skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All it means is that patients who are interested in nutrition don't discuss it with their doctors. I think the people who actually ask him for advice on nutrition tend to be older, poorly educated, and very dependent on authority. Everybody else takes it for granted that doctors don't have any useful information on living a healthy life. A doctor is just somebody who diagnoses and prescribes. My friend got his head stuffed chock full of arcane knowledge in medical school, and he gets a torrent of "education" from drug companies, but when it comes to the effect of lifestyle on health, he's less educated than most of my yuppie friends.

This is a waste, because the people who are in the best position to understand and evaluate information about living a healthy lifestyle have no influence on the production or consumption of this information, except when they themselves get in on the business.
Teaching a first course in statistics in the mathematics department (rather than in a dedicated department of statistics) may be a mistake.

http://statland.org/MAAFIXED.PDF

http://escholarship.org/uc/item/6hb3k0nz
What you can do with Ogg (and MPEG-1&2 PS) is to jump into middle of stream and play it from there (think broadcast radio or TV). You can't do that with Matroska (or MPEG-4 system for that matter), becuase you always need header at the beginning of file.
Linked List Patent
Alexander McQueen was a British fashion designer.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_McQueen

His last show: http://www.alexandermcqueen.com/int/en/corporate/archive2010...

RIP.
Branson's Virgin Nears Space Flight
From the blog post pg linked to above:

>we say that "groups that apply early have a significant advantage." We're referring to Harj, who has already started to engage with groups that seem promising.

Sounds like he's reading the apps and contacting groups if he thinks anything is unclear. All 4 YC partners read them all, at least officially.

As volume of applications gets even more ridiculous, I could forsee a future where he screens them all and marks them either "skim" or "read", where skim means "I'm pretty sure they have no hope, just skim it it make sure I didn't miss anything" and read means "I'd definitely consider interviewing them." but they're probably reluctant to do that since it's important that they get the best groups possible, and I highly doubt they'd do that on harj's first cycle. They'll have to be really comfortable with his judgment before they let him prejudice their readings of applications.
I respectfully disagree on revenue - it's also largely a vanity metric. I know it doesn't feel that way (especially when there is little of it), but think about the seasonality problems and all the things that may compete for users attention like the Olympics. Revenue is a good indicator over several months, but it's largely useless for day-to-day decision making.

Far more useful metrics would be engagement among the people who have proven to be the core audience, likelyhood to recommend the product to others, time-to-first-satisfactory-outcome, feature use frequency. I am contemplating a diabolical plan of turning features off and measuring the relative frustration rates.
The first three claims are establishing the basis for claims 4 through 9. Likewise claims 11 through 17 depend on claim 10 and claims 19 through 24 depend on claim 18. Though they are written linearly, patents have a hierarchical structure.

What you appear to be doing is mistaking each claim for an independent claim of invention, which is a common mistake, but a mistake nonetheless. When the claim says "the system according to claim x", it is growing more specific as to what is actually being claimed as the invention. With that in mind it is not surprising that the independent claims (1, 10, 18) would not be novel. You have to read as far as the tail end of each thread to understand what is actually being claimed as the invention.

I can't speak to the content of this patent when read correctly, but I suggest re-examining it with this in mind.
Theora is VP3+few well documented modifications. Youtube for years and still today used on2 codecs (through flash) which are all based on VP3 with optimization. If Theora and therefore VP3 were patent encumbered so would be all the codecs used by youtube, hulu, vimeo and all sites that use flash video. Now if I had a patent on vp3, would I be crazy enough to wait for theora to be successful in order to sue the hell out of everyone? Or would I have already been suing google, adobe and friends?

