skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Whoever is suffering with chronic pain should check their Vitamin D level.. Check out the book "Power of Vitamin D" by Dr. Sarfraz Zaidi. He is MD, FACP, FACE is an Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine at UCLA. Dr. Zaidi, a leading expert on Vitamin D, is also director of the Jamila Diabetes and Endocrine Medical Center in Thousand Oaks, California. The book has been an eye-opener for me. I suffer from skin rashes and have gone through various tests/biopsies with positive results. No dermatologist could diagnose the issue. But my PCP did a Vitamin D test, and found my level to be too low. I have been taking Vitamin D suplement for the past 3 months, and I see a great progress.
Hope this helps you too..
Thank you! It's still early, but we're planning on offering a subscription service to create/import sites and host them on our platform.
How odd (from a British perspective). Successfully challenging an exam result here would involve going to the Examination Board with proof of extenuating circumstances. And never happens as a result of people disagreeing with how their exam script was marked, for a start because we're not given our exam scripts. (I think a few unis do allow you to request copies, but they make it very clear that there's no possibility of disputing the mark you're given. Which seems unfair, but presumably they just don't want to have a precedent - if someone successfully challenges a mark, everyone will start doing it).
Isn't saying "it will never work because of $challenge" a little too simplistic?

Maybe you're right, maybe it can't be done, but aren't we suppose to be problem solvers? :)
Related: The Dead Sea Effect
http://brucefwebster.com/2008/04/11/the-wetware-crisis-the-d...
He wasn't negating the trend. He was saying there are better ways to satisfy the evolutionary pressure than buying diamonds.
Liquid 2
I have to say page 19 of the last publication is quite interesting. They talk about the Sentinel database filter on Sybase. https://www.nsa.gov/public_info/_files/cryptologs/cryptolog_...
As Men Lose Economic Ground, Clues in the Family
Asteroid headed toward Earth? 'Pray,' NASA advises
One thing I really like about Backbone is their excellent documentation. That's the kind of documentation an OpenSource project needs.
I learned how to type on one of these in high school. Ah, the good old days...
Absolutely. I joined a scheme in the UK run by Shell called Shell Step. After talking to one of their in-house recruiters they sent me to a medium-sized company for an interview and for nine weeks I worked as a developer in this firms marketing and development departments.

The experience was invaluable. I picked up ASP.NET/C# from working there and a year later I had graduated. I had this, and another internship on my CV and the second my exams started I had around six or seven offers for an interview.
a bit late, but this thought only crystallized as i was out walking...

this post follows a common template (motif? i'm searching for the right word). something along the lines of "i was an idiot then [random bad thing] happened and things turned out for the better".

that's fine.

but. but. but what people seem to draw from this is that [random bad thing] means life will be good. that's missing the important part. the important part was i was an idiot. that is why things got better - they stopped being an idiot.

and this is important, because when [random bad thing] happens people trot out this kind of story as platitude. which REALLY DOES NOT HELP.

look at it this way. at best, you're assuming that before [random bad thing] i was living an unreflective, impulsive, poorly thought out life. and now i will be forced to re-evaluate my stance.

but maybe i already had a good life? maybe i already was cool? maybe i already was happy?

[random bad thing] is defined by bad. so stopping using dumb stories to "cheer up" people who are affected (well, if you do; sorry, got a bit carried away there).

thanks. this was a public announcement on behalf of someone who was recently diagnosed with [random bad thing] and really doesn't appreciate being told how this opens up so many options. is that all you are waiting for, to be awesome? being a cripple?
Show HN: watchmon - monitor changes in node.js app + automatically restart app
I don't know, some fluffy arguments and self-back-patting here, but I have to tentatively agree on one point. Out of the 11 designers that I've worked with, 7 were rock solid and came from a programming or art background, with the artists doing some scripting now and again. The other 4 were pure designers, and only one of them was good (although damn good)...the others fit Richard's stereotypes pretty well. This doesn't include the few games I've worked on that didn't have a designer at all, and didn't seem the worse for it.

