skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My dad did some consulting for the London Underground on the Power side a few years back and he commented that the stuff built in the 30's was more reliable than the 70's era.
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The cancer research and cancer epidemiology communities do not really talk to each other (as a cancer researcher for many years I have never been to an epidemiology seminar despite working in a 'cancer center'). So it is really a fight for money and mind influence. Most cancer researchers lean towards drugs targeting molecular mechanisms of cancer, cancer epidemiologists, on the other hand, aim for political decisions that combat environmental factors. Where should most money go? what should be discussed in the media?

Vogelstein proposes a simple model that explains a lot of data. Sure, the implications are bleak, but the scientists I talked to were not really surprised that it finally got out.
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This is reasonable -- I admit, I accept as true many results that I don't fully understand precisely because I don't have time to learn everything about every field.

But I'm not sure that this kind of leniency with respect to evidence for beliefs is incompatible with the idea that we should focus on the results over the individuals.
Heh. You don't get to choose who decides to bring along their moral capital, something that I'm glad to see people in this discussion realize is just as important as any other of these areas, and I would argue more important, in that without it, you aren't going to get very far with anything else.

E.g. too many of these things require fixed assets and a framework where nomadic raiders are kept from totally despoiling those and the people working on them, the classic example being agriculture and farmers. Sans that, you might have something called "civilization", but it won't support very many people, and it won't be pretty. Or you might collapse all the way down to small, hostile to each other bands of hunter-gatherers. I seem to remember reading in Guns, Germs and Steel that the Australian aborigines came from a civilization that farmed....
If you think Sweden gives India any kind of substantial money to reduce poverty, you're seriously mistaken.
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Wal-Mart sold Linux machines at one time, and maybe still does. Dell does. A lot of small suppliers do (because they don't get such big OEM discounts on Windows and don't have high-volume automated production lines). But the real problem is that one "support incident" eats the profit from about five sales, or more.

If you think there's a market for Linux PCs, you can always set up a company to sell them. You wouldn't be the first to try, but you might be the first to succeed ;-)
Unfortunately not many companies are willing to consider that - even Slack[1] isn't interested in remote workers.

[1] https://twitter.com/mrmrs_/status/567832899854065664
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Netflix europe has terrible descriptions of the films/shows which you may as well ignore. Also their catalog really isn't that impressive. It would be rather easy to replace it if anyone tried.
I only tested it on 64-bit systems, where it triggers the kernel panic from both 32- and 64-bit processes (i386, x86_64, arm, and arm64). Hardware-wise it crashes every single device I've tried (MacBook Pro, iMac, iPhone 6, etc.), so this is not tied to any specific hardware.
Their subtitle and language selection is really rather poor.
India gets huge amounts of arms import and otherwise support to act as a geopolitical counterweight to China. Both USA and Russia are interested in limiting Chinese influence in South East Asia, and assisting India is a natural way to do so.

Oh, also, you should probably think through what the actual goal of foreign support is. Aside from short term humanitarian aid, the stated goal of these funds is to allow systemic uplift. The actual goal is more likely to combination of domestic feel goodism, and permanently crippling the recipient country's ability to uplift on their own will.
re 1 Its illegal for recruiters to charge the employee in the UK

re 3 is mainly related to the poor social standing of STEM employees in the UK
You could start by providing the links to the science! Why should I trust what you're saying? There's always someone on the Internet making claims. People debate have raging debates and few people actually provide real data.
To me this looks like an organic extension of how Thai people go about engaging retail and service industries. This is a country where you step out your door and there are street carts soliciting you with every product and service you could want. This is taking that type of p2p business interaction which Thai people are comfortable with and expect and moving it to the internet.
Where does it crash? Try bumping the argument on line 21 – if you're unlucky library at index 1 contains mach_vm_read_overwrite and is suddenly no longer executable (since we change its second memory page from R-X to RW- due to stock kernels not allowing RWX pages).
The quoted part reminds me of what's known as 'staged authenticity' in tourism studies.

"Dean MacCannell formulates his theory of modern tourism and approaches the question of authenticity in The Tourist. He uses the concept of staged authenticity to explain the tourist experience; people know what they are experiencing is not real and authentic but feel content with it anyway. According to MacCannell, staged authenticity is authenticity’s negation, an attempt to move beyond the front-back binary made famous by Erving Goffman, very much similar to what Edward Bruner, also hoping to transcend such binaries as authentic – inauthentic and front – back, wrote in Culture on tour.

