skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Using off-the-shelf makeup and accessories such as glasses, veils, and artificial hair, Adam Harvey's master's thesis combines hipster fashion aesthetics with hardcore reverse engineering of face detection software.

Might as well wear a mask and call it a day. Easier to take off once you reached destination, too.
Ask HN: What should we eat?
The USDA recommendations are almost universally considered wrong, perhaps even exactly backwards.

You have people like Michael Pollan saying we should eat traditional foods, mostly plants, and not too much.

Gary Taubes says we should eat meat, lots of it. Red meat.

The prevailing wisdom from nutritional science is--well, I have no idea what it is. I guess it's to eat foods high in polyunsaturated fats, avoid red meat, and avoid refined starches and sugars, but I'm not sure.

I hate that I get anxious when trying to decide something so simple as a shopping list for groceries.

Based on my experience in fields where I have a measure of expertise, the difference between a persuasive bunch of garbage and the truth can be incredibly hard to discern until someone contextualizes it all for you.

Does anyone have any suggestions for books or articles that cut through these various arguments in an authoritative way, explain shortcomings and virtues, and makes a straightforward recommendation based on a full appreciation of the all the arguments involved?
where did you live around there? I didn't know there were any apartments or condos in the vicinity.
Sorry you are correct. I misunderstood.

I don't think the wear leveling will affect the benchmarks that much though - even if it's horribly inefficient your drives will still beat the snot out of any spinning platter drive on the market today.
I forgot two more suggestions: One is to find a writing buddy. Edit (and by that, I mean critique, not rewrite) each other's work, and offer comments back and forth. Establish some ground rules so that you don't get angry at each other. I personally think this is best done in person. When I need to communicate something important at work, I'll almost always ask a trusted coworker to help me read and edit my writing. Without fail, they will see several things I missed.

I try to self-edit and, I can offer a suggestion from my own experience. I strongly suggest using a pen on a paper copy. This takes you out of the context in which you originally wrote the work-- your computer and keyboard. You can step away from your desk and go somewhere with a different context. A library, coffee shop, or outside under a tree are good places to rethink and rewrite.

And finally, I hope we'll see a revised version of your HTML5 paragraph-- you've clearly hit on an idea appealing to HN readers...
Paper, books, printing presses and libraries.
I feel guilty if I don't buy something at least once an hour.

I've had lunch with the President of a fair-sized coffee franchise in Canada and his stores give you a 1hr code with your purchase, but after that you can just go up and ask for codes each time they expire. He said 80-90% of people feel guilty and fork up another $3-5 for a drink/snack when they ask for a new WiFi code.

Other interesting tidbit: coffee sales are down a lot compared with tea (which also has higher margins). So if you run a coffee shop, a good way to distinguish yourself is to carry a wide variety of teas.
I think that the scientists behind the US research effort just had a better budget.
Where "better" is defined entirely to mean cost efficiency. Targeted at those who believe a home is primarily a financial asset.
So if you have an open book beside your laptop that you don't look at that much or even are working on math homework you'll be chased out?
Pure trolling. New user. Jabs at MongoDB aside, CouchDB has acted quickly and professionally to the kind of rare unfortunate critical bugs that can (and do) happen to software projects. This quality of response creates trust, not diminish it. Shit happens. What matters is that you admit the mistake and fix it as quickly and publicly as possible. Props to CouchDB.
I work at 15th Ave Coffee and Tea during the day (it's the original Crypto-Starbucks in Capitol Hill) and Liberty during the evening.

Actually, I'm sitting at Liberty right now while I wait for Xcode to deploy an iPhone app to my phone.

You should check out Liberty: couches, free wifi, sushi and great cocktails. You'll suffer diminishing returns on work, but it's still worth it :)

Back to your question, have you tried Office Nomads? A good friend of mine has a 'resident' membership there and loves it to death. I'm considering trying it out this week.
Airports that limit wifi access are really annoying (like the one in kuala lumpur at KLIA for 2 hours), especially when you have a long lay over.
The rich can use thermite bombs and mustard gas too.

Iraq could be an example either way. Saddam Hussein had an inferior military to the US, but he could rule the country because he had no compunctions about doing things like gassing villages for opposing him. He was from the Sunni minority, disliked by the Shiite majority, but he had no problem putting down rebellions even after getting badly beaten by the US in '91.

