skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a gut feeling that the bitcoin price will eventually explode. I don't know when, how or why, nor am I putting my money where my mouth is, so I don't say it. But unless some other substitute system is devised, I suppose the crash of fiat currencies would cause it. But in this case I think gold would be better.. or would it?

add: I heard someone talk about India buying oil from Iran using gold now - if gold replaces the petrodollar, that might trigger something. The sanctions on Iran could ultimately affect bitcoin by way of new oil trade with Iran in gold that doesn't include the Western bloc of nations. Oil4bitcoin might make an interesting website.
There really isn't a simple way to find out if a study should be taken seriously or not.

What you need to do is read the original literature and pay attention to the details. Bad studies are usually bad for a few reasons:

1. Bad experimental design. If you are testing hypothesis X, but your study design doesn't control for all the variables, then the data won't really tell you anything. For example, if you want to see if a high-fat diet increases the risk of cancer and you don't control for smoking or environmental exposure, your data is crap whether it supports or rejects your hypothesis.

2. Bad data. You may have a great experimental design, but if your data isn't strongly supportive of a conclusion, then it's a weak study. If we take the above example and compare a high-fat diet to a low-fat diet across 5 different group and 2 groups show no effect, 2 groups are right on the border of being statistically significant and one group is strongly positive, it doesn't really tell you anything.

3. Bad conclusions. The data says one thing, but the author goes ahead and concludes it means something else. You see this a LOT in bad science. Again if we take the above example, the data may strongly support that a high-fat diet is bad, but then the author goes ahead and says that all fats are bad. The data doesn't support this. This is sort of what the sugar-is-toxic studies do. Are diets that are hyper-caloric and have a high percentage of carbohydrates derived from simple sugars bad for you? Most likely. Should you actively try and exclude them from your diet? The answer to that is no (and the data doesn't support that conclusion).

I was formally trained as a scientist, but no longer work in the lab, but the training on I got in designing experiments (be they in the lab or in marketing) has served me well in filtering out "crap" of all sorts.
I would certainly count this as a great piece of art, not modern, not post-modern, just current.

Well done XKCD guys (and gals).
These are the questions, for anyone who can't be bothered to look at a spreadsheet and fill it in.

(1)What - 'What technologies do you want to work with fulltime?'

(2) Who - 'Which companies inspire you and send a message that makes you think you would like to work with or for them?'

(3) Where - 'If you could work anywhere in the world, where would that be?'

(4) Why - 'So what are the factors that influenced your answers'?
I don't want Hacker News to be a place where everyone types their opinion, and if they don't have an opinion, they type something else. I care about reading informed experts' thoughts about interesting things, not some guy's display of cleverness.
I found a friend who's had magnet rings; he pointed me to some info:
http://hackaday.com/2012/01/02/give-yourself-a-sixth-sense-o...
(follow the links; it links to "Holy Scrap" blog which links to a couple online magnetic-ring-sellers).

I also found a ring sizing guide: http://pages.ebay.com/buy/guides/ring-sizing-guide/
Choosing a Business Structure for Your New Startup
Definitely. I guess this became obvious as people started using it, but I'll add this really soon.
A possible explanation for why ICS upgrades are coming so slow
If an mmo version of asteroids sounds interesting then you should try out Continuum (http://www.getcontinuum.com/) It was released commercially in 1997 and subsequently abandoned by its developer. The community took over the client/server and it has evolved into a pretty complex game.
PS/2 was perceived to be an attempt to take control of the clone industry through licensing the Microchannel bus. (The original PC had much more liberal FRAND licensing.) So, IBM was seen to be the "bad guy" in a lot of technical circles. Even though OS/2 had little to do with this, IMO it was tainted by the branding association.

And while OS/2 2.0 supported clones, it didn't really recognize them. (e.g. the printer list was full of IBM models only).
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Looks actually pretty good. While the pixelQi displays are certainly not perfect yet, they seem to provide an honestly great alternative.

To me the problem is more marketing those screens. I have yet to see one of them physically and that is what makes screens sell. Maybe they could try to put the screens on big players' products, if even just to get their name out there and make people aware of their existence.

