skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have gotten really sick (to the point of being hospitalized) and I can basically tell it's related to bread in some way (very strong correlation suggests causation). No doctor has been able to help me at all (this is in the US). In one case, the doctor actually had to go look up "celiac diesase" (hadn't heard of it). Another told me it was just from drinking too much coffee and soda. But my symptoms go away completely and I feel fine when I totally avoid anything that might have bread (and still drink tons of coffee).

This article is probably the most helpful thing I've ever found - I have never been able to figure this out from Wikipedia. And I'll probably be bringing it with me if I ever try again to get help from the medical system.

Years ago my personal Wikipedia research lead me to conclude that there were no helpful tests to find out what I have. People have been telling me for years that I'm wrong. I actually started to believe it - maybe I misunderstood, or Wikipedia was wrong. Well, it looks like maybe I was right.

If anybody with medical experience can comment on the accuracy of this article, that would be great.

It has also been suggested to me that I may have a "yeast allergy" (by a traveller from Europe), so if anyone has any insight into that...

EDIT: To be clear, I pretty much ruled out celiac long ago, because my symptoms are not _that_ serious. I either have wheat allergy, gluten intolerance (most likely), or something simply not listed in this article. The great value of this article to me is that it lists several possible problems and clarifies what tests are and are not available. In other words, it does for me exactly what a physician should have done for me years ago.
That's the part that always blows me away. Not just what it accomplished, but what it took to create this thing. Really crazy to think about.
From my experience VA are really difficult to pick. I usually get tasks done by 2-3 people at the same time.

The tricky aspect is, that while it is cheap, it takes quite some time to train people to do stuff "right". Even if it is just simple stuff, like find x and add it to an excel file, there are huge discrepancies between different VAs.

If you don't have at least to people on one task, the question is if you really want to make somebody understand what their errors were, or if you just pay another person in the hopes they have half a brain and get things right.

But the effort of finding the right person is definitely worth it if you can establish an ongoing relationship. If this is not an option, it is almost pointless.
Isn't the point of "barely legal teens" that they are indeed legal? On what grounds can they delete discussions of legal content?
When you say crowdsourcing, how exactly do you crowdsource? Are you pulling from people who sign up online somewhere? Or is it just euphemism for outsourcing?
Seeking generalists to build useful tools at PagerDuty (YC S10)
One could argue that where a feature is not supported, it's going to perform terribly, perhaps taking O(∞).
I heard https://phraseapp.com is pretty cool. I know the founders. Good luck :)
What is LFTR ?
Congrats, hippo! I should have guessed though, no one shares tough insights of self-awareness, unless he already have overcame it. :)
I used https://webtranslateit.com at my previous startup before which was great.
Someone's dealing with suicidal thoughts, and your message is "shut up."

I think your post is the dangerous one.
This is why Arrested Development will only run one season on Netflix
I think people often use media to self-medicate and distract themselves from their problems. Many of your peers probably don't even enjoy a lot of the media they consume, but they keep consuming it because it is easier to to do that than think deeply about their situation and take the risks necessary to change it. If media is your coping mechanism for a bad situation, it's tough to put that aside even though it's rationally the obvious thing to do.
AI. I would immerse myself in everything from neuroscience to machine learning to computation theory. Then try to build practical implementations.
Hah, last time I tried to install IE10 it asked me to install a new operating system. This is the future man!
100% standards compliant -- have you read specs and tried to implement them before? This is the kind of phrasing I tend to expect from people that are either selling things, or not really involved in implementation. Standards aren't actually programs, and there is generally some measure of ambiguity.

Then, real-world interop issues that cause things to be less than standard. Not to mention that it's unlikely if the browser was "100% standards compliant", it would probably be missing some functionality that would severely impact behaviour.

And I'm also curious as to what benefit you think there is to delivering a browser in 2018 that targets a 16-year-old, 32-bit OS?
I just sent an email to try it out. Fingers crossed it works well.
The problem is people don't even realise what types of problems can easily be solved by computers. It doesn't even cross their mind that something they do every day could be automated or made better.

That's why everyone needs to learn how to code (a bit). So they can go "Ah, I think software might improve this thingy here; let's call in an expert and ask"
Actually, independent of the whole low-carb craze, there's some evidence indicating that, as carbs go, wheat is a particularly bad one. Substantially worse than corn, rice, root vegetables, and other sources of starch.

People have definitely conflated the wheat gluten allergy issue (celiac disease and other forms) with low-carb dieting in general, which is misguided. As the article points out, the percentage of the population actually suffering from allergies to gluten is tiny. [1] But it may not be a bad idea to cut down on wheat, regardless. Especially products with highly processed wheat as a key ingredient.