So, as a rebel, your chances depend on the kind of leader you're fighting. If it's a Bush or a Louis XVII, you're in business. If it's a Saddam or someone like the men who put down the Jacquerie, not so much. In the limiting case, the powerful could simply round everybody they didn't like up and exterminate them, Nazi-style, if they chose to do so.
You might find this interesting:

http://pqcrypto.org/

Essentially covers cryptography which isn't based on hard-to-factor equations. Though it's not the same area, similar solutions / approaches might survive a p=np discovery + algorithm.
I think you've created a straw man by this point. Nobody's saying a text editor will turn you into a Nietzschean Übermensch. However, even if it isn't that radical, good tools that make the incidental details go smoothly can still make a big difference.
I'm going to be trying Office Nomads, probably next month. I like the idea of setting up as a resident, but I'm having trouble justifying the expense.
Ah what, $800 for a 4 bed 2 bath in total? The low end for a 4bed 2 bath is something like $1300 in west coast canada :(
Lets assume that P==NP, why assume that we would be able to find algorithms to easily crack crypto?

Let me put it another way, lets say that we finally discover that it is possible to time travel to the past. However, the energy needed to travel back int time is the equivalent of a million Suns because that is the amount of energy needed to warp space enough so that time will reverse itself. And we found proof of this when we observed the black holes of two galaxies colliding. So, even if it were possible it would still not matter. Practically speaking, it would still not be possible to travel back in time.

My gut feeling is that if it were to turn out that P==NP that would not necessarily mean that all of a sudden we would be able to find the exact algorithms that make it easy to crack cryptography algorithms easily.
The difference here is you won't see the dialog saying "Do you want to update?" The update is just going to happen.
Critical bugs are a question of statistics. As the size of the code-base increases, the probability that there is a critical bug in it quickly approaches one. Who would dare say that millions of lines of core Oracle code do not have at least five obscure bugs that cause data loss in some situations?
Since you haven't moved yet... you may want to consider some other cities that have startup culture, even if on a smaller scale, that could be more fun and where you would be competing against a smaller group of people for the capital available. Cambridge Massachusetts is affordable and has a lot of tallent (MIT, Harvard, Tufts, etc.).
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It doesn't sound like it will be quite that transparent. The article mentions "Unfortunately, you will still see progress bars."

It makes me think it will be like the current behavior without the dialog asking to install (e.g. automatically download the update and install it when you restart your browser).
One social media tip: First build a good customer experience
This is sad: This result, if correct, is the mathematical result of the century; however, it still hasn't appeared in Google News or Google trends.
Can anyone explain this sentence?

> Did they just become inundated by the sea, perhaps living as the people of XXX live today, on a very low island in the middle of the sea, ....

There is a reference to an endnote at the end of the sentence, but the note talks about tidal waves, not this mysterious "XXX".
It seems like starbucks just reversed this. I used to have to use a registered starbucks cards and was supposed to only get 1 hour a day ( it never cut me off though). However recently I noticed that all the starbucks in my area have gone to free wifi. Just accept the terms and conditions and you're set.
This just links to the blog, not any particular post.
Likewise. $450 is a good chunk of cash, but at least the first taste is free. On the plus side of things, there are definitely some interesting characters who work there, like Kevin Moore (http://kevinmooreconsulting.com/)
I know the owner of the local coffee shop I go to. His internet is locked, but he gives out the code to any customer who asks. I've talked to him before about giving away internet and he didn't seem to think it was a big deal. As long as he has people in his store he's happy because they will eventually buy something. He also has book readings on the weekends and recently started staying open later hoping to catch kids who need to study now that school is cranking back up. Last time I talked to him he said the night time thing was doing better than he expected.

He is a bit more expensive than the chains, but his coffee also doesn't taste like crap :)
I think privacy would become less and less important over the years.
There is no much harm from lack of privacy.
There is a bad component in privacy violation though: it's when privacy is violated _exclusively_ by some powerful entity, such as government.
But if privacy is just not there and life of all individuals is available to the public -- there is almost no real harm in it.
this was big news a few weeks back: starbucks went free wifi nationwide.
Yeah, basically I found it funny juxtaposing the announcement of such a magnificent result (should it end up proving true) with such a mundane, utilitarian comment.
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Yeah, they just made that change a month or two ago. I'm going to guess that they figured out they were losing business to either smaller chains or mom and pop stores who were offering free internet.
That only works if the cafe is at maximum occupancy every moment of every day.
He's paying $800 for the room.
I bought a house. According to this calc i may or may not have been a good idea based on how the house appreciates (I got it at the bottom of the market).

