skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How about looking at the cost? In America, grains, sugars, and meats are subsidized in myriad ways, directly and indirectly.

It seems to me, when I was a child, salads were less expensive than meat. But it's almost starting to become the opposite.
> I just finished my business degree and
> want to get into tech start-ups.

Do you have a specific concept for a business? Most people actually have a clear concept of what they want to do before they start asking how to find a programmer. If you have such a concept please email me and tell me about it, my email address is in my profile.
The idea that providing a deal or deep discount will somehow reveal your price points, making people demand product at that price is ludicrous.

When a business structures a deal of this nature they are doing so with their bottom line in mind, and should know that whatever money they recoup from selling the deal will at least cover their costs.

The main idea behind running these deals is to get new business in your door while minimizing the cost of advertising and promotion. It is up to the business how they choose to retain this new growth, and most businesses employ great customer service and or a slew of other great products at full price.

As Fred2baro said, this the businesses chance to engage with a customer you would of otherwise had no access to. That in itself seems worth offering something at cost one time to that new customer.

In the case of a restaurant, this is no different then the traditional offering of a "2 for 1" or a "50% off" deal through traditional media. In both of those situations the restaurant is showing their "real" price, as you said, to the would be customer, but with no guarantee of use. This is where the daily deal truly shines, for in order to take advantage of the deal, the would be customer has to put up money, i.e. purchase the deal. Talk about a brilliant incentive to get someone into a business, they are paying the business for the chance to win them as a new customer. As a business owner, I don't understand how this could be a negative.
I find that I have a too "sure" worldviews. There isn't much doubt within me, because I don't know what I don't know specifically.

It does seem to me that the more I know, the better grip I get on my true state of knowledge. For example, within programming, I knew that I lack many abilities and strength. It's humbling to me.

In some area I am really weak in, I know that I lack social skills. I am unsure what's the rule of engagement in some of the social situation that I dealt with.
Yes but that also kills the voice connection.
Shipping high-res photo prints to my users, as cheaply as possible. Tips needed.
I am working on a startup website (will be presented on HN soon) offering various high-res photos, and I'd like to let my users order prints.

I'm specifically looking for a (possibly chinese?) factory that can print, package and ship directly to the client. Price is a huge concern so I can offer the prints to my users as cheaply as possible.

I've been looking at sites like Alibaba but manufacturers seem to be more interested in shipping 1000+ prints to one location and be done with it. However, in my case I'd need them to ship 1 or more photo prints to individual addresses around the world.

Any ideas? Thanks!
It's kind of ironic to promote the cause of "truth over all else" by such lists of arbitrary items. They always remind me of Borges' classification of animals (http://www.multicians.org/thvv/borges-animals.html).

Let's just look at the last point: "Your opinion doesn’t much change after talking with smart folks who know more." It is so full of subjective judgment. You can hardly tell when you are yourself in such a situation (does the other guy really know more? is he really that smart? has your opinion changed enough?), much less accuse others who might reasonably differ on any of these points.
If you're an Emacs user, look into Ensime, it's fantastic.
http://github.com/aemoncannon/ensime
Namecheap.com currently has a deal for new .com registrations for $5.99 using the coupon code SAVEBIG - that should save you a few bucks if you do decide to register the name.

I'm already too late:

> Sorry, the coupon code you entered 'SAVEBIG' is not valid or has expired or has exceeded usage count. Please verify the code and try again.
If school is free, it's definitely worth it. But to take 60-100k out for a good school, and to get the maximum value, you are talking 4 years of time and effort plus 1-3 likely years salary.

In those same 5 years, if you're willing to struggle, take on a little debt, apply yourself to learning whatever it is you were going to be learning in school, you'd likely come out ahead.

Maybe I underestimate the opportunities that are opened to you when you get your bachelors. Obviously, the connections you get from an Ivy league school are priceless. The work ethic you learn from very motivated individuals is also priceless.

But the reality is the vast majority of people going to school aren't going to a top tier school. They aren't going to bust their ass, they are going to get into debt, and they aren't going to come out of it a super solid prospect.
Only a bit off little topic, I'd say...

The current problem isn't that people drop-out with the hope of becoming Mark Zuckerberg. The problem is that currently school offers rather very little for an extremely high price.

I know someone who dropped out of a psychology PhD program with $100K debt. Perhaps she should have dropped out sooner.
Interesting that it hits just as the TC Hackday demos go live, I wonder how many of those are going to be using twitter and if this will affect them (will twitter take the api down for a bit while they fix this or if this is part of a hack)
Don’t Click The WTF Link On Twitter Unless You Do Like Sex With Goats
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The source code of the worm
That sounds nice, but I'd appreciate some concreteness. Personally I don't think "history" has much to teach you unless you are a general, world leader, or someone who likes learning things for their own sake. There's not much actionable content back there for normal people.

