skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Having taught 8th graders programming in Scratch and now building an introductory curriculum for high school freshmen with it, I can say that Scratch does an incredible job of honing in on the major algorithmic and data-based abstractions without having to worry about students comfort level with typing or even how much exposure they've had to computing at all. It also makes these concepts very visual, which serves as great reference once you start working with text based code. I'm a huge, huge fan.
>You're entirely right about that specific case.

In fact, this is the only case that matters. All other (valid) cases can be reduced to a single, null hypothesis design.

p-value is undefined for hypotheses that are not a null hypothesis. It is also undefined for hypotheses which do not hold.

Sure, you can walk through the motions, put some numbers together, and eventually produce a number between 0 and 1. However that does not mean you have computed a p-value. If you are testing a non-null hypothesis you have not computed a p-value. If you are testing a null hypothesis that doesn't hold, you have not computed a p-value.
Fisher-Price+Woodland+Friends+3-in-1+Musical+Mobile+-+Crib+Toys
You can also use the voice from html5 but support is really shoddipy and buggy. Safari provided all the voices. Chrome not so much.

http://greggman.github.io/text2speech/

There's also some singing like voices.
With a two way dotted arrow, obviously.
Telemetry, Now on Windows 7 and 8
The Rise and Fall of CORBA (2006)
> my once-firm muscles melted away by cancer

A less-known side of Sacks: he held the California state record for a 600 lb squat in his younger years.
Unless your comment also applies to novels and films I suspect you haven't got a clear idea about what games are.
Gene FTO, gene variant rs1421085

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25074273

https://www.23andme.com/you/explorer/snp/?snp_name=rs1421085
https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl

1. right-click -> "Copy Link Location"
2. middle click to paste the link into you shell
3. run "youtube-dl" on the URL(s)
4. watch the videos in whatever video player you want

One of these days I should make a quick firefox extension that adds a context-menu option to collapse it down to one step.

You will have to update youtube-dl every time (see the "-U" option) Google decides to change the obfuscation. Also, you may want to try the --list-extractors and --extractor-descriptions options, to see the long list of sites that are supported, which includes support for things like youtube playlists searches.
Try telling your logic to all the idiots who want cycling infrastructure here in Australia. You need the right population density for it to be effective
Man vs. Machine: Exploring the Epic Chess Match of Our Time [video]
Human Collaboration Powers the Internet
Same, just outside Phila.
Its a web browser. Its suppose to be used to view web sites! Its not a chat client, or a game!
Fundamental Flaws of Qubit Concept for General-Purpose Quantum Computing [pdf]
The old days weren't that great. Today there is SparkFun, https://learn.sparkfun.com/tutorials, which is like 1000x what Radio Shack ever was in terms of Hobby Electronics. And there are hundreds of other sites focusing on Raspberry Pi and Arduino, and then there's the Lego Mindstorm stuff...

The issue today is there are too many choices, so it's a struggle to start. Pick something and go with it. Back in the day, there was very little to choose from! Depending on where you live, there may be hacker/maker spaces nearby with people to help you get started. If there isn't, there's most assuredly Ham Radio people that would love to build stuff with you.
Psychology Is Starting to Deal with Its Replication Problem
> I can only hope that your family member is fairly old, it's a heartbreaking disease for someone young.

It's a heartbreaking disease, period, no matter who it targets.

I hope the OP's relative has success with treatment, regardless of age. Nobody deserves to die.
No,

Its much easier to chose what to install from an app store. If you click on the wrong link, or if you receive malvertising, boom! vulnerabilities in this could cause your phone to be infected.
Hack: a typeface designed for source code
The End of Shorter Hours (1984) [pdf]
The facts of that study brushed aside: the participants diet was based on potatoes, rutabagas, turnips, bread and macaroni. Notice, not enough protein to maintain lean body mass. This is a bad idea.

Also, over 24 weeks the group lost 25% of their body mass.