That's what make patents in theora extremely unlikely IMO. That and the fact that theora devs are extremely cautious on the matter, this is also the reason why theora is not as good as it should be (avoiding patents at all price).
The article points out that the "cyber criminals prefer to get paid via Liberty Reserve and Western Union money transfer services." This is something I've always been curious about. Getting a credit card number + other info seems like it would be simple compared to getting those bytes converted into paper form without getting caught.
> Github shows what sort of tools are actually optimized for productivity, because when you are working on something for yourself in your spare time, you don't have time to waste.

It shows which tools are optimized for low bootstrap overhead. When working on something simple for yourself, expected productivity is governed by rather different aspects of your toolchain than when you're working on more complex projects that involve other programmers and even long-term maintenance.
Dude that search box solves a problem and was done with minimum of effort. Twitter could have been written in a few lines of appengine so it's not that different.
(And it's not my life's work if that's what you're implying, took me 20 minutes).
Trust me, once you get bought out, the transition to "someone else runs the show now" is super painful. Even if you are just an employee. Especially if you were the founder.

Getting a buyout like Omnitures is the goal, but it really does feel like selling your soul when it happens. What once made sense and was fun, suddenly is run by clowns and is drudgery.
How to Setup Your Own Web Proxy Server For Free with Google App Engine
Official Mozilla 2010 T-shirt Competition
Humans did not "evolve eating meat." Yes, they began to eat meat relatively recently, but only during winter periods after migrating into colder climates. Even then, humans ate almost no meat when plant food was abundant, during warmer seasons.

Anatomically the case for human herbivorism, or at least heavy-plant omnivorism, is strong. Check it (I hope this formats okay):

Meat-eaters: have claws
Herbivores: no claws
Humans: no claws

Meat-eaters: have no skin pores and perspire through the tongue
Herbivores: perspire through skin pores
Humans: perspire through skin pores

Meat-eaters: have sharp front teeth for tearing, with no flat molar teeth for grinding
Herbivores: no sharp front teeth, but flat rear molars for grinding
Humans: no sharp front teeth, but flat rear molars for grinding [we're talking about actually sharp teeth, not so-called human “canine” teeth]

Meat-eaters: have intestinal tract that is only 3 times their body length so that rapidly decaying meat can pass through quickly
Herbivores: have intestinal tract 10-12 times their body length.
Humans: have intestinal tract 10-12 times their body length.

Meat-eaters: have strong hydrochloric acid in stomach to digest meat
Herbivores: have stomach acid that is 20 times weaker than that of a meat-eater
Humans: have stomach acid that is 20 times weaker than that of a meat-eater

Meat-eaters: salivary glands in mouth not needed to pre-digest grains and fruits.
Herbivores: well-developed salivary glands which are necessary to pre-digest grains and fruits
Humans: well-developed salivary glands, which are necessary to pre-digest, grains and fruits

Meat-eaters: have acid saliva with no enzyme ptyalin to pre-digest grains
Herbivores: have alkaline saliva with ptyalin to pre-digest grains
Humans: have alkaline saliva with ptyalin to pre-digest grains

Source: A.D. Andrews, Fit Food for Men, (Chicago: American Hygiene Society, 1970)
A lot of people work with the startup digest. I'm one of them. When I saw that Venture Hacks wrote such an awesome post about us, I couldn't believe it, got really excited, and immediately up-voted it and added a really positive comment.

Usually, I'm more measured on HN and take care to make everything very focused and value-added.

I think in this case people got carried away and in their enthusiasm left comments that look spammy.

To be clear, no-one involved with SUD is making any money. And everyone has their own startups to boot! It is a pure labor of love driven by a shared passion to bring startup communities together.
I don't see how this is different from the real world. I see lots of ads for "Unpaid Internships" that want extensive knowledge of the field and expect you to already have the skills and experience the internship is supposed to teach you.
In that case, why not just accept a bulk-import of Freshmeat or download.com into Wikipedia? (Rationale: someone cared enough to write the description text on those sites, so it seems a safe assumption that they'd care enough to write the same text into Wikipedia were it allowed.)
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Welcome to the world “My Dream of Stars”
you'd do more harm than good with this approach. you'd be much better off concentrating on communicating what you perceive are your strengths as a team rather than guessing what you think might hook me in, which will likely be wrong anyway.
Touché sir, I should have narrowed my words a bit, I did not mean to claim that the entire idea of patents is bankrupt, I'm sure there are scenarios where it's helpful.

