skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anorexia is absolutely about beauty ideals. Indeed you are right: anorexia does not look pretty; anorexia is about what the patient sees when they look in the mirror: it is a perceptual disorder in a sense. Regardless of the actual weight of the person in the mirror, the anorexic sees an overweight figure looking back at them.

Bulimia is more about control, that's the one that involves purging. It usually coexists with anorexia in the same patient, and goes in cycles. The patient keeps undereating due to the distorted perception of their body size, until they become so underweight that even they cannot deny their problem. Then they begin overeating to compensate for this, and then they are racked by shame due to the overeating and start purging, and the whole awful cycle begins again.

Anorexia is not a trivial teenage anxiety disorder, it has a survival rate of around 80%. A horrible business.
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Totally agree. Startups are bets. You may win or you may lose.

I think the point is that the upside is huge, although unlikely. While failure, the more likely path, still means you learn a lot and make a lot of great contacts that can help you with the next venture.

IMHO, as long as you don't bet too big (if you lose your job for a month you lose your house), the risk is well worth it.
The original post this refers to is at http://www.mattmacdonald.com/2011/08/20/api-access-questions... where Matt, the Watertown resident, wrote to TylerTech. Apparently they responded with a letter I'll paraphrase as "no."
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Would it be appropriate to reply with an image? http://canv.as/p/c76pe/reply/570523
I'd prefer it if DLF would flip the switch that would let chats in Gmail be exported. There's still no way to do that.
Probably because these services won't be around forever. It's relatively common for online services to vanish, even the ones that had been extremely popular (Geocities, for instance), and if all of your data is locked in, you lose it along with the service.

The Data Liberation Front seems to be trying to untie your data from the services that use it, because it's yours and can still be valuable to you after you've stopped using said service.
You can also see the team's early work from their initial concept and design in 2008
as part of a "Product Engineering Process" class:

http://designed.mit.edu/gallery/view-2008-DOTit.html
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I'm all for defending your IP but this is ridiculous. That logo looks nothing like the Apple logo. I mean this is from China where they wouldn't give two squirts of piss when it comes to ripping the rest of the world off, but this is what Apple decides to go after?
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Got it, thanks Elliot.
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I wonder if they'll do one about deployment too (like Capistrano, Passenger, etc). I heard they used to use Capistrano, REE, and Phusion Passenger but have been moving to Ruby 1.9.2 and Unicorn but it'd be interesting to hear more.

In terms of test framework, however, the answer is well known ;-) http://www.rubyinside.com/dhh-offended-by-rspec-debate-4610....
I think it might actually represent the built-in SD reader, which at least makes sense, though it's still useless to me.
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Very cool idea from two great guys. Check it out!
Im so surprised that this is getting so much attention. The only time you should listen if its something along these lines, obviously squeezed into one sentence so you dont get the opportunity to cut him off "I have this great idea (microsecond pause), im so confident that it work, (microsecond pause), that ive ['released US$50k equity loan from home','borrow $35k from brother','prepared to invest my liquid savings of 42k into it']."

If it takes the turn of you do the development/impl and ill do the "sales, marketing, requirements, design, gathering investors, watering the plants" get him/her to quantify the success they had in each area and why they no capital to make a financial investment themselves (hint: most do via house equity but wouldnt dream of touching it - too risk (i.e. make your own mind up.)
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Recently, though, Fangguo had filed applications to extend its trademark to 16 different product categories, one of which includes "notebook computers" and "electronic-game software."

In that light it's a bit more understandable. If they had stayed strictly in the food segment I doubt it would have been an issue. Trademarks have to be defended or they can be voided; companies tend to err on the side of caution.
Entry level? $80k was for a spectacularly senior position. $35k sounds about right for degreed entry level dev jobs in '94.
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If you were paying attention this was an actual case and ended up with Apple, Inc. buying the Apple trademark and then licensing it back to Apple Corp.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Corps_v_Apple_Computer
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Why Write the Essay Online?
Why would anybody want to write the essay online? That’s a simple question to answer. It gives you freedom freedom from the restrictions of writing at one place and within a specific time duration.
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That's true I'm just speaking from experience of looking at many undergraduate computer science programs in the United States. They all generally require some "tough math", and I think they should because that sort of analytic thinking in solving complex mathematical problems applies directly to computer science.
Ask HN: How should I attract people towards my launch page
Launch Page: http://thecitybee.com

Me and couple other friends are working on a venture that fixes problems experienced in Daily deal websites by customers and the merchants.

