skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A nonsensical screed, since the nations of Western Europe have also been the targets of radical Islamic terrorist groups. For example, what should the Danes have done to prevent the bombing of the Danish embassy in Pakistan in 2008? What heinous action did they commit to lose their 'moral superiority' like the Americans? Since there's no Danish Guantanamo or Abu Ghraib to point to, might I respectfully suggest the reasons for these attacks aren't quite as simple as the author would suggest?

As for whether the actions of Bradley Manning will result in the deaths of American soldiers or Afghan informants - I suspect none of us here has the ability to properly evaluate this, and neither does the author of the article.
I suspect some of the political upheaval in America is growing from the disjunction between American ideals with American reality (taking many forms of expression - Tea Party, nativism, corporatism, escapism, back-to-the-land movements, localism).
that's a fair enough answer.
It'll help the usefulness of the app massively to be able to compound the effects of particular meal combinations over the course of time (not least to give committed users a reason to keep returning and updating their details).
Do you intend on adding meals from non-chain restaurants? If so, how do you plan on tackling that?
Pleading is a crappy verb, agreed and point well taken.
The “featured picture criteria” are not the same as the criteria for any image anywhere on the site. It is doubtful that the FBI seal would ever be a featured picture.
Nope - that's the fastest language for you.
Yes, it does. (I haven't used NetBSD at all, and I forgot to mention it.)
Why not concentrate on a couple of mediums? Have you A/B tested this? Do your emails track clicks? Why not?

If you don't expect people to click the links, why include them?

Question overload, apologies.
Ask HN: How do I find someone to do UI/UX
I have a couple of side projects that I am working on for learning, fun and profit (but thats really secondary). I'm dreadful at UI/UX though. This becomes a huge problem when you consider that to a user the UI/UX IS the application, not all the backend logic/work.
How would I go about finding someone that would want to work on these projects with me? How should I vet the people that I do find?
I'm not convinced this was such a great thing for Linksys, and I always thought it served as a warning to other companies that using GPL'd code can be a bit of a trap.
Most of this advice is (unfortunately) true in large companies. It's sad that the idealism of our youth is corrupted by the reality of survival/prosperity in the workplace.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_attribution_error

"In social psychology, the fundamental attribution error (also known as correspondence bias or attribution effect) describes the tendency to over-value dispositional or personality-based explanations for the observed behaviors of others while under-valuing situational explanations for those behaviors."

Look for it and you see it everywhere.
hint: use base36 to convert numeric IDs to short strings. That's how I do it on http://gifexplode.com

You can use base64 if you're happy with case sensitive URLs.
Parkour with ladders
"Any time someone puts a lock on something that belongs to you, and won't give you a key, they're not doing it for your benefit."

Advice one would think would be common sense.

I agree that one should be willing to take a stance they are not willing to back down from. Most people buy into DRM and EULAs mainly because they don't care or notice. Creators it seems may buy into them because they think it's the only avenue or feel they have no power to bargain. Either way, creators and consumers do have all of the power and should recognize digital resellers for what they are: middle-persons. Their job is to facilitate transactions between two interested parties, not determine the terms of said transactions themselves. You can bargain with them and you don't have to back down: if they're worthy of your business they will consider your proposals.
My point was that comparing something that only runs on Linux against something that only runs on (various) BSDs adds a lot of other noise to the comparison - it's no longer the same hardware, install, and tuning, with just a different kernel call.
I was reading a book about Roads that talks about roads from brazil to the pacific. The author mentions a story about seeing a teen in South America, Venezuela iirc, wearing a t-shirt with bin laden's picture on it and the author asked the kid why he is wearing the shirt.

The teen says, "Because he is a defender of the world's poor."

Is this how people in South America see the war? Rich people killing poor people? Is Bin Laden really revered down there like this? I'm not trying to take sides, just curious about it because I can't even imagine someone wearing a bin laden t-shirt here.

