skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This write up also only implicates saccharin in the harmful alterations of the gut flora, not other sweeteners. Yet the introductory text talks about artificial sweeteners are a group.

You cannot confirm the effects of "artificial sweeteners" as a category with an experiment that is based on saccharin. They are all different molecules. A bacterium that thrives on saccharin might not consume sucralose or aspartame.

Also glaringly absent is any mention of the sugar alcohols: sorbitol, xylitol, maltitol.

Who cares about saccharin. It is an outdated sweetener which is not widely used. Where can you find a diet soft drink or protein bar sweetened with saccharin?
Why not just use Erlang?
Deep Learning Sentiment Analysis for Movie Reviews Using Neo4j
You're welcome! :)

In building this app, we didn't survey the research addressing that question specifically (though googling "L1 vs L2 flashcards" pulls up some interesting sites).

For me personally, speaking from 15+ years learning French, Chinese, and Turkish, it's native --> target. Learning that way helps me recall faster when I need to construct my own sentences. If you're looking just to learn to read, I think target --> native is easier and might be a better approach.

I've also had success starting with native --> target to familiarize myself with the word, then quickly switching to target --> native to solidify my ability to produce it on my own.
Hacking for good
Uproot Integrates NFC into Wine Labels
Your description leads me to believe I confused emdashes and endashes again. Happens every time.
If true, then fine. I've not yet met one who sells, though.
Sorry, switch native-->target and target-->native in my last paragraph.
"Now, I have been told that the best crackers in the world can do this in 60 minutes. Unfortunately, I need someone who can do it in 60 seconds."
Yeah, I thought that's how everybody did it; when my class was assigned the project, we lost half a percentage point off our final grade for each time the bomb exploded. We very quickly learned to do things like "b explode_bomb".
The thread is interesting. I do wonder if these reports are outdated, though. The people I know with that job title don't do sales. And I've met a few of them by now.
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2008-02/msg021...
> Content owners can decide if they want to opt into it,” the spokesperson said, adding that views of the videos and ads will be kept track of offline as well.

Same tracking of the user, less streaming cost for Google, more views for the publisher .. what's not to like? This helps everyone.
I have been doing this, but mostly because my laptop is pretty underpowered and modern adblock software seems to be even more of a heavyweight than the ads. Blocking flash then becomes the best solution for speed, as unlike other ads flash is trivial to block.
These are fantastic labs. I took 15-213 at CMU while already working as a software developer. It was still tons of fun and quite educational.
nodejs backend, client/server architecture, runs in a webkit instance. Pretty much what you'd expect from web guys writing a desktop application.
I don't really like the style. However, I take a note about it, thank you for the suggestion.
This raises more questions than it answers I think (which is a good thing)

1 - Is there such thing as a "sweet base"? Our tongues perceive sweeteners as sweet (duh) but it seems it mimics sugar in a way for bacteria as well.

2 - From the article "Wiping out the rodents' gut bacteria using antibiotics abolished all the effects of glucose intolerance in the mice. In other words, no bacteria, no problem regulating glucose levels."

Soooo... Bacteria affects absorption of glucose? They consume it? They change the intestinal PH? Or something else?
Please don't rewrite titles like this.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Hi, Marionette core member here. I'd be interested in hearing about any trouble you've had while working with Marionette.

Side note: We're really rapidly re-writing our documentation right now (yay alliteration) so people can expect to see a lot of big improvements there.
Whenever you take antibiotics, you typically 'wipe' gut bacteria. Maybe not to the same degree as in a clinical trial, but you certainly kill a lot -- healthy and unhealthy alike. Which is why several medical practitioners will prescribe/advise you take probiotics alongside the anti-, to promote good health.
We wrote in detail about how we picked the words here: http://cleverdeck.com/blog.

