skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, I'm just pointing out that unless explicitly added to a contract, the default situation is that forfeiting the deposit does not allow you to walk away.

So in a simple agreement where you agree to do $10,000 worth of work for someone, and ask for a $2,000 deposit, the client is not allowed to just pay $2,000 and walk away even if you haven't done a single minute's worth of work on the project yet.
It's not as if replacing resumes with some online tool like LinkedIn is a significant difference. Both are advertising tools, and both can be very misleading.
Taubes discuss that in his book and apparently (from a liver, bio-chem, blood chemistry angle) that extra 5% can make a difference for some people (there is a genetic element to it). He mentions teens getting cirrhosis of the liver from drinking too much soda.

But I (and I think Taubes) agrees with your point, sugar is bad for you too. "Corn sugar" may be a bit worse but especially bad if it damages the liver.
Ometa/JS (http://www.tinlizzie.org/ometa/) can be used for code generation, though it's fairly general rather than tailored specifically to that. It's a generalization of a PEG parser that can go the other way as well: it can match on sequences of characters to build up an AST, and can also match sequences of Javascript objects (like nested lists representing an AST) to convert them to other things. It doesn't have the big library of built-in expression types that CodeModel looks like it has, though (JForLoop, JConditional, etc.).
Yeah I think I would agree. I did a PhD without wanting to go into academia and while I had plenty of reasons for doing it I'm not convinced it was a great idea.

I think part of wanting to do a PhD is wanting to complete the ultimate intellectual marathon. To get that seal of approval. Its a really stupid reason and I strongly suggest you do some soul searching as to which parts of your ego feel they need that validation.

Cool and new. Yeah I think that might have been how I described my motivation as well. I don't think research is about cool and new. I think successful research is about learning a difficult and advanced area and then carefully contributing a very small uncool piece of the puzzle. I think trying to be creative gets you shallow and unuseful work.

It's probably better to think about the PhD as learning about a really specialized subfield and a small amount of contribution. I'd also say only certain subfields are worth getting a PhD in. In some fields like machine learning a PhD can be an entry into all sorts of useful jobs and roles, in other fields its only an entry to academic roles, and finally in some fields it won't be a good entry to academia and industry will be left scratching their heads as to why you wasted your time.
If you’re not Getting out of the Building, you’re not doing Customer Development
I love it! Just re-subscribed thanks to your comment.
The real choice here is whether to live with an "average diet" and thus face average risk rates, or experiment on yourself and try to improve your chances.

Paleo targets overall health, not specifically fat reduction or cardiovascular health. That means that one of its goals is to reduce or eliminate things like long-term degenerative diseases or psychological problems, things which we decided, a long, long time ago, to accept as "natural occurrences" that are manageable only with medication, and not issues of dietary intake. This is a bold goal, of course, so it's right to be skeptical. If it really works, it can be tested. Our bias against the radical ideas comes from only being able to look backwards a few generations of people, all of whom have had largely the same diet. It is only fairly recently that we've gotten this explosion of experimental diet strategies, aided by new research and more diverse food availability. I'm into trying them as a kind of hobby and form of general life-improvement, myself, and for people who suffer from diseases with no known medicinal cure, it offers a lot of hope.

If we are looking only for a culprit for late-twentieth-century obesity, gluten doesn't enter into it. Instead we should look towards the changes in average diet over that time - i.e. increased intake of carbs, refined(fiberless) carbs, and carbs from sugar, and a shift away from animal fats and pressed crude vegetable oils towards solvent-extracted and refined vegetable oils. To explain a broad effect in the population, one has to look towards broad changes, and those are the main things that have changed.

Side note: The popular tendency to emphasize vegetables and/or fruits in diet holds a lot of commercial appeal(since fresh plant foods have difficult, expensive storage logistics, making them more prestigious, and fruits can have their sugar concentrated with drying or juicing, turning them into easily-saleable vice goods) but it's a form of feel-good bikeshedding. The "80% of the problem" issues are different, broader, and harder to completely solve: ideal fats/carbs/protein balance, recognition of allergies, intolerances, and toxicity, and price/time/quality/sustainability ratios. A real solution to those things needs both top-down cooperation and bottom-up education.

I personally haven't seen a huge difference in trying gluten/caesin-free, except possibly for withdrawal symptoms that cumulate in the devouring of multiple bowls of milk and cereal. I may try it again in the future, but while I can usually avoid gluten, I find it particularly hard to get rid of dairy; it helps calm down coffee's acidity, and cheese is one of my preferred snacks when out of the house.
Isn't the point of the site that most of these games are difficult to get any other way (ie, even from Amazon & eBay)?

