skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a restatement of what we've puzzled over for some time now: that those who consume modest amounts of alcohol have a reduced risk of mortality.

It's an epidemiologic association, so this isn't something you can exactly hang your hat on and encourage people to do. But it has been observed that cardiovascular risk is lowest for women who have just under 1 drink per day, and men who have 2 or fewer per day.

This reinforces the older literature, but doesn't really help illuminate the causal chain, if any.

(Edit - as sp332 points out below, this does present new data about an association between heavy drinking and reduced mortality in this cohort.)
I would love to hear that too. The sad fact is that author's are getting even less for ebooks while the publisher is getting more.

http://www.daemonsbooks.com/2010/08/09/ebook-vs-regular-book...
A story, perhaps apocryphal, about Thomas Edison. He would hold ball bearings in his hand as he fell asleep, and the noise of them falling to the floor would wake him immediately as he went to sleep, thus generating the shortest possible power nap.

There's a decent chance that story is actually lifted wholesale from a similar one told about Dali, except it was a spoon instead of ball bearings. I suppose it's the best you can do after melting your alarm clock.
Droid ships with a "Droid Sans Mono Slashed" with a slashed zero -- at least on Gentoo.
I'll be the first to admit I need to 'code like a girl' more.
American Game Devs Can Make Four Times as Much in Japan, Company Says
Come on, Patrick. American Taxi is pretty much the cab company for all of the Chicago suburbs. You think they do 40k fares to/from ORD? That's 500 fares an hour.

There's a difference between airport taxi service by chauffeur-licensed drivers dispatched by a branded cab company (with something to lose if drivers misbehave) and "I signed up with 1 of 5 different companies that dispatch cabs with iPhones".

I don't have prove that the Chicago medallion system is sensible; I'm only objecting to the notion that there is no valid concern behind them other than for-profit restraint of trade. There are absolutely valid concerns behind medallions. Go to an NYC airport or outside Penn Station and find an unlicensed cab; take 10 drives, and tell me how many of them try to screw you over. Do the same thing with medallion drivers; none of them will.
This is only an issue if you're buying e-books from Amazon. There are plenty of wonderful texts available in the public domain, already formatted for the Kindle [0,1], and plenty of other options for public domain texts in other supported formats [2,3].

But regardless, the Kindle natively supports PDF, HTML, and plain text, and should you want to, Amazon provides a tool to convert those and other formats (including ePub) to the Kindle's proprietary mobipocket-derived format. They even provide Linux binaries [4].

Don't want to deal with conversions and manually managing your library? Just use Calibre [5]; it's open source.

And that's exactly why I placed my order: I'm not willing to accept Amazon's DRM, which will force me to read older works to get value out of the device. A goal I've had since reading a quote dubiously attributed to Einstein: "Somebody who only reads newspapers and at best books of contemporary authors looks to me like an extremely near-sighted person who scorns eyeglasses. He is completely dependent on the prejudices and fashions of his times, since he never gets to see or hear anything else."

[0]: http://manybooks.net/

[1]: http://www.feedbooks.com/

[2]: http://classics.mit.edu/

[3]: http://www.gutenberg.org/

[4]: http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?ie=UTF8&docId=1000...

[5]: http://calibre-ebook.com/
You missed the part where the taxi gets rated. Problem solved.
With some prior setup you can actually get automatic stack traces in C/C++ for some common crashes ( SIGSEGV, or any other signal for that matter ).

http://www.tlug.org.za/wiki/index.php/Obtaining_a_stack_trac...
I'm on board with this, but that doesn't change anything about book pricing; this is an orthogonal concern.
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EDIT: Eh... It could use some help ..
HP Holds Navy Network ‘Hostage’ for $3.3 Billion
How do colors affect purchases?
I agree. Inspiration is a big factor. I have hard numbers based on 50K users of where I think this can go; I just struggle with not finishing things.

Good luck with your deal! Pandora took 10 years to be where it is, so it's obviously the right thing to do in some cases.
It's illegal to drive and text message in California; their drivers more or less have to break the law to participate.
Gotcha. You do know that with Twitter, you can go in and specifically revoke an app's access to your account?

> Often I try something out first to see if it's worth the trouble.

It's really interesting that we use the same logic to justify totally different outcomes.

> but not to the exclusion of a standalone account.

To provide some context, I'd like to keep things as simple as possible, in general. Even with technical people, it's easy to get confused with multiple login options. Every time I go to Quora, something in my brain remembers that I used Facebook to sign up, so I click that button on the home page, and get a message about how I'm already signed up, I need to actually log in with my email/password via the other form. Every time.
Boomerang-shaped desk with two monitors: one large, one small. The large monitor shares space with Windows apps and the VNC to my Linux session. On my Linux fvwm2 desktop I primarily use konsole to tab around different xterms, and gvim + NerdTree to edit my RTL source code.

