skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel that Gate's comment about curing baldness is a testament to the efficacy of the marketplace. Markets only represent what the people want, and I guarantee you that more people want to cure baldness than malaria. Bill is noticing a problem with people, and the markets reflect that.

The nice part about markets is they can adapt very quickly. If we were to convince enough people malaria was worth curing, we could do it! There's no rule to a marketplace that says you can't.

I see two roads you can go down in solving this problem. We can convince the public that a cause is worth investing in, or we can force the public to support a cause (by means of a State actor or other monopoly on violence). Personally, I think historical evidence proves forcing people to do anything is unsustainable and counterproductive. Just one guys opinion.
... on Einstein's bday, slash Pi day.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einstein
Since you speak English, you were almost certainly born in a colonised country. Yes, it can indeed go badly. And if you had thought for 10 seconds before typing your outraged reply, you can probably think of a few cases where it has gone well.

Ironically, your "solution" requires either being, or having the cooperation of, the government in the affected territory, so you're actually agreeing with me.
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Okay, you win, enforcing reality will now be known as rigging the outcome.
Yahoo Pipes is awesome, but I'm consistently amazed it hasn't been shut down. Because it's so awesome.
Sort of related question, which may sound a bit rubbish since I don't really know the physics or their scientific method at that scale, but were they doing enough experiments that they'd have eventually said it couldn't exist if they never found it for some amount of time? Or was it always something that could only be proven, not disproven?
Just to add context to this comment - The US spends about $60b per year in aid to other countries. How much is wasted is another debate but it's probably a lot.
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When I go to Pet Smart to buy dog food, the credit card reader asks me if I want to donate $1, $5, $10, etc., to help homeless animals. I imagine that if I was at Walgreen's buying NyQuil and the credit card reader asked me if I wanted to donate $1, $5, $10, toward medical research so that people just like me can get over a cold faster in the future, I'd probably say yes.
The British empire was perfectly able to compete with Spain, etc. particularly following the Spanish Armada.

The defeat of the Armada was more than a hundred years into the so-called "Age of Exploration". Northern Europe started from behind, but caught up and eventually surpassed the South, at least from a North American vantage point.

Further, the British were every bit as interested in raping the Americas for gold as the Spaniards and Italians ...

Sure. There's a tendency (especially in the U.S.) to simplify and say that the Northern Europeans wanted "to settle and live in religious harmony" (hogwash) and that the Southern European explorers wanted to loot. It's a lot more complicated than that, as you know. Assessing virtue to one side or the other is ridiculous.

It's impossible to know for sure, but I think that religious leaders on both sides of the divide (not that "Protestants" were a united group) wanted to validate themselves. The Catholic Church, fearing a loss of power in Europe, sent people overseas to expand and validate Catholicism. This might have made people behave better on a social or economic justice front (religious charity). It might have made them worse (aggressive conquest and cultural genocide). It's hard to tell. From a modern vantage point, it was all very ugly, but most of history is that way.

I tend to think, however, that the Reformation started (or, at least, accelerated) conversations about comparative society, religion, and government.
Where is my baldness vaccine?
These days, there's a good chance that a hospital being more profitable than a casino. Many of the casinos are having serious money issues (Revel in AC being the most recent case) and quite a few hospital groups are minting money.
Anyone want to comment on their implicit assumptions in downvoting my question?
What if Microsoft includes an optional os level ad block with windows blue that is on by default. They did that with privacy and can also do that with bandwidth. Their business model doesn't have too much on ads.

That would kill these revenue streams. Google has been fighting the Microsoft business model for years giving freebies supported by ads.
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Love this http://www.datemymate.co.nz/blog/main/Date_this_Mate_ - it really shows why the concept can work. You can't write a salespitch like that about yourself!
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That's fair, and I am glad we're on the same page about privacy. It's important to us, but also hard as hell to communicate that we're not trying to steal or read your stuff. :)

As far as the product... the efficiency is due in part to the behavioral algorithm and in part to the information architecture of the app itself.

The archive and inbox are literally structured in a way that makes it easier and faster to get to everything, find old attachments, search for content, and so on. A deeper explanation of that part is gonna get long without some visuals, so if I may, let's leave it there and we'll post more info when we can (remember that we're only proving our concept with this site).

The behavioral algorithm basically treats everything you do in email as information about what and who is important, and we use that to make sure that important stuff rises to the top, conversations are threaded in a useful way, and so on. As far as I know, there isn't another app that does it like that.

