skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not saying it isn't stable, rather it's still in development. I don't want to use couchdb .8 in the debian stable repo only to have to recode my app when I upgrade to .9 or .10 because of breaking changes.

http://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/Breaking_changes
I notice that both the accounts on that post were created right before that post, presumably for the sole purpose of creating that post. It seems to me that that's fairly common. Why not add a delay (1-2 days or so) from the time an account is created until they can post? It seems to me that doing so would likely make it too difficult to create a large number of spam posts.

I know that there are sometimes members who create pseudo-accounts to protect their identity on certain posts but you may be able to work around that by letting posters use aliases that would not link back to their main account on the front end.
While I don't agree with the tactic, it is actually a very clever way of reducing bandwidth usage by Telstra. Most youtube videos stream fine at 1Mb/s. I'd guess that a lot of youtube clips are closed before they are over and any buffered data is "wasted".
Shouldn't best practice be to compile with something like "gcc -Wall" instead of making the code less readable?
I think what Mark Cuban is saying is that because of the way Wall Street operates now it is very dangerous to be the Warren Buffet type of value investor.

More specifically, Wall Street's obsession with the big score makes stocks very dangerous and volatile which means that if you try investing based on a company's intrinsic value, the stock you buy can easily swing down for reasons that are completely unrelated to the company value but have to do with some traders or trading algorithms trying to outsmart each other.

Now if you are Buffet you probably have enough cash reserves to ride out any such swings, but most people need to rely on the money in their stock holdings, so they cannot afford the new found volatility of Wall Street, so many people are just moving out of the market all together.

Now I have to say that I am not sure if this argument is right, but that is his argument.
Where do you climb?
WASH: A Continuation-Based Web Framework
Looking forward to sending photos to my grandmother with this app.
"Pricing. All eBooks planned for iBookstore distribution must have retail pricing that complies with Apple’s guidelines. We will automatically price Lulu eBooks submitted to the iBookstore to meet these guidelines. The creator revenue that you receive per sale will be 80 percent of the profit after deducting Apple’s share. On a $9.99 book, for example, you will receive $5.60 ."

My $9.99 book just became $14.99 then
I used to be a personal trainer, and the saying goes that 99% of getting in shape is just showing up to the gym. Once you get there, the exercise is easy and usually fun.
OK, those first five "wildcat" companies had possibly the worst sites I've seen recently. Did they choose startups based on irony?
Most schools are geared toward normal people. Gifted people don't learn at a normal pace. Attending a normal school is forcing yourself to learn more slowly, or feel like school is pointless because you already know what you're being taught.
Sustained-release niacin is well known to cause hepatic toxicity. This is reported both in the label that you reference, and in the primary literature. These problems do not occur with immediate-release preparations - only with sustained release (such as Niaspan). So that is worth being aware of.

Statins are among the safest drugs ever used - so much so that most medical people talk about trying to give them to more, not fewer, people. Like niacin, statins can lead to insulin resistance. Statins don't appear to increase cancer risk, which was in question for awhile. There is some literature supporting the notion that reduced LDL may lead to increased cancer, but this is not dependent on the mechanism of cancer, and this conclusion is not yet supported by enough data to make it a concern for anyone. Heart disease is what will kill most Americans, so this is still the primary concern.
Plug Your iPhone into Your Vehicle's Onboard Diagnostic Computer
Samsung releases Bada SDK
So-called "academic success" is based on a series of formal tests and rituals, just like IQ is. These tests could be useless as a metric of your knowledge, skills or abilities, just like you're arguing IQ is. Unfortunately, when the name of a performance indicator has the word "success" in it, you stop questioning the validity of such indicator, and you start using it as an absolute benchmark instead. This happens even though the trivial answer to "why do you go to school or college" is usually "for knowledge and skills", not "for academic success".
What do you mean by refined carbs? Does it include bread, pasta, potatoes, etc? Because I don't think those are bad for you because they don't cause blood sugar levels to rise as quickly as stuff like HFCS and sugar (but I could be wrong).
That would restrict legit users too. But what I might do is say that some posts have to be approved by moderators, and use the newness of the account as one factor in deciding which to say that for.

Spam is not an insoluble problem though. Most of it gets autokilled.
Some tips to help you get an answer to your question:

Use a more descriptive title starting with "Ask HN:" and phrase your question in a way that will lead to a discussion rather than a yes/no answer.

I'd suggest: Ask HN: Is Apple following Microsoft's antitrust practices?

It seems to me that by restricting the iPad/iPhone to the iTunes/AppStore ecosystem Apple is acting similarly to Microsoft when they bundled IE and Windows. Am I wrong? What makes them different?

