skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Kurbağa Prensesi Kurtar oyunu oyna - Save the Princess oyunu oyna
Bilingual here (so this is anecdotal). When I'm immersed in the different lingual environments I notice fairly substantive differences in my identity. It's not stuff that's necessarily very apparent to bystanders (as far as I can tell).

The differences aren't necessarily as sweeping as 'world view'. I don't change political preferences by changing language.
> The similar title is selling for $11.99 at iTunes. The retailer typically keeps 30% of the sale price, meaning it owes the label and distributor the remaining 70% -- or $8.39.
Why you should always ask ...
NOVA did a program on this. They do a detailed look at this type of failure. They also had trained pilots demonstrate how to fly that specific plane without airspeed indication. It wasn't difficult to do. There are specific throttle and angle settings you can use to maintain stable flight. The program is available on netflix: http://www.netflix.com/WiMovie/70148706

Edit: This may not be the best place to add this but I don't feel like replying to several comments.

If I recall correctly, the pitot tubes on 447 were defective models known to be prone to icing. They met existing safety standards but they had still caused a number of failures other aircraft of the same model before this crash happened. The aircraft had been due for pitot replacement but Air France hadn't gotten around to it yet. The aircraft had flown directly into a thunderstorm system capable of making super cooled water which could easily overwhelm the defective pitots.
Crazy thought. What if Apple included an A5 and a Core i3 or i5? Further crazy, much like OS X using an available, discrete CPU if needed, it used the A5 as much as possible, but switched to the Core if necessary.

Such a thing may not even be pratical, but seems more likely to me than Apple dropping Sandy Bridge processors for ARM.
Yup, same here. I exercise quite a bit. I get antsy if I don't do it, but it's never stopped me from feeling terrible about life.
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Agreed. Quite interesting first step. I'd bet a little more interactive version would be a lot of fun to play around with and a great iteration for something like this.
I just had to do the very same thing, except instead of Facebook, it was a contact list in a proprietary medical office database. Since my programming skills are limited to Basic and Pascal, I just used AutoHotKey and the AutoHotKey Recorder. After a little editing, i.e. adding a test for empty boxes and putting the whole script in a loop, it was working fine.
I considered teaching myself Ruby, but I knew it would be much faster to use AutoHotKey.
But it's really interesting to see the same process in a proper computer language
I like

git push web

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that wasn't the right link. The link after the form here works: http://startupgenome.cc/pages/startup-genome-report-1
and don't forget the obvious:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BS3QOtbW4m0
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Ask HN: Do you care about people?
Hello hackers,

I'm trying to build a startup which first aim is collecting world's feelings in a simple way; it's called smood.it (http://smood.it) and the prototype web app is on line since september 2010.

I'd like to know what are you thinking about it.

Are you interested about people you care feelings?

Would you be interested to know how people feel about your product or your venue?

Interest about the project had some gain thanks to betali.st but after this boost the hype stopped.

If you want to see the prototype just leave your email address at http://smood.it and I'll invite you.
Most web servers can only handle 10,000 connections
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If you're not using Bundler and have a simple dependency chain, you can get further improvement from symlinking your gems into a single directory (see https://gist.github.com/975509 ).

This patch certainly improved my load time tremendously, but the core of the problem still lies with the way rubygems and bundler dump all directories of gems in the load path. The promise of $LOAD_PATH is that all the directories in it will be tried -- the most bang-for-buck optimization is thus minimizing its size.
Thanks for your reply. When I said copy and paste PHP developer, I didn't mean I literally copy and paste. I don't think I've copy/pasted code in my work for a few years, except for a few times I just needed to get working code into a prototype.

I meant it more as, trying to get work in Ruby, or Objective-C makes me feel lesser of a developer, as IF I was a copy and paste coder.
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This has been happening for a long time. I remember stumbling across an /etc/passwd file that was from a Yahoo! server awhile ago.
Am I the only one who finds the introduction extremely weak?

I am all for the study of how language might shape thought, but then again, he points to an example of a little girl living in an aboriginal community. In this case it has nothing to do with the person's language, all with environment in which they live.
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I only have professional experience in PHP and Perl. I've learning/using in my personal projects Ruby, Python, Objective-C/Cocoa, and Java.

I'm trying to learn the basics of a new language every week for 6 months. Then I'm going to focus on the ones I like best and dedicate a few months to learning the ins and outs of each language.

Thanks for your reply!
Thanks choochoo! That's something like I was looking for! How's the book for someone with no formal CS background? Is it something I can just into now, or should I use another book as a stepping stone.
Title (on HN) is a bit misleading - maybe intentionally so, I'm not sure. The linked article refers to "Evrything", a specific service, having an API.
Doctor of Pharmacy here. You haven't actually addressed what he said. None of that indicates that one heavy night of drinking takes a week to recover from (how? mentally? physically? emotionally? enzymatically?). Where's the PubMed or Medline citation?

