skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
SIDS is rare and probably has nothing to do with a baby's position.

There's a bunch of research on the subject, and the resulting recommendation is that sleeping on the back is preferred. I haven't read the actual studies, but a bunch are mentioned in the article I linked to:

Alm B, Lagercrantz H, Wennergren G. Stop SIDS - sleeping solitary supine, sucking soother, stopping smoking substitutes. Acta Paediatr. 2006 Mar;95(3):260-2.

Swedish Medical Research Council State of the Art Conference on the Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. Proceedings. Gothenburg, 3-5 June 1992. Acta Paediatr Suppl 1993;389(1):1-129.

Alm B, Milerad J, Wennergren G, Skjaerven R, Øyen N, Norvenius G, et al. A case-control study of smoking and sudden infant death syndrome in the Scandinavian countries, 1992 to 1995. The Nordic Epidemiological SIDS Study. Arch Dis Child 1998;78(4):329-34.

Alm B, Norvenius SG, Wennergren G, Skjaerven R, Oyen N, Milerad J, et al. Changes in the epidemiology of sudden infant death syndrome in Sweden 1973-1996. Arch Dis Child 2001;84(1):24-30.

Alm B, Möllborg P, Erdes L, Pettersson R, Aberg N, Norvenius G, Wennergren G. SIDS risk factors and factors associated with prone sleeping in Sweden. Arch Dis Child. 2006;91:915-9.

Wennergren G. Prevention of sudden infant death syndrome. Pediatr Pulmonol 2004;37 Suppl 26:110-1.

Carpenter RG, Irgens LM, Blair PS, England PD, Fleming P, Huber J, et al. Sudden unexplained infant death in 20 regions in Europe: case control study. Lancet 2004;363(9404):185-91.

American Academy of Pediatrics, Task Force on Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. Policy Statement. The changing concept of sudden infant death syndrome: diagnostic coding shifts, controversies regarding the sleeping environment, and new variables to consider in reducing risk. Pediatrics 2005;116:1245-55.

[edit: google the names of the studies and you'll find abstracts or more]
> So let me get this straight -- being a responsible adult is working 16 hours per day, living off of oatmeal, having no disposable income?

If you want to own a house, or bootstrap yourself into new skills, or otherwise escape poverty, then yes.

That's what most of our ancestors did, and we're living in the society that they created and bequeathed to us.
You realize that probably most poor people don't have friends that can trivially part with $300, right? Apparently not.
I took my dads typewriter apart at the ripe old age of three. He didn't think it was a 'good thing' either.
Sounds like you should be able to A/B test this.
It costs €8.
> I'll be perfectly honest with you. Morals aside, I'd be much more inclined to just rob you. In the off chance I go to jail

As I sit here typing I've got my Sigpro 2340 and 10 rounds of Federal hollowpoint in a concealed holster under my t-shirt.

Poor decision making is another hallmark of people who opt into the low class.
The theme is called inFocus. I purchased it from ThemeForest.net
also, do not give a million dollar bonus to executives in the same year.

Before I got laid off, someone in my friend circle asked me a question, would you quit your job if your employer gave you a 2 1/2 month pay just for quitting?
I thought about it for a day and it sounded like a great idea. That's almost same amount YC gives you to start a start-up.

When My manager along with HR announced the news to me, there was a broad smile on my face to their confusion. It did not make me feel bad at all.
After years of covering the healthcare industry I would argue it is actually an easy answer: people have been too far removed from the actual cost of healthcare. Nobody knows who and how their healthcare is paid for which is why one night in an emergency room can cost $15,000, completely defying all the laws of supply and demand. Without getting into pricing theory, a general rule of thumb is that if you provide a service that is unaffordable even to the rich (so 99.9% of society), market forces will put downward pressure on your pricing. This doesnt happen in healthcare because everyone but the individual pays for it (it either comes from your work, your insurance company, subsidized by someone else or the government).
An architect who isn't also a hands-on practitioner is making decisions based on nothing more than the vendor's advertising. Remember that.
TBH I think Scala has gone a little too far in its syntactic flexibility, and the variety of syntaxes for declaring a method is a good example of this. The constructor shortcut can also be a bit of a pain on more complex examples.

On the whole though, I'm finding Scala coding a very pleasant experience. A solid FP language on the JVM is turning out to be a very powerful tool.
I learn something new every day.
When I think "which of my college classes could I have learned more from if I'd had an iPad version of the textbook", data structures and algorithms stands out the most. I'd love to see a really good adaptation of an already-good static textbook in these fields... I'm not in school anymore, but I might read it just for fun.
>Consider that practically every religion on this planet reaches the same conclusion.

I consider practically every religion on the face of the planet as unethical, and I doubt I am the only one on this board who do so.

