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> He's making specific, testable, claims

And that is good, you can specifically test the claims

> with no references

The blog is a guest post by Rob Wolff with an excerpt from his book, where the references are.

> and encouraging people to make potentially damaging changes to their diets.

Woah, avoiding lectins for 30 days potentially damaging? Everything is possible I guess, but that seems not only highly unlikely, but a stark contrast to the point of the recommendation: a potentially beneficial change to their diets.

> That demands a slightly higher standard of evidence than somebody's cute code samples or kid photos.

I don't see why, because I don't see any possible danger whatsoever in avoiding grains for a month. If I'm wrong, please illuminate me. I am admittedly, another anecdote case of positive outcome from avoiding grains.
Colemak's instructions are here:

http://colemak.com/Download

Some of them can be modified for other layouts; I haven't looked into it much.
Indeed, I'd be interested in hearing more about the fraud as well; however, I'd imagine that this may be an embarassing part of the story for the OP. There is mention of a large number of chargebacks, which to me indicates that a large portion of his legitimate clients believed that a service was not rendered or product not delivered.
Some have suggested that maven as a solution. I guess the only part I'm missing is how maven ties into the actual system. From what I've seen it is always pulling from my ~/.m2 repository, or a full repository upstream. Is there a way to have like a "System" repository that yum/apt/etc could install into?
At 19 Spencer Thompson is Making Moves With Sokanu
I completely agree. I saved the link to a tweet from Biz Stone about an app i launched 2 years ago (twootball), but now it's gone.
I'm not sure I'm in favor of protectionism either, Chris! I - like - the - food - trucks! They are awesome. I wish Chicago had more of them.

What I am saying is that I think this is an interesting example of how political absolutes fail. If you're going to zone for retail activity, then the word for "transient retail businesses" isn't "efficient", it's "unlawful". Maybe we shouldn't zone? There are predictable (but maybe acceptable) poor outcomes from that move too.

So what's interesting to me is that the only reasonable way forward is to balance interests, devise policies, and iterate over time; in other words, the community has to shape the development of the market, not just the invisible hand.
Well, I think you just found a way for Twitter to make some money. Remove the theoretical access and Web limit for accounts or increase limit to impossibly high number.

It is much akin to NYT charging for access to old articles.

They may have to store more tweets in the current database or charge a retrieval fee to obtain it from the archive. They could give it away for free too...
I value my past tweets too but twitter is having a hard enough time keeping the service up as it is. Id rather they focus on making the api more reliable before working on giving access to older data.
I dislike it when graphs are used to mislead like this. Take a look at the first graph, its baseline is .008%, not 0% like the rest.

It is already a huge drop, you don't need to try to lie to dramatize it more!
So essentially the red flag here is the secret meeting, right? That is, if they had acted in exactly the same way but openly, with a contract and a trade association and so on, this would not be illegal?
Good luck. You may be interested in the paleo hacks site. It's one of them stack overflow sites for questions about stuff related to the paleo diet and lifestyle: http://paleohacks.com/
I tried to play Wolfenstein 3D the other day... No strafe. :(

It would still be a great game if it only had strafe.
Toe Jam & Earl
This is precisely why I built http://tweetsaver.com ... I wanted a nice way to search through ALL my old tweets AND keep them around. I'm always retweeting awesome content, favoriting interesting things, and sometimes I just want to remember what I said without having to click MORE MORE MORE MORE for 100 pages to find it on twitter.com. Maybe someday Twitter will turn on a feature that kills my app, but for now I think it's the best way to archive, organize and search the great content that flows on twitter.
The original Crystal Quest of the mid to late 80's on monochrome Macs and the early color version on the Mac II were great (but not MultiFinder compatible).
Very addictive and fast/smooth which was a feat on the 8 and 16 MHz machines of the era. (Not to be confused with later rewrite which just wasn't the same)

Just the other day I was wondering about getting an old version of the OS running under SheepShaver to try it.
I'll probably dust off an old machine instead.
Here's an idea: Only users with a certain amount of karma can submit stories.

The first few karma points have to be gained by commenting, and then for example with every 10 karma points a user can make 1 submissions. Or have different 'levels' with certain thresholds, etc. You get the idea, and I think that could help reduce the amount and increase the quality of submissions.
MacDonald's Sasuke Toy
Can you suggest any paths leading to a solution?

If you make it more difficult to troll, you will probably encourage intentional infringement. Maybe a large expansion of compulsory licensing combined with some sort of universal liquidated damages paid into a common fund? I don't see any easy fixes.

