skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't have an issue with the conclusions about making babies smart.

However it's different with maternal depression. If you read the original study, there was a 91% probability that the DHA reduced severe maternal depression. In the study the reduction in severe depression was 15%. However because 91% probability is less than the gold standard of 95% probability it was not conclusively proven.

Given the study design, a reduction of 35% would have been required before it would have been found to be proven ie statistically significant.

Unfortunately, showing an innumeracy that is common in the medical world, they claimed they had shown there is no relationship, which is plainly false.

It is also worth pointing out that the study was prompted by earlier studies that showed eating fish had all sorts of benefits. But in the study they only gave one component of fish oil (DHA) in substantial quantities. Fish also contain protein, minerals, other vitamins, Omega3 EPA and many other beneficial nutrients. So by no means did they show no benefit from eating fish.

Finally the study did have a major reduction in the incidence of pre-term deliveries. Some of the "no results" statistics were only obtained by artificially removing the effects of this reduction in premature births from the analysis. If you are concerned about, or have a history of pre-term delivery it is worth considering fish oil for this benefit alone.
I agree fully. I was bullied as a kid. When I stood up and fought back, I may have gotten in trouble, but the bullying stopped (at least from the people I fought back against). When I tried to ignore it or brush it off, it only got worse.

And when I did get in trouble at school for fighting back, I didn't get in trouble at home because my parents knew I wasn't the instigator.
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It is really simple:

Theorem:

Genius is talent AND hard work

Proof:

1. Look at geniuses: all worked hard to achive what they achieved.

2. Look at a group of persons who are all extremely hard working, successful and good at what they do. Like researcher mathematicians, or professional sportsmen. Only a very small minority of them is considered a real genius. (like Terry Tao or Maradona). Why? Because those guys are not just very hard working but also exceptionally talented.
The gist is, Google (and Microsoft) are brands that are already associated with "web-scale" software. So, if they make something new, people expect it to be engineered to be web-scale from the beginning, not a bloated prototype that relies on other tiny/bloated third-party services (and definitely not on services from their competitors.) I think this is just an image problem, though—couldn't Google get around this simply by not saying that the projects are "by Google" until they're popular? Publishers call this an "imprint."
Bullying doesnt stop when school ends. There are bullies everywhere you look, in your office, on the roads. If you learn to run away in school you will never learn to stand up for yourself
I remember having two fights in my entire school time. One in elementary school and one in secondary school. Both were about what I would let others do to me. After both fights I never had to fight again in that school. I don't even remember if I had "won" or "lost".

My parents let me do Judo and Ice Hockey at that time. I wasn't very strong or big but I learned some things in Judo class. Mostly how to fall and how bring someone down. I never liked fighting for my belts so I stopped doing Judo after a couple of years with the blue belt.

I intend to give my son the opportunity to learn some martial arts too.
Believe it or not, in all my dealings with the IRS, they have been polite and effective. And I was late with my taxes so there was a reason for them to be jerks.
True story: I did martial arts as a kid, and one thing that instructors teach you is that breaking someones nose will finish the fight.

Years later, at a party, I got into a fight with a punk (I mean a real punk, with a stupid haircut). He was acting like a twat, bothering people, like they do, and I told him to piss off and he headbutted me in the face, breaking my nose. And actually, while not something you'd want to happen every day, it's not too bad, a lot of blood but it doesn't really hurt. Then I kicked his ass.
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Call me insane, but I actually like using the Heredoc syntax in my own PHP templates. The client loads a page, it passes through index.php to determine a class to create, a function is determined to be called, function may display a template (or may be a simple json-getter/poster) in which case I load up some options (like what template, vars to pass, etc.), send them to a function which displays the template and I'm done. Inside the .tpl file, I might have something like:

<?php
foreach ($users as $user) {
$userinput = htmlentities($user['userinput']);
echo <<<EOD
<div>
ID: {$user['id']} <br />
Name: {$user['user_name']} <br />
Input: $userinput
</div>

EOD;
}
?>

I've used Smarty in the past though, and I didn't mind it.
What is the basis of this assertion? If a spammer can create an email address, he can create a fb profile too (anyways, email headers can be spoofed)
Why are overheard phone conversations so distracting?
And they are not prevented from entering the store if they don't "check-in" on Facebook. It's something extra to do if you feel like it.

Compare this to Google search ... how else are you going to find stuff on the Internet?
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So Facebook's business model is paying people to use it? OK. Can I sell my shares now?
Bombay. In malls, people wait till you come out of the elevator before getting in. I bet you will not find that in any other place in India.

I grew up in Chennai and currently live in Bombay. I've lived a few months in Hyderabad and Bangalore, and I've visited Delhi a few times. So yeah, I can talk!

