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Re:AI assisted search-based research works now on Tuesday April 22, 2025 @05:02AM (#43760261)
A common google searching thing I counter have is something like this:

I need to get from A to B via C via public transport in a big metropolis.

Now C could be one of say 5 different locations of a bank branch, electronics retailer, blood test lab or whatever, so there's multiple ways of going about this.

I would like a chatbot solution that compares all the different options and lays them out ranked by time from A to B. Is this doable today?

Re:Practical SQL for Data Analysis on Monday May 03, 2021 @11:38AM (#27026445)
Question, if I have a CSV file that I'd like to do some quick SQL queries on before moving the results into Pandas. What would be good resource to do this? Preferably compatible with the rest of the Python-dataframe ecosystem and as simple as pd.read_csv()
Congratulations guys. I met two of you when you visited our agency and told your story. Very impressive, and for those of you reading, these guys were still in high-school when we met them, maybe still are? Stoked that you got into YC!!
Seems like re-creating pygsheets, no? https://github.com/nithinmurali/pygsheets
- The guy presenting this might be wrong. - He may be an asshole and/or have resentful intentions with making this presentations.

However, none of the people who disagree with him in this article engage with any of these things. They're just angry that he's saying this at all! Their upset emotions seems to be the only case against what he's saying.

Re:The Shamanic View of Mental Illness (2010) on Thursday April 13, 2017 @10:17AM (#14107095)
Chill out, dementia is something very different from schizophrenia.
Re:The Slave Ship That Ran from Kerala to New Orleans on Friday April 10, 2015 @02:06PM (#9356044)
As someone who lived in Kochi for six months in 2004 when I was 19, I find this really interesting.

Do you live there now?

I remember we were going to leave Kochi and go for a trip to Munnar (the hills where all the spices grow and tea estates are), but on that day the labor unions had declared 'hartal', which was somekind of statewide halt which meant that if you were driving on the road that day, it was open season for people to throw rocks at your car.

Our guide just wiggled his head, smiled and said that we'd be fine :) And we were. Saw no signs of rock-thowers by the road. But instead our chauffeur drove like a maniac up those hills in that old Ambassador, and I didn't have any medical insurance at that time. That's when I learned the art of praying :D

Re:Evan Spiegel's Email Memo on Wednesday December 17, 2014 @06:17PM (#8765038)
Re:Intestinal bacteria may influence our moods on Monday July 14, 2014 @03:24PM (#8032683)
No expert on the topic, though it really interests me. Have been drinking EM (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effective_microorganism) every day for the past 6 months which has improved my digestion a lot.

Thought this comment on the NPR article was really insightful:

There's so much more to developing a healthy microbiome than just eating yogurt and drinking kombucha, as many people like to claim. It starts at birth. As you travel through the birth canal, you come into contact with many different and important microorganisms through contact with your mother's vaginal fluids and even fecal matter. If you're born via C section, you're starting out at a disadvantage. Then breastfeeding is the next step. Mother's milk is where you get your next dose of a very broad spectrum of microorganisms. Then throughout life, as you come in contact with other people, you eat dirt, you hang around farm animals, etc, these are all mother nature's way of helping you develop that microbiome, which is essentially the core of your immune system. Eating is important too, and one of the biggest problems with our modern food system is that everything is pasteurized, cooked all the way through, sterilized, irradiated, etc. All of the healthy microorganisms that used to exist are being killed.

So the point here is that people need to rethink many of their lifestyle choices if they want to heal their guts. Every time you take an antibiotic, you likely suffer much collateral damage because you may be permanently killing beneficial species that you may never be exposed to again. They don't exist in yogurt or kombucha. Either that, or consider fecal bacteriotherapy (fecal transplants) since it seems to be one of the the most promising new approaches to healing microbiomes. ~Julie Latham

Re:An earth-cooled beer dispenser on Friday May 23, 2014 @12:25PM (#7789998)
It's in Danish crowns, which equals US$346
Re:Why I Don’t Do CrossFit on Sunday May 18, 2014 @05:45AM (#7762621)
FWIW. Here in Oslo, everyone has to do a weekend-intro just to become a member. And instructors are here are really thorough. Other than getting a personal trainer, I don't see how you could get more attention/correction than going to entry-level workout at my gym.
Re:Ask HN: What's your greatest epiphany? on Monday April 07, 2014 @05:31AM (#7545462)
I work in customer service for a sub-unit of a large telco. When people run into annying issues, I am kind of at liberty to issue a refund if I want to, sort of to please the customer and make them stay with us.

However most people don't ask for it. So only the ones who take the time to ask for it and write two sentences of why they should receive one get it.

Re:BMW shows off 'drifting' self-drive cars on Wednesday January 08, 2014 @03:08PM (#7026178)
Anybody know if self-driving cars can distinguish between safe and unsafe object; say a big stuffed animal, and a rock in the middle of the road. Would they make big maneuvers to avoid both?
Re: How to be a hacker on Friday December 27, 2013 @05:00PM (#6972821)
Serious question: how insecure is Mac OS X to this kind of stuff?
Re:Gift HN: I'll build your project/MVP for free on Monday December 09, 2013 @12:04PM (#6875197)
Sounds like a fun site. Do you think people would actually use it for dating (because of it's honesty), or just to look at funny pics?

Gift HN: I'll build your project/MVP for free

First of all, thank you HN for getting me started on my dream of being a coder. I started november last year with Udacity's CS 101 and followed up with Steve Huffmans Web Development course. For the past year I've been learning Javascript and played around a little bit with Django and Objective-C building projects for friends, and I'm really having a lot fun with it.I was recently about to...

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Re:A friend died nearly 2 years ago. I had no idea on Monday September 30, 2013 @06:53PM (#6472901)
What does memorialize mean? My father died some years ago and his account is still there, so I'm curious.
Re:Show HN: Drawingboard.js on Thursday September 26, 2013 @03:36PM (#6453086)
Thanks, it works!
Re:Show HN: Drawingboard.js on Wednesday September 25, 2013 @03:04PM (#6446589)
Leimi, any simple way to use a base64 image as background?
Re:Show HN: Drawingboard.js on Wednesday September 25, 2013 @09:43AM (#6444473)
Sweet, this looks extremely promising!
Re:Show HN: Drawingboard.js on Wednesday September 25, 2013 @08:58AM (#6444226)
I don't have my phone with me right now. Can anybody confirm if this works on iOS? I'm asking because I'm looking for an HTML5 drawing script which works on mobile browsers.

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