skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm pretty sure that deadlist is out of date now.
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=zii+egg+review
Coincidentally, I used the phrase, "since these were the days of DOS and Norton Commander, QBasic was to be my playground," on a goal statement for a PH.D. program earlier today.

HN to the rescue again confirming the chronology for me, without the need for me to ask.
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Agreed, I don't think similar products should stop you from developing this.
Actually I once saw a neurologist talk about how the brain and computer science might be related and he basically said that an oversimplified explination of the brain is that it's a hasH table. Now if only I could remember who it was that gave the talk.
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That's got to be the most difficult to answer question ever here.

It's like asking how to climb Mount Everest. The flippant answer of course is 'by taking the first step'.

What you learn first is different for everybody, just like that first step on to the path that leads to the summit of Mount Everest is different for everybody. It depends, in the first place, on where you currently are.

So without knowing where you currently are it is next to impossible to answer the question in a way that would make sense to you.

Could you maybe describe a bit of what you already know, your skills and your experience to date? That would help enormously.
It says it's similar to a 9600 baud serial port, but also that it works as "an engraving on a key". How does that work then?
If you want people to actually use it, drop the 30-day trial thing. I'm not gonna try out a new tool with a 30-day trial and no further pricing info.

If you can't decide on pricing for now, just say "free during beta". Drop the pricequote thing too, you're not selling expensive enterprise software (if you are I wouldn't want to use it).
Um, yes.
Certainly sounds interesting!
By embedding a serially encoded signal in Machester Encoding, which allows you to recover the clock from the data.

Put the key in a lock and the code will be retrieved.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manchester_code
American obsesity can correlated to eating too much salt, sugar and fat.

Fast food makes it cheap and easy to get into a pattern where a significant portion of your daily intake is essentially a combination of sugar (soda, coffee, tea, etc), fat (burgers, fries, tacos, etc) and salt (flavoring, preservatives, etc.)

If we went back to the diet before there was fast-food then we'd have a lot less obesity. People would be eating more whole grains, fruits, veggies, fish and lean meat.
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Taubes book is not a diet, but an extremely thorough review of the last 100 years of research into obesity, heart disease, diabetes etc. I think easily 1/3 of the book consists of references to the scientific literature.

Contrary to popular belief there is lots of research backing up the low carb theory, but they are mainly found in the fields of endocrinology and physiological psychology.

The picture coming out of it as outlined by Taubes is of an extremely complex system.

The endocrinologists have shown that the primary hormone governing obesity is insulin which isn't controversial anymore. It isn't that simple though to avoid foods that physiologically spike insulin.

The Physiological psychologists have shown that insulin can see short spikes in preparation for a meal due to smells and tastes, which is why artificial sweeteners can be problematic sometimes.
i wish i had more upvotes...
How does one make that a legally binding requirement in perpetuity ?
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The point is that there is no need to make a choice between h264 and Theora. Firefox could easily support both (and a variety of other formats) if MozCo would allow it. I'm not against endorsing Theora, but it shouldn't break interoperability/compatibility and degrade overall user experience.
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So, you'd accept unladen as the official JIT based on the vague promise of improving its glaring issues sometime in the future? Does that give it the right to be in a "blessed" repo?

I propose my own python implementation for acceptance into the source tree. Right now, it's a single empty file (but I've got lots of ideas!). I'll even consider it a blocking issue if it achieves less than 10x speedup using half as much memory.
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Essentially an argument for professional management that is seen as critical for a high-growth startup's transition from its formative stages to what might be called a "real company."

It is easy to stumble along this path but the highest risk of doing so, in my experience, comes from a premature bringing in of serial executives (e.g., a "real CEO") who inject so much "process" that the company loses its vision and sinks of the weight of its own burn rate ("process kills" might be the epitaph for such companies). This, by the way, is why a far higher proportion of early-stage startups today will try to defer VC funding for as long as reasonably possible if their business model permits it. Call it short-sighted if you will, but I think most founders strongly prefer not to be on the receiving end of this sort of transitional conduct.

As usual from this author, many good insights about the key issues, whether or not one agrees with him on all particulars.
i'm confused. the wikipedia article says that it's pulse position modulated [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulse-position_modulation], but manchester encoding (at least as i understand it from your link) is not pulse position modulated.

[edit: perhaps the key uses differential pulse-position modulation and assumes a reasonably constant insertion rate after some initial header?]
I'm bored with the brute force attack prevention argument. Why not just help your users out by throttling requests after N attempts?

