skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A gameshow is a sandbox. No contestant will end up bankrupt as part of the show. The worst possible case is winning nothing. While the contestant can be out travel costs and opportunity costs, those are not part of the game itself. Therefore I don't think it really includes a risk of ruin.

Now, if the expected value were awarded at each stage, and had to be reported as taxable income, and losing the show required that the contestant pay back the money but still had to pay the taxes, than that would have a real risk of ruin.
You probably wash your hands more than your ancestors. So they're drying out more.
What else have they done?
>You want to be running a high metabolism on plenty of sugar and starch.

Could you expand on that? Are you saying that sugar and starch help immune system and liver function?
Is it just me or is this really beast
JavaScript VMs: What's up with monomorphism?
Being able to read English is a different skill from being able to write it. A lot of the Chinese students I know can understand it mostly fine but have trouble writing coherently for an English reader.
HN has a very different tone than Reddit; this type of humor is less appreciated here. With that, though, welcome!
Yes, I think it has to do with most of the Scandinavian population being in areas that just don't get cold enough to need a block heater. Many people have one anyway, but a modern car doesn't really need a heater until it gets below about -20 C. And the biggest Scandinavian cities (Stockholm, Copenhagen, Gothenburg, Oslo, Aarhus, Bergen, Malmö) rarely get that cold. A typical winter day in those cities is gray, hovering within a few degrees of freezing, and covered in a light mist of rain or sleet.

Now if you live in Kiruna or Luleå or so, things are a bit different...
aluminum is toxic to humans, and has to be coated to not leak into your food.

Aluminum is not toxic when it comes to the levels that might end up in your food. Aluminum hydroxide is an FDA approved antacid.

Aluminum cans are coated not to keep the aluminum out of your food, it's to keep acidic food from corroding the aluminum.
Since I'd already started my own version before seeing this, decided to release it anyways. Quite similar, though mine is integrated into more of a story/post format.

http://www.cafe.com/relationships/questioning-love?u=d39da61...
That's a cool project. But that's a software pathtracer running on CUDA cores rather than a "hardware pathtracer" (whereas the pathtracing would be hard-coded into optimized hardware), right?
I would think that he would have a case against Duke himself.
1) Likely had to pay another year of med school tuition, which is expensive.
2) Had to defer earning a salary for a year.
3) Having appeared to flame out of a research year, he may have found his residency options limited.
Thanks! Never heard of that one before.
I'm actually quite surprised this functionality hasn't made it into "go vet" yet. It would be useful to be able to do this without a 3rd party utility (although all respect to kisielk for producing such a useful tool).
And San Fran.
Aside from being pretty cool, what's the use case for this?
step 1, define success.

not a joke. Is it monetary success? Is it happiness?
Because a lot of plastics don't have the desirable physical properties unless you add plasticizer.
EC2 doesn't just allow you to scale, it allows you to think of servers as disposable units, the same way people think of processes on bare iron.

I'm late to the AWS party, myself, but have been working on a project recently that leverages some of this. It is an eye opener--when you have virtual servers that are controllable by API, you really open up new frontiers of designing applications.
That is exactly Java's .getCause() method on wrapped, propagated exceptions.
The problem with Goenka retreats is that they don't tell you about the Dark Night stages. If you have a map for what you're facing, its much easier. - http://alohadharma.com/the-map/
Yes, I was tired of London. Tired of
Pedestrians telling at cyclists, cyclists yelling at pedestrians, hell bent taxi drivers, and the ambient sound of sirens.

So I left. I went to Thailand where 1 months rent alone buys you 2-4 months of decent living. I traveled home to New Zealand where you can upgrade from a single bedroom apartment to a 3 bedroom house with a backyard.

London pays well, has loads of events and is great for networking. Being able to travel around Europe is also great.

But at the end of the day, if youre unhappy having the pub as your main social activity, and if you find yourself drinking every night to compensate for your lack of enthusiasm for life, then just move. There's a better life elsewhere.
The World of Science Under the Literary Microscope
The key is not the reporting chain as much as who has operational control of budgetary decision making. It far easier to find out who reports to whom than who really wields the check writing power, and how big a check they can write before they have to get someone else's approval.

Right now, you have yet to open source and still have the potential to out-compete the Big Name. That is worth potential income in the future. Big Name might be impressive, but there are any number of people here that can tell you from first-hand experience why Big does not necessarily mean You Shouldn't Compete With Them.

When you name and shame, your options narrow. You have no way to prove what happened, and you should get together with an attorney to find out how exposed you are to a lawsuit if you name and shame. And any potential future income can become entangled in litigation budgets if that happens.

With regards to "the right people", you got a ton of them right here on HN. Rare is the deal that cannot wait a few days longer, especially large deals (for the Corp. Dev. guy pulling the trigger on an acquisition/acquihire it is still a big deal, just not as potentially a life-changing one as for you). Take advantage of that latency to ping the hivemind here and find out different opinions you and your braintrust might not have considered yet.

