skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
(This is a response to the OP's post after he edited it.)

> There is inadequate evidence of a link between the hygiene hypothesis and autism

Inadequate for what? The author isn't claiming more than is there, and it's a simple correlation at this point, one that merits further examination.

It isn't as though scientific theories are ever proven true. That's not how science works. And this correlation is far from even being a theory.

> the article is claiming a correlation, which is at least weak evidence.

No -- a correlation is not weak evidence of a cause-effect relationship, in fact it's not cause-effect evidence at all.
I’d probably buy it if it had '|' instead of '&'.
That looks really good and neat! I am currently working on a project that uses information from Wikipedia articles and having a parser such as yours would make things a lot easier.
I am currently on vacation for the next 2 weeks but I'd like to fork your project when I get back. Let me know if there is anything you need help with (bug fix or new features).
Depending more on album sales for revenue is stupid and will keep you very small. Albums are now merchandise, akin to shirts, posters and stickers. You don't get rich off them. If you cater to the fans you'll make some money as they like to collect things and support their band. But compared to other merchandise, albums are probably one of the least valuable.

Labels need to realize they are promotional agencies primarily and take a cut, like acting agencies. You promote them and help them get gigs. You get a cut of the profits in return.
And then they removed the buttons :)
A stack trace is a stack trace in any language. It's the app developer's responsibility to provide a useful error messages after catching an exception.

This is CS 101, GiGo
Mobile isn't a niche.
As I understand it, Franklin was talking about policies of appeasement.

He was not, after all, a stone-cold anarchist- yet folks insist on interpreting that quote as if he was.
> Trying to pin Autism down to a simple cause is foolish.

Foolish unless true. We just don't know, and it's too soon to be abandoning theories. Science doesn't proceed by categorically denying possibilities before they've been fully investigated.

> Genetic diseases will be more easily corrected than diseases that will evolve a slip right under your nose.

On the contrary, genetic diseases will with rare exception remain incurable.
Oh god, an OSNews article from Thom Holwerda about how "obvious" the iPhone was is now top of Hacker News? How long do I need to switch the internet off for to restore sanity?
I still don't understand how a 400-person company folded in 3 days. Like the leadership team was not willing to put up a fight.

I once worked for a .COM company who similarly just closed the doors one day - no warning to employees in advance. Where did the operating capital go? They had paying customers - how could they not put up more of a fight?

In the OP, ex-employees started their own event businesses with a similar model. Same with my .COM - ex-employees started companies and signed the clients of the failed company.

Makes no sense.
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http://google.brand.edgar-online.com/EFX_dll/EDGARpro.dll?Fe...

"Avon Products Foundation, Inc. (the “Foundation”) has been a defendant in an arbitration proceeding brought by Pallotta TeamWorks (“Pallotta”) in September 2002, before Judicial Arbitration and Mediation Services, Inc. Pallotta asserted claims arising out of the Foundation’s decision to use another party to conduct breast cancer fundraising events. In July 2005 the arbitrator issued a Partial Final Award in this matter, awarding Pallotta $3.0 [million ] in net damages, after an offset for Foundation counterclaims. The arbitrator also instructed the parties to reach agreement on three outstanding issues: (i) pre-award interest; (ii) costs and attorney’s fees; and (iii) possible liabilities under Pallotta lease agreements. In October 2005 the Foundation entered into a settlement with Pallotta and paid Pallotta $7.5 [million] in exchange for a release of Pallotta’s claims. The Foundation is a registered 501(c)(3) charity and is a distinct entity from Avon Products, Inc., which has not been a party to these proceedings. The Company has not determined whether to make a contribution to the Foundation to cover all or part of the settlement.
The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

Another rationale is that they would have needed a unanimous opinion to overturn the patent on prior-art. And since they weren't going to get a unanimous opinion, they skipped it because they couldn't over turn the patent.

Without knowing all of the jury instructions, it hard to know exactly what happened.
If Dropbox were designed to handle sequentially-numbered blobs of encrypted data, changing one file would require your other devices to download only that file (an encrypted blob of roughly the same size).

With a TrueCrypt volume or other encrypted file solution on top of Dropbox, you have to resync the entire multi-GB volume any time a single file in there changes, since to Dropbox it's just one big file. (Another option is to use something like an OS X sparsebundle -- encrypted data banded across many files -- but God help you if you have two computers reading/writing from that sparsebundle at once.)