For now (until we get a little further and create some more explanatory materials) hopefully that satisfies your question.
Or Yahoo!? DDG? Anyone?
New results indicate that particle discovered at CERN is a Higgs boson
Save state in a VM?
No more 1996 - Email can lay off the tables
I've been thinking about using a random process to guide bug seeding. In other words, putting in bugs in random locations and random "type" and then see how many are caught by the test suite.
RMS created the GNU GPL v2 and canvassed for free and open Software and programmed our minds to create open source software too and I believe Trillions of Dollars of wealth will be created thanks to this and none of it will be credited to RMS, and Bill Gates will be showered praise for the 60 billion he is going around donating.

But RMS, I want you to know that I recognize your contribution.
Legality issues?
I guess I get to be the guy to defend hair research. The reason this gets so much attention is that androgenic alopecia is linked to metabolic syndrome. This also means it is linked to, for example, polycystic ovary syndrome and... heart disease and diabetes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Androgenic_alopecia#Male_homolo...

Yes, really. The fact that it's [alopecia] linked to some of the leading causes of death in the developed world might help to explain some of the research money.

Of course that doesn't mean he isn't still essentially right that malaria deserves to get more money. This still, of course, reflects an implicit difference of focus between rich people and poor people. Rich people have money and they spend it on themselves, not others -- but it [the research funding] isn't just an outgrowth of simple vanity.

Also, the reason we have treatments rather than cures is that the cure is horrifying. AA is caused by -- on a simple chemical level -- androgens. Read: testosterone. Finasteride et al. inhibit them. You want a cure: cut your balls off, that's the cure.
You clearly didn't read a single link that I posted. I did a comprehensive study of all malware targeting mobile devices between 2011 and 2012 and, yes, they are targeting the device itself and the design choices made while building it.

EDIT: oh wait, there you go blaming the user again. "Grandma should have known the difference between THIS app that requested her contacts and THAT app that requests her contacts and stole them. Jeez Grandma! Get with it!"

How is that not a design problem? I thought we gave up delegating security decisions to the user after we saw what happened with SSL?
Your proposed solution is textbook recolonization.
I really like the Sage addon for firefox. It's about the only reason I normally open firefox.
Honestly there probably just wasn't enough time to add all these features to WinRT before the release. I have heard that there will be a huge update in WinRT API's in the future but for now you need to roll your own implementation. I had a similar problem where I needed a sorted collection and I thought that the API's would already have a method to sort but there wasn't any. I ended up just rolling my own, which was a bit annoying but hey you learn CS for a reason right?

You can encrypt your zip files using the crypto libraries. Here's a good resouce http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/windowsapps/CryptoWinRT-54ff3.... I was planning to do that with my app but I never got around to it.
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Go fmt is my single favorite feature about the language.

Coming from a background in Lisp, I don't find much in Go that seems very 'elegant' or 'beautiful'. What I find is that everything - including the Go source code itself - is perfectly standardized (and therefore immediately readable).

I don't have to worry about different coding styles, about semicolons vs. no semicolons[0], about having more than one way to express the same code. I can skim the code easily because the structure is so uniform across all standard and community libraries.

That's a different kind of beauty from chaining macros and cons cells, but it's beautiful nonetheless.

[0]https://github.com/twitter/bootstrap/issues/3057
No problem :)

Just to compare, 33k EUR gives about shy of 1500 EUR a month after taxes.
Yes, this is an interesting effect of capitalism:
locally significant but globally quite irrelevant issues gets more resources allocated to them than globally significant but not locally sensible investments.

That's of course bad. The immediate alternative: government allocates funds to locally insignificant and because of prestige, buy-in and general politics, eventually globally worthless investments, is also not very attractive.

Actually, one may see Bill Gates as an example of why capitalism is advantageous. Being allowed to amass a significant portion of wealth, he can now choose to spend it on efforts he considers good. As long as his interest is to use his money for purposes he considers the greater good, the money will certainly have a greater effect than government's spending of the same resources would.

Think what you will of the Malaria problem. But I think that giving larger amounts of resources to certain individuals (just kings) is one of the most efficient ways of allocating resources. Now, the main problem with modern capitalism is this: Why do so few just kings arise from the very wealthy? Most very rich seem incapable of creating or living by any sentiment or value-system that goes beyond their own self-indulgence. Why is that? And how to make a system where the people that rise create value and values?
If it can I could never find it. I tried the service out twice and both times found it to try and show me a lot of stuff I didn't want to see and never improved on that front.
There are safe ways to enable access to it. Take ChromeOS for example, which has a hardware switch on the outside of the device that "jailbreaks" it and allows access to these features. Lack of such creativity by the Android team with regard to security has had a major impact on their current state.
There seems to be a issue if you send the email to yourself (tried that and got the message that my email caused a server issue, uh oh). They are already looking into it.
I think it's not as simple as that.

