skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's extreme. Vaccines are not without risks, even if they vast majority of society believes they're tiny risks with massive benefits. By all means seek to educate people, use public funds to subsidize them, but murder charges because you refuse to inject a substance in your child's body? No.

edit: I'm biased because yesterday my daughter had a mild reaction to a vaccine that was not listed on any of the information materials our doctor had given us. But believe me that's a bias I'll take to my grave. I'm not going to refuse all vaccines over that - but it's never your decision to make for us.
It doesn't go to spam in my Gmail, which it did yesterday. However, some people are reporting the mail going to spam. This is why I'm asking, I can't test it myself on any account.
Or wearable computing devices.
Coinbase's callback URLs are really cool
This makes commits that have not been tested.
I think every decent investor would have own judgment and will be able to spot lies easily. So can we say taht your customer is one who fully realies on analyst suggestions, it's quite interesting how you target him?
You have no pricing whatsoever on your site. I had to upload a gif just to see the prices. This is probably not ideal. I'd suggest adding a pricing page :)
http://www.cdc.gov/vaccinesafety/Concerns/Autism/
At least for Gentoo, that's not correct. It clones from the official GitHub repo, then compiles it as a Go dynamic binary.

http://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/gentoo-x86/app-...
> This, however, is going to be an unpopular opinion amongst the PHP crowd, but I can distill the rest of your comment into the following statement: "PHP is thriving because companies are cheap, don't care about quality as much as cost, and there is an over-abundant labor supply of poorly skilled, mainly self-taught PHP 'developers' who are willing to work for peanuts and get the job done to an adequate level." There's nothing inherently wrong with that, but trying to turn it on its head by implying developers skilled with, e.g. Ruby/Rails frameworks (see note below), are essentially overpaid and narrow-minded is just absurd.

That's an interesting reading of my comment. A less cynical reading might be that companies tend to:

1. Value cost-efficiency.

2. Understand that the constraints of time, cost and quality are all related and must be balanced based on business and project need.

3. Recognize that a smaller labor pool tends to increase cost and risk, sometimes unacceptably.

Most companies simply don't have the luxury of, without regard to cost and schedule, writing blank checks for development, demanding perfection (elegant code, the technologies du jour, premature optimization, etc.) and limiting their employee/contractor pool to rockstar engineers with CS degrees from top universities.
Whenever I teach hg, I just give them a template .hgrc and the first lesson is about putting their name in there. It's a one-time cost for any Mercurial user.

The Mercurial dev team is very conservative. The reason some of these extensions aren't default yet are due to bugs or because they don't work well on Windows or because they require the user to learn some advanced usage (e.g. an improper rebase can result in apparent data loss to the uninitiated). Some of these just have a plain yucky UI, e.g. histedit's UI is very close to "git rebase -i". It would be much nicer if it had some sort of curses interface instead.

Mercurial is in this for long haul, and it gets better all the time. As its extensions mature, they'll be turned on by default. Right now, it's a matter of flipping them on.
PHP thrives because it is easy to deploy: upload your files and click refresh. When working with less technical people (designers who only know HTML, etc.) this is a great feature.
It would be better to just be explicit.

Money can be an incredibly useful thing to have, but getting happiness is a lot more complicated than just getting a lot of money.
That isn't right. These players are not allowed to stream the games at all as long as they are affiliated with Riot. From the original source:

"onGamers has confirmed with the team representatives that LCS players are disallowed from streaming the games listed below outright"
Why would you expect different? Creativity is risk. Without risk it wouldn't be creative, it'd just be the obvious, safe thing to do.

The thing about creative risk is it's an investment. Most of the time it's likely to fail but occassionally it'll provide enough RoI to make the risk more than worthwhile.

The returns on creative risks over the last century have been astounding. Micro-processors were a creative risk. The airplane was a creative risk. Orbital satellites were a creative risk. The internet was a creative risk. And so on.
My parents taught me to count on my fingers with binary, which lets you get to 31 on one hand, and 1023 on two. I've found that to be a small thing of huge value when doing simple counting tasks, such as counting syllables or words in a short text, where you can't just keep a count in your head.
Is there empirical data showing non-zero correlation?
XMPP never got to the point where it was good enough at video, audio, or even large chatrooms, and so other chat clients took the initiative.
Killing someone while driving and texting isn't murder in most (all?) jurisdictions AFAIK.
Amazing post. I thought I had a pretty good understanding of Bitcoin, yet this is the first time I've even heard of an associated scripting language. I can't wait for the post detailing that. Here's the wiki article for now: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Script
That's true -- the Start menu has gone through a lot more changes than the shape of the button (moving from one column to two, for example). I guess I was trying to downplay those changes, which have been less disruptive to my workflow than, say, when "Add/Remove Programs" became "Programs and Features", or "C:\Documents and Settings\pit" became "C:\Users\pit" (and because of backwards compatibility, in Windows 7 we have both).

