skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
H pylori has fulfilled Koch's postulates as a cause of ulcer disease. I don't agree that emotional stress is a major cause of ulcer disease.

From Harrison's 17th ed. ch 287: "H. pylori and NSAID-induced injury account for the majority of DUs."

From Malfertheiner's "Peptic Ulcer Disease" (Lancet 2009): "Emotional stress and psychosocial factors are frequently identified as important contributors to ulcer pathogenesis. Although stress cannot be neglected as a contributing factor, convincing evidence for it being the sole cause of duodenal ulcer is scarce. A good example of stress as a contributory factor was the rise in bleeding gastric ulcers in elderly people after a severe earthquake in Japan."

Note that in general, when the medical establishment talks about "stress", its practitioners generally mean physiologic stress states, such as burns, trauma, sepsis, or multiorgan dysfunction. Does physiologic stress cause ulcers? Indeed. Emotional stress? It may contribute, but is not, in itself, an important cause.
> or if it is, you have to do some devious thing 99% of the population could not figure out, even after solid googling

That "devious thing" is "attempt to download a free app without an account". Then it will present you with the credit card-free option.
A large US construction contract is going to require a fair number of US jobs even if it's won by a firm based in China.
Check out Hacks/Hackers, a group cofounded by an editor at the New York Times and one of the cofounders of Storify. There's branches all over the world
Yeah it's "blocked" in Finland too (I thought this was a free country... But this is what you get when you elect friggin ex. Miss Finland to be the Minister handling these issues! Stupid is as stupid does, too bad the woting population seems pretty stupid in general if/when the elected representatives are a reflection of them).

http://www.piraattilahti.org works fine though (a Proxy) :)
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Power US East Coast via wind? (144,000 offshore turbines needed)
You can write ebooks and record videos on the subjects you have knowledge!

Sell them on your website and marketplaces.
An example, posted some days ago at HN: http://www.clickminded.com/why-appsumo-is-going-to-keep-crus...
You can't make that argument. The environments are very different.

It's like trying to build a Silicon Valley somewhere outside of Silicon Valley. The environment is different. Some have tried, but it is hard or nearly impossible.

Unions in the US are a cancer that is killing this country. I don't know what the solutions is. I, for one, avoid buying any products that come from unionized work forces whenever I can. Sometimes there are no choices. I have to drive on the roads as they exist, for example, but, as much as it hurts me, you will not find me buying an American car.
You don't bring in your generalist town counsel on retainer to handle a million dollar construction lawsuit.

Why would counsel get involved? Retainage is a pretty common practice for exactly this kind of situation. In fact I'm still waiting on payment for work performed two years ago for the exact situation you described.
Or just go directly to http://google.com/chrome?msi=true - you can add others too (like extra=devchannel) if you have other options.
Previous discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3936310
I feel like I've seen this article 3 times here over the past few months. Is dup checking failing?
Is it possible to market an idea?
Also milk. Iced Latte. Caffeine and Vitamin D.
While the "webscale" method with nginx you detailed is nice [1], why not use Varnish or nginx's built in proxy_cache features [2]?

[1] https://gist.github.com/3711251

[2] http://wiki.nginx.org/HttpProxyModule#proxy_cache
Shedding some light on the Google and Acer Aliyun phone fiasco
only if we code ruby and node, sip mocha fraps and laugh at how awesome apple is with our frothy frap stashes. and create the next facebook or twitter and it wont support IE because thats too much work. no qualifications needed except enthusiasm of any or all fads
If you're running Ruby on Rails record cache will do it all for you (I've yet to run into any issues, the one I thought was an issue was actually a pgpool-II bug).

https://github.com/orslumen/record-cache

If you're on Django I think cache-machine does the same thing. There are some things you won't get cached this way that you could manually (functions and procedures), but I think they're both conservative enough that you won't return stale resources.
My 5-engineer team at Google all write java day-to-day. But we've all needed to write python, especially scripts, and have it properly checked in and maintained. Not sure how you could get by most places in the company without being able to do that. Besides, skill in other languages is an asset; I've written C++ client library code to push for broader adoption of my project.
The role is about using our data to tell compelling data-driven stories

People that can are not at all uncommon -- but most often they found in high executive levels or finacial services, where their work is not public. Most of the work that is published for the public is not of the same caliber as what is consumed internally. The issue you may be describing is just about supply/demand at a certain price point and rank within an organization, etc.
You're welcome. Good luck!
Oh. Thought you were saying we should get all the legal work for free because of our retained counsel.

