skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, in particular the lines:

* Creating AJAX contact form

* Building AJAX registration/login forms

Maybe it's just me, but that language kind of reminds me of the copy-paste era of Javascript development, where developers who don't understand JS semantics jump right into messing with login systems. Like 10 years ago it would have been "Building DHTML page counters". OFC I don't know if that impression reflects the actual material or not, though.

IMO if you're going to tell someone how to build AJAX contact forms, you would be better served writing a library to do it for them with a comprehensible API that makes it hard for people to fuck it up, or to start by explaining the basics of jQuery AJAX and selectors and event handlers and let people build the idea themselves from solid foundations. If someone really groks jQuery (or even vanilla JS), writing a contact form is a little tedious but not something that needs a tutorial or guide.
tips are supposed to go to tips@techcrunch.com but when I was there it was a total firehose you had to filter out into a folder and wade through all at once. You'd probably be okay emailing a writer directly if you have a good reason to think they rather than someone else should be receiving your pitch.
tldr: grains and legumes are cheap and healthy
Does anyone know how the T-shirts are being printed?
Around here it's "it doesn't matter if I suffer, as long as my neighbour suffers more than I do". It's even a saying.

The experiment seems ripe for gaming though - just have the control group gradually lose productivity (if needed) to be just below the test group, so it seems like 30hrs/week is definitely better than 40hrs/week. Assuming they're measuring productivity with some easy to game number, which I hope they aren't.
that's why the wisdom of the crowd works better for guessing a slaughtered ox's weight at the fair than it does on HN or Reddit. There is obviously a very large group of very smart individuals who regular HN, to disagree comes with the fear of looking stupid and being downvoted
Isn't cook time usually closer to 55 minutes after pressure?
Dang, not bad. I also buy my food weekly at Trader Joe's and have been spending twice that much ($70 a week):

7 * 1lb Grass Fed Angus Beef $6 = $42,
2 * 8oz Kerrygold Unsalted Butter $3.25 = $6.50,
2 * 12oz Kerrygold Dubliner Cheese $4.50 = $9,
2 * 12 Cage Free Eggs $3.25 = $6.50,
2 * Charles Shaw Cabernet $3 = $6
>3) Buy in season produce from the poor areas of town and/or drive out to an actual farmers market.

Don't forget to factor in the cost of the difference in gas used when driving to farmer's markets/the poor areas of town.

Also, don't forget that poor areas of town might actually have MORE expensive produce (http://www.foodispower.org/food-deserts/).
Wow, that's a pretty amazing amount of fiber and a great success story. I would caution applying this advice to everyone, though. As anyone who has a lot of intestinal inflammation can tell you very quickly: fiber is like steel wool dragging through there. Ouch! I think this especially highlights how IBS is a range of causes/symptoms, not one distinct disorder.
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If you are taking supplements clearly you are not eating well.
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I don't know about the Openreach comparison being completely invalid - Openreach was only created in 2006, 12 years after BT was fully privatised.

Is there a reason why the FCC couldn't provide a similiar regulatory climate in the US? Even with subsidies if required?
@Paul_Dessert: you don't try especially hard to hide them.
I hate to be a downer but you're flirting with disaster here. Copyright infringement everywhere.
We've had a similar argument internally. In load testing, we're not bounded by the speed of our JSON parsing, and if we were we'd probably just swap that endpoint to use a different message body provider before moving to a totally binary RPC model.

Especially in the Java world, where Jackson + Afterburner is fast enough for most cases. Protobufs/Thrift will smoke it in most performance tests, true enough, but when you're waiting on a database or algorithm to run, what's JSON serialization?

There's certainly benefits at extreme scale, but not enough to justify the loss of tooling that comes with it until necessary.
Wake me when there is an open baseband that cannot be arbitrarily controlled by the carrier (and possibly has up to DMA access to your phone).