If I blew up bridges every time I was stepped upon, then I wouldn't still be in business today. This happens in business; it's a very bloody game of inches that takes place over years and decades.
So do we eventually go back to wooden or leather water vessels?

I wonder if those will see a comeback of sorts by the 'lets go back to the past for inspiration' folks. Not that the past does not have good things but lots of paleo things are just not that scalable... I mean, imagine all the leather we'd need..
Glitch works this way. It will simply redo the tree when better data is available (via dependency tracing); so you can parse, type check various parts within and between files using what is essentially optimistic parallelism.

This is quite useful for non regular problems that are otherwise difficult to parallelize.
A Study in Ghost Theme Costs
It's cool precisely because it's useful! Have an expensive computation task? Just dump it onto the cloud instead of running it locally. This is probably the most streamlined way to do this that I've ever seen.
From what I could gather from building and testing a new desktop a couple months ago AVX instruction loads will trip CPU voltage levels to increase over 'normal' and generate a ton of heat as a result, often throttling if you aren't using aftermarket cooling. I would guess that AVX has a long way to go in terms of power efficiency before you'll see any large use of it.
“A compound is considered safe (by the Food and Drug Administration) until proven otherwise.”

That's a ridiculously untrue statement. Try and add a chemical with unknown safety to a food product/cosmetic/medical device and see how long it takes the FDA to shut you down.

The FDA does have GRAS designation (generally recognized as safe) for many chemicals, but that is based on a large body of evidence that has demonstrated no (or manageable) safety concerns.
I think you're right, people in third world countries use lots of aluminum in their cookware (Thailand, while not being third world) is a good example of a place which uses it a lot in cookery.

Just don't use aluminum citrus squeezers or cook your tomato sauce in aluminum pots (as their useful lifetimes will suffer, and the food might take on a weird taste.)

It would also seem that most of the danger from aluminum cookery, where there is such, comes from impurities in the recycled aluminum (lead, and other hazardous metals).
That's pretty good, I may start using that.
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Can you give a quick brain dump on hana? good bad and ugly.
Please, if you do it, let us know.
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"They already act like me and wife because that's genetics."

Don't underestimate B.F Skinner and Behaviorism?

As to "marry well"--let's see how that one pans out. I know
what you mean, but true love is blind. Growing up in Marin County; I found it hard to love the rich ones. I tried many a times, but they were different, and I could never
just overlook my lack of love for money. I actually was always drawn to the middle and poor class? I used to think
it was envy, or I assumed rich kids were shallow? I don't know why I couldn't marry for money, but their was something
they(wealthy kids) all lacked, and to this day I'm not sure
exactly what it is?
Is there any selection bias at play for these kinds of retreats? Are there certain kinds of people who are able to set aside 10 days in a row for something like this?

I can't remember the last time I had 10 days I could free up.
It's a minor point but bottles that provide any insulating value are sort of worrying to use as the risk of giving a baby a hot drink increases and glass baby bottles are sometimes thick glass. It turns out that getting up for the 9th time, totally exhausted, makes reliably noticing anything hard. Disclaimer: I have only used one glass baby bottle ever
formatted Scala code by hibikir from above in thread[0]:

def topJavaArticle(articles:List[Article]) = articles.find(_.tags.contains("Java"))

def javaArticles(articles:List[Article]) = articles.filter(_.tags.contains("Java"))

def byAuthor(articles:List[Article) = articles.groupBy(_.author)

0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8874785
As someone else mentioned, that would require the other party to click a link and be directed to some webpage for said form. I agree, that's not too much of a hassle and in my instances can be far more effective than setting up a meeting on email (for example if it displays the free slots of all involved parties like doodle.com), but that's what x.ai is offering: letting people scedule the way they already do
Project predated oracle, back in the osx 10.5-10.6 days when there was the dtrace integration as well. There were internal builds of the zfs kext and at one point I saw leaked source on the Internet. Project was abandoned because of legals disagreements over cddl licensing, as I recall.
Redshift source code: https://github.com/jonls/redshift
Nothing you mentioned, spinning instances up and down, balancing between them, clustering databases, is exclusive to EC2, AWS or "cloud" computing in general.

Scalability is largely a design exercise, not, as much as AWS sales engineers want your CTO/CFO to believe, an infrastructure exercise. At the point where infrastructure becomes an issue, you're building your own AWS.

I'm happy to admit that AWS might make some of this easier, but it's almost certainly going to be more expensive [1], and it's often at the cost of flexibility (lock-in, AWS-specific knowledge).

How are dedicated servers, or even collocated servers, possibly less flexible?