Most of the example sentences were hand-picked from tatoeba.org. That covered about 2700 of the words - our teachers wrote the remaining 300 or so.
Someone should marry Perl & AppleScript: the best read/write language ever invented!
How can you determine when friends and family are upvoting posts?
It's like Sonic but without the wangst or silly human-hedgehog snogging scenes. Count me in!
Over-saturated is an understatement..it is getting pretty bad.

http://www.3ders.org/pricecompare/3dprinters/

I am sure that is not nearly all of them :)

The design is always an issue when printing too. Customers rarely design their models to be printed because they don't fully understand the process. If you design correctly you can get away with very little support material and still get very detailed models..if not then you end up with either a poorly printed object or significant detail loss on the surfaces from support material removal.

Maybe some plugins for popular CAD programs might be helpful...at least some sort of "ray" plugin that would show where your trouble overhangs/support material generation will be located. At least for training purposes.
GitHub will shutter Easel
you're right about that I didn't even know that 'apt-get download' existed, closest I ever used was 'apt-get source' :)
I just use a hook to do the same thing as a clug. It screws into the wall and you just hang your bike by the wheel.
Ask HN: Google Map vs. Waze
which is better when you want to use navigation app, Waze or Google Map? and why? I always use GMap, never use Waze. Would love to hear some opinions. Thanks.
A Simple Service Directory Solution for Docker
It seems he wanted a static type system, for starters.
Fighting federal agencies culture shock to get over cloud and DevOps hump
You might find this video on fructose and metabolic disease (of which glucose intolerance is a symptom) interesting:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM
It does.

I'm no experimentalist, but my naive assumption (gut feeling, heh) would be that the way to do this is to scale by body mass.
This seems very misleading. The abstract (available without paywall) mentions a group of sweeteners, whereas the findings seem to show that only saccharin has these negative effects. I feel like NAS are probably bad, but without evidence to support it they should not claim that in the abstract.
I one were to start from scratch, writing an emacs-like text editor by building it on top of a small programming language you can use for customizing and extending the editor, Lua would a great choice. Lua has only a tiny standard library, but in writing the core of the editor, you probably have to supply the equivalent functionality yourself, anyway.

But I do not see how you could bolt Lua on to GNU Emacs. You would have to start from scratch, and that would be a lot of work. And even then, there is the fact, that GNU Emacs is already well-established, has a very loyal user base and is - by and large - good enough, even great for most purposes, so even if you wrote LMacs or whatever one would call it, you would probably end up with, like, a dozen users or so. (IIRC the Zile project, a small emacs-like editor, has tried this, but I do not know how far they got with this.)
Everyone seems to be focused on languages but is there something like this for music? Especially instrument specific, for example a card for finger placement?

Would something like that require me custom adding every card? and somehow figuring out how to get pictures/symbols on the cards instead of just text? FWIW I don't know how hard that is with existing apps, maybe it's gotten easier.

Sorry if it is a derail.
Git fully works without Github.

Can't even view your schematics if you stop paying every month to Upverter or they close.
> Glad that it is not pretending to be "media" company anymore.

When you hire people like Katie Couric and David Pogue you are still a media company.
23 years since 0.1 linux kernel source tree upload
With Dremel, they serve dual markets. Their equipment serves both art and general-purpose handyman tools.
Backbone.Radio is awesome (Bias Disclaimer: I helped write it with James Smith). It's definitely going to replace Wreqr in Marionette 3.0, and we'll be integrating with it much more.

There is also a lot of other cool things coming in 3.0. We're very focused on the architectural pieces and theres some really great ideas there. See: https://github.com/marionettejs/backbone.marionette/issues/1...
The Online Legacy of [Heavens Gate] and the Webmasters Who Stayed Behind
After some investigation:

mootothemaxx = spotco (see email listed on github page: http://imgur.com/vepCH7O.jpg)

xxxxx0 = https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=xxxxx0 = account created 757 days ago, no submissions/comments;

OP = https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=spotco = account created 757 days ago.
Couldn't believe it myself, so I opened a French newspaper.

http://www.lemonde.fr/football/article/2014/09/17/ligue-des-...

