skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Definition of Conversion Disorder, which the girls are "diagnosed" with:

Conversion disorder is a condition in which a person has
blindness, paralysis, or other nervous system (neurologic)
symptoms that cannot be explained by medical evaluation.[1]

Along with Mass Psychogenic Illness:

The rapid spread of illness signs and symptoms affecting
members of a cohesive group, originating from a nervous
system disturbance involving excitation, loss or
alteration of function, whereby physical complaints that
are exhibited unconsciously have no corresponding organic
aetiology.[2]

[1] - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PMH0001950/

[2] - http://bjp.rcpsych.org/content/180/4/300.full
I believe bootstrap is the product of the design community stepping up their game. It's the part of the community that is lagging behind that is doing the whining here.
Agree, that is an option to make it easier to decide to upgrade. The question is are you (and the others who sold their iPad2) gadget freaks that lust for new stuff, or do you really see a value in the upgrade.

What I am trying to figure out is, what keeps you(/me) wanting to upgrade to new tablets frequently, where as we are perfectly ok, running our 3+ year old Mac. Maybe the price point makes it more affordable to upgrade frequently.
Not even close :)
Agree. Getting tired of the "you should be using Chrome" messages although it works fine in Opera (haven't tried Firefox). It smacks of "we only tested in one browser", even though that's probably not the case.

Having said that, it's a nice game.
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Three things come to mind: (1) imitating higher-status individuals may give you reproductive advantage by getting you access to a larger pool of potential mates. (2) fitting in with the herd may be beneficial in short term because that way you don't have to think for yourself (of course becoming a lemming has disadvantages as well...), (3) sharing emotions with others may help group cohesion (people develop trust of each other by observing and attempting to predict each other's behavior; the people typically deemed to be most trustworthy are those who are both friendly and easy to predict, think dog/man's best friend).
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I just use LiveReload for this.
sed deserves a lot of love, I still prefer it for a lot of command-line munging, greps everywhere, bit of awk thrown in. That despite the fact that (say) perl -pe might do a more comprehensive or efficient job as basically a drop-in replacement with benefits.

Does/should a UNIX course nowadays bother training up students on these microprogramming languages if they're almost certainly going to have perl or python available anyway? They only marginally fit into the UNIX philosophy, so is it just their old-school cred that keeps them around?
Perhaps playing "OB Marker Bingo" at his speech is in order?
> What kind of advantage might this sort of thing have given humans in the past?

You're skipping a very important detail in all of this.

The gender.

A sick man deserves contempt, a sick woman deserves attention and caring. Which explains why most men insist they're fine, even when at the brink of death, while women are incapacitated with the slightest headache.

In my experience, women have a tendency of succumbing to periodic ill-feeling. All of it subconscious. This brings the attention of men and family. That constant and consistent caring is habit forming and serves her well in the future when she becomes genuinely sick (or pregnant). There's your evolutionary justification.

This seems like an extreme example of the above. Probably a high status female overdid it and the rest of the females were just mimicking her behavior, all of it subconsciously. While human beings are drawn to certain behaviors instinctively, the nuts and bolts of the behavior is learned and passed down culturally. In other words, women may have a predilection toward periodic ill-feeling, but in what manner they express it is up to them ... or in this case, up to the high-status female.
I sometimes feel there is a peculiar and rare speech/writing disorder endemic to writers and editors of the NYT which causes them to express everything they are trying to say in the most "litterary" (as in "litter") way possible.

You thought Victorian English was verbose, ornate, and unnecessarily obscure? Try the modern NYT! Shorter sentences but longer nearly everything else.
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THPOILER ALERT!

By the end of the article, we still don't know what's affecting the girls, but the author is strongly hinting in the direction of a mass pychogenic illness, a.k.a. mass hysteria, which has been a front-runner diagnosis from the beginning (although generally rejected by the victims and their parents).

There's no evidence of environmental contamination. One doctor has come up with a fringe diagnosis, and is treating for it, with some success, but international experts on his diagnosis say it's basically impossible. Oh, and there's a pattern of weak family ties in the homes of the afflicted girls. It ends with some talk of the successes of a doctor who is pursuing psychological therapy as the main treatment (along with exhaustive testing for other causes, just in case).
This is getting beyond silly, and I dislike long threads, but if you insist this is how:

I dont hate an IDE I advocate it. Circumstances matter.

I do not assume, I verify and learn from past experience. You may find this helpful http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posterior_probability

I have no problems about users preferring one tool over another. I re-iterate , "preference" is different from necessity.

I am not sure why I am re-repeating myself. Apparently it does not make a difference and dont expect that it would even now. Perhaps an integrated reading/comprehension environment is called for.
We haven't officially launched yet, but I'll send you a note in about a week with an invite.
The very well understood and widely studied phenomenon which is a perfect fit for observations?

