skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You pretty much nailed it in a very succinct manner.

That's why it's so important to complete a course of antibiotics rather than stopping once you feel better. Once you've started antibiotics, you're basically enriching the population in bacteria that aren't affected by the antibiotic. This is normally a very small population, but if you stop half-way, the pressure on those bacteria from other bacteria (the ones that died) is lower, allowing the resistant population to flourish.

If you finish a course of antibiotics, you not only kill the susceptible bacteria, but you also give your own immune system a chance to take down the few remaining bacteria that are resistant.
- Forcing unnecessary financial disclosures

Have we not learned a damn thing from 1999? The whole reason retail investors have a chance is because public companies have to file an 8k every time the CFO farts
> It seems to me that learning 1 - 2 languages to this level of detail is worthwhile.

I think it's feasible with an "old-school" (compact) language like C or Go. But take something like C++ or Scala, for example, and the task quickly becomes impossible.
Inability to understand figurative language seems a common malady on certain parts of the internet.
Is this the best font-icon set? Would anyone consider using more than one in a project? Do you subset them?

I'm about to decide on one to use.
Show HN: beautiful server monitoring in like 5 minutes.
http://diego351.github.io/monster/

The concept: server monitoring that is can work even with no setup at all (service autodiscovery, woo?) and visually doesn't make us want to poke our eyes out. We were basically just scratching an itch, currently using it on a few of our servers. Posting this here since we'd be glad for some feedback, we're trying to decide whether to push this one forward. There's A LOT to be done. Alerting is what I'd love. And expanding the list of DB probes. So yeah, feedback welcome!
For someone who opens complaining of teleology, your third paragraph relies heavily on the assumption that science will march forward. Where is the skepticism aimed at the assumption that we will be able to surgically genocide _all harmful bacteria_ faster than they can evolve?
Ugh. Ok, so rephrase that as "mitigate credible threats to the physical safety of the occupants".

If we expand the role of the TSA at airports to protecting the emotional safety of travelers, we've set ourselves to an impossible task. What comforts one person will disturb another.

I think we can all agree that setting off dry ice bombs in airports is not something we should allow. The question is, what measures will we take to prevent it? I'm not sure it warrants a TSA-like response.
How Much Abstraction is Too Much?
Jason here. Sorry about that! I'm emailing you now...
Morgellons: A hidden epidemic or mass hysteria?
Dry ice bombs are not harmless. It is harmless in an open field and you stay several feet away from it. If the dry ice container is big, the explosion will be bigger. A small water bottle might be harmless (maybe a few minor cuts). But this guy did not just set one dry ice off. He planned several dry ice bombs.

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-lax-dry-ice-expl...

Imagine this thing exploded right when someone passed by, the pieces could cut the person. Put your hand in a dry ice bomb and see what happen. If it doesn't hurt you, I will change my mind about "dry ice bombs are harmless."

And even my five years old cousin would know airport is not a backyard for prank. Do the same in front of WhiteHouse and you will get shot. If you play a prank in the WhiteHouse, do you call that a prank?

If I do this in a kindergarten backyard, or next to your car, what do you think? Still harmless? Carry this dry ice with you to the airplane, do we call that a bomb?
Just a Product Manager that wants to contribute.
Here's the deal. I'm a senior product manager in Austin. Most of my experience is hardware (semiconductor) or related software (IP, dev tools). I spend every waking moment reading Hacker News / Platformed.info / @asmartbear, playing with Rails/AngularJS/MeteorJS, or scribbling down ideas for new products.

I have plenty of time on my hands thanks to a management team that can't get out from under its own feet. My experience level puts me out of range of most folks' ideas of what a product manager should be. (This isn't a compensation comment. It's more of a seniority/culture comment.) But I've got a serious itch to contribute, and nowhere to burn off all this excess energy.

