skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does it? The blood-brain barrier lets lots of stuff pass, primarily restricting large molecules and hydrophilic molecules. Some, like glucose for instance, are specifically pulled through. I would expect amino-acid monomers would go right through. Prions, misfolded proteins consisting of many monomers, certainly manage to pass through, or no one would ever get the associated diseases.
Thanks for response. I realize the too much time problem. I will try the strategy of filling in all my free time. I have blocked of all the sites in the hosts file. I do find myself instinctively clicking the browser, but I seeing blank pages snaps me out of the procrastination mode. I idea of preplanned routine makes sense too.

How long have you used the drugs? Do you suffer any serious
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> Someone smarter than me will have to solve that problem.

Someone smarter, or someone with specific knowledge of the relevant domain and a lot more time to invest on the problem? I see a lot of people assuming that someone who can do something they can't is inherently smarter, even if they do something just as complicated for their daily job and think nothing of it.
As Nazi Germany can always serve as example, the alternatives discussed here are not between having laws and not having laws. The alternatives are between laws that protect our individual rights and laws that violate them.

When government begins meddling in the affairs of content delivery, it is not only an innappropriate harmful intrusion, but leaves a door open for content itself to be regulated or up for public vote.
ADHD is highly hereditary. My mom's hyperactive and my dad's passive, it manifests in entirely different ways. I had some major insomnia as well, but that's been an ongoing battle. I knew WAY more about ADHD than the two different docs I saw. Primarily because I had a breakdown and read dozens of books on it before I realized I really needed help. I was working for a big law firm over the summer and just lost it. I had trouble working a lot in a mundane job I didn't like and I struggled big time. The most important thing is to find ways to do what you like. I can remember times where I'd slept 10 hours and woke up to read for class and fell right back asleep. You subconscious is a pain in the ass and when you have ADHD it can be nearly impossible to force yourself to do things you don't want to do. The only reason I was able to titrate my meds and play around with the dosage a lot was because I was very articulate with my doctors. I would explain what I read, how I felt, why I wanted to try different things and they were supportive.

Far and away the best treatment for insomnia was to workout--hard. That's what Ratey's book is about. Not the vanity like I'm going to try to get jacked workout, but stressing out your body to the point where it focuses on rebuilding your body so your brain is forced to relax.

I've often thought about how I'd raise my own kids (married, but no kids yet). I think I would let me kids fucking explore and play with them a ton. It's hard being a square peg and fitting in the round hole of compulsory education, but there has to be a better way than just letting him/her flounder like my parents were forced to with me. (Not by choice, they just didn't know better the information available on the brain and psychology is about 1,000 times better than 10 years ago).
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I assume you disagree? Are you saying they understood it earlier or later?

Prior to WW1 (in Europe anyway), there was a distinct class-based disconnect on the impact of technology on society. Yes, the upper/political classes knew that it meant many more people had moved to the cities, and many industrialists were becoming rich.

But it was the impact of technology on warfare that forced the political classes to consider idea that technology leadership was a matter of national existence.

At the same time, the industrial scale of the war, and the huge number of people who lost their life led to wide-spread questioning of the political classes by the working class, which in turn led to an interest in the things that did affect them so much during the war: technology.
Cuil, of course!
So, where the heck is this $50B valuation coming from? I know those are '09 numbers, but even with wicked growth, that's quite a P/E.
Well, for lack of an apparent better way, person, or place to ask- thoughts on a degree in applied mathematical economics and finance- or the closest equivalent degree in this database?
Ideas are just a multiplier of execution
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While it is always nice to see someone turn their life around, I'm not sure how important or appropriate stories like these are. He has a nice voice. That's a nice novelty. But the novelty will wear off.

And I can't help finding claims like "he has had his prayers answered" irritating. What about the hundreds of millions of people for whom the world who - for whatever reason - don't "get their prayers answered"? They receive only silence. And what about the brilliant scientists who put prayers aside and achieve results through exceptional diligence and creativity?

Don't get me wrong - I'm very happy for the guy. But I'm worried about what the interest in trivial feel-good stories says about our society.
When I am in a deprived of sleep, I can barely focus on anything straight. That is why I stopped the drugs because it was killing my sleep.
The issue is I am unable to focus when I have had a good 8 hours of sleep. I end up focusing on fringe but interesting problems while losing sight of the important ones.
Decreasingly? This has been a rollercoaster for years. I was more of a Webmasterworld regular a few years ago than now but around 2005-2006 a lot of people thought Google had gone to pot.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/05/04/google_bigdaddy_chao...
http://www.webmasterworld.com/google/3040496.htm
http://www.seo-news.com/archives/2006/apr/6.html
http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum30/34407.htm
http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/feedback-webspam/

Plus ça change..
It seems the point of this fight is bidding when the company/government is already biased towards a specific vendor.