When a game is that old, and difficult to get hold of, I think eventually it is no longer 'piracy', and instead becomes 'preserving our history/culture'.
Another option is to use boto to pass the upload along to S3 and just store the link path in app engine.
I like to think of what others think of as "failures" as just temporary obstacles to get to where I want to be.

The success of an entrepreneur may depend on what exactly they consider to be a failure, rather than just a temporary obstacle.
The Inuits of North America.
Lifespan of Inuits - http://wholehealthsource.blogspot.com/2008/07/mortality-and-...

Cancer in Inuit Populations - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18760245

Cardio-Vascular-Disease - http://www.ajcn.org/cgi/reprint/83/6/S1483.pdf

Fat Metabolism in Alaskan Eskimoes - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15427668

Just some.
Grad school is a self induced neurosis. If you don't know what you want to do, you can learn and pivot faster by doing stuff in industry. You can always go back to grad school.

Also, a PhD may work against you. Many programmers in smaller companies will think you aren't interested in working hard.
One could say a number of things, but I'll just say this: I would suggest that you consider working for a bit in between undergrad and grad school. If you had a strong chance of getting in directly from undergrad, then it will remain so after a year and a half (when you'll need to apply), especially if you keep in mind from right now that you should keep in touch with your advisors / rec letter writers. Two years of work is reasonable; one is usually too little to get into the swing of things and three starts to get a bit long and it will become harder to get admitted.

This has a number of benefits: worthwhile non-academic experience, better sense of whether you really want to do a PhD or whatever else, usually more focus when you do go back because you have had time to reflect on what exactly you want to do and get out of it, some general maturity that comes from working rather than just being in school, less pressure in making a big decision right now, and so on. Since you aren't hell-bent on becoming a professor, it is good to see both some academia (your undergrad) and industry before jumping into a long-term thing like a PhD. It's also more comfortable applying to grad school from a job you already have rather than as an undergrad, since if you don't get in anywhere you like, you can simply stay at your job and even try again the following year. (This also all applies if you decide you just want to do an MS.)

Basically, you have to make your own decision about this, and this is a fairly simple (and productive) way to make the decision easier.
While I feel sorry for the guy whose taxes are about to go up substantially, he shouldn't be trying to claim that $500K a year isn't rich. It is rich.

Instead he should be pushing the argument "Why the hell should I have to pay for all these government just because I'm more productive than other people? If I use $10,000 a year worth of government services why am I paying $200,000 for it while some other guy using $10,000 a year of government services pays nothing? Why can't the burden be spread more equally among all those who use government services instead of lumped almost entirely on the top 10%?"

That's the argument he should be pushing. Of course there are possible responses to that, but it's a better starting point for debate than "I only make $500K a year, you should tax the real rich, who are making $800K a year!"
I've seen some of them. They all do the same, so they can't compete with someone who has millions in funding.

We are going to try a different approach, something really appealing to the merchants while being fun to use everyday for the consumer.

There is nothing technologically challenging but as the main post suggests, getting the first merchants on board will be the most important step.

Wish us luck.
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Hedge your bets. Start talking to professors this semester about grad school and getting recommendations. Then tell them later you've decided to do a year of startups\industry. If you are on good terms with them, they will be fine with submitting recommendations 1 year later. You'll just have to let them know what productive things you've been up to in that year. Their only concern is that they aren't damaging their reputation by recommending burnouts.

In the meantime, get involved with other students on building stuff outside of class this year! Once you find a specialty of CS you're passionate about, whether it's statistical machine learning or web development, it'll be obvious which path is the best choice.
> If you go through the netbook models currently available on the market they are very similar to the initial 10 inch netbooks.

Blame Microsoft. They dictated a set of maximum hardware specifications that netbooks had to conform to if they wanted a reasonably-priced license for Windows. Netbooks can't advance any more quickly than Microsoft wants them to, and MS has little interest in promoting cheap laptops.

I know it's popular these days to claim that Microsoft never deserved their reputation as a bully-boy, but this is an example where the Windows monopoly has a real, damaging effect on innovation.
Seems strange that these companies are taking this approach to promote "fun". I always thought it was all about the people you work with, the best companies I've ever worked for had the best teams. Going to work everyday and having those smart people to talk to was always fun, even if the work itself was sometimes boring. No need for a cheer squad. If they feel the need to do something like this...makes me wonder about their teams.
several? Last I heard it was somewhere around 70.
The obesity epidemic as we know, where most people over 30 or so are overweight or obese, is new, but "diseases of civilization" such as diabetes and atherosclerosis aren't. See Good Calories, Bad Calories for details.