Almost every hardware designer I know uses vim. I guess we're not very lispy.
I've only been in a mall twice in the last 5 years.

However, point taken. The issue I have with DRM however, is fundamentally different. When someone steals a piece of tangible merchandise, the store is out because they actually borrowed money to purchase that merchandise up front, and has to eat the cost. There is no rational argument that can setup an equivalent with digital media. Additionally, There is absolutely no reason any ebook should cost more than $10 when the hardcover is available for $16-$20. Yes there is overhead in providing these items for download, but much of that overhead is directly tied to keep people from stealing it. Neat, so take $3 off the price of your ebook and more people will be willing to buy it.
Your Car Would Have to Get 70 MPG to Be as Clean as an Electric Car
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I'm curious - why both SciTE and Notepad++?
the asian market is for the most part untapped by the western world, sometime because of ignorance to the market and sometimes by culture difference. nonetheless the east asian market (china, korea and japan... especially the last 2) is probably the most digital of the world. I've never seen more screens in front of people's eyes as I have in my 2 years living here in korea, it's a gold mine if you know how to approach it... but there resides the challenge, approaching it, which for the most part is a close culture, takes local help and that's what I guess these guys are offering.

maybe we should keep an close look here and see what will they bring to the table. 'cause if it works it may be a new opportunity door to start making the cross over.
Why not link to the actual source?

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/31/technology/31autodesk.html...
title of paper is: "Late-life alcohol consumption and 20-Year mortality" http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/store/10.1111/j.1530-0277.201...

in particular, they are looking whether some 55-65 year olds died the next 20 years, women were underrepresented in their sample (just 37%) who tend to be lighter drinkers anyhow [citation needed]. participants were select by having been at a health care facility in the last 3 years. the socioeconomic factors they took into account where those at the start ("at baseline"). i.e., who knows what changed in the past or future, or why they were in a health care center, etc. was there an observation effect? who knows.

the yahoo article doesn't seem to represent this very well. hype hype hype
IE6 yes. I use VS because IE Developer Tools doesn't offer sophisticated enough JavaScript debugging. I work with large JS-heavy projects, like entire clients built in JS that talk JSON/REST to a backend server.
The first printed books came with a question: What do you do with these things?
A step in the right direction, I suppose. But as a hacker and an architecture grad student, no industry infuriates me more than the architectural software industry.

If you're looking for a new startup idea and you can build a cross-platform 3D modeler that:

* is compatible with existing file formats
* can cut real-time 2D plans and sections
* provides a well documented API in multiple modern languages (please no more BASIC)

I will hand you $1,000 right now. And that's coming from someone who has $3,000 in the bank thanks only to his latest loan check.

Seriously, I think there is real money to be made here.
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Well, I'm using SciTE for VHDL coding (on Windows). Armed with a snippets plugin and connected to multiple Python scripts it's quite a beast.
From the NYT article (the source of this blog spam):

"Autodesk will soon introduce a free mobile version of the software that will run on the iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch. That version has more limited capabilities, Mr. Hanspal said. But with it, an engineer, for example, could bring drawings to a job site on an iPad, rather than on a big roll of paper, and make annotations on them."
As an interesting counterpoint, I often find myself with the exact opposite problem: I start too often. It's to the point now where I have 4 or 5 active side projects, and then I think of something else cool that I want to build... and then it's hard to actually work on and continue with them, especially after the 'fun stuff' of the initial creation is over.
I saw this one pass by a few weeks ago, it may interest you:

http://yieldprolog.sourceforge.net/

"Yield Prolog lets you embed Prolog programs directly in Python, C# [1] or Javascript [2] by using the yield keyword."
What's new is that, in this study, heavy drinkers outlived abstainers. Very unexpected, even though I knew that moderate drinkers had some health benefits.
Nothing. I did it once, in a particularly abusive situation in Boston.
"You probably don’t even know what skills you need, so don’t worry about it. Start with what you already know."

For my first startup, I created the whole site from scratch. I had developed software for years and thought I had a pretty good handle on things.

I did know some things, but was surprised by how many gaps there were in my knowledge. Coding something from the front end all the way to the back was a great way to learn.

That's not to mention the business and legal knowledge I gained. There's so much involved in even getting a small project going, that you can really only learn by doing.
Reminds me of an old Willie Nelson song, "I Gotta Get Drunk," with the lines: "There's a lot of doctors that tell me / that I'd better start slowin' it down, / But there's more old drunks, than there are old doctors, / So I guess we'd better have another round."
Term Paper Analysis on Poetry
If you are to write a term paper analyzing poetry, better learn the peculiar words poets used in writing poems. When you do not understand what the poet tries to convey by his poem says then interpret it literally. This article shows how to simplify the analyzing poetry.
Should "stealthish" startups get reviewed on HN?
Should the pros of feedback outweigh a company's interest in having a few more months head start on others.
You have to start if you want to accomplish anything.
Never mind you don't have the skill, or it would take too long to come up with something meaningful...