Look at pictures of the participants: http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-25782294 These look like frail bodys that, indeed, can sustain on 1600 calories per day, which explains slowed weight loss.

If you're an individual looking at how to seriously lose fat and recompose your body, don't look at popular media, but look at those with vested interest in effective results. E.g. athletic trainers in sports where weight management is a key point of the sport, like bodybuilding, wrestling, MMA, powerlifting. The science is quite clear, you just have to figure out how to filter out popular articles. (Lyle McDonald's site is a great start.)

Calorie restriction, with adequate protein intake, works. Also, any diet or lifestyle change that works creates a caloric deficit, and will also work if you count this deficit.
I believe that's a paraphrase of the quote "Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels" by the model Kate Moss
Show Server Stats in the Today Sidebar with Today-Scripts and Glimpse
discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10140728
The patent mentioned in the references of the paper is also interesting.

Quantum Computing Circuits

US 20130057314 A1

http://www.google.com/patents/US20130057314
Rural Chemistry: Dick's Encylopedia of Practical Recipes (1872)
Show HN: Please give feedback: usability, template and content
Funny, I stumble upon this documentary while I'm reading http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2010/feb/11/the-che... - which I highly recommend.
CODER USES 23ANDME TO DENY WEBSITE ACCESS BASED ON GENETIC MAKEUP
Some will answer little, others with answer a lot, yet others 'it depends'. And all can be happy or complete unhappy with that scenario. Sorry to be negative here. Even if this was a poll (and polls on such a small demographic don't work) all you'll get is anecdotes.
My wife has been failing to lose weight for several months, she is literally weighing everything she eats and recording calories (~1200/day), plus doing a several hours of quite intense exercise (stairs, etc) per week yet has hit a plateau for well over a month - any advice, things to read? (Note: she "can't" do low carb, which I personally recommend.)
Cost Decreasing Software Architecture
I've written article that I thought might be of interest to startups. Especially those doing new product development (in contrast to maintenance or legacy system work). Though maybe for YC, the theme of this article might be preaching to choir. Let me know what you think.
Fry's Electronics filled this role rather amazingly back in the '80s (before they transformed themselves into the low-end version of Best Buy that they seem to be today).
Mount McKinley Will Again Be Called Denali
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26270431

http://www.ccjm.org/cgi/doi/10.3949/ccjm.82a.14054

>ABSTRACT

>Electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes)—devices that generate a nicotine
vapor that can be inhaled by the user in a fashion that mimics the
experience of smoking—are increasing in popularity, and many people
seem to view them as reasonable alternatives to nicotine replacement
therapy to help them refrain from smoking. Physicians should not
encourage such a view. E-cigarettes are unregulated nicotine delivery
systems that have never been subjected to any kind of testing of safety
or of efficacy as nicotine replacement therapy. Moreover, for young
people who have never smoked, these devices could potentially serve as
a gateway drug.
You also need that module to do per URI/path/regex match headers properly, because add_header + location blocks are woefully insufficient thanks to the way they are processed. This is one reason I gave up on CSP under nginx.
I think you posted this because pasting the OP results in a syntax error. The problem is actually the list in the compound command needs to be terminated with a newline or semicolon. Both of the following are equivalent correct oneliners:

clip() { [ -t 0 ] && pbpaste || pbcopy;}

function clip { [ -t 0 ] && pbpaste || pbcopy;}
Not only privacy concerns, but for an enterprise, security concerns. I see this as potentially another mechanism for APT exploitation
Common-sense disclaimer: Anything food- or personal product- related should be pressumed toxic until verified otherwise by a modern source.
"A serious alternative to the $100,000 four-year college degree wouldn’t even need to be accredited—it would merely need to teach students the skills that startups are desperate for, and that universities couldn’t care less about."

- because everyone should be training to work for a startup?

- why not hire passionate people and train them if university trains them badly? Sounds like people are trying to find perfect developers and of course the competition for those is huge.
> There are a ton of people previously diagnosed with Asperger's who lead happy, productive lives.

