skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Speaking of deaths, people too often focus on benefits and not safety. Even in post-war America, a lot of good men died during that industrial boom. An old co-worker of mine was a shift supervisor in a steel mill and he had horror-stories, and this was in a union shop.

These jobs involve a scale of machinery that makes the human body look like a slug in an elephant stampede. The physics of the situation are horribly unforgiving. Without anyone pulling for safety standards, a heavy industrial facility can be a literal and figurative meat-grinder.
On the other hand, if you let yourself update your prior with the actual data, you'll see that frequentist statistics has had the better part of a century worth of successes.
This is what happened when I tried typing the first sentence on your web site: http://i.imgur.com/jQGHwQc.png
Tell you what. Since I'm not a big fan of the lynchmob, here's the only positive critique I'll give you: proxying isn't an altogether terrible idea. It's not my first go to, but it does have it's place. HOWEVER. Allowing a third party to manage it, is. If you genuinely want to create some buzz and interest, source the serverside of this, and write some docs up how to deploy it to AWS, Heroku, etc. Bundle the JS with that. That'll be infinitely more useful than this service.

You're asking that I trust you will not modify the response in any way shape or form. The very nature of software dev mandates that I do not trust data that is not my own; and even then, verify it. You're asking quite a lot here. This is by all points and purposes, a man-in-the-middle attack vector.
Can you tell me yours if possible and what kind of product you are building
One other point about the "golden age" of unions (say, 1945 – 1973): it occurred at a time when almost the entire developed world had destroyed its entire industrial plant.

At the same time, much of the developing world as we know it now had caught a nasty ideological virus that's not good for industry and trade.
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I've been helping folks who are new to the startup world get jobs at startups in nyc. The short answer is no: having failed (especially in the industry you are looking for a job in) can be immensely helpful. Companies I have spoken to like having someone with some skin in the game, and that have learned some lessons that can be carried over to their business.
You are incredibly out of touch with most workers' reality if you think that wage theft is low cost or low probability.
bash: emacs: command not found

As a vim user I feel as if I just got trolled by a piece of software:

Cool website: Hey type this emacs-y key sequence into bash, it's super useful!
Unsuspecting chump: Ooh okay! <tippy-tap>
Bash: Hahahaha lolno, install emacs luser!

Admittedly $EDITOR is unset and it works if I set it, but why the hell is Emacs the default?
Doctors encompass the entire range of people (from morons to geniuses). As a group, they aren't some magnificent godlike all knowing figure.

"Programmers are quite capable of reviewing the evidence to see if code is effective" — yet, we end up with thousands of people using MongoDB based off fad and hype and losing data by the day.

(Wait, did I just advocate for a government-level code approval board? In the right hands it would probably help if it prevented more Mongos and Hadoops from entering the world.)
Silicon Valley "It is better to ask for forgiveness" culture meets the worst of government "We'll need that in triplicate 5 years in advance of starting to look at the paperwork."

This should be interesting, if you have the patience to watch the fallout in slow motion.
My earliest forays into CG were on amiga and earliest paid jobs were with video toaster / lightwave and softimage on SGIs. Great times. With tools we have today they seem so primitive in comparison.
A lot of the modern pharmaceutical marketing regulation, and the regulations that makes approving new drugs a slow process, came in the wake of Thalidomide, which I think still provides a fairly strong case for why we should thoroughly test new medicines, and shouldn't rush them to market.
I don't doubt that your service works with the best intentions, but why should I open a security hole in my application, when I can easily avoid it by writing my own proxy and keep it private?

What happens to my application, if your service goes through a DDoS?
What happens to my application, if you suddenly decide to close your service?

I'm pretty sure you can use these arguments about other services, but this service exactly, is not worth the risk.
Can we get a break from all these Bitcoin posts please?
>> "If you're like me and don't like dubbed content and have already phased out physical media, there often really is no way of getting the content legally in at least a semi-comfortable way."

I guess this is my point. If it's available on physical media that seems convenient enough to make it morally wrong to pirate. There is a moral argument for piracy when content isn't made available but when it is available in several versions and someone still chooses to pirate it because it isn't available in the version they prefer that seems indefensible to me.
Switching to the new GA tracking? Read this first.
About to switch your #googleanalytics implementation to use DoubleClick version? Read this first.
Can anyone explain to me what is so attractive about Uber?

To me, Uber is just taxi with smart phones. My opinion is that is that Uber is avoiding a lot of the bureaucracy and fees that real taxi companies are paying for their rights and things such as insurance. I always figured that once the taxi companies figure out the convenience of smart phones they will start to integrate that technology more aggressively and be able to fight Uber back.