Looks like it's indeed like she told you.
Easel to Shut Down Nine Months After Being Acquired by GitHub
That's a really charming synonym for 'scientist'
Please try define a freedom which do not need coercion of someone in order to enforce it. I defy that any such thing could exist.

If you want freedom of speech, you have to prevent those who would seek out to squelch it. Freedom of the press is only possible by preventing those who would otherwise burn down the printing press. Freedom of person prevents assassins and rapists from doing their ill deeds, and has to be prevented with coercion that employ violence, theft (fines), imprisonment, or social pressure. The later is simply violence that is psychological rather than of physical.

If you read up on the history of liberty, the definition of freedom, you will find that all this has been thought about a long time ago. The paradoxical nature of using coercion (laws) in order to have liberty is not a new insight.
I felt that way until I realized that 3d printing could be the lego for the next generation of kids. Hell, start with legos, then print out the parts that you wish you had, and refine until you've got something that's actually "maker worthy."

Save the files, then start on your next project. Add a microcontroller! yay! I'm completely projecting on my kid, and that's my right as a father! Muahahaha!
So if I recall, you were supposed to have to do a lot of investigative work to bypass stuff. There were several different "levels" that got progressively harder to crack. But there was nothing that stopped you from moving the program counter directly to the code that signals success. Which is what we did. Every level, exactly the same: fire it up, move program counter, send the success notice, finished!
I don't right now, but from my times when competing, I used to read a lot of science based research on nutrition and there was a study that said swishing a carb rich liquid was enough to trigger it.

I think I first saw it referenced on an old edition of 'The Complete Guide to Sports Nutrition' by Anita Bean
Not related but how come I can't upvote/downvote your comment? I can to everyone else's (even deads)
Perhaps Google is a little behind in their indexing of Apple docs?
Yeah that's why I was always thrilled with (cr|h)ackers. Back in the time when I was young actually this word ( hacker ) meant something completely different than what it is now. I think people like this have a talent in another direction, compared to programmers.

Something like : "As much as I am good in making programs I am not good at all in reverse engineering them."
Agreed. From the article Nostromo just posted[1], looks like the mouse models were based on aspartame, saccharin, and sucralose, and the human subjects were taking saccharin.

[1] http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22329872.600-artificia...
I'd be wary of touching any Yahoo API that isn't a core part of their business. Developer enthusiasm isn't enough considering how likely, when Yahoo run into difficulties, they'll just sunset APIs we're using.

I want to say the Search API is a good example of a core business proposition: there's a revenue stream there for the service, but the search results are probably from Bing, so although the Yahoo side looks like it has longevity, the reliance and licensing of search metadata from Microsoft is a dependency that ups the risk of using this API. I don't really trust Microsoft not to pull the carpet out from under us when they've collected a sufficient number of eyeballs to consider the second step of a bait and switch.
According to the New Scientist article others have linked to, the equivalent human dose was 9-12 packets of sweetener a day. I'm sure there are heavy coffee drinkers that go through that much.

I also don't like those studies where the human equivalent dose is like 50 pounds of sweetener a day, or something silly. This one isn't so bad.
Hey, I lived in Barcelona throughout March this year and Catalan is the dominant language. I felt (and perhaps I was too self conscious) that when I spoke Spanish they worked out pretty quickly I was English and defaulted back to that.

Either way, learning Spanish is definitely an advantage as there's crossover to Catalan. Hope you have a wicked time :)
This was interesting simply for the explanation of Erlang systems, but as for the project itself I currently use Supervisor (http://supervisord.org) for this purpose, and I've been pretty happy with it.

Any reasons to make the switch?
Anki is a spaced repetition app that would allow you to create your own cards for this sort of thing (add arbitrary images to one side of the card).
Could be inside docker. In which case it's all reasonable.
So given a choice, between Diet Soda vs. Normal Soda, what would be worse for your overall health?

I imagine even with increased glucose intolerance, you're still better off choosing Diet?
The PoW who built a multi-million dollar business
I was just looking for the flash drive graph from this site yesterday, and could not find it. What a great coincidence! I like the data-centric approach to shopping.

