skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Humans are still the most flexible source of labor you can use for a task, so it's possible to learn exactly what the requirements are using a human and then try to automate various repetitive parts of the task until the human hardly does anything but verify that the robots are working properly. Note that this does not mean that humans are the least expensive form of labor, although they are currently the only form of labor that can be created by two completely unskilled humans in about 9 months.
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Are you talking about the scientific method or the marketing of the institution of corporate Science, which increasingly looks like a religion?

As far as "quackery", that sounds analogous to "blasphemy". Some techniques work & some don't. Some techniques are not in the financial interests of mainstream industries to be studied.

Another issue is, who can afford to create a "valid" peer-reviewed article? It seems like you need a lot of money to do so now days. Who has the money?

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Edit: But again, such concerns are not critically thought about due to groupthink (i.e. a reductionist, evidence-driven philosophy).

It's like manipulation & gamesmanship of the market is inconceivable...How naive.
I think the biggest advantage is a cartridge provides basically true random access with no seek time (maybe a few hundred nanoseconds of extra delay when switching banks, but that's still nothing compared to hundreds of milliseconds seeking a disc.) They're also much cheaper to interface since they can be mapped directly into the address space of the CPU; contrast that with the extra hardware and firmware required for an optical drive - plus the additional RAM that would be needed for the CPU to execute from.
I created a service very similar to this about 2 years ago and no one cared. Given my experience, I'm stunned (but happy) to see so much praise for this. Anyway, congratulations....looks like you have that right time/right product/right place thing going on. How do you intend to monetize? If I buy a pizza, do you charge me directly (a premium) and then pay Domino's et al? How many people do you have to handle the deluge of texts? Do you intend to seek affiliate relationships with local merchants where you can't charge a known fee up front (for example, where someone says "Dude, I need a plumber ASAP!")?
Shootout.fm – compare audio effects and microphones
Definitely not in the long run. But cmikec's latest update here put it in perspective – they had to limit access while this request was being handled because they were getting totally flooded.
I'm gonna migration to live in SF with my family, then I will be a US citizen after 3 or 5 years :D
ReSharper is an add-on component for Visual Studio that is (IMO) the best refactoring tool available for any IDE. ReSharper includes an NUnit-based test runner, too.

JetBrains is the company that makes ReSharper. I also use AppCode (their alternative to Xcode) in a way that's similar to how I use ReSharper. I do most of my iOS development in Xcode but load the project in AppCode before committing so I can take advantage of its superior code inspection and refactorings.
I've often thought about engineers as artists whose medium happens to be directly and predictably profitable - and so are tamed by management, corporations and profit structures for the capture and the directing of their creative potential.

There are bountiful comparisons between professionals everywhere on the spectrum from the hardest of sciences through the pliable ones to artists and poets, so I'll spare myself from typing and you from reading a repeated effort.

Thinking of engineers this way has impacted the way that I discuss with other engineers about their ideas for projects and how to solve problems. Like a collaborative art piece, it isn't right to 'correct' other artists contributions because their work is more than just a contribution - it's an expression. When collaborating on a joint art project it's wholey important to share the same 'artistic vision'. I find working with other engineers both the most enjoyable and the most productive when a similar type of shared vision can be reached.

Finally (and this is whimsical) on more than one occasion in thinking of engineers sharing a spectrum with artists I have been led to both imagine a Sotheby's style auction clearinghouse for 'engineering art philanthropists' where pet projects are traded, sold and hung on walls and imaginary corporations that build giant finger paints but relegate each artist to their own cubicle, have middle management stack rank them, and tally updates on the painting progress during daily scrum.
By what process does acid/low oxygen cause cancer in your theory? By what sequence of events? Talk me through it.

Aside, the proposed 'cure' of anecdotal relaxing and energy therapies is heavily affected by survivor bias. And without consistent repeatability is unusable in a professional medical environment.
Hmm...Because I can't send a text from India from my phone at least.
There was a UK service called AQA that would answer questions for £1 back in the mid 2000s. They started off super super useful, but quality degraded enough as they scaled that it was no longer worth it. Used to be able to say "which shops in a 20 mile radius have xus in stock", or "who should I complain to about the service in xyz bar" and get great answers, but as they automated it more and more you'd just get back vague info
This seems a lot like fancyhands.com; or on its way to trying to become something like it...
PRODUCERS. This is huge for producers. Please keep this in mind. A producer on set who needs something special delivered ASAP will pay a PREMIUM for this kinda service.
You're missing my point: their service is limited by humans. Every new customer needs exactly one human to address their needs.
I get what you're saying. My counter-argument is that because asm.js is being pushed as a distribution platform for "desktop" apps, and web services are so rarely open source, software freedom stands to take a hit.