The way the contract was structured (apparently 'standard'), we retained about 2% of the total. Hard to retain more because the GC does have to pay subcontractors, or at least that's what we were told. We withheld, they sued, we countersued.
The part that makes the assertion false is "...all of which are currently occupied." Moving n to n+1 only works when that restriction is lifted.
These articles are infuriating. A BOM is not the same as the cost of manufacture. Doesn't matter if it's Apple, Ford, Samsung or Kmart.
1) JB a kindle
2) install some sort of ssh
3) ???
4) PROFIT
In fact, that argument can be stated a lot more simply.

Take any programmable AI. Show it its own source code. Instruct it to run the code with all the inputs it has received so far, and then return something different.

Hence, a strong AI cannot have source code that it is capable of running.

Huh. I'd always heard that a true mind couldn't comprehend itself. I guess now I know why.
I think nhaehnle explained it very nicely.
I think you have confused two terms: countable and finite. In the simplest example, the natural numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5... are countable but infinite. So it's not really a mapping between two countably infinite sets, it's a mapping between two finite sets.
I think that the problem with these kinds of systems is that nothing can be done until the system experiences total failure. In other words, we have to hit the bottom before people on all sides of the issue are willing to face realities.

I had an interesting conversation with this ex-union worker a few months ago. He worked in the printing industry all of his life. He told me the story of how his union effectively destroyed the company he was working for because they kept wanting more and more at a time when the printing industry was changing. He fought hard to push for compromise but he union would not relent. The end-result was that they went bankrupt. Everyone lost their jobs. And their pensions went to hell. This guy had a late realization that unions are really bad organisms that eat their host. He was sad to listen to. He'd been taken out of the cave by share force.
I wouldn't go so far as to say that outside contractors are writing those RFP's, and turning around and winning them,

It doesn't happen all the time, but it happens a lot.

often times, the particular govt office/personal have a working relationship with a contractor, or have done business with them in the past [..] it may be the most effective way to accomplish a task

I've been on both sides of this issue and it's difficult to navigate, like you imply. Do you pick the low-bid firm who is likely to screw up the project, resulting in increased costs down the line? Or do you pick the more expensive firm who will do the job right the first time, but may subject you to "fraud, waste and abuse" criticisms?
Indeed. For anyone in .nl whose providers were forced to block them: http://fucktimkuik.org
Resilience Engineering: Learning to Embrace Failure
Your notions-perceptions-traits could be crippling unless...
I don't. Turns out its because I get it on ipv6, and my tunnel terminates in the US I guess (or they don't filter ipv6)
Proxy http://tpb.pirateparty.org.uk/blog/222
like you, I also came from backbone.js and since then I have switched to CanJs. Backbone.js open endedness if I may compare to UX concept, is too open ended that it can cause analysis paralysis. There is no defined path for programmers to take. Of course this is not a bad thing, it's just different from what I would like.

CanJs takes care of live binding, memory management, syntatic sugar, etc, it feels to me it's like a backbone with everything that I want already built in. I have tried other frameworks too such as ember or angular, and I have to say, even though they are all in the same family (javascript mvc framework) but they target different types of customers (developers) and variety is good.
Here's a big proxy list: http://proxybay.info
Photoshop Multicore Scalability: Keeping It Simple
What is a typical company?

http://www.eia.gov/emeu/consumptionbriefs/cbecs/pbawebsite/o... gives 18.9kWh per square foot for office buildings. I assume that is per year (that makes it 50Wh per square foor per day, or 2W continuous per square foot. That seems a bit low, but it includes nights and weekends, and the 25W per square foot I get when that 18.9 is per month seems awfully high)

Let's guess 20MW translates to 100MWh per day (probably generous). That way, it would translate to about 5000 square-foot-years per day, or 1.8 million square-foot-years per year. So, it would power a 1.8M square foot office building. At (guessing) 200 square feet per office worker, that would be about 9000 office workers.

I guess this will mainly power a server park, though. As such, it would power a 4MW server park. At (guessing) 500W/server, that would be 8k machines.

(with lots of handwaiving, possibly some miscalculations, so corrections are welcome)
seems nice!

how do I build it on linux?
there's a gem called roar that's been around for a while for producing hypermedia in ruby. there's also a roar-rails gem specifically for integration with rails.
Origin and Evolution of the Google File System (GFS)
You don't need a hallway as a holding area. Everyone in the hotel simultaneously moves one room up. Talking about it sequentially as "1 moves to 2 and 2 moves to 3 etc." is convenient for describing it, but the process does not actually happen sequentially; otherwise it would take an infinite amount of time. But since each person is capable of moving at the same time, and since their movements need not interfere with each other, the whole process can happen instantly.

