skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe using something like Fit Day to help track your diet, and how you feel could help. http://www.fitday.com/ I believe they have nice graphs and things that you can use to see patterns.
I'd be happy to correspond with you privately, if you think I could help.
It kill people in months to a year. Considering its happend for a while to him...it makes me wonder if you know anything about C-J or you read his blog post...
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Another way to look at it, though, is that they're avoiding optimization by proxy, by allowing human discretion in all their decisions. http://lesswrong.com/lw/28r/is_google_paperclipping_the_web_...

Humans are fallible, and so you'll get false positives (and negatives) for what, in retrospect, seem like very bad reasons. However, the one thing you won't get are superstimuli—apps that the approval "algorithm" loves but people hate—because there are people inside the algorithm.
works great on my iPad.
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>The date stamps on my photos are all over the goddamn place, because my camera tends to forget the date when I leave it turned off.

Erm... to me that says they fished pictures from different time periods. You#d think one camera - they#d all have the same inconsistant wrong date. Plus, I think one of the commenters who also owns the same camera has said the date doesn't* reset.
I wish pg was my Dad.
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> Is it difficult to write a few words that show you have taken the time to visit our website and understand the job description?

As another commenter noted, yes, it's far too draining to research a company and manufacture a B.S. cover letter. Look, we're professionals here. I applied to your position because it looks like a good fit for my skills. I'm sorry that you have to dig through others who spammed you with unrelated email, but that's really not my problem. Do you want you corporate ego stroked, or do you want a qualified applicant who will make you money?

Regarding the $1, all I can say is, "wow." I wouldn't touch that Craigslist posting with a ten foot pole. I would also immediately flag it as a scam. It reminds me an awful lot of the "job placement" companies I saw crop up back in the Tech Bubble Crash, who promised you access to thousands of jobs if you just pay their subscription fee. I really dislike companies which prey on the unemployed and desperate.
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if i were currently an undergrad, i wouldn't want to pull that thing out in a lecture. i don't know if i could even fit it, given some of the tight seating in the lecture halls i went to. everyone uses a laptop or notepad for note taking and that's about as much space as they can afford. i definitely think they should come out with a smaller form factor.

the other issue is pricing. this device has to significantly beat the price of used textbooks.
1) How big a startup is this; two full time engineers giving up their jobs at Apple, or two undergrads doing a summer project?

2) Your talking about a board already, but you just met this guy. Are you already funded?
Psychotherapy is very different to psychology. Psychotherapy is much more old school, classic conversational therapy as derived from Freud. Here in the UK (but much less so in the US) it has a poor reputation as unscientific and with weak research evidence. Psychology is generally a more experimentally driven, more science based approach, and shouldn't be lumped in the same category. Essentially, psychological treatment can help when psychotherapy has not; all the same this appears to be physiological rather than mental.
If I could only be as great a sucker as Zynga...

That said, it makes more sense, to me, to suggest that each business perform a cost/benefit analysis for every platform they use, and quantify risks.

1. For some business categories, such as games, you will be on a platform. Perform cost/benefit analysis for your market. Does flash make sense? Does ActiveX? What are your risks, and what are your benefits? (Some would suggest the game market itself is for suckers.)

2. Many platforms, such as Facebook, are glorified advertizing and lead generation. Do not create for these platforms, but rather advertize through it. The best example to me is PopCap Games, which directs people to their casual games through their flash games.

3. The further you wish to push the envelope, the more risk a platform entails. Porn? Be as independent as possible. Corporate apps? .NET is not your worry point.
Note that the author of the blog post apparently works for karmabond, so I'd classify this almost as a devious advertisement for their escrow services, or whatever it is they do.

In any case, regarding the gist of the article, let me explain how job seeking works as a job seeker:

I send custom cover letters to each and every company that I apply to. This take at least an hour and often much longer per company: I read about the company, executive bios, executive bios on crunchbase, scan techcrunch articles, check glassdoor, google the company a bit, see what job I think I'd be interested in, etc. I then write a custom cover letter explaining my background as it pertains to their job and why I think I'd be a good fit for them.

When this works, it works well. On the other hand, I'd say 75 percent or more of phone screens clearly couldn't be arsed to read my cover letter before getting on the phone with me. If it's too much bother to read one page of text about a candidate before getting on the phone with me, then I'm not interested. Sorry. On the other hand, when deciding between offers a couple years ago, the fact that the person on the phone had read my cover letter and thought about what I said helped tip the balance in favor of Scribd.

ps -- netflix recruiters? The reason I'm ignoring your calls now is when I sent you a well thought out cover letter 2 years ago, you couldn't even be bothered to email back. People remember.

