skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Ayurveda states there are 3 ways to cure disease. Food, herbs and poisons."

That, of course, is wrong. There are additional way to cure a disease. Unless of course that you're using "poison" as a catch-all term to mean anything which isn't food or herbs, in which case it it's a rather useless redefinition to mean simply 'neither food nor herb.'

For example, radiation therapy for cancer is neither a food nor herb, so by definition you place it into "poison", even though it doesn't act like any chemical poison. There's a certain logic to that assignment - radiation treatment is not something an otherwise healthy person would do - but it's a treatment that no traditional Ayurveda practitioner ever considered.

UVB exposure (ie, sunlight or phototherapy) can be an effective treatment for some people who are vitamin B deficient because of malabsorption syndromes (like Cystic fibrosis and short bowel syndrome) which prevent them from absorbing vitamin D through their diet.

Since UVB can cure a disease but is neither a food nor an herb, it must be a poison, right? But UVB is something that healthy people get all the time, so it wouldn't normally be considered a poison. In fact, it could be removed completely, so long as there were other source of vitamin B. Still, you might say that UVB is a food instead of a poison. The problem there is that too much exposure to UVB increases the risk of cancer. Is it both a food and a poison?

Oxygen therapy is useful as part of many treatments, including aborting cluster headache attacks. Perhaps oxygen is also a food? Bu too much oxygen leads to oxygen toxicity. So it is definitely a poison, right? Interesting that we require poison in order to breath.

The issue is, as Nursie stressed, that "the dose makes the poison". Paracelsus said that almost 500 years ago, and it's still true. Even in Ayurvedic assignments of different treatments.

Ayurveda says that nutmeg is an herb, right? It's used as a medicine because of its sedative properties. But eat 10 or so of the seeds and there's a good chance you will die. So, an herb can also be a poison?

Obviously then the three categories are not that distinct. I would argue that they are blurry enough as to be unusable. Life is not so simple as to classify treatments into three distinct groups.

And I don't know what you mean by "Modern [medicine] ... has very little information on how to cure through food." Beriberi, rickets, scurvy, pellagra, kwashiorkor, Korsakoff's syndrome, and Wernicke's encephalopathy are just some of the diseases which modern medicine has cured through food. For several thousand years, beriberi was endemic in Asia, because polished white rice was a staple food.

What is the Ayurveda treatment for handle that disease, and was it developed before or after modern medical researchers identified that it was nutrition deficiency? (Hint: it was after.)

(PS: ultrasonic waves are used to break up kidney stones. That's cure for a disease, no? Are ultrasonic waves food, herb, or poison?)
Well, Godwin's Law is about "someone inevitably makes a comparison to Hitler or the Nazis" (see Wikipedia). If mentioning WWI/WWII does not qualify for you then we must have quite a different interpretation.

The argument in this thread was that there must be alternatives to the current move, such as making some of the creditors wait or default, rather than taking it out of the small guy's pocket. Discarding such alternatives for the fear of consequences that are already happening just makes no sense.

Cyprus is effectively inflating the Euro for their citizens right now, that's the whole purpose of this stunt.
Here's how an English soccer player gave broke fan free tickets via Twitter
If it were truly Enterprise worthy it wouldn't be in github, but im perforce or, better yet, ClearCase.
Windows Azure now supports Dropbox
> If you asked me in 1980 what an encyclopedia would look like in 2013 I would not have guessed static text + static pictures.

Static text + pictures is exactly the way I like my encyclopedia to be. It is simple, lightweight, works everywhere, printable, usable on e-ink displays, and does the job just fine. You can always link to interactive toys, but please keep the main articles this way.
Cool, let me know the best you get (and submit a PR with your parallel patch if you want).

