skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a good product, please changed the subject to something more meaningful. "Smalltalk Handheld" is better than this title.
According to UCSF's Lustig from "Sugar: The Bitter Truth" video in Lionhearts post it's because they don't consume hardly any fructose.

I do believe though that urban Chinese and Japanese are experiencing the same health issues we are here due to increased fructose consumption.

Traditional Inuit diets consist of 0 carbohydrates and is very high in fat. They had very low levels of obesity, heart disease and diabetes being unknown.
Time Machine can do it on a full 500GB filesystem in a little over 5 hours, in my experience. YMMV.
That's simply not the case. The claim got widespread media coverage.
A solution for Haitian disaster housing: Shipping containers
I'm on a diet right now (calorie restriction + low carb, too), and I lost 22 pounds (10 kg) so far (goal is losing 40 pounds/18 kg overall).
My Year of Failure
This is a little strange. The essay says:

1) Paying workers as little as possible isn't the best way to maxmize business profits.

2) Paying workers way above market rates doesn't attract the best talent.

3) You should pay the fabled 10X productive engineer 10 times the salary.

So... I don't know, I think the author was trying to say to pay in the middle somewhere, but got lost on the way to the point?
If you are looking to evolve the site here are some suggestions: Create an online editor in javascript or flash that lets your users create and edit cheat sheets online. Leverage a CC license so your users can print and spread the created cheat sheets (free advertising). Sell prints (photos), mousepads, booklets etc. While offering free products or a monetary reward to the authors (threadless style). Also let the author give their reward to a related organization (like the python software foundation for a python cheat sheet). Keep user participation high and the site organized with tagging and ranking features.
I use Outlook with Business Contact Manager. It was a pain to get it set up just like I wanted it, but now i am glad I did. I discard hardcopies of business cards and just manually put the info into Outlook along with any notes I want to make.
Where is the data I've read that says most people are better off (in terms of lifetime earnings) as wage slaves? I want to examine it closely to see to whom it applies.
Yes, agreed. Gladwell is sloppy, it's just that Greenspun's essay was not where I discovered this fact. As far as Gladwell debunkings go, the philg attempt was the least convincing.
Firefox 3.6 released and available to download
great. bookmarked.
Texting and Why Voice Is Just Another Phone Feature
Wow, but if an attacker had a bunch of your user's usernames, that would be a major way for them to damage your site.
As a fan of midnightcommander on linux, I did some research attempting to confirm that it was a clone or copy of Norton Commander. I found on some old forgotten ftp sites of DOS stuff a similar program called "dc", presumably for "disk commander", that was a very trimmed down and fast version of the same concept. I think dc looked more like mc in some of it's keystroke mappings. I have no idea if dc copied mc or vice versa, however.

I believe dc was given away in a floppy disk inserted in a computer shopper magazine sometime in the early 90s.

I built a floppy based linux to emulate the use of a parallel port "laplink" to shift files -- you stick the disk in each computer, and mc pops up with the files on the remote computer on the left and the local files on the right, and you can copy them back and forth.

I would not might having mc on my android phone. Maybe I will try to port it.
A recent NY Times article[1] talked about just this. On auction sites like ebay, competitors can lock that accounts of those they're bidding against in order to win auctions.

1. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/21/technology/21password.html
Paypal, Amazon FPS, and Google Checkout are all more expensive and require your customer to leave your application to setup another account with on of the aformentioned services. A traditional merchant account/gateway is the only way to go if you want to appear professional and save money.
It's okay. Sometimes the stuff you find when you're lost is more interesting than where you were trying to end up anyway.
App Stores are much more likely to be a viable business for an already-successful technology company with a well-known brand.

Speaking from personal experience, App Stores don't work very well for smaller companies with a smaller customer base. An App Store is going to require a developer to learn a unique instruction set. The incentive for most developers to do this is to earn money from the company's customers. If the company is small and has a small base (even if it is growing), it's difficult to attract a lot of developers. The hurdle of learning the instruction set + the low potential of earning substantial revenue is not that interesting.
That's why you make it possible to plug in any video codec you like, and isolate them from the Mozilla Foundation itself.
Kindle SDK Seattle User Group
I am frothing at the mouth to start developing something for the Kindle. I'm looking for other Seattle locals who are similarly interested and who are interested in helping one another learn and grow.

http://groups.google.com/group/kindle-sdk-seattle-user-group
JQTouch and Mobile Design
First of all, SE Asians have had access to a great deal of fruit for millenia, and rural Chinese are no exception. Secondly, Inuit are a very poor group to try to make your point with:

"Inuit Greenlanders, who historically have had limited access to fruits and vegetables, have the worst longevity statistics in North America. Research from the past and present shows that they die on the average about 10 years younger and have a higher rate of cancer than the overall Canadian population"

http://www.diseaseproof.com/archives/diet-myths-do-primitive...

