skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe I should mention that I'm French and live just outside Paris.

I buy my food at the "farmers'" market -- which is just the market: there is no other kind. (There are supermarkets though, of course; but even inside supermarkets you find real butcher's shops where you can buy whole animals. Well, not whole cows -- but you can find whole rabbits or chickens (or any kind of fish/seafood) in any supermarket here).

I would oppose "trash" to "noble" and not "offal"; a liver or a heart is "offal", but a chicken carcass (the subject of Oliver's piece) is not, because it can't be cooked and eaten as such.

Also, I think you fundamentally agree with Jamie Olivier: you're denouncing junk food just as he is. Your point is that meat is over-processed during its (short) life; his point is that we're fed carcass reprocessed to look like whole food. Aren't you both making the same point?
WSJ on YC: Incubator Coaxes Start-Ups Out of Their Shells
Google Instant will make Google's Web History less useful (if it was of any use before) and easier to trick, since the History records only if you actually press Enter after the query or if you click a results. However a lot of information can be revealed from the description of the results that Google offers and so people won't always have to click Search to get the info they required.
Rails has always been very MySQL-centric, probably because 37S & DHH use it for Basecamp. Perhaps now that PostgreSQL v9.0 has built in master/slave replication they will finally make the switch.
Fix your own Bike
Show HN: Bandidate, my first useful app
I put together a little app to tell me when bands I like come near me. I figured I might as well let other people use it, too. I even found a few bands that I would have missed while building it, so that's a plus.

Basically, you upload your iTunes Library.xml file. Then I parse it and email you the bands that play near you.

http://www.bandidate.com

Anyway, that's all it does. I'm curious what you people out there think. If nothing else, it was great for getting better with Rails. And it was pretty fun.
And some (hopefully) clickable goodness:

http://www.bandidate.com/
I have a few observations that might be worth considering.

1. For most women clothes shopping is a recreational activity, not a chore. While most men would be happy to minimize their shopping time, most women would be happy to extend it. Likewise, on the seller side, stores maximize women's departments for impulse buying, not efficiency. It's not rational or productive, but that's the way it is. I'd be wary of a software solution that solves a problem that both sellers and buyers should have but don't.

2. If you've ever made clothing patterns or have been custom fitted by a professionally-trained tailor, you would know that it takes about 3 fittings to get a piece right. This is after your personal measurements have been taken on the initial visit. To me, that signals "human problem" (a fuzzy intelligence task) rather than "computer problem" (a highly repetitive task with clearly defined parameters).

3. There are hundreds of fit variations, which combined with size variations and body types, produce a million different results. Natural-waist pants have a different waist size than low-waist pants. A jacket with a shrunken fit has higher armholes so the arm circumference and arm length would have to be adjusted. A woman with a long torso would probably pick natural-waist jeans and a shrunken-fit jacket if she wanted the low-waist jeans with a bolero jacket look. And so on, ad infinitum.

4. Manufacturers do not make different clothes to sell online vs. in-store, but rather they make clothes to sell in-store and then sell those online. The reality of in-store clothes is, it is made to look good on a hanger, not on a woman. Which is why models are as humanly close to a hanger as possible. The math is, a woman will grab 10 items that only look good on a hanger/model, and maybe buy 2 items after trying them on; conversely, a woman will grab 0 items that only look good on a real body, and buy 0 items as a result.

On a separate note, my husband works in the fashion industry, and a big part of his job is collaborating on the design and manufacturing process as far as fit etc. I'd be happy to pass on any questions you might have.
Sometimes I wish HN had a filter I could use because the constant flow of these articles and some of the opinions that follow really enrage me. Keep voting me down though and just keep wondering why the number of women in tech are so low with these kinds of chauvinistic attitudes.

It's illegal to yell fire in a crowded movie theater. That's not stepping on free speech, it's an adjustment by society to keep things sane and fair. Same thing for asking business to stop helping the selling of women.