Another thing which I'd personally buy if done right, is a portable screen. e.g. a small screen, maybe about 10" which is powered from usb, to e.g. attach to your laptop. With a reasonable price tag, I think it'd really sell!
"not a single person has ever contacted us requesting support for Internet Explorer."

While that may be considered evidence of potential customers switching browsers just to use 4ormat.com, it may also be considered evidence that potential customers using IE are very much put off by being told to use another browser.

Just running the numbers on a back of envelop:

The company was founded in 2008.

Not supporting IE has saved $25,000 per year.

12 months x $7 per month = $84 per user.

330 lost users = $25,000 +/- per year

10,000 responses to the call for action * 4% using I.E. = 400 visitors who are much more unlikely to use 4ormat.com because the call to action doesn't work. Their negative experience is much more likely to lead to negative network effects than positive ones.

Even worse the lost revenue scales as the customer base grows, but the work to support IE is roughly fixed and is relatively modest.

$25,000 is 4% of $625,000 a year. Above that, the company is losing money (on the back of an envelop). With four founders, one would expect that 4ormat.com's revenue is projected to exceed that or has already.
oh this isn't real?
Firing Ideas
Yea, this was one of the result of the JDA break-up. Traditionally MS licensed OS/2 1.x to OEMs just like DOS with each OEM version of OS/2 supporting the OEM's own systems. Only with 1.3 MS finally released a packaged product for OS/2, despite most systems being fully AT compatible from the beginning.
I apologize for the above comment. I am being extremely uncharitable to Go and I retract what I have said.

In particular I apologize for bringing this up in every Go discussion.
Loss of Wisdom - Who are your moral heroes? TED [video]
There's a real one, it's called xpilot.

Not browser based, but still MMO.
Pastebin to hire staff to tackle hackers' "sensitive" posts
>In what sense is this a clear violation of the 4th Amendment?

"In Katz v. United States, 389 U.S. 347 (1967), the Supreme Court ruled that a party is considered to have been searched, for Fourth Amendment purposes, if that party had a "reasonable expectation of privacy".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_Amendment_to_the_United...
Kind of brings you close to this thought on Microsoft's position to Firefox:

http://www.quora.com/Who-is-most-likely-to-acquire-Mozilla
It's pretty standard that with age, experience trumps education. Case in point: at Slide (run by Max Levchin, a top flight programmer himself), the VP of Engineering had an English literature degree and absolutely no formal computer science education.
We're having a productive, sincere conversation here!

I don't see any relationship, necessary, causal, or otherwise, between an executioner and a pragmatic principle of equality.

But you do see a relationship between racist/nationalist/fascist ideology and racist/nationalist/fascist executioners, right?

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/battal...

I certainly can't interpret your post in any other way. (Although I can't interpret "pragmatic principle" in any way at all - it makes me think of jumbo shrimp.)

So essentially, you see a necessary and causal relationship between fascist ideology and fascist terror, but you don't see a necessary and causal relationship between communist ideology and communist terror. Or to use the Russian color codes, you see a relationship between White Terror and White ideology, but not between Red Terror and Red ideology.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Terror
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Terror

Perhaps you won't take my word for it, but you don't need to - the truth isn't hard to find. I can guarantee you 100% that almost everyone involved with both these systems of terror was completely drenched in, convinced by, and in thrall to the ideologies they served.

General Blokhin, for example, single-handedly murdered a substantial percentage of the Polish aristocracy. As he is doing so, is his mind a blank? Or does he conceive himself as freeing the Polish workers and peasants from the grip of the alien, rapacious hereditary nobles? What do you think? With every bullet in the back of some stuck-up count's neck, he's bringing Poland closer to equality.

You'll no doubt agree on the ideological nature of Nazi crimes. The "ordinary men" of Reserve Police Battalion 101 are in exactly the same boat - in their minds, as they slaughter the Jews of Poland, they think: the Jews caused this war, we are freeing Germany from Jewish oppression.