I've started using SpiderOak and it is quite efficient even though the data is encrypted such that the server admins couldn't see your data even if they wanted too. https://spideroak.com/engineering_matters SpiderOak also offers two-factor auth. (The SpiderOak UI, however, is fairly atrocious.)
That's only an issue if you care if your account is canceled. Plenty of 'merchants' are simply there to funnel stolen credit card information and turn it into cash.
You're posing a false choice -- between well-understood public health threats on one hand, and sterile environments on the other. There's a large, unexplored territory between the two.
Who is saying that Apple invented the touch UI? This is a false argument. Apple's patent is on a very specific type of touch interface and the interactions with it. Apple-style multi-touch interfaces did not exist before the iPhone.

And if they did, you could be damn sure that whoever did invent it would have been suing Apple left and right.
This is very interesting, although anyone aiming to crawl Wikipedia should make sure they read this section on the Database download page.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_download#Why...

Everything should be fine as long as you respect their 1 request per second rule and their robots.txt
He's not explicitly saying that there's a correlation though, is he?
You said "almost". Do you know one that handles continuous tasks well?
I've commented on this topic before (open notebook science).

Academic code should be released. In fact, I believe that you should host everything on a public github/bitbucket from day 1.

I don't like the proposal in this blog post, i.e. that we insist that code must work in a distributed fashion under some consortium guidelines. Increasing the friction to releasing code is the wrong approach.

I believe that open notebook science should be incentivized by being aligned with career goals. Publications and conferences should have separate tracks where you cannot submit unless you will release your code. Then, academics who want to release their code have the edge, because these tracks are lower competition.

The feeling that you must release polished code is the wrong idea. Pushing everything to github removes the friction in sharing code, and has been successful in the past.

The author complains that neither he nor his students have the time to polish code or write documentation. Here's my solution: I've released research code under a "pay it forward" support license. If you ask me for support, and I give you support over email, please document what you learned through your investigation and discussion with me, and then push your changes to me.

[edit: formatting]
Paul McCartney does programming? Woah.
I'm using http://www.gokgs.com a lot. Its a Client for the boardgame GO.
The downside, of course, is no differential sync'ing. So, if you make a change to your volume, you must re-upload the entire volume.

Worth doing for some files, yes, but still a pain. Per-file encryption would be ideal, but a monstrous pain to implement with TrueCrypt.

Dropbox is probably not crazy about widespread encryption because it would eliminate their ability to perform deduplication. Perhaps they could get around this if you had a special encrypted quota. For example, you have 5GB of space and 100MB of encrypted space.
I think your fear is totally justified. Programming for play is many people's first step towards a deeper understanding of the machines that run so much of the world these days, and that's important.
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This is great! I've never come across it. Thanks for sharing.

appspydr offers a different and simpler form factor. I would say the biggest difference would be the broader view on providing more than just documents and libraries, but everything that a developer working with xcode would need, like ease of access to downloadable resources, as well as links to pages that developers would be visiting on a regular basis.
No offence but if you don't understand how stack traces work and why it isn't a "Java" wide problem then no offence but you really are in no position to comment.

It really isn't that hard to understand.
The original iphone had a clean aluminum casing whereas the prada used generic black plastic casing -- I think people could tell them apart back in 2007. Practically all phones on the market were black. The differences were even bigger if you used either device for more than a minute.
> Geek & Sundry's Tabletop

I'm not a big Wil Wheaton or Felicia Day fan, but I'm really enjoying Tabletop. Fun show with excellent production values. I just wish the episodes were a little longer (ie, fewer cuts) for some of the more complex games.

Internet broadcasting just keeps getting better and better. It's probably not a great model for fiction where you have to pay writers and real actors, but for entertaining nonfiction it's perfect.
At least with Chrome on Linux is really sluggish when scrolling. It's like they have something on place to make the scrolling slower... or a lot of JavaScript code on each scroll event.
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I would disagree. I personally used Dive Into Python to learn Python. If you know programming, Dive Into Python is a great Python primer. Besides, reading is useless. You want to write code as soon as possible.
Kinda defeats the purpose of DropBox. If you're going to use volume encryption, might as well use Tarsnap or something else to just backup the one large file.
Opera, too.

I had to go back to enabling plug-ins with Chrome, though, as I couldn't load videos for some reason.
The problem is that there's already a promotional agency which takes a cut - the tour promoter! [0]

That industry is slowly converging to a state of brokenness near that of album-selling record labels, as Live Nation (themselves a Clear Channel spinoff) were allowed to merge with Ticketmaster in 2010 to form a unified ticketing, venue booking, and promotion cabal.

0: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tour_promoter
So what if you are wrong? How long do we have to wait to see if you gave your father an inaccurate reading of the situation?

I mean, I remember a lot of the "Apple is at 90$ a share now, it will go down soon" crowd in the '06 in the Yahoo Finance forum posts and I'd love to see them now and sincerely ask them what were they thinking or why did they reach that conclusion back then.