So when Alex whines that applicants don't send custom cover letters, well, the reason is simple: too much work since the vast majority of employers don't bother to read them. He apparently doesn't understand that job seekers have finite time and job searching is a triage process -- where can I aply that I will like the most with the highest probability of succeeding. So yes, it is difficult to invest a couple hours per company and even if you do, in the majority of cases, you will never hear back. Not even a simple, "Thanks for applying, we received your application, but we don't think you're a good fit at this time" email.

As for sending $1 to some website I've never heard of, hah. Alex must be out of his mind to think people would do that.
not entirely true, although i think you are being a little facetious. this device seems a lot more open in general (use of flash for example).
i once got a gps with windows CE. i tried to develope a small utility program. it took me a couple days just to figure out the windows CE type i had there.
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There's actually plenty of precedent for scripting/interpreted languages being perfectly acceptable. Many emulators have been approved, as have games using Torque and Unity. And it's certain that plenty of games on the App Store are using Lua.
I had the exact same thought. This sounds very much like chronic Lyme Disease.

Please see this http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=868325 as well, for someone else who sounds like he went through almost exactly the same thing as you.

Here's a quote from wikipedia:

"Up to one third of Lyme disease patients who have completed a course of antibiotic treatment continue to have symptoms such as severe fatigue, sleep disturbance, and cognitive difficulties, with these symptoms being severe in about 2% of cases."
If I had your symptoms, this is absolutely the first thing I would do:

http://drfuhrman.com/ask/default.aspx

He makes it easy to get started by email & phone. Then, as needed, he's only an hour flight or an 8 hour drive from you.

He has an incredible track record helping 10,000 people with all kinds of problems who hadn't found relief any other way. As an M.D., he can adjust your drug regimen and as a natural healer, he won't be afraid to explore other possibilities often missed by other physicians. Who knows, maybe you could be Number 10,001. Definitely worth checking out.
Drop the hardware, write an iPad app. They do some very cool things with the software that neither the kindle nor Apples book reader app satisfies. But when it comes down to how to spend the money, $1000 on one Kno or two iPads, there isn't enough of a value add on for the Kno. In fact, the iPad has more features and a better form factor.

Kno is about a year late for their hardware, but their software could work as an iPad app.
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At this rate they might be our only hope.
beautiful app. bought, admired, and getting all nostalgic (I used to be a concert violinist but I stopped playing about 8 years ago)
They've re-identified a niche. The "I wanna customize my shit, even if it makes it ghetto" - ala MySpace set.

(Except those users don't think they're making a mess of their ability to customize... they think they're expressing themselves, yo).
Oh, now this will make a real nice citation graph to play with.
You simply do not understand REST. At all.

Caring about what URLs look like is at best irrelevant, but normally extremely counterproductive to actual RESTful implementation. If you're building URL strings to make requests (save for get-based forms) anywhere in any of your clients, you're doing it wrong. Wanking about pretty URLs just encourages you to go in the wrong direction.

In true REST, URLs are opaque identifiers. They might as well be UUIDs. The only way you're supposed to get one to request is in a response from the server.

Hypertext. Is. The. Engine. Of. Application. State.
As several others have pointed out, the study in this article, as described, is methodologically flawed. Regardless, what they were attempting to show has been established extensively by R. F. Baumeister of Florida State. A good review of the literature is available from Gailliot and Baumeister (2007): http://scholar.google.com/scholar?cluster=120307599830563549...

The abstract:

"Past research indicates that self-control relies on some sort of limited energy source. This review suggests that blood glucose is one important part of the energy source of self-control. Acts of self-control deplete relatively large amounts of glucose. Self-control failures are more likely when glucose is low or cannot be mobilized effectively to the brain (i.e., when insulin is low or insensitive). Restoring glucose to a sufficient level typically improves self-control. Numerous self-control behaviors fit this pattern, including controlling attention, regulating emotions, quitting smoking, coping with stress, resisting impulsivity, and refraining from criminal and aggressive behavior. Alcohol reduces glucose throughout the brain and body and likewise impairs many forms of self-control. Furthermore, self-control failure is most likely during times of the day when glucose is used least effectively. Self-control thus appears highly susceptible to glucose. Self-control benefits numerous social and interpersonal processes. Glucose might therefore be related to a broad range of social behavior."
He may be acting a bit facetious but as someone who really doesn't see the point of an ipad at this point in time 2 ipads seems like a much better deal than this hunk of hardware.
Of course it depends what you're trying to do. I'm pretty sure that numpy/scipy have a lot more overhead than Matlab for everything that _isn't_ just a blas/lapack call, but I don't have the numbers to back it up.

I do know that I tried rewriting one of my C++ codes using scipy/numpy and it was about a hundred times slower for that particular task (which did happen to involve very large matrices, approaching the limits of memory).
Considering how Gizmodo basically stole the spotlight out of the new iPhone announcement (the highlight of Steve's keynote) and wrote petulant "we have your phone, you want it back?" emails to him, I'm not surprised how Jobs has a vendetta against Gizmodo.
My friend... I sent you an email as well... you need to start by eating REAL FOOD. Food that you can eat right off a tree. Animal parts that are whole and grown organically.