As for the timing of the obesity epidemic, HFCS hit the market in 1975. Coincidence? Our diets became a lot less paleo when they started putting that in everything.
Washington freed his slaves upon his death.

More than 100 of Jefferson's were auctioned off to pay debts.

Including children.
I'm not sure I agree that calculated evil is preferable to well-intentioned ignorance.

"Life is hard for me, too" is a lot easier to sympathize with (even if it's complete bullshit) than "I don't care if life is hard for you."
Firefox.

It turned out I couldn't live without Ubiquity. Still under development, although officially it's on hiatus.

The Add-On Compatibility Reporter, so I can run edge versions of extensions.

Firemacs (for sensible Emacs bindings)

TabKit (tabs on left side and tree style, with grouping and so on) and Ctrl-Tab (LRU tab switching, plus thumbnailed tab display and switch to tab by name-typing). All other tab organization systems pale in comparison.

And the rest: NoScript *
Firebug *
Web Developer Toolbar *
Greasemonkey *
IETab *
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Drop a printed map on its land and there will be at least one common point. Why?
mmm... next they will say that nobody wants to read books on a tablet...
A Fire Upon the Deep is one of my favourite books ever. It successfully combines hard sf and space opera and doesn't get bogged down in either. It is large like many of its space opera kin but the plotting is such you never feel like you are slogging through fluff. And the technologies and physics are well thought out and their effects on the universe at large are well presented. The aliens in it are probably the most interesting since Niven's Puppeteers.
Produce and reap the reward of wealth later. With some luck, you'll be able to afford that 60'' TV and a fancier Chevy.

It still won't solve the traffic congestion problem though. That will take explicit toll fee for using the roads, and that won't be popular.

Division of labor and global trade has made us incredibly wealthy compared to the past. So focus on a niche and make people richer. Remember, self-sufficiency mean we have to make our own clothes, grow our own food, etc.
While resumes are becoming obsolete, the actual cover letter can tell a lot about a person. One person might write the same stock cover letter for most of their job applications while someone else might personalize their cover letters for the particular company and job they are applying for. Which one do you think cares more about getting the job? Overall I agree that resumes are not a tell-tale sign of one's qualifications and personality, but if you are "Google-able", then at least you have something to supplement your resume (hopefully in a positive light).
Inflation in job titles reaching Weimar levels
I have a lot, but Ultimate Chrome Flag is my favorite.

The reason it's my favorite is because it displays in the URL bar the pagerank of the site I'm on. It's like an instant credibility check whenever I'm browsing or reading an article. In fact, browsing without it (say on my phone or in my newsreader) now feels like an incomplete experience.

My favorite extensions in Firefox are tied, Firebug and the Web Developer Toolbar. I'm sure if either got a full-fledged extension in Chrome, it'd probably be my new favorite extension.
I would be surprised if the insurance companies had to depend on the honesty of their customers to know whether they'd be in collisions. Financial companies don't depend on my honesty to know if I've taken out a loan. They must share information about claims.
Sure, in most places you can build anything that isn't outlawed. Scott Adams' column about green building speaks to how the building and construction trades are geared toward building to permits. In most places I'd bet a person would have a hard time finding a builder to make "storage chimneys."

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870486860457543...
Denying someone visitors would be cruel and unusual punishment. Making visitors drive for two days (or fly for two hours) in order to visit, though, isn't.

Think about it this way: in the days before motorised transport, were prisoners always kept within easy travelling distance of their relatives? I think not, and it wasn't cruel-and-unusual then.

For practical purposes, though, Montana to California is a bit too far. But Nevada spends only $20K, and there's not much of Calfornia which isn't within a reasonable daytrip of somewhere in Nevada.

Mexico probably spends even less, though contracting prisons out to Mexico might cause genuine constitutional issues...
I think it's irresponsible to recommend a diet to people that has little to no scientific support for the kinds of effects that you promise or imply: weight loss, improved physical and mental health, and longevity. In fact, some possible instantiations of the paleo diet are, I believe, currently considered unhealthy by the medical establishment, such as a diet high in saturated fats, cholesterol, and/or red meats.