How exactly are you "improving yourself" and "expanding your sphere of influence"? And have any of those had more concrete results than attending city council meetings or telling your friends to vote for legalization?
It's even arguable that vegetables were critical 100 years ago, but no longer in days when you can get your fiber from breakfast cereal and vitamins in the form of a pill.
It is not a myth at all. I am like points, I've been the same weight for several years, and while my diet has changed a whole lot, my weight has not.

I can eat a stick of butter and I won't gain a pound (unless the butter weighs a pound..). My body simply won't store the extra energy, it uses what it needs and the rest goes out the end. It is a tad frustrating because I am a bit underweight as well.
Python: looks great, stays wet longer (2008)
http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/data/data-storage....

Context.MODE_PRIVATE

bam
Sorry, the website owner might be being a dick, but it's long established that there's no expectation of privacy in a public place. If you want to use someone's image in news on, or on your Flickr account, or on a site showing off "Do's and Don'ts" you don't need permission. For more commercial things, like an ad or a book, you do need a model's consent.
The New Yorker's review offers a similar critique, with a bit more historical/cultural context:
http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2010/09/13/10091...
Ads in Paid Apps Are Rude or The Internet's Preposterous Sense of Entitlement
While not a necessity, it'd be nice to filter by geography. Also, you should have to throw out three ideas you have -- just so there's a way to differentiate people.
I certainly don't claim the authority to determine if the Sherman Act applies in this case (or in fact any case).

To summarize my earlier post the most interesting thing about this is that the FBI is leading an investigation on this (if the story is true and indeed "Angelgate" is the subject of that investigation). The FBI having jurisdiction raises all sorts of interesting questions.

The lesser point was that the FBI investigates racketeering and the RICO statutes have very broad application as written whether or not they've been used that way to date.

Take the Sotheby's/Christie's price-fixing case. That was a civil matter was it not? It bears some similarity to this (an important difference being that the auction houses were providing a service whereas the angels are investing, which legally speaking isn't quite the same thing).
Perhaps I'm asking the wrong person, but what is that trying to achieve?
There are actually quite a few such sites:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wiki_Game

It's one of these concepts that keeps poping up independently at many places (there used to be edit wars at Wikipedia pages about manual versions of this game with many people claiming they invented it :).

I did one myself long ago:

http://wikifighting.com

It was one of the first and it got pretty popular for a brief period of time.

The trouble with such sites is that you have to babysit them because they will get broken when Wikipedia changes.
There have been studies that found people who were skinny thought they were eating more calories than they really were and that obese people thought they were eating less. I don't want to get into your specific issues here but it would be impossible for the average sedentary person not to gain weight eating the Michael Phelps diet. Calories matter.

EDIT:
I guess the people that believe calories don't matter and weight gain/weight loss is genetic want to down vote this to hell. Oh well!
Could have / could of mistakes irk me as well, especially because they're obvious. What the heck does "could of" mean? "Could have" is pretty clear.

I'm almost totally certain it comes from "could've", and people mimicking the language as they've heard it rather than learning it. Though I have no idea what the source of "try and" could have been.
Below is the source of the worm for the curious - it's surprisingly very simple.

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Even the download tgz and zip archives are not available right now.
IBM XT!
A Intel 8088 cpu running at 4.7 MHz, 256kB RAM, 10 MB hard drive, PC-Dos.

Christmas 1989, the day I got hooked on computers.
How exactly are you "improving yourself" and "expanding your sphere of influence"?

Start a Tim Ferris style business, improve fitness(to increase lifespan), learn economic analysis, build social network and social skill and lot more.

And have any of those had more concrete results than attending city council meetings or telling your friends to vote for legalization?

My opinion is that I am unlikely to have concrete positive impact by voting in elections. I prefer to look for way to disrupt the democratic process and the current balance of power. That's a hard thing to do. (Some people might think I am evil for opposing democracies though)
What Guns n' Roses Can Teach Us About the Verizon iPhone Story
I could not find a video of this, anyone got a link?
Python Module of the Week - socket module
Lift has the most natural comet abstraction I've used, but using lift's 1.0 ORM felt a little raw and the API has a steep learning curve. The sheer amount imports at the top of a class can get ugly, especially when working w/ heavy javascript. While waiting for 2.0 to have some more documentation and Record to replace Mapper, I've looked at some of the Play! Framework which seems to very straightforward scala support. Abandoning HttpServlet makes me nervous and response streaming isn't supported (no real comet), but Play! is a really refreshing web framework w/ scala support. Don't expect all forms of scalate to work though despite having a module for it.

