skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Funny that you mentioned thalidomide. It's one of the first that popped to my mind as well; perhaps because it was not only touted as safe, but it was also specifically promoted to the population in which it would cause the most harm.

History is, of course, replete with such examples. Thalidomide was actually a "fortunate" case to some extent, because the degree and the immediacy of the harm done enabled relatively swift acknowledgment of the causative agent.

But, your parent seems unable or unwilling to understand how his line of reasoning produces such short-sighted outcomes. Instead, he continues to exemplify the very problem by repeatedly demanding evidence for harm, and assuming safety until such evidence is provided.

It's pefectly circular reasoning and is especially dangerous in cases wherein a causative agent is not readily identified or works within a complex, multi-variable system such as nature.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKCK16Junz4 (their video minus that last 10sec)
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A word of warning. Many companies include a contractual obligation inside your employment contract that requires you to declare any company directorships, whether you see you new startup as a conflict of interest or not.

I got fired from a well known PC manufacturer for not declaring such a directorship. A web development consultancy was not a conflict of interest but I broke the contract so it was a hard but valid lesson learned.
I think the core problem here is we have someone (Shanley) who is allowed to attack people on the basis of their gender, class, profession, etc. [e.g. https://twitter.com/ryan/status/474791621100199936 ]

An example relevant to HN is:

https://twitter.com/shanley/status/474601030986903552

"HN is fucking obsessed with me lol. what is wrong with you little boys? mad cuz i'm cute and would NEVER talk to you or know you exist?"

Yet, this person is still able to get an employer to fire one of their employees for engaging in the same behavior she does.

Is it just me that feels people who attack people on the basis of their gender shouldn't be able to get people fired for doing the same thing?

Edit:
I was trying to say the consequences should be equal. I probably should have said the reverse in my question at the end there since it seemed to lead to confusion. [e.g. Both should be fired since consequences should be equal for equally bad behavior]
User 'instanerd' has exceeded the 'max_questions' resource (current value: 75000)

ooops
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I feel bad for all the developers who are going to see a substantial drop in revenues from incentivized video ads. But as a user, I am happy to see this change. Developers have been very abusive with in-game credits.
At some point is crying 'the sky is falling' to assume everything is dangerous, or that you know where the danger is coming from. I know GMO has a bad rap; but it seems like a reach to blame everything from butterflies to cancer on it.
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Being in Canada, I wish amazon didn't require an American address and CC to use this.
The meat isn't in the footnotes, so if a mod could update the link it would be nice.
Original comment and posting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7869831
>- static typing;

I'm not an expert on the theory or design of programming languages, but isn't static typing orthogonal to FP?
Large media catalogs need consumables. Every in app purchase item has to be approved by apple individually making it extremely impractical to list an IAP for every single item.
Could you please define IAP?

Google is of no use here and wikipedia links to this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IAP

None of which look right:)
> I think a lot of the use-cases for VMs are based on isolation between users and making sure everybody gets a fair slice.

Containers do this.
It's about time. It's not only games that do this, even brand name companies pay for positioning via incentivized downloads from these marketing companies.
Oh, please. Everybody knew he was there. He was never told not to be there at night. They may not have realized how much time he was spending there, but what he was doing was in no way illegal.
http://schooldistrictfinder.com/

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"all the button style i need???" i don't even see a single example of a button i WANT, let alone "need".

i want a button, not a border.
A classic, but hard to believe anyone here hasn't seen it before!
I hope this conversation can continue online. There's a lot to be learned from it.
My point was the one you just made - "Editors are human, and if they see something that looks nothing like a scientific paper, it's much more likely to trigger the "crank" flag than to be seen as a breakthrough paper."

The format is the message to some degree. Lazy editors help perpetuate this as you suggest.
Agency seems to be zero-sum to me. If I can command 100s of people who have to do whatever I please, then granting them freedom reduces my freedom.

Giving someone freedom necessarily reduces the freedom of those who previously took advantage of their lack of freedom.
The CSS code has tons of hardcoded numbers. Ugly for future programers to read and maintain. Isn't there a way to do this with prettier code. eg JS make CSS.
What is the difference between this and rpm+puppet with rpm+puppet I have no problems installing my apps with my dependencies to any server and best of all as its the developers who create the rpms+puppets they hand it as a building block to production who install it in a few seconds on any machine.
CNN really screwed up this story (and issued a correction). Amazon Payments isn't remotely new; most of this stuff has been around 6+ years. The only new thing is better support for reoccurring subscription payments. A nice new feature, but the whole project is nothing new.
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Its an outrageous stretch that a sealed bottle could support an ecosystem for decades; previous experiments achieved only months or a year or two.
The wikipedia entry (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Story_of_Mel) has even the link to the picture of Mel, whose name is discovered from the preface to the manuals for the Royal McBee LGP-30 ACT 1 (Algebraic Compiler and Translator) compiler (dated 1959). Then somebody discovered the group picture in http://www.librascopememories.com/Librascope_Memories/1950_-...