And it's not "many people disagree with banning prostitution" - it's most MEN want to reserve the right to trade money for instant sex, regardless of the cost to society because they don't know how to regulate their cravings.
They go "out of their way" to segregate the ads? isn't it just the users posting their ads to the corresponding section?
U.S. Appeals Order Banning Stem-Cell Research Funding
This will likely habituate drivers to images of children playing in the streets.
Then the spammers would use bots or cheap Chinese labor to downvote their competitors. It would just move the problem down a level. For this sort of thing to work, the curators must be trusted, which is expensive.

Such an engine might be worthwhile to a small subset of users, though.
Bloggers and journalists seem intent on labelling YC an 'incubator,' despite YC's insistence to the contrary.

I wonder how much PG and the others actually dislike the term. Are they against it on technicality grounds and nothing more? Or do they mean to make a statement about what exactly YC is and does by avoiding the 'incubator' label?
Engineers needed in the Fridge (YC S10) (php +10)
The Fridge - (www.frid.ge - simple single serving social networks) is looking for a few great engineers to join our team in NYC. We are a recent YC batch (YCs10) and have closed our first round of funding from some great institutions and angels.

Some things in particular we're looking for:

B.S., B.A., M.S. in Computer Science or equivalent (completed or not).
Proficiency in any object oriented high level language. Bonus with PHP expertise.
Ability to work across the full stack (mySQL, PHP, HTML, jQuery, CSS).
A good eye for UI, and strong attention to details.
Ability to keep up with an extremely fast deployment cycle. Happy to experiment and iterate.
Willingness to learn, help with and hack anything.
Passion for changing the future of social media. 5 years ago Facebook didn't exist. 5 years from now what will?

In return, we got:

Competitive salary and generous stock incentives.
Healthcare on us.
Free drinks and snacks.
Fun outings that encourage "brainstorming" and exploring the city.
Coffee, lots of it.
In particular, we're looking for people interested in making something that will impact a lot of people...

The Fridge makes its home in New York City and is willing to relocate the right folks. Email us at jobs@frid.ge with your resume, example projects, and a few lines about why you're interested.

Again: jobs@frid.ge
Good points. Agree!
I'm not defending anything, just pointing out as a matter of interest that there's a consistency between religion/word length, which OKCupid implies is an indication of intelligence in their article, and religion/intelligence in actual academic studies.

So, there is at least an apparent correlation between word length and intelligence for whatever that's worth.

If you're trying to draw me into a race/intelligence discussion based on possible implications of the correlation... no thanks.
They mention repeatedly the amount raised, I didn't see where it said at what valuation. If they were left with 75% of the company, that would have been a nice seed round. If they were left with 20% of the company, not so much.
It can’t be that expensive (relative to making the clothing) to measure each article precisely and then bin them by actual size.
Namecheap is definitely a good choice.

I highly recommend to everyone who is ever registering a domain name to stay away from Go Daddy. Unfortunately they are always looking for opportunities to make $. They make it difficult to transfer the domains to other registrars as well.

They also look for opportunities to replace your website with their parked page so they can enjoy ad revenue from your traffic until you notice and change it.
Here's all I want:

Allow me to input something I know, e.g. I wear size 12 Adidas. Then tell me what size I need to buy of the shoes you're selling me, be they Nike, Reebok, or something new.

Shoes is one example, applies for many other types of clothing.
Is it really a mainly male POV? Most of the activist organizations I know of specifically for legalizing prostitution/sex-work are women-led, essentially the sex-workers' part of the union movement, and often explicitly feminist (from the radical branch of sex-positive feminism). That does seem to be a bigger trend in Europe than in the US, though. Some details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_workers%27_rights
But this seems like a problem with almost any civil suit. For example, a patent infringement has the exact same problems. Or slander, etc....

They all take time and attention for litigation. They all can have extended time where you don't get paid for years.

And all have the same problems of determining damages now, and in the future.

