skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh, a "normal" diet varies a lot depending where you are. Myself, I'm in Norway, and the diet here is fairly healthy if somewhat short on vegetables (especially during the winter). I'm sure most other "normal" diets in the world are quite ok, as well. Might need some added vegetables, depending on where you are (the Dutch probably don't need any extra), but mostly, people who are able to afford normal amounts of food will eat better than one would expect given the media hype. They might want to cut down on the amounts, and cut out the sugary drinks, but I think that's it.
The matter itself is a list of sleep hacks.

The worst thing about Scribd is the way it obligates people to ruin perfectly good HN threads with meta-commentary.
Researchers found that students who applied to several elite schools but didn't attend them -- either because of rejection or by their own choice -- are more likely to earn high incomes later than students who actually attended elite schools.

Any thoughts on why this might be true?
The question I'd ask myself if I were you is, "What's the COST of allowing all existing users to continue to use the app for free, and charge new users as they signup?"

If the answer is that there's little or no incremental cost (beyond, say, hosting costs and occaisional support), then I would allow all existing users to continue using the app for free, indefinitely.

Your beta users have likely put up with a lot of crap while you and your predecesor ironed out the kinks, added necessary features, etc. It's better to continue in their good graces and have them be enthusiastic evangelists for your product than risk angering them by jacking up the price.
If you consider a normal, healthy diet as "eat out of fast food restaurants and freezer cases," then sleeping problems are probably not what you should focus on first.
this will probably make the next batch of YC applications more finance focused
Design has never been about using Photoshop. This isn't a "2010 thing". Design is no more about Photoshop than it is pen, paper, or pixel. If you believe any different, you're deluding yourself.

I know how to use Photoshop and Illustrator, but would not consider myself a designer. The tools don't make the designer.

Design is about communication. That's all it's ever been and all it ever will be about (a user interface is a communication to the user how to interact with your product/idea).
Craigslist is effective because the programmers on campus (just like the HR professionals or people in finance) don't think about the college paper as a place where people other than writers are looking. College coders are looking for gigs on Craigslist to fill their free-time, simply because they probably don't know there's an opportunity at your paper.

Regarding talking to management, have them find out what the board members are paying their coders and have them call other college papers in the circuit to find out what the average is (and tell them to compare the rates they hear to the quality of the site). Its one of the beautiful things that I miss about the college paper world - other college papers aren't competitors, they're colleagues and welcome inter-paper exchanges.
Yeah, but it worked for Apple only because they were first (more or less). Nokia can't go that way. Their only hope is to adopt a successful OS and produce top-notch phones.
Show HN: babble.ly, revokable URL's for phone numbers
I live here and would love to meet up, what's your contact info?
http://babble.ly/ allows users to generate links for their phone numbers. When the link is clicked, babble.ly connects both parties.

Share the link anywhere, and when you're done with a link, revoke it.
Wow, I actually spent some time to add the text-shadow and etched effect to the letters to make them blur. Didn't realize it invokes the opposite reaction. My design sense sucks. Should have followed the KISS principle. Thanks for the honest feedback.
On the other hand, there are quite a few people here explicitly seeking the approval of other types of authority: angels, VCs, respected entrepreneurs, etc.
Most people on HN are neither rebels nor entrepreneurs. They have drifted here from other social news sites suffering from the Eternal September effect.

In fact, I'd argue that this site has far more rigorous unwritten social rules than other sites. It feels like a priggish country club at times. The average HN user is concerned more with politeness than insightfulness.
Intel Light Peak Technology [video]
fair enough, it was the newest one i could find.

this and similar reports from others are the reason i don't use cake, though, and it seems like it would be in their best interest to get some newer information out there. (i made my choices years ago though)
Nano IPod like watch
European Public Policy Blog: Our thoughts on the European Commission review
Thanks for that second link. I think Comcast is clearly drawing a line between L3's CDN and their tier one backbone. The following press release (from 2004) details Comcast's use of L3's fiber:

http://www.comcast.com/About/PressRelease/PressReleaseDetail...
Does anyone know what this actually means? Yodlee seems to already have a beta of their API available for developers (http://www.finappstore.com/howTo.html). However, it's unclear whether they charge for API access. Perhaps this is a price break for YC companies?
I heard it was free to go to. Friend of mine went and got the free tablet and everything.
A Bunch of Hackers at Work on Suites
This is excellent. I've been wanting a similar PHP version of the Html5Boilerplate for some time now. If this saves me as much time as the Html5 version, I'd hop on this in a heartbeat. Seeing more PHP frameworks take this approach would be a great thing, I believe.