I'm completely serious. This kind of "its the beginning of the end" prophecies are easy to make because you can always say "wait a little bit longer, it will happen" but other than anecdotal evidence, i don't know what prompt you to say "s soon as you have to sue your competition to remain competitive - you're done". Is this a real thing? No company has remained afloat and well after suing a rival?

Is there no way that Apple might be both suing and at the same time innovating in some other way or on any other markets? Does it have to be one or the other?
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This is really a shame because these companies are making a shitload of money.
Renaissance au Bien-Etre et Santé
Every news source is biased. It's a bit naive to think someone is reporting it with a historian-balanced viewpoint. Some people think NPR is "fair and balanced" only to find out they actually lean left. Groklaw has always reported favorably for linux during the SCO vs IBM trials -- there's definitely bias in the reporting. They tend to pick the side that wins them the most readers. Had they picked the "evil" SCO side in the trials, nobody would share the groklaw articles.
No, they haven't released it yet because of a long series of bad decisions, cancelled products, management changes, and missed attempts.

I mean, I wish RIM the best -- more competition is great, but let's not sugarcoat things and let them off easy.
If Dropbox were designed to handle sequentially-numbered blobs of encrypted data, changing one file would require your other devices to download only that file (an encrypted blob of roughly the same size).

But they do: store files and name them sequentially ;)

I think Encfs is the best solution, since it encrypts each file separately. Just mount the encrypted end over the Dropbox directory and the plaintext end somewhere else, and use it transparently.
Simplifying Isosurfaces
OK Go would still have to register with a publisher and a PRO if they wanted to see any residuals at all. If they just wanted to bypass music and be a "video" band they'd still have to manage the music bed in some fashion, even if through Tunecore or someone like that.

These "the labels must die" discussions get tedious because not many know what they do. I quit being at a label, but not because I think it should die, just because it was anyhow.
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I don't believe 3 days is enough for 9 people to come to a consensus on such a complicated matter. When I was a juror, it took us 2 days to decide a very clear cut shoplifting case with 1 day of arguments.

Our jury also selected a lawyer as foreman--from everything I've read, and my experience, I believe the most logically consistent scenario was that most of the panel simply followed where the "expert" led.

--I've used Apple products for years, so I'm not trying to construct an anti-hero narrative--

Also, you really like the word "narrative".
I upgraded my account, and now the desktop client is not letting me login, saying I need the latest client. I downloaded that and it still gives me the same error..
Ah, thanks for the correction! I just wrote it out from memory, and it's been a while since I used Vanilla-JS DOM selectors ;)
> There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs.

-- John Rogers

Suppose we should add ships without laws to the list. The entire Sea Steading concept makes no sense.

1: International waters do have laws and you are subject to them and the flag you fly under.

2: If there were no laws you had to live under - why don't you think criminals would already be using these to have drug or arms sales? Oh yeah - it's because you are still subject to laws like everyone else.

3: Let's say you have a ship with no laws - what's to stop someone from killing you and taking your stuff? Who is going the enforce those rights? I government like entity? I thought we were libertarians here!

4: What happens in the case of an emergency? Do you rely on other governments to bail you out? Will you help the people on your boat - I mean what is the return on saving someone else's life? Who's responsible for the screw up? What about medical treatment? Do you not treat a guy who can't pay but has a festering open wound you could easily fix?

Libertarianism - just like this Steading initiative - is a fairy tale for nerds that does not work in reality. But hey - a fella' can dream can't he?

Successful business people are like children, give them too much freedom, and they'll pollute the heck out of you given half a chance.

Governments are like adults, wield too much power and you beat the innovation out of the kids with authoritarian regimes.

You need both and you need good relationships between them - neither is better or worse than the other - they're just people.
Most people using IE6 are doing so because they can't download a new browser e.g. ActiveX support or lockdown corporate machine.
"Yet, no one ever looks at the flip-side of this argument. Why do we never ask more men to consider becoming school teachers (86% are women) – and why is there no outcry for schools to train more men as nurses (89% are women)?"

Hear, hear! Similarly, where is the concern over the gender disparities in trades like roofing, plumbing, highway construction, etc.?
You'll need their "experimental build": https://forums.dropbox.com/topic.php?id=66910
Ah, last I looked at Zepto, it's support for non-webkit browsers was pretty lacking. It's good to see they're making strides on the cross-platform comparability front. The supported browsers list looks pretty good now.
I'm the lead developer at Gazzang on this product.

I'd like to hear your feedback on zTrustee. What are your key management needs? What features would you like to see in a service like this?

If you're interested in learning more about the product, I'd like to invite you to our webinar on Aug. 29th (register here: http://gazzang.com/resources/webinars-and-events/item/329-au...)