Admittedly, these sound like trivialities. My point is that learning how to use software is work. I've found it to be unpleasant work with Microsoft products, particularly when what you've learned in one release don't apply in the next release. And not in five big ways; in ten thousand little ways.
And that was because some jerk wanted to sue the vaccine makers, failed multiple times, but his ripples are still seen. The cost of an idiot ignoring critical vaccines in a society is pretty high. Should be made illegal.
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The one (only?) thing worse than debt in this case is an option that has CP's for exercise that aren't met. Then, you are truly fucked. I'm not trying to be pedantic, but its the nature of the topic at hand that to make any sense, some precision is required.
That isn't how science works. You have to demonstrate a link between measles vaccines and autism. You can't just wait for someone to disprove it forever, because that is not possible.
> What may be needed isn't laws and regulations, but a common understanding of what is and isn't acceptable for drones.

Sure. People don't even seem to understand the rules of road and keep killing each other and themselves, and you're pushing for "common understanding of what is and isn't acceptable".

Most people who walk this earth are not as clever as you might think. Just because you're intelligent, doesn't mean that everyone else is.

It seems that the human race needs very strict boundaries and limitations. But then again, in the US it's normal to have a gun and look at how "common understanding of what is and isn't acceptable" is working with that.

It's obviously only a matter of time before some dipshit is going to fly a bomb into some embassy. I understand that this will be the "outlaw" doing this but nevertheless, if you're not able to prevent it, by outlawing it you have at least the option to prosecute when abuse takes place.

(shit, reading this back I sound like some right wing fanatic. I can assure you I'm not :).
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Could this be partly caused by people running noscript and the like? Although I haven't heard of many people opting not to load CSS by default.
There is a lot of debate about that, I wouldn't call it a settled issue on either side.

I have read enough that I have my position, that animal proteins are superior in practice (because vegetable proteins are theoretically good but the combination is trickier - a porterhouse steak requires no combination, having complete proteins throughout); but I accept that I could in the future be proven wrong by new findings.
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I can't understand this line of reasoning. Creativity is the result of a process, and that process is ignoring (or at least comparatively devaluing) the horrific and sneering grasp of the status quo.

To separate the result of the creative process from the process is an abstraction that ends up excluding the actionable content from the concept. To argue over which acts are and aren't creative will do nothing to serve you in your life, so why do it except to try to bring others down?
I LOL'd when I saw this, but then again, maybe there is a market :-)
Cool, so the studies have been done:
http://www.iom.edu/Reports/2004/Immunization-Safety-Review-V...

"The committee concludes that the body of epidemiological evidence favors rejection of a causal relationship between the MMR vaccine and autism. The committee also concludes that the body of epidemiological evidence favors rejection of a causal relationship between thimerosal-containing vaccines and autism."
Good grief. I'm tired of seeing stories, books, etc. about "what successful people do" and similar. I couldn't help but post after seeing this title.

You know what successful people do? They use their brains to figure stuff out and they take some action. It's not complicated or mysterious.

You know what successful people don't do? Sit around reading articles about what successful people do.

The very idea of offering up some tips to success based on observations of someone else's success is ridiculous. Among other things, it propagates this myth that there is some unitary standard of success to which we should all aspire. And, it says that the reader in need of such tips is obviously a loser for needing to emulate someone else's success vs. being intrinsically able to create her own.

Just use your head and work. You have everything you need to create your own success, by whatever measure you prefer.
Sports will have have restrictions on playing other sports, but the motivation is reducing the risk of injury. They'll also restrict things like motorcycling for the same reason.
Possibly, though at this point after stumbling through using EC2 for these resources (and contending with the insane price fluctuations recently) I'm coming to the conclusion that owning my own hardware may be of substantial benefit for experimentation.
The pricing is cheaper than a GF, GFE, FWB, SPOUSE, whatever your liking!
A lot (a majority?) of websites aren't made by people that need those things. A lot of people just want to get their ideas up on a page so they can show their friends. The thing I walked away with from the article was that PHP is still active in part because it has such a low entry point for those people, where as Rails does not.

Like you said, they're very different entities, but a lot of people can't tell or don't care about the difference.
Genres are useful for categorizing but the category titles are all pretty arbitrary.

Take RPG: a description that applies to just about every game out there.