There is no secure phone until then.
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This feels very much like the kind of thing Marc Andreessen would complain about. Whatever the original good intent government created a monopoly or duopoly in many markets for cable companies. So now we have a lack of competition. Now we need more government regulation on top of the regulation in place to fix the original problem. It seems to me that sites like NetFlix are artificially cheap because they're subsidized by all websites and end users paying into the internet access pool and that artifical cheapness results in? Higher usage which in turn drags down the overall performance of ISP's.
Just be careful about botulism! You can mitigate the risk by straining the oil or keeping it in the fridge.
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With those skillsets you'd make for a ninja-like WordPress developer. I could give you work all the time especially with low-level knowledge as well as being able to work with front end designers.
If you want competition, perhaps the simplest way of doing it might be for municipalities to provide universal service at layer -1: run an underground plastic pipe to each house from the street. That way it suddenly becomes cheap for multiple telcos to run fibre to each house, but the municipalities aren't doing anything with an ongoing technical burden which they might be bad at, or running an ongoing service which might be subject to some kind of capture.
Of course, this assumes that laying a pipe isn't drastically more expensive than fibre, which I don't know.
I bet their lobster wasn't buttered up, though.
First of all, they acknowledged the conflict of interest.

Are you suggesting, based on zero evidence, that their findings were somehow fabricated - a claim that if true would ruin the careers and lives of the scientists at hand?

While not unthinkable, it is a type of conspiracy theory thought. Should you have a problem with their methods, data acquisition, etc etc. then it would be a completely different story, but to dismiss something based on some sort of belief is very unscientific.
Do you have another other dietary restrictions, other than the fiber and water? Just curious. Thanks.
I am happy to see this. Coincidence is that I am on €49 budget right now (training self discipline).
Thats €7 a day.
BUT - I do not eat anything from cans or anything pre-made.
All fresh meat, veggies and self made food - for 2 people. No bread and avoiding packaged food.

Sure - you wont get any Whiskey or Cola for it. You wont be able to go to restaurant. Or buy crisps. But thats the point - living healthy.

I dont like how author lives off cans - its not that healthy. You can make most of food much cheaper at home. Cans are mostly unnecessary. I propose to all to try this. Leaving for udner $10/€10 a day out of all healthy and self made foods.
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I'd say it stands to reason that people didn't want to miss the outcome.

You could imagine someone casually watching the game is now suddenly riveted to what he or she is watching since the intensity and drama just spiked.
Aside from the pressure cooker comments elsewhere...

Dry beans really do need a soak. When you bring a pot full of cold water legumes to a boil (assuming you haven't presoaked over night in cold water) turn them off the heat and let them sit for 1-2 hours. Even though they are off of direct heat, the cooking time is similar to if you had left them boiling that whole time.
TechCrunch, being under the AOL umbrella, is using AOL's email systems. Not sure how good their spam filters are.
Everyone who grew up during the Cold War knows this instinctively!
You're right. That should have read: "who are tired of being told new and exciting ways to do their jobs by new> politicians and loud-mouths in the media, but that really only amount to what we did five years ago."

Really, though, it's less that we're told what and how to do it, and more that the what and how is generally 5-10 years behind current research and practice.

For example, current practice under common core standards is what was being taught in the late 90's and early 2000's in teacher preparation programs. We knew it worked then, but that movement didn't have the political willpower/firepower of NCLB.
Nothing that takes skill-building and effort is practical.

Programming isn't practical, either. And yet, here we are.

The skills and effort pay off.
Adding appropriate commas doesn't help, afaict.
"it doesn't look unhealthy"

So many people here will go to the ends of the earth to find good science to report when it comes to just about any other issue except food and nutrition and exercise (things they owe their basic continued existance and well being to, things you would think they would take a lot of time and effort to find the best possible sources of information on...).