Who said being diagnosed with Aspergers meant you didn't have a happy, productive life? A disease doesn't mean you're debilitated.
That is in fact my working solution. The disadvantage over VLC is that you've got the videos sitting on disk, sucking space, while VLC will queue and buffer videos.

Depending on what you're watching, youtube-dl can suck up a lot of space.

Mind the -F and -f options -- these list and select video quality. I find '43' for YouTube (640x360) is usually sufficient for instructional materials (lectures/presentations).
The Voice of Siri
Yes! And same--the THINK IDEs spoiled me.
I have gotten these unsolicited report emails myself after creating a kid account in Windows 8.1, so I know it is not exclusive to Windows 10. Perhaps it is just something that is active by default for "new" kid accounts, and upgrading Windows triggers the same thing.
I know lots from around the world from bag tracking, asset tracking, trucks or local routing because those are a typical use case for geocoding we offer[1], but haven't seen an open source system yet.

I assume you mean software like this http://gps-server.net/features who offer a whitelabel solution for resale.

[1] http://geocoder.opencagedata.com/
What Miley Cyrus will look like in 80 years
Why the caps?
It is a part of an excellent book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_Who_Mistook_His_Wife_f...
which is recommended for anyone who is interested in how the brains work.

Interestingly enough, the article above links to Blindsight book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blindsight_(Watts_novel)
which is also excellent and discusses somewhat related topics, though in a fictional setting.
It's a little strange to call yourself "highly portable" when you only support three unix-like platforms and even exclude some popular BSD variants.
They're in a maintenance window. The website uses Flash, the download uses Adobe Air.
Well done, this was pretty neat.

Nearly all real-estate walk-throughs, but found a couple of neat things after wading through those.
Anyone happen to know how he's getting archey output to be colour for the Apple logo? my iTerm and Terminal is just in white/black.
I can't stand the Hack 'i'. It's awful.
If you've ruled out what is (imo) likely to be the most effective method, I'm not sure what results you expect. As gp suggested, you all should start with McDonald's book _The Ketogenic Diet_. I'm not saying it's gospel, but it's a start and it's one of the diets used by strength sports to control weight. There's lots and lots of arguing over this, but it's hard to dispute that many athletes use the ketogenic or similar diets to lose anywhere from 10 to 30 lbs of fat relatively quickly.

http://www.bodyrecomposition.com/the-ketogenic-diet/
(original poster here)

I need to research my daughter's curriculum in detail, and see when they get to e.g. variables and loops.
NON-POLITICS: what I'm used to

POLITICS: anything I'm not used to

I mean, you just said "I literally didn't read this past the first sentence but I commented anyway." That's not helpful posting per the rules.
Counting calories is hard indeed, but doable. With a good calorie logging app[1], you should be able to look up how many calories any food you're eating is likely to have. It doesn't have to be exact, just in the ballpark; it's really the fact that you're logging at all that keeps your intake in check.

And after a while it becomes a lot easier, because you'll get pretty good at estimating how much calories something has. (That omelette I got at that french restaurant? Probably 700 calories, since it was really cheesy... etc.) Plus, you're just as likely to overestimate calories as underestimate, so over the course of a given week any inaccuracies probably even out.

I lost 50lbs by counting calories years ago. It took me a year to drop all of them, but I've mostly kept it off for 2 years more. ("Mostly" because I stopped counting several months ago and gained about 10 lbs since my lowest level, so I'm counting calories again and am back down to +5 or so from my lowest and dropping.)

[1] "Lose It!" is my favorite, but I've heard good things about MyFitnessPal, which has a crowdsourced calorie database. For any food with a barcode you can just scan it, and there's a huge database of restaurant foods, as well as estimated calorie amounts for anything you're likely to cook.
This is why I love the javascript that allows me to collapse threads.
The original article has a bit more discussion: http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2015-07/22/23andme-api-b...
Hopefully the UK will serve as an example. I think Microsoft and Google explicitly backing the project helped a lot.
Good for you, random internet person, good for you.

