skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I knew that, I was trying to say "So What" in a more polite way. My point was this is better then what was available before. It is a real improvement in the peoples lives who use it: more fresh food consumed, food costs go down and probably less food poisoning by trying to stretch one more day from what we have bought for dinner. It is cheap enough to be purchased and simple enough to be maintained by untrained people. This is a solid step in the better direction.
The old word in english for vocabulary/glossary was 'wordhoard'. The influence of Latin displaced its usage though.

Another linguistic curiosity in English, is that, for some people, when there are two English words with equivalent meaning and one is originally English and the other originally Latin, some people will feel the Latin-derived word more weighty or of higher status than the English word.

For example: It's eminently clear she does not desire it. vs. It's utterly clear she does not want it. Or expression: Pardon me? vs. What?
When you're at the point where medication is a serious option, even the step "get up" is difficult enough -- sticking to your plan for a few months is nigh on impossible.
So they acquired a half millon customers for, ummm, $6.50 each.....

.... and they got a TON of press worth millions.

.... and the word of mouth has been staggering.

.... and they could do this every week for a year and still not lose as much money as was invested in the CueCate.

Move on peoples.... nothing to see here but common sense.
If you, like me, are still addicted to typing in 'rafb..': http://rafb.me/
I kind of had the reverse reaction. I'm familiar enough with the Daft Punk corpus that I could easily tell where each piece came from and whatnot. However, while the timeline was pretty straightforward, I had difficulty connecting the center visualisation with the music. I understand that there's a ring for each track and... not much else. I don't suppose anybody could clarify that for me?
Because the convention as used by Gawker and similar is not about referencing an anchor but describing a page. IOW these things should be part of the url proper, not fragments.
So this is Bill is going after online sales, including affiliates as a way to get more ppl into Big Box stores?

If this Bill is a real threat, where is the opposition of the online merchants (eBay, Amazon, etc.)?
That's what would happen if they did the normal thing. If there is any evidence that they did, the article does not present it. Of course, there's also no evidence that they did something different - but the fact that of the three versions of the album Amazon sells through downloads[1] two are not only cheaper than the $11.99 iTunes has it for but also cost less than what the article claims that they must pay the label suggests that this is the case (or that Amazon is taking a loss on every sale, which seems unlikely).

[1] One is just the album, one has a digital booklet, and one has the booklet as well as being a "special edition," whatever that means.

[2] One is $5.99, one is $6.99, and the third is $12.99.
Usually some assessed value of the property that has some relation to the market value of the property. But how would that work with copyrights that are not sold for which there is no market? How would you assess the value of a copyright in that scenario?
I'm no calendar geek. I have however written production software that had to do date calculations, so wound up having to do the whole Gregorian to Julian and back conversion thing.

I was doing this before they wrote the book on it:
http://www.calendarists.com
Exercise and the Aging Brain
These kind of stats bug me. Because someone buys something at .99 cents does in no way mean they would have bought it for the full price.
We prefer the term "watirboarding".
I haven't tested this myself, but I can guess that they will load slower in development. In development asset requests go through the asset pipeline now instead of being directly served up through the HTTP server.
First, thanks for replying. Perhaps I was to casual in my initial reply. I think we're in agreement that alcohol is a bad idea. I was assuming I was addressing a 20-40 year old entrepreneur, and my impression of these guys, on the forum and those I've met in person, is that they're generally healthy and interested in staying that way, they go to parties now and again, and once in a blue moon wake up with a nasty headache. My goal was to first address that there are generally long term effects and short term effects, and leave it as exercise to the reader to see that there's not much in the 1-week range.

With regards to your specific concerns:

> DTs vs anesthesia

These were intended as two separate examples. I could have made that more clear. I absolutely agree, anesthesia is a very bad idea for someone in DTs. The larger point being, alcohol is a bad idea.

