skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
...reading the actual article to the end.

...focusing on the facts mentioned and rather than the asides offered by the author.

Here's another reference to the part about starches

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/6983330.stm
I'd guess that the higher population density in a farming civilization is more to blame for diseases than the food they're eating.
David S. Rose's Investment Principles Applied To The Music Industry
This is a terrible idea, unless you want a full time job. You didn't deduct from the $8,000 a month income - repairs, taxes, upkeep, insurance, potential loss of income due to bad tenants, tenants that damage your property - a bad tenant could cause $100K+ damage to your property and stop paying rent entirely. Also, property value loss due to deflation of the housing market, and other risks.

The average price of maintenance on a house is 1-3% of its value per year - this takes $20-60K per year off the top of your income. Be sure to take taxes off that as well as deadbeat tenants.

You could actually be in a negative situation, especially if you get a bad tenant that damages your property.
Ten Steps To Ten Thousand Sign Ups Before We Even Launch Our Startup
I think your first bit is misleading. You probably mean that you should be looking to get out of the gate with the minimum feature set, and then move into differentiation to build a loyal customer base. Trying to feature-match from the get-go can cost a lot of time and money, with no guarantee that a competitor won't blow you out of the water while you do so.
My goal is to work for a few years in an interesting software development position on a smart team, getting paid a fair wage while providing the company with equal value in return.

Yeah, that's not how it works, ever. If you copypasted this from under "Objective" in your resume, which is what it sounds like, you might want to remove the words "equal value".
Colleges Serve the People Who Work There, Not the Students
re: (2) I suggest that congressmen start checking the executive branch, which is their duty. Failing to do so, they committ a soft form of treason. We expect the guys in uniform to sacrifice their lives, but the congressmen are not even expected to sacrifice their careers in the defense of the U.S. Constitution. Soldiers will continue to die for nothing, and congressmen will continue avoiding unpopular fights that might cost them votes.
Interactive multiplayer Voronoi Diagrams in Java/Processing. http://uncc.ath.cx/applets/Voronoi_Standalone/
I met a guy (I can give more details offline) who worked for an international gambling syndicate based in HK. Software written by teams in Shenzhen running on servers in HK fed by data from handicappers in Australia directed bettors to place bets at tracks all over the world. They were making something like 15-20% returns. As you can imagine, he had some crazy stories. At the time I was thinking about something similar (not horses) but eventually moved on to more respectable things (grad school.)
I think the debate is about the digital representation of the design. Obviously the art form has existed for far longer than copyright, let alone the internet. The design which is discussed in the linked article is called "Summer Blackwork" - Blackwork is a style popular in the 1500s and was described by Chaucer. Ironically, designs from the 1500s have largely not survived, due to the corrosive effect of the iron-based dye, and designs from today will will not survive 500 years either, due to the corrosive effect of modern laws.

These designs are unusually easy to copy. Unlike, say, a watercolour, it is simple to create an exactly identical copy (lossless copying) with Roman-era technology and limited skill. The "intellectual property" can be represented by an 80x80 bitmap (in the case of the design which is discussed in the linked article), with perhaps a few additional bits to provide some hints on different stitches or sequence.

Only in the past few years have people begun selling simple frozen data representations of these designs (without any physical product) long after the internet, mass production, modern copyright law and discussion - in fact largely after people begun freely sharing other commercial digital representations such as music and film. How someone can invest such a business while being totally oblivious to the fundamentals of it is beyond me. It would be like starting a taxi company before discovering there were private cars on the road or something. In fact, the major of these shops were started by hobbyists, who were previously artists who would create, evolve and freely share their designs - and were probably much happier that way. The creation of this artifical industry by modern copyright law simply adds inefficiency to the system - there is demonstrably no shortage prior to the laws, and with modern technology, there is a greater supply of both copyrighted and free design than at any time in history. The argument for copyright at all seems weak and the argument for our current infinite copyright system weaker still. Ditch the lot, have the artists go back to designing and sewing instead of spending their time scouring the web looking for their "intellectual property", and everyone will be happier and more creative.
In the time since 10.5 was released, MS has gone from the creaking, ancient XP to putting out Vista (yes, with some rough edges) to Windows 7, which is, frankly, the best desktop operating system that Microsoft has ever produced.

The superbar is a better dock than the Dock. Windows Search was a usable app launcher before Spotlight was. Aero Snap and Peek are useful window management features.

During the same time period, desktop linux has rapidly evolved, with Ubuntu 10.04 being a very polished UI on top of a *nix base -- something which used to be OS X's great claim to fame.

