skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Visualization of data tends to be pretty interesting to a lot of us. While yes, the original post is a trite joke about Fox News, it's interesting to look beyond it to the graph itself and wonder how you would show that data in a smarter way. Venn diagram?
Easy. The breading is made from mostly bleached flour, which has a very high GI. The pork alone has almost no carbs so therefore, 0 GI.
The most important aspects of a great programmer are:

The ability to learn what users need.
The ability to learn how a how a system works.
The ability to learn the cause of a bug.
The ability to learn from mistakes.
And the ability to solve complex problems.

Domain specific knowledge has some limited value but flexibility of thinking is far more important.
I would use a user account called Administrator, without password. Make this user, and only this one, auto-start a program to do all those things you want it to.

It's better than a .txt because it's easier to hide (you don't have to actually hide it this way) and the person that stole your notebook is more willing to wait a little for the default programs to load than when opening a file, especially a txt one.

When he/she thinks it logged in successfully, the portrait of the thief is already in your inbox and your sensitive files encrypted/deleted.
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I was thinking that it would basically help you keep track of who you've been talking to and what you've been offered. Probably a simple web interface with each convo that's easier to track.
There is a very simple trick at work here. The sequence of words is unique to the posting, the 'title' of the comment is the payload, the rest is a marker of the place the comment was left.

30 days later you'll see your blog overrun by spambots if the comment does not get removed, the page will be found again by using a fragment of the sequence of words. If the fragment can't be found the blog will be marked as 'live moderated' and the spammer will move on.

So, the 'no broken windows' theory is tested here, if you don't 'fix your windows' prepare for a lot more stones to be thrown.

Spammers like to know that the comments 'stick' so they use these as a way to see where to concentrate their spam waves with a greater chance of survival of the spammed content.

If it never shows up at all on your pages that is of course the best remedy.
Agreed - Munger has been one of my very few heroes for a long time now. Poor Charlie's Almanack is a great read.

Munger's concept of mental models is the basis for my book ("The Personal MBA"), which comes out in January. The project started because I was looking for a comprehensive treatment of Munger's models, but couldn't find one.

Munger's models also tend to be very clearly focused on making investment decisions, which is great, but tend to overlook how to start / grow a business, so that's what I set out to create.

This approach is now the basis of my work with my clients and course participants, with huge success. Mental models work wonders for people with little knowledge of a topic - they're a great way to teach people something useful quickly.
That's the idea, just put it up and see if anyone gets it.

I was thinking the name screamed, "The internet's dollar store!" But yeah, then I liked it.
Please, let them leave. Zynga needs to die a horrible, horrible death. Preferably, in a fire.
I don't use full disk encryption, but I do have an encrypted partition that has my .ssh, .pgp, password reminder file, and sensitive customer information. Each time I boot up, I mount this partition. I have soft links in my home directory to .ssh, etc. on this partition.
Community, sharing, and all of that? Blah, I write open source software because I found it in my interest to do so. I also happen to freelance open source games.

I also laugh manically because I know that I will win in the end.

Intellectual property is definitely not security when your true opponent don't even care about copying your "IP". In fact he love it when you sue your customers, chase down pirates, and other actions that alienate your market.

Your opponents will simply employ more attractive propositions and licensing agreement for his "IP", or better yet, set it public domain and poach your disgrunted customers.

Of course, his software will have to be equal or better than your. But all things being equal, most people will prefer software that they can copy without getting into a hailstorm of lawsuits.
Perhaps you are right, but the studies seem to indicate that the level at which sugar becomes "excess" is very low, especially if the sugar does not contain fiber (i.e. apple juice rather than apples). Even a single soda is in excess of the amount of sugar that your body can safely handle hitting your bloodstream all at once.
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They're bluffing.
But I suppose there are some people that fetishize the smell of wood pulp and who love signaling how smart they are to the world with shelves of impressive-looking unread books, and who therefore overlook a reading experience that is superior in every other way.

I'm a voracious reader, and have an iPad, a Kindle, and shelves of (mostly read) books.

Out-of-print -- with e-books, that means it's really out of print. With a traditional book, it means you need to talk to a used book store.

Used -- you can't save money by buying your e-books used. Nor can you sell them if you decide they have no further value to you.

Unanticipated Reading -- e-books are great for unanticipated delays where you brought an e-book device, but didn't bring a book.

Outdoor use -- you can take a paperback up a mountain, onto a lake, or into the jungle knowing that if it gets wet your losses are capped at $25, and if you fall down, it won't be damaged. With the e-book, a fall or weather could result in expensive damage.

