skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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well , maybe they are going to drop google code soon , you know it is not "money making" enough...
Because it was PG that submitted the new link :)
"It" refers to the part of alt.med which isn't part of med. That's the part that makes it "alt."

At least, that's how I interpret it. The full context is:

analog: "Paleo diet has worked, and also alt medicine", followed by Nursie: "I don't understand how it works because it doesn't!"

The immediate context for 'it' is homeopathy, but I think, based on Nursie's other statements, that it should apply to all of alt.med. It doesn't apply to (to coin an abbreviation), "std.med", because it seems that Nursie finds convincing evidence that std.med does work.

So the question to you is, what puts the "alt." in "alt.med"? If practice X is part of "alt.med" and is part of "std.med" then is how is X "alt"?

It's possible that something started as alt.med and became part of std.med, but the practices listed on the ACS page have been part of std.med since pretty much since the dawn of evidence-based medicine, so it's not like std.med recently took those parts from alt.med.

Therefore, you should interpret those quote of Nursie to mean:

"[The part of alt.med which is specific to alt.med] doesn't [work]" and "I don't understand how [the alt. part of alt.med] works because [the alt. part of alt.med] doesn't [have any demonstrated effectiveness]".
Fair enough. I may have read that incorrectly by focusing on him saying "shipping code", but he's still not the part of management at the very top making company wide decisions that have the power to crush large swaths of innovation (i.e. everything has to fit into google+) and that is more what I was referring to.
Congrats on being able to open source this and thank you for doing so.

Honest question: Is animation really a needed feature for this? The opening animation adds no information value and has the negative effect of making the user think the graphics are actually interactive. I'm sure the animation itself isn't memory/processor intensive but it seems like a really unnecessary feature for a charting library that creates very beautiful, static graphs.

edit: OK everyone, I'm not an idiot: of course you should use animated graphs when showing things to the suits...that's the number one rule of graphic design, I believe :).

I only questioned it here because the OP's focus seems to be on a fairly clean and minimalist library, and the one-time startup animations seems to go against that aesthetic. But no doubt, they do liven up the page.
Vitamin C is destroyed by heat.

I'm not sure where the iron is?

Is it safe to eat wild alaskan salmon every day?
He also committed my first code to Django. And was amazingly patient with me while I floundered about during sprints that were held in Lawrence, Ks.

He was a great man, and he will be missed in many communities around the web. I was always in awe of his code, including some of the best refactors of Django.
They are 'throwing out' the law because it violates the first-sale doctrine, which has substantial legal force. The court simply has differently (and explicitly so) interpreted "under this title." Pay attention to the reference to 106 in particular.
Vitamin A & D are fat soluble, so in theory your body can store it. (Some vitamins are toxic in overdose!)
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The two biggest anti-fraud vendors are Accertify and ReD. You might also look at ThreatMetrix, 41st Parameter, and Iovation, who do primarily device identification.

Let us know what you think!
I really liked this bit from the decision:

> Third, Wiley and the dissent claim that a nongeographical interpretation will make it difficult, perhaps impossible, for publishers (and other copyright holders) to divide foreign and domestic markets. We concede that is so. A publisher may find it more difficult to charge different prices for the same book in different geographic markets. But we do not see how these facts help Wiley, for we can find no basic principle of copyright law that suggests that publishers are especially entitled to such rights.

FINALLY! Someone's finally seen what Robert Heinlein wrote in Life-Line and essentially just paraphrased it:

> There has grown up in the minds of certain groups in this country the notion that because a man or corporation has made a profit out of the public for a number of years, the government and the courts are charged with the duty of guaranteeing such profit in the future, even in the face of changing circumstances and contrary to public interest. This strange doctrine is not supported by statute or common law. Neither individuals nor corporations have any right to come into court and ask that the clock of history be stopped, or turned back.
Puppet uses client RSA certificates and SSL/TLS. That is industry standard technology that you use for things like online banking. It is built to be difficult to man in the middle. Client certificate auth will not work if you intercept or impersonate the master. If your security officer thinks this is insecure, he is either ignorant of what puppet is doing or is incompetent.

Also, in scaling large distributed systems (what I do for $day_job) pull model is much more robust than a push. What they are telling you is pretty much the opposite of my professional experience
thief is still culpable for the crime if he takes the car.

Unless the thief is in a country that neglects, ignores, or rejects your law. This is where the analogy breaks down. Unless you fool the person to come to your (or another friendly) country they can hack you with impunity, that said there has been examples of hackers dumb enough to come to the U.S. after the fact.