Is bin Laden the new Che in South America?
You have me sold, please give me the heads up when you're done. I've been looking for this for a long time.
That sounds fascinating. How did you come up with the algorithms to use?
Development / Staging / Production Best Practices
We are a small team of web developers with currently one shared LAMP Development server. Currently we develop on the Development server and then deploy straight to our Production server. We are deploying a second server which will act as our Staging server.

I am interested in hearing from the HN community on best practices for Development / Staging / Production servers. I would like to automate transferring files/database from Development to staging to Production much as possible as we are a small team.

What practices do you use to maintain your web development servers? We don't currently use any source code version control software so I would especially be interested in hearing how subversion git/etc can help. Thank you.
Acquisitions done right
Not using 'var' (or LINQ, for that matter) in C# seems an odd choice. 'Separate steps for creating the request and performing the search' seems more like an advantage (for Java and C#) to me than a disadvantage, since you can easily eliminate the overhead with a helper function and the separation of a request and a search means that you can reuse a single request instance if you see the need.

I also consider statements like 'search.amount.between "10.00", "20.00"' or 'Amount.Between(10.00M, 20.00M)' to be vastly inferior to the native alternatives: for example, in C#, you could write that predicate as '(amount) => (amount > 10.00M && amount < 20.00M)' and in Python, it would become the even shorter 'lambda amount : 10 > amount > 20'. In each case the native way of expressing the logic requires no special knowledge of the 'fluent' API.
You know, things like making a decision between ending a hellish war by killing millions or by killing hundreds of thousands (was there another option?) is terrible thing to have to do. Making a calculated political decision to murder millions just isn't in the same category. I don't want to justify any of the wrongdoings of anyone based on "the other guy is worse". I also don't accept that the United States was morally equivalent to the Soviet Union until JFK was elected.
Introduction to Probability and Statistics Using R [pdf]
I played competition chess for a bit I once nearly got a chessboard thrown at me for that trick ;)

As you say, it works wonders and it throws 'book players' of their game like almost nothing else.

Suddenly they have to play instead of regurgitate.
I don' think that this is news to anyone that works in higher ed. I work at a University and its repeated all throughout the campus. Basically administrators want to set up their own little empires on the campus and make themselves seem indispensable. I'm pretty sure things like this happen at most large organizations in some form.
Rock stars living the dream.
Go to Waltham, they're pretty much all in the same building :)
Simple guide to configuring servers with Chef
personally, I'd rather try to run a starup while fighting complacency than while either trying to wrangle investors or working a dayjob. I think complacency would be a lot less distracting.
This is an interesting observation:

The first year or so of the company reminded me a lot of the awkward teenage phase of self-discovery. GitHub the company had sort of sprung up from this side project, so we never had any big vision or dream or aspirations. We just wanted to work on something cool. I’d love to say that’s all you need, but we’ve learned there’s more: you need to have a vision and a philosophy. Everyone (all the founders, at least) need to be on the same page. The hard part is finding that page.

Do we make web apps, or just do source control? What do we pay our employees? Should we speak at conferences? How do we approach customer support?

I don't hear many people talking about the value of a company vision and philosophy. I occasionally hear people talk about company culture, but usually in an abstract way.
This sounds like an awesome project!

Why did re-implementing the dissertation for greyhounds not work? Was the dissertation flawed?

If you're putting this much effort into it, why not stop by a horse racing track a few times and pick up some domain knowledge? Maybe you could even talk to race horse owners, jockeys, breeders?

I wonder if you could turn this into a product for breeders? Or maybe for people buying/selling race horses? Or people hiring Jockeys, or even marketing an offshoot of this to the gamblers? Just some wild thoughts.
Yes, but what can be done about it?
Yes it's too many interests to fit into a single blog - UNLESS you have some common theme. For example, minimalism or if you're a very humorous writer or something that ties it all together. My blog is very focused on hiring and managing programmers and I was actually surprised when I did a blog post that was tangential but very related (agile process) what lukewarm response I got to the subject matter. I won't be trying that again.
"cut your losses, close down the company, and move on" only works if you have no investors, or if you end up on the verge of bankruptcy.