Not exactly huge sample sizes here, I know, but his argument is plausible to me. It behooves designers to at least be ankle deep in the technical cesspool of game development.
What's wrong with how they handle c#? I prefer it to Java and it's often considered superior.
I have been following the ember.js community for awhile and also trek.

It's this attitude that makes me never want to use ember.js. If you check out his twitter account, you can see countless battles with new people just getting into ember.

If you want someone to use your framework, it shouldn't be a verbal battle of passive aggressiveness and other childish antics.

He is doing a disservice to the community and the framework.
When I put this together, I thought of some common situations that I saw amongst my friends (and based on what i've heard others do) but I probably should have explicitly given that option. I would consider this as "nothing".
I am envious that you are able to remain emotionally detached from this subject.

I have experienced this kind of thing many times over the course of my life. There's no way I could remain emotionally detached.
You are correct, this does not affect CM. But you are completely wrong implying having CM protects your device. To get CM you have to unlock your bootloader giving you full access to everything on the device. Unless you explicitly relocked your bootloader after you installed CM your phone is about as wide open as it can get if someone stole it.
I am not sure it would, move along :)
It doesn't work on basic android(the article clearly states that). Only Samsung's braindead changes to android are the cause of this.

I have yet to see a single instance where Samsung actually improved android with their changes instead of just making it uglier, harder to use and less secure.
IIM graduate who drives autorickshaw business
The Future Is Here, It’s Just Not Evenly Distributed
From personal experience in order to get started just checking out the documentation(i had started with the old documentation now called guides) should be fine. Some googling around might be needed but should not take much time. Generally i agree that it is a bit hard to get used to the framework, but if one has the ability to look in the console and figure out errors, should not really have any problems getting started with emberjs. Also just grabbing code from the first page, i don't think is a really good idea. Does this technique work with other popular frameworks like http://nodejs.org/ http://jquery.com/ .... ?
Holy wow, great work guys! This is exactly the type of tool a lot of designers are looking for to bridge the gap between design and code (or at least get their feet wet before diving into it full-on). Hopefully this will get more visual artists using services like CSSDeck and Codepen, unless you plan on venturing into this realm yourselves to allow the community to create assets for everyone else to use - which would be fantastic.

Personally, because I still prefer writing from scratch, I'd use it after I thought I had a good framework coded up already just to quickly tweak it and try out some other ideas. Not sure how you plan on monetizing, but a tiered system for those of us who wouldn't use it to create from scratch would be appreciated, even though I'm not sure how you'd determine that (imports only?).
It's not the circumstances that determine who you're gonna be, but how you deal with these problems and pains that come your way...
Crowdfunding your Open Source Eectronics Projects
World’s first fully GPU-accelerated, biased renderer
FISMA Makeover in Near Future?
My doctor did something similar for me.

I have constant pain due to a small lesion in my CNS. The doctor tried some anti-depressants and even a couple of very old anti-psychotics. The idea was that, even though I would still mentally register the pain, it would become more like background noise.

It worked, to a certain degree. I'd still love to find an ultimate solution, and I still need to limit myself for some activities (long walks). But I'm able to get through a regular day without pain medication - which I've so far refused to take.
Ask HN: What does showdead and noprocras mean?
Congrats guys. I haven't had a chance to check out the full thing yet (reading HN on my iPad) but from a quick glance it looks incredibly thorough and well-done.

I think there will always be a contingent of folks who prefer to hand-code this stuff, but there is a larger contingent of folks for whom a great set of visual design tools will be incredibly valuable. So good on ya and good luck.
Machine Learning: Naive Bayes Document Classification in Javascript
Gem for generating 'Heroku-esque' server names
You use webmitm[1] or ettercap[2] to get the traffic. Sure users will get a cert warning, but you are going to at least catch a few people that click through it.

