skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You cannot simply extrapolate from smaller intervention but it does lower the prior for a larger one, of course. Maybe unless you have a specific hypothesis which predicts a non-linear effect.

Also, exercising will actually do very little for your weight because calories have became too cheap and readily available to burn them off. You can eat more by accident than you will use in a fairly vigorous workout.
My only concern about this is that people are deprecating Vim stuff in favor of NeoVim. My experience with NeoVim is that it's not ready to replace Vim yet - I'm optimistic about NeoVim, but it's too early to start deprecating Vim stuff.
Neuronal “Superhub” Might Generate Consciousness
Thanks for sharing! Can you tell us more about MaxTraffic.com?
How Gratitude Has Made Me a Better Founder
The semantics of the "different" origin escaping will be interesting, in that they talk about about rich text editing and the clipboard API's usefulness there, but isn't removing the ability to copy/paste HTML 'formatted' text from another origin a part of that use case?
There is a badge for exactly that - Necromancer ( http://stackoverflow.com/help/badges/17/necromancer ): Answered a question more than 60 days later with score of 5 or more.

Whenever a question gets a new post it gets bumped up to the top of the activity again - the same amount of possible attention as when an hour old question gets a new answer too.
Crystal: the programming language
The US is the same. Software sales into the US (income from a US source) are subject to US taxes. There's some rules about what exactly constitutes a US source, but from my layman reading it sounds like if you market in the US, you may be required to pay.
Read it again. He's being sarcastic.
Who gets to decide that?
Google IMHO does NOT (even with their "don't be evil" slogan). All Google gets to decide is whether they value certain links or hand out a penalty for them. That does not define whether something is ethical or not. It's ethical to pay for advertisements, so why shouldn't it be ethical to pay for links?
How is the YC fund structured?
I understand YC has a fund that is separate from YC itself, and charges no management fee's or carry for LP's. I was wondering how this fund is structured? If there is no carry, how do YC benefit from having other LP's (that aren't Founders) investing in the fund? Also what length is the fund?
I looked into them when I first started trying to figure this all out. They take a big chunk of money (9%), and would require a bunch of new custom integration. I would end up making less money, or having to raise prices, and still having to do a bunch of custom integration work.
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El deporte como vehículo de integración social para personas con discapacidades
I learned a lot from a project on Github (https://github.com/braitsch/node-login) and taking a look at his code. I particularly liked the way he organized his project and the way he wrote his controllers. I was learning Node when I originally went over it, but I began writing my JS similar to how he wrote his. My code became more object-oriented.
I coulda been a con-tinder
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Don't forget Canada.
There's something that I really need to get off my chest and I looked for an occasion to vent my frustration for a while. I'm taking this occasion right now.

Instead of adding new APIs, is it possible to address the ENORMOUS elephant in the house: <textarea>'s API.

It's unusable. People have built workarounds for years and yet, nothing has changed. Here's a few things to get started:

- Autoresizing. CSS resize: auto; could work but I don't care how we do it.

- Styling content. So we can use it to build IDE. So something like iA's editor can be built.

- Tokenizer. This would help solve the above. Could be a strip down version of a HTMLElement. Or an approach like SVG. Anything. Lots of people have more experience than me on this matter. I'm sure some of you can come up with something.

- Better input management. So we can build IDE with auto-indent.

The web is so dynamic now, and all the editor out there are ugly hacks that are so hard to maintain. Anyone who's built an interface over textarea/contentEditable shares my pain.

If, for whatever reason, it's impossible to have a textarea fullfill this job, then can we at least get a decent contentEditable implementation. It's so broken. On so many level.

I love you all, and I appreciate all the hard work, but I hate textarea's dumb API.
I thought the marketing campaign was clever. Trying to give it a try and can't seem to find the gem name and example Procfile configuration.
If anyone is interested in the workings of ENIAC at the circuit level this is an interesting read: http://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/text/Knuth_Don_...
Production can be reduced locally, but that doesn't mean much.

The world is big and the market is global. Most of the cost (value add?) is in consumer country transit not production costs. If the price of crude opium in Afghanistan tripled wouldn't affect the street price in Denver or Berlin much. The best understood and studied market for ilicit drugs is the South America to North America cocaine trade. The markups are huge.

The reality is that political problems imperfect systems non cooperation of belligerent or dysfunctional countries is part of the package. Even if it wasn't the price of precursors in poor countries is so inelastic that this kind of enforcement is pissing in the wind. Even if it wasn't the substitute for drug A not non-consumption, it's a different drug. Synthetics are impossible to put a dent in with enforcement. You don't need fields for meth.