Is copyright (and patent) trolling a greater or lesser problem in non-US countries? Is there something different in their systems that makes it this way, or are we just leading the curve by happenstance? Correspondingly, is infringement greater under other systems?
New Google ad strategy: 10 minutes of a guy saying "pizza"
Huh! Well, that upgrades it to "it may have been bright looking eastward this morning" at the least.
They could simply slap a 'last visited' flag on ever tweet and discard those that had not been looked at after a year or two. You always have the option of backing up your own data, how much storage is it going to take to periodically scrape you tweet history in to a text file?
Possibly also "boys who are shunned at school",

If this is a measure of success when evaluating your parenting, you are doing it wrong.
I think finding a good designer willing to work on your project is the most difficult part of the whole project.

Focusing on what you do best (programming) and subcontracting what you do worst (design) leads to a great product imho. If you end up doing both, you'll eventually lose motivation because you'll never get satisfied with your own designs (you are not a designer after all). Not to mention that you'll be shifting focus back and forth between design/programming, and each one requires a different kind of focus and way of thinking. The end product if it sees the light? Mediocre at best.
My Side of the Mountain---about a kid running away and actually living off the land.

Book of Virtues---don't give him this, just have it around in your house to read when bored. Gambling scandals notwithstanding, it's full of good stuff.

Blind Man's Bluff---for a kid a bit older, but it's about submarine history in the Cold War.
I don't see the problem here.

It can be a problem because you use your favourite language/tools over and over to be productive, but then you look up and ten years have passed and your skills are no longer marketable.

This is easier to see in the older generation - I have the pleasure of knowing some totally top-class programmers who have happened to spend their whole career writing FORTRAN. Would any of you guys hire them? No, you want the RoR kids, not surprisingly.

Like everything else in in life, there is a Middle Way. Don't have new-shiny ADHD, but try and tick over a new language or technology every few years.
Eric Schmidt: “Our competitor is Bing”
A coworker of mine had the made-for-iPod Etymotics. (6i) The build quality wasn't even half as good as my ER4's. The ER4's are really robust. I can't imagine them wearing out, ever! The 6i's are an old model, though. I don't know what the newer ones are like.

I bought my sister some bluetooth Etymotics which are no longer made. She really liked those. I also have an Ety.com headset, which is really good at what it does. (Allows you to have a phone conversation in really noisy environments.)

My advice: try some from a store with a really good return policy. They are not for everyone. Also, I'd just buy the ER4's, unless you want an iPhone headset. They are a very good in-ear phone with superb isolation, especially if you are sitting still, and you can use them to do serious sound work.

I've bought mine from http://www.headphone.com/. (Not affiliated with them in any way.)
MAGNET WARS
That's impossible because the distribution is responsible for the updates it provides. If you package libraries with your program alla Firefox, Chrome, or Java, you simply make your program unmaintainable and unsupportable from the distro point-of-view. This is true of Ubuntu, as well as Debian or RedHat. This way of thinking is incompatible with basically all of the major distros.
I'm suddenly remembering an old Judge Dredd comic with a vacuum gang emptying out a bank vault.
One of the worst attempts at viral marketing I've ever seen. It is so awful, you don't even want to share it and wish you'd never seen it.
Well why would a bank lend you money to buy a house. What happens when everyone realizes the valuation is sky high and the $500,000 house turns into a $100,000 house.

On a serious note, most often executives can't get 100% of the value of their stock back in line of credit format. 60% to 75% is common.
The book "Emotional Design" (http://www.amazon.com/o/asin/0465051367 ) has lots of studies about how people complete tasks better and have better experiences with functionally equivalent products that are well designed. The beginning has a well-cited example of how customers could use Japanese ATMs better when they were made "pretty". Suspecting it was an artifact of the Japanese cultural love of beauty and craftsmanship, they tried it in Israel, which was more culturally hard-nosed and pragmatic. The improvement in usability was even more pronounced.
Excellent point. I remember it was a huge deal that Wing Commander 4 cost $14 million to make (mostly because it included a great deal of live-action video, the fad of the day). Now that's peanuts for a AAA title.
I had the same results for perl as well as for CL. It surprised me, given that Colemak is promoted as the programmer's weapon of choice.
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Operations Research was one of my favorite classes in college. Only after modeling the world, can you conquer it.
ironically, you're in the dominant position for negotiation. the creditors will try to lean on you (and possibly quite hard), but they're just trying to walk away with as much cash as possible. start throwing the 'bankruptcy' word around, that should cool off most creditors for the time being. communicate your situation to them and don't make any commitments until the dust has settled. don't pay anyone until you consult a few lawyers. if that takes longer than 12 days, so be it.

remember, if you do pursue bankruptcy (which may not be a bad option for a failed business), the judge will ultimately decide who gets paid what amount. no one creditor can walk away with a disproportionate share of the assets (subject to debt rankings). this removes all leverage for subordinated debt.

your first call needs to be your current lawyer. explain your situation and ask for a referral to a bankruptcy lawyer. your next calls should be to your network for more legal referrals. as these lawyers for a 30 min consultation off the clock. if they want your business, they'll give it to you.

