skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apple seeds contain cyanide, not arsenic: http://www.snopes.com/food/warnings/apples.asp

I agree with your point though. Lots of natural things are deadly. In fact, the most toxic compound known is natural: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Botulinum_toxin
I tried to login with Facebook, and was prompted to make a password anyway. Doesn't this seem to defeat the point of having OAuth sign-in in the first place? I don't want to remember your password, and you've already got my login tokens, so I shouldn't need to.
Yeah, but this is by far the best-researched one I've seen. The writer could've crapped something out in a hurry a month ago, but instead took the time to focus on quality. That deserves our applause.

Most of the previous coverage made it sound like Aaron was instrumental in the design of RSS, for example. That wasn't really the case, and the article is the first I've seen to get that right. On the other hand, he did play a true role in the creation of Markdown, and the article gives him fair credit for that.

And I believe this is the most detailed account to date of Aaron's time at YC, which I found to be really, really interesting. If you read only one section of the piece, that's the one I'd recommend.
yeah, I think it's the major reason for her fearing this field
Bandwidth isn't a non-renewable resource but supply won't increase without incentive. Why isn't there sufficient incentive?
Haha this made me laugh :) First the notion that someone would pay to upgrade to Win8, then the price :D Even $40 would have been too much... Apparently they really want everyone switch to Linux.
Yeah, it's possible, If that's the case can you recommend any top notch books for absolute beginners?
Fair points sir. Fair points all around. Cheers.
Glesys http://www.glesys.com/ they have server centers in Sweden, New York and Amsterdam (from what I can remember...)
I'll probably write up something at length about this decision when/if it happens… but this is the current thinking:

CSS transitions are just total shit to deal with in javascript.

What people often don't realize is that there is an event for transitionEnd in javascript – but this isn't always fired in a reliable way – only when a transition successfully ends (which isn't all the time).

This is incredibly problematic because often really important functionality is tied to the completion of transitions.

Because these functions never finish, sometimes you're left with dead dom nodes or weird incomplete states.

What's more, there isn't a performance benefit to using css transitions – the benefit is that they were suppose to be make transitions easier and provide a nice separation of style from logic – but they end up being incredibly more difficult and because of the necessary fallback logic, the styles end up leaking back into your logic anyways. It's a pain in the neck :/

With bootstrap we really just want to give everyone the most reliable product we can, and css transitions just aren't that.

Also, from what I hear, the spec is basically dead in the water – and a reliable cancel event isn't in the works (unless this has changed in the last month or so)… which is more of a reason to consider alternatives.

Most likely we will end up going with some sort of combination. CSS transitions when we don't need a reliable "complete" event – and css transitions when we don't really care (though this case is becoming more infrequent).
wordpress templates/plugin development?
1) You can actually install it and use it.
Personally I had some difficulties with some missing card-features, but other then that it worked fine.

2) Both NVidia/ATI and Foss is at fault: one should go open source, the other should should do as you say :)

3) X11 is deemed beyond fixable. But you can run Wayland today. (It has X11 server-for-wayland.)
The reason I didn't try yet is because it won't run my WM. (Well as far as I know anyway.)
Humans haven't evolved fast enough to deal with the diet of ordinary civilization either (which is only 300-500 generations old). However, humans are omnivores so we're pretty flexible in what we can eat and stay healthy.

Also, there are plenty of unhealthy and downright hazardous natural products. For example, ergot of rye is a hallucinogen which is poisonous in moderate doses and has many toxic side effects at lower doses. Botulism is extremely hazardous, of course. Cassava is highly toxic when eaten raw and the right variety can easily kill a human with a dose the size of an ordinary meal if not prepared correctly. And, of course, one would not want to eat a salad of Rhubarb leaves, poison ivy, nightshade, hemlock, and mistletoe berries. Whether you're dealing with synthetic or natural products discretion is always necessary.
When was the last time Lenovo, Asus or HP innovated on anything? They can knock out solid PCs but they are not innovators in PC hardware (any more).
... Did you really just argue that iLife is more valuable than office? Now I have truly seen everything.
fwiw, we generally just try to do what the language does:

border-radius <- css dashes

document.createElement <- js camel (except constants, etc.)

etc…
Trafficlight, amorphid has endorsed you in crime fighting.