Travel -- the paperback book doesn't need to be charged, doesn't need a power plug converter, works during takeoff and landing, and doesn't immediately mark you as a person who is worth robbing.

Portability -- you can carry a lot more e-books than books.

Search -- e-books are great for reference texts, where you intend to do a lot of searching for content, rather than linear reading. paper indexes are good, but not as powerful.

Markup -- e-books have a 'highlight' capability, and some note capabilities that seem like they'd work nicely in an academic context, but I generally prefer my system of post-it notes, scribbles in the margin, and underlines, which doesn't cleanly translate to e-books.

Disaster Recovery -- e-books are replaced from backups, or not at all. books are replaced by homeowners insurance payout.

Public Image -- my iPad and Kindle both mark me as an early adopter tech guy. a book likely says nothing about me, unless the person looking has an opinion about the title in question.

Permanence -- I'm relatively confident that my paper library will endure for as long as there's somebody who values the content of the books. I'm not confident my e-book library will be usable in 10 years. (between DRM, format incompatibility, and accidental data loss.)

Images -- books currently beat e-books pretty solidly when it comes to imagery. I can't really imagine getting a Photography book as an e-book at this point in time.

Visual ease -- e-books let you adjust the font, but paper books are often (though not always) easier to read.

----

Or maybe e-books are superior in every single way, and I only buy books to fetishize the smell of wood pulp, whilst filling shelves to signal to my wife, kids, pets and good friends that I'm intelligent.

sigh
Exactly, it's like the free section plus two things:

1) A lot less bullshit to use it. Really good email interactions that's easy to use and keep your sale organized.

2) People who pay for images will immediately flag themselves as serious, so buyers will be able to filter easier.

Since they're paying for them they can put up as huge as they want, so better images is another minor selling point.

Otherwise, absolutely nothing original.
Oh, of course I'm excited and interested (although not enough to follow it so closely as to be able to guess what you're de-enthused about) but I think it's still a recondite enough area that most HN readers won't know to upvote it.
Probably will, since it seems people also want a bad ass iPhone, Android client.
It's about glycemic load, rather than glycemic index.
No URLs. No HTML. Pretty much if you have to pay to put an image, you can't do any links or external content, and the email interaction is fairly controlled, then putting up spam will just be annoying.

Also, if they want to do one giant image then fine, it'll just load like crap.
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Charles Petzold has a nice free book on .NET:

http://charlespetzold.com/dotnet/index.html
I've never liked these thought experiments with infinity in them. They always have "and so on" in them. But if you're dealing with an infinite set, "and so on" can't complete during the life of the universe (or well, ever). This in itself seems like it solves the problem - you can never get pass the first step. It's an event horizon, literally.
An handset with those specs at that price would be interesting.
When France implemented 35 hour work weeks, their productivity actually went up.
I still don't think Cuban knows what he's talking about. For starters, the financial market's function is not to "create capital". There are several other odd claims and unsupported arguments in that article.

But in his defense, I don't think he even mentioned "exotic derivatives". Exotics are just derivatives that aren't "vanilla" (standard put or call options, etc). They don't have to be any more leveraged than a standard call option or a futures contract.

>If you try to play Vegas' game, you'll probably get burned. But if you stand back, watch the game, and buy when their game creates a bargain price on good long-term stocks, you stand to get very solid returns.

When a stock is dropping a lot (like it happened the other day with several stocks), you usually can't tell if it's really a "bargain". In hindsight it's easy to say that some stocks were a bargain a few days ago, but at that moment it would be risky to buy them. It could be that the companies were really in trouble.

For instance, even as Lehman stock was dropping, some people were buying it. Another example: this year, Japan Airlines (JAL) went bankrupt. It had been in trouble for some time, but as usual for airline companies, the government was propping it and most people didn't believe it could go down.
It depends how you define 'gifted'.

If you define 'gifted' to mean someone who is adept at manipulating the system and/or playing within the system, an IQ test or other aptitude tests might not be the best metric.

I interpret 'gifted' to mean 'inherent intelligence, critical reasoning skills, and curiosity'. I believe these things, for the most part, are completely unnecessary if one desires a successful academic career.
I think it's because these things are hard to do in C. The first week of C is all about dealing with the language rather than solving problems. Any problem can be solved in a functional language, so I'm not sure what you're asking.
Leaving FB near the height of their popularity is a bold and smart move. Obviously they're going to do their own social gaming site. Why support their new competitor? A dumber company might have tried to hedge their bet which would have doomed their own project from the start. Doing it quick & painless might cost them some users but probably not enough to matter in the long run. They're a clever bunch. I bet they attribute the switch to growing Facebook privacy concerns to trash the competition on the way out.
From CS-106X, Programming Abstractions (intro course)

http://www.stanford.edu/class/cs106x/handouts/01-CS106X-Cour...

