skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My outsider's opinion is that I think that a lot of cited articles are not always thoroughly examined, or of they are examined they are used to confirm the biases of a particular researcher.

I recently became interested in the idea of possible anesthetic neurotoxicity in infants and looked at a number of papers. The basic research seems solid, but the conclusions drawn are strangely inconsistent.

Neonatal rat, mouse and pregnant guinea pig models are used, and recent studies have been done on monkeys. It appears that there is a high incidence of cell death after exposure to anesthesia, but there is a relatively narrow window of vulnerability, which apparently peaks at 7 days postnatal in rats and rapidly diminishes. 5 day old monkeys were affected by prolonged exposure to ketamine, and 35 day old monkeys were not. Similar results were seen in guinea pigs.

What strikes me, is that this window of vulnerability is differently equated to human development by researchers, despite years of research into ethanol neurotoxicity (anesthetic studies seem to be more recent). Estimates for 7 to 14 day old rat-human equivalents range from pre-term infants to full-term newborns, to mid-gestation human fetuses and to children up to 3 years old. Two monkey papers, one using ketamine, and another using isoflurane also came up with different vulnerability periods based on similar data by using different sources of information on neurodevelopment, one published in the 1970's and one more recent.

I cannot understand how so many studies could have statements about possible windows of human neurotoxicity, without any certainty about what phase in neurodevelopment they were dealing with. And, oddly enough, the paper describing the model that is used to claim a mid-gestation vulnerability (based on a "bioinformatics approach") clearly states that it cannot be used to predict the "coordinated surge in synaptogenesis just prior to birth in primates", which is hypothesized to be the peak period of vulnerability to anesthetic-induced cell death. So why is it used as a source?
I know python, SQL and actionscript and learning JS now.I totally agree to knowing the importance of JavaScript. even if its just for the sheer joy to have the ability to write little addons for browsers, and customize the internet little for yourself (and potentially for others).
Like the subtle use of the word 'they', incorrect grammatically,correct politically
>Do you really want your doctor to be that sort of person?

Are you joking? Abso-fucking-lutely I do.

Hell, I want everyone to be that sort of person. I contend that it is simply impossible for a person without those qualities to ever progress beyond 'adequate' at any task which is more than mechanical repetition of simple tasks.
Ask HN: Why pay for things instead of pirating?
What are your reasons for paying for music/books/etc instead of simply pirating it?
At least five minutes more to create a better graph.
most credible sane scientists will tell you that it's more likely than not there is alien life in the universe

Really? I would have thought that no credible scientist would try to extrapolate from a single data point. I think the current consensus in the scientific community is "we don't know".
Economist books of the year (science and technology picks)
The China books are also of general interest to gain an idea of the nature of our new masters. For UK readers the books on US politics may be of interest. A good present gift list.
His other two points aren't really true either.

Phones take a while to boot too, but like most modern computers you just wake them from some kind of sleep mode when you want to use them.

Most phones don't use package management in the linux sense, so if Apps A, B and C are all using some buggy library that isn't part of the OS then who knows on what schedule they're going to be updated since you're carrying three copies of the same buggy library (This is ignoring side-loading and jailbreaking).
http://ai-contest.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=8080#p8080

Hopefully not as long as this one (3 months).
Free monitoring... right, yes, I suppose you get monitoring by the NSA for free :)
All of those are clouds, not really meant as an always-on home in the cloud (or at least an expensive option). I'll assume you are looking for low-budget since you mentioned "Academic project."

