skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have no idea on how they do those clinical studies which say that there is no difference between a placebo and actual homeopathic medicines. And what I read of USA, I have doubts that these studies are really done by independent personnel and not by those who get directly/indirectly paid by companies like Merck, J&J, etc.

I myself take homeopathic medicines for various ailments (small or big) and have seen improvement in my physical condition every time. Also a lot of people I know rely on homeopathy and not one has ever said that it did not give the desired results. The only factor is that the doctor should be able to diagnose the patient properly and have enough knowledge to understand how each chemical interacts with the body and with other chemical to be able to make a compound that will help the body in overcoming the disease. Homeopathy is as much about the medicines as it is about the knowledge and experience of the doctor.
How does Homeopathy work?
I think you've misunderstood what I meant. For example, when I see a lion, I can be certain about it. It may be a hallucination and suddenly disappear but that doesn't change anything, I really saw the lion.
This came up a few months ago on HN under a different name. BTapps is a js torrent library that you can use to integrate into your apps or build something on top of it. But so far I have not been able to figure out how to use it.
At least once in your life take the $100 and break it into 5 $20. Then find someone who you appreciate (Police, Fireman, EMT, Preacher, Teacher, etc.) Walk up and give them the $20 and say something simple like "Thanks for what you do, let me buy you lunch". It's an awesome experience to see someone receive unsolicited gratitude.
Only old Macs. They switched to POSIX-style LF with OS X.
> Sure, but that can happen to an individual with any substance

It's particularly common with penicillin. This is why people who are allergic to penicillin know about it and check their medication so that they don't get some accidentally.

This is IMHO probably the reason for this recall: it is an immediate danger to a significant number of people. Sadly increased antibiotic immunity in the environment is not viewed with the same level of concern as a sudden medical crisis that causes next of kin to sue.
I had an old math professor that used to say:

"Lottery is a special tax aimed at people who are really bad in math"

I guess Homeopathy is a tax (health and money one) for people who are really bad in Chemistry and Biology.
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Not questioning that, but it questions the idea of not taking any medications at all. Where do you make the cut?
I really don't see how accidental contamination during production makes Homeopathy more harmful than anythign else that can be contaminated. Would you also conclude that "Chinese food is actively harmful?" because someone somewhere made some dim sum that contained things it shouldn't?

Homeopathy is harmful because it's a bunch of patent nonsense that does nothing and people spend billions on it that could be used for something productive.
Don't feel too smug.

A lot of health plans in the US cover chiropractors and acupuncture.
I never understood this arguement. So Nintendo do not pick the most powerful CPU/GPU available. Why does that really matter? It is a lot more powerful than the device before it and it has amazing games on it still.

With a handheld the most important number, to me, is battery life. I still feel that Nintendo (and Sony) could do more by using a more efficient or lower power chip and get a couple more hours out of the device.

Then again I do not care that much for graphics so perhaps my opinion is in the minority. There are several things I would change about the 3DS if I could but upping the processing power is not one of them.
Cannot recommend the bamboo set enough.

I went to the local go club a few times before picking up my own go equipment. I wanted to get some "hands on" feel for the board and stones, to pick the brain of people who have played longer than me on a greater variety of equipment, and to find out how genuinely terrible I am at go. I live in a town where there is a decent sized Asian market area. While some of the shops had go equipment, it was subpar and way too expensive for my blood.

The set MichaelGG is talking about is the first set that I picked up for myself. It was the centerpiece of my living room for several years, and has taken all of the abuse I can throw at it (over eager new players, drunk friends, young kids, pets, the go club) in stride.

As I was still learning and teaching the game I picked up a smaller, reversible 9x9 and 13x13 board with plastic stones, and that set never sees the light of day. It's far too light and chintzy to play on now. If you're sure you want go equipment, I would take at least a bamboo board and single convex yunzi stones. The upfront cost might seem like much, but the set from YMI will last at least a generation if not longer.
Agree with the latter, but disagree with the first.

There's not much to say about a DDOS. You know the protocol (tcp, udp, icmp) and the src port of the packets, which can suggest the redirected service.

But it's well-nigh impossible to learn where the attacks come from, who is responsible, or the motivation behind it. It generally takes cooperation, in the form of bragging by children, to get much further.

And this sort of attack is eminently achievable by children, these days. 20GB/s is nothing, and practically free if you need to borrow someone else's infrastructure.

So Basecamp grows up, a little. They have the money to pay for proper anti-DDOS measures, and I'm sure they will do so.

I found the tone amusing though. The anti-enterprise 37s get all corporate-speak when they realize they have a PR situation on their hands.

