skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This link seems to detail all of the possible side-effects: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/druginfo/meds/a602016.htm... — I think many would agree some of the side-effects which include; difficulty breathing or swallowing, swelling of the face, throat, tongue, lips, eyes, hands, feet, ankles, or lower legs, anxiety, depression are definitely serious. And I would also argue that even though some of the other side-effects like skin peeling, rashes and whatnot aren't as serious, they're still pretty bad side-effects.

It's rare that most drugs these days don't have a potential side-effect or two, but if you don't need to take these pills I think there's no point in potentially risking some serious health issues like depression as a result of taking something you don't need.
Copyright, you so crazy.
Now imagine this is put on a drone!
Wait, a blog post about good copy... with a misspelled title?
Disclaimer: I'm one of the core devs.

You can call Python from Julia now: https://github.com/stevengj/PyCall.jl

And there is also an effort underway to get iPython notebook integration (we met with Fernando Perez when he was in Boston to receive his award from the FSF and spent an afternoon hacking to get to this https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia-ipython - it's still in the very early stages of development though)
For example, I want to connote that acqui-hires rather than buying traditional economic value, symbolize an acquisition and alignment of social proof.
Wonderful list, I agree with a lot of things, but

"And as for the schools, they were just holding pins within this fake school. Officially the purpose of schools is to teach kids. In fact their primary purpose is to keep kids locked up in one place for a big chunk of the day so adults can get things done."

I don't think this is true, this assumes that if an adult were not working he\she would devote time to their kids (and hence learning would be better). I think (from personal experience) school is a place where a lot can be learnt, and that system is important.

Another one "Good Bad Attitude – Like Americans, hackers win by breaking rules."

This only works when a very strong framework of rules exist that most people abide by, so when a hacker breaks few of those, being a minority, the system persists, or changes gradually. However if you look at a system like China or India, everybody is a hacker (in the sense everyone tries to find the shortest way to do something) and that leads to broken systems overall.
Aren't you confusing things here?

The music on the YouTube video is described as:

a modified template of "Gain" used with permission from DETUNE ltd. denkitribe http://soundcloud.com/denkitribe/gain - I created this arrangement on the Korg iMS20 iPad App, and it's my first custom score.

"Air France" is the flight company here, not the swedish band. I thought at first you were talking about the usually ambient music that plays in Air France's TV ads, but apparently there are two "Air France" the Earth can bear. :P
I have gone through the blog post and bit of code but I am a bit stomped. Can anyone tell what is the flow here?

If I go directly to /search/q=hello, the request will go to server, it will render the HTML on server and send it to client. What happens next? Do they send all the Javascript + client-side templates alongside as well so that further requests are catered on client?

Think I should fiddle around with the sample app.
Read what you quoted. Karazamov didn't say that the hypothetical CEO is 100x more productive, he said that he/she is worth 100x more.
FYI, your email address isn't public unless you put it in the about field.

I may be interested, feel free to reach out to me (amir at pilvy dot com) -- I helped build the official OpenVPN Connect client (Windows and Mac OS X using Python & Twisted).
I remember reading their blog post about their "Holy Grail" framework, but I couldn't really understand what made it so cool. Can someone explain to a noob like me why someone would consider Rendr the Holy Grail of frameworks?
The CEO-pay market isn't the same as a generic market though. The influence of the principal-agent problem is obvious, where 'management' is motivated to increase its own remuneration over time, and rarely drop it. (Yes, external directors are involved in remuneration but they're still not as motivated as the investors to keep costs in check.)

If only stock investors set the demand for management against the available supply and management was not involved (and at times, the price was allowed to drop significantly), it'd be more like a normal market.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principal%E2%80%93agent_problem
Ditto for Cystic Fibrosis, with regard to cholera resistance.
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I define merit as deserving to live. Because you can't cheat the universe, if you live then by definition you have merit. You can't create merit, it already is. You can only align yourself with merit.
> Another useful trick is to buy a blackout blind or window cover

+1 to this suggestion. I sleep far better, and am much happier, if I have the ability to properly black out the windows of my bedroom. It's not just the obvious stopping the sun shining in in the morning - it's the second order effects too, like removing the anxiety of not being able to fall asleep before the sun comes up. It makes a big difference, in my opinion.
For those that see this as depriving a child of music, sound, etc - remember that for this particular potential child, it's deafness or never existing at all. It's not as if that particular child has a chance of hearing.

Those that argue that a different "hearing" embryo should be deliberately selected instead are guilty of the exact same thing they're protesting against.

