skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder if a post anonymous button would work or would it just lead to an overuse of anonymous posting. Something reasonable would be to restrict it to 1 anonymous topic a week and only anonymous replies in that single topic.
Could you describe the difference a little more? I'm really curious, but when I've seen Marmite here in the states, it's always been so ludicrously overpriced (for a little jar) that I've skipped it.
Some vegans try not to eat bacteria. It's usually not a problem for vegetarians.
this detail is wrong: the tar that ships on Mac OS X does indeed support resource forks.
I'm sure it'd be a lot cooler if it actually loaded. Loading the 2 links feels like I'm on dialup. Considering the rest of youtube is working just fine, I suspect somebody decided not to host everything on youtube's servers.
Same with the Canadian Swiss Steak IMP shown -- it's one of the least popular meals in the rotation, though it doesn't hold a candle to the universally reviled Ham Omelet (affectionately nicknamed the "Human Lung" and now thankfully long gone). The Macaroni & Cheese, however, is better than any such that ever came off a store shelf and makes a fantastic hearty breakfast (if you can imagine).

We were always told that you were supposed to be supplemented with fresh fruit & veg every so often to deal with the lack of fiber, but you can guess how often that happened in the field.
Yes.. maybe.

I developed an algorithmic trading program for fun once. I never let it loose on a real account, but it did better than break-even on a few months of data I collected.

BUT: the trading costs killed its viability (even using interactivebrokers), unless I upped the capital I was using to an amount that I wasn't comfortable risking.

There's a useful forum at http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/forumdisplay.php?s=4a039395d01...

Personally, I think you have less of a chance in making HF work for you than other methods though.
maybe we should make your boss pay you through an agency, that will keep most of your money. It should be each women's right to conduct her work in private,, with her ouwn guidelines that she is comfortable with. You already have us with a agency in your exampe which means we could not be independents. I am sure most of my clients would not come to visit if I where in some shady agency or spa with someone counting the money.
We are not cattel and we do not need anyone to monitor us, if you look at our orginal prostituion laws they where only created to stop a women from showing her wares in pubic.
Nobody is trying to montor how you have sex or with who. Your example is making the government the pimps and then they would be the ones exploiting people. Why do you think sex workers are so dumb they need to be regulated, we are not all addicts and most of us our middle aged sigle moms. Many of us are supporting our whole famiies because our husbands have been laid off, and we have lost our homes in foreclosure, we are soccor moms, yor neighbors,, we could very well be your mother, sister, aunt, cousin or child.
We only want to be decriminalized and have the same protection under the law. We want to stop being the vicitms of the worst HATE CRIME OF ALL. Hate just for being a sex worker.
Pretty interesting.

I actually think the most interesting thing is what happened to VA after the documentary. They've gone from a servers company to thinkgeek.com - weird.

Here is a pretty good story about it: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10413589-16.html
Yet most of the software development done nowadays is web, and guess which is the favorite target for web deployments?

Linux is coming of age in a post-desktop world, so the question is almost irrelevant. What IS relevant is that the biggest web technologies being used right now, as well as the technologies that will some day become dominant (Ruby, Scala, Haskell, Node.js, and others) are primarily for Linux and by Linux devs.

But as far as smartphones go, the question is still open, the market is still up for grabs, so developer-friendliness is going to be a top priority. Right now iPhone may be the top platform, but I would not underestimate Google's ability to appeal to developers (neither Apple's ability to make successive, giant leaps).
I doubt science matters to most veg's I've known.
One of my neighbors has the habit of ending his conversations with, "Well, I don't have anything left to say" and then going back to his apartment. I like that about him.

Other than that, I didn't like the article. From what I've seen of this blog, the blogger seems far too interested in seeking recognition for her often-childish neuroses rather than developing the self-efficacy to do anything about them. There's no shame in admitting you're too tired to hang out, and there's no need to greet an acquaintance at the grocery store with any more than a nod and a "hey man" if you don't have anything to say.
In my case the binary turned out to be much larger than I would have expected. I was expecting a couple hundred bytes tops, but 8k?

osx-box:dev esa$ nasm -f macho hello.asm && ld -e _start -o hello hello.o

osx-box:dev esa$ ls -lh hello*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 esa staff 8.1K Sep 5 22:43 hello
-rw-r--r-- 1 esa staff 721B Sep 5 22:39 hello.asm
-rw-r--r-- 1 esa staff 389B Sep 5 22:43 hello.o
Ask HN: HTML5 or Silverlight for a new Startup?
I am about to create a start-up offering an online service to consumers. Consumers that are not as tech savvy as HN users. We are talking about average mom and pop type users.

I want a rich user experience, something like a desktop quality application but on the Web. I have been considering Silverlight because it is already available and allows a rich application to be constructed. But I am thinking that the extra steps of getting the user to install Silverlight might be a issue with adoption.