[1] http://manned.org/webmitm/8187425a

[2] http://samiux.blogspot.com/2011/05/howto-sniffing-ssl-with-e...
Most of the companies you list failed to keep up with the changing marketplace and withered off by being complacent, while Microsoft doggedly kept improving their initially poor offerings(remember the adage, the 3rd version of a Microsoft product is when it gets real).

IE5 was actually better than Netscape at the time which got bogged down in a rewrite. http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html

With more nimble competitors like Intuit with Quicken, Microsoft didn't make too much headway with Money. Same with Adobe.

To see an example of this playing out now, look at the Xbox versus Playstation. Sony(and Nintentdo) has been scoring a lot of self goals lately.
Top Jobs and Required Skills to Get Hired in 2013
"Recognizing that it is not politically correct in these parts to pose this question, I sometimes wonder if the Github team (which seems like a highly-skilled, competent team) regrets building on Rails." [1]

Sarcasm maybe? In which case you don't deserve the downvotes
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5404719
Ruby 2.0 speed ÷ Python 3 speed
Yes i know that benchmarks mean fairly little, but Ruby here is WAY off the chart. Wasn't 2.0 suppose to improve on performance? And it is even worst then PHP.
I am sure that when theyre not busy cashing checks for billions of dollars every year they look at Nokia and RIM and wish they had tried to build their own platform too.
There are many blood stopping agents out on the market. Many of them were originally developed by/for the military in the Iraq/Afghanistan wars, and are now available to civilians.

Here's a list of some of these products:

Bleed-X, TraumaDEX - http://www.bleed-x.com/ http://www.bydezignproducts.com/bleedx.html

BloodSTOP - http://www.lifescienceplus.com/

Celox - http://www.celoxmedical.com/

HemCon - http://www.hemcon.com/

RDH (Rapid Deployment Hemostat) - http://www.surgery.uthscsa.edu/faculty/pubs/cohn-hemostat.pd...

QuickClot - http://www.quikclot.com/home.aspx

WoundSeal, BioSeal, QR Powder - http://www.biolife.com/ourproducts.html
Selling Socialize to ShareThis: A Description of the Deal process
Data Corruption To Go: The Perils Of sql_mode = NULL
Huge fines are needed for these mistakes (say $100k per exposed user).

These catastrophic mistakes will only stop if a single one can easily bankrupt your company.
I'm not familiar with Backbone but isn't `model.toJSON()` unnecessarily removing useful data types (like Date) that aren't available in JSON ?
Pardon my ignorance, is there another option besides relocking? I believe in the Nexus One days, relocking took quite some time to solve. I'm wondering if that's still the case.

And my last ignorant question, if you relock are there any complications running a custom ROM such as CM? Specifically, on reboot. Thanks.
Japanese Airline Offers In-Flight Entertainment Via Smartphones
Voted up, but this is really worth reading -- not because it failed (it did), but because before it failed, it was really working.

The spammers put incredible effort into quashing BlueFrog...

I was an early user of BlueFrog (and can confirm that the spammers didn't gain access to any addresses they didn't already have on their lists), and tried to contribute to followup efforts... it's a hard problem to solve, though -- how to make this kind of retaliation without exposing yourself to (possibly very serious) attack. We're all quite vulnerable online; it's surprisingly trivial for "the bad guys" to decide to permanently take your website (or the site of your company, etc.) offline.
Possible, but not how I ended up with my fun - see my reply to sibling!
LGBTQ Identities Online (A Research Question)
Kindle has had official (and third party) Chrome and Firefox extensions for this for a while: http://www.amazon.com/gp/sendtokindle/chrome
Does this generate intense heat like the older products do?
It seemed to work fine in Safari for me. Love the tool, great work
quality is top notch, good work.
Why is using 'model.toJSON()' overkill?
Because reddit voting is an excellent example of user moderation. /sarcasm
Yep. Emergency responders use the mnenomic "ABC" to guide their actions in a life-threatening situation: Airway, Breathing, Circulation.

