skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 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.

Are you serious ? It's so obvious that using Science is proving to be profitable for all industries using it. Life Sciences being maybe an exception rather than a rule, because of the complexity to address the issues at hand and the regulatory framework enforcing conservative approaches (we still categorize cancers by "location" rather than protein tracers which makes no sense at all scientifically). All the R&D going on in Google, Apple, Amazon and other companies involved in new technologies are driving innovation forward and proving to provide very tangible returns. The same goes with all the applied sciences done in the automobile industry, the aviation industry with material sciences, and I could go on and on since there is a neverending flow of examples.
As betterunix said, Bitcoin is not anonymous (http://bitcoin.org/en/you-need-to-know). It's like BitTorrent: many peers know your IP address and authorities can trace you with some help of your ISP, though you can use Bitcoin through Tor, but then the problem is how you obtain BTCs and how you spend them... anonymity is not trivial :)
About your question: I'd many bad experiences with banks (probably I'm not alone), and payment processor (ie PayPal) are problematic too. I like Bitcoin because is in my point of view most secure and easiest way to transfer money, and also the technology behind it is brilliant.
In Fed and Out, Many Now Think Inflation Helps
They make all kinds of notebooks, including A4.

http://www.amazon.com/Moleskine-Folio-Notebook-Professional-...
Disruptions: Are Eager Investors Overvaluing Tech Start-Ups?
Yes. This is also a reason why top US PhDs get more done. I suppose I should have been more transparent about this fact.
I think this goes a long way to back the current anecdotal theory:
"Stress - The confusion caused when ones mind overrides the body's natural desire to choke the living shit out of some asshole that desperately needs it."
http://arstechnica.com/features/2013/10/review-tesla-model-s...

"I feel a thrill when looking at beautiful examples of automotive craftsmanship like a BMW M3 or an Audi S5 or an Acura NSX. But the electrics and hybrids produced by the big players are as exciting as cold oatmeal mixed with three-days-dead road kill. Think machines like the execrable crap-box Prius, Honda's truly awful Insight, Nissan's clock-stoppingly ugly Leaf, and Chevy's Volt, which has all the personality of a beige carpet sample square."
While I certainly agree with much of the factual content presented both in the article and in the comments, I think that science already has a lot of self-correction mechanisms built in. None are perfect individually, but the big, messy system has a lot of redundancy built in. It's just not always so visible to journalists or science writers, who don't hang around the scene for the years that it often takes for science to find its way again, so to speak.

For example, many of these high-profile, possibly erroneous (or occasionally fraudulent, it seems) Nature or Science articles are high-profile because they seek to address a contentious or long-standing problem in the field. When this happens, there are typically existing alternate hypotheses. It's much easier to get papers published or grants funded by seeking to test competing hypotheses than to simply try to verify an isolated study. It can also be easier to find weaknesses in an individual study by testing it in a different way, or against other models, or whatever, than by simply trying to reproduce it. Often, a single study might be impossible to directly replicate, or the underlying flaws may not be apparent until the problem is approached from a different angle.

Granted, this can take a couple years or even decades, but falsehoods (intentional or not) tend to become more apparent as their context becomes more clear.
I think the average user understands better than you give them credit, since OSX, iOS, Android, and Windows RT/Phone have fragmented the device OS market... The computing scene is no longer a MS monopoly, but is fragmented between a bunch of incompatible OSes. Nowadays that means you buy peripherals that adhere to standards, or that don't. It's in the manufacturers' interests to create products based on standards, which of course will work with Linux...

When my wife sees that her iPhone is a pain to connect to the computer, to her car, can't mirror to our TV, etc..., yet her Android tablet does perfectly, she doesn't blame the computer, car and TV...
I think teaching a kitten to read your credit card and arrange it's kibble into a binary representation would be easier than using the POSTBillPay website.

