skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can't access that article, unfortunately, but it's odd that they would suggest that when the next three sentences are about how the mineral content of mineral water can help protect against dissolution:

"The complex and heterogeneous mineral compositions of mineral waters could influence the dissolution equilibrium of apatite in enamel and controlled addition of several ions to ultrapure deionized water was investigated. Calcium ions led to the greatest reduction in hydroxyapatite dissolution, but their effects were moderated by other ions including magnesium and sulphate. Thus, mineral waters appear to offer a safe alternative to more erosive acidic beverages and their complex mineral ion compositions may positively influence any dissolution processes at the tooth surface."

This effect can be surprisingly strong, e.g. here's a study from a few years later showing "that fortifying apple, orange and grapefruit juices with calcium prevented enamel erosion and decreased root surface erosion (P < .01)."[1]

In fact buffering is well known to protect calcium phosphate in teeth from dissolution (e.g. an older study here[2] which points to the saturation of the same calcium and phosphate ions that the study you cite does as the source of protection), so it's actually quite odd that they would suggest that minimal dissolution from sparkling mineral water would suggest that the carbonation may not be an important factor of erosive potential.

It's hard to judge too much from just an abstract, however, and I can't find a full copy anywhere. That suggestion may just be an off-hand one.

[1] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18056104

[2] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9831784
This is a good update, I know that if I were running a Kickstarted package I'd create a fully auditable expense ledger so that in the event it was impossible to complete I could provide a complete record of all expenses. Scanning everything is pretty trivial these days, something like Evernote can organize it, although a think a sort of "Evernote - Kickstarter Edition" would actually be a really interesting project. Basically a tool that captures everything into a repository that can be burned on to a self contained DVD at the completion of the project, even if it was successful the resulting database would be an epic way of figuring out a better way to do it next time.
It's a good thing we have http://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/mod/event.html then.
What does this have to do with the (incorrect) claim that Apple kickstarted the "App on a phone" market?

I was just debunking this claim.

Android 1.0 went to market with a full blown SDK and the vision that the future belongs to third party apps.

Steve Jobs completely disagreed with this vision and he only changed his mind after Android shipped.
The extensions could be written to be full featured. It's really the fault of the individual products not doing anything interesting with it.
Thank you. At first those projects seemed like pure monotony to everyone involved. There's a human element in every project, you just have to look for it.

To your question: Yes, absolutely. But that's part of being a leader (and hopefully growing) I've failed people. Royally fucking failed them. There was one in particular that at the time I blamed and I feel horrible about it now. I mean, every time I talk to a mutual friend or bump into him in the community I just feel terrible inside. I hope he reads this. I've tried to buy him a beer so I can apologize but he doesn't want to go. I sympathize. If I were him I'd hate me too. The best thing I can do is just learn and grow.

In the military I learned that no soldier is "untrainable", meaning if they aren't performing you aren't leading them right. Heh, and everyone thinks it's all about yelling and top down control.

I've spent the past several years as an Agile Coach. I started out as a developer but I was so sick of how programmers were treated by management. The way we manage software teams in most of the IT industry is demonstrably insane. It makes me sick. Perhaps it's just that these days I often get called in to work with the worst of the worst.

We treat programers like they should be at their sewing machines for x hours a day, we measure them on everything except working software, and as they say "the beatings will continue until moral improves".

Isn't it interesting how part of the thread immediately jumped to an expression of the pain programmers feel when they have to attend company "team building" functions? Why? Why don't we recognize why as Jason Fried asks "work doesn't get done at work", or "manager time vs. maker time", or the power of introverts? What about this WHY DON'T WE EXPECT MANAGERS BEHAVE LIKE LEADERS??? Why when we talk about leaders don't we envision SERVANT LEADERS? Why does every interaction with HR or Community Managers have to be so damn cringe worthy? Why can't things be real, honest, meaningful, trusting? Sorry for the tirade. It's just insane and it bothers me, because I love developers. They're amazing people who just want to make the world a better place.