So if you forgive me, that argument has negative weight too.
The load limits of an uncached hosted Wordpress blog
It seems to me that unless the likelihood of a cache miss is fairly small you need to balance the probability of a cache hit against the expense of an extra HTTP call, as opposed to bundling the JQuery libraries directly with your custom JS with some JavaScript minimization trickery (and two HTTP calls if you're using both jquery and jquery-ui).

I have no doubt that the likelihood of a cache hit here is growing, but I wonder what the likelihood of an actual hit is? These data show that 4.7% of the top 1000 Alexa sites use some version of JQuery. What you'd need to consider is the likelihood that your visitor has (a) visited one of the those 47, (b) that is using the same version of JQuery as you are, and (c) has done it recently enough that the (relatively large) files are still locally cached. I suspect that for most sites that works out to much more than 4.7%, but is it more than 50%? If not aren't half of your users getting a slower response as a result?

(Moreover, and I don't know if or how this effects the JQuery CDN, but doesn't it seem like many sites drag because of delays in loading the Google Analytics JavaScript files? Wouldn't this pose an even greater problem if you're using Google to serve JQuery, since your UI depends upon it?)
If a server cannot handle the "HN effect", you should probably host nothing there. Unless of course it's not only the server's fault ;)
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Congrats on Urban Airship. That's a great sign for the viability of their business and reassuring for their clients.
You could say that she was relentlessly resourceful.
Well Facebook uses "My Profile" etc. I guess they may know a thing or two about this, by looking at the number of their users.

Gmail uses none, just "Contacts", "Inbox" etc.

Twitter uses "Create your account" but when signed in turns into non possesive nouns.

I guess using possesives while calling to an action is an efficent practice.
Do you have any arguments to prove this thesis? If not, then you are rightfully downvoted.
That's probably another lesson I should add to the post: Never use 1and1 as your host.
python26 on RHEL 5 is a 20 second install from EPEL. It leaves python intact. Zed and his audience didn't know this.
Maybe this is just a nit, but calling someone a sociopath isn't necessarily calling them 'not a true human being,' so I wouldn't put words into his/her mouth. Saying, "You can't argue with a sociopath," could simply mean: "Any argument that I could pose, couldn't be rightly understood by the other party, so I would be wasting my time."
Are there more Middle Class Households in India or in China?
You might be interested in http://trends.builtwith.com/

It doesn't give you a crawler or API, but they have done a lot of the analysis you're talking about and put it together in an explorable interface.
A little physics :)
How many people know that it's not OK to fall on a hard surface while sitting down or standing up? Should that be in the manuals of crazy sports?
Western surge in obesity may have been caused by a virus
The Process Is Really Just Iterate, Iterate, Iterate
Why do you assume they are being exploited? My cleaning lady is also from Poland and she charges $40/hr...
Currently it only supports Android phones using Google's C2DM framework, but iPhone push is a possibility if there's interest.
It's a C# console application that logs to a SQL Server Express database. It's fairly primitive and the source isn't anything I'd want to advertise. I'd be happy to share it with you if you don't mind C# and want to give it a whirl yourself though.
It seems to me (as a biased observer) that a big part of the language/understanding deficiency here has just been that the GOP and its very effective messaging apparatus deliberately uses language that increases that confusion, and the Democratic Party is incompetently happy to adopt the same language, despite the clear harm to their platform.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1713404
Intuitively that seems to make sense, but how does that account for almost every first world country except the US? In countries like Canada, the UK, etc. healthcare costs don't seem to be nearly as out of control as they are in the US, yet I would expect that patients in countries with socialized health insurance (like Canada), or socialized health care (like the UK) would be even farther removed from the actual cost of healthcare than their US counterparts. Why are their healthcare costs not dramatically more out of control than costs in the US?
You can add Symbian and Samsung/Bada too.

http://www.cloudfour.com/mobile-operating-systems-and-browse...
The Likeability Factor - You either have it or you don't
a number of folks are suggesting that a variety of expensive things be done for laid off employees. certainly they are all very nice and thoughtful things to do for an ex-employee. but i am forced to wonder:

if i have to lay off $X employees in order to just stay afloat, then as a rule of thumb, what percentage of $X should i lay off on top of $X in order to free up the funds for these very nice things i'm doing for the laid off employees? certainly 1 additional employee must be the lower limit; what's the upper limit?

and, in a close knit team, would you rather 1) lose your job, but your buddy keeps his job or 2) you and your buddy lose your jobs, but you get a variety of nice things afterwards?
I'm not willing to hand over the security of my websites and privacy of my users to a third party, in exchange for my first page load to be fractionally shorter for a small number of my visitors.

Googles jQuery hosting is now a highly desirable target and I don't want to be included in the victims if it does get attacked. We learnt earlier this year how Google can be hacked.
That's stupid. I'm not doing that. No one I know who has escaped poverty has done that. No one. In fact pretty much everyone I know who has "escaped" poverty has done so through their kids. I know a few NFL, NBA players. And some that went the academic route.