But as you state, in software, it's very detrimental, and I'm sure software isn't the only industry where that's the case. That's why we need a far more nuanced approach. We could start by not handing out 20-year monopolies for ideas that take only a few months to implement and bring to market.

In general, I think that it would be useful for all legislation to carry along with it legally binding "original intent" written down in broad, layman terms. That way a legal framework would exist to protect people from legislative hypocrisy.
obviously this is still very fresh.. try cntrl+click on the slideshow on the home page...
Sigh, s/Iran/India/
Ask HN: New 80legs website design & feedback
Hi HN, we've gotten a lot of support from you guys in the past, so I thought I'd try my hand at getting your feedback on our new site design.

The new site is located (for now) at: http://ashwebdev.com/80legs

Some specific things I'm interested in:

1. Does it give people an easy path to signing up for the service and/or subscribing to a plan?

2. Can you quickly understand what we offer?
I just saw a bunch of comments basically screaming "YOU prove what YOU said! NO YUO!" back and forth, and downvoted all of you.
Just when you thought liver was inedible... I present my liver recipe video.
You do in the U.S., not in the UK.
If I may suggest a couple of Android alterantives in $200 price range:

http://bit.ly/bePvIF

http://bit.ly/cUywzo

The nice thing about them is that you can get right to application development without inventing your own OS.

Archos has questionable quality reputation, and I don't know anything about the other device, so buyer beware.
> MPEG patents, which (I believe) also offers submarine patent protection in that the MPEG-LA would be solely liable for not finding them earlier should trouble arise.

Why so many people believe this and where it comes from? I see it repeated so many times, always without reference. FYI, from AVC licensing FAQ:

Q: Are all AVC essential patents included?

A: No assurance is or can be made that the License includes every essential patent. The purpose of the License is to offer a convenient licensing alternative to everyone on the same terms and to include as much essential intellectual property as possible for their convenience. Participation in the License is voluntary on the part of essential patent holders, however.
"In US airports where scanners are installed passengers have the option of a undergoing a body search. "

These passengers were in the UK though and didn't have that option/right.
My University paper did something like this. They were looking for someone to do some website design and maintenance for them at $300 a semester, and I offered to help. Not because eleven dollars a week rewards the effort I would put in, but because I felt like helping my University fix their embarrassing web presence.

In the end, despite the fact that I had worked with them before, and came recommended by the CS department, they demanded a full resume and a burned CD with examples of previous work before they would even talk to me! They ended up with an English major who "had experience with Dreamweaver", and clearly didn't mind jumping through hoops for negligible reward :P
In Praise of Dependent Types
no, everyone on the team reviews the apps. i'm just contacting groups that seem interesting but i want to have some more information about. if you applied early you had a higher chance of being contacted, which is an advantage since you have an extra opportunity to impress.
The new branding of Ubuntu
Good for them. Flash has its uses but I feel like at some point in the last 2 or 3 years web developers for many sites realized that writing something in Flash offered better job security and more billable hours than using plain ole' web standards. The other day I went to a site that used Flash for a store locator page and after you filled out the form, in Flash, it simply went to a new HTML page with an embedded HTML map quest object. There was absolutely no reason for this to be in Flash.
Probably a mixture of fanboyism and perceived advantages where few exist. You can install os x themes on linux and do steve jobs worship on the cheap.
It's just a matter of time before these body scanners are overruled. Personally I'm glad to see people refusing to use them, its just sad they had to miss their flights.
I'm going to deny that the number you are talking about means anything at all in context of being evil. If one person eats one chicken per week that is 52 chicken killings a year, I see nothing evil about that. If 300 million people eat 1 chicken per week that is 15.6 billion living creatures killed per year, but it still isn't evil. I don't think you are really talking degree, just scale. In this case doesn't matter, if killing things for food is OK (which I think it is) then lots of people eating killed things for food is also OK. So there are two reasonable points of discussion 1) Is is OK to kill living creatures to eat as food (I think we should, they are tasty) 2) If the answer to 1 is yes then do we also have a moral or ethical obligation surrounding our treatment of these things before we kill and eat them?
So you can refuse to go do it if you are randomly selected and you just forfeit your flight. How exactly does that add any protection against anything? Potential hijackers can't just buy another plain ticket?
Three identical skinny-as-a-rail Altmaier boys.
It is inevitable that a SMOKINGGUN-like website with famous peoples body scans will be created.