But there must be something I'm not seeing.

> "The $258 million is an 86 percent chunk of Google Ventures’ $300 million dollar a year fund..."

That's a lot of money, and that's a large part of Google Ventures fund. What are they seeing that I'm not seeing? Is there a future vision of Uber that's going over my head?
This is more complex than the simplistic picture you paint.

I'm moderately on the side of government not interfering where possible. But medicine and medical devices is one area in which such interference is quite likely a positive influence, on the whole.

Fact is, we don't want a return to the era of patent medicines. For every user of 23andme who is well-informed enough to know that the information is not reliable, experience shows that there will be another who is not. And these people will base life- and health-affecting decisions on the results provided by unregulated products. Then maybe they'll get sick or die.

That's why there are regulatory standards for medical devices and services. These standards don't prevent the sale of 23andme's services, but require that they are either a) regulated and proven to work, or b) explicitly and clearly described as not being so.

Yes, there are rampant inefficiencies within this system. But I'd wager that it's probably better than the alternative.
There's NO app for that...
What's the point of the down vote then, if not to enable an easy response (and influence) to something disagreeable without spurring entirely unnecessary and often negative comments?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but if someone tries to convert stolen BTC into USD, it'll show up as a public transaction? (hence making it useless to steal BTC)
yes. this happens when i tried typing. I am a fast typist
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Ruby 2 SSL Verification Failed?
Don't take me wrong… I would use your service in any proof-of-concept/mockup/prototype… It really helps a lot in those use cases, since is one less thing for me to worry about.

I just don't trust it enough to use in production.
At least the FDA has teeth even if the SEC lets startup financiers play billionaire shenanigans all the time and get away with it.
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Thank You! Will definitely look into your suggested solution.
If you need to ask why it is bad to route traffic through an untrusted third party over HTTP, for the love of god stop building web applications. This is not the right tool for the problem it's trying to solve.
Cool. That's my kind of union! :)
heh they DO hate that ;)

my point was simpler tho which is just that the real numbers being applied to these amounts rely on ecosystem stability and the market cap (a term a trader helpfully pointed me to in order to understand their favorite stat, which these "multiply by exchange rate" figures are an extension of) really doesn't represent the real world value of assets in Bitcoin since the value declines as money is pulled out of the system.

It seems to be anyone's guess as to whether or not it has real value or is a pyramid scheme. There's no way to tell without a mass cashout. Then we'd see how many BTC can get sold off before one starts to incur heavy losses. I think if some of the big players cashed out (early adopters with an inordinate amount of essentially self-printed wealth) the system would destabilize and finally flop. It's why they instead drive the price up & try to trickle units out one by one.
What are the basic tradeoffs at that scale? I'm only using it for search at a very low scale but it almost sounds like a dream database if it works well at scale and for canonical storage.
People die from the opposite approach as well from drugs that shouldn't have been on the market and aren't safe or effective. People dying is not a reason to just allow anything. Regulation is good when it comes to forcing companies to prove a drugs effectiveness by actually doing the science.
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it's not a lab test anyone will use to base important decisions on

Yet their adverting makes it sound like it is. Specifically talking about how it can be used find un-diagnosed disease and health problems.
Typify - A personal web page without the hassle
Gold, which was easier to track down and confiscate "back" was historically confiscated in much larger quantities by much tougher guys. This "insured" government debt-backed money that you have today is a result of having heavy money that is ultimately owned by someone who is bigger than you.

While Bitcoin is stolen from some exchanges from time to time, it's much more diffused and it's enormously harder to take bitcoins massively from population than gold.

See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_6102

By the way, these "insured" USDs that you have in your account are not owned by you. Try to cash out everything in paper. Or move anywhere at once without asking for permission. Or what would you do when they impose capital controls like in Cyprus or Argentina? Or when your % of total USDs in the economy is going down while Fed is printing more dollars? Or when some new taxation is applied retroactively? Or when some bureaucrat didn't see your tax return papers in time and your entire account is frozen during investigation?

Bitcoin reduces systemic risk like the one present in banking system and shifts the burden on individual users. You can still create a bank if you want, but that's totally optional and you have many other options as well. In the future people will develop hundreds really different devices, services and tricks to store your coins securely. Compare that with monopolised non-innovative heavily regulated banking.

As bitcoins are so cheap to store, security is asymmetrical: it's much harder to take, than to hide. Gold, or any physical commodity, are as hard to protect as to take from you. Hence, most brutal guys end up owning precious metals over the course of the history. Average Joe can only have as much gold as he can hide in his pants.
Nicely done! The automatic logging of custom view names in the timeline is a nice touch. Are you planning browser/web(app) support as well?

