skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It doesn't seem like an obvious route to success.

It feels like you wouldn't be getting as much efficiency out of a company where many people were learning on the job, or executing processes that were very dissimilar to the sort of work they typically enjoyed.
720k Android Wear devices shipped in 2014. 1M+ Apple Watches pre-ordered on day 1 and sales apparently still going strong. This is the kind of flop I'd love to have.
I understand, but forgive me, when I try to argue about consciousness using logic or read scientific studies about it, I always feel like being a 14 year old talking about sex, so I don't talk about it anymore. I prefer doing it.

Quite possibly its arrogance, or jadedness. But I've come to develop my own opinions about issues like that, through other means of acquiring knowledge than science, which I feel is grossly inadequate to address such issues. And no, I'm not talking about secular/clinic types of mindfulness.

Probably that makes me a weirdo in circles like HN, but oh well.
Western medicine and science is often very dismissive of things that you can't observe and measure. Positive thinking for example. It is well known that negative thinking in the form of stress can have negative physiological effects. Yet there is little research into finding out if positive thinking can have a positive effect. And surprisingly little research into the placebo effect, considering that it can be as effective as prescribed drugs for some situations.
It seems to me that plenty of publicly funded research ends up simply pushing ideas which are subsequently developed and patented by companies. Perhaps I misread the situation, but that doesn't seem like it's in our best interests
Given that a VPS like Digital Ocean will give you 1 Terabyte/month for $5/month, isn't it straightforward to hose your own tarball now?

I see the nmap tarball is 20 Megabytes = 50,000 downloads.

The cost of hosting should be easily covered by your user base.
Case in point. Here's a great joke about rape:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3xoiShfknA
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Plenty popular names on there. That's shocking.
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I didn't think it was going to move me but since I've been using my Garmin 920XT with smart notifications turned on, I'm definitely seeing the potential - not having to get the phone out to look at notifications is definitely a plus.
If it would be such a big problem for Big Pharma they would stop selling drugs in NZ. Just to set an example for other countries if not for anything else.
It's a bad thing. Also, you shouldn't trust the Times on issues like this. And I wonder why, of all the available articles, the Times was the one chosen to be submitted here on HN.

Anyway, just read ArsTechnica reporting:

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Let the snooping resume: Senate revives Patriot Act surveillance measures http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/06/let-the-snooping-...

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How the end of Patriot Act provisions changes NSA surveillance http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/06/how-the-end-of-pa...
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We had a fast breeder reactor here in France before, creating energy from nuclear waste.

Oil/"green" lobbies made it to close: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superph%C3%A9nix

EDIT: And also terrorists and molten sodium.
Having fopen() that takes utf-8 on Windows is a huge deal. I already want to investigate using this for Firefox on Windows for this reason alone.
Because they said it it must be true!

Fool me twice...
Right, It's your data because it's the things you care about, but knowing you isn't what google cares about, they want to know where you intersect with everyone else.
Usually similar to ooh-ess-bay because I'm not a native english speaker, but here it was just an error.
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Or even simpler: these are not people from the Government perspective. We are talking about tax payers here. You'd rather have more taxpayers than less, right?

If a Government needs to spend $100k in tax payer money to save somebody's life and this somebody pays back $200k in taxes, this is good business, isn't it?
This also includes the interesting area of drugs which are already been patented and licensed but find new uses once out of patent for different conditions, Naltrexone being a prime example. google Dr Ian Zagon's work at Penn State if you are interested in his work on Naltrexone, OGF and opiod receptors generally.
I agree with you - that wording is unfortunate.

That being said, better to think of the risk profile questions in the demo as "dummy data". And it's pretty easy to change.

Go to Advisor -> Proposals -> Edit and update the questions.
Here's a gif - http://i.imgur.com/DsZx51m.gif

What's even cooler, thought, is that this "dummy data" is loaded with fixtures. Meaning we can update it and next time you or I install wealthbot.io, no more poorly worded question!
Another gif - http://i.imgur.com/1QATMeC.gif

Finally, a quick note on robo advisors. These are great services, wealthbot.io doesn't compete with them. That being said, there is no such thing as a free lunch. Be weary of Schwab's portfolio suggestions, as the CEO of Wealthfront mentions in this article - https://medium.com/@adamnash/broken-values-bottom-lines-3d55...
I didn't know they did this at this scale. I'm suprised by all the big names in the projects they've highjacked: I see apache, drupal, firefox, libreoffice, mysql, postgresql, redmine, sqlite, thunderbird, vlc, virtualbox and many, many others.

They're really going all in with that.
Corporations claim that DRM is necessary for fighting piracy, for protecting the rights of content creators, or to keep computers safe from viruses, however there is no evidence that DRM has had any effect on any of those.