> A single bender is not going to upregulate liver enzymes

I argue a single bender will upregulate liver enzymes. Not a lot, but a little. A single workout will build muscle and improve your physical fitness. Not a lot, but a little. The larger point no doubt being one you're in favor of: alcohol is a bad idea.

> do not recommend to your heavy drinking patients that they should take ibuprofen

I would not recommend a heavy-drinking patient take ibuprofen. That said, alcoholics in the hospital vomiting blood are classically associated with esophageal varices due to a cirrhotic liver, which bleed spontaneously and then they vomit. They are not coming in for gastric ulcers, which generally require days to weeks of NSAIDs, and are more classically associated with aspirin, which irreversibly acetylates the COX enzymes, whereas ibuprofen binds reversibly. The larger point being, alcohol is a bad idea.

> Coffee before food will make this heartburn worse due to the acidity.

I didn't recommend coffee as an antidote to heartburn. I recommended some water and staying upright. The coffee recommendation was for the next morning. The caffeine will activate cAMP, causing some dilation of cerebral blood vessels, getting more profusion to the noggin, helping overcome the headache. The larger point being, alcohol is a bad idea.

> a single serving of yogurt isn't going to have an appreciable effect on your gut flora

Are you arguing against yogurt?

Let me take the opportunity to suggest that I don't advocate drinking as a solution to problems. Quite the opposite. But keep it coming. Glad you came across my comment. Look forward to seeing you around.
> Anecdotal evidence is particularly unhelpful in the case of depression because most cases resolve of their own accord. Spontaneous recovery is the most common outcome and antidepressants are the most common treatment, so it doesn't tell us a great deal if the two coincide quite often.

I'm sorry, but huge CITATION NEEDED.

> The big metastudies are fairly unanimous - the efficacy of antidepressants is marginal at best. Kirsch et al (2008) [1] showed that response to SSRIs was only better than placebo in the most severely depressed patients, due not to better response to the drugs but to lower response to placebo.

Please cite the other meta-analyses that support this. I am somehow disinclined to believe you on this topic. Here are a few meta-analyses in patients with and without certain concomitant diseases that I found in the last five minutes published in 2011 that disagree with you:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21545782

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21558287

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21430793

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21425505

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21346483

>The real thinking point is what this says about the nature of depression as a diagnosis. Personally, I think the disease model doesn't work and that we're inappropriately medicalising something because we have a cultural preference to see unhappiness as medical rather than social.

Just because you think that the disease model doesn't work doesn't mean that it doesn't. I don't know if you have anyone close to you that suffers from depression, but it is most certainly not a purely social problem. There are demonstrable pathophysiological differences in depressed patients that are not present in non-depressed patients.
Great job, Guys!
I just find it odd that Apache hadn't employed the likes of epoll already. IRC servers have been using async sockets like this for yeeeears.
You're arguing against a strawman, most of the comments here have been positive and the article even says: But is a loss really a loss? The important aspect of this 99-cent promotion is the value of the increased traffic and awareness. It has new products to promote, Cloud Drive and Cloud Player...

Even John Gruber has been positive on the promotion: http://daringfireball.net/linked/2011/05/28/gaga-amazon
I think he means that you should read the first sentence of your original post again.
is there a reason to dump your images into the assets vs public folder then?
Why are you still bashing the CueCat? Yes, it was ugly, and yes they messed up the marketing, but it created the QR codes we see today. Sometimes, things are before their time and they get mocked unfairly for it. For example, Nikola Tesla demonstrated the first remote controlled device(a boat) in 1898. He was mocked for wasting his time with a toy. So I understand it's fun to have a go at the CueCat, but it was just an idea that was before it's time.
Is the data used to make this all self reported?

What steps taken to avoid survivor or confirmation bias?
...none of which resembles WSJ's actions here...

(And Wikipedia is hardly approaching authoritative. I'd suggest something like the OED, but given that it's another subscription service [for the online form], I guess it would fall under one of those skewed interpretations of censorship, too.)
I'm not a linguist, but here goes:

I'm not sure any language can express ALL human thought. I think as you try to fully specify a given thought, verbosity will increase without bound. Everything is connected in a brain.