"Working with law enforcement to catch these criminals" is the noop of the security biz. "Paying for basic service protections that we should have anticipated" sounds far less exculpatory however.
Sure, but:

1. Homeopathy is probably less harmful than whatever was prescribed as placebo in the past, and whatever would be prescribed in its absence. That is, in many cases it's literally replacing antibiotics in this role. That's makes it a net positive on this point.

2. Putting anything in your body is actively harmful in the sense that you describe. Most foodstuff/most everything contains pretty nasty bacterial strains and any number of contaminants. Anything is potentially allergenic to a proportion of the population.

3. That one homeopath made a mistake is bad, but does not damn the whole industry. We would not judge any other industry on the basis of one bad actor/one mistake.
I'm almost 100% sure a guy I know from another web site wrote an iPhone app that did this shortly after the iPhone was first released.
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Would that not logically justify reimbursement for anything taken for its placebo effects - which would be literally anything as research[1] showed placebo effect occurs even when the subject knows they are taking a placebo? It feels more like justification after the fact.

[1] http://www.theguardian.com/science/2010/dec/22/placebo-effec...
[1 alternate] http://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode/placebos-w...
When building our site/engine, I struggled with what to do with product categories such as Homeopathy.

I find that much of it is actively harmful to users, especially when they truly need real medical care. It's the indirect consequences (not seeing a real doctor for your ailments) that are far worse than the potential direct side effects.

But at the same time, people are searching for it, so they might as well get it from us / through us.

So my solution was to write a negative analysis of the homeopathy category, drop it so that it can only be found if you are actively searching for it, and kind of never speak of it again.

Won't spam, but you can see the link to my site in my profile if you care and search for the category.

At the end of the day, I do love the supplement/nutrition industry, but this kind of stuff makes my blood boil.
As far as I know you need a client running (torque, or µTorrent (+ a browser extension?)) and then you can interact with it using btapp.js

Last time I checked there was no torque support for Linux (yet).

I do agree, they are terrible at explaining what they have.
This is true.

However for conditions where a placebo is not suitable, homeopathy may well keep people away from real medicine. There have been several high-profile examples of homeopaths keeping folks away from 'allopathic' medicine, eventually killing them. But even in the more passive sense this can be true - the simple existence of snake-oil, even without the homeopath persuading the patient to stay away from mainstream medicine, can delay treatment.
It's available on the NHS in the UK too. There was an evidence check into it. https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/government-respon... - which found it to be without evidence. However, the government changed as the report was published and they decided not to act on the findings.
Really enjoying all the new tech startups that seem to be emerging from Barcelona. Nice work :)
It's "actively" harmful in that it's indirectly harmful, if that makes any sense.

The fact that it exists (and in such force) means that it is being used to replace modern medicine by several individuals. That is the true crime.

Supplementing with some snake oil typically won't kill you. But using it to replace a real doctor's visit very well might. And that's basically the attitude that this industry has bred.
God said 640x480. Realism is over-rated.
Probably accurate for active professionals in the big three countries, and probably a bit generous. I doubt there are many professionals, if any, who need three stones against the best. In fact, top western amateurs might be competitive on three stones. There has been some compression of professional strength in the past 50 years, so there may be some older professionals who need that much. Additionally, there are players with professional ranks who no longer compete, or only compete in Western tournaments. They may need three stones.
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They never say what's wrong with existing products. I'm sure they aren't perfect but they do the following:

Everyone is familiar with them

They're reliable and scalable

They're cheap for the presenter to use

They have clients for Mac, PC, iDevices...
That is correct, however one "rational" explanation I've heard for this fact is that homeopathic remedies have a placebo effect and sometimes manage to replace actual medicine to cure minor ailments. Apparently homeopathy is less expensive than the real stuff so social security has less to reimburse.

I'm not sure if that's true or just a clever excuse to keep homeopathy reimbursed though. An other element to consider is that Boiron, the largest homeopathic manufacturer in the world is a french company.
> We're still waiting for double-blind, vs placebo, clinical trials to show how efficacious they really are.

There have been double blind vs placebo tests for homeopathy. It doesn't work. It's no better than a placebo.
The same story applies to Utah Valley, we are 60 years overdue
A bit like this from 2011?
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.incorporat...
Why ghostly false positives cropped up in MH370 satellite hunt
Ah, but homoepathic proponants claim it works better than a placebo.
> We evaluate the morality of accidental waste differently from that of deliberate taking for personal gain.

On the other hand, if you look at this from another perspective, inefficient software wasting power means no one gains. If the same power was being used for mining, then someone gains. If I were forced to choose between these two alternatives, I would definitely pick the latter.
Of course it was the cancer that killed him, however by using homeopathy as a cure it certainly fasten the process by not actually curing him.

But I don't hate cancer, it's a natural thing, but I do hate homeopathy because it's 100% man made quackery.

