skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
as-is could be copyright infringement. paraphrased - could be ok (although IANAL :))
> We should avoid making Elixir a Ruby-on-Erlang when it has the potential to be so much more.

I agree and share the enthusiasm. However, I feel like Elixir gets a bad rap just because how similar it looks to Ruby. I feel that other languages, such as HN's current darling Go, and Node.js actually have way more Ruby/Railsism libraries than Elixir does. In Go, there are hundreds of libraries with the tag line "Like <some Ruby library> but for Go!". The same goes for Node.js, but that number is probably in the thousands. In Rust, someone has actually tried to port ActiveSupport to Rust!

Syntax aside, the only influences Ruby has on Elixir in current day is the virtue of creating joy to use tools. Mix is a great example of this. Which is great, because that is by far Ruby's greatest strength and is the only Ruby influence I would want in Elixir, having been a Ruby user for many years.

When you start to get familiar with Elixir, you realize it is far more influenced by Lisp/Clojure and Erlang than it is Ruby.
It's tough. I still remember calling my dad to tell him I didn't want to go to law school anymore. "Oh shit" was his reaction.

For the first few months, everyone thought I was nuts. For the first two years, I still heard constant doubts.

But then the doubts ceased, and people started to say "hey, that's pretty cool what you're doing" and they asked how I did it.

There's no getting around that discomfort. Right now you're prioritizing present comfort over future regret. Would you be comfortable sending this discussion thread to yourself five years from now?

What got me around that block was reading the Four Hour Workweek, especially the first couple chapters. I'd check it out – buy it right away.

(I do LSAT prep, incidently, http://lsathacks.com is my site, and I run the LSAT subreddit. You may have seen my stuff.

Also, Canada is supportive of entrepreneurs too, you just need to find the right neighborhood and social group. I live in the Plateau in Montreal, where a good quarter of the neighborhood is a student or self employed. I don't feel out of place.)
Stuck between Imposter Syndrome and Dunning Kruger effect
Drchrono – looking for Django and iOS developers
Git certainly has some positives but suggesting that Git obviates the need for someone to maintain a central server for it, or that it’s conservative with disk space is ridiculous.
Show HN: A Sublime Text plugin to move around and reform things
I'd love to see Phoenix represented there. I'll see what's required to get it added.
Does this API make my app look phat? What makes an API great beyond the code
It is in fact what is done with the blog post's router code.

Phoenix gives a high level DSL for routes, which is created using macros that result in a pattern match: exactly the alternative suggested.

For example:
http://slides.com/chrismccord/rise-of-the-phoenix#/7

Thus you get the convenience of writing routes the way you want, and the resulting code has the speed of pattern matching.
How do you hire great people? Seriously. This is a perennial topic here at HN, and we don't have good answers. We know that interviews don't work. We know that tests can help weed out the truly unqualified, but can't reliably identify great candidates. Ultimately, we mostly fall back to "hire quickly, fire quickly."

And now we're right back to evaluating performance and firing.
XML Dataset: A Python module for simplified XML parsing
There are tons of bad doctors and lawyers out there.
Thanks for replying, been meaning to use ServiceStack/pgsql on a side project...
The question is, is the TorrentFreak version a good edit or should I rush to the longer version? :P
I think that they are actively hurtful, they shut down rational thinking. Ideas that actually make sense tend not to cluster well along left/right axis, but are scattered all over the spectrum.
Even out of patent drugs that have effective off label uses get ignored.
In 10 years, when there will be self-driving cars, he won't have a job.

So you have to take into account current value of a college degree and value based on future evolution.
It's always good to have bidirectional functions I guess.
This may be part of the reason that Google started testing forced SSL redirects on youtube.com in the past couple of weeks. Run a few curl requests to youtube.com; about 50% of the time I'm redirect to the SSL site.
Also:
https://github.com/arachsys/containers
https://github.com/ghedo/pflask
https://github.com/vincentbernat/jchroot
https://github.com/vi/dive

But seccomp in Firejail is a distinctive feature.
Thanks for linking to an article that at least mentions research - it's easy to go off of general feelings in conversations like this.