If anybody reading this has a need for been-there, done-that product skills, I'd like to hear from you. PT or contract basis fine. Just give me a chance to use the creative side of my brain.

https://twitter.com/brianpiercy
Google Glass Isn’t the Future of Wearables
Saying that C++ is internally consistent at all is a huge exaggeration. Actually I'd be very careful with stating it is more consistent than PHP. Both have many sharp-edges and in both there are plenty of features that feel "tacked on" and are non-orthogonal to each other. E.g. why I can't make a generic (template) function virtual or why I cannot overload some overloadable operators to have exactly same semantics as the builtin ones.
Handwashing with soap doesn't actually kill bacteria, it mechanically dislodges the oils and debris that bacteria are embedded in on your skin and rinses them down the drain. So bacteria have no defense.
Hi @chinmoy. It's DH from Plivo here.

Interesting question: your old Developer account actually had more limitations than the new Free Trial accounts. For example, you couldn't have made outbound voice calls to regular numbers via PSTN.

You can check out the full comparison here: http://plivo.com/faq/basics/whats-the-difference-between-fre...
So if you sign up for enhanced email with LinkedIn, all your incoming email goes through their servers?
Since icon names have changed, how do I find the documentation for the 3.x version?
The sad thing is that they are capitalized by so many public and private pension funds ... pension participants are unwittingly sapping a core engine of growth.
But, it doesn't alienate women in tech - they could be either hackers OR hookers!

/s
Why not? I'd say rather the opposite: I don't want a phone, I want a 3G+NFC smart card exobrain implant. Phones are just a transitional technology.
I would try to learn from the lessons of music sharing businesses from Napster to Spotify. For legally-vague ideas with a lot of money to be made, the key seems to be staying in front of how things are being regulated. Marijuana in CA, for instance, is more or less legalized for consumers but the feds have spot-targeted producers and storefronts through infrastructure attacks (like threatening landlords). To me, this sounds like a stalling tactic to keep the industry from growing too rapidly.

If I was to work on a startup in this field I would focus on the consumer end of the business and only in a supplemental way, like a review site. What you don't want is a business with a warehouse full of pot or a lot of bills owed from producers/retailers who are used to being threatened and have no incentive to pay you.
Two likely reasons are the effect of Earth atmosphere at points where the laser beam is narrow, i.e. near the transmitting end, and a more sensitive receiver at the Earth ground station than on the spacecraft.
Counterpoint: I use 10.9's integrated VPN with our ASA 5505 in IPSEC (not AnyConnect/SSL) without any issues.
That, and they also get access to every email you've ever sent, and the ability to impersonate you in their email spam (though they do that anyway).
This seems very very very brittle.
Some over compensating product asshat managed to convince their code monkeys into building something that will probably break easily not to mention security concerns with giving them your mailbox access.
Indeed.

I actually posted this, because some people were offended by my poor explanation on: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6597325 .

I thought this author said it better then me :).
Ironically, the highest possible price for an iOS app is $999.99
> Markets always work well eventually

That's a religious statement, not a factual one. Please open an economics textbooks and find the chapter on market failures. You are talking ideological nonsense, you are not describing reality.

Edit: I checked your profile; you're quoting Ayn Rand; your mind is already fucked. I'm done with this conversation as it's impossible to reason with anyone who thinks highly of that insanity. The only thing Ayn Rand is a good starting point for is how to brainwash young minds with terrible writing and an idiotic philosophy. She's a joke.
High schooler. Anyone else, or I am I alone?
Reminds me of Hammock Driven Development by Rich Hickey: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f84n5oFoZBc
That's actually a good point. I never would think to use Linked in as a business card. I usually would just write, "Hey it's me from that place we met."
GW Pharma seem to be doing ok with Sativex - http://www.gwpharm.com/Sativex.aspx
Rendering Vector Art on the GPU
can you get back within range?
Over the top sexualization of women's Halloween costumes requires an article of its own: has it always been like this or is it a relatively recent, e.g. 90s onwards phenomenon?