MMO tends to refer to games with a persistent overarching game world, but I think it's fair to describe games like Call of Duty and Battlefield as "massively multiplayer online"

MUD is associated with text based games but "multi-user dungeon" aptly describes most MMOs

4x (Explore, Expand, Exploit, Exterminate) describes just about every RTS game, they should really be called RT4x or something...

I could go on all day, but I think you catch the drift.
It used parts of the Tomahawk system, the precision bombing was largely covered. Drones are supposed to be cheap. Billion dollar delivery platforms don't really align with that. This is the US Navy trying to keep a weapon system designed for the cold war. An attack submarine that isn't stalking boomers is a hole in the water into which money is poured.
Did you even read the article? Western Europe has 25,000 per year and America has 175 this year mostly from Europeans who don't vaccinate.
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Every great song starts with a single note...

Now go watch the darn thing.
Clearly I do believe that information should be regulated, since I support FDA's ban of 23andme disseminating statistically inconfident yet severe medical information the way they do. Because of the way people react to it, I do not think that this information should be given without genetic counsel.

This is the only case in my life where I've thought that a piece of information should be regulated.

The phrase "information regulation" is deeply scary to me. This is dangerous turf. But I think that this is the right decision at the time.
You can also use autossh to nail up these sorts of connections.
yes yes yes yes. The more and more I can get away from ever having to move into my windows partition the better.
Good question - I'm not aware of any such studies.
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This is the coolest financial instrument I've seen in a long time, ok ever.

It makes me wonder if there is a way to craft something so that a WeFunder or some other crowd sourced funding group could build one with multiple people participating that would have a slightly higher liquidation cash preference and no stock.

Basically it would work like this:

A group of people pool funds to fund a SAFE note with a 2x cash liquidation preference. So the next time the company raises money, they set aside 2x (or 1.5x or what ever the note says) in equivalent cash to return to the SAFE investors.

The SAFE contributors get a simple return (liquidation preference / time before liquidated), the startup gets lift off and a simple cap table (the SAFE vanishes after liquidation). It puts a cap on the return the SAFE investor gets in exchange for a somewhat lower risk (the company gets to its series A).
Who said anything about giving up?
False. The contract stipulates that during the LCS, they CANNOT stream any of these games on the same stream that they play LoL, as that could be considered adjacent to LoL.
From the article:
"I don’t understand why double spending can’t be prevented in a simpler manner using two-phase commit. What drawbacks and advantages does it have compared to the full Bitcoin protocol? uppose Alice tries to double spend an infocoin with both Bob and Charlie. The idea is that Bob and Charlie would each broadcast their respective messages to the Infocoin network, along with a request: “Should I accept this?” They’d then wait some period – perhaps ten minutes – to hear any naysayers who could prove that Alice was trying to double spend. If no such nays are heard (and provided there are no signs of attempts to disrupt the network), they’d then accept the transaction."

The problem with 2PC is that a malicious node could stop somebody from being able to spend their coins by always sending nays out to the network when ever the victim sent a transaction. To prevent this, you would need to be able to detect when a node is faulty/malicious which would require implementing a costly Byzantine Consensus Protocol [1]. In practical systems that can withstand Byzantine faults, the number of messages required to agree on a log entry (e.g. a transaction) would be O(n^2) in the number of nodes in the network, which would greatly limit scalability.

The genius of Bitcoin's Proof of Work protocol is that:

1) it is more resilient than Byzantine agreement. Byzantine agreement with 3f+1 nodes can handle at most f faulty nodes, while Bitcoin can tolerate 49% of the network hashing power being malicious. (though this is being debated currently due to theoretical strategies like selfish-mining)

2) it is much more efficient than Byzantine agreement in the number of messages sent, which has allowed the network to scale to thousands of nodes, although they have been running into issues with the blocksize/block limit, but their are currently research efforts [4] underway to remedy this.

The main problem with Bitcoin's proof of work scheme it is that it is extremely expensive in terms of CPU cycles, but this is solved by compensating miners for their efforts through coin generation and transaction fees.

[1] - http://www.cs.cornell.edu/courses/cs614/2004sp/papers/lsp82....
[2] - http://pmg.csail.mit.edu/papers/osdi99.pdf
[3] - http://arxiv.org/pdf/1311.0243v5.pdf
[4] - http://www.cs.huji.ac.il/~avivz/pubs/13/btc_scalability_full...
I am unclear as to how sending even thousands of ppl to your landing page validates your startup, especially if they were "tricked" to get there. Maybe if they sign up, but the writer says that they will DM you (using Twitter). I think that is quite a stretch, but maybe I am missing something ...
Redis critiques: let's take the good part.
But you didn't bother to look it up yourself before continuing to spread FUD about vaccines.