A better way to look at this instead of the criminal method is the insurance method. Your insurance company is going to be unwilling to pay for your loss because you were stupid and left your car open and running where Russian gangsters could steal it with impunity.
Shouldn't that read "...unless you are rich enough that your life wouldn't be changed by losing lots of money."?
Standing up, taking pictures without hiding, engaging with staff in front of the guys causing the problem, and pointing them out is passive?

What, exactly, would you have her do to escape this passivity?
The publishers are already pushing bundled grading systems with their textbook. You get the textbook and also a login key so you can submit homework and quizzes online. I don't know how widespread it is yet, but I suspect many service courses at state schools will adopt it soon.
I think there's a fallacy in there; just because something hasn't been done doesn't make it a bad idea. Otherwise we should just stay shivering in the metaphorical cave.

But I think it's commonly accepted that there's a huge performance difference between a good programmer and a bad programmer. People disagree as to the ratio of course; I've heard between 3x and 100x. I don't believe that's as widely mentioned for lawyers or accountants. So technology talent seems like a great place for 10x to start.
I liked the previous icon set better. I don't see why there's a sudden aversion to color among developers. And why shapes have to be simplified.
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You're right on. In theory, you could train our system to recognize good behavior if you sent us enough $label events, but most of the patterns we have today are really optimized around detecting bad behavior.
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You must not be familiar with the "devil" called private equity firms.

Especially fun in combination with a hostile takeover and the ensuing strip mining expedition.
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It's as easy to settle as your bet. That was the point I was demonstrating with my sarcasm.
Thanks for that explanation. I hadn't had time to read the whole opinion. Perhaps my statement came off too harsh. I am nothing close to a lawyer, but I found the "parade of horribles" to be a little troubling. Shouldn't the Congress be the one evaluating the consequences on the law? I guess the counterargument is that those things are so horrible that we can assume that isn't what Congress meant.

When reading Supreme Court opinions, I am often blown away by the well reasoned, logical arguments, that support findings I disagree with. You can disagree, but you can't say they don't have some facts and logic to stand on.

If you've never read an actual Supreme Court opinion, I would highly encourage you to do do. The linked article here is just awful. It doesn't even provide the case name. The opinions are surprising easy to read, and flow pretty well. The language isn't difficult, and they can be surprising humorous. If you can make it through a C++ book, then you'll have no problem understanding the basics.
This looks very cool. I've done a lot of EC2 API work recently and the little 1-2 cent charges everywhere are a bit annoying, as is waiting for instances to fire up before everything else executes.
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Pardon my ignorance, but besides being a quite tedious task to write an emulator, what are genius or other similar aspects of it?

I mean, AFAIK you just need to closely follow the SPECS.
Hedge vs. what? The collapse of the entire world financial system and its replacement by .... bitcoin?

To be serious: obviously bitcoin can be used as in any investment strategy, including "conservative" ones. You seem to be arguing that a bitcoin position must be part of one, which is kinda insane.
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It would be a better excercise if multiple ciphertexts from the same key were posted, as well as some ciphertexts from different keys. That would simulate real world interaction with the output of an encryption scheme.
I also wonder how that would be affected if HN started showing the subdomain of the url as well.

They do, for some domains. Post something from blogspot.com, for example. Those submissions show the subdomain.
> Very very few people need them.

Women who want to become pregnant, or who are already pregnant, should be taking 400 micrograms of folic acid (from before conception to at least 12 weeks conception) and 10 micrograms vitamin d, but avoiding anything with vitamin a.

(http://www.nhs.uk/Conditions/pregnancy-and-baby/pages/vitami...)
Thanks and Godspeed. You made a difference.
I thought you meant real FoxPro - like 2.x for DOS/Unix.

Now, that was a desktop database development system. Lightning fast, portable between SCO and DOS, easy to work with. Made clipper and dBase look like pokey hunks of poop in comparison. That and netware 3.12, plus some low powered machines with token ring cards for clients - golden days, I tell you.
The person who submits the article affects its votes? That's weird. (Even if it is the founder).
http://docs.mongodb.org/manual/administration/ssl/#ssl-confi...
100 students x $8.50 is only $850/semester. Even if the class was 500 students, that's still not an overwhelming amount of money for writing a book. If you're teaching classes that large, you're probably making more money on the lecture circuit and become advisors/consultants at companies.
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I think whatever you're getting at has sailed right over my head. But I'm glad you're having fun! That's really what it's all about.
I'm just speaking from experience from a few of the older IRC botnets I analyzed for a few years. Nearly 200,000 of the 750,000 (+-150,000) bots were on dial-up connections in developing countries.

Now, 200,000 packets coming in at 2.8KB/s is nothing to joke about(500MB/s). Yet, 500 packets coming in at 8MB/s, well, on top of the arsenal of random connections.