"But it was COLD in the airport!"
Maybe I can help fill the gap a bit.

There is an online forum for value investors called value investors club.

In order to become a member, you have to submit an investment idea which is then evaluated. If it is good enough, you get in and become a member.

The forum was started by Joel Greenblatt, of Gotham Partners. What Greenblatt does is monitor the users on the site and gauge their abilities based on ideas... if their ideas are good enough he usually contacts them to make a seed investment so that they can start a hedge fund.

Pretty much any fund connected to Gotham gets the attention of other investors and it is usually pretty easy for them to scale up afterwards. e.g.: going from 0M --> 200M in just a few years. Its sort of akin to how companies funded by YC can sometimes have it easier when attracting VC funding.
This isn't criticism, it's fucking pointless whining.
>By not giving up 100% of its online advertising revenue, this paper is actually well ahead of its peers.

Most colleges see very little in terms of revenue from advertising. They charge enough to cover expenses and wouldn't dream of changing their pricing to become profitable.
In addition to what everyone else said, they can also prevent link rot and make sure that links stay alive.
Microsoft&#8217;s Google Attack Patch?
Notability is a bit of a spectrum. On one end you have articles like "World War 2", on the other you have articles like "Sir Chompsalot, the fourth cat of the Doe's in Manchester, Aberdeen Ave." If we can agree that the latter shouldn't be in Wikipedia, then we have to build some sort of guideline for sufficient notability. That's what http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-notable is trying to do. It's likely more productive to try and change that first instead of railing against specific AFDs.

If you think all articles including the absurd example given above should be included, notability isn't the only thing brought into question. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_Wikipedia_is_not

Ultimately, the content is yours to fork if you'd like. As mentioned elsewhere in these discussions, it's really the community that's the main workhorse, something which can't be forked (split perhaps, but not forked).
Apple stepping up pressure on music labels to snub Amazon
Applicants need a working knowledge of ASP/ASP.net, MySQL, Movable Type, HTML/CSS and general web server experience. Knowledge of JavaScript, LAMP (Linux/Apache/MySQL/PHP) servers, iPhone development knowledge, Adobe Flash/Flex is a plus.

I guess this is what PG meant when he said:

The pointy-haired boss has no idea how this software has to work, and can't tell one programming language from another, and yet he knows what language you should write it in.
> "I wish someone had enough money"

Multi-billion dollar corporations have tried and failed, I honestly don't think this is a problem of money.
Let me get this straight. Muslims have religious objections to going through machines that were supposed to catch Islamic terrorists?

Yes, I understand and agree with the objections. But I'm still amused.
This is true of many non-college newspapers even. It's changing, slowly, but many of the people in charge today started when linotype machines were the norm, and had been for the last 6 decades.