The main reason free software saw such adoption was that it was very high quality software available for free. Most people aren't even aware of the philosophy and history behind it, nor would they base their decision on what software to use on that philosophy and history.

Web services aren't covered by free software licenses, but they generally have no cost, are sandboxed, and you don't have to install them (even though you're actually "installing" them a lot, just in the background). For almost all users, that's a huge win, but for free software, that's a huge loss.

asm.js enabled many more classes of software to run in this environment, and I think that's a big looming negative for software freedom. I love Mozilla and I think what they do is amazing on almost every level. But the web is more than just a browser and JavaScript. There's 65k ports and dozens (hundreds?) of protocols. There's no need for the battle for the open web to take place only in the browser space.
That C64 version blows my mind. They managed to reproduce every one of the effects, granted at lower resolution and framerate, but on a machine that's probably less than one-fiftieth as powerful as the ones used for the original demo. Amazing.
Isn't that because he had no credit card attached to his account, and needed one before anything could progress?

In addition to the high demand they're going through, right now, I'd say it's understandable.
I use Parcellite. It syncs clipboards, keeps a history, and works with good old Shift+Ins for pasting.

Then again - if I weren't using Parcellite, I'd use this right here. Very welcome software for Linux, I'd say. Well thought out!
I hate to feed the troll but...

What the hell are acidic or low oxygen environments, and "stagnant energy"?

Do you think that the environment is getting less oxygenated, or more acidic? Is our world getting more stagnant?

I got that you ignore clinical trials for some reason, but outside of that, can you test for these so-called other factors of cancer? What do they look like? From an epidemiological point of view, can you prevent them?
I read this as a tv show introduction...
Like a high speed freight train smashing through a wooden fence with horns blazing, and speeding on. This is a great idea and really simple execution. I love it.
The best introduction to TDD that I've seen is Jon Reid's video tutorial here...

http://qualitycoding.org/objective-c-tdd/

Even though he's demonstrating TDD with Objective-C, I've recommended this video to .NET developers and they've still had an "Aha!" moment when Jon explains the "TDD Waltz".
I can produce some but not just now as I have not been feeling well.

But consider that software may be executed by machines, but it is written by humans. I once read a fascinating UCSC doctoral dissertation by an anthropologist who studied High Energy Physicists at SLAC.

Working at Apple was just like that for me. I didn't just write code, I studied my fellow employees.
When you buy pizza for delivery, do you need to ask about their margins?

"I want X."
"That'll be 22.50 with delivery."
"Ok."

If the price is fair to you, buy it. View this as another store which happens to have everything. Under the hood they run out and subcontract.
A bunch of things. The most important: You are a new user with lower karma and its Saturday night.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7809498
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I found the first four or so episodes painful to watch. The writing seemed to be trying so hard to be funny, and it was impossible for the excellent voice talent to make it any good.

Does it really get that much better? I want to like this show.
I dunno, the interviewer provides the template code as ECMAScript 2015 ?

Seems incredibly bleeding edge for an interview question.

And then the start of his reply is 'Using babeljs.io, I’ll write this in ECMASCript 2015 notation.', which is weird given the example code was already implied to be in this.
Hm, well here's a startling difference between the HN and Product Hunt community.

The PH comments:

This website looks extremely untrustworthy, purely from a design standpoint. I feel a lot of potential users would be put off by this!

Interesting idea. Terrible site design. Unclear if they're charging for this added convenience.

http://www.producthunt.com/posts/magic
Kim Stanley Robinson's "2312" carries on from the Mars Trilogy.
Stephenson's "REAMDE", "The Diamond Age", "Cryptonomicon" and "Snow Crash"
Does alternate history count her? If so, Robinson's "The Years of Rice and Salt" is great
Well, seems odd that this one is still up.

I'll resubmit later, I suppose.

Thanks.
Be careful with Editors Pick. It can be great, or it could be the death of the site. Slashdot, for example. I like the way the community works, especially its diversity.
Maybe they could respond "sure, our researchers can find this for you for just $3, here's a link to add your credit card to your profile".
Perhaps the site's creators will be kind enough to consider the privacy issues regarding Google Fonts: http://fontfeed.com/archives/google-webfonts-the-spy-inside/
There's no sense in getting a college degree just for the sake of having it. They're expensive and take up a lot of time, and they're not needed to get into tech jobs. Yes, some companies will care about this, but many, many companies will not. They care about what you know and what you've shown you can do.

Leveraging connections, on the other hand, is a great idea. Most jobs are not actually advertised anywhere, and if you can use your connections well you can find yourself applying for jobs with very little competition.
Scientific method = develop a testable hypothesis, design an experimental protocol, crunch the numbers, repeat, repeat, repeat, document it, work with peers to replicate the experiment if the results look useful.

