skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The paper on Nature is much more in-depth, if you're interested.

http://www.nature.com/neuro/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nn.25...

This is actually a somewhat big milestone for acupuncture. It's been historically accused of being snake oil because there was no known mechanism of action. Now there is.

This part of the study is particularly promising:

"Acupuncture combined with pharmacological suppression of AMP deaminase activity should theoretically increase the availability of adenosine and thereby enhance the clinical benefits of acupuncture. As a proof of principle, we found that mice treated with a Food and Drug Administration approved deaminase inhibitor, deoxycoformycin, exhibited more potent increases in adenosine and benefitted from a longer-lasting suppression of chronic pain following acupuncture."
Intel unveils Knights Corner 50 core server chip
Well, if you put that message in a <canvas> tag, IE users won't see it.
Ground-launch is out of the question, that's a given.
Police Scanner Mobile Apps Concern Some Law Enforcement
We already spend approximately $22 million for the NIS (National Immunization Survey), which gives an estimate of the number of children vaccinated. And you think it would cost nothing to track every single child, instead of statistical sampling? Not only whether they were immunized, but track every single ailment for the a significant portion of their lives, and this will cost nothing? And that's not even getting into privacy issues with health records.

Or you could do what the medical establishment has already done. Start with the ailment, and look at the statistics of who has the ailment versus the suspected cause. In this case there's no difference in the rates of autism between vaccinated and unvaccinated children.
Yes. We didn't always have radios and iPods. In much of the 1800's almost every American household had a musician of some kind. Back then, if you wanted food, someone had to make it from scratch. If you wanted music, someone had to sing it or play it.
Sofa sort of has a slow track record for releasing updates. They tend to just fizzle out.

Anyone remember Disco? They released one version and a few small updates, people bought it, they HAVE NEVER DONE ANYTHING ELSE TO IT.

Versions is in the same boat. I doubt there will be a 2.0 release of it either.
I bet you didn't have them playing concurrently.
Gone Google
That's my question. I'm not sure I even understand what apps would be considered widget-like.
Slackware was my first linux experience and has always been my favorite since. When I happened to see the 13.1 release a few days ago I couldn't help but check it out.

I have been running Mac OS for a few years now, but if Apple finally annoys me too much I am running back to slack.
I was hoping for some serious complaints that a startup might be able to offer technical solutions for, but most of the author's issues are pretty trivial.

One point he makes does bring up an interesting question though. The author complains about people using one-letter signatures instead of their name. What's the point of signing an email with your name when you're using your own email account? The from header is generally set to include your name already.
My bad, I thought all the articles on SBM were written by the same person. In any event, I stand by my claim that a lot of the articles on the site are crap. Just look at the article you referenced, which says that calling out pharma industry shills is just a "means of smearing those [...] who have the temerity to ask them to provide scientific studies to back up their assertions."

And yet if you look at their article on the efficacy of antidepressants, the author says the meta-study showing that antidepressants are no better than placebos for mild and moderate depression is invalid because it excluded studies where the researchers wouldn't provide their data:

http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/?p=3722#more-3722

Double standard much? The author also criticizes the decision not to include studies that excluded placebo responders. WTF? The whole point of the study was to compare the effectiveness of antidepressants to placebos.

How is it that SBM can advocate the use of antidepressants despite the lack of evidence of efficacy and the tons of evidence of dangerous side effects, whereas about medical marijuana they say that, "it’s hard to envision any situation in which prescribing marijuana would be ethical."

I've read dozens of articles from that site, and the scientific rigor of their thinking seems to be limited at best.
Your second suggestion is still pretty evil. Imagine being a moderately successful app developer and having Apple tell you that you've released your last version and your app is essentially 'frozen in time' and your only option is to release maintenance fixes (at your cost yay!). Why would I maintain software for users whom I'll never be able to sell a future version or upgrade to?
I think the worry is that we are already locked in and Facebook will turn into a Microsoft type company we'll be stuck with a system where it's very hard for anyone to compete effectively and innovate.

You have to least have an account to find out what most of friends and family are doing, so not having an account is not really a viable option for most. Saying you won't have an account on Facebook, at this point is like saying you won't have phone because you don't like the phone company and that's ok because you can use some alternative that not connected to the system everyone else uses.
Yeah, other than Rails, I pretty much agree. I actually prefer Vim on windows to Vim on *nix, (I guess I'm mostly speaking of gVim),Visual Studio is terrific if you don't mind working in .NET, Eclipse and Netbeans are equally mature on Windows, and if you spend a lot of time in the command line, Powershell is really a better Bash in a lot of ways (still needs persistent command history though).
I don't think this type of 'apologist' is unique to Apple. You could in a general way say "Everyone is okay with X until..." for just about anything.
So how is this a tool?
It seems to "generate" the same text everytime I press the button. So 5 static HTML-Pages could do the same. Or am I missing something?
My first linux experience as well. I recall purchasing a 50 pack of diskettes and making hard choices to determine which disk sets i would download and install. Fun times :)
Is there any way to find out what rating was given for our application?
This tech talk is an in depth look at their CPU design process http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5uljtqyBLxI
The advise to "stick with one thing" goes against the advise of "iterate until you hit a market fit".

