skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The first link is a study that found a correlation between skim milk consumption and acne in teenage boys. It by no means conclusively shows causation. Perhaps teenage boys who have a hormone condition which leads to acne also have taste preferences which cause them to enjoy skim milk more, or perhaps skim milk really causes acne to teenage boys. The point is, we don't know.

The second and third links talk about a study for a prostate cancer drug and a human androgen hormone. The word "milk" does not appear on either of those pages.

Please make an effort to be more careful in your citations. When one adopts the tone and form of authority, by citing links to official looking urls, people sometimes take the advice offered without fact checking. And in this case, it could cause people to stop consuming dairy and start consuming something else, with unknown effects.

edit:
The P-Value for skim milk was the only one lower than the .05 significance level. So even in the cited study, there does not appear to be a correlation between whole, 2%, or 1% milk with acne.
In related news:

- Black font is the new black.

- 100% font size is the new 100%

http://contrastrebellion.com/
Social this, social that...can this bubble just pop already?
There is a serious flaw with this model. The flaw is that no one wants to fix anything because fixing things is boring and usually results in lower peer reviews than building a new feature or game.

Anyone who has daily exposure to Valve's infrastructure will notice the flaws.

- Credit card breach http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/11/13/steam_confirms_credi... ending up in foolish security measures like encrypting your password with RSA in javascript on top of SSL.

- Power outage of a single datacenter leads to Steam going down. http://kotaku.com/5884430/power-outage-knocked-out-valve-ste...

- Weekly unplanned outages of Steam Community and the Valve master server.

- Crashes and game breaking updates in nearly every TF2 patch.
http://www.mail-archive.com/hlds@list.valvesoftware.com/inde...

This interview from Gabe shows that he knows there is a problem with this, but he doesn't realize how bad it is:

Newell: A lot of times people will want to complain. The first time somebody complains, you say, “Okay, fix it.” You just say, “I don’t know what you expect to happen now, but you’ve just given yourself a job.”

Fries: Does that train them to complain less or to fix things more?

Newell: If you hired the right person, it trains them to fix stuff. If you hired the wrong person, they’ll say, “Oh, this is mean.”
As a graphic designer, I can tell you that a detail like the wall height to tile size ratio is actually a very specifically chosen value based on a number of trade-offs and priorities, and not something easily arrived at because it just looks pretty good. Which isn't to say that a given ratio is inevitable (or that the match in this legal case is pure coincidence, it certainly is NOT), just that you may wish to be aware that you're short-changing the designers based on your lack of domain expertise.
If the lemon juice does it, it's something other than the sugars - I didn't even use a whole lemon through 21 days.
I agree with your point. I based my definition of sexy on what tends to get media coverage - which are generally ideas that college kids want to use. But I certainly agree that sexy companies exist that no college kid has ever heard of.
Except EA's new SimCity Social copies CityVille's "gameplay" exactly. It's like two snakes eating each other's tails.
As an introductory text it actually does a better job than just about anything I've read. I'd rank it up there with The Little Schemer series for learning some aspects of functional programming. Miran is very good at explaining and writing.
Oh fer cryin' out loud. I downloaded and played this game (or an earlier version of it) over a year ago. It's not anything special, but it sure isn't spam, and the developers clearly have an engaged and enthusiastic audience...

If google is going to use an automated tool to detect violations of their rules that generates false positives, then if they have any clue whatsoever they need to put a human in between it and the developers to prune those out. Otherwise, it's like going to see your doctor and only getting a web browser set to WebMD instead.
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2. Telnet is, fundamentally, a remote login protocol; it's been bodged into doing other things, but that's its primary purpose, and it should be obvious why that needs encryption.

And you're seriously worried about wasting cycles on encryption? Did I accidentally step through a timewarp to 1970?

3. Telnet being available opens the attack vector of "user uses telnet to log into a remote system, transmitting credentials in the clear". That's a big enough vulnerability that the fact it doesn't introduce any other ones is really beside the point.

4. Telnet isn't just a program that can be used to do something unfortunate. It's a program that does something unfortunate by default, if you try to use it in the obvious way for the purpose for which it is designed. It's a gun that comes with the barrel pointing out the bottom of the handle.

And I really don't see any decent use cases for it. There are better tools for network testing, and better tools for remote login. It's time for it to die.
you're right, but that doesn't sound any better
Being Social Is About Being Private
Have you read Gladwell's book "Outliers"? Basically deals with the situational factors that create outliers like Bill Gates. Circumstances have incredible life-determining effect that go totally unnoticed too.
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I think your broad point about "elite" schools being a matter of reputation rather than objective measurement is basically right. But some of your analysis seems weird.

