skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Grothendieck is/was (according to Wikipedia, he is still alive, but he retired from mathematics years ago (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Grothendieck#Politics...) a great mathematician who knows/knew a lot about prime numbers, but he could not apply that 'to every problem he came across'. In fact, when pressed to give a concrete prime number, he came up with 57.

That makes him a counterexample of the claim that all great mathematicians can apply heir knowledge.

If he were a computer scientist, he would have written several brilliant papers about the pros and cons of various properties of programming languages, but he would not be able to write a compiler for any language or even to write a program.
As intended is rather irrelevant to the question of whether or not it's a good system. Unless you think that the so-called founding fathers were infallible?

A system which gives representation to rocks and cows rather than to people is undemocratic. That's not just my opinion man, it's a statement of fact. The House doesn't over-represent urban interests it represents them in the proportion that people of the country live there.

Your post smacks of the fallacy of the golden mean fallacy, which is unfortunately a serious problem in the United States today. There aren't two sides to every issue. Often some people are just wrong.
Tablets are for consuming instead of producing
Why not just release a new version of RaphaelJS and stop supporting anything before IE9?

He now has two very similar (but not compatible) libraries to support.

Raphaël.js is great, btw.
Feeding corn to cows, who are natural grass eaters, keeps them in a perpetual state of sickness, some say.
I suspect it's less that people here hate Microsoft, and more that many people here don't use Microsoft's products and don't really care about Microsoft. I haven't used a Microsoft product to any significant degree since the early noughties; this isn't because I hate Microsoft (I don't; I'm largely indifferent to it); I just found that other things fit my needs better.
Validate uniqueness in Play 2
Delegate as soon as possible / Don't mess around with things you don't understand.

The idea that you need the president making technical decisions is madness. Go find a reputable company and ask them to implement your basic functionality for a decent fee, (actually offer one, don't just seek the lowest bidder,) then get out of the way and let them to do so - payment on successful delivery, no alterations to what you ask for after the fact, complete autonomy within operational parameters. You can iterate to fine tune the things you'd like it to have after the base case is up.
Hackers & Hookers costume party - a new low in tech misogyny
A thought occurs to me- do we know it to be true, that a constant life-long supply of antibiotics results in the development of greater numbers of resistant strains of bacteria?

Think about it. We always say humans who don't finish their prescription are allowing some of the most resistant strains to survive, when taking the full prescription would generally finish off everything (even the moderately resistant strains) preventing selection. Farm animals that never stop taking antibiotics never provide that window of opportunity for unresistant strains to take hold and then undergo selection due to antibiotic regimes that are ended too soon.

Maybe I've got the wrong idea here, but is this particularly different from, say, a petri dish full of sulfuric acid, and a petri dish that periodically has some acid introduced for a short period of time? Drop a culture in the first dish, and they all die. Drop a culture in the second dish, and they have time to develop resistance.
I've written a few technical books and my personal most optimistic estimate is 1h/page writing first draft and 2hr/page editing. This when I know exactly what I want to say (no more research, code usually done) and have a plan (headings ready, just filling the blanks)

But English is not my first language, can't a/b test for this variable.

With first drafts I don't stop to edit - just let it out on paper as fast as possible.
Amoxicillin hasn't been prescribed by our Dr after it failed to do anything for the first ear infection. The Pharmacy isn't just going to substitute different antibiotics for you either.

Here's what my daughter was prescribed: http://www2.costco.com/Pharmacy/DrugInfo.aspx?p=1&SearchTerm...

So $230 for the course. So sure. Amoxicillin is cheap. So is Tylenol. What's your point? After the Dr's visit you're still likely out at least $100, not to mention time off work, and that's if the "cheap stuff" even works. You can't get this stuff OTC.

I stand by my statement: Without data I think it's a lot easier to believe that places with socialized medicine and generous labor laws for things like sick time are much more likely to see abuse.
In 30 years we'll be looking at a billionaire or two who made their money from the decriminalization of marijuana. The question is wether you want to be one of them or not.

