skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"How did we manage to have a disorder that affects nearly 10% teenagers?"

A combination of rising maternal age, increased body load of many environment contaminants, terrible diets, ubiquitous TV watching before age 2, parental drug use (everything from starbucks to antibiotics), etc. From a draft version of the latest EPA report:

"Between 1993 and 2007, the rate of preterm birth rose from 11.0% of births in 1993 to 12.7% of births in 2007. This increase was statistically significant. [...] Long-term motor, cognitive, visual, hearing, behavioral, social-emotional, health, and growth problems may not become apparent for years, and may persist throughout a child’s life. The birth of a preterm or low birth weight infant can have significant emotional and economic effects on the infant’s family."

"The role of environmental contaminants in contributing to ADHD, either alone or in conjunction with certain genetic susceptibilities, is becoming better understood, as a growing number of studies look explicitly at the relationship between ADHD and exposures to environmental contaminants. Recent epidemiological studies (most published since 2006) have linked increased levels of lead in hair
and blood, mercury in blood, phthalate metabolites in urine, and the pesticide chlorpyrifos in cord blood (indicative of prenatal exposure) with increased likelihood of ADHD.

Additionally, many of the behaviors that are observed in children with ADHD have been associated with elevated exposures to certain environmental contaminants. Several studies have found a relationship between attention problems, hyperactivity, and impulsivity, which are common behaviors of ADHD, and exposures to lead, PCBs, mercury, and certain pesticides. Animal studies that examine the link between environmental exposures and animal models of ADHD, or common ADHD behaviors, provide supporting evidence that exposures to lead, PCBs, mercury, and pesticides may contribute to ADHD."

http://www.epa.gov/ace/ace3draft/draft_pdfs/ACE3Neurodevelop...

I'm sure it's probably overdiagnosed as well, but the enormous difference between sexes is still very telling.
Ha! It's the result of the text shadow. It's funny you mention it because I wasn't sure if it should be included or not. To me, the slight text shadow makes the text seem more.. soothing. Perhaps other people don't feel this way.

Does this look blurry to you as well?: http://diveintohtml5.org/
Then wait for the new update. :)
So... MapReduce? Kinda figured that when you had 6 zeros after your first zero.

This looks like a fun project, but I can't help but feel like Hadoop experience reports are a little late to the party at this point. Is there anyone out there who doesn't immediately think MapReduce when they see numbers at scale like this? If anything, the tool is overused, not neglected.
This makes me think of Cryptonomicon...
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A tool to calculate options vs. salary tradeoffs
Here is an excellent article on pricing, published in Harvard Business Review some years ago (it is such a great article, I feel obligated to provide it to the HN crowd)...

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00005RZ5D/ref=as_li_ss_tl?...

How Do You Know When the Price Is Right?

by Robert. J. Dolan

Published Sep 01, 1995
I was unable to distinguish a difference between their "technology" and ImageMagick's "convert -quality 75" on their demo image.

Smells bad to me.
I was at the Crunchies this year, and you could cut the tension with a knife between the TechCrunch and AOL people. AOL presenters were blatantly decrying how the event was organized -- everything from how TC used paid sponsorships to the overall tenor of the event. Shots were fired back and forth pretty regularly between the presenters and the AOL folks, but the TC people were clearly the most hostile.

Seems like buyer's remorse to me, as they've put themselves on par with the rest of AOL's content farm, even though we all know their content is more well-researched and valuable than that. If they didn't want AOL's money, they shouldn't have taken it. They could have found alternate sources of funding, but maybe not to grow as much or as fast as they would have liked.
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I don't know if it's independent thinking so much as synthetic thinking. In comp sci, you get a lot of mileage out of analytic thinking. It maps nicely to linear processes in a computer, and to the rigor of programming languages.

So much mileage, in fact, that your non-analytic faculties atrophy from disuse.
AFAIK, to activate full screen mode using a keyboard shortcut for any app using the Lion-flavored full screen, you'll need to create a shortcut yourself :( http://osxdaily.com/2011/08/10/full-screen-keyboard-shortcut...
In search of Netflix at 24 FPS
In the circle that I move around, everyone wants an ecommerce store for their business that can generate sales even when they are sleeping.

I tell them I am busy with my own stuff but I take time to meet and listen to them.
After the meeting, I do research, put together a plan with the breakdown of costs for outsourcing development,
marketing and the estimated revenue.

That's when I stop hearing from them. They get either too busy or they realize that it's not as easy as they think.
I am yet to find someone who followed up on the plan.