P.S. there should be a graph for ATM machines
Video: Whither the American Dream?
We just released a new desktop version of "PCBWeb Designer"

http://www.pcbweb.com

This is a huge improvement of our original tool that relied on silverlight.

The project is a WPF application written in c# on .net - so right now it's windows only. We are exploring options to port to other platforms using Xamarin.

The tool is 100% free, with no limits on size or parts and includes full gerber output.
https://cdn.anonfiles.com/1410982808806.pdf
nit: the scrolling on this page is interesting. what is the intent?
> If you want/need a full mail server, you get your pick from ports.

Which is exactly what I already do. This is good news as far as I'm concerned.
What’s worse than getting a Ph.D. in today’s job market? Not finishing one
This is spectacular! Not only are consumers winners with this, retailer buyers would love it too!!!
Spacefight: Jeff Bezos Declares War on Elon Musk
Nope, peer review is done by unpaid volunteers as well.
You could take a look at [Ractive.js](http://www.ractivejs.org/). It's not quite caught up with other frameworks but it has a virtual DOM like React and mustache-style templating.
Well, "non-profit" is just shorthand for "non-profit company", right? At least that's what I'm used to, though googling now seems to bring up "non-profit organisation" as the more popular term...

Regarding 'terminal' and 'instrumental', perhaps the better descriptors would be 'direct' and... uh, not sure, let's take indirect by symmetry.

The direct goals of a company is to make money.
The reason we want to have organisations that focus on making money is because .. (we believe that organisations with larger positive impact are better posed to make more money, we want to harness the self-interest to improve efficiency, etc etc). The point is just having a company that makes a lot of money but doesn't improve the world is counterproductive.
Maybe you already did by accident and the arrows are not visible anymore?
> It's the exception to the rule when they keep them running.

Not necessarily, acquisitions aren't all one kind of thing. The motive for the acquisition greatly impacts the outcome. If it's a technology/IP acquisition or a personnel acquisition, then yes, generally expect that the original company's products will vanish. Why? Because the products were never part of the recognized value of the purchase.

If it's a business process acquisition, then it's more likely the product(s) will remain. This depends more on the motives and details of the acquiring vs. the acquired companies. If the acquisition leaves the acquired as a wholly-owned subsidiary, then one can expect the products to remain.
Farmers expand to the north slowly, a few miles a generation. Women with the lightest skin have many healthy children, the rest don't. Those healthy children grow and survive, as there's plenty of food and little competition. The next generation moves a little bit further north, where a little bit lighter skin is required to have healthy children.
What kinds of positions are you interviewing for?
Without delving into a bunch of scientific papers, how could I go about considering how my dietary choices influence my microflora for better or worse?
Yeah plotting price/GB vs price seemed weird to me. Seems like GB vs price (or price vs GB) would make more sense, but price/GB vs GB is also better since you can find the size you're interested in on the x-axis, then look up to find the best value.
Auto Load Balancing Decentralized Docker Containers with Capsulayer
You could help them find you. I see many people like you lament about not being able to find people with certain skills, but their lamentations provide no information about who they are hiring for or how to contact them. :)
First, I care, since saccharin is (was?) my preferred sweetener, for coffee, etc. Second, saccharin is very widely available at restaurants and so forth, coming in a very close second to aspartame, in my experience.
I've found that as Apple gradually made the keyboard smarter and more predictive my ability to thumb type has gotten worse. I've noticed myself hitting letters perfectly and Apple 'thinks' I meant the letter next to it instead. I've been using their iOS 8 keyboard for a while and honestly it's not great. It still has the above issues and the prediction row is n't very predictive. I'm looking forward to switching to Swype as I love it when I play with my Android device.
Thanks for posting this. A great read and I'm now following the author on Twitter.
I hadn't heard of them, but I just walked through their tutorial called "Improve Your Typography With a Few Simple Guidelines" and was really impressed. It looks like a fun tool. It's a shame to have found it at this point in its existence.
Not to mention the fact that in Japanese, Chinese, and other Asian languages, most punctuation is full-width, with spacing built into the character itself. Compare the English characters (?!.,:) with the Chinese characters （？！。，：）, and you can see how a lot of Asian language learners might just forget to hit the space bar.
See also PCPartPicker's graphs: http://pcpartpicker.com/parts/internal-hard-drive/price-per-...
Raindrop.io – smart bookmarks, now also on Android
I meant to downvote your comment but accidentally upvoted it.