I have seen too many software vendors beat out the competition on an objective technical scale that I have taken a part in evaluating only to have Oracle win the entire contract with a sub par product and watching management skew the numbers into Oracle's favor so that their bosses remain happy. They'll spend more money for a lesser product simply because that is the status quo.
It's definitely expensive, but with a pretty small investment you can do a good fraction of workouts at home (e.g. pullup bar + 1-2 kettlebells + a jump rope). As you and others are saying though, the social element justifies the cost.
I think the integration of social media is a possible solution. Recommendations and likes (from Facebook) or other places are hard to artificially jack up and can also offer great results if it ties them to your friends. I like the direction Bing is going with this. It is the only way I can see to get large human edited results of the web.

Unless Google develops highly advanced AI (which is a possibility) computer algorithms can be gamed. Humans can be gamed as well but because we are all so different I don't think there is a single approach that would fool a large segment of the population at once.
Notion Ink Adam CES2011 Probably best hacker tablet?
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A first step would be to hide the queries data (especially trending queries). It was an interesting curio but its major consumers now are spammers.
Don't agree with this article.

Ideas are part of execution. Good ideas are hard work and can be worth millions. A really great idea can even work with bad execution.
You should. After a week or so you won't have trouble sleeping (maybe you're dosing too late in the day?), but I'm always on the lookout for improving without drugs, although I've pretty much come to the conclusion that getting things done is a matter of just sitting down and just doing it, no methods or apps needed. After 5-10 minutes of doing something, you're closer to "flow", which you've probably read about on HN.
What you're doing is avoid analyzing the regulatory system's incentive system.

The regulatory system is wholly connected to the failure and success to protect "net neutrality".

All I am telling you is my grim assessment that the government is no confidence as protector. Check and balances doesn't do anything if government is simply hostile as a whole. Democracy is tyranny. The whole idea of an educated electorate is a laughingstock.

Well, forgive me when I think people in general are just hostile to the idea of liberty and that democracy have no intrinsic protection against tyranny.
See: http://www.quora.com/Product-Management/What-are-the-best-bo...?
No, it's all or none, configured at the appid level.
(memo to Internet: middle aged women exist, please write for them, kthxbye)

Many years ago, when I was working at Joseph Beth Bookstore (where I suspect Borders stole a lot of their ops manual ideas from) management there told me that the primary demographic there was middle aged women. Middle aged women often have disposable income. Many of them are married homemakers and have tons of spare time. I suspect much of Oprah's success is built on that demographic.

If I were Oprah, I'd position her cable channel as just a part of her latest "new media" venture -- just one outlet for Oprah branded content. In her shoes, I'd make diverse investments in mobile and in TV-integrated platforms. I'd offer advertisers packages for reaching all those different outlets simultaneously. If Oprah does this, I'd recommend working with her. If she can't see this path clearly, then I'd recommend disrupting her.
:sex

Sex symbol, or colon sex?
it's called faith-based investing.
That's pretty lousy, but people can switch cell providers. Especially easy since, if I recall correctly, MetroPCS is prepaid, so there are no contracts to hit your wallet if you do switch.

It is significantly harder to switch governments, of course.
I think we're going to see the next generation of kids taking a much closer look at what they will be studying and the cost/benefits of those studies.

College tuition has gone up so much and people are in so much debt now that 2nd generation college students will likely have better advice from their parents.

All I ever got my whole life was, "go to school." Luckily I majored in engineering, but I know too many people with half a mortgage in student loans making $12/hour now.
I agree with you that government should be kept on a short leash, for the reasons you state, but we don't want to strangle it, either - Government has a job to keep others from infringing on your rights.
If ISPs are free to regulate traffic, then they have the power to strangle the business of a content provider by preventing their customers from accessing the content. Even if you argue that customers have chosen their infrastructure provider, how is the infrastructure provider not infringing on the rights of the content provider, which doesn't even do business with them?
This article gives a good explanation: http://searchengineland.com/when-ocr-goes-bad-googles-ngram-...

Also interesting: http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=suck%2Cfuck&y...
Mysterious bird deaths hit Sweden
I know it's a cliché to complain about this, but the article is a bit Amerocentric (is that a word? It is now!).

The Australian Government, for example, gathers a very large pool of statistics from the publicly funded universities, down to the level of having students grade their professors and courses.
Does $560 per user for email in 2011 strike anyone as borderline ridiculous (minus the borderline part)?
Could it possibly be at google is in the middle of an innovator's dilemma?

Twitter, hacker news, tumblr, and quora are all really shitty google replacements. But I use them to get certain kinds of information. It isn't enough to justify a radical change at google -- especially if they are even slightly focused on maintaining revenue.