Infection is not on the list.

Military sometimes uses "CABC" - Catastrophic Hemorrhage, Airway, Breathing, Circulation. This gel would address the "C"'s in an emergency situation.
Most double-blind studies aren't so blind after all
Memo to Staff: Take More Risks
Let's put that another way: if you're not afraid of being seen as the dark lord of an evil empire in order to get what you want (which, in Gates' case, seems to be "billions of dollars to solve the most important problems the world has to offer") then you should follow in his footsteps.

In other words, if you have world-changing vision, and want to succeed on a truly massive scale, you probably have to Think Like A Supervillain (http://dirtsimple.org/2009/02/everything-i-needed-to-know-ab..., http://lesswrong.com/lw/gp7/think_like_a_supervillain/).
It's a problem inherent in all ideologies. Agile is an ideology and it would take a cognitive leap of epic proportions to deny that.

Agile is like communism in that way. On paper, it's great! In real life, everyone is miserable and everything is falling to bits and there's some other guy enjoying the fruits of your labour.
A Refactoring Exercise Using Java8 Lambda Expressions
I cant remember specifically for the Nexus One, but i believe its the same as the modern nexus and samsung devices(devices that provide an official way to unlock).

When you unlock a device it wipes the entire device, so your data would not be at risk.

I do not know if it wipes it when it relocks it, but no it is not a complicated task. All it requires is one command.

"fastboot oem lock" to lock

and

"fastboot oem unlock" to unlock(wipes device).
Garriott always struck me as a bit of an attention whore. There's the author self inserts in just about every game (Including Tabula Rasa, a failed MMO where he took the title as General British), the random lashing out at various people with what seems like no intent other than to stir the pot..
You got feedback from a frustrated user, and I'm sure you didn't just dismiss it internally, so why did you dismiss it externally?

Listen, I'd love to be able to write what I want, teach what I want, and do what I want without getting sarcastic reviews. But unfortunately people get frustrated and that's how they respond. "Oh, a tmux book? Who needs that?"

"You suck" is very, very different from "the thing you built sucks."

Customer service 101: Go punch a punching bag, have a cry, have a scream, have a drink, whatever. then reply with

"Thank you for your detailed feedback. It's most welcome. We've already started taking appropriate steps to build better guides and tutorials. We'll roll your feedback into those. We're always working on improving Ember's documentation and every bit of feedback helps."

And then go do those things you want to do for a while.

No disrespect, but this guy gave some pretty valuable feedback that I love to get when I'm working on a book. He told you exactly where the holes are, and those are so easy to miss when you're too close to the subject matter.
I've been trying to come up with a javascript module pattern for my rails apps. Right now, I use the Foundations javascript libraries, however those are very generic. I'd like to do something like Foundation does: have separate js files for accordians, sliders, tooltips, etc...I've been looking at the module patterns, however, as a new-comer to js (I'm ruby backend dev), there seems to be so many ways (http://www.adequatelygood.com/2010/3/JavaScript-Module-Patte...), to do the same thing, and I'm at a loss trying to figure out which one to start out with.

Anyone facing this issue? How have you gone about starting out? Thanks.
Dynamic bike headlight that projects data using Raspberry Pi
Study finds piracy doesn't hurt digital music sales
From the FAQ [link at bottom of page]:

In my profile, what does showdead do?

If you turn it on, you'll see all the submissions and comments that have been killed by the editors. They're mostly spam and duplicates.

In my profile, what is noprocrast?

