skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Then why are rural Chinese who live off of a rice and noodle based diet thin, while westerners who eat far more protein and fat are enormous?

Measured against GDP, countries in which rice-based diets are common (Japan, China, Korea, Thailand, etc...) have very thin, very long lived people compared with the protein crazed areas such as the US, UK, Australia, Canada.

Honestly, the only place I hear this carbohydrate-bashing crap is in English language news from places filled with fat people.
The Kindle runs Java ME so I'm guessing a CDC implementation with some proprietary extensions.
Nokia offering free turn-by-turn navigation on smartphones globally
That was my absolute first thought.. While I love dropbox, the team, and enjoy reading about their immense success, the security nerd in me demands that everything I put my data on is "mine" for more or less the definition that while I might not own the servers or disks, I have a great level of access to them.

I wrote about that in regards to dropbox in 2008:
http://paulstamatiou.com/thoughts-on-dropbox

"Use my own S3 account – I would pay a lot to have the ability to store my data in my own S3 account. I realize part of Dropbox’s business plan likely revolves around charging for storage, but I propose they offer a high-end account where I just pay $30/month for the use of their API to power file revisions, the web interface and all of that, all-the-while being stored on my own S3 account."

Of course that point is now moot if I can get the file versions natively with S3.
Only marginally related: how often do people use the "home" button on their browsers? Is it fair to hypothesize "never"?
The Poetry Is in the Proof - The spirit of mathematics
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David was great as usual. I found Steve Blank's questions/demeanor toward him to be a little condescending.
Amazon plans Kindle app store
Video footage of pitching to 150 VCs at the Big Ideas 2009 event
I always wondered what the VLC cone was about. This prompted me to finally look it up. Interesting:

On day, people from the VIA association (VIA is a students' network association with many clubs ... amongst those is VideoLAN. More info here : http://www.via.ecp.fr ) came back drunk with a cone. They then began a cone collection (which is now quite impressive i must say). Some time later, the VideoLAN project began and they decided to use the cone as their logo.

http://www.nanocrew.net/2005/06/23/vlc-cone/ / http://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?t=9792
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With a large user list, some people will have really terrible passwords. So my guess would be by trying random week passwords to random accounts you could compromise a few hundred accounts in the first day. With diminishing returns over time.
Nice. The article doesn't mention it, but those tables are $8 in the US.
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If you think the Economist is primarily about economics, then you clearly haven't read it. It is the best way to keep up on world affairs with an international perspective.

The Economist certainly has a point of view, which is clearly stated in the opinion "Leaders" at the front of each issue.

However, that point of view is not liberal in the sense that Democrat = liberal, Republican = conservative. They are liberal in the sense of Liberalism. They are not aligned with Democratic party at all.

If you doubt that, their presidential endorsements should make it clear. They endorsed Clinton, Dole, Bush, Kerry, and Obama. All while consistently sticking to their clear world view, which is well worth checking out.
I accept Kurzweil's defense. He's off by two years, tops, for common use, and in terms of simple existence, he's not wrong at all. The software already exists: http://www.jibbigo.com/website/index.php . That's real. You can buy it. The only thing stopping me from linking straight into the app store is the app store won't let me. Even if you want to get anal about the year (which is not really appropriate), that was out in 2009. And I'm pretty sure that's not the only one, either.

Compared to the general rate of prediction failure he is in a league of his own.

And again, you just claimed his predictions were trivial as if I didn't mention that issue at all. I feel you may not have read my message, as you don't seem to have actually reacted to it. It's not about the triviality apparent in 2009. It's about whether the general public he was speaking to would have considered it a trivial prediction in 1998-ish. That's easy: No. I remember that time. Many technologically-aware people like me wouldn't have blinked at most of the predictions but they were not in the public's mind.
I've had good experiences with DeltaCopy. It's an open source rsync-based backup solution. Saved my data when one of my drives died last year.

http://www.aboutmyip.com/AboutMyXApp/DeltaCopy.jsp
Apple Trying To Squash Amazon's Kindle Like A Bug, Amazon Fighting Back
Scott McCloud also did the comic book for Google Chrome [1]
I love the way complex ideas are explained in a simple manner in that comic book. I do show it my non-programmer friends to explain what goes on under the hood of a browser.

I wish more programming projects were documented in this way.

