skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For the same reason most companies don't share trade secrets.

- Stripe and Balanced ARE direct competitors, much more so than say Stripe and Braintree or Balanced and PayPal. Balanced handles the money in a bit of a different way, but the end product is very similar (i.e. receive payments from cards and bank accounts, and send payments to bank accounts [and now debit cards for both as well]).

- One or both companies may feel they have the better solution (see steveklabnik's comment above), and thus collaborating would be giving away intellectual capital for less in return

As a potential customer, you should prefer that they do work separately, because when different teams come up with different solutions, the chances are greater that at least one of those solutions is correct. This leads to greater long-term health in the industry as a whole.
The issue is there's a lot of interesting science which looks suspiciously like it's being monetized into some handwavy - and potentially dangerous - claims.

For example the idea of bacteria protecting you is not so simple. They don't target "bad organisms" - there really aren't bad organisms. Monocultures are bad because they have no competitors. A mixed-ecology where you have several or many species which do compete usually inhibits the ability of any 1 type to take over successfully.

Of course, this is all happening on the surface of your skin, and how stable is that environment anyway? History says not very - and on top of that pretty much all of these things are really nasty if they successfully get under the skin.

One successful way to treat IBS-like symptoms for example is to take a course of antibiotics which are known to be mild - that is, they tend to have a balancing effect on the gut's fauna. I can personally attest this makes all the difference in the world.

Conversely, it's not at all clear that probiotics do anything - for reasons similar to the above. In a crowded environment, they can't easily take over, and bacteria are all about film-forming and quorum sensing and the like - isolated cells are much less active.

On top of those issues, there's a scale one. Humans basically regard about 150-500 people as being actual human beings like them (Dunbar's number). Historically we tribalized on that sort of scale but almost every culture started to use various scents or cleansing practices when they built larger and larger groupings. Sure, maybe we can get by with intact surface cultures, but can we get along? The human nose is important. Try being in a room with someone who has a bad smelling odour - the urge to simply leave is powerful. The urge to try and wash it off is powerful. Its not clear that we'd be at all tolerant of people who smelt sufficiently different - and I suspect that's why we standardized on a zero which we can all achieve.
Declarative onReveal Animations using AniJS, Super Easy
So I live in rent controlled area in the bay area where I pay around $1500 for a 2 bedroom. Using this calculator, it seems like buying almost any kind of home in the bay area would be a very bad decision.
So, there's a compromise. The high price of the drug also drives other companies into cancer research as they also want a piece of the pie. That leads to better treatments for everyone. If prices were lower, then there would be less motivation to develop the drugs.
Exciting game. Please build a mobile version of this!
Ask HN: is there a programmer blog post as world-changing as this one?
"The Joel Test" was published Wednesday, August 09, 2000 almost 14 years ago. He moved the conversation forward in a way no one else has ever come close. http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000043.html
Can anyone think of a blog post from a programmer with bigger impact than this one?
im working on something similar, it gave me an insight i thought i forgot about a bit ago.
Android: Taking photos from background without preview
I think it's more that no matter what people are searching for, the first hit will be to a google+ postlet that points to an article on theverge.
You get to fight my bacteria, and every humans bacteria, every day of your life.

Not to a significant extent. In cases where people are exposed to other people's bacteria in quantity, they generally become (mildy) ill quite quickly while developing immunity - see fresher's flu etc.

If you had read the article, you would know that they're supplementing personal flora with Nitrosomonas eutropha.

And HOPING that N.Eutropha will out-compete their dangerous-to-others bacteria.

And hurting all of us just to help you, denying us the necessary and amazing flora that makes our lives possible, is selfish and Darwinian in it's own way.

I'm not suggesting you shower in bleach, just that you wash yourself with something more effective than fairy dust.
Interestingly, just yesterday, David Moon posted a very impressive patch to Julia to make its macros much more simple and sane, incorporating some of the concepts from PLOT.

https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/6910
That's the share screen, and it's quite different from intents.

There is simply no way on iOS to choose another app to be your default web browser, mail client, SMS client, central photo repository, etc. Apps can say "You can send photos here" but there is no way for one app to advertise to another "You can ask me for photos".
FBI withdraws national security letter following Microsoft challenge
Rather than litigating gag order, FBI goes directly to the customer.
This is a cool looking utility, although I imagine you'll face some resistance in replacing a shell essential such as `cd` if for no other reason than fear of bugs. Nice job though! It's cool to see people rethinking shell basics like this.
> The main problem with owning is illiquidity and associated immobility. If you rent you can quickly down shift if you run into trouble.

Where are you getting these lease-free rental units?

True, you're less on the hook with a 12 month lease, and the liability is lower than a 30 year mortgage...

But this is a very mild difference. That job's not going to wait for you to sell your house or for your lease to end.