I do think that there is a certain set of ideas that, once a language can express them, it's roughly equivalent to any other language that can express the same ideas.

I used to be really interested in figuring out how to specify this set, but I don't think it's too hard to achieve. It's not nearly as interesting a problem as how to express thoughts efficiently. We don't usually need to consider Turing-completeness when designing programming languages, either.
What does the CueCat have to do with QR codes? I've worked with phone code-scanning extensively in the past and the technology behind a dedicated 1D barcode scanner vs. a 2D code scanner (particularly working with consumer-level optics like mobile phones) are completely different.

A quick glance at Wikipedia shows that the QR spec was laid down long before CueCat even existed, and the initial technology was based on parts tracking in industry, not consumer usage.

It should also be pointed out that still nobody uses general-purpose QR codes. As a boarding pass? Sure. As a concert ticket? Sure. But when's the last time someone eagerly whipped out their phone to scan a QR code in a magazine ad?
Many flaws in PHP are unfixable without breaking compatibility, and if you break compatibility you lose the only advantage that PHP has these days.
Ugh, then there is something seriously wrong with your configuration.

This is another interesting benchmark between nginx, lighttpd and varnish: http://nbonvin.wordpress.com/2011/03/24/serving-small-static... Even on a Core i3 laptop nginx can handle 70k req/s
Ok, so the hue and cry is specifically about the use of the technique when the content seeks to be indexed (and therefore includes the bang)? The author would not find a problem with GMail, for example, using a bookmark-able fragment like "#inbox/13038eb4c2b587f7" in the same manner as Gawker (that is: not referencing an anchor but describing an addressable page full of content)?
Hah, good point. I wasn't trying to be triumphalist, though I admit it certainly reads that way.
here is an entire post about the methodology http://www.systemmalfunction.com/2011/05/deciphering-genome-...
Thought this was going to be about the posting of the full version of that paywalled Wall Street Journal article on Iran's plans for its own internet. Thank god that's still okay.
Why would Lady Gaga of all people need to stoop to the level of a $0.99 promotion?

She's already a household name, I just don't see the incentive for her, or her record label, to want to participate in a steep-discount form of promotion. That's a lot of money on the table.
Cool, a pedant party. Anyone bring chips?
It's widely rumored (with substantial reason) that Amazon MP3 got cut a much better deal from the record labels than Apple. Keep in mind when Amazon's entry first launched, iTunes was practically the only digital music sales service around. The labels were desperate to avoid Apple gaining a unassailable dominance of the market and were throwing other providers significant deals in exchange for fighting Apple. It seems entirely likely that Amazon's normal "cut" for the labels is lower than Apple's.
But not when it takes 6 months to get it going. For a 6 month project I would aim higher. How about building a useful app or web based service in 6 months and making some real money from it.
Ammonia cycle refrigerators like the classic Frigidaire of the 1930s operated on a small flame from natural gas, propane, or kerosene. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ammonia_Refrigeration for an overview of this and other similar processes. Ammonia is toxic at the levels used for refrigerators and was phased out in home refrigeration units for safety reasons.
That's excessive. As the article mentions, a neutron star can't exceed a few solar masses. You're much less than a light year from the sun without any ill effects from its gravity.
Russia's ChronoPay Executive Linked to Mac Defender Scam
-- reg. Steve Jobs: whats your assumption?

-- there is quite a lot of data about existing markets that are differentiated into cheaper, better and niche and new markets. How do you think is market significant. I am happy run a few tests for you :)

-- We measure success based on the consistency of how someone moves through a certain set of predefined milestones and thresholds. Funding, user growth, employee growth, etc. are traditional indicators of success that we correlate with our milestone based assessment in this report. We hope to become more granular in how we can measure consistency.

