skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed! Thankfully, the FDA backed off requiring IND applications for FMTs last year, so the clinical burden is much less than was originally anticipated.

The µBiome stuff is really quite cool, but we don't really have the clinical data to properly analyze the results (which is why they include investigational surveys into the mix, so they are advancing the state of knowledge out there). Comparing your microflora to population averages doesn't tell us much, and there may be very good reasons for deviations from the mean. Having a FMT performed from a clean donor probably won't have any significantly deleterious effects (my gut feeling -- be here all week, folks -- is that a full antibiotics course is far more serious in effects, and we usually bounce back fine from these), but right now we're just tweaking dials on a machine we don't properly understand.

Nonetheless, I love the fact that you're keeping this data on yourself! Self-quantification is a huge step in maintaining health, and I'd love to read more about what you're doing.
Is Boise, ID the next hot startup city?
No, this is the new repo, and there have been several commits (and one previous release) since the original one went down: https://github.com/popcorn-org/popcorn-app
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The philosophy applies no matter how much hardware you have.
Did you actually get into the internals of WebRTC on your project? That is when you notice the overengineering.

In our product, our customers generally want the session recorded, which doesn't seem possible with WebRTC. Also we need to provide group video, which peer-to-peer isn't very useful for (in terms of efficiency).

That's not to say that WebRTC isn't useful in other use-cases (such as your product). However getUserMedia is more generic because it can be used in web conferencing products like ours. That is why I say that if browser developers don't want to implement the full WebRTC, they should at least implement getUserMedia.
Tube map with walking lines:

http://commutingexpert.com/underground-overground-wandering-...
See the edit in my reply to tomp. In the Peano axioms, 2 is defined as S(S(0)), not as S(0)+1. The correct way to think about this is to ignore any inclination to give those symbols any "real world" meaning. From the point of view of the formal system - they are just strings, and the only thing we know about them is how to manipulate them to form other strings. Under this perspective, the connection between S(S(0)) and S(0)+1, or in general between S(a) and a+1, is again something which requires proof: S(a) = S(a+0) = a + S(0).

A computer can be given an explicit map between the symbols S(0), S(S(0)), s(S(S(0))), ... and 1,2,3..., so to identify S(S(S(S(S(S(0)))))) with 6 - it wouldn't need to know anything at all about + or about 1.

Edit: also consider the following quote from Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations and whether the person described needs to have any concept of 'addition' in order to correctly use numbers:
"Now think of the following use of language: I send someone shopping. I give him a slip marked 'five red apples'. He takes the slip to the shopkeeper, who opens the drawer marked 'apples', then he looks up the word 'red' in a table and finds a colour sample opposite it; then he says the series of cardinal numbers--I assume that he knows them by heart--up to the word 'five' and for each number he takes an apple of the same colour as the sample out of the drawer.--It is in this and simlar ways that one operates with words--"But how does he know where and how he is to look up the word 'red' and what he is to do with the word 'five'?" ---Well, I assume that he 'acts' as I have described. Explanations come to an end somewhere.--But what is the meaning of the word 'five'? --No such thing was in question here, only how the word 'five' is used."
Yes I was the previous owner of popcorn-team, but for some reason the other owner kicked everyone before closing the repo and the website. popcorn-org and popcorn-time.tv are the new project I maintain.
Same experience here. Couldn't get it working properly and ended up with netbeans after about an hour.

Edit: for ref netbeans is pretty good. I hated it about 3-4 years ago and moved to eclipse but it's pretty amazing now.
I'm curious: what kind of test did you undergo that let you see how much kynurenic acid you have in your brain?
Microbiome research is still very new. I'm surprised there's a service already.
If you can, wrap all your SQL statements in a transaction and check them first :)
That's not the argument. The argument is: "if this mode of reasoning is valid, and pursuant to it we must do something about HFT, then we would also feel compelled to do something about X, Y, and Z as well. But because we don't feel compelled to do something about X, Y, and Z, that implies that the mode of reasoning is not valid."

In other words, he disagrees with the premise that compensation need bear some relation to economic value created. Empirically, that's a premise that we as a society reject.
What about images which are mirror-flipped? Unless it is a symmetrical icon that particular algorithm will consider the two highly different.
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I second your recommendation of "Diagital Apollo". A very interesting book.

