skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is actually a relevant point. Both Qnexa and Belviq were only recently approved. The companies who got them approved are pretty small and don't have the backing of a massive pharma company to help them with marketing.

In fact, the maker of Qnexa, Vivus, has had 3 CEOs over the past year and they are getting a lot of flack from shareholders over not putting in enough effort to market the drug.
When you're addicted to sugar, fresh fruit and vegetables won't taste as good - so it's a catch 22 - people will have to go through a shift, however I think it would help for them to hear or know that is what's going on.
True, but that is no reason to start spreading the falsehood that OpenGL is everywhere used on consoles, as many FOSS advocates do.

Specially when enough information is actually publicly available for anyone that cares about game development, in online forums, games magazines, conferences and game courses.
I see where you're coming from, and you're right, in a sense.

What we have is something like 10x more good stuff, and 1000x more rubbish. Whether this should be described as degradation depends on what your idea of quality is... There are more and better gems to be found, but we've to sift through a lot more crap to get to them.

I think the most I'm comfortable saying is that the nature of discourse is different, and the AVERAGE quality is lower, but if we adjust our own behavior, we can reap the benefits and suffer less of the consequences.

Re: Hierarchical database, I'm totally with you. I've constantly been frustrated at how it feels like the best writing is never effectively, meaningfully aggregated.
Go get pkg ~ easy made easier for project dependency management
"Why don't we teach effective exercise, sports, and fitness in schools?" We do. It's called gym.

Um no, and that's part of the problem. In my experience, gym class was a Hunger Games like spectacle for the athletically (but not otherwise) gifted to enjoy their brief decade in the sun at the expense of those who will peak much later in life (but of course, they're more likely to be sedentary in part because of such a negative early impression of physical activity). Evidence? Do I need to mention anything else beyond Shirts vs. Skins Battle Ball? What kind of %$*!ing psychotic thought this sounded like a good idea at the time?

"Why don't we align our medical system with prevention instead of expensive and risky cures?" That's a good question, actually.

No money in it for big pharma, a segment increasingly under attack from the FDA for many of its practices and for which many critical drugs are facing patent expiration. So now they're trying to play good guy by increasingly focusing on orphan diseases ($10K to $500K/year per patient) where if someone blocks a promising therapy, its entire population of victims is doomed. And since these are the long-tail, it also creates an effective barrier to entry for smaller competitors.
I actually had two separate full screen ads when I tried to visit this page on my phone.
I love Paul Sheer's "LINUX: Rute User's Tutorial and Exposition" [1] It is about much more than just the shell, but you can stop whenever you want.

That was my "free" book recommendation, if you want to buy a "regular" book, then "The Unix Programming Environment" [2]
can't be beat. You can find a dirt cheap "low cost edition", or buy it second hand online.

[1] http://rute.2038bug.com/index.html.gz

[2] http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/upe/
I think you are underestimating the suppressive effect of large government-controlled armies packing AK-47s and jeeps.
I think, after I clear out my current project log, OS hacking is the next thing on my plate. I'll probably start with drivers, but I eventually want to get into learning the core concepts. OS kernels and compiler design are kind of the last "things" that I've not yet done with programming, and probably couldn't just jump into it feet first and be productive. I've done AI, graphics, real-time embedded programming, high-performance algorithm stuffs, large scale data crunching, etc. etc., and they all pretty much come down to the same stuff: know your math and don't waste cycles. 'Spose that's kernels and compilers, too.
Fitting (or maybe embarrassing) that it's in ASCII art.
thank you, I'll update all the links with suggestions (I'll be able to make this only around Christmas)...
It's pretty disingenuous to say "We're really sorry! We're fully booked right now in this area." when you don't even service the area yet. Just be honest and say you haven't made it to my city yet. I'd respect that a lot more.
If you are on a device with a keyboard you can use the arrow keys to advance.
MIT surveillance video that led to Aaron Swartz's arrest
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Don't we already have cheap convenient healthy food?

I mostly eat tacos for dinner, beans, occasionaly rice, random vegetables, a little bit of hot sauce, sometimes eggs.

Its cheaper than mcdonalds and takes about 5 minutes to make.
> What counts as an error?

I feel like, 'let the market decide.' is probably a reasonable answer here.

Science is always an interest-directed endeavour, and we have these problems in conventional review anyway, they're just harder to provide a consistent definition of. I would be inclined to say that typos and grammar errors probably aren't worth paying for - but that's just me. If journals turn out to really care about those things, why not let them pay for them?

Heck, if they know ahead of time that that's what they're interested in paying for, let them forward the paper to a grammar expert and get even more utility for the money.

