks (IBM, Apple, Ford etc.). They probably noticed the 500 pings/second aimed at their address space.
How do you feel about vaccines? Anti-biotics?

Why is fear justified? Isn't the appropriate response reason and critical thinking? FDA approved drugs have been extensively field tested as well. And many "dangerous" chemicals are actually safer than, say, wine.

You're just trying to justify your fear of the unfamiliar. It's parochial and small-minded. Do you think that the people who discovered tea, beer, tomatoes, and cheese thought that way? Imagine how much smaller and less interesting our lives would be today if these sorts of fears had gripped our ancestors, and how much smaller our future will be if we allow them free reign today.
Neat idea! Good luck to you!
I don't want to be a politician, and there are grassroots support already, but it is something that although affect politics deeply, it is also highly cultural.

I believe there has been a conscious efforts by my opponents to sneak their people into classrooms for generations, I cannot undo it, but I can try to sidestep it.

But I won't discuss here because the main point of the opposition was exactly make lots of people believe they are 100% right and that those they oppose, are not only wrong, but evil.
...and BTW zurb offers a sleek solution to the "small-screen drop-down problem": http://foundation.zurb.com/page-templates/contact.html -- it extends the bootstrap's idea somehow and I was expecting to see something like this in the third version instead of having it removed.
JACK is for true realtime audio mixing. Which is why the pro's love it: it does that very well indeed.

It's not really appropriate for ordinary users though.
No, because php is rarely used to develop applications without proper level of abstraction - so it makes sense to compare apples to apples.
Sorry for the late follow up but ...

do you "get creative with the truth" on those 70 hours - or are you still just working for one client at a time, full time?

if you do get creative - how do you feel about that?
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The Next Industrial Revolution - Open Source Style
Wait... wasn't this basically the plan they came up with in The Matrix? ... I don't recall that working out too good...

Seriously; while it's tempting to think of grand plans like this, I think that meddling in ecosystems is what got us into the trouble in the first place. Climate change is an economic problem, not an engineering one, which is far less sexy.
I wonder if something like llvm + clang could be better?

Clang seems to provide a much more API like experience for building compilers, so something similar for debuggers is definitely needed.
I just seriously don't understand all the GDB hate. It might have a steep learning curve, but I feel much more comfortable and productive in GDB than I ever did in Visual Studio's debugger.

Is it the most amazing debugger ever? Certainly not. But it gets the job done. LLDB looks promising as an alternative, but it's not mature enough yet.

Also, what's with the fetish with IDEs? I only use an IDE when I write Java (since navigating even a "simple" Java codebase is difficult without one), but for anything else, I spend all my time in vim and a terminal, even for large projects.
Do you really need a digitizer? Quite a few artistic people I know are fine with a "capacitively detectable stylus". It doesn't have 1024 pressure levels (or however much the wacom or whatever on the surface does). The accuracy of some touch screens (most notably the ipad) seems to be sufficient unless you require a real pressure sensitive surface.

Ok, poll: how many of you really want a digitizer (and have ever used one for more than a few minutes)?
I’m starting to believe the only permanent solution to these problems is reducing the global population. We just can’t keep using natural resources at the rate we are today.
"Companies are unfundable until they are oversubscribed" - Naval Ravikant
Why is it that VCs are mostly followers rather than leaders? Why do so many companies (including Google, Groupon) get turned down when they pitch to VCs in the early stages?
It's kind of lame - sure it was cool to swear when I was a teenager, but here it's pointless.

If I'm reading a webcomic or some subreddit then fine.
You'd be surprised.

Every time I walk into the bank here in the UK, they literally beg me to take out a loan because I have no debt and a good income.

Last time I was in there, I had to get quite angry at the customer service person because she just wouldn't drop it. I did the polite "No thanks", "No, really, I'm not interested", "No THANK YOU", "Look, I'm going to start shouting in a minute, I have told you NO" and they STILL kept pushing
Paracetamol (acetaminophen) is a very safe drug if you do not take too much.

