skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wouldn't place too much weight on a single study, even if it is the china study. It's very difficult to apply the scientific method to nutrition. However, if you look at the subject from many many angles and learn to evaluate the quality of the methods and procedures of different studies then may find some trends.

You may be interested in the work of doctors Caldwell Esselstyn, Joel Fuhrman, John McDougall, Dean Ornish, and their colleagues. Fuhrman's Eat to Live book is a good place to start; it cites thousands of studies for you to spend your hours in a university library reviewing. ;) It is a "diet" book but mainly because that is the format one must use to get a nutrition book published.
Sound was generally just more rich. But yeah the background noise was incredibly noticable. I use SE530's with an audioengine D1 at work since using an integrated soundcard always bleeds motherboard sounds in the audio :/

I read a study a few years back though about how the MP3 encoding artifacts and background noise were so ingrained in culture today that people actually prefer the MP3 encoding artifacts over not having them- Which seems to be supported by this poll. The incorrect choice has a non-trivial lead.
There are new techniques involved here.

Generally, out of hundreds of blood cells, only one or two might turn into iPS cells. Using Zambidis' method, 50 to 60 percent of blood cells were engineered into iPS cells.

Traditionally, scientists use viruses to deliver a package of genes to cells to turn on processes that convert the cells from one type (such as skin or blood) back to stem cell states. Zambidis' team uses plasmids, rings of DNA that replicate briefly inside cells and then degrade.
Maybe, and that is something we'll be exploring more in the future. The prohibitive element is that it isn't easy to find devs of that caliber, so it probably still would approximately even out (with the understanding that excellent devs aren't cheap).
> every vegan I know has serious health problems

That does not necessarily mean that veganism caused their health problems.
FWIW, the life safety code (separate, but related to the NEC) does mandate emergency power for certain systems (fire pump, egress lighting) in public buildings (not homes). The NEC doesn't address attacks by hostile agents because that's not its purpose. It's to prevent people from getting electrocuted and to prevent electrical fires from starting. That's it.

My point is not that a code is going to provide 100% assurance from all possible forms of attack. It's quite the opposite. The code simply spells out how certain known failure modes are avoided. It's not a guarantee that nothing ever will go wrong. It's basically a list of specific things that have gone wrong in the past, and what things should be done to prevent them.

The point is to establish exactly what "reasonable measures" are for the purpose of determining liability, not to spell out a method for a fail-proof system. If you present yourself as a competent developer and the build someone a system that passes user input directly to the database and stores passwords in plaintext, you should be held accountable for damages resulting from a security breach that made use of those holes.
"Under German law, solicitors are allowed to publish the names of those accused by their clients."

....ahem... no. What he is referring to: There was a court decision that solicitors are "generally" allowed to name their clients and those accused by the clients (http://www.bverfg.de/entscheidungen/rk20071212_1bvr162506.ht..., german, sorry), but this was in a professional context. The application on a private level is unclear. The court ruled that it would be a restriction of the solicitors right of free profession if he were not to. But this is not absolute, the court only ruled that its generally possible, but other reasons might weight heavier. There is still the possibility that naming the accused in a process involving porn is an illegal invasion of privacy and - quite frankly - extortion and the right of the accused weights higher. The general consensus in germany is that this case is pretty clear and will fail in court if it wasn't some kind of advertisement joke.
I used Opera exclusively during that period. It was a far superior browser both in standards support and speed, but the entrenchment of IE6 meant that I had to switch browsers when I accessed my insurance and bank account.

The truly frustrating thing was that for most sites (though certainly not all) browser spoofing was all you needed to make them work with Opera... So much rage.
Every market is different, but there is a lot of housing supply in most of the US, prices are depressed and lending rates are the lowest they'll probably ever be in our lifetime.

I have a couple friends (from our generation) who are buying up duplexes. They can live upstairs and rent the lower and nearly cover their mortgage from the rent income. They are living for free and banking the savings for the down-payment on the next duplex.

Seems incredibly smart to me. You have a generation of people who've convinced themselves not to buy a house, driving up rents and driving down home prices. You can borrow money for next to free to buy those assets and rent them.

Even if you don't want to be a landlord, you can get a mortgage payment that is less than rent. Sure you have debt, but rent is just burning money every month. Even if your home declines in value, it probably won't lose as much value as you'd have paid in rent, so you're basically breaking even.
Great work! Landing looks clean and within 15 seconds I know exactly what the core message and values are. I appreciate the work you guys have done to make it as transparent as possible as I know that is a major point of contention when it comes to crowdfunding.