Just do it!
haha, nice analogy! Yeah, the music industry has extra hurdles for sure.
I really enjoy mint tea made from the mint growing outside my window.
The fruit tree numbers are a bit silly; land isn't free, they should really be including the rent/mortgage cost of the land too. The returns would be less impressive at that point I'd imagine.
Dupe: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1646148
I' not sure what you mean. Anyway, rats can make fine companions, and the taste of meat is a direct consequence of the treatment of beasts. So, I say we should care, even for purely selfish reasons.
I don't think your summary is quite correct

"abstaining from alcohol does actually tend to increase one's risk of dying even when you exclude former drinkers. The most shocking part? Abstainers' mortality rates are higher than those of heavy drinkers."

"Even though heavy drinking is associated with higher risk for cirrhosis and several types of cancer (particularly cancers in the mouth and esophagus), heavy drinkers are less likely to die than people who have never drunk."

Side question : For your statement about men, is that just under 2 a day or less than 2 a day?
What Paul Allen and Larry Ellison Have in Common
How is it a win for consumers to let taxi fare rates float? Taxis are very cheap (many reasonable drives inside the Chicago Loop are within 100% of what it would cost to take the CTA). Floating rates would almost certainly rise.

If a regulatory change harms consumers, what's the point of deregulating?

San Francisco might benefit from deregulation, because there are political problems and structural breakages in their system. But the Chicago and NYC cab systems work pretty well right now as far as I can tell.

Incidentally, while I agree that medallion caps are anticompetitive and an artifact of old price-fixing schemes, they have a beneficial effect of making it expensive to operate a licensed cab, which creates incentives for cab operators to avoid some negative externalities of their business (like running people down, or operating blatantly unsafe vehicles, etc).
People are not used to buying sofware like they do other products/services
There isn't any actual property to steal. That's the thing, steal is the wrong word to use, so is thief. I don't think there are words that exist in the english language to encompass the moral implications of downloading media without paying the creator and the producer of that media.

I do firmly believe the negative moral implications of content producers taking so much off the top of content creators take of the transaction to be much worse than the implications of someone downloading a file without paying.

This argument is all about perspective (lots of different right answers). Mine is just one that tends to support the creator not the producer, by attending live shows and book signings. Live appearances are where creators make the money.

Maybe all the content creators need a payment system/network for their web sites that allows guilty parties to pay money directly to them so they don't have to feel bad about downloading their content from sources other than the producers.
Good call, maybe I should have gone to the source. I just linked to the article I came across myself.
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I'm not familiar with 3D modelers, so could you explain what you mean by "cut real-time 2D plans and sections"?
I think doing yoga poses, walking up a steep hill for 10 minutes, or practicing guitar have similar/related brain benefits: Neurologists: is it epinephrine or endorphine?

Other debugging helpfuls:

- Rubber duck:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=510032

- or just look at your code in a different editor/syntax highlighter. Pull up ubuntu in VMware fusion ;-}
I realize this might not be your goal, but any chance you would consider targeting some features toward academics? Academic conferences are horrible to keep track of, and this seems like it might almost be a great solution.

The missing pieces, as I see them, include more structured programs (i.e., the sessions have titles; the speakers are listed even if they're not on Lanyrd or even Twitter) and the ability to follow series of conferences (i.e., I want to know what happens at OOPSLA every year, not just once).
I'm guessing you're male, young, a US resident, and not physically disabled. Tweak any of those variables, conduct 10 trials with an otherwise randomized population, and see how the results compare to your experience.
Fantastic response - bookmarked each of those links for future consideration.
I like the idea.
I log in, put in my measurements/traits (as many or few as I want (petite, bottom heavy, large bust, full figure, etc) and the system matches me up with clothes that not only FIT, but also look GOOD on me or at least complement my body shape.
If you just one day decide to start a blog. Chances are it will be mostly private audience for quite a while. Of course that is dis-regarding the spammers.
The Amiga is a good example of how in the long run a platform always win over a product.

The platform in this case being the PC.
Depends on your goals. If you just want to make a good living with the least stress, change nothing. If you're more ambitious, try the great idea.
Exploring Command-Query Responsibility Segregation and Event Sourcing with Ruby
Thanks! I have gone through a similar process.
2 a day or fewer (inclusive of 2 a day). Also, I think what you said and what I said are in agreement. This is why I called the article a "restatement," because it presents similar outcomes from a different perspective (abstainers have high mortality as opposed to moderate drinkers have low mortality - different ways to represent similar facts). But perhaps you still see a difference?