So this project is a proof-of-concept for CoinJar's Checkout API? I think doing a consumer approachable project to demonstrate something that's invisible like a new checkout system is a great idea!
Once again, that's not even what I said, but oh well, I think this conversation stopped being productive a long time ago.
My dad could easily beat up your dad
What is the benefit of hard-linking directories relative to soft-linking them?
Facebook could and should fix this by just make 'unfriending' a move to a 'List' that isn't part of the regular 'Friends' sharing list, and clarifying the semantics of 'Friended' to mean 'invited to Friend once in the past' not an ongoing reaffirmation of Friendship.
> Keys allow fine grained access and can theoretically be way more secure.

This is true but as often is theory and "life" don't agree about the practice. This is exactly my point. If you could enforce a non-blank password on keys then I would change my tune at least a bit.
That is debatable. It's kind of a stretch to call AT&T Bell Labs 'privately funded' as ATT was a government-sanctioned monopoly. Technically it was privately funded, but not through a working market system. Kind of like the other great industrial pure research labs (MS, IBM, Xerox).
Worked, thanks. I was trying to find the thread for the essential OS X apps and found this instead.
Excellent question, smokestack! My goal is to test the viability of such a product with real customers. I am applying my experience to help out fellow developers with most of the possible combinations of interview requests, and I offer a money back guarantee if somebody is not 100% satisfied.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/yazhbin

Thank you!
Quick summaries of evidence-based medicine
Interesting, I've been looking for a reference for the first point you made, would you happen to have one?
> investing in a startup that has a value proposition based on real scientific research is the same as investing in the research in the first place

Not necessarily, if invest in science you're investing in the lab producing publishable results, without the constraint of bringing a product to market. The two don't necessarily overlap.
Awesome. This is something I try to follow. I use the same concepts that you have listed here. Conforming to the MVC pattern makes it easier to develop. Since my team is using Parse, we don't have to worry about Data Objects and Web Services, but we do have Controllers, Data Managers and Utility functions in our app.

I checked out your github account for the HN app and it is a beautifully written one. Great work.
Samsung encourages app makers to use its own developer kit
Unfriending is often very awkward. I once found out I was unfriended by someone I had lunch with (along with his coworkers) only about a month prior (a friendly lunch they invited me to). It's not the rejection that bothers me, it's the sheer surprise/shock that makes it uncomfortable.
I may have overstated IE7 support; sorry. I just tested my site using IE10's developer tools to simulate older versions (which isn't a perfect simulation, but I don't have VMs available atm). IE10 renders perfectly. IE8 and IE9 in their respective Browser Mode and Document Standard Mode, are usable but not rendered the way they're supposed to be. Somewhat graceful degradation for those two. IE7 is rendered completely incorrectly, but the main functionality is still usable. For IE7-9, my UI design has a switch for one main feature that can be turned off, which would fix most of the brokenness. It's a side-panel navigation and tools area that's collapsible. Making it fixed, and also getting rid of a fixed footer, simplifies the layout a lot for the older browsers.

I had looked at Flexie too. I think, because I'm making sure to include the 2009 syntax along with the current syntax everyplace I can, Flexie would allow IE7-9 to work better for me. Not perfectly, but better. That might've been my other option, besides turning the more advanced layout stuff off. But I just reviewed my code and I don't have Flexie anywhere, so I'm not currently using it. (This codebase is used to generate webapps for clients, so adding Flexie could be something that's done case-by-case if a client requires IE7-9 support.)

BTW, here's an example. To make an element a Flexbox container, instead of using this:

#elem
{
display: flex;
flex-flow: row nowrap;
}

I have this:

#elem
{
display: -ms-flexbox;
-ms-box-orient: horizontal;

display: -webkit-box;
display: -moz-box;
display: -ms-flexbox;
display: -webkit-flex;
display: flex;

-webkit-flex-flow: row nowrap;
-moz-flex-flow: row nowrap;
-ms-flex-flow: row nowrap;
flex-flow: row nowrap;
}

.no-flexbox #elem
{
display: -webkit-box;
display: -moz-box;
-webkit-box-orient: horizontal;
-moz-box-orient: horizontal;
}