There has been 40 years of incredible effort put into enforcement, the war on drugs. An unfathomable amount of resources all over the world. More international cooperation than on any other issue. The results suck.

On one hand we have very dubious benefits in terms of the availability of drugs. Basically, quality suffers. Price increases. If consumption is lower than it otherwise would be, it's not by much.

On the other hand we have clear and inarguable costs. The financial cost of the actual war is immense. Drugs are impure and more dangerous. More dangerous and addiction-prone delivery methods are more common, injecting. People are in jail. Criminals control enormous markets. If drugs were legal, revenue from crime would drop by a huge amount. This money creates dangerous criminal empires big enough to endanger whole states. Mexico is in danger of failing as a state. Body counts in the hundreds of thousands. Poorer treatment for addicts (it's hard to treat and prosecute simultaneously).

I would also argue that there's a basic violation of human freedom too. IE, if you choose to take drugs and don't harm anyone, that should be your right as an adult. Locking you up for it is immoral. Not all drugs a heroin, but even heroin is a choice.

We know the costs (huge) and the benefits (eery small) of prohibition. To think that after 40+ years of failure the war on drugs will improve its performance is insane. I really don't see how people can fall on the other side of this debate.
I honestly don't get it. How is this different from the same old reCAPTCHA? Click the checkbox, get a captcha, fill it in. What's the difference?
Ask HN: Delayed sleep phase disorder and career
Hi HN, Info: I'm 22, got two years commercial experience and delayed sleep phase disorder.

after another oversleep in this month I need to ask somebody who experienced/is experiencing this trouble. I got delayed sleep phase disorder (like probably few people here) - it started when I was early teen. My first job was at start-up with flexible working hours and I used to be last person in in the office working till night. It works fine until after more than 1.5 year I decided to left and joined to financial corporation. I thought that strict working hours and all this business sheath can teach my how to live as proper adult. I had been dressing suit, but problems with going to sleep before 2am and leaving bed earlier than 10am (which was the time I had to show up). After my probationary period talked to my manager I'm unable to work 9-17. In my current job again I got so called "flexible working hours", but skipping morning stand-ups isn't well seen, in most cases I'm in 5 minutes before. Moreover, last days are stressed - deadlines etc. so manager decided to have early morning meetings. Again, every day I got two fights with myself which I frequently lose: I just cannot feel asleep before 2am, - it's the time when I want to make things, I'm creative and code. In the morning I have tu run for a bus without breakfast nor coffee. Not to say that I am not productive at all before noon. I don't want to act unprofessional, but the best things I do happens in night and social norms about work and rest time do not fit for my at all. It's also hard to talk about, because for people who don't experience it seem like laziness or weak will in best case. What is your advice if I really want to be professional and got successful job, but I don't fit in the "standards". I know that breaking my rhythm is not a solution, because even if I'm up at 7 (very rare though) I'm not productive till lunch-time.
The main conclusion you can draw from this story is that you should read, learn, research and think more before doing something, not after.
Here is the report itself (200 pages):

https://www.scribd.com/doc/248153458/25th-November-2014-ISC-...
Make no mistake about it: SO's attention to broken windows was revolutionary. But the system is out of control. For example, comments are now silently deleted because, as one mod told me, SO "is about content, not people." Anybody who thinks a site that relies on volunteer contributions isn't about people is so far down the wrong path it's hard to know what to say to them.
Globals make it impossible to reason about separate components in isolation. What classname can I use for this button? Can I use '.button'? What if someone else already uses '.button'? Who knows...
OneVest launches Reddit-style startup learning
Werner Vogels on the excess capacity myth:

The excess capacity story is a myth. It was never a matter
of selling excess capacity, actually within 2 months after
launch AWS would have already burned through the excess
Amazon.com capacity. Amazon Web Services was always
considered a business by itself, with the expectation that
it could even grow as big as the Amazon.com retail operation.

http://www.quora.com/How-and-why-did-Amazon-get-into-the-clo...
>I really have no idea why someone would downvote your honest answer

there is a big part of HN crowd whose whole life purpose is to downvote something they didn't like or don't understand
There are "Google companies" inside the EU. Of course, they often officially state that there's no connection to the "American Google" to evade certain legislation.
Well, it's a simple business decision. For me the "large chunk" (which isn't that large at all) was far less than what it would cost me doing it myself at a conservative hourly rate.
New Directions in Operating Systems
> The site thought you were a bot

Based on what? It assumes the same for me. There's zero information anywhere. When does it assume you're a human?
> However, the big fun is coming on Thursday, when the EU is due to rule over Google and politely requesting that Google splits off search from the rest of its business.

That's not accurate. What the European Parliament is due to vote on is a non-binding resolution that would recommend that the European Commission consider proposals that would include unbundling Google's search from other commercial features.