I sometimes forget I'm a dinosaur now when it comes to this sphere of knowledge! I'm sure these days its less one sided. It used to be dialup and windows 95/98 RPC vulnerabilities spreading in the wild using IRC as a middleman.

With tor, torrents, etc, I imagine the game has drastically changed in the past 6 years. It is too bad there are not many jobs in this field, I would gladly make a lifetime out of it.

I was on a team that created an anti-bot-net which would reinfect, secure, and alert of the already infected machine. We determined that it could prove to be more destructive than the original botnet, because it wastes resources, while we could actually impact the way a machine behaved for the owner. This could also lead to legacy machines failing due to windows updates or firewall rules.
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I also wonder what percentage of the "hoarded currency" is actually currency that has been destroyed and if it will have any long term consequences. For example, in the early days of Bitcoin I mined a few blocks with an old laptop. The computer eventually died without any backup of my wallet thereby destroying the those Bitcoins. There doesn't appear to be anyway for anyone to know whether I am simply hoarding those Bitcoins to dump on the market at a later date or if they have been permanently removed from the money supply.
Here's what I see: you have identified a problem, and the problem is so big that you are itching to build a solution.

This seems to be independent from your question. Everyone on HN can come up with a reasonable speculative answer to your question (and mine would be a "yes"), but focusing on the issues makes clear if it's even worth competing in the first place.

With the information you provided, you seem to have a solid target market identified. How many teams are there that, like yours, that could benefit from a Basecamp alternative? And which of your team's needs aren't met with Basecamp, and is it something that Basecamp could replicate quickly? Dig a little bit deeper and discover the specific needs - that should reveal more useful information than any of us could provide :)
This link seems relevant here http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Cunninghams_Law
Sorry transcribing from video is a little harder than from an essay. You try to tow the line between the speaker's rhythm and correct syntax to form the natural voice of the person speaking. Here is the video for the actual quote. http://www.bloomberg.com/video/breaking-down-billion-dollar-... skip to 4:47.
You have a point.

But we can meaningfully compare and contrast newer database technologies as well. I think it's pretty clear that Mongo is the MySQL of NoSQL, and I do mean that in the most pejorative way imaginable. Architecture decisions like "let the kernel do all the swapping" decision, a casual approach to durability, the very mindset that leads to inclusion of SSL without certificate validation... ick.

They'll gradually polish their stuff up so that it's quasi-usable and maybe make lots of money, and good for their pocketbooks, but there are plenty of alternative data stores out there which have characteristics which render them more suitable for storing data for most if not all projects.
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While I agree 100K is alot, it's nothing compared to salary and cap space. To be able to spend money outside of cap restictions to imporove your team is a stragetic advantage.

I don't think the price will come down, the only people who need it are wealthy and the wealthy can't afford to not have it.
This is how flot works. The base chart is drawn on canvas. All labels including axes, legends and mouseovers are DOM elements that are absolutely positioned over the canvas.

The canvas itself is always inside a canvascontainer div that also contains all the other dom elements.
Death sentence? A little extreme, don't you think? Unemployment is pretty low in the tech sector. In the very worst case (no one ever hiring him again [which is unlikely]), he has the skills to create his own projects/business.

I also fail to see what she had to gain by this directly. Best case, she achieves community awareness and growth (which doesn't seem to be happening judging by the threads I've read) and worst case being vilified for speaking out (which is happening).

Jobs are always on the line. If you are at a conference, you are the face of your company and your actions reflect on that company.
Thanks for mentioning these. I didn't know about them. Do you know if there is any good charting higher abstractions for "node" graphs (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graph_(abstract_data_type))? I only know about the force layout ones in d3.

Nevermind, I found this: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7034/graph-visualization-...

(Although I'm still lokking for a good tool for visualizing path algorithms (TSP, A* etc))
I always thought Flippa was for solely online businesses where the website was the core of the business. The business in question here isn't one of those though. A significant part of the revenue is generated through offline happenings, although the website promotes the offline happenings and the actual ticket sales occur online.
> Instead, spend a few hours curating online resources that may serve as notes for students; better yet, just photocopy the handwritten notes that every mathematics teacher I've ever had seems to have for each lecture they give :-) Otherwise, Paul's Online Math Notes tackles Calculus and ODEs, and IIRC gives an intro to PDEs as well.

I recently taught a course on ODEs, and it took far more than "a few hours" to curate enough online resources to cover the curriculum. The sad truth is once you get out of calculus, the number of quality online resources for advanced mathematics decays rapidly, and the coverage gets spotty as well.