It just seems like an odd law that you could sue somebody who not only hasn't done anything yet, but has never had a past history that would lead one to believe that they might break the law.

And its absurd for HP to say that its impossible for him to do his job at Oracle. It's very common for executives, with similar levels of knowledge to move from one company to a competitor. In fact, its almost always the case that they do go to a competitor.
Where does it pull concert data from?

Also it would be cool to use last.fm data via a username instead of only iTunes data.
I think that's just Rhee being dumb. You're in a negotiation. Of course they're going to say they can't accept this, until they do. Union staff almost never bargain contracts anyway. Typically it's done by a bargaining committee consisting of members, some of whom are elected officers but mostly just volunteers.
It simply isn't practical. We have technology to build devices with micron tolerances, but they cost millions of dollars. Sure, you could build a device to sew a pair of jeans with millimeter tolerances, but you'd have to be so precise that you'd have to charge thousands for a single pair. That's not even looking at the material itself. Different fabrics can have different tolerances for stretching in all directions.

It is a big tradeoff between accuracy and cost. If you want to have the measurements be hyper-accurate, be prepared to spend a ton.
Something the article doesn't mention (or that I didn't see when I skimmed it):

The value of the entire Greek church is in the billions of euros, and nothing is taxed. The government asked them to be taxed a while ago, and the church said that, if they were taxed, they would have to stop charity work because they didn't have enough money. Meanwhile, the high priests wear 30k euro hats and ride around in limousines.

On the other hand, if they did get taxed, a good chunk of it would end up in the pockets of politicians and big companies, as usual. The whole situation isn't very encouraging for citizens who pay taxes...

EDIT: This article [1] mentions that the church put the value of its property at 700m euros. External parties place it at 2-15b euros, while at some point, years ago, 5 monasteries said that they evaluated the value of their properties at around 20b of today's euros (this is just for 5 monasteries). You can imagine how taxing the church would pay off a good chunk of the debt, but, in Greece, you don't get taxed when you have this much money.

[1]: http://dialogoi.enet.gr/post/νάνος-ή-γίγαντας-η-εκκλησιαστικ...
Well, after you get through the two or three joints necessary to work through this stash before it goes stale the munchies hit real hard :)
YC featured in WSJ
If I'm hunting and pecking, I'm looking at the keyboard, not the screen. Those saccades are most likely happening during the typist's search for the next key to hit.
Ah the woes of being thin. I'm in the same boat (must be a rowing shell?) and while there are certainly worse problems to have, usually the only places I can find pants are H&M and Banana Republic. I've never been able to find 30" pants at a US department store. Sadly, now even H&M seems to be moving away from "European" cut clothes, and I don't have the means to go up market.

It's so exasperating trying to find a properly fitted shirt that I taught myself how to do some basic machine sewing. Highly recommended if you're tired of feeling like you're wearing a tent.
Wow .....
Dup: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1673667
Hey, I think it is a great idea.

Except that you limit it to people who use iTunes? You're shutting out a whole lot of people.
The False Tradeoff b/n Financial & Social Responsibility by iContact founder
If Your Startup Can't Raise Capital In NYC, There's Something Wrong With It
Same topic, many articles:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1668979

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1668909

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1668478

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1667603
Happens once in a million years ;-)

A little spooky it happened on this post, isn't it.
Talkbaitish?
Your question seems to be implicitly assuming that most great teachers could also have been great engineers. At the risk of stereotyping, I do not think that is true.

A great teacher must be dynamic, engaging, intelligent, able to connect with children so that they can teach creation and innovation. But an engineer must be intelligent, methodical, and able to master vast amounts of technical knowledge.

I suspect most people who make great engineers would not make great teachers, and vice versa. There will be some that could easily be great at either though.

Those, I think would better serve society by going into engineering for a few reasons. One is that the number capable of being a truly great engineer is smaller than the number capable of being a truly great teacher.