I don't smoke weed. Never have. But I don't see anything immoral with a marijuana based company. In fact, providing a legitimate means for people to buy weed would take a lot of money away from violent drug criminals. So you'd likely be doing society a service.
Surely corporate IT departments are going to have a collective heart attack as employees start handing all their email to a third party?
Try telling that to the construction companies in British Columbia.
What Motivates Internet Trolls?
Then pay the $9/month?

http://icomoon.io/#premium
One the one hand, a plug 'n' play architecture is great for expanding the system with new components over time. However, the Mac Pro (and any ATX tower computer) is usually easy to expand with expansion cards. The 2013 Mac Pro is telling me that Apple is playing to the audience that doesn't want (nor need) to know about hardware components, and the only technical expertise is to line up connector A with slot B.
It's not capitalism that's the problem, it's the current regulations surrounding drug research. The FDA has set out hurdles for drug approval that make it very unattractive to discover new antibiotics. They are currently changing the way these drugs are reviewed to try and alleviate that (new endpoints, etc).
Yes, the availability of the system is not tied to any given node(s). Any node (or group of nodes) can continue to operate in the face of failure.
I don't think it is designed for people "looking for work". It seems to be built for business development. For example, an email like: "Hey, we met at a conference last month, just wanted to follow up..." - now you can see who they are, where they work, a profile picture to jog your memory and quickly connect - all from your email client. Very similar to what Rapportive did for Gmail.
Healthy, high-caliber companies are far less likely to want anything to do with the unaccredited crowd anyway. Most will continue to raise capital through Reg D Rule 506 offerings, and 506(b) offerings specifically given the uncertainty around the proposed rules associated with 506(c).

It sounds like you basically want Rule 506 offerings without the accredited investor requirements. Debate over the wisdom of that notwithstanding, this was never the intention of the crowdfunding portion of the JOBS Act to begin with.
It's your basic (American, right-) libertarian argument against the state doing anything that limits business. I think its application in a case like this nicely encapsulates the flaws in the philosophy, or at least the ability of its adherents to apply it sensibly.

Edit for clarity.
In the case of Skype, your right: Skype can probably change their protocols and ruin the work of the reverse enginners.
But this would have a price: Skype users would have to install the last version of the client to be able to communicate with their contacts.
If Microsoft started to modify the Skype protocol each week, the users would probably get tired of updating their client weekly and they would use another software.

For others proprietary softwares, breaking the compatibility with old versions is hardly conceivable: If Photoshop or AutoCAD where suddenly unable to use read and write the terabytes of data created by their users, those users would probably throw their PC through the window and never buy again a proprietary software...
"Good luck even renting a space."

You must not live in California. In LA, it seems like there's a dispensary on every other block. And lots of people defended their right to be there when the city tried to limit their number.
Canada has 1/10th the population of the US. I'm not saying the country is on par with the US, but it's not crazy to think that there's a Canadian company with expertise in government healthcare software.

I wouldn't feel better knowing this contract went to one of the many big US government contractors, and wouldn't be surprised to get a similar result.
> The federal government will take no direct intervention in the two states so long as the proposed state laws are followed.

No such commitment has been made (not that such a commitment would be enforceable in the first place, or a useful guide to future administration's attitudes, so long as the federal statutes are on the books), what has been circulated is a non-binding memo providing guidance to US Attorney's on DoJ priorities regarding marijuana cases in those states. Note that this administration's Department of Justice previously circulated a similar memo with regard to states that had legalized marijuana for medical purposes, and US Attorneys in those states subsequently undertook enforcement actions (both criminal charges and forfeiture actions) against state-legal dispensaries, and their landlords, in those states -- note that this includes the current US Attorney in Colorado, who prosecuted state-legal dispensaries when that state had legalized marijuana only for medical purposes.

And note that the guidance expressly includes it remaining a priority to prosecute marijuana offenses to the extent that prosecution is useful to prevent drugged driving and the exacerbation of other adverse public health consequences associated with marijuana use, or where officials feel that they are being marketed (not merely sold) to minors, among other cases. This, even within the wording of the guidance, provides a pretty broad opening for prosecuting state-legal activities.
Aw, shucks! At least some people made a quick buck fattening up animals to fatten up Westerners. That surely justifies a few million deaths in the future.
Why not just say to them:

I do not have time or interest in doing this, but I would be happy to accept a pull request which meets our project guidelines.
True, but it's "experimental" only.

http://foundation.zurb.com/docs/components/grid.html
Great read and I definitely agree. When people used to say: "I'm bored" you could suggest they do something productive, my generation never says that because of internet, tv and video games.
Show HN: Everyday Places
Totally awesome story! These were almost my exact words ("tablets are for consuming, computers are for producing") to the technology head of my daughters school when they announced bringing in iPads for all the kids.
Botched Healthcare.gov-Marketplace on GitHub
Most places will refund you if you miss the deadline by a day. As long as you do that it isn't sketchy.
Richard Dawkin's book "The Selfish Gene" uses the same language, but, to his credit, he pauses regularly to remind the reader that genes are not really "selfish" and that they don't have "wants" and "desires," but that he is using that language to make it easier to understand the concepts. I understand your complaint, but it's a necessary communication technique when dealing with the general public.
For sure - enjoy it...it's a good book.
What happens to the $10 credit developer accounts that was offered before?
Sounds like a good time to lay groundwork and draw up plans for investors and mabe run a test business in Colorado without burning too much money. If it then swings in your favour you are early for the rush, if not you can ditch. Everything is a risk.
"so far it's "good enough""

Perhaps so, but what I was originally replying to was a claim that Bitcoin was rock solid. There is an enormous difference between "good enough" and "rock solid."