Edit: Grammar
Your "other assets" line seems too high....I believe you're double counting their Alibaba & Yahoo Japan stakes...."other assets" s/b $11.3B, no?
VC (the VC money you and I all see on TC every day) is just one asset class of many. In most funds, it usually represents < 10% (correct me if I'm wrong) of the total fund. Since the returns of a few of the funds are consistently giving high returns this 10% might increase over time. But for now, VC is largely regarded as "high risk, high return". Generally speaking, VC and hedge funds are TERRIBLE places to put your money, but funds still put money into them because it spreads their whole portfolio risk.
> The big advantage of OO is that it acts as a distillation of how humans think. We're accustomed to thinking in terms of 'things that do stuff'.

Let's not confuse "how humans think" with "how humans ought to think to self problems effectively". There is little evidence that OO is any better than other principled approaches to programming.
I disagree, when I've backed KickStarters that have failed I've never wanted my money back. It's a risk, it's money I'm throwing away to help a project exist, and I'm aware it might not happen. To me, that's just fine.
Aerobic exercise is also great for anxiety disorders, but it is important to note that exercise to exhaustion can severely complicate anxiety, as opposed to depression. The reason is that it stresses the nervous system (producing excess cortisol) and ultimately intensifies anxiety attacks. The same goes for anaerobic exercise. It's equivalent to exercising to exhaustion, at even moderate intensity.
That strikes at the heart of it, perhaps. The techniques were adopted to reduce variance, but we honestly do not know how they effect the work. Maybe we have fewer failures and fewer out-of-the-park accomplishments, but I would be surprised if that was the only effect.

Notably, I see a world where we are less and less likely to acknowledge truths that violate e.g. tribal ideology, because of in-group pressures. The diversity of opinion and viewpoint that lets you harvest good ideas is typically the same mechanism that's used to put the breaks on them. You grab 100 random Americans and you'll avoid spending millions looking for Noah's Ark in the Black Sea, but you'll also avoid spending money to combat climate change. The problem isn't how difficult the technical challenge is, but how far it is outside the universally-shared worldview.
I'm calling bullshit, unless the haptic feedback functions leak RF signals, or this is somehow explicitly designed into the phone.

How can this device possibly distinguish between using, say, Google Now or Siri to send a text hands-free, vs. texting illegally with your hands?
Evernote's is actually pretty good. A simple accelerator for adding things to Evernote.
Why do you need the NSA when you have Google?
I think this is going to catch on.
Fortumo to Give Developers $5,000 to Integrate Mobile Payments SDK
Are you the CEO/founder? It sounded like the author is, and I think that would make it a lot harder.
It does and it shows the profile pictures normally. Not sure why its not showing up for him.
Exactly. A much better example would be to look at what James Thompson is doing with PCalc; the notification widget is a companion calculator to the main app.
http://www.pcalc.com/iphone/index.html
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Depends. With friends at college I drink, this summer I was at a lake to get away and code, and drank very little. I've smoked pot everyday for periods of time, both productively and not, and have no problem stopping when I need to. Nicotine is a bit harder... you definitely get the physical addition. I'm working on kicking it though.

I've found that the busier I get, the less drugs and alcohol I consume. Or at least my drug intake changes to stimulants like coffee and nicotine. But I don't really feel bad about adjusting my habits as needed, there's nothing to "miss", I'm just choosing to do something else with my time. Also, what I do is in a large part dictated by who I am around, and what we do together socially.

