skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very interesting, but in some ways contradictory to what I've read elsewhere, which includes:

(1) the effect on humans might be different for men vs. women (with one becoming more withdrawn, and the other more reckless); and

(2) that there's no treatment sure to reach latent cysts, and those that have the best chance have strong negative side effects.

In particular, I've never heard that having a latent infection is better than none-at-all, or that a latent infection protects against reinfection any more than having shaken the disease entirely (which with many diseases leaves residual resistance).

Do you have any references for this 'safer with latent toxoplasmosis' interpretation?
You're setting the base path wrong for xd_receiver.htm would be my guess. FB connect is redirecting to http://socialauth.uswaretech.net/accounts/login/?next=/../xd...
They ... offered to take a look at the problem if I gave them root on the box. “Over my dead body,” I thought

That seems a little silly to me. If they control the hardware, they basically have root already. They shouldn't need root to investigate the alleged problem, of course, but the level of trust you need to grant your VPS provider is essentially the same as giving them root.
Karma isn't necessarily about conforming to majority views because (and I've especially practiced this at HN) it is completely reasonable to upvote a comment you disagree with. Of course, not everyone would agree with Voltaire, but I have seen enough civil disagreement within this community to believe that "Karma" at HN works the way it was supposed to. Moreover, insight is gained by thinking and doing, and those insights are often enriched by discussion with those who bring other perspectives to the table. By "rewarding" people who contribute to productive discussion, we help to encourage the HN community to enrich our existing insights.
Noted for factual reference here is that almost no one gets the same IQ score twice, if tested more than once, so it can be a little bit better to say, "My IQ score when I was tested at [age] on [brand of test]" rather than to say "My IQ." That said, there is a known phenomenon in the literature on education of gifted students of high-IQ young people being bored with school because it is underchallenging and getting poor grades. That is inexpedient, but I definitely saw it happen in my generation and I have seen it happen in the current generation.
Good points. But not everyone cares about maximizing karma. For most people, it just happens.

What karma does is allow people to find out that you aren't just a troll even if a particular comment is rated at -10.
So we think heavy things are important, and we use the word heavy (or, more formally, weighty) to mean important. In fact, gravitas means something like importance as well. I wonder which direction the causality flows. The article speculates that it might flow from experience (as an infant) to language...which would suggest that languages other than English should have similar metaphors. Anyone know of any?
> the proposed medical insurance bills in Congress would raise overall employment costs in the U.S. That assertion is what I took issue with

Your response was to claim that the govt could write checks cheaply. It's fair to point out that that response isn't relevant to the question.

> For one thing, no one is proposing "govt [sic] healthcare".

Sure they are - that's what the "govt option" is.

We have experience with lots of experience with "govt healthcare" in the US outside of Medicare and the VA. We have the Indian Health Service. We have the various state programs. and so on.

Besides, proponents of ObamaCare can't honestly ignore Medicare. They're fond of saying "we can save 30%". Since the elderly get 70% of today's spending, getting close to 30% savings means that Obamacare must reduce the cost of Medicare or it has to cut all other healthcare spending to near 0.

I'm actually all for letting Obama experiment on folks who get healthcare from govt funding (both actual govt programs and govt employees who get private healthcare). If you include federal, state, and local, that's about as many people as are currently in the private system

I think that he should have free rein to do whatever he thinks will work with those folks and the amount of money that we're spending on them today. However, in 2011, 2012, 2013, and 2014, the per-person budget should be cut by 5%. Since that's less than 20% and he's promising 30%, that's a slam dunk, and he can even use the savings to bring more people into the program.

If he's right, folks on this govt plan will be healthier and so on and the savings will be too big to ignore. If he's wrong, govt employees and the like will revolt.

Deal?
Technically the police can break down my door too, but that doesn't mean that I'm going to trust them with a key. There are both social reasons (a key is an invitation) and technical (it's much more noticeable if they break down the door).
HN has a feature request thread,

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=363

which I count on the curators to read regularly.
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As I note in the article, they already had placed a CPU cap on me. They could have lowered it to whatever my fair share is instead of breaking into my box and turning off my webserver.
That's my point - some people got high karma by posting intelligent comments, but many others just got it by posting a lot and echoing popular views. So, karma score in itself is pretty useless, in my opinion.
Hear hear.

The title is pretty much true by definition, since the traditional "factory" education system is so highly structured.

Intelligence, OTOH, could be construed as an adaptation to an unstructured, real world.
>Give an accountant some love for an hour, a.k.a. avoid "making friends" with the IRS
>Price: $420.00

Do accountants really make $420/hour? I'm in the wrong field...
Are you referring to opening books and endgame tablebases? They are not "preprogarmmed" into the chess engines (at least I have never seen one since the late 90s).