Saying that it's "just a theory" that mass psychogenic illness is involved here is like saying that it's "just a theory" that humans evolved from non-human primates.
Hey Google, where's my LispScript?
All-right, enough with the Javascripts.

It seems one needs to make web-apps now, and these things need client scripting, and client scripting in Javascript sucks.

Can I have some ArcScript in your V9 engine, and in Monochromium infinity, and even in Firefoxes please?

How could anyone miss on this? How can there be a VbScript and not a LispScript? Who makes up these rules?

Oh, the terror Clarice.
I use foursquare for finding the best places to eat and drink. The tips people leave about places are concise, meaningful and for the most part, pretty accurate. Not only do you know the person's been there, but you can see how many times they've checked-in to that particular location which can be telling.

It's likely you'll find a lot of like-minded ppl on foursquare, too.
Pinterest is more like a visual social bookmarking service than a blog. When people save bookmarks or share links on delicious or reddit or even twitter, of course they don't claim ownership of that content, it's just a bookmark. Similarly, with Pintrest people are saving a visual bookmark of something they saw that was interesting out on the web or on other social streams, tumblr, etc. I think a lot of people are missing the point here.
One doctor has come up with a fringe diagnosis, and is treating for it, with some success, but international experts on his diagnosis say it's basically impossible.

As he comments, it's hard to distinguish between his treatment and the placebo effect. Given that his treatment is mostly harmless (unless you're a bacterium), does it really matter?
I'm amazed that you managed construct that condescending diatribe around a simple question. Was there a tone of entitlement or demand in my question?

Your argument boils down to 'If you don't like it, don't use it.' So I guess any more discussion on the subject is henceforth mute?
Now that is genuinely interesting. Of course, the raw data is hidden behind a paywall, so we don't really know that "significant" means to the author, or whether the test included slides or just raw text.

Still, this is one of those rare times when I could be right about looking professional (it looks cheesy, can't argue that) but completely wrong if it actually leads to higher retention.
It just sounds like mass anxiety attacks. Everyone is hyper-sensitive of their status in the group and they crank up their sympathy with each other to stay "close". Then you get a feedback loop and everyone goes nuts. Not everything has to be a survival advantage.
Is .io secure from seizure?
The Setup: Bret Taylor (Facebook CTO)
IPad 2 on sale in wake of iPad 3
Apple taking iPad 3 Pre-Orders. iPad 2 on sale. Get 'em while they are hot!<p>Wifi
http://store.apple.com/us/browse/home/specialdeals/ipad/ipad2_wi_fi<p>3G
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Monads and Curry - We're hiring Haskell hackers (YC S11)
We’re a small team of hackers rethinking the way people buy and sell things locally -- we're well-funded, have passionate users and a big vision.

Ideally you:

- Love haskell. We do too.

- Like rails and/or iOS; for many problems we're still faster in these environments.

- Understand that winning teams can often be intense.

- Act quickly when confronted by hard, new problems.

- Routinely hack on undocumented libraries.

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This is an early hire and comes with all the associated benefits: lots of stock, sunny office, and brilliant people.

If you'd like to hear more, send a link to your favorite web-based DVCS profile to: haskellhackers@gmail.com
I wonder which specific Gibson novel we now live in.
4 Reasons Why SEO Isn’t Dead
On his Twitter account, CTO Luis Corrons continues taunting Anonymous after the facts.

I don't understand why Panda lets one of his employee behave like this. He looks emotionally involved. He's making those hacker's efforts more visible.
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I was similarly inspired, but by Steve Yegge's OSCON 2011 speech, and wrote this: http://mvz.so/blog/articles/2011-08-01-lend-a-hand-to-scienc...

I like this proposal, and would probably lend significant time to it.
I came across this earlier (I think yesterday) when Mark Zuckerberg liked in on Facebook. Thought that was interesting! In retrospect, I don't know why I so easily gave the app access to my data without much thought.
Everyone is speaking about bandwidth speed, but what about the first major product launch of the post-Steve era? What was your impression about it? A little bit of something clearly wasn't there if you ask me
Yes. A thousand times yes. I used to have a vim plugin[1] for reloading Chrome also. LiveReload[2] is far and away the way to go.

[1]: https://github.com/mkitt/browser-refresh.vim

[2]: http://livereload.com/
it's a neat idea - now we need one for: laundromats, convenience stores, clothing shops, barber shops...
'Aait, you put your effort where you think is best, and leave us to pursue what we think is important.
A Visit to the Creation Museum
> At the same time you are not allowed to be elected into Office as an Athist.

Not true at all. For one, the Constitution and various Federal and State laws allow elected persons to take an affirmation instead of an oath, and Article Six of the Constitution specifically prohibits a religious test on any public office.