So the alternative is HTML5 and using the Canvas. But is that really a good idea with the current state of adoption in browsers and standardization being at an early stage?

Which direction would be the best medium to long term choice here?
As these develop, there are huge opportunities for improving transnational trade. For example, I am interested in using this to monitor a Chinese manufacturing facility for QA of product before containers are shipped stateside. That reduces huge amounts of money and opportunity cost spent on cross-Pacific travel.
"... Because tar does not support encryption/compression on the inside of archives ..."

That can be an advantage. Space isn't always what I want for backups - I want the original data back and compression gone wrong (tar -zxvf) is just another way to loose data.
That is highly dependent on the availability of handsets and plans, so there's never a true disconnect between OS, handset, and plans.

In South America, Motorola pushed the Milestone model, hard, and it's just as if not more popular than the iPhone, but both are dwarfed by Blackberry, and the Milestone is the only real high-end Android device available. If the Nexus One or Galaxy S were for sale the numbers would be very different.

Australia, just like many other countries, has fairly hefty import tariffs on high-tech goods, so the country of origin of different devices has a nontrivial influence on handset availability, and thus general popularity of each platform.
I live in Minnesota, and I have high hopes that in the future Minnesota will secede from the US and become part of Canada.
So you're saying that when it comes to novels, waterfall produces more coherent results than agile methodologies?
I couldn't stop thinking the same thing.

What killed me was the Free Software Song live performance at the end. These are late 90's nerds at their nerdiest.
"...and then just don't talk unless you can achieve that zen level..."

Heh, let me know when you figure out how to pull this off.
If you are camping in your back yard, why not just skip the tent and enjoy sleeping under the stars?
Bind, unit, and all that
That doesn't really work in winter though.

Or it might just be me who object to sleeping outside in subzero weather.
Simply taking a few 10-15 minutes walks during the day -- one in the morning, one after lunch, and maybe even one before bed -- is a good habit to get into if you're indoors and/or in front of a computer all day. Fresh air, sun, and movement are all awesome things.
It's a shame he didn't really actually address the question that is the title of his article. Whatever else we know about the Apple vs Google situation one thing is sure: Jobs is seriously burned by Android's success and there is not a chance in hell he is "letting" Android win. Whatever is happening out there is happening despite Jobs' best efforts to stop it, not because he is "letting" it happen.

Personally, I think that just as there is a slightly delusional sense about Apple's competitors that all they need to do is make something in the same category as an Apple device without any of the design brilliance or attention to detail to succeed, there is also a slightly delusional part of the Apple camp where they believe that design and enforced simplicity is the be-all and end all of the user experience. Like this guy who is simply confounded that anybody is buying Android phones and hence comes up with, by process of elimination more than anything else, that it must be AT&T's fault. In reality, many people actually care about features, power and flexibility too. Nobody likes to think of themselves as being paternalised and Apple does that all the time. Not to mention that many people dislike being treated as a channel for mass-market commercialism that Apple wants them to be.

My mother came to me last week for the third time to plead with me to tell her some way - any way - to use something other than iTunes to manage her iPod Touch. She doesn't understand it. It confounds her at every step. She hates it. I told her what I always tell her: "Look, there are ways, but the bottom line is, it is designed to be used a certain way, and only that way. Get to know that way, try it out how it is intended to be used and you might find it is wonderful - many people do. But in the end, Apple is not about choices and alternatives, they are about simplification and control. If you really dislike it after really trying it Apple's way, I think you should think about getting a different device." She came back a bit later and asked me how much her iPod Touch might sell for on ebay.
Ripple Effect Tea Table
You're probably thinking of Jains, not vegans.
"I noticed that a lot of this food is tinged with red or orange..."

This is kind of a sick comment, but I had to share since you reminded me about it with your observation:

I worked as a consultant for AmeriQual Foods for a little while...they're one of the main suppliers of MREs to the DOD. While I was there, I saw a dude accidentally cut most of his thumb off and bleed into a vat of food. A few of the workers SWORE that they still packaged the food and shipped it out...although, based on my experience with the company, I find that very hard to believe. It was probably just grim factory humor.

One of my best friends also worked at a company that supplied temp workers to AmeriQual. Not too long after 9/11, they had a scare because terrorists were supposedly trying to infiltrate their temp workforce (allegedly after finding the corporate address on MRE packaging that was improperly discarded.) I don't think anything ever came of it, but my friend was going crazy because of all the extra paperwork.
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Ask HN: Are there any good self development/hacking books out there
I'm looking for any good hacking or self dev books.

Something like "Emergency" by Neil Strauss but more technical and less story. Sorta like a collection of how-to's and general knowledge stuff.