Quackery = employ contextually meaningless words like "low-oxygen" or "energy work," profess there is an effective plan of treatment that vested interests would like to hush up.

Guess what, people dying of cancer will try almost anything to get better. If massage or interpretive dance worked better than chemo, it wouldn't remain a secret.
For the curious, argv[0] can be null if exec* function didn't pass arguments to the program.
Parent was invoking conservation of linear momentum not an energy balance. There's no requirement that both the bullet and slide have the same kinetic energy, only that the sum of energy between the two bodies remains constant.
> Do a background check on yourself.

Where would one do that?

> When I left an employer a few years ago I requested my employee record

Were they under any obligation to give it to you?
I'm getting "Error: XSRF Token mismatch.." when trying to add an investment.
I'd imagine it also depends on the manufacturers. Nearly everyone makes a 1911 these days, and the cheaper models are most certainly not the sort you'd use in competitive shooting like a Les Baer. On the other hand, only a competitive shooter would sink a couple grand (or more) on a heavily accuratized firearm.

That said, I own both a Glock and a 1911. Both shoot well and are probably far more accurate than me. :) I tend to like the Glock a little more because of its simplicity and ease of taking it apart. That's not to say the 1911 is that much more complicated, but it can be off-putting to some. I happen to enjoy cleaning my guns. So, there's that.
> What the hell are acidic or low oxygen environments, and "stagnant energy".

Organisms with Aerobic (high oxygen) vs organisms with anaerobic (low oxygen) metabolic processes within the human body.

Stagnant Energy is a holistic term to mean stuff that doesn't flow. Think of a knot in your back as "stagnant energy". In a healthy back, the muscles would distribute evenly.

> I got that you ignore clinical trials for some reason, but outside of that, can you test for these so-called other factors of cancer? What do they look like? From an epidemiological point of view, can you prevent them?

I don't know if you can even isolate causes with precision. I also question the utility of isolating causes.

If you can live a healthy lifestyle, with low stress, a natural diet, low pollution, then I would intuitively think that you will have less disease. The problem is in the western world, intuition is demonized due to our cultural bias.
What do you mean by GNUism?
> Does cancer occur in healthy ecosystems?

Honestly, what does that even mean?
And if you are trying to suggest that cancer is related to some imbalance in the environment, the answer is, yes, cancer occurs everywhere and anywhere. It is not limited to humans and did not start post-industrial Revolution.
If you're concerned about minimizing the price, you probably shouldn't be using a service designed to charge you for a few minutes' work. The target market for this thing is people who are looking to trade money for time.
“Math does not bow to guns.” -Bryan Micon on events of 2/11/15
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> why wait for the genocide to actually happen?

The "South-East of Ukraine", which Russia claims is threatened by "genocide", is 9 regions in addition to Donbass and Crimea. None of the 9 regions have seen any ethnic conflict, let alone genocide happening since the hostilities in Donbass began. The hostilities in Donbass have only been possible because of the Russian covert military involvement, as Girkin has confessed on multiple occasions.

Let me ask you a question. Are the Russians living in Nikolaev somehow different to Kiev than the Russians living in Crimea? Why isn't there a genocide going on right now? Or why is that the Donbass cities which are under central government control are not being ethnically cleansed and live in peace, just as the rest of Ukraine does?

Moreover, half of the Ukrainian Army and National Guard (including the volunteers) speak Russian as their first language, and many of them are ethnic Russians from Donbass and the rest of Ukraine.

> The people of Donetsk weren't that lucky - the Kiev's "pacifier" operation

The people of eastern Donbass weren't lucky because that's where Girkin and his merry band decided to "stir things up" after being inserted from Russia. Hadn't it been for them, Donbass would be as peaceful and prosperous as the rest of Ukraine. Girkin has confessed as much himself.

> manned by the volunteers from Western Ukraine hating the ethnic Russians with their gut

This is simply not true. Look up the videos filmed by the Ukrainian soldiers, check the names of the wounded and killed on the Ukrainian side - plenty of them are ethnic Russians.

> Or lets try it from other side - how many ethnic Russians should have been killed by the Kiev

Let's try another one: how many people in eastern Donbass would have died if Girkin and his people hadn't appeared in Slavyansk prompting a covert military invasion from Russia? (hint: consider the rest of Donbass and the South-East of Ukraine).
> Scientific method = develop a testable hypothesis, design an experimental protocol, crunch the numbers, repeat, repeat, repeat, document it, work with peers to replicate the experiment if the results look useful.

We are in agreement about the scientific method.

The thing is institution of Science is an organizing body that publishes research. Most of the scientists are paid by corporate interests. As with Tobacco scientists in the 1950s, there have been some shady practices with the FDA & related corporate scientists.

http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/201...

> Quackery = employ contextually meaningless words like "low-oxygen" or "energy work," profess there is an effective plan of treatment that vested interests would like to hush up.