What you are looking for is probably a VPS (can be had for < $10/month at many, many places) or simply setting up an old computer on your home connection. Even if you have a static IP, use DynDNS or similar service to get a static address to connect to.
Rumah Mungil Yang Sehat 
Berikut ini dibahas gambaran rumah mungil yang sehat, besertat tentang pengertian atau definisinya. Rumah yang tidak perlu mewah tapi memenuhi syarat rumah.
The TCP/IP Drinking Game
Strictly speaking, the monitoring isn't essential to put a proof of concept together. It's nice, yes, but not essential.
Why would it even matter? The traffic from the DDoS is going to WikiLeaks' servers, not the DNS providers.
We're all gulled by special offers
I think you're just talking about the applications in a stock Nexus One, not the operating system itself (i.e. the UI, the services it provides, etc). If the apps are lousy it's one thing, but the system behaves quite predictably more often than not.

And yes, the stock apps could do with a bit improvement, but you can always install another alternative app from the market. That's what it is for, isn't it?
How Many People Use Quora?
General advice: read as much (english) literature as you can. As someone already pointed out, this will help you to improve but will of course take some time and is a process that has no end.

Personally I can recommmend also books like "on writing" (by Sol Stein) which gives you advices on general writing (fiction and non-fiction).
Just found this gem in the Beautiful Soup source code.
DLE Crosspost Mod 2.5
> people who are great but can't deal with the pressure
> and awkwardness of coding on a whiteboard in an interview.

We try really, really hard to allow for that. We try to get people talking first, and make moving to the whiteboard or paper or whatever part of the discussion, rather than propping them up and saying "Go!".

Additionally, in our line of work sometimes you have to program in a team under extreme time pressures. We've found that most people who can't talk about programming while sketching ideas and solutions in interview, can't do it for real.

The upshot is that you should always be testing for what you actually want. We want programmers who can design solutions, work in a team, get stuff done, ask questions when unsure, make decisions when necessary, change their mind when appropriate, and write programs that work. That's what we try to test for in interview, and before.
A 'Do Not Call' Registry for the Web?
Years of military training will do that for you. :)
I am going to have to disagree with bananarama here. It IS what you do and NOT the way that you do it. If an architect spends his time considering his choice of pencils he's either in the wrong job or bored with his current project
Cop up, who's startup just died ?

I hope it was more like a "startup idea" though.
Do you have View->Zoom->Zoom Text Only enabled?

(OT: you are using an out of date version of ff, latest is 3.6.12)
And the banner logo has been prepared by somone who either needs glasses or doesn't understand how to use the export for web tool in photoshop.
Perhaps it just shows there's more junior people in hiring decisions now than it was before. They remember what they had to pass to get a grade in their CS class two years back, and that's it.

All these tests are really assignments from Data Structures and Algorithms class, and being fresh out of college can help here a lot.
Come on now, many of you proudly tout how you were taught integration in secondary education. Big deal. This person discovered it for themselves, and that is an achievement to be celebrated.
I believe a sizeable proportion of HN users would benefit from reading these two articles by Philip Guo. I know I did.

Geek behaviors present during conversations

http://www.stanford.edu/~pgbovine/geek-behaviors.htm

Social tips for geeks

http://www.stanford.edu/~pgbovine/social-tips-for-geeks.htm
High Prevalence Of Insomnia And Poor Quality Of Life In Software Engineers
My wife just had the same experience and I likened it to me phoning a tech support line. Although it's frustrating they're not insulting your intelligence, they're probably just as sad as you are that they have to break it down to that level for most people.

And, as someone with minor experience on the other side of tech support, you can't really afford to believe someone when they say they know what they're doing, they're quite possibly lying. A great tip my colleague mentioned from his days on tech support: "Never ask someone to check if it's plugged in. They'll just get offended, assume it's plugged in without checking and tell you it is. Instead tell them that dust gets into the plugs sometimes so take it out, blow on it and put it back in. When they're doing that they discover it wasn't plugged in, and replace it, usually without bothering to tell you why it magically starts working again. Must be that pesky dust!"
WikiLeaks.org becomes WikiLeaks.ch
Simple Rules to Great Incentive Programs
Yesterday I heard someone saying "Google is not a designer's company. Its just engineer's company".
Commercial photography Hampshire
Perhaps there is a subtlety I have missed, but if the original vulnerability is not fixed, no amount of restoring backup copies is going to allow your users to consistently access their data. A vulnerable system will inevitably be attacked in exactly the same way, particularly if the hacker is keeping a log of which systems have been compromised but not unlocked online.
Also make sure you learn js. Don't end up learning something like jquery.
why 5 years? js isn't exactly new. I remember writing my first browser games in js (tetris and minesweeper) in 1999.
Free Monitoring, it's like when they kicked out Wikileaks from their cloud? Nice feature.
Also, it doesn't count unless I know you're hitting on me.
My stepbrother used to do that. After politely turning down about his third "simple" idea, I tried a different tack and asked him to draw the entire app on paper.