If one of my relatives died sooner because they had been let to believe to use this nonsense I definite blame the salesman of scamming my relative of money, trust and a longer life.

It is the same as the Christian church in the middle ages selling salvation for money to dying people. Despicable.
I'm sure there's plenty of prior art--but the PTO wouldn't know that.
Finally something that makes the fan go on my macbook 2GHz i7 Intel Iris Pro 1024 MB. I was starting to think this thing didn't even have a fan.
https://github.com/crosswalk-project/crosswalk-cordova-andro... we use upstream cordova and replace the Java WebView by our own. You would need to repackage your app.
That's what I get for reading diffs on a mobile phone at 11PM.

But my concern does stand, OpenSSH does allow for multiple declarations on one line in their style guide.
blogspot.co.uk, aka Google, is down?
The main issue I see here is the use of a port other than 443 - this means traffic will likely be blocked for many users, also over 443 traffic should be encrypted to avoide bad proxies messing up the request headers
Just how do the Nordics consistently produce so many great startups?
So most Belgian developers are not switching layouts when coding? I thought most of us non-US developers are "bi-lingual" when it comes to keyboard layouts.
Maybe some "startups" using this technique to harvesting email addresses. But in this case, we need the email to inform about the current progress and select future beta users. We know the problem with this kind of landing pages, but this is a good way to proof the concept, acceptance, get feedback and work together with future customers.
Unfortunately - given the OP article - through misuse of antibiotics the consumer of homeopathic treatments is playing lottery with more than just their health. A lottery where the losers also cause society to lose.

"Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is resistance of a microorganism to an antimicrobial medicine to which it was originally sensitive....The misuse of antimicrobial medicines accelerates this natural phenomenon."[1]

[1] http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs194/en/
Here's the iPhone app. https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/rise-alarm-clock/id577221529...
They also don't explain what Torque is.
Listen up Apple: build a smart EarPod or someone else will
You and the people you know are being scammed, spending your money for nothing. You see improvements because your body is recovering all on its own - it's pretty good at that.

Homeopathic "medicines" contain no chemicals that interact with the body or form compounds, which is exactly why anyone who isn't a complete idiot should immediately understand that it's all a bunch of bullshit.

Your homeopath peddler (who does not deserve to be called "doctor") understands absolutely nothing about your body, he has merely memorized a bunch of arbitrary meaningless rules.
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I've created an open source project and forgot to remove my tracking code too. The only thing was, I was hosting my own analytics with piwik, so the tracking code came from my domain. Although I marked the code with comments lots of people still left it there.

If I was a bad guy this would be an easy and subtle XSS attack vector
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This article states 6.7 or LARGER, not 6-7.
> I myself take homeopathic medicines for various ailments (small or big) and have seen improvement in my physical condition every time.

That's exactly the Placebo effect that you are describing.
Homeopathic remedies have been shown to be no more effective than placebos. The thing is, placebos actually are effective to some degree. So the problem isn't that homeopathy isn't effective, it's that the entire premise of why they are effective is total BS, and people are getting ripped off.
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I had the source open the whole time and only saw CSS 3d transforms. I'm on chrome 33
"This medicine is effective because it contains salicylic acid, which suppresses the activity of cyclooxygenase (COX), an enzyme that is responsible for the production of pro-inflammatory mediators."

versus

"This plant is effective because it's 100% natural!"

7 out of 10 times, people will go for the explanation that's easier to understand.
But if you can feel better, without having any possible dangerous side-effect, it is actually a powerful effect we should leverage for minor ailments. Most drugs are not trying to cure you anyway, but are only bringing you some relief.

I am not trying to defend the efficiency of homeopathy there, but I am saying that triggering the placebo effect is beneficial.
http://www.highcharts.com is amazing and used across a lot of the US's biggest investment banks. Creative commons version available or per user/organizational licenses.

http://d3js.org though I have a particular soft spot for.
Riiight. Thank you. That answers my question.
Facebook Paper: The Inside Story Is Not What You'd Expect
That was my exact thought, word-by-word, when I read the title on HN.
IRC is a haven for this personality type. Consider it a last resort.
At the beginning we used BBB for our prototypes, but we have developed a completely new infrastructure and client over the last years.
Ooops, now Intel has to sell retail products
Still on the other hand things like Onlive/Gaikai realtime game streaming are really quite impressive and responsive. But they obviously had cost issues as well and it remains to be seen when that experience would be possible in real 1080p at a high bitrate. Not even thinking about 4K here...
And how many developers have found success dealing with the FB APIs and platform?