[1] http://www.google.com/googlebooks/chrome/index.html
Are we really, really sure that no one is lurking with a patent?
It's a never in my world. My "Home" page is usually a blank screen, and with FF I customize my tool bar never to show the "Refresh", "Stop", "Home" and "Go", and the "Search" box (Essentially my URL address bar stretching almost end to end. I do have the Back-Forward buttons on display, but I never use those either)
New proposal for captions and other timed text for HTML5
Ask HN: Review my site - devcheatsheet.com
One of the better design related articles I've read lately. Good way to illustrate a problem that can otherwise be hard to explain.
For one, my girlfriend does it all the time. I haven't observed other users recently, though.
That's not an argument, it's a say-so explanation. Similarly, men have biological incentive to impregnate anything that moves without commitment, while women have biological incentive to find resource-committed males, as they have a biological 9-month commitment they're allotted by nature.
"If a project team can eat more than two pizzas, it's too large." -- Werner Vogels Amazon CTO
Such as the name above the test ;)

Teacher: How come I have two essays from John and none from Bob?
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Lame attempt to get some attention before the Kindle gets killed by the impending Tablet?
Amusing thread.
So, the user list would have to be available/harvestable? I guess this is an argument for having separate login Ids and published usernames. So, one couldn't just spider a site to create a user list.
I use it all the time, my homepage is a little document I have in my dropbox with a search box and links to all the sites I commonly visit.

A bit redundant these days perhaps, but it still works for me.
I use home button to open the Google homepage whenever I need to close all tabs in browser without closing the browser itself. So the Google homepage in that opened tab is like a placeholder. Anyway, I have no specific reason for doing this - it's just a habit.
I switch languages a lot in the course of a week, this will be very useful to me.

It seems really well polished - I like the look, and I was able to find everything I wanted to find. Well done!
My "home" button is set to google.com, and I use it a LOT. I started doing this in 1998 or 1999 and never got used to using the special search input that most browsers have by default now; I finally just turned it off to reduce clutter.
This prompted me to see if there was a decent clone of NC for Unix, and it looks like Midnight Commander is well-reviewed and open-source:

http://www.midnight-commander.org/
There is no alternative to the app store, so I think drawing conclusions from it's popularity might be misguided. There certainly is a need for apps...

Besides, there is nothing wrong with App stores per se, just with them being the only option.
Why not just lock out a user after n failed login attempts?
What do Mark Cuban, Dan Farber, Steve Ballmer, and Mary Jo Foley have in common?
you need to show that the 'modes of use' you speak of are vital to the community, that there is harm in disincentivising them

Stating them does not constitute an argument.
Hehe, that's funny, I found it because of your current project.
Did I land on 'Cosmo' by accident ?
The official rationale is that it is not the firewall’s job to block malicious applications from accessing the network

Then what is it?
Is 35 hours to back up 500GB over USB actually unreasonable?
What open source tools are you using to backup to S3 from linux? I imagine the good ones will add in support for S3 versioning.
I like it. Clean layout, easy to find what I was looking for (even searched for Clojure).

But is this merely an aggregation of cheat-sheets off of the web? Is there any review process involved before a cheat-sheet shows up on your list? I guess what I am getting at is how is this different from me just searching google for "emacs cheatsheets"?
The laptop in the top banner appears to have some kind of curly-brace language code open in Eclipse. By the look of the syntax highlighting and flow of indentation, my guess would be Java (or possibly C++).

> It will never happen of course. But I wish someone would do it.

Amen.
Maybe they had to temporarily remove MathML from newer versions of Word because of the recent xml lawsuit? Just guessing.
This isn't really my department, but aren't all those devices supposed to have a little breathing room around them? Not stacked one right on top of the other?

edit Thanks! Ya learn something new every day.
I use at least 10 different passwords on a weekly basis, it ain't that hard...

For passwords I use less often I've written them on a piece of paper somewhere in my house, which I feel is pretty safe.
Could h264 support be added to Firefox with a plugin? Windows and Mac OS have the ability to natively play h264 videos, perhaps there is a way for FF to hook into that and not have to worry about any h264 licensing fees.
It's more like building a neighborhood from scratch, taking care of it for fifteen years, and then seeing the ones you handed it over to being bought by the ones who owns the rest of the city.

I don't get where people get this strange attitude from. Like you're more of a "sellout" when you build a company over time, with an open source product and don't want to be controlled by your competitor. Than if you, like most startups today, build a proprietary product with the intention of selling to you biggest competitor as soon as possible.
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Thanks for the encouragement!
And what does it look like with ethernet cable and power cords attached?
I'm expecting a post from their paid Flash commenter (I'm sorely tempted to say professional troll, given some of his recent posts) jon dowdell saying something mocking about Ogg, then adding that HTML 5 is purely for minority browsers, and Adobe is fully focused on helping businesses and advertisers connect rich internet content with their customers in innovative and engaging ways.