> If you own the transaction cost is much higher if you need to move.

If you own, then eventually you're not paying anything at all for a place to live. And don't bother to mention property tax... you're paying that if you rent, too, it's just hidden.

This is a manufactured debate, it's meant to appeal to twentysomethings' bohemian aspirations. Someone wants them mobile so they can herd them around like migrant workers.
Unfortunately this isn't how the power generation market works.

If you've hit 100% capacity there's nothing you can do except start blacking out neighborhoods. The solutions to date are to a)fire up "peaker" plants which are hellishly expensive to operate but keep the lights on or b)buy surplus power from other markets on the open market. And that price will not be the standard price.
(primary author of that python here)

We have a number of things we're looking at for agents. One is derived from internal code, but has to clear some legal hurdles to OSS. One is a new codebase, but not quite up to the current spec. We're also keeping an eye on other OSS projects. We don't really want to reinvent the wheel here, but we clearly have our own ideas about how to run jobs :)

Doing it in python was a way to quickly demonstrate the ideas and make something that works, albeit minimally. I expect that we will want to do more interesting things that will really ask for a "proper" (sorry python) language like Go or C++.

Watch this space.
"More serious adoption" is relative. At the time that DOS, Google and Facebook went mainstream, their competitors would quite definitely have been classed as having serious adoption. And when the things that knock those off their pedestal (some, particularly DOS, were knocked off many years ago), the things that follow them may well have even more serious adoption.

My point is that the author's claim that "You won't get rich, famous and powerful by building a better mousetrap. You can only do that by being the one person who creates or popularises a whole new market segment" is simply wrong and has been shown to be wrong time and time again - including by the very people he's using as examples.
Er, I meant laypeople relative to the field of Patent Law, not laypeople relative to the field of software engineering.
> At least 1 relevant image on the page

How would you figure out relevance algorithmically?
That isn't how resistance works.

Resistance to anything has an evolutionary cost - the most resistant species tend to breed slowest, the hardiest environmentals even slower.

Organisms which can live in volcanoes usually die when given mild conditions but competitor species instead.

Your statement also begs the question: given we're assuming you can reasonably disinfect yourself, why not simply re-innoculate with an optimum colony of bacterial species and short-circuit the negative effects?
Yes there is - radfem (which "ultra-feminist movement" would descrive) is a movement within third wave feminism.
> Because you don't have a response other than to cherry pick sentences that sound bad out of context? Go right ahead, buddy.

You have a context that makes domestic violence acceptable? I sure didn't see it in your parent comment.
Will this get amazon and others to rush to support container centric cloud infrastructure?
Shipping a phone with two photo management apps just seems like a mistake to me in the first place.

I thought he was arguing a consequence of that (and the interface) and not the intrinsic value of Intents, but that may be my reading.
Ah, that's exactly what happened. Perhaps default to something like 25 miles, and then include a selection for "All"? I'm definitely not somebody who's well-versed in UX stuff, but that might help give people intended behavior more easily.

I'd try out the rest of it but I actually don't remember my twitter account information. Sorry!

Edit: I don't know if this is a result of how users create events or not, but it would be useful to include some more specific data about locations. I happen to know that there's a town called Burlingame around 20 miles north of me, but I don't have an encyclopedic knowledge of however many Columbuses there are; I know there's one in Ohio (i think) but there could easily be others, and if you told me that there's a Columbus, TN or Columbus, WI and that it was about 2000 miles away, I'd say "Sure; I could believe that".
Yes, it lacks scalability because the source of the replacement immunoglobulin (antibodies) is blood donors, of which there are a limited amount.
When the dollar coin was first introduced in the US, you could order them online for no extra cost, as a way of increasing adoption. There would be a $1000 charge on your credit card, and 1000 coins would show up at your door (shipping was free too).

A lot of airline miles were earned at the expense of the US government.
Or, as an alternate explanation, I happen to not agree with you, and know what actual feminist spaces look like enough to know HN isn't even close to one.
The responsible server administrator who stole the data from the bank has been sentenced to prison in Switzerland and fled. The second crime was committed by the German officials, but none of both has anything to do with swiss legal standards.
So you think kidnappings are a crime, but you are okay with forcefully capturing bad guys? Whats your definition of "kidnapping"?

Concerning assassinations, what exactly are you opposed to? Are you against kill-or-capture manhunts for known terrorists? Are you against killing high-value targets as part of achieving a military goal, or are you against killing in a war in general? Would you oppose the failed British WW2 plan to assassinate Erwin Rommel, or the plan to assassinate Hitler? How about kidnapping them? Or is it simply the wording of "assassination and kidnapping" that you are against? Is it ok if we call it "killing and capturing" instead?

Honestly I don't know what exactly you "can't believe". You have to be extremely naive to be categorically opposed to "Assassinations and Kidnappings", whatever that even means.
This is a perfect example of how not to engage men on this topic.