I notice that none of your references have any serious qualifications to be giving nutritional advice. The most rigorously argued of your sources - "Good Calories, Bad Calories" - is written by a science journalist. The scientific establishment has spend decades and billions of dollars trying to understand nutrition, and these people think they can figure it out by thinking hard and reading some papers?

Morover, you can find equally convincing arguments, anecdotes, and "experts" for any of: vegetarianism, raw foodism, veganism, low-carb, etc. What makes the paleo diet different?

You can experiment with your own body all you want, but giving drastic dietary advice on such flimsy evidence seems pretty reckless.
Sigh. This is the opposite of "faddish bullshit". Because it is packaged as a book, with the word "diet" in the title, people assume that it must be some fad.

People with Coeliac disease react to, and have trouble digesting gluten. However, just because you might not get diarrhoea from eating wheat does not mean that the lectins in grain aren't causing you problems. I can eat wheat fine, I grew up eating lots of bread. However, I do better on a grain free paleo diet -- as do many people.

From the Article:

Some of you, however, may think you have no issues here. You have eaten grains, legumes, and dairy your whole life and are “fine.” Well, maybe. But I suspect that is not the case. I’ll bet that if you completely remove these Neolithic foods from your diet for one month, you will notice a dramatic improvement in how you feel and perform. Why? Because if you are consuming these foods, I’ll wager you have gut irritation and other systemic inflammation issues.

Also, you say: "We all need some mix of protein, carbohydrates, fiber, lipids and vitamins". That's not true -- there is no such thing as a required carbohydrate.

Finally -- please read "Good Calories, Bad Calories" to get a full understanding of how conventional wisdom (such as what is taught in nursing, and even medicine) is completely messed up.
Whatever dollar value may be put on a human life for insurance purposes it's not an actual value. For instance, I can't pay that amount and then kill you.
iTunes gift cards shouldn't be used because they're worthless to me and anyone else who doesn't iTunes or have an iPod. An Amazon gift card is useful to someone who'd prefer an iTunes gift card. There's no barrier to using their second choice, like there is for the non-iTunes user.
He'd be referring to conference organising committees (open a conference procedings and look in the frontmatter).

They're often used as a measure of peer esteem for academic performance evaluations (far less significant that publications, obviously), and would no doubt be useful when trying to land a post-doc.
Rate my friend's startup: Rundown Creator, a production tool for broadcast media
While I feel sorry for the guy whose taxes are about to go up substantially

that's where you lost me.

His taxes aren't going to go up...his tax CUTS are about to expire...as they were supposed to. The sunset clause was part of the original bill...instead of bitching that his taxes are going to go back to normal...he should be happy he got to enjoy this tax break for all these years.

And "substantially"? His taxes are only going up by ~3%
My good buddy Jeff, a HN reader, is too modest to submit this himself, but it's a pretty cool project for broadcast nerds. If you're familiar, it's similar to enterprise solutions like ENPS / iNews, but costs a lot less. (A LOT less. I think too much less.)
I read it as program committees, but I guess PC is a subset of conference committee.
Used games chaps the industries hide
http://www.neowin.net/news/used-games-worse-than-piracy-says...

Also developers are now including 1 time activiation codes where you say end up reselling it the new user will have to reactivate it for some all of all of the features, for a fee.

http://360.kombo.com/article.php?artid=18941
I don't think I've ever met a person who made a lot of money who'd admit they were rich. The standard these days seems to be: you're rich if you could never work again for the rest of your life, and still live extremely lavishly, with the private jet and yachts and multiple houses. That sets the bar at maybe $100m net worth, which yes, very few people have.

Weirdly, I know people who make around $70k who claim that they're very well off, and seem to actually feel that way. But the people making $300k, $500k, $800k? Invariably they feel middle class, perhaps upper-middle-class, but not even that upper. My guess is that it has a lot to do with social circles and where you live. The guy making $70k who lives in a modest house and whose friends all work at coffee shops feels rich; the guy making $300k who lives on the upper east side of Manhattan and whose friends are all VPs doesn't.
(Half-baked thinking, so may or may not work.)

Anyone else wonder if unsubscribe links couldn't be shifted to the mail client somehow? That way, they could be positioned in a uniform place and handled in a simple way so that you didn't have to scrounge through an email footer looking for the 5px unsub link, and then go through that horrible 'You need a password to unsubscribe' process half the time.

I'm imagining an 'unsubscribe' button up near the top of the email, maybe based on mail headers or something else, that just worked. You clicked it and you were off the list. (Might need ways to verify the identity of the subscriber, but I'd hope this could be handled better than it is now.)