[1] There are exceptions, S3 and Route53 stand out as, at the very least, being cost-competitive to a greater extent than other AWS/Cloud offerings.
http://www.doorman.it/
This is fairly common--if work is genuinely original there is likely a good deal of technique involved. There is a lot of laboratory science that is more like craft, and it's always been this way. Reproducibility of novel results should be expected to be poor, and getting to the point of reproduction will often be difficult.

So "failure to reproduce on the first few attempts" does not mean "bad science".

In genomics, however, failure to reproduce was the norm for many years. There were a few spectacularly good early results that held up, but the ubiquitous use of cross-validation (which unless done with insane care is simply invalid) and analysis of significance that was frequently just wrong meant that a lot of results were published that were the numerical equivalents of early Royal Society papers on deformed cows and the like: meticulous descriptions of anomalous one-offs.

A lot of what is happening is generational: the older generation of biological researchers were never trained or equipped with anything like the analytical tools required to cope with the large numerical datasets that labs started generating in the '90's thanks to new technologies in the wake of the Human Genome Project.
What is the typical recent grad salary as software engineer?
What is the typical recent grad salary as software engineer near the San Francisco bay area?
Gavin Newsom is a poster child for what you are talking about.
M.Mplay3: les titres de Maroon 5 en sonneries mobiles à télécharger
All this work with matrix factorization and alternating least squares to find undiscovered gems a user might actually enjoy, and then they torpedo it with a simplistic and utterly useless "popular in your area" algorithm.
Thanks, but lawyers cost money and that resource is lacking for us.

We tried and tried and tried to get out to the valley and via an incubator(YC or TechStars), but all we could get to help us are local incubators. We greatly appreciate their backing, but they do not have the backgrounds/experience/networks a YC or TechStars has to thoroughly help us.

THough there are some people in this east coast town who could help us, but they do not seem receptive to. It's not like we haven't tried to connect with them, though!
> ext4 has an alarming number of corruption bugs

Which bugs are these?

> though I take Linus' description of how the OSX filesystem works with a grain of salt. He can't possibly _care_ to know as much about it as he knows about Linux's.

http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.g...
+1 - I would be extremely interested in this as well. great idea!
Testing with other services
Alexa Home (alexaho.me) control your home with your voice
The "no eye contact" part seems extremely hard - it's so automatic to look at people's face and eyes (I know this isn't true of all cultures though).
Bike bottle interior coatings are not very durable. They're OK for a while if you only drink water and do not scrub the inside with anything abrasive at all. But one good scrubbing with a stiff brush and a few days drinking juice out of that thing, and it will taste bad, probably until you throw it out.

Most people want their bike bottles to be squeezable, so some tradeoffs are made. Everyday bottles can be rigid, so stainless steel (or glass) makes more sense.
Allow a drop to fall on the bottom of your wrist, that'll tell you quite quickly.
The good thing about a lot of study and thinking is that if you do it correctly, sometimes the results are strikingly simple when explained. There is also quite a bit of simplification there, if only just to make the point easier.

The reason I came away with those three things is that for the most part when you dissect a lot of case studies what you find is that parental involvement isn't actually that impactful so long as those three guidelines hold.

Yes more involvement with your children is better, as we see with studies about language acquisition. In those cases however what was found was that the reason that parents were talking to their infants and toddlers more was because they had the time to and were not working or putting them in front of a television (in some cases bordering on neglect). The same held true for physical ailments like later in life issues with hypertension and diabetes from low nutritional diets. All of their root causes were poverty and almost always related was poor maternal education.

The simple answer to your question though is, the rest of those things don't make nearly as much impact, by magnitudes as the big three. So focusing on getting those things right is really crucial. The rest are just kind of window dressing and honestly, largely just make parents feel like they are having a big impact.

But at least 80% of people don't have access to the right resources and have to make do with what they have, and I was hoping for advice that could be more helpful to them.

I think the right advice is do whatever it takes to get out of poverty and into a more traditionally successful "class" without beating your kids along the way. If you had a modest income then start networking with chamber of commerce members and other community leaders. Attend hackathons to expose your kids to people who are going to be successful etc... It's not that obtuse of a thing to figure out how to apply I don't think.

[1]http://www.zerotothree.org/
[2]http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=2072926...
[2]http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3052975/
[3]http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/2781682?sid=2110561584...
[4]http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/04/10/the-power-of...

etc...
Yes. The liver burns through a ton of glycogen. Allowing glycogen to get low by way of long periods of fasting or insufficient carb intake will inhibit the liver's effectiveness at clearing out estrogens, xeno-estrogens or otherwise. The immune system is also very glucose intensive. This is of course why hospitals put sick patients on dextrose drips.
10 things you should learn at the University
I'd guess that more people own leather shoes and/or gloves than Nalgene bottles, and couches / jackets / automobile interiors surely use more leather than a canteen would.
Probably. Most serious yogis have something they're dealing with that they want to "solve" and that drive to solve the problem is exactly what leads them to success i.e. awakening.
Ghost caught on camera
> Labor costs include maintenance and administration.