After all, if it was so simple, it wouldn't take long to draw right? I insisted he include the appearance of validation messages, system generated emails and administration screens.

He didn't ask for my help again, but to his credit he did paper prototype another idea and got a guy to code it.
I assume you're being ironic? I think the jury's out on both of those things being real problems.
Its working here in India.
Try to think of it as creating a rough draft I guess, I always think along the lines of I can get a designer to clean it all up later if need be.
it works here in the philippines!
Is it time to chrome my web browsing?
I "pirated" when I was a stupid kid with too much time on my hands and not enough respect for other people's. Back then I downloaded a lot of stuff that I never got around to playing / reading / watching. It was free, it was there, so I just took it. I guess it was just the hunter-gatherer instincts taking over my immature mind.

These days I'm way more discerning. I'm engaged in many rewarding activities, from my day job to my startup, from my social to my romantic life. So I tend to consume less digital entertainment.But what I do consume, I pay for.

That way I'm supporting the authors and encouraging them to keep up their good work, so that in the future I may benefit from more quality entertainment. Prices are usually very reasonable anyway.
A male hit on her, in San Francisco. Context is everything, no? This is possibly amazing, but amazing enough to generate a blog post?

I've seen a lot of comments in social media from SF women stating that they can't get a guy to even look at them.
Ask HN: What are the BIG ideas or tasks the humanity is working on?
Inspired by a random discussion on a completely irrelevant site.

The topic starter mentioned some obvious achievements of the past, such as man on the Moon, computers, nuclear energy, supersonic aircrafts etc.

And asked the question - what is the next BIG thing the humanity is trying to achieve?

So, I thought a bit and came up with a couple of things like cure for cancer, energy source not related to hydrocarbons and a Mars mission. But I'm not a very educated person on that subject.

So, what is in the works now? What are the major breakthroughs that we are not only hoping for, but are seriously expecting to happen?
I agree, geometry/algebra/arithmetic seem almost too easy. But then again, 1869 is not 2010. Maybe the expectations were different 130 years ago. Namely, if the tests were any harder, how many students would pass?

I am from central Europe and have gone to schools here as well.
The people who founded the USA were regarded as terrorists by the British Empire from which they were fighting to secede. How times have changed.
The evaluation section (in the blog) talks about "traditional data centre networks." What are they?

Cisco has released a data centre network design that has been out for nearly 6 years now. The design outlined in the VL2 paper is similar.

@those who operate DC networks: what does your topology look like? How do you handle oversubscription in a fair manner? If anyone here works at Amazon, could they shed light on fairness issues: can one VM blasting traffic using UDP hurt another that uses vanilla TCP?
Really?

For one, I'd never have imagined that the CIA would employ the US diplomatic service, via the The Sec of State! to spy on Ban Ki-moon.

(http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/dec/02/wikileaks-cables...)

Similarly, the extent to which the Russian federal government is (allegedly) beholden to the the biggest organised crime network on Earth, well - that was news to me too.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-12-02/russia-is-a-mafia-s...

