skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can deafness be treated in any other way?

What effort is being made to determine whether the etiology of ADHD is primarily biochemical (chemical/genetic), or primarily psychological (environmental/human-interaction)? Drugging to counteract ADHD symptoms makes sense only if it's the former.
I was actually rather surprised that it took almost 3 weeks for Threes clones to start showing up. It's not like the app came out of nowhere, it was discussed on Mac and iOS game blogs before release and was featured in the App store almost instantly.
Looks better than current Firefox on my system.
http://i.imgur.com/6CN4Heh.png
Just decide which decade you are talking about. I hear this since the 90's.
I just wanted to thank you for the comment. You make some good points.
Questioning their suitability is saying "I don't know if X is right for the job". Saying "X should step down" is answering that question.
They shipped the first version. They then decide to ise the term "rip offs" - even though people developing one of the first very popular rip offs claim to have never seen Threes!
Swiping remains to score and then save your board. Yes, text input is a bit much!
My play has gone down too, but for me it's because I seem to have hit a plateau. I managed to get a 768 once a few weeks ago, but haven't been close. Most of my recent scores have been 8-9k when my highscore is over 20k. It's kind of discouraging that I can't get near my score again.
Well the thing is he's never used the framework so he won't be hitting the ground running. He's not in school.
This is an essay from a craftsman to other craftsmen. Your position is not one of a craftsman, it is one of a salesman.
seems to me Mozilla dont care about offline webapps

Did you get that impression from the fact that they're building a whole OS based on offline webapps?
Are you referring to 2048?

They said they were based on 1024, and 1024 explicitly launched with an app store description along the lines of "Why waste your money on Threes, we're free".

EDIT: Found the quote. Surprise surprise it's no longer in their description.

"No need to pay for ThreesGames. This is a simple and fun gift for you, and it’s free."
When you say it is a "fact that there are large structural brain differences", which differences did you mean? I may be focusing on the wrong thing. What I've found (brain size) doesn't have a clear enough difference to be used as part of diagnosis.

For example, http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2859218/ notes that head circumference and cross-sectional MRI measurements of brain size show that children diagnosed with autism have (on average) a larger brain size.

However, looking at the charts (for a head circumference chart, see http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3869044/ ), while the data may be statistically significant, there's no clear separation between those diagnosed with autism and those with no indication of autism. Many of those with autism have a size smaller than the average of those without, and many of those without autism have a size larger than those with.

This means that head size or simple cross-sectional MRIs can't be used as a reliable diagnostic test.

Which structural differences where you meaning?
I'll have to give it another try. Last build I ran couldn't load that much.

Of course, firefox is already bloody fast on any site I can think of. Not sure what sorts of improvements I should be looking for.
If you are referring to 2048, that’s because it was ripping off 1024, not Threes.
Cool. Bitcoin is still young, so there's a lot of room for growth. I personally think Coinbase is doing a good job (though having growing pains), and others are quickly coming to join in.
indeed, but bloody hell is the sales cycle for mega enterprise and government slow! :)

Also I wasn't asking about how YC stuff gets evaluated, but trying to understand what concrete specific concrete explicit reasons I should apply!

I have applied to YC in the past, but in the past I also knew nothing of business, was a younger idiot and had dumb ideas! :)
Things weren't that bad this time, but they've been seriously bitten in the past. As (one of them) got close to releasing their game Ridiculous Fishing last year, a competitor quickly cloned it and beat them to the app store and got a high ranking. They nearly canned the game because of a ripoff.

Truth is, the app store is a pretty scummy market.
Answer: Maybe in 6 years, and even then not so much. The author here plays very fast and loose with the figures. The claim about h.265 encoded 720p video vs. h.264 encoded video is particularly egregious. From the article:

"For example, a 720p movie transmitting in HEVC will only require 600 Kbps to crisply stream, a connection speed drastically lower than the current average of 4.5 Mbps."

