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I'm skeptical of all pharmaceuticals and I think history details why we all should. Millions have died from recalled drugs and currently pharmaceuticals are the 4th leading cause of death in America.

According to the CDC, common substances in vaccines include: Aluminum, Formaldehyde, Monosodium glutamate (MSG) and Thimerosal (a mercury-containing preservative). Source: http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vac-gen/additives.htm

I mean really? I won't put these substances in my body and anyone looking at this objectively can see the obvious problems with this. I don't think the "debate is over," and anyone claiming that it is has an ulterior motive.

Aluminum, Formaldehyde and MSG? I can't believe this.
Sure its fun to laugh at things people said that turned out very, very wrong. I think one of the basic premises isn't all that far off though:

>The way Jobs sees it, the stores look to be a sure thing. But even if they attain a measure of success, few outsiders think new stores, no matter how well-conceived, will get Apple back on the hot-growth path.

Sure, that's short sighted but its not quite wrong. The stores worked out because new and exciting products drove people there. Apple finally had a way to sell their vision the way they wanted to.
One of your images is 10 MB, it probably doesn't need to be that large while in the middle of an article, maybe a link to the full-size version instead?
Well, I basically went "fuck this" after looking at Haskell for a while, but there's surfaced some links in the comments (thanks, akavel) and they provide some examples:
>>=, >>, >, <$>, <$, <>, $, ., !!, !, <|>, :, ::, \, @, ~, -<, <-, =>, ->
Taken together the syntax makes no effort whatsoever to be self-explanatory. I could handle it if it was the only programming language I would ever use, but in the polyglot world we live in and with my leaky bucket of a long-term memory this is not good enough.
> So why has the labor income of the top 1 percent risen so sharply relative to the income of everyone else? No one really knows.

Really? Isn't this what the bigger half of the book is about? It's because of rentier/patrimonial-capitalism, opportunity not being equally distributed in the system, etc.
> Why is Comcast obligated to do this for free?

Because of a hundreds of thousands of people paying them already over-priced networking fees? Comcast wouldn't be doing it for free... I'm already capped at 300Gb per month on my Comcast internet... If I choose to spend that 300Gb in a week on streaming netflix, fucking let me; That's why I pay for it. At this point not only are ISPs trying to limit how much of their service I can use, but when, where, and how.

This isn't how free-flowing information works.
I just realized that makes Lisp "Polish Notation".

I'm sure that opens up some really horrible jokes.
Or even better, depending on length limits on message, you could prepend every message with a sentence to check. If it is not OK, discard the entire message. If it is, process the rest.
> editing my Xcode project files underneath me creeps me out

You can use the `--no-integrate` flag and it never touches your project, leaving integration of the Pods Xcode project up to you as you see fit.
Knowing the number in your situation doesn't change much in your situation. You still won't provide the first number.

However, since you know where the first number will be (within 5-10K) depending on your presentation up to this point.

Either:

A. You will provide a reason or reasons you are more valuable than that number (in value to the company, which they will accept or reject)

B. You will show you are more experienced than someone who would be a good fit for this position

C. You will accept their assessment of an offer in that range.

You should research the market value of this position it won't help your negotiation (I wouldn't recommend trying to convince someone they are paying their people too little) but it will tell you whether their offer is acceptable.
I appreciate your thoughts here.

I'm amused by the fact that we're both looking at this from a "lesser of two evils" perspective and coming to different conclusions. The reality is they both just suck. The degrees of suck exist, but I don't even want to be debating it when we're in this deep on privacy violations.

MS sucks because of the residual arrogance of the average MSFT employee, and their failures on data colleciton.

GOOG sucks because of the privacy disconnect between the officers and the engineers. I don't understand how they can have some of the talent they do working on "privacy" when their executive can be such an ass.

"I actually think most people don't want Google to answer their questions [...] They want Google to tell them what they should be doing next"

"If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place"

"people who take issue with their homes appearing online can just move after Google cars photograph their homes or businesses"

I really want to understand why some of the security experts they have would enter into this kind of faustian deal. Is it the nice car & the expensive mortgage eventually overcomes all ideals?

I appreciate that Chrome is probably one of the best private browsers available today. But if your motivation truly is privacy and if the company funding your work has its principal revenue source in advertising, where do you draw the line? Where is the threshold where your sacrifice in principles is no longer worth the opportunity to work on "privacy"?
Yes this would work, even though the message could get garbled including the checksum, you make the first set of characters be a checksum for the rest. If the checksum or message became compromised it would fail validation. This is the best solution so far. Send it with every message.
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A C# generator on the list would be great - do send a pull request!