To make things easier, all of my flexbox containers are defined in one place so I don't have to repeat all of that.
Misleading or Not Misleading, Communicating Data Effectively
There was a long tradition of noise and electronic music before Metal Machine Music going back to the turn of the 20th century, with figures like Luigi Russolo, Igor Stravinsky, Arnold Schoenberg, Iannis Xenakis, Jean-Claude Risset, Max Matthews, Morton Subotnick, and many others. Not much of it was made by famous pop musicians (as opposed to people thought of more so as composers), so Reed definitely deserves credit for introducing a lot of people to sounds and styles they'd never heard before, and perhaps paving the way for groups like Sonic Youth.
Possibly because of the staunchly anti-government, private-industry-can-always-do-it-better attitude that's nearly endemic in the SV tech scene?
That's sad he wasn't really all that old, 71 is like the new 61. He had a great adventurous life more than most people but still way too young.

Love your liver!

I'm not sure what Lou's situation was but this is a good time to stress your liver is important and a lot of people abuse it. You don't have to drink alcohol to have liver problems I'd say there is a huge stigma whenever people hear about people having liver problems.

I suddenly developed fatty liver, I'm a non-drinker, no drugs and slim, it was either my diet or the heartburn drug (the only drug) I am taking. Right now my right side and back ache constantly it's not fun.
It's always interesting(read: painful) to see HN comments on articles that relate more to emotion than cold-hard-logic.

Humans are Humans, not machines that obey a specific instruction-set with no particular affinity. There is an awkwardness to removing/rejecting people from your social circles. Simple examples are teens who don't want their parents connected to their Facebook. Not because the teen is evil, it's just that there's a certain "image" a teen might have for his friends that his parents don't see. That doesn't make the teen bad. I hope everyone here can relate and know of at least one thing that you knew wasn't the-end-of-the-world but you'd just rather not have your family know about(yet). I personally have been asked to connect on LinkedIn to people that I'd rather not be connected to. Call me thin-skinned if you want, I don't like trying to explain to a co-worker why I refuse to add him/her to my LinkedIn profile so instead I just do it and remove them a few weeks later in hopes they never notice. I was caught once(that I know of), and I just acted like "Whoa, I don't know what happened!" ...but the damage was done.
It's the same thing like, when a co-worker comes to your desk and asked "Did you get that email I sent?", so they're standing there while you hunt through your inbox.... but you know the email is in the spam folder because this particular co-worker sends way too many emails with no action-items and you don't want the coworker to see all of her/his emails unread and piled up in a folder named "SPAM", so you just click around aimlessly while trying to think of a good way to get out of the situation. Rejection is hard. Yes, people should learn to deal with it - but the reality is, it's an emotion and non-logical things happen depending on the people involved.

Hmm.... maybe I should rename my spam folder to "SuperImportant".

Oh, this reminds me of an awesome story when a job-applicant submitted their resume and multi-page job-application paper to a school. Another employee took the filled out resume and gave it to the manager. The manager looked at it, saw "GED" in the education section and ripped up the application saying "I don't deal with GED people anymore". Not even a minute later, the job-applicant walked back in and said "Oh, I've just moved and put the wrong address. Can I get my application back to change it?". The look of horror the employee saw on the manager's face....

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“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”

― Maya Angelou
Is this a big problem for someone in your situation?