(Edit - see the comment from sp332 below where he/she explains the difference - the news about the heavy drinkers is novel.)
You missed the part where the cabbie gets together with his friends to pad his stats and/or only screws 1 in 10 fares, and the part where people aren't going to perceive the same social incentive to review a cab as, say, a trendy restaurant.
http://Pick.im.

While Pick.Im isn't exactly a community, it's a pretty fine resource for getting your name out there (or finding developers); I just used it the past week to find a bunch of great local (Denver) UI designers that I'm interviewing.
I don't have to wade into the philosophical argument here.

All I have to say is, you're getting offended that Amazon's suppliers think you will renege on the terms under which they provide you books and "liberate" them for the betterment of mankind as you perceive it.

You really have no business feigning outrage here, because the concerns of Amazon's suppliers are obviously well-founded. You might not renege, but given the opportunity, a huge fraction of all readers clearly will. Hell, they'll do it to avoid paying NINETY NINE CENTS to an independent iPhone software developer.
Yes, good point. I agree that this part is a new finding; thank you.
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With potatoes, when you have a few starting to get past it in the cupboard or potato box (going soft, growing on you, etc), just throw them in the ground and they will take off.

For anyone with a small amount of garden space, look into the book One Magic Square (I think that's what it's called). Local author/gardener, suggests square-metre plantings that are complementary or that will give you crops suiting certain meals (salads, soups, etc). The other big advantage is that you add a square-metre and get used to it before you take it further.

IME, one risk otherwise is diving in too deep and finding you've bitten off more than you can chew (well, manage by weeding, watering, etc). Instead, start incrementally.
In terms of just money, it's far cheaper to grow your own food. It does, however, take a significant time and effort commitment. Very few plants are simply plant-and-forget[1]. As usual, when you go to the store, you pay for the convenience more than for the product itself. Nonetheless, even when you consider time & labor, home-grown food probably comes out cheaper because a significant amount of the convenience markup comes from transportation, which gets eliminated entirely.

Even with the work it takes, I would strongly recommend it. Remember, the true cost of the time and effort you put in is the opportunity cost of what you could be doing instead with your time. For a large chunk of the population, that's TV or facebook (farmville, ha ha). Plus, there are intangible benefits beyond the retail value of the food itself. Personally, I find it immensely rewarding to eat food that I made myself from seed to plate. It tends to taste better too--foods in the grocery store are bred for fast harvest, lower soil requirements, long shelf life and durability during transportation. It should come as no surprise that they converge in most discernible attributes towards wax and cardboard. Meanwhile, the tomato seed varieties you can pick up at your local nursery are bred to optimize salad, pasta sauce, gazpacho and lasagna.

[1] Unless you live in Hawai`i. Seriously, you can throw a stick at any bare patch of ground on that island and come back to a tree in a few years. Lava is nutritious.
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tl;dr - Basically just Emacs and Conkeror on Ubuntu. The combo of xbindkeys and devilspie help me not have to worry about the WM; apps for which it makes sense are full-screened for me. Emacs does pretty much everything for me including git, shells, IRC, and IM. The only thing I leave Emacs for is browsing via Conkeror (which feels a lot like Emacs) and the occasional photo edit in Gimp. For working on remote hosts and pairing with remote devs, tmux is a blessing.

All this on a 1.1kg Thinkpad X200s with a Kinesis Freestyle keyboard. Nexus One with Cyanogen is used as a 3G modem when I'm out and about.
The 99% Rule (nsfw)
Did they verify non drinkers are non drinkers? My Doctor friend tells me that she is amazed at how many people when asked if they drink, emphatically say "Never".
No, I don't think there is much value during the design phase. Punch Lists are created when the building is near completion. The architect walks around the building, taking notes of what's not acceptable, and sends photographs + descriptions of an issue to the other contractors. With a portable version of AutoCAD this process could be made more efficient by allowing the architect to enter notes in the drawing file while at the site (and maybe attach images to it taken with iPad with the help of a macro or some other add-on).
IPlod: Apple's music player goes into decline
Westpac blames blackout on software glitch
Incidentally I've been working on a toy BIM software package for the last few months, just for fun. The amount of work to make anything that even remotely resembles production quality is staggering. The problem with this software is that it's hard to build incrementally. You need all the functionality to design 90% of all houses or people won't buy it. It needs 3d for the design + renderings and 2d for the cutouts / details. And you're asking for an API - that would be at the bottom of an implementor's list after all the basic functionality! Plus the cross-platform thing, which doesn't make software companies any money either (are you talking just Mac or also Linux?)

But yes there is real money to be made, and Autodesk is reaping it in. There are contenders for the small time market like Chief Architect but they're not bleeding money it seems. This is a winner takes all market and Autodesk has a 30 year advantage.
If I were a betting person, I'd guess that the 80/20 rule/myth applies here: http://joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000020.html . Everyone uses 80% of the features, and then another couple of pet features they CAN'T LIVE WITHOUT.