Edit: I don't doubt that highly processed foods that are full of fructose are dangerous. Of course eating a banana is different from getting the same amount of fructose by drinking soda.
Why did they do this?
Is the trend really "More men marrying wealthier women," or is it simply "More women are wealthy?" A skim of the article would seem to imply the latter at least as much as the former, possibly more.
Paywall analysis: Financial Times vs. New York Times
Very nice! Already useful for me, thanks!
>Perhaps. But the IPCC is sold (and mostly accepted) as a sort of bible of climate change science.

Oh, come on. Really? Sure, most people won't question the IPCC. But most people also won't question other similar institutions. The real question is whether scientists feel that the IPCC is their bible. And I don't think they do.
Yup, we started writing to the CheddarGetter API immediately for ScheduleThing. All of the payment gateway stuff is simulated nicely until you're ready to go live.
> taking care of it for fifteen years, and then seeing the ones you handed it over to

sold to, for a hefty sum and then quit as caretaker

> being bought by the ones who owns the rest of the city.

because the city went bust and needed the money
This sounds somewhat plausible, but it has a flavor of "I'm just making this up, but it sounds okay!" to it.
Money quote:

> "This is the first time that we've been able to take a real world task like a video game and show that the size of specific brain regions is predictive of performance and learning rates on this video game"

To be fair, later in the study they mention that a particular sub-class of gaming skills has demonstrable overlap with real-world performance, namely being able to flexibly shift priorities. But taking that phrase out of context is just too tempting.
You need the View Source in Native Editor plugin. :)
I can't believe there is no web2.0 app doing this.

Just can't seem to be able to find one.
I’m sharing everything with you. You’ll get to observe how much money I’m starting with, the things I have to buy, the documents I have to fill out-all that is involved in starting up. You’ll be the first to know when I biff it.

This concerns me. If OP has enough time to "share everything", he's probably not spending enough time on the real work he has to do. Worse, the "sharing project" can easily expand to consume most of OP's time without him even realizing it.

OP, I admire your initiative and look forward to hearing about your success. But I'm willing to wait. I'd rather have you focus 100% on the task at hand and share with us later. I care less about the timeliness of your reports than the quality of your results. Best wishes!
As far as I know, there are no real criticisms of this program specifically yet. Most of what I have read from about KIPP comes from Paul Tough, both his series of NYTimes Magazine articles and also his book Whatever It Takes. He's clearly a supporter of KIPP, but in his book he also briefly acknowledges that the ideas underlying the program are not supported by science, unlike many recent initiatives to improve parenting ability. (IIRC the school he writes about in the book is not run by KIPP, but it uses their methodology.)
Scott Adams on Bad Interfaces
Very interesting ideas. I had never considered these before. Thanks!
teye's comment explains it quite well.
Very handy, good job! Bookmarked. Thanks.
Which version of TeXmacs did you try and on what platform?
That wasn't a snipe. My issue with Gates literally is not his ultimate position, but rather the fact his arguments for his position are shallow and lacking nuance.

There is a lot of research out there suggesting that while this program may be a fast way to teach troubled kids to read, there's also a lot of research suggesting that it'll completely destroy their intrinsic motivation to learn and, frankly, to do much of anything in the future. Now maybe there is some special reason why the research doesn't apply in this case, or maybe Gates believes it does apply but the tradeoff is worth it. But most likely I don't think Gates even knows that this research exists, and more generally about this wider branch of theory that suggests that this whole approach is going to be really harmful to these kids.

That's what bothers me, the fact that he's pushing this program really hard without an honest discussion about its merits and drawbacks.
I can't change the title, it's way past that.
Britain launches data.gov.uk for software developers
This actually rings true to my experience. I've been responsible for several outsourced problems, and one common factor among them is trying to get Indian programmers and PMs to just be straight with me. I've tried being direct by telling them that it's okay to tell me if something is wrong or to give me a realistic picture of progress, and I get "Yes sir, I will certainly be very honest with you, sir," but nothing changes. It's a difficult barrier. I haven't figured it out yet.
(Nitpick: It's Tcl, not TCL)
I first came across an argument very similar to this in "Pro Excel Financial Modeling: Building Models for Technology Startups"[1]. There the author makes an argument for why you should address the qualities needed in leaders of different size organizations in your models.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Pro-Excel-Financial-Modeling-Technolog...
I like the idea that they're releasing a SDK for it. But there's a big limitation of all Kindle's currently on the market, and that's the slow refresh speed of the screen. If you have one, flipping pages in a book is fine, but browsing a page on the web seems awfully slow (could be due to an un-optimized browser).