I just want to point out, however, that pages 16-19 do not conclude that children who learn at 8 years old have a greater pleasure than children who learn at 4. The conclusion, which isn't a hard one to agree with, is that teachers should find ways to make reading more exciting.
Surely it's not copyright infringement unless you claim you wrote it yourself? Like, you could buy a book, tear the pages out of it and send that.
> Every society get's the internet it deserves.

Why isn't everyone using AT&T phones today? Was that change made by users?
This is one of my favourite blogs I read. There are many interesting and thought-provoking things there, and the author's style of reasoning makes me regain faith that there is still some level of sanity to be found on this planet.
"Fascism" and "Catholic right-wing" were synonymous at the time. Hitler had signed a treaty with the Holy See to basically allow them to control schools in Germany in exchange for a thumbs up for the regime, and this meant the Vatican was backtracking. Hitler thought they were allies; and the Vatican was important for Nazi power, so yeah, that move pissed him off.
Remote text editing with SublimeText and TextMate
the problem with that is then people would have to build actually businesses rather than loss leader "startups" that are only around to break even and pray for an acquisition
Why would they create more overhead for something they can make employees do essentially for free?
You may want to try D.

The template syntax is a great productivity boost compared to C++.
RE: Emblem.js / HAML
The largest problem with indent based templating is when you have a large amount of nesting... an example would be a complex report with a lot of columns. HTML also has the same problem of missing which tag to close, the difference is... you don't just have the whole thing blow up with no information as to where you need to indent/un indent like with haml.

And of course the other problem is: You exclude designers, A Front End Designer is going to give you HTML, so you need to balance the cost of conversion vs. the maintainability of the template.
We are planning to do this. You are not allowed to do this.
How is it different than advertisement ?
The original article says the curtain has descended on Psychopharmacology, which seems an important distinction vs Pharmacology used in the submission here.
Developing Confidence Without Becoming Arrogant
You have to be careful with these studies - it's possible (and the authors of the research article are worried about this) that the later learners had parents who consciously chose to teach them later.

This sort of decision implies a level of involvement in a child's education that might, on its own, lead to better reading comprehension.
"NOTE: THIS IS A PROOF OF CONCEPT. DO NOT USE FOR REAL SECRETS"

Other than being a proof of concept, what is the real problem on using this for "real secrets?" Are there plans to take it our of proof of concept to something usable then? I see your myLock carries the same disclaimer, what is the point then?
It's not surprising, it's technologyreview, which spun out from student newspaper to linkbaity web tabloid a few years ago.

In this case, however the original paper (already linked in the HN comments) is itself a linkbaity title with content-free abstract.
Using 10% for cost of capital for a construction project is ridiculous. Direct loan costs often run at around 6% but can be as low as 4%.

Considering the number of Ghost city's built in China he might have access to even cheaper capital.
The existence of people like you---someone who would endeavor to rip children from their parents for trying an alternative education plan---is absolutely terrifying. It's the kind of terrifying that sinks deep into your bones and gives you a chill.

Coupled with the power of CPS, it's actually something that gives me some serious concerns about having children in the first place. Imagine, some nut and his insistence on conformity is enough to, at the very least, make my life a living hell.
The analogies with room temperature superconductors and antigravity suggest that bromantane is some kind of super drug. But the only thing the author bases this on is the summary of a study in russian that the author can't even read.
> I actually don't foresee another Hitler rising, because the first Hitler ruined it for all future Hitlers.

