skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just an FYI, the additional reactors going in in South Texas are ABWR's, not BWR's.
The article title is a bit misleading. It looks like they done a blind search on foods the children ate and by process of elimination found foods whose removal caused the reduction of ADHD like symptoms from 64% of kids in their sample. The Two signal paragraphs are:

Pelsser compares ADHD to eczema. "The skin is affected, but a lot of people get eczema because of a latex allergy or because they are eating a pineapple or strawberries." According to Pelsser, 64 percent of children diagnosed with ADHD are actually experiencing a hypersensitivity to food. Researchers determined that by starting kids on a very elaborate diet, then restricting it over a few weeks' time.

...

"In all children, we should start with diet research," she says. If a child's behavior doesn't change, then drugs may still be necessary. "But now we are giving them all drugs, and I think that's a huge mistake," she says.

My questions as someone ignorant of this area are 64% seems a confident generalization, theres no real physiological basis with respect to neurochemistry given for what causes these er mental allergies, what foods or absence thereof created the best results, is this scalable - it seems very trial&error so susceptible to misapplication and corner cutting and

I don't know how to read the following statement:

>Also, Pelsser warns, altering your child's diet without a doctor's supervision is inadvisable.
What do people think of the concept? Our main site is at http://lmnd.st/

Also, I'm sure some of you are at SXSW - I'd love to meet up and chat. We're having a Lemonade Stand in about 45 minutes by Trinity St and 4th on the lawn, stop by!
altering your child's diet without a doctor's supervision is inadvisable.

WTF? I'm sure this is just a CYA, but the idea that most people need the advice of a medical professional to make dietary decisions is absurd. Sure, be careful about any radical fad diets, but adding or eliminating certain foods is quite safe. People do that all the time due to price fluctuations, availability and changing tastes with no ill effects.
It looks neat, but it's practically unusable for me. It's very choppy on OSX10.6 and Chrome 10.0.648.133 beta.
I'll take StackExchange over Yahoo Answers for technical topics (where YA is mainly populated by kids posting their homework and spammers advertising tutorial sites unrelated to the question), but YA has been effective for getting information on popular opinion (e.g. what people think are good restaurants where I'm going), expectations in social situations I'm rarely in (e.g. how to properly tip a bartender), etc.

In both cases, it's nice that I'm never the first to want a particular question answered.
The Intersection of Disciplines
My current generation Shuffle does, also.
> There is no shortage of counter-examples, the most obvious being Zynga

And if you don't think Zynga is at risk from a change of policy by Facebook you're kidding yourself.

It's a gamble. A huge gamble. Zynga may in fact be large enough now to survive war with Facebook but they'd be savaged and greatly diminished by it (IMHO).

Look no further than the move to Facebook Credits [1] to see who really wields the power in this relationship. Facebook has exacted a 30% cut, forced on app developers (interestingly I haven't seen quite the same outrage at this as I have about iOS subscription changes).

[1]: http://www.allfacebook.com/zynga-facebook-credit-2010-09
The Music Venture Capital Business Model (Or a New Perspective)
Should we count lakes and other self-contained bodies of water on land?
Some doctors attribute ADHD, particularly the inattentive sort, to actually be a manifestation of general allergic reactions which really just makes people tired, and triggers symptoms that would classify a person as having ADHD according to the DSM (Remember, the DSM generally makes no distinctions as to what causes a condition, it only diagnoses it.) They often try to treat the allergies first, which is generally a good start.

I have both ADHD and a mild latex allergy. Ironically, the latex allergy makes eating almost any fruit shitty ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oral_allergy_syndrome#Cross_rea... )

However, my diet has definitely kept clear of most of these foods when possible for a long time now (although I really do love avocados), and even did the fatty fish thing for a while, but symptoms haven't changed for me.
There's a kernel of a good idea in this article: before checking references, determine 2-3 questions about the candidate you need answered; then focus the reference check on those questions. This prevents you from posing generic questions that get canned, inconclusive answers.

That approach could glean valuable information even from direct references (the references you offer to a prospective employer are always primed and coached, right?). Even an extremely friendly reference is unlikely to lie overtly on the phone. So your mission as a reference checker is to pose straightforward questions that are hard to bullshit around.

People's concerns about HR "no detailed references" policies are also probably overblown. The references a candidate offers you are part of their credentials; they've presumably chosen the best ones they have. References that can't tell you anything because of "policy" are, in fact, negative references.
I read it as comparing the companies by the problems they choose to solve. What Facebook has been doing lately with Q&A and places is similar to the branching out that Google started doing a few years ago.
At which point it would likely be so dilute as to not be a significant contributor to mortality.
I really wish people would put transcripts up for these video links. I can skim faster to the actual point than they can talk their way there.
Just go with Gunicorn+gevent. The fantastic thing about WSGI is that if there's a faster solution available, you can switch it out.