If you are visualizing a traditional hotel, then this means that everyone walks out of their room into the hallway and then moves one door down. But the hallway is irrelevant. The rooms could instead be directly connected by doors, and everyone would still just simultaneously move to the next room. No holding area needed.
This title is incorrect. The article clearly states the ban is on supersized sodas.
No, I'm not. I'm 22. I realize a lot of people older than me enjoy saying "I used to think the way you did, but now I've seen the light", but I've found myself to be fairly consistent over the years. I've had no epiphanies or deep insights into the "way things should be" just because I've gotten older. I think perhaps it is a psychological trick -- you just assume that some sort of deeper thinking comes as you age. There's a lot of great physicists who did their best work in their early 20s and never did much great afterwards because they got locked into one way of looking at things.

If you want, I'll get back on this thread in 15 years and tell you if you were right or not regarding additional accumulation of "deep knowledge" (whatever that vaguely-formed concept should represent).

>> "Are you 18? I would be surprised if you weren't."

At least to me, this comes across as sort of an arrogant comment that I really wouldn't expect on Hacker News. This whole "wisdom with age" is a lot of unfalsifiable nonsense the way I see it. Any sort of experiment I could propose would be shot down with "Oh, don't worry about it. There's just something magic about getting older, and well, you really can't say anything to challenge that.
Zynga sues EA for anticompetitive practices
How to Set Up Wireless Printer Network.
In addition to adestefan's point, think about the qualifications the "technical agency" would need to have, and now you have another large government bureaucracy which isn't so popular these days.

For a transit project, this technical agency would need expertise in the following areas (at a minimum):

- vehicle procurement

- infrastructure procurement

- construction management

- geology and geotechnical engineering

- noise & vibration

- pest control

- air quality

- fire safety

- dust control

- archeology

- animal migration

- water quality & watershed

And you would need enough staff in those areas to handle the workload. I would support such an agency, but many folks would not.
Naming From the Outside In
This is true, but...

I'm sorry, if someone tries to argue that the Jersey Shore or Bad Girls Club is quality television, if they try to argue that Katy Perry makes amazing original music, that McDonalds is fine cuisine, or if they claim the Sun does real reporting, I'm going to call them an idiot.

Even if it affects my argument negatively, it has to be said. I'm not just going to let that stand because it's an opinion. It's a painfully ignorant opinion, stemming from the "muddy the waters" argument that has become so popular.
It's probably cheaper.
In general, if you find yourself thinking that, consider that you may not be the target customer.

Many companies which had a need for customer.io previously a) hired out very expensive people to build it to them (I have a couple of five figure invoices attributed directly to it not existing as an off-the-rack option last year) and b) can trivially go through several hundred bucks just having a single meeting on what to say in the emails.

You can, of course, code it for yourself out of duct tape and bailing wire, and that will pretty much work if you never need the non-technical marketing team to touch it.
The $1.96 figure is presumably the pre-2011 effective fare counting the 15% bonus, i.e. $2.25/1.15.
Not really. sort of proves the point. intention not polite.
The purpose of a startup is very simple. Build, be bought, or fail
For the people, who can't access the direct site, here is the text of the blog:

http://pastebin.com/DQLYkTnL
high-er- efficiency

The other commentators are missing what the OP is talking about. The grammar is incorrect.
I've been writing the odd letter to ministers etc to get an Oyster style system implemented nationally.

No ticket booking. No queueing. No hassle. Lowest/discounted prices.

But of course the government won't countenance actually organising something that might be better for rail users, not to mention that as soon as it was mentioned the unions said it was just a way to reduce staffing (may or may not be a side effect) at stations and made moves to stop it.
As my life long pursuit of teaching people the difference between a Megawatt and Megawatt-hour, I will link to this: http://www.xtremepower.com/about-energy-storage/mw-vs-mwh.ph.... Since this article is going to attract some eyes. DeedOfTheDay++
Joke related to the same topic: http://www.theverge.com/2012/9/14/3335612/apple-is-dying

xDDDDD
Their site should be up right now. If it's not from one connection you tried, try another. It is okay for me.
Is Wikipedia showing ads now?
No, the problem was phrased correctly. What we are saying is that for each natural number n, room n is occupied by a guest. This is the mathematical idea embodied by "an infinite number of occupied rooms". If you say "an infinite number of guests and an infinite number of rooms", then the question becomes obvious and trivial.

What makes it interesting is that we really do mean that every room is occupied to begin with. The surprising result is that we can in fact add another guest by having everyone move over one room, even though we started out with every room occupied. And in fact, we can add infinitely many new guests by telling everyone to move to their room number \* 2.
While Apple itself may not have changed radically (yet), it's perception by at least a part of it's customer base sure has by Steve Jobs' departure.