most importantly, don't let '12 days' pressure you. your creditors can wait. they may get loud, but they can wait.
Unplayable (modern gamers try Ultima IV)
Any new company must boot-strap their credit (and credibility) in some way. Generally this is done by an officer or owner tying their credit with the company's credit. I own majority in a C-Corp and when applying for a merchant account I was asked to backup the company with my credit and SSN as well as sign for the company with its EIN.
The author's argument that what worked well for the elites of 50 years ago should be good enough for everyone today is unlikely to be correct. What worked for the elites of 50 years ago probably works just fine for the elites of today, like him and his kids. However, what has changed over 50 years is that we're now trying to educate all kids, not just elite kids. It's likely we'll need different approaches to reach all kids today, just like we would have needed different approaches to reach all kids 50 years ago - if anyone back then cared about all kids.
I can't believe nobody mentioned nethack!

It's the most well-designed game I have seen to date.
Ok, I understand now. You mean free-riders in the universe of food-sellers, not the universe of people.

It's true - food-sellers have conspired with local governments to create an artificial scarcity and exploit it for their own benefit. This benefits city governments and food-sellers at the expense of the public. The food trucks are benefiting from the higher prices and reduced competition created by this situation. Similarly, Mexico free-rides off of high oil prices created (in part) by collusion among OPEC members.

As a consumer who purchases food, why should I care? They are not free-riding off me or other consumers. They are free-riding off rent seekers who are trying pick my pocket.

If the brick&mortars destroy themselves with an anti-competitive situation they sought to benefit from, that's just delicious irony.
Wrong. 'born' is not in present tense. 'being born' is present because 'being' implies the present, not because born does. Same applies to 'being carried': 'carried' does not in any way imply the present.

And, moment doesn't have to correspond to an SI time unit 'second'.

And no, a poem doesn't have to be an accurate description of reality (if so it would hardly qualify as a poem).

And my point is: stop trying to make it more accurate, because your attempts are futile; you're only destroying the poetic beauty without any gain to justify that.
Yeah that's one thing I plan to try when I get around to it.
Broadly, there are two types of games that are important enough to remember years (or decades) later: those that are ground-breaking, and those that are good. Ones that are only breakthroughs can stay remembered for their historical significance, even though new iterations improve upon their formulas and eventually surpass them. Games that are good for reasons beyond being a technical breakthrough are the ones more likely to describe as "timeless" or "classic." Ultima VI sounds like an example of the first: quite a breakthrough in terms of mechanics, interaction, and storytelling at the time, but surpassed by later innovations. Starcraft (the first) would probably be the iconic example of the second: everything about that game already existed (in fact, it was somewhat obsolete on launch for still being 2D), and there has been tons of innovation in RTSes since then, but it was simply executed so well that it was not only remembered but actively played for over a decade.

In practice, many games are both. For example, the original Half-Life was a breakthrough for FPS games in tightly integrating an engaging story into the experience. Integrating the story in such a way has become standard fare by modern FPS standards, but Half-Life remains playable and enjoyable today. The graphics are dated (and a little painful), but the gameplay is rock-solid, and the story is still significantly better than 95% of what's on the market, both in terms of what the story is and how it's told. Deus Ex also ages well. It's gameplay innovation of putting RPG elements in an FPS game is now quite standard in FPSes, but the plot makes the game fun to play. Its gameplay innovation isn't really obsolete yet because there isn't something significantly better, but it is exceedingly common, and yet Deus Ex remains a better game than most other games that use it. I strongly suspect Portal will fall into this category as well--portals are cool, but when I think of Portal I think of GLaDOS and the Weighted Companion Cube. As a game, it is held up by way more than just a technical gimmick.

Unrelated: My personal favorite timeless classic is X-COM: UFO Defense (known as UFO: Enemy Unknown on the other side of the pond), which is apparently available now on steam, 17 years after its release.
Confirmed: No FaceTime For The Middle East
But it made it to geek.com and HN.

Hell, I didn't even watch the advert but that's the the article I know what it's for. Isn't that the point of viral marketing?
mentioning WoW inevitably leads me to consider the social component. Especially once I reached the endgame, one of the main sources of enjoyment in WoW was my interaction with other players. Sure, there were social aspects to arcade classics (leaderboard w/ initials) and I'm sure those aspects were crucial to some players' enjoyment. But now that I've played MMOs, Facebook games, predominantly multiplayer FPS's (Unreal Tournament, Halo, etc), it's difficult to play an old-school RPG for very long because it almost feels like playing WoW on a server where you're the only account. Too static, too lonely. I've never played any game in the Ultima series (a sad omission in my experience, I'm sure), but I have a feeling that many gamers of my age and (especially) younger perceive a similar hole in a lot of old single-player games.
> US Copyright Group lawyers never replied to the court, and now they'll never know the identities of several dozen accused file-sharers with Midcontinent IP addresses.