I think frameworks would be a more difficult choice, I like Flask as it's simple and uses Jinja2, which is sexy.
Local bakery = shrub; IBM = redwood; startup = redwood seedling.
Thank you so much for this information! This is a fascinating mission.
What people need to realize, is that there is a reason why the free-ranging cowboy had to stop existing, all the cowboy-poetry about the sadness of barbed wire fences notwithstanding.

More order means more economic activity.

If you have any knowledge about security and cryptography, and you start planning out the security for a new kind of app, one keeps on running into difficulties, one after another. It just occurred to me the other day that these difficulties are just like the ones 3rd world businesspeople face. As far as security goes, we are living with a poverty of infrastructure. Basically, too much of the information infrastructure is broken, to the extent that we can't do diamond-hard key management.

Secure medical information through the browser? People are in fear of regulation sets like HIPPA, because browsers are one of the richest sources of security holes! Private information? People say ridiculous stuff like "privacy is dead" and young women just hope the pics their ex-boyfriends posted are lost in the throngs of other evilly posted pics on the internet. It's insanity. How is this any different than someone in the 3rd world trying to build a widget delivery business, but finds that the roads are rotten, he can't get parts for his trucks, and he has to bribe people to let his trucks past, bribe people to let his warehouses be unmolested, and to get the business license in the first place?

In terms of security, even the 1st world is like the 3rd world. The upshot: whoever attempts building the internet's first mature security infrastructure will have huge risks. Whoever succeeds will make billions of dollars. My startup is doing precisely this. If you understand what I am saying, you can email my username at gmail dot com.

Google gets it. This is what they're trying to do with Chrome. This is how it will start. People will try to build little pockets, little pieces of infrastructure. These are the walled gardens. Some will fail. Some will succeed and even interconnect. Eventually, workable networks will securely connect the entire world.
The secret law of page harmony
So... it's craigslist, but it tells everyone my location by default?
>Not so long ago, people were outraged that Amazon could and did arbitrarily delete books from users’ Kindles; last week they clamored for Google to exercise essentially the same power.

There's a significant difference between code and data.

Similarly, when AOL lost to the open web, it wasn't because their code was closed, it was because their community and their content was closed. In a similar manner, iTunes needs to offer a web client if it wants to compete with Amazon, Google, and the rest in the long run. Or at least make Android/WebOS apps.
That looks like a pre-press version. This version has the graphics and layout and such:

http://marrym.web-log.nl/files/adhd-and-elimination-diet-rct...
> The FDR administration recognized, however, that in order for the market to properly function, there needed to exist another kind of player - the speculator. The entire purpose of the speculator, as originally envisioned ...

My point is that free and open markets attract participants who exercise their self-interest. There is no central authority saying "you are the buyer", "you are the seller", and "you are the speculator". Speculation is an inherent property in any market participant. So-called "speculators" are merely those having no larger interests (i.e. taking delivery and consumption).

In a split-second, a "real player" can become a speculator, if he sees a market opportunity and takes on a position for which he never intends to take delivery. The point is, identifying who is a speculator and attempting to limit those activities is extremely difficult, because speculation is all about internal motivation, and central authorities have no real insight as to an individual's motivation.

I applaud FDR for not trying to prevent speculation, but I seriously doubt any capability for injecting speculation via "placement".
Sure... so who reacted first, the government or the capitalists?
I believe the problem is that you seem to be saying c should only be used when performance matters. They think the language choice is irrelevant and shouldn't have even been mentioned. Or so I believe.
I was looking around recently for some information on antidepressant medications. A lot of them have nasty side effects or leave people "happy but empty" and I was curious whether there was any advice regarding these things. One answer which had been left there for a year with no moderation included the following gem: "I recommend you stop all forms of antidepressants and if you get too depressed then just end it. suicide is an option for all people."

Suffice it to say I now avoid Yahoo answers as well.
A day made of glass
They could offer premium accounts with new services like analytics, search ads like google does, charge brands for an analytics tool showing anyone talking about their products, etc.

There are definitely options.
That's fine, but that's just the author's commentary. The blog piece is just an announcement about the new ToS, which is the defining policy. We need to look for the language in there, not his blog piece.
General anti Wall St. sentiment is not a very potent argument.

I'm not anti-Wall St. But I am anti-recklessness when it means wreaking havoc on our national (and by extension entire world) economy.

It's difficult to deny that higher prices increase supply and/or destroy demand.

No, it's not. Actually, higher prices usually mean there is decreased supply and increased demand. That's in a normal market. But we don't even have a normal oil market. That's the entire point. When oil prices skyrocketed to record levels above $145/barrel in 2008 it wasn't because of increased demand, and those astronomical prices didn't mean an increased supply of oil either.
Megastore: Providing scalable, highly available storage for interactive services
Yes, yes. But what percentage of people are stats junkies? That's what I really want to know!
They assumed widespread adoption of their platform was sufficient, and saw no need to innovate.
What happened to Nokia is what happens to many large companies that become complacent - they gradually lose whatever stronghold they had.

