skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Regulatory issues against bitcoin seems like a far less likley (and indirect) reason for Apple to remove Bitcoin apps from the App store over the them being afraid of competition with their own payment platform.

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Global warming is one of those tough issues for me. I guess you could call me a skeptic, but I try very hard to be a thoughtful skeptic.

What makes the whole conversation unproductive is there appears to be two sides: one which argues there is no problem and we must do nothing, and the other side says that the problem is going to end the world as we know it and we must change our entire way of living and make it our number one priority.

For me, there is a progression of questions that I must answer before I can sign on to the latter's assertions., And they look something like this:

1. Is the world warming? I think it most certainly is, but I would also note that it appears that the warming trend has halted for the past 10 to 20 years. From what I can gather, scientists have reasons why that might be the case but have not explained it.

2. Is the warming man-made? To a large degree, I believe that it is. However, there are a lot of things that we don't understand about climate (solar cycles, effects of water vapor, ocean CO2 sequestration, etc.) If I had to put a number on it, I would say 50 to 60% man-made.

3. Can we do anything about it? This is where I begin to separate from the global warming crowd. Theoretically, we can certainly do something about it, but having worked in government I just don't see any practical way that we can reduce greenhouse emissions to such an extent that it's going to make a great difference. Further, china and India are ramping up their CO2 emissions, and there's nothing that the developed countries can do about it. Finally, I have ethical objections to telling developed countries that they have to use less energy which will inevitably result in more lives lost due to starvation or simply just malnutrition and poverty.

4. Should we do anything about it? I believe this is a cost-benefit analysis. And I haven't done the analysis myself, but sometimes I question whether spending the enormous amounts of money today is worth putting off an uncertain disaster tomorrow when we have actual problems today that we could be working on instead. We have millions of people every year dying from malnutrition, poor water supplies, malaria, HIV/AIDS, etc. Why not save those actual lives instead of spending the money saving hypothetical lives in 100 years. And indeed, won't we be more suited to save those lines in 100 years than we are right now, meaning that the mitigation effort could be a lot cheaper?
We wrote an extension for Google Chrome which provides a toolbar interface for testing extensions on a page. It looks at the HTTP security headers, enumerating the configured values and provides guidance on the most secure settings. Other things like meta data and form fields with security specific settings are also reported. If you're a developer, or software tester (or security professional) then you might find it a useful addition to your toolbox.

Details here:

http://www.recx.co.uk/products/chromeplugin.php#httpheaderan...

Or search for 'Recx HTTP Header and Cookie Security Analyser'
And many of us not just until but beyond. I can recall an impressive antibiotic reaction, but never a vaccine one.
This certainly rings true for me. I've got a 4S. I must say, I've never experienced the problem before upgrading to iOS 7, but I don't think it started happening immediately after upgrading, either...

Could cold weather have something to do with it? It started happening to me once temperatures started hitting sub-zero. I know that temperatures must affect the batter in strange ways.
Absolutely. Phenomenal movie.

It also gets at the culture of corruption surveillance and power engender.

Though when you realize that the surveillance required dedicated observers and resulted in paper records, you realize how vastly more capable current US operations are.
I personally dislike much of Drudge's race baiting, religous baiting, and a host of other things he does on his soapbox, but I check his site more than any other for news.

No fluff, ridiculously fast load time, perfect balance of content and advertising. It surprises me that so many in the news world attribute his success to his views or scoops. I know there is a sizable minority like myself that read it regularly simply because it is the best designed news site on the internet.
> There's no easy way to verify the URL if I'm using a mobile device.

The URL typically contains a token that would indicate it. In this case, the URL is "touch." but you also typically see "m." or "mobile."

> What's the disadvantage of the mobile site on a desktop?

Depends on the site. In the case of LA Times, it works very well. Other sites have a bad Mobile -> Desktop experience just like they have a poor Desktop -> Mobile experience.

Either way, I don't give a damn. I'm just playing Devil's Advocate.
The U.S. hasn't had quite the same drops in measles vaccinations as Europe has.
Here I was open-minded as ever, prepared to see something great, also prepared to scold at misogynistic crowd because there were hints in some comments that there is such crowd here... and then I watched the video.