I said "I'm genuinely curious", which was a chance for opening a dialogue.

You respond by using implicature to paint me in such a negative light.

Did you do it because you're being defensive of the article, or because you're being defensive of the ideas in the article?

I don't know, and I don't care, what I do know is that if I can't trust you to be reasonable with something like written text that you can go back and read again to make sure you got the meaning (and ask for clarification), why should I trust your experiences?

and that is an honest question.

If you had any idea the damage you do to yourself and your beliefs with that behavior, I suspect you would take steps to stop doing it.

There are many, like myself, who don't want to deal with it, and certainly don't want to deal with being treated like that. As they say, two wrongs don't make a right, stop treating men in this manner.

Playing the victim card, even if it's sometimes valid, doesn't actually help you.
I wondered about doing stuff like this, a sort of V4->V6 NAT :-) Have you used the Cloudflare service? If so how did you like it?
Snowden gives first American news network interview
> If you see someone engage in bad behavior and you do nothing, you've chosen to let that person think that what they did is okay. This leaves us feeling like we’re fighting this alone.

There is easily dozens (hundreds?) of "fights" that I could get into everyday but I don't. I'm not really a confrontational person. Please don't take it personally when this fight is also one I don't get into.
Fab Lays Off One-Third of Global Headcount, Slashing New York City Staff
> Unreasonable expectations and little knowledge or inclination to try things out - sounds like perfect iOS user to me

This you don't recognize as an insult? I'll bet you're a constant delight to your acquaintances.
I would argue that Ford (and the other multinationals) have more need of an /8 than any university that is just in a single city.
I think I've read about people doing this before, perhaps on Boing Boing. If I was going to do this, I think I would just use plain water and a un-soaped wash cloth.

Are what about anti-perperents or deodorants? Are you using them or skipping them as well?
I did not realize my teenage son could be used as a science experiment.
In addition, London black cabs have technical advantages. One thing is they can use bus lanes, another is that they have a much tighter turning radius than most cars so they can get out tight spots.

I had to laugh at Uber's advertising during the last tube strike... the last thing you want to do during a tube strike is get in a car in central London, especially one by a disadvantageous vehicle drive by someone who does not have deep expert knowledge of the roads.

All that said, I'm a cyclist, so fuck taxis :)
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21487045
I believe you're conflating two issues. Few people argue against hand-washing with soap. The benefits are proven.

But where did you get the notion that washing the whole body with soap is beneficial or even benign? You've cited many studies, but they all deal with aging and not with skin flora.

Skin flora is complex. I know of no scientific study that has looked into whether skin flora or hygiene is improved by full body soap washing.

Full body soap washing began in the early part of the 20th century, following a steady marketing campaign with ads such as this:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/y1yyuz0p6ybhby3/Soap%20Ad.jpg

At the time, people bathed little. When they bath more frequently, with soap, odour improved. Soap usage became widespread.

It seemed a reasonable inference that soap was the cause. Particularly since if you stop using soap, you get smellier, even if you bathe.

I believe this inference is wrong. I stopped using soap in 2011. For the first 2-3 weeks, I smelled worse. Then I smelled better. I have had practically no BO since, even in the most sensitive regions. Women have confirmed that I smell good, spontaneously. If you saw me, you would never know I don't use soap.

I'm using an N of 1, but it seemed like the bacterial balance of my skin improved. It also became less oily. I can only speak to my own example, but I have seen many reports from others who went through the same transition as me.

So I'll repeat: where is your evidence that full-body soap washing offers benefits? Are there any scientific studies that support your position?

My hypothesis is that full body soap makes us worse off and that we don't realize this due to the transition period. Our habit was begun by marketing and cemented by tradition. (our parents washed us when we were young)

Edit: I just noticed this sentence:

"There is no evidence whatever that there are any large number of bacterial species or other microorganisms that are actively "beneficial" for human beings"

This seems rather unsupported. Are you saying we do not require intestinal or skin flora?

Second edit: In response to your edit, I found this article:

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2133.2008....

It has been cited 182 according to Google Scholar. I can't access the full text, but it claims that many skin flora are mutalistic.
> my initial impression is that the design feels outdated and I can't quickly identify how the site works or the value it provides

Part of the problem is that you're right, identifying the value it provides isn't a quick process, and it's less because of design problems and more because the kind of value it provides needs longer periods of evaluation to identify.

It can take more than a casual visit or two to run across the illuminating post or comment that's basically a small dissertation where someone drops the knowledge.

And it will probably take a little bit before someone offers to just send you some hardware they're not using, just because you expressed an interest in something like it.