Return the favor! Does amorphid know organic cat grooming?
Boys knitting? An unlikely yarn
I don't know much about Android's layout, but from what I have seen, it looks rather ad-hoc. For example, LinearLayout (http://developer.android.com/reference/android/widget/Linear...) looks to be a core layout class. It has boolean properties like "baselineAligned" and "measureWithLargestChild;" these appear to have been added as needs arose, instead of being part of a general layout theory.

Autolayout, on the other hand, has a more general approach of establishing relationships between properties of views. Baseline alignment then just falls out: make view1.baseline = view2.baseline, or view1.top = view2.top for top alignment if you prefer. Equal widths fall out too: view1.width = view2.width. If you want a vertical stack you can write view1.bottom = view2.top. If you want a fixed aspect ratio (say, 4/3), you can write view1.width = view1.height * 4/3.

The result is that it's possible to directly express complex layout ideas. For example, "make three buttons baseline aligned, 10 pixels apart, all of them equal width, none of them clipping their labels. If they cannot fit, then in turn: shrink the padding down to 4 pixels, don't require them to be equal width, truncate the first button's label, or lastly then grow the window / make the view scrollable, until they fit."

That's an unrealistically elaborate example, but with autolayout it can be done entirely in IB, without any code at all. I am guessing with Android it would take a fair amount of manual work.

So my view from a distance is that the autolayout approach is more general and elegant, while the Android approach may handle simple cases easily, but is more ad-hoc and random.
Disallowing quotes isn't a half-bad idea but it won't catch everything; one could still SQL-inject into a query that expects an non-parameterized numeric value.

I prefer to abstract query building enough that most of the time I'm not constructing query text directly.
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Right. But when people are willing to rent out the extra room in the house, it is difficult to imagine why they would have issues with putting up a banner on their cars
Apart from LimeChat, Textual on OS X does that too - but you've been warned, sometimes there are things pasted you just don't want to see ;)
More info about the book plus link to PDF download: http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/pgubook/
You’re Only Going to Live for 32 Years
The explosion of Android as a platform has shown quite clearly both the power and flexibility of the Linux kernel, and the usefulness of hiding the complexity and providing a platform-neutral API. The VM-backed programming environment is what Valve perceive as the new gaming market here: they don't want just a console, they want their own iDevice or Kindle Fire.

Mr. Newell mentioned that Valve's games were shifting to a free-to-play scheme. The Steam Box might be something like this: a Linux-based OS, some sort of runtime/VM, a game-writing API (Source-based API?) and an online, on-console marketplace. Whether the VM is Android or even based on Java at all would remain to be seen.

The basic Source (or successor) engine might be distributed built into the Steam Box, with expansions ranging from full-on games to amusing hats available for immediate purchase and automatic delivery. Probably some back-catalog goodies will ship with the box/be registered to your Steam account, too.
This is neat! I wouldn't buy this for $2, though; I think free full-featured pixel art editors like GraphicsGale can do the same thing.

On the subject of pixel art palettes, this guy put a lot of work into making an ideal generic palette. http://www.pixeljoint.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=12795
Preparing A Digital Will For Your Online Services
Read the first two chapters and it is pretty good so far. Plan to keep at it and hopefully learn a thing or three.
Most would-be providers of bandwidth to consumers are guarding legacy premium bandwidth sales. The phone company would like to sell you differentiated phone bandwidth at 10x market rates. The cable company would like to sell you differentiated TV bandwidth at 10x market rates.

One approach would be to unbundle internet from premium bandwidth services offered by the same company over the same channel. Suppose the US was organized with a tier of companies competing to offer you cheap, reliable bandwidth, and a tier of companies competing to offer you premium services riding atop that bandwidth. Other countries have a model similar to this, and they generally have much better bandwidth services. In the US, we're tied to legacy investments in carrier infrastructure that make moving to such a system very difficult.