Of the couple of adults I know who escaped poverty. They did so by less legal means.
My state offers food stamps as well. Several of my friends have been on them, and they have more money to spend on food than they can eat. I want to say it's something like $50 per week, but I'm not positive. And I used to work at a grocery store, so I know for sure that you can buy any food (even soda) with it, as long as it's not pre-prepared (rotisserie chicken, salad bar, etc.).
holy shit! Is that universally supported?
We are planning to record it for InfoQ.
Oh, sorry! I wanted to refer only to the guy who wrote the schmpan text who apparently wasn't contributor but was making noise!

I immediately withdraw my claim and beg for forgiveness from everybody who does contribute but have the opposite opinion!
The CSS element selection looks interesting. Maybe they could use SelectorGadget (http://selectorgadget.com) for smarter selection?
The split is about 50/50 right now. I've run the crawler three times in the last ~5 months and observed the transition from 1.3.2 to 1.4.2 moving along quite nicely though. After my first run, 1.4 adoption was so anemic that I was worried 1.3.2 was going to be jQuery's IE6. At this rate, it looks like 1.3.x should be a small minority by the time 1.5 rolls around.
On that note, here's one well-written but scathing review by a UMichigan professor who goes into that among other things: http://www.cscs.umich.edu/~crshalizi/reviews/wolfram/
A small investment that really pays off? Books and courses for yourself
Whoa. What version of Firefox are you running? The page doesn't look anything like that and the Feedback button is not at all in the way.
> That's stupid. I'm not doing that. No one I know who has escaped poverty has done that. No one.

I was born with a net worth of $0.

I now own two companies, and a house with no mortgage.

I did it by working hard, and by working smart.
Where would you go?
Thanks for the informative response man. I had a bad feeling about the contract when they explained the conditions. Later I read at a local message board about someone else's experience's with the same firm and how he was advised to not work for that firm by an inside developer. That is why I started this thread and now I realise the direness of the situation I may get myself into.
> And given how extraordinary the claim is, there's not a single argument to support it.

How is that an extraordinary claim?? I personally believe that it's so self-evident and obvious, that to argue otherwise would be the extraordinary position.
The most common bikeshed problem with web development is with design and user interface. We nicknamed this the 'cornflower blue' problem (fight club reference). Everybody thinks they know what good UI and design is, and they will certainly let you know what they think is right.

I am sure many of you have had the exact same problem, and have also resorted to hiding a new project from various staff members just to prevent the project from becoming a quagmire.
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More women than men got Phds in 2008/09
The basic point seems to be this:

* The Emotiv business plan seems to be based on some game-console like cost structure where developers would pay Emotiv so that they can release software, with the 300$ headset being sold as a loss leader and then recoups the cost through people buying software. Emotiv's investors seem to like that business model.

* Having an open ecosystem around their EEG device would mean that the loss-leader business model doesn't work anymore and their investors are threatening to do ugly things if Emotiv doesn't get it under control.

Now, which one is it? "Hooray, we can build an EEG at a consumer-friendly (for some value of consumer) price"? Or "We had a broken business model from the start, but we're going to blame our users"?

Note that a slightly-expensive special-purpose device gets a significantly higher share of people interested in using it creatively than a tool that has a very obvious recreational and/or professional purpose, and already fulfills this purpose very well, such as a synthesizer keyboard.

Trying the game consoles business model on an EEG device is similarly sensible as selling a 300$ CNC lathe that you can only use with bought programs that were written by random other people with more money on their hands.
...is not to tell them via sending them this article!
I have a hard time believing that if high-status users give free 'gifts' to low-status users, the low-status user will pay to reciprocate.

> Make the virtual real. Feinleib recommends adding sound and visual effects to make the virtual experience more "real."

Also there's no way in hell I'm about to add sound effects to my website.
When I was young (0-2 and 4-7), my family lived in a remote part of Alaska where we needed very little money and correspondingly earned very little money (~$3k/year for a family of 4). But we lived like kings, with hundreds of square miles for just us, moving around between different cabins my dad and a couple other people had built on a whim (public land, acceptable at the time), fishing and eating wild game as we pleased. Then we moved to the city because land regulations had changed and so that my younger brother and I would have more contact with people. I don't view either of these decisions as irresponsible.

Pretty much at the worst possible time, shortly after moving, my brother had some serious asthma issues (several emergency room visits), but of course we had no health insurance at that time. It took several years to recover from that debt despite long hours (e.g. 90+ hour weeks in wildfire) and good budgeting. Both my parents have Masters degrees and professional jobs now, but these kind of scenarios happen, it's not always laziness or poor fiscal planning.
One key element that is missing from much of this discussion is an understanding of comparative advantage and its importance to society.