This is such an easy thing to do. Just take one trip to the grocery store and don't buy anything with nutrition label on it (all organic food).

It sounds like it is worth a try for you...
The medical field is great at solving simple or common ailments, not so good at more complex diagnoses.

I always found it amazing that we even use medical professionals for this, an expert system with a medical assistant would be much superior to the current, for most cases, and I remember being told it has been proven so.

However, some cases are just bizarre, that they haven't come up before, or are mostly in someones head, for which there is very little anyone can do. Unless you are rich.
That's actually pretty cool that the guy is making $2500 a month on Android.
Where's google on that list?
Hey HN: I'm proud of this CSS3 CL Jobs Post, check it out
I was browsing the typically ugly posted-by-a-recruiter Craigslist job postings, and thought to myself "I'm sure I can do better." So, I hand-coded the above. I'm interested in improvements, hit me with them. One beef is that the preview box on CL is grey (like HN's box), but the site shows white -- I forgot that, and had coded a nice white rounded pull-out box for the listing which gets lost on view.<p>Craigslist doesn't document what's allowed, and what's not, but I have this theory that a lot of the CSS3 stuff isn't well filtered by their system.<p>This is all CSS3, no images. Any other good ideas?<p>Also, we're hiring a developer in Seattle: PHP, Javascript, HTML5. You can read more about it in the listing.
This is pretty cool.

I tried to do something similar in high school with some friends. We tried to make a lego robot that would draw like a hand does (not like a line printer). The difference in velocity between a drawing and raised marker created too much error for our robot, but we probably could have fixed this if we had spent more time tweaking variables.
One has to tell these cliche-lovers that the age of pocket protectors are long gone. Not only that, they symbolized (along with slide rulers) properties that are opposite of "nerdy" nowadays. Those 60s people were uniformed engineers with their ties and all. Today's nerds question the system and are misfits.

It's amazing how the nerd stereotype has changed over the years.
Exactly. This is also why programming is the only adult professional skill which is regularly self-taught by, say, nine-year-olds.
So have they tested your Iodine levels?

My dad had similar issues and slowly progressing over about a 18 year span. His thyroid grew large and his health issues worse and worse. (He noticed while looking at a family picture that was 12 years old at the time, where which his adam's apple was small and became large).

It was a slow process for that to happen, but one thing he found to help with his chronic fatigue was to make sure he always had the right amount of iodine in his system, which is due to his thyroid problem. To this day he puts iodine directly on to his arm or leg and makes sure he gets the correct amount, otherwise he is sick. He does that 3-4 times a day. As with your problem, doctors were completely unable to help them and most seemed to not take great care with trying to understand what is really happening and instead focusing on symptoms.
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Well, he did say that the app gets returned 27% of the time on Android, which certainly doesn't help (he guessed a large number of the returns are because the user pirated the app and returned it).
To explain:

I was browsing the typically ugly posted-by-a-recruiter Craigslist job postings, and thought to myself "I'm sure I can do better." So, I hand-coded the above. I'm interested in improvements, hit me with them. One beef is that the preview box on CL is grey (like HN's box), but the site shows white -- I forgot that, and had coded a nice white rounded pull-out box for the listing which gets lost on view.

Craigslist doesn't document what's allowed, and what's not, but I have this theory that a lot of the CSS3 stuff isn't well filtered by their system.

This is all CSS3, no images. Any other good ideas?

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Also, we're hiring a developer in Seattle: PHP, Javascript, HTML5. You can read more about it in the listing.
is there a video of this iPad app somewhere? I just tried searching on youtube but couldn't find anything.
I don't understand how this variable pricing thing is going to work. Will raising the price really make people give up looking for parking and go home?

It seems to me that once you've gotten in your car and driven to your destination, you're pretty much committed to parking there. How high do the prices need to be in order to keep you from parking at that point?

And how many pieces will the meter be smashed into as a result of the rage that these prices induce?
"The prevailing thinking here is that most trade agreements are a set-up by rich countries. Until agriculture is fixed in the WTO, our best strategy is to bomb any trade agreement."

i have to kind of agree with that. I remember the case of Bastmati rice in India. It has been grown in India for yonks without any patents or any IP. Suddenly there were companies from the west patenting Basmati (under the name Kasmati) and trying to prevent indian farmers from growing Bastmati. Ofcourse it didnt hold for long but was a clear less then for India. Same happend to the "neem" tree/plant.

Glad to see India stand up against some of the hypocratic regulations imposed on it.