(Translation: Flash will always rule, we're betting the company against Apple-Google-Mozilla, and the rest of the internet may hate us, but it won't matter because IE and Windows will dominate forever)

Meanwhile, those of us using "minority" browsers and Macs will do to Flash exactly what we did to Real.
Apparently there is also a disadvantage -- a higher risk of developing stuttering. I know from experience (n=1), but there is some interesting research on the topic as well:

http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=stuttering+bilingual+chi...
Good article, though he makes it sound as if there is an actual optimal amount of detail that you can put into an icon, while in fact it's very dependent on the context.

For example the right-most "house" icon looks very housey to me, because I could gather from the line of icons that it was supposed to depict a house.

When building interfaces it's funny (or not, depending on the pressure) to find that users interpret the icons in completely novel ways. For example: trash cans are interpreted as brushes because someone expects the paste button at that position.
Linq to ASCII Art
Powered by a Common Lisp program, too.
Quiting the day job and going for it
The Opening of the Academic Mind
Very interesting article. Can't help but to think about the differences in countries educational systems. I'm Swedish, here we start studying English in second (numbers and such) and third grade (start with words and grammar). And then study it all the way up and through high-school.

Pretty much every Swede of a younger generation is fluent in English. Almost all people also spend several years in grades 6-9 studying a third language (Spanish, French or German is required to take if you don't have a learning disability, then you focus on English with that time instead).

It's easy for practically every country in the world to offer education in English because you can't live in a modern world without English. But it seems hard to motivate English speaking nations to study other languages. What languages would be of enough importance for, for instance, Americans, to make it obligatory education?
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I understand that you're taking advantage of a situation for profit, which is probably a rough definition of capitalism. I can't say I would above it, myself. But it won't last forever, right or wrong. The domain system wasn't created for what the internet has become, and it's unnecessary given the search engine. Even TLDs are unnecessary.
Like it. There's a lot of content and it's well organized.

It would be nice if there was more information on each cheat sheet before I clicked it. Maybe a list of things that are in it (Class Functions, String Functions, Regex Expressions for example). Or add more tags to each cheatsheet.

Keep up the good work.
I try to encourage people to have at a minimum a strong password for applications that need security (like online banking) and a second throwaway password for garden variety site registration.
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How is this different than simply adding a version suffix to each file name?
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I have mixed feelings on this, as somebody who does outsourcing from a country which is not known for failure to appreciate subtle social dynamics. (Korean has six different forms of address based on relative rank? I could actually use six before lunch on a typical day at the office.)

On the one hand, we've had outsourcing projects suffer from cultural issues. However, they're not all related to the high PDI/low PDI distinction -- some of them you could shoehorn into that, to be true, but sometimes when any engineer swears that he absolutely will have a project ready by the end of the day he is just estimating poorly rather than being overly polite.

The number one problem we have had in outsourcing to a particular country is pervasive competence issues, followed by communication issues (egads, no, Babelfish is not an acceptable way to translate engineering documents), followed by a poor mesh in management styles which is exacerbated by both of the other two. We outsource to another country, where we have not had the pervasive competence issues. Things tend to go much better there.

I'm not going to name names, but suffice it to say they're both in that top 10 list and within a few points of each other.
Is anyone actually doing any Android development?
I'm interested in trying it out for our group (gumbolabs.org, a non-profit corporation, a hackerspace). Can you suggest how one would use your site for these needs?:

-manage monthly dues paid by members (each member is a client?)

--breakdown of what i mean by "manage": mark each month as paid, be able to easily see who hasn't paid, be able to mark a whole year as paid.

-track expenses like rent and internet bill

-project into the future so see our financial health
thanks!
Most small businesses have no idea what Google Apps is and why they need it. My advice is, let people try this instantly. Your registration asks for a domain. Hacker News folks understand this, but 99% of small business will abandon. I think you are in a great market and I think small business would gladly pay maybe $30-50/year for this or some kind of volume based payments, like, say over 5,000 journal entries is this price, and over 10,000 is this, etc. Remember, anyone can go to Office Max and buy Peachtree for $30. Online, access anywhere, automatically backed up, sharing with my accountant with one click, there are great great opportunities here for web/cloud based accounting. If you appeal to small businesses cheapness this will do great.

I'd eliminate the "Google apps" altogether and just make this work transparently, FWIW.

Also, I am a Peachtree expert, have a CPA requirements from school (I abandoned accounting after my first job interview) and I'd be happy to give you more feedback if that's helpful.
Build this Scheduling App, Please.
I always find that setting meeting times is really inefficient. I would this simple solution:

I go to a web and say "request new event scheduler", which then simply gives me a url to share. Anyone who visits the url can add themselves to the calendar, add available times, etc.

