skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's unlikely they'll find a good one. (For the thread): The initial studies on "Chinese Restaurant Syndrome" seem to have conflated overconsumption of sodium with MSG. MSG has the misfortune of being known primarily by an acronym, which makes it sound scarier than it actually is (ie, not remotely scary).
Might have been good to mention you weren't talking about the US, given that the article is entirely about American policy.
Is your landing page your primary marketing mechanism? I think it's great that your given an intern that level of responsibility...
It'd cut down on 95% of the beta reviews for sure, and the rest could probably be culled by searching for "ios 7" in the review body and/or combine it with looking for apple ids that have been used on an ios7 device.
Never heard of a male "Elizabeth" here in the UK
> Smoking it cannot be much better for you than smoking cigarettes.

It is probably way better for you than cigarettes based on the amount smoked.
This is far more useful for advertising, especially when trying to build user segments. If you have the gender from the user directly entering it somewhere along the line, great. If not, this comes in.
Hacking Chromebook
Yeah, that's why I asked. As far as I know, the idea that MSG is somehow bad for you is entirely an urban legend. But, as always, I could be wrong.
How GM makes a car sound like what a car is supposed to sound like
Do you really think that was a factor for Google, Facebook?
One word: replication.
Watchsend (YC S13) records mobile screen interactions for user testing
Yeah, for a long time MySQL was completely easy on Windows, and Postgres required Cygwin. Granted, that was years ago now, but I think it hurt adoption significantly.

Also, there has long been a perception that Postgres was slower. I still run into that from time to time today.
Ask a lot of people. Ask them about their daily frustrations. Ask them to share what they think the big problems of the world are. Post on forums online, go into chat rooms, etc.
This may be near your wishes: http://docs.racket-lang.org/ts-guide/
Not sure, but any who aren't too familiar with fighters might be surprised to learn of frame data [0][1] dissection.

0: http://nki.combovideos.com/data.html

1: http://nki.combovideos.com/flame.html
The thing is, we are not talking about "brands" but "strains". You could get seeds for the best marijuana strain that is out there and grow it yourself. No need for "brands".
We let chiropractors prescribe drugs in this country.

What country is that, mistercow? Here in the United States, they cannot prescribe drugs with one notable exception in New Mexico for chiropractors that have received "advance practice" training.

In fact, prescribing drugs actually goes against the chiropractic philosophy that involves physical manipulation of the body and your body's ability to heal itself.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiropractic
cycling is a life-style

This is exactly wrong. Cycling is common in the Netherlands but it's not a life style. I intentionally do not say 'popular' there. You just buy a bike and you're all set. You don't need a helmet or a special outfit. You don't have to spend a ton of money on a super light weight carbon fiber monster. When you want to go somewhere, you don't have to check if the roads are bike-friendly, and you don't have to check if you can park your bike there.

I'm Dutch. I am not a cyclist; I just have a bicycle. It's as natural to me as having three meals a day. Of course, that's only true on a personal level. As a nation, we very much designed for the conditions that are conducive to cycling. The article gets that right.
I think the problem is much more clear from just reading the article.

Gupta admits throughout that in the past, his decisions were based on incorrect information and assumptions. He seems to have a penchant for deciding "I'm against this!, here is the evidence that supports my point". Whereas now he finally seems to be coming around to the idea that maybe, just maybe, other evidence beside the evidence that supports his point should be considered. Perhaps he could even...gasp...put himself in someone else's shoes before making judgements based only on his own experience.

It's getting a little old hearing the "well I finally considered this from someone else's point of view and realized my viewpoint was insane" why does this take us so long?
Don't get me wrong. I support Ubuntu Edge 100%, and I am sorry that it sounded like I am fueling conspiracy. Reading marketing-speak by other companies has made me generally cynical about such announcements that seemed to me very conveniently timed.

I am glad to be wrong.
You make a good point. I live in a small city in NY, and the streets are basically free-for-all zones. You have pedestrians with toddlers crossing in the middle of the block in traffic, cars driving 50mph down narrow sidestreets and lance armstrong wannabe cyclists blowing lights and riding on sidewalks to pass cars.

NYC is more than Manhattan, and while I could see some areas in Manhattan that are ok-ish for bikes, many parts of Queens, Brooklyn, etc are difficult for cyclists, and certainly not amenable to casual bicycling.

The geography of Amersterdam is different thinking beyond topography. The streets are narrower as well.
Unhappy With U.S. Foreign Policy? Pentagon Says You Might Be A 'High Threat'
I'm not sure I agree with either of your points. Sticky sessions with in app/JVM/whatever RAM session objects is much faster than pulling from memcache/redis and parsing/deserializing/instantiating the session state for each request.

