skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Both honey and high fructose corn syrup are > 85% water, fructose, and glucose in ratios similar enough to not make a difference.

Unless something in the remaining few percent is protective for honey and or harmful for HFCS, it's doubtful that there's a difference health-wise.
Oh wow this is a great one. Can't find the link online but some of the older, Vietnam era field manuals concerning radio-wave propagation and the NVIS effect are pretty amazing. Not as usefully today in the age of SATCOM, but a great skill nonetheless.
All I can think of is that xkcd: http://xkcd.com/1425/
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I can't agree.

I have written quite a lor of work in LaTeX and I am still perplexed by floating images and I can never tell where floats (images, tables) will be or should be, because it always jumps randomly from page to page.

My roommate at college had a thesis with lots of images and tables and he basically gave up on LaTeX because of that.

Also, installing fonts to MS Word is trivial. Installing fonts to LaTeX ... well... not so. You need to use XeLaTeX. Which breaks some other things. I tried to use bibtex with xelatex, and started to do some weird issues, until I found out that the texlive packages in debian/ubuntu repos are outdated, so I had to uninstall them and install it again from the website, and then something else broke.

Meanwhile MS Word just works as it is. And you don't need to learn the weird table syntax. And the weird floating logic. And the difference between TeX, LaTeX, XeLaTeX, BibTex, Texlive.
In retrospect, we really should have made a cat-shaped chumby (see: linked video @ ~13:19)
Amazing that there is so much extra capital to invest they're looking for businesses that don't even exist yet.
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Don't you mean heatmapper? Get a domain that isn't a typo.
Probably a mistake, as the article discusses that paper later on. The study in question is probably

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0028393214...
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Whatever system is selected would measure competency at least as well as the current one, and almost certainly better. We already need to measure competence, we just mix that measurement with "an ability to learn at a specific rate". If you want to go faster or slower, you either have to self educate or fail and retry, respectively.

The modern educational system is already pushing the idea of a reverse classroom, where lectures are on your own time, and homework and questions are done in the classroom. Desynchronizing the exact progress through the material is much simpler in this sort of environment. (Of course, it is important not to totally screw those people who rely on the structure and rigour of a formal schedule, or the cooperation of classmates; it is easy to focus too much on averages and ignore outliers).

Personally, I prefer to on binges (spend 30+ hours in a few days on a single subject, then don't touch the subject for a few weeks). However, the educational system specifically discourages this, insisting that you you have deadlines, learn extensively within specific well-defined subjects, discuss things as a team, attend each lecture, and so on. If you fail to follow this structure, you fail, if you follow, you pass. If you cram for tests at the exact right time, you even get a good evaluation. It evaluates your ability to fit the system with high accuracy, and your competence with mediocre accuracy. Removing the unnecessary part of that would have to increase the overall accuracy, right?
Interesting. Can you link some evidence of gamification failing? I have only ever heard good things about it.
That would be a fun project. If you can digitize the graph reliably, you can then take the discrete Fourier transform of the data, apply some denoising/thresholding to extract the main components. This would tell you if you're looking at sin(x), cos(x), cos^2(x), etc. If you have a training set, you could maybe start picking out more complex functions like abs(x), 1/x, etc.
admin is this script have real time chat.....and one more in admin you can see all the users updates ...its an big privacy issuse to user ....
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I've found https://wiki.debian.org/Smartcards/OpenPGP a really good resource with plenty of links. There's also https://www.gnupg.org/howtos/card-howto/en/smartcard-howto-s... & http://www.narf.ssji.net/~shtrom/wiki/tips/openpgpsmartcard which I've found helpful. Once they're set up they behave just as if the key was part of your local keyring encrypted with the smartcard's passphrase, but is of course only usable when the card is plugged in.

It actually seems like the Yubikey Neo also supports GPG, so that is quite nice. I own http://shop.kernelconcepts.de/product_info.php?products_id=4... & http://shop.kernelconcepts.de/product_info.php?products_id=1...
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> Top officials at the Treasury Department are discussing the need to bolster fortifications around a critical area of cybersecurity: outside vendors, which include law firms, accounting and marketing firms and even janitorial companies, according to several people briefed on the matter.

> The push by government officials is a stark acknowledgment of the vulnerability of financial institutions to an attack — even after they have spent hundreds of millions of dollars to protect themselves — if one of their vendors is not fully prepared.

This makes you seriously wonder. Apparently, janitorial companies get sufficient network access at JP Morgan to download client lists. Apparently that is quite common at wall street banks.

Then again, having worked at one, this doesn't really surprise me. The only thing that has a decent security architecture is the transaction processing systems (and they're not isolated from each other either).