Both are significant for society, but one is more rare than the other. Also, it seems that the point of education is to be able to produce great makers such as engineers who do the work that holds society together. If we always direct our best minds to enhancing the best minds of the future, we will have highly educated children but little or no actual progress for those children to enjoy.
Those aren't the options most people weigh. Obviously it's better to make a decision than spend an eternity contemplating.

But "making a decision" implies some amount of thought - some calculus for the choice. The article suggests that people don't automatically/naturally perform this calculus when acting. We just act. Do you think this isn't true? In my experience, it's very often true.
Dup: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1673302
Ask HN: Has anyone else moved away from Java Runtime?
Or a better question, did you ever use it?
> I no longer spend as much time pausing to critically think about it

And why wouldn't you? HN is perfectly capable of making arguments with incredible force in a very eloquent and hard to refute way. And be dead wrong anyway.

You can never abolish critical thinking, either about the original article (especially when criticism is based on un-sourced data) or about the comments themselves.

That doesn't save you time, it adds to the amount of data you have to do your critical thinking about.
This was my experience, too. I upgraded, loaded the site I'm working on, and had a minor freakout moment when all the text appeared to have gone completely ass-up, to use the technical term.

I panicked less when I saw other sites looked just as bad, but yeah, I hope it doesn't ship like that, or the internet is going to look terrible.

Edit: Here's a comparison shot. http://i.imgur.com/uBqrp.png

Accelerated on the right. Notice that smaller text looks particularly squished/fuzzy, and seems to have colored artifacts. Also, the height of the page changed, even though the content is the same - I made sure the orange bar was aligned, and the screenshots were taken about 30 sec apart. All that changed was flipping the gfx.direct2d.disabled preference and restarting.

Edit: And another comparison: http://i.imgur.com/8WVLd.png

Accelerated is on the left. Notice the text on the nav links, the tags on the right of each page, and the word "answers" in the green boxes. Question titles are more "bold", and are somewhat slimmer, resulting in a different page height as a line doesn't wrap.

It looks pretty terrible.
I put it up with only iTunes because, well, I only had the library for iTunes and wanted to see if people used it. I figured iTunes was a good start and will to add more later.
Use a high energy laser to etch thick platinum CDs. The pits produced by the laser should be deep. Coat the etched surface with a thick layer of diamond using vapor deposition. Enclose the CD in a vacuum case made with extremely durable material (granite maybe). Entomb the CD case in a 10 ton cement block. Stack the Cement blocks (if more than 1 CD) in a shape of a pyramid on a dry desert plateau. Irradiate the area around the pyramid. That should last more than 50 years.
Shanghai Sends Tape Measure with built-in BMI Calculator to Residents
I get it from Bandsintown. They have a pretty nice API.

Getting a list of bands from last.fm is a good idea. I'll add it to the "things to do" list.
Ask HN: Can affiliate marketing grow a free website?
I have a site called www.efreeme.com which is a free vintage and handmade items site, and I just finished building an affiliate marketing tool to help push it. Has anyone heard of a free site taking off because of an affiliate marketing campaign? Any experiences? Anyone want to join and drive 3 billion users to my site? Joking on the last one but if you do let me know in advance. Any advice on contacting bloggers to try and spread the word?
I don't care what some report says about hours in the aggregate, especially one that presumably intermingles running-out-the-clock 64yos with young teachers.

Please correct me if I am misunderstanding, but this seems to be flatly stating that Yummyfajitas was right in saying you do not care about the facts?

I'm assuming you don't know many teachers, otherwise you would get what I'm saying here.

I have an aunt and uncle that are teachers and a wife that is going to school to become a teacher right now, but I largely agree with yummyfajitas and he is carefully supporting his arguments with facts and links.

If he and I are wrong about it, would you mind pointing out exactly how rather than saying we just don't understand?
I've used Tumblr for 3 years, mostly during my funemployment year. Content on Tumblr at the time were just pulled from Ffffound, YayHooray, Flickr, Vimeo, 4chan, 4chan-lite (Reddit). Then you have the unique content from the small group of also funemployed or under-employed mid-20s writers, artists, and filmmakers.