While there are investors around, they'll be looking for pieces of the IP portfolio that they can carve off and auction away or for teams of developers that can be sold as a capability to a company that needs help doing what your startup did.

As for "what motivates the founder to stick around", the only things I can think of are continuing opportunity to take what you have an make it successful, mercenary compensation, or protecting your ownership through continuing vesting. If none of those apply, and you don't like the direction the investors want to go, you might be parting company with them.
You can do "imports", and you can also factor anything that's repeated into macros. The problem is that the lack of namespaces and weird scoping rules are so antiquated that it's painful to use when I know many programming languages that do the job far better.

On the other hand, it does support currying of macros!
This is a good place to put the best explanation I've yet found for how Latex's figure placement algorithm works: http://people.cs.uu.nl/piet/floats/node1.html
Security consulting - Good move?
My interest lies in the area of Network Security, and one of my aims is to make a lot of money. Right now one of my ideas (once I have the experience and qualifications) is to start my own Netsec consulting business. In terms of size (and not having the software as a product to sell) and making money, would this be able to be turned into something that makes a lot of money? I have had a hard time tracking down any hard numbers, and managed to come up with very little on these ventures. I'm asking here for any knowledge of earning potential in this particular field as I know that a lot of the community here are very smart and seasoned folks. :)
Totally been looking for a site like this, Awesome concept!
a month ago I bought a 27" iMac reasoning that even if the operating system is as bad as my limited experience suggested up front
it was still nice hardware and I could always just install Linux on it afterwards.
One month onward I find myself liking the OS even less rather than more but have not had time to figure out what I would need to do to install Ubuntu dualboot either and thus when using the machine still find myself frustrated with arbitrary macisms that afflict it.
The only part of the system I remain impressed with is the screen. This box cost 2700$ aud.
Meanwhile when it came time to get a new notebook I grabbed an Asus n61jq with a faster CPU more memory and a better video card that ran Ubuntu flawlessly with a single xorg tweak for almost exactly half the price of the iMac
Interesting application. Good luck with your launch!

One thing I noticed is that it is not very clear what the little plus icons next to a recipe mean (the ones that are either gray or green). Pretty sure that represents the "health score" but is more green plus signs better?

Also, not all the things I was craving were on there. For example, I couldn't find any variant of steak. Would it ever be possible for the user to submit recipes from a recipe database and have your algorithms calculate its health score and then recommend other things? I feel this should be doable to a certain extent if you have the ingredient list.
Adding support for JSON-RPC in Pylons.

Eventually this will lead to integrating pyjamas as an alternative to templating for pure-AJAX applications. This will mean adding a setuptools plugin for compiling the pyjamas client before packaging the application, creating a paster template for generating the project structure, and extending the test framework to support functional tests.

It might mean creating yet another framework built on pylons, but I'm hoping it will get folded into Pylons proper so that I don't have to maintain a separate project.

http://bitbucket.org/agentultra/pylons/overview
I wonder if Alpha would have succeeded if, in addition to NT, Microsoft ported Office, the whole BackOffice family and Visual Studio. It's not that hard to blame them for the fact we still use hypertrophied 8080s.
I've started using org-mode to write my papers, then convert to LaTeX. Not perfect, but I find it's more natural to write in org-mode and helps me focus on the content instead of drifting off onto the internet to research macros. (Now I can drift off to read HN instead, a vast improvement in non-productivity.)

I've started thinking of TeX as the assembly language of document formatting, LaTeX as C, and org-mode as... pick your favorite higher-level language here, I'll go with Python.