For UCI protocol the openbooks and TB are handled by the GUI - with an option to not use them. Same with the winboard protocol engine - but the engines handle the opening book and TB with the option to not use them if configured. Nothing is pre-programmed.

Opening book is the combination of best moves in the opening stages of the game taken from 1000s of games played by human players. Chess engine uses them to "minimize" the error in opening position. They can beat even the best grandmaster without opening book.

End-game Tablebases are every possible combination of moves at the end of the game. Currently only 3-4-5-6 pieces TBs are available (a combination of ~1.6 Terabyte of data).

Again, nothing is pre-programmed. Using them gives them an advantage of ~30-40 ELo points, which means little when you are already 300-500 elo points stronger than the strongest human opponent (fair guestimation IMO)

EDIT: Just realized you wrote "reprogrammed" not "preprogrammed", not sure what do you mean by "between rounds" and "Cheating". Most strong chess programs are binary builds and most of them use popular protocols like UCI and Winboard to handle GUI functions and everything is automated so I am kinda confused by the "reprogrammed" part.
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I find this incredibly hard to believe. 1.5 Billion apps downloaded in about the first year, generously 10% of those are paid downloads.

150 Million apps generating 2.5 billion in revenue? When reasonable estimates suggest that about 40-50% of the apps sold go for $1?
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Sounds like you've got spyware: http://www.2-spyware.com/remove-livevirusscanner7com.html
Intriguing idea. Maybe I'll do something like that.
Your point about valuing an opinion more highly from a person who is known to be accurate on a subject is valid. In the arguments case, I think it's easy enough to follow an A/B conversation, even without names.

In the first case though, it still seems that the majority of comments here are not so specialized as to require the posters identity to determine if the content is accurate enough or not. Ideally, if you could not judge the accuracy of the comment on your own you would leave it alone. There would be enough others that could judge it impartially that the comment itself would get voted up or down appropriately.
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"You're a genius if you're doing calculus at age 14."

Ha!
I've had good service from Linode for nearly 2 years: http://www.linode.com/?r=73dc8f5748a14c821e64febc5e461a606f6...
His point isn't that Scheme's syntax is elegant, but that the syntax is simple.

There's no need to worry about the precedence of operators, or indentation, or why you use one character to separate function parameters and variable declarations, but you use another character to separate the arguments of a "for" statement, which happens to be the same character you need to use at the end of statements (but as a terminator, not a separator), but don't forget that control structures are not separate statements even though they're on separate lines, etc.

Each of these points is an obstacle between the beginning programmer's intent and a running program. Scheme's almost total lack of syntax gets a beginning programmer started quicker.
Yes, but in this case they weren't breaking down your door (at least not yet anyway). They were asking for a key for entry in order to assist you.

You could have most likely also given them an account and appropriate sudoer rights.
It's instructive to note this analysis is based on a self-selected sample of 1000 iphone, ipod touch and android users.
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I find that this is the case with most articles posted on alternet.org.
Thanks for the heads up. I just looked into my account and noticed that the dialer access number (347...) that GV is using changed for me. It seems like they are adding more numbers as it grows. What would entirely defeat the myfaves trick is if the dialer calls a random google number each time (of course I'm sure then there would be a competing 3rd party GV app that let you specify a number).
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Keep in mind that this might have adverse affects on the community. I upvote/downvote sparingly, but after over a year of reading people's comments, I feel like I "know" certain people because I recognize trends in what they say.
An End To Unencrypted Digital Cable TV and the HTPC?
They are likely using Virtuozzo-based VPSs which, unlike Xen, don't properly implement resource limits.
Ask HN: CMS and Shopping Carts? (from the view of a web developer)
I graduated from college this past year, so I've just begun working full time on my web startup. I just consulted with a couple of high school band directors who want to redesign their web site. They're asking for advice and/or someone to do it. I've agreed to consult with them a bit to give advice on their options, but have not yet offered to undertake the job myself.

Their current site is just static pages maintained by a volunteer; they want to be able to edit their own content and sell products and stadium tickets on their new site.

As a web (Pylons) developer, I know how to create completely custom sites, but I am unfamiliar with the landscape of CMS and E-Commerce solutions out there.

Two questions:

1. What CMS and/or E-Commerce products out there would you recommend for something like this?

2. Should I accept this side project myself (if the CMS/e-commerce isn't hard to maintain) or should I continue focusing exclusively on my startup? (I suppose I should consider time, energy, cost... Gut instinct says to keep my focus, but the experience/name-dropping might be beneficial in the long run)
Wow, that's a ton of material. Has anyone seen these before? Are they worth the time investment?

