skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As far as I know high quantities of SO2 shield earth from sun rays causing cooling on global scale. I've recently heard about volcano eruption about hundred years ago (maybe two hundred I'm not sure) that caused ground-frost in July next year severely harming crops and causing hunger that led to many thousand deaths in US and all over the world.

So if you are afraid of global warming you should welcome every volcano eruption with joy as its SO2 emission counter-effects influence of many millions of tons of CO2.
Cool. Yeah Boxcar does not take you to your Google Voice page. Rather it's pop ups display sender & message for SMS(s) though not for GV Voicemail. To read the transcription or listen to the voicemail I have to open the iPhone mail app and read it within the new mail received.

Maybe you can add the transcription within the popup? Would save me step in having to go into my mail client.
This is possibly the most partisan non-blog article I've ever read on HN. Seriously, it reads like pure anti-Adobe propaganda. Can we vote up a less rabid article on this topic instead?
My experience is the opposite of your theory. If you have any obligations (working married father of 2 here), it is darned hard to modify my schedule to include significantly more exercise. However my life follows a routine. It wasn't hard for me a few years ago to drop my soda habit, cut out my afternoon snack, and drop my dinner down to a 6" sandwich.

Based on my experience, the problem with your theory is simple. Weight gain and loss is not a matter of will power. If you approach it that way then you need to maintain the thought in front of your head and focus to an extent that we find hard. It is a question of habits. And that makes it a question of what routines are easiest to stick into our lives. For me, dropping unnecessary eating sessions, and reducing what I ate at others, was a lot easier than finding a lot of time for exercise.

(Now in fact I added 15 minutes/day of exercise and kept it up for several years. But while that had lots of benefits, it wasn't why I lost weight.)
I was optimistic about IPS, since they seem to have found a supplier for the iPad. I still use a thinkpad T42p for the UXGA IPS 15" screen, although the 2GB RAM, Pentium M is kind of limiting. (it's no longer my primary machine; 15" 2008 MBP being upgraded to 17" MBP)
I find that if I don't get my ass out the door first thing in the morning, it isn't going to happen. Not that it's impossible, but far less likely.
What does an idea person without software skills or business education do?
A very good friend of mine is an idea person and we spend a lot of time discussing our different ideas for web/iphone apps. I am (thankfully) a programmer so I can prototype my own ideas and put it on the www to get feedback and see if any of them catch on (none have yet). A recent conversation led to a discussion on what options she has. She is not a programmer and works as a part time web designer. When we discuss ideas, we are so not on the same page, so I am not super motivated to spend too much time developing an idea I am not convinced of. Her interests are very different from mine so I often pooh-pooh her ideas, but a few months later she shows me similar ideas that have been successful businesses or products.

What would you advise a person who is a good ideas person? She doesn't enjoy programming, so programming classes may be only the last resort.
I didn't say it was broken, but that the change increases the possibility of errors. Look at the other links provided in this thread to see why this is so. I stand by my statement, which I made after reading up on the issue.
A Modern Tale of Financial Loss
I don't think anyone buys an Air instead of another computer. I see it more as competing with the iPad.
Yes, burning fat really is that simple. A lot of this gets muddied from other factors, such as how various diets affect body composition, water retention, and appetite (supposedly much of the success of low carb diets comes from increased protein intake, which reduces hunger), and weight is hardly the only aspect of health, but the basic energy in minus energy out equation is true for humans.

See http://www.bodyrecomposition.com/fat-loss/is-a-calorie-a-cal...
why don't you realize her ideas, and you two create a company?
Not consistently. This is a critical part of URLs. Not displaying it is like not displaying zip codes in US addresses (I recently lived at an address that differed from a nearby address in zip code only. We were constantly returning misdirected mail to each other.).
As for right now, pre 4.0, I believe that you can.
True, and they did it for OWA. When they realized the consequences of what they had done, they stopped IE development for several years.
Thanks to Heroku we don't have any sysadmins on staff, and none of us have to think about system administration for even a quarter of a second. That time then goes into product development and increasing revenue. It'd be WAY more expensive to have one of our developers doing system work, or, even worse, to actually pay someone full-time to handle it.

The only people complaining about Heroku pricing are those who aren't generating revenue, for profitable companies, it's a no-brainer.
I also find it very difficult to run in the morning, not necessarily because I feel like I need to get to work but because I just feel very stiff and tired when I get out of bed. Maybe it's come with age, and maybe it wouldn't be such a problem if I was in better shape, but at my current half-ass shape it's quite a hurdle.
A 1000 cal. less .. what, each day?

I have no idea. I used to eat a lot of peanuts. And peanut butter. Possibly the greatest foods ever. And a lot of granola for snacks. And chips.

Then I found out about the caloric cost of these things. Holy shit. (Well, the chips were not a surprise.)