On the graduation rate: why shouldn't a school be penalized for a low graduation rate? The point of those rankings (beyond selling magazines, of course) is to give prospective students an idea of how each school will help them in life. If I have a choice of going to school A from which I'm 90% likely to graduate and an otherwise equally ranked school B which is 50% likely to kick me out without a diploma, which am I going to choose?

And the bit about CalTech seems a little like sour grapes. I was at one of those "East Coast elite" schools in the 90's and don't remember anyone thinking anything but good things about CalTech (Pasadena, on the other hand...). Basically within its fairly narrow realm of focus CT is absolutely one of the "elite" schools everyone looks to.
In Michigan a large CAFO is 700 or more dairy cows:

http://www.michigan.gov/documents/deq/wb-npdes-CAFO-rules-fi...

I know that farms much smaller than that have to abide by some of the CAFO rules such as having approved manure application plans.

Several of Michigan's larger farms use the manure to generate their own electricity.
I think he's going further than that and saying, build something that shareholders wouldn't allow because it will eat into the existing revenue sources.
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There is popcorn and schadenfreude available at the concession stand. Would that help?
I'll throw in a recommendation for my $DAYJOB employer, Open Software Integrators (via their Bull City Mobile subsidiary).

http://www.bullcitymobile.com/
On the other hand unhealthy unproductive competition to work the longest doesn't do anybody any good at all.

It's normally preferable to let the market sort out what is unproductive and what isn't.

If you're running a company and overworking your employees, then you leave yourself open to a competitor who better optimizes worker productivity by being smarter about hours worked. You'll also risk having your employees leave if they don't like the working conditions.

Rather than have a bunch of politicians and bureaucrats make a bunch of rules based upon their normal levels of incompetence and lack of knowledge, I'd rather let smaller groups of people and companies determine what works for them.
By what mechanism, exactly do you think this will happen? He has no plans to sell. He'd like to go to Mars himself, but not if he doesn't think the mission of SpaceX would continue without him. So...that leaves it becoming 'a nationalised company of the US Federal Government"....aka, the gov't takes it over by force? How likely do you really think that is? It only took over Ford because they were bankrupt, so all he needs to worry about is not going bankrupt, which I'm sure he's thought of already.
However, there is an app for that.
I wish I could use it but the company I work for doesn't like us putting our data in external providers' servers. You should make a downloadable version that uses the browser's own backing store, or something. I'd pay for it! (I know this is probably not a high priority request.)
Sorry, I think you math is broken here. 32,000 listens in a month at even a half cent per stream (More than ms. Keating is making) equals $160 a month. Try paying your rent with that!

Maybe you missed a decimal point? She would need 320,000 listens from 32,000 extremely dedicated fans each month, which is unlikely to happen. If we got this rate up to a full 2 cents (more than quadruple what it is now)your 32,000 plays would still gross her only $640. Not even half the cost of a 1 bedroom's rent in any metropolitan area that I'm aware of.
Ecosystem matters, especially content/apps. ARM-based Surface tablets can NOT run existing windows software, so they've got something to prove in this space.
Sorry, it's a bit of a knee-jerk reaction caused by the number of American sites that treat non-US visitors like it's a nuisance they even dare to visit, as if an English language .com site is an "Americans-only" sign.

(This is especially insulting if the site in question represents a company/brand that actually operates internationally.)

Also, English speakers are not limited to countries with English as an (un)official language. Just an example, LinkedIn had 3 million Dutch users before they introduced a Dutch language interface. I don't know what business you're in, but that's a lot of creditcards...
Only using curl:

WARNING: Replace ASTERISK with the asterisk character, keeps italicizing -.-

curl -s randomfunfacts.com | grep '<i>' | sed 's/.ASTERISK<i>\(.ASTERISK\)<\/i>.*/\1/'
I'm in the $3-400 sort of range, thanks!
These rankings tend to not be objective, I agree. The sad part is they get away with it by simply defending their methodology of choice (emphasising certain areas).

This is why my alma mater, University of British Columbia (in Canada), opted out of our version of a university ranking, Maclean's. The link is old, but you can read a bit about it here: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/story/2006/08/14/maclea...

Currently, I am not sure whether or not UBC has opted back in, however.
It comes down to: did Zynga break the law as it currently stands (probably), is the law just (imo no).

These are multinational corporations. Applying labels like good-guy, bad-guy, underdog, etc are meaningless. The only question is whether they are lawful. Everything else is left to the consumer.

By the way, Zynga usually beats their competitors because in the long run their clones are better than the originals. Like it or not, but thats innovation.

edited for civility :)
The trend is cleary described in the link above. The first sentence, "The 1990 United States Census and 2000 United States Census found that non-Hispanic whites were becoming a minority in Los Angeles."

> immigrants likely respond..

Exactly, they are quite underrepresented in the data above, reinforcing the argument. They are in higher concentration the farther south you go.

If you are upset with the word gringo or "fewer..", it was a small attempt at adding levity, perhaps it is a bit flippant.