And at one of those banks the reason that janitorial company managers have access to client lists is that copies are stored as excel spreadsheets on smb shares and management can't be bothered with access lists, so all is set to public access.
I mean, if you are making an arbitrary numeric scale, might as well make it rock.
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I guess that's why I don't bother with online reviews. I just feel it's a huge game and completely unreliable.
HTML5 - http://pouchdb.com
iOS, Android, .NET, Java - http://developer.couchbase.com/mobile
Hosted - http://www.iriscouch.com and http://cloudant.com
Original - http://couchdb.apache.org

All of these are 100% open source and interoperable.
The thing is though, in many cases, these correlations are not based on long personal experience, they're "imported" from other sources (parents, friends, media, etc)... and that process is crazily lossy...
"In a world where all the obvious names are taken, finding a good name is a test of imagination. And the name you choose tells whether or not you passed that test."

Then again, what you make of the name also matters.
Straw-man. The relevant question is whether or not HFCS is significantly worse than sucrose.
They are making hardware; hardware is expensive, and a lot of money can significantly improve time-to-market. I doubt they will be spending this on Aeron chairs.
I'm dubious of the "walking again" claims though. Sure it's awesome he's regained feeling - that's the story here. But his so-called walking is between parallel bars or with a walker, both with full calipers. Complete paraplegics can do this by just swinging their legs, and it looks like what this guy was doing. They showed him lying on a bed, I wish they'd show just what leg movement - if any - he's regained.
http://www.quora.com/What%E2%80%99s-the-second-biggest-city-...
A simple analog for first time founders is standard docs (series AA & SAFE) vs non standard docs.

As an aside, I think it's really hard to get clean terms when you're outside silicon valley... I had a friend raise money in Utah recently and he was saddled with all sorts of strangeness. (board for a $200k seed investment, etc.)

Another startup hub advantage.
As the original author of that article, I declare this nominologist-approved! :) Your analysis on each dimension seems spot on to me. Yay http://fogbeam.com !

PS: I don't think verbability is a total fail either. Hard to predict that one. Maybe some kind of "beam me up" phrasing could become the verbified version...
It has false positives.
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Thank you for your notes.
If you want an actual scholarly article rather than a youtube video, here is one (especially useful are the figures on page 6):

http://www.sugar.org/cra-lawsuit/wp-content/uploads/relevant...
An interesting heuristic difference between the two types of, lets call it, challenges, is how you define success.

In a puzzle, you achieve success as a well defined solution, or (in a lot of the theoretical cases) by showing no such solution exists.

In a problem, there is many goals to balance (simplicity, efficiency, cost, implementation time, etc). Often, the best solution is not needed, or the "optimal" one is too complex or takes too long to implement. Often, the perfect solution is not possible, and you have to think about how to change the definition of the problem to get something acceptable.
It's an anecdote, and the details rely on genetics, but it's hard science that tons of sugar sticking to your teeth all day is very bad for them. Some people might be much more resistant to cavities and decay, but that doesn't change the fundamentals of the risk and the fact that most people aren't so lucky.

Also, for what it's worth, cavities don't always present with obvious symptoms like pain. Well, they are obvious, but often only to dentists/trained professionals, and x-rays may sometimes be necessary to be totally sure.
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I've never had a salaried job that didn't start off with a "probationary" period of 30 - 90 days. Not sure what the real difference is.
Then Apple should stop pretending.
Would you purchase a company which was dependent on this Google service? Hmm, well Google might.
Is this really true? It seems a lot of people are part of dysfunctional organizations out of desperation. If there were better alternatives for the employees, would shifty endeavors such as the one in the article thrive?
I love that the NYRB is getting a lot of play on Hacker News recently. It's really a top tier publication and reminds me a lot of the higher quality conversations on this site.
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They pitched at TechCrunch Disrupt yesterday. Here's the video http://techcrunch.com/2014/10/20/microblink-launches-photoma...
That doesn't mean some Federal agents haven't paid him a visit and told him to log IPs or else they might start "investigating" the site. If they want to the Feds could easily come up with grounds for seizing the sites hardware. I suspect moot "volunteers" information related to serious crimes.

It is notable that some 4chan competitors have gone out of their way to say they don't log IPs and have distributed their infrastructure.
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Some Dave Arnold on Herve This (no love lost):

http://www.cookingissues.com/2009/06/01/molecular-gastronomy...

Arnold considers This a huckster.