He only "ruined it" for all future Hitlers in the next ~100 years. A lot of peace and prosperity we have enjoyed in the last 60 years can be attributed to people remembering and recovering from death and destruction of the II World War. There are only few people alive today who lived during WWII, soon there will be no one with first-hand memories of what has happened then. You can already see a new wave of nationalistic trends. For many young people today, Hitler is no different than Napoleon, Alexander the Great or Genghis Khan - some dude who killed a lot of people some time ago. They can't relate to them in any way.
What a weird way to create artificial boundaries in thr science community.
It'll be a free app from Google (probably an extension to Google Now). Of course, your sessions will remain private within Google and only archived for automatic analysis by computers to improve the overall experience. You may notice improvements in your search results and targeted advertising as a result.

Shortly thereafter, Apple will announce "Tini", Apple's iShrink and Siri's cousin.
We actually made a webm version! Will update when we release ^_^
carlesfe is talking about using the bookmarklet in a situation when you're viewing a youtube video over https
The author implies that self directly learning is always better than classroom. I can think of examples where this is not true.

For example, I know dozens of people who were never formally taught how to touch type on a computer keyboard. Most of them simply learned to type on their own by using the keyboard. They often type with 2 fingers on each hand (index and middle). They get to a level that they feel is "good enough" which is usually about 20-30 words per minute. However, with that approach, they will NEVER get up to 60-100 words per minute which you can easily do if you were taught to properly touch type. I often feel these people are hindered by the way they learned how to type.

I often prefer to learn from experts, which sometimes means forgoing learning how to do it myself and simply being taught the "right way". I know seeing the words "the right way" may make some people cringe, but there are a lot of things in this world to which that expression applies. If the kids want to challenge that after they have learned the "right way", be my guest... and I hope you find a better way.

my $0.02
Agreed- just think it is worth pointing out that there is no proven advantage in teaching children to read early,that there can actually be some concerns with teaching reading at an early age, and that there are also no disadvantages to learning to read later.
These are worth a read to:

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22029435.000-too-much-...

http://www.otago.ac.nz/news/news/otago006408.html
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Proxy for UK users: https://simple-proxy.com/g.php?u=k3gVKwRdxrbr79mOfc6v2q7vafE...
It says "submitted to a journal" in 2010,

Does that mean that the paper was accepted, or was rejected 4 years ago and never published?
I use an old APC SurgeArrest PRO8 inside my guitar rack. I opened it up about a year ago; I didn't see any bad soldering. I soldered in a few extra X capacitors and closed it up.

These things are quite likely hand-assembled. Quality control could vary over time, depending on which shop is contracted. Maybe that particular unit was given to a n00b. Or maybe the person was exhausted near the end of a long shift.

They aren't going to open up every one of these to check; that would be expensive.
This 1000 times this. You can condense the rules for a fun RPG game down to a single piece of paper. These companies only make money selling rule books so they want something more complex which does not necessarily mean fun.
Jobs in Europe are possible. She is an expert in U.S. law of some type. She is a legal consultant, not a practicing lawyer--she will studiously stay away from advising on local law.

I personally know several U.S. lawyers and accountants making money happily in Europe, advising people on the fabulosity that is the U.S. legal system.

Disclaimer: I am a lawyer.

Offer: if your wife's expertise is in tax, contact me.
So you don't actually have any understanding of how schools, teachers' unions, funding, and education work then. Or were you being sarcastic?
Imagine that there were no FDA Iron Curtain and doctors prescribed afobazole because "the paper was good" (or more likely because the money was good). Then people taking this drug got hospitalized left and right (or - shudder - found dead) because of side effects.

FDA could not do anything to protect her dear US citizens. She couldn't sue the manufacturer or ask them to do further research or impose black box warning or pull the drug out of the market because it was simply beyond their jurisdiction. Doing any of that would constitute a version of the Iron Curtain.

So FDA is doing the right thing to prevent this from even happening by requiring the manufacturer to have everything in place before the drug sees the market.