That creative group made Tumblr a really fun place. Then Tumblr got big and went mainstream and went on the growth pattern curve of big internet message boards. Uh oh, eternal September.

Many have grown up and grown out of Tumblr, others are working full time again so the content shift is beginning. Once clean 400px wide multimedia page layouts are peppered with glittery trinkets, customer mouse pointers, and encumbering music players. Tweens have settled in with duckfaces and shameless personal drama. The Corporations have also stepped in, trying to slick up their wardrobe, wanting to blend in with the cool crowd.

It's not a complete wasteland but Tumblr has traded wrestling one monster for another. Though still an enviable position, who doesn't want to be the guy trying to come up with strategies of how to deal with a billion pageviews? Then again, who does? But running the business like the adults its original and most passionate users have become would be a start.
Sure, but I'm saying I want money. And given that I want money, a teaching position is a worse proposition for me than an engineering position (whether due to the annoyance of finding a high-paying summer job every year, running a second job in the extra time I have, or simply because the salary is less regardless). If this holds for other people as well, the only people a teacher's salary would attract are people who want time. Which means the salary is not high enough to attract smart people out of industry whose goal is also to make money.
I know a few guys who worked as escorts for female clients. The clients were usually aged late 30s onwards, some lonely, some just looking for sex. Mostly they were affluent, busy professionals. Women seem to like paying for instant sex too if the social conditions are right.
> When you're running your own business you'll be surprised at how few expenses you have

That certainly sounds counterintuitive to me. What did you think would be a cash sink that wasn't? I'm guessing there were more things you thought you'd have to pay someone to do that you found weren't so painful to take care of yourself?
I like your line of thought. When we talk about what's lacking from the world that prevents us from "holding our current society together", we tend to imply qualities that are somehow isolated from "intelligence": Morality, altruism, idealism, etc.

It's... hopeful to think of these qualities as evolved forms of intelligence - and that as we progress away from the "cusp of general intelligence" towards a more veteran status of intelligence, we will exhibit more of these qualities naturally.
The women that support making it legal are doing it as what they see as the better option because they know it won't go away and they desperately want to see bad things stop happening to women. It's hard to deal with when you see it in real-life.

They figure it's always going to be there and if so, it's better that it's out in the open so women can at least get legal support instead of the cops laughing them off when they get hurt.

I say that's not the answer, it's a poor choice of lesser evils. Just imagine what if it would be like if everyone could get hard drugs and it was out in the open. Imagine CL full of ads for hard drugs being condoned.

In a better society when you've made bad choices you should be able to get help for yourself regardless if it's prostitution or hard drugs. And yes I think those two are about the same level in bad choices for all involved, buyers and sellers. It means you've crossed certain lines where instant gratification is overriding long term thinking and it damages you and society.

If you want prostitution LEGAL well then campaign for that but don't do an end run around the illegality by saying there should be open ads for illegal activity. That's a double standard.
I can see why it is fascinating to keep an eye on these things but we 'need' to keep an eye on them just as much as we need to keep an eye out for invading aliens.

We'll know it when it happens, trust me on that one.

Until then it doesn't matter. If and when it happens we'll be dealing with the aftermath long before we'll be able to have a handle on what we can do about the event itself.

You could even argue that this is one of the few cases where foreknowledge would not help at all, especially not in the case of a very near miss (or is that a near hit ;) ).
> Tracking NEOs does nothing for us

The dinosaurs would agree with you.
On the other side of the table, giving in to that kind of swagger is dangerous. Especially with something as subjective as design, that dynamic clouds your judgement. Once you've accepted that the designer knows all, your internal need for consistency will drive you to accept whatever they come up with and defend it against valuable outside feedback.
Is "Just Get Started" a Flawed Idea?