skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just bought one for my 3 years old son.
He loves his mother's MacBook too much so giving him this one is much cheaper than sending the MacBook to a repair ;-)
A very interesting topic for a study would be similarly testing groups of omnivores, vegetarians and vegans, to see if there are any detectable mental capacity differences.
It should be less controversial than comparing the same between races and genders.

The 'we developed bigger and better brains from eating meat' is an often used rationale for the omnivore diet.
> I had actually never heard of fortune

A long, long time ago in this galaxy, this was the first program to run when a user logged in/opened a new terminal. Not on every system of course.
13% is not enough for you?

you, pervert!
They are NOT really responding to the line. That's the thing.

With an opener like that, what matters is attitude and confidence. If you deliver it completely normal, as if you couldn't possibly imagine it could be offensive, then most likely they will just start by laughing it off or throwing some test in your face, expecting you to fall apart.

If you show you can handle what they throw back at you, you've both demonstrated confidence, that you're the kind of guy that expects women to fall over themselves to sleep with you and so you really are honest and can say what you like, and you've made it clear to them from the start that you're after sex; you're "dangerous", not some potential guy to amuse them while they have a few drinks.

Sexual intent, confidence and the perception that you're very successful with women and don't need to by shy about what you're after means far more than looks.

Personally I'd expect that line to work better on "good quality" girls, actually. Especially pretty girls that know they look good.

If you try it on girls that don't look good enough or that seem insecure etc., you might very easily come off as thinking they're easy.

With really beautiful and/or confident girls you're more likely for them to expect guys to be shy and deferential or just plain creepy.

Of course the chance of coming off as creepy with a line like that if not delivered with the perfect attitude is pretty high.
It is hard to add anything to corruption's comment, but a practical tip:

I've seen claims that it is hard to notice how/when your intelligence changes over time. A friend who had some health issues for a while (sorry, I'm not giving more details) played (simple) computer games quite a lot, because the results showed functionality trends.

ymmv, of course, but if I were you I'd play a few games like that over time while trying creatine supplements. If they help, I'd continue.
Edit : it should be noted that this is from 2003. I'm sure newer research has been done. (Re-Edit. Not much by the looks of it)

One question this raises is why isn't there a know correlation between high red meat diets and higher brain performance? All things being equal the the study suggests a significant advantage for higher intake.

Here are my best guesses in order of likelyhood

- The benefit is temporary and relates more to the raising of levels rather the absolute level.

- The amounts of creatine involved (equivalent of 2 pounds red meat per day) are too much for anyone to ingest naturally for long, but this level is required to see significant benefits.

- The benefits of creatine are being counteracted by some other substances in red meat therefore masking it's effect on heavy meat eaters.

- The reported high average IQ of those who chose to become vegetarians masks the fact that the lack of creatine in their diet does actually make them dumber.

Anyway it looks interesting especially for those without much natural creatine intake.
Nice! Is there a way to suggest quotes?
The only thing that looks dubious to me is: "3-inch, 320 x 240 display". That's awfully small; it's exactly the same resolution that my Nokia phone has (well, if you swap the height/width).

I wonder if it would run Android...
Ethernet and WiFi are not built in, but the device is compatible with several WiFi SDIO cards, including the Spectec SDW-821 and SDW-823, says Qi Hardware.

That seems like a big mistake and it's no longer $99 for most people.
I used to think that too. Get a coach. Seriously. Whether just a friend, or someone who is paid. Doesn't need to be about "pickup" at all - just someone to push you into going up to random strangers and strike up a conversation until you're so desensitized to it you just get used to talking to anyone and saying anything you like.

You're likely to find that having a friend physically force you to take the first step will make it immensely easier, and after a while you'll hesitate less and less.