Isn't life always like that? Many with plans but very few who act on them.
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Tufts chemists create world’s smallest electric motor
Very cool. I'm always looking for new ways to discover music. This is really nicely done.
Luckily for folks with outdated skillsets, you can learn and practice almost anything in software these days for free from the net. Back in the day you might have had to go back to school, now it's a matter of buckling down and brushing up on your Rails.
But that's their point. When you have people with no jobs, that counts for the unemployment. But even I know how difficult it is to find people to hire for our company as I do HR for a technology firm. There is a high demand, just shortage of people to fill the positions.
> Funny how those same shareholders had absolutely no problem with it as long as it was making them money (...)

Did they know about it?
Likewise. Although the API documentation for ST2 is not yet mature as the API itself is changing, having written against ST1, I must say the experience feels much more intuitive and modular than writing for Vim.

Pathogen is great, but I would love to see a near-complete rewrite for the Vim ecosystem. This rewrite will inherit the bundle structure from modern editors like Sublime Text and Textadept. Sorry Vimscript, you just have to go. And I would pick Lua rather than Python as the interfacing language.

I'm saying all this because I still prefer using Vim to anything else.
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How about "The Dark Art of Getting Your Client to Pay You the Agreed Upon Amount in a Timely Manner"?
Google seems to be the same kind of target Microsoft was after losing its darling status. No surprise this coincides with the anti-trust suit and patent issues; I expect this will continue until the numbers involved become large enough that it's worth Google fighting back, again just like Microsoft.
Yes! Sadly most of the new "visionary", "creative" ideas people try to promulgate are, in fact, bad. Usually there's a reason things are done the way they are, and the complexities of the current system are hard to appreciate from the outside. So a bias against "creative" ideas may be entirely appropriate.

Now, on the flip side, some creative ideas are awesome, and would be great, but no one knows about them, and everyone is tired of suffering through the 99% that are fiascoes, so they resist them. It's a pity, but the response is a reasonable one. Thus both the barriers to, and the rewards of, a truly groundbreaking innovation are high, and the innovator is called upon to do a lot of painful, frustrating, tedious selling of the idea.
Corkboard.it, a similar product, owns the trademark on the phrase "Corkboard" in the state of NY, the state in which we're based. It's likely we could have lawsuits in the future if our name follows too closely.
Isn't a better long-term solution to simply have DNSSEC distribute your site's public key? The idea that I have to buy a domain name and an SSL certificate is silly. For extended validation, what should be verified is your public key, not your domain. So if the public key is also signed by a number of CAs, it is considered valid.
So now he's managed to put a link on the page, after he deleted my comment about what sharing means:

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Then you didn't understand what sharing means...
Yeah you got the views for your ads on the left and you're happy with it, BUT what does the original writer get for your pos here?
Right nothing. You don't even mention where it comes from and who's the real author. Also the reader won't be clicking around on the website of the auther and maybe if he's lucky buy something.
When I read the original post, I browsed through the whole website and got to know more about the author...

So when you want to share, then share a link!
No it won't give you money for your ads, but respect from the readers, otherwise you'll lose that...
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I think people always expect you to be on a learning curve when creating sites, like they think they are doing you a favour by you building it for them as it's good experience for you.

I don't know what it is with jobs where it is more of a service than labour but I feel we all get a bum rap, it's the same with SEO, I think people think it hardly takes any time at all. If I asked my friend, who is a joiner, to do some work for me, I can see the work being done and I can appreciate the time and effort gone into it, it's almost like people cannot appreciate the time projects take us.

Don't get me wrong, I have put sites together in 16 hours from scratch but they are basic sites and I don't want to maintain them. They have been favour jobs or such like, it's not how I plan spending the rest of my life.

I think the one thing I take from this story is that all people think their idea is unique or will always work. 99% of the time, the people have done no research into competition or if they have they have not evaluated the competition well enough. It's good when you do get a good idea but this does again come down to the execution, you have to be able to rely on your partner to do their fair share.
The same thing in Python would require you to import all modules, and place all functions and classes in those modules in one class. Probably can be done, but whether it's useful?
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No - all this comes down to is that your comment has literally nothing to do with the OP, isn't the first time you have made the comment, and in any other circumstance would have been downvoted into negative territory because it doesn't meet a single guideline of this site
"I've got an idea for an app" is the new "Will you read my screenplay?"
I don't think so. Even though Safari and Chrome both use webkit, Chrome has a very different security model and API. Opera might be completely different.
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Is Howard Schultz about to run for President?
Will you be changing the corkboard theme?
Is this a new realization? Herzberg's motivation-hygiene theory explains that 'hygiene' factors keep a person from being unhappy, but aren't themselves motivators. So having a good salary keeps someone from becoming unhappy, but isn't itself a motivator (except possibly a very short time).