But at the end of the day my house is like 4x bigger then my apartment. So worth it even if it does not end up being an over all savings or not.
But Vim is IMO ugly. Even Emacs looks so much better.. Vim is so.. character based.
Revision3 and Break have switched to 3Crowd. Using Bitgravity and other CDNs all managed by 3Crowd. Must be something in that, huh?
how long does an integrated circuit last in storage?

design a few of them with the data just burned in. no capacitors to fail, you could get your redundancy by just making a couple dozen of each. design them to wait a few seconds after power on, and then start spitting out the data and a clock. label the power, ground, serial out and data pins.

given those pins, there isn't anything else you could do with it besides hook it up and see what it has to say. and all you need to read it is a stable power supply, and sufficiently fast analog to digital converters.
The problem is that many of these libraries are underfunded. Not enough new books are being added. All the books that I have needed over the last couple of years I can never find them in a library. I've pretty much stopped relying on libraries and just go straight to Amazon if I really need a book. The additional funding could be used to buy more books or provide more services. At least I hope.

With the rise of the internet you can get almost any information you need from your computer. I haven't had the need to go and do research in a library for a long time.
Is money that good?
I'm assuming dropping a couple thousand dollars for a Mac and a "dev account" is obligatory to get any serious iOS training, development, testing?

Good point, had a brain fart. I suppose it depends on how little you want to spend, obviously bigger is better. On the cheap end, I've had no problems developing in the past on a cheap refurb Mini (Intel-based) after swapping in memory and a faster drive. Also, you can pick up the SDK and Xcode with an unpaid developer account, but will need the real thing for publishing to the App Store.

Still fail to understand why Java was chosen for Android, but oh well, the learning curve ought to be flatter.

I think you've mostly answered your own question: everyone knows it. On the bright side, the latest JVM with JIT is pretty nice.
Less of a Nazi culture of suppressing views against the mainstream over there?
I just found this and it makes sense.

http://coffeefaq.com/site/node/15

It seems the difference is very small regardless of which one has more.

I'll have to check out both books. Good Eats has inspired me more than a few times to spend a Sat. afternoon attempting to recreate what I just watched ;) It would probably help to have something a little more concrete in front of me.
Works flawlessly in Safari 5. What an incredible app.
Too many acronyms that I'm not familiar with because I never played Eve. Can someone translate?
It is one of the last, stuck between hotels. Lived in that corner, http://bit.ly/aOlo0q 6th and Marion
I don't get this calculator, because you are likely to make money or get back your payments when you sell the home. Rent is forever gone.
The author's page (http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Vinay_Deolalikar/) has now been updated to include a direct link to the PDF version (http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Vinay_Deolalikar/Papers/pnp_p...). He also notes: "The preliminary version made it to the web without my knowledge. Please note that the final version of the paper is under preparation, and is to be posted here shortly (in about a week). Stay tuned."
The two main consequences that would follow are (from Wikipedia):

"A proof that showed that P ≠ NP, while lacking the practical computational benefits of a proof that P = NP, would also represent a very significant advance in computational complexity theory and provide guidance for future research. It would allow one to show in a formal way that many common problems cannot be solved efficiently, so that the attention of researchers can be focused on partial solutions or solutions to other problems. Due to widespread belief in P ≠ NP, much of this focusing of research has already taken place."

"Cryptography, for example, relies on certain problems being difficult. A constructive and efficient solution to the NP-complete problem 3-SAT would break many existing cryptosystems such as Public-key cryptography, used for economic transactions over the internet, and Triple DES, used for transactions between banks. These would need to be modified or replaced."

So basically we can focus on finding good approximations to NP problems and feel safe that this proof won't immediately jeopardize all of our bank accounts.
1 PLEX = 1 month of free game time. ISK = in game currency
Plex stands for pilots licence extension. ISK stands for Iceland Kroner where the parent company of EVE online is based.
I just think it's interesting how mch territory has been used as a test facility for nukes. Russia seems like a nuclear wasteland, and it even appears we detonated nukes (underground I presume) in the SE US - wild!
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A yacht in international waters.
Not so much. How common are they?
Perfect drawing app for my iPad. This is a great example of the power of HTML and how Flash is getting less and less necessary for this kind of applications.
It's a leaked PDF of an unverified proof which has yet to appear in any mainstream news source and is relevant, probably, to no one but computer scientists. So it's not even remotely surprising that it has not yet appeared on Google News. I have no idea what part of this you think is sad.
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Yep, I stopped going to Starbucks because coffee shop block away has free WiFi.
How is this relevant to Hacker News?
summary for those who somehow didn't make it through the article:
to keep sales of in-game currency for real money under control, the publisher/developer for eve online a while back created the mechanism of redeemable subscription codes that also are in game items. Presumably it also has a secondary effect of having an influence on ingame inflation (theres really cool data available the eve online economy for those who are interested)

over 1000 dollars worth of these items were destroyed.

now the bit at the end of the article just basically mentions how the reported event was verifiable, by way of the authenticated api for viewing player information
You're ignoring mortgage interest and costs associated with actually owning a home that you don't encounter when renting. Those are also gone forever and given that most of your early mortgage payments will be primarily interest ones when you sell early even for the exact same amount as you bought you lose out on that money.
I would say in response to those that claim buying is always better than renting.
Does it feel like we're at war with the pacific islands here?
How is online currency _not_ relevant to Hacker News?
If you can think of a better term than "real participant" please let me know.