Two other books worth checking-out are The Apollo Guidance Computer: Architecture and Operation by Frank O'Brien and Journey to the Moon: The History of the Apollo Guidance Computer by Eldon Hall. The latter book is not particularly well written, but the author was the AGC hardware design lead and this book captures a lot of his first-hand knowledge of the hardware development and testing process.
You can turn this off easily, I believe it is called virtual space. I had the same reaction when I first started with intellij.
There is a 10,000 word excerpt in the NYT. Read it and if you have a specific comment or critique on methodology, come back and update this thread. They may or may not be useful comments. There's enough orthogonal variation in the approaches (in terms of data collection, observed reactions of market participants, and analytic consistentcy) to not dimsiss the narrative as "trivial". But YMMV.
Interestingly, although the article states that the census numbers were not a good reflection on the size of the industry in a city, but were okay to figure out the gender balance of the industry, the chart is ordered by size and not gender balance.

Which seems a little sloppy - particularly for such a minimal, data focused article, where the majority of the readers time spent will be spent looking at the chart.
please add 2009 to the end of the title
From India, Netflix will probably arrive in 2050.
Don't work? Or can't work?
Rebranding and renaming on the Azure platform has been a constant nuisance. I agree that it complicates conversations and it must also hurt adoption. Not to mention searchability issues and broken links.
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>They're putting a shiny, appealing veneer over what amounts to homeopathy

How is self experimentation equivalent to homeopathy? I don't get how giving a shit about your own health is equated so quickly with a specific nonsensical, pseudoscientific sham.
OP here: It's true I'm not a doctor or scientist. This isn't a rigorously designed experiment. Yes, I am hoping that the results are positive, but I don't have unrealistic expectations. Mostly I'm just interested in seeing what I can learn about myself.

Also not much "shoving" was involved. I'll do another post later that describes the process. It's pretty gross, but mostly due to the preparation. (I had to put shit in a blender and press the button) The actual administration is about as gross as using a suppository.
It may be well worth it, but shelling out $200 is not really a no-brainer when compared to free.
I agree. I am British. I'm in no way whatsoever "European". We'll be better out of the EU, and the EU will be better without us.
Awesome. I usually don't see anyone understanding the necessity of dynamic form building.

In this case, you could easily get a form declaration from a database or another file, go through your controller (or form builder class) to translate it and add the correct parameters.

For those that don't get why you'd need to do that, here are some examples:

* creating forms in multiple languages (the form controller can take care of content/labeling/placeholders)
* creating forms to comply in multiple countries (for example, the same sign up form in Europe may require a "accept cookies when I'm on site" checkbox or something similar).
* creating forms based on preselected options. For instance, if a user is signing up for a free account, they won't need to give their name. While a paid account (by necessity of billing) will require credit card info.

Really cool :)
"he's not a doctor, he's not a trained scientist, he's a dude who is shoving fecal extracts from his friend up his bum and hoping the results are positive."

Arguably, this is the oldest and most fundamental version of science.

You don't need to go to school for ten years to great your Magical Science Certificate in order to practice Science--you just have to be able to ask questions and try out random shit and share your results.

It's haphazard, but at least people here are trying, right? And if they're unfettered by the academic-industrial complex, so much the better.
> Meteor is a description of the burning in the atmosphere not the object itself ...

Yes, fair enough. Unless the object is consumed in the process of generating the visible presentation (often true), which makes it a meteor -- or perhaps I should say "turns it into a meteor".
I'm a high school student in SF for 2 days, can I visit your startup?
I'm 17, in high school, and have been programming for 5 years. I would love to see your company. I am from Minneapolis, Minnesota. I flew to LA, roadtripped to SF, and I am now staying here until I fly out of San Jose at 6 on Sunday (April 6). I came here primarly to tour colleges, however I would love to also see your startup! Email me if you want here: sam@mycube.co
People are willing to commit to unfulfilling, exhausting minimum wage jobs because the alternative is to not have a home/decent food/a little spending money. If those needs are already fulfilled, its going to take more to convince people to do something economically necessary but unfulfilling/difficult.

So, the supply drops (many people choose to simply sit out the whole job thing if its going to be unfulfilling). At least, this is the theory.
It's an allegory. Mr. Myne's machine represents the increased efficiency of future industrial capital. The magical machine is all the advancements of agriculture wrapped up in one black box, and completely automated to remove wages from the equation.

In the future, when robots can make everything you would ever need more efficiently than you can do it yourself, what can you possibly do to pay the owners of the robots for the things the robots make?

There aren't many options. You can own your own robots. You can do something the robot owners want that can't be done by robots. You can abolish individual robot ownership. Whatever you do, you have to think about what happens when producers and consumers are separated by an economic wall, when there's nothing that you can do that a robot cannot do better. Where you have nothing to bring to the market that anyone else wants to buy. It's not just people deciding not to pay. At some point they won't even be able to pay.
Science Frontiers [2007]
You know there are options and this can be easily disabled in seconds, right?
The person I want to buy the stock from is only offering the shares at 15.00 and I think that is a fair price. Why should someone jump in between the two of us and buy the stock for 15.00 then offer them to me for 15.01.