And as Gladwell writes in Outliers: "Those three things—autonomy, complexity, and a connection between effort and reward—are, most people agree, the three qualities that work has to have if it is to be satisfying."
The new guy wants to hack the city's data
I've ported a Chrome extension to Safari trivially, I think Opera is much the same...
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I think every programmer in some respects goes through that, that's how we make mistakes and learn from them.

I wouldn't be surprised if most developers actually did their first project for nothing at all, I think we all under value our skills to start with and it takes time to realise how much our skills are worth.

That's what I find funny when you put a "real" bill into do a site and you see the owners face, if their initial reaction is, "how much??!", I know it's time to go quoting for a different project.
Sword and Sworcery is an adventure game and it's awesome. Came out for iOS in 2011. http://www.swordandsworcery.com/
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Boston, MA and Cambridge, England

Ember is hiring (at least) four people right now.

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Boston, MA jobs:

Dev Tools Software Engineer: http://ember.com/company_career.html?id=489

QA Manager: http://ember.com/company_career.html?id=482

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Cambridge, England jobs:

Digital ASIC Designer: http://ember.com/company_career.html?id=488

IC Engineer: http://ember.com/company_career.html?id=487

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Ember is the best place I've ever worked, and most of my coworkers agree.

The Boston Biz Journal agrees too; we were one of the top 25 places to work in Boston: http://www2.bizjournals.com/boston/events/2011/best_places_t...

Employees are not required to understand proper semicolon usage, but it's a plus.

Ember is a technically interesting and socially healthy place to work. You should check us out!

Email me at hnjobsSept2011@saidsvec.com for more info.
Doing too much as a parent ... harmful?
Yeah, I did, but I accidentally included information from the "GoDaddy response" linked by rednaught. If you didn't read the 2nd link, then I understand how it sounds wrong. In retrospect, I should have replied to rednaught's post.
You need an incredibly high level of computer literacy first though.
I'm assuming the sysadmin cannot/would not edit the source?

If that's the case, a solution like IonCube might do the trick. Just make sure PDO connection errors aren't displayed/logged, since they may contain connection info.

You can also try restricting the sql user's access to the server's IP, but it still may be possible to connect directly from the server itself.

If the sysadmin can't access the db, who's managing the db server?
I don't think we're talking about people who have never programmed before; we're talking about maybe COBOL and Fortran experts, or people who write low-level C but can only find Python and Ruby jobs.
https://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/09/health/09drugs.html

Google's issues with online drug sales has not been a secret.
Is it working for you now?
Everyone is responsible for UX. Even janitors.
Transparency up versus down. London now has only the wrong sort, for instance. They can watch you on almost any street but if you tried to record a police officer they'd arrest or add you to a watch list or something.

Whereas if encryption and hidden cameras go far enough we'll be able to spy on the authorities as well as them spying on us, thus keeping things in check.

These guys call call it sousveillance http://wearcam.org/sousveillance.htm but I think they overthink the idea a little. Simply put, who watches the watchers? Unless it's me at some level I'm not funding/legitimizing the system.
There's always the option they expected this reaction and figured they would let him blow off the steam in a few articles and then move on.

In a few months, everybody is going to forget about this whole the episode anyway. Firing him or giving him more ammunition is exactly what they don't want to do.
Perhaps. We've thought of allowing multiple themes in the past, so this wouldn't be any new work.
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Unfortunately, I believe that many places have laws (e.g. food safety regulations) that ban such informal growing and selling.
All this tech and resourcefulness and there's no alternative to just killing these pigs? Electric fence? UAV robots chasing them off? Sounds like he paid almost $5,000 for the camera and the whole thing is pretty time intensive (all night hunting).
Damian Conway wrote a five-part series on Vimscript for IBM's developerWorks. I found it a good way to start doing more with Vimscript:

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-vim-script...

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-vim-script...

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-vim-script...

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-vim-script...

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-vim-script...
I'm sorry but you obviously have no experience with augmented reality (what you are actually trying to do). There are so many problems with your approach...

1. In order to be able to render virual objects on top of the real image (camera image or directly to the retina) you should know the pose of the eye with respect to the outer world. For example if you are a surgeon and want to overlay an MRI scan on the patient, you need to know the pose of the eye (camera) in respect to the patient and this is a VERY hard task as everybody doing computer vision can tell you. You only mention how to find the pose of the eye with respect to the head but this is not enough.

2. Processing large 3D models like 3D scans requires a lot of computational power. It won't be very portable.

3. You will also need a depth image along the camera image in order to achieve some of your goals (like bluring the image according to the focus distance). Do you have any idea how difficult this task is?