For guys one great way to protest this would be to dress up as a hooker and attend.
Why would the service close? It's supported by LinkedIn and AFAIK they're not in the habit of shutting things down. This almost feels like a no-brainer for them, especially given the move to mobile devices and locked-down apps.

Edit: Have I missed the point? I'm sure LinkedIn is a little more cautious about such changes than your average newly-founded startup. This product gives them access to people emails which they can probably glean a lot of info from. They already try to get access into email accounts (username + password) via the LinkedIn webapp so in a way this is just extending that to mobile. The only reason I can imagine them shutting it down is if no-one uses it (in which case, no one will complain).
That's a risk you get other places too. Not unlike businesses going under.

However, whomever is poised to move the second the industry goes 50 state legal is going to make a huge pile of money
I haven't seen them market 14 meals/week, I was just putting out what I thought was a reasonable range. I don't think it's moving the goal posts. Rob said in the very first post that Soylent allowed him to enjoy regular meals much more.

Slim Fast, of course, is strictly marketed for weight loss. Soylent, not really at all.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lusophone
I agree with you, actually. I just wanted to cover my bases in the event that there's some composer out there who never played an instrument in their life that I'm unaware of.

> I do not think that everyone needs to be a programmer, but I do think that computer education in our schools needs to at least introduce the basics of programming to every child. Even if they do not program for the rest of their life, it will give them a foundation for solving problems and improve their ability to use software others have written.

Totally agree. I actually got an Arduino starter kit for my little sister's birthday for this very reason. It's over her head at this point, but I remember LEGO Mindstorms being over my head when I was her age, yet still being fascinated with it.
Hi, yes you can. You need to append a 'message url' to your Plivo app:

check out the message section at http://plivo.com/docs/xml/request/
I dont know which operations you are going to do with the arrays but what about just use a array of arrays or matrices of matrices of matrices of...?
Go ahead and build an auction site with better customer service and better features than eBay and tell us how that goes.
(Adding this as a self-reply rather than incorporating it into the above, because it is not directly relevant but interesting enough to maybe be worth discussing)

Suppose Kogan does in fact fall into the case where they are just modifying separate user applications and are just passing the GPL binaries they receive from the OEM on to their customers unmodified one to one, and so in fact do not have a GPL obligation (since they are not doing anything that requires permission of the copyright owner).

So you track down that OEM (which could be hard...) and ask for the source.

The OEM was smart when they decided to use GPL software. They read and understood the license, and learned that they basically have two choices when it comes to providing source.

1. When they distribute GPL binaries to someone, they can accompany the binaries with the corresponding source, or

2. The can distribute the binaries without source, but make the source available to anyone who asks.

Being sensible, they do not want to deal with the hassle that option #2 can be, and go with #1. Every single TV guts box they ship to a Best Buy or a Kogan is accompanied by a CD-ROM containing the complete source for every bit of software in the TV.

This completely satisfies the OEMs GPL requirement to provide source. They can legitimately tell you to go talk to Best Buy or Kogan or whoever's name is one front of your TV.

The end result is that you end up with a bunch of GPL code sitting in your living room--and NOBODY is obligated to provide you with a copy of the source code!
I think it's a fairly well implemented hack.
One question: does the iPhone mail client load the contents of iframes by default? Don't these clients typically not load remote content like images?
I'm ok with that. What I'm not ok with is when people use open source as an excuse for mediocrity. Many times you do hear "It's open source, I'm doing this for free, just fork it!" when it probably should be "It's a hobby project, it probably won't go anywhere and the code wasn't really made to be used by someone else, but if you can find something useful you're free to use it". There are a lot of active open source projects out there that spend a lot of time maintaining their project and I think it's kind of "meh" to undermine the positive things they've been working for.
Small rant, so take it with a grain of salt.

Personally I don't care about C, due to its unsafe by default design and my background in safer languages for systems programming.

I got my first computer, a Timex 2068, at the age of 10. Spent two years mainly playing games and eventually started looking into programming.