What I'm getting at is that Apple has been so focused on the mobile sector that they've been consistently and thoroughly out-innovated by their competitors in the last several years. I don't understand how anyone could argue that Apple resting on their laurels after 10.5 while Windows and Linux has consistently moved forward could possibly be a good thing.

I mean, remember WWDC 2006 where Apple was bragging that they were releasing Vista 2.0? [1] What about WWDC 2004 with the "Introducing Longhorn" banners? [2] For much of the last decade, Apple was at the forefront of desktop innovation. That hasn't really been the case since they started focusing on iOS, and the fact that they're pulling manpower from the Macintosh to work on iOS is a key factor in why.

[1] http://www.macdailynews.com/index.php/weblog/comments/10441/
[2] http://macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2004/07/01/wwdc.html
This guy just wants some publicity, it will never happen. The fact that it's possible, though, is scary.

How come Supreme Court precedents don't apply to the military justice system? They already decided it's illegal to murder people for rape, so it's probably illegal to murder people for posting YouTube videos. (Is it ironic that the title of the video was "Collateral Murder" and there are talks of murdering the leak?)

The fact that this guy was in the military means he will never get a fair trial, which is a human rights violation on par with North Korea and China. Does the "land of the free" really want to stoop to the level of North Korea, just because some guy leaked a video he shouldn't have?

I would vote to acquit.
Hehe, funny thing is that Microsoft is loosing a lot of money and not gaining significant market share. Looks like it doesn't pay off to be evil :). I mean evil as in want to conquer every type of business in the world.
I figured something like that. I generally avoid using the term 'Window Manager' because none of twm, fvwm, blackbox, enlightenment, etc. only provide window management - there's almost always some included app launcher.
The last time I looked at the procedure for running Perl/PHP within a jail, it looked like a sysadmin’s nightmare. Of course, that was a while ago, in the pre-kernel-virtualization era. (There must be a way to run one virtual machine inside another, right?)
Great ideas, many detailed that I have not seen laid out openly before. Being very selective about "who really wants in on the closed beta" is a great point.
A URL shortening service (as a slightly non-trivial exercise in Erlang).
You know, I don't really like this sort of comment. Someone goes to great effort to empirically verify something, something that is against common wisdom, then someone gets to just float in with 20/20 hindsight and say "Well, yeah, duh."

If it was so "yeah, duh", where's comment your about how blindingly obvious it was that common wisdom was wrong that dates from before somebody demonstrated it with concrete data and large test runs?

All you'd have to do to improve your comment is remove the last "Stop the presses" snark.
> Whether copying on the internet should be stopped is irrelevant..you couldn't stop this

You can't stop any human behaviour completely. This is irrelevant to whether you should try.
Johnny Long wrote an interesting book called No-tech hacking: A Guide to Social Engineering, Dumpster Diving, and Shoulder Surfing that might interest you.
I believe the close proximity of animals and people (for the first time in history) is what was responsible for the new diseases.

Of course, the higher human population density means increased likelihood of contagion.
New York Times licenses its iPhone & iPad software to other media companies
Some apps use third-party libraries like Sparkle to provide this. But it's inconsistent between applications with no guarantee that any given app is updated without user intervention.
If you want to create, create. Don't demand a living from it, and don't tell me society has a duty to provide that living "for the good of everyone."

And for the love of God don't tell me on the freaking HACKER news network that technology needs to be restricted "for the good of art".

3D printing machines will scan existing objects and reproduce them perfectly, and this is a problem why? If you have all the free bowls and plates and shoes you need, well, maybe you'll have more free time to sculpt.
Have a look at "The Worst Mistake In The History Of The Human Race" by Jared Diamond http://www.environnement.ens.fr/perso/claessen/agriculture/m...

Agriculture was (is?) a disaster for our health.

Edit: I noticed that you spoke about increased energy intake and brain size, not just health.
Does Intel make chips for Cell phones?
Best Web Design and Web Development Tutorials Roundup [July 2010]
This month’s article contains a roundup of 20 great tutorials written by various Web Designers and Web Developers in July 2010. After reading these stunning materials you will gain a big amount of fresh knowledge for you professional and/or personal interest.
I haven't ever tried with PHP, but didn't have much trouble chrooting Perl for a wiki (usemod) I was running a while ago.
It has mutated quite a lot since I started... I'm taking the positions of everyone's mouse and feeding them to Fortune's sweep line algorithm to make Voronoi diagrams. I've made it look like you are a cell squeezing through layers of tissue.
http://uncc.ath.cx/applets/Voronoi_Standalone/
The fastest language is the one that you know well enough that you are actually able to implement and release your ideas to your users. Benchmarks speed is only one part of the equation.
Which is why, as a society, we very specifically outline their chain of command and that chain of command ends at the one person in the country that must be elected by the majority of people in the country.