Not at all sure what you mean by your second point. Sure generally simplifying things is desirable, but by complex app, I mean an app that has requirements that are complex, and many of those apps require additional session state. For instance keeping track of all categories and products browsed to target recommended products. Keep track of users' site browsing preference, search results, multi-tab interaction, etc...
You might want to look at getting one of these:
http://openvape.com/

It's very discreet and pretty effective, esp. if you are looking for a more CBD non-thc delivery method.

Unfortunately these are a local Denver product right now from what I can tell (my friend in SF can't find them their yet outside of driving to Berkley); so it might be difficult to find outside of colorado. They also make a variety of cartridges including Sativa, Indica and Hybrid.

I've switched to using this most of the time esp. outside the house, or when the kids are around. When you exhale there is hardly any smoke either and I've seen people smoking these at bars openly. I haven't been so bold even though I have a red-card, things sure have changed fast, at least in Denver.

Edit: Also, the high effect is minimal, esp with the Sativa cartridges. Much more of a body, pain reliever type effect.

Edit 2: Cartridges are rated for around 300 hits, and at 40 dollars per that works out be a pretty cost-effective solution from a cost standpoint too. This might not be as effective as a mj joint however; I would be curious to know if you get one if it's more or less effective.
I think the point is that, there are a lot of cities that are in fact sufficiently flat but do not have a lot of bike usage.

Indeed I wouldn't want to bike around in cities with many sloped streets (Brussels comes to mind) without at least having some decent gears to switch (most "grandma bikes" are single-gear, because it's one less part that can break).
I admit I buy bikes that are propably stolen. I lost one very expensive and one half that but still expansive bikes and I knew I would never get them back. They propably left the country. Now I still want to drive a mountain bike but I won't let them steal them for the 3rd time...that would be stupid. Thats why I buy them on the net, from newspapers or on flea markets for cheap. I am sorry for the guys whos bikes those propably are but as I don't expect anyone to give me my bike back by reporting it to the police on the other side of europe, I think realistic people should not expect me to buy the bike and bring it to the Police...those guys are advertising openly. If the Police is not giving a damn, why should I? I'm not a milionaire or Robin Hood.
I believe most states have rules that are about "driving under the influence" and the influence could be alcohol, drugs, illness, or basically anything that would alter your mental state. I have had days when the pain alone would make me fail a roadside sobriety test (slurred words, can't walk a straight line). I don't recommend consuming drugs or alcohol and driving, prescription or otherwise.

At work I avoid operating the forklift, milling machine, or anything else that could cause injury to me or my people. I still get a very slight buzz, but nothing at all like when I first started using it (think 5 or 10% of previous effects). I have had times when I consumed what I needed (four or five bowls) when friends were in the same room, and they have gotten high from just being there while I had no change. In general I consume in the very early morning and at night when I know I won't be leaving again before sleep. I avoid using during the day because most days I have to drive and work.

MMJ is certainly not a perfect solution, but it beats constant never ending pain (no drugs) or addiction and liver failure (opiates with acetaminophen) http://www.drugs.com/vicodin.html .
There's at least one street in Haarlem that's 'cars are guest', the entire street is also paved 'cycle lane red' (not a big or lang street though).
In the case of publicly traded companies It isn't a meme, its a rule. And it is enforced (or not) by the SEC and the shareholders themselves.

This is how it works, in order to sell securities in your company to people who aren't part of the company (stock), you have to pledge a 'fiduciary responsibility' to those people. This is a pledge that you aren't going to just take their money and burn it up in a bonfire or blow it on hookers and cocaine in Vegas. If you violate your pledge the SEC can (and sometimes does) come and put you into jail.

Now all bets are off if you tell those security buyers in your prospectus, "Proceeds of this sale will be used to buy hookers and cocaine at a venue of the director's choosing." then well, said what you were going to do with it so the shareholders (people who gave you the money) really can't complain can they?

Then there is another part of the equation is that the governance, or "how the company is run" is controlled by the companies by-laws. And in those by-laws there are things that are decided on by a shareholder 'vote'. Usually simple majority but sometimes 2/3rds or some other number. Those things, one of which is who sits on the board of directors, allow "influence" of other things (like who the CEO is). But let's take a moment to look at that.

So the Board of Directors hires and fires the CEO and determines the CEO's compensation (often all of the senior employees compensation but that is a different story). Since who is on the board is a function of nomination and shareholder voting every 'n' years (where n is in the bylaws) If you have enough stock in the company you can suggest who you are going to vote for (or not vote for) in the board election and influence who is on the board. And you tell people who want to be on the board and are courting your vote, what you look for in a board member (like say "Someone who can help find a decent CEO to run this place.") This is how 'activist' shareholders make trouble for the company. And using that influence you influence the CEO and senior staff of the company.

So it is very much true that you have to think about share holder value as part of your fiduciary duty, and you have to insure that enough voting shares support your current plans such that any attempt to derail then will be safely voted down.

