jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
The "thoroughness" of the research doesn't matter much when it's based upon a false assumption or two.

You describe one mechanism by which cholesterol could cause heart disease. As you say, there is lots of evidence that it happens -- in an unknown subset of the population, with defining characteristics that nobody's managed to figure out.

The science just isn't there. And the financial success of statins seems to really get in the way of people wanting to work it all out.
I like your final solution for a calendar. I've implemented a calendar like this in a jasper report (on Oracle), with hyperlinks to actions on that date . Your SQL is cleaner to read. However on my environment the week numbers don't line up correctly. I had to change the line

, TO_CHAR(x +1, 'iw') weeknumber

, TO_CHAR(x , 'iw') weeknumber

I guess this might be environmental as some regions may consider the start/end of the week on different days.
Om is not an interface to React but rather React is the backend to Om.

I wouldn't use React out of the box, for pretty much the very same reasons outlined in the slides.
Here, you figure out what question #1 is supposed to be about

http://roundtheinkwell.files.wordpress.com/2013/10/the-math-...

What the hell is a "number sentence"?

What about #12? "What's the related subtraction sentence?" followed by four answers which all use addition.

What the hell is a "counter"? Should first graders also learn about incrementers and changing bases, carry bits and overflow flags?

"Write a subtraction story..." What? Based on #12 it must be something about addition since subtraction sentences all use addition.

These are barely comprehensible to college educated people with multiple degrees. People who are used to math, critical thinking, who speak multiple languages and solve incredibly complex problems in their day-to-day. I've run this by nuclear engineers with multiple PhDs who couldn't pass this test.

It's absurd gibberish to a 6 year old.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/wp/2013/10/...
Hardly all the problems are solved. The holiday road trip I just took, from Missouri to Virginia and back, would be effectively impossible on the current Supercharger network, and would take much longer on the 2015 planned Supercharger network.

When there's a dense network of battery hot swap stations, then perhaps.
I'm a parent and I've overall been very happy. In math it's very simple for a kid to get hung-up on one simple thing and then they have this hole and cause things build on previous knowledge later things are now trouble as well.

For example one of my children could not factor in the way I was taught with the trees, but another way was presented and it totally clicked for her. For one of my sons he could not do long division in the manner I was taught, but another method worked for him instantly. He showed me and I even liked it, cause I remembered how hung-up I had been about getting the correct digit at each step myself.

I also like how it seems to have this component about reasoning. To many people math is arithmetic, but it really is not that. The problem is that there are kids where requirements were different. So for example now a third grader is supposed to have memorized multiplication table, but there were schools that never did that before. Or a sixth grader is now already supposed to have done some geometry, but the school only did it in 8th grade or HS before. There is no route to fill in the gaps during this transition in many schools it seems.
As someone who teaches at the college level, I hope it works! Many American student come in not only unfluent with basic mechanical moves like adding fractions and dealing with exponents, but with little "number sense." Finding that you need to go -0.55 miles an hour to go from Cleveland to St. Loius (about 550 miles) in ten hours just does not faze some of them at all.

In college I'm always asking students to analyze the results to applied calculus questions and it can be a struggle and a revelation. You mean these numbers have meaning?!
The default setup requires root, but everything is does is contained to /nix and ~/.nix* . /nix (the part that requires root) is just a cache, and you can actually change the location to somewhere user-local in the settings. However, this affects all the package hashes, which will make Nix recompile everything instead of reusing the prebuilt binaries from Hydra.
I am getting a lot of requests. Too many to handle immediately. I have replied to some and will be working on those design for the next 3-5 days.

Those who have not received a reply from me, I will design the sites for you as well, but will need some time. If your project is urgent, then send me another email with the word 'Urgent' in the subject and I'll try to get your designs done as soon as I can.

Thank you.
Direct link to video:
http://movies.apple.com/media/us/iphone/2010/tours/apple-iph...
Must we start with this sensensionalist crap at the beginning of every solar max cycle? And TechCrunch peddling sensensionalist doomsday news to the ignorent maw of its readership? Not surprised at all.