> I believe this decision will be indicative of how crazy the EU lawmakers might be prepared to go.

Or it might be an indicator of what people in general are willing to do when their actions have no direct effect (non-binding resolution) and therefore don't actually have to address the details of substantive concerns.
12 Things White People Can Do Now Following Ferguson
> “The ISC is spinning the facts in an attempt to condemn US technology companies for not spying on their customers,” said Eric King, deputy director of Privacy International, the UK-based right to privacy charity. “Law enforcement should have powers to intercept and acquire communications when necessary, but deputising private companies to do it for them is not the right answer.

> “It is not appropriate for internet services — who handle some of our most private and sensitive correspondence — to be snooping through that data for the police, anymore than it would be for the postman to snoop through peoples' letters.”

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/new...

I know BBC tries to remain neutral, but why is it that almost always when we see a post like this, that serves as a platform for UK government's propaganda, it seems to come from BBC?
Gem name is 'passenger'. See the documentation for installation instructions.

Example Procfile configuration: https://github.com/phusion/passenger-ruby-heroku-demo. Note that the demo locks down to Phusion Passenger 4 by default. If you want to try 5, don't forget to bump the version number in the Gemfile.
Uniqlo uses YKK zippers and I can honestly say that they are the best zippers ever.
Jetson TK1, the Nvidia dev board with 32-bit Tegra K1 has JTAG. The 64-bit chip has a completely different instruction set of course, is that the problem?
Do we get anything back for that?
I mean, millons of humans contribute to solving captchas, and does google give anything back (like the OCR tech they're developing) to the community, or does it end up as part of some propietary product of theirs?
Ibogaine (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibogaine) reportedly works for some people to get rid of their additions.
.default-button is still global in that example and may be accidentally overridden by someone working on another part of the site.
There are no EU laws. Member states create laws from EU directives. These laws often apply to everyone outside the member country. In practise these laws generally don't matter outside the member state, as it would be nearly impossible to enforce them. But the principle does exist, and the laws sometimes are enforced.
Unfortunately the skimpers are one step ahead of you: "Counterfeit YKK zippers are flooding the world market and undermining consumer confidence in your products." [1]

[1] http://www.ykk-usa.com/menu/faq/counterfeit1.html
C'mon, man, you make branches by cloning the repository[1]. That's insanity.

[1] http://hginit.com/05.html
Obama Fail Opens Door for Huge Entrepreneurship Opportunity in Canada
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Back in April there was some discussion on meta.P.SE about updating the help center ( http://meta.programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/6590/ ) which resulted in some changes ( http://meta.programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/6604/ ). There's also a post trying to explain the spirit behind all of the reasons and interpretations (and history of those interpretations) the site has of the different close reasons ( http://meta.programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/6483/ ). If there is still confusion about what is and isn't on topic, asking another meta question or stopping into P.SE's chat room would likely meet with a good reception.
Great, another terrorist attack used to justify restricting freedom and privacy

The report seems surprised that Facebook failed to hand the guy over to the authorities because he said he wanted to kill a soldier online. They'd be reporting half the teenagers in the world if they were forced to do so
> Human intelligence took millions of years to evolve. Sorry, but AI(s?) will develop faster.

Just because it happens faster doesn't mean that the underlying laws that guide evolution in the universe are less applicable.
Only two non-fluent? Really? I think you were either extremely lucky or have a rather low bar for "fluency". I'm Portuguese, and a software developer, and yet I know barely anyone I'd consider fluent (myself included) - especially when it comes to the 50+ demography, since at the time it was common to have French classes instead of English.

That said, we do have a better accent than the Spanish, probably thanks to watching TV shows and films subtitled instead of dubbed. Watching TV in Spain is painful :|
Yes. I shouldn't have said nobody. I actually like answering old questions, for example. I've earned that badge 10 times :)

What it really comes down to, though, is that when somebody asks a new question, I want to answer their new question, with all of its subtleties, in response to its particular phrasing, in its context.
Please, as if the ISC could deal with the insane amount of false alarms it would get.

This[1] would happen multiple times a day because nobody can tell the different between a joke & a real threat... except teenagers and people who "get it".

1. http://www.cbsnews.com/news/long-island-high-school-student-...
>It seems that they just really like to pass legislation to make it harder to run software businesses over here.

Please elaborate. I have quite a few friends who run "traditional brick and mortar" businesses and compared to the shit they have to put up with my "virtual" business is like a walk in the park.
I for one am not against regulation, but rather the overhead of large amounts of required documentation. These are burdens that hit small companies the hardest.