This would be like going to an open house where you here someone say "I'm going to offer $1,000 over asking" then going to the seller and offering $500 over asking. Then going to the first person and saying you'll take that offer of $1,000 over asking.

You could claim that you provided liquidity and that you helped speed up the transactions but at the end of the day you made $500 for undercutting someone who already intended to make a purchase.
I think this could be cool. Just signed up. Cheers
There is a big fallacy in the article:

Namely, that the amount of work that can be done has an upper bound.

In fact, the amount of work that can be be done is infinite and with higher productivity other things are done (= can be done economically) than before, for example:

Cleaning the streets, painting your house white, keeping your nearby river clean, build tanks & guns, maintaining bureaucracy, helping people you don't know (welfare state).

These things are all non-essential (yeah yeah I know but still ...), yet are only done now because only recently we achieved the productivity / wealth of being able to do it.

If we stop doing these things we will feel wealthier because individually, we'll have more resources to fulfill our needs. We would maybe still help our neighbours or paint our house white or buy guns but we would (or not) do it because we decided it ourselves.

I suppose in the future there will be other things we'll do that now seem insane: maybe even the poorest might have a swimming pool, or we commute a few thousand kilometers to work, or we each carry a wearable computer around without needing it for work (can you imagine???).

But there will be work, it is as certain as death and taxes.
That's a good, albeit very generic argument where you can switch Angular and React with simply A and B. My guess is that you haven't tried React? It's been in production at Facebook/Instagram for a few years now and powers the money-making parts of the site.

Trading simplicity for power is a false dilemma. If there's any library on the web that demonstrates this, it has to be React.
Well the term 'best' is touchy, but for your use case I'd suggest trying SVN using something like VisualSVN Server and TortoiseSVN for the client(s). Simple to set up, understand and use.
Is there any evidence that the US (whoever calls the shots, a question you conveniently left out) tried to "reinstate a corporate friendly dictator" rather than a democractic government?

The "vassal, puppet state" rethoric seems hardly helpful...

I grant you that in the cold war, the US were more interested in denying the soviets an ally on their front steps rather than to help the Cuban state to evolve. But back then there were all these puppet wars, nuclear missiles and nasty rethoric going on...
The difference is well within the variation you'd expect from multiple samples, extraction, PCR, sequencing, day-to-day.

Also, you're probably better off trying to alter your gut microbiome through ingestion of probiotics.

Source: I am a PhD student research the human gut microbiome in connection with autoimmunity and have processed thousands of these samples using the exact same methodology as uBiome.
This may not be, but things like Soylent which claim to solve all your nutritional and health needs by drinking it, are the equivalent of homeopathy -- like say, drinking g tea made from the horn of rhino will make your virile.
if it's for personal projects maybe vuejs will be better for you than angular. same principles, much simpler execution.
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I don't know if it's on purpose or not, but when you mention your parents, are you referring to both ?

My parents both worked, but not the same amount and not at the same periods. The parents of my wife are splitted: one is still working (for pleasure, really) at 64+ and the other never took a long lasting full time job.

There might be a question of what we mean by "work", but traditionally the task of sustaining a home and growing kids is not categorized as "work". Defining the purpose of someone through the amount of work goes straight into this issue, and it's my main problem with the idea.
To innovate your business let your customers lead the way.
What is netflix but DRMed content? I pay for netflix too. It's just a shame that content need to still be localized and movie selection is limited.
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The fact that some people, in some foreign country I will never visit, feel better, isn't much comfort to me I'm afraid.
> We'll be better out of the EU, and the EU will be better without us.

I don’t know and don’t care about the former, but being able to implement remotely sensible policies without an American outpost sitting at the table will be a net plus for Europe, yes. I wonder why you guys wanted to join in the first place. Free tr…uce, free trace, free…trade, maybe?

EDIT: OTOH, is there any industry left in Britain that could benefit from ‘just’ free trade, as opposed to free movement of capital and such?
Are there any open source projects or blog posts with examples of this?
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I see life as a trifecta. The first point, is things we do as a hobby, the second, things we do for leisure, and the third, things we do to sustain ourselves.

If one task can fulfill all three points, you have it made.
There's a list of CBIR's on Wikipedia and ammong those there are a few open source ones. I didn't really had time to check them all but during skimming through them imgSeek [2] caught my eye.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_CBIR_engines

[2] http://www.imgseek.net/isk-daemon
This doesn't seem very... sane. It does work, but the explanation is wobbly at best. This appears to be a King Kong defense converted into a sales tactic.