DRM is fundamentally flawed, because the user is both the recipient and the would-be interceptor that DRM protects against, so because of this it means the decryption key is at some point loaded in the memory of the user's device, which means that there's no "uncrackable" variant, but even admitting the possibility of an uncrackable DRM, you always have the analogue loophole. And because of the Internet, ordinary people can easily access the pirated copies made by other people.

The only thing that DRM proved effective for is vendor lock-in. Bought some games on Steam? Bought some books on Amazon? Bought some apps on iTunes Store? Those are "investments" hooking you in to these services for a long time.

And now DRM has infected W3C and web standards as well, because grandmas want to watch Netflix and as predicted, open-source can't join the party, because wouldn't you know, DRM is fundamentally flawed and is incompatible with open-source.
Development speed? Getting shitty insecure apps out there at web speed?
I believe Rails can be as modular and stripped down ?
But there's much more to Erik Satie. I feel, as long as this piece is, that it's still too short. He deserves more.

This, by the way, was his great love/muse, Suzanne Valadon:
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Personally I don't think we can truly call ourselves civilised whilst we persist in valuing our fellow humans' health and their very lives in terms of financial currency.
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https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/icloud/en/term...
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That's why public funding should be directed at under-funded areas, like "processes and drugs that are not patentable".
We saw it, but why does it matter? They also claimed to never add adware without consent before. Even considering to bundle up malware with FOSS projects is offensive to me. They lost my trust and a simple blog post won't win it back.

The policy of taking over "abandoned" projects is super shady as well. That's what this mailing list post is about, isn't it?
MOZILLA: http://sourceforge.net/projects/firefox points to "personal builds of Firefox"; http://sourceforge.net/projects/firefox.mirror/ seems to describe legit Firefox. I haven't tried to download it to see what I get.

FEDORA: http://sourceforge.net/projects/fedora/ points to some random software. http://sourceforge.net/projects/fedora.mirror describes Fedora the OS.

Not only scummy, but semi-competant too.
I don't think there is a problem suggesting changing diet in addition to "proper" medical treatment. Its when people are encouraged to use it in place of other treatments it becomes a problem.

Research into ketogenic diets is pretty new, (and as far as I am aware, has been shown to have positive effects on neurodegenerative diseases in rat studies). There is a possibility that it may help.
no patents, but also no regulation. Now, this is what gave us antibiotics and aspirin. The current over-regulated system can give us only stagnation.
Just submitted the story to Slashdot [1].

Sharing the same owner as Sourceforge let's see if it gets "buried" [2] (or "late released due to an editor vacation" [3] as it was their explanation) or if they publish it in a timely manner and within the spirit of the submission.

[1] http://slashdot.org/submission/4487045/sourceforge-hijacks-t...

[2] http://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/381q6r/slashdot_buryi...

[3] http://tech.slashdot.org/story/15/06/01/1241231/sourceforge-...
Buying gift cards for cash is too insecure.

But I do see https://giftoff.com/gift-cards/apple-store for buying Apple Store gift cards with Bitcoins.

I'll give it a go.

Edit: It seems legitimate: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=970780.0
Yes, I'll be the first to admit our documentation needs some work.

How about screencapture gifs?
Example: http://i.imgur.com/DsZx51m.gif

As far as the Symfony upgrade, great minds think alike: https://github.com/wealthbot-io/wealthbot/tree/feature/symfo...
a) Human error is a possibility but that's not something that can be eliminated.

b) They won't download anything wrong. There's no route to the internet for this machine.

c) They won't visit any web sites. There's no browser on the machine. This is a core profile windows server installation.

Don't assume that we don't know what we're doing. We have 500ish Windows Server machines floating around.
Should Sourceforge perhaps be added to Google's Safe Browsing blacklist?
this is because of over-regulation. Destroy regulation, i.e. patents, and then then tell me drugs aren't cheap.
If we want companies to keep making drugs, we either socialize them and pay them from our taxes, or we let them make profits.

Drug research and production is extremely expensive. And so are the recalls and the lawsuits.
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On the bullshit side column, what's your view on Naltrexone? I take it for Crohn's and it has helped me a lot and know of many MS patients who have benefited from it too.
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average pay per install rates are around 0.2 - 0.5 $ per install. i wont be surprised if they make 10k-20k + / day
This makes a great deal of sense. How would an average dev, with experience of fixing sales/marketing/etc, go about becoming this kind of consultantant?
Are you allowed to refuse service to legally carried firearms? Can a library, or a bookstore, or a barber have a "no guns" rule? What about a bar (because frankly if spaghetti westerns have taught me anything it's that guns and alcohol make for interesting situations).
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Seems their product is software, not hardware.
I might be wrong as I don't know how to in detail read financial statements, but at the end of the day if they were making too much money (and by to much I mean unproportional) it would be obvious there would it not?

