skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Leftover chicken soup. This was invented one Saturday afternoon when I looked in the fridge and it was practically bare. One piece of chicken thigh, one onion and 3 leaves of celery was the entire contents of the fridge.

Sautee the chicken thigh in a bit of olive oil. Wait until it cools and strip off the cooked meat. Put the bones and skin in a pot of water and boil for a while. Dump water into another pot or a bowl through a sieve or strainer. Chuck out the bones/skin.

Now, chop the meat into chunks, and start sauteeing them in olive oil while the broth simmers in the pot. Chop the onion and add it to the frypan. Chop the celery and add it to the pan. Add some salt to the pan, and any handy herbs. After a few more minutes dump it all into the broth an boil together 5 minues. Then add half a cup of rice and turn down to a slow simmer for an hour or so. Eat when the rice is no longer crunchy.

You could do better with adding some other veggies but, honest, that is all that I had in the fridge that day.
Polyamory: When three isn't a crowd
> Wonder what else [Obama] "didn't know"

Here's a laundry list from a libertarian / conservative commentator who often says insightful things even when I disagree with him:

[Obama] was himself clueless as to the extent and severity of the problems in his signature legislation. Two weeks after the Benghazi massacre, he was still parroting the Susan Rice line about anti-Islamic videos, which the CIA knew within hours had had nothing to do with the murder of Ambassador Stevens.

Obama had no idea for three years his IRS might be slow-walking Tea Party applications for tax exemptions. He wasn’t in the loop about Eric Holder’s phone taps on Fox News or the Associated Press.

Nobody told him. The president has not been more deeply implicated in the scandals since re-election because he could credibly say, "How was I supposed to know what was going on?"

Source: http://buchanan.org/blog/queen-obamaland-5957
Yes I still take it and have not lowered my dose since going on it. I've noticed that my mood on it is much higher than it was before I started doing the heroin (which I started in the first place because I was depressed and suicidal), leading me to believe that it has significant anti-depressant potential even in opiate-tolerant individuals. Also, there's some history in the literature of it being an effective anti-depressant[1]. I haven't lowered the dose or stopped it because I am afraid I will end up in the same situation as I was before and start using again.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suboxone#Antidepressant_potenti...
I wish this was top. There's merit in creating a new language, even if it's just for learning. I'm not saying we shouldn't constructively criticize the language itself. I'm just glad the merit is recognized as well.
So complicated. How about slices of toast, buttered lightly with salted butter, some strips of cheddar cheese, and thinly sliced tomatoes. Put under the broiler of your toaster oven.

Yay, pizza.
"The government spent tens of millions of dollars developing Suboxone."

Where is this coming from? It was developed by a private company.
I'm quite sure there are many governments spying (or trying to apy) on Obama's cell phone, including European governments. To expect otherwise is naive and that's why his personal electronic devices are highly secured.
Research on automated patient interview systems reveals two facts:

1. Doctors on average miss 50% of questions needed to be asked on a medical interview.

2. In general , people are less likely to lie to a machine, when they would lie to their doctors if dealing with some socially sensitive issues.
Obligatory link:

http://wyorock.com/excelasadatabase.htm
"E.g. simply saying that 'terrorists are cool' wouldn't get you charge" ...in austria? Yes, if you do it in front of 30 or more people (definition of "in public") it would get you charged. Well, of course not in the form of an obvious joke like "terrorists are cool" but if the prosecutor sees it as an "approval" of terrorist attacks.
the New York Times does not have a free speech right to use a third party's printing presses to publish newspapers

Isn't this correct? Can't a third party refuse to let the NYT use its printers?

The First Amendment problems with such an order to a third-party printer

As I said in the post you responded to, AFAIK the government is not issuing an "order" to Facebook; Facebook is voluntarily allowing the police to do this.

If FB was being "ordered" to do this, that would be different. But as I said in the post you responded to, I still don't think it would be a First Amendment issue; it would be a private property issue (the government trying to restrict how Facebook can make decisions about its property, namely who can use its services).
http://techcrunch.com/2013/10/22/apple-announces-170m-ipads-...
When I used to work in banking - they had high quality equipment from Tandberg (now Cisco) - and it was genuinely as good as watching SD TV.

Nothing beats face-to-face, but proper kit gives decent results.
At a previous job, I helped out on the web side for a photojournalist who spent a year documenting a mom and her young son's last year fighting cancer.

http://www.pulitzer.org/archives/8358

I saw those photos countless times up to production, and even years later when I come across them (the project won a Pulitzer and so is occasionally linked to today) I'll still tear up. It's funny that the blogspam title for the OP says the "The Last 3 Photos Destroyed Me"...In photoseries like these, I always find the photos of the patients struggling to live yet knowing the end is near to be much more heartwrenching than photos after the death.
I cried when I made it to the last photo.
I've seen your site/posts in the past. Very awesome. If you ever make it out to Centennial Airport (KAPA) with one I'd love to check it out. :)
Thanks! I appreciate the support.