You can tweak the range of the number of generated characters, the length of Markov chains, the minimum main body clauses, etc. With my original config it should give you a valid program every hour~few hours or so.
Just as one example, accessibility for blind users. Also, pages that work without images and JavaScript are more likely to be machine readable; I still want to see one of the the early visions of the web come to pass, where "User-Agent" doesn't have to be a web browser.
It's not really a card game but uses cards to assign roles. You might know it by another name, like Mafia or Assassin.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mafia_(party_game)
I've received some deliverables from a marketing team which uses the following service for just such a purpose (at a nice premium) @ https://www.meltwater.com/products/meltwater-news/online-med...
If I had to invent a name I'd call it "path compatibility", but I've never seen anything mentioned.
"The reason it is not illegal to smash the phone is because it is your phone."

And because you have to either continue paying for service or pay a termination fee. In either case the provider is recouping the cost.
Google to customer: Go fuck yourself. In the cloud.
How I explain caching to clients
Managing Nested Libraries Using the GIT Subtree Merge Workflow
I won't say any of this is hot, new information. This is my attempt to document the use of the subtree merge strategy/workflow in a way that would have helped me in figuring it out. While most of the information was out there, my best understanding came from working through multiple sources.
If anyone sees where I have something wrong, I would love to know so I can correct it. I do NOT want to be propagating bad information.
There is a real basic walk through for folks who are not deeply experienced with Git, and also a link to more of a reference for those who are more fluent and need less of the narrative/screenshots.
As always, feedback is appreciated.
This is not true, at least for Verizon where I worked. Your payment for the phone was your agreement to the contract. After that you can sell, trade, destroy, or do anything else you want with the phone, except if you rooted it, the warranty was voided and no updates until you brought it back to stock.
Yep. I know that Nexus devices are cheaper than iPhones when you compare unlocked. But I prefer the iPhone. I also prefer AT&T service. Point is, the unlocked cell phone discussion is a different animal in the US where it doesn't seem to have as many benefits as it would abroad.

Thus, I'll keep using iPhones and my AT&T service and I'll take the subsidy for a new iPhone every few years.

My in-laws only got iPhones because they could get one for free. In their case, spending $0 for 4 older, on-contract, locked iPhones is preferable to spending $800 for 4 new, on-contract, locked iPhones. I would have been laughed at for suggesting $1800 to get 4 iPhone 4's unlocked.
You could probably test it by taking multiple sorts from SO and then comparing results. the moment you get two that agree, you have a winner!
I would pay for the fashion advice alone.
To be fair, I love and adore hacker culture. However "hack" and "hacker" have already become so inundated with misuse as to be nearly meaningless. "Growth hacker" "hack the <blank> industry" recruitment letters, etc.
look at the last six months of the chart
ram is the only thing you can't share, and hence, the only thing that makes shared hosting providers any money.
The disappointing thing is that EA did go through a periodo f promising change - one that the free market rejected.

This would be about 2008-ish - EA invested heavily in new franchises, or different takes on existing ones. Dead Space, Mirror's Edge, Battlefield: Bad Company (a huge departure from the Battlefield norm), etc.

None of which sold particularly well, and pretty much Dead Space is the only one that lived on as a franchise. The market voted with their wallets for more sequelitis.
Well I don't want to turn this into a company-specific debate, so I'm just addressing the position that running burp's scanner or sqlmap is "low quality". I have a few issues with that position and your justifications.

I wouldn't bill a client for running a scan on them. I would start a scan and do manual testing at the same time, focusing on more intelligent attacks and understanding the application. By the time I am done, the scan would typically kill off a significant number of buggy parameters that I now don't have to test because I already know it's as vulnerable. For some projects, this can be quite substantial. Beyond creating a POC and documenting the issue, I now don't have to spend billable hours on all of that.

The fact that scans consistently find a lot of bugs tell you that clients aren't running tools themselves. They don't know the tools, don't understand the results, don't know how to use them beyond point-and-click. They don't know how to set up macros that validate the session and re-log in, etc.

Although it sounds good to say that they aren't paying you to just run a scanner, the reality is no other reputable testers are doing that either.

Yeah, it was a bit snide, but you were scoffing at testers who do use scanners, and I genuinely think not using them (properly) is a colossal waste of time
"performant" Performs well how exactly? I've gotten over the fact that "it's not a word". This is how new (useless) words enter the lexicon.
I am curious: What is the right protocol about telling that you were able to locate an egregious security flaw on a public server?