and there it is:

http://zappa.brainiac.com/MelKaye.png
In my rural county, about 50% of households have some form of DSL service from CenturyLink. They are the ones that live in the towns. Some of those towns also have cable service from Mediacom. There are 2 WISPS serving parts of the county, but their speeds aren't really broadband- and they are expensive! Verizon does have wireless data coverage in some areas, but that is prohibitively expensive for streaming video.

The rest of us are stuck with satellite as the only option, which is expensive and laggy, and has very limited data caps.

I have no doubt we would be able to get 30-50% of households to signup for fiber service if we had it. But I can't finance the entire cost of building the network and still make it financially viable. Volunteers and community support is the only way to make it happen.

If I can make it happen here, I plan to work very hard to expand the network and help other communities to do the same thing.

(PS My wife is doing much better now, thanks!)
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This looks like it brings the work of Native Oberon's TUI[0] to *nixes. Awesome!

[0] http://www.ethoberon.ethz.ch/eve/NOVPC.png
Depends on what you are doing to "relationship build": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darleen_Druyun#United_States_Ai...

As a result, my company now does ethics training every year. "Relationship building" before changing ships is prohibited and can result in jail time.
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The linked site states the size is "663B gzipped and minified." Yet another argument for not editorializing in submission titles.
I assume "in-app purchase"
Well, it's all fun and games with various APIs and remotely-hosted solutions, until those solutions start breaking and changing. For example, for awhile the news world loved making apps (simple infographics, interactives, etc) that used tabletop.js, which in turn pulled data from a google doc (spreadsheet, etc, which made it easier for text changes: programmers could program and editors could edit.)

Then, bugs surfaced after google altered login procedures. What should have been a simple JSONP call was replaced with a broken login page being returned instead of JSONP, that is: only if you hadn't logged into your google account for awhile. People who've never logged in or were logged into a google service were fine. Then they started throttling connections - per computer, per account, random without announcing it, etc. Debugging these things was frustrating.

So, in other words, a convenient feature becomes a liability very quickly.
So scrubbed. Good call
OP is not suggesting they ban all IAP, just consumable ones, which tend to be the most abusive. It would be a bold move and lead to an increase in quality for sure. It would also gut companies like zynga who design their games around them.
The music was fine, not that big a deal. Altogether the video didn't blow my mind like the short screencast on xiki.org did, but that may be because my mind was already blown.
What about iOS apps like Viggle that have the same model but for music and tv? https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/viggle/id487066871?mt=8

These ads pushers are already circumventing the app store. FreeMyApps uses a website and iOS device profile instead. Will Apple revoke their certificates?
http://welcome.freemyapps.com/howitworks-ios.html
I'm surprised you can get fired in the UK for this. Though, livestream seems to be a US company so maybe he was a contractor.
Computer AI passes Turing Test for the First Time in History
I never understand the apparent glee with which people perform premature post-mortems on Perl.

You never really see people declaring any other language moribund, and then kicking it a couple of times for fun.

I don't see the point?
This is arguing the ends justify the means. Allow me to quote a relevant section of the article as to why this is a bad idea.

> Appealing to capital to enforce one’s political agenda (no matter how noble that agenda might be) implicitly places that agenda as reliant upon and subject to capital itself. It’s just plain bad politics.

> ...it sets a terrible precedent. It expands the role of the employer to managing the totality of our lives, rather than limiting that influence to our professional lives. It changes us from professionals into frightened children.
Does anybody have an overview about nice CRM systems for startups and small companies? I keep feeling overwhelmed whenever I look at this stuff, and whenever I don't, it takes me five minutes to find essential features lacking.
Yes, user namespaces are coming soon.
There are plenty of precedents for Apple banning things that, not banned, would earn them money. One example is the, "I am rich" app.
I agree. This is very sad state of affairs.

At my workplace I'm trying to drum up support for git, but the poor Windows tools are a hindrance.
Well, looks like regular people do not love the WiiU.

