skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Requires javascript to be enabled - so not a complete catch all for a small minority (still cool though)
I don't think it's sad at all; I find it kind of comforting. This dude's living the life he wants to lead. Good on him for making a decision that was at odds with the expectations everyone seemed to be layering on him.
If dairy doesn't work with your digestive system, you can sub egg whites. I don't know what the latest warnings are about eggs, but Jack LaLanne has been eating them for the past 80 years.
Unemployment+more_elderly+healthy_young_uninsured=non-sustainable-business

There are many young entrepreneurs in this community. With youth we feel invincible and aren't typically "unhealthy".

So, do you insure yourself? Many 20 somethings I know do not. This LA Times article discusses if we even need "health insurers" and explains what we all know: For health insurers to be profitable, they need young healthy people to have policies and pilfer elderly sick people.

Now that the baby boomers are here and for the first time in history we have more people that are near/over the age of retirement than under the age of 5, how can insurers make money without having premiums go through the roof?
http://www.vga.hr/temp/home.zip - here is my home folder, just be sure to set HOME var as an environment variable to that folder. There are also minor install files in darkroom folder inside (you'll see). F12 toggles title bar, F11 toggles fullscreen (a bit buggy, so sometimes you need to press it a few times due to external program that sets it), F7 and F8 cycle back and forward between emacs buffer and F6 toggles line numbers.
Windows: yes
Linux: pretty much (90%)
Mac: nope

When I started my current job in computer forensics and security it shocked me how much I didnt know. There is a LOT of stuff going on in the internals that is pretty smart.

Believe me: you have no idea how bloody complicated a discussion of the Windows file system (a fairly simple high level subject right? :P) can become when you put a couple of forensic guys in a room :)

EDIT: I like a lot of the ways the Linux device/file system is organised. It makes a little more logical sense (though it might just be that it is more accessible) than windows.
Beware of Doug...
You miss something the author's talked about and it's the transition from GNU/Linux to BSD

I assume he/she wants to have a more understandable OS; and because the BSD's excel at that area, I guess she/he's referring to the BSD's.

Windows --> Great but I still cannot understand some of its peculiarities such as unexpected crashes, sudden explorer.exe restarts.

MAC OS --> Great but I still cannot understand just why its USB connection speeds are interestingly low or why it has such an inadequate Unicode support for different FileSystems like NTFS.

Linux --> All great, but I cannot figure out why there are so many different package managers out there?

As for BSD, because it's structure is so well-founded there's nothing which is not understandable. Everything's got its place where you'd expect them: Ports collection under /usr/ports, and package manager is just the pkg_add command. There are no window-manager or desktop-environments pre-loaded and configured, you just chose what to do. And the kernel structure is extremely simple: You can add extra functionality to kernel easily with the Loadable Kernel Module (KLM) concept. That's it, everthing's under control.
A post-capitalist vision of design: happiness, not -only- sales (video)
Maybe his gigantic IQ helped him to see the limits of his potential contribution to Physics. Related, innovative Civil Engineering is extremely important in densely urban societies like Korea.
And what about Christopher Langan?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Langan
While I do agree that development, build, and testing shouldn’t rely on a single IDE/toolset, I have to admit that I really do enjoy the explorative properties of many of the current IDEs for Java, C++, and C#. When I need to dig through foreign code I always find it a lot easier to do it using a IDE that has good jump and search capabilities like Eclipse.
There is at least one cognitive bias involved when answering this questions. The less you know about something, the simpler you believe it to be. I'd expect Torvalds to say he has a "fair" understanding of linux.
Pycon 2010 report II
Job skills and education are a means to obtaining a good quality of life. The lack of them does not indicate a poor quality of life.

Quality of life is having desired goods and services, which the study indicates the poor have.