SPOILER: We live in a dynamic universe. The Sun does this approximately every 11 years. Your latest iphone is not at all likely to become toast anytime soon.
Many thanks. I hadn't realized that.
It's strange how VCs always want to try their luck to hit up startup who are already doing well. They an't stupid too, no way they are going to sell out now. Why not be an angel instead? So much easier, stuffs like video, mobile and advertising will definitely be huge in the years to come still. Go out do some homework and approach those founders instead.
Or even better, with all your VCs funding, start your own labs. U have no idea how many smart people are there in USA for hire still.
> Why even bother with JS AES? If you're served a court order,
> you can be forced to transparently record everything

They can try the "Warrant canary" approach. Nothing to lose (but I'm foreign and not a lawyer.)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warrant_canary

Still it would be vulnerable to ISP-level MitM with SSL CERT hijacking. Aren't major government agencies (at least technically) able to control root CAs?

EDIT: (relevant discussion on the Clipperz forum) http://groups.google.com/group/clipperz/msg/c4e5f76af2e77bf6
yeah i was the same
After my experience with code reviews at Google, I came to the conclusion that Mondrian had some definite deficiencies. On the other hand, later at Mozilla, we did code reviews without any real tool support at all. That was a lot worse. I wrote up some of my thoughts in a blog post which you can find at http://curtisb.posterous.com/what-should-mozilla-look-for-in....
It should be possible to plug the F# binding backend into sublime; it expects to run as a separate process and have buffer states passed back and forth as JSON. I don't know much about sublime plugins, but I believe that they're Python based and should be able to handle that reasonably elegantly.
Not to mention the "Last Week Tonight" episode, 4.4 million views on YouTube, plus 600k on HBO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kEpZWGgJks
I left this comment:

I am a virtue ethicist for consequentialist reasons. While good results (consequences) are the end of my ethics, the real world is too complex for a real time evaluation of the likely results of even relatively simple decisions. So you use virtues (my definition is slightly non-standard) - rules that are more likely than not to result in better outcomes.

in a discussion on Less Wrong http://lesswrong.com/lw/2aa/virtue_ethics_for_consequentiali... early this month.
Great job jacob. It's very clean and straight-forward. I like how it instantly creates a shareable url. I've been working on a similar (though not exact) concept on the side for a few months now. Demo: http://bulletxt.com/demo
i created a simple and stupid project to sort repos through brute force instead of using the github.com website.

you can clone that project listed and sort your repos.
The idea was sot of just that you go back to notepad.cc (the index) to get a new auto-generated URL, and then you have two that you can edit. "Start a new doc" is just notepad.cc, or creating one in on the fly by just going to the URL you want.

In that regard, your browser offers multi-document support (via tabs or bookmarks, or delicious, whatever you use to remember the URLs).
It would be great if getting to the hard drive were easier. I love that they made the memory easily upgradeable, but I would really like to put an ssd in one of these.
Yeah, definitely want to make the mobile version a ton better. In the very least I wanted to make it actually work first.
pretty simple, i like simple user interfaces. one thing that kind of sux is that you have to manually erase everything in the canvas if you want to start a new document. would be nice to add something to the effect of "start new txt". noticed that with a new tab, it seems to save the session data.

need to fix the multi-document feature. otherwise i like it, "share" rather than save. abstraction of the storage layer is great, i don't even want to know where it's stored, just give me access.
Actually most of the money Madoff took in went right back out to his victims - that's how Ponzi schemes work.
With the WebOS UI designer and most features you want in the OS, this will be an important step for Android.
The OS is stable and mature with 2.2. Actually i like the UI on the Nexus One very much, but i'm sure it can be improved from good to awesome with the team focused on it.
Somewhere on Google I/O was a screenshot with Gingerbread on it, but i guess this will change.

edit: very early Gingerbread screens: http://www.sizzledcore.com/2010/05/22/android-3-0-screenshot...
You have his point right. I just strongly disagree with it.

"I strongly believe that when it comes to computers, there's no such thing as 'intuitive'. There's stuff you've already spent a lot of time getting used to, and there's stuff you haven't."

I'll assume that idea serves him well. It's just clearly false. Some environment are inherently more intuitive than others. A GUI is earier to deal with than an unresponsive terminal just Spanish is easier to learn than Chinese.

Html has been a blessing since it's stopped many programmers like him from having a hand in interface design.
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Montana's former Congressman. It said so... about four words later.
when I signed up in 2005 it was only open to people at colleges, and your info could only be seem by people at the same college... (hence the name, facebook, which no longer makes sense).
We have ‘how is prangent formed’, so if we’re not getting a static copy at least I know the diamond that was created from it will continue on forever.
Will Apple allow this?
I think part of the idea of interview questions like these is that it will get a developer into those finer points, if they are in a technical discussion.
In addition to LBS, I am not so sure Isee the value of gamification, which has taken a lot of attention these days - specifically badging.