So while I understand Military Justice might look harsh to civilians you have to understand that it’s absolutely necessary. The guys with guns who have the legal right to kill people have to be held to the highest standard possible.

In sane places, ordinary individuals are also allowed to own guns and to kill people (mostly limited to self-defense). Some states have the death penalty; that power rests with a judge or set of judges (with approval from twelve semi-random people).

I think it has more to do with the need to act together and be reliable. Given the top-down decision structure and time/resource constraints involved in going to war, soldiers not following orders can be rather like your brakes malfunctioning or one of your tires falling off while driving down the Interstate. Probably there's also a bit of historical artifact in not distinguishing sufficiently (I believe there are some recognized distinctions) between whether or not a particular incident could actually have that extreme of an effect.

As do the paper pushers who deal with confidential data since they too can cause a person’s death through their actions.

So can people designing or building bridges and skyscrapers.

As such you have to understand the highest value in a soldier’s life must be “to follow orders”. Because if that soldier substitutes his own judgment for that of his commander than our whole society falls apart (this is how we get military coups). Which is why we force soldiers to sign over their life to the military for their term of duty and why we take away many of their rights as citizens. You, as a private citizen, can tell off your boss without any fear of legal repercussions but a soldier will go to jail for the same act because the highest military value is “obey your commander”.

This is why the Nuremberg trials were a complete farce.
That's a convincing argument that higher population density improves collective intelligence, but says less about the individual.
As someone who actually has some experience in this particular industry (my mother ran a cross-stitch group for a number of years) I can tell you that the number one gripe has always been - the price of designs.

It has always been very difficult to make a good living from stitching supplies, including designs, it's one of those weird disconnects where people have always seemed to resent paying for them. Kits always sold better than designs alone and I don't think many people paid out too often if they could help it, and this was 10 years ago.

My mother had design software back then, so I imagine it is still available today, and if people can do it themselves, or get a techy relative (lol) to whip up what they want, why pay for it?

I also doubt that this "piracy" trend is new, the designs back then were just printed in black and white on paper with number references for the thread colour, people could just photocopy them or simply hand them around. I imagine that this kind of behaviour is what is going on now, I mean I think it's similar to the cry of "everyone should buy their own CDs", stitching is one of those things where people share deigns.

I mean you take a look at the Etsy listings someone posted, these are discrete seperate peices, one alphabet letter is $4, all of them are very simple, and unlikely to be used alone, so you get back to designs being stupidly expensive. Want to write a name with your Disney character design? It'll all add up, and then the stitcher needs the threads and equipment on top of the design, so people share designs, I know Wendy has an A, I could get an L and so and so has a I and so on.

10 years ago, the large designs were being sold as high as a few hundred £s each, and people baulked at the price, they baulked at £25, they baulked at £10 or less sometimes, lol, everything was too expensive, and it's hard to justify spending a large amount of money on a hobby with little return apart from as a nice gift.

One interesting thing would be to see who the demographic is these days, because piracy tends to be associated with the young, but stitching tends to be the refrain of middle aged and older women, I'd be interested to know, if it is still the 45+ demographic and if they even realise they ARE "pirating" designs.
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Let's say Cisco spends $1B on advertizing and ends up with an extra 800M in sales and $900M in profit after taxes. Was that a good idea?

PS: The actual numbers may look like this. By selling more units your price per unit usually drops. But, sometimes it's better to sell fewer things at a higher margin. For a company like Cisco maintains a specific brand image is worth a lot. They may sell cheap home networking equipment but they don't use the Cisco brand.
Art Of Deception was a fun read (along with Intrusion). I found it not to be a guide per se (although it may be billed that way) but the stories are inspiring and really get you into the mindset.
If you could increase the number of connections to 100,000 you would indeed be a genius because when you bind to a network interface using IPV4 there is a hard limit of the short integer used to indicate the port number which automatically limits you to 65536 connections (actually a few less, usually you'll lose 3 for stdin,stdout and stderr (which you can close to reuse them) and one for the listen socket).

As far as I know the only way around this is to use multiple IPS (possibly aliases on the same interface) but that would still require a new process.

So even if your per-process limit for fds can be larger than 64K the network layer or the mapper that turns fds in to socket ids for the network stack to work with may impose a restriction. I don't know enough about the linux kernel to figure out what exactly causes this.

I use the 64K limit on some high throughput machines (mostly video and image servers), but when I go over that I need to start another process. Possibly there's a way around that but the expense of another process is fairly small so I haven't put in much time to see if I can work around that. Socket to fd mapping presumably takes in to account the address as well as the port so it shouldnt't be a problem but on the kernel of the machines where I have to resort to these tricks it appears to be a limit.