We do this by:
1. Letting the customer simply login and download the deal, without paying for it. They simply pay for the deal directly to the merchant when they avail the deal
2. Letting the merchant be in the driving seat by not waiting on the website to provide a check when the deal runs out and by not taking a huge cut from every deal

We've done some market research on the topic and feel that there might be a market for this kind of a product from both Merchants and Customers point of view. Merchants not willing to try existing deal sites because of huge share from every transaction and depending on the site to provide them a check and Customers have nothing to lose by simply getting the deal and only paying for it when they avail it.

While we are 3ish weeks away from launching the site we decided to create a launch page to help spread the word, however, we are not sure as to what more should we be doing to make the page go "viral". We've provided enough information to entice the targeted audience into putting their email address.

Should we be looking at something like google adwords?
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I'm Egor, developer of DigMyData. I'm excited to participate in this project. We put a lot of effort trying to make this application more useful and convenient for users. Thank you.
I'm with you. I hope that we aren't forever doomed to a world of yellow light by the preferences of past generations. I'd love to buy some dimmable cold-cathode fluorescent lights, but I can only find them in ~2700K.

I don't know if it's been experimentally verified, but to my perception, color temperature is a lot more complex than blue for day, yellow for night. I find that as light levels approach blackness, I prefer higher color temperatures once again (possibly mimicking moonlight). I have many more ideas for optimizing lighting and color temperature throughout the day, which I hope to apply in the next phase of my current startup.
It ticks me off that Apple uses its gadzillions in profits for frivolous lawsuits like this. Dear Apple, the shape of an apple belongs to the fruit, not to you ... if you can use it, so can others.
Also mentioned here: http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=755
I've never used it, but a glance at IonCube's site found that they offer encoding of a file for $0.50...

http://www.ioncube.com/online_encoder.php
That’s delicious. Why didn’t I think of that? Luckily “Connecting with Facebook is required.” is preventing me from sending all my free time down the drawn with this.
I completely agree. This micro api client is absolutely not for developing full fledged applications. I've played around with writing some heavier duty clients for other projects I've worked on that have lots of pythonic goodies in addition to more advanced things like automatic request batching and caching, but I'm still not satisfied with them enough to put it out there.
That makes a little more sense, but I still do not think that anyone would ever mistake Apple's "I look like an apple" logo for the Chinese company's "I don't look like anything but I have a leaf" logo. Their logo looks more like an old hand grenade.
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Thanks. If I'd known that, I would not have bothered writing grandparent.
I found a bug. Picture c73cy (570px × 850px) is scaled to 600px × 895px for no apparent reason.

Since you have a "best of" list, what's your approach to slightly differing duplicates - such as stretched or re-compressed ones?
Yeah, thats basically just a product of the private beta. We struggled with how much to lock down for the private beta. Perhaps you are right though, so we are going to open up the search sections. Ill reply back when its done.
I've been around this LBS rodeo a couple of times and imho, it has more to do with people in your circles not carting about your activities and you knowing the futility of your check-in. There is a very quantifiable value derived from checking in, and only then it must address at least one of the capital vices, otherwise it's just cute, filler info that keep the heart beating.

Dens and Naveen have really ridden this horse into the ground and while I appreciate them for trying, the truth is that their idea(s) don't scale across social verticals.
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Do you have sources for that? Because I really don't think it is correct. I don't know anybody with anorexia, but I know several therapists. Not that I have inquired much about the problem, but I simply have heard different things. In fact the first hit for "anorexia causes" (with DuckDuckGo) seems to confirm my thoughts: http://helpguide.org/mental/anorexia_signs_symptoms_causes_t...

"Believe it or not, anorexia isn’t really about food and weight—at least not at its core. Eating disorders are much more complicated than that. The food and weight-related issues are symptoms of something deeper: things like depression, loneliness, insecurity, pressure to be perfect, or feeling out of control. Things that no amount of dieting or weight loss can cure."

Of course blaming it on beauty ideals conveyed in the media is an easy way out for relations of anorexic persons, who then don't have to confront the real issues.
Every step you add to the process cuts down on the number of people who are willing to try it out. Obviously once you determine whether it's useful to you or not, you can do the right thing and just download the file.
For those who choose not to read the article and merely comment that Apple is haphazardly suing another company, the article describes one of the basic principles of trademark law and why Apple must sue:

Now here's where things get a little tricky.