Likewise, as American airmen incinerate hundreds of thousands of German and Japanese civilians, they are thinking: the Huns and the Japs caused this war, now they're paying the price.

We cannot know the mind of any of these individuals. However, the collective propaganda mind of World War II is very easy to recall - all we have to do is read the texts. There is no shortage of American and Soviet propaganda that, read in context, is just as horrifying as anything Goebbels produced. Do you want to hear FDR sneering, raving, and lying like something out of Hitler's Greatest Hits?

http://www.ibiblio.org/pha/timeline/411027awp.html

So should we excommunicate it all? Or do you not like that word? Too Catholic, perhaps?
What does Node have to do with forms?

Does he mean backbone?
Planetarium : Journey through the Solar System with CSS3
I learned Objective-C and XCode in my spare time and built nd iOS Client for Pinboard http://pinboardapp.in

Not very pretty, but I am happy that it helped me get off the ground. Now working on something more complex.
Obat Tradisional Penghilang Jerawat
Obat Tradisional Penghilang Jerawat

Jika Anda Seorang yang berjerawat dan berplek hitam maka perasaan malu akan terus menghantui anda. anda juga mencari Obat Tradisional Penghilang Jerawat yang aman untuk wajah anda,

Apakah anda mencari obat jerawat ? apa anda memiliki jerawat atau plek di wajah anda ? dengan jelly gamat luxor merupakan solusi terbaik karena extra tripang dalam kandungan jelly gamat akan membuat wajah anda lebih muda, press dan lebih bersih dari noda-noda di wajah atau jerawat.
I find the example benchmark to be rather ridiculous. Recursion is slow in R because R is an interpreted language, and does not implement tail-call optimization.

If I wanted to implement the Fibonacci numbers in R I would do it like this:

x<-numeric(25); x[1:2] <- 1; for(i in 3:25) x[i] <- x[i-1] + x[i-2]; x[25]

Which takes about 1/10,000 the time of the recursive version (about .4 milliseconds on my machine).

So the conclusion I draw from the article is not that Julia is faster than R, but that you should know what your languages strengths are, and write code accordingly.

I'd love to see some examples of real statistical work were Julia's syntax is as easy as R, but the performance is superior.
Location: Hong Kong & Montreal

Contact info: o-lalonde (Skype), olalonde@gmail.com

Good time to talk: Anytime I'm online

Things I know: full stack web app development (mostly Node.js and Rails)

Note: I'd like to find someone to collaborate with on small projects. My current areas of interest are AI/machine learning, data visualization/analytics/etc., education and economics/finance.
I don't believe your statement. IMO the reason why Rails was popular was because it was the only real MVC framework for Ruby at the time. PHP have CakePHP, Zend, CodeIgniter, Symphony, etc... Python Django was before Rail and it failed to have as much fanbase as Rail because it was also competing with other within Python ecosystem.
YCx San Diego
If anyone wants to give this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3773787 a try in the San Diego, CA area this summer let me know or leave a comment. However, regarding the former post, I'm thinking of something more casual; whoever's interested could just show up at the May HN meetup (http://cses.ucsd.edu/wiki/index.php/San_Diego_Hacker_News_Meetup) with a YCx labeled name tag, a few ideas, and the best idea gets executed from June to August on our spare time. I see this as more of a hack opportunity than business one, for anyone itching to try a new technology or two. I'm sure all skill levels would be welcome. Only time will tell if YCx could be an adequate staging area for YC, but that intent is not baked in.
No problem. Now it is clear to me.

I don't have a CS degree, but it didn't affect my career at all. I feel that CS would be helpful for interviews and expressing the problem using CS terms. I used to read up on basic CS stuff and talk to CS friends to gain CS knowledge. As long as, one can read and write english and familiar with basic math (logarithms, algebra, calculus, probability etc.), CS is very easy to pick up.
Ask HN: what language will build a Form Mail app fastest? 
ASK HN:
I am a newbie in software. I am trying to find and use the easiest language to develop the simplest task, FormMail: ask site visitor to fill up a form and mail the site owner the form contents.
Which language will do FormMail most effectively?
Bonus: client validation for form fields.
I found TrueCar to be very useful in getting to know the price range of car sales near me--in the end, I went with a local dealership--but knowing the prices helped me a lot in my negotiations.
Do you mean free of bias or reproducible?