Some examples that might be more amenable to evaluation:

* This went viral in January:

"Holy cow! 14 minutes to solve the back of the card that has been bugging my family for 20 years! That is amazing!"

http://ask.metafilter.com/255675/Decoding-cancer-addled-ramb...
http://mashable.com/2014/01/21/internet-grandma-mystery/

* This is completely non-viral a system administration question I asked a few years ago in a couple of different forums:

http://ask.metafilter.com/143963/Trouble-setting-up-printing...

Within a half hour on AskMeFi, someone picked out the answer to my problem.

It's probably notable that if you search for the exact title to my question (but not in quotes), you will get the SuperUser/StackExchange answer first in Google results (AskMe second). I did post the answer a Metafilter user helped me pull together on SU, so it's got the same content, but that's not where I got help.
The closest analogy (I think you are trying to get to this) is that one might be able to make a series of operations that would execute an encrypted program. The problem is that this would result in encrypted output.

Thanks for your time. That's what I was trying to get to, yes. Would you help me understand why encrypted output would be a problem for the interpreter? If the input data is encrypted, and the data defines a program which can be executed, and the result of that execution is more encrypted data, then (for example) why can't that encrypted data be fed back into the interpreter as further input? Or transmitted over the network to a computer with the decryption key (so that the encrypted output can be used in a meaningful way, without revealing to the original computer what was computed)? In other words, why is encrypted output any more of a problem than operating on encrypted data in the first place?
>petty, small minded nagging

I think you'll find this to be a facet of every forum or comment box ever made available on the internet :).

>Seems like just another 'intellectual' echo chamber to me.

Are big words bad? What's 'intellectual' about it?
Crohn's disease is an autoimmune condition.

It's managed through diet and fauna control, but it sure as heck isn't caused by bacterial imbalance.

It's also worth noting that bacterial imbalance is usually treated with gut-balanciing antibiotics, which a single course of did wonders for me when I used to suffer severe gutache nearly daily.

Articles like the one here though sound far more ideological then scientific though.

EDIT: Also worth noting, there's scant scientific evidence that probiotics do anything. Near as anyone can tell the only effective things have been antibiotics, or faecal transplants.
You could run transactions on a signed wallet and even compute interest... I'm sure there are also other, less obvious, use cases as well.

Add with carry-out seems like it could be use to build some complex systems.
That honestly sounds unlikely as a fare.

That's over 40 minutes each way on a time basis (by distance it should be around £6..7)

Lets assume you did drive around for over 40 minutes uber would want £3+40*0.32p so they would have charged £16 anyway.
Most soap like things are pretty biodegradable. This is a frequent ingredient in liquid soaps and shampoos:

http://personalcaretruth.com/2010/05/a-closer-look-at-sodium...

They would rot in the bottle if there weren't some preservatives in there. After the soap gets diluted into water, the preservative isn't going to work anymore.
Reminds me of a quote from the German general, Kurt von Hammerstein-Equord.

"I divide my officers into four groups. There are clever, diligent, stupid, and lazy officers. Usually two characteristics are combined. Some are clever and diligent -- their place is the General Staff. The next lot are stupid and lazy -- they make up 90 percent of every army and are suited to routine duties. Anyone who is both clever and lazy is qualified for the highest leadership duties, because he possesses the intellectual clarity and the composure necessary for difficult decisions. One must beware of anyone who is stupid and diligent -- he must not be entrusted with any responsibility because he will always cause only mischief."

I tend to use this quote whenever people try and insist that 100% employment is a good idea. But in the current context, sure, spotting diligent morons like Sterling is useful, but you really shouldn't keep them on as the damage they can do far outweighs any potential benefit of being nice to make it easier to spot more morons.

Also, if someone is having trouble finding the morons in the first place, they need to review their methods.
Seriously????

A language with moto "The R Project for Statistical Computing" is better than anything else when it comes to statistics?!

Who would tell right?! ...
Except: take an extended vacation between employment, move to a hotter job market on a whim, move again on a whim, shield yourself to economic downturns.

Disclaimer: own a house in a place people rent, so I got out of that steaming pile of poo unscathed.
XBLIG seems to be filled mostly with low budget games, student projects, and abandonware. That's very different than the high-quality, supported, money-making games that top the iOS charts; Candy Crush and the like. You may not consider those games to be "good", but they are completely missing from XBLIG.
I replied to a similar comment above. I sincerely wasn't insulting him. I was just pointing out that iOS/iPhone is a perfect choice for people who don't like to be bothered with these type of things. I might just change the wording given how many found it offensive.
NSA decides to ignore law, as it did before. Other news at 11.
I tend to think a lot of things are good things that can also be abused.
http://docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticbeanstalk/latest/dg/create... This seems pretty comparable, both are essentially deploying a manifest to a machine and exposing things like ports, volumes, etc.
The whole article is way too long. He makes the same points over and over again... and then he doesn't even know what happened to Metafilter.