I work in the medical industry and can say I don't know any poor doctors. Even socialists. And maybe they are rich compared to their individual r&d in study, I am not saying I support $200k a year for drugs, but shouldn't this be part of a bigger question.
Could you be mixing this up? There was a heavil-used phrase, "OS/2 is a better Windows than Windows" during the Windows 3.0 era, because the OS/2 Windows subsystem was far more stable than Microsoft's Windows (and also - as it happens - a good deal more stable than the rest of OS/2 also).
the cost of pharma is directly related to the costs of failure and the legal system. Failure from the R&D spent on so many solutions that never make it to market and the legal system from the ease of suing for complications or misuse.
too much regulation. No patents, no approvals, and you don't need 50k+ employees and years to find out a drug doesn't work. Under current system we wouldn't be able to approve aspirin for goodness sake. It just wouldn't go through FDA:

http://www.medicalprogresstoday.com/spotlight/spotlight_inda...

Haven't we had enough of high prices and stagnation in pharma already?
Any reason Cygwin isnt suitable?
Thats the goto project for the type of stuff.
I have to agree, but I was looking to limit the "cost" by making it easy and fun. I could see the demographics, most of them had time to kill. And with young people, you never know what will be cool, fashionable or viral. Easy-to-break is subjective too. Sibling, parent, teacher, advertiser, somebody looking over your shoulder? They couldn't break it. I think every generation has something like this, a Cracker Jack decoder ring, passing notes in class, some 1337 letter generator.
Comparing an army of mis-information trolls pushing lies to students who are paid to "combat anti-Semitism and calls to boycott Israel" by telling the truth is pretty silly, and intellectually dishonest. There is a wave of antisemitism resurfacing in Europe, as well as antisemitic calls for the destruction of the state of Israel. And there is nothing wrong or dishonest about a country fighting back against attempts to delegitimize its existence with information.
Would be fun to watch the corrupted blood incident play out if this was the case.
I like the cut of your jib! Let me know if you have any questions once you decide to give it a go.
It's the same idea as:
"Why use GitHub when I can host my own repo" and
"Why use Dropbox when RSYNC exists"

It's a nice, well presented website that serves an actual purpose.
While I really appreciate Rand Paul's efforts against the Patriot Act, I've also seen some crazy talk from him, like the claim that universal health care would lead to slavery. It's fine if you think it's a bad idea, but unhinged rhetoric like that severely undermines your credibility.

I realize that unhinged rhetoric is part of the toxic political culture in the US, and almost all US politicians are guilty of similar bizarre polemic, but from what I've seen, Bernie Sanders actually seems to be a rare exception to this. Might he actually be an honest politician? It's hard to believe one really exists, but he gives me hope.
This is definitely a possibility, and when sourceforge bundles nmap with malware I would deem it nessesary. nmap is protected in the US by trademark #78342532.
That's probably the NTFS MFT rather than the actual runtime. Git plops lots of small files on the disk which end up in the MFT. The MFT is really slow. We have the same trouble with SVN.

You can tune this a bit with fsutil and turn off last access time, 8dot3 filenames and change mftzone size and it'll be significantly faster.

ReFS is a little better in this respect. I suspect this was a hang-back from early NT versions which were tuned to larger binary blobs as a normal file statistic rather than lots of small text files.
Why would they care about something that had 150 downloads since 2014? Seems like it may just have expired due to inactivity on the account.
I think a name like that is a clear sign there's something wrong with the law. An actual good law wouldn't need dishonest PR like that.
Console interaction shines particularly for high-latency liks. Mainframe/mini interfaces were particularly strong - your buffer could get many characters ahead of the display, but you could have complete confidence that everything would work out.
But how they didn't notice in with MRI or CT scans? Is it because their resolution isn't high enough yet for that?
The more the merrier, imo. If they can do a better job at PR, marketing and "branding" than the more stilted organisations doing the same thing, then they can speed up the changing of public perceptions and speed up eventual adoption.
This is just a another way of saying "business good, government bad".

The fact that Google abuses the data and Apple doesn't is already a major difference. Just because government can use its monopoly on violence and imprisonment to go one step beyond doesn't make what businesses do harmless.

Yes, the collection is already inherently dangerous, and what Apple does is certainly not harmless. And yes, they will use that data to their advantage.

But the unscrupulous abuse of that data, the blatant disregard for privacy, a business model that depends on abuse of that data, and the obvious hunger for social and economic power by Google and co is not a minor difference.
> "There's only one way to be safe. And that's to collect only minimal amounts of data for minimal apps."

No. The only way to be really safe is to go live in a cave, not to have any friends and never go anywhere near any tech ever again. I'm sure you can tell that I don't consider that to be much of an option.