"I much rather have this than the previous system, which is insecure by design (ie: your funds can and are systematically stolen through inflation and other means)."

Perhaps so, but as I have noted elsewhere, Bitcoin is not a fiat currency killer. Most businesses that claim to accept Bitcoin payments are actually accepting fiat currency payments. Most adults still need to pay their taxes. There are strong incentives to issue loans in the currency that the courts deal in i.e. fiat currency.

Basically, think of it this way: if Bitcoin exchanges were to disappear right now, what would happen to Bitcoin? What reason is there to think that Bitcoin will ever reach a point where it is not utterly dependent on the existence of exchanges? When even people who want to adopt Bitcoin are only doing so with the help of services that automatically exchange Bitcoin payments for fiat currency, why should we believe that we can ever live in a world where Bitcoin stands on its own two feet?

Finally, let's assume that there is an economic theory that supports a system like Bitcoin i.e. a currency that has no central authority and no intrinsic value. That theory should motivate a security definition. As a point of reference, consider Chartalism (a key part of modern monetary theory), which basically explains why fiat currency works (in a nutshell: the government issues the money and requires you to return some amount later on via taxes), and a key security definition used in the academic work on digital cash (in a nutshell: you have security if it is infeasible to deposit more money with the bank than was withdrawn [this can be stated more formally]). Note the very clear connection: the central authority issues the currency and decides its validity when it is "deposited."

So, to bring things full circle, I give you this challenge: present an economic theory to explain systems like Bitcoin, and use that theory to motivate a security definition that Bitcoin can be tested against (or better yet, proved to meet).
Effectively Multitasking Projects
I know tons of people are against the notion of working on too many ventures, but I really can't help it so here are my tips and tricks for doing it successfully.
>Edit: On the topic of fire bombs. I have today learned that one would not want Hydrogen tank in his vehicle.

Everyone comes to this conclusion when you realize how deadly compressed hydrogen is compared to liquid petroleum. Nothing like being burned by fire you can't see.
> Kay is an expert in Smalltalk and Wirth is an expert in Oberon.

No, they are experts on the implementations they created, not on the other ones that were created.
Handling Money in Rails (Part 2)
Phages have been, and are, being revisited and reconsidered.

The early days of 'phage therapy' were pretty bad - because we really didn't understand what was going on, the "purified" phage solutions still had bits of bacterial cell membranes and the like in them, including endotoxins. People died.

But phages were still being looked at for most of the antibiotic period, especially in countries without quite such widespread access to antibiotics. The Soviet Union had a very active program in Georgia, which was ongoing before the trouble there a few years back, I don't know the status of it now.

It's a promising avenue, and there's some decisive advantages phages have over antibiotics. But it's also quite hard, and right now we lack a generalizable form of phage therapy - it tends to be a bespoke solution to specific intractable cases. But the incentives might increase as antibiotics become less and less effective.

For awhile I wanted to work on phage research before I realized wet-lab Biology was not my forte.
@sparky You're correct, we are very aware of that risk, so we do have an algorithm in place to deter people from abusing the system. With that said, most users would not get to that limit with regular use while developing.
There are lots of concerns:

* your local mail client might get different E-mail content every time mail is downloaded, which is not the intent of IMAP,

* LinkedIn (hence, the NSA) gets full access to your E-mail,

* once people get hooked it's easy to transition to inserting ads, or "more helpful LinkedIn content",

I find all this rather disturbing and would never use this service.
You are probably the one that got it.

But none the less, although your examples are fine. If you want to really produce things like songs, you're going to use software like Ableton Live. Which aren't adjusted for tablets because of hardware (eg. a high quality audio card) or just don't deliver enough productivity.

I don't have any experience with drawings, but can you name someone who is well known that created their paintings/drawings with a tablet?
I presume (except 3D artists, graphic designers), all of them are going for handmade stuff. The rest of them produces them with their computers.

And as you explained it, the drawings and the songs in this case are games, not suitable for production.
Production takes days, not minutes. That's mostly the difference between consuming and producing things.