I'm not sure what full-screen frame rate it supports, but my hunch is in the 2-3 FPS range or less (someone please correct me if I'm wrong - I'm guessing). AFAIK there's not even a Doom port to hacked Kindle's yet, which is usually a badge of honor saying "this device can play games and has some power to it".

Any apps developed for it would likely be staticly-displayed on screen. Board games would work well, email clients, IM clients, to name a few. Amazon would have to release a new model with a better screen to, say, address what Apple appears to be doing with their upcoming tablet, and allow for applications which require refresh rates which can display motion.
"(I've resolved that if any of my children ever want to be vegetarians, I'm OK with that, but a critical precondition is that they demonstrate that they have done their homework and understand the nutritional implications. I believe it can be done safely, but it's not trivial; it takes work in our environment.)"

You legitimately have a point that there are certain nutritional deficiencies that vegans/vegetarians are more prone to.

That said, I would hope that whether or not the child is a vegan, you would have him understand the nutritional implications of what he is eating. Being an omnivore safely is also quite difficult.
hoping to make it.
They're being posted directly here: http://searchyc.com/scheme+from+scratch?sort=by_date

No need to post a link to a link.
Adam Smith wrote, in The Wealth of Nations, Chap. XI, Part III, "Rent of Land: Conclusion":

"The plans and projects of the employers of stock regulate and direct all the most important operations of labor, and profit is the end proposed by all those plans and projects. But the rate of profit does not, like rent and wages, rise with the prosperity, and fall with the declension, of the society. On the contrary, it is naturally low in rich, and high in poor countries, and it is always highest in the countries which are going fastest to ruin."

Seems like Henry Ford was on the same page.
Yea but is not at all how the site has been. I went to TSO because of how it was laid out and I think this should either be a subset or totally different site. I understand some people may like this layout but their current audience were their for a reason, and that reason has completely changed.

They have made finding songs you like extremely time consuming and narrow, being only able to view one song at a time. No longer can you listen to one song while browsing others. The sense of community and "the game" has faded and now it seems more of a Pandora clone, I don't use pandora. I don't like only being able to skip forward and no relistening to a song if you enjoyed it.
So.. I guess we should watch and see if the Flightcaster devs start driving to work in Porsches and Aston Martins, right? (In other words, this is something that's easy to say and people have been saying it for some time; but nobody seems to have implemented it.)
Compare with http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1066972 where there are already some comments.
Interesting idea, I'm mostly wondering how you're going to deal with different genres for different tastes. Eventually filtering and targeting seem like they will become the number one issue for both users and providers.

I actually like how the site reminds me of a vinyl cover, however it might be too confusing for (some) people to use. I couldn't figure out how to bring back the info about the artist after it fades away.
Your Worst Hire: Four Lessons from Other People's Mistakes
Good job pulling together all these cheatsheets and a nice site too!

Next step would be for something like a cheat sheet wiki where the information has a clear time stamp and has the possibility of being kept accurate.

This is a problem with these pdf cheat sheets.
Schemer's way
The theory and calculus of aliasing
He did attribute it to MLK, but ultimately it's a biblical reference (Moses & crossing the Jordan River). Those are usually OK in a variety of contexts.
Most people giving this positive feedback seem to be the people who haven't been using The Sixty One. They have gone a completely opposite direction in user interaction and alienated most of their current users. Yea it is "flashy" and "cool looking" but I wanted speed and optimized browsing rather than narrow linear browsing of hundreds of thousands of songs. this would be ok as a separate site or subdomain but I will no longer be using the site because it is far from what I am looking for in a music sharing/browsing/community site.
Great! Thanks for the response. I really like the site, and I agree with you that Google does not always lead to a good answer each time.

I wonder if a "Was this useful for you?" feature might be a good idea. I say this in response to your "sorting by popularity" comment. I guess you could use a voting system too.

Great job though. Bookmarked.
This was a nice finding by Tavis. A lot of the BIOS code and interfaces with it are overdue to be thrown out or audited. NT had a lot of subsystems (VDM, POSIX, OS/2?) that have moldered through MSFT's 2004 change in secure development awareness.

This bug appears to only be useful for privilege escalation (ring3 -> ring0), so worry about rootkits or if you run Windows terminal services.
Oh, don't be stuffy. I'm just giving you a hard time :)
My father is American, approaching 80 years of age, and has been living away from Brazil (in the U.S.) for the last 25 years. Even so every few English sentences he pauses to find the English word he's looking for, often saying the Portuguese word first. Lately he's just been saying the Portuguese word without bothering to translate, meaning I end up translating a lot of words/concepts on the side when he's talking to my American wife.