I was quite sad (did I mention I love peanut butter?), but also quite sad that my weight was slowly creeping up, past 200 lbs and then towards 210. And I saw some pictures of me giving a talk on stage, and cringed. (Big win for vanity, boys and girls. )

So I changed what I ate, and started going out running. Over about 4 or 5 months got down to 180 lbs (and greatly increased my endurance and improved my heart rate). Then the weather got too cool for my wussy ass, and I wasn't feeling well, and excuses, excuses.

Now it's been about 3 months since I did any real exercise (aside from occasional walks around the block), yet my weight has stayed at least constant, though it may be dipping lower.

The combination of exercise and diet change did wonders, but I believe that diet change alone would still have brought the weight down, albeit more slowly.

I'm still amazed that when I weigh myself I never go above 180. Lately it's been 178 lbs. But simply eating less is not a good plan for a healthy body, so I still need to get my butt in gear. Maybe just boot up the Wii again ...
"And anyone who complained too loudly was at first ignored, then ridiculed, and finally threatened with arrest."

What part of this statement corresponds to reality? Who was threatened with arrest?

The thing about fiction is that you can just make things up.
Nope. The http:// only comes when its all selected.
1815: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_without_a_summer

Not sure about the joy bit since large SO2 emissions have a catastrophic effect on agriculture as you noted, but do not have effects lasting more than a few years. CO2 lasts a good bit longer than that.
For checking email, read news on the web, and what else? I seriously doubt any security department would let a leader "govern" using that device.
er sorta. it has more to do with the fact that most of the IE team (along with the GDI and USER teams) was moved into the WPF team after the release of IE6.

by that time they weren't really trying to tie the web to Windows anymore, they thought the web was obsolete and were trying to replace it entirely.
I've been looking to replace my 15" PowerBook G4 for some time now, and really stretched my patience for this update. Going to grad school next year, I wanted something portable, and hoped to buy the 13" the second they gave the line a performance boost. Unfortunately, they skipped over it, and I decided to go with the 15" for the i5. Sure, the Core 2 Duo would have been sufficient for most of my needs, but I play in Photoshop/Logic Pro quite a bit, and knowing that apps like these and more will soon be optimized to take advantage of the threading capabilities, I felt going with the 13" would put me at a long term disadvantage. I guess I sacrificed the portability for what is, to me, a better long term investment. The bigger screen isn't so bad either, although, the new 15"s tend to have a bit more fat around the edges than their PowerBook predecessors.
Your argument promotes a false dichotomy. Isn't it acceptable to vote for this article and for another that reflects your views?

Also, your would be much more persuasive if you were to list any factual errors in the post or major omissions it makes. I read it as reading like "pure anti-Adobe propaganda" because the author seems to have done the necessary homework instead of regurgitating Adobe's press releases.

So...

True or false flash on mobile devices is several versions behind flash on desktops?

True or false they're a year late?

True or false it is resource-intensive?

And most interestingly...

True or false: If Flash becomes the primary way to deliver dynamic content, games, and apps for Android, it will frustrate Google from being able to build a competitive native platform that can attract custom mobile development. It will also impede Google's ability to push HTML5 as the preferred way to deliver applications on its upcoming Chrome OS.
Even the life he describes is pretty damn good by historical standards.
Velupillai's book is awesome. An exercise of his that I love is looking at how much of general equilibrium theory one can prove using only constructive math.

A nice blog on a similar vein seems to have been started recentely on http://aiecon.tumblr.com/ by a grad student of Sandholm.
Well said. A 9-5 job is a great way for time to disappear into a void that you'll never get back. If you're not paying attention, you'll lose years to something like this.

I know everyone isn't suited for entrepreneurial life, but as a talented developer you can always join a startup as employee 5+ and get a reasonable amount of security and pay, with a chance of a good-sized upside.

Even if you're happy in a 9-5, medium/big company job, do yourself a favour and keep that buffer around. There are so many things you can do with it to improve you life and buy yourself freedom - more than just buying stuff for cash.
"Maybe it's come with age, and maybe it wouldn't be such a problem if I was in better shape, but at my current half-ass shape it's quite a hurdle."

FWIW: My 50+ sorry ass wasn't so keen on exercising either, but I started by just going walking in the morning,and not trying to be too ambitious. Found some good audio books to listen to. After a while I felt good about that, felt my energy improving, and moved to running. At first it was more walking than running, but I would just push myself a bit, making a game of it. Before long the walking/running ration switched.
If you want to see who's bought then look for people who voted one way on an issue and then switched their vote after getting contributions from the affected industry.