It's unhelpful to label 'data collection' as the source of the problem as 'collection' happens everywhere in our interactions with the world. There are valid arguments and discussions to be had about who really owns that data. It may well be about me, but that doesn't necessarily mean that it's mine. I'd say the majority of people are only just beginning to understand that a discussion needs to take place even though technical folks have known this for a long time.

One solution to the 'ownership' problem is to make it possible for everyone to run their own infrastructure. i.e. have their own 'backend' that apps/services can be installed into, which their end-devices can then connect to. This is already possible for the technically savvy but a lot of work is needed before I feel we can trust such systems (I'm working on approaches to this [1,2], based on unikernels).

In the meantime, I applaud business models that are not built around profiling (which is the crux of the issue cf. advertising). They're the only ones where the incentives have any hope of aligning.

[1] http://nymote.org/blog/2013/introducing-nymote/

[2] http://amirchaudhry.com/brewing-miso-to-serve-nymote/
Hmm... When your tech works this well, do you want to get acquired? This reminds me of Pied Piper in the way that it's just so much better than anything else out there. Applications for something like this stretch beyond a personal assistant; combining it with something like Watson or WolframAlpha could be very useful. I feel like I could actually use this to control my computer with confidence, for example.
Fire up PowerShell ISE (comes with windows) as administrator and type:

Update-Help

This will download all the help.

Then you can type "Get-Help About_" and hit tab to see the master topic lists.
I believe the Daily Show at some point asked people what they thought of Obamacare and what they thought of the Affordable Care Act, and while most people were negative about Obamacare, the very same people were very supportive of the Affordable Care Act.
without the actual numbers.

Profit margins in the pharmaceutical industry are the highest[1] of all industries, only rivaled by the banking sector.

The top 3 pharma companies spend twice as much money on marketing as on R&D.

[1] http://www.bbc.com/news/business-28212223
Cool. I guess in your case it makes sense because of the low interest rate. I didn't mean that you would live with your parents forever. What I meant was since your parent's already own a home, its already an investment by them that you are going to inherit.

I never understood why buying a home is a good investment option since ROI is very low for a very long time unless you sell the house for a higher price or you make all the money through rent, which is probably never happening considering other costs that come with owning a home.

This article makes all the point I was going to write and some more.

http://www.jamesaltucher.com/2011/03/why-i-am-never-going-to...
"Those who don't understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly." – Henry Spencer

Basically, bit by bit it seems Microsoft are realising there is a ton of stuff they need to take from the unix environment.

The comments here about how awesome PowerShell and the other tools within all are seem to focus on everything being an object rather than being text.

So, we could fix that by basically providing a "Ruby shell" in one sweep. You go through the standard utilities you have on unix systems, provide them as Ruby methods on various objects (the Ruby stdlib has a great many) and provide a means to navigate a file system easily, and basically you have the beginnings of an object-orientated shell with the support of the traditional 30+ year old command line utilities.

What is it I am missing? This feels all a little reminiscent of when Microsoft got all giddy about providing symbolic links... well... yeah... I mean... what?
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Apple is "more aligned" as in more aligned than Google, not "more aligned" as in perfectly aligned.

Stop viewing the world in black and white.
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The title says "1/3 of underperforming bosses were given bonuses", but the content says "1/3 of those who were given bonuses are underperforming". Somebody is clueless here, rendering the article being trash.
The problem now is raising the alarm all the way out to the endest of end users, that this formerly trusted site cannot be trusted anymore.

Perhaps Google could step up and de-list them, but that is a pretty slippery slope.
To be clear - there is a difference between mirroring (which is good netizen behavior, and to be complimented), and trojaning (which is modifying the upstream sources before delivering them to users - which is decidedly not good netizen behavior).

It's important to understand which is which for those accounts.
The problem isn't really in the overall bandwidth usage though, it's the concurrency.

Would the $5/month droplet stand up to a surge of people coming in for a latest release, or a bit of press coverage? Would there be enough bandwidth that everyone gets the file fast or would they all slow to a crawl
That's all done in Windows 10.
This project sounds too good to be true. I would be quite astonished if they can make fork() work seamlessly without an amazingly high performance cost. In my experience the only way to do such a thing is to use NtCreateProcess(), but that function itself seems impossible for anyone besides Microsoft to use correctly. (I have tried numerous times and failed, and so have many others.)
They seem to have (plans for) a way[1] to integrate this into other applications. Looks like it would reduce a lot of the friction that exists with current-gen voice recognition systems.

[1] https://www.houndify.com/
I just scraped Google for the indexed mirrors.

site:sourceforge.net/projects/ inurl:mirror -inurl:files -inurl:reviews -inurl:compare -inurl:support

Gave me these[0] 253 indexed projects. Would be interesting to crawl the entire website to see if there's more.

[0] http://git.io/vkb3N
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