I think the author was clearly free from bias, and his results are easily reproduced by applying the same algorithms.

The subjectivity which you complain about may be the conclusions drawn from the results of the tests, which I think are distinct. Specifically, you cite his "intuition" as the origin of the conclusion.

I think the author's intuition is reliable because, like "real" scientists, he's an expert and speaks publicly about his work.[1] Or at least he appears to be. Are you prepared to challenge him as an expert?

[1] http://www.hackerfactor.com/papers/bh-usa-07-krawetz-wp.pdf
> I oppose both, but some things are more important than personal safety.

I'm sure I could be very "free" in the anarchy of Somalia, but without safety, effective freedoms are very limited. Quite a lot of government tyranny is needed to create a space for freedom to begin with. A social safety net, subsidized or free college education, socialized medicine (whether through public or universal private coverage), etc.; I consider some of these things fundamental to living a life of freedom rather than fear.

> Arguing about the commerce clause is very bizarre, however -- I have to think you don't understand what it's been used for if you're dragging this into a discussion of basic rights.

Gonzales v. Raich, for example.

> I suggest reviewing the SAS's conduct in Northern Ireland.

I'm not aware of the British prime minister ever standing up in the Commons and effectively announcing the right to kill UK citizens. Government wrongdoing, particularly by security services, are ten a penny in most large states, IMO. These days, in the western world, it's usually governments succumbing to US arm-twisting.

I understand that you're invested in defending the US. I, however, don't have a particularly strong motivation to defend the UK; I'm not a UK citizen, I've just lived here for a few years. I'm not interested in attacking the US in this argument. I'm just saying that, as a practical matter, I feel more free, and less afraid of the state, in the UK than I do in the US - and I work for a US company and visit the US multiple times every year for weeks at a time.

(If I wanted to attack Parliament's involvement in Ireland, I'd rather point to Cromwell. But those days are past.)

> I prefer a country where such evil must be carried out covertly to one in which it is openly accepted.

If this is your true position, be aware that you have not chosen one of a dichotomy; you have in fact chosen a superset of tyranny. Not just evil acts; but covert evil acts.

But, of course, the UK has committed its own share of covert evil acts. I don't think it's ever been caught running a network of secret prisons in modern times, though.
I don't think it is important. the best programmers don't need the degrees to prove that they are programmers.
I love it, I just wish you had used some cool 8-bit tower looking markers rather than the default GMaps markers. Great though, I'm hooked.
Wow, this takes me back to the first PC operating system flame wars. I remember listening to the most anti-Microsoft vendors at the sidewalk sale in Dallas back in the early 90's who claimed credit for everything that a computer could do. Multitasking in Win-95? OS/2 did it first. Anti-trust? IBM did it first. mISV's who ignore and deny problems in a system architecture to upsell their products? OS/2 had that with a vengeance. I was only a teenager but I remember the lesson well: Fanboy's have no real effect on a computer ecosystem because they put people off and ignore peoples questions about the issues and concerns. People will buy what their friends use because that is where they get their help from. Fortunately or unfortunately, OS/2 was just too complicated compared to Win-95 to compete. Given the shift in the interface from Win 3.10 to Win-95, OS/2 had the perfect opportunity to introduce itself to the market but didn't stick. I cast my eyes towards what goes on now with "<system> evangelism" and wonder how much of a waste in money and time it is.