Underwhelming to you, but I'm flabbergasted.
Groupon:Businesses::Walmart:Suppliers
Fair enough, I do see where you're coming from. Definitely agree on the "testing for what you actually want" point.
Interesting stuff, but got knows what will happen to it without any early adopters or "real people". It's just API vomiting information.
If by "fine", you mean, "with Bronze Age math", then sure. The Greeks figured some great things out in their time, but your average math undergrad would school their best in most things. We've done more with math in the last 20 years than they did in their entire 600 year history.
Are you not struggling with finding "people" to talk there
Pure speculation, but I wonder who is behind the DDoS? My guess would be the RBN.
Google to do more piracy fighting with search
Google, once considered by some media companies as a rogue actor on the issue of copyright, is stepping up antipiracy efforts, the company said today.
I certainly agree that both groups have bridged the gap.

Haskell is one of the best tools available when you absolutely have to get programs correct. Companies like Galois[1] for example are big Haskell users. I think it's very practical.

Haskell has also renewed interest in a branch of mathematics, category theory, that has helped understand problems in mathematical foundations and recently even physics.

Also, not to quibble, but I think it's been around since the late 80s. I can check my library but I believe the original report (I have a hard copy) was issued on April fools day.

[1] http://www.galois.com/
Trying to find the dark matter. Remember LHC particle accelerator?

How to be Happy

Alien Life (nothing life intelligent beings)

Cure to AIDS (& cancer, as you mentioned)

Those are the few things I know humans are trying to find.
German MPs call for US ambassador to resign
check this out
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a7/BogdanovB...
this is a painting from 1895
pupils were supposed to do calculations like the one on the blackboard in their heads, without any writing
I think there's a point where further mathematical prowess no longer holds any sort of competitive advantage for the average person. That point is probably grade 6.

The average person will do just fine in their lives without needing to factorize a quadratic equation. They will do swimmingly without knowing the relation between ln and e. The average person will, after high school, never again have to utter the word "pi" in a non desert-related setting. Similarly, "'x' equals" will become nought but a forgotten dream.

Modern life makes no mathematical demands of 98% of humanity. The only mathematical skill beyond basic arithmetic that most people need to know is compound interest, and most people don't know that.

Knowledge is driven by need, and there's simply no need for most people to be anything but marginally proficient in math.
Pretty much the opposite that Rich Hickey advocated on this talk: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1962051.

One thing that makes me like his way is RSI.
Oups, accidental downvote, sorry.
That's not what the post is about.
Context really is everything, which is why I found your comment misleading. The topic of her post is not that a male hit on her anywhere in San Francisco. What she's talking about is the fact that some male(s) interpreted exchanging of business cards as "giving out a phone number" which can then be used for personal reasons, such as hitting on her. Furthermore, she finds herself facing an interesting dilemma: she feels she can't be "harsh", because they're a business contact.

It is an interesting topic, at least for me: I'm male, so I haven't had to go through a situation like that and I don't have a clue how I would respond to something like that if I were in her shoes. Had I heeded your summary without reading the blog, I would've missed a mildly interesting topic.
The China books are also of general interest to gain an idea of the nature of our new masters. For UK readers the books on US politics may be of interest. A good present gift list.
Germany Is Smart to Plan for Death of Euro
Correct, with the only qualifier being that this only applies to juries that are composed of anti-reason, science illiterate individuals.
F5 Friday: Is Your Infosec Motto 'Compone. Accomoda. Supera'?
With money to burn you could certainly make great strides in improving software in many areas of the sciences. A lot of tools used daily in areas of biology for example are very capable but were typically designed for use by the original author only. You could improve the lives of countless grad students and other researchers simply by providing a decent UI and good documentation. The savings and benefits would be enormous but you certainly would not make any money doing so.
I find that link pretty interesting but I still don't understand why you say that. I'm saying Google caring about design on Google Maps is the exception that proves the rule (the rule being that they don't care much about design).