There must an an opportunity for a more curated experience where the browsing behavior of a few thousand selected people can be used to juice authority. I don't think the human editors need to know they are doing that job. Maybe they should use chrome data for this.
Thanks, everyone, for the great, useful feedback. I'm taking all of it into consideration. :) Much appreciated.
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A reasonable thought, but wrong. The existing datastore has basically the 99.9% of the benefits you describe. Unfortunately, 99.9% availability (especially when a single datastore request may touch 10 things and thus be at 99% availability) isn't good enough.

One of the major problems with having a single bigtable is partial outages. These can either be the major events like there were today, with 10% or more of the cell having issues, or it can be just one server in the bigtable having performance issues. The key to having higher availability with the High Replication datastore is that if certain entities are slow or unavailable in one datacenter, we can rely on the performance of other datacenters to limit the latency.
So it's basically the evolution of forums/bulletin boards?
Good point.

On the other hand it took google more than a couple of weeks to get rid of kods.net, too. Where ehow is readable, kods was, as far as I could tell, just a lot of computer generated oracle words mixed from other sources.
Puppet. I'm increasingly convinced that a multilevel system is required to solve this type of problem.
It's not reddit, but I upvoted you anyway.
Sorry but "Most scientific views boil down to "belief"" is patently untrue. All scientific theories are not beliefs but rational explanations that fit the facts. If a new fact appears that contravenes the theory, the theory is thrown out. (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aether_theories for example, some of which weren't thrown out till early last century).

As a physics undergrad I was never asked to take an expert at his word. Everything we learnt we tested in the lab, sure I didn't built an electron scanning microscope, but I used one and it fitted with the science.

The science I was presented with was given as a derivation of science I already knew, which was based on things we learn in high school etc etc. There is no taking the word of someone in science, hence the peer review process.
Read Heinlein instead.
Haml keys can be plain strings.

#main_page{"data-role" => 'page'}

`data-` attributes are also special-cased:

#main_page{data: {role: 'page'}}
Ask HN: How cultured is the Hacker News community?
Do you read about art history, food, or anything non-tech related for that matter? (I suppose you could include sports, but I'd give that answer only a +0.5 if I could since a large number people follow some type of sports)
Debate is pointless if you ignore contrary evidence.

For example, it's pretty clear that you are anti-vaccine. It's fine to hold that opinion, but as I'm sure you've seen the overwhelming evidence against your point of view I don't see any need in re-hashing the arguments.

In cases like this you may not be consciously trolling, but in my view arguing a dissenting view in the face of such overwhelming evidence exhibits the same damaging behavior patterns that a troll engages in. Given that, I think the appropriate response is exactly the same as the response to a troll, ie: a perfunctory link to counter evidence on Wikipedia (for the sake of casual readers), and a downvote.
It is a public debate whose nature is similar discourse that focuses in on an approximate truth. Your comment is especially unfair when directed at such a consistently high quality blog.
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not a great signal for Rockmelt then, is it?
Wow. That was intense. Not expecting to read such a well thought out note.
Simple Jetpack-based framerate monitor for Firefox
I did not know that. Thanks for the heads up, and thanks for Haml and Sass!
Well, if you use Google Apps and your own domain, you can point the domain at the new app after copying data over. http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/domain.html

Being able to do a migration online and for the same appspot.com domain is something we'd like to do, but I don't have any timeline as for when that will be available.
Is there a huge incentive for Google to improve if a lot of the content farms are monetised by AdSense and actually return Google money?

You could argue that they might lose their spot as the default search engine for a lot of people, but Microsoft has presumably thrown a huge amount of money and expertise at the problem and hardly dominated. I suspect this is not going to be a significant problem for Google in a hurry.
Agreed, let's not let government meddle in the affairs of content delivery.
But let's not let anyone else, either, because government isn't the only entity capable of censorship. But who would enforce such a rule?

I have an idea - we could make a law that says "no one should meddle in the affairs of content delivery" - we could call it something catchy, like "Net Neutrality".
Why would you make this claim about this deal? It's completely unfounded and the obvious explanation of "their engineers are awesome" seems perfectly adequate.
My guess for the near-to-mid term is celebrity curation.

I keep thinking about how Roger Ebert, after decades of movie reviews, started branching out into political (anti-Tea-Party) commentary and other articles. If you knew that a trusted brand (for many) like Ebert was curating home TVs, or projectors, or blank DVD media in an unbiased way, wouldn't you want to see what he had to say?