Regarding health care, do you wish to assert that health care available to the poor today is worse than health care available to the middle class in 1970?
I thought I knew FreeBSD until I joined a couple of the lists and realised that I've hardly scratched the surface. It used to bother me that I didn't know. These days, I can accept it, and enjoy my occasional dip into the unknown when I need to change something.
This shows Microsoft is really trying to follow Apple's playbook here and stick with very strict hardware specifications. Honestly it's probably a smart move, if you don't think the hardware is perfect for the device then don't let users run it on there. Because if they did upgrade and there were less than optimal things they would complain and blame MS.
Punked in the Data Center: 'What happens if I cut this cable?'
Slightly as an aside but one source of amusement for me is programmers or sysadmins who cant tell you the difference between a serial and parallel comms link (beyond the obvious) and how one might work.

"Explain how a USB keyboard interacts with a computer" is one of my favourite interview questions at the moment. A surprising number of people can't tell you an in depth answer and you either hear:

- it's serial err no idea beyond that

- serial connection, I guess.. <creative attempt at answer>

- random bullshit about bits and serial (they can waffle for hours)

Really good for seeing them come up with creative solutions. Couple it with a whiteboard and work through the electronics with them and you can have a great interview.

(I started to do the whiteboard thing after one interviewee asked for a pen/paper to try and sketch out what he was thinking)
Next Kindle Might Cost Less Than $150
It would be nice if soomeoone (am I being too subtle ;-) released a ROM to make that possible. Seemed to me the HD2 was the best-specced touch-screen/no-keyboard hardware released to date.
Windows: never tried to
Linux: I know quite a bit but the important thing is that I know that I will understand everything I don't know. Learn by experience.
I knew Windows inside and out, used it from 3.1 and could do just about anything I wanted to do and fix just about any issue. 3 years ago I moved to Mac OS and I am still working on getting myself to the same place.
Sergey Brin's Resume Pre-Google
But since the ruling showed Microsoft that they were wrong, maybe they've just come around... ;-)
> So, yeh, I think it's a great deal for what you get

Of course you like it - someone else is paying for what you want.
That English quote at the end seems pretty non-fluent to me (the "but" seems unnatural). I wonder how much of his other achievements are exaggeration.
When do we start making games using HTML5? Or did you mean Flash video? Because Flash does more than just play videos.
Your link doesn't offer any sort of evidence against Gladwell's contention (which isn't original to Gladwell, and which on the basis of negligible evidence I suspect is an oversimplification but not far from the truth).

In fact, arguably it offers a little evidence against what Gladwell says. If IQ above ~120 makes no difference to performance, and if "career" and "performance" are close enough to make it worth while citing this thing at all, then you ought to see no little difference between {occupations substantially found among people with IQ ~120} and {occuptations substantially found among people with IQ ~130}. Now, look down the 120 and 130 lines of that plot, and notice that you see quite different things in the two instances. (The foregoing is a bit of a simplification, but it'll do. Anyway, I see no way to read the graph as providing evidence that IQ 120 is better than IQ 110, but IQ 130 isn't better than IQ 120, in terms of likely success/performance.)
Major software vendors would never have had a platform to standardize on, so they would have to try and pick a winner and loser. Consumers wouldn't know which platform to buy to run program X, and when that platform goes away, how will they keep mission critical program Y.

Two or three major OSes is more than enough of a headache for software companies and consumers alike. The world may be more interesting, but I have a feeling we would be at least 10-20 years behind where we are now with computing.
When is the right time to commit changes?
Hands-on: Ubuntu goes social, gains Me Menu in 10.04 alpha 3
What I find problematic about this approach is that it leads to an implementation that represents the least common denominator. Protocols that have some conceptual overlap were devised for a reason and represent some sort of evolution. Treating them all the same is, to a certain extent, nullifying this evolutionary aspect.

FTP, Gopher and HTTP are related in a way where it doesn't hurt too much if a HTTP client also support Gopher and FTP. However, there are cases where this doesn't work out so well (E.g. cross platform GUI frameworks).