[1] Although it may be growing, for reasons not currently understood. Alternatively, we may just be experiencing a boom in the diagnosis -- either a result of over-diagnosing, or rather, correct diagnoses after many decades of under-diagnosing.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid_fluoride_thorium_reactor
Some of us are old enough to remember the Calvin Klein ads with the girl in the "Catholic schoolgirl" uniform with her white panties showing. I had to admit at first glance I thought CK was using someone underage. It provoked a bit of reaction from the demagogues. Since then, the "barely legal" motif has had a bit of radioactivity hanging on it. The popularity of Manga didn't seem to help.
> Consumers are left in the cold with regards to influencing policy since they are disorganized and (more importantly) they lack the political and economic will to exercise control over their government.

Possibly because they think of themselves as consumers rather than citizens.
If things like GChat and Chrome Sync aren't recognizing your Apps account, your administrator hasn't enabled those applications for your domain (you can turn on/off pretty much every Google service individually on a per-domain basis). I use both on my personal Apps account all the time, so it DOES work if enabled.
One more reason why you should run your own mail server. I guess if it would take less time more people were doing it (I'm not either at the moment).
No. Normally I'm inclined to assume it was am accident, but If it was just triggering false positives on the spam filter, the email would be showing up in people's spam folders. Instead it is getting dropped without any trace.
The first Google result for that is "liquid fluoride thorium reactor".
When you're logged into your work account (say, in GMail), does the URL contain /u/0 or /u/1? And how about your personal account?

Whichever one says /u/0 is the first one you logged in as, and that will be the default if you, say, open a new tab and paste in a bare link (without /u/ in it).

If you want that to be your personal account, you can make that your /u/0 account by doing this:

1. Log out of all your Google accounts

2. Log into your personal account

3. Click the picture in the upper-right

4. Click "add account"

5. Log into your work account
As a power user I don't 'like' it either. But I don't 'hate' it. I just use third party services when Apple's offerings don't fit.

The only bit I took issue with, is holding up Apple as having 'failed' simply because their focus is on other types of users. Particularly when they're serving those users at least as well as any alternative. And when those users are far, far more numerous than users like myself and their needs far, far easier to meet in an engineering and support sense.
A "cache"-centric, non-bloated CMS (in Go?).
Is there any demo page?
Creating a Genetic Algorithm for Beginners
The NSA should provide a cloud service. They collect the data anyway. Cut out the middleman.
MSN has also banned messages containing certain TLDs e.g. '.info' and '.cx'. http://yoast.com/microsoft-censoring-info-domains-in-msn-mes...
Honestly, the ignorance and arrogance regarding audio and its playback is one of the distasteful things about the audio engineering/audiophile community. Even in a room full of engineers, you will still get people arguing to the death about things outside of human perception (My family, full of electrical engineers is unfortunately filled with this type). For whatever reason, the idea that their ears may be just as limited to the audio spectrum as their eyes are to light spectrum is a concepts just too foreign to grasp.

You have places like gearslutz, which is, as far as I know (though I haven't been there in a long time), the biggest audio engineering forum out there. The community, as a whole seems to disagree with the very concept of an AB, or ABX test. I mean, it's approached flat-out superstition.

The thread that finally made me through up my hands and leave the place was when a big post erupted after a very well respected member of the community had the gal to suggest that microphones were not filled with magic, and thus limited to physical properties. It devolved into personal attacks against the guy, and his education, and people asserting that "science can't measure what I'm hearing."

I hate this industry...
The first set of samples are available now.
Had I the time, I would create a framework for building RPGs.

RPGs are hard because they require huge amounts of writing and art assets along with a farly complicated code base to allow for all the interactions.

I'd focus on creating a generic framework that would allow an author to write their game, define the rules in a simple DSL, choose from a set of standard art assets (or plug in their own).

The idea would be that no coding would be required, and weather you are creating a turn based game like fallout, or action game like Diablo it would all fit together.

So the author would provide their dialog, their quests, their item definitions and rules, and be able to generate a game playable on multiple platforms.
...possibly when I am in my yard in view of airplanes and helicopters

That's a bit of a stretch in terms of things to be concerned about, don't you think?

I frequently have low flying airplanes (someone around here owns a really pretty Piper Cub), ultralights, helicopters and hot-air balloons (there's a local business offering flights) passing close enough over my house that I can hear the occupants talking.

It's par for the course of living out in the country: they're in relatively empty airspace away from the city. Except for the fact that the helos are noisy if they come too close at night, there is nothing bothersome about any of them.