I don't have any issues w/ the new liftweb site look and feel. That shouldn't be a deal breaker for a quality web framework. For example, HN seems to have a large hadron collider over clojure -- anyone remember what the non-github compojure website looks like?

Anyone have any success w/ the tar/zip link on the liftweb download page? Broken links for me; sad panda. :(
AdSense policies are part of a larger superset of things that you can get cut off for. State and federal laws are also part of that set. As the article notes, "state law that prohibits people from using someone else's identity for commercial purposes without that person's permission". I'm not a lawyer, but in my (unqualified) opinion this is pretty clear cut.
"Eating vegetables is a lot less fun than eating flavor-blasted Doritos," said Marcia Mogelonsly, a senior analyst for Mintel, a global marketing firm. "You will always have to fight that."

Just offer flavor-blasted veggies: Outback Bloomin' Onion. Hashbrowns with onion and red pepper. Etc. I eat more veggies these days than I used to and that is part of my approach. Veggies don't have to be bland.
I've never heard of the Software Freedom Law Center before. Seems like a good group. I donated $10: http://www.softwarefreedom.org/donate/
I think i need to get back into haskell!

I had phil wadler in 1st year and should have him this year in 2nd semester for another class at Edinburgh uni. Very enthusiastic guy!
> but it's long established that there's no expectation of privacy in a public place

My point with sharing that link was to point out a particularly nasty consequence of that.
Not directly, but it shouldn't be that difficult to just write what data you want to make permanent to some database and then give the user a cookie (outside the session) to use if you lose the session.
Some people get annoyed by bad grammar. Other people get annoyed when every grammar mistake is pointed out. Ninety-five percent (or more) of the people who read that saw the mistakes. We could potentially have a grammar conversation about every post with a grammar error. Discussions can get pretty meta as it is. These grammar-related observations never having anything to do with whatever point the article is trying to make, and they're just stating the obvious. We can all see the grammar is weak.
Yet another reason why all GET requests in an API should be idempotent.
I used to be really into street photography[1] and this issue tends to creep up from time to time.

If you're on public property of any sort, you don't really have any expectation of privacy outside of the bathrooms or such.[2] That shouldn't be the surprise and that shouldn't be the title of this link. Hell, you can take photographs of people and things on private property as long as it's readily visible from public property and you're not trespassing on the private property.

But! Using said photographs commercially (generally, any use that brings in direct profit) can be a misappropriation of likeness and also a violation of one's right to publicity[3] -- the right to control and make money from the commercial use of his or her identity.

Being an asshole about it and changing every photograph on the site to hers is an interesting move. I'd really love to see what would happen if she pressed charges in response to that.

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[1] https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Street_photog...

[2] https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Photography_a...

[3] http://www.citmedialaw.org/legal-guide/using-name-or-likenes...
How Startups Should Pitch Tech Bloggers
Obviously I'm not a controlled study, but I've found weight loss is easier since I made a habit of eating a large serving of vegetables at least once a day. And I don't worry about what I have to do to make them desirable--soy sauce, salad dressing, salt and butter--just so long as I'm mostly eating veggies at the time.
One thing I wish is that there was more granularity to some of the permissions.

I put together a streaming music player for a community radio station, and published it on the market. I want to be able to detect when the phone rings so I can kill the music. In order to do this, I need to request permission to "Read phone state and identity."

Once I've requested this permission, I can gather all this other data:

http://developer.android.com/reference/android/telephony/Tel...

I can request their IMEI/IMSI, their phone and voicemail numbers, the name of the cell network they're registered on, and the cell site they're talking to. This is too much! At the very least, the "read identity data about your phone service" should be separated from "find out if the phone ringing is or a call is in progress."

There are a large number of apps that request this particular permission. For example, why do Facebook, Amazon Kindle, Yahoo Fantasy Football, and OpenTable need access to this feature? These are all large brands that would suffer some hefty damage if they were found to be surreptitiously pulling user info, so I'm assuming they have a legitimate need for that permission that doesn't involve sniffing data. I want to know more clearly what business they have poking at the telephony manager.
Kids -- this is why you only support POST/PUTs for writes, and if possible, require some kind of authenticity token. I guess this is what al3x was talking about when he meant that Twitter should hire a security expert.
Ron Conway Would Like To Clarify His Nuclear Attack On Fellow Angels
It's a cute little developer centric signup mechanism. if you don't like it, wait for the regular release for an html form?
They are using GET requests for status updates - possibly only on new twitter.
This is a plausible theory. However, there are equally plausible theories that have a Groupon promotion functioning as a loss-leader and reaching a much broader customer base than a company's traditional marketing otherwise would, with some Groupon purchasers becoming loyal customers.