Apart from the generally civilized air that is so rare in India, Bombay has great restaurants and malls, easy internet connectivity, lots of clubs that stay open till 1, and some restaurants/clubs that stay open all night. Stay away from the train stations, though. South bombay is calmer than the suburbs and very expensive.

Chennai is hot and the people are rude. It doesn't have anything to recommend itself, except a few startups and beaches. You might run into interesting, smart people around Anna Nagar or Mylapore or the IIT, but it's no use - they don't talk.

Bangalore is full of people in their twenties working in software companies. There are some startups, too. The traffic is heavy, and the weather is the best in India. I interned in Google, Bangalore a long back and remember seeing the road get regularly jammed for several hours in the evening. It's just a pain to go anywhere there. Also, it has no diversity whatsoever. A little like the valley, I guess. It has a lot of clubs, but everyone drops asleep at 10 PM sharp and NOTHING stays open after that.

I don't know a lot about Hyderabad and Delhi. Hyderabad is currently somewhat disturbed by regional issues and has some good South-Indian restaurants. It also has excellent bookstores. Delhi is not safe(at all) in the evenings, and has an AWESOME metro.

As for cost of living, Bombay is crazy expensive, Chennai is dead cheap, and Bangalore, Hyderabad and Delhi are in the middle.

All of these places are overcrowded, noisy and hot. The people will invariably shove you out of queues and counters, stare at you if you wear a hat (or anything that they don't wear), break rules and honk a lot on streets. Welcome to India.
I remember seeing stats recently. Hotmail, then Yahoo, then Gmail. Gmail have something like 100million users, and hotmail has 250(?)million I think.
I'm not sure I'm catching your point, but I was thinking of comments such as these:

walnuttrees in Boston Globe comments (Sept. 3, 2010 ): Still kneeling, his face less than a foot from my crotch he advised me he would pass the back of his hands over my crotch, under my testicles, and in the fold between my legs. I felt him cup my testicles and run his fingers from my rear orifice down the back of my balls.

ryan182 in FlyerTalk (Sept. 3, 2010 ): Flying out of SFO yesterday I saw someone getting the pat down, it was shocking the guy was all up in the dudes junk. so despite what they said its happening in other airports.

Anonymous1989 in Boston Globe comments (Sept. 4, 2010 ): He stood behind me and placed his arms around my neck, surprising me with how strong and firm his grip was -- it felt like someone choking me from behind.
...
Kneeling, his face less than a foot from my crotch he advised me he would pass the back of his hands over my crotch, under my testicles, and in the fold between my legs. I felt him cup my testicles and run his fingers from my an-s down the back of my balls. By now I was turning red. I wondered what government official in what dark alley dreamed up this groping to protect the public?

MarkVII in TSA Blog: Enhanced Pat-downs (Sept. 15, 2010 ): This keeps getting worse. I had hoped that "grab and squeeze" was a case of checkpoint workers going too far. Since you can't give details on the process for security reasons, this tells me that "grab and squeeze" is actually part of the protocol. Add the seeming lack of accountability to the mix, and I don't like what I foresee at all.... If these same folks can now grab me by the b at the checkpoint, I've got even less reason to fly that I had before. There's got to be a better way...
Are there any for-pay gmail-like mail services out there offered by companies who aren't trying to make money by selling their users to their advertisers?

I use gnus at the moment, but it's starting to feel a bit long in the tooth. On the other hand, the thought of having all my email in a marketer's database kind of squicks me.
While it is true that talent and hard work is a win, talent can be a win on its own. I think people agree Einstein was a genius, but there's no evidence he worked hard at anything when young. Perhaps we should be careful re: definitions, separating insight and genius, favoring the former as more innate?
I hope a museum gets it, but I think it will probably go for much more than the estimate.

By the way, any UK HNers should definitely try to get down to the museum at Bletchley park and the national computing museum. Geek heaven :)

edit: wow, they also have the first published ENIAC patents: http://www.christies.com/lotfinder/lot_details.aspx?from=sal...
30-50k pounds. Shit thats a high price.
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Sadly it has reduced me to tears as well because I literally had to tackle this very issue only yesterday. That feature alone though is an absolute godsend.
You and everyone else.
What is @jdoe.net a reference to?
It's not that terrorists have won. It's more that government used terrorist threat to win over citizens.
Thank you for this - I had no idea and I use WDE

frankly, anyone reading this with a laptop should be encrypting their entire hard drive LUKS (unix) or PGP WDE (Mac), despite this known issue
You think? I wouldn't have been surprised to see it fetch twice the high estimate. It's got appeal to people interested in:

Computing

Codes/Ciphers

WW2

That's pretty broad appeal. I mean even if it was only of interest to Turing fans that's still a huge market, and Turing fans are only a small subset of those larger markets.