You wrote that you have nothing meaningful to say and quoted the abstract, contributing nothing to the conversation. Next time, instead of using your accumulated karma to monopolize the top spot while saying nothing, just say nothing.
> Maybe that's just my "prank ethics" though.

Upvoted. It's not just you. "Pranking" someone while lying through your teeth is something I'd expect my 6y.o. to do, not grown ups.
Have you ever worked as a waiter in a restaurant? Some restaurants let waiters keep all their tip, while others force waiters to share their tips equally in a collective pool.

Those that let waiters keep all their tip argue that the server has more motivation to give better service if they see the proportional impact of their effort. That makes servers happy which rubs off on customers, making the experience better for everyone involved. It is a win-win system that encourages self-improvement and punishes slackers.

On the other hand, restaurants that pool their tips see everything in terms of a team effort. They argue that because of the initial training investment, they want to make sure no details are missed and the only way to do that is by encouraging collectivist thinking. Tip sharing is preferred in restaurants that offer a richer, more complicated experience (having to educate customers on what they're ordering, answering questions about fancy food and wine and pairing them, etc). They also argue that tip sharing makes servers more fungible in that they can switch between roles - waiting, busing, serving drinks.

The first system ("keep tip") is simple to explain and is self-correcting. If a server underperforms it's easy to see and intervene. The second system ("tip pool") feels "bigger", has more moving parts (tips changing hands), and requires constant surveillance by the servers themselves, not to mention some bureaucracy to manage the money division. The keep-tip system can be said to be immune to slackers because a slacker cannot adversely affect the system beyond the scope of the slacker (other than dissatisfied customers not coming back); but slackers are a huge burden on the tip-pool system, as they effectively steal money from the other servers by not pulling their own weight as much as the others. This is a disincentive for the individual waiter that is above average and could be keeping more of their tips elsewhere.

Despite the differences and the different opinions we can draw from them, both kinds of restaurants exist, but in the keep-tip type, waiters can be said to have more freedom and they have the right to keep the fruits of their labor. I've informally asked my friends and they all said if they could choose between keep-tip and tip-pool they'd choose keep-tip. So it must be the case that someone else other than waiters is benefiting from tip-pool systems.

Now imagine trying to change a restaurant's tipping system. You say that because the pool-tip restaurant provided training, it's only fair that they contribute to the tip-pool. Then one of the waiters proposes a new system where there is no tip-pool, and claims the restaurant would work just as well, if not better, if it adopted keep-tip. Of course the other waiters argue "we work in a restaurant where we all pool tips for the good of all (busboys, dish cleaners, cooks, etc) and if someone benefits from this environment without paying into the pool, they're stealing from the rest of us". Of course, nothing could be further from the truth.
There are two outcomes after the acquisition of a small company. You can tell based on their announcement message:

* "It's been an amazing journey!" --> shut down.

* "We have no plans to shut the service down" --> shut down.
From the paper:

"To examine the effects of pure saccharin on glucose intolerance, we followed a cohort of 10-week-old C57Bl/6 mice fed on HFD and supplemented with 0.1 mg ml 21 of pure saccharin added to their drinking water (Extended Data Fig. 1c). This dose corresponds to the FDA acceptable daily intake (ADI) in humans (5 mg per kg (body weight), adjusted to mouse weights, see Methods)."
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Any way you could add filters? e.g.: I want only 1TB drives that are SATA 2.5".

Also performance details (maybe read/write iops?)