A behavior which is literally killing people.
So do failed people. But you'll never know which you are if you don't try.
The players will only need unions if the companies insist on these sort of anti-competitive contracts. I don't think that a company like Valve would insist on such a clause for competitive Dota, which might make it more attractive to players with the skillsets that make them good at ASSFAGGOTS titles. I've played League, HoN, Dota, Dota 2, and Smite, and I can confirm that, while differences in styles of play exist, many of the core mechanics are similar. This is especially true at high levels, where the most important factors in a teams victory is communication and predictive thought.
How is something like this made? What's the math going on behind the scenes?
Its not free riding if the party undertaking the R&D is compensated for it.
And that isn't how the irrational public works, it seems.
The smallest of nits to pick, but Readability has issues with the "images as text" behavior of the variables and numbers in the crypto parts of the post.

Otherwise, I'm very sorry that I didn't find this until after Thanksgiving. As many of you are likely similarly tagged, I'm the "computer" guy in the family, and so whenever something happens in the news that's got anything to do with computers, I'm the guy people bug for answers.

Bitcoin was the topic de jour this Thanksgiving, and my explanations would have benefitted greatly from this plain-English run-through.

Fortunately, after having read this, I now will be able to give people the deluxe explanation, should they make the fatal mistake of asking. :) Thanks.
So people get wealthier, because they save more and consume less?
Not just arguing for, but also enabling. For example, secretive government agents could use TOR and OTR to hide things from the public.
You can test before pushing anyway.

I was surprise that the record extention was not in the list.
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Now you're the one who's ignored that this was hypothetical.

My point was that if we go ahead with your proposal, such that patent protection becomes about preventing copying work rather than (possibly accidentally) duplicating an idea, then what's the point of filing for patents? It could work just like copyright does now.

Rayiner: I can't respond to your next post for a while, but you didn't address the main point I was attempting to make in comparison to copyright: You don't need to file. There would be rules that you can't significantly copy someone else's hard work. If someone copies your hard work, it will be evident from the facts, just as it is evident with copyright violations, and you can sue them. No patent required.
I don't think it is fair to call games like Call of Duty "massively multiplayer online." They are multiplayer, and they are online, but the scale isn't all that massive. Call of Duty allows, what? 20 players?
No, that is not one. That is the whole point. Look at the label, you would need to eat 29 scoops of that per day to get your daily potassium. It doesn't even mention all the vitamins and minerals we know we need. That is not a balanced, complete source of nutrition. Every time soylent is mentioned people make this claim, that all sorts of not even close to complete products are already filling the role soylent is intended for. They don't.
It is a badly written screed, but it rings true.
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Would you prefer a LOLcat?
I use it to buy Humble Bundles.
The studies have been done again and again and again and again. It is well studied. The link was only purposed by one study that used fake data that was done because some greedy assholes wanted to make a profit suing. THAT IS IT. That's the "controversy" that is making people sick.

The study has been retracted from the journal it was published in. Much independent research on Andrew Wakefield (author of the study) revealed he was paid cold hard cash by lawyers. Andrew Wakefield has since been stripped of his medical license.

Fuck them all.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MMR_vaccine_controversy

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thiomersal_controversy

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Wakefield

The cat is out of the bag. It can't be put back in.
Extreme and stupidly ignorant of how vaccines actually work... no vaccine is 100% effective - the MMR vaccine is claimed 95% effective with 1 dose and near 100% with 2. But the MMR vaccine is one of the oldest and most effective.

Other vaccines have as low as 67% immunity (or even worse) - so, out of a class of 30 kids, with 1 kid not vaccinated, there would still be 10 possible "suspects".

And you would automatically charge the unvax'ed - turning many of the foundational concepts of law upside down in your hysterical crusade.
PHP also has a lot of very cheap hosting options, I have seen them advertised for as little as $3 per month. Trying to host rails for less than $10-15 is challenging.

There's also a ton of complete software solutions available, like phpBB, vBulletin , Wordpress etc. The PHP industry offers more scripts for a one off $x download which can then be deployed via FTP by a non-technical person who doesn't know git.

The rails/django ways seems to be to sell everything as SaaS.
The upshot of this is that a non technical person can get something started with a PHP based system, so by the time they call a serious developer in to help there is already inertia.
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Great article. There is a lot in the bitcoin protocol that is possible that the vast majority of people have never heard of, some of which this article touches on.

For an idea of some of what could be done, see the Contracts section on the bitcoin wiki:

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Contracts

In the near future, we may start to see things like multi signature transactions* and the like. In theory, it could open up some very interesting options.

*Technically, I believe there exist a few of these transactions already on the blockchain.