Second, you may find http://www.americanhumanist.org/HNN/details/2009-12-can-an-a... to be an interesting read on the topic.

Third, just because atheists are not elected doesn't mean that they aren't allowed to be elected—just that most people in the US want a religious leader (or that not many atheists choose to run for office, or that religious politicians have more popular plans, etc.)
This does bode well for sites like AngiesList.com which charge a small membership fee (to end users), don't allow anonymous reviews, and allow businesses to respond publicly to individual review's.
(I work for Angie's List)
If anyone is interested in using Bootstrap along with Python as a backend, I recently published a template I've been using for web apps that integrates a Bootstrap-enabled frontend with an existing Flask template by imlucas (flask-tool), plus flask-auth authentication using SQL Alchemy. I find it useful for prototyping, and yet because it's based on Flask (very modular), it can be easily customized and scaled up:

https://github.com/esbullington/flask-bootstrap

It's barebones right now but I'll be making improvements and would welcome pull requests (there's a todo list).
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Yeah, I have always been puzzled about that. I will post extremely relevant content to various sub-reddits and they never show up in new/hot/whatever. It's like insta-spammed somehow. I don't even bother messaging the admin.
Really love the video. No idea this service existed. I'll be signing up.
Decided to do a pre release of my newest project http://swithu.com Was hoping to have more done before my carpal tunnel surgery (pic on site is mine), but thats as far as I got.

Let me know what u think.
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Tech talk sources
I love to watch tech talks over dinner every evening, but I'm starting to run out. What are some of the best sources for tech talks?
I think this makes sense. Filtered reviews are reviews that yelp considers to be fraudulent. They may be reviews created by multiple accounts from the same computer to inflate a restaurant's rating. Or they may all be negative reviews created by one person with multiple accounts to try to hurt a business they weren't happy with. Either way, I think it's perfectly reasonable that such a system of filtering should and does exist.

Now maybe their filtering system is so horrendous that it makes a 4-star restaurant seem like a 2.5 star restaurant, but I find this hard to believe.

As for asking people to advertise with them to make "bad reviews disappear", that would be terrible, so I can't speak to that, since all we have to go on is this particular owner's word vs Yelp's. Is there any proof of this happening?
There's a long history of weirdness surrounding this sort of illness. This one is my favorite:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dancing_mania
Apple Really Isn't that Complicated
I have tons of ideas sitting around that I don't have time to execute on. I'll throw out two, have fun with them:

* taking advantage of modern technology ecosystem, replace the US Congress

* provide a replacement for the traditional movie theater experience that keeps all the good things, eliminates the bad things, and maybe adds in a few extra good things, especially taking advantage of the modern technology ecosystem

I have easily 20 more. But have time/body/money/energy constraints, and so have to prioritize. :)
PyCon Attendees: Do fun stuff while you're visiting Silicon Valley
Another great tool for Mac: http://incident57.com/codekit/
For that kind of data you can just use RLE instead. It's the trivial case (an edge case in fact).
You don't mention ratios. Better compression becomes asymptotically/exponentially harder when it gets close to the optimal code size.

Thanks for the shout out. BTW Matt's benchmarks are for all major compression engines, not only bzip2.
How would a website tell the difference between a crappy handler like Outlook Express Installer or a real handler like Gmail (or actual Outlook Express for those who use it)?
Thin air, surely.
Well done! I would definitely use this on a small project where I only needed a calendar and not the entire jQuery UI library.
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Haha. Funny enough, when I was a sophomore in college, I applied to Nortel for a C++ job. During my interviews, I told them these stories. It was one of those cases where you feel like you're the object of a show-and-tell, or something. My interviewer kept walking me around to all of his friends, having me tell them these stories. Everyone seemed so interested. Needless to say, I ended up getting the job. It was a cool job. I got to help code Nortel's 4G wireless data service, doing low level network protocol stuff. That is, until they went bankrupt.
>but I figure the majority of content on YouTube is genuinely owned by the people who post it, while I very much doubt this is the case on Pinterest.

That assumption seems fairly inaccurate, see this quote:
"Remarkably, more than one-third of the two billion views of YouTube videos with ads each week are ... uploaded without the copyright owner’s permission but left up by the owner’s choice." [1]

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/03/technology/03youtube.html
>Articles with titles like this mislead the public and in my opinion do more harm than good because they stop people from thinking critically about whether there are flaws in the process, instead leading them to take things for given.