If someone has the skill and ambition to succeed in a demanding professional career,isn't it better that they do so rather than doing their own gardening for fear of being judged? In general, it seems obviously good for society for a married couple to both work and outsource some of their domestic responsibilities that others can perform more cheaply. But our current (and even more, our future) tax code discriminates against this heavily.
Yes, he just stole other person's belongings. Sure, the lady was teasing him with her unlocked car.

Just like the one before her I guess - he was already on probation.
The first thought that popped into my head was - this guy sounds somewhat sophisticated. He might even read HN.

I think these emails provide further evidence that this guy may in fact be on HN.
On the other hand, if you don't want to mess with minimization/packaging trickery, this gets you a nice quick win.
Stan Lee, Bobby Kotick Stand Up For Free Speech Re: Video Game Sales
Lessons learned: From 0 to 70,000 downloads in 30 days
The beginning of the tutorial doesn't necessarily have the most efficient way to accomplish a task. It just has the most basic way.

For example: move up 10 lines with 10k. Move up 2 paragraphs with 2{. Move up to "what" with ?what, and if it stops somewhere else first, just hit n. Find the first letter T in a line with fT, and hit ; if you stopped at another one first. Etc. You can't put everything at the beginning of the tutorial but having a lot of these tricks in your bag speeds you up quite a bit. Then you start combining these movements with commands, repeating these combinations with just a period, recording them in macros with a couple keystrokes, applying them to every selected line with :norm, etc. It's the combination of all these things that makes it go fast.

That said, if I've got a long distance to travel and there's no obvious movement command to get me there quickly, I'll still use the mouse occasionally. It does seem to break the flow though.

The biggest improvement vim has made to my productivity isn't just the raw speed of editing, it's the fun of editing with it. That keeps me a lot more focused when the work itself gets a little mundane.
I don't think it is a good idea to tell the company at large before the individuals who are to be fired are told - that just seem bad.

Also, you should be prepared to answer the question "why did you choose to lay me of and not $otherPerson?"
Or, just rewrite in C and everyone except Python people will quit bitching. :-)
Digging further into your link on [4] we find the following:

> To acquire such evidence, Joshua Aronson and I (following a procedure developed with Steven Spencer) designed an experiment to test whether the stereotype threat that black students might experience when taking a difficult standardized test could depress their performance on the test to a statistically reliable degree. In this experiment we asked black and white Stanford students into our laboratory and gave them, one at a time, a thirty-minute verbal test made up of items from the advanced Graduate Record Examination in literature. Most of these students were sophomores, which meant that the test was particularly hard for them—precisely the feature, we reasoned, that would make this simple testing situation different for our black participants than for our white participants.

Right, so the test was in literature and administered verbally. Gee, I wonder why these researchers hoping to find a causal link would want to choose such an easily gamed format for the test? Why do you think they didn't choose a paper-based multiple choice math test?

As for your response to my other post, your attempt to label the questioning of a possible link between race and intellect as "eugenics" is laughable. The person with the burden of proof in a given situation is the person making the claim. The claim being made in the original article is that US schools are falling behind. HilbertSpace pointed out that simply partitioning that data according to race paints a very different picture. If you want to make a claim about what this data means, then you're the one with the burden of proof.
Excellent recount of events that lead to the Facebook movie
4 Powerful CRO Tips
Ask HN: Tricking your employer into buying you an SSD
Any ideas on how to do this? I feel like it would speed up vim very much so, we have a very large code bases and a service oriented architecture so I find myself hopping around a lot.

How do I convince them to buy me an SSD? And not just any SSD, a non-apple SSD, because they suck? (We all have macbooks)
The iPad is a great social device
It's posts like these that make me want to stop reading HN comments.
Bruce Eckel: Strong Typing vs. Strong Testing (2003)
No, most of that is generated from the .rl files or just SQL that's common to everything. Also, you'll want to throw in all of Storm and PyREPL if you want a real comparison.

Then again, 4600 lines of anything is tiny. You have a massively skewed view of "Big" and haven't disproven anything by finding 600 lines of cruft in one directory.
How do they find out what you've used your email address for? Do they buy that info from the websites?
Psychologist shows why we 'choke' under pressure -- and how to avoid it
typeracer.com says I type around 80 wpm, and I get quite nervous when I'm taking any sort of typing test, so I suspect my real typing speed is much higher. I'm on a laptop. Reaching for my mouse is very natural.

I do generally use vim for editing over ssh, although since I am root on the machines I work with, I would configure Gedit to work over ssh if I did any serious remote editing.
For Android you should try Instafetch. Besides all the known features from Instapaper, he uses his own server to parse the articles. The nice thing about this is that he uses Readability's algorithm to parse them, which results in really nice layout.