Newspapers are (still) not used to the modern pace of technology. My last job, the editorial system was more than 12 years old, and was still running on the original boxes 12-year-old dell boxes. Some had no USB ports, most had no sound cards.
Andrew Dunn sat on our Board when we were a non-profit, and has been involved in the conversation about CoPress and college media since the beginning, but he's been the Editor-in-Chief
Definitely. I love Flash, but Virgin America's use of it was very obtrusive and made no sense.
Here's an interesting Apple hardware patent:

"It is somewhat surprising that Apple received some of the patents in question, such as the patent on "Conserving Power By Reducing Voltage Supplied To An Instruction-Processing Portion Of A Processor". When you peel away the technical language, the patent basically is talking about saving power by supplying less voltage to a circuit and some common strategies to do so. Not only has then been seemingly done before (prior art), but it also is inherently given by laws of nature (power = current * voltage). If that's patentable, the general concept of die shrinks should be patentable, overclocking would be patentable (watch out Anandtech.com!), and a whole host of other processes made possible by laws of nature."

http://www.dailytech.com/Apples+Wild+iPhone+Patent+Attack+To...
It seems most senior staff for college papers (the journalism majors) think that they can very easily apply their expertise and authority of print journalism (most of what's being taught in journo programs) to the web. It doesn't work and creates insulting instances like your story.
Now you have three problems. The fundamental problem is SMS.
Old, but gold.
http://appmakr.com/
> - Asserts patent infringement claims against non-copiers or against a large industry that is composed of non-copiers

Isn't this what the case will determine? If that is the situation then nobody really knows if there is infringement until the courts decide. They have also only filed against one company right now.

I don't agree with the action, but I don't think they even remotely qualify as a patent troll.
I use Linux as my main desktop and I'm a professional worker. Works just fine, I do hate the Windows and Mac UIs though, so I can understand people have different tastes. I try not to make general statements about other UIs, just different tastes and opinions. Glad you're happy with Mac or whatever it is you're using.
Google: We Suck At SEO. Badly.
Sure, andsomeone, somewhere has probably written a C interpreter. If a language is overwhelmingly used in a particular manner I think it's fair to consider it a compiled/interpreted/whatever language even if that's not actually the case 100% of the time.
Here's the ss: http://i.imgur.com/VRWg9.png

I'm also running the Vimperator plugin, which is why my chrome looks weird. It has literally never caused a problem in any other site though.
Capitation is one approach to solving that problem.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitation_%28healthcare%29
Unfortunately the times frames are still fairly short because patients often move around. So even when doctors are compensated through a capitation system, there isn't enough incentive to encourage patients to make healthy lifestyle choices that will only pay off many years in the future.
You are missing a robust feature description page right on the front. I suggest putting something under "Why 80legs?" that says FEATURE LIST. For example, if I wanted to find any of the companies in a particular state, and get a comprehensive report -- your service could do that, yes?
It's not pointless f-ing whining mr quick to swear, many of these famous people read hacker news, and might up their game if the level of discussion goes beyond circle jerking.
Matt Cutts: Calling for link spam reports
There are more than 600 college newspapers in the US. This means that an opportunity exists in these hyper-local markets to also report community news and, perhaps, create something that may "save" (I know that's the wrong word) the newspaper publishing industry.
Or the people who want an option that does more and would rather cut their own feet off than use iTunes. Surely there's more than just me.
Major League Baseball Just Solved Pandora's iPhone Background Streaming Problem
So humans don't have a single trait in common with predators? Humans don't have eyes in the front of their head for good depth perception? Or did you just pick a selection of facts to support one viewpoint and ignore anything that contradicts you?
IPhone 4G concept in 5 colors plus motion-control? (Images)
The iPhone-4G will be awesome and could come in 5 colors plus motion-control.
Right now it looks like that Apple won’t change much on the 4G design, which shall arrive earlier than expected (April). On the other hand this could be a good sign that Apple will make the new iPhone much more powerful (dual-core). Design is more expensive nowadays then technology.
99% of their market doesn't even know about this trial, or even what software patents are. Only the one 1% that is bothered about this knows about and understands the issue. In the end it will be a big loss of money for Apple and its shareholders and HTC too. A lose-lose situation, well done Apple...