I do hope you or your daughter get more interested though, producing can be great.
Of course. They can send as you too, which given their spammy record is quite a huge issue. They will also be storing your IMAP password in plaintext.
I'm with everyone else - give LinkedIn access to the contents of my email? No thanks.
The SEC has enough power to shape regulation to neuter some of those clauses. For instance, they're able to apply the $1m cap to fees collected by the portal (not amount raised) or add exceptions for certain types of offerings. [1]

So in theory they could add exemptions or weaken other clauses. I'm not sure exactly where the line is drawn (e.g. can they entirely rewrite the JOBS Act?) but I believe the rules outlined in the JOBS Act are mostly to express intent of Congress and it's the job of the SEC to implement them in a way that works and maintains the intent.

[1] They request comments on those ideas and more in the big PDF. See page 20 of http://www.sec.gov/rules/proposed/2013/33-9470.pdf
Pfsense is in no way more hardened than a OpenWRT box. Both are vastly superior to the stock firmware on any soho router available.
OpenWRT and pfsense come from different backgrounds, OpenWRT was intended as a replacement firmware for consumer wifi routers, while pfsense wanted to be a secure and easy to use firewall appliance on x86 hardware.

We use both, OpenWRT on cheap TPLink consumer routers as a VPN router in home and branch offices, and a bunch of virtualized pfsense firewalls for network security in our hq and datacenter rack.

If you're after real routers as in routing protocols like bgp and ospf and not security devices, both are not of much use. this is where vyatta, a open source Debian based router distribution is better suited.

Wireless performance of openwrt depends on the hardware it is running on, but It's generally not great compared to proprietary gear from ubiquity and mikrotik. Both make dirt cheap wireless gear and routers that can match and outperform Cisco routers that cost 10x more. Wireless ISPs everywhere rely on those vendors.
There's also https://www.class-central.com/
Iversity courses already included there.

PS: I am not affiliated in any manner.
Yes, he should have written "an awkwardly plural-esque possessive". Siracusa, I'm disappointed by your inattention to detail!
Yes, but those were also the days when it was super painful to contribute to OSS.

The issue tracker can also be used as a roadmap / task manager which is very helpful. The problem isn't the issue tracker. The problem is the developer does not want to maintain everything for everyone. That is perfectly okay so the solution to me is just to communicate that in the project guidelines. To me, not having an issue tracker at all is equivalent to Sublime Text developers dropping off the map for 6 months.
Yeah, I understand what you mean - the devil is in the details.

There are two possible kinds of guidance, I think. One would be actual tutorials - draw a circle, the circle becomes the head, etc. - with the goal of teaching technique and building up skill.

The second would be aimed more at motivation and inspiration - getting people to draw something every day, no matter what their technique is or how good they are. Maybe it's a "Seinfeld calendar"-like nudge to draw every day, maybe it's a "daily challenge" or "idea of the day" for various skill levels.

Easy to say, of course, but much tougher to get it right in practice, especially with the level of simplicity and elegance you have right now. Maybe it's a completely separate app, but I think there's a lot of potential there if someone can get it right.
I don't care who the company is, or how trustworthy you think they are: avoid giving third parties credentials to your inbox.
No possibility of receiving SMS?
Mostly. If you're a great programmer/qa engineer/product manager, don't apply to those positions.
The "Holden Test", Blade Runner derived Turing Test for humans
The Holden Test is taken by any human who must judge whether a particular actor is the same as themselves, or merely machine.
What is the technology stack behind Vine (video app)? [Quora]
It's probably easier to receive with better, larger, and heavier equipment and more power for processing. Couple that with the fact that control data is not high bandwidth, and you can see why it ended up that way.
Additional madness when the services inevitably closes and tens of thousands of corporate tickets are files about non-working email clients.
> This is one reason to avoid hospitals at all cost.

I think generally, everyone avoids hospitals at all costs.
OP here. I'll refund the last month's payment regardless when canceling, no matter how long you've been a customer.

The goal isn't to trick people into paying. The goal is to make it feasible for one person (me) to support a product by attracting those who have a business case for using it.
Some TVs already come with something like this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambilight
Here's the thing though, whenever I send an email like that to someone I always include my LinkedIn profile for them to check out, which would redirect to the app on their phone. Personally, it does seem a bit unnecessary to include this feature.
It's in pretty poor taste. I know it's probably meant to be taken lightly, but it just helps further alienate women from tech, which is very unfortunate.
> Give it 5 years and just about everyone will want one of these cars.

They sold a batch of MiEV / IOn for $15.000 here and so far everybody is very enthusiastic about them. I think 5 years is a tad optimistic but I give it less then 10 years.
I wish more companies realized this.

EDIT: To add a little more to the discussion. Instead of looking for the 'rockstar' or 'ninja', look for intelligent and ambitious individuals that might not have all of the necessary experience. This gives them the chance to grow into the position, and results in a more fulfilling work experience. The end result is someone who is more appreciative of their employer, and who will probably stick around longer than the 'rockstar' who is probably getting calls and e-mails from recruiters every other day.