How much is each error worth, related to who pays. Well, make bounty funds and let each fund make its own choices. If a bunch of Christians really want to disprove evolution, let them put a massive bounty out on errors in biology papers. I imagine that such Christians wouldn't care much about typos or grammar mistakes, they might care more for citation errors, and a lot more for errors in maths or evidence.

You pay for the truth that's important to you.

And if the person paying disagrees with the person making the claim, then the person making the claim presumably doesn't get paid. But if you keep doing that, then you damage your ability to buy truths that are important to you. Which is ultimately self-destructive. Bug bounties spring to mind as an example there. If the Christian fund never pays out, people will just stop working with the Christian fund.

And that's a decent signalling mechanism it seems to me. If people claim to value the truth in some area, but they never pay out and no-one wants to work with them... then it's probably a decent bet that they don't really. After all, they won't pay for it.

One potential problem there, I suppose, is ignorant people putting out a bounty on something and ending up paying out a lot of money for errors that aren't actually errors. Because they don't know enough to judge for themselves. But in so far as you have a motivation to avoid paying for lies, you'd then have a motivation to hire people who knew more about the subject than you to vet them - which isn't a bad thing. I mean if you didn't know enough to assess the thing in the first place, all this does is provide a reason for you to be cautious about pretending to know things you don't.
Man, you need to adjust your privileged-lifestyle viewpoint.

Ever try to buy groceries without a car? How much time would you add to your day if you had to take the bus from work to the supermarket, and then the bus back to your house. A 15 minute 2 stop car trip becomes an hour+ with all the waiting, shuffling to and from the bus stop, etc.

Also, ever notice how those big supermarkets with the cheap prices aren't really present in poor neighbourhoods? All you can find are cheap bodegas and convenience stores in those neighbourhoods.

Finally, a lot of poor people have 2 jobs or try to get as much overtime as they can to supplement their income, so 'We all work the same hours.' is a bit of a fallacy.
Ultimately beholden to big business? Tell that to all the drug companies who have either had their drug denied by the FDA or pulled after approval [1].

[1]http://www.fda.gov/safety/recalls/
Try http://www.amateurgourmet.com/2008/11/the_best_brocco.html
What's wrong about the "is this homework" comment? Why would you (this is a generic "you") expect someone else to answer your question _for free_ if you haven't bothered to actually try solving it yourself? Where is the courtesy and etiquette in that?

I think SO/SE's aggressive discouragement of leechers and high question-closing rate makes their website better for everyone. Except the leechers and "help vampires", that is.
Dollar's are backed by a large hegemonic power, with control of its armed forces, which is capable of extracting taxes from its population.

This makes them valuable, unless you expect the US government to fall shortly. Bitcoin does not have these features. It also does not have the normal features of a commodity (i.e. industrial uses).

This means it has zero intrinsic value - nothing stablizes or enforces its value in anyway.
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> Driven in large part by an insatiable lust for the currently illegal substances in the US.

Totally irrelevant to the original point. This discussion isn't about blame, it's about why anyone is surprised at Mexico being dangerous.

And Mexico is not like any other country. Journalists are regularly killed, people using Twitter to criticize drug cartels are killed and bodies are hung in public areas. Local governments and police live in fear. So no, it's not like any other country.
> I like programming, and I am good at it. I don't like administration. So I don't try to become a manager, or a project manager or similar.

I like programming and was quite good at it. In fact, people bugged me to start a company based on a website I'd built until I gave in. 13 years later I've been a "manager" for all this time, still rather bad at managing people, but successful enough for 7-figure dividends. I can't say I regret trying it and not focusing on my strengths instead (I'd probably be a somewhat highly-paid employee in tech somewhere if I had done so). Also, I can still program every day and enjoy it.
Great pictures, Thank you for sharing this!
> I hear this kind of argument all the time and I don't buy it at all. How do poor people have less time to cook than well off people? We all work the same hours.

This is almost undoubtedly false. 40 hours at the federal minimum wage doesn't come anywhere close to providing a livable income, particularly if the person is supporting a family; many low-income workers work multiple jobs.
I've enjoyed witnessing the use of terms like "lol" and the intentional elimination of full-stops, etc to communicate tone through mobile communications. I don't think many people throughout history have had the opportunity to witness such wide-scale shifts in language use within the course of 10, 20 years.
All work the same hours? Not if you're working two part-time jobs because that's what you can get.

Not to mention the difference in commute time between owning a car versus taking a bus and walking in many areas. It takes me fifteen minutes to get to work; if I took the available buses it would be nearly three hours each way.

(We'll leave aside whether cheap pasta and rice are actually healthy eating.)
I attempt to bias myself towards auto-correcting feedback loops (physical, mental, computational).
Yeah, I'll think pack on this article whenever my PIC32 fails to do what I tell it and think "It could be much worse."
The section title paused me for a second.