To Goffman, all social action is play, and he uses theater as an analogy when he explains how people will alter their social roles according to their position (front or back) on the stage. The idea of people necessarily withholding some aspects of their personality will ultimately lead to a position where the tourist is always confronted with a staged play, never allowed backstage to experience authenticity. Bruner and MacCannell have, however, different ideas about what is to be found backstage. For MacCannell the back is a place where secrets are only popularly thought to be kept but, in fact, do not exist. While MacCannell explicitly denies the possibility of authenticity residing in the back regions, Bruner stated that MacCannell believes there is always true and real at the back."
An ingredient in olive oil that appears to kill cancer cells
What about Dagestan? Maybe you mean Abkhasia?
The original creator of Black Books was Channel 4, not the BBC. BBC Worldwide (a for-profit subsidiary of the BBC) does license shows to other markets on behalf of more than just the BBC, though - I expect if you're watching it outside the UK their logo will be on it.

BTW, not that it helps you...but Black Books is currently on UK Netflix. http://www.netflix.com/WiMovie/70157495?trkid=13462100
Aha, interesting. Does the program crash or exit gracefully?
> That, in itself, is a fascinating scientific result

There are plenty of problems with the original paper see

http://www.sciencemag.org/content/347/6219/224.full

http://arxiv.org/abs/1501.04605

http://www.iarc.fr/en/media-centre/pr/2015/pdfs/pr231_E.pdf
In Firefox, even easier than that:

View/Page Style/No Style

Then reload.

I think the No Style menu item should have a middle finger for an icon.
I use Siri daily to send hands free text messages. If you use and state a lot of punctuation when dictating Siri gets it right 94 percent of the time.

I've been using Siri for such since it first became available and I notice with iOS 8 a huge step up in accuracy for dictating text messages.

I also ask Siri hands free to play iTunes radio X genre frequently as well and more.
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China both imports and exports if I read correctly.
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I read a "negative result" as different from a "failed result".

A negative result, which has scientific value but no patent value, would be something like, "We have conclusively shown that blood-letting by leeches is not an effective treatment for fever."

A failed result, on the other hand, would read more like "We were unable to conclusively determine one way or the other, but here's the method we used"

You could certainly publish the former (back in a time where that wasn't already accepted fact in the scientific/medical community), but it's unclear how you'd apply that to the patent (or even market) realm. You can't patent "stopping doing something".
Overall, it's not clear to me why this was published.

The fifth paragraph explains why it was published:

“Concluding that ‘bad luck’ is the major cause of cancer would be misleading and may detract from efforts
to identify the causes of the disease and effectively prevent it.”

It's fairly obvious that if a study tells people most cancers are caused by bad luck and not bad actions, there will be some subset of the population that rationalizes their bad actions through such a study. If the study is inaccurate it could then actually cause additional cancers through misinformation.
but for start-ups remote workers are in 99% of the cases much worse than collocated ones - If your a big company and you need some one to do basic CRUD work that can be well defined remote works better.

To many people want to have their cake and eat it
If you remove all the infection points of the malware, it's gone. Computers are not magic, and you rarely win by being superstitious with them. Most malware are as good as gone once they've been detected and removed by a decent antivirus.

I'm not saying this due to some marketing claims, but just by looking at the results from independent testing organisations like AV-Test (http://www.av-test.org/en/news/news-single-view/17-software-...) or av-comparatives (http://www.av-comparatives.org/removal-tests/).
It bears pointing out some inaccuracy in language here, notably that 'types' and 'cases' are not the same thing.

Most 'types' of cancer are unequivocally about bad luck; nearly any cell line in your body can develop overproliferative mutations. There are hundreds of 'types' of cancer.

'Cases' and deaths from cancer are, globally and in the US, more environmentally influenced, because of the huge impact of smoking on lung and colorectal cancer incidence and mortality in particular.
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The only big disadvantage I can think of is that is it might be easier to over harvest with this system.
Did you know that your last link is the original link for this thread?
Also reminds me of an article about the Cloverfield movie (can't find it right now). They made the head of the Liberty Statue on the actual size it would be when cut by the monster and falling among people in the streets. But the feedback from a closed beta exhibition showed that audience would find find that "small" head comically ridiculous and inaccurate. So for the film release they made it much bigger so people would find it realistic.
Where are you located and are you willing to relocate? We are looking for a html5 game developer at our agency. We are no Apple! We don't do code tests in the interview but we send you home with assets to build us a simple game to get an idea where you are at how fast you can learn and your general ability to write quality code and solve problems. If you are interested in taking the test let me know.
I'm sure you're right about what Turing intended the test be used for, but I think the question of whether a machine can fool a person into treating it like another person absolutely has relevance to the question of machine rights.