Should I go ahead and tell the company? And possibly get sued anyway?
Do I have a right to show it to my friends or journalists?

Or should I just shut up and pretend that I have never seen this security problem?
John Riccitiello steps down as EA CEO
That's an easy one to fix as adults. We just start using it badly.

"Don't text and drive. YOLO."
I was one of those that requested a way to profile repaints. Thank you for adding the aggregate repaint view. The video showing the margin-left vs. transform repaints is exactly the kind of thing developers can take advantage of.

Question: does the aggregate repaint view indicate what caused the repaint? Determining that isn't always as easy or obvious as the margin-left vs. transform example in the video, so it'd be a huge benefit if that was included.

Thank you for listening!
This has some potentially amazing possibilities for accessible devices. I hope they get some people with various limbs and digits missing for testing.

(The music drowns out the voice! That's a shame.)
Any attempt to link to this to SimCity would be a severe case of trying to fit a simple solution to something much more complex. You don't push out a guy who has been a top guy there for 15 years over that. Especially since people having been bitching about EA (Origin, DRM, etc.) for years.
I just wish my password manager would do that automatically. I know there are terminal scripts and apps that will do it. I'd just like it to be integrated.
The first 4 weeks is very intense on the business/market/sales plan side of things. It is hard to get work done, you have to squeeze it in whenever possible (night, weekends, etc). The idea is that you probably shouldn't do a ton of work before you have a solid plan in place. After that things slow down and you can focus on coding/traction.
Why Kickstarter Won't Sell
So according to the articles posted in the parent post, removing line 22 here [1] will enable offline play.

I'm not literate at all about the state in which production code gets shipped to the end user, but I would have expected this level of code to have been in binary form. Could someone shed some light on this?

[1] http://pastebin.com/8NR1EdkN
Strage ... its hosted by tumblr and it works from me ...

traceroute dev.karriere.at
traceroute to domains.tumblr.com (66.6.36.34)
I tried a style outfitter called Trunk Club.

You tell them your preferences in looks and they pick out all the clothes for you. Then they send them to you in a big box.

The stylist picked out several outfits I like, but the problem I had is that they could never get the sizes right.

In the US we have "vanity sizes," which means that every clothing brand has different sizes. For example, a size 2 at the Gap is a size 8 at Old Navy.

So I'd tell them I need pants in a 30 waist and the pants that arrived would swallow me. So they'd try another brand and the pants would still be too big. Then we'd try another brand or another size and it would still be wrong.

Keep in mind I'm on the west coast and everything is shipped from their location on the east coast, so every time I tried on a set of clothes and they weren't the right fit I'd have to send them all back and wait a week for the next set to be delivered.

I ended up just writing down the brands and styles they sent me, sending everything back, then going to the store and buying the clothes.
It feels overwhelming at times, but it is very useful. It's at the heart of what makes TechStars an accelerator. You get instant feedback on your ideas from great mentors.

You're right that it's hard to build much during the first month. But when the first month is over, you feel very confident about what you need to do. That makes the next month and beyond incredibly productive on product and customer development.
Sinclair – All Hell Is Breaking Loose After Cyprus Catastrophe
1. If you want to turn JavaScript off, it's just one quick visit to about:config and the `javascript:enabled` key.

2. NoScript does a much better job than poking at the Firefox preferences every time you want to toggle JavaScript.

Are you seriously going to fall on your sword and stick with Chrome over this?
No worries. I should have looked for it!
>To mention the statutory maximum without any qualification is sensationalism masquerading as cold fact.

If may be misleading, but strictly speaking it's factually accurate. That is the maximum penalty -- and as long as it is, people who don't like it are going to report it.

If you want them to stop, amend the law so that minor offenses don't fall under the same section as major offenses. For a law to carry felony penalties, it should require something in the nature of profit motive and nontrivial actual harm. Then some fool who vandalizes a website for fun can be convicted of a misdemeanor and pay a fine or go to jail for a couple months while we still get to throw the book at people who make fraudulent credit card charges or engage in industrial espionage, and you won't see any more stories about how the former class of people could be jailed until death for the computer equivalent of disregarding a sign that says "don't walk on the grass."
Awesome! I will add this to my list of placeholder image services (along with robohash.org)
Our habits, the way of living, having computers, cars, houses, roads... is killing more animals in quantity and variety (and in a more cruel and irremediable way) than they're killed for food.