The RoR commmunity has had this opportunity for quite some time now with Thoughtbots' Suspenders (https://github.com/thoughtbot/suspenders) template.
Why not some form of user self-registration and admin management tool as well? I see a facebook connect in there, which helps, but a pure cake-based user reg/management system would go a long way towards a faster 'out of the box' experience.
Think of the many other colossal wastes of money. I contemplated more than "yes" but really? "Yes" says enough. The discovery of extraterrestrial life will change my life, and for the better, and who the hell are you to denigrate that? How much money does the world spend on bubble gum? How much money has already been spent tearing Iraq and Afghanistan to smaller pieces this morning? How much money was spent on ad buys on last year's Superbowl?

The world has heaping piles of money. Some minuscule fraction is spent on basic science, and you're all high and mighty about lack of access to drinking water. Give me a break.

You want perspective? It's all around you. If you need it from a one-word answer that succinctly responded to the original question, then I'm afraid you need to look elsewhere.
Here's a more recent benchmark: http://symfony-reloaded.org/fast
Your competition:

http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability
It was totally open and free. One needed to just sign up on the website and turn up.

Which is probably the most damning thing about the platform: when such effort is spent at luring developers in, one wonders.
For more information, here is the project webpage: http://www.aladdinproject.org/
Lotto Website (CodeIgniter Framework) « Web development & SEO: VellumWeb
Google Calendar Now Has Optional Attendees
Timelapse: Designing a new website
Playing it forward or backward is an excellent idea, like a VCR. I'll try to put it in. Live scrubbing while sliding was intentionally turned off. I figured it doesn't let people read the content while flying over the pages, while hitting the server with each page. It mainly shows a visual effect without real benefit. But if people really want it, I can put it back on.
Compatibility :)

In any case, you can easily generate an ant script or whatever build groovy uses to either generate the vararg code or the insaneo source code as we see here. The point being that this should only happen when compiling groovy for java 1.4.
Yes they do. We had a meeting with them and they were looking at around a £10k setup fee along with a separate charge per user per month.
Celebrity Hairstyles & Fashion
Celebrities always grab our attention at red carpet and awards events.
Apart from Fatzke, you are cheating. And even in Fatzke, it's not in one syllable.
Makers of Firefox Browser Explore Do-Not-Track Tool
Hmmm, I hadn't thought of it that way. So the world isn't getting smaller, but individuals are getting bigger? Relatively, both statements are the same I guess.
I'm South American (from Uruguay) and there are many more here on HN :)

I'm not representative of my country, and my country is atypical by Latin American standards, but that said, there is quite a bit of animosity against the US, particularly by the old-school leftists (those that were adults during the US-sponsored military dictatorships in the 70s).

The newer generations and the old-school right-wing people bear no such animosity here.

I haven't seen much hatred against the US in Argentina or Brazil either (in Brazil they actually want to measure against and compete against the US in the global stage, not hate them), and there's quite a bit of envy involved.

All Latin American countries consume a lot of US entertainment and media and culture, too.
Indeed, some patterns in nature might look familiar. For instance, stellar matter in novae seem a lot like clouds but only because human psychology is really good at pattern recognition.

As for Newtonian physics versus relativity Brian Green’s Elegant Universe TV show (and book) does a great job illustrating the differences in an entertaining way.