Takes practice, like anything else, especially if you've allowed yourself to build up "barriers" against it in you mind.
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Not too long ago I had certain responsibilities with respect to a bank's online banking system and its 3.5 million users. The bad news was that I had to support WebTV. Really. The good news was that I really wasn't worried about Malware on it :-)

Getting serious for a moment, I wonder if "walled gardens" like iPhone and its Mobile Safari will have fewer attack vectors for malware because of the difficulty of downloading a trojan and the lack of public plugin support?
Thinking about this a bit more...

Most of Apple's products are mainstream versions of technology that was available before but not suited to normal consumers.

For example, Personal Computers, MP3 players, Smart Phones and tablet PCs all existed long before Apple made products in those areas.

I wouldn't be surprised if Apple execs don't go to Akihabara every 3 months, and ask themselves how they can make what they see there, but for Americans and Europeans.
Some people are never happy. For the love of Pete; this thing is only $99.
That's very cool. I am using (and like it) Django a lot, but when compared to Squeak, everything looks rather primitive.

Guess I will run out of excuses soon. ;-)
Someone needs to make an Electric Sheep screensaver for the Nexus One. http://community.electricsheep.org/
Not necessarily ... we use base 10 because we have 10 fingers, but that's not the only choice humans could've made.

Geometry could've played a role ... angle degrees aren't base 10, which makes measurements of angles / time awkward.

Mayas used base 20.
Babylonians used base 60, which is very convenient for angles since it's also divisible with 3 and 4.

Of course, I don't think there were number systems that had a base not divisible by 5 (except those that were baseless), and this probably does have something to do with the number of our fingers.

But I think we would've been just fine with 4 fingers ... we would probably count our feet too ... and base 16 would've had been the norm.
I have had a business idea for a while: some kind of mobile phone like device for kids. No actual phone stuff (no emergency calls or accidental calls to random people), but a basic Java ME chip, graphics, and sound. You could almost certainly do it for less than $100, and it would be great fun for programmer dads/moms to create little applications... and also something that children could have themselves rather than constantly trying to grab mom/dad's cell phone/computer.
Would it not be possible for google to sell this at BestBuy and the like? I bet even WalMart would be willing to sell it.
You can see all the quotes here - http://www.minimotivation.com/quotes.php

Would you like to see it in a different format?
Not yet, but I'd like to add it.

Until then, feel free to post suggestions here!
Still does on all my systems.
I hope this is last post regarding Nexus One's slow sales in first 2 months. It doesn't matter.
The transcript is here: http://www.jsoftware.com/papers/tot.htm

Iverson is probably best known for the APL family of languages (APL, J, K, A+, others), which use an extremely terse notation for bulk vector operations. Very interesting, though thus far I've just dabbled in J (http://www.jsoftware.com/).
Well, it looks semi-reasonable from what I can see of the screenshots:

Quake: http://www.openmobilefree.net/?p=367
GTK: http://nanl.de/blog/2009/10/gtk2-running-on-top-of-directfb-...

http://sharism.cc/ has a few more details/projects.
What's a browser look like, though? Gmail?
I wish this wasn't an hour long, or had a text Table of Contents. Can anyone please give a breakdown of when are interesting spots in the video to watch?
Not really, Walmart amounts to about 10-12 cents of every dollar spent in the US on fast-moving consumer goods. In Australia Woolworths and Coles/Wesfarmers account for almost 70 cents. At that level, it's not appealing for anyone to try and take them on!!
I've found that the longer I'm out of college, the less I use facebook.
MVPP: Minimum Viable Product Purchase and the lesson of the first trash talk T's
Why wireframes belong to the past?
Seems a bit harsh for what was just a bad pun. But never mind. I certainly wasn't trying to offend anyone.
You can program if you lose your sight. TV Raman and Peter Lundblad both work as programmers for Google and are blind.
What you mean? The website seems to suggest that the only browser available now is… lynx. (And with 32 MiB RAM, well, what would you expect? Could be possible with some adapted and modified browser, but off-shell Firefox and Gmail with this? Uhm.)
If someone does this, make sure to support using the iKid phone as a bluetooth headset for the real phone so they can actually talk with someone.
Your situation is entirely normal. Most ad agents take around 30%. If anyone charges you significantly less then they are probably new and inexperienced (which isn't always a bad thing).