Personally, I think we should just pay them off and start fresh. Unfortunately, that ends up basically looking like nationalization, which in the US is extremely difficult politically.
Well it does go up with capacity. at >64GB it's about $2/gb

Plus speed and reliability are also more expensive. I have a 256GB flash drive... made in china by some knockoff, not kingston and it shows. I've had to reformat it like 3-4 times, and it's read/write speed is a joke. Still it cost me less than some 64gb drives so it's all relative.

I agree that adding >$100 for a 16gb upgrade in a phone or even 32gb is a little much but to step it up from 128gb and keep speed and some form of reliability is gonna cost you.
You might want to start with some lecture notes from universities. A quick google search led me to these:

Stanford: http://white.stanford.edu/~knk/Psych216A/
MIT: http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-comput...

If she needs both stats and matlab help, your best bet is probably to search something like "statistics and matlab tutorial" on google:
https://www.google.com/search?q=statistics+and+matlab+tutori...
All of them are traits of junior developers. (I know, because I was one at some point). With enough experience, and working in different type of problems they will start disappearing bit by bit. You will have both those skills, and the confidence to tackle major problems.

What's needed to reach that point:

1. Work on different type of projects and features (i.e. both back end, and front end). Being full stack is better early in the career.

2. Work on your own project end to end. It gives you a complete different perspective and grows you as an engiener by leaps and abounds(you are the PM, engineer, QA, and consumer advocate).

3. Learn really well (be fluent) at both language types. One static (Java, Scala, C++, C, Objective-C), one dynamic (Javascript, Lua, Python, or Ruby).

4. Work with a super solid/10x-er engineer, the multiplier type. You will learn a lot by working with somebody that is both good and has a lot of experience.
Feel sorry for this dude. A lifetime collecting, imagine all the time organizing and buying these things, and the cost. Unless this goes for a lot over the initial asking price, he's sort of getting a raw deal.

Sad to see a life wasted like that. But I guess he isn't the only person whose lives video games have ruined (WoW).
Less than $1/GB retail, not wholesale. I bet Apple gets a killer deal on their flash chips.
Preference, readability, consistency with classes, better spell checking, etc. I always felt we should have done dashes instead, but shipping camelCase meant sticking with it for backward compatibility. With v3 though, we're going with our gut and using dashes.
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Microsoft: Google reads all your emails
Sounds great, let me know when you launch
On my Debian Squeeze I get the following:

$ curl --version
curl 7.21.0 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) libcurl/7.21.0 OpenSSL/0.9.8o zlib/1.2.3.4 libidn/1.15 libssh2/1.2.6
Protocols: dict file ftp ftps http https imap imaps ldap ldaps pop3 pop3s rtsp scp sftp smtp smtps telnet tftp
Features: GSS-Negotiate IDN IPv6 Largefile NTLM SSL libz

Looks pretty impressive.
I don't think the bank would loan an in debt mid twenty year old over half a million dollars to buy videogames.
Except the NYT magazine article author makes it quite clear that she is chemophobic, with repeated statements about her fear. Here's a direct quote: "It reinforced an image of Shepherd as sick, forever dependent on a drug I felt afraid of, however unreasonable a doctor might tell me that fear was." Similarly, when a doctor suggests increasing the dose of methotrexate she panics.
Again, the top comment on an HN thread involving Apple is one that supports Apple by digging up some "fact" or the other that makes Apple look OK. This has always been this ridiculous.

At least AAPL investors are pricing in a future loss of earnings as everyone except the hardcore fanboys move to more open platforms that are priced at 75% to 50% of Apple products and allow you to plug in USB and play along well with other manufacturer's hardware by implementing open protocols like DLNA.

