skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
According to this article you normally want an acidic solution:
http://www.westonaprice.org/food-features/492-putting-the-po...
i've not actually, i'll check it out, thx!
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More elegant and easier to type syntax.
I'd rather AT&T actually create a better network than spend time on marketing nonsense that simulates the creation of a better network. They may as well have a zero-G network if you live in a half-populated area.
Their network still sucks? AT&T gets to slap on a new marketing buzzword, pretend it's better, sucker more customers into thinking it's better, and make more money while still giving everyone a crappy service.
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great link, definitely worth reading the full BMJ article.

Here's a quote from the senior clinician on the project, after the journalist presented information from one of the parents that conflicted with the data in the study: “Well I can’t really comment,” he said. “You really touch on an area which I don’t think should be debated like this. And I think these parents are wrong to discuss such details, where you could be put in a position of having a lot of medical details and then try to match it with this, because it is a confidential matter.”

no wonder why so many people are losing trust in science ...
That's not a universal binary. It's a bytecode package. It still needs to be run through an interpreter or a JIT compiler, just like a JAR file for Java.

A universal binary contains actual machine code for multiple architectures. Universal binary support requires deeper changes to the OS and can complicate testing, but it's basically a requirement for making cross-platform high performance code because a JIT compiler can't spend as much time optimizing code as an ahead-of-time compiler.

Machine-independent bytecode paired with a high-quality VM allows you to ship a cross-platform executable, but it's not going to be enough when ARM PCs are facing an uphill battle to prove their performance is acceptable to a market that isn't particularly satisfied with Intel's Atom.
Basically the first paper states, from what I can understand, "Some people are born with a genetic defect in their cells, specifically in the mitochondria part of the cell. When these people are injected with Thimerosal, they get autism. Others don't." My proposed solution: Check to see if the kid has this genetic defect, and if so, don't inject them with mercury, inject them with the mercury free vaccine and they will be fine.

I'm not anti-vaccine at all, just anti-mercury in the vaccine. Also they did not remove Thimerosal from vaccines. In fact, the swine flu shot had Thimersal and if you remember, children and pregnant women were encourage to take it first. This caused a 700% increase in miscarriages. http://hubpages.com/hub/thirmerosal_in_vaccines
Wanna bet? I'll give you 3 to 1 odds.
It will also make your code drastically slower.
I'm not sure that's a good corollary. Paying taxes is something people try to avoid because it has a cash value to do so. If the cost of avoidance (both in money and the value of time, added together) is greater than the tax cost, it won't be avoided.

A company, on the other hand, can try to avoid the requirements of going public because it does not want to expose itself to the media and public scrutiny. However, the operators of that company want to avail themselves of the liquidity of public offerings--usually to cash out and, amusingly, pay taxes on the resulting earnings--but don't want to expose their financials or the details of the business. If this is the true motivation, and it seems to be the case with many Internet-related companies wanting to be quite secret about their goings-on, then Facebook and Goldman Sachs' proceeding in this manner is underhanded. It doesn't (necessarily) serve as an indictment of the system for going public, which is designed to provide protection for the investor.
Really interesting that this project was last modified in 2007, but it's still news. Still news because there's so much great, open stuff out there and even with ... google ... it's still hard to discover.

If you know what you are looking for google is great, but I think this post is a good example of why I rely so much on Hacker News.
Right I will come right out and say what I implied in my full reply to the "dissenter". What they posted is hyperbol and unsupported hand-waving.

None of what they posted is useful in making a decision one way or another on the subject.

I can't understand the title of the study they posted let alone the contents and I have never heard of the journal which maybe is the preeminent publication of its field or a dirty rag which the publisher's mate "peer reviews". I have no way of knowing from the comment and posting the abstract provides nothing.

The second one is a blog of an Autism organisation in New York that doesn't link to anything that I can use to gauge its authority.

And the third is talking about a single scientist in the opposing side of the debate (there is only one person refuting these claims? Really?) who was caught with his hand in the till. Hardly proof or otherwise on the debate at hand.

So I stand by my downvote.
Those aren't the only two options. But I mostly avoid discussions like this on HN because the atmosphere here is pretty openly judgmental and hostile (a la your remark) so I don't see any real good coming out of trying to discuss it. It doesn't help that anyone here who is anti-vax tends to post in these threads in a manner that just promotes the view that we are all extremist nutcases, unfamiliar with basic logic, etc. So posting the type of remark you have just posted (in a forum that is already pretty biased on the topic) is highly unlikely to get you a real explanation of a third option. Thus you get your own "confirmation bias" stuff going on.

Peace.
Interestingly, science begins to trump religion at approximately the same time that freedom begins to trump justice.