With throttling, "strong" password requirements (non-alpha, etc.) serve only to force users not to pick passwords obvious to someone who might know them (wife's name, etc.). That and avoiding the "letmein" cases, I guess.
Ask PG: Can we please have an updated list of the banned sites?
Every now and then a question comes up from a user about why their submission was killed, it would be nice to be able to point them to an updated copy of the ban list.

The previous one is almost a year old, and presumably the list has grown considerably since then.
Down further they say something about how they'll ask the community what the acceptable memory usage increase will be. In other words, they might reduce it by say 15%, but not anywhere near the JIT-less levels, and call it a day. I suppose you always have the option to compile python as --without-jit...
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Ads are optional in the same way inhaling tobacco smoke was optional 20 years ago. You could go to bars, or you could just ignore them.
> “We’ve known for some time that men need marriage more than women from the standpoint of physical and mental well-being,” said Stephanie Coontz, a professor at Evergreen State College in Olympia, Wash., and research director for the Council on Contemporary Families, a research and advocacy group.

My first thought was that's a pretty huge [citation needed], but then I checked out the CCF website.

http://www.contemporaryfamilies.org/

Actually, the rotating graphic they had that said "CCF is dedicated to..." struck me as interesting and compelling, it's worth watching for a few seconds if you have the time. It's a mix of very traditional family scenes and very modern scenes in the same graphic. Interestingly composed and put together, I feel a little more informed just having looked at it for a bit.
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Am I right in thinking this license fee is only in the US? As far as I know the rest of the world (Europe at least) doesn't recognise patents on software or algorithms.
I agree. Why are they in such a rush to get into trunk? The work they're doing is great, but their sense of entitlement about is is a bit misplaced.
It could also be the case that he disagreed with it and simply did not feel like talking about it at the time he was trying to enjoy his lunch.

This second-hand anecdote is light on details so I think we cannot draw too deep of conclusions about Gates' character from it.
EU commission clears Oracle's acquisition of Sun
Maybe you did. Regardless of assumptions, they threw the options right up there in front of you, and made you choose one. No excuses.
So yet another platform and market - which I think is great news for developers.

I kind of have an insane dream where maybe instead of going for the usual platform candidate of say, a C derived language, Java platform or some kind of Web derived platform (widgets, WebOS et al), maybe someone will take a risk on doing something different.

Imagine if the Kindle platform was say, Scheme or Lua based? With a very simple (shallow not deep) set of libraries to access the screen, storage and network facilities.

It will never happen of course. But I wish someone would do it.
Windows 7 backup is horrible. I tried to backup my 200 GB of data to a NAS drive. After 5 hours (35%) it just stopped. No reason. No explanation.
I know nothing about programming (maybe that is obvious from the odd question). If someone had an interest in learning, where would he start? Are the paths so varied that even the basics are not universal?
They do. The HQ setting on Youtube uses H264 baseline profile (notice how they introduced this around the time of the iPhone launch), and the HD setting uses H264 as well.
Where do you read that Machester Encoding is not pulse position modulated ?

What that means is simply that the signal is serial and that the position of a bit in the train determines its position in the resulting data item.

In that sense, every serial protocol ever invented except for analog protocols that encode multiple bits per timeslot (more than one bit per Baud to confuse you completely) is pulse position modulated.

And even in those there is usually a fairly tight coupling between the ordering of the blocks of bits in the packet encoded, though technically there wouldn't have to be a sequential ordering, you could for instance interleave the bits from two different timeslots. Not that I'm aware of any crazy encoding like that but it could be done.
Employees using the same passwords on Facebook that they use in the workplace bring the possibility of compromising enterprise systems with insecure passwords

I think we're approaching this the wrong way. Expecting people to have a large number of passwords is unrealistic, especially if they have accounts they don't log into frequently (e.g. bank accounts).

I'm not sure what the right solution is, but constantly telling users to have different passwords isn't going to work. We need another way to identify people online.
no worries, going to start hacking at it shortly. I'll keep you posted :)
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> Inspired by the spectacular success of Apple's App Store -- which observers believe pulls in more than a billion dollars in annual revenue (Apple isn't telling)

Isn't Apple a publicly traded company? How are they not allowed to disclose this?
I lost almost 85 lbs with a combination of calorie-restriction + low carb.
By not supporting h264 it helps prevent that codec from becoming the standard. If Firefox were to support ogg/h264 and everyone else supported only h264 then no one would bother with the ogg support. The format war would be lost at that point.
While I am sure many people have weak passwords, I am not convinced that the RockYou passwords are exactly a microcosm of the current state of password strength.