Most websites only monetize 50% of their ad inventory. The rest is called "remnant" inventory and is usually given to ad networks or adsense. They're going to pay you next to nothing for it, though.

The best way to make more money is to take sales more seriously. You really have to do it the old fashioned way...keep talking to samsung and similar companies until one of them listens. Your agent is supposed to be doing that for you, but it's not the easiest job in the world.

I'd be happy to talk with you more. My hn name @gmail.com
I'd buy a couple. My 2 year old loves my iPod touch and phones but as good she is with them she needs constant supervision.
Kevin Kelly has a blog dedicated to "self quantification" and has a bunch of interesting resources and thoughts on the process. For example, one interesting study he did was on the efficacy of caffeine on his daily productivity. The blog is worth a look:
http://www.kk.org/quantifiedself/
Your friend may be finding a company- or industry-specific issue there. My company has occasional frugality attacks but Nagoya is cough no stranger to capital-intensive industry cough.
You can get a zipit for $49.99.

http://www.zipitwireless.com/default.aspx?skinid=1

Which includes wifi, color 320x240 LCD, qwerty backlit keyboard.

Here's a NES emulator running on it http://hackaday.com/2009/09/25/with-zipit-who-needs-a-netboo...
Waledac botnet 'decimated' by MS takedown - Up to 90,000 zombies freed
In a few years we get mobile phone cameras with OCR and reading/translation. (There might be apps for that on the iPhone already?)

Better living through technology. :-)
duplicity is great for off-site backups - full encryption, supports a wide variety of destinations (amazon s3, FTP etc)
Is it Broken? Does it Need to Be Fixed? Ask Your Customer
As shutdown nears, Google's Chinese ad resellers want compensation
I'm not from the U.S. but I believe that Metavid already does this kind of thing:

http://metavid.org/wiki/Metavid_Overview
Am I the only person to not understand how HN works?
I've just lost loads of Karma for posting in agreement with someone else rather than clicking on the little triangle.

:(

So, how does the little triangle work? It's not really explained totally in the help. I've never really clicked on it as I wasn't sure whether we had to.

Does clicking on links have any effect, too?
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It's just one of those things
One of the biggest problems in the world today is the language barriers between countries and cultures.

That idea could use a second thought ...
Just thought I'd add this...

Creatine is naturally produced in the human body by amino acids. Just because you're a vegetarian, it doesn't mean you suffer a shortage of the particular amino acids required for producing creatine. Most vegetarians fall under the "ovo-lacto" umbrella, meaning they will eat egg and milk, and pretty much anything else made by animals, just not the animals themselves - being a vegetarian myself, I often say: "I'll eat food made by animals, just not food made OF animals" - and many vegetarians also use various "fullworthy" protein supplements containing all the essential amino acids, guaranteeing them all the components needed to produce creatine while being a vegetarian.

I myself use protein supplements to ensure, together with food, that I get a bit more than 1 gram of fullworthy protein per kilo body weight a day, and that is an amount that actually even meat-eaters, without supplements, can have a hard time reaching on a daily basis.

Addendum:

Digging a little bit on Wikipedia, I found the three amino acids (of which only one is essential) that Creatine is produced from in the body:

Arginine (non-essential) - vegetabilic sources: "wheat germ and flour, buckwheat, granola, oatmeal, peanuts, nuts (coconut, pecans, cashews, walnuts, almonds, Brazil nuts, hazelnuts, pinenuts), seeds (pumpkin, sesame, sunflower), chick peas, cooked soybeans."

Glycine (non-essential) - synthesized in the human body from Serine, also a non-essential amino acid.

Methionine (essential) - vegetabilic (and animalic) sources: "High levels of methionine can be found in sesame seeds, Brazil nuts, fish, meats and some other plant seeds; methionine is also found in cereal grains."

