skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Scraping is probably the best short-term answer right now. Curious if any other early stage companies have taken this internal because it's such a pain.
TL;DR version: If you're experiencing something that you don't like, look to fix it, ESPECIALLY when related to your health! Your quality of life decreasing due to memory loss is enough of a concern to justify getting it checked out. Issues w/memory that I've experienced at different points in my life were related to diet, sleep deprivation and thyroid problems.

Are you experiencing any other issues? How's your mood stability? Do you get enough to eat/drink/sleep (7-9 hours) each day? Memory issues can be tied to a lot of issues, but some things may not be the root cause. Sleeping/eating disorders could be affecting your memory, but the disorders themselves could be caused by other underlying issues.

Personally, I had memory issues related to chronic sleep dep (driven by a "sleep is for the weak" mentality and a firm insistence for years that I only needed 4-5 hours a night). Getting onto a regular sleep cycle fixed the memory problems and a host of other issues. Having sleep deprived myself from age 14 to 25, the impact it had was incredible. I became much more creative & productive.

I started having sleep/memory issues again in the past year (along with mood issues and irregular appetite) with increasing frequency. I've got a currently undiagnosed (waiting on blood work) thyroid issue, but started taking synthetic thyroid hormone a few months back. The fact that it's resolved all problems points to hypothyroidism, so now I'm hunting down its cause.

Thyroid issues can be notoriously difficult to diagnose, since (I think) all tests could come back inconclusive/negative & most doctors use the TSH test to rule it out. The TSH test usually only reports thyroid issues in extreme cases, though, which is why there's a growing movement in medicine to educate doctors against using it as a thyroid litmus test. As my mom puts it (thyroid problems run deep and wide in our family), "it pretty much just tells you if you're alive".

If you suspect a thyroid issue, you'll want all thyroid blood tests run, especially thyroid antibody tests. If a doctor isn't willing to order them all, find another that will. I saw an endocrinologist who repeated incorrect thyroid information related to my test results that I've both read about and have been told about by my GP & a dermatologist friend of the family (both are excellent diagnosticians & doctors). I won't be seeing the endo again.

One thing that makes thyroid issues difficult to pin down is that it requires the patient to be knowledgeable & assertive about their own treatment in order to properly gauge their doctors. Here's a collection of links w/info on different thyroid aspects: http://thyroid.about.com/od/gettestedanddiagnosed/Get_Tested...

Sorry to go a little offtopic on thyroid stuff. That little gland has plagued my family for generations, so I'm pretty adamant about pointing it out as a potential cause of things.
not only that but surely 'per capita' is a terrible measure to use for normalizing a place like manhattan where the population during the day (aka the size of market for bike shops) is such a large multiple of the 'per capita' population (http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/4/2012/01/8efea7...) .. surely a better normalization statistic would be sales of fixies / sales of all bikes
This is frankly impossible. Either you were only in foreign tourist areas, or are a really experienced traveller. I speak a decent amount of Chinese, have lived and travelled extensively in China, and I still find China way more taxing than a country like Cambodia. I don't speak a lick of Khmer, but it is still a traveller's paradise compared to China.
Yahoo! is a media company, and media is a business where brand recognition matters. Petrochina is not.

That said, Yahoo! does have some strong brands. Yahoo Finance, omg! and Yahoo Mail come to mind. (Yahoo Mail is second only to Hotmail in web-mail market share; Gmail comes in third.)
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While I agree with the premise that seniors are a valuable demographic, the problem with Yahoo here is that there is nothing compelling about Yahoo that would make it the default choice for the next generation of seniors.

Yahoo grabbed a lot of users back when the web was young, and this is a cash cow for them, but it has have never figured out how to compete and grow their audience since.
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It's still the #3 largest in the US and #4 largest web property in the world according to comScore for monthly unique visitors. It may not be cool as it was in 1997, but it's still a massive force on the web with a huge number of users and advertising inventory.
I heard they are launching a cassandra-style datastore tomorrow as well.
I can see how this works but it still looks unmaintainable.

I avoid all goto, continue, early-return and similar statements though successive nesting. This solves problems:

- Code quickly shows when it has become too complex and needs to be split up.

- Code is naturally arranged in a way that makes it easier to split into functions.

- Code is naturally arranged to clean up a resource only if it has been allocated (no extra labels) and as soon as it is no longer needed.
I'm actually interested in your use cases for this. Mind pinging me offline (vladik dot rikhter at gmail)?
Wouldn't a developer understand the significance of such an announcement better than an institutional investor?
It's not exactly height of the tourist season which can help with prices. If he's from LA, the fact that it's cold and there'll probably be snow might well be a feature for him.
I have been worrying that I let my emotions get the best of me in my grandparent comment.