Being in pain when there is a simple, cheap, safe, effective medication is a bad way to live.
Who should we start by killing?
This article is mostly about geo-engineering technology, but I can't help but feel like the technological side of the venture is the easiest part. Who is going to make the go/no-go decision? The UN? By majority vote? How much do we lower the temperature by? I can't imagine an agreement being reached on something like this in my lifetime.

For this reason I think we're far more likely to see this problem 'solved' by renegade geo-engineering efforts like what Russ George did (http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/oct/15/pacific-ir...) and that has me deeply worried.
If you're looking to use it for anything other than unmodified internal use, be aware that it uses the AGPL license (the "A" at the start being quite important), and may place restrictions on what you want to do, much more-so than the GPL.
This is not exactly a surprise to me, and I don't believe is purely Amazon fault, we have today in the world some very abrasive legal systems where liability is really dangerous.

It is like the thief here in Brazil that broke his leg after his victim roof gave away, sued the owner of the house, and won.
Which is why Linux, BSD's and most Unix versions have a wide range of more restrictive access control methods,such as various forms of containers, jails and VM's...

Personally I run pretty much everything in containers. Not always segregated from each others, but certainly segregated from most of the data I care about. All larger projects get their own containers or VMs, and I have several "scratch" VM's and containers of various types that I don't care if I lose.

Spawning a Virtualbox VM or LXC container (or equivalent) is so quick and painless today that there are few excuses to running all kinds of stuff unrestricted.
Or consuming earth's resources at a rate lower than the production rate.
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Clearly not the solution. But do you really see a future were countries don’t have population control methods in place.
I don't know about this VAW Act (seems to be US thing), the US isn't so great on the equality law anyway (since there is no legal maternity leave, marital status or sexuality isn't a protected ground etc.) If I were to talk about how China does voting, would that be a fair cop against democracy?
A linux update - will this only be for chrome, or will is there an update for firefox too ?
Woe to those of us who are fans of the iMac for home usage. We have ONE SSD option in the new iMac, a whopping 1300 dollar upgrade to a 768g SSD. The previous system offered a 256g option which for many was sufficient.

How it benefits Apple to offer only a 768 (and why that number) I will never know. I can only imagine the sales they lose for not having the 256 or 512 options in the iMac. Its not like they don't have the parts
5s maybe, but not 6
what about the programmers who made javascript and css? I'm sure they flame each other!
As a European using the extended latin alphabet, setting your keyboard up to easily type é, is easy: use a modifier key. Then, for example, MOD + ' followed by e becomes é. Similarly you can make à, ô, ĩ, œ, ů, and so on. I even believe this is the default setting (as I cannot remember setting it manually).

But I agree that if you don't use these characters, setting it up to type one or two odd characters isn't worth the hassle.
This is frustrating, but asking for correctly formed court documents is normal and good.

In theory insurance should cover that. Or the thief, if they're ever caught.
I wish I had enough karma to downvote this thread.
It does sound a bit like Operation Dark Storm from the Part 2 of the The Second Renaissance from the Animatrix:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Animatrix#The_Second_Renais...
That's funny, but what the heck is it doing on hackernews?
Apple falling behind in smartphones, says Steve Wozniak
Because making the US look smaller is not politically astute in a jingoistic you're-with-us-or-you're-against-us patriotic state.
There's a new champion. Now up to 240 million steps!

I think it will be interesting to be sure that we've found the final champion - there is such a large range of behaviours. And yet amazingly there are only 65536 of these turmites.

http://www.conwaylife.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=10...
Of course, these days Pandas is _the_ Python library for statistics. There is also scikit-learn.

http://pandas.pydata.org/
Just posted the second instalment in the F# MonoTouch series
that was a typo: I wrote "by now means", when I meant "by no means". Completely reverses the meaning of that sentence. Sorry :(