Your assumptions of my mental state, however, are known psychologically as projection.
Storm team develops new abstraction for real-time computing
> It takes guts to copy something exactly, though;

Guts and a total disregard for copyright law.
I honestly can't tell what your point is. Why are you bringing up populations? You seem to be implying some kind of expectation but I can't tell what.

I'll try to explain the author's point. He was confused by and suspicious of the vastly higher liking rates in certain countries than in US/UK.
My thoughts: http://www.arpitonline.com/blog/2012/08/02/open-for-value/
Tried it out, it's pretty smooth and 'flowy' (due to the little slick animations). Nicely done :)

I like how you kept it simple, clean and straight forward. Hope you don't over complicate it in future versions by bombarding it with due dates, try to implement bill payment features, calendars, etc etc. I just want a list!
Potential benefactors:

1. Facebook - obviously they benefit from higher CPMs in any country. I seriously doubt they would create fake profiles on their own system though (that would be fraud).

2. Like resellers/advertisers - A client comes to you and says they want tons of likes. While there are a lot of ways to work around this system, one obvious way is to generate fake profiles in countries where the CPMs are low, then target ads at your own bot army. You can sell the likes, generate the likes yourself, and profit. Otherwise you're waiting for quality people to like your page which as this article illustrates, is extremely costly. The bottom line: pay for cheap likes, receive cheap likes.

I should add that these malevolent actors in the system are beneficial in the short-term for Facebook (CPMs rise) but bad in the long-term. As genuine advertisers see their effective CPMs rise, the ROI decreases. This forces benevolent actors out...
"This interview from Gabe shows that he knows there is a problem with this, but he doesn't realize how bad it is"

That is an incredibly arrogant statement.
"I live in New Jersey, which is a fair coverage state, so I’ve never had to deal with being rejected from a plan because of pre-existing conditions."

This is a huge omission. If you don't live in a fair coverage state, you have a high chance of being ineligible for individual health coverage based on preexisting conditions. Preexisting conditions include migraines, depression, and benign conditions with scary-sounding names, like "subaortic stenosis." There was a Planet Money interview recently with an insurance broker who generally rejected 50% of applicants. Granted, this selects for people who think they need health insurance, so the actual number may be a bit lower, but it still stands to reason that a large number of people are getting denied coverage.

If you don't fit the platonic ideal of "healthy," you may have no choice but to work for "the man."
There should also be a distinction for dynamic and static websites. I've built many responsive static websites and it was fairly easy and not very labor intensive.

Then I built two fairly dynamic sites which were responsive and the game completely changed. There are so many elements you take for granted on a static site which need to be accounted for. Yes, it took more time, but it also opened the site up to less hassles from mobile users. It also made us really focus on the UX aspect to ensure the user was getting a great experience.

I'm a huge proponent of responsive design. I think it's made me a better developer and designer.
I'm rooting for my popcorn.
Those were the schools I got into that are ranked higher than where I go now (Stevens Institute - Hoboken). More people know them by name, but even beyond that lies CMU (I was waitlisted, and I'm hoping to maybe pursue a masters there).
Sometimes I wonder if we should all just take a walk outside.
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I'm a paid user of WorkFlowy and love it...now if it only worked in the browser on Windows Phone!
It's not hard to imagine attacks on information dissemination platforms being used for more nefarious purposes than just propaganda - see

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/09/business/09air.html?_r=1

and imagine it being posted intentionally by someone with a large short position.
your kidding, right? It certainly is legal, colleges practice this all the time!

They give large grants to women, not because they are better, but because they are attempting to equalize the gender ratio.

The money is an extra. They won't accept you if you don't think you belong there. You are not entitled to any money. They are a private enterprise who are entitled to attempt to equalize the gender ratio... through whatever means they chose.
What you've described is basically $1/CPM ads on a joke site with the added cost of having to come up with a Joke yourself.

I don't think many advertisers will go for this. Currently $1+/CPM is relegated for really invasive ads like popups.

So you'd have to make the site mostly ad, and less joke.
> Eating nothing for three weeks?! That's stupid and dangerous.

To quote other people on this thread - "citation needed". I've done this more than once, actually, and I know others who do too.

Yes, I have eaten essentially nothing for three weeks. No, I wasn't putting my life at risk of anything, though you may believe what you want -- did you notice that I'm not the only one who posted about long fasts? You just assumed everyone was eating, but we use "fast" literally, not as a codeword for "calorie restriction".

Although I had the references to support that it's healthy, I did do bloodwork a couple of times through, and at the end, it was -- in fact -- much, much improved. For example, my B12 levels went from -2 sigma to +2 sigma. (If this sounds impossible to you, read the wikipedia entry about B12 - the general "knowledge", even among doctors, about B12 is unbelievably incorrect).