Your final grade will be computed as follows:

Programs 25 %
Midterm 25 %
Final 50 %

From 51 H, Multivariable Calculus (freshman course)

http://www.stanford.edu/class/math51h/51h-info.html

Grading:

Mid-term 1: 20%
Mid-term 2: 20%
Homework: 20%
Final Examination: 40%
The other problem is that not all teachers are able to handle a class full of normal or even problem children AND meet the needs of a gifted student.

The teacher spends their time dealing with majority of the class leaving little challenge for the student who needs more.
For buyers, this isn't any different than using craigslist. Why would they go to this site? What's in it for them?

All the benefits of using this are targeted toward sellers.
Sorry, but that's just extreme foolishness. Glucose makes sense if you're at the Olympics starting a 100m sprint (to win enough money so that you don't need to be that foolish again). Any other time, it's like you're sadistically kicking your pancreas everyday or defibrillating your heart everyday. You are on route to early disability (including blindness/fractures/loss of limbs) and an early grave due to multiple organ failures.

You'd better be hoping science comes through with cheap organ replacement/re-growth therapies soon and that you are rich enough to afford them. In the meantime, you could try common-sense or even some education.
It's not the term I'm objecting to, it is the writeup that sounds like it is inferior to the unsafe alternative.
Great article, but the following line pretty much explained the contention with Facebook exactly for what it is:

They confused sharing with publishing.
Some suggestions:

1. Bootstrap until you are profitable. More than anything else, investors look for a viable and lucrative venture. If you can show them an active revenue model, they won't care about much else.

2. Try other options like seed investment, angel investment etc. Some Ycombinator-like venture programs based in India were mentioned here sometime back. Ref: http://blogs.wsj.com/venturecapital/2010/02/18/bringing-y-co... and http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=56153

3. Join a local startup meet like proto.in
I gotcha. FWIW, simply changing the email subject based on the respondent (or some other id) would let threaded email clients work their magic.

It is annoying how multiple CL convos intermingle, all because they share the same subject line.
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If you look at future applications , there isn't a big benefit from higher bandwidth.

For video , 720p takes 2mbit(youtube's 720p) , and the difference between 720p to 1080p isn't very big.if we go to 3D , it might be doubled , but with smart compression , might be less.

For video conferencing , the compression is much more effective because of the small frame to frame changes, so i think you can get 1080p at 2mbit up + 2mbit down.if i recall right , in the right setting , 1080p is needed to give you the illusion of being in the same room.

For bit-torrent,to make streaming possible(i think streaming is the most natural way of video consumption), probably what is needed is higher uploads ,and configuration such that uploading doesn't slow the download side , not a higher download bandwidth.

For video game streaming(onlive.com) , what's important is the latency . i believe the speed is good enough.

The other future application of fast bandwidth is using cloud storage as your HDD. not a very attractive application if you ask me. dropbox is good enough.

So i don't see anything in the horizon requiring very high bandwidth internet for the home. 10-15 down / 4 up would be more than enough for any average family.
Are fun things ever really necessary?
Zynga is absolutely not bluffing.
Eh, number theory has a certain draw to it. For one, if you're presented with a problem ostensibly you have all the tools you need to solve it (or you have all the tools you need to build all the tools you need to solve it). There are certain sections of math which I am certainly poor at (complex analysis has just never "clicked" in that way with me) and some sections of math which I'm pretty good at (I have a certain affinity for graph theory). I think different problems require different mindsets in approach. If that mindset comes easier to you then solving problems in that domain may come easier too.
There are two issues here, and your post only addresses what Facebook is doing about one of them. The issues are:

(1) The fact that the API went down for an extended period of time. The post addresses this issue.

(2) The fact that, according to the article, there was no official communication from Facebook about the issue for quite some time, even once they presumably knew about the issue and were working on fixing it. If Facebook wants to power web logins, this is an organizational/process issue that they must fix.