Do you think the disease model implies more some kind of genetic/environmental slant, as opposed to a 'weak character'. I think what the disease model is putting forward is that something outside of your control led to your addiction rather than something you're supposedly meant to have control over, that is to say your decisions and will.

Thanks for posting this.

edit: And I just remembered, the clinical/medical label used is actually "illness", not disease...
Full disclosure - I develop in Meteor and like it.

When I'm choosing to be involved with something, I always look to the people I'll have to engage with. It's very much a date.

For a programming framework, it would be the dev community around it. First I see if there is a community forming, that's a really good indicator if the technology is good and if it's here to stay. Then I start building a small app with the technology and interacting with people in the community online and offline. If the technology is meeting my needs and the community members are pleasant and helpful then I'll commit.

Not being able to use NPM modules directly is kind of a bummer, but they can be ported to Meteor Packages.

Looking through Feathers, it does not seem very beginner friendly and there is a lot of configurations needed. I believe one of the reason Meteor gained a lot of traction because it was extremely beginner friendly. As I developed more Meteor apps I have also been able to utilize advance features as well. There was something for everyone.

With regard to the funding, I think that is a good thing. Big name investors won't invest in something they don't think will be at least 10x better than what currently exist. If something is that much better there will definitely be a way to make money without compromising the product. Google is a great example. They display ads based on your search history. If I'm looking to buy some shoes, I wouldn't mind ads about shoe promotions. I believe the lead investor is A16Z and Marc Andressen cofounded Netscape, so I have confidence in them.

Competition is great none the less, so I hope Feathers pressures Meteor to constantly be better.

Here is an example project I'm working on if you need some insight to Meteor's capabilities. It's MATLAB in the cloud, so you could share Fiddles and build APIs that need computational capabilities:
https://SaturnAPI.com
As mentioned, it's a remnant ad network. As for why they're doing it, well, look in a mirror. Advertising has turned, as the saying goes, print dollars into online nickels. If you wish to have free online content, something has to pay the bills.
Part of the article actually uses this as in exact example of how brains are different from computers. Granted, it's from 1983.

The man in question essentially missed the forest for the trees - unable to perform any visual abstraction or familiarity, while still having strong abilities to identify the individual features of an object.

At the end of the day, brains are, indeed quite different from computers. The closest things that I'm aware of are neural nets, which can be subject to biases and confusion in a similar way to human brains - rather than a CPU.
Organized and Structured JavaScript Animations
Islamic State attacks another ancient temple in Palmyra
Live streaming video to a web browser without the use of flash. Peer-to-peer video chat is just one application.
did that
thanks
I watched a documentary that talked about the Minnesota experiment and plateaus were also common despite the fact that participants were being fed insufficient calories. They had weird issues with their bodies like edema in their feet. Eventually, they found out that having a large meal occasionally would cause them to break through the plateau for reasons I forget.
He also had a collection of every atomic element. That's no small accomplishment.
I've documented many of these utilities here:
http://ss64.com/osx/
In my universe, the beginning of accessible homebrew computing was Don Lancaster's TTL-based TV Typewriter and his "TV Typewriter Cookbook". This first lit the spark for me:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV_Typewriter
I don't know what places you frequent. I spent some time in areas where the places I was going the food was clearly labeled

What was eye opening for me was just how little 2000 calories is. We've gotten so used to large portions that an actual day of 2000 calories takes a while to get used to.

Examples: take a single donut, 400 calories. And that's for a "normal" size not the giant 8 inch cinnamon role donuts you see at most places in the USA selling donuts. Same with muffins / cupcakes. Yes I know that's junk food but I see so many coworkers eating them every morning and the odds of them staying under 2000k for that day are close to zero.

A sandwich on square bread, the old standard size, is 500-600 minimum but most sandwiches in the USA are on rectangular bread 1.5x the size of square slices which means the sandwich is going to be at least 1.5x the calories.