That is why it isn't a "meme" it is an actual thing.
If this were for data data analysis then it would have a probability attached.What you have to ask yourself is gender really needed for your application? If not it's best to just avoid it; using guesses is the best way to data corruption.
If it's publicly traded, then their obligation is to shareholders. That's the rule, and that's what Wall Street expects
True, but let's factor out the current state of availability of weed in most parts of the US for a second here.
It's intensely slow too. I just fed it top 10 female names of the 70s and 80s and it got about 30%. It's wrong, slow, and broken. Not a good start.
My first round of funding
Sorry I forgot to mention, I also use Fastclick(https://github.com/ftlabs/fastclick) for iOS.

JS is uglified. Libraries takes 55% of file size, and rest is my code.
Gas is expensive, land is flat, weather is nice...all true, but then again, the same could be said about Paris, Barcelona, Milan, etc. The most important factor is that they accommodated them.

Cities should always accommodate the lowest common denominators of society first and foremost (starting with pedestrians), and then progressively accommodate more, but never more at the expense of those that came before. It is very difficult to harm pedestrian activity with public transportation and bicycles.

When it comes to cars, the picture changes drastically: people clamoring for free parking are implicitly raising the price of housing for people that do not drive. Wide boulevards and high speed freeways divide cities geographically, increase noise to the point of hindering inhabitability (also increases housing costs), and inhibit movement (which essentially limits trade in the same way that national borders do). Accommodating their preferences for traffic light timing drastically increases walk times for pedestrians. And their speed preferences and right-of-way preferences increase death risks.

That isn't to say that cities shouldn't accommodate cars. They should just stop doing it at the expense of pedestrians, bicyclists, and public transportation users.
"One obvious solution to this problem is for big companies to pay their people more — to share more of the vast wealth that they create with the people who create it."

Would like to see studies that suggest what percentage of income paid to employees maximizes a company's long term sustainability, and the same for maximizing the general economy's sustainability. Of course it wouldn't be two single numbers, it would depend on type of industry and company.
I'll fork and call it MediaDungeon.
Worked on gender-determination for a project for a client in a U.S. male-dominated industry. Baby name gender frequencies by birth year are available online. One interesting wrinkle - can apply simple Bayesian technique - e.g. even if Pat is 50-50 male-female in population at large, firefighter Pat is more likely to be a man.
That depends on what you mean. I _prefer_ UIs that have no Javascript on them, even since before HTML5.
You speak as though you know "what the principles of the United Sates actually are", but much like the maligned "annoying other programmer", you don't mention what these principles might be.
>"and anyone with even the slightest idea of how businesses work shouldn't need to be told that the priority of a business differs from the priority of an individual"

I understand how businesses work, because I run one. We're not JP Morgan, but we do have 150 employees. How about you? We're in the health care field, we're a corporation, and we actually care about the average person. It's also how I know, through interaction, that business owners are just ordinary people, even at levels far beyond my own. Our businesses are reflections of ourselves. If you're an asshole, you'll run an unethical business. Most people aren't assholes.

You can keep your theories, I'll go with experience.
I will definitely do it. I am a huge fan of Firefox and my main browser is still firefox.
Keep in mind that MediaGoblin is mostly a community project. I'm the only paid fulltime employee at present (and that's thanks to the crowdfunding campaign through the FSF). It's a HUGE project, and there's not a lot of time to go around. So yes, if code's moving by a million miles a minute in the codebase and my job is to make sure that contributors are doing well and that the software is great, that might mean that the homepage might suffer... I can only do so many jobs at once.

And in any case, it's not just a "oh, we tossed an intern at this"; in this case, the person who's working on this is a community member and intern, and is doing work based on a detailed analysis based on another community member's work overviewing all our current messaging: http://lists.mediagoblin.org/pipermail/devel/2013-July/00061...

So it's not just a matter of, "oh get an intern and toss them at it"!

But hey, if you're bothered by the fact that we're a community project with not a lot of full time resources, you can donate and help us pay for more people to come on as dedicated resources! The crowdfunding campaign we ran through the FSF last year is over, but the donation link still works: http://mediagoblin.org/pages/campaign.html

Or, feel free to help us out yourself! http://mediagoblin.org/pages/join.html
Why isn't "I don't need to write enough for it to be worth the effort to improve it" an excuse?
Patents can often be worked around. Almost all "real" patents can be worked around (BS "business method" patents are not "real" patents by my definition).

I also think Tesla has a bright future. But I hope they're relying on their brand value rather than transient advantages like patents. If I hear from Musk that he thinks their patents are going to be competitive advantage, I will be factor that (negatively) in my opinion of the company's prospects.
I've noticed that programmers tend to think that they're highly educated, even when they're not.
This all reminds me of how some famous supposed atheists convert to a religion X and then write books about it selling millions of copies.