This is not to mention that those resources rarely agree on notation, which makes them more confusing to students (and therefore less helpful). There's something to be said for requiring a single edition of a single textbook, just for consistency's sake, even though that's caused all this publisher drama in the first place.
A question that often comes back: Can I enter <insert saturated market here>?

The answer is it depends :-) There are lots of successful project management apps. The advantage of an established market is that people already know they have a problem and are looking for solutions online. On the other hand you have to really differentiate your product in order to get customers who could just use Basecamp or any other PM tool. You can't just go and copy Basecamp and expect people to switch.

So the real question here is what can you make better than Basecamp? You don't need to make it better in every aspect (and you will burn yourself doing it). Just find a corner use case where Basecamp doesn't work well enough. There are probably lots of use cases for which Basecamp sucks. Don't try to solve them all though.

So it means doing your research. Interviewing people is a good way. Mining online forums with data is another good one. Find out one strong pain that is not addressed by Basecamp, and that you could solve yourself. Then build it.
I'm guessing this is the ticket for SSL support https://jira.mongodb.org/browse/SERVER-7202
Two other articles today named ad networks that are making money on this type of fraudulent traffic:

http://paidcontent.org/2013/03/19/massive-bot-network-is-dra...

http://www.adweek.com/news/technology/meet-most-suspect-publ...
A company the size of Google has 100's of "Director"s. There are probably 3 or 4 layers between a director and the CEO... if not more. I doubt he had much to do with the actual market direction of the company (ironically... since the word "Director" would lead you to believe that it had something to do with directing).
Great effort! Any reason this shouldn’t be the basis of Boto unit tests?
At Sun, they'd promote executives they wanted to get rid of to "Vice President in Charge of Finding a New Job".
If everyone uses long random passwords and never reuses them elsewhere, maybe it's optimal for simplicity and server-side cpu usage. There's no difference (edit: should say advantage rather than difference) in salted passwords (salt + shorter-randompassword) compared to (longer-random-password); salts become unnecessary since you can effectively guarantee that two users won't share the same password if they're all random and separately chosen.

However, the real world called and it wants "suboptimal" choices back, for when users don't use good password hygiene.
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Scroogled isn't FUD. It might be (well, certainly is) tasteless negative marketing, but factually it's dead-on.

Just like this particular post, which regardless of the author's ulterior motives is factually accurate.
The DOM isn't slow, your website is. Zing!
Write up lecture notes, and design your own assignments. This is how a lot of my upper division math classes were setup, and the arrangement worked quite well. Textbooks are usually full of fluff not relevant to the class. Lecture notes, being designed by the person teaching the class, only contained material directly related to what was being lectured about / tested on. Of course, creating comprehensive lecture notes is not an easy task, but it's well worthwhile - write up your lecture notes once, and you can reuse them every year, without your students paying $100 for a textbook they'll never look at again.
FOSS, as it's defined by the FSF, is not really compatible with profit as it practically destroys the monopolistic benefit of copyright. Most people do not believe traditional uses of copyright are immoral, and therefore the strict adherence to freedom 2 as required by the GPL is simply meaningless deprivation of profit potential.

But it's only incompatible if you believe that you must have monopolistic copyright control in order to derive a profit. I think Red Hat (and others) disprove this premise. RH make money and pretty much everything they "sell" is available for free. In the case of RHEL, you can grab CentOS or Scientific Linux, and for the JBoss products, they make binary downloads freely available themselves. And most of the JBoss products are under even more liberal licenses than Linux (historically JBoss used the LGPL as their main license).
As a TortoiseSVN user, I still think TortoiseGit is horrible period...
I think there is a precedent here: deflation, which is the classical way of describing a currency whose spending power is increasing. I'm not well versed in the history of currencies, but that's one place I'd investigate to see how the "buy and hold" efforts will play out (the modern version of filling a mattress with money).
It's like jesus resurrection, he got all the fame for that.
You have a year to upgrade before Microsoft pulls it completely off of life support: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/endofsupport.aspx

If you care about security, performance, usability or even basic things like display text quality, upgrade now.
Google+ is a bizarre
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Why buy chips when you can own the Casino (Coinbase)?
You cannot seriously bandy about the concepts of supply, demand, and market (equilibrium) price, concepts which form parts of basic economic theory, and then throw out the standard economic definition of value.

> perhaps you need a new textbook.

That clause is utterly devoid of any logical content.

Your thought experiment demonstrates nothing except the basic concept of "people will buy whatever is cheapest." Let's say fresh air is worth $1 million to me. If you were charging $10, I would not pay because I can get it for free and gain a "consumer surplus" of $1 million. That does not change the fact that I would be willing to pay $1 million if air were a scarce resource.
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