Companies that showcased at disrupt showed badging as a feature, and the panels seemed to like companies that did so - even so far as to suggest badging to those who didnt have it.

Reddit has badging, but it is transparent to the use of the site (it is not a goal of using the site). This, to me, works well - but for any site to think that they will garner interest/drive traffic due to badging seems naive.
oooh, I especially like the cicada thing (aka multiple backgrounds with co-prime dimensions). Lots of interesting possibilities there.
What don't you like about the EU?
I understand that a WiFi LAN is one.
Unless you just want to put a skin on your laptop, this feels like the whole "Rubber Band Antenna-gate" thing from Apple years back. The device should work as-is without some extra covering being required.

Not everyone has skin allergies, but if you are mass producing devices that will be in close contact with skin for long durations, made with metals that are well known to cause skin irritation - sooner or later you're going to run into people that are affected.
Equipment companies are running at an all-out sprint to ship fabrication equipment. Applied Materials, the world's largest by revenue, has 1,390 open positions. #4 Lam Research has 570.

The equipment space is brutally cyclic, akin to the oil services industry. Revenue can jump as much as 60% year over year, only to plummet 40% the next.

It's always worrisome to see these macro-trends, feasting now, but famine sure to follow...
That is indeed a fair point: Why do people go to some Elsevier journal to look for an article instead of just going to the corresponding arxiv.org section? Because there is trust in the curation of those articles.

The problem with scientific publications is that there has not been a Spotify, Steam or Netflix disrupting company that provides the same service in a better way.

EDIT: Thinking more about it, I think such a service would be fair to say have a raw collection of journal articles (it could even be based on Arxiv) and charge for the "curation" layer on top of it. Now the only question is how to kickstart that curation layer in a matter that is trusted by scientists. Maybe it could be something more distributed where also curators (reviewers) and writers get some profit.
It also refers to work rules that are designed to make sure that workers doing a task are the ones who have been trained for it. Sometimes the rules seem to get in the way: Do you have to call in an electrician to plug in a PC? Or can the guy in the next cube, who saw Norm use a plug strip on PBS, plug it in? The movie version of "A brief history of time" has Dr. Hawking telling an anecdote about nailed down chairs on a set.

It isn't always about neighborly overtime.
I was reading it as they are self-hosting and are therefore having their emails dropped. While I have had similarly terrible experiences with self-hosted mail, I have found even smaller dedicated providers have absolutely no issues with getting mail delivered.
ID.Me is a step in the right direction but I think articles like these underscore the need for a federal digital ID (maybe a card like they have in Germany and other countries) where I can authenticate who I am quickly and securely.

Obviously there is the potential for abuse (which should be mitigated), but current system is just such a patchwork.
I had heard Libertarians are bull-headed, self-righteous, think only they understand the facts, think everyone who disagrees with them are Authoritarians. I heard wrong.
Just watched. I agree, it's a really good video.
You need fiat on ramps for crypto to work. Contrary to what other commenters have suggested you can't legally help other individuals convert their dollars to BTC. That's acting as a money transmitter.
I was having severe pain with this last month. Some steps that I took that have helped -

1. Minimize computer usage - the best way to deal with RSI is to rest your hands. So if you are doing something at the computer that you can avoid, stop doing it.

2. Avoid using a laptop keyboard/trackboard. Most of them are ergonomic disasters. I use a kinesis advantage pro now.

3. Mild exercise like yoga or cycling.

4. xwrits to take frequent typing breaks.
Relatedly: http://www.myvidster.com/video/600891/Video_of_TSA_Screener_...
You get a pretty decent radiation dose from flying around high in the atmosphere too. From what I have read the crossover point where you absorb more x-ray radiation in the flight than the scanners is about an hour and a half.

See here for a bunch of things to read (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backscatter_X-ray#Health_effect...). According to this page, 42 minutes of ordinary living is sufficient to give you a similar dose of ionizing radiation compared to the backscatter machines. It's certainly possible that the FDA is lying to us, but it seems more likely that these machines are indeed harmless. Sounds to me like the people saying "I avoid things until I'm sure they don't cause cancer" are throwing science to the wind and embracing a line of thought they wouldn't if they didn't already have some other reason for opposition.
does anyone have some hard evidence that the MWBS is a cancer risk?