However, time after time all I see are comments and attitudes that espouse the best available knowledge of 1996.
Excellent! I feel so stupid busting out my credit card to make a $4 purchase. I will purchase one of these VPSs when I get home.
Be careful the movie is available for free on Youtube/Vimeo for a very limited time! After the 24hr free-view period, the movie will be offline (see. http://www.thehackermovie.com/about/ ).
> If its going to take more than 4-8 hours to setup and/or more than 1-2/hours a month to maintain, I'd rather get a credit card out and just pay for it.

Is it clear that paying helps you set it up and maintain it? I sincerely doubt it. That's assuming you don't need to configure/customize/extend the solution; Some OSS software are leagues easier than proprietary solutions - and have guides online and the like. Finding experienced implementers who only charge 4-8 hours to implement and 1-2 hrs a month to keep you maintained for a proprietary solution may also be a very small pool.
Sneakers is nice, but keep in mind that RabbitMQ has a huge problem with partitions -- which can occur even on flawless networks, but will certainly occur frequently on VPS systems like AWS and Digital Ocean. See [1] for an excellent analysis.

Unfortunately, once you have a partition there is no way to merge the isolated nodes back into the cluster; since queues "live" on the node they were initially created on, this could be extremely disruptive. The only way to recover is to discard queue data.

I love how RabbitMQ works, but it's terrible in a virtualization environment. Unfortunately there aren't any worthwhile competitors. Kafka comes closest, but it lacks support for topic fanouts, which means every producer has to know about every client, which isn't really acceptable.

[1] http://aphyr.com/posts/315-call-me-maybe-rabbitmq
I don't understand what you're talking about in the context of my comment. What skill are we talking about?
Sure. I'll clarify about the material and progression so that it's clear.

First you build the HTML of the form (chapter 1 covers that). Then you learn how to work with visual feedback (spinners and alerts, chapters 2 & 3). Then creating AJAX contact form integrates the stuff from chapters 1-3 to create AJAX contact form and connect it with the backend. Chapter 5 goes a step further - building login and registration forms using stuff from chapters 1-4 plus inline validation, integrating all previous components and things you built.

The book isn't for noobs. The prerequisites section (https://leanpub.com/frontend/read#leanpub-auto-about-the-aut...) clearly explains that so the developers who don't understand JS semantics or don't know the basics of web applications should learn something else before they get back to this book.
> Honestly, what I find most striking is how bad cable boxes are simply because there is no completion.

Anecdotally, my Comcast X1 is worlds ahead of the old Comcast boxes. Not perfect, but no longer so bad that I look longingly at Tivos. So, slowly but surely, they're making some progress...
Thanks! You may be interested to know that we just announced Petabyte and larger file systems at 3 c/GB...
A "syndrome" is a classification of related signs and symptoms without relating them to a single underlying cause, so yeah, that's what it means. As more is learned about the causes, different disorders can be removed from the syndrome.
He has a compilation copyright, but not copyright on the individual images.

If you leave a camera in public for a few days, then come back and edit the result into a movie you have copyright for the movie, but not for the individual stills that make it up.

To have copyright on the stills (rather than the compilation) you have to have some creativity into making them, not merely selecting them.
I wonder if there's a strong correlation between those who suffer IBS and people working in this industry. Seems to me like the mentality to continually push forward and overwork/stress ourselves can only contribute to poorer health both mentally and physically. Personally I suffer from.. Hmm, I'd say IBS-D based on the classifications mentioned here, although my symptoms are fairly mild (however, very consistent - ~5 years and counting..) save for a few more painful symptoms every now and again. There was an article on here last week talking about the strong correlation between our guts and our brain as well. These articles seem to gain a lot of popularity here on HN, which makes me think that this problem is more wide spread than it appears (perhaps just amongst HNers)

I'll report that I too have personally experienced a strong link between my gut and my mental state (I occasionally suffer mild panic attacks). I'm tired of having bowel problems - if anyone has any suggestions that have worked for them I'm open to hearing them (and I'm sure there's plenty of people reading who too are looking for suggestions). I've been working on removing wheat from my diet - I can't speak to the effectiveness yet as I've only just begun.
As long as you avoid dented cans (risk of botulism) and strain off the liquid before using the contents (too much salt, risk of high blood pressure and kidney failure), canned foods are perfectly healthy.
This is nothing more than a modern debt-collection agency.