What, if anything, is Facebook doing to address issue (2)?
It's not a law of nature; in certain fields, there's less of an establishment to fight and replace, so new ideas can move faster.
They need iPhone/iPad versions of their main games. Only reason my parents are on FB is because of Farmville. They cannot play Farmville on iPad yet. My parents don't much care for FB as much as they care about Farmville. Once Zynga makes these games available as Apple apps, lot of people will use them on a more frequent basis. They'll probably want to share game info via FB but the game play could be on a phone or iPad.
Because performance metrics are the only things that matter.
"Hard" is of course highly subjective, but the material in this article is standard (usually sophomore-junior) undergrad material and is very widely used.
You've never seen a beginner C tutorial? You seem to imply that just because there's teaching material out there for beginners, that somehow means the language is intractable. Every language that wants users should have beginner-level material.
They're bluffing the way Google was bluffing when they threatened to release their own browser to get around browser manufacturers controlling the default search, the way Google was bluffing when they threatened to release their own mobile OS and phone to get around phone manufacturers controlling the default search, maps, and other applications on phones, and the way Google is now bluffing when they threaten to become their own top tier ISP to get around ISPs controlling access to search or other applications.
Makes you think. I don't believe the ends justify the means, however -- artificially faking the NASDAQ results isn't the answer.

But I do like the idea of going out and trying to light a candle instead of cursing the darkness.

If I can ever raise the seed money, http://africafellowship.org is a nonprofit effort I am trying to do to bring the best and brightest minds of the next generation over to Africa to inspire them to want to get active in making the world a better place. (I spent a sumer in Kenyaand it opened my own eyes.)
Makes you think. I don't believe the ends justify the means, however -- artificially faking the NASDAQ results isn't the answer.

But I do like the idea of going out and trying to light a candle instead of cursing the darkness.

If I can ever raise the seed money, is a nonprofit effort I am trying to do to bring the best and brightest minds of the next generation over to Africa to inspire them to want to get active in making the world a better place. (I spent a sumer in Kenya and it opened my own eyes--just as visits by others like Bono "activated" them (inspired them to be a force for good).) (If anyone has any ideas, let me know, by all means.)
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"While meeting investors in India a lot of time our business plan faces the same questions, as none of the founders/co-founders are from the IIT or IIM."

I suspect a genuine investor could care less where you studied, but, assuming you are facing skepticism only because you didn't get an MBA from one of the IIMs, may I suggest that if your investors specifically care if you are from IIT or IIM (vs the intrinsic business/tech merit of your idea) you are talking to the wrong people - probably old fogies with money with no idea of how either business or tech works.

I don't think succesful seed funds like YCombinator (just taking an example) obsess over their applicants having attended elite schools. Why should these guys?

I second nreece's suggestion. Get an active revenue model first. All else follows.
"640K is enough for anyone" (misquote). When there's an excess of computing power of some kind, it may make possible that was previously inconceivable. And if you're the one to conceive and act on it...

An easy one is 3D video (1080p x 2); but I like the idea of omni-video, on a spherical screen with you at the center (or like omniMax, like iMax, but hemispherical so it also covers your peripheral vision - I've experienced it, and the effect is amazing).

Thought expt: what data is inconceivably massive to transmit?
While neither agreeing nor disagreeing with the style of placing the rval on the left and the lval on the right, I'd just like to point out that another way to avoid these errors is to use immutable variables more often.
Last week an email went out to a lot of big wigs in my company with over the top complaints about some features not working on my software. I was annoyed and kinda bummed. Now I am just glad it didn't make it into the NY Times.
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I like the just-email-it approach to posting listings. Somewhat tangentially, looks like there's some demand for email auctions: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1332831
I thought I'd post this because I found it to be a great project management tool for my projects, and with its free plan, it's a good choice for startups that can't afford an expensive alternative. Plus, it's open source, which is always a good thing if you want to tweak it.
I still think the whole issue is overblown and doesn't really resonate with people who may not have any strong expectation of privacy. Most of my FB friends seem to use the site almost exclusively to inform me of what they're eating for dinner. Do they care if that information isn't private? Even if we work under the only my friends can see it assumption that doesn't explain why someone I met once for 10 minutes wants to be my Facebook friend and share this information with me. I'm also convinced the presence of Moms and Dads on Facebook will be the real privacy revolution of Facebook. Aren't we going to be more careful about sharing embarrassing information if we know Mom & Dad will be seeing it? I guess my point is don't expect mass account cancelations. Most people will react by learning to self-censor and be more careful with their private information.
I think it is better to use a full disk encryption product (which encrypts information) or encrypted disk images (which only encrypt sensitive information) as opposed to FileVault.

FileVault converts your entire home folder into a encrypted disk image. While this is fine for security (no worrying about whether your files are actually encrypted, as long as they are in your home folder), it is bad for usability. When you login or logout, FileVault will either mount and decrypt or encrypt and unmount your home folder/encrypted disk image. Sometimes this process can take several minutes. If your computer runs out of battery (or it is turned off in exasperation), the encrypted disk image can be corrupted. The data within is unrecoverable.