Not that I'm complaining, but what happened during the 1920s?
Trying to get your startup going on the side while maintaining your current job is certainly an attractive option for many people. But the risk with that approach is that the startup never gets launched and off the ground. They tend to stall and stall and stall, all because they have that big safety net of their current job and salary. It can work, but not always.
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The only solution is see for Verizon and Sprint is to advertise actual speeds.
I agree with this. HN's user base is too small (relatively speaking) for something like this work.

I think something like http://www.meetup.com/ or http://www.nerddinner.com/ would work better.
I knew the basic outline of this story beforehand and yet I read the article anyway.

A few new things that stood out:

- the description of Dagan's mgmt style and how it negatively affected the mission

- the way the author (a presumably non-techie) described the lock picking and practicing of lock picking (did the picker actually test the picking of the locks as the author suggests or did the team assume the locks would be electronic and simply bring a device that could pick any known lock?). the author glosses over this and makes a short inference, but it made me wonder.

- the Austrian private switchboard. i didn't know this kind of thing existed. can i get access to one?

So I agree with comments from many other people about it just being an interesting story, but those are 3 bits that made me think and made it worth my time.
I try to avoid sarcasm in comments. It seems like one is packing more meaning into a short comment, but without knowing a person or body language the comment is often unclear.

Here I think you meant your comment as a final unavoidable contradiction to the GPs post, but I recall reading some lore on a father of the internet steering the RFC process while a government branch was working on another standard meant to be primary. (I'd look it up but I'm on my mobile.) So I doubt we can say it was more the government institution rather than the will of the builders which led to the internet which is more in line with the GP and doesn't take away from the idea that their positions made their work possible.
and how convenient, they'll have a bunch of wealthy investors in a vehicle they've set up to get around SEC regulation to sell it to!
Grandma's special trick: add a whole potato (peeled, raw) late in the cooking and take it out before it melts into your beans.

It really works quite well, something with absorbing and what not and it might work when you soak the beans first but doing it after it has been cooking also makes the beans thicker :)

This is all done in a crock pot rather than pressure cooker though.
This is my favorite blog regarding the idea guy: http://sivers.org/multiply
"The biggest reason is by only fueling your body with shit, you’re also fueling your brain with shit."

You are what you eat.
I imagine they're just showing off their programs for the platform. Google have been touting Android as an 'open' platform, I doubt they're going to turn back at this stage.
> we need to view this as a soft science like psychology or sociology.

indeed! computer science is a social science! http://www.achangeiscoming.net/docs/cssocsci.html
I'd say it's more an attitude of entitlement. "The airline used to give you $200 to rebook, now they give you less!" As if the airline owed them the opportunity to take the next flight.

If anything this will allow the airline to overbook much more aggressively. Giving people the opportunity to take that money more often, and if anything make more than the old method overall. Of course when that happens the story will change to "The rich get to travel whenever they want and the poor are stuck waiting!" Or "Ticket speculators are increasing ticket prices so the poor can't travel!"
They did actually upgrade to HSPA+, it's not like they're deceiving anybody about that. Their claims of the "fastest" network have generally been true too. The fact that their coverage and reliability suck doesn't mean they can't play up their strong points.
Slower than what alternative?
That's what I'm wondering too. Android is already pretty fragmented and seems things will get worse before they get better.
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can someone get Jenny McCarthy's view on this. She was a believer.
Sometimes VCs force rising companies to buy declining companies in their portfolio.

Though I don't see common investors in their crunchbase profile, the incestuousness of Silicon Valley cannot be underestimated.

e.g. Redhat bought the wreck of Ars Digita.
I'm in Hokkaido in Japan right now and struck by how slow the speed limits are, even in a rural area with wide straight roads. People get used to driving slow when they are forced to, and society benefits from fewer accidents.
My favorite thing is seeing memes that die out for various reasons.

The best example I've found is "king cotton" (the idea that European powers would intervene in the American civil war to protect their supplies of cotton): http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=king+cotton&y...

Another that compares a few and their cultural impact. Did you know that Phrenology probably had more cultural impact than UFO's did? http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=Phrenology%2CSpir...

Here's a dead scientific theory: http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=luminiferous&...

The success of a socio-political movement: http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=Woman%27s+Suffrag...

The death of Wade-Giles and rise of Pinyin for Chinese: http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=Peking%2CBeijing&...
No, on reading it, they also mention "the leaching out of oligosaccharides into a warm, slightly basic soak water", followed in the next paragraph of the specification of a pH between 6.5 and 9.0 ("slightly acidic to alkaline" - meaning preferably alkaline but slight acidity is OK if you don't go too far).

But wow - this is a great article!
I don't think you actually read Delta's policy. Volunteers get vouchers/miles good only on Delta (or partner) flights, but involuntarily bumped passengers get comped in accordance with the US DOT rules.

Those rules require the airlines to pay for hotel costs incurred because of the involuntary bump. The cash compensation is in addition to reimbursement for costs borne by the traveler because of the bumping.