My doctor, who is a reasonably open minded MD, looked at the results and said "just make sure you start eating when you are feeling hungry". That happened 21 days after I started. He wasn't worried after looking at my bloodwork.

If you're healthy at the beginning, irreversible damage starts around day 40 (but is very swift at that point). There are quite a few people in India who do 30 days every year for religious reasons, and suffer no ill effects -- and have been doing this for centuries.
I haven't tried the new magsafe, but I know that my existing L shaped magsafe is prone to fraying on the cable just below the L. I have had one replaced at the Apple Store after I was told that they don't normally replace due to "physical damage". I have a second at work that is starting to fray. I am someone who has a high level of mechanical sympathy so I don't believe I have abused these adapters.
Judging from the shape of the SpaceX capsule, it seems pretty like it has a limited maximum re-entry velocity, whereas orion is designed pretty explicity for a high speed re-entry.

I think when space-x says that dragon is capable of returning from the moon, they intend on using the capsule draco thrusters to enter the atmosphere as slowly as possible.
Apologies. My statement should have read:

"No, Python is what John should be teaching his son, not the abysmal JavaScript."
Indeed... git pull --rebase is your friend (or better yet, set rebase as default strategy for pulls)
This isn't "the American way of thinking," it is a response to the state of the American system. Although casual, yours is a rather bigoted statement.
This is the big deal with air-launch or dirigible-launch or whatever you call it. The air resistance of the atmosphere is significant.

IIRC, it takes 9 km/s of delta-v to get from ground to LEO. LEO is only orbitting at ~7.7 km/s, though, so you can save at least 1 km/s of fuel.

As others have said, schemes like Stratolaunch or SpaceShipOne also get horizontal velocity from the mothership.
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Wow.

Funding applicants based on sex, race, religion, etc. is very common among private schools of all sorts. Of course this results in sub-optimal funding distribution if your goal is to maximize, let's say, "total cumulative aptitude."

If, on the other hand, your goal is something different, for instance, promoting diversity, such a restriction is perfectly reasonable.

"What do you do about trans/intersex applicants, or do they not matter to you?"

Transsexuals identify with one gender or the other. I want you to guess how many intersex individuals have ever applied that don't also consider themselves either a man or a woman.

ETA: Having read the section on funding I see that the school itself is free, and that Etsy is providing small grants to defray the cost of living in NYC for female hackers. I don't think something like paying room for adults, even if others are neglected, should warrant such vitriol.
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I believe the Musk has stated that scenarios like this are one of the reasons that he plans to continue putting a portion of his personal fortune into the company, so it can ride out the (inevitable) hard times.
Neat. Reminds me of the favicon tetris.

This could be very useful for an in-tab "progress bar".
Maybe there could be a rotation of the sacrificial fixer. Every month, one dev is given perks (private office, free food, a really big chair, ...) while they handle the back-log. They work under the guidance of the last fixer, to make the transition smooth.
Microsoft officially leaving Windows 8 Metro brand in the dust
I loved my TRS 80. It was an affordable computer, and I could hack on it in Z80 assembler or BASIC. (I loaded the assembler from a cassette tape, played on a Radio Shack cassette player.) I really liked the PDP-11 instruction set, and thought that the Z80 was a better approximation of it than the 6502 available in the Apple ][.
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Yeah, I saw similar numbers from EPA docs when I decided I might want to back up my comment, thanks :) but what I'd like to know is what the median size of a dairy farm in the US is, and what proportion of the milk we drink comes from larger operations like those described here, with head counts of 15-20,000: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dairy_farming#Animal_waste_from...

(Of course I know Wikipedia isn't the most reliable and those specifics seem to be lacking citations)
If investor attitudes are changing as the OP seems to indicate, I actually think this is a great thing. For all the doom and gloom about "Tech Bubble 2.0," the public markets are not valuing tech companies on "potential." You need real profits.

If that trickles down to private investors and makes them more gun-shy about investing in startups who don't have an obvious path to a product that involves someone using their credit card at any point, all the better. It's a much better outcome than losing all valuation rationality for a few years until the bubble pops and catastrophically damages the industry.

Also, if you do have 1 million daily users, even if you can't get the investor valuation you used to be able to get, you will still have a TON of options for a business model.
In other news a Knight Capital programmer's fat fingers cost exactly the amount of money required to build a Space Shuttle.
I'd like to have six. I was there - the difference in expenses and unexpected costs brought things down to around four at the moment.

(Not knowing anything about children, my estimates were missing all sorts of stuff. Like regular college fund contributions. And diapers.)
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29th Chaos Communication Congress moves back to Hamburg - CfP
I have to say, watching the Dragon rocket abort the launch after the engines were firing and before the rocket left the pad was one of the more impressive things I've seen.
America is a baby compared to Europe, and modern communication works against localization of language.