skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lots of people do know that homeopathic means it is just water. They believe there is an imprint of the molecule left in the water. Some believe the imprint works as well as the original molecule. Others believe that imprint is how the molecule actually works, so getting rid of the molecule is healthier.

Never underestimate pseudoscience.
That's quite a fun list of southpark episodes I made. Once I added a few episodes the list got going - pretty powerful. The front end sucks though!
Maybe something related to Windows 95?
Big question. If they setup a hedge fund and bought the data from the card issuer, and did the exact same thing. Would it be legal? Don't they use private satellites to take pictures of mall parking lots and crop fields to estimate holiday sales and crop yields? Hows is this different. Its data that public doesn't have access to.
Nothing is every perfectly safe.

The difference between a perception of safety and a perception of unsafety is usually anecdotes.

> Maybe they are safe as claimed, and if so it is then asked why then is immunity necessary for the producers?

To prevent lawsuits from the .0001% of "[s]evere allergic reaction[s]"[1] from convincing the manufacturers that a low-profit-margin product is not worth the effort to produce.

P.S. When you write, "...in a free market the government does enforce laws against fraud", you need to be careful. "Fraud" is a very fuzzy concept.

[1] http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/hcp/patient-ed/conversations/dow...
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If the government were perfect, then privacy might not be that much of an issue. Until then, privacy is often a useful stopgap measure.
I started one in Seattle three and a half years ago. I handed it off to someone else a year ago, but I was getting ~150 people per event, and the meetup list has grown to 2000.

All you gotta do is pick a time, a place, and get the word out. Then boom! Done. :)
That's a little bit playing with words but if next year same day, this post doesn't re-appear on Reddit then automatically:

* They don't communicate anything to users
* Users understand a gag-order was issued
* They didn't break any laws

To an interested party, a hint such as this, should be enough to act as an alarm. On the other hand if they force the party in some way to release a statement then I guess the users are toasted.
I absolutely agree with you. It's really a large abusive relationship which is sadly prevalent in this industry.

I have thought about workers organizations within our industry. I don't see why we don't have these, and yet they don't exist at all, at least not with any real power and organization. I know a few things but I can safely say I have no idea how to fix that.
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I agree with he article. It feels true. I have friends who are working so much harder than I am, often doing a much more difficult major, and still get a salary that can barely support their living. And most of the time, not even getting a job for a couple years. Then there's the programmers who's mediocre and is barely passing classes, getting hired at big tech companies and making 100k as a new grad. Programmers are wanted; it's all about picking the right careers then really working hard at one.
Agree, that was a bit loose.
Something like Passport.js(passportjs.org).
I was helping a close friend grow and build out his startup idea. i've known him for a while and we're still pretty tight. However along the way i realized that i wasn't into it as much as he was . the problem we were solving didn't bother me at a cellular level. Even though ive known him for a while it took me quite a bit of time to be upfront about it (i didn't wanto hurt his feelings)
but as soon as we had a talk about it it was cool.
I think the "you should try it either way since it may clarify your thought process or reveal problems" is important. It's often good to check your discoveries with different methods.

Of topic but in a similar vain: in a completely different field I dabble in reconstructing existing theories in structuralism. There's some very valid criticism of the method and yet it still unearths issues with theories every now and then.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structuralism_%28philosophy_of_...
Yes, I've found some of the published Idris videos quite instructive in this regard. Sometimes it can even infer the program fragment that you were supposed to write (given unification and uniqueness constraints), but it seems limited only to demo-level code and frankly at this point I'd be wondering if I got the types wrong and let the compiler infer bad code! (As opposed to getting the program wrong!)

Programming is weird.
Well, the problem with all of this is that you're assuming the market opportunity for trading on this sort of information is large.

Exploiting a pricing failure eventually corrects it: buying up undervalued options eventually raises the price to where they're no longer undervalued. An important question is how much you can buy up before they're priced correctly and how much you can make off doing so.

It's possible that these two gentlemen were already exploiting the price difference to with an order of magnitude of its potential. Being able to reliably make ten million or so a year is pretty cool, but not enough to run a sizable business off of -- it might not even be worth it for the 'big boys' to exploit. If you could pull in hundreds of millions or billions of dollars a year, then you're talking -- but you'll be splitting it N ways, with everyone else who decides to exploit the same trick.
Or send it in private email.
I am the author of the library. Let me comment about the pricing - for me personally, all the alternative hosted solutions (like Geckoboard etc.) where too expensive - by paying monthly subscription fee in a long term you still pay much more, than once buying any licence of FinalBoard.

There is a trial version available where you can download and test it out and see if it fits you.