There is a number of different ways you can ask your question, that is just mine and I advise you to checkout the 'ask' page for more, probably better, examples. Also if you haven't yet you should read the guidelines page. http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The Pareto principle in action: 20% tweeted more than 10 times, 80% less 10 and 41% (of total) not at all.
So 20% of users are the true twitter user base, which is about 20 million.
Making mobileMe free could be a good way to lock in customers to Apple products long-term. If all of your data is on your mobileMe account, it's easier to just buy another iPhone next year than worry about how you're going to move it all off and transition to Google...
NIST's policy on hash functions
"I have always thought I had a good handle on the market. Until recently."

Guess what? That just means that the market has gotten more efficient so that you can't arbitrage it anymore. If you can't make money, that your problem. If the quants made the market so irrational then why aren't you profitable arbitraging it?

All technologies improve the average case at the expense of making the worst case worse. Cars versus walking for example. Average case: get to where you are going faster, worst case: horrible accident. The question is not whether financial innovation introduces systemic risk but whether the benefits out-weigh the costs. The consensus amongst academic is that yes, this is the case.
Figuring things out on your own takes longer than having someone simply tell you what they already know. Learning alone is often reinventing the wheel. Sometimes that is good for you, sometimes it isn't.

I think the issue here is that average teachers aren't good at teaching above-average students. What you need is an above-average teacher. Someone on your level, but older and wiser.

Also, you can find teachers outside of schools. I consider a few of my friends to be mentors. Older, wiser people are very much worth paying a great deal of attention to.
You can be a stealth failure, too, by breezing through Podunk University instead of challenging yourself. Probably requires low personal/family-imposed aspirations to go unquestioned.
I can see benefit in Apple moving MobileMe to a 'Freemium' model.

They could keep current subscription revenue, introduce a pared-back offering. All the while establishing a web channel for their Quattro Wireless advertising platform.

Would be a good hook for increasing MobileMe up take, takes a swipe at Google and keeps Apple customers in the 'walled garden' and out of the myriad of similar services that are popping up (e.g. Dropbox et al).
As it quite often happens it's better to read wikipedia article:

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

than to suffer through things like "substance found in pencils"
Yeah I was just thinking that maybe gifted people are more likely to perceive how the social contract of higher education is breaking down even as tuition shoots through the roof with no slowdown in sight.

I mean sure, some careers require a certain level of formal education, and Ivy League still gets you into the good ol' boys club, but in many many cases the cost/benefit of even an undergrad degree is questionable; especially if you are above average.
Never lived in the US, but getting an impression that the political system also contributes to this binary syndrome.
Um. Isn't this an HMO? Didn't the insurance industry try really hard to make these, with no success and tons of consumer backlash?
Message-based Chrome Extension incorporating JQuery
We live in Pittsburgh, so primarily at the New River Gorge and Coopers Rock. We'll take several trip to the Red River Gorge, too, and we just returned from three weeks at Hueco Tanks.

Yourself?
Microsoft Live@edu - competitor to Google Apps Edu edition
Since this was my group's bug (search infrastructure), I can shine a little light.

"Ongoing" is in the article title, but the actual glitch started Thursday night and continued into Friday morning. The title also makes it sound as though the entire Facebook API was broken; to clarify, we were returning stale results from stream search for several hours due to a software issue. This impacted clients like, e.g., kurrently.com or http://likebutton.me/?q=Bieber ; you would see results from the start of the incident, rather than up-to-date ones.

We've resolved the software issue, and put alerting in place to ensure that we notice sooner. In the future, if you depend on Facebook stream search and notice a flagrant failure like this, feel free to tell me about it: kma at facebook.com
This is something I learned to do when I first started programming and just continued to do. I didn't think it was that uncommon (I also do this in non c-like languages as well because while it produces a runtime error you won't get incorrect behavior, just breakage).
I was specifically watching this story to see if it'd get flagged for the title.

Guess it just got changed, instead.
That may be OK in that it might help force users to spend more time getting a feel for the site before they submit. It would also help level out the surge of new members that I read sometimes happens when HN gets linked to. AFAIK neither of these have become serious issues so far but I think it's at least worth taking into account when you make your decision.

Edit: To me it comes down to balancing solving these issues (if they even exist, you would know that better than me) and missing out on whatever content that doesn't get posted because of the restriction.
Also, you can find teachers outside of schools. I consider a few of my friends to be mentors. Older, wiser people are very much worth paying a great deal of attention to.

This is very true. The trick is to find mentors who will have oomph in the college admission process, if a student doesn't have a high school good at communicating with colleges.

A quotation I saw in a tagline on the Art of Problem Solving website, which I'm having trouble tracing to a source: "Why do we need to reinvent the wheel? Not because we need more wheels, but because we need more inventors."
>>> Figuring things out on your own takes longer than having someone simply tell you what they already know.