Furthermore, a randomized controlled trial is no synonym of "drug is good to use". Do they work on US populations? How big is the sample size? Is the methodology sound? What is the side effect profile? Is there any long-term data (like 1 year after using the drug)? These are answered for FDA-approved drugs, but not necessarily for non-approved ones, especially if you are not a healthcare professional that speak Russian (even then, they have teams of professionals looking at drug applications, are you sure you're not overlooking anything?).
Really? This would never work. Every job offer I ever got says "this offer is continent upon passing background/credit check."

You got it backwards anyways. It isn't run background check -> Offer job it is Offer job -> Run background check. Offer job is always first.
MIT Invents a Shapeshifting Display You Can Reach Through and Touch
Eh, not really. Most computer-typing professionals (programmers etc) learned touch typing by natural practice. People who don't type much and never practice don't get fast. School definitely not required even for intense practice.
Doesn't work (UK)
Awesome! Really hope you submit Phoenix as well to the benchmark.

Info below on how to submit your test suite.

http://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=code&hw=peak&...
Thanks a lot, everybody, for taking the time to read & respond. I'm grateful for the advice & encouragement.
5 Clues To Investor-Friendly Financial Estimates
1982 is when SMTP was defined. Non-SMTP email on the ARPANET goes back to 1971.
The author is talking about a market category in which successful drugs are worth billions. If these Russian drugs are so effective, why isn't some pharma firm in the US driving them through testing? The answer can't be "because the FDA is capricious and rejects drugs at the last minute", because that problem applies to all drug research, and we obviously have a lot of drug research.
Scott Aaronson seems to go in the same direction as Eliezer Yudkowsky did with his posts about quantum physics [0]. Since all of the books I know follow the "historical" / "QWERTY" path, does anyone know/can recommend a book that goes in details along the Aaronson/Yudkowsky path?

[0] - http://lesswrong.com/lw/r5/the_quantum_physics_sequence/
Children don't necessarily want to learn,they want to do things. And sometimes their lack of knowledge stops them from doing what they want and therefore they become motivated to learn what they need to overcome that. These are other extreme experiments, and self guided learning has been used for quite a while and quite successfully (re montessori)
Isn't this the normal case of drugs having different names in different countries? I thought this is why the drugs also have a secondary, chemical, name that describes the actual molecules. Even the most popular drugs have different names - Tylenol isn't named like that in Europe or Russia, AFAIK.
Believe it or not there is a respectable number of scientists, physicists no less, who make a living doing nothing but bringing 80 year old Soviet Science to the west.

Every so often they get the front pages of nature for essentially finding anti-gravity: http://www.nature.com/news/2008/012345/full/news.2008.1185.h...

Or you find actually build computer architectures and languages which American theoretical computer scientists rediscovered 30 years later as the most efficient possible: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Setun
I think advocating ipv6 is a good idea in general. IPSec was originally developed as part of the ipv6 stack. It's theoretically built in, and should be used whenever possible.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv6#Network-layer_security
The primary issue here is extremely well understood drugs for which the patent opportunity has expired. The only problem is profit incentive, not any serious question marks about safety or efficacy. There are European drugs in wide use for decades with reams of great research that nobody is ever going to bother pushing through approval in America because ultimately no profit would be made.
Life Without A Cell Phone
> It doesn’t count if some foreign scientists already did a bunch of studies. It doesn’t count if millions of Russians have been using the drug for decades and are by and large still alive.

Um, no, it doesn't. What's the FDA going to do if they have additional questions or want additional studies done?

The FDA doesn't approve these drugs for the exact same reason the author doesn't prescribe them.