If you’re into that type of thing.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/physics/elegant-universe-einste...
A Taste of F# - Today and Future
As opposed to tired, stressed and easily overwhelmed humans making tactical and strategic decisions? I share your concern but I don't think its impossible for an AI to get to the point where it makes less mistakes than a human.
I voted for iPad app, but I currently use the Hacker News 20 twitter feed (@newsyc20) plus Flipboard. It gives easy access to either the main article or the comments page. My only gripe is that Flipboard forgets my credentials fairly often.
Researcher Warns of iPhone Phishing Dangers
I would say design is about problem solving more than straight communication. Here's a great talk from Michael Bierut that kind of touches on what a designer is:
http://the99percent.com/videos/6056/michael-bierut-5-secrets...
Ask HN: What are the most important essential things in the life of an investor?
What makes someone become an investor?

Do the essential things tend to differ among different kinds of investors, like angels, VCs, incubators, etc., and if so, how?
I'm in the same boat, ish. My problem is that I haven't put as much effort into my november project as I'd like. On the plus side I've learned loads:

Why being a single founder is hard (2 people means you both have to be demotivated in order to fail, which is twice as unlikely as just one person)

Why audience is more important than product (I've still not written a line of code, but I'm getting relevant traffic to my "product"'s homepage through some blog posts. I see a half-popular website as more valuable than a half-written app)

That these things are hard to keep focused on. I've not worked on my project for about a week and a half and that's put a huge dent in my deadline-hitting ability.

And a load of other stuff which I'll probably blog about this week.
Chris Hughes launches Jumo.com
They don't give a clear explanation of why this is though. Do users typically look at the left side?
It might just be my monitor, I'm viewing this from work on an XP machine - so it might just be ClearType not working properly.
I think the complained availability of applications will improve pretty quickly when this stuff is done: http://www.qaiku.com/go/a25h/

Currently maemo.org is serving some 1.5 million open source apps for the N900 per week.
Ask HN: Review my "coming soon" page
I would think that the main factor distinguishing running injuries from cycling injuries is the nearly-dead factor.

It's very hard to die from a running injury, but any major cycling injury is probably just a little bit of bad luck away from being a broken neck.
> I don't know anything about Hudson. But when I see stories like this (big bad corporate imposes their will on open source), I always think the drama queens (on both sides) are busy having "meetings" instead of doing actual work.

>If I'm a developer, especially a developer on a project for which I'm not getting paid, I'll do the development using whatever the hell tools I want, thanks. And if someone tells me I can't, frankly, it's not really up to them.

This is exactly the position of the Hudson developers, so why call them drama queens? They can't "just fork it". It's a large open source project with 100+ developers. They need to plan, get consensus, etc. Those "meetings" you seem to disdain aren't just for people to bitch.

I hope they do change the name and fork it. Oracle needs to learn a lesson here and they are absolutely powerless (for once) other than having the TM on Hudson.
Well, I'm very glad there are people who are willing to do the hard work to improve Ruby's performance. If ekidd can help bring it up to a significant fraction of LuaJIT's, I'll line up in the pouring rain to be the first one to buy him a beer. :)
On a related note, a big online library of Russian books is managed from Ecuador (used to be hosted there as well).

They used to openly call themselves pirates, but Russian publishers couldn't do much to the site legally due to Ecuador copyright laws. Publishers then tried to bring the site down by DOS attacks, but didn't quite succeed.
Some people have done a lot, sometimes with government support, but those are a tiny minority when compared to the people they represented.

You shouldn't judge a people by the actions of their leaders.
Reddit provides enough value for its users for them to invest the effort to learn some Markdown. This is due to Reddit's content and community being the main sources of value for the user, not it's text-formatting features. I couldn't say the same for this app. If they can't pick it up in two seconds, I think most won't bother.
Yes, left to right F shaped scanning is pretty well documented. http://www.useit.com/alertbox/reading_pattern.html
CakePHP comes with that out of the box. You can use the built-in Auth component for registration and user management, and the "Bake" tools will give you the option of creating admin functions, similar to Django's.
My definition of "work" is that it is done for anything other than its own sake. It doesn't matter who it's done for or what the benefit of doing it is. Housework is work; writing a blog can be work; cleaning your tools after an enjoyable hobby is work. Anything done in support of something else, whether or not money or other people are involved, is work.