And unlike 'intelligence', there are concrete steps to be taken given some answers to the question as to what rights a particular program should have.
Ask HN: How do I start with test driven development?
I'm a student developer, @pravj on GitHub.
I try to follow the best possible development practice when I'm working like documentation, respecting language's style guide etc.

But one thing I don't like with me is that I never write tests.

Why I never followed that aspect is because I always felt that the thing that I'm writing, sounds totally OK.

One another negative point is that I don't actually get it that How to do/start this and what type of tests I should write for any given project. Maybe this is because I have never done this before.

For example recently I wrote a identicons library, Penticons[1]. It generates GitHub contribution flavored identicons. You can read the development story here[2].

Now, the thing that stopped me from writing tests was, I thought that ultimately it's a image generation library, why this thing needs any tests.

I don't want to lost my 1 point in the Joel score. Whenever I see a build passing label on a GitHub repository, It makes me crazy.

I'm asking here because I just love HN, I know people will suggest some awesome things here.

1. https://github.com/penticons/penticons.go

2. http://pravj.github.io/blog/penticons-the-hash-game/
I set up a Xcode project to test it on iOS
https://github.com/jdmoreira/KernelPanic-10LOC

It doesn't work on my device running iOS 8.1.2
Can someone confirm?

Edit: It works now!
> It's ok to eat cholesterol now, right? All these "mistakes" give science a black eye.

You're confusing central planning and science. Governmental politics and advisory is a form of central planning, and in that realm mistakes are shunned upon.

Science is a protocol that, if duly practiced, will evolve our understanding towards the truth. But the path is not straight. And science does not give any way for determining whether we have found the truth at the present moment.

That's why in proper science everything is in constant flux. For some people that's terrifying, so they prefer central planning and static advisory from above.
Just a quick note that I have made few changes based on the feedback I have received. First you can install 'gist' using 'pip install python-gist', which should make it easier to install and alleviate some of the confusion with the existing package on pypi. Also, I have added fuzzy search to the tab-completion to make it easier to select gists.
I would agree that the characterization is insulting. But the real point is that once a disparity appears, regardless of the cause, it becomes a vicious cycle. And in a dynamic multilateral economy, disparities are virtually guaranteed. Any economic system that relies on relative parity in the participants must have a compensatory mechanism (ie, wealth redistribution) to maintain that parity in the face of the systematic tendency for wealth to flow from the poor to the rich. This is as true for the Eurozone as it is for the NFL here in the States.
Google Chrome defers to the local PC for installed certificates. So, cert pinning didn't protect users at all in this instance.

It's a 'feature' of Chrome so that it will use an installed corporate SSL and allow intentional MitM of all HTTPS traffic for purposes of institutional eavesdropping.
What is the reasoning behind that? Given the advances over the last decade or two automatic garbage collection is good enough for a lot of scenarios and this looks like a step back. Why not use automatic garbage collection as the default but offer additional means for manual resource management in case it is really needed?
I'm building lazyfan[1] precisely because of how fragmented availability has become. Even when you want to pay to stream a specific movie, it might be available from iTunes, but not Amazon or vice versa. But you don't want to pay for something you have so you have to check Netflix or Amazon Prime.

Forget comparison shopping, it's tough to even know what's for sale.

[1] http://www.lazyfan.com (beta)(a movie trailer autoplays)
Superfish will infect Fx also, it's just that Lenovo didn't pre-install Fx and the installer only runs once.
If I were to redesign school, this would be the spirit.
I believe the intention of this library is to allow Servo to support the <video> tag, correct?
Actually, I think it's a linux package - libtard. Most people only ever hear of it because other packages depend on libtard-dev (like freespeechtype, damnsmallgoverment, and law-common).
How does this compare to MyBatis [1]? Based on a very brief read, it looks like ObjectiveSync requires me to write more code, but does some interesting things that MyBatis doesn't, like deferred loading.

[1] http://mybatis.github.io/mybatis-3/
That seems like an enormous leap, from corporations knowing everything about everyone, to all people knowing everything about everyone.
|Comments are also very good at inventing their own fallacies and contradictions.

It doesn't matter how well thought out the comments are. That they exist provides counterpoint and devalues the original article. This is crucial because readers tend to overvalue written word "as gospel".

|If every comment section was as well thought-out as HN (which still has issues), I would be surprised by closed comments.

You are dismissing other opinions before they have even been written by assuming that quality comments only come from particular sources. This is very akin to an argument from authority fallacy. Even if a site was known to have "bad" comments, it doesn't mean ALL articles on that site will have bad comments. Links to articles are posted in a wide variety of other places attracting different readers and commenters.
I have an offline copy of wikipedia together with the images (especially for diagrams, and plant recognition) on my phone. I also have fairly detailed offline maps of most of the world (including contour lines in some places).