I think the only consistent ways to argue against this are to either argue against the entire practice of embryo selection for any reason, or to argue that deafness is a sufficient reason to prevent any embryo from coming to term.

Anyway, I see this practice as being wildly different than that of choosing an embryo of a hearing being, and then causing it to be deaf.
Sham isn't illegal.

I don't understand your complaint. So they used the law in a creative way. Good for them.
Do you have a definition of "more productive" that doesn't boil down to "gets paid more?"
Wow. Fuck me only negotiating for $5500/month at a start-up. Many of my other internship applications got lost in bureaucracy, so I didn't get competing offers (ha, in one case, I failed to get an internship offer from a firm that once offered me a full-time job) to see how far up things had shot.
great imagination :)
Deflation generally benefits almost everyone. Things get cheaper and cheaper over time, while the amount of money you make stays the same. Technology is a beautiful example of this. Almost every year technology gets cheaper and cheaper, and better and better for the same amount of money spent. And of course this is great for everyone and I don't think many would dispute that.

Imagine a world where that wasn't true. Imagine you had to spend more and more every year just to get the same quality of phone or computer or TV. Now ideally, and depending on what's causing the inflation, your income would increase at exactly the same amount and so it wouldn't make a difference. The same quality TV would cost the same percent of your wage in 1960 as it would in 2013.

But with deflation it's the opposite. Your income will (on average) remain the same, since the amount of money in the economy hasn't changed and it's being divided over the same number of people. But prices will go down due to the economy growing, increasing efficiency, technological improvements, and all that good stuff.

You may see a slight flaw in my argument. Presumably the same amount of stuff is being produced in both economies, regardless how the currency is changing in value over time, and presumably there are the same amount of people to receive all the stuff being produced. So how can people in the deflationary economy be richer, on average, than people in the inflationary one?

Well on average, they aren't. Inflation as you are talking about it is caused by the money supply increasing. Usually due to the government printing more. Whoever gets the money first is suddenly richer, because prices haven't increased in response to inflation yet. The amount of money they have relative to everyone else has increased. Therefore everyone else has become poorer relative to them.

Only on average does everything stay the same, but it's a zero sum game where for one person to benefit, someone else has to lose. The amount of goods in the economy hasn't changed. But the person with more money (obtained through printing money) gets a bigger piece of the pie and therefore everyone else gets less.

Inflation is just a really confusing, inefficient, and indirect form of wealth redistribution. Whoever gets the printed money obviously gets to benefit from it, and everyone else is therefore poorer, including your entrepreneurs and investors and consumers and everyone else.

The only way this isn't true is if the money is distributed perfectly equally so the percentage everyone has is exactly the same as before. However this is not the case in the real world at all.
>In fact, copyright holders cannot impose restrictions on my right to view their work.

I don't think there's such a thing as a "right" to view someone's work, unless it's granted by the copyright holder. (Where else would you get such a right?)

>A very long time ago, geographic restrictions made sense...

It doesn't matter if they make sense or not; I don't think there's anything in copyright law that says the terms of a license have to make sense to any particular person (and who would get to decide that, if there were?)

Also, it doesn't seem like geographic restrictions have anything (yet) to do with this; from what I've read, Aereo only works inside the normal broadcasting range of the channels it re-transmits.

>...an obsolete industry was trying to impose restrictions on the use of a new technology...

That would be a good explanation for the lawsuit, if it had been started by manufacturers of portable TVs who wanted it to be impractical for people to use their non-TV devices as though they were TVs. In this case, it's about a group of companies who hold public performance rights to certain works, trying to assert those rights. As it happens, a court has ruled that Aereo is not infringing those rights.

So there's nothing in this whole story to justify stripping content creators and copyright holders of any of their rights.
Just wondering: The flight attendants didn't give you any troubles on your setup?
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Keep running hard! Great to read about other people taking a leap like this.

I went through something similar. Quit finance, hacked my ass off for a year then Google gave me a chance. Everything has been amazing ever since :)
The author seems to have glazed over quite a bit of the rather mature Python ecosystem simply because it lives in a general purpose language.
Completely agreed. I'm trying to hire software developers who are willing move to Amsterdam (at the company's expense, complete with work permit!), and respondents show all the enthusiasm of a dead fish. The company I represent repeatedly rejects candidates who don't seem excited about the opportunity and if they saw these original emails, they'd reject many of the candidates out of hand.