Utter nonsense. The statement is phrased so it appears that they are comparing the same video quality, when in reality, the best h.265 encoders will probably only reduce 720p file size (for a given quality) by around 30% vs. x264 encoded h.264.

I do at least applaud the author for mentioning that hardware decoder support is a ways off, but the citations he offers for actual decoder support are very light on details. I seriously doubt we'll see hardware h.265 decoding support in even half of newly marketed devices 2 years from now. Nevermind the heavily entrenched existing install base that Netflix will still be servicing. Software decoding h.265 will make a top of the line CPU scream right now.

And then there's the problem that encoding h.265 takes about 40 times as long as h.264 which is hardly negligible but he just cursorily tosses off. His conclusion is what really annoys me though:

"Despite these challenges, major ISPs working together with Netflix to adapt its massive library into a data-friendly format is a better long-term solution for every party involved."

Just how exactly will the US ISPs be involved here? Are they going to rent out a few thousand EC2 instances and re-encode all of that content? No. Are they going to donate substantial sums of money to x265 or any other effort to develop encoders? No. Are they going to provide R&D funds to Qualcomm, Intel, Nvidia, etc. to hasten the development of hardware decoders? Of course they won't. They will do what they have always done: They will leverage the network duopoly they've been handed by the US Government. They will never make good on their commitment to build out a 45mbps/45mbps symmetrical network connection to every end user that US tax payers paid for, and they will rely on actual innovators to compensate for their lazy, unethical and greedy business model. The truth is that HEVC is not primarily intended to make 720p content cheaper to move about, it's intended to make 4K and 8K content streaming possible given the wretched recalcitrance of US network providers.
Assuming your door has a traditional door knob & lock fitted as well, an electric strike doesn't prevent you opening the door when its in the locked position. The way an electric strike unlocks a door is by swivelling a part of the strike plate away. When its 'locked' its really just like a regular door with a fixed strike plate, as per this diagram ... http://www.hometips.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/doorknob_...
The criminal equivalent of conversion is criminal conversion.
There is even an Atari 2600 port of the 2048 game!

http://javatari.org/games/2048

Amazing...
It also says in the article that other names may have been removed, but the proceedings were handled privately.
How many people have 1234567890 as a password? Here's a login I made that anyone can use... Username: M8R-RSNT121 Pass: 1234567890

Also here is a third party search tool (that even ellis island website recommends over theirs): http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/EIDB/ellisgold.html

Oddly, even that third party form has an "old version you probably shouldn't use". (The link takes you to "gold". The old one is "white").

For extra laughs, take a look at the URL when you view the ships manifest images.
On Android, 2048 is 0.7mb. Threes is nearly 30! Surely that factors into some people's decisions.
I've lost 50 pounds since October by following a ketogenic diet.

For every fad diet, there are people who lost significant weight using that diet. It's how they get to be fads (and how you can know that the biological rationales are bunk).

This [ http://imgur.com/NJlqag1 ], was thru increased self-awareness which I jump-started by counting calories for the first couple months. (194 is the top of what the BMI chart calls "normal")

If you're mindful of what you're doing, then you'll only eat when hungry (and enough to not be hungry) rather than mindlessly snacking all day or mindlessly continuing to eat at meals until the food and/or conversation runs out. If you learn to pay attention (just enough to keep your senses calibrated), your body is fairly good at telling you what you need.

So anything that helps you stay mindful will help you lose weight.
Fair enough. I can understand the article's bend, though. Basically, that beats a lot of what has passed as official health advice; where not only were the claims unproven, the evidence was usually contrary.
Some things are only simple in retrospect, like the laws of planetary motion as opposed to the older epicyclical orbit theory.

Three is a great game, but there were gaps in the market. The delayed Android release and the fact it couldn't be played on a desktop certainly left a vacuum others would try to fill.
I hear that. On the one hand, it's repeated inconvenience. On the other hand, it's your name, that you've lived with your entire life. A big part of a person's identity in most cases.
I had heard of Threes! but only I was only vaguely aware of it as "a good game".