Everything that can go in other direction related to stereotypes and gender roles - DID. It went so overboard that I think it's a part of marketing strategy for it. This is just sad, because I think the product could've done without it as well as it did.
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Sure, don't trust the advice of any one doctor; that's alright. With vaccines though, you're deciding not to trust the advice of pretty much every doctor.
> making correct decisions using incomplete or incorrect data

If there's a problem that fits the description it's medical diagnosis , and it's been known for quite some time that machines are better at this.
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Wow, that's unfortunate. Those other companies have phones that are just as nice as the Galaxy line, in my opinion. Especially HTC with the One.
It's been done 55 years ago:
http://www.ai.mit.edu/projects/iiip/doc/CommonLISP/HyperSpec...
I had this same issue for the first time this past weekend. I was using the phone very heavily outdoors. Battery was just over 30% and I was recording videos. The phone cut off like the battery had died. When I tried to turn it back on, I got the same graphic. 20 minutes later, I turned it on and it was fine.
For X-FRAME-OPTIONS there is no alternate way to protect yourself server side. This one really has no other option, you could hack something with checks on window.top in javascript but then you are still relying on client side behaviour.

For the others you shouldn't rely on them, just use as backup.

And to be nitty picky, you are always relying on client side behavior. What if suddenly Firefox one day allows cross site requests in javascript, or starts making random requests to other sites containing all your cookies, or allows executing javascript on embedded iframes.
Capturing Audio & Video in HTML5
If US government were the world's leading producer of drugs for sale everywhere the analogy would be more fitting.
You are also paying 4 times as much for a lower quality apartment. You are also getting 1/3 of vacation time and you have lower quality health coverage, benefits and perks.
Relevant reading... The author(s) of libjpeg-turbo on IJG priorities:

http://www.libjpeg-turbo.org/About/Jpeg-9
I was suspecting it was due to cold temperatures as well...
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That's not the case. Bitcoin payment processors deposit USD directly into the merchant's bank account. The merchant doesn't have to deal with Bitcoin at all if they choose not to. If the payment processor submitted orders on behalf of the customer, then the merchant would in fact not even have to know of Bitcoin's existence, even though Bitcoin is facilitating the transaction at some level.
They've been doing this for a while. I remember seeing this when I tried to post a job back in December.
> my two concerns are 1) making it work and 2) making it fast.

What about maintainability? "Code as if the next guy to maintain your code is a homicidal maniac who knows where you live." -Kathy Sierra and Bert Bates

In my experience, making something work and making it (relatively) faster is easy. Making it easy to read is hard.
RMS himself stripping

When I started reading, I was worried that this is what the article was going to be about.
Did those merchants ever sell miners toothpicks?
I think he's using PragmataPro. If not, it's very similar. Beautiful font, one of my favorites.
Mumps is a disease of childhood in places where it's endemic and prevalent, which would suggest most immigrant communities would not actually be the source, though for very small clusters, small ethnic or religious communities (not necessarily foreign ones - the Dutch outbreaks for example are just religious groups) can be the source.

As for some of the other countries in Europe, while there's less of a vocal anti-vaxx movement, the vaccination rate in the Swiss has been dropping for the better part of a decade now.
What's really wrong with Boston tech?
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I believe the point he was making was essentially that because this book eschews traditional stereotypes and cultural messaging about disciplines like science and math being the purview of males, not only do girls benefit, but boys do as well by virtue of the fact that the values they are being taught are less selectively biased.

Not only do young women win (obvious), but young men do as well as they are less likely to both accept and perpetuate stereotypes.

It was a bit muddled, but that is how I read his argument.
Thanks for understanding.

The reference you point out was a one-off event from 2010 though, and a lot of our systems and checks have developed in the subsequent years to prevent a recurrence.

I'll concede the point about my blanket statement especially when talking about NSA and Government espionage though. All I can say is Google does fight in courts against that. I wish I had a good way to stop spying completely. All we can do is continue to make our encryption stronger.
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Wow that is quite a statement. If this project succeeds, people should really reconsider the whole way science funding works nowadays.
>Tiger competes directly with Newegg

Interesting. The site designs always had me thinking they were two sides of the same coin.
This sounds like premature-optimization to me.

Maybe it's just me, but in the apps I write in dynamic languages, the bottleneck is rarely in the language. It's usually in some IO.

EDIT: some sentence in the article gave me the impression he was using this for non-math-heavy stuff which is why I said this
That's the kind of little touch Apple likes to do. It's one of my favorite things about them.
I've tried Julia out a few times and been very impressed. From what I've seen it really does a great job of bridging the gap between easy-to-use and high-performance. It kind of seems like D in that way. I can definitely see lots of situations where a language like this is desirable.

I'm in Chicago (and a U of C grad!). I might come to the meetup if I can.
Read the bottom of the linked thread.
Nice post g! This is going to be really helpful.
Note that OP says he purchased in January of 2013, not 2014.
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Most of the scheduled vaccines end around 5 years old other than those you take to go into certain parts of the world. There's a booster every so often but those are infrequent.

Most kids just cry for a bit and get a sore arm, a statistically small percent get a true adverse reaction. It's simply not worth the risk to not vaccinate.
Herd immunity is something can be relatively easily shown with mathematics.