DTs occur in patients undergoing life threatening alcohol withdrawal. These people have often been drinking upwards of a twelve-pack of beer a day for years.

Almost all alcoholics lie about their drinking. This is expected in both ambulatory and critical care. Implying that this patient's alcoholism killed her because her liver couldn't handle the anesthetic is disingenuous at best. If you're talking about a patient who was admitted with DTs, she should not have even been administered an anesthetic. If it was something else entirely, from the limited information you've provided I have to find fault with the anesthetist. The Glasgow Coma Scale is your friend, and it (and other scales of conscious) must be constantly used.

A single bender is not going to upregulate liver enzymes, just like a single dose of medication won't. It takes weeks or months of consistent exposure to make that happen. Again, this has nothing to do with the original, uncited claim that a single night of drinking takes a week to recover from.

And finally, do not recommend to your heavy drinking patients that they should take ibuprofen. NSAIDs, by virtue of their nonspecific effect on cycloxygenase, decrease the protective prostaglandins that are produced in the stomach to maintain the mucosal lining. Taking Advil after a night of heavy drinking is only going to make it more likely that the patient throws up blood the next day and needs to go to the hospital. NSAIDs have absolutely no positive effect on acid reflux - they will only make it worse. If a patient has heartburn, give them the obvious recommendation: take an antacid. Heartburn is not the same kind of discomfort as hitting your thumb with a hammer.

Coffee before food will make this heartburn worse due to the acidity. Again, a single serving of yogurt isn't going to have an appreciable effect on your gut flora. You need to be eating it regularly for a few weeks before the bacteria can overcome your natural defenses and the other flora to colonize.

This is all misinformation you've provided, and it's not even relevant to what you're replying to.
Winston, the multi-tranport Node.js logging library, now with MongoDB transport
When you have enough traction and your problem is scaling that traction. Don't take VC money unless your problem is scalability and massive growth.
We filled out the survey a couple of months ago. Excited to see the results :) Thanks Bjoern and Max.
I was similar until I got a prescription for Adderall. That worked for me. Not saying it works for everyone but treating my "overactive brain" with Adderall has changed my life, 100% for the better.
I work at a bank and have worked with several banks as part of my previous jobs. Banks often have a lot of Vice Presidents. The one I'm at has at least a dozen and it only has 400 employes. But it gets better: there are several levels of Vice President - Executive VP, Senior VP, First VP, VP, and Assistant VP. And that means we have dozens of people with "Vice President" somewhere in the title.

The reason I heard is that a small bank would have a few VPs, but would merge with a larger bank. As part of the merger, people kept their titles. This happened over and over, so large banks have lots of VPs. Not sure if that's true, but it sounds reasonable.

Of course, this might be as likely an explanation:

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070206164512AA...
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Is that really true? How does reluctance to take antidepressants compare with reluctance to take medications with similar side effect profiles?
I eagerly await the Wikipedia of Data, but I think it would at least have to be an open, non-profit type operation to be successful. I don't think the commercial sector is capable of that degree of cooperation and long-term vision.
One free flow of information can really drown out another free flow of information until it acts like censorship. Getting information out in the open is not cheap where we are dominated by corporate media.
Looks like the freedombox isn't available yet? I like the mission though!
This patch seems to introduce a bug when loading files with extra periods in the name (I think).

My app which includes thinking-sphinx (which has a require '0.9.9'), breaks with it.
Oh the irony of creating software based on ideas and technology stolen from companies of the culture which they are trying to "keep out". Reminds me of the pictures of people with signs saying "Death to America", while wearing Levi's jeans and Gucci sunglasses.
very valuable information! let's see how to take advantage of the data to find the right path to the golden treasure :)
Hamza, I can feel your pain man. I'm a full time student but I consider myself also a full time entrepreneur and developer. Juggling between 18 credits, classes two times a week, and working the rest od the time is a pretty stressful thing. I've found out that I probably won't be able to tackle a potentially big startup by myself but that doesn't stop me from giving it a try.
BTW I upvoted you to make your karma 1337 :-)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leet
I used to recruit for several "large" firms including top-3 finance, a few smaller hedge funds, then the top eCommerce firms (sans Google). The finance hedge funds had the most strict req's. Target school, CS degree (nothing else but CS), no Masters or higher degree, 0-2 years of experience etc.

This was due to "taint" from over-education, etc.

Otherwise, you needed a degree or some very solid accomplishments to be looked at for a top eCommerce / tech firm. Many financial firms require a 4 year degree or a sign-off from a Senior Manager.

Most of my roles were $90-140,000

You only "hurt" your career if you wish to stay in a corporate climbing-the-ladder world. EG: progressively moving up in pay / title, non-degree's seem to have $5-$15,000 less salary in my experience.