Can you not rely on childprocess (or selenium webdriver) to handle their own dependancies appropriately?
Good response to this article with, like, facts and that..

http://theconversation.com/its-not-even-debatable-saturated-...
Bezos is an investor in Makerbot. (http://www.crunchbase.com/company/makerbot)
I'm sure he's well aware of the trends in 3D printing and will position Amazon in the market appropriately.
I think we should ask Angela Merkel ? ;-)
So excited that I have written an (fancy) ORM lib for golang last weekend
It scares me that Facebook can completely block a link to something they don't like by calling it "malicious".
I would dispute the "getting more done" claim. One reason whay UK PhDs are shorter is that they typically don't have any classes or rotations. You dive straight into the research.
To answer my own question:

http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1kpthd/aus_austracs...
http://matholroyd.com/post/34232285907/the-irony-of-australi...
Someone do a sentiment plot with "goodness" on the Y-axis and years ago relative to writing no the X-axis. I won't be surprised if there's a positive correlation. Successes, new challenges, and shortcomings become apparent. Whatever worked looks like it was good principle in hindsight. Whatever hasn't panned out due to new challenges looks terrible. Cherry picking in order to build a case that allows one to write authoritatively doesn't make anyone a saint or cultural leader.

Therefore, when I see an article like this with such a broad, generalizing headline, I just think it's click-bait. Lost it's way? I've read some absolutely terrible papers. "Theory of the Origin, Evolution, and Nature of Life" by Erik Andrulis is an excellent example of such unfathomably speculative garbage. I've also read a huge number of well-done papers on topics in aerospace engineering and materials science. It's always on the reader to re-produce experiments if they depend on the result, to understand the paper correctly etc. This is what my professors did. If part of the community is circle-jerking, let evolution run its course. We used to treat Aristotle as canon in the western world. Obviously things get better over time.

Skimmed article. Old news. The fact that someone is raising the flag, saying "there's a lot of low-hanging fruit to use to establish yourself as a more accurate researcher," just means we will see more of such review activity, making the title seem inaccurate. You never know when you can free yourself up an adjunct professor position in exactly your preferred field of research.
It is absolutely a proof-of-concept. At the same time it's just one of the many tools I wish Bitcoin can have. I don't expect it to be profitable (unless you count credit card points) but I will keep it running to allow 694 billers in Australia to accept Bitcoin indirectly.

Maybe someday they will see the value in CoinJar Checkout API and integrate directly. I'll even give them the source code I've written if they're too lazy to browse API docs. :-D
You would think common sense would say "only put air in your lungs".
I read his/her comment as sarcastically implying that that wasn't the case. :)
or rsync into zfs filesystem with snapshots.
You are correct in saying there's no free lunch. However, I disagree with a couple things.

1) We, as consumers, do not pay for the ad tech infrastructure - the publishers do. Their purpose is to make the inventory more valuable and allow publishers to get more money than they normally would. Better targeted ads mean less ads.

2) The Dalton Caldwell argument doesn't hold up. Do television programs design for advertisers? Yes, but they also need to design for consumers. A television show that has commercials all the time will get less views and so will an ad infested website with a terrible experience. That fear of alienation is why Facebook isn't a giant display ad.

3) Websites aren't necessarily backed by the purchase of products through ads. There are such things as "brand recognition" ads that do not rely on instant action. After all, most television ads are not informomercials or "buy now" ads. I think we'll see more brand recognition ads online in the next couple years and online ads will become more mainstream. You'll see less scummy ads as the internet continues to grow more influential and the social cost will diminish.
First, I'm still not clear on your logic.

On the one hand, there is a debate about whether consuming saturated fats cause heart disease.

On the other hand, there is the issue of whether statins prevent heart disease.

To me these are logically separate issues, yet you seem to think they are related, and my best guess at what you were hinting at seems to be wrong. So can you tell me: how would whether a doctor wants to prescribe a pill for X instead of preventing X, have anything to do with whether Y causes X.

On the evidence of saturated fat and heart disease, I will as usual defer to Wikipedia:

"Whether saturated fat is a risk factor for cardiovascular disease (CVD) is a question with numerous controversial views. Although most in the mainstream heart-health, government, and medical communities hold that saturated fat is a risk factor for CVD, some recent studies have produced conflicting results."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturated_fat_and_cardiovascula...
I'm helping build Sourcegraph, which lists the gems that depend on FFI here:

https://sourcegraph.com/github.com/ffi/ffi/network/repos/in

and can show where some of its main methods are used: https://sourcegraph.com/github.com/ffi/ffi/symbols/ruby/gem/...

and also for some other gems:

https://sourcegraph.com/github.com/nex3/sass/network/repos/i...

https://sourcegraph.com/github.com/lsegal/yard/network/repos...

https://sourcegraph.com/github.com/rails/rails/network/repos...

