skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"The demand for sexy results, combined with indifferent follow-up, means that billions of dollars in worldwide resources devoted to finding and developing remedies for the diseases that afflict us all is being thrown down a rathole. NIH and the rest of the scientific community are just now waking up to the realization that science has lost its way, and it may take years to get back on the right path."

The institution of science is undergoing a catastrophic decline. The reason behind this is simple: it is no longer a growing economy. Public funding for science is frozen or being cut, private R&D labs are shuttering their doors, and companies are increasingly concerned with quarterly results at the expense of long term research.

And why should it be otherwise? Science has never payed off as a logical financial investment. It is the riskiest of gambles by definition, requiring inordinate expenditures of time and resources in the present for a chance at some distant breakthrough decades or even centuries in the future. Institutional science is not an economically sound choice in the best of times, let alone during the current span of never-ending recessions.

The truth is, science is a creative pursuit much like the arts. Like the creation of literary masterpieces or profound paintings, it has never made economic sense in the present. Only afterwards, once the impact can be seen, do we understand its significance. And that is why it will always be worth pursuing.

The reality is that, increasingly, we live in a society that does not understand this philosophy of life. People only care about how they will survive tomorrow, and who can blame them, as the world economy gets ever more competitive and cut-throat.

Increasingly, it has become clear that our society does not reflect one designed with its own best interests at heart. Why this is, how it happened, and how we can change it, will be the greatest challenge of our lifetimes.
Yep, if you can kill American citizens without the right to trial, without the right to the attorney, if you label nuns terrorists, if you kill children of suspects just in case - and it is all lawful - that's insane. Not someone pointing it out.
'The Quine Tapes' (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootleg_Series_Volume_1:_The_Qu...) has always been one of my favorite records to put on while programming.
Hey, good to hear someone else finds that useful!

Making it more generic, so you can plug in your own failing functions, is somewhere on my TODO list. That would make this much nicer.
There is data that indicates that even filling out longer pieces of text and forms is on the rise. places like Plenty of Fish has real data about who is willing to fill out forms with a mobile devices and the numbers were surprising (to me at least)

http://plentyoffish.wordpress.com/2012/02/09/the-web-is-dead...

Similarly after that article was published, I saw the analytics of a large university and could see the amount of mobile use increasing (thought not as dramatically as POF) with tasks as complex as filling out a college application.

In the end, I'm surprised, but yes, people fill out dating profiles, college applications, and even Hacker News comments from mobile devices more and more.
Dumb question: since modern CPUs and operating systems support virtual memory, shouldn't it be impossible for processes to access memory of other processes, since processes no longer have to deal with shared memory?

...unless you're alluding to security exploits that manage to subvert that mechanism.
> i doubt that he would do such a thing, like appropriating code

Writing javascript for a living is a funny thing considering it's usually client-side code that's downloaded by the user, meaning it "escapes" into the real world for anyone to copy / slap their name on it.

Just because someone is "a professional" doesn't mean that they're ethical. It just means they have a public image.

And so far, the evidence everywhere else in this thread is pointing towards code937 as the original author.
The sales tax agreements amazon has made with various states should provide a nice experiment showing how price sensitive their customers really are.
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Idiots.......
Brains, geeks, computers, and HCI
Thanks for the suggestions. I checked out the book by Michael Feathers and it definitely looks helpful. I have embarrassingly low number of unit tests which I need to take care of and introduce more rigorous testing into our code.
Fascinating. I'm quite impressed she lived to the ripe old age of 66.
I think he understands quite clearly, that based on the product photos the 53 logo appears on the spines of the custom printed moleskins. It makes sense to me that one would not want such a logo, preferring the default moleskin look (or, and this would be cool: getting your own logo on the spine).
I'm not sure what fallacies my post was riddled with. Yes, some of it was opinion. And I never said Kanye West couldn't produce well. I'm not really sure what you're trying to say with the Rick Rubin comment either. Do you have a high opinion of Rick Rubin? I'm pretty sure Rick Rubin has a high opinion of Kanye.

I make music as a hobby, am fairly decent at it (IMHO, anyway) and listen to a lot of music. Kanye puts together songs, particularly on Yeezus, that are different than what else is out there and I have little doubt that Yeezus will influence a lot of rap over the next few years.