Suggestions appreciated!
If consumers aren't backing the Android phones it makes no difference if the developers are on the their side. Plus, now when you develop for the iPhone, you are almost also developing for iPad. Android still has a long way before catching up to Apple
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Time and space operate differently on the Internet. It's more p2p, like ripples expanding and rebroadcast. You act like there's an absolute reference point for all observers on the Internet and you have the privileged vantage point, which is very far from the truth.
Not trolling, I am just amused at the arbitrary lines-in-the-sand I occasionally see vegetarians and vegans drawing, and was curious about their outlook on this matter.
I recommend using silverlight when you have business logic that can be reused between the client and the server and you have control of the end users installation. Since you are talking mom and pop I would either try to use plain old HTML + js, skipping the canvas and html5 stuff if possible or going to Flash and actionscript.

The main reason would be the installation experience. The less savvy don't want or often even know how to install a new plugin.
I really like his social networking trends posts though. :)
Since there is no concept of CAPS in Chinese, I assume you mean that Chinese and Japanese characters are more or less square-shaped (thus less "shape contrast" from the linked article), are they harder to read? The answer is probably no for natives, but yes if you are used to latin-based languages.

One thing to note though is that there are so-called half-width and full-width symbols in most Chinese fonts (I think it's the same in CJK, but not very sure).

These are half-width symbols (normal symbols):

1234567890 ALL CAPS sucks

There are full-width counterparts (if your system and display them):

１２３４５６７８９０ ＡＬＬ ＣＡＰＳ　ｓｕｃｋｓ

Half-width and full-width chars get their names due to the fact in a monospace Chinese font, two half-width chars will take the same space as one full-width char. This makes alignment easier.

By now it's pretty safe to say using full-width chars is a bad idea. The readability is so low and mixed Chinese and English content is so common that people don't tolerate the ugly full-width chars any more. The norm right now seems to mix monospace Chinese glyphs (all Chinese chars have same width) with proportional latin glyphs. Unfortunately most Chinese fonts come with really ugly latin glyphs, and the remedy is to specify a latin font first (Arial and Verdana are the two most popular choices) and fallback to some Chinese font.
Personally, I just say "excuse me" and walk away from all uncomfortable or boring conversations.
On the plus side of field constipation, it keeps you from having to pop a squat in the middle of nowhere with no cover. :)
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Jeff Jarvis on the Real Reason the Media is Going After Craig Newmark
People out here in Seattle say something similar :) http://zapatopi.net/cascadia/

edit: and, just to tie it all back together, check out where Goodspaceguy is from: http://zapatopi.net/blog/?post=201007306418.pre-decision_201...
Chad, I haven't changed a letter of the post since it first went up. You're referring to a paragraph where I am describing parasitic marketers that don't care about whether they are doing something wrong.

In the very next paragraph, I say:

"What of the accidental spammer, though? How do we break them of their regrettable bad habits? Can they be shown a better way?"

I specifically stop to differentiate between the two very different personalities I'm discussing.

If you are offended by my assertion that there are people who don't know that they are spamming, then yes — we disagree... and you haven't worked with the people in question.

In Canada, spammers are criminals. Elsewhere, they're just selfish assholes. Some people mean well but don't know they are being assholes. I'm sorry if that bothers you, but chances are this article wasn't written for you.
Treadmill workouts to burn calories, lose weight and get in shape
Starting petition to reclaim box, give it to more willing participant.
Vegemite is predominately Aussie, and there are 2 different kinds of Marmite - New Zealand and UK. You find the New Zealand stuff in Australia and NZ; the UK stuff most other places. NZ marmite is black, UK marmite is more brown.

They all taste different, but most likely uniformly awful unless you grew up with it.
HTML5.
I know this is not exactly a new phenomenon for those who live in mining areas (northwestern Canada, Australia, etc.) but I found it interesting when going on a trip in the Outback that 3 of the men with us were miners (one from Canada, one from the UK, one from Australia) who do the tough mining tour of duty for part of the year and then travel for fun the rest of the year, rinse repeat.

It's an odd life.
That isn't really so annoying though - use the same username you do everywhere else, use the same password (click supergenpass so it doesn't matter if the site gets hacked) and make your browser remember it.

Because there sure as shit isn't any way I will just give some random website my google account - they get a dummy email forward, just like everybody else.
Ask HN: Android vs iPhone app market
Does anyone know of any relatively recent figures (say within the last 3-6 months) of how the Android app market compares to the iPhone app market in terms of number of downloads, average paid for an app, etc.?

I saw a relatively recent estimation of the iPhone app market (http://communities-dominate.blogs.com/brands/2010/06/full-analysis-of-iphone-economics-its-bad-news-and-then-it-gets-worse.html), would love to see something similar for Android.