Not a perfect metaphor, but in terms of paper productivity it feels that way.
YouTube - William Burroughs - Do Easy by Gus Van Sant
Realtime Linux: academia v. reality
This story seriously choked me up. Simply incredible and highly inspirational. Thanks for sharing.
I disagree with the OP that managers "ideally" wouldn't be necessary. It's only the stigma of BAD managers that we dislike. A great manager is a LEADER who inspires and moves everything forward. Without those people we're just a bunch of people working in parallel in a room, hoping it actually connects in some useful way at the end. The person who can draw everyone together for a common purpose and create a synchronous working environment IS the manager (whether you call him that or not).

Let's not confuse the necessary role of a leader with the horrible implementation by so many unqualified and stoopid people.
Your definitions are pretty close.

no lead = there's no one investor who particularly stands out (e.g. by taking >30% of the round); a lead would usually drum up the other investors; with no lead, it's the entrepreneur who drums up the others.

no fixed amounts, no closing: with convertible notes (as opposed to straightforward sale of shares, aka priced round) the entrepreneur can be a lot more flexible. The round doesn't technically have a valuation, but it does have a valuation cap: see my write-up http://www.yes-no-cancel.co.uk/2010/05/05/valuation-caps-on-... for an explanation. The amount raised can also be flexible.

This doesn't require any more of a leap of faith or any lower valuation than a priced round, and the paperwork is simpler. That's why convertible notes are very popular for seed rounds these days.
While we can eat and digest meat, that fact doesn't address the larger question of what is optimal for us to eat.

Our canine teeth are quite pathetic compared to true carnivores: 4, not very big. Compared to all our molars, side-to-side jaw motion for grinding veggies, etc. Also, compare teeth patterns of our primate relatives with us, and their diets - gorillas and chimps have much larger canine teeth, but their diets are mostly vegetarian.

Also, if we're meant to eat a lot of meat, why are our digestive tracts nothing like carnivores'? Compare length, acidity, and time to digest.

Finally, thousands of people die every year from choking on food. I don't think they're mostly choking on berries, leaves, or rice.
Very useful, now next I'd like to merge Gmail accounts if that isn't too much to ask for.
http://madlibber.com/ - Anonymous user generated madlibs. I can't stop working on this [adjective] app!

http://webchiever.com/ - Web achievements

http://inquiryapp.com/ - Hosted FAQs for your apps
Instead of being upgraded the ELO system is actually being applied to other sports because of its solid statistical basis.
a javascript/web worker/canvas/svg/heatmap toy

http://github.com/xxx/heatmap
Getting a stable version of Noostr ready for release. Added multiple database options, plugin support, better themeing and pagination (big one) this release :)
fogus, thanks for highlighting that article, which then showed up in the HN feed on Twitter. Great advice and perspective from Chris Wanstrath.
Oh, the content here is far more informative and useful! But you're right, I've done the same with this site from time to time...
Is the page load time that significant in bounce rates? (Your list includes A/B testing; how about figuring out if you get more emails when the marketing page is secure or insecure?)
Jack of all trades, master of none.
I'm a huge fan of Charles Stross's "Accelerando".

I also love (most) of what William Gibson has written, including his
non-science-fiction stuff like "Pattern Recognition" and "Spook Country".
I know this doesn't add to the discussion, but I wanted to thank you for the term "clustercoitus". I hope you hold no copyright on it.
The igraph library for complex network research
kevingadd -

We tend to use var when the return type is obvious, but we wanted to be explicit in the examples. Unfortunately, LINQ is not an option for us as we support .NET 2.0.

Your C# and Python predicate examples are quite readable, but in this case they don't work for us. The return type of each of these statements would be true or false, whereas we are building XML requests to be sent to a server to perform the searches. The call to Amount.Between(...) builds an XML node behind the scenes representing the search data.

Drew Olson (Braintree Dev)
The article disparages universities for having a larger and larger percentage of courses taught by lecturers rather than researching profs, but in my experience (ME, Stanford) the lecturers did a much better job teaching me than the Profs did, on average. Probably because they saw it as their primary occupation rather than an annoyance.
Upvoted - great questions.