One thing Nokia didn't have was a strong presence in the US marketplace. RIM had it, and still does, but Nokia never really did, despite it's general global dominance. I wonder if they did, if that would have made a difference.
Read TFA. :)

Extremely short & simplified version, because this is complicated stuff: Goldman, among other places, got an exemption to laws limiting how many futures speculators could own. This law was meant to prevent people from buying up tons of futures in order to manipulate the price. With that exemption gone, people who otherwise had little to no interest in the relevant commodity markets would buy tons of them and hang on to them.

The supply actually went up. But because people would repeatedly say things like "give me $N worth of oil," eventually others got wise and started selling oil for $N a barrel.

I've probably skipped important details and garbled something, but that seems like an OK thumbnail sketch.
The video and the website don't show how buyers find the items for sale, and how the meetup is arranged. Perhaps you could add a "how it works" section to the website.
Oracle doesn't seem to give a crap about history here. There takeover strategy has always been to try to destroy the old brand of the company and absorb what is left.

Sad sad end for a iconic company.
So you are saying that Clinton lied? He was quoting Hillary Clinton, a source that should generally be above all suspicions.
Rope-a-dope
I was reading through the Twitter dev mailing list, and found this poignant observation from a poster:

The most telling change in the Terms of Service occurred in sentence
#2 or paragraph #1 under section Rules of the Road.

It used to read: "We want to empower our ecosystem partners to build
valuable BUSINESSES around the information flowing through Twitter."

It now (since March 11, 2011) reads: "We want to empower our ecosystem
partners to build valuable TOOLS around the information flowing
through Twitter."

- https://groups.google.com/d/msg/twitter-development-talk/yCz...
High oil prices make alternatives economically viable so they get funded. It's pretty simple.
Dubai on Empty
(For what it's worth, the popular jailbreak app SBSettings includes a switch to disable Apple's iOS kill switch. I assume that rooted Android phones also have that possibility.)
"Stores that sell cigarettes (grocery stores, corner stores, 7-11, etc) can't have them visible to the customers in any way, and can't advertise the fact that they sell them."

I was curious about this, because I live in BC and realized that I hadn't seen cigarettes in a store for a long time. I'm a non-smoker, but growing up gas stations and pharmacies always had the big glass case behind the counter full of cigarettes, and it recently its seemed odd that they weren't there anymore. So I looked it up, and they're only allowed a small, plain sign with no brands or graphics, just kinds of tobacco and prices. In hindsight, I remember seeing those in one or two places, but I'd assumed it was just store policy.

It does seem to work. I think I've run across a handful of smokers at my university in three years, and many of them I only knew were smokers because they stank so much. Definitely not cool to smoke around these parts. Right now the university has just restricted the allowed smoking areas even further, and unlike when the government smoking restrictions came in, nobody really cares. This is a student body that half consists of people who hold protests over every political concern, and half 'apolitical' people who complain at length about every new fee or university restriction, so when nobody cares about a change that really says something.
>but I seriously doubt any capability for injecting speculation via "placement".

You're reading my text too literally. I don't mean to an arm from the sky put speculators in the middle of the wheat market. As you correctly mention, an open market will attract those who exercise self-interest. Speculators are thereby effectively "placed" in a designed market by not regulating them out.
Lost city of Atlantis, swamped by tsunami, may be found
Hmm... Calxeda and Dell are at the prototype stage and haven't shipped yet. In the Register article, ARM admits
they have "0%" market share in PCs and servers. So the data for ARM in those markets essentially boils down to "boy, those markets would sure be profitable" and "just wait until 2020!"

There's a lot more to the server market than power savings. The Register article also notes: "It is a pity that ARM is not moving the quad-core, 40-bit Cortex-A15 to market faster and talking about either 64-bit kickers or how it will manage virtualized 32-bit applications on multi-core ARM servers such that no one cares that they are 32-bit applications."

As to Microsoft, I can remember Windows NT shipping for DEC Alpha, MIPS, and Power PC. Just because Windows 8 will work on ARM-based netbooks doesn't justify extrapolation to the PC and server markets. And even if Microsoft did (theoretically) support ARM in those markets, well, they actually shipped NT for Alpha, MIPS, and Power PC, and where are those architectures now?

My read of history is that if ARM ever became a real threat to Intel in PCs and servers, the company would simply lower profit margins in those markets to starve the competition. But hey, maybe this time things really will be different.
This series is fascinating. Loads of stories about weird hacks to make the graphics cleaner, to up the polygon count, to make the animation more cartoonish, writing a dialect of Lisp to define the gameplay.