I have some thoughts about how to effectively address the politicians who are the tools in this (note that Dodd would now be in good part a tool wielder rather than a tool, having moved to the other side of Washington's revolving door). However, talk's cheap, and I've restrained myself from posting them when I don't have any further, concrete steps to take or taken, personally, with respect to what I think might be effective. (I've communicated to numerous parties, including written letters to my legislators.)

As for his address, the MPAA office address is readily available. But I doubt anything would actually get through to Dodd. He's not interested in listening.
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My wife and I do a similar thing. Take a large 3 week trip a year. Although I like the idea of traveling for a year or longer, I do believe I would miss several things, my bed is at the top of that list.
Your point about information rationing as power is valid, but there is a fundamental threat to the existence of the internet as is, and I think given that wikipedia relies on that freedom its important for them to make this point firmly.

I don't think law and medicine are good comparisons here.

Lawyers should defend people they dislike because they believe in the value of the adversarial system in teasing out justice from subjectivity.

Doctors treat all people because there is no credible way to value one life over another that does not ultimately trace its source to prejudice.

Wikipedia sees SOPA as a fundamental threat to itself and the internet in general. Users of the internet should be made aware of the stakes. Nobody will die or lose their freedom from Wikipedia strongly making this point to its users.

(A slight caveat being that most doctors I know turn to wikipedia/google multiple times a day for clarifications of diagnoses or to provide hypotheses for a given set of symptoms that they hadn't previously considered. I guess someone could die from the absence of this resource, but mostly doctors use them because its easier than logging into one of the medical databases and more up-to-date).
Nice, seems like they are taking some of the features of Microsoft OneNote to the web (checkboxes)
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tl;dr - Pot calling the kettle black: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pot_calling_the_kettle_black
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This is a game I wrote with my friend Paul Annesley on the weekend at RailscampX in Adelaide.

It's written with Ruby 1.9 with no dependencies. It's just using 'print' statements and ansi escape sequences for color. ;-)

Video demo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VoHmJfXqwbM
The gemm -> syrk optimization is very common (I would expect most tuned BLAS libraries to take advantage of it -- all that I have inspected do so).
Yessss.. make it easy for more people to hate you. Please spout more nonsense.
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Unfortunate that they don't offer the software itself; I could use this at work, but I don't think we'd be allowed to use it on an external server.
Facts? I've heard more bad things about the Board of Yahoo than I've heard about his decisions personally.
According to the first graph, there are 100 fixies per capita in Manhattan.
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Well done. Clean and simple. Can we get usage stats from you after tomorrow?
Yes! This was immediately what I checked to see if they had changed it.. and they haven't. I was really impressed with the look and feel of the Bootstrap UI but once I started to look through the code, I really felt let down. Here were other issues I saw:

* styling of default elements (like table) interferes with other styles

* inconsistent use of variables

* encouraging users to define columns with html classes (span4, offset6) instead of using less to apply the rule to the html.

* completely incompatible with JQuery UI (they had an open bug about it with some workarounds)

In the end, I ended up just picking a few good ideas out of it. It looks great and it's probably ok for a certain class of sites but be aware of the limitations as well.
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Ask HN: What can those of us outside of the USA do to help stop SOPA?
I like this a lot.

My senators have a system that requires me to press 1 to leave a voicemail and 2 to speak with someone. I had to actually dial on my phone to make it happen.

Maybe a little keypad could be displayed while on the call?
Why are CSS frameworks becoming so prominent only now? Why weren't they coming out as much years ago? It seems like they would have been even more useful then.
Apple makes some of that money from works more than 25 years old, so it's not necessarily in their interest.
These aren't necessarily anti-SOPA, but ProPublica's (full disclosure: my employer) has helpful listings of where Congressmembers stand and the current tally of support and opposition (by bill and state delegation):

http://projects.propublica.org/sopa
http://projects.propublica.org/sopa/timeline
If there's demand, we'll definitely consider offering this.
Would you prefer an on-screen keyboard or a connection through your real phone? (i.e., we call you and then put you through)

Thanks so much for the feedback (:

- someone who is partially responsible for this
I wonder if this was the result of unintended consequences of poorly designed incentives. May be - and this is just a wild hypothesis - Google's directive to the vendor was to improve their maps data and incentives were based on their data being better than OSMs. Which leads to some of the contractors realizing that it would be easier to be "better" than OSM by making OSM worse.
I put http://trackjumper.com out after about 100-120 hours of work. It sucked, but people payed for it. I probably should have put in a little more effort prior to launch, but I've made up ground since then.
Look into your diet. Are you eating a lot of processed food and a lot of food from aluminum cans (soda) - as well as cooking in aluminum pans?