This constantly says he invented (along with Dr. Kurti) a new branch of science, namely MG. Never mind that McGee’s seminal work was published in 1984, or that people have been worried about the same problems for hundred of years. This relegates them all to being “precursors to MG.” I actually heard him say once that, “Molecular Gastronomy did not exist prior to 1988, because that’s when I invented the term” – forget that MG doesn’t appear on any of the of the Erice organizers correspondence till 1991. This statement shows This’s strange fascination with semantics. He is basically claiming that the field didn’t exist because the current name that This tirelessly promotes hadn’t yet been coined. Maybe I should rename physics “Fusicks” and say I have invented a new branch of science.
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Really like the Upswell idea! Awesome agent for change on so many levels. Big potential. Any plans to organize the ideas into categories? Would make them easier to navigate and allow users to focus on topics/areas of personal interest. Good luck!
Does a "typical" neural network not have any storage to speak of? When I've seen examples of neural networks working, it's seemed like they work in cycles in some way, with the states of each "neuron" affecting the state of others. Is that not potentially storage?
I would agree that the minimum requirement should only include relevant data. However, you never know when a skill might be handy (especially if you don't have that skill), and having a broad base seems like it would be beneficial as well. Perhaps allow for people to demonstrate their bonus competencies, and strive for a diversity of auxiliary skills across teams?

Interestingly, my father, who is an applied mathematician, recently requested my help to understand regex and their relation to NFAs to help him with a mathematically related programming task.
What if someone registered show.hn? :-)
Strictly speaking they don't "make money off of you telling them these things." They make money from advertising in a well-targeted fashion, which is actually a much more complicated proposition, and one that has far more to do with how much sense they can make of the the data you provide – not just the acquisition of the raw material.

Using a more accurate view of their model, it becomes clear that FB is strongly incentivized to keep their raw data to themselves. Failure to do so means risking that someone will not only beat them at their own game, but will do so at their expense. Same goes for Google, etc. So yes, it is perfectly reasonable to share a lot of very personal data with them while expecting that much of it will be carefully protected. After all, the stratospherically high value of their position depends on the inability of others to connect the very fine-grained demographic profiles they create with the specific individuals behind them.

Given this reasonable expectation of privacy, it makes more sense to see these third-parties more like doctors, priests, or accountants. Yes, they're all third parties too. But they're ones who we absolutely expect to protect our privacy. Given how deeply established the norms of confidentiality are in cases like these, I fail to understand why we we've acquiesced so readily to the fairly radical standard set in 1979.
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Your last paragraph has me cracking up. It reminds me of Todd Barry's sarcastic delivery.
Man Kevin Hale is an amazing startup founder and the whole team from Wufoo was great. However, that name is properly terrible, and I think that it succeeded in spite of that name. Something about it is extremely off putting. Luckily the product and team were phenomenal.
The jobs you mention don't exist. Unless you count prison guards. I know someone who double majored with good grades and is now a corrections officer working with mostly non-college graduates because the only other job opportunities were things like 7-11 cashier.

Also, I know people see a lot of "openings" for "decent" positions, but most of them seem to be fake spam positions from companies that don't really want to hire people considering that every person I know who has ever applied for one has never heard anything back, except for a couple people who've had it explained to them that an opening wasn't for college graduates.
this was one of the coolest things i've seen recently. Lots of interesting stuff going on in the OCR space. A buddy of mine has an app that translates chinese and japanese to english in realtime using the camera. http://www.waygoapp.com/
Not at all. I'm wondering what the effect of my family's usual dinner drink is. We have (mostly) unsweetened fruit juice mixed half and half with carbonated water. The only sweetened juices tend to be lemonade or a cranberry mix.
A "Customer Experience Associate" is almost certainly not an exempt employee, so U.S. law would require them to be paid overtime for any hours in excess of 40 hours a week.

If you're an exempt employee, there's no requirement that you be paid overtime, no matter how many hours a week you're required to work.
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Well, you know ... Mr. Brin and Mr. Page recently succeeded in persuading me to activly support Google's business ... that's the style how some collegue told me about his new job :-). Yes, it's a bit tiring and part of the whole "we want to make the world a better place" marketing bullshit of the tech giants. At this scale, it's brutal business, nothing else. So, it would have been refreshing to read in the blog post: "We just took the heaps of money." Which is perfectly fine.
Gayle,

Don't get me wrong. I made it through the Amazon interviews thanks to your book. I spent a week reading through and cranking out examples before the interview. Then I spewed out all of the desirable answers at each step of the interview process.

Now I'm a highly experienced developer with 15+ years experience across a variety of technologies. I contribute to open source, answer questions on Stack Overflow, present at technical meet ups. I solve problems that need solving even when no one else will step up.