Still it's a good set of marketing stories.
> > The plaintiffs, property owners on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, accused the industrial companies of spewing greenhouse gases into the air and helping to cause global warming, rising waters, hurricanes and all manner of other natural disasters.

Suppose that the plaintiffs' allegations are true but the effect of defendants' actions is to counter-balance cooling caused by volcanos, the solar cycle, and/or othe factors. In other words, there's no change because the of the defendants' actions. (This is the background to Niven's Fallen Angels.)

In that circumstance, should the plaintiffs pay the defendants for the benefits that they provided?

If not, why not?
People who actually need Windows for some business-related reason can still get a licensed copy, they just need approval from higher ranks now.

So, "ban" - not so much. More like "strongly discouraged unless there's a reason".
Frequent testing in school helps make kids accept dominance and inequality
Right. If you develop for Windows, then Windows is a pretty good platform.
What are the plans for doing this again? Is this going to be a yearly thing or have you not decided (depending on how it goes, etc.)? I'm interested in attending one of these once I finish my PhD.
Didn't these people learn in grammar school that two wrongs don't make a right?
Agile Scrum, or Not-So-Agile Scrum?
Probably the same reason one would sign a handwritten letter, even when its envelope has one's name on the return address. Could just be tradition.
Is Digital Revolution Driving Decline in U.S. Car Culture?
It's just standard etiquette. I was taught to write emails like letters, starting with "Dear Someone" and ending by signing my name. Both parts are redundant, but I guess it's supposed to make the email seem more personal. I agree that it's generally a waste of time, but I can't predict if the recipient would be offended if I left those parts out, so I usually put them in.
Expensive. Is it really that much better than Apple's FileMerge?
I remember the McDonald's pizzas and seem to recall them being the best thing they served. I was really sad to see them go. Sure they couldn't compete with the best pizza places, but they could compete with everything else McDonald's and their competitors sold.
When you look at it through the lens of McDonalds having tens of thousands of testbeds to expiriment with, the conclusion you draw might be exactly the opposite of the one the article makes. It's not that McDonalds should stick to its knitting. It's that they have billions of dollars and one of the 5 best retail infrastructures in the world to develop and test concepts with.

Of course they're going to try lots of things that don't work out. That doesn't mean "stick with the burgers"; it means, "stick with the things that are scalable and compatible with McDonalds". Pizza happens not to be one of them. Coffee, on the other hand? Appears to have made it out of the testbed.
Same with Versions indeed. I asked for some really simple improvements. All were promised more than a year ago. None appeared in any update.
A few thoughts - I have already ordered a physical copy because I definitely agree that the medium of print is one which yields better long term absorption of content. But I couldn't resist downloading the pdf first to get at taste of what the content would be - I was sort of disappointed that there were not more articles w/ code in them. I am still stoked on the articles that ARE there I guess I just want more haha, but being a magazine that is a good thing as I will want the next issue.

I am not sure how mag cloud works (print on demand or do they actually create the "plates" for offset printing and thus unique issues are not doable?) - but if it is print on demand could you not have a button which says "Add comments to this issue" which would collate and generate the pdf then and there by the users own interaction thus side-stepping the legal issues?
I switched to Cornerstone. Not that I use SVN that much anymore .. but some clients still do. Cornerstone is much more pragmatic about features. Like drag and drop simply works.
The unreasonable effectiveness of self-experimentation
I used to work as a field technician and I spent quite a bit of time on, around and under ladders. I never noticed any correlation between time spent under a ladder and bad luck, and it quickly disavowed me of any lingering superstition I might have had about it.
tl;dw

Transcript?
They weren't concurrent, but they came to mind quickly just by seeing the words of the title.
Is Internet Explorer Dead? Are You?
It would be great, but the API support is not there, which is why there aren't any extensions to spoof your user-agent either. Compared to Firefox extensions (which basically let you do everything), Chrome extensions are much more fine-grained and can only use APIs specifically designed for use with extensions. There are several features that Chrome extensions developers have been requesting, such as this and the ability to prevent elements from being loaded (which is why there is no noscript and all the ad blockers are only half-baked solutions)
Brian Mitchell: JavaScript's Twin from JSConf 2010
I certainly agree with you, and just to note, even though he puts it in quotes, he wasn't quoting any part of the original post, it was mostly his own invention (a modification of the original: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_they_came...)
That looks like a great editor. But aren't (nearly) all WYSIWYG editors technically using contenteditable? The important difference seems to be that this one hides the toolbars until you start editing?
Is this normal? Job application asks for salary at previous jobs
I'm filling out an application that requires me to tell the company how much I was paid (starting and ending) at all my previous jobs. I've never encountered this sort of question in the application before. Have others? What would you do?
A net neutrality history lesson: how US telecom became such a trainwreck
I can't remember a time when I have not had a song stuck in my head - I go from one song to another every few days and have done for as long as I can remember (today, Whiter Shade Of Pale is just starting to leave after nearly a week of being firmly lodged in my brain, and I'm now moving on to Magic Carpet Ride).