Small nit: Is it just me or is the "email" button on the profile page actually popping up the share modal on hover?
i am highly highly impressed, it's a very polished looking game with the animation and all. The gameplay looks very promising, all of this, from 1 developer? This reminds me of the original Prince of Persia, indie gaming at its best.
Changing the History: Building a 30-Story Hotel in 15 days
Well, this article is doing what: telling us what he doesn't like. He doesn't like too much criticism.

Personally, I like honesty. As in honest opinions.

But... the source matters. To be criticised by a fool means nothing. To be criticised by someone who has good taste is different. It may be hurt but it's extremely valuable.

Without criticism, you simply cannot improve. I guess there are some people who do not want to improve. They just want things to stay as they are.
Related: A similar project (a simple php router) called Klein exists (https://github.com/chriso/klein.php) which is really great. Does anyone have experience with both and can explain which is better?
I was looking at an image in the paper catalog which I at first thought was the same but turned out it was not the same.
> "As usual" really? They are not an objective news source, for sure, but they are decent. They often provide a good counter point on any US based and so called "free" media news sources.

I don't read them much, but was pretty disappointed with their coverage of CISPA linked on reddit a couple of months ago. It was very sparse on facts, and very heavy editorialized, full of fear mongering and propaganda. Same thing here.
Did they hire the same designer that created the game "Simon Says"? Even the colors are the same.

Image: http://www.digitalrendezvous.net/wordpress/wp-content/upload...
Ironically, it's because a number of the Federal Circuit judges have technical backgrounds and worked in industry. The two judges in the majority in this opinion, Lourie and Moore, have a PhD in chemistry from U Penn and a BS/MS in Electrical Engineering from MIT, respectively. My engineering degree is in a non-CS field, and I have found that outside the software realm, scientists and engineers generally view the patent system positively.

I think the Supreme Court, who isn't caught up in whether some specific process is technically like another process that's already patentable, is looking more at the broader ethical implications of certain types of patents.
Until the last iterations, true.

Still waiting for the Sparrow rebranded Gmail app for iOS
Psst . . . . Wanna Buy a Stinkin' Badge?
http://rashkovskii.com/2012/08/19/symapi-api-for-apis/
I guess they can only keep this up if they do it in small batches. Once you get like 5 million people listed the extortion party ends since http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVNjnyD38UA
have you tried SlimPHP? I've been using it for APIs lately and its been great. Very easy to get up and going very quickly.
Seriously, Opera was customizable enough that the way I used it back then was completely indistinguishable from modern tabs. And quite frankly, the ability to occasionally use grid view made it far superior for my common edge cases.

Opera's omnibar style implementation is still better than Chrome's (though I stopped using Opera when I switched to OSX, and also webkit still has the best console), and is more useful when trying to re-access history (w/ full text search) and bookmarked sites because they don't gimp the user in an attempt to shunt them to running a search.

Also, while buggy, their text only E-mail client M2 was gmail before gmail existed, in fact the ad-hoc search filters were arguably better. Back when people were jumping on the file/pile train for the first time M2 had already been running it for years.
Great idea!

Questions: how do you select who gets on the site? What protections are in place to prevent scammers listing fake illnesses? What proof is required before funding is handed over? Is funding handed to patient or doctor or someone else??
Probably you will see many updates on the coming weeks. (Almost every week probably)
Software development is usually about creating some sort of competitive advantage. And a fundamental tenant of competitive advantage is differentiation.

Standard implementations/algorithms/patterns are commodities and are purposely so.
The "district court erred in focusing on the informational content of the molecules, and not the actual composition of matter itself"

... dunno why this makes me nervous...?

"In other words, this ruling affirms that molecular biology is, in fact, chemistry, if you want to look at it that way. The court goes on to say that if we as a society want to put DNA in a separate category for terms of patent law (because of its unique informational content, etc.), then Congress should get to work on revising the US Code. It's not a matter for the courts to write that in by themselves. "
http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2012/08/17/the_myriad_g...
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I'm fully willing to say that to their face though. If I made a dumb website that accidentally caused even one divorce I'd shutter it, Facebook must cause hundreds every year. It created, intentionally or not, a culture of bragging and narcissism. They're stockpiling facial recognition data. It's a terrible company. If you work there, Fuck You. You're a bad person. I don't know how else to say it.
Thanks for the feedback. On the web you can see those settings in your profile, but unfortunately profile didn't make it into this first version. For now you can configure this stuff on the web, but we plan to fix this omission in the next version -- thanks for bearing with us.
Amazon to make big announcement Sept 6
A strong percent of their users are gawking at iPads and iPhones, it makes sense.
Using Python metaclasses to make awesome Django model field choices
Let mom know you got there safe
Surround yourself with people who actually think and who aren't prone to just believe the echoes in the chamber.
I do not thing that buying something because you think it has a good brand (or you have goodwill towards the brand, however you want to phrase it), makes you vapid.