Aluminum causes Alzheimers.
I used to have the same exact issue. There were two things that I did that returned me back to the level that I was accustomed to operating at.

1. High-quality supplementation. I take Total Balance Men's Premium and Omega 3/QH from Xtend-Life. Please note that "regular vitamins" from your corner drug store or GNC are "McDonalds"-grade vitamins and are simply not sufficient as they contain low-quality nutrients and--pardon the vulgarity--they just get urinated right out instead of being fully absorbed. The downsides with Xtend-Life is that they are pricey and the shipping takes a longer that I'd prefer (they are in New Zealand) but, ultimately, they are absolutely worth it: http://www.xtend-life.com/

2. Sign up for Lumosity. It's a cognitive training web site based on sound science from research Universities. They have plenty of working memory and even dual n-back exercises: http://www.lumosity.com/

I can assure you without any doubt whatsoever that if you do both of these things, you'll be feeling tremendously improved--if not even better than the level that you were originally operating at--quickly.
A fun thing about cliches is there's often one for both sides of an argument. e.g.

birds of a feather flock together

Humans tend to treat people as in an "in-group" or "out-group". The troop bands together against another troop. So we have all finds of discrimination, from racism to trivial religious wars over text-editors, languages, and smart-phones. If we don't have a way to define our "in-group", we invent one, like cliques in high school.

I think a great invention of modern society is mass-audience sports. This gives us a simulated war to take sides in, but with negligible practical effect on our lives and relationships.

IMHO, it's hard to fix bugs in human nature, better to find a workaround.
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Just discovered Trigger.io - a YC backed startup which is a new service to deploy your HTML5 apps across multiple platforms. I just signed up and am checking it out & am trying to figure out how it compares to PhoneGap. Besides the obvious difference of free vs. monthly service charges.
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It looks neat. Why does it want access to my google contacts?
the blackouts are drastic but they need to be to capture peoples attentions. If SOPA/PIPA passed the first site to go down wont be reddit it will be foreignmusicdemosharing.com. People dont notice slow gradual change and by the time they do it could be too late.
I really don't like that I have to sign in with Google or Facebook to try it in read/write mode. Read-only mode is not good enough for me to tell if it's something I want to use, and having to use Google or Facebook just to try it is a dealbreaker for me, sorry. Which is a shame, because it looks neat.

Fix that, then I'd be interested in giving it a try.

Edit: I missed the ability to sign in without Google/Facebook. It was a bit too small to notice. That being said... I signed up and gave it a try anyway, despite my misgivings. It's a neat product.
I'm really at a loss to know what you found so difficult.

I did two things that I didn't usually do.

I got people at the hostels I stayed in to write down instructions for me (e.g. tell them to write down "I would like a haircut/I would like to buy a 2nd class sleeper at 22:30 from Xi'an to Chengdu" and stuff like that).

Another thing I did was have the number of somebody who spoke English and Chinese and call them up when I really needed some translation (e.g. with a bus station attendant telling me that their tickets are all sold out for that day).

That's it. Those are the only two things I did in China that I didn't do in Cambodia (or Shanghai/Beijing). Most stuff you buy you can buy just with gestures and a couple of words. Taxis can take you where you want to go with a point to a place on the map. What else is there?
At 31 my memory isn't nearly as good as it was at 18. I remember I could sit through my classes, do none of the reading and still get perfect scores on my tests (as long as the material was covered). However, my ability to internalize and relate complex ideas is MUCH improved. I'm way better at abstract math now, I'm not sure I would have even had the patience for it previously.

Another thing to consider: many people get minor bouts of depression in the winter. Generally your memory is worse while depressed.
I'm also a frequent complainer about exactly this sort of thing.

Maybe there is some space in the market for a B2B company which could package up software like this for deployment within the firewalls of the ultimate customer...
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I'm just very surprised that more startups don't have people who both enjoy the experience and are good at it.

Also, people make it sound like EC2 is management-free. It isn't. It might take less time, which is important, and the problems might be different, but it isn't a fire-and-forget solution.
AFAIK, OpenJDK is not yet supported for Android development. There are at least issues with the compatibility test suite, and perhaps others. We're going to be installing Oracle Java 6 to our development machines, at least for the short term.
They mention Los Angeles Code Academy meetups, I live in LA and know some people interested in learning to code, and in an admittedly brief search I haven't been able to find any evidence of such meetups.
A bit off topic, is there a website that lists places to stay around the world with great Internet connections?
Why does this request access to my Google Contacts when signing in using my Google Account? No thanks.
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As far as I know, NLTK has no C dependencies other than its general dependency on NumPy. I think they are keeping the toolkit in pure Python on purpose (but I may be wrong about that). That said there are SVM implementations in pure Python -- PyMVPA, for one.
I promise you that there's absolutely loads of demand from companies for things like this, so long as they can be deployed inside their own network.