Instead, we work with the candidates to coach them on how to present themselves to a company and how to improve their CV/resume. As it turns out, most of our applicants are excited about the opportunity, but they've never been taught the basics of how to hunt for a job. I'm not sure why that is. Are programming jobs always so plentiful that people assume no effort is required? (Actually, that is sort of true. I came to programming after a decade of mostly service jobs and I'm inundated with recruiters without even trying, but I still remember my days of living on pot pies and ramen, so I put effort into applying).

TL;DR: many people dream of living and working in Europe and I'm handing them the opportunity on a silver platter, and I still get the "here's my CV" three-word emails.
Meritocracy would be a much better way to pick our leaders than we do today.
> it's slightly offensive to see that being demanded.

Interesting - I don't see this as an offensive request at all. As I see it... the company is looking for a new employee who best matches their ideal description. A cover letter merely gives you another opportunity to demonstrate your suitability for the position, in a format that is more personal than a CV.

When I made "writing targeted cover letters for each role" part of my application procedure my success rate increased dramatically. I know there are specific instances where I got asked for an interview based mostly on my cover letter, and not on my CV.

I guess different parts of the industry have differing expectations in this regard.
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Dropbox feels expensive when think about the storage space it provides, but maybe we should think more about the syncing side. Usage patterns may differ. In my case I have maybe just 20 gigs of stuff in my Dropbox, but probably I generate quite much traffic since I host all my software development projects there. That also means all the build results etc end up in the Dropbox folder.

And as everybody knows, the syncing mostly just works. And it is fast, almost real-time. I regularly work with the same projects (Java/Eclipse, .NET/Visual Studio, node.js) from three different computers and haven't seen any sync related problems.

I believe is easy to challenge Dropbox on the pricing side, but it will be much more difficult to replicate their syncing functionality.

Two things I would like to see from Dropbox is support for client side encryption and support for long path names. Currently I'm using Boxcryptor to do the client side encryption.
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I usually keep the window open at night and have never had anyone say anything. I thought the only rule around that was they had to be shut during take-off/landing if the cabin lights were on.
I am compelled to point out that gmail is just an interface to email. Perhaps you meant G+?

Either way, I think email is a pretty open method of communication. As hard as they've tried, FB/G+/Twitter have managed to augment rather than supplant email.

They're also pretty new. I suspect in 30 years, nobody will be using them, but email will still be around. (Probably still using SMTP and battling spam, TBH...)
They did. But I believe it's still somewhat a gray area. They are more in the form of Geographical Patents (such as Darjeeling Tea) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Patent_Office#Geographic...
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Bonjour, je suis en train de charger W7 familial premium; c'est très très lent (64ko/s) ça m'indique plus de 15h de téléchargement. Alors que sur d'autres sites je peux télécharger des fichiers à plus de 800ko/s.
Que faut-il faire pour accélérer ce téléchargement?
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I take power naps regularly almost every day, and it's true, after 15 mins of nap, I'm much more fresh and awake than before nap. I usually take nap after lunch, so between 13 - 15h.

About sleeping in general, I don't think that sleeping less than 8h per day is a myth. Nikola Tesla was sleeping 3-4 hours per day!

Recently I have found a cool website, which helps you to decide when to wake up or when to go to bed, so you can wake up fresh in the morning - sleepyti.me - bedtime calculator
Sounds like he just got a really cooperative flight crew & fellow passengers. Maybe everyone bought into the idea.

"…I did get lucky and have a whole row to myself to setup the tripod and gear.
Thanks to my neighbors for not minding an SLR click every 2 to 30 seconds for 11 hours, and thanks to the whole Air France flight crew for being insanely friendly and allowing me to shoot…"
I didn't mean to say only one is responsible; this is in the context of raganwald's essay about how quality meritocracies (presumably not needing much improvement) don't choose the best because they only maximize their inputs and don't necessarily work with all of those with the most potential. So I wrote about improving the inputs by examining the prior systems.

What I completely missed, and what you alluded to by mentioning people in prison, with bad parents, and so on, is that the present generation of families also have inputs -- the systems that they went through (education, military, commerce, etc.) and their own parents. The issues we have today are partly the results of mistakes made by parents living a hundred, five hundred, even a thousand years ago.

It's a depressing thought when expressed that way, but on the bright side, if we do as well as we can given our limited inputs today, we at least give the next generation of parents, teachers and employers a chance to do better than we could possibly have done.
That glimpse of the tripod and camera is surprising.
IIRC, it bridges single page web apps and standard websites. I.e. on the initial request, the page is rendered server-side, similarly as it would say with Rails and will work even if the client has JS disabled. If the client has JS enabled, it will work as a SPA.
You would think that if he did it "regularly" you could have come up with at least one example.
Very good point. In fact, I have noticed the exam same issue while teaching. We need to refer multiple books. There is no book which covers the entire course in an understandable manner. One has to then resort to writing his own notes for the class.
> Why did the meritorious survive? Because it's a meritocracy.