I'm much more concerned that if I decided to take up aerial photography from an R/C plane or balloon as a hobby, I'd now be breaking a law.
Amazing presenter. I will be following this guy.
A programming language you could program in while walking around.
Not amazing. Utterly unsurprising: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4916627
I make my own "wheat meat" which is 99% wheat gluten. It's delicious, fun, and interesting. If you arent one of those people who care or cant handle it, I suggest trying it out. There are plenty of recipes online, you'll just need about an hour
Postini.com (Google), Forefront (Exchange), and Barracuda Networks are some products/vendors in the space - its a whole industry. Just Google around a bit for "server side spam filtering" and such.

Anecdote: we use hosted Exchange from Microsoft. I tried to setup a cron job to email us all at 4:57 with the subject line "Get The Fuck Out". Those don't come through either.
There is a real danger that other people see what Aaron did, and the resulting response, and conclude that the most effective activism is martyrdom/suicide. I think Jeff was trying to push back against this idea with his post, while also taking responsibility for not doing more to help Aaron while he was alive. He also points out that activism frequently coincides with jail time, and that the most effective activists (ie MLK), frequently end up there.

The point of your article seems to be that Jeff Atwood should stick to coding, because he isn't an activist and can't comprehend how bad being on the wrong end of our flawed criminal justice system can be. "Jeff Atwood is apparently saying that Aaron Swartz was taking an underhand route to escape the consequences of his activism, and that he was being a bad activist in so doing."

Let's be frank. Jeff Atwood is saying you shouldn't commit suicide. At no point does he characterize this as an "underhand route"... that is your language. But furthermore, I agree with Jeff Atwood. You shouldn't commit suicide. Even if the corrupt and incompetent federal government charges you with 50 years in prison for downloading journal articles. Don't commit suicide.

So I don't really understand why you're piling on Jeff Atwood. In the past Jeff Atwood has deserved some piling on for his writings... this is not one of those times.
How many other sites let you be logged into multiple accounts concurrently in the same browser session? Does Facebook? Microsoft? Amazon? (I genuinely haven't tried it).

That said, there's a lot that could be done to make multiple accounts easier to use. Personally, I use multiple Chrome profiles with one account per, just to minimize the "surprise" (and to keep, e.g., my corp account separate from my personal ones).
My son, who is deathly allergic (anaphylactically allergic) to peanut-butter, had a blood test to see if he might have grown out of it (he hasn't; poor kid).

The doctor also order the blood test to screen for specific allergy-causing antibodies to various common allergens, including wheat proteins.

It turns out that his blood had a reaction to albumin (or maybe it was globulin; I can't remember). The Doctor called it a 'wheat allergy' and went on about diarrhea. And Mom and I thought he was just trying to avoid doing the dishes when he'd bolt to the bathroom right after eating: Go figure...

We just look for gluten free because if there is no gluten there is none of the other 4 proteins found in wheat.
Are the people at Apple actually using their own services? I cannot really imagine them using these dumbed down interfaces...
The advantage to being 100% standards compliant would be that when you use a specific <insert technology here> feature, it would work as the <insert technology creator here> claims that it should.

As far as why benefit to creating a browser in 2018 that targets 16 year old OSs, because there is no guarantee that we will be in a 64-bit (or greater) exclusive world by then. Without knowing the future, my goal setting off would to remain as cross-system ready as possible, which of course includes some 32-bit OSs
A soup-to-nuts software development and production environment based on a predicate database supported by automated theorem proving with ranged domains capable of reasoning about optimization.

Why: streams of ASCII characters are no way to program yet every single piece of the software development puzzle requires them. They are the lowest common denominator. To be replaced, the replacement must replace everything.

That's what I'm working on. Get it done a lot faster if I could do it full time.
Sociologist Max Weber in 1919 advanced the idea that the state is an entity which claims for itself a monopoly on the legitimatized use of violence.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopoly_on_violence

A 21st-century Weber might instead identify the state as the entity claiming a monopoly on surveillance.
The best Windows browser today: IE 10 or Chrome 25?
GMail silently drops any emails containing zipped .exe files that I send to my boss. That's despite me being one of his most common correspondents, part of the same GApps domain and whatnot. The problem is the same: spam filtering gone wrong.
Mull it over a week?
I'd build a programming system ala Bret Victor's vision.
I'm a manager. I can read code (PHP and C#) to some extent, but I can't code anything. I tried to learn it several times, but the syntax and all its curly braces were simply too complex to me. A bit frustrated, I decided to move one step up in the stack and tried to understand software at a "macro level", architecture, paradigms etc. I wanted to be able to make IT decisions based on concepts I found easier to grasp at that higher level. It was equally hard. But there is one thing I got from the learning process that I really liked and kept alive in my head for future use: the notions of abstraction and generalization. I'm thankful I learned this. I see value in applying it in my life. If the idea behind the widespread of teaching/learning how to code, involves concepts like those I mentioned, then I think it is super valid.
Wonderful! I just want to extend a heartfelt "thank you" to all the guys and gals contributing to Django.