A huge amount of research into how vaccines are deployed is, and is done by, people with skill in applied mathematics.
I'm all for criticism that involves actual analysis and attempts to be constructive. That's not what I saw/see here.

"Show HN" posts are specifically for criticism because (a) the OP asks for it and (b) we can actually put our eyes/ears/fingers on the product in question. This is a Kickstarter page for a product that hasn't even shipped yet. Instead of "I hope they cover loops", we get "she is odd in front of a camera" and "too many alarm bells".

And BTW, I'm all for picking apart "insufferably pompous SV culture"–in fact, I'd love to make some spoof startup videos doing exactly that. That's just not what I'm seeing here.
> The problem with most programming languages is they're designed by language geeks, who tend to worry about things that I don't much care for. Safety, type systems, homoiconicity, and so forth. I'm sure these things are great, but when I'm messing around with a new project for fun, my two concerns are 1) making it work and 2) making it fast. For me, code is like a car. It's a means to an end. The "expressiveness" of a piece of code is about as important to me as the "expressiveness" of a catalytic converter.

You want a fast car, but don't care much for having an aerodynamic design, hmmm..

EDIT: In retrospect I now think he means he wants to be able to create the project fast, and this is not about performance.
An old riddle asks what you call the guy who graduated last in his medical class: doctor, what else?

But anybody licensed to practice has spent a lot more time studying medicine that your average coder or engineer. Among the matters they have studied is the current best understanding of vaccines. It isn't the guy last in his class who's coming up with the recommendations that the others follow. And what's best for you in your narrow little case is very likely most of the time what's best for the "herd".
I've got to say it ain't so easy to find such a job. When you've got some qualifications, employers doesn't keen on hiring you. I'm talking about tech support jobs that you can do easily during the day. Working as a night guard is usually very low pay and doesn't justify the effort.
If anyone has got an idea on how to get remote flexible support jobs, I'd be happy to hear.
> The other thing is that Emacs is really slow to start as soon as you have a few plugins, compared to vim.

This just mean you are "doing it wrong". Your .emacs file should not be loading anything, but instead setting things to be loaded when needed using autoload, eval-after-load and auto-mode-alist.
So, separation of concerns, encapsulation, and DRY. Day one of OO programming 101.
highest population today.. yes but what about pollution levels? highest ever too? natural resources also more depleted than ever?
your post doesn't address the issue of overpopulation...
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I read through this a while back and it is an interesting exploration of the whole Geocentric/Heliocentric dust-up (or smackdown as they call it):

http://tofspot.blogspot.com/2013/10/the-great-ptolemaic-smac...
Julia's primary purpose is as a scientific language, which means lots of number-crunching on large data sets, complex computations, etc. IO is unlikely to be the bottleneck in these situations.
On one hand, it's clearly great news that this work is being funded.

But, maybe I'm the odd guy, here. At a higher level, does it bother anyone else even slightly that more and more of the world's priorities are being set by fewer and fewer people? This is how it's been to some extent for millennia. But, with increasing income/wealth disparity in the world, its effect is amplified.

This, of course, is a terrible example because I'm sure most can agree that attempting to cure such a devastating disease is worthy of funding. This is also not to disparage wealthy individuals (indeed, many would include me in the bunch).

It just seems that very little sees the light of day unless an increasingly small group of people deem it so worthy. And, something about seeing the priorities of even our non-profits dictated by these few gives me pause. Yes, I know that philanthropy, foundations, etc. have always existed but, again, the rate of increase of absolute power and control accreting back to so few people like the days of yore seems inconsistent with freedom, democracy, and all the other good stuff so many have come to idealize for good reason.
Vaccine escape, which is the phenomena you're talking about, is extremely rare, and as far as I'm aware has never been observed in most vaccine preventable diseases.

The exception is perhaps influenza, but that's mainly because the flu vaccine is one of the few "moving target" viruses we have a vaccine against.
> but it's poised to do for technical computing what Node.js is doing for web development

I stopped right there. Node.js has only a few great use cases where it shines and in the real world, the vast majority of shops have not switched to using it.
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This is a confusing rebuttal, because cars have an aerodynamic design primarily for performance reasons, and Evan is very clear in this article that his primary concern is performance. I think you've misread him.
Sorry for brevity as im posting from mobile, but you should have a look at OWASP page on usedul http headers

here:

https://www.owasp.org/index.php/List_of_useful_HTTP_headers
when are we going to start addressing the problem of overpopulation?
There's nothing wrong with voicing concern about the state of a community that you care about.
You can look at Karma http://yourkarma.com. They truly only charge for what you use.
Often, especially with languages in the statistics, maths and scientific computing fields, you're only writing code for yourself and maybe 1 or 2 others. Everything you write is throwaway, or just functions that can be called and maintainability takes a second seat to ease of use for non-programmers writing code.
Punitive damages or even small claims court are excessive, the only group which owes you something is Amazon, and it seems to be a straightforward case of failing to update the product description in a timely manner.

