skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are many studies about autism and GI issues over several years. Parents of ASD children take heat for trying various things to help their kids, including diets. There are several diets that have helped some kids, but as you wrote autism is a wide spectrum and no two may react the same.

The biomedical side of autism is often dismissed, and likely misunderstood, which I think explains the downvotes. Spending time with hundreds of children with autism, and you start to hear similar complaints and issues. Many of these kids are sick.
So if they wanted to be a contender again, this is how they could do it:

- Buy all the good "Web 2.0" startups. They could get substantially all of them for less than they'd have to pay for Facebook.

- Put them all in a building in Silicon Valley, surrounded by lead shielding to protect them from any contact with Redmond.

I feel safe suggesting this, because they'd never do it.

I can't help but think that Microsoft has had quite a few acquisitions as of late, though. Minecraft (gaming), Acompli (mobile email), Sunrise (mobile calendar), and probably others.
Google just loves exerting their power. It will take more than Chrome devs declaring it a done deal to make this happen. The browser is only half the issue. Web servers must get on board for this to matter. Obviously Safari, FireFox and IE have some say in this too.
"Siri's voice recognition is kind of bad some of the time. I've extrapolated this observation to all other voice recognition systems"
Could be the son of Dr. Emmett L. Brown, talking about his dad's invention reproduced by the US Navy. He's got the same facial expression skills.
Interesting, I've been participating in the annual Chinese New Year treasure hunt that seems to have been resurrected and organized by a former member.
"the Azure Websites offering will provide a lower cost for run while allowing easier scale out, management, and tie-ins with other Azure services"

How do you figure that? Pricing on cloud services can be tough to compare so I really question anyone who presents blanket statements like that.
Something I always wonder for games not made with C++: how is the performance?
Thankfully using "escape velocity" covers all that energy cost.
A case report of a twin fetus-in-fetu and a revisit of the known rarity
Robots don't have a sense of humor.

And the article is about how voice recognition is just in its infancy.
There is a free software analogue in development called COLM.

http://www.colm.net/open-source/colm/
Youtube views can be and are purchased just the same as TV views. The total views shown on a youtube video is inclusive of paid youtube advertising and isn't a very reliable metric of "interest" (when it comes to ads)
It looks reasonable in Chrome on Linux... until I looked at the source, which is littered with <FONT FACE="Comic Sans MS"> tags.
This is probably a good time to promote my FOSS, PuPHPet [0], an online GUI for creating your own customized VM that you can deploy locally, to AWS/DO/Linode, and soon Azure.

[0] https://puphpet.com
Deflation according to mainstream economists is undesirable because of a bug in labor markets - "downward nominal wage rigidity".

Since businesses cannot cut salaries (wrecks productivity, due to the morale hit), they hire less or lay off people. And in a depression many enterprises must to one of these things to remain profitable (they cannot increase prices, obviously). This right now has a bigger effect on family incomes than the small gain from lower prices on goods. If productivity is rising rapidly and there is more or less full employment, the opposite case would be true. Inflation is good in such cases, because if wages don't change in dollar terms, whey will be cut in real terms, allowing for more employment.

Debt is part of capitalism, just like steel is used as building material. Talking about debt in moral terms as good, bad or whether there is a right amount (for whom?) isn't productive. Speaking about government debt, right now Eurozone countries have to pay very low interest rates; once they rise too much or full employment is reached, Krugman has said many times that he will advocate restraint.

When conducting monetary policy the Fed buys government securities from the public, not from the Treasury; it pays market prices for it. There is still huge demand for US government bonds (mostly in the USA, thats why "money we owe ourselves". It does remit its profits to the Treasury, but that is a very small percent of the government budget. When the expansion of the Fed balance sheet is so big that it becomes a price setter for government bonds (in dollar terms of course!), then you could say it is printing money to cover deficits. It did that from 1945 to 1951 to pay for WWII and inflation did rise to 25%. So everyone will notice if when the Fed starts "printing money to cover deficits".
> Apply around to a lot of places, and look for somewhere that values the skills you have but also will allow you to develop into the longer-term role you want to hold.