Fangguo Foods produces items like snack foods, flour and noodles, which obviously have nothing at all to do with any Apple products. As a result, Apple's trademark assertions seem misplaced and without merit. Recently, though, Fangguo had filed applications to extend its trademark to 16 different product categories, one of which includes "notebook computers" and "electronic-game software."

And therein lies the rub.

Fangguo received the status of "Famous Nanchong City Trademark" in 2007 and "Famous Sichuan Province Trademark" the following year. Zhao explained that he registered Fangguo's logo under so many seemingly unrelated product categories not because he had specific plans to expand to other types of manufacturing, but just in case he did meet somebody who wanted to produce, say, Fangguo computers, he would be able to expand the brand name.

In the world of trademark law, a company that doesn't actively seek to protect its trademarks is more likely to lose the ability to enforce them. Consequently, it makes a whole lot of sense to go after Fangguo for their trademark given that they are looking for trademark protection in an area where Apple already operates.
I mean pretty much everything that goes on in a hospital. Every time someone is prevented from dying, we are defying natural selection.

In a sense, all use of technology raises us above our biology. In another sense of course, all our technological innovations are only a product of our naturally selected abilities, higher cognition, opposable thumbs etc. However, when you take this view, it renders the whole point moot, because it merges our higher social behaviours with our innate ones and erases the whole distinction.
Since we're offering anecdotes, I spent some significant money (considering that we're talking about light bulbs here) to switch over to CFLs a few years ago. It was a disaster. Most lasted less than a year. Two (out of an original 20 or so) are still working.

I'm stockpiling incandescents so I can wait and see if the LED technology proves itself in the real world.
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> 80% of players are at platinum league or less

By definition, platinum or below is the bottom 80% of the player base. No matter how good the sc2 population gets, around 80% will ALWAYS be platinum or below.

That doesn't necessarily mean that the skill level for platinum or below will always be static though. For example, the korean server is generally regarded as more difficult. A platinum player on the NA server might only reach gold there (or might still be platinum but lose more).

But you are definitely correct that their mechanics are the main thing that separates most top players. I would emphasize macro as being much more important than micro though.
No, that'd be http://artinmycoffee.com/

There are few niches still unexplored. :)
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yes; I knew when I saw it that it looked similar to a company that I could not remember. You reminded me.
It's not quite equivalent, but in '98, I was thrilled when I got a job as a network engineer for 40k (in Boston). At the time it seemed like more money than I knew what to do with (I very quickly became much more imaginative).
Exactly, it does work both ways. It would be interesting to know the details/motivations on why Ev Williams (Blogger), Dennis Crowley (Dodgeball) and Max Levchin (Slide) left Google. Yet, Andy Rubin (Android) and Chad Hurley (YouTube) stayed on and were very successful. Same parent company, different results.
I agree that it's a slow process, but it's happening. At the city level, it's good to have someone within the Mayor's office or City Council that really cares about it. It's starting to happen here in Philly with http://www.opendataphilly.org
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OK football was a bad choice. A better one would be learning about history. Some people enjoy learning history. Some don't.
Not as safe as from a company that claims to be in the US? It's not clear that one is easier to spoof than the other.
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When this is the easiest way to give your growing product what it needs to grow as fast as it can....

Also, anyone think 200mil is a bit cheap for reddit?
The second example turns 18 lines of pretty simple code to 48 lines of function soup. At least to this reader's eyes.

(Added):
Granted, many of the 48 is whitespace, but it still moves logically related code further away from eachother.
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It's most definitely over diagnosed. When we were seeking help for my son, the blanket solution was to diagnose ADHD even if some of the results contradicted it. One doctor even went so far as to say that she would diagnose him with 'whatever' to qualify for the most services possible.
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"drag stickers to upvote" sounds like it would very very quickly get boring.

Also IMHO infinite scrollbars make for a terrible confusing and broken user experience.

Nice design apart from that though.
It was an interesting article, but it got real interesting in the last paragraph when the journalist just comes out and condemns the founder.
OK fixed :)
Very excited about seeing this service in action.

Thanks, Dan
I applaud this group for innovating in the stagnant world of assistive devices. I'm curious to see how their work progresses in a world where braille literacy rates are on the decline and where braille readers are the minority of the US blind population:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braille_literacy
Ask HN: what would you do if every license plate was a Twitter account?
While stuck in traffic we were discussing internet in the car and I got an idea: what if the license plate of each car was also a Twitter account? So @NL45-FDX-2 for instance, it should be unique if you prefix the country code.