If your job is to record or settle trades, be a day trader with no overnight position, track share holdings, etc. then you are a part of the machinery of this capital market, but you are not one of the participants who provides, or consumes capital. You are part of the cost structure.

The real participants are those who actions reflect beyond the casino itself, and out into the economy beyond.

The purpose of share markets is to provide capital. Long term capital for companies to invest, and in return to provide long term profits for those providing that capital.

If you are providing or consuming capital, even for one day, you are to some extent a real participant.

I think it is fine for people to make money, brokers to charge a fee for a trade, day trading, advising on diversification, etc.. But we should understand that these are costs associated with this system of providing capital/investing.

You sound like you provide capital and participate as an investor.
Last Psychiatrist rebuttal to "why parents hate parenting"
I was hacking around in jME (a game engine for Java) today, and I am pretty amazed by how much work goes into such software. This is to all appearances and amateur production which has still received an incredible amount of work. Comparing what it took to get a bit of code running in that versus j3d made me realize that a good, cross-platform engine for developing games could be a serious economic advantage for a developer. And it appears that that is what Valve is doing here. Very impressive.
Wouldn't normally post this, but the original article appeared on HN recently as well, and I think this rebuttal has some really good insights on adjusting our thought processes and expectations.
A must-see : http://www.khanacademy.org/video?v=YL10H_EcB-E
The manufacturer's claim probably only applies to a fresh unused SSD.
If you are doing the startup thing, it may be worthwhile keeping your financial obligations/footprint to a minimum. You can always downsize a rental, but a mortgage is not so easy to exit.

Plus, that mortgage downpayment might be better invested in yourself and your venture?

There are factors besides the rent vs buy calcs worth considering esp for entrepeneurs.
A counterpoint to Carr's anti-tracking article (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870374890457541...) discussed yesterday at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1585327
I've heard the east bay is a good option because it is much cheaper (though it will take a ~45 minutes* to get to SF for whatever meetups you'd like to attend).

* From Berkeley, by BART
Interesting - on the few California properties I tried, it says it never makes sense to buy, no matter how long you live there.

This could actually be true in some areas. Prices are still really high relative to rent. The Houston prices I put in made sense to own after a 2-3 years.
It seems like optical discs (CD/DVD/BluRay) are the right idea, they're just not made from stable enough materials. As far as I know, you could apply the same technology used to make optical discs to a more stable material like gold. Assuming that you could get the same storage density as a DVD (which seems reasonable, given that we have the technology/know-how to make 25GB single-layer BluRay discs), you'd need something like 500-600 disks (if you etched both sides). I'm a bit suspicious of my math here, but if my back of the envelope calculation is right a single disc made of gold would be something like 0.8 kg.

The nice thing about this solution is that there's a lot of existing knowledge about how to build and design optical media, how to build in parity checking, detect jitter when reading, etc. This could be relatively cheap to do in bulk also, if you found the right material (I just mentioned gold because I know it to be chemically stable, but there are probably better materials).
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I think I can make intuitive why the "rent is forever gone" argument is wrong. Another way to state that argument is "after I pay off the mortgage I own a house and live for free whereas if I'd rented the whole time then I'd own nothing and still have rent to pay".

Quoting myself from the comments of http://messymatters.com/buyrent ...

Imagine yourself 30 years from now with a house you fully own, with no more payments to make. Now imagine your alternate renting self who, instead of steadily paying down the principal on the mortgage, has built up hundreds of thousands of dollars in equity in some other investment. You still have rent to pay each month but that's also about how much you're collecting in interest on your investments. So the renter now lives for free just like the home-buyer.

Another way to say all this is that if you ignore price bubbles, taxes, personal preferences, and leverage then renting and buying are roughly financially equivalent. Not that you should ignore those things, just don't fall for the myths that it's a no-brainer decision.
1. You can kill a consumer-grade SSD surprisingly quickly if its being hammered with writes all day in a server. (Or at least, you can exceed the manufacturer's recommendations, and do you really want to do that in a server?)

2. SSD should be compared to a RAID of HDDs for a realistic test

3. The article says that they want to use it to store operational stats and log files - in this case I'd spend time testing PostgreSQL's transaction and sync tunables and probably arrive at some acceptable settings which work fine on a HDD.

With this sort of workload, it is easy to make Postgres combine multiple transactions into fewer I/Os.
oh, i totally forgot about that building. i dated a girl about 3 lifetimes ago who lived there.