I'd even go so far as to say it's nearly impossible to eat 3 meals and not go over 2k. Obviously it's not impossible, but once you know the calorie counts each meal is going to be pretty small by typical USA standards.
DEAD MAN DANCES IN 711 STORE IN FLORIDA
You are underestimating the "efficiency" the body can pull to use less calories.

I have thyroid disease, and I gain weight easily, I am used to eating little to no food (in the literal sense, because of other problem I have, unrelated to the thyroid disease, I can forget to eat and sometimes don't eat for an entire day or two), people always ask if I am on a diet even when I am just eating what I eat normally, also I love restaurants that charge the food per weight, because it saves me lots of money.

Still I am 130kg right now, and struggling to get any lighter, my body just figured how to be very efficient, for example my temperature is lower than normal (the lowest I measured in a "healthy" day was 35 degrees), the muscles related to walking are stronger than everything else (when I go to the gym, exercises that use those muscles bore me, I can keep using more and more weight until it is dangerous to the integrity of tendons and bones), while all my other muscles are very weak (my little sister can carry weight much more easily than me for example).

And also my body don't "waste" energy maintaining certain parts of it, for example hair (my hair is constantly breaking), nails (they grow slow and shatter easily when I try to trim them), muscles (the only kind of exercise that makes me stronger is very low rep high weight exercises, cardio exercises make me lose lean weight very fast instead).

Also one of the first persons to notice I had a thyroid problem was my dentist, I had a jaw problem that had to be fixed using braces, she noticed the progress speed on my case was odd, my healing speed was weird.

My parents dog accidentally scratched me with her claws two months ago, it was a very superficial thing, I only noticed later (it was not painful when it happened), it still don't healed properly.

Although I am a sort of extreme case (sort of, because there are people with cases that are much worse than mine), I can tell you it is very possible to keep a 100kg body with 2000 cal diet.
how many products are "just a wrapper"? Why deride someone else's hack?
How to win money from btc gambing site? like dice game
satoshidice.com
is there any way to win?? i mean in the long run. not the 1 mins or 2 mins way.
People have to choose priorities. For some it's being slim. For some it's not.
The null hypothesis is where nothing happens. You're supposed to be showing evidence against it. If you redefine things so your "null hypothesis" is where something happens, and you're showing evidence for it, you have done something very very wrong, and you should not be using a .05 threshold either.
Confidence vs. experience
Why not link to the original?

https://petervojtek.github.io/diy/2015/07/28/share-messages-...
Yes, I am skeptical about automatic conflict resolution too. But the project is interesting and uses many right concepts.
Companies that are doing well by doing good
That radio shack existed for about 6 years and then vanished. That said, I really do think such a venture would be reasonably successful. I think in the ideal world it would be combined with a Makerspace (and some have done that).

Back when Fry's had killed off all the shops and had then vacated the space, I put together a business plan for a company I called "Prototype Electronics" which was a mixed use retail/educational shop. With about 8,000 sq ft of space you could build a nice "classroom" type setup and a retail area.

The biggest issue this thing faced was that as a mixed use space it needed some zoning love from most municipalities, the bigger nut though was getting insurance for having meetings on site where people would be using soldering irons. But these days that ground has been plowed with the makerspaces so that landlords are not completely freaked out about it.
Yes that's a good way of putting it. What I've seen around is talk that "measurement of one particle effects the other" and often people use the term "collapse the wave function of the other particle" to articulate this (because they'd heard the term). The fact that the entangled state of the 2 particles is described by the same wave function resolves this.
That was Heathkit. Radio Shack never sold much more than the components.
Since we are on the subject of brain, does anyone know of a good article on how memory is stored and retrieved? I am always intrigued by the biologics of it ... if its purely electrical, how are these charges stored and isolated away from the rest of neuronal activity ... alternatively, what if life has chosen some bizarre quaternary structure of DNA to store the memory ...
As I'm sure you realize, what is admitted, what is observed and what truly is are not necessarily the same.