It's not unpleasant for me though - the article makes it sound like it might be for other people?
What's interesting to me is whether our values will change as this content essentially becomes widely available and free.

Currently, we have a perceived value of something based on its cost (see any web app pricing article). Will this evaporate as almost all content becomes free? Will our perceived value based on cost be replaced by some ranking system that Adams alludes to as "better search"?

This is the second variable that I think many people miss when they talk about the inevitable shift to free content as a negative thing for consumers.
Qualcomm shows Mirabell displays - beautiful graphics 1/2 power usage of lcd
Okay, I see the message is not getting through. What makes you claim it could be done for very little cost? I mean, I don't work in the medical field, so I don't have any insider information on the existing infrastructure. If you have some -- or any other argument to support your claim, for that matter -- please share.

For example, what tracking body would the doctors report to? Is it CDC? If so, will existing staff take on their new duties, meaning that they will now have less time for other duties? Or will they have to hire new staff for that? If not CDC, which organization? Who pays their wages? How to disseminate information (to all doctors) on what to report to the tracking body? Do doctors now have a legal duty to inform themselves? Or is it someone else's duty to inform the doctors? Can I sue for malpractice if my doctor doesn't report? Or is it voluntary for doctors to report? What channels do they have for reporting: phone, Internet, some other? Who will pay for establishing those channels? I could go on, but there should be no need to, hopefully.
FYI it was Dyson, according to wikipedia, and the number was .5 to 1 cancer victim.

Of course, this issue is solved by launching from higher orbit and/or the moon.
Great.

I'll reiterate that I recommend highlighting gemcutter. qrush and the contributors have done an excellent job with it, it contains examples of how to approach a variety of tasks (even has examples of using metal, middleware and embeddable sinatra), the code is clear and adheres to conventions and it's used in a real production app that every Ruby developers has contact with.
Pirate Bay Partners with Meezoog to Launch Dating Site
+1

I tested a lot of compare utilities for Mac and finally settled on running a virtual box with Windows on it so I can run BeyondCompare. This app looks promising, though. For me, a killer missing feature is the folder compare view.
Considering the total lack of low-end models and the fact that you can't rent it, Azul may be the coolest hardware most people have never seen. Or is that Tilera...
I wonder whether we will see upgrades from the 7-8-9 series proceed at a much more rapid pace, given that the big hurdle, the interface, has already been overcome from 6-7. I know people who would not upgrade, just because they didn't like the UI change.

I only just forced myself to use Office 2007, since 2003 licenses are becoming hard to come by. I hate it still, but I will have far less trouble moving to 2010 than I had moving to 2007.
This is truly beautiful stuff. (Buying five copies for my mother.)

A surprising thing: I use a lot of links and footnotes, which don't translate well to print. If writing for both print and web, I think my style would change quite a bit, eg taking the time to paraphrase a source rather than just linking to it.
How is this better than BC? Better scientific function support? bignum support?
Norwegian boy uses WoW skills to save sister from moose
All the various forms of intelligence can be seen as a form of predictive capability. For example, coordination of many elements or one's own body parts involves making moves which avoid chaos, collision, or some other dysfunction. Avoidance is a kind of prediction.
The issue is that it's retroactive. Did Apple have a rule against widgets when it was developed? Did they clearly state it to their developers? Did they elaborate on what they meant?

In no way is this fault of the developer, except that she knew developing for the app store carried this kind of risk. If Apple had said before development "no widgets" (although defining what they meant), then it would be fair and clear. The whole situation is crap, and I honestly don't see how anyone can defend a practice as unfair as this.
McDonalds has many different offerings overseas. In fact McDs does have fried chicken in Thailand and I recall my days in Malaysia that they had a McRendang (rendang is a curry) as well as a teriyaki sauced based burger. They also had blueberry pie filling which I thought was way better than apple. My point here is that they also adapt to different markets.

KFC in Malaysia had a spicy chicken which was actually spicy. It's not limited to just McDonalds, but lots of franchises have to adapt and test out what's going to work with their environment.
Advertising and free speech are fundamentally incompatible. Notice that no "everyone buy pepsi" group is blocked.
If you want a WYSIWG editor, why would the storage format matter?