Either of those are possible (and I'd say it's highly likely that examples of both exist amongst the group of companies which have offered Groupons). The telling thing would be the data, which would resolve it pretty definitively for any giving promotion.
That would be a cross-site request forgery (CSRF) attack:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-site_request_forgery
Kudos to Roman Cortes for his ingenious work that I believe inspired this and many other works.

http://www.romancortes.com/blog/css-3d-meninas/

http://www.romancortes.com/blog/3d-meninas-explained/
I remember reading somewhere (I think it was a book titled "What they don't teach you at Harvard business school") that the difference bettween 100 millionaires and billionaires was that the billionaires had a much higher rate of borrowing money to fund growth whereas 100-millionaires stopped borrowing once they were profitable.
http://github.com/lift/lift_21_sbt
"Who ya gonna believe, me or your own eyes?" (Groucho)

I eat as much as I can, often twice as much an average person - it typical for me to have two helpings in a meal where most people have one.

I have never gone over 145 pounds and I am 6' tall. I cannot gain weight, period. And I'm not alone as other posters mention.
It seems to me that they are profiting from the commercial use of her likeness.
Wow, thanks! I was actually trying to figure out how to do this, but it didn't work for me for some reason.
Just tell them "I'm building a company." No fuss, no muss.
Adsense policies forbid certain things which may not be unlawful, such as promoting intolerance against an individual.
Twitter is vulnerable to CSRF (which is what this is). And it is so simple to prevent it in rails (which is what twitter uses). Interestingly the page announcing csrf protection in rails uses a twitter csrf example. in 2007!! and twitter still hasn't done anything. http://m.onkey.org/2007/9/28/csrf-protection-for-your-existi...

Also this status post should be a POST.
Nice suggestions @edw519, but I think what they have done is great as an MVP and can be improved gradually.
I'm pretty sure potatoes and other starches are not included in the definition. I don't think hash browns are the solution, though they make for a delicious problem.
Sorry I got to "British socialized medicine destroying UK" and gave up on that one.
first posting of video on HN: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1713056 - vimeo direct link: http://vimeo.com/15142335
Considering the website in question is essentially a commercial enterprise (It utilizes Adsense) I'd say this falls outside the realm of fair use.
Douchebags always exist. There really should be some kind of quality control as to who gets to start their own website or company. This would of course be impossible but in theory it would let us use our brains for more useful stuff instead of constantly having to wade through all the bullshit done and created by idiots like the site owner.
Ah. So if you have blog with ads and you use (say) a photo from flickr, your use of the photo is deemed commercial? ie: Use of ads indicates commercial intent?
I don't think apps can grab photos (on iPhone) unless the user picks them through this widget.

iPhone apps have been able to access camera roll images by direct file access. I think they are still able to, though I didn't verify that.

It wasn't even difficult at all, a path to the photo directory can be easily figured out either from the simulator's file system or by jailbreaking the phone. (Or nowadays by Googling)

Secure sandboxing is pretty difficult thing to do properly.

If the image picker UI widget has an access to your photos and it is running inside your applications process, then your process has access to those files. It doesn't matter if the actual path is hidden, a clever hacker could still figure out to get access to those files.

To make sandboxing secure, UI widget has to run in a different process and only communicate data of selected image back to your app. This is non-trivial to implement well, given that UI transitions are expected to be smooth and even support animations.

Due to the API design of UIImagePickerController, I think Apple has known this from the beginning and maybe planned to do it securely. But I assume they just haven't got time to implement it yet.
"It's not that I disagree with you; I just thought you could of been a bit less harsh"

Was this intentional? Or did you just skip over his post entirely because it was "too harsh"
Twitter has had CSRF protection in the form of the authenticity_token parameter since that attack in 2007. This worm exploited a recent change to the Tweet Button that allowed status updates to be made on a GET.
My understanding is potatoes are a vegetable and very nutritious in their own right, which is why they were a staple of the Irish diet until the potato famine (by staple, I mean you could practically raise a family primarily on potatoes and some poor families basically did just that). I do understand why french fries and potato chips are considered "junk food" but I don't think that changes the fact that potatoes are a vegetable.
I've enjoyed netbeans scala support.
Runs slow in Safari too.
I dislike MS as much as the next guy but I guess you can't really berate them for trying. I'm fairly impressed by their release strategy and marketing. To be precise, I'm impressed that they started doing those things.