Django is still a cornerstone of our startup and we're way past the point where folks have traditionally said "Django starts to constraint you". We've found that to be untrue. We love the templating, the ORM and all the built-in tools (not to mention 100s of libraries that get you an 80% finished feature in 5% of the time).

I hope to meet a lot of you at Pycon, I'd be happy to buy you a beer. I'll be wearing the bright orange Zapier shirt, you can't miss me. :-)
Cramping's one of my symptoms; I'm being a bit coy. To be more blunt (the disease is Ulcerative Colitis), the main thing is bowel movements per day. At the moment, I've got an NFC tag sitting in the bathroom that I swipe to log a motion (as the path of least resistance)... but (as mucky as it sounds) I'd like to hack something together with an Arduino/Raspberry Pi and a weight sensor attached to the toilet, which could detect that I'm sitting down and log a movement for me automatically (in much the same way the Aria automatically logs my weight!).

This'd need to tie into a mobile app for manual logging anyway (I'm not exactly going to rig this up at work!) with a backing web service, but yeah. There's definitely room for something clever in this space :).
Well, you start with the FAA and NTSB then quickly get some serious involvement by the FBI (if it was and DoD or Border Patrol you are hosed). If it was the local cops drone, expect a visit from SWAT.

Arming any type of aircraft is going to get you sent away for a very long time and lasers are a particular no-no with the FAA. We'll skip the basic "willful destruction of government property" and move right up into all the laws based on military grade weapons and terrorism.
the best part will be enforcement; each state can create an air force to protect us from such potential threats.
Drop gluten for 3 weeks; do you feel better? Feel bad when you get back on it? Problem solved, really. Until science supports our observations, I don't need much more proof than that.
My son is extremely allergic to wheat and milk. We have to carry an epi-pen with us everywhere. He swells up, including his face and throat, when he comes in contact with these allergens. It's cost us thousands of dollars in hospital bills, missed work and is a constant worry. If people eat something, don't wash their hands and then touch him, he'll get a bad rash. Most gluten free food is free of wheat and some of that is free of dairy too. I'm thankful for the gluten free trend. Without it, my son wouldn't have much of a chance to eat many common foods. You wouldn't believe some of the things they put wheat in, sometimes for seemingly no reason at all. He can't even play with play dough. So I'll continue to pay 5x as much for a loaf of gluten-free bread because it gives my son a more normal life.
> After more research, Steven found that under the iCloud terms of service, Apple reserves the right to remove any content at any time that it feels is objectionable, without telling you that they’re going to delete it.

Today it's a bad search filter, but tomorrow... what'll they do tomorrow?

Apple is the epitome of "we'll do what we think is best and you'll like it". For now they usually seem to have admirable (or semi-admirable) goals, even if you don't agree with them on the details. I'm curious how long until they make similar moves that are clearly Evil(TM).
Huh. And I thought for sure the missing link was classes12.zip or maybe vbrun300.dll.
>The vast majority of problems being solved with software do not require the bells and whistles of Facebook & Gmail.

Even with FB and Gmail, I've gotten the impression that neither of those is fully client or server-side, but rather highly optimized hybrids where component processing tasks are done wherever they can be with highest performance and lowest latency.

Both seem acutely conscious of comparative speeds of server-side rendering + internet latency vs. client-side rendering.

Not sure though, only an impression based on anecdotal evidence, anyone more familiar with their architectures?
:-) Yes, that's very true.

Initially, I wasn't actually planning to do deltas for the compression technique and it was in testing with a whole bunch of common sites that I stumbled upon the fact that they don't change very much. That lead me to wonder about the algorithms that might be used.

I did test quite a lot of stuff (and at one point thought I'd come up with a truly cool new algorithm only to realize that I was mistaken :-) to decide what to do.

Railgun has to trade off three things: compression efficiency, space and time. Because we are trying to do this for performance time is the most important thing to optimize for, followed by efficiency, followed by space. bsdiff is very, very good at delta compressing binary things; Railgun isn't as good, but it's very, very fast.
> Band limiting means that there's a maximum frequency. You can think of it as a limit on how fast the signal can change. There's only one possible way to draw a curve that goes through all the points without changing too quickly.

This was incredibly helpful for my understanding. This is the one corner of this story that was always fuzzy for me. In the video he seemed to be making this point when he drew silly stuff all over the screen but it didn't quite click. Thank you.
They'll lobby for and obtain exemption, maybe a permitting process. They're not interested in making this available to the general public (on the contrary, they could benefit from inhibiting their competition).

--cynic