I'm currently using Reflector to record the screen, along with a separate camera to record the user's face and hands. It's a more complex setup that makes remote testing significantly more difficult, so there is definitely value in this, if the price is right.
Dismissing an ideology you don't agree with only highlights your own ignorance.

Copy and paste and argument from the internet if you can't form one on your own. Don't pretend "herp derp Rand Paul" is valid.
Never once did they attack the technology but rather the potential for error or the consequences if the public "can't handle the truth."

The closest they come to calling her a "quack" is when they state "...We still do not have any assurance that the firm has analytically or clinically validated the PGS for its intended uses..."

The bigger question is why is the FDA having a seizure over this? Could it be the potential for added treatment and preventative healthcare measures that insurers vis a vis the Affordable Care Act and not looking forward to paying for? (Not a rhetorical question, just asking)
Losing data when you're a professional who should have known what you're doing is one thing.

Losing your life when you're a layman in the medical field is another.
I think the US's for profit healthcare system makes the FDA very important. Here in the US, we have pharmaceutical salesman who come in and schmooze the staff to then get to the doctors. Pharmaceutical rep is a job known to be very amenable to attractive women with little skills outside of flirting.
> The gov wants to decide what's best for the people. Should the people decide differently, using their wallets for example, this anomaly will be quashed.

There are huge information asymmetries involved when it comes to medical drugs, and also huge barriers to experimenting with different products. "Voting with your wallet" is appropriate for determining which cell phone should be popular, not which medical drugs or medical tests.

We as a society have determined that the appropriate risk versus innovation trade-off when it comes to medicines and drugs is less risk at the potential cost of less innovation. The FDA exists to safeguard that policy.

It's funny that you mention Asia, because the trend in Asian countries is to follow the American/European model. Asians have had enough of thinking "is this rat meat?" every time they bite into a lamb kebob, and are regulating their food and drug industries. And by "asians" I mean the Chinese, because the Japanese and Koreans have adopted the Western regulatory model long ago.
I've learned in the Internet that USA jobs contracts don't use to include severance, so it's just another world for me. Also I guess an elite developer in NY is paid well enough not to worry about 22 days of pay.

To be frank, I don't trust most unions in my country, I have seen some very bad cases in which unions simply fucked horribly the people they're supposed to help.

But I also know many cases of good unions that faced terrible situation for the workers and saved the day.

So I understand your position for your POV, but don't overgeneralize. Unions are life-savers for many people in many places.
Ah, my circle of friends only had Amiga 500, 600 and 1200.

I don't remember if I ever saw a 1000.
The statement.
When I hire ppl, I check their technical skills, social skills, that they are smart, good people and nice to work with.

Drinking beer with me after work or good out together in the weekend isn't one of the requirements.
How do you know that, I haven't found any info regarding location restrictions on their website.
It's written for consumption by 23andMe's lawyer. This format is typical.
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This doesn't actually find almost anyone's email address, by the way.

A quick search through my employer's database finds five Mark Smiths. None of them appear to have their social networking profiles linked. Knowing the <firstname, lastname, company> tuple does not uniquely identify any particular Mr. Smith, and rapportive gives no clues.

This is especially true for gmail. I have three gmail addresses, and none of them can be guessed by combining my names in creative ways (not because I'm paranoid, but because I have never used gmail as my primary address, so I signed up late enough that nathanb@gmail, et al, were long gone). You will find many people with my exact <firstname, lastname> combination (I even know one personally, so <firstname, lastname, city> is equally ambiguous).

While this is an interesting approach (and is probably useful for finding the
email addresses of execs, tech leaders, and people with creative names), it falls far short of the promised "finding almost anyone's email address".
Will anyone here besides me admit they've never won a game of chess, ever, not once? Even against some random little kid who only knows how the pieces move, at Thanksgiving?

I have this suspicion that some part of my brain is damaged and I'll never be able to play chess. I've made many attempts at learning, but have never improved over randomly moving pieces around the board.

Any advice on a resource that will help me at least not embarrass myself, even if I still can't win? "Play more chess" doesn't seem to be the answer. I don't think practice helps if you are practicing poor chess.
Given the beard, a wizard staff would be more appropriate. Gandalf fighting against software patents! Good tidings indeed!
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It was probably one of those cases where the author just built it knowing it's limitations and tested it doing it slowly and not realizing almost everyone else won't have that same point of view and will try to type really fast.
Thank you very much for such detailed reply!

If I understand you correctly all these points are about technical implementation mostly, but not the promotion. And they seems for me quite reasonable. But is it really enough to win?