1024 and 2048 and the others caused me to buy Threes! so the clones get them at least one sale.
This is my all time favorite HN comment!

For everyone who claims there is one true way to write successful software, it should be noted that one of the most popular (or least influential) sites frequented by developers was built on the live server using the REPL!

Maybe PG is the exception that proves the rule, but damn that's awesome.
Medals for drone pilots?
Have you seen the original description for 1024 on the app store? I see they've updated it to be less tasteless, but luckily the internet never forgets:

"No need to pay for ThreesGames. This is a simple and fun gift for you, and it’s free."
Why not put a new mental rule in place: Do not upvote top level comments unless they are extremely new <10 minutes ago. Then you get the benefits of hidden scores and you do not contribute to burying the interesting discussions. It is also worth rethinking blindly up-voting. How reasonable is it to expect a comment scoring system to succeed when users blindly upvote things?
What I don't get is why the government even fought the case.

I can understand the idiotic bureaucracy that can make it impossible to challenge the list. But once you finally do challenge it - why would the government fight it?
Which article did you read? Not only was there no discussion of the cost of false negatives, there was very little treatment of the actual cost of false positives, just a nebulous assertion that its bad for kids to be on pills.

I would say the point of the article is here is a list of reasons why it might be over-diagnosed, some people on both sides of that, 50% puffed up with human interest pap about the Boy Whisperer
How Facebook’s Own EdgeRank Algorithms Are Killing Facebook
What is a normal death?
No, while the length of the human lifespan consuming a certain product might be reduced the environmental impact that the person's diet had remains. Meat production has very real environmental impacts.[1]

Switching to a vegetarian diet, or even to a meat that consumes less resources to produce[3], drastically reduces one's environmental impact.[2]

Meat consumption also has direct fiscal impacts by way of the increased cost of treatment for those that consume meat.

If the price of grain increases because of an increased demand for meat then the world's poor will be the ones most negatively impacted.[4]

Disclaimer: I currently consume all forms of meat, including beef.

[1] https://woods.stanford.edu/environmental-venture-projects/co...

[2] http://css.snre.umich.edu/css_doc/CSS09-05.pdf

[3] http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/1997/08/us-could-feed-80...

[4] http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/27/weekinreview/27bittman.htm...
Unequivocally, yes.

You can haggle over the $'s and %'s all day - but what you can't argue over is where your company stands after YC, especially in the eyes of customers & investors.

Some people have the ability to never worry about investors, but for those who don't, it is insanely helpful. And most of the shift in opinion is based on how your product is being used by customers, which is the primary focus of many YC partners.

Once again for good measure: Yes.
One fear I think about is choosing a good UI/UX for an MVP. Users might get used to it and it could be hard to significantly change it later on.
Couldn't agree less. What's more, is see this advertisement of YC on this news channel, and tons of people who went to YC defending YC? 6% equity for doing nothing while the best employees work like slaves and get nothing more than bread?! (I don't count introductions/connections as work - Sorry guys.) - Clearly YC seems to have figured out how to get the good startups together and milk them of 6% for doing nothing! How hard is it to figure that out - oh here is one formula - "ou're growing your revenue and sales by 10% every week for 80 weeks - awesome - give us 6%" - these companies have already proved themselves. No Steve Blank's book is not worth 6%, nor is introductions. They will come for free, just decline your YC invitations.
The best kind are the ones that change the icons with every iteration (Ubuntu, I'm looking at you), so you can't even memorize the icons.
We are going strong on http://hubski.com.
It's dying?
After YC - Customers? Please talk about Investors. Customers have no regard for YC. They look at your company and your product, your value addition. Which probably you've already proved, by the time you've gotten into YC.
Synthetic Biology: DIY chromosomes
Yep. iOS 6 has some nice APIs, iOS 7 is even better.