How long a shirt stays non-stinky varies between person to person. Most of our test customers have worn it for between 3-5 days without any problem. Needless to say, they were impressed.

The other benefit is that it keeps your shirt fresh for its lifetime. You'll notice that in regular synthetic shirts, there is a permanent smell after a few months of wear. That problem goes away with the silver.

And yes, you are correct that silver is knitted into the shirt. But it's actually not a coating at all because the silver is inside some of the yarns; so it's permanent and the bacteria will not collect over time.

Underwear is in the works :)
There's mail support built into OS X Server. Will it handle as many users as an exchange server? Probably not, but the built in mail clients on all of the iOS and Mac devices handle exchange email _relatively_ well (duck and hide!). As for making it easy to transition off of Office, Pages, Numbers and Keynote will all open up all of the microsoft file formats.
I'm all for machines replacing doctors, but I think it is important to remember that medical centers that make big bets on expensive machines frequently spin the truth to justify their purchases.

5 years ago, I was constantly being told about robot surgery and how it would make surgery safer by reducing mistakes. Hospitals that made these purchases made grand claims in an effort to attract patients. Unfortunately, the da vinci robot has continuously injured patients[1][2] while the marketing has made it so the machines continue to be installed in more hospitals as patients demand the robot surgeons.

Hospitals that have purchased a da vinci machine are very unlikely to come out and say it was a waste of money and is injuring patients, it makes them look like they are fools, and increases their liability. I really hope Watson is as advanced as described in the Wired article, but there have been plenty of popular science rags that similarly pimped robots as making surgery safer.

I think eventually robots will eventually make surgery safer, and watson-like computing will make better diagnoses, but there clearly was a mistake made in evaluating robots for surgery that I would rather not see made again.

[1] http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-10-08/robot-surgery-damag...
[2] http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB1000142405270230470310...
Am I the only one that finds the blog section of the site a bit... odd?

I mean, many of the posts are repeat stories or events, and the whole thing reads like a bot that was designed to post boilerplate about the guy and his wife. Consistently, for the past several months, it's been Jen this, Jen that...

I'm not trying to not be empathic. It's just that it seems so... staged. Set intervals and patterns of pictures, along with these patterned "I miss her so much." and then immediately after "Be sure to buy my book!"

I know that emotion is hard to convey in text... but I don't know. Something just doesn't feel right.
Growing Up Poor Is Bad for Your Brain
> find studies or facts that most effect the diagnostics or prescriptions

You could also expand that idea to having it acting as a spam filter for medical publications. It could scan every old and new published paper for basic validity. This wouldn't prevent fraud, but it might raise the bar for publishing bad science.
Actually there are already systems in the field that offer better results than people. I remember reading research about decision support systems doing a better job, and there's isabel healthcare , offering decision support system that works great for rare diseases as far as i know.

The way they are implemented is by people entering data in an orderly fashion, both those who built the systems ,and doctors . This somewhat limits the system, both from breadth of research and data entry time at the doctor.

But even with those limitations , those systems offer far better diagnoses , especially in the rare cases,than you average and even great doctor.
Localize.js (https://localizejs.com) automatically localizes websites. No backend integration required.

It's a client side Javascript library that handles phrase detection and the injection of translations. Machine and human translations can be ordered via our web interface.

Why is this cool? It generally takes an engineer at least 1-2 weeks to fully localize a website (go through all template files, replace all text with string keys, build a workflow for updating phrases, ordering translations, etc), and once the system is in place, editing template files and adding new text to your app is a pain. Localizejs automates this with a copy and paste js snippet. And it works surprisingly well -- I had my doubts about this approach before building it as well, but you'll be surprised that it doesn't hurt page performance very much at all.

It's still in development, but shoot me an email if you'd like to test it out. It'll be production ready within a month. bp@brandonpaton.com
Handed a GNOME 3 PC to my dad.

He got it right away. The multitasking in GNOME is just so fluid and efficient compared to any other operating environment, and it's just so... intuitive.

As an OS X user, I find GNOME more consistent and easy to use, to be quite honest with you. I'm just holding out until Wine gets to the point where CS6 is supported.
Having accurately assessed the likely effects of the programme's exposure, it seems very dumb to proceed with it. What could the NSA learn that would outweigh having Germany decide that America wasn't actually a friendly, trustworthy country, as it has presumably now done? Don't ignore either that by recognizing the programme as a betrayal while proceeding with it, the NSA admits to being utterly amoral in a way that can't be walked back from. The only saving grace is that the programme started in 2003; you could almost plead collective insanity given what American foreign policy looked like at that time.
The US is a two-party system. First Past The Post voting ensures a vote for a third party is wasted. No significant percentage of people will ever vote for a third party (excluding transition periods between party systems).