Despite all of my experience, implementing hashes and sorting linked lists in place, as well as many of the other questions asked by these companies just don't come up on a daily basis. A good developer isn't someone who can explain those things in an interview, it is someone that can examine the problem and design a solution. They should have an idea of the tools necessary and then reach for the right book or use a healthy dose of google searching some api docs to build the solution.

The current interviewing techniques are broken. I would like to offer the solution, but quite frankly I've spent plenty of time interviewing people and we haven't gotten it down yet either.

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The ideas Malcolm Gladwell discusses in, "Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking", applies here. Some of the most experienced developers will have an intuition for how best to implement a solution, this does not necessarily translate to them being able to well articulate the why and how.
SOLID is a set of (possibly questionable) religious principles often espoused by OOP programmers. It tends to boil down to "keep things modular and don't break abstractions", with specifics guidelines for dealing with objects and inheritance.
In the U.S., this is actually governed by a Federal law, the Fair Labor Standards Act.

The U.S. Department of Labor has lots of information about it:

http://www.dol.gov/dol/topic/wages/overtimepay.htm
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Thank you, yes that's a great first filter (standard vs non-standard docs.) Though, as you said, unfortunately it's rare for terms outside the valley to be standard so that might not be as helpful a criteria for founders outside the Valley, and especially for us here in Asia.
How many of the startups you're thinking of have wound up turning into businesses? Funding is not success.
As an aside, I think it's really hard to get clean terms when you're outside silicon valley

Which is the whole point. I was told point blank by Cooley that no one outside of the valley will ever do SAFE because it is different.

They also will never do post money options pools which are what YC seems to push for.

So good luck everyone else (myself included).
From 1990 until 2006, almost every one of my colleagues/co-workers (dev, infrastructure, management) was at least 10-15 years older than me. Some were my age. Rarely was anyone younger.

When I emerged from a deep stint with a company (2000-06), the age distribution had shifted dramatically to people in their 20s. Not only were many of the old timers gone, I was finding myself to be the old timer.

What had happened to all my old timers? Many didn't survive the dot-com bust or recession of 01-02. They either outright retired or moved to different careers; some survived, but moved on anyway. Some had died.

Those that remained in technology went three different routes. Management, consulting, found a place in a company they like and haven't budged.

Personally, I started my own consulting business which I enjoy. Although nearing 50, I do feel some envy for the guys who've found a nice small/mid-sized company to settle down in. They may not be as well compensated, but they are often "IT Director/VP" (where IT is 3-8 guys), are still hands-on, get to have fun, and not have as much stress.
This is not a criticism of this study, but I do want to observe that "aging" has a very specific meaning here, and it does not really just mean "harmful."

Aging causes things in your body to fail.

Smoking, also, causes things in your body to fail, regardless of and unrelated to whether it causes "aging."

(Anecdotally, as a person who has gone both through periods of heavy soda [here in the midwest, "pop"] consumption and who has been a pack-a-day smoker, there are orders of magnitude of difference in the effects on general health.)
This is really good to see!
I find the methodology kinda dubious. For instance, I would like to see some substantiation that living within the bay area or new york are key indicators of startup success.

The primary method by which startups fail is running out of capital, that's pretty much the definition of failure. Yet these two locations are some of the most expensive locations in the country.

If you take a filter of all software or hardware technology startups across the US, across all states in the past decade, and then look at their failure rates, I bet you will find that the odds of success are higher outside of these two locations.

NY and SF probably have a lot more total startups and thus total winners -- but that's also because they both have spigots of money flowing into a lot of bad ideas. Many of those bad ideas last long enough to be acquired, often for the team or for tools, without ever having been a success in the marketplace. These exits would be considered "success" by this analysis, but they aren't actually success.

So, look at how many entities are still in business 10 years later.

I bet outside of California and New York, mortality rates are actually lower.

Of course, I can't prove this. But here was an opportunity to actually do some analysis and they didn't.
Looks like that functionality used to be there, was broken, fixed, and then broken again sometime later. The latest bug for it appears to be https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=308999

For this application you'd need it to be in an <img> tag anyway since there's the other stuff on the page too, so that's a moot point.
I love puzzles. I love to ask people who were just interviewed to tell me all about any puzzles they got, and try to see how long it takes me to work them out. I feel fairly confident that I have a knack for them.

But it isn't actually a good interview strategy. I don't think any company should hire me over someone else due to puzzle solving. If I were to do an interview, I would probably leave out puzzles entirely.
The whole project is based on various libraries. In particular, the POS tagger itself uses the OWLQN optimizer from Stanford NLP (licensed under GPL).

However, it's possible to remove GPL libraries out of the POS tagger as mentioned here: https://github.com/brendano/ark-tweet-nlp/blob/master/LICENS...
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