Why would you expect them to buy a completely different design just because they liked something else made by the same company? It's a fact that regular people made the Wii extremely successful, do you really expect more?
"more hashes != more security" is true even if POS does not work (or rather, security scales sublinearly with hashes - economies of scale + diminishing returns on value of security). Nothing-at-stake is solved by DPOS, the ethereum team lags behind POS development by a few months it seems (they just mentioned using TAPOS a few weeks ago when the inventor has moved past it a few months ago).
You mean, vaporware, or some other interpretation?
That seems like a quintessential nerd factoid to me. It's clever, unusual, almost practical, and displays a knowledge of obscure topics while completely ignoring common sense knowledge like the fact that you don't grow tomatoes under the dirt.
I can give you some feedback if you want. In the past I have searched freelancers in the web, app and design space. For each position I maybe look at ~200 freelancers. That means a freelancer is out on average in maybe 10 - 20 seconds.

What I like:

* You have a website

* Design is very easy and clean

* You show your references

* There's an e-mail address

What could be better:

* Your picture. If you don't want to show your face just leave it out. Otherwise take a nice picture and put it up without any effects / filters

* I don't know what you did on each of your projects. Normally, I assume that you either did the whole site or a minimal part.

Stuff that depends (if you mainly sell to technical or non-technical people):

* Your services part doesn't really describe technologies / frameworks. However, if I look for a freelancer I look for somebody knowing Django, Magento or whatever.

* Same goes for the projects
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I'm certainly not an expert on this, but I think what hnal943 said is the general motivation behind these types of agreements. The one "non-compete" agreement that I've signed in my career covered both non-competition and non-solicitation all in one, and I was using the term to cover all of that.
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We like Python - we support it in libfreenect, so we'll probably have it in libfreenect2.
Thanks, that's exactly the sort of thing I was hoping to learn from the HN comments.

In the post you link above, it seems like you're mainly comparing Docker to traditional, non-virtualized setups. Do you (or does anybody) have thoughts on comparing it to virtualized environments? I recently experimented with Xen as a way to isolate services, and it seemed awfully heavy; does Docker end up being a lighter burden?
The computer:

http://ed-thelen.org/comp-hist/lgp-30.html

The story referenced:

http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/real.programmers.html
I've been psyched about this project since it was brought up a month or two ago in a discussion about tree viewers here on HN. Its pretty compelling, even if it may not integrate well into developers' workflows. Now I've just got to find time to start using it...
In many cases, package managers are insufficient to solve the problem. A lot of times they don't handle "Service A must use dependency version X.* but Service B must use version Y.*"
> [W]here a confused developer wonders, “so we can’t encourage users to share stuffs [sic] on social networks anymore? This is one of the oldest tricks in the book and even Candy Crush uses it.”

"Even Candy Crush uses it" is not the best argument for this developer's point. It is the best argument for Apple's shift in enforcement.
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The writer mixes two things:
- the app review experience as provided by Apple, which is completely separated from the app itself.
- the prompt and incentive added by the developer to guide the user to the right place on iTunes to leave a review.

That said, yes, Apple need to provide an API for integrating app review process into the app.
Actually, you don't even need to run route 53, you can just make the bucket public and do a standard dns lookup from whoever you got the domain from. That said, I think there's a huge value in having a central repository and a standard way to display a developer profile.
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There's an experimental web interface that's part of the project. I imagine that an ncurses interface could be built on top of the xiki API in some fashion, although I don't think that is really a use case that the creator has envisioned per se.
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Hi. That is not an army ant species. It is a trap jaw ant species. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odontomachus
...
We're a small business and we use CapsuleCRM. It took me a long time to find a simple CRM that did what we needed. Just Google around, there are others that are made for small businesses.
The person that was let go has a profile that says Contractor:
https://twitter.com/zivcjs

So I'd assume contractor.
Has this guy not been around on the internet long?

Everyone knows not to feed the trolls. They have no real power so they will try to get you fired, order pizza to your house, etc.

Best to ignore them and do something productive.
It seems perfectly reasonable if that's the implementation language they've chosen.
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We are still using distributions in FORTRAN written decades ago to generate random numbers in a variety of distributions. Having support for the inverse standard normal CDF would be incredibly helpful, especially when I had to go back in and add support for correlated uniformly distributed variates.
I'll point out that Nix, which is used by NixOS but also runs perfectly on other distros, does handle this wonderfully.
after reading the chat i think Scott has passed Turing test
I suggest you be careful with your jokes or they'll put you on their list: http://www.ashedryden.com/blog/weve-all-got-a-list

The people you've mentioned curate their own echo chamber. If you read their Twitter stream you can see that they block anybody who even tries to engage them from an ignorant-but-skeptical point of view. Then they crow to their followers about the ignorant "bros" they block to gain plaudits. It's a toxic atmosphere that is best avoided entirely.
We've buried this thread for two reasons: the use of (to put it charitably) misleading material [1], and the sockpuppets posting in this thread.