When I learned C, at the age of 16, I already knew BASIC (Spectrum, GW, Quick, Turbo), Assembly (Z80, x86, 68000), Turbo Pascal.

So C was for me a bit "meh" language, given that Turbo Pascal gave me much more, granted except for portability. So I quickly jumped to C++, which allowed me some strong typing comfort and higher abstractions in a forced C land.

Regardless of the language, when I was 18, I had already coded compilers, graphics applications, GUI prototypes, MS-DOS drivers.

Nowadays kids seem just to do JavaScript/Python/Ruby frameworks for generating web pages.
I'll take a stab at this - I'm an infectious disease epidemiologist that works on hospital infections mostly.

The thing with anti-bacterial soaps is not that the use of the soap is bad. The problem is the anti-bacterial part. It puts amounts of a broad spectrum antibiotic into the environment (be it your hands, your countertop, or the water system) in concentrations that aren't enough to do much, but are enough to put a little bit of selective pressure on the organisms and promote resistance.

It's also not particularly effective - soap and water, through a combination of both mechanical action and how soap disrupts cell membranes, works swimmingly. So there's a cost, and no benefit.

The answer to 'why isn't there a resistance to soap' is that soap, as a chemical, is absurd overkill. It's hellish on lipids of all sorts (tough on grease...and lipid cell membranes), and there's nothing to evolve a resistance to. Not expressing a particular protein, or expressing an enzyme that does a number on an antibiotic compound is effective - to evolve a resistance to soap, you'd somehow have to develop an entirely new type of compound to build cell membranes out of.

And while evolution is rather magnificent, that's asking a little much.
Is this for each degree or highest degree?
Flowchart: Should journalists learn to code?
Of course it is undemocratic. This country wasn't built to be a perfect democracy. Allowing urban voters to dictate policy affecting rural voters under the name of democracy just because there are more urban voters could turn out to be a very bad idea, because urban voters are not necessarily well-informed on issues that apply to rural America. This in turn be bad for everyone, as the urban voters depend on rural America to produce food.

The debate over firearms is a simple example. Urban voters do not see why rural voters cannot simply depend on the police to maintain law and order. Rural voters on the other hand do not see why urban voters think the police can respond in time. The difference is their context. Urban voters are probably right- in the context of a city.

(I am not arguing about firearms, I just thought the debate was an easy illustrative example of how your context matters)

There aren't two sides to every issue. Often some people are just wrong.

I'm sure you are conveniently always on the side that is right? :)
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It is probable that we have a disagreement about what counts as a "factoid", and maybe it's not a great word to be using ( I took it from the parent), but I do think there are real differences between some things you're conflating. Working within the framework of your example, I think understanding how compilation units and the linker work is far more fundamental than knowing when the the "static" keyword impacts linking and when it doesn't. If I know that I need some way to make my variable visible outside my compilation unit, I can look up the syntax to do it ("factoid"), but if I don't understand how linking works at all, I'm missing a more fundamental mental model. Of course, I absolutely think that a C programmer should know the syntax, it's just less important to remember such things than to understand the model.
There's also inputs into their environment that influence whether they move via random tumbling, or directed movement, allowing them to move toward something.

While they might not desire anything, they do definitely seek out things.
That's what many critics said before 506(c) but that's not how the market is behaving [1]. There's more value to a crowd of investors than easy dumb money, and I don't see why the personal wealth of an investor really matters.

I disagree with your interpretation of the intention of the JOBS Act. As I interpret it it's meant to allow all Americans the opportunity to invest in startups and small businesses while protecting them from losing all their money. Introducing regulations that cause severe adverse selection outweighs the benefit of those specific rules, in my opinion.