I have teetotaler friends, or friends who drink but never smoke, and I've never had an issue with them not participating. Though these friends are usually down to hangout if we go to a bar or something, since we'll be having a good time anyways regardless of consumption. Do what you feel, man. :)
Is the universe inherently nihilist?
The amount of caffeine in soda doesn't cause any dehydration. Here's an article talking about coffee (which has more caffeine per unit volume than soda):

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/01/13/262175623/coffee...
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There's a book with a similar theme about Twinkies. It's called "Twinkie, Deconstructed" (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000OZ0NZS)
ESPN Scorecenter, weather, BBC News, and the music player are four I can think of from my own experience.
It's not about "making a mistake", it's about cases where you'd want to create objects but using `new` would be awkward. E.g. `myListOfRawData.map(MyConstructor)` when you unmarshal data. Sure, you could create an anonymous function that calls new. But it's easier to create higher level functions and tools when the new is optional.
Sure, I can explain that. I'll even quote from the article, because I think it's true:

"Everyone brings their political agenda to the table when it comes to female characters in videogames; everyone complains if the women don’t match their particular vision. I start to wonder if the only way to win this game is not to have women at all."

You are acting like there is one standard of racism and sexism that all reasonable people agree to. As soon as you do anything risky, you find out how untrue that is. And as the quote alludes to, you could hurt the representation of (in that case) women by playing it too safe.

"Political correctness" is when the effort taken to avoid sexism and racism goes too far. And no, nobody agrees on that line either.
He was one of the architects of ObamaCare, and he thinks that people like you should have more of their decisions made for them by people like him.

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2014/03/ezekiel_emanuel_...
Free will is one of my foma. I don't actually believe it exists in a meaningful sense, but I live my life as though it does. Pretending that it exists makes my life simpler and happier.
How on earth is it hard to eat 2500 calories?! What do you eat? Paper and cardboard? If you find yourself 400 calories short, try a pork pie. If you're 800 calories short, eat two. If you're 1200 calories short, stop skipping lunch.
nor do FC barcelona/Athletic Bilbao play at the world cup..heh
Mass agriculture works despite of our enormous ignorance of how the ecosystem works... you really shouldn't take our ability to manipulate corn or soybeans as indications that humans know how to create "relatively stable environments." We haven't and we don't.
Awesome! Works for me on arch linux running latest chromium. Much faster than running android emulator!
I'm not sure how I feel about the IEE Spectrum site having near youtube level trolls.
Can you show the 'before' for comparison?
I created my own personal wiki where I would keep book notes from the various things I read. I really like it as a solution personally and it was nothing more complicated than a 10 minute wordpress install on a $5/m VPS though you could arguably use Evernote in much the same way for free if you prefered.
On a similar note, I would also recommend the film Exit Through the Gift Shop, which documents Thierry Guetta's rise in world of street art. While Thierry's artwork is largely considered unoriginal, he's able to make a considerable amount of money after being endorsed by Banksy.

There's a lot speculation saying that Banksy produced/created this film as a hoax to make precisely the same point - art is appreciated more for the person that made it.
I've heard a few people suggest that with single core performance stagnating we may see more ASICs. I admit I'm skeptical, but this line of development does seem worth exploring.
Startup School acceptances are out
Go check your email.
You need something like 14 days for caffeine withdrawal to cease (during which anxiety may temporarily increase). And any effect from changing things about might take weeks to have an effect on anxiety (perhaps up to 6-12 weeks). Exercise (if tolerated) can have an effect in about two hours, and I've read papers which suggest some prescribed (and indicated) medications can have an effect in around 3 hours. But withdrawing stimulants such as caffeine, although essential to long term recovery, generally doesn't have a sudden effect. Similarly, some standard treatments for anxiety actually increase symptoms in the short term (e.g. patients who were given sedative antihistamines in the past, which are no longer recommended as a treatment, used to be advised that their symptoms may initially increase).
Thanks, we missed that one.
What adverts are you looking at? All the Chromebook marketing stuff I can find is pretty clear that they're about browsing the web and not much more.
I don't think people should avoid high risk projects, I just think they should avoid promising to deliver them. Like I said in an earlier comment, make the reward some novelty trinket, not the complicated, never-been-done video game.
Fuuuuu Out There a good game only available on mobile crash with this solution ...