We use Wufoo for our lead capture; we could A/B test by creating two different forms, but we haven't. These e-mails don't track clicks, but all our other e-mails do.

I'll take the single incremental click/follow/Like any day; it's pretty clear that there's some return there, even if it's low. Also, it appears that those who Like on Facebook, in particular, are normals and not tech enthusiasts, which warms my heart.
Depending on your region and local competition, my personal experience is that you can do pretty well with this. It becomes a bit of a grind to keep doing this for many years, but you should be able to clock $200K/year for a few years to establish a bank account and some experience to do the Next Thing.
Making the Modern Do-It-Yourself Biology Laboratory
Don't worry, the discussion about women is because people (aka men) are having a hard time getting laid, keeping a woman, dealing with the woman they have or the feelings they have about her -- or, on the other hand, understanding the appeal of women to start with.

In my experience, those men prefer to throw up their hands and act as if women are mystical instead of totally explicable (like all human beings are, if you look closely enough). That way they don't have to admit they're too lazy/incapable of understanding anyone who has a different viewpoint and priorities ;)

The "I'm ultra logical and uber rational" posture is part and parcel of it.
Entrepreneurs: Resist The Sirens' Call Of Exciting New Ideas
The southern part of Manhattan Island (below all the streets with numbers, like Wall Street) still has a very "old-world" street layout, and if you imagine shorter buildings down there, it's definitely laid-out pre-car. I'm smitten by how twisty and close-in everything is when I get down to that part of the city. Probably due to that, it's also a bit more walkable in certain ways than the rest of the island.

Some of the old Spanish settlements in the South, and especially the old part of San Juan Puerto Rico are very old world feeling.
> Alexis you bastard, making me cry at work!

Seconded. And also thanks for sharing.
Well, actually it's kind of like an unholy Python/Tcl mutant thing, since the one-word tag determines the parsing of its line and children - but yes, significant indentation using a Perl filter.
Something like the Django admin feature but for MS Sql Server and more generic; to sell to companies. I figure a lot of companies have databases for internal purposes but don't have programmers to make CRUD apps for them.

I'm still not sure how to locate potential customers or how much to charge. Any advice on that?
It's a very good question, and hardly a trivial one. Quite a lot of science is nearly worthless, and only published to pad the author's cv. A couple of blog posts on the topic:

http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2010/06/24/all_those_wo...

http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2010/06/25/what_to_do_w...
How Jun Loayza’s Laser-Like Focus Could Lead To A Multi-Million Dollar Exit
I was speaking primarily about modern day and the future, not antiquity.

Though that paper makes some difficult-to-verify claims.

It might be less a result of the diet's intrinsic problems and more a result of evolutionary pressures favoring dumber people, because work is much easier, so investing in intellect wastes energy that could be spent on other things.
Eight ? Or Eighty? Eight seems terribly small!

edit: I just read on and you mention her new salary is $35K and it's a huge improvement but I find it still hard to believe that someone would actually go to work 15 hours per day for a $8K pay per year. That works out to be substantially less than minimum wage.
"Last revised" might be a better wording.
Could you elaborate more on what you feel is "female-friendly?"

Just something as simple as more females? I'm interested.
"Republicans don't actually stand for anything, they're just really good at winning elections".

This is a quote from the movie Boogieman: The Lee Atwater Story. (Lee Atwater was a Republican spin-doctor who influenced Karl Rove, the man who helped Bush get elected.)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1262863/

It seems to me when people vote the Republicans into power that America slides backwards for those years.

ps. I'm not American, so I don't really care one way or the other who America elects as president, as long as he (or she) leaves my country alone.
working on my startup for LED lighting products
http://www.lellan.com
They never really said how they manage this, or whether they wrote it down. What ways of keeping people on the same page are most effective?