High end consumer products like Apple hardware most certainly have a certain fashion aspect which is important to remember when you considering why people make the purchase decisions that they do.

While that may be something that you do not value when purchasing hardware and gadgets (I know I do not value it highly at all either), there is certainly nothing fundamentally wrong with those that think otherwise.
Offer HN: iOS apps for £5000
I'm trying to get into app development proper as a freelancer (coming from web dev background for the past 14 years). I've built a couple of apps so far but one is yet to be released (and after 9 months might never be!) and the other two are for internal corporate use. So as you might guess my portfolio is pretty weak at the moment.

So I'm offering iOS apps for £5000 ($7900 ish). Obviously we'll pre-agree the scope and implementation and work out a timeframe. I have good availability at the moment so can get started quickly once we get those details worked out.

Note: The apps will be built with Titanium (ideally) or PhoneGap if required. Just to make that clear to start with if you absolutely needed pure Objective C.

Email is in profile.

p.s. Android is a possibility but I only have one phone to test on and can't really guarantee across several devices.
Is this a parody of how not to do things? I was prepared to take it on face value of being rather misguided, but thinking about it... It's a glorified mess of goto statements and objects being misused.

I confess that I stopped digging further after I saw files being included in methods, absolutely one of the biggest sins in PHP:

https://github.com/anandkunal/ToroPHP/blob/master/examples/b...

https://github.com/anandkunal/ToroPHP/blob/master/examples/b...
So awesome! :)
It is interesting that only 2 companies in B2C have subscription. In other words, it seems like selling something to consumers is really really hard.
> I do not think it matters much that there is a crime involved, it can still be extortion.

Not even a crime, an accusation.
"Religious organizations aren't typically for-profit ventures". Most religions organizations I know are for-profit. Just saying.
Aren't the "popping squares" related to subpixel ordering?

You could try on a different monitor.
Ah, but that is one alternative! Now you'll have to excuse me, I'm off to buy a new MBP with the specs of the standard PC laptops of a few years ago for double the price, acting as a rational consumer.
This is awesome Philip. I'd love the ability to tag my photos as right now they aren't easily searchable for people.
Why is the Next Generation of Consoles Being Delayed?
Sometimes you win but the other guys beat you. Sometimes you lose but beat the other guys.

That's awesome. Original?
Why not use the OpenPGP standard? PGP public and private keys seem to be the natural solution for both,

1. signing data so that the source can be verrified

2. encrypting messages so that they can only be read by particular recipients
It's More Important to Be Kind than Clever
The one thing you need to focus on above all else is transparency and preventing scams. Video of the actual person who needs the treatment would go a long way, as would video updates along the way. I'm thinking an Android app that the locals could use to document the process.

If you solve that properly, this will really take off and do a lot of good.

Also, you're going to eventually need to take a very small cut of the donations to pay living expenses for your volunteers. 100% to the patient sounds great, but for my donation, I'd prefer to know that there is someone dedicated full-time to the cause and overseeing the process, and receiving a reasonable salary for it. Of course, be 100% transparent about those salaries as well.
In my job, my boss expects everything to be fantstic, for him 'good' simply won't do and he tells me so every day, but occasionally you have to push something which is merely 'good'.

It can be a downer, but when I do 'fantastic' I know I've deserved the praise which is a massive moral boost.
This is awesome, So glad people are out there doing good deeds like this. I immediately thought to myself, wow this is really cool.

If you guys do nothing else in your careers you'll still be able to say you've made a difference. That is truly awesome.

Congrats!
If you violate the license, it's illegal.
Sure, Zambidis' group used electroporation to deliver the genes that convert adult cells back to a stem cell. But it appears that is the only new thing that they did. The 4 genes that they delivered to revert the adult cells back to stem cells were discovered back in 2006 by Yamanaka's group. It is the 4 genes that do all the magic, and identifying those genes was the really amazing step forward in the field.