I hope it's obvious that such tactics are not ok here.

1. https://theworkmob.com/demo/#/projects/hackernews-stability
Here's an article by Robert Llewellyn (Kryten from Red Dwarf) about his conversations with Eugene Goostman at the Uni of Reading event

http://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/jun/09/turing-test-e...
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As a freelance developer, I am very reticent to work with someone that doesn't know enough about what I do to actually review my work. However, I think people skills are important enough that I totally agree on the reviews point.
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It's possible, but I think that it is more likely that they were placed there to make it more difficult to crack the cipher via character frequency analysis.

Then again, I suppose there isn't any reason that it couldn't be both.
"Your house will finish building in 12 hours - or spend 2 golden donuts ($4.99) to have it finish building right now!"

And the bad thing is, there is no filter in the store for these junk applications. Gameloft has a really fun game called Rival Knights, but I stopped playing because after 10 levels of making me like the game, they started asking me to wait more and more to keep playing - or guess guess: Buy some "Royal Ribbons" (play tokens) for real money.

What a crock! I have a kickass ipad but I can't find honest games that don't nickel and dime me.
But I do think that occasional undeserved distractions because of the name are inevitable, and I could imagine them being a real problem.

Have you considered the possibility that you're being that distraction and creating that problem?
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SEEKING FREELANCER

Remote or Austin, TX

Founder & CTO of a startup of 14 employees, consisting of 11
engineers. 5 years experience managing engineering teams of 5-11
developers. Skilled in backend engineering, system architecture,
distributed systems, performance optimization.

- Worldwide Clojure expert, I have commits in Clojure core and most of
the libraries used to run a Clojure web stack. 6 years full time
experience in Clojure (7 is the maximum possible!).
- Strong Linux Ops knowledge, I've shipped kernel modules. Built,
deployed and monitored the production AWS cluster, consisting of 100
cr1.8xlarges.

- Enough javascript to build UI features, but need the help of a
designer to make it not look terrible.
- Proficient, but rusty in: C, C++, Java, Python, Ruby.
The employer doesn't care because no one on the internet is going to look into the backstory.

It's realpolitik my friend, if you don't engage trolls you can't be bitten by them.
Are you referring to real estate listings? In my case, I use Trulia to search the zones after I narrow down the locations. However, if you're referring to the building footprints I have a Make target that pulls GIS data from public sources: https://github.com/caged/portland-atlas
I'm impressed by the number of comments this can raise. Your solution seems like a good one, if only I could edit the title.
Weak AI is when a computer can (appear to) act intelligently, strong AI is when a computer can actually think (Russell & Norvig). Therefore, passing a Turing test would be a textbook example of weak AI, because you only need to simulate intelligence well enough to fool the judge.
I'd be curious to see how CoreOS might help simplify some of the issues you mention. I'm starting to dig deep into both and the learning curve is definitely a bit high.
Thats very good move, i guess.
Never said you did, captain. I was just commenting on the useability
The one thing I would probably add is a source citation for each fact.
>The California Department of Transportation agreed to contract the company known as ZPMC in 2006 because it had established a reputation as fast and cost-effective, offering savings of about $250 million compared to the competing bidder.

This is absolutely crazy. What kind of person hires a company to build a bridge that usually builds cranes? (A politician)

When I was still in college I met a Project Manager who was building a new building for my University. The project was going very wrong because they hired a residential building company to build a commercial building.

Dont force a square peg in a round hole. (No amount of money will help it fit)
I was fortunate enough to take a philosophy of mind class from Searle during my Computer Science undergrad. Very interesting experience.
Agency is not zero sum. That's why you couldn't use it to make your argument and had to switch to using the word 'freedom' to construct a straw man.
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OpenVZ was basically the prototype for LXC. Distros seem to have better support for LXC since it's "official".
Are Wearable Devices a good use of Apple's time?
I thought it was all about the noopolitic these days.
If you're on Linux, Redshift is a good alternative to Flux. It's in Fedora and Ubuntu package managers - 'yum install redshift' or 'apt-get install redshift' respectively (if memory serves).
Yes the underlying JS library for generating the animations is coming out soon! In the meanwhile you can still save the URL for the generated animation if you need to go back to edit it later.
Check out the source code here! github.com/ordrin/api-swift
ha, I read the same one and thought, "I would like to see the source for this one..."
I couldn't agree more. IAP have destroyed sandbox games. I love the old Sim Tower and Moon Tycoon games. I would love a port of them to mobile. Sandbox games nowadays are all about trying to squeeze every last penny out of the customer.
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