Consequently, I'd say that it is nice to provide a unified interface for conceptually related technologies. On the other hand, I'd be really careful about overplaying this sort of design principle where it may lead to sub-optimal or overly complex solutions, simply for the sake of supporting more technologies (who needs Gopher these days?)
Death By Competitive Analysis
Scientific data needs to be curated
That's actually true. A fresh install of Visual Studio (VS) is already quite heavy, but when you install an add-in like ReSharper (hands down, it's still one of the best add-ins for VS) on top of it everything gets more heavy and slower. Yet still, for the time I had worked with Eclipse during my studies, I have to say (languages set aside) that I enjoy more to work with VS.
I' m not signing up to post there but just so you know: Association Football doesn't have "rules", they are adjudicated by an "umpire". Soccer has a "referee" ipso facto it has "laws".

http://www.fifa.com/mm/document/affederation/federation/81/4...
http://purplefloyd.wordpress.com/2009/09/11/a-platform-game-...

http://www.kevs3d.co.uk/dev/asteroids/
Your graph only shows that IQ matters up to about 120. I agree that Gladwell wildly exaggerates his case, but your statistics don't contradict it at all.
Google Android and iPhone Apps downloads are similar (Image)
The adMob report “January 2010 Mobile Metrics Report” shows that Google Android Apps downloads are approaching the iPhone app downloads
> I'd happily pay 10 times the license fee.

What's stopping you?

Seriously.

I'm pretty sure that they'd take more money. Or, you could pay the tax for some folks who owe the tax but doesn't watch the BBC.
Sean Carroll, the physicist interviewed in this article, blogs at http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/ where (among other things) he's conducting a sort of online book club looking at his recently published book.
It looks like it only needs javascript for the flash fallback, and it wouldn't be too hard to put something in the video tag that would work as fallback for those without either html5 video or javascript.

I think the only reason they didn't show this is because it's extra complexity for something that many people don't care about. For those that do care there's Kroc Camen's "Video for Everybody"

http://camendesign.com/code/video_for_everybody
made a quick excel spreadsheet using the formulas from the article. i plan on using this as i (hopefully) get back into shape.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3095590/Workout.xlsx
Disclaimer: I haven't read the book.

As a physicist, I think it's a bad idea when scientists write popular science books where they try to explain advanced, unproven theories like various interpretations of time and gravity or string theory. First of all, it's not even real science as of now, and second, it gives readers a false sense of understanding: it's like in the (otherwise really bad) movie 'A Serious Man' where a student is complaining to his physics professor after a quantum theory test that he feels his failing grade is unfair, because he didn't know he would be tested on the mathematics and not just the physics ("I understand the physics! The cat if both alive and dead!"). The professor answers that the mathematics is the physics.
I doubt that - it is run by hackers (well ex-hackers now), and they never realise that you can (and have to) buy of Washington.
Curious definition of smart. Sort of like saying a compass is better at finding magnetic north than I am, ergo it is smarter. The oil droplet is just a tool, like the compass, which always reacts the same way given external stimuli. Now, the people who knew enough chemistry to create such a droplet, those are some smart people.

I'm curious, though, how they'd do at running a person sized maze. Certainly they'd be beaten by the droplet, but I bet they'd also be outperformed by the mouse.
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FWIW, I watched the Winter Olympics (well, the snowboarding) on http://www.eurovisionsports.tv/olympics/ which worked fine on Linux. I'm guessing it's not usable from North America? (this isn't a pirate site, the Vancouver 2010 site actually links to it.)

As much as I hate Flash, I'm not sure replacing it with Silverlight is vastly better. I suppose with Moonlight lagging only a few months behind the MS plugin it's a lot better than the Adobe monoculture (hah, "mono"-culture). Still, I think the real problem is the fact that it's a plugin, not part of the browser itself, which Silverlight doesn't change.
Personal theory: stardom comes during childhood or adulthood, but rarely both.
If I may ask a related question, I recently read the book "The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality", which is targeted to an audience of non-specialists too.

Do you happen to know it, and do you happen to have an opinion about the accuracy of it? It appears to be genuinely accurate, but I have reference to know this is true.