Which is unlikely to happen all that often. If I've got deep pockets and want to influence politics I'll focus on helping folks who already agree with me to get elected rather than trying to bribe those who don't. It's just a better bang for your buck.
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Refactoring Improving the Design of Existing Code
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The problem is that most people who are stuck may not have internet access to take advantage of Airbnb.
I'm typing this on internet access that cost me 9 Euros in a hotel that I first had to pay 70 Euro to get into
Everybody has ideas. Your good friend is no different from almost everybody else on the planet. Ideas aren't worth anything. If they were, there would be a marketplace or exchange where you could buy and sell ideas.

Implementation is everything. If she can't or won't get the skills and education to implement her ideas, then pity her.
In 1939, when Terman encouraged Hewlett and Packard to start a company, Stanford was a farm. Right now, thanks to an 8-year Madoff economy, NYC is one of the most $-rich cities on the planet. I don't think finding an army equivalent will be a hurdle.
I taught physics in a community college as a full-time prof for 10 years, and had the occasion to teach math there a few times as well. After that stint, I started work with an ed software company developing math content for algebra students in the cc.

In my experience, the "word problems" can be used to motivate the students as to the interesting part of what they are studying. My focus wasn't on making them learn how to reason through complicated applications, it was on getting them to master the skills. So in that sense I agree with you. However, building a story around it (how do you determine which cell phone plan to buy?) helps keep their attention and shows them that they- yes THEY (the "bottom of the barrel" as was noted above- but I'll clarify this below)-- can apply math to their lives and live more intelligently. And getting students to that stage is my life's mission.

I think where math goes wrong is displayed beautifully in the rational expressions units (I didn't go to the original link, so forgive me if I'm entirely redundant here). When I was building the math content for the ed s/w company I was struck that nowhere in the chapter where students learn to simplify fractions involving a polynomial numerator and a polynomial denominator (tough stuff when you are first learning it) nowhere in the textbooks did they tell the student WHY. Why do all this hard work? What is the answer that we seek from all this?

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About the idea of "stupid teachers teaching stupid students" in community college: Anyone who truly speaks from experience knows better. In a cosmopolitan setting you will have downright brilliant students in your classes- especially in your night classes. I've had many ivy-leaguers in my classes, top accountants for Exxon-Mobile and other high-power operators, sometimes from government agencies (I taught in Alexandria Virginia, about a mile from the Pentagon, where Mrs. Biden currently teaches). A common reason for them to be there? They've burned out in their careers and want to do something that "makes a difference." Going to med or vet school was common. They've got the degree, they've got the grades, they just need a couple of classes that they didn't take as undergrads, they're too smart to spend the money on a school that won't help them any more than a little ol' cc will. Keeping their job for an extra year and taking night classes is a smart move, so they come to the local cc.
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Its not clear an "Army equivalent" is needed. For one, its much less expensive to start a company today than it was in Terman's time. Does contemporary NYC have certain assets that were unavailable to Terman in his day? Does NYC really need a single centralized funding source in 2010 or might funds come from a variety of public and private sources?
Ha. By these standards I am way ahead of the game. How many GamerPoints for this "nothing" achievement?
That's probably true. I have a Mac Pro at home where I do most of my real work and an MBA simply for maximum portability. I've started carrying an iPad too (fits perfectly in the side pocket of my MBA case) Together they're a pretty great combo. Kind of like a wireless secondary display for web pages, e-mail, games, etc.
1. OCRs don't work well with text distorted in typical-captcha ways. They fail with colours especially.

2. Captchas have limited output sets and special characteristics, which make using OCR for them both costly and ineffective in comparison to dedicated solutions. Specifically, you can generate as many perfect sample outputs from a captcha system as you want - and then analyse it in ways beyond the standard character recognition.
Volcanic Ash May Weigh on European Economy
Would you take the 15 HD now vs. the 17? There is a very small price delta, and the screen is definitely bigger and is even marginally higher dpi still, on the 17. The 17 is slim, if big, and has an ExpressCard slot (which is possibly a 64GB SSD if nothing else).
That's very Lispy, actually.

(defun ps (process-name)
(labels ((find-proc (name)
(remove-if-not
(lambda (x)
(string= (bt:thread-name x) name))
(bt:all-threads))))
(first (find-proc process-name))))

(defun kill (process)
(bt:destroy-thread process))

;; usage
(kill (ps "init"))

And if you remake PS into a generic function you can dispatch on various input types, not just find process by name.
How demeaning. Agree with some of it but notice how there is nothing here about anything else you might like to do with your life outside of having a job and owning a business. Like a wife and a family.