Yes.

> It's possible that "Busses are relatively cheap compared to the drivers" still holds

Yes. Indeed it does; drivers don't come cheap.

> I hope you have considered it specifically rather than inferring it from the content of your preceding sentence.

Fear not; I have!
What's the market like for this sort of resource? Are many people working on apps and sites in this field?
I wish San Francisco could bring itself to embrace charter schools. SF is a perennial laggard in educational performance for its public schools. There are a few good schools, mostly heavily leaning Asian --due to parental acculturation. But, for the most part the schools are very under-performing. I wish there was something to get them to address the issue --and parents need to stop thinking 'education' and aptitude begin and stop in the classroom.

Also, it would help to have special schools for children of parents for whom education was not part of their upbringing --those kids need some full blown indoctrination to get them to see schooling as an essential part of their lives and not something which interrupts their lives.
You can't use this client side, correct? due to the fact you'd be publishing your aws key?
The nutters seem out on mass today.....
I empathize my wife and I are great examples of outliers also. There were periods growing up that we were homeless and both parents were totally bankrupt. My wife has similar stories to yours about a broken leg from a drunken anger fueled argument.

Kind of proves my point though, your mom (like mine) busted her ass to push you out of the things that define poverty - namely bad education and surroundings.

Outliers exist, but this is not a reliable and dependable method for success - which is exactly what we are talking about. HN is not a representative sample of the population, generally if you post here there is a higher likelihood than not that you are or will be successful.
The $0 Marketing Budget Lie
I'm a Buddhist in Singapore (a member of Nanyang Technological University Buddhist Society) and have been explained by monks that the chanting purpose is to remind us about the qualities of the Buddha that is good for practice. Since the chanting should have it's meaning, those who chant should know the meaning. Without knowing the meaning, it will just become a meaningless ritual. Hence, when chanting in my society, usually below the pali text there is English text which help the chanters to understand the chanting.
Quite to the contrary. Keeping a meditation journal is an invaluable, underutilized tool that allows students and teachers to see patterns that arise during meditation sessions, diagnose progress, and recommend next steps.

If you want to see some people making some seriously fast progress, check out practice logs on these sites:

http://www.dharmaoverground.org/web/guest/discussion/-/messa...
http://awakenetwork.org/forum/kfd-archive-wetpaint
Why you should design for open source
That's a pretty "successful" position to be in honestly. Maybe I am reading into this too much but to have the time to be self aware enough to know you aren't driven is a luxury that a poor person doesn't have.
Economics does, in fact, deal with falsifiable hypotheses which can be tested. In fact, a large part of the reason that we know that the rational actor model is flawed in ways besides the assumption of perfect information is by experiments in economics falsifying hypotheses based on that model.
Local Motors just 3D-printed a car live at an auto show
No update for N56U yet.

>2014/11/21

Well, killing a process is the easiest workaround for now, and it should work until we get a patch.
Missed your response, yes she was. She was told that she would get better positioning (which she didn't) and receive loads of extra traffic (which she did), but none of that traffic was qualified traffic (that converts).

By the way, she does not sell a product, she sells a service (herself) and that's a little more difficult to track.
If your child is tolerant, just don't heat the bottle. After trying various warming schemes with screaming twins waiting for food, we just began giving them their food right from the fridge and they didn't complain. Haven't warmed a bottle since.*

* for various reasons we fed with formula only and premeasure formula and water before bed for quick mixing in the middle of the night.
The singing he mentions is strongly reminiscent of Invocations of Gompo, a track from The Pillow Book (a film), which shockingly is trivially found on YouTube at:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pg5oHTkH6hw
On a cautionary note, and while I'm not a lawyer... Any patent is at risk of invalidation, and disputes become a battle of resources. At the same time, the provisional does at least help establish your freedom to use your own invention.
But how much people pay is not determined only by the amount they're willing to give up. It won't go over that, but it can be quite a bit under.
Samsung Galaxy Nexus (GT-I9250) has Google's logo on it was the first such example. It shipped with Android 4.0 and the last version supported is 4.3, 20 months of software updates.
Correct, there's no way to prevent people from seeing your keys.
The most important thing you can do with your kids? Eat dinner with them
Eh, you know, I'm a bit ambivalent about this. On the one hand it sounds nice, on the other it's privatization of a public good.

Maybe Googs will make the system more efficient, I don't know, but it looks a bit like biting away at the responsibility of government. We're going in the other direction with respect to healthcare. Why go towards privatization in this case? What do we privatize next, road maintenance?

Certainly Google could make the court system more efficient, should we let them have a hand at it too?