Applying for jobs is what I've been doing. Why would you assume I wasn't? Perhaps because I forgot to mention that in my original post since everyone seems to assume that.

Anyways, in general because bug fixing is not considered desirable work, it's hard to find people who want to do it. I'm willing to do it again at this point, despite having sunk considerable costs into learning about data science/engineering. So, it's hard to find people.

Guess what? They won't let people leave sustaining engineering because it's hard to find replacements. So, no sustaining engineering manager is going to seriously entertain talking about tossing out an sustaining engineer. It's either fix bugs or quit.

In fact, that was the situation my boss did to me last time. There's no feature or tool development but he sort of lied about moving up and around the company when I was brought on.

So I quit and tried to take initiative and now it's not working out like I had tried to.
Japan is implementing similar law in Oct 2015
Those figures are a combination of downtime across all regions globally. So it doesn't mean that any individual servers were down. The largest downtime was in Europe, with had 5.97 hours last year.

Factors for downtime were an update bug in November and weather. The bug is very unlikely to happen again. Outages due to weather really don't tell you much at all other than that they were unlucky. Overall, I would say the downtime numbers are not very useful.

http://www.computerweekly.com/news/2240238379/Microsoft-Azur...
My pleasure :) LittleBits are awesome to play around with even as an adult. A little pricey, but totally worth it.
Look, from what I have read, the language is an obvious parody. Probably not a very skillful one.

If it's leading to a "trollfest", then that is a separate problem. Taking down the repo is not the solution to trolling.
I've read similar stories, and if I remember it was often QA. Those with autism may be more likely to prefer repetitive tasks, and will have a high attention to detail that might be useful in QA work.
How long do companies have to utilize the $500K?

In the BizSpark Plus days, your company would receive $60K of hosting but could only use it to pay 100% of your bill in the first year of BS+. In the second year, you could use it to pay 50% and then in the third year you were paying full price for Azure. It was a pretty good deal, but if you are already spending $30-60K (or $250-$500 K) on infra in your first year or two, you're in a select breed of companies.
DoYouEvenBench: Using TodoMVC to Compare Efficiency of Angular, Ember, React
I originally read this article following a link from undeadly.org, the "OpenBSD journal", which provided enough context for me:
http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20150209112628
Very nice analysis of the effectiveness of advertising. Things like this are really needed in the field.
Well, I'm not sure what the problem is. They're open about it, and no one is forcing anyone to enable voice recognition if one doesn't need/want it, or doesn't like what happens with the recording.

I'm not saying there's nothing wrong with the trend of personal and home devices becoming surveillance machines, there's a lot wrong, but Samsung in this case is an example of how you do it properly if you have to do it (it's a feature that apparently has to work the way it works).
> Embrace the suck of your underachievement and get busy learning to master your craft.

That's what I'm asking. How do people get good at this? I figure it's practice and acting on things I can control but I don't know what I don't know.
There is no prerequisite to have a "stable tech infrastructure" -- shoot, there's no prerequisite to even have an actual product! -- for admission to YC. pg has made it pretty clear that YC selects founders, not necessarily ideas.