What is this referring to?
But they have awesome bike lanes!

See: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/evanosnos/2011/03/the-...

The only trouble is that the lanes are often under-utilized, encouraging all sorts of other people, vehicles, and piles of random boxes to accumulate there.
Did I misunderstand something here? Are you really saying that because the country he happens to be from has some problems in a certain area, he can't criticise similar problems in countries he happens not to be from?

The Singh case flagged up a problem which drew massive support (which is still ongoing and should improve the situation some epoch). Also, he won.
Show them the research, summarize it in plain language if needed, then let them make their own choice. Really, you can't do much more than that.

I wonder if one could synthesize cards that change color when exposed to MJ fumes? I bet you could sell those like crazy.
"In many major metro areas, you're more likely to be ticketed for cannabis than arrested." - as long as you are white and not wanted by the authorities for some other issue.
This is a really good article (despite it's admittedly biased source) on driving while under the influence of marijuana:

http://norml.org/library/item/cannabis-and-driving-a-scienti...

It's also important to note the most dangerous thing you can do, bar none, is to drive tired and unfocused. Which is very much legal.
but dude, the possibilities[1]

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrWV4Hemfio
I had no idea the startup community was so interested in the subject of marijuana. Well, I guess it's just about as interesting as reading a daily blog about somebody's impressions of the Go programming language.
You are blessed to receive a rare human hand printed letter.
I can safely claim that people can get addicted to weed because I've known people addicted to weed.

And what does "not chemically addicted" mean anyway? Is there anything else inside a human brain except chemicals?
Here are some other tidbits from missionary life that haven't been mentioned:

- Mentorship and training offered by relatively successful individuals.

- Most will have some form of leadership responsibility. Typically can range from overseeing 4 to 30 individuals.

- Complete escape from media: no news, music, TV, etc.

- 2 hours of study daily

- 30 minutes exercise each morning. (Opportunity exists for longer recreation/exercise once per week.)

- Obviously being immersed in a different culture is a unique experience. Missionaries will talk to anyone willing to have a conversation and work with local church members. This leads to experiences one wouldn't have even if one were to move to the same place and get a job.
It looks like that miracle they are expecting is for more corporate sponsors to come in and snatch up large batches.

But I agree, it's looking highly unlikely that they'll meet the goal unless the timeframe is extended.
Unmanned Aircrafts may become unmanned waiters.
> That's not the argument. The argument is that governance is an imperfect tool, will always be imperfect, and that none of our governments are beyond reproach.

Hey, finally something we both fully agree on! I just wish you'd have phrased it as such earlier. :)
> weather is nice

People keep saying this all over the thread but it rains so damn much in Amsterdam! The Dutch don't seem to mind, throw on some rain gear and bike 10km to work. Almost no one does that in the US, I think it's just a big expression of cultural differences.
ApartmentList releases 'Tinder for Roommates' in 5 US cities
This doesn't make any sense to me. Why would you quit without another job lined up? You must have a ton of money already saved to cover the rent and feed the children. Or live with your parents. I couldn't just quit my job without having other work lined up.
Startup Life: The Good, The Bad, The Awesome
Looks awesome on Win7/IE10, but doesn't work on WP7.8 :( Gets stuck on the loading animation.
Comments are collapsed due to you have visited comments before. Next time when you visit (i think after 5 minutes), it will only display new comments. Old comments will be collapsed.

I couldn't figure out best way to collapse threads and collapse comments.
I think being borderline unprincipled and very self-promoting comes with the territory of being a TV personality, so if we factor that out, he's actually doing marijuana advocates a huge favor by speaking to the older generation of voters who have endured decades of propaganda against marijuana and who now, by listening to the most credible TV doctor in America, might vote to legalize.
I took an all day cycling tour around Beijing the last time I was there (2009), and it was great, except for those times you'd get close to an intersection.
How well does it compare to https://nltk.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/doc/book/ch06.html. If the genderize.io folks are listening, can you look at providing some benchmark/test set to evaluate the efficiency of the underlying algorithm?
Good stuff. Been in this position a few times and I feel for you. Glad you're in a better place. One piece of advice, if you can take a little time off between gigs, I would do it. Keep spending time doing things you want to do before jumping in with another company. Also, be picky about your next job. Now that you have some experience under your belt, you will have some options.
Well, I guess you can wait for the next Snowpocalypse...
This is awesome!

Minor gripe: tapping the top of the screen on iOS does not scroll to the top on the front page.
It rains a lot in Seattle, and we still have plenty of cyclists. Rain isn't as big of a factor as extreme heat/cold when considering whether to ride a bike or not.
Real science lies behind the fad for standing up at work
Mass unemployment is one of the greatest plagues of a modern country. This is just one of the (many) sad side effects.

Too bad the lesson was forgotten globally by the ruling class.
Correlation does not prove causation.