RockYou always seemed somewhat scammy, so I would say it's possible many people merely used generic passwords out of fear of RockYou someday exploiting them.
This will probably spur B&N to do the same thing for the Nook. Or maybe Amazon saw that coming since the Nook is an Android device and that seems like an obvious advantage for developing apps.
How do you feel about languages mimicking the C-like syntax?
Without discussing too much about the programming language features, how do you feel about the C like syntax even in functional programming languages like Scala?

For example, in Scala a left brace and right brace may be used to make a method block.

Why has this style of programming survived so long and why do you think other styles haven't flourished? Why haven't distinctly different languages like S-Expression Lisp languages flourished or other stack languages?
I strongly suggest doing this sooner rather than later.

Not only for the reason teuobk noted, but because many schools have a time limit on how long they'll consider a credit valid towards graduation.
Yeah, if that picture has any accuracy, it'll be Java in Eclipse. I stare at Eclipse doing Java all day at work. That is definitely Eclipse and the format and length of the lines of code look like Java.

Is Amazon hoping/expecting big companies to buy Kindles in bulk for their employees to use these applications, or are they going for a large number of developers that already know Java so that development seems easier? My experience in big companies is that they don't buy new devices for everyone. It's more likely that a significant number of employees have to purchase devices outside of work and bring them into the office before the company considers supporting the device with applications.
Yeah, App store not a viable business model. You're right, some of the biggest players in tech have been wrong for so long: Apple, Google, and now Amazon.

Software engineering has been viable for years. The device is the only thing that is changing. Moreover, the author states the 'web' is the 'app' that works on every platform. The naivety here is palpable thru the page.

How many software titles work on Mac and PC and Linux? Plenty. Write code to one code base? Hardly.

Frameworks like Phonegap and Appcelerator's Titanium allow for some code re-use for mobile apps, but one is essentially utilizing the "web" view on those devices. So if you are really looking for performance you are betting against the phone's JavaScript interpreter to process your accelerometer video game versus the phone's processor itself.

The app store business model should not be one someone banks on, in my opinion, for all their revenue. However, the app stores existence and attraction to businesses should be seen as an opportunity for devs to provide services and expertise for clients WHO WANT/NEED apps. This demand, I don't see falling any time soon...
Now to tap into this trend successfully...
On the origins of serial communications and data encoding
I will be there as well
Or, you could hope for Java and use Clojure :)
At my last startup we also used Ikea to supply server racks.
Lua's designed to be embedded, no? And it loads into C, which is a strict subset of Objective-C, so that should be relatively straightforward. Same with Guile Scheme, no?
Plus, I gather that public Wifi coverage in the US is pretty good. Elsewhere, not so much. Almost all publicly accessible access points in Europe aren't free and cost more than 3G data these days. (and yes, I do think that's completely ridiculous)
No opinion on who stole from whom, but common, even 5th graders know that when you steal work you make some changes.
Ask HN: Android development, revenue and compatibility
I'm considering writing an app for Android. However, having read a number of blogs/articles it appears to be difficult to make much money from Android, although I haven't been able to find any hard revenue figures from anyone.

So, if you've done any Android development, have you made any money?

And how much of an issue is compatibility between different platforms?

Thanks
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> Now, if a girl wrote, "I prefer to find a guy who is quality that other women might overlook, I reckon you can always teach a man how to dress better" would you have batted an eyelid? I doubt it.

I dunno whether my girl friend thought that before/after meeting me but she has definitely influenced my dressing habits over time and plays a big role when I am buying new clothes or deciding what to wear to a party/occasion. And I don't really mind that and the same is true for her, I do get a say on what she wears.
Hide it on other lines of revenue.
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Of course, the two most useful datasets are not yet there...

1. Postcode data
2. Mapping data
Perl 5 has many other sides apart from the context-dependence. To mention a few, the regex sublanguage is deeply integrated into the rest of the language, there's an active and versatile testing culture, and CPAN hosts 17k modules for countless of fields and applications.

Some of those (such as testing culture) are mirrored in other languages' cultures, others (such as CPAN) are unparalleled in scope. Ignoring Perl 5 based on a single feature causes you to miss out on all the truly good parts.
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I was abusing a footnote package, sorting footnotes alphabetically per page, and that took about a second a page on my laptop, but for everything else disk seeks take the majority of TeX's time; once you LaTeX something, and cache the font files in memory, it usually takes under a second or two for anything under 50 pages.
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The idea that men "need" marriage more than women is sketchy, IMO.