Also, miles only trump cash if you are close to reaching a significant plateau (i.e., upgraded frequent flyer membership). Otherwise, the restrictions on miles make them much worse then cash you can spend anywhere.
why is there so much hate out there for idea guys?

Because it's easy to imagine things. When you're on the other end, you'll understand. You grow to resent the 'idea guys' because you feel like you're doing all the heavy lifting for them. They say, gee wouldn't it be cool to have an underwater car? And you sigh, because you know you're the one who's actually going to have to make the damn thing.

Doesn't help that 'idea guys' often want something impossible or ridiculously difficult & complicated.
I'm not hostile to opposing viewpoints. Truthfully I don't understand.

Now you've mentioned it I'm trying to think of a third option would be something along the lines of "Vaccines could be applied differently than they are today". I haven't seen any evidence that supports that theory, but primarily I'm focused on people the refuse to vaccinate their kids at all. Not the ones that advocate different methods of vaccination.
So do you think Flock's social browser would an equivalent to Facebook?

I'm doubtful but that would be interesting...
I guess this is a great example of founders never giving up. I had forgotten that Flock existed, and would have assumed that they'd called it quits, but here they are with what appears to be a successful exit. Kudos to them!
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FWIW, if you're looking at HBase alternatives because of stability or reliability concerns, Cassandra is probably going to be an easy move because of the common BigTable datamodel ancestor. (With some notable improvements, e.g., http://www.riptano.com/blog/whats-new-cassandra-07-secondary...)
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I'd like to see some discussion on this too.

FWIW, Zynga serves international markets via non-Facebook channels. But I have no idea as to the percentage of overall business this represents.
The modern world began.

Seriously - WW1 ended, and people began to understand the impact of technology.

Motorized and air transport, radio, Communism, womens rights and the rise to dominance of the US all were trends that were well underway in the 1920s, but were either non-existent or very rare in 1910.
In Canada, I've heard it's more "traditional" to let the newer engineers wear shinier rings, so the more experienced ones have tarnished rings. One of the older engineers lost his in some machinery and had to get a new one. He hated it, said it made him feel like a n00b :-)
There once was an airline which operated under those principles. PeopleExpress, Bus of the American Skies, used to line people up and simply ship them off on the next available flight. People could (and would) jump ahead in the line by paying someone ahead of them to switch places. You had to pay additional fees for everything except your seat.

Like all a rabid experiments in brutal capitalism, PeopleExpress went bankrupt.
Best would be to show a minimal crashing case.

log(1,0,0) does not crash it.

1.1 * log(1,0,0) crashes it.

log(1,0) is interpreted as "log of 0, base 1", which is -infinity.

log(1, 0, 0) / 1 is interpreted as log(1,0,0)

as is log(1,0,0) * 1

log(1,0,0) gets converted to the Mathematica form Log[1,0,0] which, from the documentation, makes no sense to me.

log(1,0,0) * 1.1 crashes it.

So it's some interaction of an undefined result and a floating point number. Have you sent a bug report to Wolfram?
Some of the H1N1 vaccines contained Thimerosal none of them intended for pregnant women or children.

Also the figure of 700% increase in miscarriages alone doesn't actually prove anything on its own, a virulent disease was also abroad at the time. A detailed study of the medical histories of the women who had miscarriages during 08/09/10 would be needed to establish what the cause of the increase was (and I hope is being done?).
I'd say that this acquisition might be more related to that question than you think. Zynga games will probably be accessible through Facebook for a long time to come, but the Flock acquisition may be the start of them looking for other ways to reach customers.
Many games already run on iOS and Android which are ARM based and so at least those games could be ported.

Why Nvidia might want to compete with either of the PC, Portable Gaming Systems (PSP, iTouch, PSPhone), Xbox360 and PS3 without either a solid advantage or agreement with big game studios is beyond me.
I agree completely. New inputs beyond QWERTY need to be developed. The tricky part I think is getting people to use new methods. I think things like 8Pen are a good start, however.
The good kind of hard is a steep learning curve which is necessary due to the richness, expressiveness, and sometimes uniqueness of a language. Getting past the difficult learning curve is rewarded by being able to implement almost any solution naturally without having to shoehorn it too much to fit the idiosyncrasies of the language.

The bad kind of hard is like trying to learn to program in Malbolge or brainfuck. Yes it's going to be hard and requires a lot of effort to master. But getting past the learning curve yields little to no reward.

So difficulty of mastery is no indication of the quality of the language and, by itself, shouldn't be used as an argument in favor of a given programming language. I think your point is well made by letting the last two paragraphs stand on their own.
While it is hard to somehow "prove" what is the best strategy for an institution, I would say there is indeed hard science that has been done that gives us a fuzzy picture.