Dam but it looks full of promise i hope one day it will work well ...
His writing style suggests either he's dyslexic or that English isn't his first language.
The standard AA/AAA mass market cross platform videogame is "art" to approximately the same extent as "airport novels". Interchangeable cover art, interchangeable characters, interchangeable plots. All good ways to pass a few hours, but rarely deserving of in-depth study.

Sorry John Grisham, but you know it's true.
Some pollsters ask how likely one is to turn out to vote.

Amongst those that do, they weight responses differently.

Some will only report those who are 10/10, 9/10 and 8/10 likely to vote in their topline figures.

Some will multiply the likeliness with the voting intention, so that a 10/10 likely voter would count as a whole vote, a 9/10 likely voter as 9/10ths of a vote and so on.

The UK Polling Report[0] - run by the guy in charge of YouGov, if I recall correctly - is a very useful site for explaining UK polling oddities!

[0] http://ukpollingreport.co.uk/
How about "If we ship on time, everyone will get a raise to match market!"

Seriously though, good developers want to perform their best. You want to make developers happy? Let them ship code they are proud of. They are not idiots, letting them take Friday afternoon off to "reward" them for working on the weekend is kind of insulting.

Consider this: Are "productivity" metrics like hours in the office, lines of code, # bugs fixed, etc. something that actually helps ship code or are they done so managers have something to put in their spreadsheets?

Do managers think that developers can somehow tricked into being more productive?

I've been lucky to have great managers. They acted more like "target designators" [you know, the laser that guides bombs to the target] and less like commanders.
> The question is what standard of living do we want for species in the long term.

Your framing assumes a fixed supply of non-renewable resources and rough stability in our technology for both extracting and consuming them. Yes we should minimize irreparable harm to the planet, and yes we should obey the precautionary principle, but it would be silly to plan our current consumption of resources as if we will have the same technology in a thousand years.
By "aspirational" I suppose she meant "inspirational"?

(As for the article itself, I only made it through a few paragraphs. I assume it was going to be about sexism and reproductive discrimination in the workplace, which I think is a serious problem. Part of this problem is solved in Sweden, where a couple can split maternity / paternity leave any way they like.)
I got an acceptance letter and a rejection letter. Someone please let me know which lol.
Hey thanks for the feedback! I hotfixed the issue with level 3 and added keys for next/prev/restart (period, comma, and 'r', respectively).

The overflow thing I'll have to fiddle with. I am with you on the board size, and I'm going to try to find a better way to do it than the zoom.js plugin. Tile sizes currently are hard coded into the css AND the JavaScript because I'm stupid, so I'll have to figure out a way to make them fluid-width. Hmm....
75% of mobile apps will fail security tests through end of 2015
“US Money Transmission Laws Are Worthless and Unconstitutional”
Did you try to rsvp using the link in the acceptance? If that works, just pretend you never saw the rejection!
I'd love to know which other HN'ers are going to be there, but without each of us spamming up this thread.

Any clever solutions?
I've met several people who self-identified as "social justice warriors" or "really into social justice". However I have only seen the initialism "SJW" used by people who are critical of the idea/people.
Thanks for the feedback. I have since updated the generator to use window.crypto.getRandomValues when available (older browsers does not support it) and then use Mersenne twister as a fallback. I hope it gets your recommendation :).
It just comes down to a habit of giving a name to something as an example of something that isn't meant to map to any problem domain. E.g. when a manufacturer is in the business of making "widgets," we know they're not actually making products that are widgets (whatever those are.)

Once you know that the names being used are not considered to be "important", the other names aren't as important as well, only the syntax. These metasyntactic variables are useful for avoiding situations like "Who's on First?" (e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTcRRaXV-fg ) which is humorous to native-English speakers, but probably incoherent to non-native English speakers.
Certainly fits the "it's easier to apologize later than ask for permission" ethos ;)
I was relatively unimpressed by this one. Iron smelting can be done manually but he uses a microwave to do it instead. Which skips over a huge chunk of the story.
The low level formatting has ECC, which never leaves the drive. That said, there are two cases to consider for misdirected writes. One is that the write clobbers multiple sectors in which case you would get uncorrectable sectors. The second is that it perfectly replaces another sector. In that case, the ECC is a perfect match as the ECC is stored with the sector. Neither drive would report a problem, but the data would not match. This is what I described as being a problem and traditional RAID is incapable of dealing with it.
> Don't use debit cards to pay for things. Ever. Credit cards give you substantial consumer protections that you don't get from debit cards.