Maybe someone with more knowledge of the guts of the linux kernel can point out why this happens.
Are we talking government jobs or private jobs? He's surly expanded the government.
There's also the transfer of diseases from some of the animals we depend on.
Boy meets new Mac. Boy falls in love with Mac. Boy decides to ditch Windows laptop. +1 Fanboy.

Where's the story here? Because he's a VC this is news?
Camelot! http://www.python-camelot.com/
Michael Lopp of Apple tends to confirm that statement on a recent tweet:

"Apple is run like a huge startup that makes 15 billion a quarter and has, ya'know, a strategy."
Something that surprises me about MongoDB is that they always talk about how this is for humungous data sets.

But then MongoDB does not seem to support online/hot backups without setting the whole system to read only. Incremental backups are not supported at all, AFAICS. If a server crashes, you're up to some really lengthy fsck action before your server is back up.

I don't understand how people actually make this work. If you have a huge databases, a complete backup is going to take too long to make setting your system to read-only feasible. And if a server crashes, even if you have a hot standby replica, if you have to do several hours of fsck before you can restore regular operations, that doesn't sound good either.

It's nice to see movement in the database market, and MongoDB looks really good from a front-end side (JS, indexes, queries, ...); but I think it really is lacking some crucial features.
I guess in older times even dying long after breeding could have had an effect: not being able to look after children => less chance of survival of children carrying same gene.

You are right that in modern society this effect is not so powerful probably, but if we take this reasoning forward, it could mean that diseases of old age will be more and more prevalent as there is no selection pressure for defense against them. Is this happening already?
The Obama administration can only create government jobs (or jobs otherwise funded by government spending). Any idiot could borrow a huge pile of money and hire a bunch of people to sit on their thumbs. If you're talking competency I'd want to know how well the administration balanced the need to create jobs against the adverse effects of growing debt and I'd want to know whether the employment was valid, useful and sustainable.
Women Attracted to Redshirts, Research Shows
Too bad they always die first, Star Trek Shows
Here I made this for you.
http://uncc.ath.cx/applets/Voronoi_Standalone/
The seal has been uploaded to Wikipedia as an SVG. SVG is a vector image format, which allows for arbitrary resizing without any loss in quality, while the PNG (raster) version is automatically generated on Wikipedia's servers at whatever size the user wants.

N.B.: I did not downvote.
When we get to comments like this, I think we can safely say this doesn't belong on Hacker News. There must be some other political forum where this can rehashed.
Every effort to empower common man will be resisted because, Administration will not allow their clout to be diluted and they want you to be subservient forever.
What are the key attributes that come across on video?
> 'this is how we get military coups'

Well, in the past there were quite a long chain of military coups supported by the US, specially here in Latin America in the 60s and 70s, and generally this was supported (and orchestrated) by the high-ranking military officers of these countries, to summarize I think that your thinking is flawed, just because you have a couple of soldiers following orders does not mean that the military will necessarily defend the government in the case of a coup, even in these days the powerful (secular supporting) military of Turkey is feared by the (religious inspired) ruling party.

For me, a coups generally occurs when there are so much partisanship in a country that even the high-ranking officials are supporting one side.
Mobile photo scavenger hunt: http://www.playlookit.com

One topic a day, one pic per day.
"I am so bored" is girlish
After seeing http://whatthefuckismysocialmediastrategy.com/ and http://whatthefuckshouldimakefordinner.com/ i was thinking of making a similar site.

Thinking of an idea i was reminded of a friend who keeps iterating "I am bored!"

and why not create a site IamsoboredWhatthefuckshouldIdo.com and doing a search on twitter for "I am so bored" I found that most of the people who tweeted "i am so bored" are girls or women!
I was there in 2003 and Exchange, Chrome, iWork etc. mentioned in the post either didn't exist or didn't work.

Didn't bother me, but there's a whole tranche of people that it did. Personally I've moved on to a tiny Samsung netbook with Ubuntu (a market Apple skipped mostly because it's low margin) and much prefer it.
NASA puts off space station repair until Friday‎
GHC Haskell is doing surprisingly well. That must be a testament to the extremely high quality of the GHC code generator and optimizer.
Make that Ten Thousand and One. This post worked on me -- awesome ideas.

I especially like that you just don't default to the blog for all content and announcements. Diversifying your news and updates across multiple channels is a great way to make it more accessible in some cases and always reaching out to new audiences.

As someone who is working on getting a product ready for launch (http://gethifi.com), this post was extremely helpful.
How do you identify the buggy app? My wife's Nexus One seems to be exhibiting the symptoms but obviously I don't get to observe it in general use to give me some intuition on what's causing the issue.
StarCraft II Fastest Selling Strategy Game of All Time