It's not a perfect science, but then again even quantum physics is incomplete and suffers from anomalies.

The entire purpose of social science is to move these questions away from just personal judgement and get SOME level, no matter how small, of objective fact.

Organizational psychologists have studied this issue and I think there are some good guidelines. My definition is, admittedly, biased by my own personal judgement.

But still, there is real genuine scientific evidence that indicates institutions which empower individuals and allow for a lot of freedom are objectively better than ones that are more authoritarian and brutal.

You can operationally define "better" as "the group of choice of a 4/5th majority of randomly selected humans" if you want.
I found it very interesting that joining any of the Australian Professional societies (Engineers Australia, Australian Computer Society) as a Software Engineer we have to agree to a set of bye-laws and a code of ethics with fairly harsh internal penalties.

Personally I think it's a brilliant idea and wish that more professions adopt a similar thinking (I don't know of any that do but then again I haven't looked very hard).
Does this perform Paxos on every single transaction (wouldn't that be expensive?) or is Paxos used to elect a write coordinator replica and ensure a consistent view of the cluster to guarantee serializable consistency?

If it's former, can we get more details? This would be quite similar to the work Daniel Abadi had been doing at Yale at parallelizing distributed commit (e.g., Paxos) to maintain high throughput despite increased latency.
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Doesn't help that 'idea guys' often want something impossible or ridiculously difficult & complicated.

LMFAO So true.
Thanks! I was looking for something like this
3. They do enormous amounts of research and are very devoted parents who keep their kids healthy without prescription drugs or vaccines. They use diet, lifestyle changes and herbs/supplements (which are very respected in some "traditional" medicines) in place of what conventional/modern doctors would do to kids.

I have a form of cystic fibrosis (as does my 23 year old son). I have gotten off 8 or 9 prescription drugs and gotten me and my kids healthier. A great deal of what I know about getting healthy I learned from an anti-vax/alternative health board that believes that vaccines and other sources of metal poisoning cause autism (and related disorders). (EDIT: I don't think it's quite that simple, but I do think that is certainly a factor.) Both my sons fit the profile for ASD. Getting the three of us healthier has dramatically reduced their ASD symptoms. My son with cystic fibrosis has not been on antibiotics for over 12 years -- more than half his life -- and has taken no medication whatsoever in about 4 years. Most people with CF take hundreds or thousands of dollars worth of "maintenance drugs" every month, more when they are "sick" (having an exacerbation).

Most people with my genetic disorder get flu vaccines and pneumonia vaccines and other vaccines religiously. And they get gradually sicker and sicker until they die, usually at tragically young ages. I get a lot of flack off of people in the CF community for advocating non-drug approaches to the problem. I also get treated like I am some kind of irresponsible fruitcake and bad mother because none of us has seen a doctor in several years. We haven't seen a doctor because a) we aren't "sick" like we used to be and b) no doctor can help me improve on my track record of success. Doctors told me flat out to my face "people like you don't get well -- symptom management is the name of the game". I beg to differ.

Thank you for your reasonable reply.

Peace.
I'm guessing that they will be focusing on making browser plugins, not necessarily continuing with marketing an entirely new browser.
Slower yes, but not drastically:

% python -m timeit '{"key": "value", "dr_nic": "The Comedian", "ttl": 42}'
1000000 loops, best of 3: 0.296 usec per loop

% python -m timeit 'dict(key="value", dr_nic="The Comedian", ttl=42)'
1000000 loops, best of 3: 0.771 usec per loop

There are far better ways to make code faster than worrying about the extra fraction of a microsecond you're spending calling dict rather than using the literal syntax.
I tried RockMelt and I throughly enjoyed it, but I love my simplicity of Chrome.
Well you aren't their target customer
Ahh but those are perks indeed. The thing is, if a developer is mediocre with the perks in place, you take them away. If he's still mediocre, you let him go. He was a mediocre employee however you see it. Here's the catch. To make sure you have an employee that feels empowered, challenged, and engaged you need to offer this perks beforehand. If you don't they're just going to feel as a regular employee. Unimportant and replaceable.

Developers don't look at themselves as grunt workers after they've acquired significant experience (enough experience to expect these kind of perks), but as management/executive material who would rather program than do whatever management tasks he'd do if he was a manager. Managers and executives are the dudes that won't get a ton of flak for coming in later in the day or for taking an hour and a half of lunch instead of just one.

I'll be honest, I've worked as the general manager of an outsource development company and I found the job generally lackluster and not as challenging as coding, therefore I prefer to code. The fact that I find a general manager's job easier than coding make's me want to have similar perks, and I bet I'm not the only one out there that thinks like this.
It'll be something along the lines of "Big Pharma did a hit job on him".
It would be something like this:

>> a = :foobar
=> :foobar
>> {a => 1}
=> {:foobar=>1}