According to a company called Mixpanel Trends [1], iOS 7.x is currently on 89% of all Apple devices. iOS 6 is just under 10% and iOS 5 and before is under 1.5%.

Since you can't downgrade and devices ship with the latest version, that means that anyone running iOS 5 or iOS 6 is also running an older device with lower performance. If you're doing a resource heavy game it may not even run well on those devices even if you did work to support them.

1. https://mixpanel.com/trends/#report/ios_7
Unfortunately, as you noticed, it is not possible to share folders within a sandboxed app folder. We plan to remove this restriction in the coming months.
If a better UX turns out to make less money I'd say the problem to be solved is with the monetisation, not the UX
I've been using Meteor since this past September. Great to see there's only 1 more update prior to 1.0.
Glad you like it! Let me know how it turns out - my ideal would be to evolve it to use a 3d-printed servo mount rather than cardboard and duct tape, but it's a good start!
He did it willfully without any remorse.
Which 2048 are you referring to? The creator of the one that hit it off on HN said that they weren't aware of Threes until after it took off [0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7373927
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I believe it does, yes. The point is that when you clear them later, the browser has a static guarantee that that float will not matter anymore. So the complexity due to the float is only relevant until the clear, and it can parallelize before and after the clear.
Prior restraint solutions sit very badly with me: there's a reason that "prior restraint on speech" is near or at the top of the list of First Amendment no-nos (yes, the First Amendment applies to US government entities rather than private entities; the lesson is still valuable). It's a gratuitously bad idea to enable the prior restraint feature sitewide and by default. Besides the principle of prior restraint, that has all the hallmarks of being a feature that scales very poorly because it requires human involvement. Requiring human involvement and discretion is the point, so I'm not sure how one could eliminate that. Further, the part of it that say "if a user has a comment in the pending-approval status, they may not post new comments at all," seems very, very likely to have adverse consequences of large scope. People participate in multiple discussions over time and change their minds about them and behave differently in different contexts in response to different prompts. Holding all of their participation hostage to something they've said in the most contentious available context, seems like a great way to exert a chilling effect on participation as a whole.

I strongly, strongly object to and oppose turning on the prior-restraint feature sitewide by default, and especially to the "if a user has a comment in the pending-approval status, they may not post new comments at all" part of the feature.

That said, the history of moderating large discussions, especially in digital media, demonstrates that giving moderators programmatic tools to enforce their judgment is a Good Thing. So if you consider the proposed feature as "Allow moderators to say that any reply to a comment in the tree rooted at Comment Foo, must be human-approved before going live," sounds like a great tool for a moderator to have at their disposal. It is limited in scope and its effects can be judged and known. I think that's a reasonable thing to add, with the caveat that that shouldn't include the "users who have pending comments can't create other comments" part.
Does the lack of a multi-threaded layout engine really matter? Don't pages load fast enough already? And if layout performance really is becoming a problem, particularly in cases of dynamic DOM manipulation etc, isn't that largely the fault of the spec? Even shiny HTML5 is hardly designed for fiendishly complex UI layouts... it's an abomination for programmers and designers alike, and always has been. To this day it still requires herculean effort to achieve things that are trivial with real UI toolkits or publishing tools.

I guess now we're in this hole we best keep digging
I'll say this up front - I know very little about nutrition and diet science. But, your comment makes me think:

-You start with caffeine, a known hunger suppressant

-Meat is high protein, which is (I think) fairly confidently known to be what stops your brain thinking that it is hungry.

These two factors, along with internal knowledge that you're attempting to lose weight and may therefore conciously attempt to eat less, should result in you eating less than you otherwise would.

Yet you purposely eat high fat and low nutrition foods such as butter - if you replaced those with other options - vegetables and starchy carbs - and attempted to eat protein-dense but low fat meats such as chicken breast - would you be still losing as much weight and also overall having a healthier body (which is less likely to lead to problems later in life?).