Anecdote : I bought an LG TV and discovered without doing any additional setup, my Samsung phone now shows a TV icon on the photos, and when I clicked it, I was surprised to find the photo pop up on the TV. As I swipe my finger on the phone, the photos scroll on the TV. Voila! I honestly don't know whether this is some kind of PnP broadcast, DLNA, WiDi, or what!

Next : my HP laptop has an Intel WiDi app on it and the TV has a "Wifi Screen Share". Hmm, let's see...bang! Laptop screen now wirelessly mirrored on the TV. LG TV, Samsung phone, HP laptop. I bet Apple products would not work with anything other than Apple this way.
Can someone explain to me about the best advice he's given? The star trek enterprise and rearranging it and what does that mean?
agreed. for me i think the cubicle farms are perfect for technology work
I'm Feeling Lucky: Leaving Google for New Adventures
Spine, 2D animation tool for multiple game platforms (Kickstarter stretch goals)
Heck, someone could buy the lot, and turn around and sell them in pieces. You could very likely make more than a million bucks in total.
Why hiring B players will kill your startup
It's the "only geeks like Star-Trek" cliche. By making it less obvious that he's into Star-Trek, he's more likely to gain a girl.
just-testing-this

JustTestingThis

Hmm. I think it only matters to me that the author picks one and stays with it. But that means that all libraries he uses has to use the same one. Which is why languages tend to prefer one over the other. e.g. Java using CaMeLcAsE

To have them mixed in one code base would be like a micro context switch.
I am glad that they removed it. Submenu is very much a last generation tech. Awkward on mobile devices. And my one very strong reason to use bootstrap was to make the app mobile friendly.

Removing its support is good because it was adding tons of CSS code.
At the company I work at we decided against IRC because of possible difficulties for non-technical employees. Currently we're using XMPP but we're considering other solutions.
Mystery is not the exclusive provenance of alternative medicine :)
Thanks @Shank. So basically, he is saying be less geeky? Btw, not trolling because I like technology but haven't watched star trek series or even the first star wars.
The point being that people react to the name and the classification ("natural" vs "chemical"), and they should be reacting to the scientifically verified effects and side-effects.
MySQL 5.6 tackles NoSQL competitors
Wouldn't it be better to have a Python statistics library instead of creating a new language? When I looked at the documentation of R it looked very convoluted and it seems that my feeling is confirmed by other comments in this thread.
Video: Imogen Heap’s Ableton-Controlling Gloves
Chuck Lorre: I seem to have outsourced my mind to my phone
Nobel laurate Andre Geim: Be afraid, very afraid, of the tech crisis
I love couchdb for its replication, not only did I use it for a previous company I worked for and still contract with, I'm using it for my 'big idea' project. Once you have data replication you do need some kind of different approach to user/document security - after all they can take the data they have and do anything with it - so you need to treat replication as data input and validate there, like couchDB does.

I think the real downsides are scaling and performance but there are options at least. Given that TouchDB is essentially couchdb mapped onto sqlite I do wonder if there are going to be good options to map couchdb replication onto postgres in future.
These are the kinds of things that make me appreciate s-expressions so much more. It's crazy how programming languages like Ruby or C can have ridiculously complex syntax, and LISP can express all of that an then some with just three or four simple grammar rules.
Backwards compatibility.

My Windows 8 Pro is 19.2 GiB (on disk). Of which 9.67 GiB is WinSxS. Which is essentially a giant component library containing dozens of different versions of DLLs third party programs use.

1.67 GiB is the driver store. 1.36 GiB is the 32 bit sub-system (SysWoW64). 700 MiB is the .Net framework (versions 1 through 4). So now we're down to 5.94 GiB of "stuff" which we can call the "OS" if you'd like, without any compatibility bits.

Linux is so tiny because Linux has a terrible backwards compatibility record. Fortunately this is hard to spot because the distro's do such a great job of hiding it (and automate much of that via their respective package managers).

But if Linux DID care about backwards compatibility at every level then the OS would be huge too, since you'd need tons of old libraries built in, tons of drivers for redundant hardware, and gunk like that.
Yes, there are two properties that are important for Google Maps:

1. Mercator is conformal, which means angles are preserved. So if you zoom into any small part of the map, it will look right. Equal-area maps distort angles.