I think your best bet is writing a HTML-to-markdown converter.
Do the demos work on the iPhone?
Your sentences are too long for me to be easily scanned. Also I would suggest making "ThinkCode.TV is the product of a very ambitious idea by three programmers with a deeply rooted passion for programming, the open source movement, and education." -> We are three programmers with a deeply rooted passion for programming, the open source movement, and education."
Social Media Babble
I hope they can turn around this trend. They make great stuff.

I liked Disco a lot and it helped me out. Then it stopped.

So I wrote my own, getting ready to release soon.
This site requires Flash. Click here to download.
Very interesting! Running the Smokescreen JavaScript flash player did not cause my battery life to go down like normal flash does. I always watch that when I am running a flash YouTube video or flash game.

It will be interesting to see how the performance works with more complex games.
I'm not sure about the name "Gone Google". Before visiting the site I thought it was going to be for people who were trying to avoid Google...
There is a video showing a flash ad running in Smokescreen on the iPad.
What these people are doing is exactly equivalent to what tendentious tenants do to avoid eviction. We almost uniformly hold those tenants in contempt; they're perpetrating a fraud. The only difference here is that it's banks holding the loans, not independent landlords.

I see how you could sympathize with a ruthless defaulting homeowner; after all, what else are they going to do? Are we really asking them to vacate early solely to make the bank's job easier? On the other hand: what they're doing is morally indefensible, and any costs to the bank their behavior incurs is largely going to be borne by good-faith mortgageholders and new prospective good-faith home buyers.

Maybe they shouldn't be bragging about this. Here's to hoping it catches up with them sooner than later.
We'll probably do more. I'm not sure how soon. Maybe as soon as 6 months from now.
In economic terms, two wrongs can certainly make a right. In many cases, having these people move out would serve no purpose other than to destroy the houses' values as well as the values of the surrounding homes. People who stay in their homes prevent squatters from moving in and perform some maintenance. Banks often make economically foolish decisions regarding foreclosure for a whole host of reasons.

Plus, after reading articles like http://www.mcsweeneys.net/links/panoramaexcerpts/Ali.html regarding how mortgage servicers and banks deal with foreclosure, I'm disinclined to believe that they are ever acting in good faith.
That was my first impression to...
I see that now.
The Elevator Pitch Is Dead
I knew it was going to be Lua. Why not have a Javascript-y front end for Lua? There's also a dual Python-Lua environment. (Closely integrated VMs)
Not the best analogy - you can throw away the envelope and with the letter being signed you still know who it is from, putting your name at the end does serve a purpose.
Nobody ever taught me to write emails, so I never got in a habit like that. I don't suppose there's any way to know if anybody has been offended by my email style, but I think I'd judge anyone who was not worth talking to. This is why I'm not in sales.
“We could pay the mortgage company way more than the house is worth and starve to death,”

This implies that if the house was worth what they were paying that they would still starve to death and really they made a bad choice in buying the house in the first place.

"But the couple also refinanced at the height of the market, taking out cash to buy a truck..."

sigh...
This could be a very revolutionary way to port flash to the IPad. There seems like an enormous value potential for that if it works well.
Researcher puzzled by Seattle's poor startup activity ranking
"You need a random source close to 60hz" Correct. I specified a Zener diode source coupled to an oscillator.

This would provide the signal noise filtering and phase-locked-loop (e.g. the necessary +- ppm signal power spectral distribution control).

Given propagation losses, my ENF signal doesn't have to be nearly as powerful--merely more closely coupled to the device(s) being "shielded".

Also, I think a so-called fast-switching DC-to-DC converter would provide the necessary isolation. Plenty are being manufactured now that isolate down to 40Hz, but outside of the audiophile realm, that quality of filtering isn't typically used for low-power applications.
Email is an interesting beast. Most threads I'm involved in start out very formal with the requisite 'Dear So-and-so' at the beginning and some sort of formal-ish signature. But by the third back and forth, most people abandon the formalities and start signing with just their name, or not at all. I prefer not to have to bother, as it has been noted, my full name and email appear in the mail headers, and I use proper top quoting format whenever possible.
A great example of teeing people up to sell Google Apps internally. Does much of the basic heavy lifting, then packages for easy consumption (perfect for the first group of people who would evaluate).

High points:

- Money saved / time saved tally

- Easy way to edit the underlying assumptions

- Auto-creation of a tailored slide deck, info poster and spreadsheet
Why? As it stands you're receiving no compensation for contributions to this site. If someone else uses them in a way that's valuable to others then you'll still get no money, but your thoughts/ideas will receive more attention and benefit others, too.

Given that you literally gain nothing by preventing this use -- I'm assuming you're not fielding other offers for usage of your HN posts -- I don't see why you'd care. I realize this is a common gut reaction, but I'm wondering if you can explain why you don't like it more explicitly.