-- not sure how what you say contradicts anything we say. Thoughts?
This pretty well captures Gil Scott Heron's attitude toward technologists.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtBy_ppG4hY

Heron hates white people.
Obviously on their own that would be too high a discount for too little gain. However, if Amazon say "we want to do a huge promotion and sell this for $.99, can you give us a $1.50 discount on all sales we make at this price), Amazon is still paying for the majority of the discount, and the increase in sales might well make up for the smaller amount that the record company lost (replace $1.50 with whatever was negotiated).

In marketing like this it's incredibly common for both companies to fund the promotion - I have no experience working with the music industry, but it wouldn't surprise me if Amazon negotiated this with them the same way they would with other companies they sell products for.
Pilolo mobile app
cool new app coming out that will use an algorithm to automate precise location.

it's similar to the bump app only connects you with groups in real-time instead of other people.

release date: sometime in July i heard.
That is some seriously cheap user acquisition for Cloud Player and Cloud Drive - both great services IMO. Well played Amazon.
There's hardly anything out there from what I can tell. I think because few people understand macros and even fewer understand logic programming. When I saw Oleg Kiselyov's miniKanren type-checker/inferencer/reconstructor in ~300 LOC, the possibilities seemed and still seem endless.

Prolog as general programming paradigm has problems - Prolog/Datalog as a way for programmers to reason about their own programs is an untapped goldmine.
Wooo!Kthxbye.
I read a different article than you possibly. I read it as 61% were over 30 years old.
"I avoid illegal drugs, and rarely take legal ones."

Why does legality play a role at all?
I was diagnosed with ADHD predominately inattentive in Jan 2010. After some education and reflection, I decided to try the medication route. My psychiatrist had first suggested EEG biofeedback therapy, but my location was 1000km from the nearest facility, and the costs involved were prohibitive at the time. Mindful meditation was also suggested, but I couldn't get into it. I started Adderall in July, but the PNS stimulation was too great, so I switched to Dexedrine 4 months ago. Since starting the stimulants, my productivity has gone up 300%. The only side effects I have noticed is having an increased drive where I sometimes take on more work than I should, and that even a small amount of alcohol will make me feel ill/off for 4-5 days.

This questionnaire http://easydiagnosis.com/cgi-bin/expert/start.cgi?mod=Attent...
is reportedly quite accurate for the adhd diagnoses.
No Ada at my (big ten) school but I work coding Ada at my current job.

The language is amazing. Most of my errors are related to copy-paste oversights (Message_1 instead of Message_2). The typing is very elegant.

Also, Java stole Ada's way of handling exceptions. Instead of try catch you have begin/exception.

It's a shame so few people use Ada. They recently converted GNAT (a free Ada compiler and a very good one) to work with lego mindstorms. It's still big in safety critical areas (transport systems - the trains in europe run ada and lots of avionics code is in ada, the medical field and if I hear correctly banks sometimes use it as well).

It takes longer to get it to compile but having no array indexing errors is so worth it.
http://www.phys.unsw.edu.au/jw/chladni.html

Oldie, but still interesting.
Awesome! Anyway you could link into my Netflix account to show/short-by my ratings? I'd also like to filter to only see unrated ones.
I have a strong urge to rebuke most of these "We're programmed to be like this, low status in our tribe etc etc" type lines of reasoning as outright ridiculous, however after considering it a little deeper it seems to me that's simply one interpretation of what actually happens.

My desire to socialise atrophies, I do not feel like leaving my house, I want to focus harder and harder on creating things, learning, etc and I have less and less time for "normal life". It's possible to focus on what I'm drawing away from and characterise it as a loss, but to my view it is simply a sacrifice I choose to make of my own free will for something that I find more valuable.