Recently I have published my another project: https://github.com/Eliah-Lakhin/papa-carlo . This is related to PL development too. And I also have detailed documentations on dedicated website: http://lakhin.com/projects/papa-carlo/ . As well as intorucing blog post: http://lakhin.com/blog/15.11.2013-handy-incremental-parser/.

And I of course tried to publish these links in various places including HN too. But unfortunately there were too few feedback.

So this experience show me that having a good support of the product with Documentation etc is not enought. But maybe I should not project that experience to PL development?
Ask HN: Discuss my startup likewise.io
On HN, most if not all recruitment related articles are negative:

- Why Recruiters Are Universally Hates

- Why Technology Recruiters Fail

- Groupon tries to recruit DHH

- ...

All of this got me thinking, we always hate on recruiters and say we could do it so much better (that's why we're hackers after all), so why don't we do it ourselves?

This is the whole idea behind my new startup likewise.io, where software developers can refer other software developers, and in exchange receive a commission close to what a recruiter makes.

1. Do you like the idea and concept?
2. Would you actively use it to refer your connections, colleagues, friends etc?
3. How would you improve it? *
4. As a company, would you advertise jobs on it? (The business model is quite the same as that of a recruitment agency for companies in terms of price)

* Hard to say without access to the community/marketplace, but if you sign up and add HN in your name I'll try to approve you faster.

URL: likewise.io

Thanks for feedback!
blindhippo: You are hellbanned.
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Similar to http://thebetafamily.com/superrecorder
The UN includes Mexico in Central America:

http://unstats.un.org/unsd/methods/m49/m49regin.htm
That is why I always call it by the original name. :)

Yep that is also a nice feature.
Should you really dump your iPhone for Android?
"... only makes sense once you're working on a codebase too big to understand."

My aim is to never reach this point. When I can no longer understand it, it's too big.

That said, I will remain curious about OO.
TQP should be forced to pay back all the money they stole with this silly patent
> not under free market capitalism

I am so glad of this. Without regulatory force we would se much more threats to everyone from other citizens (and that's why regulations came into being).
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I'm curious, are there any other examples than Thalidomide? It's a true horror story, but there should be a limit to how much precaution one disaster justifies in the future. Many other drugs with ultimately fatal but initially undiscovered side effects have made it through FDA approval, too.
And now, what shall we use to conduct this beautiful current with, hm? What one particular element comes to mind, hm?

Ooooh, wire.
Ask HN: (better) alternative to HN?
HN has become a mess of BitCoin articles, "GitHub is down" posts, and neverending poshy hipsters publicizing their startup.
Is there a better place where one can read interesting news and/or learn something really useful and interesting?
OK, it is a trust issue. However you can use this library and change the proxy url to your own server and still get the benefit of the fact that you don't need to rewrite external requests and just use jQuery.
CMS/HHS will look like idiots as mRNA sequencing dips below the $100 per test price point and doctors for the first time will have a histogram of genes turned on for use in their diagnosis.

Instead of whinging, FDA needs to partner with NIST to come up with quality control protocols so doctors know the error distribution in data that they receive.
93/100. The one with small caps was tricky -- small caps fonts generally have wider letterspacing, which threw me off for a bit.
Which makes me wonder: now that bitcoin seems to be gaining traction in china and elsewhere, how deep is the market?

How many BTC can you convert in dollars before you crash the market?
Neither I am. But my approach does not require fancy AI knowledge, but only a good grasp of computer software, hardware, OS, and virtualization.
Anyone who thinks the FDA is overreaching here has little awareness of how stupid the majority of the world's population is. The people that this protects don't know how to even read this statement from the FDA.

Perhaps the startup echo chamber has more respect for unchecked opportunism; if that's the case, someone should make a startup called 23andMeFree (monetized by ads, duh) that has you spit in a tube, send it to some PO Box, then randomly generate positive and negatives across the board. If you wanted the scam to last longer, you could even generate random values based on statistics of certain characteristics. A true libertarian must support such a business.
I'd like to point out that -- as much as I'm sure most people love 23andMe -- it's not really a scrappy start-up. It's a nearly 8 year old company which has received something like a hundred million in funding.

So this isn't really a case of the gov't stomping on the little guy before he has a chance to grow; 23andMe has had its chance to grow into a fairly big deal, and now it's time to start playing by the rules.
Sorry, didn't see this. But yes, the vast majority of handsets are still dumb, lots of Techno J2ME handsets still being sold.

That said, Android is getting so cheap that it is turning into a chasm between totally dumb phones (not J2ME, just a simple handset) and Android. The former is still the vast vast majority.
It is (and he notes that at the bottom of the post). Schneier frequently reposts his essays from other sites.