The current ruling party is widely recognized as less warmongering and less surveillance-state than the other party.

Americans aren't completely inculpable. Our societal inability to work together (see: Prisoner's Dilemma), combined with our unwillingness to risk contentment, contributes.

But I fail to see how American citizens have any real say in the government. We present a "democracy," but the two-party system is a thinly veiled autocracy.
> But, if they wanted to get more people using their library, I think that they should rethink their approach.

They actually don’t want as many people as possible using their library. That is not the goal when choosing the GPL. The goal is to maximize the number of free users in the world – that is, users who have the freedoms which define Free Software. Mere users is inconsequential. If users is what you desire, then by all means, choose a permissive license (MIT/BSD/etc).
The best description I could find was "dimension line," but all the examples have numeric measurements rather than descriptive text.
Sometimes I wonder if I'm on hacker news or "Sky mall".
On the parsing/understanding side, the main barrier is that it is only possible to infer very simple relationships. Either collecting facts with some simple schema (like "is a" relationships), or inferring mood/topics like "this article seems to be about cancer".

On the machine learning side, there is very little in the way of inference. Most of machine learning is an attempt to solve the statistical problem of predicting some value Y (e.g. a diagnosis) given a feature vector X.

To obtain data from medical texts (even with human assistance) and use this to form diagnoses of actual patients, would require solving both these problems. We would have to parse and represent the complex logical relationships that are expressed in academic papers. We would then have to have machine learning methods that can work with complex data (not just feature vectors) and combine inference with statistical learning.
Currently we don't have that much to show publicly as we're working primarily with doctors; we need to validate our technology properly before it gets anywhere near patients or the public eye.

With that said, if you shoot me an email (see profile) I'm happy to answer questions and perhaps more.
Yes, thank you. I'm adding it to my list so I don't forget it again. :)
I had been trying to get my parents to move to Linux for a long time and now, after a few months of struggles, it seems they are actually liking it (xubuntu).

It all started years ago when my dad got a virus on the windows laptop, then I told him to use Linux (all they do is watch movies and browse the web) and installed Ubuntu for them. My mother got angry at me because she couldn't use Internet Explorer (ugh) and it "looked different" even though my dad was enjoying it, so we had to revert back to Windows... turns out half a year later they are full of viruses and crap, with a thousand toolbars in the browsers and all that stuff.
They asked me for help to clean the PC and I pretty much told them that they need Linux if they want to get rid of viruses (I moved to another country so I have no time to go back there and fix it every time they get a virus). My dad managed to convince my mom to use Linux, he pretty much forced her to tell you the truth, however now they both love Xubuntu and have been using it for more than a year without problems. They both think it's actually faster and cleaner than Windows.

I'm happy.
The thing is Windows XP, with all its warts, will still run comfortably on a 6 or 8 year PC that was low-end when it was new. A few weeks ago, when my wife's old XP computer finally wouldn't boot anymore I got a new hard drive and tried to run Ubuntu on it. Couldn't even get through the installer without it freezing up. Lubuntu installed but wasn't stable.

OpenBSD with KDE was pretty good, and I would have stayed with that but lucked out and was able to get a clean low-level copy of the old hard drive to a new one using 'dd' and get back to the original system.
In OSX you tab between apps with Command-Tab, you tab between windows (within an app) with Command-`
Aha, my bad. Sneaky!

Still, it could have been made a little more obvious. Some people may only care about Kanto. That still means it's $8, but anyway.
When I started my first job where I did a lot of coding, I noticed that I would wake up at night with a bit of in my left hand occasionally (pinky especially). I also noticed that when I walked I started to feel the nerves "move" if I jostled about, very odd feelings.

I adjusted my work environment with a close eye to my posture, got a new ergo keyboard, changed out the chair. Within a few days all the pains and aches had left.

TL;DR Change it up, then go see a doc if nothing helps.
Didn't the jeopardy win hinted that watson has inference capabilities ?

And isn't doctors and insurance companies being impressed with results are another hint that watson has those capabilities(or is a very big fraud, something IBM wouldn't riskm) ?
Exactly - Facebook was about to IPO and acquired Instagram pretty much right before it. Thanks for posting the dates to clarify.
So we might end up with better treatment, healthier lives, and lower preemiums. What, exactly, is the big scary downside? We are no longer subsidizing the luxurious high life of a particular educated elite?
Yes. There is more to gender identity than just male or female and more to sexual attraction than straight/gay/bisexual.

The tendency to put many aspects of life in binary terms when many aspects of life are decidedly not binary, but merely bimodal complicates things terribly.
Purchased! (on Android) Haven't flown it yet but as a real-world private pilot (inactive these days) and aerospace engineer (now developer), I'm already thankful and much impressed.
http://cdn.viralnova.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/11-T86Pc...