To my view removal from the tribe is not terrifying, it is not even undesirable. You lose some things, but you gain others, as with any narrow focus. There is no single right interpretation of what that actually means. Until you add in the subjective values of the interpreter, it's just a set of occurrences.
> 2) this is in part explained by the analysis of when antidepressants start to worsen the course of the illness (which is ~2 years for neuroleptics...unsure about antidepressants)

Neuroleptics are an entirely different class of drugs - you absolutely cannot lump them together. They have varyingly opposing effects (e.g. blocking dopamine instead of increasing it). And just FYI, only old doctors call them neuroleptics anymore in practice - we just say antipsychotics. And there are two very distinct classes of antipsychotics that can't really be lumped together for most purposes - simply, first generation and second generation. The first generation (chlorpromazine, fluphenazine, thioridazine, haloperidol, prochlorperazine, etc) is much more likely to cause depression, whereas some agents in the second generation are actually indicated to treat depression (e.g. olanzapine, aripiprazole).

Looking at the page you linked, I have several comments:
1) As far as chronicity, depressed patients are likely to have multiple episodes throughout their lives. If they suffer an episode while on an antidepressant, it doesn't mean the antidepressant caused it. If they weren't on the antidepressant, they would likely be having even more episodes. Also, only one citation? From 1973? That doesn't stand in evidence-based medicine today.

2)"British researchers found that 50% of drug-withdrawn patients relapsed within six months." That would indicate that the drugs were working, don't you think? They can't relapse unless they first leave depression. Equally, this would imply that after stopping antidepressant therapy, 50% of patients /didn't/ relapse.

Replace depression with another disease state and think about it this way: 50% of patients with high blood pressure who stopped taking their medication (which lowered their blood pressure) had high blood pressure 18 months after stopping the drug. Is there anything surprising about this? No. The problem is the stigma associate with depression.

3) Patients with mental illnesses are more likely to suffer from chronic illnesses (if you wish, I will fetch citations for you). Therefore, quite logically, patients who take antidepressants suffer from more chronic illnesses becaues they have depression than patients who have never had a mental illness. Again, there is nothing surprising about this.

4) Cherry-picked journal articles. I know very few people read medical journals regularly, but you can find an article to prove anything. There are reputable journals, and disreputable journals. Standards are a big deal, and just because something got published doesn't mean it's accurate or true. For a nice ranking of journals, you can check out http://www.scimagojr.com/

Is this the entire bibliography for the book? Honestly, 8 page journal articles have more than this (I'm serious. Look up NEJM and pull any five articles over two pages. And then keep in mind that there is a citation /limit/ to get published in the journal).

If you would like to discuss any of the literature more thoroughly, I would be more than happy to.
"Ada pushes you toward the waterfall development process which can be dangerous for newbs to internalize."

Why do you say that? We use ada with spiral development.
I'm glad we can keep it civil. I've been reading HN for a while but don't post often and only recently created an account. Medications are the domain of knowledge, so I try to contribute about that when I can. For better or worse, I don't know much about startups, erlang, emacs, or what have you, so I don't post in those sorts of discussions.

Anyway, I'm glad we clarified things.
Are you going to use this on news stories? It would be interesting to see results after events like 9-11. It would also be interesting to compare media coverage on a product and the sales of that product.
Thats actually based upon the double meaning of the company name. Get it? The company Evrything wants "every thing" to have any API.

Not misleading, its a play on words.
On Domain-Specific Languages (DSLs)
Some thoughts on "little languages" and their role in the software process.
Practical Tips for Hiring Ruby Web Developers
Presumably, the programmers should pick reasonable token names for the sake of other programmers.

They're all just numbers to the tokenizer...
You don't need to use hashbangs or fragments for this, you just implement some javascript to not visit links, but change the page with javascript, then change the url to the new one. Your links are still linkable, and you can still have dynamic pages. As for search engines, if the site is a web app, they shouldn't be indexing it.

Look at http://tumbledry.org/2011/05/12/screw_hashbangs_building for how this would work, it was on HN yesterday. Visit just http://tumbledry.org to see how this can work.