Of course there's the thing that Apple seems to be all about lawsuits now, but that might very well have been the case all along..
Multivitamins != vitamin D.
One more question. What if the rooms are not in an infinitely long hallway (with or without interconnecting doors), but a ring of infinite circumference? Or is there such a thing?
One reason why it's a clear cut no: latency. Maybe for file servers but not for operating system and application files. Expect always to have a few GBs accessible by wire (even if one day it is included in the SOC).
Yes, the "retainage" I'm refering to is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retainage

2% retainage seems really low. Contracts I've been involved with had retainage of at least 5% and as high as 10%.

Hard to retain more because the GC does have to pay subcontractors

Someone fed your town a load of horseshit. Retainage may apply to just the prime, or so everyone on the team. If it applies to just the prime, the contract should have language telling the prime not to screw the subs (I was involved in a project where the prime had retainage and I as a sub was not subject to it - the prime got fired from the job, and the agency contracted me directly to make sure I got paid in full). If it applies to everyone on the team, everyone's check arrives 5-10% light, again that's pretty standard.
It is pretty content-free, although I found interesting the claim that caffeine interferes with vitamin D uptake. I'll have to look into that (though the article included no references... ಠ_ಠ).
>That is, unless I am also thoroughly confused.

You are, but that's OK; they call it a "veridical paradox" for a reason.
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He's using hacking to mean 'messing around with one's own system', not 'gaining unauthorized access to another person's system.'

In other words, he's saying that customizing/modding your own system and patching it (for yourself) is much more difficult than it is on Linux.
> A strong AI can certainly do this.

A strong AI can say something different than the thing it's about to say? That's a neat trick. Not a part of any definition of strong AI I've ever heard, though. Could a human do it?
I don't support illegal activity, but I believe this is a quest of freedom, not for getting stuff free as in free beer.
Partly depression is because of the kinds of thoughts you have,and partly its your brain and body chemistry. Lately (for me anyway) its also partly due to the city I chose to live in.

Do what we geeks are good at.make a list and start fixing things. If you are suicidal go see a doctor right away and get some drugs.if you can't/won't do that, do some research on st.johns wort and 5-htp. If used properly these can be as effective or more effective than drugs.

See a psychologist.you don't need a doctors referral and if you have a job it will at least partially be paid for. Shyness, anxiety and depression are 3 different things. Even in perfect health its not likely you'd be able to address these things on your own. You need help.

The old cliche is true - exercise,it releases natural happy drugs. Research vitamin d. 500-1000 mg per day will do wonders for your health,and your mental well being.even if you live somewhere sunny you are vitamin d deficient.

Eat well,although I'm not really convinced this actually makes a big difference (its all too easy to feel like crap and build vitamin or mineral deficiencies when you are trying to eat healthy).

Stop drinking. Just do it. Alcohol messes with your body and brain. Im not saying that nobody should drink, but if you are depressed, there are many ways alcohol is making it worse, and continuing to drink will prevent you from getting better.

Seek out people like you to be around.don't try to hang out at bars or the mall,if that's not who you are. Assuming you are a typical hn`er,see if your city has a maker space and go build stuff.or spend a few hours at a co working space (great because you can work on a project, around other people, and have as little or as much social interaction as you like). Go to startup meet ups even if you don't have a startup.volunteer at you local computer recycler, they often rebuild PCs for underprivileged people.

A lot of stuff here and piles more. Like life,its a journey. Honestly I think that most people are not happy most of the time. You and I have an advantage, we want to get better.

FYI.I'm doing all of these things except for the doctor (don't want drugs) and meeting people like me. I moved to a city where there are very few people like me. Fixing that soon. In small bits and pieces, its getting better,but its a many year process.
A huge part of the problem is that agencies can’t keep their private contractors in check. Starved of funds and expertise for in-house planning, officials contract out the project management and early design concepts to private companies that have little incentive to keep costs down and quality up.

--Citation from the article.
I think if a video causes a global uproar and deaths of US diplomats overseas, it's in the best interest of the US to take it down. I know about freedom of speech etc., but at what cost?
Agreed with patio11 on this one. If you think that pricing is outrageous you're not at a scale where you need this kind of service yet.
If the "dev" doesn't give a shit about design, the dev shouldn't be touching the design! I've seen far too many "sites" that are not a start, but a finish, wrapped in the homogenized turquoise blandness that is bootstrap. Sure it's possible to wrangle the CSS into something that might look better, but by then the "site" is already pigeonholed into functionality and structure defined by someone who "doesn't give a shit about design."
Oh, okey. Thanks.
Of course, every base is base ten.

http://cowbirdsinlove.com/43
Raised an eyebrow since change orders are the primary mechanism for inflating post-award margins.

This comes down to how well the contract is written. The Big Dig was getting screwed pretty early on by contractors doing exactly what you described, but learned from the experience and started tightening up those contract terms. As a result, some contractors continued to try to play that game, and when they couldn't make up for lowball bids using change orders, they went out of business. Other contractors learned their lesson and started pricing things more realistically.