On the plus side, you can charge them lots of money. On the negative side, it's not as easy (or cheap!) to market to these people and take care of their needs.
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With iTunes, Apple is one of the media companies' best friends in Silicon Valley. I don't think either of those parties is really interested in attacking the other.
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}
});
List of Sites Planning SOPA Protests Continues to Grow
That's a good point, I just thought the model of having the identity be separate from the login credentials made more sense. It has some nice benefits to separate them mentioned by ch below.
Too much web surfing and tv watching? Too much multitasking? Stop surfing the web for a week and see what happens. On HackerNews I will often looked at 10-20 articles and soon forget the first articles I looked at.
'Making aware' does not require withholding service.

I tend to think any line of reasoning that begins, "this is such a fundamental threat to our survival that normal practice must be discarded" is a signifier of panicked groupthink, most common in war and campaign season, but that's just me.

As of today, Wikipedia is an always-on information utility. As of Thursday, it will be also understood as an occasional lobbyist/information-withholding-disciplinarian.

And I hadn't thought about the effect on medical/safety reference during the blackout period until earlier today. Given the large numbers of professionals and laypeople who rely on Wikipedia (far more than they should!), it's possible someone somewhere will die because of the blackout.

updated to add:

The health risk applies via the Reddit blackout, too. For some people, this is the support community from which they get urgent life guidance. See for example: http://www.reddit.com/r/bestof/comments/nzfow/my_life_was_sa...
Yup. That's what we do.
A CEO has fiduciary responsibility for the property of the shareholders. A CEO can have other perspectives if he or she wishes, but the shareholder perspective better be high on the list.
Also, CouchSurfing is a great way to find free places to stay and meet intersting folks. I've been on the site ~5 years, and the experiences have been nothing short of amazing..dare I say, a lifechanger

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it's the same problem as allowing users to create millions of identities. if it gets to be a problem, you can just start removing unclaimed identities from oldest to newest.
Couldn't you offer something where you host the UI, but you allow a client to provide their own data source? That way the data stays on the client-side, and they never have to worry about upgrades, since you host the UI?
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Correct. Track bikes have a super-steep geometry (sometimes a 90 degree seat tube!) and tall gearing, both of which are very impractical in traffic.
standard disclaimer: afterhours trading is very thin liquidity, so a small amount of trading can move the stock price significantly without meaning much. tomorrow's opening price is the first real indicator of what "the market" thinks.
We looked closely at both and, while Bootstrap has far more features / UI elements, the attention to detail in building responsive pages is better in Foundation, IMO.

The elements are nice to have in Bootstrap but we are building our own elements on Foundation's solid platform and feel better about it over the long term.
sigh

You've completely missed the point.

"Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures"

This company is made up of people. Without these people, this company wouldn't have any power.

"Sony Pictures Entertainment, Inc."

This company has people as well. Employees, board members, everyone.

The MPAA is made up of people. Indeed, if you remove the people from the MPAA, you are left with nothing. Corporations aren't a life form.
I'd be wary of putting NZ ahead of others. NZ is currently negotiating a Free Trade Agreement with the U.S. If it is anything like Australia's, and it will be simply because the U.S. has more clout, NZ will have to agree to implement, among other things, the same copyright laws as in the U.S.

Australia had to implement the ridiculous "70 year after death" rule, and so on.
We'll do our best to do a blog post sometime this week. (Disclaimer: We're all busy college students trying to keep the Internet open _and_ pass our classes at the same time.)
Wild guess: Two days of frantic last-minute preparation, one day of rollout, and two days of frantic hotfixes before most folks go home for the weekend.
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Confluence is the wiki we use where I work and I absolutely hate it (ending tags is like you are opening a tag, so {bold}this would be bold{bold} (example, I don't remember any tags off the top of my head).

If something better came along that helped us rather than slowed us down it would be fantastic.
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We do it in order to let you auto-complete your contact's names in order to invite them to pads. We absolutely never email your contacts unless you explicitly invite someone. That said we understand your concern and hence offer the regular email sign-in option.
if you look for something similar and opensource, you should have a look at etherpad-lite: https://github.com/Pita/etherpad-lite
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Sure, once the bullet is moving ballistically you can't measure G. My argument was with the statement that accelerometers measure changes in acceleration. They don't.