I set minimal price for Basic license and on my opinion this is fair price for what you get. In basic license you get unlimited dashboards, unlimited widgets with all the benefits FinalBoard offers you - you won't see such price on any on hosted solutions even close.
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find a service vendor then sub contract; they might let u work remotely. after several projects u can be on ur own.
Few seem to be acknowledging the obvious:

It's a bad thing that records will exist documenting the sexual proclivities of those with their fingers on the nuclear launch button. When senators, presidents, and generals can be blackmailed, we've got a problem. The largest levers of power will be moved by the most trivial information.

The scenarios will range from invading countries to who gets that city building permit. All because someone is cheating on their spouse.

It's not strictly "government officials versus us." Government officials will also be spied on. That, imo, is the real problem. Even people who have nothing to hide don't want to live in a world like that.
The term "hacker" actually originates from the farm. I have had trouble finding reference to this fact, but Woz says it's so, so I believe him. Back in the day, they had single steam engines they'd rig to run pumps, farm equipment, bailers, etc. The ultimate hacks.
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I suppose I could have. I've no idea how much time they spent, perhaps it was a quick hack too. It was just unexpected to see someone else's implementation of the same idea, so it made me laugh at the strange coincidences of life in general. Certainly I meant nothing ill by my comment, I apologize if it turned out mean-spirited in any way.
What should I create? Meetup is workable but kind of annoying IMHO.
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To me the problem is that a warrant canary could theoretically be completely legal, but the government could bankrupt you with legal fees before you even got to court.

That is probably what WhisperSystem's attorneys have advised them.
It seems to me at least as likely to have the "Win-OS/2 effect" of putting a bunch of apps (most of which feel really out of place and none of which feel great) on the platform while causing even fewer developers to target it natively because, hey, why not just invest all the extra effort a native version would take into the Android version since it "runs" on both platforms?

Edit: Which isn't necessarily to say that wouldn't be Microsoft's best option for Windows Phone right now. Especially since games and entertainment apps are such a big part of the app market and their "nativeness" tends to be less important.
Ah, that explains it. I'm technically green deficient. Because of how colour vision works, green perception partially overlaps with red perception[0], so I tend to think of green as more of an "earth tone" (essentially brown).

Colloquially people with normal vision tend to say "green" when they refer to teal (i.e. green-blue or just generally green with some blue in it). Because I don't actually perceive the green part of the hue, the blue is much stronger for me.

I absolutely agree with the "warm" vs "cool" thing, though.

[0]: http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/lightandcolor/images/huma... (the fourth "pigment", Rhodopsin, is what we use in low-light conditions)
You'll lose all negotiating leverage with those investors and possibly spook them into not investing.

The best way to get people to actually move is to create some competition. Seek out other investors, and when they're ready to invest, circle back to the original folks you were talking with and say "We've had some interest from other investors, and the round is closing NOW [or some short deadline like a week]. Do you want in or not?"
It's back up but it's still broken. When I log in with account X, I see the apps associated with account X. Within My Apps, and within Payments, I see the apps associated with account X. BUT. When I tap Sales & Trends, I see data for account Y. It's also one of mine, but it's associated with completely different Apple IDs and user names. I am able to navigate back and forth through the different sections of iTC and get a bizzaro merger of the two accounts. The Sales & Trends sections seems to be powered by https://reportingitc2.apple.com/? and that's when I end up on an incorrect account. Scary.
"The best way to get investment is to not need it", to paraphrase someone. So maybe work on making the company work rather than getting too desperate/needy.

I guess it's pretty easy to say that and a lot harder to actually do it though, so good luck!
Looks cool. Would love to know what Conspire uses as their technology stack.
> AWS' first-party client libraries are generally awful