Or Thomas Dolby on audio equipment, Sting on Tantric books, and so on. They'd make money through affiliate links or even subscriptions.
If you require a read/write to talk to a majority of the replicas, you don't need to have a specific replica as the master to maintain consistency.
IMHO rockmelt (like flock before it) is an elaborately engineered answer to the wrong question - how do we deeply integrate social with browsing? It does indeed so integrate social media aggregation with browsing but the problem is that the implementation is so heavy on the social media that it constitutes noise whilst browsing and is therefore detrimental to the user experience.
To ensure portability, NT was originally written for the DEC Alpha and later ported to Intel. (It was also original created with a Pig-Latin UI and later localized to English.) Also, the Xbox360 runs a stripped-down branch of NT on big-endian PowerPC. An native ARM port should be relatively easy.
I'm worried about what the interest in trivial feel-good stories says about society

In my opinion, it says that people can be compassionate and loving. It's not everyday that we hear such a heartwarming story when most news outlets report of crime and the latest celebrity gossip.
I didn't say anything that alluded to me (or any other employee) wanting to run the show. Are you really attempting to get the most out of the employee-employer relationship or are you trying to put down threats to your authority?
Metamorphosis: From Alien to Citizen
The user base is growing at something like 200% a year. In five years, they'll have over 32 billion users. Just figure out a way to make one or two dollars off each user...that can't be so hard, right?
Group IQ
We are also very lucky here that we don't take out student loans, and make repayments (we get HECS[1], and the repayments are automatic, like tax, once you cross a certain income threshold), so I'm guessing there wouldn't be a large enough number of people interested to make Australian centric data profitable.

[1] http://www.goingtouni.gov.au/Main/Quickfind/PayingForYourStu...
Is wealth/poverty relative or absolute?

I think most people would be happier if they saw it in more absolute terms. I have witnessed wealthy people made to feel like paupers when a yet more wealthy person puts on a display that they can't afford. The phenomena is actually quite comical.

Still it's fairly clear that wealth will always be a measuring stick that people will use to display their relative worth. It's like plumage. A lot of resources go into growing those fancy tail feathers. In itself I don't see anything wrong with that. It's quite natural.

However it's important for societal cohesion that the absolute wealth of the average does not fall and that they can maintain some semblance of dignity.
I have to say there's some truth to this. Why is it that I increasingly must search through the search results just to find the site that originally published the string returned in the first 3 to 8 results?

I don't want to patronize all these sites repackaging content created by others, yet they continually appear before the creator.
In a nutshell yes. But it's so much better and realtime. You just have to get involved in it to see why it can be quite addicting.

Here's a simple hash:

LinkedIn => Recruiters
Facebook => People you don't want to be friends with;
Twitter => People you wish were your friends;
Quora => Basically Hacker News comments' like quality + twitter like asymmetrical following + domain experts whom you can contact directly! Also, there your upvotes are visible too :-)

Here's a thread on Quora similar to your question - http://www.quora.com/Is-Quora-a-glorified-forum?q=is+quora+a...
Ask HN: Would you pay for this app?
I have an idea for an app and would like feedback as to whether you would want it and how much you would pay. I basically want to make something like Dropbox where you can store your files online and they are automatically synced, but instead of storing your files on a third party's servers, store them on your own computers. You would set up the app on all the computers you want to save your files to and then you'd have a RAID-like setup where if one computer (or maybe more) is destroyed, the rest would have backups of the file. It'd work a lot like Bit Torrent.

Would you pay for something like this? How much?
1. Evolution works at all timescales greater than a lifetime.

2. The Jews _were_ under extreme pressure: people apparently felt free to kill them, persecute them, rape them, wipe them out. What could be more extreme?

3. Yes, culture would help. But it would also speed genetic change as Jews increasingly moved into an ecological niche defined by a particular set of abilities (e.g., counting, visualization, quantification, pattern recognition, concept formation) used in fields such as finance.
> lets run a case study.

No, you're making the claim you should already have more evidence to back it up than a snark.
Great work. I really like it. I wonder if the "Wage Gap" data and article will persuade more women to do engineering and other currently male-dominated careers. But I doubt it. Perhaps we are hard-wired to enjoy certain types of work.

Quick bug report: the textbox "Your Major" on http://www.onlinedegrees.org/calculator/ is case-sensitive. I would suggest making it insensitive. Then "computer science" would return a result. (I browsed with OSX 10.6.5, Safari 5).
HECS has been a pretty good compromise between private and public education. The major flaw is that course place supply is centrally dictated by Canberra and the ALP removed the main pressure valve (full-fee places).
Why on earth would you want beans that don't make you gassy? It's like non-alcoholic beer, there's no fun in it
The consensus is that RISC vs. CISC doesn't matter because microarchitecture trumps ISA: the cost of instruction decoding is now small, I-caches negate any difference in code density, compilers can produce efficient code for any reasonable (i.e. non-Itanium) architecture, etc. I am honestly surprised to see Dally's complaints.
FORTRAN and Lisp: http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=FORTRAN,Lisp&...