> A different CPU does not an operating system make
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yeah thats why this stuff is all questionable... supposed good intentions.

there was a good article recently that addresses this a bit better https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6833267

after a bit of reading about the topic you get more of a sense of how the PR machine is working since many big companies go the "no comment" route or just flat-out lie until they are finally caught red-handed. a statement from Microsoft (or anyone for that matter) doesn't really mean much unless they outline a technical methodology that can be thoroughly tested and verified by crypto experts/community.

Some might argue that it weakens the system by open sourcing it, but that's sortof the only way IMHO to get to a system that is based on actual crypto and information transmission theory and not just companies obscuring data with methods that will eventually be cracked.
Beyond the flu shot: A closer look at the "alternatives"
I live in Chicago and tried Homejoy a couple months ago to clean my apartment. The entire booking process was quick and smooth, and the cleaner was pleasant and did a good job. I'm glad to hear they are doing well.
It's unfortunate how behind the curve Mozilla is on this. No denying this was a huge undertaking but the length of time it's taken has obviously been detrimental to Firefox usage, the only real reason I still use Chrome as my primary browser. Though I'll give Electrolysis a shot with Firefox Nightly and see how it works out.
Fixing the Nexus 5: with a new version of Android, Google tackles the camera
"genetic test (of diseases)" is quite different from reading DNA, and presumably includes interpretation. I don't understand how can reading DNA part can be inadequate, given that it's the same lab doing the same process as other clinical testings. 23andMe is using off-the-shelf SNP array, it's not like it's doing anything special with respect to reading DNA.
Jay-Z’s Birthday: Seven Facts About The 44-Year-Old
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A better word than "time" is probably energy. Also, the GP added skills and money to the list.

To make good food on the cheap, you need a bit of equipment and you need an upfront investment in spices and staples, all of which are significantly cheaper in the long run in bulk. Besides the investment, you need to plan long term, something the poor often struggle with (being poor is rarely only a question of lacking money).

With that in mind, it's pretty naïve to expect banning marketing to achieve much improvement in poor people's diets.
Windows needs to be restarted from a garage but other arms are not doing too badly/ not dying quite so badly. Games are a good spinner for MS; Office, exchange and AD are still ubiquitous for offices and they may even make that Azure mess into a reasonable product (Especially if they keep targeting transcoding based industries)
Thanks for the list.

The problem is that outside of Blizz/Valve's stuff, if you browse Steam's list of Mac games, it's like 95%+ small games made by a lone developer, and that is really sad. No disrespect to those developers, but that kind of games just don't interest me.

But you think things are getting better? Do big game studios actually use Unity these days? That would be kind of.. awesome.
"it is only through a change in lifestyle"

And that's the difficult thing people aren't willing to do. Taking a pill might help for the near term (we are so short sighted these days!) but it won't address the long term. "I've been taking this pill so now I'm not overweight [so now] I don't need to take the stairs over the elevator!" A few years later, you might not be overweight but you still aren't healthy!

"it is only through a change in lifestyle"

Reminds me of a coworker that complains about his financial situation. He complains about not making enough money and thinking that if he made more then he'd be able to "pay his bills and get ahead"... that might work for the short term, but without a change in how he handles money he's going to end up as "poor" as he is now.

(Preface: He makes more than the average American, this isn't about true poverty) If you live paycheck to paycheck because you are unwilling to make the difficult change in your lifestyle by living slightly under your income level in an effort to pay off debt and save for the future, you will continue to live paycheck to paycheck after you get a raise (that you claim is what you need to "get ahead"). If you spend what you make, you'll just spend more when you make more.

Discipline. It's not easy.
Let's say I have a function that pulls some data from the database and transforms it in some way.

I can run the original function and capture its output. Then I can write an updated function, see what its output is, I can compare them visually to ensure the change I made works as intended.

When you don't have a REPL the only way to do this is by writing a test and running it once you've made the change.

In fact, you can use the code from the tests you write in the REPL to create a unit test for later. The difference is that the REPL feedback loop is much tighter.
>"I'm seeing books in there that are awful choices."

At the very least, you could mention which and why.

There's a hell of a lot more value in...

"The ZINC experiment: an economical implementation of the ML language is a technical report, written by Xavier Leroy (author of OCaml) in 1990th, and it contains pretty detailed description of ML-like language implementation. This report could be very interesting for all who wants to know about internals of Caml & OCaml languages."

...x 132 from someone who may or may or may not have actually read what's linked than a simple "awful" without any context or qualification.

I mean, you could have just dropped a link to your own site and added something of value, instead of creating a nonsense tangent of accusation:

https://www.bionicspirit.com/blog/2013/05/13/getting-started...
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You can...