From http://www.amazon.com/Fabric-Cosmos-Space-Texture-Reality/dp... :

"Assuming an audience of non-specialists, Greene has set himself a daunting task: to explain non-intuitive, mathematical concepts like String Theory, the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle, and Inflationary Cosmology with analogies drawn from common experience. For the most part, he succeeds."
From the abstract, Across experiments, the probability of gaining reinforcement for switching and staying was manipulated, and birds adjusted their probability of switching and staying to approximate the optimal strategy.

From that, I'd guess that the birds are making their selection based on experience about what has and hasn't worked in the recent past.
I don't see any video in firefox 2.0.0.13 at
http://static.etianen.com/html5media/
Most users of Visual Studio I've spoken to usually recommendeds the ReSharper addon, like you just did. ReSharper is a nice tool, no doubt about it. But what I don't understand is how Visual Studio can be so big and heavy and still don't have refactoring tools that can match ReSharper.
Do the sysadmins and programmers you are interviewing need to understand the innards of a USB keyboard as part of their job function? If it's not part of their job description, then I am not surprised at all.
UN's climate link to hurricanes in doubt
Update on Playstation network problems: DRM and firmware issues
"I said last week that forming a company is the best way to "putting a buffer between you and the business." But as Shawn and others point out in last week's comment thread, you can't just pretend to be a business, you have to be a business."

Else you might find yourself in litigation where that buffer disappears and you are personally liable, the term of art being "Piercing The Corporate Veil".

Don't let this happen to you.

Additional note: something that always pierces the corporate veil is failure to pay payroll taxes. No matter who's fault it is, the IRS will come after you personally with a rusty knife. Don't try to finesse this and make absolutely sure you trust whomever is actually doing it.
The estimate that the IQ threshold for adult eminence is about IQ 120 appears to come from Arthur Jensen. It has been repeated by Hans Eysenck and is most frequently written about by Dean Keith Simonton, who cites a specialized study on exactly that issue in one of his latest books.

Locally, I'm in an ongoing discussion, partly in person and partly by email, with Thomas Bouchard on this point. I think the additional help of an IQ score above 120 is negligible compared to other factors that are known to be important for adult eminence.
A Silent Rotor Blade Paves the Way for Super-Stealth Choppers
The most intelligent people are rarely thick skinned. And to be and stay famous, you have to be pretty thick skinned.
Works with HTML5 video on Firefox 3.6 but Fail with IE7 (the flash load but the video can't be played).
Malcolm is certainly not the first person to put that idea out there, and I think there's some credence to it. I read something else recently (based on a Stanford study) that said that the greatest predictor of success wasn't IQ, but rather self discipline: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/05/18/090518fa_fact_...

Certainly someone with a high IQ AND self discipline could go farther than someone with just one or the other, but IQ by itself is not a meaningful gauge of someone's potential.
The quote was originally in Korean. It could be a translation problem, or a cultural issue (conflict avoidance?).
This made me think of this Leo Laporte caller http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0zt4opqL18 :) Personally I disagree with the author’s stance on the unlocked door analogy. The author argues that there are no physical characteristics to identify a wireless network’s ownership and a default ssid with no security can only mean that its intention is for public use. I argue that unless the user specifically knows the intentions of a particular wireless network then they must by default assume that it is a private wireless network regardless of the ssid and security used. Using the unlocked door analogy if every house in a neighborhood was the same color and had their doors open does that mean a person should by default assume that every home is for public use?
Never thought of it that way. Of course, I wouldn't call it a language smell, rather a framework or library smell. C# isn't complicated. The frameworks and libraries on top of it are a bit much, and that's where the IDE really helps. C is a small language, but tack on a framework and you aren't learning C as much as you are learning the framework. Same things for Rails.