But I didn't come up with that many ideas, other then: send traffic information to car, warn driver about speeding, send driver a confirmation of a ticket (after driving through red or too fast), flirt with girl in other lane.

Any other ideas (maybe involving geolocation) or is this just silly?
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> Homebrew: Remember how painful it used to be to get imagemagick installed?

Uh... no? https://trac.macports.org/browser/trunk/dports/graphics/Imag...

edit: ah, so any comment not gushing over how fantawesomastic homebrew is is now verboten. Noted, I guess.
Or a non-technical manager that trusts your judgement.
The way I've learned to deal with this is that I listen enthusiastically, and then I ask the person with the idea to come back with sketches or something more concrete. That has, so far, eliminated 100% of the ideas outright. When someone really serious comes to me with a concrete idea, I'll know it, and then we'll talk for real. Asking the person with the idea to do a little work to make it real is a great way to determine how serious they really are.
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Oh boy, I do love reading an article in Wired about a field I specialize in. It just makes me so amazingly happy.

1.) Wired sure does love yellow light! Kinda odd, since this is a magazine that is, ostensibly, about modern technology; unlike say, Good Old Days.[1] What they smoothly elide is that the sensitivity of the human eye peaks at 555 nanometers. (green)[2]

The more red you have in your white light spectrum, the less efficient the lamp is.

This is a hard physical limit. No amount of cleverness will get around it-- the eye just isn't as sensitive to red light. The warmer the light, the less efficient your bulb will be. 2700K (warm-white) is pretty bad. 5500K (pure white) is okay. 7000K would be ideal, but I don't think anybody actually makes lamps with a color temperature[3] that high.

2.)

...Additional colors and increased brightness required more nuanced control
of layer composition and depth. Modern LED makers accomplish this by using
precise ratios of indium, gallium, aluminum, and nitrogen for the crystal
layer, which results in a bluish color.

But on their own, not even advanced LEDs can produce anything suitable for
the living room. The blue-tinged illumination is fine for, say, a pen
flashlight on a keychain, but it doesn’t come close to the warm light the
human eye desires.

So the LEDs found in current household applications are blue diodes daubed
with a powdered coating called a phosphor, which includes rare-earth
elements that filter blue light.

Not wrong so much as massively, massively misleading. Early white LEDs were also phosphor laminated, because LEDs are monochromatic devices. There's no way to get broad-spectrum light out of them otherwise. These phosphors, by the way, are the same coatings that produce the "awful, sickly" light in the CFLs Dan hates so much. LED phosphors run off of blue light, not ultraviolet, but the principle is the same.

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1: Actual magazine, that actually exists. http://www.goodolddaysmagazine.com/

2: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Luminous_effi...

3: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Color_tempera...
I think of these as policy objects, and they only make sense when you have choices. That is, the benefit is not from pushing the logic into a new class. The benefit is from removing a switch on a policy flag, and using the runtime dispatching that the language provides. That is, instead of writing the branches yourself and keeping the current policy as a flag, class names are your policy flag and virtual methods are your branches. It pushes low-level code (if state A, do this, if state B, do this...) into the language runtime.

Personally, I don't make policy objects until I have two options. If I have one option, I hardcode everything because I want to do the minimal amount of design necessary. I only add in the abstractions when they're necessary.

In his post, this benefit was mostly an aside - "and have them be different" while showing one other option. Pushing logic into classes is not desirable in itself. As you pointed out, it adds layers of abstraction onto what can be conceptually simple tasks. But when you're able to remove some of your own machinery and rely on existing machinery, it's a win.

Although I do most of my work in C++, and I often have to create function objects - C++ has free functions, but it's often easier to pass around function objects. In his examples, I think PostCategorizationPolicy and UserCategorizationPolicy would be better served as functions.
Neat, but the animated GIFs need stop buttons. The page gets chaotic after sampling a handful of pictures.
IMHO, just another distraction to boost the number of car accidents...

Think more about safety and less about texting.
If anything I think it's a bit high. The reddit community is so unruly that monetizing the site effectively is a major challenge. It makes a good chunk of money but it's very far from profitable I'd guess.
from an organizational pov, where do these poros go in the structure. Would you put them in the model folder ?
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> Also, anyone think 200mil is a bit cheap for reddit?

Are they profitable yet after 6 years? I'd say 200mil is ridiculously expensive.

But then we live in an age where a location based photo sharing app for dogs is probably worth a few billion to some investor.
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