I was with you up until the 'thinking critically' part. When did that start?
The "hacked in n-minutes" meme around these sorts of contests is really horrible (and needs to die). Researchers work on the exploit for months ahead of time.. The amount of time taken to click "launch exploit" really makes little difference..
Touchscreens don't belong in cars. Many states are banning texting while driving, but auto manufacturers are adding basically the same distracting user experience in their cars and calling it a feature.
G+ for Android I’m very angry with you
> ./configure && make && sudo make install

When I used Ubuntu, I'm not sure I ever even needed that.
I'm a designer and recently started a side project with a friend. We decided to use bootstrap because it was super easy to get started with off the ground..no reset stylesheets, defining default fonts, sizes, etc, and no implementing a grid framework. It was all right there. And for the most part everything was generally a good starting point. I changed the header color, used a different font for the logo (a google web font), and then built off the base that bootstrap gave me.

I say it's useful for two things: quick and dirty way of getting a prototype barely functioning and looking decent. The second is getting me right into the design cockpit without worrying about all the defaults and resets and foundation of it all. I change a few heights/widths/colors/fonts and we have something decently unique.

Edit: I might add that if a.) my app took off or b.) I was presenting it to someone important, I would make sure it was very unique and all my design and UX principles were put into play. But for simply prototyping an idea, or having a good base for a project, it's a great tool.
> "good that they put it there"

I think this was handled very badly. This broke alot of automated jobs for many people. The email actually arrived after some of our automated jobs had stopped running. There should have been an advanced warning that such an audit would take place. I'm glad we had monitoring on our automations, but many people won't have those and might still be unaware that they are not running until they authorize their keys.
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> If it's a bit run-down outside, but has tonnes of repeat customers, it's probably good.

If you're visiting a new place (presumably the typical use case for Yelp), how can you possibly look inside a restaurant and know if the people inside are repeat customers?

>If everyone is casually dressed, and seems familiar with the place, it gets repeat business

Oh. So when travelling, you recommend selecting restaurants by looking inside each establishment and inspecting the clothing of the customers? By that argument, how could any restaurant beat (eg) McDonald's, with its casually-dressed, repeat customers?
nowhere is safe...if you become a problem they'll eventually come for you
I see, I didn't notice because this is the default behavior. I wouldn't expect to need to enable those things to play a game, either. I may have rejected local storage without really thinking about it, if so the game should give instructions that it is needed.
im always amazed that the developing nation i live in (we used to call it third world....) has no hidden caps or nonsenseontheir mobile, or non-mobileinternet plans, you get exactlywhat you pay for,spelled out clearly, andits steongly enforced by thecourts.

and no, there is no censorship or anything either. i dont have quite the same speeds as theus does, buti get ehat ipay for, andits cheap.
When people say they "use bootstrap", are people just using it unmodofied?

Throw a "custom.less" at the bottom of your styles.less, and you can make bootstrap completely indistinguishable from the vanilla style.

right now I am building a very large browser app on bootstrap, and you'd never know by looking. All I do is add styles to the "custom.less" and change what needs changing.

Programmers need to realize that customizing the look and feel of bootstrap is VERY VERY easy. It's perfectly safe to use for production.

All bootstrap did was make a vanilla, simple template so you don't have to redo all the boring html work over and over. There is nothing that constrains you to a layout or visual style.
Really nice. Shouldn't be too hard to also support IE7 as it is, will fork!

Two suggestions: an ok button (don't force users to click out just to close it), open on the upper side when at the end of the page.
I think since Ford is sending the upgrade USB sticks directly to customers it would now be quite easy for someone with malicious intent to send out fake "upgrade" USB sticks to unsuspecting Ford owners. I'm not sure how dangerous it would be from a safety, ram-car-into-tree, point of view but certainly they would have access to any GPS data.
This sounds like something quite different - a career fair for students / recent grads.
Where, oh where is the Apple of this space?
But part of the complaint against MegaUpload was that they were not complying with DMCA takedowns.
Actually it's a bug in the web app. If you actually look in iPhoto, there are detailed tiles for the region you mention.
What's the distinction between roundabouts and traffic circles?
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In the presentation, Cook refers to the "new iPad" with no "3". Inside Apple, they probably have viewed what we call the iPad 1 and iPad 2 as the prequel 1 and prequel 2 to the actual iPad, which is only now finished.
For comparison, here are before and after shots for the XM radio display --

Before: http://image.automobilemag.com/f/29104541+w750+st0/2011-ford...

After: http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2011/11/myford...
This is awesome since compression in parallel has been largely neglected in practice.
What exact is sloppy? Third generation is one of their terms for it.
So the interesting question is what next?

The feds have arrested five individuals associated with Anonymous. Anonymous struck back, albeit in a somewhat childish way, reminding me of the KFC bombing in Jakarta in response to ABB's trial (not well planned, ad hoc attack which was both visible and largely ineffective at causing real damage).

Will Anonymous be able to recover, and carry out other high profile hactivism attacks? Or will they degenerate into more of what we see here?

I am not trying to draw moral equivalencies here. However, it seems that when looking at social positions relative to law enforcement, that's the closest parallel that comes to my mind at least in my experience.
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