It's a way to help you prevent yourself from spending too much time on News.YC. If you turn it on you'll only be allowed to visit the site for maxvisit minutes at a time, with gaps of minaway minutes in between. The defaults are 20 and 180, which would let you view the site for 20 minutes at a time, and then not allow you back in for 3 hours. You can override noprocrast if you want, in which case your visit clock starts over at zero.
This is so well done. Really impressive. It seems like a great tool for both designers and developers. The more I develop responsive sites, the more I realize how difficult and tedious it is. Hopefully, this takes a lot of the pain away.

I'm also super jealous you have a brother that you can develop a product with. My brother is a systems guy and doesn't want to create software at all.
Get OFF the Treadmill -- Your Life Depends On It
Give a hoot! Don't pollute!
That sucks man, I can definitely believe that. My email's in my profile, let's talk.
10 Leadership Tips from Abraham Lincoln
So far you can realise why that cheap Zin blend from Lodi doesn't really do it for you with the most obvious of measurements: yield! They get even 10 tons per acre there rather than 1-3 tons in a high-quality vineyard. Fewer nutrients and flavours to go around, and more water, sugar and untasty components have to flesh it out (poor overburdened vines, eh!),

I don't understand this. Flavourful chemicals aren't a scarce resource to "go around" -- they're organic compounds plants synthesise "from scratch" (or their reaction products, after aging). Perhaps scarce soil nutrients influence this, for better or worse (I don't know), but this isn't a priori obvious.

Wikipedia didn't help me resolve this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yield_(wine)#Yield_as_an_indic...
How to build a solid software release process on your team
I saw him speak at SXSW... he didn't strike me a terribly humble man... On top of that, there was a band that did video game music covers and they covered some Ultima song. He gave a presentation on his new game, cut into the bands set time, and then left before they were able to play their cover for him. Not very classy for a guy who refers to himself as Lord British.

I'm not sure why people talk about him as being especially brilliant or creative, he hasn't exactly branched out much in the type of games he makes.
I wonder if it could be used as a defense for the defendant in the case of Twitter using their patents on the offensive.

i.e. Twitter sues Company X for using a follower system. Company X asks judge to throw out the complaint based on the Innovators Patent Agreement that the Twitter CEO and board signed.
> The purpose of DRM is not to prevent copyright violations.
> The purpose of DRM is to give content providers leverage against creators of playback devices.

The second is necessary because the first cannot be achieved directly.
How  Statistics Are Used to Lie to You Every Day
Some wonder if it's a fake: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5406106
Hyper-Realistic CGI Is Killing Photographers, Thrilling Product Designers
This really has been my experience at several game studios, including the current one I am at. Often enough, the 'game designer' tends to be someone who exists mostly as a political organism in the company. Without fail, none of the designers I've worked with know much about the history of video games and will usually be rather dismissive about the subject.

The current game designer I'm with could not tell you anything regarding various character creation tools and strategies that have been used in various games (APB, City of Heroes, Skyrim, etc. being good relatively recent examples), yet his job is to spec out that very thing for one of our products. The result has not been very good, but this person outranks the rest of the team on these decisions.

Currently this guy is so bereft of anything to do design-wise, he's decided to read some books on Agile and has moved into pushing the artists and programmers around as if he's the project manager as well, which upper management collectively shrugged at and allowed. Management is where every 'designer' I've worked with has wound up and this guy will be no exception.

At the end of the day, I no longer have much faith in the average game studio because I know these people are out calling the shots on creative decisions. If you aren't a coder or an artist, for the love of fuck, please at least be a genuine gamer with a working understanding of game design history. There's been tens of thousands of video games produced now and some are very much worth remembering when considering a new design, both what to do and what to avoid. Your products will be better for it.
Also, looking at requirejs as a possibility in helping me to modularize my front end app. I don't want to use emberjs/backbone or any of those frontend frameworks. Nothing against them, but they just don't fit my current projects.
Thank you! Hopefully it doesn't look horrendous on iPad :)

Absolutely agree with you about hand-coding. I'm one of those folks! It's hard (impossible?) to compete with the flexibility and power of pure code, but we can try right?