In their theoretical problem, foo.com needs to be moved to somewhere else in a hurry to reduce an unpleasant load level. No problem--you simply change where foo.com points to. Normal people change the A record and call it a day.
Why would you want to involve a CNAME in this? Perhaps if you needed to direct the query to some other server because it's managed by some other entity.

But wait... This requires the other entity to serve your DNS records. Not exactly a problem--even though it rather uncomfortably resembles a horizontal referral--so long as we exercise restraint, it only slows down the query a little bit. So now the lookup goes to the server your domain (foo.com) is hosted on, and needs to goes to the other server to get the foo.com.fancynametheycanmove.webprovider.com, except no... that won't really work because your DNS provider hosting foo.com would need to allow you to put CNAMEs at the root of the zone, and CNAMEs are singleton records.

The solution? Why it's to use webprovider.com to host your foo.com DNS as well! Then they can do this because their magic DNS server does all those other lookup steps for the querying client. But wait... if they're going to be hosting the foo.com zone, why don't they just change the A record in the first place? Why on /earth/ would it be useful to involve a bunch of CNAME jumps in that? For that matter, how is this even slightly usefully different than a normal global traffic manager issuing different responses for DNS based on load and server pool configuration that for the love of all that is holy I hope they already know about if they're trying to run a "cloud provider".

The reason we don't have CNAMEs in the root of zones isn't "because the standards are old" it's because CNAMEs are supposed to be a one-off which should be used sparingly because they can be used to create never-ending chains of indirection which cause serious problems for nameservers doing recursive resolution for their users. AOL used to regularly break nameservers all over the place with their casual use of endless loops of CNAME records.
> Apple's notion of a controller is the iOS device itself

Apple introduced standards for console style iOS game controllers last year. A handful of compliant controllers have been available for a while.
538 doesn't do articles with "points". They're trying to be a new form of journalism that "just gives you the data, and lets you make up your own mind."

In practice, this means a lot of context-free presentations of obvious or apparently irrelevant data.
Sometimes those exiles think they talk for everybody. Like that Elian circus.
The response from the community has been amazingly and wonderfully supportive. My comments in the post were mostly a reflection on the weird things people have said to me personally. For example, I had a close family member look me dead in the eye and say, "You shouldn't have started this project."
This article is predicated on the idea that, because we're more efficient today than 1930, we should be able to work less and live the same lifestyle.

Well, in fact, we can. But you can't ignore those last three words: you have to live the same lifestyle as a typical 1930s person.

* No internet.

* No TV.

* No air conditioning.

* No cell phone.

* No car.

* Bunk beds for your kids.

* One bathroom for the whole house.

* No flying, anywhere, ever.

* No fancy restaurants.

* No organic groceries.

The reason we're still working 1930 hours in 2014 is that we prefer it -- that is, we prefer the rich lifestyle those hours provide us.
From your examples I'd say that change would be even greater:

Why does the garbage have to be collected at 4 AM? Why do people need to fill the mart at night? Do you really need a waiter?

We'd have to reconsider the price our convenience imposes on other people.
FMT is at least a real process, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fecal_bacteriotherapy. I don't think you quite captured how it's done in practice, though.
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>"Europe's telecoms operators are facing decreasing revenues ... compared with operators in the U.S. and Asia,"

Because decisions on regulation should always have the goal of preserving the existing business models of middlemen:)

It's an important truth with a lot of implications for the wealth of nations that wages are sticky on the way down; should we devote as much study to the fact that modern governments don't believe that any regulation should be allowed to make the overall system more efficient?

The responsibility of the financial services are to allocate the utilization of resources between ventures that would produce more resources, and of course they as an industry find that 40% of that would be best allocated to themselves.

The responsibility of government is to facilitate interactions between people by providing rules, and guaranteeing that other actors that can facilitate that interaction be distributed efficiently within the system, and have to operate at a minimum quality standard. It has also taken on the duty of handing money to any rent-seeker whose actual facilitation function has become obsolete in the face of technology and other productivity gains.

This adds up to a situation where the financial industry and the state conspire to make sure that no productivity gains reach any individual either not in the financial services, or who doesn't represent a scarce resource required by rent seekers, i.e. mechanics of ways to obstruct interaction between individuals.

My only hope is that the inevitable slowdown in productivity that will come as the benefits of the Internet peter out (and by the repetition of identical siloed communication tools as a business model, that time is nigh) will force societies to eliminate these generalized inefficiencies just to keep up with population growth. We're seeing how that's going to play out right now in health care, education, and housing.

Sorry for typing this excerpt of my endless rant:)