Or drop a link here :)
You're still being assaulted by a refresh rate. This is what causes eye fatigue. Flux will not prevent computer vision syndrome. We've got to take care of our eyes.
Which is really a shame since their app offerings are awful.
Thanks. I will definitely plan a follow up. The recurring model is the big experiment. I think it could do just fine as a 1 time 2.99-4.99 app. Where "just fine" is a relative term that means I have to keep working on several projects but brings in some decent mostly passive income.

Recurring on the other hand, could potentially allow me to spend significantly more time giving it the attention it deserves. We have a lot planned for it, and the more income it brings in the faster those updates will come. The app store race to the bottom has been an interesting phenomenon (that has made me a good amount of money) but there was a time when people paid more than FREE for software.

The competitors you pointed out, while being unlimited free with ads, all also have recurring or significantly higher IAP options. Someone out there is willing to pay for good software. I'm hoping we can find some of those people as well. And I do think this is a pretty good piece of software. It's possible I'm biased though.
Are your accounts with two separate banks? Last time I tried to open another account with a separate bank, I got denied because I opened an account within the past year.
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it's hard to imagine someone knowing an LDA without also knowing about TF.IDF (it's a dot product, not a hyphen)
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I work in a rapid growing startup that requires more than 8 hours a day and I have two young children. My priorities are

1 - Children
2 - Marriage
3 - Living arrangements / lifestyle (sans work)
4 - Career (but I take my career VERY seriously, I've been an executive for 9 years and I'm 33)

My routine

1 - Alarm goes off at 4:30 am
2 - I pickup around the house, toss in laundry as needed
3 - Catch the 5:45 am train to be into the office roughly @ 6:15 am
4 - I leave the office @ 5:30 pm to catch the 5:50 pm train to be home roughly @ 6:15 pm
5 - I play with the kids
6 - We then eat dinner together as a family
7 - I bathe and put both kids to bed around 7:30 - 8:00 pm
8 - I help pick up the rest of my house with my wife, it usually ends @ 8:30 pm (we talk a lot while doing this)
9 - My wife and I sit down on the couch/porch/etc and hang out for a few hours while I also work
10 - I'm usually in bed by 11 - 11:30 pm

If I have more work to do that evening I might have my laptop out while hanging out with my wife or stay up later. This is usually 4 nights out of the week.

Things that shift to "once in a while" given my priorities

1 - A full 8 hours of sleep
2 - Seeing that television show
3 - Seeing that movie
4 - Random nights out with friends
5 - Etc

These simply just take a back seat.

Things I never miss, and spend as much time with as someone working a standard 9-5 (although I do head into the office earlier than most)

1 - My kids (first and foremost)
2 - My wife
3 - My house
4 - My career and type of company I appreciate being involved with

To me, I keep the things that matter most and give up things that I found out I didn't really need (for context, I never really watched a lot of television).

This schedule works for me and I end up working 10 hours a day and never miss a beat with my kids.

PS. I also about twice a day, for 5 minutes, FaceTime with my wife/kids while at work. It's a nice break and a chance for me to see them during the day given I miss them in the morning.
> Poker is a game of skill with an element of luck. It is not a game of chance.

It depends on the level of the players. For beginners and casual players with less strategy, the game is much more about luck.
Maybe also take a look at AlchemyAPI
Dutch people prefer subtitles. German, Italian, Spanish and French people prefer dubbing. It's weird and I don't know why it is. Things just evolved to be like that.
Thanks, glad you like it. I'm not looking for anything right now, but that looks pretty sweet. Best of luck to you.
There is a reason that the top players happen to very good at math.
I totally agree, never send people to your site's home page. Unless your site's home page is a landing page.
I'll add just one thing to this.

For me the web interface is essential and I think it is for a lot of other people. People like to share their life with everyone. When I go running, I post a live tracking to facebook (not necessary), and then when I finished running I post automatically the data to Facebook. I want everyone to know I just spend X calories and ran for X miles. I enjoy the fact that everyone can click on the link, and view the map of where I was running.

I'm sure this is not a requirement for everyone, but a web interface is for me.
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Aren't there equivalent laws in Canada (minimum canadian content)? Netflix is available in Canada.
This post was killed by user flags.

Dangerousminds.net is one of the best pop culture blogs out there. I read it frequently. But not many of its posts are good fits for HN, and this one was lightweight even by their standards.
Well, I suppose the silver lining is that you're publishing your journey :)
Well, now that we (nearly) have that strawman out of the way..I guess now we can shift gears and focus on Sheldon Adelson's 'online poker is so much more dangerous for compulsive gamblers and minors' doozy. Oh, and can't forget about Terrorist Hold 'Em!

http://www.nationaljournal.com/tech/what-do-terrorism-and-on...
WSOP Main Event final tables are often used as an prominent exhibit that poker is not "tru gambools". It is the final 9-10 players of a tournament.