2. North is always in the same direction—up. Together with the conformal property, it means that all directions are preserved: North, South, and everything else.

The primary use case for Google Maps is not to show the whole world at once, rather it is targeted at street-level mapping. Hence, Mercator is an ideal choice.
Lisp is an unique combination of design decisions which together produces an unique programming language.

It seems like this definition is general enough to be applied to almost any language, but it only seems so.

The key idea here is that it must be a minimal set of features, that is good-enough. The more bloated a language is - the less good it is.

So, what is the minimum set of features for a Lisp?

- common underlying representation for code and data (a list structure based on conses).
- one common syntax for describing code and data (prefix notation and paranthesys)
- one general evaluation rule for all possible expressions with an exeption of *very few* special cases (less special forms - better).
- general, environment-based evaluation strategy based on lexical scooping (the way to create closures).
- tag-based type system - data has a type, not a variable (everything-is-a-pointer semantics).
- list-aware reader function which perform transformations of lists
- pointer-based, zero-copying FFI
- REPL

Together this is what a modern Lisp is. This set of features produces the power and elegance of a Lisp. It holds for Schemes, CLs and Arc.

Clojure went its own way to stuff anything into a language (and ruin the miracle of a Lisp) and instead of being based on so to speak, real-memory data-structures uses JVM's abstractions, which together renders something that looks like a Lisp, but is completely different language, some next level, but worse, farther away.

It also worth of another analogy. Modern Lisp is already a creole language - a language evolved by generations of speakers, while Clojure (and most of other languages) is still a pidgin.)
Or just reverse the bits in the address.
This would be great if it didn't require bootstrap. Any similar modal wizards around?
I've been working with R 90% of my time over the last two years and I agree it's a freakishly inconsistent language.

Me and the team I work with are still finding out weird completely illogical errors that effect the language but I think I've somehow started loving it despite all it's flaws and I did actually semi-enjoy the process of figuring out all those little wtf issues.

For those starting out with it reading this book + r inferno helps a lot with understanding the underlying weirdness and inconstancies of the language: http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Art-Programming-Statistical-Soft...
It's crazy how much Mercator distorts the globe. I was playing around with various map projections via WebGL shaders [1] and the size problems really stand out when the map is recentered. With modern digital maps, we should really stop using old projections that were designed to work on limited paper maps.

[1] http://sxp.me/maps/ (Select equirectangular as the projection and drag the crosshairs to recenter.)
For that matter, a magnification of the viruses wouldn't actually look like that eather. The potrusions that are displayed are lacking. For starters, they're only showing the ones relevant for research, and second the structures on their surfaces are displayed massively bigger than they really are.

Aside from bacteriophages, pretty much every virus is going to look like a perfect circle with small irregularities on it's surface that are barely visible.

Bacteria are the same. There's only a few looks, cylindrical (bacili), round (cocci), round but irregular (stafylococcus), and a few others (rounded cylindrical, snake-like and formless that are less important because they're not the cause of major illnesses).

Btw: if you want to have a more realistic view of how much we actually know about bacteria, analyse the real meaning of MRSA (Methycilin resistant staphylococcus aureus = "grape shaped thing that only slows growth when dipped in methycilin". Needless to say, this is in practice several thousand different bacteria species). And about viruses, we know much, much less. Gives you some more respect for medical research and just how much they're shooting in the dark, and how much data they have to process on every trial.
For what it's worth, if she takes the time to learn how to use these math tools -- and learns the math itself -- she will place herself in a powerful position with respect to future research work, just because so few people bother to acquire a solid grounding in analysis.

I would offer her every encouragement to take the time and absorb the basics of both programming and math. At the moment, a grounding in these topics is essential, and in the future, it will be even more of a necessity than it is now.
too late, sorry about that :)
If my comment seemed like a semi-outrage then you sir/madam are a very sensitive person.