The most important long-term indicator of income was (my Google skills are failing me for citation) the first position. If you started low ($30-$35,000), in 10 years, you will of course still be behind your peers who started at $50-$60,000. The first position out of school also tended to keep you "stuck" in that track.

But, these are "averages" and nothing is limiting but your own ambition and drive.
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Because the VSI doesn't use the pitot tubes? IIRC, it uses a gyroscope. [Confirmed: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2595230 ] The chance of having a failure of two separate, redundant systems is unlikely. Pitot tube failure in a thunderstorm is far more likely than gyroscope failure.

Anyway, the computer had reported loss of reliable airspeed so they should have ignored all instruments that use airspeed and fly on what's left. There are procedures for this kind of failure. It looks like they didn't follow them.

Nova did a program on this. It's on netflix. http://www.netflix.com/WiMovie/70148706 They showed the correct solution was to fly the plane based on angle of attack and throttle settings. You don't need airspeed to keep the plane in the air long enough to figure something else out.
Awesome 'found money' for Gaga and her label. Everyone who just wanted the free storage increase, or maybe decided to take the whole album because it was cheaper than a track, sent $8 her way from Amazon. She should have put out a promotion paying people $2 to buy the album through amazon, presuming her cut is greater!

I like the symmetry with the recent livingsocial promo ($20 at amazon for $10, where LS just bought the $20 credits at full price), which effectively flowed VC money to amazon to leverage amazon's brand appeal to acquire users to livingsocial. Amazon has now taken that money and given it to Gaga. How do I get on this train?
One explanation I've heard is that a VP at a bank would handle as much money as in the budget of a VP at a normal company. But of course, it's just crazy these days.

Now time for a story, in the '90s the company I was working for IPO'd and we all had shares, not enough to get rich, but enough to be a nice bonus. I called Salomon Bros to exercise and a VP answered the phone... So even receptionists get the the title!
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We have the advantage that we can automate/rip through most of the tech stuff, but there's people out there doing everything manually that are making more than you and me. :)
There are certainly strong correlations between substance abuse and other mental illnesses. However, you have to dig deeper: is the patient an alcoholic because of a preexisting mental illness? Is the alcoholism just the first outward sign that was noticed by others?

There is also a strong correlation among mental illnesses: once you get one (any one), you are statistically more likely to get one or more of the others within your lifetime. It doesn't help that they are often overlapping, though (e.g. bipolar disorder type 2 - bipolar depression). From the American Psychiatric Association Practice Guidelines: "in a study of patients in psychiatric treatment in the United States, 84% of major depressive disorder patients had at least one co-occurring condition: 61% had a co-occurring Axis I condition, 30% a co-occurring Axis II condition, and 58% a co-occurring Axis III condition (978). Anxiety disorders were the most common co-occurring disorder in the prior 12 months" (http://www.psychiatryonline.com/content.aspx?aID=655908)

As a slightly different example, 80-90% of schizophrenic patients smoke. This is because the stimulating effect of nicotine tends to improve their negative symptoms by increasing dopamine levels in certain parts of the brain (for about 15 minutes or so... then they need another one).

As far as alcohol causing depression: alcohol /is/ a depressant. It binds to GABA receptors (among other receptors) and increases sedation, decreases mental activity, etc. (GABA is the primary inhibitory neurotransmitter of the brain).

Inflammation as a cause of depression is not really significant right now. Look at our classes of antidepressants: tricyclics (which work in depression by inhibiting the reuptake of serotonin and norepinephrine), selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, selective norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors, dopamine reuptake inhibitors (bupropion is mostly what I'm going for here, though sertraline also has some dopaminergic activity), serotonin receptor agonists (e.g. trazodone), and alpha-2 antagonists (mirtazapine - it indirectly increases serotonin and norepinephrine levels by blocking autoinhibition of alpha-2 receptors in the brain). None of these have noteworthy effects on inflammation, and all of them are effective in a modest population of patients (unfortunately only about 1/3 of patients achieve remission on their first drug trial, regardless of which one). Inflammation isn't really a significant theory of depression right now, although I'm not saying it doesn't exist. Mental illnesses are unbelievably complex and medical science is only beginning to catch up with our needs.
This is interesting but what is it applicable to today? Wikipedia mentions servers that don't suffer from it, but nothing that actually does.

We're using IIS on Win2003 servers with consistent 30k - 80k concurrent connections per server, if MS got it sorted almost a decade ago I can't imagine anyone else didn't.
It's meant to bring about the same "what the ?!?!" and "how the ?!?!?" response you experienced. *She's pointing to something which we would all say "it's just culture!" and explains how it is (might be) language.
Mind you, that rock would be larger, although much less massive. Is it possible for something like that to blast off material from the star?