And for those that have a proof-of-concept running on some other provider(s) (AWS/Rackspace/Google), it would be a huge boon to be able to migrate and scale using Azure and the $500k credit.
Gymtrack – future of fitness?
> there are so many issues and flaws left unfixed

Can you explain this point?
Detroit Is Dying Because GM Stuck Around
Qualcomm acquires KMel Robotics
Deflation seem good (stuff I buy is cheaper!) but the problem is psychological. Say deflation is 10% one year. Everything you buy goes down in cost which is good. However, if you're on salary, then from your employers perspective you are now 10% overpaid (assuming you were previously paid the market wage). In years with inflation, businesses can give raises across the board, but rarely would a business cut all their employees pay by 10%. It would be bad for morale. Instead they lay off 10% of the workforce. People aren't willing to accept pay cuts in times of deflation as easily as a yearly pay increase.
Well, you can put a computer in a box, sure. But build your own used to mean a lot more than a chip or two.
A hostel composed of single rooms with office space is... like... just living. In a house.
Reminiscing about the byegone days of San Francisco's cultural relevance on HN is the height of irony.
Bitcoin Usage to Plummet, Report Says
Not about putting a computer in a box. Used to be, you could build a bus and a memory controller and choose an interrupt system etc. Now its one chip.
went 10 layers deep, but it only shows the first 3.
Glad I'm not alone. Trying to use my account during my Azure trial period resulted in getting 500 errors. I gave up and had a DO droplet going in like 30 seconds instead.
I probably shouldn't have used such a initiative word like "will". That said scaling out PaaS compared to scaling out IaaS, specifically on Azure, is almost guaranteed to be less expensive from an infrastructure standpoint. Less actual VM's to manage also translates into less overhead from maintenance activities.

At the very least it will be interesting to see if more people adopt the Azure Websites PaaS offering. I know that right now most people dip their toes into Azure with IaaS because its historically more comfortable for them.
I don't think this is really about ship to ship combat, I think this is a replacement for the big guns of the Iowa class in their fire support role during an amphibious assault or supporting ground operations otherwise. It would be substantially cheaper to replace smart munitions dropped from airplanes, which is what primarily fulfills that mission now, with equally-accurate cheap projectiles rapidly fired from ships offshore, over the horizon, reserving the airplanes for special situations.
It's an obvious extension of what we put out; keep watching the Watson Developer Cloud announcements.
Sorry I didn't make it clear: that's my sentiment aswel. I'm glad it survived, so to speak.
That's just it though - murder isn't wrong because it's illegal, it's illegal because it's wrong. As far as moral conundrums go, that one's pretty cut and dry.

Copyright infringement is a much more complicated calculus.
I don't know for sure, but I'm guessing the fact that it runs from a ramdisk means that it's probably more memory-constrained than a regular kernel, so they configure it to use as little memory as possible. Not much more, on modern systems with gigabytes of RAM, but moreso on older systems.
"The relentless nagging from partners to grow faster we throw in for free."

Is this sentence constructed poorly or did a private comment slip in?
How I almost made a huge mistake in an exit interview
What problem is this solving? For all the issues I may have had with resumes that cross my desk, lack of "elegance" has never been one of them.

I want to know your name, your contact information, and what you've done for the last few years in a predictable, quick to read format. Plain Courier New text works fine.

My workflow: typically my manager drops a pile of resumes that have come in from HR/recruiter and asks me to "go"/"no go" them for an initial phone screen. I will go through them quickly and could care less about how pretty they look. If I see your resume again, it's either because I am doing the screen or one of the in-person interviews and by that time, I've scribbled notes all over your resume about questions I want you to answer.

All I want to know is can you do the work you'll be asked to and will people want to work with you. What your resume actually looks like (assuming it's readable and doesn't have more than one or two spelling errors), is about the last thing I care about.
>Show me the strictly paper money system which has lived 1000 years

So nothing can ever exist going forward that hasn't existed already in history?

>just like physics and we'd understand it all already.

You think we understand "all of physics"?
I'm not a hiring manager, unless "hiring manager" = "someone who hires". I've interviewed more than 100 devs and hired a few dozen. I've done it internally (leading a dev team) and externally (as a consultant). Assuming I don't know what I'm talking about, just because your experience differs from mine, is presumptuous. You're the one who came to HN and asked for advice, after all.