Judging from this, it seems that a vegetarian has to maintain a really lousy and unhealthy diet in order to suffer a Creatine shortage. Maybe the test subjects were university students on a Ramen diet.
Except it's never as long as "20 years from now". Carter's desire for regime change in Iran certainly didn't take into account any reports on possible downsides (including external ones, like Sadam deciding Iran was vulnerable and starting a war that killed a million men), and he dearly needed serious HUMINT after the hostages were taken (which was probably #2 after the economy in ensuring his defeat in 1980).

Does anyone remember how totally surprised he was by the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan? We'll never know if the CIA could have helped avoid that blindness (probably not, too much of it was willful or just not understanding simple realities like the nature of the Soviet Union and its leaders), but by deliberately gutting its HUMINT in favor of "national technical means" (SIGINT and TECHINT (e.g. spy satellites)) he all but ensured he'd be flying blind afterwords.
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Don't ever assume that the US -- or any other country -- actually practices what it preaches, especially when said country spends a lot of time preaching.

The two Kinsey Reports (Sexual Behavior in the Human Male, 1948, and Sexual Behavior in the Human Female, 1953) are the groundbreaking sexual studies of their time. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinsey_Reports
RescueTime?
Karma is based on people voting on your comments. Nothing else.

The arrows (up and down) are to vote. If you don't have a down arrow, it because you don't have enough karma.
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Military intelligence is inevitably oriented towards the needs of the military and in the US the needs of the particular branches who are calling the shots at any one point in time.

Our national political leadership needs higher level political intelligence, like "what's this foreign leadership likely to do?" and so on, in addition to what they can do (based on e.g. their military resources).

There's also a selection bias in your comment "What have they EVER gotten right?" We hear all about many of their mistakes, but by definition we don't hear about most successes until they're declassified many decades later.
Nah, exercise won't get rid of your fat. The important basics (which he does mention) is diet. Eat better and in the right amounts, and you'll lose weight. Don't, and you won't (no matter how much you exercise).
I couldn't imagine what a baseless numbering system could be. A quick google showed that Roman numerals are baseless. I always assumed they were a form of base10 and crazy shorthand.
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Have you ever heard a manager say something to the effect of "you're not a team play" to mean anything other than essentially "you're not a spineless pushover"?

I haven't, although I have indeed experienced examples of "teamcide" (to use the DeMarco and Lister term) as well as just plain killing the company by insisting that their engineering management be yes men. Sooner or later they're reminded that you can't fool mother nature, reality cares not a whit for bluster and ego.
I am actually always happy, but my point was why not include wifi (and charge more if needed)? I mean, even toasters have wifi now. (edit: okay, maybe not a toaster - but how about a refrigerator - http://freshgadgetnews.com/displays/digital-frames/zipel-e-d...)

Today just seems like a step back to 2000 by not having wifi builtin.
>Example for "yamato kotoba": hana can be "nose" or "flower", hashi can mean "bridge", "edge" or "chopsticks". As you can imagine, most of the time the intended meaning will be clear.

Those words are actually spoken differently, even though they share the same spelling in romanji (or hiragana). The stress accent is in a different place. This is similar to how in English, the noun "record" and the verb "record" are differently stressed despite their identical spelling.

Possibly a phonetic othography that included accent pitch would maintain greater readability once people were used to it. Unfortunately, people in Kansai put the stress on different syllables than the people of the Tokyo metropolitan area.
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Lost loads of Karma? It looks like you lost -4 recently...

http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=sambeau
Programming Gets Harder as You Learn
Defining Computationally Minimal Art (Or, taking the "8" out of "8-bit")
"The rationale for a Japanese debt crisis is clear. This year, for the first time ever, the Japanese budget will be more reliant on bond issuance than tax revenues. The ratio of Japan’s gross government debt to GDP has breached two hundred per cent. A Godzilla-sized rollover of Y210,000bn – equivalent to the entire public debt of Italy – will take place over the next twelve months."