There's a reason people only integrate with FB to try and take traffic, and even then they become the customer paying for ads. It's not worth your time.
I was going to suggest to change the question from "How does Homeopathy work?" to "Does Homeopathy work?" and then I clicked the link... :-)
Actually, they're not sold as supplements all the time either. They're in some sort of weird gray area that is in between medicine and supplements:

"The legal status of homeopathic remedies in the United States is unique. In 1938, the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act was sponsored by Senator Royal Copeland who also happened to be a homeopathic physician. The senator wrote wording into his bill that recognized all products listed in the Homeopathic Pharmacopeia of the United States as drugs and made them subject to regulation by the federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The legislation passed, and as a result, homeopathic products are legally sold in food stores, pharmacies, and elsewhere as a unique category of drug.

Despite such widespread use, the FDA regulates homeopathic preparations much less stringently than conventional drugs. Homeopathic products are not required to prove effectiveness or safety. Some regulations do apply. For example, homeopathic products can only be sold without a prescription if they are specifically for self-limiting conditions such as the common cold. Products marketed for severe conditions such as cancer are prescription-only."

Source:
http://www.webmd.com/vitamins-supplements/ingredientmono-115...

That gray area has done a lot of damage to a lot of people.
So you need to install the application to make it work. Presumably, they install a HTTP API-driven binary on the system, and then they connect to it from your browser.

Not impressed.
>apart from their stupidity

That's harsh. The average consumer doesn't have the time/expertise to go through scientific research on homeopathic medicine. Someone tells them "this is going to work" and they believe them. It might be sad, but not all humans are skeptical nor to they have the time or energy to invest in research. They may not even be aware they are buying homeopathic medicine. Homeopathic medicine is sold near the real medicine, once I picked up a pill bottle on the shelf (while buying another thing) because it caught my eye. I was like "I didn't know they could treat this." I turned it over to read the ingredients and that's when I noticed it was homeopathy. If I was in the store looking for a cure, I could have easily just picked up whatever I saw that was a "remedy" for what I was experiencing. My mother even once bought some homeopathic medicine because of a marketing campaign, having no idea it was homeopathy, and actually, I didn't know at first either, I didn't look closely at the label, it wasn't until later I saw it was. While purchasing medicine, do you turn over the bottle, examine each ingredient, then look up the science behind them? For example there "no good evidence for or against the effectiveness of OTC medications in acute cough"[1] and is probably just a placebo,[2] yet people take cough syrup all the time. Even heroin was developed to be a non-additive cough suppressant, and was marketed as such. [3]

[1] http://summaries.cochrane.org/CD001831/over-the-counter-otc-...

[2] http://www.uptodate.com/contents/acute-bronchitis-in-adults-...

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heroin
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consinstent crash too, they must have tried really hard to find such a bug
Even Google doesn't care about this level of pedantry. Analytics has a "real-time" dashboard now. Like it or not, "gay" means "homosexual" as well as "happy", "hacker" means more than just people tinkering with electronics, etc. these days.
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I used Scala at my previous startup, but for my new startup I decided to build the backend in Java 8. Biggest reasons were the tooling/IDE is just miserable in Scala and the lack of developers in the market. I am really happy with my decision to build our backend with Java 8, quite a joy to write lambda expressions and have the tooling of Java.

Pretty sure I won't be going back to Scala.
I was worried, then amused.
Very complete information! They should translate it into other languages too!
It's hard to imagine private insurance companies being able to actually pay out their obligations in the event of a massive earthquake in any metropolitan American city. Federal (and to a smaller degree, state) governments will almost certainly put up most of the money for recovery and rebuilding.
Just to make your significant digits clearer:

0.1 + 0.2 + 0.3 = 0.6000000000000000900
0.1 + (0.2 + 0.3) = 0.5999999999999999800

0.1 * 0.2 * 0.3 = 0.0060000000000000010
0.1 * (0.2 * 0.3) = 0.0060000000000000001

Using -ffast-math doesn't effect these results.
> pparently homeopathy is less expensive than the real stuff so social security has less to reimburse.

Then we are really reimbursing a very expensive form of sugar. I'm not sure who we are kidding but there is no science behind that kind of policy - and if placebo can make such claims, then it should be Open-bar for products making health claims all across the board, from supplements to food items. Yet these are actually controlled, while the regulations on homeopathics benefit from special provisions. No need to prove anything.
Ultimately, the goal of any cure is to make you feel better. And there is lots of evidence that psychology can have very powerful effects on your body.
I've always thought it would be helpful to have floating point values that tracked the upper and lower bounds of the possible error. That would make analysis of the results much easier.
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By chance I happened to meet Captain Jerry Roberts while looking for a room some years ago: their garden (basement) flat in Pimlico had a spare room in what had originally been a cellar under the pavement (sidewalk) in front of the house, which they rented out.

I decided the nearly windowless room was a little dark and dank for my liking, but both he and his wife were very pleasant and it was certainly the most interesting of the many visits to different properties I made at the time.