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-Casey
> if your protest is indistinguishable from simply being greedy, don't be surprised if your message gets lost.

Well put.
Hmm, a moment of high traffic? The box I'm running it on isn't particularly beefy. Seems to be up now, though!
No one is trying to rewrite history. We all know about the PDA style designs of the early 2000's. Thing is, Apple's designs were still nothing like anything people had seen. The picture in the post is actually proving my own point, not the OP's. That photo also illustrates how the same design concept can be made without blatant copying. All those phones and PDAs have the big-screen-couple-button design style but still look like entirely different models of devices. Even post-iPhone devices all look different while still retaining their heritage with the exception of the Samsung devices in question. It doesn't take an expert in technology, patents, phones, or any expert at all to see that after the iPhone debuted, a lot of Samsung phones started to look a lot more iPhone-like. Everything from the materials, to the colors, to the shape, and even custom changes to the Android UI all closely mimicked the iPhone. The idea was to get regular folks confused into either thinking they were buying the iPhone or make them think they were buying the equivalent of one. Now, regular folks often do think all smartphones look alike but when you walk into a phone store those same people can tell that those phones are made by different companies. They can at least differentiate between the lookalike phones to the point where they understand they're not all the exact same phone. What Samsung tried to do is blur the lines even further to the point where those normal folks who were looking for an iPhone could potentially get confused into thinking they were buying one because of the way they pretty much cloned the iPhone.

The patent system may be fucked but what Samsung was doing was wrong and patents were the best tool Apple could use to send a meaningful message and get them to stop. This case isn't all that good to argue the shortcomings of the patent system. There's too much biased information about it out there and everyone tends to just defend their camp. It turns into a Apple v. Android argument in the end. If you want to argue patents then argue patents. The fact is, Apple held patents, Samsung infringed, and justice was done. You can argue whether the patents should have been granted or not but you can't say Apple shouldnt have won because the patents should have never been granted. Too late. They already were.
how is the phone not a second factor?
Why does it require so many permissions?

"Access your data on all website
Access your tabs and browsing history"
Rublon replaces passwords with cryptographic keys that are partially stored on your phone. This is a completely new approach to user authentication.
> Or do you think there is no value in being able to transact in designs?

I believe that patents should be abolished.

There is value in being able to transact designs.
There are costs in the patent system. Court cases for example.

The question is "does the marginal benefits of patents over the alternatives, justify the costs?". And sometimes it might and other times it won't.
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Apple was neither the first to create a multi-touch user interface (the first consumer multitouch device I know of was the Lemur, but I'm sure that was predated) nor the first to put it in a handheld PDA-ish device or a phone (LG beat the iPhone to market with the Prada--which, incidentally, also used very few physical buttons in favor of software buttons).

The entire argument in favor of Apple's patents is bullshit, and nirvana has a history of bad-faith fanboyism on the topic.
Except that the major parts- like a touch oriented UI- don't exist until Apple develops them.

How does the LG Prada exist in this strange world of yours, then?
Apple does not copy. It's against their "values".

Apple steals. Starting with Xerox PARC and continuing to this day.

What do they steal? User interface design and code.

Why do they steal? Because Apple is a _hardware_ company who aims to compete with (and now aims to control) software developers. It started with trying to compete with Microsoft and it continues to this day.

To discover where Apple's interfaces come from one needs only to do the requisite research.

But it seems people have an aversion to doing such research - it's work, after all - while they have little aversion to passively being the targets of Apple's high-priced marketing and advertising. It's easier just to sit back and let Apple control the show. Show us the "future", Apple.

The ideas that are not new, but which others have been developing for years, that you have now stolen and claimed as your own. Interface designs that simply "did not exist" until you adopted them and slapped on the familar Apple logo.

I love Apple hardware. It looks great. I'd even pay higher prices for it. In fact, I have. Many years ago.

But that's as far as it goes. Apple's software and interfaces have little value to me. And when Apple tries to restrict what code I can run on their hardware, it lowers the value of the product. I lose interest, no matter how slick the hardware design. It's inflexible. And that defeats all the fun of using a computer. Apple has reached the point of diminishing returns for me. It's not worth it to buy their new stuff anymore.

According to Apple fanboys, the number of other users who think this way is so small that Apple can disregard any user preferences for flexibility. This is even worse than Microsoft.
In the Apollo 14 mission ~ http://www.digplanet.com/wiki/Apollo_14 NASA introduced red stripes (Public Affairs stripes) to make media identification b/w COM & LMP (Lunar Module Pilot) easier ~ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_space_suit
The title is incredibly misleading. The article is about a private fundraising company that does 3-day events, which folded when its customer withdrew. It's not a company doing other things that tried its hand at philanthropy and died in short order.