Never? Couldn't they just resubmit the correct way? This just delayed the process, right?
Ask HN: What would you like to see from an IRC network?
We're trying to develop features for our fledgling IRC network that have the capability to draw people to it. We've got all the standard stuff - an Atheme services package with an InspIRCd backend and dedicated staff and developers, but we just don't know what we can do to get people to stop by and visit. If you had a pie-in-the-sky idea, what would it be?
The easy jokes are all there. Engineering school gender ratios can really do some funny things to your head. It really does make you value whatever relationships you build with the other gender a lot more.

And I'm saying that from the perspective of an engineering student just waiting to finish. Partly cause school is insane, and partly so I can rejoin the real world where women actually out number men.
Honestly, I don't even want to get apps from distros at all; I'd prefer to get tested binaries directly from upstream, but all the disagreement over package formats and such makes that nearly impossible. I feel like distros have painted themselves into a corner with their rigid policies and now they're complaining about it.
Unfortunately, my advice is useless for English speakers.

I was raised in Russia, and my mom tricked me into learning to read. Russian is very phonetic - if you know the alphabet, you can sound out words and understand them (compare this with "daughter" - good fucking luck, kid.)

So she would start reading a book, wait until a really exciting part of the plot was coming up, and then put the book down next to me and excuse herself for a moment - she had to stir the pot on the stove, or help my dad look for something, or whatever sounded plausible to me - and being impatient, I would pick up the book and struggle to read, because I wanted to know what was coming next.
I think they were politically correct in calling Strippers as Dancers. That would explain the highest divorce rate....
I played Panic on Funkotron first, after which the original was painful and disappointing. Panic on Funkotron is fantastic though!
Pasting in some code and blog posts I had lying around was pretty eye-opening for how terrible qwerty was for me.

What I think would be really interesting however would be to dump the results of a keylogger with a weeks worth of data into it. Would definitely be more accurate, and maybe interesting to see where my hands spend most of their time during the week.
Some would say the same about the Philip Pullman books. Once they can read on their own, I let my kids read anything that the public library keeps in its collection. They hear about a lot of these books from friends.
These are great, but won't work on iPad, where I do most of my HNing. Server-side solutions are much preferred.
It's embarrassing. My email is still buzz_lightyear97@lycos.net
The post/link doesn't seem to work :( update?
By this metric "Citizen Kane" is dull, Beethoven's symphonies sound tired, and Phidias statues are so déjà vu. BTW did you read the Odyssey? Ha, they don't even have rail guns, stupid Achaeans!

I still love playing PacMan, etc. Actually I can't stand modern games at all out of the "casual" ones, because they're just too demanding, and I have no time to spend for this. I don't need any special involvement to play PacMan, Activision Enduro, or Intellivision AD&D. They're fun, anyway.
Tecmo Super Bowl, too.
Ask HN: Safe to release source code after DMCA?
This past spring, I created a popular Tetris clone that I released for free on the Android Market. After I had finished and released it, I started to hear about how protective Tetris Holding is of their trademark. After a few months, as expected, along came a DCMA take down from Tetris Holding and Google removed my game from the market. End of that story.

My question is, would it be "safe" for me to put the source code on GitHub for others to learn from and perhaps even learn something myself from others who make suggestions to improve it?

The reason I ask is if someone takes my code and builds and releases it on the Android Market, I would rather not find myself in a situation where I am in any way liable. (Risk averse...)

Basically, I am wondering if anyone knows of any red flags I should be aware of regarding this, or how I could do it safer (or if I don't even need to worry). Thanks!

Also, the clone is called Titres. (I hope some of you got your hands on it before it got taken down!)
Fiction:

1. Life of Pi - Yann Martel

2. The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas : An awesome closeup of revenge

3. The complete Sherlock Holmes series : 'nuff said.

Non fiction:

1. Cosmos - Carl Sagan : I fell in love with science post-reading this book.

2. October Sky - Homer Hickham : A real life story of how a group of boys in a backwater town build a rocket that changes their lives.

3. Chariots of the Gods - Erich Von Daniken - A real mind bender, even if you choose not to agree with his ideas.
...so I can rejoin the real world where women actually out number men.

With regards to the real world, it depends on where you live. From: http://www.siliconvalleybachelor.com/2009/02/man-jose-its-of...

The Census Bureau recently released it's numbers showing that there are 117 men for every 100 women in San Jose amongst the ages of 20 to 44 years old.
We're actually covering code analysis, testing, and fuzzing tools as well. Great depth of information coming out of this thing. :)
I wonder about billionaires. Are they just that much better at handling this? Or maybe better at getting other people to do it for them? Or maybe they resigned themselves to never being happy so they just push themselves so they don't have to think about it.