That may not be an entirely bad thing, though. I can just see it getting out of hand if this is not done correctly.
IPv6 is expensive from your DC? What's their reasoning there? Most places are pretty much giving IPv6 space away.
The opening paragraph indicates otherwise. It's not very well-written.
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Under this system, I'd just eat out for every meal and net a budget of $0/week.
:-) this data is equal path as measured by odometer : I was lazy and did not use longitude/latitude for distance. The data itself has miles travelled.

though a bit surprising : 45% of rides are single person rides. But then I wonder : what's surprising : is it low or is it high?
I hate this guy so much.
Sure, we seem to be popular on forums with people sharing "wtf is up with these shirts" or "would you wear these"? The first comment always seems to be "no." then the rest are positive. Also, a few of those shutupandtakemymoney type places have done posts on us and those have really high conversion rates. Lastly, I use places like FunnyJunk and 9GAG as a place to repost twitter pics. It's my first time on those, so I'm still trying to learn their communities.

Our Kim Jong Il shirt is crushing it, which I didn't expect, and people are sharing it / finding up on Instagram and twitter. I am going to expand and utilize those social media platforms more such as a "4chan designs shirts" board on pinterest. We have virality on our side with this, but I think most B2C companies need something others want to talk about.

We have high conversion off facebook but I don't do anything on it. So, it most be others sharing links and pictures that I can't see. We also have a large "direct" group of sales that I have no information on how they found us.

EDIT: I can't reply as fast as I'd like to due to spam restrictions in place. I didn't use my main account for this post.
At-least-once[1] queues are sound under bounded partitioning and can withstand any specified amount of data loss[2]. Uncorrected data corruption errors cause whole-system failure in non-distributed systems as well as distributed ones and the solutions are the same in both.

You're not just throwing a bunch of queues at the problem and hoping they stick. Your queue based system is in one of two states: it has a specified amount of fault tolerance based on its design, or it is defective (see the 'call me maybe' posts.) If you have a defective distributed system adding more nodes makes it worse, so it is vitally important to know which one you have and design accordingly.

[1] Calling them zero or more times queues is profoundly bullshit in that it conflates faults (multiple delivery) and failures (non-delivery), which is reliability 101. Failures are expected to propagate; faults must not, and a design which attempts to work around failure instead of just faults is almost certainly a sign of deep confusion.

[2] This doesn't violate CAP because a client must write to enough nodes that it can be certain that it is not part of a doomed partition (potential loss of availability), or pretend the write succeeded without that guarantee (potential loss of consistency).
Even a C compiler is allowed to reorder instructions. How is any compiler supposed to know if you prefer performance (and therefore reordering) or to to rely on a processor-specific feature? That's why any language that runs on more than one architecture needs to define a language-level memory model.
If they are willing to do that, then I guess the age of email spam has passed.
According to Wikipedia, Carl Pfeiffer[1] researched mental illnesses, mainly schizophrenia, from the point of brain chemistry imbalances and dietary changes to alter it.

The theory is, that there are chemical imbalances with patient's brain chemistry which can be influenced by dietary means. There's a book called Nutrient Power[2] which goes on about this theory and Pfeiffer. I haven't read it, but admittedly it sounds interesting. But then again, maybe it's all woowoo (It's rated as #1 bestseller in homeopathy medicine by Amazon, go figure).

Then again, for example many vitamin deficiencies alter mood and general "energy levels", and for example fish oil (or omega-3 fatty acids), according to Examine.com's[3] user-collaborated round-up, shows some effects on mental well-being, more on the physical functioning of the body though.