I doubt it. Second neutron star on the other hand...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PSR_J0737-3039
Yes it does. It's hard to be a successful MMA fighter relying on just one martial art. Just look at Machida how he beautifully incorporates karate in MMA game.
I can confirm that the adult site passwords do not work.
A little background on the warnings. There are no specific sensors for them. They are issued by the computer when it detects a dangerous situation, which it uses a variety of inputs to determine. With unreliable airspeed and altitude (pitots tubes not working) the overspeed warning should have been ignored completely and the stall would have to be verified with other data if possible.
Kind of my point. I think he's meh on Ocaml because Scala has the same features & runs on the JVM, seeing it after using Scala wouldn't be very exciting. However Ocaml was around years before Scala.
Most of her research doesn't discuss external social behaviours, but rather the core cognitive systems and responses to external phenomena. So, in a heavily controlled experimental lab session with just you looking at stimuli, your perceptual mechanisms may differ purely based on your primed language. That would control for culture (or some might argue - I'm not entirely sure culture isn't primed by language).
While this advice is good, there are many more legal gotchas that can arise in contracts. A contract is only going to keep the honest people honest; if someone is out to screw you, the most finely crafted contract in the world won't help much.

After getting burned once or twice, the skill you will really develop is your "BS detector." This tool will enable you to detect the bad clients and walk away from them in advance.
nice read !
Depends..facebook is hiring non-ivy school people as I got offered an interview and I only have a 2 community college degree :)

The golden rule is your skills/exp are in demand..than it matters far less
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but that is making some big assumptions about how different parts of the brain are isolated from each other, isn't it? if my brain is one big neural net then firing up a bunch of neurons that are trained in one language could also activate neurons trained in the associated culture. there's still no way to know that it's the choice of language, rather than the culture context, that is important.

[edit:] traditionally you work around this kind of thing by finding subjects that differ only in one variable. identical twins, for example, might better show environmental differences, because they have common genomes. but while that works for nature/nurture i have no idea how you do something similar for culture/language.
the private dairy enriches only the owner, the public dairy enriches everyone

That's a snappy soundbite, but the fact is in the West where we have privately-owned dairies, we don't have queues around the block for butter. Now who's enriched?
How did you get those sites known?
Sorry for not being clear. I was citing Sherlock Holmes and Frankenstein as examples of famous characters that are in the public domain. (Holmes's situation is in fact a bit murky in the US)
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Get a dog. Change my life. Really. I picked up a 95 pound black lab/dane mix (more lab.. and she's a BIG lab) on the advice of my therapist. Not seeing the therapist anymore.

The dog got me out of the house. Where I met people and other dogs.
Among the general population, prevalence is 1 in 6:

"In the NCS-R, the lifetime prevalence of major depressive disorder among the 9,090 adult participants was 16.2%, with a 12-month prevalence of 6.6%. The NESARC, which included more than 43,000 adults found slightly lower prevalence rates than the NCS-R (13.25% lifetime and 5.28% 12-month), perhaps because the sample included previously omitted groups of individuals with lower prevalence rates (655). A number of sociodemographic factors appears to be associated with an increased prevalence of major depressive disorder, including female sex, being middle-aged, being never or previously married, having a low income, being unemployed, or being disabled (655, 976), In the NESARC, being Native American increased risk relative to being Caucasian, whereas being Asian, Hispanic, or black decreased risk."

from the American Psychiatric Association Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Treatment of Major Depressive Disorder
http://www.psychiatryonline.com/pracGuide/pracGuideTopic_7.a...
specifically http://www.psychiatryonline.com/content.aspx?aID=655908
There is an interesting discussion (take down?) of a set of these experiments as referenced in Lera Boroditsky's previous WSJ piece at language log:

http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=2592

Of course Liberman seems to be firmly against this new spate of Sapir-Whorf ideas. Personally I think the distinction between languages is less relevant than distinction between metaphors used, which of course may vary by language. This manifests itself in cases even with single language speakers: if readers are given two different metaphors for the same topic, they will behave differently (crime as a virus vs. crime as a beast being their example).

http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjourna...

Which the US government is interested in for terrorist understanding:

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/05/why-ar...
thanks andrew !
Hey, the language that gets the job done is the proper one.
http://www.ryanheise.com/tetris/tetris_artificial_intelligen... here's one using Google's pagerank algorithm
great work guys!!!
"None of these have noteworthy effects on inflammation, and all of them are effective in a modest population of patients"

The fact that taking drugs that mess with your neurotransmitter levels can sometimes alleviate depression doesn't prove, and isn't even particularly strong evidence for, the idea that depression is caused by some sort of neurotransmitter imbalance. Wearing perfume can also alleviate depression in some people, but it would be ridiculous to claim that depression is caused by a lack of Chanel No. 5.
Clojure with mongrel2?
Must listen for all Daft Punk fans.