Electroporation, which it looks like what Zambidis et al used, is not without problems too.
(from a thread yesterday about when Freemium fails)

One of the problems with the freemium model is that many people sometimes seem to pick a revenue target arbitrarily and then backfill their projections with the necessary conversion rate. Obviously, few firms or entrepreneurs want to expose their pricing models publicly in forums like HN, but startups need to be able to answer the question of what marginal utility they provide to their potential customers. The 'less than a cup of coffee!' model of app pricing, for example, assumes that since coffee is such a small thing users will be just as willing to throw down $3 for an app. But the coffee has physical, psychological and social value for the consumer that pays off on a predictable time horizon - and pays off not just the $3, but the time spent standing in line or buying and brewing your own coffee. Consumer preferences in for this commodity are sufficiently complex to support a large and extremely competitive market. If it was 'just coffee' then it would cost the same everywhere and vendors would be limited to normal rather than economic profits.
A better approach for vendors might be to assume your target consumer does not have endless disposable income. What value does your product or service provide that would make a coffee consumer go without their favorite beverage for a day? Or if not coffee, a competitor's offering or some other part of the consumer's status quo? How does your offering compare to the composite bundle?
This works in a similar way to BlindType (acquired by Google) from a couple years back: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9b8NlMd79w

edit: it's actually the same! http://phandroid.com/2012/08/16/makers-of-blindtype-bring-us...
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In texas hold'em your actual balance is a very significant factor in your optimal behaviour in a particular hand. Short-stack tactics are different to big stack tactics.
(Shrug) I gained respect for them. Many if not most of those who compete in a so-called "normal" athletic event either damaged their body to get there, or will damage it intentionally during the competition. (Have you ever watched an American football game, for Pete's sake? Do you have any idea what those guys are doing to themselves? Smashing a toe is the least of their concerns.)

What I read was an article about people hacking their bodies to get to levels of performance they wouldn't otherwise be capable of. In this case the athletes' bodies are already damaged, typically in ways that would stop the rest of us in our tracks.

My opinion is contrarian and I don't expect to see much agreement here or elsewhere. But then, I've also argued that there should be an "unlimited" category in sports like cycling where the athlete with the best drug lab wins.
Amazing non-profit and website! Truly for a great cause.
I prefer to type with the 8pen.com
Don't hold your breath.

> While we’ll be working on new things at Google, we will continue to make Sparrow available and provide support for our users.

http://sprw.me/
Show HN: New pipeline technology seeks to bring water to remote areas in LatAm
not just you - it definitely pops up the share modal.
Just install Autopaginate:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/aeolcjbaammbkgaiag...

It works on a wide variety of sites, including HN.
> we do have crystallographic methods to encrypt a message such that an arbitrary group of people can decrypt it.

This doesn't solve the problem you're responding to: "once data is given out, it can never be retracted". That remains the case. If you encrypt your photo so that each of your 770 friends can decrypt it, but then you unfriend Bob for being a jerk, he's still got the key and the encrypted data. So he still sees that photo.

In contrast, although you could theoretically save every photo and update anyone ever lets you see on Facebook, it would be difficult enough that in practice no one does.
I'm doubtful about points 2 and 3 since it doesn't match my observations of how people really act†, but point 4 really sounds out there. Like, anybody can sue over anything. Does this meaningfully increase your risk? It's really hard to imagine some lawsuit-happy fellow who would sue you if you offered them a refund but not if you didn't offer a refund. Have you actually seen much of this?

† My experience is that people tend to be very lazy about things like mail-in rebates and and money-back guarantees, passing them up even when they're perfectly entitled.
How is the top menu[1] ok? Grey background with clear blue icons? I would understand with skype because it's not their logo, but even their own blue icons look terrible with that background.

Also, the controls on the carousel[2] are off.

This is not just fanboy hate, but for a company the size of Microsoft, their homepage should matter. These two examples show that they just don't care.

Unrelated to this, I find the metro style interesting for touch devices, but adopting it as the look of the whole company dumbs down their entire product. Also, the font looks to me like a futurist Comic Sans.

[1]: http://i.imgur.com/a9JzT.png

[2]: http://i.imgur.com/rnjJM.png
Next Mars lander will probe the planet’s core in 2016
Mr Miller's associates have published a P.O. Box address where he can be contacted. I sent a congratulatory postcard some weeks ago. With some surprise, I realised that is the first time I have sent a postcard or letter by airmail for something like a decade.

I think as the ubiquitous network and personal clients become familiar, that there will be an adjustment so that it (and they) just shrink back into normalcy, and attention will be distributed between the network and other closer things.
The standard keyboard also autocorrects non-standard words.
Awesome site, congrats on making the world a better place.

I would suggest that you integrate directly with reputable organizations - it will place an abstraction between you and potential backlash for scamming. Also allows you to provide aid where you don't have direct reach already.

Another idea would be to integrate with hospitals/care givers directly, so you know the money is being spent properly. Hospitals/care givers will be less likely to scam you, as they can benefit in the long term and do have something to lose if caught scamming.
Smoking doesn't harm you so quickly though...
Can anybody explain why they would use background threads? Seems like over-engineering. Don't iOS blocks natively perform tasks asynchronously?
"identified as having downloaded pornography"

I assume illegally?