People who would be affected by Malaria wouldn't have the purchasing power to affect the market. Baldness is universal and so people who have money and care about cosmetic effects, can affect the market to a greater degree.
There was a fascinating series of articles on New York times on the search for the Higgs Boson.[1]

There was also an attempt to explain what is the Higgs Boson , by means of some drawings and analogies in the second part of the series. Perhaps someone knowledgeable could comment how accurate the explanation is.

[1]http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/05/science/chasing-the-higgs-...
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You just saved me 3 hours a day. Now I can go home when my kids are home from school instead of after supper.

The ugly part of this is that we rarely know whether we're saving time or cutting jobs (and depriving people of income). Between our low level of access to the relevant information, and the execrable leadership the world currently has, we can rarely know that.

When the world has good leadership, technological progress (even small victories) save time and create wealth. When it has bad leadership, it ends jobs (that are never replaced) and helps the working world shut itself down.
> And breast cancer gets more funding than pancreatic cancer even though pancreatic cancer kills about everyone who gets it because, you know, the boobies

Or perhaps breast cancer gets more funding because it's far more common? Here in the UK, the incidence rate for breast cancer is 125.7/100,000, whereas the incidence rate for pancreatic cancer is 9.3/100,000.

And before you say "but pancreatic cancer kills more people", that's also not true. Again, in the UK the mortality rate for breast cancer is 24.3/100,000, whereas for pancreatic cancer it's 12.6/100,000 [1].

More people die from breast cancer than pancreatic cancer. That's why the former is funded more than the latter. Not "because, you know, the boobies".

[1] All these stats are from http://www.cancerresearchuk.org/cancer-info/cancerstats
On Linux there are "process freezers" that work pretty well for simple applications. I wonder if Windows has anything like that...?
> It's not "capitalism", it's humanity.

Not sure how much value is to be found in an argument that basically says "if it weren't for humans, this would be great" * . Reminds me of Basil Fawlty - who believes he could run Fawlty Towers perfectly if it weren't for all the guests. In the end, everything we do is kind of about humans.

* Ironically, I mutter that under my breath at least a couple of times per day. So there.
This is a classic product failure. I went to your page and don't know what problem you're solving of mine. I've adopted a zero-inbox policy for the last several years. What problem are you solving?

Not trying to be a d*, just providing feedback, if you changed your landing page to identify the problem you're solving, it would make more sense. If it's a problem I'm unaware of, you need to convince me that this is a problem I should be worried about.

In the 15s I spent on your site, I couldn't figure out what you guys do, other than you're going to do something with my email (my most personal, prized possession on the internet).
Seeing that your site is offline, I'm going to have to disagree with you.

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If he doesn't believe in the afterlife, that only makes his limited lifespan more valuable.
Is the game really that good?
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It does indeed. Thank you.

I guess the page could have been a little more teaser-y, so that I'm not lost into thinking it was closer from release than it is. :)

I wish you well!
Like I said, its a really new thing for us so I don't have a lot of experience yet. The most immediate benefit i saw though was that we spent more time on the functional spec than we typically do making sure it was complete. That process yields a lot of benefits (its far easier to delete paragraphs, then code).

Beyond that though, its nice to see a bit more details on your progress as the development continues. We definitely have more productive status meetings. We used to sit down once a week, and go around the table asking people where they are, but now everyone knows the status all the time (we all can see it). That allows us to spend more time on discussing problem solutions. During development, developers keep track of their own progress with less work. As a lead, its useful for me to see areas of weakness so I can have more targeted code reviews.
Is this guy saying that we shouldn't be using ORM's?

I guess I don't really think relational code is all that different from OOP code. Maybe I've been brainwashed by Rails and you guys can help me out.
This is not pedantic, it's asinine.

Almost every single lexical object is overloaded with multiple meanings, so it is incumbent upon an addressee to put in a modicum of effort to use context in interpreting communication. There's really no other way to get by.
I use Newsbeuter[1] in a Linux terminal.

It's not a GUI app or web-based, which are both plusses to me. It's also neither closed-source, nor spyware (like way too many web-based readers are).

Newsbeuter is relatively feature rich and has a decent enough interface. I'm pretty happy with it, and prefer it to the closest Linux terminal RSS reader competitor that I've found, Snownews.[2]

The main problems with it is that when feeds get large (1000+ articles), reading that feed gets to be pretty slow. This is a long-standing performance bug that has not been fixed in years. But, apart from that, if you're reading feeds with a reasonable number of article in them, it's great.

[1] - http://www.newsbeuter.org/index.html

[2] - http://snownews.kcore.de/
"The particle's existence helps confirm the theory that objects gain their size and shape when particles interact in an energy field with a key particle, the Higgs boson. The more they attract, so the theory goes, the bigger their mass will be."