Ordinarily I'd (enthusiastically) go along with the standard that this implies: until proven otherwise, you ought to be able to do what you want with your body (and maybe even after it's proven unhealthy).

This situation is different. Because the crucial element of personal choice has been removed, the burden of proof must shift 180 degrees. It is incumbent on those forcing the test on us to prove beyond any reasonable doubt that there's no danger involved. And when there may be dangers (as with the woman in the OP who had been told to avoid X-rays), it's also responsibility of the authorities to provide work-arounds.

EDIT: fixed "healthy" in 1st para to "unhealthy" -- oops.
I don't personally prefer to subscribe to the "it's the user's fault" school of UI design. While sometimes a problem is the user's fault, it's not an auspicious starting position.

If a UI design presents a slot or button or knob to an inexperienced user, then you should expect it's going to occasionally going to get poked at. Humans are an inquisitive lot, after all.

And if some unique and irrevocable things happen that's also specific to your device, then you're going to lead an inquisitive user to have a problem. Particularly if the slot is commonly used for transferring data in and out of other similar devices.

Most folks don't encounter and don't poke at RAID disk arrays. Most folks do shuffle files and pictures in and out of handhelds and laptops and cameras via SD. If you're aiming for the former audience and your product happens to be bought in droves by the latter (and as is increasingly arising with SOHO and consumer-facing RAID devices, for that matter), you've missed your target product audience, and you're going to have product acceptance problems.

Worse for WP7, this particular case likely arises among the more inquisitive members of your target audience, and this is likely also the same group that can be your early adopters and your best proponents.
"One customer at a time" is a good advice, however at some point you need to consider things like new customer acquisition price and operational costs vs your sales.

Otherwise I can build paid YouTube clone and spend millions on adwords to get few paid customers. So what?

Thanks for checking videolla.com btw! You can contact me at vlad (a) videolla.com re my service.
Someone wrote a criticism of the chip&pin system a while ago. I don't remember the link, but they were arguing that this system also had serious security flaws. The most memorable one was that while before people who held you up for your ATM card and PIN had to physically go to an actual ATM to see if the PIN you gave them worked, now they can get to work on you with a pair of pliers and a blowtorch until the card reader says "Pin OK" without risk of revealing themselves to an ATM camera. They claimed that this has already happened.
Would it be possible to crank up the radiation (intensity or hardness) to peer deeper into the body?
Maybe I am missing something here, but I do not really see the scandal here with the "leak" and I rather think the term is missleading in this context.

What happened?

As far as I understand, there are companies who search the web for public data of people like me, without my consent.

Then they sell that data. Also without my consent.

So that data was avaiable anyway, allmost for free.
If this data would contain sensitive information, then I see this buisness practice as a scandal.

But the mere fact that all this data which was gathered without consent is now avaiable for free because of possible db missconfiguration .. is not a scandal to me.

And a leak is usually when a company loses sensitive data of its customers, who expected that data to remain confident, like emails.
Not what happened here.
Feels more like PR.
I've recently become a fan of expect-lite[1], which has a much simpler syntax.

Here are some examples:

Check the IP address of the localhost

>ifconfig
<192\.168\.1\.1
>ip -6 addr show
<2001:db8::f00d

ssh to a remote host

>ssh root@host-021
<assword:
>>secret_password
# issue a command once logged in
>ls
>exit

[1] - http://expect-lite.sourceforge.net/
remember: corporations are abstractions, they aren’t real. human beings are going to do the work and be paid for it, corporations are simply a useful model for how we allocate the profits.

there’s nothing wrong or fake about building a company and a product to take on more risk/freedom with the intent of selling it to someone for whom it would be valuable later. it also probably pays a lot better, considering the increased risk of failure and better negotiating position if you invent and produce something truly groundbreaking.

this is how silicon valley has worked for decades.
Is there a place for people passionated but disinterested ? the mental burden of company structures forbids me to work there, but even if I do another job, I keep reading about combinatorics, trees and grammars on the side .. it's just an innate need I always had even as a small child (obviously not the combinatorics of grammatical structures .. just comtemplating and thinking about abstract ideas)
I don't follow here. PIA is a paid third party VPN. So you're advocating to use one just like this, but not PIA?
I certainly have this problem with 1080p (or 4k at 2x, which is similar in screen area to content ratio at the same monitor size). But for me I don't have the same problem at 1440p (and I guess if I had one, 5k at 2x).

When I was younger I used to turn the font size way down to make two across work in 900p, but these days I stick to more comfortable font sizes.