And the are burdens that are generally not imposed by the regulations passed by our representatives, but are rather imposed by the bureaucracies tasked with enforcing those regulations. Bureaucracies are pretty much about documentation, and most see little harm in more. And this mismatch of understanding slowly stifles small businesses.

This is not a problem with regulations, it’s a problem with bureaucracies and empathy.
I found it really noteworthy that a science fiction enthusiast, writing about a "reactionless drive", would fail to mention the Dean Drive.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dean_drive
Show HN: How I built an IOT model house with Arduino Yún + PubNub
Ferguson – Grand Jury Evidence on Dropbox
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Who knows what "some US schools" do, but every school I have ever been involved with for 30 years does. You're required to take a foreign language in high school. Most people pick Spanish. I unwisely took 4 years of German, which I have never used, outside of watching WWII movies. Not the best use of my time, in retrospect, but oh well.

Don't believe every bad thing people tell you about US schools.
Linux Distros for Kids
Is it April 1st again already?
An interesting post on an infrequent topic gets people to Google around for this topic, and to find more postworthy stuff.

You won't get this effect with, say, a new PG essay, because everything loosely related to PG has already been posted to HN the minute it has been published. So their are no low hanging fruits coming in batch as soon as you shed light on the subject.
Telecoms Fulfilled 90+ Illegitimate Subpoenas from New Mexico
Well, GB is consistent if the rule you're following is "Use the ISO country code" as "GB" is the ISO country code for the UK [1].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1
Sure they do. Lots of Spanish people speak their regional language (Catalan, Basque, Gallego, etc) besides the national language.
Who Will Wind Up Holding the Bag in the Shale Gas Bubble?
Yeah, but you can pretty much always tell by actually trying it a few times. It's easy to stamp those letters in, but very hard to nail the quality.
If you restrict yourself to UPC barcodes it's actually quite easy. I've done it in pure Python, don't even need Numpy. Unfortunately it's not ready for prime time yet.
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> I don't recall the US DOJ using anti-trust laws to attempt to force a European or Asian company to be split.

The European Parliament passing a non-binding resolution recommending that the European Commission take seek a certain goal as part of a remedy if its concerns aren't otherwise resolved in an ongoing proceeding is not analogous to the US DOJ actually seeking a particular remedy in a proceeding.
all this work seems to span 7 years, and your only significant success was $250k (split ~7 ways) - ouch.

definitely some interesting stories and some ballsy attempts - albeit that there was probably too much focus on opportunistic copy / pasta ideas and capitalising on Latvia's lack of search competition, rather than meaningful value creation.
Cameron is planing to make encryption illegal:

>Cameron, still speaking in the Commons, says he does not believe it is acceptable that there should be internet communications that authorities are not permitted to intercept. The government should legislate on this, he adds.

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/live/2014/nov/25/lee-rigb...
Furthermore, I wonder how many threats to police officers are happening right now on facebook due to a controversial grand jury decision that happened very recently. Do we want to investigate and/or arrest all those people? ....granted, I'm sure at least one of them is real.
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> My experience with NeoVim is that it's not ready to replace Vim yet

And when did you last try Neovim? Because I use it everyday with all of my plugins from vim with 0 problems. The new remote plugin system with python support is making huge strides. People have already started on Go support and I imagine JavaScript, lua, etc is not far behind. It's a very exciting time. I recently even got a commit merged, it's a great community and I've plastered my Macbook with Neovim stickers. :P
I like to say that a native speaker of English that has actually bothered to learn a significant fraction of vocabulary is at least sesquilingual.

English has filched so many words from so many other languages, and has such a large corpus of written literature, that any anglophone wanting to learn more language than he already knows could simply learn more English.

As a result, people who speak English as their first language are probably less likely to pick up another unless they have a specific need or interest in doing so. Plenty of Americans learn Spanish as their second language simply because America has a large Hispanic population.

I had the choice between French or Spanish in high school language classes. Outside of school, my Jewish friends learned some modern Hebrew in Saturday school, I learned some German from a German-American heritage society. And for some reason, my family says the Polish-origin word dupa instead of "ass".

This is why the US is not "monolingual". We simply have so many immigrant languages that the one most open to adopting foreign words (and beating them mercilessly with a rolled-up newspaper) is the one that everybody speaks. It is difficult to learn, because it has been frequently remodeled by both exploration and conquest, becoming like Frankenstein's chimera. Or perhaps it is like Wendigo, swallowing up other languages, only to become larger and hungrier.

It's almost amusing to see the Academie Francaise try to hold off the onslaught unleashed by the Internet by coining new words like courriel and logiciel. Meanwhile, the OED just throws twerk and selfie right into the seething breeding pit that is English vocabulary.
15% of people who drink alcohol become alcoholics? That seems steep...