I expect that the Android market is currently much smaller, but I'm wondering if it's catching up or being left behind...
The vegan/vegetarian diet problem is very real, and it is not just protein. You can very easily miss out pretty severely on a lot of things just by cutting meat out of your diet (iron, for example), and you do have to work hard to make sure you maintain a balanced diet. I don't see this as a problem for MREs, as composition has been pretty well solved, and I doubt it makes it any harder to solve the perishable problem.
Please, let the recently deceased rest in peace. You don't need to invoke their name in vein to win an argument over the living.
Fair enough. I bet a lot of soldiers probably want to eat something that reminds them of home, and dried beans probably rank alongside powdered eggs.
My first feedback - I don't intent to give your my twitter account, so if you want me (or pretty much anybody) to review your site and you are dead set against using the standard create a user that works pretty well (because we now have ways around all the problems) use OpenID.

tldr; use openID, nobody is going to want to share their twitter account with the world.
How to Write a Science Essay
Science essays deal mainly with the investigation of nature. Empirical evidence is required in order to write a good science essay. Experimentation is also required to write a good essay. With proper knowledge you will be able to write an essay which will be useful to others.
> There's more hacker affection for Linux than Windows, but somehow the year of Linux on the desktop was always right around the corner.

Just like the year of Mac on the desktop, Linux is around 1% and Mac 5%... and Mac is backed by a multi-billion dollar company. I think it has more to do with Microsoft winning the desktop platform a long time ago than anything else. Where Linux and Mac can make a dent is in the web and mobile, and they already did.
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great documentary i thought ... interesting to see the press it got in the beginning, i did not realize how mainstream linux was at some point
I'm curious, but how does flash detract from the browsing experience/ or how would html5 add to the browsing experience?

To me it just seems like choosing one programming language over another...
nothing to sign up for

Not sure if they added this since you posted, but there is a form to give them your name and e-mail which, presumably, will result in them sending you a link to download the trial.
Just signed up. I'm probably gonna try and use it for working out. :)

First thing I noticed was that there are only 3 "reminder times", but I'm sure that would change in the future.

And being able to set different "reminder times" to different things would be cool.
Thats because those people haven't reduced the friction to create an account yet - I have it down to about 20 seconds and making the browser remember the password means it is actually faster from then on.

If you absolutely must, then use OpenId. It is was pretty much made for that (and it works with twitter, facebook, gmail, your mom, etc).
Any recommendations for a new book author? I currently use Emacs and org-mode to organize my notes, but I will need something more suited for book writing.

I have a notebook where I write sample code, tables, and draw diagrams. It's becoming difficult to maintain 'state' between text and supporting materials, and I find myself leaving notes such as "Table showing Foo of Bar".

Established book authors, specially those using emacs/vi/$POWERFUL_EDITOR, what are your tricks?

I am currently interested in proof-readers and beta-testers who can hack some Lisp and have a decent command over the JVM. Priority will be given to Android and J2EE hackers. Shoot me an email please.
Mendeley has been mentioned a few times already. I'll just point out that it has some kind of API. I have no idea what it enables, I've been meaning to look into it, but it might be useful in terms of getting citation information for new papers, etc. In other words you might be able to build the system you want on top of Mendeley.
Please, for the sake of non-Americans (non-Californians?) use the following regular expression on your titles.

s/", Seriously"//
In non-dating recreational situations you can actually pull off level 4 if you're disciplined. For instance, if you go to a sailing class. Only talk about sailing and learning sailing. Put all your brain into it and keep out of lower level talk. People will find you very mysterious and interesting because you didn't lay all your cards on the table so they could just put you in a bucket.
So would HTML 4.
Exactly this is the middle path of Zen and Buddhism is the path that is in the middle and above the dualistic notions of expression / repression
or anger / joy....
A lot of people have identities based on loud-but-poorly-thought-out politics/ideologies. Vocal / recent-convert / squeamish teenage vegetarians are hardly unique in this regard, and nor does it mean that intelligent people haven't arrived at similar conclusions for reasons that aren't vapid. As with most things, though, the loud "I believe so hard in cause X" people tend to drown out the thoughtful ones. (Also, the vegetarians I've known have been more pragmatic than the vegans, who are generally more ideological.)

The only group I've seen seriously struggle with the whole "OMG I'm killing bacteria by breathing, what should I do" issue are the Jains, and I find them pretty silly. (I'm not a vegetarian, but when I was...I still found them pretty silly.)

Some vegetarians are amazing cooks, too. Constraints can really drive creativity.
> Have these guys read 1984? "Big Brother" is supposed to represent the panopticon surveillance state, you know, one where your footsteps are tracked and recorded constantly. Sounds more like someone else to me.

Android is open source, if you believe it's spying on you, feel free to remove the bits of code you don't like, there are many ROMs available already. Now try to do the same with the iPhone, plus last time I checked it requires you to give your credit card before even using it...
I am concerned that Flash is like Silverlight in being a black box inside the browser and some platforms (i.e. Apple) do not allow it to run on their phones. In the long run I might want a mobile version of the site.