(210,000 billion yen is 2,320 billion dollars.)

Whatever their ability to finance such a crushing burden now---the author cluelessly comments that "Bizarrely, Japanese policy-makers have been more concerned with minimising the current interest rate on public debt than reflating the economy and generating higher tax revenues and lower social costs over the long haul."---it's hard to see how this doesn't end in tears with a very rapidly greying population (a very deflationary thing) and the younger people just not being willing and/or able to have families.

Yeah, the bond market is sanguine now, but "something that can't go on forever won't".
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Examples of recent highly rated comments:

http://news.ycombinator.com/bestcomments
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Yeah - it was for saying ^^^ what he said instead of clicking on the arrow :)

Such is life. It's not real - but it hurts a little as this is my main source of internet.
Hey good job, really like it!
Ah. Ok. Makes sense I guess.
Plus it would still leave me wondering if the management/owner will take action. Not satisfying at all.
I'll explain what the problem with FB sign-in is. Remember Eric Ries's IMVU, where people didn't want to link their IM accounts to IMVU because they don't want to endorse a piece of technology that they aren't sure of.

Similarly, I don't want to tell my friends on FB about Quora just in case it stinks.

Usually, FB login's do not pull in friends details. However, it appears that you are doing that.

I'd be happy to review your app if you can put some kind of assurance around the FB Connect logon to the effect that you are not going to announce on my FB status that I'm using Quora.
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A small and unscientific exploration of OSS license use
Can I suggest, in the spirit of hammer factories, creating a parody generator generator?

That way we'd get a Twitter parody generator "for free".
Drink lots of hot water instead of Coke/Pepsi.
We learn through experience and reading docs. Many doc readers will shout RTFM, but I'm primarily an experience learner, if the software/language isn't something I can get my head around without pouring over heavy doc files, unless I need it, I skip it. The best tools are obvious or self explanatory.

The doc files and books will be waiting for me when I'm getting into nontrivial features.

HN's points are like Who's Line is it Anyway. They really don't matter outside. If your Nick name becomes recognized it can have an impact.
Not all freelancers are 2x better than employees. Most contractors we get can't cut code if their life depended on it, and usually make a mess of things and then leave. I've really yet to meet a good contractor.

Also this isn't to say all employees are better than the contractors/freelancers we get as obviously there are some duds that get through. But in general that's how it is. Maybe it's because they better understand how things work than a newer person coming in does, and perhaps overtime the freelancer/contractor might do better...
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The idea of making that whole 500mhz unregulated is interesting. I'm eager to hear what knowledgeable and/or opinionated people here think.
Okay, so you did something once -- unintentionally, at that -- and it seems to have had positive effects. Why jump to a conclusion and share it as good advice?
I was looking for this just minutes ago! Will certainly check it out.
Are event driven IO systems faster ?
http://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/docs/00/43/43/74/PDF/are-events-fast.pdf
I'm a Hebrew speaker, and I really doubt it. Whenever I get some technological appliance that can speak Hebrew, I turn it to English.

One of the big reasons is that Hebrew is right-to-left, which is a nightmare. You can't even type Facebook comments in Hebrew and have them correctly aligned.
The text is way too big for me to easily read it.
In all fairness, just to take the other side, there has been a push for a long time to replace people with machines, both in intelligence and the military. Satellites don't need the constant care and feeding that people do, and pictures don't lie (supposedly)

Looking back, of course, it's been blindingly obvious that there are situations which people are critical -- counter-insurgency, to use a military example. But still technology has always been seductive as a "clean" way to get things like intelligence done.

If I remember correctly, when we axed so much of HUMINT, one of the justifications was that satellites could do most anything a person could do. Totally crazy, of course.
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Although not completely correct on facts, still quite funny. :)
"... Google has ushered in an entirely new way of buying a consumer handset: from its website in six clicks."

After seeing all that fuss about Nexus One not selling as fast as iPhone - maybe Google needs to reduce it's clicks? ;)