My father spent the "core" of his adult life in Brazil and dealt with every-day concerns in Portuguese. He traveled a lot away from his English-speaking family and was immersed much of the time. He practiced his domain expertise (soul-saving) in Portuguese. In most matters he's just more comfortable in Portuguese and Spanish, and it certainly shows when he speaks English.
Goddamn that's slick. That goes straight in my bookmarks.

Any chance you could get an XNA section?
Please enlighten me as to the problem, whoever downvoted me? Apple could keep some of the open aspects of the App Store while still keeping control of distribution and profits - what's the problem?
The Prize, Making Sense Out of Millions of Voices
Very useful, but the :: separators are distracting. I think that most first-time visitors are looking to scan your collection for a particular technology (that's what I did).

This view [http://devcheatsheet.com/?view=tag] is more readable. How about using the 'tag' view layout, but add categories to make browsing easier.

Another suggestion: add 3 or 4 'similar cheat sheets' to each cheat sheet to facilitate browsing and reduce bounce rates.
Firefox 3.6 for developers
Interesting argument for an iPhone-like interface on anticipated Apple Tablet
> There's small payoff for an American to study a 2nd language.

If you are only looking at economic payoff.

I've been to countries/cultures (Latin America) where I feel that if you don't have a grasp of the language - you can only be a tourist. Reusing cliches but not being able to speak a language - you lack the passport to truly immerse yourself - you'll only be a tourist if you can't speak (to a point) the language.

I'm really looking for an app that will find Spanish texts for me to read that have words that I don't already know (e.g. smart enough to learn what your working vocabulary set is). Since I'm starting out - almost every text will have words I don't know. Anyone know of an app geared towards reading and vocabulary building (and possibly reading material discovery)? Or do we have to build one (it will be a little harder because of the conjugations, m/f variants of words)
I studied German for 4 years in school, and am far from fluent. I can painfully pick out details in a newspaper article, and can usually figure out if people are talking about soccer or food or whatever.

On the other hand, I'm fluent in French, and learned that in France, not in school.

In my experience, school wasn't a very efficient medium for learning languages.
In the scientific communality IPCC is mostly viewed as reasonably accurate if watered down for political reasons.
No, right now I am the only one who approves new content, even in languages that I am not familiar with. Reviewing every command in every cheatsheet would be a very difficult and time-consuming process.

In general, I have not noticed many inaccuracies in the cheatsheets other than typos or small errors. If there are errors, then hopefully users will contact the author and he will update it or issue a new version.

As I've mentioned in other comments, I also hope to add either community voting or popularity indicators to help identifiy the best (and presumably most accurate) cheatsheets for each language/tag.
Anthropogenic global warming is not a theory being put forth, it's the logical consequence of physical principles that are well established. It's not at all like Einstein proposing General Relativity. What (serious) people are arguing over is details of the analysis and the magnitude of effects. Those uncertainties are real, but it is no different from any other scientific debate.

The article I linked, if you actually read it, does not advocate skepticism at all. It claims in no uncertain language that the greenhouse effect violates all kinds of established principles, but it's hogwash. I saw that article cited in The Nation, and it aggravated me enough that I wrote up a response (http://www.familjenjonsson.org/patrik/research/greenhouse, if you are interested).
I second the Evernote suggestion..

Search in handwritten or scanned notes works surprisingly well, and tagging features make organization of business cards simple..
After writing my comment, I thought about it and realized that, yes, communication through WiFi just makes sense and is probably the easiest. (as in the given example of the universal remote once setup is done)
Free tool that generates website Terms of Service & Privacy Policy
I think we also need to rethink password rules, especially restrictive ones:

- Cannot use special characters
- Cannot use character, other than number (may only use numbers)
- 5th character must be a !
- 5th character cannot be a !

This kind of crap makes me immediately not want to use a service / look for another job.
It's the convention to use realism in audio software, but that doesn't necessarily make it an effective interface.

It reminds me of the bizarre interfaces in Kai's Power Tools:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Kai%27s_Power_Tools.jpg

At the time, artists gushed over how fun and innovative the user interfaces were, but such interfaces are rare in today's graphics software. Few people want an interface where each dialog is a little puzzle, where you can only have five presets because that's all that the UI designer thought looked good in the layout, or where the dialog's background exerts undue influence on your choices of color or texture.
People should look at the Android Market. While the platform is backed by a strong brand, has big potential and it's open enough ... not too many developers have jumped in.

This may change once Android phones are popular enough and there's a story of someone getting rich in one month, working in his spare time.

The article does have a point ... the web eliminates distribution costs and the need for middle-men. That was one strong incentive for web-apps happening.

Unfortunately, with big software houses (like Google and Yahoo) making great apps available mostly for free to regular users ... people became accustomed to free stuff on the web. As a result, there are few online businesses that are profitable.

Even so, phones are becoming more and more like regular laptops ... and in time, more open, since that's inevitable (App Stores being artificial restrictions).