I never tried to equate Kanye West to Lou Reed.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiation_therapy
You get mad at people for looking at their phones on the bus?
That's not true at all.

The Fed's policies encourage money to chase risk. When money is 'free' it becomes wildly risk seeking. People that acquire free money do not do the responsible thing and seek safe investments (ask most lottery winners). That's why you see massive asset bubbles develop with low interest rates. The Fed has in fact said it wants to create an artificial wealth effect by leveraging asset bubbles, they wanted to re-inflate the housing bubble for example with toxic mortgage purchases and low mortgage rates.

Don't take my word for it. The US Treasury has stepped forward to admit as much.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-08-13/us-treasury-finally...

Or take a look at the S&P without the Fed:

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/chart-year-fed-has-doubled-sp-...

Or overlay the S&P with the Fed securities:

http://i.imgur.com/QFHnbBv.jpg

There is now an endless parade of evidence available as to exactly how the Fed creates asset bubbles (we're on our third bubble period right now in just 15 years), and how their programs directly inflate the value of the stock market. The Fed has even taken direct credit for being responsible for as much as 40% of the stock market's value.
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While I don't wholeheartedly agree with the honeypot allegation, I do agree that you should take most VPN providers with a grain of salt, be it that they are in fact a honeypot, occasionally leak data, or do shady things like actually inspect traffic.

An additional use, and the one I use VPNs for from time to time, is to throw off ad-network information and avoid over-disclosing information about myself.
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or better yet, "saturated fat is not an issue"
Indeed, I'm as confused as you are.

If anything, this makes me think someone should take a look at his other projects and see if they match anything out there - maybe you're not his first victim.

It looks like he unfortunately thought that changing some variable names (but leaving the .png / resource file names the same, the code structure the same, etc.) was enough for him to claim the code to be his original work - and thus slap a license of his choice on it. Very wrong.

You mentioned earlier that he has a donation link / button somewhere - that this might be for profit to a certain extent via donations? I can't seem to find that on this site.
i don't know much about this, but wikipedia lists the culural revolution as one of the "basic components" of maoism. so your distinction between the two doesn't seem to make much sense. can you clarify?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maoism
I don't know this Kanye but if I follow you his music is shit and Reed tried hard to not say it.

Then for this I would respect less Lou Reed: when it's crap just say crap. In music strong taste is expected and politeness is a loss of time.
...because there is no way that Amazon would be working for the US government, right?
Also, dirvish[0].

I've used dirvish for several years (nearly a decade), both locally and remotely without issue. No configuration is necessary on the client, only on the backup server (alternatively you can flip it and put all of your configuration on the client). Uses rsync, hard links, and can keep snapshots at various intervals.

0 - http://www.dirvish.org
Well I hoped for a html5 (open source) solution since years, but they will have A LOT of work to do if the want just to be at least comparable with gimp, not to say with photoshop.
I mean, the guys of gimp are working since years to improve their program and it still has serious performance issues in some cases and still lack a lot of functionalities of phothoshop.
I agree, her thoughts absolutely don't diminish the significance.

The kind of science that isn't on the frontpage today [0] is driven by facts, empirical analysis, and of course theoretical postulation. I, for one, am glad that we can recognize scientists for their contributions to humanity, not taking away from their work by citing curious personal beliefs (as we see here).

So, bravo acqq, just wanted to elaborate my thoughts on your comment :)

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6623830
Show HN: JPEllucent - lossy transparent image compression for the web
I absolutely think about clean and quality code. The easiest way to do it, in my opinion, is to write the most customizable and modular code from the beginning. Because, inevitably, mid-project you'll want to use something you've already written with a slight twist or use a class somewhere else where you didn't know you'd need it - but now you can just drop that sucker in and spend no time making a totally new class for something so it doesn't break something you've made earlier. It really doesn't take too much extra time to do this either, especially if you're constantly thinking like that - future proofing your code for the unknowable and very changeable design requirements. Loosely sticking to MVC has greatly improved my app coding. Here's how I set it up:

* Controllers

* Data Objects

* Utility UI functions (making shadows, or anything that can happen anywhere)

* Data Managers (sometimes Singletons)

* Web Services

If I start with this model in my head, the code is self organizing because I'm not writing data parsing in a controller because I KNOW with 99% certainty that I'm going to parse something later in another controller or something even higher is going to handle that data at some point in the future.