It would be great if someone added this functionality to rubygems.org (npmjs.org has it: https://npmjs.org/browse/depended/request).

The Ruby support is very alpha right now. It works for some (but not all) popular gems, and it doesn't show transitive dependencies yet. Also, the list of dependents isn't comprehensive, but it should be a good starting point. If there are any specific gems you'd like to see dependents for, or any issues you see, let me know.
I have no idea what this is.
I'm mostly confused by the mismatch between the domain name and the concept of rating interview skills...
That's true. However, the value of the company will only increase if it develops profitable business units or it accumulates salable assets. In both cases this represents delayed profit, not nonexistent profit.
"Digital currencies potentially allow individuals and entities to conduct quick and complex international funds transfers outside the regulatory requirements of the traditional financial system. Digital currencies that are not backed, either directly or indirectly, by precious metal or bullion are not regulated by the AML/CTF Act."[0]

It's quite surprising that the law is written that way, but CoinJar is pretty proactive to positively shape the Bitcoin economy and establish legitimacy before regulation comes in. At CoinJar we have already merged the AML/CTF 100-point check into our ID verification for fraud prevention. Currently cash deposits are not regulated but bank branches have the right to require depositors to show ID.

[0] http://www.austrac.gov.au/files/typ_rprt12_full.pdf
The article refers to a move several years ago by one biotech company, Amgen, to attempt to validate the results of some well-known studies.

Where can we find the list of these studies?
I don't know what kind of cancer your mother's father suffered from, but that's not true at all. There are a number of cancers for which radiation therapy is very effective and indicated as the first line of action before chemotherapies. Check your facts before posting :

http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/factsheet/Therapy/radiati...
Well sure, from the same perspective, the way this usually works is someone will take over the project -- whoever "needs it the most when they discover an issue" -- and so it's not necessarily anyone's problem. That is, after all, the somewhat selfish nature of Open Source.

But I'd say this is a problem if one wants to ensure compatibility in Rubyland with other languages and processes on different environments, or that they're using the latest and most correct code for their situation.

This gets hairier if the gem forks on github, and you've multiple fixes in multiple branches ... Rubygems aren't really set up to deal with this. Bundler helps, though.
UbuntuGnome 13.04 for my day to day and Ubuntu 12.04 on my servers and through Vagrant for dev
The second advantage is power: if you have proved
something about regular polyhedra, then what you
have proved automatically holds true for every
polyhedron, whether it's a cube, a tetrahedron, or
some polyhedron that you have never even heard about.

Is this worded correctly/true? If I prove something is true for regular polyhedra, then I don't believe that that extends to all polyhedra since regular polyhedra are a subset of all polyhedra...
No shit sherlock. US has been in liquidity trap half a decade. There is need for inflation or it turns into decade.
This page has some information and even a suggestion or two about ink. Whether its a fountain pen or a ballpoint, one tip I can give you is that a finer point will put less ink on the paper, thus it will dry faster. You might also like sharpie pens, they write pretty well, but they dry fast because its more like a marker as opposed to a ball point.

http://www.nibs.com/Left-hand%20writers.htm
Oh, wait a sec, is app short for 'interview application' ie cover letter and cv?
In rare cases, I'll upvote an article that I think is sub-par (poorly written, logically flawed, a bit off-topic, previously posted, etc.) just because I think it might provoke an interesting discussion. In many cases, the comments here make much more interesting reading than the articles.
I like it. The tracks it puts together are more stylistically different than I expected from your description, but I like the fact that it surprises me. Also the tempo variation is greater than I would have expected from track to track, but the beatmatching seems to be maintained perfectly through these tempo transitions. The beatmaching seems perfect. Well done!
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