Be skeptical.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Pfeiffer_%28pharmacologis...
2: http://www.amazon.com/Nutrient-Power-Heal-Biochemistry-Brain...
3: http://examine.com/supplements/Fish+Oil/
Haha, yeah Bitcoin support was a good shout.
Unrelated to the topic: that logo animation (as you scroll) is very distracting.
You're right about most of the funding but NCLB has provisions to redistribute federal money to specific schools. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Child_Left_Behind_Act#Fundi... And while you don't get specific questions, you can see example tests to see what subjects are covered, how much is multiple choice vs essay, etc.
Are you on a paleo-and-wino diet?
It's not totally clear to me if they were asked by Apple to do this, or if they're doing it proactively.

Either way, it's a bummer. Fork while you can :-)
To me there is a lot of irony in investing public money into startups when most citizens cannot easily invest in startups themselves given the accredited investor capital requirements.

Here's how I see the irony unfolding in broad strokes:

1) Average middle class person wants to invest some extra money in a startup, but cannot easily do it because he does not meet the SEC requirements to be an accredited investor (http://www.sec.gov/answers/accred.htm)

2) The State of Hawaii invests public money in startups (in this case based on cronyism -- even worse)

3) Where did that money come from? Tax revenue. Who contributes to tax revenue? The average middle class person from #1.

So basically the person is investing in startups in a roundabout fashion. He just can't choose which ones he invests in and he misses out on the major upside of successful startups. Of course, if the startups fail and the state loses its money, the state will go right back to the average person for more tax revenue.
Selecting which outputs to post is not sufficient to establish copyright. See the copyright office's example of a piece of driftwood selected, polished, and mounted by a human:

503.03(a) Works-not originated by a human author.

In order to be entitled to copyright registration, a work must be the product of human authorship. Works produced by mechanical processes or random selection without any contribution by a human author are not registrable. Thus, a linoleum floor covering featuring a multicolored pebble design which was produced by a mechanical process in unrepeatable, random patterns, is not registrable. Similarly, a work owing its form to the forces of nature and lacking human authorship is not registrable; thus, for example, a piece of driftwood even if polished and mounted is not registrable.

http://www.copyrightcompendium.com/#503.03(a)
But which came first, the intestinal issue or the mental health condition? These studies seem to begin with an assumption that the physical ailment arises first. What if it's not the case... What if that assumption is just the opposite, and it's the mental health issue impacting the physical well-being?
We only offer shirts we have agreements with the artists with, are created/recreated by us, or have no searchable creation. There has been a couple times someone said "I made that!" and we add them into the royalty group when it looks like they are. I don't know if we have to do that even, but we do.

Most shirts people submit have licensing issues and the shirts we have with licensing besides Astrosloth don't sell as well.

EDIT: Spam blocker has limited my capability to respond, so I hope you see this:

"You're right, when we first launched based on community reddit posts. We had whatever was most popular since it was being made just for them but we grew past that quickly and realized it was going to keep going. This was just going to be a fun one-off ordeal. Now I have an adviser for licensing and I take it very seriously. Thanks for the compliments too!"
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Cooking and meal-planning, obviously.
Interesting, I figured the position would be a easy fill.

I'll take a look at the posting; Feel free to stalk me at https://github.com/ckdarby
I know this may end up seeming a pretty useless comment, but I cannot miss the opportunity of recommending a VERY good book about this subject, by the guy who coined the term net neutrality:
http://www.amazon.com/The-Master-Switch-Information-Empires/...

The book analyses monopolies in information businesses, since Western Union, going through Bell and proceding all along to the era of Google and Apple. The end of the book is filled with very good insight on the subject. If this is a topic that interests you as much as it interests me, you should get yourself a copy of this.
For those who want more information, the following article provides a good overview of the research on the Wisdom of the Crowd, as well as what are its limits:
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2457222
http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/vox-media-vent...
Vox Media is apparently at break-even after taking a ton of VC, but not profitable yet.