Add some decent solar power to that, and scavenge for spare parts to keep it going, and I plan to be running a First Foundation / Oracle of Delphi pretty shortly after civilization collapse.
What the fuck? This is a really bad technical decision. As written, it sounds like they're planning to reject garbage collection in-general, which would be a ban on most major programming languages. If you assume they only mean garbage collection in Objective C, it's still a head-scratchingly stupid decision. Modifying an app to not use garbage collection is, in many cases, a major project that will introduce a lot of bugs. And the benefit is... very dubious at best.
America lost the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan because of the prevalence of arms among the population ..
Lenovo has just released an automatic Superfish removal tool
> The problem is that 25 years after Photoshop launched, we’d much prefer manipulations of reality to reality itself.

I wouldn't. Not in this case, anyway. The picture on the right is utterly unappealing.
> This seems to support only gccgo, not the standard gc compiler

Just to clarify, both gccgo and gc are "standard" compilers - Go is intentionally developed with two officially supported compilers. One of the purposes of this is to prevent compiler quirks or bugs from superseding the spec, as has happened in other languages.

When you hear about changes to "the Go compiler" people are usually talking about gc, but that's because gccgo is simply a front-end to gcc (as are many other languages' compilers) - there are no radical architectural changes to be made, the way there are with gc.

The upside of this is that many/most people who have gcc installed or available on their system already have access to a first-class, official Go compiler.
I think by "effectively" he means the company will pay the employee less to compensate for the recruitment fee, not that the employee is directly charged.
If the button image is hosted on Facebook's servers (and it commonly is), they have a log of your request for it, including the page it was on (from the "Referer" header). This request is sent when you load the page, without the need to click on the button. Every site you visit that includes a Facebook resource gives them the ability to collect data about you and your habits. These are often part of a site's template, included without regard to the page it might appear on. You'd be surprised what a Referer URL can reveal about you.
> Everyone wants you to spend 1-10 hours doing THEIR pre-screening test, before you even meet them or talk with them. I don't have the free time to do all of them.

And you shouldn't. Or at least, you should do them prioritized in the order of where you want to work.

> Based on my education, various honors, and experience, wouldn't it be at least worth your while to talk with me before making me take your stupid test?

Unfortunately, a significant percentage of resumes are inaccurate (to put it lightly; "outright lies" is a better description), so you might have equally asked "Based on the color of my eyes, wouldn't it ...."

Pre-screening is better for everyone. If you came to my office for an interview, or if I interviewed you by phone, I would do something that would (should) take comparable amount of time. Wouldn't you like to save the commute?

Personally, I try to hire by reference-from-someone-I-know rather than blindly. It is about 100 times more effective (in time spent; I don't think I'm exaggerating).
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When I read "schools are failing our daughters as well", I didn't picture such a childhood of technological privilege. No child I know has access to all of that stuff. Maybe next time I ought to catch up on NYT reading before responding to random entitled helicopter-parent whinging on HN?
I have always been personally bothered by the way images are photoshopped to the extreme. For me, it feels fraudulent to have an advertisement of a product and use an image that has been doctored. I mean, we can think of a whole spectrum of this phenomenon that an increasing number of people would be uncomfortable with:

A photo of a mountain scenery published only for art's sake.

A magazine cover of a woman with a few scrapes from a car accident photoshopped out.

A makeup ad with a woman's wrinkles and blemishes photoshopped out, instead of adequetly concealed by their product.

A diet product with before and after photos doctored to show the customers thinner.

A hotel ad with an ocean view, which is actually photoshopped. The actual view is 50% obscurred by a building.

Read these examples and consider your feeling of discomfort with each. I think there is a sliding scale of 'wrongness' when using Photoshop and IMHO if a photo is used for an ad, it should have a disclaimer if any digital manipulation was used.
Well, at least those 99% of us that spend more time in front of virtual reality than Real Reality...

How Did They Do To Make Us Behave Like This??
> Hopefully you won't need those provisions, but even for a few hundred K, it's surprising what people will do or turn into.

I've seen it happen for less than $1000.
How does it get weird with python? I do this day in, day out. I installed cygwin's python. When I'm in cygwin that's the python that runs, and when I'm in Windows it's my Windows python that runs.

Virtually all the scripts I write run without problems in either environment, because it's python. Scripts that other people wrote for Windows run fine in cygwin. There are occasions where I have to account for differences in the OS, but mostly never.
I guess what i meant was, why is learning to build things difficult. I feel like im stuck all the time.
MITMing everything saves them from having to write a plugin for each browser and update it.