Everybody in this thread, giving the "right" conditions would kill/eat any kind of animal (I would go farther and include humans [1]). At the end, it only depends on the circumstances (and I would cite Ortega i Gasset here: "I am myself and my circumstances"), and even if we deny it, giving certain circumstances we would have been nazis, assassins, or (almost) anything we can imagine.

At the end of the day, it is just a matter of setting the bar. For some, the logic choice is to be vegetarian or vegan. I have read in this people describing this diet as healthy, and some that don't understand how people eat meat. My answer is that being a conscious choice, I am healthier when I eat meat. Eating grain/soy/dairy products basically affects negatively my body, my mood while eating meat optimizes my lifestyle. So for me the bar is set pretty low. Also, I probably understand healthy living in a different way than most people here, and I am convinced that a vegetarian/vegan diet is far from being healthy.

In any case, my choice goes for grass-fed, range/pasture free animals.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1972_Andes_flight_disaster#Cann...
I think it's also amazing what has been done with Field Programable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) running genetic algorithms. For those not in the know, FPGAs are programmable logic, so you essentially generate random logic codes and check for their ability to for example interpret a signal properly. There was an experiment where this was done for an FPGA with only several hundred gates, over several thousands of generations. It was tasked to differentiate between a 10khz and a 10hz wave. The most amazing thing is, the resulting code used only about 50 of these gates, some of them not connected to others, yet removal of the nonconnected gates would cause inability to carry out the task (Yay, Quantum weirdness). Nor would the code work on any other, larger FPGA. Essentially, it boils down to the Genetic Algorithm finding a code that used specific quirks in the structure of the hardware, utilizing effects we are currently not aware of, to solve a problem. I wish I could find the Article in question, but it's too late in the evening.
It seems like this applies in any line of work.
Basketball and big data: the secret to winning your March Madness pool?
Roadblocks are a given; guts implies being crafty enough to overcome them ;)
If that's internal marketing material, I love that they choose to show a presumed gang member pointing a gun.

I'm really surprised nobody's pointed out how male-targeted the big Android players are. Verizon with their red everything Droid robots and aggressive marketing language.

Android stuff feels more high-RPM than high-fashion.
Behind the scenes of a Kickstarter project
This is awesome and terrifying.

What would happen if (when?) someone with more evil intentions decides they would like a 420,000 device botnet of their own? Or how much damage could one do by shutting off all these devices simultaneously?
Thanks for your reply! Your method is simple enough to work well without becoming tiring over time, but I wonder: would you want to change it somehow? Would you use software (specifically, a web app) instead of paper?

How do you keep goals "coordinated" (for lack of a better metaphor in a paper-based system) between days, weeks, months and trimesters? For instance, if something new appears or if something doesn't happen as expected, does it interfere in your project? Do you just rip the page off and start writing a new one, or is it as simple as striking stuff that's no longer valid?

Do you have any difficulty to know what tasks you should write down for the next day, or for the week?

Do you work on multiple projects at a time?
I put $50k on the line to bail him out and talked him out of aaronsw'ing himself several times during the last few years while this nightmare progressed.

I must've missed you at the sentencing this morning. I was the hungover one in the mirrorshades.
Since you already have Objective-C down, you're pretty much there. You know what you want to build, and you already know the language. I'm assuming you're new to Xcode, which is the cleanest and easiest environment I have ever developed in.

I recommend just finding an "Introduction to Xcode" video, and then just dive in to your project.

Take it one step at a time; find a Facebook login tutorial and learn how to do that, etc.