It looks like they're a few years old, so I wonder if they are still pertinent.
I don't see HN karma as a reward system, but a way to promote good, civil discussion.
This only works if you have naturally broad shoulders. If you don't have broad shoulders and you're heavy, you tend to look like a dough ball.

I'm sure a lot of this is more down to human's perceptions, broad shoulders are essentially equivalent to strength. You weren't afraid of the beanpole in school, you was afraid of the cubic jock.

A large proportion of female founders and CEO's typically have broader shoulders, and the same is usually true for male CEO's. The same is true with congressmen/women. This has been recognised for a long time, I mean look at the portraits of Henry VIII and virtually any other king, and even queens.
I have been using RimuHosting for my own projects and for customers for test deployments for years - so far I have had good experiences with them. They did complain once that I was using too much CPU, but I checked, and found problems (my fault) with a Merb deployment).
Except that the need to manually deal with CPU usage shows that they are amateur idiots.

There's no reason to be assigning VPSes to particular machines in 2009 -- distribute the damn things instead of selling shared hosting like in the bad old days (except this time with VM overhead!).
Did you read the article? They edited my partition to add their key to my authorized_keys, logged in with it, and turned off my webserver. Whatever that is, it's not asking to assist me.
It would have made a lot more sense for them to just pause your VPS.
There's a social difference, yes. In this case, I'm not sure the technical difference is all that large: if they were at all competent, they could have easily snooped on your VM without your knowledge.
Apparently feeding an engineer for a day costs $273. Imagine Google's profits if they didn't have the cafeteria.
This is a great project.

Anyone who is looking for an alternate to SQL should check MongoDB out. Now that they have reached a stable milestone it seems like a no brainer for write-often read-rarely types of applications (logging, metrics). It's lightning fast.

Setup is a breeze now that they have distributable packages for Mac/Linux/Windows in both 32 and 64 bit versions available.

I do wish they would create an officially supported C# driver. I think it would really give their adoption rate a boost.
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I have this on my G1. Very useful app. For finding new places its a whole different experience than anything I've seen. Layar in addition to Google Places Directory helps me find whatever I need, wherever I am (mostly places to get coffee).
Heavy things cost more to ship, therefore as the relative weight of any given piece of equipment goes up, so does the price. And we all know that pricier things are better, right?

Unless you are talking about equipment for activities that actively value lightness (camping, rock climbing, hang-gliding).
Several of our customers are hosted with Rimuhosting, and we've interacted with them on a number of occasions because of that. In my experience they are very responsive, knowledgeable, and helpful. That's not to say this isn't a pretty irritating set of events...and silently shutting down Apache shouldn't be anyone's first instinct.

But, I've had bad experiences with literally every single host I've ever used (dozens of them), and the longer you stay with a provider, the more likely you are to find a tech having a bad day, or their network fiber getting cut by the utility company, or various other demonstrations of man's fallibility.

I think the good probably still outweighs the bad with Rimuhosting...as Aaron mentioned, they do have a good reputation among many people who ought to know. The horror stories I hear about really bad hosts leave this event in the dust in terms of sheer stupidity and lack of good intentions. If this is the worst you've ever experienced with a hosting provider, count yourself very, very lucky. The data loss stories I've heard, in particular, are enough to keep me awake at night.

In the interest of full disclosure, I'll mention that Rimuhosting is a customer of ours (along with thousands of others). So, if you reckon a commercial relationship worth a few hundred bucks a year would sway my opinions, feel free to take this comment with a grain of salt or not at all.
sigh

"We kind of missed the iPhone, what was it like, was anyone interested? By the way, here's our latest high-paper-spec clunky-interface do-everything completely average premium phone, what do you think?"

:(

Look at the second video - see how the scrolling transitions are all jerky, how he has to make two attempts at "swiping from the left" to get a mouse cursor and after it works, he's dragging an annoying selection around the screen. Look how they give two options for zooming, the double tap which appears to zoom in on something he didn't tap on, and the spiral which is slow and wobbles the page around a lot. Look how he talks about it as if it was a list of features in a box - which is pretty much what it looks like.
Admittedly I was peeved when I read it, but you have to consider the reality, rather than the ideal.

You can already deduct medical expenses and charitable donations in the US, and "donating" to family members is ripe for tax fraud. It's just not realistic. But igoring that, the thrust of that part of the op-ep was that this would pay for all those who can't afford insurance is absolutely ridiculous -- basically just, like I said, dumb and really naive.