Related: an article about making Ratchet and Clank using some Jak and Daxter rendering code which Naughty Dog basically gave Insomniac for free. http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/2842/postmortem_insomn...

Another great series: Jordan Mechner's diary about making the original Prince of Persia.

http://jordanmechner.com/category/old-journals/
Not quite: startup = cheatgrass: see http://www.ext.colostate.edu/pubs/natres/06310.html
The author's point is that both IBM and the local bakery are built to last, patiently building value over time.

Startups are too often get-rich-quick schemes whose founders want to work hard for 3 years, then cash out and spend the rest of their time on 'speeches and beaches'.
My kids are more ASD rather than ADHD but dietary changes and nutritional supplements and generally treating previously unrecognized health issues did a lot for them. While I was really, really sick, I got asked at times if I was (or accused of being) ASD or ADHD. I have no reason to believe I am either, though if I am feverish, in pain, throwing up, heavily medicated and so forth, my attention span and social skills are definitely impaired. Getting healthier has done a lot for my "social skills" (which I actually have, I just sometimes am too screwed up to effectively execute) and attention span/ability to focus.
You guys have the hacker nature. I dig it.
They could sell to the British tabloid, might raise some revenue.
All headphone contacts buckle, and that's not enough to determine whether they're cantilever or pogo pins. The biggest difference I've seen in Apple jacks is that in their cantilever design the pins alternate from one side to another, while their pogo pin patent shows all the pins on one side.

Can anyone who has access to an iPad 2 look inside the jack and see whether they're alternating or not? I could absolutely be wrong with my assessment based on the few photographs I found online prior to the iPad's availability.

I'd also be very interested to see a photo of what a headphone plug looks like plugged in to the jack, to see how much of the ground pin is still exposed by the tapering.
This is an abbreviated excerpt of a larger article.
'Pokemon' creator Satoshi Tajiri rumored to have died in Japan Earthquake
It's not so much poignant (or any such emotional response) as it is interesting. And it doesn't really strike me as interesting either. It just seems like a rewording to be more inclusive.

To me, "businesses" imply "people that make money", "tools" implies "people that make money, produce public services, etc".
besides Zynga what other example on Facebook are there?
Thanks. The press release information in the NPR report submitted as the link here hardly begins to describe the study design. The link to the study suggests which issues in study design

http://norvig.com/experiment-design.html

to look at to see just how generalizable these results may be. With the sample size and length of study described here, I'd look for a lot more replication over populations from more countries studied over longer periods before reaching the same conclusion as the NPR story.
The thing is that Facebook has already started branching out, and they're doing it wrong. When Google started adding things, your account was secondary, and the tool was first. Most of the tools to this day can be used with or without any sort of registration.

Facebook in contrast seems desperate to retain users. Nothing they create is useful without a Facebook account. Rather than pushing out the best products they can, they rely on the strength of vendor lock-in as a crutch.

I'm not even saying this is necessarily the result of some evil plan to take over the web. It's just that when you have the kind of lock-in they have you're loathe to give it up, and it makes you lazy since there are lots of places where you have nothing to measure yourself against but your previous performance.
Micromax X550 Stylish Cellphones,
The author of the article paints with too broad of a brush something not everyone shares.

Lots of people would love to turn their companies into large going concerns.
Maybe it's just me but I find the browser experience to be completely non real-time centric.

So perhaps you have different standards than me, but I fail to see how it's better than something like TweetDeck.
IBM wasn't "built to last." It was a rollup of a bunch of cash register companies, handed to Watson to run by the financier who bought them.

The truth is that in reality there's usually less planning than there later seems to have been. Things that turn out big were often small and tentative initially.
http://thesunalsosets.com/Editorials.html -- "This writer started this website on September 1, 2003, with a mission of removing Scott McNealy as CEO of SUN Microsystems. With the help of many of my readers, this goal was accomplished on
April 21, 2006. One reader asked, "…having achieved your goal against all odds , why don’t you just declare victory, close your website, and end your other activities related to SUN?" My answer is to do so would leave SUN continuing in the same direction. To quote Shakespeare, 'The fault, dear
Brutus, lies not in the stars but in ourselves.' We cannot allow McNealy to continue his failed policies and practices by letting him use his hand-picked puppet on a string continue to lead SUN Microsystems."
redis.publish(some_listener, payload)
Ah, ok! Looks like my iPod doesn't have pogo pins after all, those pins alternate.
Controlling PyPy's meta-tracer JIT with hints, part one. (Carl Friedrich Bolz)
Wait, so what's the answer? Is there a mid-runway bench?
That quip about Kindle book deletion is rather like Borders saying "We're going to sell you this book, but we reserve the right break into your house and burn it whenever we like."