Dan Harrington made the final table in 1987 (152 entrants), won the final table in 1995 (273 entrants), and made back-to-back final tables in 2003-2004 (839 and 2576 entrants). Or in a lesser example, Johnny Chan won back-to-back in 87-88 (152 and 167 entrants).

The Cavs winning the #1 pick three times in the last five years, however. That is rigged.
I'm referring to a new Bootstrappy dialog (blue and white candy buttons) available when you login from Paypal.com
In cases like this I think it would be helpful if the reporter (probably with the help of the scientist) laid out all the possible explanations for this finding. In this case it would include 'people with a smaller nucleus accumbens are more likely to smoke pot.' Showing people all the possible interpretations of a scientific result is hard, even for scientists. We often miss interpretations that in retrospect seem obvious given the data. Science news needs to report about the science first and about any human elements second.
I agree. While I am no longer Christian, I really liked his perspective that one should love God as an inherently good act, rather than out of fear or a desire to get Good Things Later.
"One size fits all" is the only possible answer when you have multiple, mutually contradictory goals.

The idea that even just one child out of millions might be left out means no answer that treats the problem on an individual, child-by-child basis can ever be considered.

It also rules out anything where one child might get "more" than another. (Never mind that many people are perfectly happy and comfortable despite having gotten less than others.)
The author is the principal of the company which produces RailsLTS, which I was involved in as a customer. I wasn't aware that we shared the WoW connection, but that makes me like them even more. (I sort of hope we do not need an advisory about RCE via session cookie tampering because Rails is drunk.)
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I should have looked more closely at the data source. This is well done. I'll send a pull req.
UK 'in denial' over pluralization of the word 'math'.
The whole point of the common core, from my understanding was to be vague enough to let local governments decide how best to implement it. They were trying to avoid "one size fits all."

Having everyone in the same page with regards to an overall standard seems good in my book.
What? I just looked it up[1]. The common core math standard looks very readable and reasonable, and it’s not even very big (93 pages). Is there anything in particular that you found confusing, inappropriate, or overly prescriptive?

For example, in Grade 7, there are about 50 requirements, one of which is “Use proportional relationships to solve multistep ratio and percent problems. Examples: simple interest, tax, markups and markdowns, gratuities and commissions, fees, percent increase and decrease, percent error.” That sounds like an appropriate thing to learn in 7th grade.

Edit: In fact, most of the time when I am reading the standard I just nod and think “yep, that’s probably about when I learned that concept” when I grew up in California, although in a few cases (e.g. using scatterplots and proving Pythagorean theorem in 8th grade) I don’t think I learned them until high school.

[1] http://www.corestandards.org/Math/
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I don't think this problem can be addressed without talking about the fundamental difference in incentives between the groups.

Reporters are incentivized to get the story to sell. Especially as there are more & more freelancers, competition is becoming intense. And let's face it, by nature, we as consumers of information are drawn to the outlandish and sensational. There was an HN a few weeks ago about someone who put out fake crazy headlines and got crazy CTR on Twitter.

Scientists are incentivized to be objective in finding the truth. Scientists avoid making claims about causation until the last possible moment just so they can be sure all the variables have been controlled for and the results are not outliers.

I don't have any well-thought through answers... but thoughts?
The text on the page says that, but I had no problem using a 29 character password. I was upgrading from one with 23 characters though, maybe they grandfathered me in?
A major strength of Middleman over most static site generators (including Jekyll until v2 launched recently) is the ability to generate large numbers of HTML pages from a single YAML (or JSON) array: the sort of thing you'd usually use a database for.

Ironically the folks at Meteor have pushed this approach the most:
https://www.discovermeteor.com/blog/three-middleman-hacks-we...
Does anyone think his solution of a global wealth tax will actually help lessen inequality? This solution seems simplistic and naive to me, and puts those at the bottom of the ladder at the mercy of these 'global wealth tax collectors' instead of the wealthy. I don't see much difference in these two, other than one group is at the mercy of market demands, and the other is supposedly at the mercy of a democratic populace. Correct me if I'm wrong, but he didn't write anything about actually empowering those at the bottom of the economic ladder, did he? Where are those solutions being offered up?
Link to the Planet Money story on Stradivarius: 'Is a stradivarius just a violin?' - http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2014/05/16/313099219/is-a-str...
Could this be explained in part by people who are good at math tending to make more money than people who are bad at math?

http://media.collegeboard.com/digitalServices/pdf/research/2...
Sure, but the same is true of every skill game -- even, like, chess, without any explicit luck component. If both players are making essentially random legal moves, the game comes down to luck.
I totally agree and am depressed that places like inner cities have such a hard time getting more charter schools and competition that would give these kids and their families a shot at a decent education.

Is it politics? Teachers unions? Getting good admin people? What's holding back these places from getting ahead?