[1] I think the quality of companies raising publicly on Wefunder and AngelList speak to that, but I'm heavily biased. I respect your opinion even though I disagree with it. :)
Most people are still underestimating mobile
Doesn't matter how they meant it, what matters is how this is perceived: extremely distasteful. The last thing we need is more little bits like this fueling misogyny in the tech industry.
Since they are proxying the request, they don't actually have to store the password at all.
Evolution is a very generalized but very slow optimization algorithm, actually, and it's velocity is sort of inherently connected to the population size and lifespan, meaning it has to make trade-offs, it is limited. But because it's generic that means it can evolve faster mechanisms. I like to think of intelligence as this faster mechanism -- it came about because for living beings with a large lifespan evolving through natural barriers takes too long, so that this more time-localized procedure is needed.
I don't doubt that if we devote enough attention, we can solve this problem. What I am afraid of, is that we will wait until it becomes a real and immediate threat before we dedicate any effort.

The black death bubonic plague killed around a hundred million people, almost half of Europe's population. World war 2 got close to that number of deaths, but the black plague bacterium remains the most efficient killer of humanity on record.

Something that terrible sometimes has to be personified, just to make it comprehensible.
Tech Community Group Hacker Hideout names costume party "Hackers & Hookers"
What if he's stranded in the Mojave, hundreds of miles from home, with no cell tower around? How's he going to look up the one where Sheldon gets hacked on World of Warcraft then?
From the beginning it seems Woz has specific uses in mind, which is far from typical. Woz is a genius and technophile, this is also far from the typical case. Jobs was able to reign in Woz's genius while avoiding Woz's business sense, or lack thereof.

Every time, Apple releases a new project, Woz is there to say it isn't good enough... for Woz. It's apparent to me, Woz was never meant to be in charge of Apple's product line that targets the general public.
The only reason I chose Windows over Mac OS X for my new home computer is I wanted to play games on it.

If SteamOS lets me play AAA games (and not just Portal, Half-Life, Left4Dead and Team Fortress) AND it lets me run XBMC or Plex or some other TV software, then I'd switch in a second.
Maybe you could check out teen2geek.com when its released? It's mainly for students like yours, so that could be helpful to them.
Have an app idea? Get the community to build it and profit.
I haven't used ST3, but ST2 doesn't build based on shebang lines and won't hide the menubar on Linux. I'm sure there are many issues I've forgotten since moving to vim as well.

I can definitely see the argument that development slowing and a lack of transparency is a problem worth fixing.
I wonder if that place has the correct permits to be hosting large parties.
If you think about the reach Linked in has, combine that with each contact the linked in user has and you have a very fast database of emails that can be misused.
Sounds like the guy from the Patent Office that said they should shut it down everything has been invented.
Git Amend : Fix the immediate past
Idaho court seizes developer's computer because he "likes hacking"
Five Reasons Law Reviews Are Terrible
What is it with women and tech?

Let's take another industry, like the entertainment industry, isn't it extremely sexist? They do things that are much more "worse", but there are plenty of women in it.

Or take an industry like medicine or law, do they have problems with sexism? (I don't know)

I don't think the problem in tech is sexism or misogyny. It's more likely to be a combination of poor marketing (it's simply not appealing to most women and women don't fetishize techies like they do doctors and lawyers) and, compared to say entertainment or advertising, there are fewer rewards in tech for being good looking or social or having a female perspective.
It's just adult entertainment. Nobody is being forced to attend. Why aren't you writing about the "misogyny" of strip clubs and Vegas brothels instead? Why are people so sensitive about everything nowadays?

Also worth noting the author of this article is male.
Anyone else having trouble with using the new 4.0 fonts from the Bootstrap CDN?

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19549881/cdn-for-font-awe...
Thanks for the extensive reply. I haven't been able to try Sketchology yet, as I'm waiting to get my iPad back after repair, but when I do, I will pay attention to the responsiveness you mention. Snappiness is definitely important.

I am far from an artist, and I mostly use Paper to sketch out rough interfaces and interaction impressions, and I always like how Paper somehow makes my stuff look nicer than it should. I'm terrible at space planning though, so I'd pick function over style any day :)
Or everyone could be a hooker hacker I guess...