My suspicion: whoever came up with that conclusion picked a few metrics which women value more than men (e.g., house cleanliness, frequency of doctor visits). They determined that men score higher on these metrics when they are married and concluded men need marriage more.

Considering how many men are avoiding marriage these days, and how much effort women spend on trying to get men to marry them, I suspect that this conclusion is false.
Followup to that, because vegetarians eat things that are less dense in some vital nutrients, a good health-aware vegetarian will discover they need to stay away from the high-carb veggies like potatoes because they also have no nutrient value to speak of, and filling up on potatoes means you're not filling up on things high in iron (for example).

(Yes, part of the reason some vegetarians are vegetarians is because plants can be more rich in nutrients, but it is not automatically balanced, and some vital nutrients are more challenging to get than others.)

In that case, a vegetarian ends up eating a not-excessively-large portion of carbs naturally.

A bad vegetarian who assumes if it's not meat it must be healthy can still get in trouble, not just on this front but on others as well. It's not that simple.

(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.)
It simplifies denial of service attacks, unless it's per IP, in which case a bonnet can try a few million passwords a day.
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However, certainly the best version of Windows so far. The MathML you can understand - MS wants to sell Word 2007 to lots of student's who don't want to "bother" learning LaTeX.
"Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away...."

-Antoine de St. Exupery, Wind, Sand and Stars, 1939
Too much data leads to not enough belief
Yeah you can embed various languages into C-based and Java-based platforms. It's not quite the same thing as the official platform being based on such languages.

The official platform will always have more mindshare, and thus support, in the way of things like:

- open source code

- developer support/discussion

- systems libraries designed with the strengths/weaknesses of the platform in mind
Lingro is the fastest and best web dictionary that I've used. I'd been looking for a good one for a while.
An incredibly useful resource, worthy of being mentioned on occasion. I think the repeats are useful, especially with so many newer visitors to HN:

http://searchyc.com/dictionary+of+algorithms+and+data+struct...

FWIW, I'm credited on that site. Somewhere.
I suspect we could have a ring system in the same orbital plain as the moon, by adding a one or more smaller moons to both stabilize and replenish the system.
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What "format war"? Everyone already standardized on h264 years ago, and there is a built in h264 decoder on damn near everything these days.

Keeping two copies of every movie would be a waste of CPU cycles, disk space and bandwidth (Theora videos are bigger than their h264 equivalents). Dropping support for h264 in favor of Ogg is also not an option due to h264 being in everything.
The usual argument is evolutionary; i.e. men have a biological incentive to embrace monogamy to help prevent the chances of being cuckolded while women do not. I'm not supporting it, as it is an equally untestable hypothesis, just mentioning it for the sake of the discussion.
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Look, you just spouted the dietary dogma in the face of a book that has dozens upon dozens of references to scientific literature. The only thing stopping me saying "hundreds" is I'm not quite sure if it gets up to 200, though I bet it does. (I don't have it in front of me to check.) Even if you're completely right (which I do not believe despite being raised on that theory), simply re-spouting it is not an adequate response to this book.

That theory simply doesn't explain all the observations, and you need to catch up to modern science. Salt especially; current science strongly indicates that salt is not a problem for a normal person, it only matters if you already have a blood pressure problem (and I still think it may yet be revealed that it actually has no effect at all and it's all sugar). This isn't even from Taubes' book, this is simply the current state of the science.

Running on the dietary theories of the 1960s leaves you defenseless in the face of our current food environment, and when you get in trouble it doesn't give you a way out. Check this new stuff out. Check out the sugar video lionhearted referenced, it's free and the source is unimpeachable, and unlike reading the book which has the step of obtaining a book, that video is as easy to watch as any other video on YouTube. It has biochemistry in it. It's pretty good.
I was thinking about limiting the number of password attempts per time interval by user -- not the total number of attempts at any user's password per interval. Does that fix the DOS concern?

In the RockYou case, a botnet could try 32M * # allowed/day given that it had a user list.
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Students should be using TeXmacs, not LaTeX/TeX nor Word.
The Scott McCloud references are perfect for this topic. I wish I still knew where my copy was -- one of my favorite professors in college assigned it for an early design class, and it certainly never touched my semester's end sell-back pile. It's more than worth a re-read.
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According to The Complete Meat Cookbook, meat has been bred to be a lot more lean in the past decades.

I suspect that if we went back to the diet before there was fast-food, people would be eating more flavorful (a.k.a. fatty) meat than lean meat.
Windows 7 might be ok for some users, but I don't think it's ready for the desktop.