Just my opinion, I've no idea if these things come up fairly often or not.
There was a recent article (sorry, no citation) where
supposedly the TSA agents said that the more complete pat
down is designed to encourage people to stick to the
scanners.

You're probably thinking of "For the First Time, the TSA Meets Resistance"[1]. Not exactly a reliable source of information, but entertaining, and definitely worth a read. Also, my recollection is that the TSA agent didn't say the pat down was designed for that purpose, just that he expects most people to opt for the scanner, because the new pat down procedure is so invasive.

[1]http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2010/10/for-the-...
All big companies spin and backtrack and screw people over, but what I think sets apple apart is their lack of communications. If you're going to screw me over please go ahead and tell me, preferably with a little notice. Don't make me stew in my stress flying my business blind. It is a lack of respect.
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I'm graduating in December. I have a really good problem to have: I can't decide between a project and a really good job.

My senior project is essentially a startup. We have a few hundred customers pounding on it. We have 4 other people working part-time (and free) who have turned down big jobs to see where this goes. There are people very interested in giving us money to continue working on it. Unfortunately the other co-founder is starting at a reputable valley company after graduation rather than staying with the project.

The job I'm being offered is very good. An incredible pile of money at a reputable valley company, working with a fun team of people I know and like. But definitely nothing glamorous.

The response to project has been very good (including Startup School). But I can't run it without the other founder, there's too much work. And I can't replace him until June. I'm tempted to call it a learning experience and move on, but it really is a decent idea with real customers.

What should I do? I have to get back to my recruiter by Monday.
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This is the key I think. For every instagram there are hundreds of half baked products that never make it past the initial stages (hell, I have tried to build a few..)

At Google such things often do get past the initial stages, and then flop. Even more probably gets shoved under the carpet.

Google are quite openly trying out the different projects, looking for a hit. Classic example; Gmail. Slightly different because that was a "hit" internally first, but the basic idea applies. A project that ended up working well, resources got thrown at it and, some hiccups later, a really huge success.
I think success is very abstract concept and it is also about expectations of companies/people.

Can Instagram be a success from google's perspective?
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That was #6.
The Omega3 PUFA's found in Fishoil (Specifically DHA) have many benefits. But the key one, as mentioned, is the balancing of the Omega6 : Omega3 ratio found in our diets. The Omega6 PUFA, another essential fatty acid is pro-inflammatory and over consumed these days. This is due to mainly the consumption of the vegetable franken-oils and the consumption of grain fed meats. Where we should actually have a ratio of omega6:omega3 of roughly 2-3:1, most people actually have ratios somewhere in the order of 30:1.

Now eating a diet with little vegetable oils and opting for grass fed meat, you are able to bring your Omega6 consumption down drastically, which, with some fresh wild caught salmon every now and then will remove the need for you to supplement. But unfortunately, we cant do that all the time, so every now and then its good to take some fishoil.

Anyway some studies:

[1] http://www.ajcn.org/cgi/content/full/70/3/560S

[2] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18370801

[3] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17607361

[4] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18483335?ordinalpos=1&...

If you jump on Pubmed or DailyScience and search for omega3, you will find a plethora of studies.
It wouldn't be a startup without a bit of adversity.

I'd go for it and find a way to continue unless you have serious reasons (debt/family/whatever) to start putting money in the bank ASAP.

Big companies will still be there if you fail, why live with the regret?
Plenty of U.S. citizens have been terrorists:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:American_people_impris...

It's still ridiculous (as you say, we have to trust the pilots, the employees, etc.. - but a background check can mitigate that)
It may still fetch more, but honestly that doesn't change that it is a very large amount of money.
Tom Duff himself writes about it here:

http://doc.cat-v.org/bell_labs/duffs_device

In particular,

The device is legal dpANS C. I cannot quote chapter and verse, but
Larry Rosler, who was chairman of the language subcommittee (I think),
has assured me that X3J11 considered it carefully and decided that
it was legal. Somewhere I have a note from dmr certifying that all the
compilers that he believes in accept it. Of course, the device is also
legal C++, since Bjarne uses it in his book.
For Sale: A $160,000 Apple Computer
I'll have to ask the local bookstore.
Also, the next lot is even more exciting: Some offprints of Turing's papers and manuscripts, formed by Prof. Maxwell Newman, guide price 300 to 500 thousand pounds! Apparently these are extremely rare; none have appeared in auction for 35 years!

http://www.christies.com/lotfinder/lot_details.aspx?from=sal...
While I think it's a good list... 20 years?

I've got 5 years professional experience (and quite a bit more hobby experience) and I have to say I knew all of these already. I'm guessing that after about 5 professional years, there's not many more basic lessons to learn.