Do you have some feedback that I can pass along to the AWS SDK team?
Impractical, maybe, but not pointless. As someone else mentioned, insider trading creates perverse incentives for acting on undisclosed information, however, also some of those insiders have a possibility to directly influence those events, which make the perverse incentives even more perverse. Imagine a greedy CEO intentionally causing massive screwups and shorting his company's stocks, for example. At least afterwards it's much easier to prove insider trading than breach of fiduciary trust (also, the former is criminal, and the latter is civil.)
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Pretty sure the NSA doesn't just send you an email.
SAR Image Processor was my first exposure to convolution. http://www.general-cathexis.com/
What's a mop?
I will say that the new AWS ruby SDK is allright. It's a bit unruby-like in some places, but it's got absolutely stellar documentation, and is very complete, which is far more than I can say for a lot of projects.
I agree that the system is not the best. But it's hard to argue with the results when it comes to vaccines. You can reasonably argue that the system doesn't do enough to ensure vaccine safety, and you can reasonably argue that the system doesn't give a sufficient public perception of safety, but you can't argue that the vaccines actually available are unsafe. And I dispute the notion that adding more free market to the mix would fix the problems without also un-fixing the most important part.
Totally. I like Angular a lot, and I'm not blind to its drawbacks. The code sample in the blog post has room for improvement, but I don't understand what he thinks it demonstrates. Yeah, it's a little weird that controllers don't expose their own functions, that instead you attach functions and data to the $scope. But if that's the way you do it Angular, I don't understand what makes it a bad habit to learn.
It's as easy to implement authentication in Golang as it is in Rails. There are gaps in the web stack for Golang (databases are particularly painful), but this isn't one of them.
I'd throw Apple in there and call it a "hate triangle": MS hates Apple and Google, Apple hates MS and Google, while Google... I don't really know.
One of the few good things about the article is that it demonstrates that the simplistic game theory approach doesn't work: defection isn't uncorrelated. The year's larger outbreaks of measles are in groups that have all defected together.

Herd immunity doesn't apply because the defectors have a closely related sub-herd through which the disease spreads quickly. (On the other hand, it does apply when the disease tries to pass out of the community and cannot. Hm.)
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no you clearly do not understand AOSP..

Cyanogen follows Google AOSP rules and thus doe snot oppose Google in anyway shape or form..

and despite MS actions Nokia, the other part MS did not buy is going ahead with an android fork.
How do you think requests to keep things secret are sent? If it's important enough to order you to keep it secret, they aren't going to send it via email.
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This is the primary concern of insider trading, and why insider trading laws don't exist for commodities markets (which are much less susceptible to willful manipulation).
That's what I think too. I see few other options for Microsoft to rescue WP. They should add Android app compatibility to Windows Phone and invite Android App developers to the Windows Store. And then hope for the hacker community to unofficially add the Play Store and/or unofficial ports of Android apps.

Maybe WP can regain some interest that way. Being close to Cyanogen makes a lot of sense in that scenario.
Well, emphasis on the "just." When I say "this is just water" I mean nothing but, no imprints, no magic whatever, just plain water. I'm sure plenty of people "understand" it as you say, but it's not what I meant to include.
> A credit card processor that charges 0% fee on transactions would have a huge advantage when pitching retailers.

So why, you may ask, do we have such high fees for credit card transactions? And believe me: they ARE high. No more than a hiccup when debit card fees were restricted to roughly $0.15/transaction but CREDIT card fees (which use the same systems) continue to be a substantial fraction (a few percentage points) of every purchase.

It's because no one is pitching retailers. The cards are sold to the consumer (who pays nothing). The retailer pays, but the contracts they are offered do not give them space to do much other than refuse to take a type of credit card (and give up a bug chunk of their business) or to accept them and pay the fees.
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I see a lot of comments about how they could have figured out this data by just counting customers outside some Chipotle restaurants. This misses a key point: using their massive database, they were able to sift through thousands and thousands of businesses and actually figure out that Chipotle was one to watch. Without that data, they wouldn't know where to put their customer watcher.

If they were a little savvier, they could have used their data from CapitalOne to decide which businesses to research and then create shill research, much like the FBI's "parallel construction" of evidence. I wonder whether that would have put them in the clear; when the SEC came knocking, they could have pulled out their research, saying "Look, we figured this out fair and square."
As any mathematician knows the difficult part is not to write the proof but to found it.
Checkout Negroni [1] for middleware configuration combined with restgate [2]

[1] https://github.com/codegangsta/negroni
[2] https://github.com/pjebs/restgate
I've watched founders in their 50s face these same struggles as startup founders. Most were married people had spent most of their careers in large corporations where they managed hundreds of employees. It's just really, really hard for 2-3 driven, Type A people to work through disagreements when they care deeply about a product.
It's interesting the switch was prompted very few things that are JS vs Go, perhaps concurrency. The main factors were tooling related, enabling stable workflows and easy deployment.
> Because I don't actually perceive the green part of the hue, the blue is much stronger for me.

Interesting. Yes that's the opposite the effect it has in me. Teal is a washed-out blue...

The original/DVD release of the Matrix did have a visually distinctive green tint in the scenes taking place inside the Matrix. But it felt soft, warm, and flat. It was also subdued in some scenes, such as the training dojo. The scenes in the real world lacked the filter and felt harsh, cold, and rigid by comparison. It was a great artistic choice.