My response didn't imply that you're stupid. Everything I know about you is from your short post. Maybe you already know everything I said. If so, there's no harm done if I re-state it. If not, then I've helped you. I always err on the side of "too much information" instead of "too little" when helping someone.
"reporting bugs doesn't benefit the developer at all. It benefits Apple."

If Apple fixes the bugs how does it NOT benefit me, the developer? The fewer bugs there are the easier development is. Reporting a bug may be helping Apple but that is secondary to helping myself.

Does the benefit from the view of pure self-interest help you understand better why someone might do something that has direct benefit to themselves?

The summary of your attitude is contained in the old phrase "Cutting off the nose to spite the face".

Also, as far as not being an employable skill - I make my whole living from it currently (currently using Swift only), generally iOS has been an employable skill since the release of the App Store so again, you seem to be waving that knife way too close to your nostrils.
What about the free time of kids? Do any parents even sit down with their kid and show them how to wire up batteries and lights in series, or whatever the modern equivalent would be? Do they do it in numbers that would matter, even for a nice? I'm thinking kids have so many other things in and out of school these days that tinkering never fits in the schedule.
Credit crunch. No one was loaning any money to anybody.
Stop Blowhard Syndrome
A lot of this is fleshed out in his more recent nature of order series.
There's always the possibility that the other party did send a check, but it didn't arrive for some reason.
> The linked benchmark is flawed, as dlubarov noted above.

No, I already replied to him. You and him should spend some time looking at the Chrome network console visiting some of the top500 sites. It is very common for sites to be exactly like that: tons of small requests for small resources.
I'm not sure how well this metric works for Supercell and Clash of Clans. I sometimes play that game, and I can tell you that during the Superbowl, there was an in-app notification sent to all it's players to watch the youtube ad, which greatly increases the number of views of the ad beyond what the other company ads could do.
Ground-based artillery isn't really piratical, it would require a large power draw from a grid, or its own power source.

In the case of drawing power from a grid, that wouldn't be practical (or at least, a good idea) in a war time scenario. In the case of having its own power source it would be much to large to be mobile.

It works well for ships because many are already nuclear powered and being on the water they have much more mobility.
A cluttered desk has been shown to be subconsciously stressful and distracting to work. I don't think a box of random things showing up every month is going to help that. Either more stuff will accumulate on your desk, you'll have more things to organize, or you'll be sending more crap to a landfill somewhere.

It sounds like this service belongs in the 80s or 90s. Books? Pens? We don't really need these anymore, and it's not actually environmentally conscious to be manufacturing and mailing these things around. And who doesn't already have enough T-shirts?

These days, it seems like if you were to subscribe to a monthly service, it should be something custom-designed to solve your particular problems, not designed to be helpful for a hypothetical "typical" developer.
There is one major difference between households and sovereign-currency Governments: households can't create the money they use, but Governments can.

"So you're saying government debt doesn't matter? What about Zimbawe, Argentina, Japan, Pre-WWII Germany?"

First, I'm not saying that Government debt doesn't matter. Like all things, there are limits. What I am saying (and MMT says) is that there are conditions under which increasing national debt make sense - notably high unemployment and underemployment. ONLY the Government can kickstart an economy in this scenario. In those hyperinflation cases, you saw Governments whose debt was denominated by foreign currencies and they tried to print their way to solvency, which of course failed.
>Life would be so much easier because then we could just DO THE RIGHT THING instead of arguing about it ENDLESSLY

Don't you think economists wish the same? It just isn't the way it works.

>We've got some ideas about how things work and can even bend a few to our will but there's no precision calculation, just experts making gut calls.

Absolutely true. Should we give up? Of course not.
Wow! I just created an account for this :D

But is it just a futuristic idea, or you made some progress?
> I got into programming before the web and was mostly self-taught,[...]. My biggest challenge was finding enough information.

I had the same problem. I had one tiny pocket book with less than 150 pages and Turbo C's built-in help system which was basically just trimmed down API docs. A list of header files which lead to a list of functions which lead to a short 1-2 sentence description.