I would add one, though:

Have a workflow. Have a default way you do things, like code formatting. Break it when you need to, but if you find yourself breaking it for no reason, clean it up. It'll help you and anyone else working on the code later. (And by 'later' I mean 'soon'.) Also, tend to do things in the same order, so you don't forget them. For example: Unit tests, function outline, function declaration, doc block, code.
I was thinking it was low but Wikipedia says (so it must be true!) that they pop up at auction from time to time and have fetched $20K
Google to be investigated by US regulator
Maybe or maybe not, but that doesn't matter. They already sell computers and have lots of customers who want to buy them. I don't know much about business, but I would still have to say that it sounds just stupid to suddenly stop selling them.
>All I've read (and own experience), says that scripting languages are much faster to develop with?

Well, your throwing me an anecdote and asking me to contradict it so I guess I can do so with an anecdote as well?

"Faster to develop with" isn't a sign of a properly designed language and it certainly doesn't justify the language existing. It only speaks to the packaging of said language.

I think we can find a great example in PHP. I think we'd be hard pressed to find someone that would suggest PHP is a well designed language [1], yet it uprooted perl and took over the web. Why? Because it was less effort to go from zero to working web application than anything else. If the creator of PHP had, instead, created his platform on Lisp (and excluded the poisonous Lisp IRC community), who knows, he might have had even more success because Lisp is better designed, actually existed, etc. [2].

[1] But this is the Internet after all, so I'm sure you could find some one who would say that.

[2] Of course you might say "yea, but it's hard to get Lisp running on new servers" and there is truth to that, but PHP didn't exist at all. Surely it would have been at least comparable effort to fork some Lisp project and create "PHP" from that.
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Totally agreed that the world outside Google has mostly caught up. An equivalent for BigTable and associated libraries is still missing though. Hypertable, HBase, KDI and even Cassandra are extremely poor substitutes. I often end up resorting to App Engine for many projects but wish that there was a true open source substitute.
I usually come to the comments on HN posts first, to assess whether an article is worth reading. Comments like the grandparent are very helpful to me.
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The last time I heard about fears of Chinese immigration was in history class.

Expect a lot more of it if the economy stays in the toilet.
There's a lot of 'that doesn't make sense' comments here, but let me tell you, it CAN make a difference.

My linux machine was having issues with one of its hard drives (an external one) being slow to access. For some reason, chrome would decide to hit that drive once in a while and that would halt everything for a few seconds while it did so. I told it to stop using disk cache at all and suddenly everything is much nicer.

With apps waiting on disks for -any- reason, it doesn't surprise me that making the temp dir be ultra-fast helps.
Damn, not sure how I missed that. Upvoted in gratitude.
that is a problem for instagram - it isn't defensible atm. I imagine the Android team will look at it and think 'really, so people want to do that - ok, lets add filters in the next release' and done.
Yea, as I said, Moose looks pretty good. And I realize perl has changed itself. Today it looks like the biggest issue with perl5 is you need a page long preamble [1] to get a relatively modern language.

[1] Use statements to bring in the right libraries, turn off bad defaults, turn on needed features, etc. Stuff that is the default behavior in today's languages.
married vs. unmarried. And keep in mind this is the average. I'm sure you can find Warren Beaty-style hounds that married couples literally wouldn't have enough waking hours to keep up with.
I was interested in the many manuscripts in that sale. I wonder if Google would buy them, scan them and resell them ... they could buy through a third party/anonymous bid and only release the scanned copy after the resale to avoid a negative effect on price.
Franklin Roosevelt played a key role in setting this up at Harvard[1]. I was so gobsmacked, I looked up the reference, which was a memoir by Morgenthau, I think his Secretary of State, and the only Jewish member of his cabinet. Roosevelt was telling this story to justify his refusal to increase the quota of Jews allowed to immigrate to the US, in the face of violent anti-semitism in Germany. His argument was that you can't favor one group over another, because that would be invidious. Amazing.

[1]http://books.google.com/books?id=8HKQEJlAl9gC&lpg=PP1...
I've been wanting to get into making electronics for a quite a while, and the Arduino was very tempting when I first saw it.

Unfortunately, I have too many hobbies as it is, so I just don't have time to do it properly. One day, maybe, if I have a project I really, really want to do.
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You can always re-solve a problem, if you want that challenge. The fact that someone else has solved it shouldn't stop you, if your goal is to have a challenge.
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Neither of the things you mention are caused by labor costs.

European stores are closed on Sundays because the law requires them to be. It's a measure to allow mom & pop stores to compete against the WalMarts of the world while maintaining quality of life.

Construction happens during the day because people in western countries value silence, and therefore the laws are written to prevent noisy things happening during the hours that normal people are asleep. Road construction at night seems like a great idea, until it happens on the road in front of your house.
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