It's definitely not as hard as it may seem, but it takes some getting used to.
Mentoring Organization Applications Now Being Accepted for Summer of Code 2013
yet, ATT & Verizon will not charge less. wait, they will force you to buy a data plan too if you use your unlocked smartphone. Imagine a real state market - take mortgage or pay double for the house if you pay cash.
That doesn't make sense. A carbon tax allows for the development of nuclear energy, as it should reduce overall costs as less carbon is emitted in the atmosphere.

I fail to see how you jump from the assertion that there are less efficient energy to the conclusion that more efficient energy sources will be ignored because of a carbon tax.
Additional examples:
Haskell - monads, Lisp (()())()()((())), Whitespace
Casio AT-550 Touch Screen Calculator Watch (1984)
Core i7-4770K: Haswell's Performance, Previewed
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Most non English languages don't work with these. My main language speaker count is 1 miljon. I am not going to get auto-correction for this anywhere soon(assuming it uses it). And my language happens to have some special letters, so without changing keyboard, you can't just switch vocabulary(we bypass it by using numbers, but this makes text non computer readable).
Hack is often used in the sense: Well it wasn't intended to work that way, but it does, it's a workaround, or "hack".
Did you primarily compare Scala's actors to Go's channel based concurrency, or did you also evaluate and compare Scala's monadic Future/Promise classes for building concurrent libraries?

As someone who has done a fair bit of network programming, the latter libraries/classes have resulted in some of the best code I've written and an order of magnitude productivity increase.
Alternate keyboards seem to die quickly.

Frogpad was a one handed keyboard.

The Twiddler was another which is probably a good fit for Google Glass. (http://youtu.be/gS8wGePlknM?t=1m19s) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzgJR8uAQvc) -- but note that Twiddler2 was about $200.
I honestly don't know: Is a million copies a lot?

I faintly recall other games selling multiple times that on launch.
Log2viz - realtime analysis of your Heroku app logs
Extempore Graphics Demos
I created one - here's the link for anyone who wants it: https://github.com/rails/rails/issues/9783
I didn't go to college either, I just had the chance to and didn't use it. With a degree everything would have been easier.

I'll write you soon.
I think you mean any attempt to say he got push out solely because of the SimCity fiasco... It's perfectly reasonable to wonder as to whether or not the SimCity launch had an effect on his position at EA.
I didn't know Android supported standard mice. How does that work exactly, do you get a regular cursor or what? I'm guessing you can't use that for standard control gestures?
Though sometimes firing leads to the "Chaos at the top at Company X" which shareholders really don't like. Resigning is usually win/win at CEO level.
I always visit by going to hackerne.ws, so I hit H in Chrome.
Where are the AT&T executives who are being sent to prison? They exposed the data on a public interface.

Weev didn't "hack" anything. He visited a sequence of public URLs.

He may have hesitated, but he did the right thing. He outed this... corporate malfeasance.

Those of us watching closely observe what this tells us about trusting both our "corporate citizens" and the government.
Would having manual DNS overrides in /etc/hosts prevent them? Eg:

127.0.0.1 www.facebook.com
127.0.0.1 facebook.com
127.0.0.1 connect.facebook.net
127.0.0.1 facebook.net
127.0.0.1 ads.facebook.com
127.0.0.1 ads.ak.facebook.com
127.0.0.1 ads.ak.facebook.com
127.0.0.1 creative.ak.facebook.com
127.0.0.1 creative.ak.fbcdn.net #[textads]
127.0.0.1 static.ak.fbcdn.net
127.0.0.1 www.static.ak.fbcdn.net
127.0.0.1 login.facebook.com
127.0.0.1 www.login.facebook.com
127.0.0.1 fbcdn.net
127.0.0.1 www.fbcdn.net
127.0.0.1 fbcdn.com
127.0.0.1 www.fbcdn.com
127.0.0.1 static.ak.connect.facebook.com
127.0.0.1 www.static.ak.connect.facebook.com

?
DMCA 1201 is definitely on the short list too. But I don't think either of them is strictly as bad as the CFAA. At least with the DMCA you have some general idea when you might be violating it. Nobody even really even seems to know exactly what the CFAA prohibits, and even the narrow readings make felonies out of stuff that really ought not to be that serious.