I don't remember why exactly, but the Win32.exe installer for Win95 make Windows much, much better. Maybe their should be a Wikipedia page for this moment/introduction, but this is when Microsoft officially became a monopoly. It was not necessarily because of the OEM deals, but because it was a combination of being enough better than the more obscure alternativeness and it offered "innovations" that people could take advantage of immediately upon installation.
Ah... the days of futzing around for a few minutes to experience the magic of IR "beaming" a couple lines of contact detail to a colleague sitting a foot away.
And the point these studies are trying to make is that, we are taking a boxcar of sugar everyday.
Do you have any evidence I can read to refute Moldbug, or are we stopping at name-calling?
I doubt they use recordings for fraud prevention. I'd be pretty upset if my winning lottery ticket were denied because the store lost the recording, or never had them. It's just too costly to record every purchase.
Show HN: Take a Coding+Fitness+Design Challenge Together
Good memory is both a curse and a gift. I hate remebering every single shitty moment in my life but I love being able to recap meeting minutes without notes at work.
I got a shit kicking customer service job right after I started my CS degree. That was enough to get me a programming role shortly after, and I've never needed the degree since. I never finished it. I plan to finish it so I can work overseas.
You're reading a lot more into my statements than what is there. I loathe my country and would leave it in a heartbeat were it practical -- but not for the UK.
Yeah. But the whole point is that it's an cool HTML5 demo.
Ubuntu for Eyewear
He used PCA as well as ELA, making your first statement unfounded.
Dig the idea, this is a nice web service.

I'm assuming that a large portion of the userbase are people looking to lucid dream. Would love to see the ability for people to be able to tag lucid dreams. It'd be awesome to get some graphs and analytics about how soon after the average user started using the service they had their first lucid dream. Also, would be cool to see some twilio text message integration.

Cheers on a cool product & nice MVP. I'm psyched that you promote the ability to be able to export your data.
Except that, unlike a classical music professor, the idea that Tanenbaum was evangelizing was not popular or proven.
To be fair, everything that has a price vraying in time will interest traders.
Good question. 3 years was an arbitrary number. Maybe you could say that you're a startup as long as you're still relying on venture capital?
Here is a possibly legitimate appeal to authority, although you could refute it on its own grounds :-)
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_authority
I've watched Dr. Lustig's video previously, and in general its the same principles touted by Gary Taubes, but I still find it dubious.
You can look at your patient population and come up with a hypothesis that would make sense from a pure biochemistry perspective, but that's really no different than what the proponents of dietary fat as a cause of heart disease did.

And since when is monitoring people in a controlled lab for a few weeks at a time (likely limiting their physical activity and who knows what kind of stress to the system having your blood drawn every 30 minutes induces) considered valid scientific research when it in no way exemplifies real world situations that people are exposed to.
And sugar is apparently carcinogenic because it can cause an increase in baseline insulin levels as a response, which can drive glucose into potential tumor cells allowing them to grow. That's purely speculative, and very difficult to substantiate when there are so many other reasons for people to develop cancer: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/13/health/research/red-meat-l...

Personally, I'm still convinced that a calorie is a calorie. And the reason we've been gaining weight, with greater incidence of heart disease, diabetes, etc. is that we simply consume too much food, perhaps too much processed food, but in general we just eat too much.
So eat less, and the best way is to consume small portions of food multiple times a day instead of large meals with large gaps in between. Trust me, it works.
I created a simple search for The New York Times crossword puzzle.

http://donohoe.io/projects/crossword/

It ranges form Dec 31st 2011 back to Oct 1996. Its nothing special (I don't actually love or do crosswords) but when you search for some terms (mostly as Answers) it provides fascinating Questions.

FACEBOOK : Alternative to Friendster or MySpace

NYTIMES : Popular news site, with ".com"

HACKER : Cyber-nuisance

BACON : Strips for breakfast

Example:
http://donohoe.io/projects/crossword/#/bacon
You know, I think Microsoft may actually be getting their shit together (gasp). IE9 definitely isn't a bad browser, and 10 better than 9. I think they might be learning finally that they can't get away with putting out supbar products anymore, because its too easy to switch now. Granted, I think doing things differently is in Microsoft's DNA, but IE9, as well as starting forced upgrades, shows that they might actually be competitive at some point...
Though of course, if the sugar question was a settled question in nutrition science, this thread wouldn't be happening, so comparing credentials isn't really relevant to the sugar question.
Are you more than a consumer? “The Once and Future Liberalism” and some answers
(Golang) Slab method for ray-box intersection gives false positives for opp. dir
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