That's why people write and read books and papers.
I suppose I can share my numbers, I do about 2k a month for a desktop email utility
I'm not sold completely on TDD. Part of me think that TDD is a necessary evil. Some organizations have the resources to hire many QAs that might help to reduce the number of unit-tests. I'm not saying that is the most cost effective way to go.

Also, if the programmers words can be trusted (that their code is unit-testable, instead of highly-coupled, lots of dependency cycle, etc), writing unit-test last would be alright as well.
My favorite is "mechanical issue". I use it all the time whenever the build team on my robotics team blames me (i.e., the coder) for an issue on the robot.

Build Team: DAVID! The robot is continuously driving in circles whenever we turn it on.
Me: Must be a mechanical issue
There is Facebook privacy?
I was considered "gifted" throughout elementary school. Around the beginning of high school I put my mind to work—and realized that as long as I continued to pass, no one was going to look at my high-school marks besides university acceptance committees. Further, it was both easier and cheaper to attend Low-Status Community College A, get a high CGPA, and use that to enter/finish at High-Status University B by course transfer, than it would be to try to be accepted by B from the start, given that the first few undergraduate years of A and B are basically the same (there's really a limit to how much you can learn in a Calculus I course, no matter how well the teacher is being paid or how many grants they've received.)

I promptly stopped being "gifted." (That is to say, I invested much, much less than my full effort in anything asked of me from that point on.)
That seems right. I think that a lot of the educational curriculum is just targeted to the average, so if you are smarter, it can just all seem incredibly boring.

One example which really pissed me off when i was a student is how so many math classes in college base a huge portion of your final grade on tons of mind numbing homework. This of course is targeted to the average idiot: the university has figured out that most students have trouble with math and in order to avoid high failing grades they create homework which is a way for people to get points toward their grade by solving the same simple problem over and over and over again. And of course you do not need to understand the material to do the homework, because if there is a problem you cannot do you can just ask the TA, etc. Thus, they replace true understanding with memorisation and dull grinding work. Of course most smart people I knew would more or less blow off the homework and just ace the tests, and thus they would often end up getting a B- even though they probably understood the material better than anyone else.
For these I usually casually nod, but it's actually a bigger problem than I'd normally like to admit.

I have read seriously less books than is healthy and have memorised as little as humanly possible from a young age on the logic that I should simply compensate with creating enough intelligence to work it out (no joking).

Didn't start learning any reactions in science until very late on the basis that we couldn't possibly have to memorise all reactions that could be made, therefore why learn just a few arbitrary ones in class.

Scored a standard pass in mathematics at 16, naturally went into the standard mathematics class for the next two years instead of the advanced class. Found the mathematics more interesting at this level (though still quite arbitrary) and scored a high grade.
The point isn't that I scored high, but that I could've taken the more interesting further mathematics, had I taken an interest in mindless long division methods earlier on.

The sad part is that I'm not even the smartest guy in the room, I'm just so damn insistent on doing things logically.

Anyway, I'm posting this anonymously because it's more than I'd like to admit to, but am throwing it out there in case anyone else has taken this style of learning to such absurd levels (and I'll re-iterate, I'm not blowing my trumpet, I'm not especially smart).
That’s not sporting.
Actually it would be $99 / 20 GB which is $4.25 per year or $0.41 per month, but I see what you're getting at.
No. Asking someone a question is a lot less time consuming than reading an entire book to get one paragraph worth of summarized, distilled knowledge. Reading a book counts as "figuring it out yourself".
No, I don't get it.

In what way it it better for a spammer to post a scout message and then check whether the scout message appears before posting the spam, than simply posting a spam message and seeing of the spam appears?
The article contains this astonishing statement: the meta-analysis "found no association between the amount of saturated fat consumed and the risk of heart disease". No association! Yet this has been public-health, government, industry dogma for more than a generation. The history of this catastrophe has barely begun to be written.
The Camangi WebStation as an ebook reader
I failed academically, does it mean I'm a gifted child
the new bed bug ads in the subway are quite, uhm, yes....
My wife and I had a bedbug problem in our old flat, too. We moved out, and threw away our old bed and mattress when we did. That worked better than any other treatment we tried. (And yes, we notified the landlord of the problem... turns out it was the guy before us that introduced them somehow.)

We still had one or two stray bedbugs that managed to survive on luggage or something like that and made it onto our new bed. But we wrapped it in cling-film (aka Saran-wrap) for a few months and we've been completely clear ever since we took it off.

It's really not very pleasant...
Spreadsheet of the glycemic indices of 4,000 foods as measured by the NCI [xls]
Why would you want Netflix to be social? Fuck, let me watch a movie in peace.
Anyone can fit in a 15 minute workout, but committing to an hour at the gym can seem daunting.