You have cool ideas, but should be more realistic about your goals. Also reading some things about augmented reality and computer vision will help you a lot to understand how difficult this is.
I see an increasing unwillingness of companies to train people who don't have EXACTLY the right skillset. This used be different in the 90s.
and to add - your hypothesis that Mike wants to get fired doesn't match any real analysis of the situation.

You seem to have said this only to only re-open your old claims again, but if you read your supporting evidence, it doesn't backup your claim that Mike wants to get fired.

Now I know absolutely nothing of what is going on - but here is some quick analysis.

First - there is no way in the world that MG wrote this post on Techcrunch without Mike knowing about it. If I were a bettering man, I would wager that Mike prompted it.

The evidence? Every time MG writes a 'meta' post about Techcrunch, blogs, politics etc. he writes it on his personal blog. He has never meta-blogged on Techcrunch. Only yesterday he wrote a post on his personal blog about this situation.

Second - Mike said in the press last week that he will still write at Techcrunch. Because he wants to - because he has to.

And remember the fund was announced without Mike stepping down. The 'stepping down' part came only a few hours later when AOL were forced into the move under some media pressure and scrutiny.

Queue screwing up the press announcement about the fund, AOL going back on their statements and then finally telling the press that Mike no longer works there (without Mike saying anything) and suddenly you have a post, on TC, from MG, that reeks of a last-ditched move orchestrated by Mike

This is all about using a public reaction to get Mike's job back at Techcrunch, and everything back to how it was a week ago.

If you spent the amount of time you did on your comment looking at the actual situation without blinders on you would realize that the real conclusions and any real analysis is the opposite of what you suggest (ie. it has nothing to do with CA residency tax codes)
Fun fact: Apple had OS X running on x86 since the first release (iirc Jobs dicslosed this announcing the transition to Intel processors).
Oddly the article never names the plaintiffs nor links to the filing online. But there may be some merit to the suit given how fast Google reacted when the DOJ came sniffing. That is, did the execs know and prepare early (the truth of which could come to light in discovery)?
MapReduce wasn't my first thought, but that has more to do w/ my inexperience than anything else.

The cost though... that was shocking! It comes out to about $42/month to host the data and a $2 per analysis run. That's very affordable if you're producing results someone might want to pay for.
Solve the puzzle and get a job
Since it scales somewhat close to linear, you can just calculate it yourself.

And since you pay per minute on EC2, you can either chose to have 10 instances calculate a minute or 1 instance for 10 minutes. Either way, you pay for 10 minutes of processing time.

p.s. simplified but probably somewhere in a reasonable ballpark
I think he's assuming that browsers defer password storage to some sort of cloud-based password storage service (presumably of your choosing). Hence the mention of needing to trust the cloud.
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The &lt;img&gt; Is Not Enough
There may be some info returned, but I didn't dig into in too much. Once I figured I could run through the whole set in less than an hour for less than 10 bucks, I had all the info I needed.
To become a software developer (especially the kind with a CS related degree), you need:

-A highly analytical mindset

-The ability to handle tough math

-The ability to read dense material and process it quickly

-The mindset to persevere, test, investigate, and find obscure problems in complex systems

-The ability to see a project through to its finish

-The ability to explain complex logic and design, verbally and in writing

It also helps immensely to have

- The ability to work well in a team, and good general social skills (the notion that this isn't important in software development is a silly myth, it's incredibly important)

- The ability to complete lengthy and difficult academic programs, without veering off into less demanding majors that give you more time to party.

- A family or other benefactor that can fund and support you through these academic programs (I knew a dude who tried to major in CS while working 25hrs a week in retail. Extraordinary people can do this, but it's very difficult to carry physics, math, cs, and a humanities elective under these circumstances. Many smart people fail even when school is their only "job").

It makes absolutely no sense to compare a person like this to the national average. The general unemployment rate has nothing to do with the unemployment rate for people like this.

So is the unemployment rate actually low for software developers, or is it simply low for all people with the traits listed above, regardless of field? You could reasonably argue that jobs go begging in software largely because the field is not competitive with the other professions/trades that people with these traits have available to them.
Why not use both?

Use semantic versioning when tagging/releasing your project so humans can understand
the version numbers.

Set your g:loaded_yourplugin variable to the integer version of the major & minor
components of the semver version number. You can ignore the bugfix component because
the dependency management stuff is likely going to only care about which features are
present.
Looks like this would be kind of neat for logging defects. The tester could show exactly what happened and highlight exactly where the issues is.
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I didn't know Amazon sells PDFs!
I'm surprised that there's not some kind of real time-ish callback when the screen is about to update, giving the game a last chance to update its buffer?

Or better yet there should be a way of saying "use this buffer next time you update the screen" (and don't block during vblank time).
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