This kind of abstraction is how I do it currently, and I've only gotten here through experience, and I'm sure that I'll find even better ways as I continue to code into the future (I'm already thinking of base iOS project templates that contain that structure already).
Yup, I'm sick of my galaxy nexus lagging in updates, so I'm switching to T-Mobile.
I recently switched from smoking half a pack a day to vaping about 95%. I still smoke here and there, but the craving is covered.

I had one of those smokes that looks like a cigarette, but it was garbage. The e-liquid with a KangerTech EVOD is the way to go.

Outside of the health benefits or whatever, the smell is one of the best reasons to switch. It's a good career move.
Saturated fat has been demonised since the 1970s when a landmark study concluded that there was a correlation between incidence of coronary heart disease and total cholesterol, which then correlated with the percentage of calories provided by saturated fat, explains Malhotra. “But correlation is not causation,” he says. Nevertheless, we were advised to “reduce fat intake to 30% of total energy and a fall in saturated fat intake to 10%.”

It is frightening to think that such a fundamental piece of public policy is based on the "correlation is not causation" fallacious thinking.

Is there no one in power who is in the habit of actually thinking before approving actions?
The Fed is looking to hold interest rates at effectively negative (QE) for a total span of at least six or seven years, and most likely for a decade or more. The moment they allow interest rates to rise, the economy will crash, requiring them to immediately go back to QE infinity.

It's not a very far reach to believe that investors have become spoiled by the Fed and accustomed to a hyper low rate policy.

Every time there's talk of tapering or letting off the QE party, the stock market tanks. That's not a coincidence.

The 1999 stock market bubble was spurred on by Greenspan's errors of leaving interest rates too low for too long.

To try to artificially stimulate the economy and dodge a recession temporarily, the Fed did it again in the early 2000's, which led to the house bubble and the stock market bubble of the mid 2000's.
So... the physical impact against the camera is causing a fault with the video encoder on the camera?
> But the funny thing is that advertising spending is actually increasing, both in the United States and globally. Moreover, it has grown three years in a row, reaching more than half a trillion dollars in 2012. This is true even of live-television ads, which are the most intrusive and the easiest to avoid, yet are nonetheless growing at a healthy pace—by eight per cent last year in the United States.

For every $1 one company spends on advertising, another has to spend $2 to steal your attention. Inevitably this means the industry will continue to grow infinitely as companies continue to try to buy your attention. Look at PPC, it's a perfect example of an openly efficient market to buy your attention.

My favorite quote that illustrates this is from Seth Godin:

Attention is a bit like real estate, in that they're not making any more of it. Unlike real estate, though, it keeps going up in value.

http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2011/07/paying-atten...
Ask HN: Which startups are hiring remote devs?
I'm not sure what to make of that. It feels both nice and oddly narcissistic at the same time. I'm not that familiar with Guido though, maybe I just don't understand his style.
Python was my third language; I wish it had been my first. It's just so fun to write and wonderful to look at. C (my first) is also fun to write, but not when you're young--not as much as Python is.
Mobile/appliance environment is much more portable, and many people invest less in it. A couple of ideas:

- Desktop devices tend to last much longer before being completely replaced (unless you're a gamer). Even if you change your desktop machine, you often keep your keyboard/mouse, external NTFS drives, etc.

- There are more platform-specific apps that can tie you to a certain OS, either because of the app itself mat not be available (Games?), because you'd have to buy it again (Photoshop?), or because of the investment in workflow (MS Office?) or data (iPhoto?) that you have already made for it.

Once a mobile platform reaches a reasonable level of availability of popular apps, it's essentially viable for anyone to switch to. Unless you are addicted to Hay Day or rely a lot on Paper, or something like that, it's easy to move to a new platform. That's why it's also crucial that aspiring platforms make it totally easy to port stuff, and here's a place where Microsoft has made a huge mess with all their awesome but somewhat restricted tools, and constantly moving goalposts and platform strategy (C#? .NET? Silverlight? XNA? WPF? WinRT? HTML5? C++? Native or Managed or /CLR or...? I don't even know anymore).