A 9-5 job is pretty much great in those circumstances if you just want to enjoy life - I work for a 10 person company and I've seen what the owner has gone through in the last 10 years it's been going - he has no life. Obviously it doesn't have to be like that for everyone, but if I have to choose between my family and slogging my guts out for something which may or not pay off and consume all my time - I know which one I'd pick.
Yeah, I think his idea of failure is a lot of people's idea of success: a reasonably comfortable 40 hour/wk job that pays well and doesn't involve risks of getting your arm chopped off in machinery, and a bunch of free time & money to spend on entertainment. Not what I'd choose to do, but neither are lots of things; I wouldn't choose to work at a tech company that expects you to carry a pager, work nights/weekends, and thinks it owns your life, either.

(I do agree that saving a bit of money is good for pretty much everyone; buffers come in handy.)
I think his offhand implication that reading books is superior to TV is wrong.

Most fiction has exactly the same purpose and function on TV, which is to entertain. Yes, reading some books makes you "cultured" but so does TV; just to a different culture. I consider watching all the latest sci fi to be just as "culturing" as reading all the latest sci fi.
IPhone 4G: Proof
That talk by Ed Catmull is very good:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1026628
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2h2lvhzMDc
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I lost 70# in 6 months

How young were you when you had seventy pounds that you could afford to lose?
That is a "good pain to have" as it were, and the reduced friction gets you iterating more quickly.
Reading makes you better at reading (duh) and writing. Two essential skills that are used daily.

What skills does your TV gives to you?
It doesn't hack per see, but uses css features (gradients) which isn't standarized yet, and therefore uses vendor-prefixes in the css.

It should be somewhat simple to add the Firefox versions of the css directives to add support for Firefox.
There is no JS whatsoever on the page. And it still looks correct in Safari when JS is disabled.
Amazing Lego Rube Goldberg Machine [video]
Ability to connect with strangers through mutual ties to 'pop culture'
Not trying to be a jerk but your logo is quite similar to Socialwok.com
Yeah, the oversimplification sounds great, except it is a homeostatic mechanism, people extract and expend calories at different rates, and appetite responds differently to different foods. Energy in vs. energy out matters less if certain types of food aren't sating hunger effectively. First you say it "is that simple" then go on to say "except for..." and list exclusions.

Whenever I feel unsympathetic, I imagine trying to "breath less" for several years.
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> All calories are not created equal

A calorie is a calorie is a calorie, or it wouldn't be called a calorie. Put less gasoline in your car, you will run out of gas sooner. Eat 0 calories? Better believe you are gonna loose weight. Eat less than you burn? You cannot NOT burn your reserves

> simply eating less does not lead to long term weight loss, it leads to hunger

And what's wrong with hunger? I personally feel if we tolerated a little hunger we'd be better off. So long as it's not the shooting knives of starvation, you can come to grips with it. I know I have.
This prints and binds well, with big paper clamps.
I think after reading all the comments, I still have one more bit to add. The submitted article refers to GENERAL effects of exercise that are observable in current population studies. It does seem to be well established that human beings are adapted to balance their eating with their activity, thus human beings who don't live in conditions of food scarcity may not be likely to lose weight if they increase their level of physical activity.

That said about the general tendency, my observation of the effect of exercise is that it makes me more cheerful, and allows me to substitute the pleasure of fresh air and sunshine and movement for the pleasure of eating. So at least on my part, I have been able to reduce weight (I didn't have a lot to lose at my heaviest) by being more consistent about exercise. These days, there are times when I feel a vague discomfort that I might formerly have treated by eating a snack that I now treat by talking a walk outside. More exercise AND less eating is sure to result in weight loss over time.
I predict education to finally start changing in the next decade or so. What's the value of having students fall asleep in lecture? Interactive education with a computer, even if done in a class-like environment, seems much more engaging and personalized. Stuck on a particular point? Find the video that details that point from a different perspective, or slower pace.
She should learn to write well and share her ideas. Then she has well-articulated ideas that people may pay attention to.
I find reading a book engages and involves my mind much more. I'm not going to argue superiority, but there's a reason watching TV is known in slang as 'vegging out'.
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Built-in IPS would probably cut into their 24" Cinema Display sales. Especially on the 17", considering it has the same resolution as the 24".
Huh. I hadn't seen that yet. Sorry for repeating what you said!
Passively sitting down with the latest Dan Brown novel won't make you any better at reading or writing. Sitting down with a novel that's just beyond your comfort zone (say, Dostoevsky if you're used to Dan Brown) will make you better at reading, and sitting down with any novel and actively paying attention to how the writer shapes the story with words will make you better at writing. But that's an apples-to-sushi comparison: it takes a lot more mental effort to actively engage with a book than it does to passively sit in front of a TV. A more appropriate comparison would be actively reading vs. playing Starcraft, which gives you a bunch of essential skills, eg. multitasking, resource management, positioning & prioritization, etc.

Basically, you get out of any activity what you put into it. If you put zero effort into reading, you're going to get zero skill out of it.
I call those "Maserati Problems", as in, "I'll think about how to deal with that as I drive around in my Maserati."