No, the meritorious survive because you can't cheat the universe.

I'm saying you can't make the world meritocratic because it already is and it's not changeable. You can only align yourself with how the world works so you don't get screwed.

For example, let's say I'm an employer and I decide to hire the least competent candidate for a new job. I, as the employer, cannot escape the consequences of this action and most likely I will pay for it in some form like the company failing or me losing my job. The world is still meritocratic despite my inane decision making. This forces me out of the equation and eventually my successor will have to do a better job hiring or else face the same fate of irrelevance as I. Eventually, all that's left is an employer who does pick candidates based on merit. But if this is true, the employer didn't really create a meritocracy, but merely aligned itself with the equilibrium state of the universe.

This is just a way of looking at what meritocracy means, and it frames it as a purely practical construct necessary for survival.
The internet? it really only took off late 90s early 00s.

Also I like how you discount a major change as if one pivot isn't good enough. Remember changes used to only happen every 100 years or so a while back and going back even further it was longer.
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Cool. I recall designing levels for a Pac-Man clone my friends made on the Atari ST back in 1992: https://www.giantbomb.com/crapman/3030-24791/images/?tag=All...

Unfortunately none of the downloadable images seem to be available anymore:

- Synergy Megademo: http://www.pouet.scene.org/prod.php?which=752

- Crapman standalone: http://www.pouet.scene.org/prod.php?which=29339

Fun fact: the musician went on the make music and sound effects for games like Z and Killzone and win an Ivor Novello award: http://www.screenedmusic.com/news/joris-de-man-wins-ivor-nov...
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A bit confused by your referencing senescence, since that's just growing old. I digress ...

As to #2 there's a huge difference between conditions that cause death. Some cause very early and painful deaths. I have Cystic Fibrosis, and I should be able to make it into my 60's (probably far beyond, but I'm assuming today's science).

As my wife and I are considering children #2 is a very real question (let's say you don't die young, but have a lower health quality compared to most, and have tens of thousands of health costs every year with all the financial instability that comes with - would this be unethical to force on someone?)
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One of my former colleagues shocked me when he revealed that he was a medical doctor but gave it up because he hated it. Instead, we hacked on software together. It's amazing how many different backgrounds there are in the field of programming (I went to uni to be an economist).
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Tim's short rebuttal from over on Google+ is worth repeating (https://plus.google.com/+TimOReilly/posts/Q8EqCQJstBE):

> He could just have easily picked out a narrative that highlighted all the criticisms I've made of Silicon Valley "solutionism" (his current bete noir). If he'd really done his research, he would have found Steve Talbott's book The Future Does Not Compute, which I published all the way back in 1995 in a first attempt to get people thinking about the ambiguous gifts that technology brings us. He could have also discovered my distaste for Libertarian fairy dust, my warnings about loss of freedom in the cloud era (which I started making back in 1999, before they became fashionable), or my arguments for the moral basis of both corporate and government decision making.

By the way, how pathetic is it that only 18 hours after this item was posted to HN, it's already off the front page of the site, and the conversation here is nearly dead? That's virtually guaranteeing that most of the comments will be made by people who haven't read the article.
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I don't like the idea of rendering client code in the server.
I've just started growing this weekend and I'm super excited, we're starting with gardeners delight tomatoes and some chillies, once I've gotten into it a bit more we're going to expand out with a few others (onions and lettuce I think). It'll make an excellent diversion from coding.

It's great, I get a nice diversion and a load of fresh veg. Any extra I end up with will either go to friends and family, or if they're happy with it a local food bank.
Food is a very bad example for you to pick to make your point. Margins are slim, because basically everybody can get in on this game quite easily. If you think you can supply a better product at a better price, or if you think there is demand for a better product at a higher price, why don't you go for it? I'll tell you: because if you'd start doing the math, you'd find out that no, it can't really be done at a much better price/quality ration. And the amount of offerings is already so big, consumers have total choice over their cost vs quality preferences.
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MVC is being used for web development. The M part, model, handles the rules for inputs. This would trigger validation errors. In a typical stack, we code the server-side model in, say, Ruby on Rails, and duplicate the same model in client-side model in JavaScript so it can detect things like minimum password lengths without sending data back to the server. The holy grail is to have both server-side and client-side in JavaScript and also sharing the models as well, with that we reduce amount of things we have to code.
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