Of course, no one is going to use C# without the frameworks and libraries added in, so I guess you almost have to include the IDE support. But then, seeing what VS 2010 can do makes me wish Eclipse or Netbeans could do it as well. Couple that with the fact that Eclipse and Netbeans feel so heavy and clumsy compared to 2010 despite 2010's size and beta status.
These days, I can accept it

And one day, you buy a Mac. Trust me. You want to.
Dup from 6 hours ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1158358
Here's a direct link to the document on Wikileaks site:

http://file.wikileaks.org/files/microsoft-spy.pdf
There's a maxim in computer science that more data almost always beats a better algorithm. There's a huge amount of information in an educated adult's brain - it has to get there somehow. Some of it gets there by learning facts in school.

Now, I'd have a bigger problem with why there isn't more science in rote memorization. We already know enough to make a difference in how people study, but I haven't heard of it being actually used except by startups like smart.fm
This is not really complete, but still impressive what you can do: http://www.megidish.net/awjs/
From the article:

"Computing fitness

The programs we want to improve have to report their fitness. To do this I’ll use criterion’s timing function, wrapping up the code we actually want to optimize in some measurement functions. This will just report total wall clock running time for the code under analysis."

They only care about speed. And if code size turns out to have an impact on speed, it won't be ignored by this metric.
nope, and their answer is fairly irrelevant.

If they have the balls to say "no idea, why do I need to know" that is someone we like. If they say that and then attempt to work out an answer extra bonus points. If they stumble they get no set back - it is a random question. If they bullshit they are marked down a fair way - not the kind of person we want.

(we design it to be a question you have to actively fuck up to be marked down on)

We sit and work through an answer together and you get a real insight into them outside their area of expertise (where you would expect them to be slick)
> "Microsoft is really trying to follow Apple's playbook here and stick with very strict hardware specifications."

FTA:
"the HD2 meets many of the criteria laid down in Microsoft's 'Chassis 1' specifications. After all it has a 1GHz Qualcomm processor, a high-res capacitive touch display, a 5 megapixel camera and 3.5mm headphone jack. However it turns out that the phone has five buttons instead of the three blessed by the Vole's CEO Steve Ballmer."

The HD2 is more than capable of running WinMo 7. In fact, if you loved WinMo, the HD2 would be (and still is) the phone to buy. Microsoft is sticking it to the fans who really love their stuff here (I work with a lot of Windows professionals and they're the hardcore WinMo fans - most of whom control the messaging environment in their offices).
Firstly, for those of you who care about these things:

> Eurocopter manages to pair down the blade-vortex interaction
> ......................^^^^

That should be "pare".

</grammar_nazi>

Secondly, a link to an article about this in Wired was posted two days ago:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1154340
That same Wired article is pointed to by this PopSci article.

Thirdly, this PopSci article also points at a GizModo article, which appears to be where it got all its information and its photo (link below)

Fourthly, it's not "silent." The articles it rips off get this right, stating that it's just much quieter. No, PopSci has to exaggerate as link-bait.

So in short, it's a complete rip-off of primary sources without adding extra information, it got its grammar wrong, and it exaggerated. Go to the original sources:

http://www.wired.com/autopia/2010/02/eurocopter-moves-one-st...

http://gizmodo.com/5481081/the-blade-that-would-make-helicop...
There are so many things wrong in this post I'm not sure where to start.

First, 5 reps is fine sometimes. Look up periodization. The body adapts quickly so while 5 sets of 5 might work for a few weeks you eventually need to change it up. Plus your joints, tendons and ligaments get tired always lifting heavy.

Cardio has nothing to do with 'toning.' The old saying is 'abs are made in the kitchen not in the gym.' If you want to look tone (horrible term but we'll go with it) you need to have some muscle and then remove the fat from over top of it. The easiest way to remove fat is the cut calories. You can burn calories through exercise, but not nearly as much as people think.

Dips and pullups is nothing close to enough for a well rounded workout. If you want to do a workout without a gym Google bodyweight training. If you have access to a gym then look at the books 'Starting Strength' or 'New Rules of Lifting.' Both are good books by excellent authors and give you plenty of workout plans. With either, expect to spend about an hour in the gym 3 times per week.