As a comparison, my sister lives on the outskirts of a large metro area and their school has been teaching STEM for almost 10 years now.
I'm not sure why the web interface is needed for that, or am I missing something?

The app has a post to facebook option, including screenshot of the map trace. I guess having the ability to scroll and zoom the map might be interesting, but it doesn't seem like it'd be a requirement.

I could very well be wrong on that though. Let me know if I'm missing something.

EDIT: Here is a screen grab of what the facebook post looks like for reference http://cl.ly/image/2O3d2Q1v2i1b
I haven't used this yet, but it seems like it should make updating mappings much easier. See the "using aliases for greater flexibility" section in this article: http://www.elasticsearch.org/blog/changing-mapping-with-zero...

I had to write the scripts to implement this concept myself and it wasn't a quick and easy task. It would had gone along a lot easier if I was able to abstract away some of those queries with a tool like this.
For the past few months I've been studying Lisp, reading SICP, and just trying to become more familiar with the concepts. Like many people, I was put off by Lisp's seemingly arcane syntax, which now feels beautiful to me. I can't fully explain it, but for years I had been searching for a way to reduce and abstract duplication in the structure of my code. (There's a fundamental difference between this, and simply pulling something out into a function or method.) It wasn't until I came across a great explanation of homoiconicity and macros that I became "enlightened." Lisp was what I was looking for all along.

One day, I tried explaining it to my manager, and he just couldn't get it. It wasn't clicking. Until I showed him a demo of symbolic differentiation (a la SICP), at which point he said, "Holy shit," and sat there for a few minutes considering all the implications. That was one of the greatest moments we ever shared together.
apologies bichilliard, noted for the future. tough to balance clickable tips vs linkbait titles. buzzfeed has ruined us all.
There is a lot of nebulous, vague law in the U.S. about games when you have the chance to win real money. Each state has its own self-inconsistent set of laws, usually made to preserve the monopolies of neighboring casinos. There is very little actual reasoning behind the laws - it's corruption, plain and simple.

This stifles innovation in real-money games. No company will risk spending any money on the design/development of a new real-money game when there is a tangible chance of going to jail and losing everything. This frustrates me a lot, because I enjoy real-money games (poker included), and I'd love to play new kinds of real-money games, but these freedoms don't exist.
It shouldn't be time consuming to manually integrate a dependency either. Add it to your project and go.

I further don't understand how it's a problem if you commit them to SCM and then decide to remove them. If you decide to remove them, then remove them, and you're back where you were.

Perhaps this is the gulf in understanding: when you talk about transitive dependencies, my immediate reaction is that if you have so many different dependencies and dependencies-on-dependencies that it becomes difficult to manage by hand, you're doing something terribly wrong and setting yourself up for a world of pain.
> it's absolutely impossible to delegate most of this work to a third party

I am sailing into waters I am not at all familiar with here, but I think the currently-underused multisig/escrow features might offer a solution here. But this really is the limit of my knowledge on bitcoin now.
Part of the problem is that a subset of the right wing wants privatization. In order to encourage privatization, you actually want the public sector to be as bad as possible so there's greater outcry for subsidized privately-run alternatives.
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I submitted this link because I'm currently in an argument with my co founders about interns. They don't think there is an issue with unpaid interns and we have not gotten any advice from either lawyers or HR experts. Lawsuits mentioned in the first topic are my biggest issue. Since we are currently bootstrapping the startup, my fears are any lawsuits will end up coming after me and could cost me my house.
I taught high school physics for a semester and the math abilities of these students (many considered top students) were abysmal. Somehow several of these students had received As and Bs in Algebra 2 but were unable to transform f = ma into a = f/m. They also had a very flawed understanding of how to solve quadratics.

I later realized that the issue is that mathematics is often taught as procedural. Students are taught a process (a set of steps to follow) that will take you from A to B. This works very well when you can remember all of the steps but if you forget one step you will always get the wrong answer. Almost none of these students could reason abstractly about the nature of the equations they were looking at. They could only refer to prior experiences following a sort of algebra recipe.
Often coming up with a lucid succinct definition of something requires an outsider. The principle is too deeply involved in the intricacies to have a frame of reference that matches the neophyte.
I do love flux, and use it and it does work, but it's not the same as completely shutting off.
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It shouldn't matter at all - the hashing should be done on the client so they wouldn't need to worry about server resources, and all output from a given has function is the same size. Some hash functions may have upper limits, but I doubt it. Ever md5 a multi-GB iso you downloaded from the Internet to verify its integrity? It's the same thing.
By that reasoning, basketball is a game of chance, depending on the level of the players. They're going to lob it up there and hope it goes in.

But their lob was a skill--one they don't control very well, but a skill nevertheless.

Betting in poker is the same thing, and is the only thing the player controls.

The way the cards come out is always chance, and the level of skill can't influence it.