I think that photo did it for me. Just the contrast between people with a smile on their face going about their everyday life, and someone a few feet away fighting for their life.
EG:
http://www.economist.com/node/1842124

"...According to a European Parliament report, published in 2001, America's National Security Agency (NSA) intercepted faxes and phone calls between Airbus, Saudi Arabian Airlines and the Saudi government in early 1994..."

Not saying that Airbus was the good guy btw. Also, if they help one firm why not another, and so on?
listen to the podcast, your answers are there, but it sort of amounts to the government having to bribe the manufacturing company to develop it (because doing so would break a ton of laws) and it is unpatented, so the company that makes it issued some pretty harsh demands.
Ok, everything is live now:

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQ-uHSnFig5PZH_UEL0Jal...
The biggest problem for this particular group is that they often have completely unrealistic expectations of the men they want to date. They start things off with the fact that they want to marry and have kids and that is often extremely undesirable for men. It's not that men don't eventually want that same goal, but that goal comes well after having dating years or longer. It might take you a year or longer before you determine whether or not you want a woman to be the mother of your kids. During that year, many men are mainly interested in sex and casual companionship.
Video: iPhone 5S jailbreak and Lightning KDP debugging
Also the huge popularity of tablets and smartphones have made people less fearful of different UI conventions and more willing to explore and figure things out.
That's a sad reality in hardware that's not standards compliant, so only specific tuned-for-Windows/OSX drivers work.

FWIW, there are decent drivers for HP OfficeJet wireless printers, and printing "just works" from Ubuntu.
This thread is awesome. It always feels like I'm the only person on the planet using linux in school; school requires us to use Windows and teaches several other proprietary vendor lock-ins; and very, very few friends actually use Linux, even though most are programmers.

Tomorrow I'm going to an open source event, mostly to show support for foss in general. Ironically the event will be in school: the very thing most important for the future generation of programmers and yet a place teaching us to be dependant on expensive, limiting and non-free software.

Reading this thread I almost feel that showing support is not needed that much anymore. We're there; our goal is reached. Too bad it's not. Monday morning I'll still be required to prove my competence (dependence?) in using certain non-free software while running the school's spyware in the background... which only runs on Windows. Ten years ago the Dutch government unanimously agreed semi-public institutions should use open software. In 2013, nothing changed.

Even despite the Snowden news, it feels like we're still at square one. At least threads like these give me hope :)
My thought was the same, but the I assume the point is that if you're playing somewhere without an internet connection, this could be handy.
Here's another: old people are smarter than PHDs. (tongue in cheek)
I wish Evernote supported Linux.
Amazon android is the main reason I don't like my Kindle Fire.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/09/nsa-spying-braz...

"The US National Security Agency has been accused of spying on Brazil's biggest oil company, Petrobras, [...]"

EDIT: added summary
The military exists on the backs of the young.

[Edit: I was once young too, I don't hold it against anyone. Nothing more heartbreaking than a 19y/o with the 1000 yard stare (which I've personally witnessed.)]
"Every company and business use buffer for their work."

With all due respect, you need to keep one foot in reality.
Not even the background colour — just the tint colour, which is supposed to be chosen to suit your app. The OP has left the default blue tint colour in his app.

Giving an app a key colour adds value in the same way a unique and distinctive icon adds value.

I understand that you may view apps as purely functional, but I don't believe Apple views them this way. Given the vast number of apps, both functionality and design quality are important. I happen to agree that they should reject poorly (or undesigned) apps from their store, I only wish they would be more picky.
These pictures are beautiful, and I wish I had thought of doing this as well. As someone who has seen this disease run its course on a loved one, they brought back a lot of memories. Especially the effect chemo and a mastectomy usually has on that someone and their family. From losing their hair to having a swollen face due to retention of water, to being bedbound etc. The last 3 pictures are unfortunately all too familiar.
I'm working on a credit card sized e-paper device. It has an Arduino, USB, Real Time Clock, and a battery, and fits in your wallet. Still doing hardware designs.

Some potential applications:

* Replace all the barcodes in your wallet (loyalty/membership)

* Google Auth TOTP

* QR Codes (links/BTC wallets)

* Interactive nametag

* e-book/text display

* date/time display with wireless phone sync over BTLE

* act as a USB device and display text/notifications from your computer

I'm not completely sure if the use cases are convincing enough - would you buy such a device? This revision won't have any wireless and instead will be focused more towards electronics/Arduino enthusiasts - dead simple to program over USB with provided libraries and documentation. You can use it as an Arduino/e-paper dev board and code neat apps for it that you can actually use.
I really dislike how sans-serif fonts conflate the lowercase "L" and the uppercase "i". This is a big problem in mail clients where someone can create email addresses that look identical to established addresses (e.g. Iarry@google.com).
Aren't strings sequences of characters?