The new blu-ray release (and the sequels) have the entire movie feel like the harsh, cold, rigid reality, and have heightened the contrast to make it worse :(

EDIT: I have no color blindness.
If you are interested in colour grading, this is a wonderful piece of software - http://3dlutcreator.com

That and davinci and you'll be fine
How did we go from radio regulation to property laws? I was just following the same path.
Luckily USG has issued a menu of two permitted disclosure options:
http://www.justice.gov/iso/opa/resources/3662014127160184071...

It would be a tough case to make that switching to an explicitly government-permitted method of disclosure was a violation of an order.
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Joke's on you: he left Matasano.
The article explains it this way:

"We don't have any internet or computer. We don't have a car," Ivan Miller, an Amish furniture store owner in the community struck by measles, explained. "It's not that we feel a car is wrong. It's our choice because we feel if we had a car, it would bring us to a lot more temptations in the world. [emphasis mine]"
Oy vey. If you're in Texas, shoot me an email--we may be hiring soon.
For me the single biggest disadvantage of Go against Node.JS is the lack of a decent dependency management solution. NPM is awesome and Go doesn't even have a "meh" answer to that.
I have seen another instance of the talk summarized in the article. It is about machine-checked proofs (and even if you haven't seen the talk, have you seen who is giving it?). You won't see “huge leaps and unstated assumptions” in that format, although unimportant details may be relegated to fourth-level indentation or prelimary lemmas.
Yes, the encoding was UTF-8.

No worries: I'm a developer too; I know these things happen. Given some of the regressions I've been dealing with recently, it was entirely believable that but was in my software -- otherwise I would have cross-checked with something else much earlier!
Thank you! This part about "round closing NOW" always puzzled me. I understand there is a tradition to set deadlines like that - "raising NNN by YY", but what if the deadline comes and I don't have 100% of my round in? I set a new deadline?
This is very promising for the Go future as more mature packages will be available from big companies
Go does lack quite a bit of the web pizzazz you'd find in rails, but I learned a lot more by writing web things in go than I did in rails because so much less of the magic is hidden away from you.
I'm surprised Music Ear Syndrome (MES) was not mentioned:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musical_ear_syndrome
https://audicus.com/the-ghost-in-our-ears-hearing-loss-and-m...
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The IIHS site has a longer article:

http://www.iihs.org/iihs/sr/statusreport/article/50/1/1

and raw data:

http://www.iihs.org/iihs/topics/driver-death-rates
Python has one as well: https://pexpect.readthedocs.org/en/latest/
"but he didn’t learn his lesson there"

This set me up for a negative article about Go, but, like other Go-related materials, it makes me want to use it. I should use it.
I'm going to go out on a limb and say that probably isn't true. All go at DigitalOcean is deployed using one of two mechanisms. Nothing is `go run` outside of a developer's workstation.
> Go is a compiled language so distributing applications for use on multiple platforms is just easier.

How is this a true statement? Ease of distribution isn't a function of a language's runtime environment (native vs interpreter).
> despite MS actions Nokia, the other part MS did not buy is going ahead with an android fork.

Can you provide a source for this please? I remember reading about the new Nokia N1 tablet but it was built and designed by foxconn and just branded by Nokia so I am not aware of any Android fork there...
How do you prevent discrapencies between those? You already see it with comments on source code, which eventually get outdated.
Thanks - glad you found the engine powerful, and yes.. the front end does needs some work :-)
Negroni looks interesting. I saw there is a middleware called permissions2 that have some nice features. Will check that out, thanks!
I think that's been true up until now, but Cyanogen has recently announce intentions to move away from dependence on Google.[0]

[0] http://www.androidauthority.com/cyanogen-google-kirt-mcmaste...
I believe LevelUp does this. They don't allow retailers to use any credit card as things still need to go through the LevelUp system via QR code, but as far as I know they don't charge for processing.
Which is just about the same as using a notation and demanding that everyone use the notation to understand you - except that a large number of people already know the notation.
They just mean static compilation, the program is a single file with all dependencies linked inside it.
Presumably he's talking about statically linked binaries.
I'm a referring the guys paper, which is linked here in the comments somewhere. There TLA+ is mentioned which is a tool to formally prove something. The same can be done in Coq - which is why I'm drawing a parallel.
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sources are: AOSP source agreement....the Android CTS which covers google OHA partners,etc..

But no one engages critical thinking and reads here
I wish a language with advanced types like Haskell or OCaml would have the same tooling and ease of distribution around it that Go does. I haven't built anything in Haskell/ML in a while, so if anyone has any updates on this please chime in.
What problems have you had managing dependencies with Go? I use Godep to vendor each dependency and rewrite import paths to use the vendored package. I found it to be an easy and effective solution.