You might be able to compel them to provide you with the service as promised, you might not. You could probably get a return from Amazon plus a little extra something if you're nice about it.
Seems like that's exactly what he doesn't care about. If you're prototyping or writing a lot of one off operations (for data analysis, maybe) then maintainability is less important.
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The NSA didn't break the law. People at the NSA broke the law. They need to be held to account.
If it's that fast, it's likely not actually rebooting, just SpringBoard crashing and restarting itself.
To each its own I guess, but I wanted to say that I don't see "safety, type systems and homoiconicity" and other theoretical "geek" stuff as orthogonal to a programming language's ease of use, productivity and expressiveness. If anything they complement each other. The theory behind it provides a consistent framework so that you minimize the mixing of different paradigms and you can express ideas in a more consistent way. I very much doubt that a language where you just throw stuff in would be easy to use. If Julia is a great language is precisely because of all the thought that went into it, the ideas behind it didn't just materialize in someone's brain.
This is true, and I believe you are exactly correct. IBM is catering to private data centers and not ones that you or I would be renting a rack in.
It's more like he wants a fast car but doesn't want to deal with servicing it. So it might fall apart in six months, but that's something he is OK with.
I think it's hard to go wrong with Vim Tutor followed by http://pragprog.com/book/dnvim/practical-vim
I do generally buy the same model. I keep the second one completely offline and do occasional manual backups. I'm hoping a completely offline keeps the likelihood of failure frozen.
> But this time is different: Nearly half of American jobs today could be automated in "a decade or two,

As most things, I really doubt "this time" is any different. I have no numbers / research to back it up but I'd bet pre-steam loom UK, every agricultural country, and many others faced similar job elimination with advent of mechanization. Not as fast as 20 years though.
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I don't know, this might be the actual reason... or it's just that he couldn't really put the book into film. It's very difficult to do so, some may say it's just impossible since the mediums are so different. But your answer has been used before by people defending this or that director, and sometimes it just seems like a cop out, "Oh, he didn't really care about the book".

P.S. Sorry if I sound a bit harsh. Not my intention.
Thanks for contributing, hendzen. Downvote.
They are, which is why there are, for example, very well developed campaigns to get college students caught up on their vaccines, and vaccination campaigns for certain groups at higher risk of either complications from the disease, or passing it on to others (for example, parents, and expectant mothers for certain vaccines).
Reports were released today that Apple may finally be poised to launch an iPhone with a display of 5" or more. Do you think they have delayed this release due to a fear of decreasing iPad sales? If a 5" or larger iPhone is released, do you think it will affect iPad sales? Personally, I find little use for an iPad when I'm using a phone with a 5-6" display.
Is this magazine cover racist?
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I started as a Windows developer when I was 12, and enjoyed the transition from ugly MFC/VB6 to .NET, which was pretty well-designed.

They lost me when they changed “the” data framework from ADO .NET to LINQ to SQL to Entity Framework, simultaneously obsoleting Windows Forms in favor of WPF, and later in favor of Metro-ish Silverlight.

All this while Apple sticked with Foundation and Cocoa and built greater / high-level frameworks around them.

As Dare put it in the comments: “... platforms are being born and dying so often that it seems you need to subscribe to Mary Jo Foley's latest breakdown of Microsoft internal politics before deciding what to bet on...”.
And yet he doesn't care about type systems, which are largely implemented to help with optimization, you see.
I assume this is the reason too, I would think they have something in their terms regarding payment structures that don't use their built in payment system.
strictly speaking, you don't know this. I believe these services let you choose what percentage you want to be paid in USD, and what percentage you want to keep in bitcoin. So although they may choose to be paid entirely in USD, they could also choose to keep some amount of bitcoin ... that's an internal matter that they may or may not make public
Varies widely depending on what vaccine you're talking about, and in what age group.
No, he was "confessing" that he liked Go and thinks it's pretty nifty. Not much of a confession...
It's the other way around. If you're sure to get a hit, you don't need a nuke. But if you don't have very much accuracy, you can make up for it with a big blast radius.
great job guys, keep up the good work. cant wait to see what comes of it.
That doesn't work -- there are front-facing surfaces behind other front-facing surfaces. You can see an example of this in the point-drawing javascript implementation further down the page, where I do just that.
No. The header is enforced on https connectiin only.