But I still had a lot of fun.

I agree that the first language isn't that important, if you switch to something else shortly thereafter. However, I think it's a bit problematic if you keep using this one language exclusively for a couple of years.

Maybe BASIC wasn't such a bad idea. No one wants to stick with that and it's also rarely used in production. If you start with something like BASIC, you're forced to switch.
Other people have mentioned why you wouldn't want to use a railgun to get a payload into orbit in one go. However, the exponential nature of the rocket equation means that every km/s you can get to start with has a large effect on what fraction of your rocket has to be fuel.
Retail infrastructure is hard to establish. Much easier to go all-electronic out of a warehouse.

If Radio Shack wanted to differentiate themselves, they could have turned into a hobbyist maker space. Look at the local gaming stores that have survived: they have space in the back to actually play games, and events going on every day. Imagine going down to Radio Shack to hack on something; they could have sold Radio Shack memberships, and gotten much of their revenue that way, reducing the need to rapidly move inventory. Bring your laptop or use theirs; borrow a soldering station; try out a 3d printer (and later buy your own) or a CNC milling machine; grab (and buy) a few spare components as needed; post a picture and how-to guide for the shiny new thing you built at Radio Shack.

They could have sponsored "Shackathons"; they could have provided an online community; they could have worked with high schools and universities. There's a lot of "they could have"s.

And sure, they could also help you buy a cell phone or laptop, and make some money that way; they could have developed the reputation as the place to go where you get opinions from the employees and half the customers.

And no, of course it wouldn't have been a "mainstream need", though it could have been a lot more mainstream by grabbing the attention of kids and parents.
Sounds about as much fun as FOOF:
http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2010/02/23/things_i_won...

Joke
Q: Where do you look to find chemists that have discovered FOOF on their own?
A: A cemetery.
It was commonly used in English in commercial correspondence, such as invoices, to separate a quantity from the unit price. I don't remember the exact notation, but it was something like 20#@$10 for "20 pounds at 10 dollars per pound." or "20@$10" for "20 items at 10 dollars each".

Anybody who can dig up an English-language B2B invoice from the 1950s or earlier?
> ..retail investors know that the institutions buying into the IPO are reputable, long-haul investors like Fidelity, who will not be dumping the stock immediately.

From the article: "The first trade was 15% of all of the shares offered during the pricing."

Institutional investors "consistently flip a much larger
percentage of the shares allocated to them than do retail customers."[1]

1: http://faculty.msb.edu/aggarwal/jfeflipping.pdf
Recalls a SB ad years ago, during the original Internet bubble: E-trade showed a dancing monkey, then the text "Well, we just wasted two million dollars. What are you doing with your money?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnQMq5wtZcg

Gotta wonder what that cost them in lost business (you gonna invest with a group that brags about throwing money away?).
Great offer.

I was accepted into Microsoft's BizSpark program last year so I get $150/month free Azure credit. Azure is very nice to use. So far, I have just been using Ubuntu Linux VPS instances (similar to AWS EC2) and everything works similarly to other providers I use like AWS, IBM BlueMix, Digital Ocean, and Google's cloud services. Really, these are all very good services, so use the one you can get for free or at a low cost.

I used to be pretty much down on Microsoft, but now they are doing a lot of stuff right in my opinion: providing solid Linux support on Azure and providing an unbelievably good deal on the family edition of Office365. It seems like they are buying themselves into the cloud market, but with all of their cash on hand, that seems like a good strategy!

Anyway, if you have a business idea you want to try then look into BizSpark.
If you like Star Trek engine noise, you'll like my app, a desktop Java app:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/applpi/
Modal Window Destroy Concept
The normal distribution approximates a series of binomial trials, and in fact that's how Abraham de Moivre originally stumbled upon it: from his study of games of chance. Think Pascal's triangle or google for "bean machine". So you really owe it all to chance.