A: This is simply not true any more. Most banks offer essentially the same level of protection for debit cards as for credit cards, the only issue with debit cards is that potentially you could have a period of time while still missing funds, but I've never seen that be an issue with any reputable bank within the last several years.

B: You must have missed the part where I talked about using "prepaid debit cards". If you are extremely paranoid you can only add money to them just prior to use, leaving them with a low balance most of the time.

C: The problem isn't just fraud and potentially having a period of time without funds available to you that should otherwise be there, it's also the enormous hassle of replacing a card (and updating everywhere you use that as a payment instrument such as amazon, your bills, etc.) That problem isn't improved at all by using a credit card vs a debit card.
You could use Goodreads to keep track of books 'to read' and 'read'. Adding a review once the book is read, will help you summarize it and retrieve it later.
You cant say that it is an empirically proven fact, anc then concede that it is a possibly flawed measurement. I'm all too familiar with racists, and you sir/mam look familiar.

http://www.politico.com/story/2013/08/jason-richwine-race-iq...
I believe all you need to get a social security number is an I-94. Have you applied already?

1. http://www.ssa.gov/pubs/EN-05-10096.pdf
You can dare to say whatever you like. The problem is that the experimental results dare to tell another story:

Studies have consistently shown that organisms within marine
reserves tend to grow larger and live longer than individuals
in adjacent unprotected areas. Monitoring results from 89
no-take marine reserves around the world have shown that, on
average, fish density, biomass, size, and diversity all
increased within marine reserves (Halpern 2003, Lester et
al. 2009). This is very important because fish that are larger
and older tend to produce significantly more eggs and larvae
than smaller fish. Also, larvae produced from older fish tend
to have a higher survival rate (Francis et al. 2007) [^1]

The behavior of the commercial fisherman near the MPAs in New Zealand is extremely apropos:

For reasons not fully understood, when areas are closed
to fishing, snapper aggregate within them, forming large
resident populations. Spiny rock lobsters (crayfish to New
Zealanders) do the same. Their density inside the reserve is
about 15 times higher than outside. Commercial crayfishermen
have cashed in on the reserves success because the outward
migration of crayfish—a process marine biologists call
spillover—brings the crustaceans to their pots, strategically
placed just outside the boundary. These former skeptics are
now some of the reserves staunchest defenders. They refer to
it as our reserve and act as marine minutemen, reporting
poachers and boundary cheats. ... Reserves where fishing
is banned are now seen as potential stud farms and fish
hatcheries, replenishing the surrounding seas. [^2]

[^1]: http://marineprotectedareas.noaa.gov/pdf/helpful-resources/d...

[^2]: http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2007/04/new-zealand-coast/...
Are you using Bing for the translations?
v8 (and all other JS engines I tested) are kind of stupid when it comes to garbage collection. You can see a detailed explanation of the problem in this blog post:

http://point.davidglasser.net/2013/06/27/surprising-javascri...
If you're attending, send a tweet to @YCRSVP.

List of attendees: https://twitter.com/search?f=realtime&q=%40YCRSVP
If it's only a 5 second search, then why didn't the OP provide that study and chose instead to say google it, yourself? Both answers take about the same time after all.
The motorbike part was where I stopped reading.
If you want to use Evernote to keep track of the financial records of a business; you may want to reconsider starting a business.

At least until you learn a bit more...
Actually, the Diet Coke I have in front of me lists both acids in the ingredients. Not sure if only the diet version has both.