Setting up these micro-commitments helps me get started on things that I would otherwise be making excuses about.
Time Lapse Video of Construction of New MIT Media Lab
Based on the interest generated in the glycemic index by this article, I found a link to the National Cancer Institute's glycemic index chart for over 4,000 foods.

Link here: http://riskfactor.cancer.gov/DHQ/database/gi_values.csfii_94...

Discussion here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1333106
Also consider students from creative writing classes.

I have a friend whose editor is in the Creative Writing Class at The New School.
No one registers until they have to—that is, until they have something to submit. If you read HN for months, finally finding something worthy to submit, set up an account, and then find you can't, I believe you'd be a bit steamed.

Also, some people create one-time accounts to detach certain posts from their well-known pseudonyms (whistleblowing, asking advice about projects under NDAs without giving identifiable details, etc.). These accounts would be thus restricted as well, which would discourage this type of contribution.
Here's mine, 10Mb connection:
http://creamscoop.com/g/2a224c8333d7a3d8488da54fed77926e.png
I love telling people that they'll get all the mobile me stuff for free with an android phone and a google account.
This looked more to me like a regular spambot which filled out every field on a comment form it could, and didn't bother to bail out when it couldn't find a URL field. ("Natrol acai berry diet reviews" looks very much like something that should be linked.)
> For me, instant and reliable multidirectional sync of any contact, calendar, and bookmarks data, across all my computers or mobile devices, is worth $8/month.

I have the same through Google and it's free. Apple is losing the cloud race badly, maybe free would help.
> "it is very dangerous to be the Warren Buffet type of value investor." ... "most people need to rely on the money in their stock holdings"

If you need to rely on the money from the sale of your stock holdings, you're not a Warren Buffet type of value investor. If you're looking for income from your holdings (dividends and such), the volatility of Wall Street's stock pricing algorithms is not an issue.

For those who are nearing retirement and counting on the sale of stock holdings, make sure you have an appropriate stock-bond-short term reserve mix in your portfolio so that you can ride out market swings. Moving out of the market altogether is unnecessary. If you do move out of the market in desperation (like people did in March of last year, selling for whatever they could get), you're providing us value investors the "irrational bargains" I mentioned in my reply to davidw.
> people would probably register for many accounts and use them to host warez.

Do people host warez on Dropbox accounts (in the Public folder)? Those are free and easily obtainable en-masse; you don't even have to keep the files on your own computer if you unlink the account after loading it.
It doesn't surprise me at all that 0.50 to 1euro makes no difference in terms of # of download. I would not be surprised if even 2euro or 2.5 would keep the number constant. It would be really nice to do some serious marketing / behavioral economics study on what is the threshold for "real cheap" on the app stores. I wonder if there is any way to get anonymous data from apple store.
I've been called out for Yoda conditions with comparisons, but it's actually just number-line order. I.e. instead of writing "x > 0" I write "0 < x", but I read both as "x greater-than 0."
craigslist (but it's local, of course)
I don't know if it says something about me or Google's corporate culture, but I have absolute faith that any change Google make is for the better. After reading all the "41 shades of blue" type stories, I struggle to believe that they would implement a change of any significance without very strong data, let alone a complete redesign of their core product. On an instinctual level, I feel that if Google's design clashes with my assumptions then my assumptions are probably wrong.
You shouldn't be investing this way, if you need to get your money back in the short term. Only invest in companies if you can afford to leave that money there, for a reasonable period of time, possibly years.
Just because HCFS is worse for you, it doesn't mean refined carbs like white bread are good for you. They do cause an larger increase in blood sugar compared to other foods (such as unrefined carbs).
Do we live in a police state?
That's a really good point, I agree with you. Why not just post the spam in the first place. But honestly this was the best reason I could think up. Keyword spamming only helps me out, in terms of search engine ranking; Unless they're trying to get my blog blacklisted, which I don't see any point to either.
I hate to say it, but after spending some time at an average college that I got a scholarship to, it became rather apparent that a lot of the regular people who go to college do so because they don't know any better. That's why things like "Undergraduate Studies" and "General Business" degrees exist. The college is ultimately a business, and that business can only sustain itself if is has a sizable source of revenue; telling unmotivated slobs that they should be questioning the value of taking 15 hours a semester of "general education" credits isn't high up on the list of priorities.
Isn't this healthy by the same rationale that fat is unhealthy? Assuming that glucose intake is good because it's what the body transports around as energy (I assume that's the basis on which one would call glucose 100% healthy) sounds a lot like saying eating fat makes you fat. Which, incidentally, the article we're commenting on seems to be refuting.
"Refined" includes flower and sugar, but not whole starches. I'm not sure where white rice falls, as I have heard that too much white rice is also unhealthy.