The big point is to make it _dead_easy_ and _amazingly_fast_, making scheduling over email a total non-issue.
Even if it doesn't solve the problem, seems like it would help. In this case, a user would need to have a "very weak" password to be compromised. "Somewhat weak" passwords would be fine.

Also, after 100 or so attempts to login, I would thinking locking the user out would be fine (at least in many systems).
I don't put much credibility in Gladwell's arguments, particularly since Greenspun's analysis: http://philip.greenspun.com/flying/foreign-airline-safety in which, among other things, Greenspun notes that Gladwell did not talk to any pilots.
My familiarity with DADS is one of the reasons I believe my current project is new and interesting.

For everyone else, I seem to have invented a new(ish) data structure and am in the process of writing it up. I will announce it here as soon as it's done.
Yes. It should be more in the order of 3 hours.
Yes, this is a cheatsheet aggregator/directory from cheatsheets around the web. Each cheatsheet is manually reviewed to make sure that it is useful and relevant. I think it is important to maintain a high quality level in the directory or else it defeats the purpose. In the future, I hope to add sorting by popularity to make it even easier to find the top results.

So why is this different than a google search? Well, in my experience, Google does not return the best results for cheatsheets. This may be partially due to the fact that many are downloads in PDF or other formats, so the relevant content may not help with SEO ranking. Another advantage is that devcheatsheet.com provides a preview before you click through and download. Finally, it is also easier to navigate between related topics such as Javascript and JQuery.
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Besides the one Amazon ships in the latest firmware versions ? ( http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=2... )

The manuals ( http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=2... ) seem to say you can bookmark PDF pages, but do not mention clippings or annotations, which are allowed for the mobi/azw default format.
This is an excellent resource and done very professionally. I like the clean site look and nothing is more than two clicks away. Surely it will be a winner with developers.

Let us know when your new year's resolution traffic is on target! Nice blog too:)
What I haven't seen answered is can I develop my own apps for my own Kindle for free? A big factor for me losing interest in iPhone development is having to pay 99$ a year to make apps for myself, that expire in a year.
Funny, I read "Life Cheat Sheet" instead of "Lift Cheat Sheet".
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If you use Firefox to store your passwords, and would like to analyze how often you reuse passwords, I encourage you to join the Test Pilot program [0]. The current study is looking at reuse of passwords. It doesn't collect your passwords, just counts how many sites you use your top few passwords on. The plugin lets you see all the data before sending it to Mozilla, so you can just look at the analysis without sending it if you want. (but it would be very helpful if you would send your data in.)

[0] https://mozillalabs.com/testpilot/
In chrome, I have unchecked "always show my bookmarks toolbar" such that my home screen is my top-8 as well as my bookmarks toolbar. I use it all the time if I want to recycle a tab instead of opening a new one.
I loved your site when I first saw it... So much I submitted it myself:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1052937
As long as there's a reasonable way to unlock a user. For a free consumer site, it can't require human interaction. "Email me a new password" seems reasonable for most cases.
Thanks for the input, Vindexus. I have considered adding a short description to each cheatsheet, and I intend on adding additional tags as well. However, I am trying to be cautious and maintain the clean look without overwhelming the user with information. It is always a balancing act.
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Airflow for rack designed hardware is front to back, having space between devices in a cabinet actually cause problems as the hot air will recirculate and end up going back in the front.
s3cmd is a command line tool interfacing to S3, makes scripting your backups downright simple. http://s3tools.org/s3cmd

Another is the Boto Python library (more or less a wrapper for all AWS stuff). http://code.google.com/p/boto/

Hopefully both of these will get version control support real soon.
App Stores are an effective model because people are willing to pay for a baseline level of filtering. I can read anything I want online but I love buying certain magazines (New Yorker, Economist, Seed, etc) because I know the stuff in them will be good. Sure, some good writing might not make it in because of the editorial process, but I'm willing to live with that.

I think the future of App Stores is to branch into departments with their own kind of branding. The control and profit for store owners is too good to give up, but branded departments would give more variety. IE the Role Playing Game Store, the Silly Diversion Store, etc. This is technically simple to partition the stores like this, and it's would help solve the "big pile of apps" discovery problem.

Apple is more likely to let people/orgs create their own "app storefronts" and maybe give them 1% or 5% of the revenue. So if you shop at pg's App Store, you would get things that are simple and useful, while if you shopped at Scoble's App Store, you'd see every new tech gadget.
No. Data center hardware is intended to pull cool air in from the front and push warmed air out the back. Data centers are arranged with rows of racks side-by-side, creating cold and warm rows in front and behind. Often the HVAC system is integrated with this layout, preventing warm and cool air from mingling, which leads to greater efficiency in cooling.
Thanks! Not sure how I missed this one...