Obviously this article throws some of those assumptions into question, but I think few people would argue that replacing some fat in a (relatively) high fat diet with vegetables would be a negative for your weight loss or future health.
So we have an unchallenged order to remove the name. However, the article presents no evidence that Ibrahim's name has actually been removed from any lists.

Are you proposing that the US government is planning - as a matter of policy - to ignore that ruling? That's a pretty serious allegation, and one that isn't supported by the evidence in this case.
Thanks, glad you like it! My eventual goal is to evolve it to use a 3d-printed servo mount, but sadly I do not have a 3d printer handy. Would love to see your model though.
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Wow, that's so tragic.
So given that ADHD is, in actual fact, a neurobiological diagnosis, not a psychological diagnosis, then I guess you're stating your support for treating it with drugs?
yeah, perhaps because they're from only the first two rounds of the tournament where games are more likely to be blowouts one way or another.
That's awesome - do you have the 3D printer models up on thingiverse?
Glad you like it! I love doing hardware hacking and am certainly happy that Twilio is open to publishing things like this.
He says he wasn't aware of Threes, I have no reason to doubt him. If I saw a simple game and wanted to make my own version, I wouldn't do in-depth research of the original game either.

He was cloning 1024 which was explicitly a clone of Threes. I was only pointing out there was a chain there.
Potentially they can even untie the Facebook product from the ad model. They could introduce "Facebook Premium" whereby you would pay a small monthly fee and have a different interface due to the space freed up from deciding to not show you ads.
Or read http://www.madinamerica.com/2014/03/psychiatry-admits-wrong-... :

> BL: In Anatomy of an Epidemic, you also discussed the pseudoscience behind the “chemical imbalance” theories of mental illness—theories that made it easy to sell psychiatric drugs. In the last few years, I’ve noticed establishment psychiatry figures doing some major backpedaling on these chemical imbalance theories. For example, Ronald Pies, editor-in-chief emeritus of the Psychiatric Times stated in 2011, “In truth, the ‘chemical imbalance’ notion was always a kind of urban legend—never a theory seriously propounded by well-informed psychiatrists.” ...

> RW: In a sense, Ronald Pies is right. Those psychiatrists who were “well informed” about investigations into the chemical imbalance theory of mental disorders knew it hadn’t really panned out, with such findings dating back to the late 1970s and early 1980s. But why then did we as a society come to believe that mental disorders were due to chemical imbalances, which were then fixed by the drugs? ...

RW then goes on to list a couple of likely reasons.
Ah. I guess at this point I'm so used to the swipe I do it unconsciously.
> it's to look closely at the new thing, understand why people like it better, and then bring that understanding to your next iteration or your next product.

I agree with this, and the "copy, then improve" mindset, along with the customer-centric view, has some great similarities to the "shanzhai" culture in China:

http://designmind.frogdesign.com/articles/shanzhai-s-role-in...

http://p2pfoundation.net/Shanzhai

http://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=284

On the Internet, I see this same remix philosophy manifest itself very strongly in the creation and propagation of memes.
The factors we analyze in nutrition is calories, macro nutrient content, and micro nutrient content. In terms of obesity, what we really care about is satiation and satiety. These are words that no one talks about, and but get to the core of the issue. If I eat this food, how many calories will I consume before feeling full?(satiation). After eating this food, how long until I feel the need to eat again? (sateity).

Unfortunately the research and measurements of these values is thin. We need to fix that. We already know things like whole milk better provides satiation and sateity than skim milk, and children that drink whole milk actually have less obesity than skim milk drinkers.

If we just measured and labeled foods with a sateity/satiation index (what we really care about), then people would actually have a chance to pick better foods. Right now it is damn near impossible to determine if eating eggs and bacon for breakfast is more likely to drive over eating vs cereal. It can be measured, but we just don't do it.
how does that number mean anything when comparing a few hundred to tens of thousands?