For example, Merrill Newman (who has been in the news lately) was taking a 10 day vacation there when he was detained.
Most private insurers provide this option in the US as well.
I really like the "Mandatory precaution about benchmarks", it's spot on
No, I didn't mean to make a big deal out of it. You're right that the yard analogy doesn't work -- but that's the problem, there's no analogy that does, not completely. I agree that it was poorly thought, but it was late, and as I hadn't heard the yard analogy before, my sleep-deprived brain thought it was somewhat novel. In retrospect, I agree that it wasn't.

I simply choose to respect the creator's wishes. If they hadn't created it, I wouldn't have been able to get enjoyment out of it, and to me, that's worth something. Yes, I appreciate that copying something isn't necessarily theft, but it does violate their wishes, and that seems a poor way to repay someone for creating something I like so much that I would consider taking it.
Just make sure you are not a veteran of any war, or in any other way objectionable, before going. Because then you have a good chance of being detained and paraded around with a false confession.

The purpose of this "tourism," other than propaganda, is to get hard cash to the government of North Korea
It makes sense that it would be easier to raise some angel money than to raise venture capital, but is it typically much easier to raise millions in angel money than it is to raise an A round? Is social proof helping in the former and non-existent in the latter?

Separately, have you seen a case where investors completely failed to pay attention to a growing company due to some attribute of the founder?
Boil some water, throw the green beans in for just a couple minutes. Remove the beans and put them in a colander to dry. Mince and fry a shallot (or onion) in oil or butter. Throw in the beans, chopped walnuts, and a little bit of feta cheese. Salt to taste (salt is often the difference between bland and tasty).
How do websites like this avoid getting cut out the deal.

I used a similar service to find a pet sitter. The first time I booked using the website. Every time after I went directly to the pet sitter.
If you're worried about Cyprus style theft happening in your country you need to start planning. Putting your life savings into Bitcoin given the volatility is crazy. It's not (yet) a stable store of weath.

You should try to keep deposited funds below the insurance limit set for your country, consider acquiring hard assets and precious metals which could be held off-shore in a country with good financial and legal regulation, and consider depositing funds in countries which are creditor nations with rock-solid banks which have minimal exposure to derivatives and other toxic assets e.g. Hong Kong and Singapore.
Na, I'm with you on the money thing. Lobbyists are just a symptom of the winner-take-all economic system we've got here. That said, it's probably more realistic to control the symptoms right now than try to reform our entire economy.

You could probably answer every question with "People in power use their fortunes to preserve power" and you'd nail it 90% of the time.
I'm male, and I will choose he or she or they pretty much arbitrarily. Usually it's "they". I believe that at some point in the recent past, people preferred "she" for an anonymous pronoun for some kinds of writing.
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Go JDog go
I see what you did there...

There is no point is arguing this kind of thinking. If it's reversed, you'd cry FUD. It's meaningless bullshit. Simple as that.

Edit: the whole list is so logically challenged (if something is free, how can someone pay "5 times as much"?) that it wily be a waste of time and energy debating any merit that may be present.
The lesson of Cyprus is that allowing your government to create a financial sector which is worth more then your entire country, and can't default on that debt for fear of Russians murdering a lot of people is a bad idea.

It sure wasn't that Bitcoin somehow escapes you from the problem, since very few people are likely to have wanted to buy any Cyprian currency with Bitcoin - the bump is more a product of Bitcoin being an incredibly small economy.
To be fair, the reason I though the Wii supported OpenGL was because that's what I thought I read from Nintendo when I was seriously considering writing some homebrew games for my Wii.

As to why and where I gained this misinformation I don't know. But somewhere along the line I've gotten my wires crossed.
I watched this just few hours ago. I guess i am not the only person to surf documentaries on youtube.
Nice letters, shame that photographers have to spend time policing usages of their work though.

I wonder if there is a lightweight solution that can be built, something that will search for your images online, try to find contact info for infringers, and (on your authorization), send email takedown requests and track the replies?

I know you can retain legal help to do this now, but it might be an interesting SAAS sort of offering.
It's a very small amount of hard currency compared to their main sources of hard currency; I suspect that if they took the resources they devote to tourism and instead put them into boosting their other revenue streams, they'd get more money.

Furthermore, a lot of the hard currency from the tourists does not go directly to the government but instead seeps into the hands of tour guides and other people the group encounters.
There will always be a need to have fully functional work environment OS such as windows 7/mac os x/linux....Android/iOS/Windows 8 are for the mainstream users who just want to check email/text/watch youtube.

The confusion of windows 8 is that it's trying to have 2 different ui systems...

Mac OS X seems to have done a decent job of slowing integrating some features from iOS (app store, notifications) without without copying and pasting the iOS ui system into it
Bitcoin threatens the dollar system.
China bought a lot of US debt in dollar.
China has to keep dollar strong to get its money back, anything that could affect US Dollar is a no-no to China.

does this simple logic make sense...