As for the second, while it may be true that "many" problems are self-inflicted in a technical sense, that rather vague statement is not the point. The point is what it implies. It implies that if everyone just ate their greens, we'd see less of a problem. Not only is it basically wrong (look up the stats). It's insulting because you're implicitly blaming a significant ("many") part of the healthcare problem on the people who... seek out healthcare. This is, again, stupid, and not the debate -- WHile people could take better care of themselves, they aren't ruining the system with hangnails and type 2 diabetes caused by Twinkies. That just isn't happening the way he implies. What we are talking about is a significant class of people who do not seek out healthcare because they cannot afford it.
Also the average of $10 per month spent on apps by iPhone users... seems on the high side.
And in my experience, "picking up the concepts" isn't enough. The learning that matters happens in the doing.
This is a really great suggestion - many non-profits will go for it; keeps their staff (you) happy, keeps you connected to them, and they can bother you on "freelance days" too.

But that's the problem: you've probably already got more on your plate than a time-serving big-corporate IT person would. And being present means that you're first and foremost available to the people in your vicinity.

Keeping the relationship with the NP in good shape can be hard work; some colleagues may consider you a money-hungry sell-out (and the conversations with your customers may just reinforce this idea), more problematically keeping the perception of balance in your interest in the NP versus outside clients could be difficult.

Good luck!
I signed up for spotify through a Euro proxy last week. I'm american.

It's amazing. The sound quality is fantastic. The performance is great. The selection is out of this world. I don't even care that I don't own the music I'm listening to.
Did I read it right? Do you really want to raise another script kiddie? There are tons of ways to teach him ethical hacking, games are the easiest and the most fun. Show him how to mod a shooter, or download something like Game Maker and show him how to create a simple platform game. Don't teach him the kind of silly trick that can put him in more trouble.

By the way, why you are assuming that, because he likes computers, he will like hacking? Most male teenagers like cars, but very few of them are interested in fixing or modding them. Help him find his own vocation, and support him. He doesn't seem to be the kind of kid you can "shape", anyway.
i have a script that reads django models.py files and constructs OmniGraffle object models. hmm...could be neat to go the other way since i usually make the diagrams first...i wrote the script because once the main idea is figured out then i'll make lots of iterative changes in the code and not want to update the diagram so carefully..

i'm still working out the details. but i'll post here as soon as that's all good :-)
not sure if anyone else is interested, i guess.
If you really want to stay in your current position (ie. you have a strong desire to contribute to the goals of that organization), another option would be to negotiate reduced hours for the same pay (say, 20 hours/week).

Depending on the organization, you might be able to recruit some part time volunteer or intern help to pick up the slack.

Then use the extra time for side consulting and/or working on a startup.
I kind of want some example source code for, uh, security testing.
Curiously, I've heard the opposite. A friend who went through a Master's program in education relayed something his special education professor said: "I don't know what IQ tests measure, but they do it precisely."
I disagree. There are people on here that I don't want to waste my time reading at all, they're more or less consistent trolls (who knows, maybe I'm one for some people). I may miss out on some accidentally or authentically insightful commentary now and then because I completely skip over comments by certain people, but there's enough insightful commnentary in the universe that I can live with it.

Reputations are important.
It sounds like the organization can afford less than half of him. So, it may be advantageous for everyone to cut his work in half. In that event, he would be able to freelance or work half time at another similar organization or work on building a new company.
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I am a woman with extremely broad shoulders (and an abnormally high amount of muscle mass, not to mention man-sized extremities). I've sometimes wondered if part of the reason I am the way I am, attitudinally, is due to the kind of hormone configuration that would build my body this way.

But, in any event -- you have to be careful if you're saying "women CEOs have broader shoulders" and then compare it to fictional depictions of people from the pre-photographic past (e.g. portraits). For the longest time, portraits were in many ways symbolic and metaphorical. Features would be highlighted, added, or exaggerated to make a statement. Not to mention the staging of the whole thing.

Think about that famous painting of the scarily-dressed, hook-nosed man and the pregnant woman. It is a painting depicting a wedding, and yet the woman is comically pregnant. I've read quite a bit about this painting, tho its name escapes me -- and everything seems to argue that not only is her pregnancy purely symbolic (fruitful), but so is much of the rest of the setting. It is notable also because there is a convex mirror behind them, showing their backs and the room. The bit of art criticism I was reading, about mirrors, made the case that even the mirror was symbolic of the past.
The article fails to mention that:

a) cable companies will not be allowed to encrypt the local stations (Fox, ABC, etc)

b) Non-local expanded basic stations that are currently in unencrypted digital (Bravo, MTV, DSC etc) are at best 480p and usually 480i, so having to use an analog tuner from an STB doesn't result in any quality loss.

c) Many markets don't get the expanded basic stations in an unencrypted format already.
Careful application of typography and white space.