It's more like hand-waving on my part. I'm pointing out that there are other theories out there that have not been fully explored.

> Guess what, people dying of cancer will try almost anything to get better. If massage or interpretive dance worked better than chemo, it wouldn't remain a secret.

Part of the problem is it's difficult to have a controlled experiment with all of these alternative medicine techniques, due to variability of practices. Also, less established practices do not have the capital & institutional mindshare to facilitate proper scientific studies.

Another possibility is cancer is a complex phenomena that does not have simple causes.
Both of course! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_Privacy_Protection_Act
It sounds like you lack tenacity. Unless I'm completely misreading you, you're saying you started learning things to help you get into a web development job, but then gave them up because... you couldn't get a web development job yet? Why did you drop the thing that would put other jobs in reach?

> I stopped because everyone said Python (which is awesome) and I just had a rougher time learning it than JS.

Whatever you're learning, someone will come along and tell you that something else is better. Ignore them. The first programming language you learn is teaching you to program, which is far more important than which language it is. You're learning transferable skills that you'll take with you when you learn something else.
How are you planning to handle returns and customer support issues?
If you visit this link, you can pay them $5,000: http://getmagicnow.com/pay.php?p=500000

Payment pages should really be linked to an order ID of some sort, without which customers shouldn't be allowed to pay. Otherwise, lots of things can go wrong. Depending on how they have configured things on the server side, a customer could change the amount being paid and the system would consider the ticket paid, cheating them out of money. Or a customer could follow an old link and wind up paying twice if they thought it didn't go through the first time.
Every new customer needs a few minutes of one human's time. They can hire as many people as they need as long as customers are willing to pay the cost of that time. As long as the cost of the humans is something some number of customers are willing to pay, everything is great.

This is an ancient business model for customer service, so I guess I'm confused where you're going with this...
> Organisms with Aerobic (high oxygen) vs organisms with anaerobic (low oxygen) metabolic processes within the human body.

That line just has no meaning when applied to physiology.
The partial pressure of O2 at the level of the cell is between 3-5mmHg O2.
This changes barely at all whether the body is hyper oxygenated (ie hooked up to high flow O2 in a hospital) or in the middle of a marathon.
The idea that there are 'low oxygen' centres in our tissues is rediculous pseudoscience. Ie, terms that are sprouted with no meaning.
And what do you mean by organisms? How basic is your understanding of human biology? Do you mean cells? It still has no meaning!

>I would intuitively think

Well that's the problem.
Life doesn't work by intuition no matter how lovely it may feel to be living with the holistic anti science mindset. Facts are facts and the facts are a 'holistic/naturalistic' lifestyle, whatever that may mean these days, is not going to prevent or cure cancer any more Than the 'normal' methods of stopping smoking, exercising and remaining in a reasonable weight range
To me this feels like a classic case of "premature optimisation" - by increasing the complexity of the code quite a bit (even adding dynamic allocation), they managed to save only 40 milliseconds on a benchmark involving the echoing of 1000 arguments.

Using 1000 arguments does not seem at all a typical use case for echo.
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This is interesting, not only because it gives more opportunity to do urban-beekeeping but also because it creates more public awareness.

As I'm getting ready to have my first hives, I can say that beekeeping is not as easy as it used to be, even as recent as 10-15 years ago. There are many things that contribute to the decline of honey bee population and other pollinators' (hundreds of other bee species, butterflies, etc.): the top one is probably the "Systemics" (e.g. Neonicotinoids). "Monocultures", "climate change" and certain industrial practices probably follow closely.
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"The law code also extended into the daily life of the ordinary citizen. Builders were held responsible for the buildings they constructed. If a house collapsed and caused the death of its owner, the builder was put to death. Goods destroyed by the collapsed must also be replaced and the house itself rebuilt at the builder's expense."

http://www.historyguide.org/ancient/lecture2b.html

That is basically how the common law functions today. Harm people and you are personally punished. Harm property and you must pay for that property. Criminal law and civil law, crimes and torts.

*Of course the "property" in the original were actually slaves, but the principal holds.
If you break the app you have +- the same access.. see if you break irssi you're not root either.

This stuff is only sort-of reliable when-containers-dont-have-root-bug-today if you run that as a separate user than yourself in a different X server

So basically not cool.

The way GNOME is doing ACTUAL sandboxing is much neater. Turns out it doesn't use Docker also. Go figure /sarcasm.
The problem lies deeper. The main problem is the alienation between the producer and consumer. Industrialization does not fit well with food production. Because price optimization through division of fixed costs leads to standardized high volume products. But it is diversity that is healthy, tastes good and is natural.

The Community-supported agriculture (CSA) model or Food cooperatives (foodcoop) directly addresses those fundamental problems.