Can you help me understand why it's wrong?
The Surprising Wealth and Success of Japan
Kinect + Chrome * MIT / Minority Report = DepthJS
The dark side of open source conferences [about women being harassed]
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The Origins of the Rails Capital of Poland
I see this type of ID everywhere and I'm curious as to how they are created and how "random" they are (the chances of generating two of the same). A python snippet would be great, of course :)
Best Way to get a scam site taken down?
This morning I was redirected to a scam site while trying to access facebook. The site is registered through Moniker and the site that it eventually points to is registered on dynamicdolphin. The scam tells you that you've been randomly selected for your area to take a short 2 question survey. Once you complete them it asks you to select a price which takes you to a different domain which is one of those 'Complete x offers to win your prize' sites.

It uses the domain name of faceb00k.c0m-survey.c0m all 0's are actually the letter 'o' (don't want to give these guys anything). I contacted Moniker and left them a message to call me back.
The site that the scam site points to is r.pr0duct-rewards.c0m

Is there a tried and true way you guys have used to take these sites down? Its an obvious scam and you'd think there would be an easy place to go to report and dismantle these things by now.
"It's much like Xcode being the best IDE for using an Apple computer to write software that runs on Apple computers. It certainly is."

Actually, so long as I'm writing C++, I greatly prefer QtCreator over XCode. It actually helps me navigate my code, whereas XCode just seems to get in the way.

I'd agree that XCode is the best IDE for writing Objective-C apps for OS X on a Mac... but only because it's in a field of one (as far as I know). In my opinion it's a truly terrible IDE.
Working on my own projects, I've been starting to feel like: well, how can I expect people to pay for the things that I create if I'm never willing to do the same for them?

I've also come to the realisation that sometimes time is more valuable than money. How many people here know the experience of hitting a torrent site (or sites) to - let's say - find a song. Finding a good quality bitrate, how many seeds does it have? It's not a dodgy file? OK, yep cool. I used to have more time than I knew what to do with in my younger years. Those days are well behind me and now, more and more I'm finding that my time is the most important resource I have.
Will Google search topple itself with its frequent changes?
No epub?
Also check out:

https://github.com/tuxychandru/grasshopper
It seems the author needs to brush up on Bayes' theorem, i.e. before giving a percentage confidence in a given theory, you need to consider the likely hood of the theory not occurring.

#1 Analysts explain it away by saying, for example,
"The market was hoping for even better news than the
good news they got." A simpler explanation is that the
market is being manipulated.

This a false assumption, as I would say it is more likely that the analysts got it wrong. If analysts could predict the stock market with near 100% accuracy, then it wouldn't be a high risk investment option would it?

#2 The lack of bombshells in the Wikileak materials
looks mighty suspicious to me

It is also wrong to assume that because no remarkable secrets have been exposed, that any have been leaked in the first place. This is a statement of pure fantasy based on no logic or facts.
I bet that we'll have a VM (and not JVM) in the browser that can run a lot of supported languages beyond Javascript.
"Microsoft does great things, but it’s become safe and dependable rather than exciting and risky."

After running into yet another bug in a new and shiny framework, costing me oh so much time, safe and dependable is starting to sound rather nice.If you always use cutting-edge do you really save time over using the tried and tested? A lot of time is lost due to having to learn new things, lack of documentation, lack of features and bugs. There is no absolute answer of course but it's a thing I think is important to keep in mind.
+1 for "you can check out the source here"!
Daniel Ellsberg Says Boycott Amazon
I'm a man and I've certainly questioned the intentions of quite a few women who "network.". I've also had questionable intentions with women I've networked with. So what? Flirting happens when sexes meet. Sometimes even more. If you want to close the door on that, say you have a boyfriend or your not interested in dating, or just don't flirt back. Otherwise you're the wuss for being unable to handle the facts of life. Disrespectful or overly persistent is another matter, but that doesn't seem to be the case.

A lot of people go to networking events to meet partners as well as network.

And American men are aggressive? Try Italian, Spanish, French, ...
Mentor Graphics acquires GNU toolchain leader CodeSourcery