So does this mean that an ether really does permeate space?
I don't know about the Inuit, but "gravad" fish (fish buried and fermented near the tide mark) has been fairly common in the Nordic countries as well as in the Baltics since the middle ages or before.

"Rakfisk", a Norwegian variation, could be left to ferment up to a year. Iceland has Hákarl, - fermented Greenland shark that is also left for 6-12 months: "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%A1karl containing ammonia (the process is used because it is poisonous when fresh).

My total guess is that it's more about having access to a wider range of types of food throughout the winter, when many other dietary choices disappear. Traditional food in the Nordic countries at least is very centered around processing that allows for longer term storage, and I'd guess Greenland has much the same.
D: I'm sure that's going to be a phantom pain (pang?) felt by us for sometime to come starting 7/1...

I highly recommend the blog though, it does a really good job of keeping an eye on all things Google beyond the normal press releases. Today there's a post with some interesting Reader data points[1].

1. http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2013/03/google-reader-data-...
The downvote isn't whether the comment was warranted but rather that it didn't add value to the conversation.
Sure Satoshi's original code & protocol design are good. But Satoshi's gone. All that's left is people who thought storing unsalted MD5 hashs of user passwords is acceptable (MtGox)
Or maybe some of these anti-ddos companies are looking to make some new customers. ;-)
Chance to do the things that matter to you or your loved ones. I have recently had a painful remainder of how short life is when my aunt deceased in her late 50s. And it made it painfully obvious that none of the stuff that I'm working on right now really means anything to me. A year, two or ten from now I won't even remember tweaking the site to work on IE9. Nor will the client, nor the customers. And then, ten years from now, one of my parents might die and then I could only wish that instead of spending 2-3 hours finding out why some js or css wasn't working in firefox on mac, I spent that time being with them.
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I drink watered down orange juice. It mixes evenly if you pour the water first.

Otherwise the concentration is higher and the temperature is lower near the bottom of the glass.
He's going to poop liquid for the rest of his life.
I was hoping for a different fate for Google Reader.

- The feed digesting functionality could have been merged into Google+

-Google Reader could have become a news reader skin on the of G+

As long as Google Reader remained a stand alone service and yet deeply tied into the search index, it has been doomed.
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Not true. The actual Reddit[1,2] posts the article pulls this from says they have been able to sync their game to the servers. It seems that when offline, it saves it locally and uploads upon reconnect. He was able to remove the 20 minute timeout disconnect, but it still saves things locally and uploads upon reconnect.

1. http://www.reddit.com/r/SimCity/comments/1a9n5j/you_can_edit...

2. http://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/1a9t0e/simcity_modder...
While I agree with the spirit of what you are saying, it isn't as easy as mentioned. I think I mentioned this in previous comments, but finding someone that likes to liv frugally, and is a potential mate (all other things combined) isn't that easy.

And if you put a kid on the mix, it is event worse.
More like 35 as that point when you realize you're not young anymore, this is actually your real life, and you need to stop daydreaming and deal with it.
I'm assuming the Internet Wayback Machine [1] would have them indexed, if they were up for any length of time?

[1] http://archive.org/web/web.php
In many cases, no, you shouldn't be using ORM's.
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I'm curious. Who would you expect to actually pay? I'm sure your personal friends and coworkers would never be expected to. Are you just trying to reduce spam? Or are you someone famous who is contacted often for advice of some sort?
> fascism is dead

I wish

> god is dead

god likely never existed, but the idea of god will continue to cause humans to kill and oppress each other. Ideas don't die so I'm not sure what you mean when you say they are dead.
The updating problem is a design flaw they knew they would have to deal with and that they did nothing about until version 4, when they started trying to separate core functionality out into apps. That's not acceptable.

Code signing can be implemented while still allowing for casual development. See my comment above about the hardware switch on ChromeOS devices.

My third point is regarding how the architecture of the platform complicates the ability to analyze apps that run on it for malicious behavior. The NDK, the access to the Linux kernel, and a strategy based around dynamic analysis were all design choices that impacted that.

I understand that Android wants to be more open than iOS but you're making the same mistakes the Android team did. Namely that there's no way to deploy the same or similar security improvements without sacrificing something else. It's just not true.
The consumer incentives encourage biological advances nearly ideally. Even diseases from which the West no longer suffers have incentives as NGOs and other organizations will pay billions for effective cures. The difficulty is that the FDA makes productive research very expensive and difficult to quickly iterate based on real feedback, and the academic publishing system is full of questionable research that slows down the advance of honest research as it is not reliable.