Lament the situation, sure, but pointing fingers at the FDA seems dumb.
There is no other mind to think about being judged by. That's often the source of the lingering issues I have.
Falling Behind On Front End Technologies and Trends
The answer may be one of:

* US pharma is developing a me-too / copycat drug that has very similar molecular structure

* US pharma has tried and it failed before public announcement (oh there are so many of them)

* US pharma negotiated contract and found that the Russians are non-negotiable :)
I imagine Orwell knew much of that stuff which was to a large extent predicted as inevitable by Keynes both in his 1919 book The Economic Consequences of the Peace and before. It often surprises me how much suffering could be avoided if people just understood Keynes stuff and used it. WW2 and much of the recent depression could probably be avoided and with pretty much no downside. It's kind of mass unnecessary suffering through wilful ignorance or something like that - dunno. I guess some of the ideas are hard to understand and most people couldn't explain the concept of insufficient aggregate demand leading to lower jobs and investment and hence lower demand still in a feedback loop unless it gets broken some how. But it's not that hard I would like to think. Though I have not heard that concept repeated and dealt with by many of our current leaders. Maybe human brains are not built to grok that stuff even though you can pretty much put it on one sentence?
Parenting from before conception: Babies' health doesn't 'start from scratch'
But we have patents, as well. If a major US drug company invents a new superdrug, and spend decades and billions of dollars to get it approved, they can at least be sure that if it gets approved they will get the royalties from its sale.

But if a company spends decades and billions of dollars fighting for the approval of a drug they do not hold the patent on, they are by no means guaranteed making even a single penny of that investment back, even in the best case scenario where it succeeds in getting through the FDA.s
Why do UK users need a proxy to see something on the BBC website?
Hokkaido looks rather beautiful in winter http://www.michaelkenna.net/gallery.php?id=22
Jawbone Up24 vs. Fitbit Flex
Thank you. I had read about Electrolysis, probably back in February, but had managed to forget about it. "Didn't work, needs more love" results from back then probably contributed to my ignorance.

The second link just went into bookmarks. Even though it didn't mention anything about this particular feature (has content only until R34), it will be helpful for me to know something about the oncoming changes before they happen.
well I guess we're more wary
Every classroom in America would improve if we simply removed the few pathologically disruptive students that rob the others of their education.
Google, Facebook, and Microsoft acquire services in ... a market! So, yes, that very much happens through "natural market forces", and you very much have a choice in whether you use services that can be acquired/make any sense to acquire/where it makes any difference whether they get acquired or not.

Just to give some examples:

I use multiple public, non-profit IRC networks. The chance of those being acquired? Pretty close to zero. And even if, dropping one of them wouldn't really hurt much, and if everything else fails, even setting up my own would not be out of reach, keeping all the same user experience.

Then, I use a usenet news server. If that one got acquired? Well, as long as the service stayed the same, it wouldn't really matter much, and if they started doing funny things in order to increase profits, it would be trivial to switch to a different provider that doesn't (which really should discourage anyone from even trying).

Or how about my own email server? That will be damn difficult to acquire, I'd think. At most someone could acquire my ISP ... which, again, is highly fungible, if they started doing anything funny, I'd just obtain connectivity elsewhere.

Yes, it very much is a "natural market force" that monopolies will form where you don't make the concious choice to use technology that is inherently monopoly unfriendly, and as such one could say that you "deserve" the monopoly if you use a service that can be acquired and where that has any real consequences.
This was the state of HIV medications twenty years ago - the first medications were available in other countries, but not yet in the US. The movie Dallas Buyer's Club depicts this period of history excellently.
Hyperbole. Marketing is how the rest of us sell things. Giant drug company would have many advantages there. They are likely to sell boatloads of product regardless of patents. The patent is a greedy attempt to dominate the market legally in addition to commercially by creating a monopoly.
Successful drugs, or successful drugs that are eligible for patent protection? I imagine[1] it would be much harder to turn a profit on the massive upfront costs if you immediately had to compete with the existing manufacturers at generic-scale prices.

It seems like it might be useful (assuming it isn't already) to separate the rights concerning drug discovery and those demonstrating efficacy/safety to allow costs to be recovered.

Then again, it needs to be weighed against the inevitable rent-seeking that pharma has a name for.

[1] but don't have any evidence handy to back it up, so ICBW.
The direct link didn't work for me, but it did work fine when I cut and paste the URL into the form on the proxy web site.