All that said, OSX and Macs are much more popular now than say 5 years ago, so there is some ship jumping. The cloud really is eroding people's attachment to they desktops, and that's the reason Chromebooks and even Linux have even a chance at reaching the mass market.
The opening chapters of Anne Macaffrey's, "The Ship a Who Searched" show the problems of relying on a cheap home healthcare robot. Hypatia Cade might not have become a brain ship if the robot had been able to tell that Tia was not just engaging in attention-seeking behaviour.
Windows subverts that mechanism by providing APIs that unprivileged apps can use to access each other's memory.

On Windows, any programs sharing a desktop are within the same security boundary and are not protected from each other by design.
Ask HN: Why do you upvote a submission?
This isn't going to get everything right, but it's something I've been wondering for a while. Please think about it and answer as honestly as you can.

I usually upvote a submission because I...
agree with the submission
think it's important others see the submission
want to see more articles like this on HN
want to reward the author for writing the article
know/like the author
other (comment)
The price drop certainly helps. My one remaining problem with the Volt is that the back seat only seats two, not three.
A gamified course management system for colleges (http://www.usebackpack.com)

It is cool because:
* It has all features to stay updated about your college courses in a very easy user experience.
* It has game elements that keep students engaged and have fun while learning.
I'm sure that the political decision to capture top Nazis alive, so they can have a free trial, did in fact cost more lives too. But I will not buy for a second the idea that we killed Osama on the spot because of the perceived higher risks for the Navy SEALs. I'm just not buying it.

I think, that if the US made a political decision to give this monster - Osama - a chance for a free trial, as well as other Al Quaida members that would be a step in the right direction as far as winning the war goes. Because you play by your own rules. When opposite is being done, like killing children who are US citizens by Presidential Order just because their parent was a suspected terrorist killed a week earlier - that's like we're Al Quaida now. Because we run this war the same way they do. Like terrorists. The whole point of 9/11 was that we give up our values - freedom, democracy, rights, capitalism - and we did just that. We became exactly what they wanted us to become. Instead of forcing them to play by our rules. Can you imagine bin Laden having a trial? It's the concept from our civilization. That even the worst monster - like a master mind behind the Holocaust - deserves a trial. That's what differentiates our civilization from theirs. Applying this rule to Osama, and him partaking in it, is showing the Arab world the suporiority of our system. Going there and killing him like a dog when he isn't armed, just execution mafia style, is showing them we're not better.

At this level of decision, I believe that the political decisions always overweight military ones. These are the top SEALs, this dude would stand no chance this or another way. Forcing a trial on him and his organization and sentencing to hanging for crimes against the humanity - this would resonate much more and have better outcome as long as winning the war goes. You show them - you put planes into buildings and kill thousands of innocents - and we still give you honest trial. That's what made us great. Believing in freedom. I think Arabs would be totally shocked to see that. They'd be more inclined to accept superiority of our system. And maybe that's why Germans in WW2 didn't fight after some point. They felt like moral losers. Like the evil that was defeated by something good. I think that's what we're lacking in this war. And without it, I doubt we will ever win it.
I had not heard that term either ...

The term hotel load refers to the equipment used to provide for the habitability and comforts of the passengers and crew of a vehicle (typically a ship or submarine), or more specificly the electrical load placed on power generation systems by this equipment.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Saberwyn/Hotel_load
Everyone agrees that it's terrible, or at least outdated and poorly spec'd, but IMAP is so entrenched that designing a new protocol would have zero impact. Users don't care about protocols-- they care about products.

In order to create a new protocol/platform, you need to build an outstanding product. Apple is probably the best at doing this. The Facebook platform is another example, where awesome photo sharing led to the full social network, and later Open Graph.

Microsoft actually made many improvements to a mail/calendar/task sync protocol with Exchange (seriously, go read the spec!) and they had adoption via Outlook, but they made the mistake of requiring licenses for development which kept it locked-down for years.

This stuff is really tricky and just takes a while to happen. I think the email ecosystem is actually poised for a protocol shift, due to the easy distribution+upgrade path of App Stores and the web. But working with mail is a huge technical challenge-- just to start, a single user has more mail data than most startups' entire database.

I've actually been working on a new email app for the last year, so I'm intimately familiar with the difficulties. :) You can sign up for our beta here: www.inboxapp.com