Disclaimer: I am originally from India.
Mash live parking data against Google Maps? Yes please. I willingly hand over whatever increase in parking rates you want.
Google said that the list excludes, "adult sites, ad networks, domains that don't have publicly visible content or don't load properly, and certain Google sites".

See: http://www.google.com/support/adplanner/bin/answer.py?hl=en&...
>The majority of any engineering or maths curriculum is available on Wikipedia and mathworld in great detail.

I'd love to believe that someone could do this, but I haven't seen it happen. Most of the course-like learning I've been able to do "online" has been because some professor was nice enough to put a pdf of their textbook on their university page.

That said, I've created a subreddit specifically for people who want to read long articles that teach them something important. http://www.reddit.com/r/learnit/
FWIW, my father has reasonably serious celiac disease and has not experienced those two (admittedly common) symptoms.
In passing, the (Palo Alto) Daily News, which does not put its content online but is a legit newspaper, reports that Chen's computer gear has been transferred to the FBI's computer forensics lab in Menlo Park:

http://sfppc.blogspot.com/2010/06/gizmodo-editors-computers-...
I'm making about $30/month on Android... damnit
I imagine they'll put a ceiling on the price, but no floor. But if not, at the margin people will choose other means to travel at busy parking times because they know -- at least after the first trip -- that they will be charged $50/hour on the fourth of July. Also, people may choose to leave the city more quickly if the parking price is high. If demand for parking remains consistently high, this may also make it more feasible to build larger parking structures or improve the ones that already exist. Also, the higher prevailing prices for streetside parking may bring other players into the game (like hotels or office buildings) that had before not seen the economic advantage to opening their parking to non-tenants.

It's not as though people only become economic participants in the parking market when they arrive; they make the choice to participate when they choose to leave the house and when they choose to stay in the city for four hours rather than two.

Regarding the smashed meter problem, it should be a simple matter to add cameras to the devices.
Parent is referring to the television show House, M.D. where there's a temptation to diagnose any strange illness as lupus.

That's actually a valid point, as it's too easy to lump any sort of undiagnosed, chronic-like illness into lupus. Nonetheless, it never hurts to check as there's a fairly simple test for it that could be used along side a different diagnosis. Lupus, however, is rare and is 10x more likely to occur in women than in men so I wouldn't be surprised if it's under-diagnosed.

Note, Lupus is also just one of auto-immune disorders. Somebody else had also suggested that the poster could be suffering from an auto-immune disorder.
What about painting? Or any art form?
http://www.youtube.com/watch#!v=JJVsoLcdGMY&feature=rela...
Surely both pocket protectors, which emphasize practicality over looks, and slide rules, an elegant tool for mathematical operations, ought to count as nerdy.
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I think it's better to accept that the pocket protector has entered the language as the achetypal symbol of nerdiness, and will remain that way long after the last person who ever wore an actual pocket protector has died.

Don't get too excited about the idea that nerds are "misfits challenging the system", either. Everybody is a misfit challenging the system nowadays, it's the new conformity.
It doesn't matter if you really downloaded a movie in this case or not. In the US the lawsuit handling costs are likely >= the requested fine. Even if you're right, you've lost. They would have to prove something only if you wanted to challenge their claim.
Lemme go watch these on my iPad....oh wait...they're all flash...

In all seriousness, his whole explanation on Flash is one I wish he had given originally. It's simple, makes sense, pragmatic, etc. Miles better than "thoughts on Flash".
You could very well be correct, I am trying to remember something I heard second hand a couple of years ago. But I emailed my relative who went through all this to find out exactly what happened. And I am pretty sure they have both Hashimoto's and Lupus, it was just that Hashimoto's made it more difficult to detect Lupus.
Indeed, pocket protectors were very nerdy. They died out not because nerds stopped being nerdy, but because nerds became so slobby that they no longer wore shirts with pockets.
What is your average comment score? Any exception for your account? I don't think there needs to be one, just curious.
Just wanted to second this -- my father has lupus, and shares many of your symptoms including the severe fatigue compounded by exposure to sunlight.

I wish you luck in getting to the bottom of this...
On the other hand, when deciding between offers a couple years ago, the fact that the person on the phone had read my cover letter and thought about what I said helped tip the balance in favor of Scribd

Scribd has at least one really, really fabulous recruiter. They didn't hire me, but not for that reason (and their reasons were good, at the time).
I usually search the web for Android apps anyways. It's just faster than hunting through a store.
Hmm, good point. Painting is, likewise, a field where it's easy to try new things and figure out on your own whether they work or not.
My mother regularly tells me how much she loves the Bing photos and how she's looking forward to "what will they put up next." She was asking yesterday how long it would be before Google did the same. Now we know...
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Switching to Bing for pretty photos also significantly impacts Google search behavior.

Also, if the photo is user-configured rather than changing every day, it can be cached.