Only those things, like eating, sleeping, talking with friends, sex, play, that are done for their own sake are not work.

Note also that "effort" is not involved in the definition - I know many people that put more effort into their play than into their jobs.
Using Android would put them in direct competition with (very) low-margin Chinese manufacturers.

This is the "Android is the race for the bottom" argument. It is perplexing how it keeps getting a free pass on here.

Nonetheless, for the sake of argument let's go with the notion that Android really is the domain of "(very) low-margin Chinese manufacturers" (ignore that the top selling devices are high-end devices like the Droid X, Galaxy S, Desire Z, etc), would having their own OS really defend Nokia from competing with them?

Of course it wouldn't. Android isn't taking marketshare from Android -- it's taking it from every other maker. You can't stick your head in the sand and pretend that somehow that helps your margins. Consumers generally consider every other option available out there.

This is what Apple got right: if you have your own operating system and ecosystem nailed down correctly, people do not mind paying larger margins, and you are in a different game.

It's interesting to consider that in the PC space Apple used to control their own hardware, even developing their own chips. It was a disaster. Now they use commodity hardware with a glossy shine, and it has dramatically helped their bottom line: They differentiate on top of the common, and that is their secret to success. This is almost entirely the case with the iPhone as well, where the processor is made by Samsung, the wireless chipset by broadcom, the screen by various manufacturers, etc.

The whole "the iPhone model proves the case" analysis is a profound example of a confirmation bias. You can't throw a corpse without finding a dozen counter-examples where such a "go your own way" model was an absolute, unabated disaster (including about 90% of Apple's existence), yet somehow that conclusion keeps getting restated like it's a scientific fact. It's absurdity.
It's definitely true that to understand your own position you need to come up with the best arguments for the opposing position. It disappoints me when I read lousy arguments made by those who do not share my viewpoint, and even more when an entire position shared by many people is based on emotional reasoning.

Torture is a topic that lends itself to emotional reasoning. How can you be such a meanie? How can _you_ put children at risk while terrorists are running free?

DU also lends itself to sloppy reasoning. People take for granted that it is a radioactivity problem when it's actually a heavy-metal toxicity problem. Radioactivity is more emotional.
I'll set up OpenBSD VM to test it out. That's very detail bug report. Thanks!
Another pretty well-known seedbox hoster is Xirvik ( http://www.xirvik.com/ ).
I'm pretty sure such services are cheap compared to the crazy bandwidth costs you'd pay with Amazon.
Graphic design is 'clear thinking, made visual'.

The best graphic designers are problem solvers; closer to visual engineers, than they are to decorators.
BitTorrent Based DNS To Counter US Domain Seizures
We're building an academic network to provide academics with papers and people relevant to their research. Please let me know what you think.
What's this if not hacking?
This video is really cool, designing looks so much cooler than coding when time-lapsed :) -- then again, coding looks pretty awesome in movies like Hackers.
From my perspective, the question is more of how would you hire the right designer to turn an application from an eyesore to a polished professional look ? We are never going to meet , so how does one go about separating true designers from PSD/HTML hacks when one encounters them on Elance. What question do you ask ? what do you look for in the portfolio ? And of course --- by what formula do you divine how much to pay (this one is a big issue for all tech. bootstrapped start ups)? And is Elance the right place to find them ?
> I think both of them suffer from the same root problem: the delusion that people everywhere are obsessed with the USA and Americans.

I wouldn't be able to say it any better.

> Bush was extremely unpopular here in Argentina.

I really can't imagine a place where he was popular... Poland, I was told, but a statement so unbelievable required more proof than I had at the time.
This is true. If anyone is curious about why there is something specifically called "communications design", then (as opposed to "industrial design"): the simple difference is that something that is industrially-designed, although it communicates, is communicating information about itself—e.g., the shape of a car gives affordance to do something with the car. Meanwhile, communications design communicates a message about something external to itself (propaganda poster -> message about politics.)
New social network aims to do good
Natural Ways And Best Exercises to Reduce Belly Fat
No to mention that these kind of things are going to be hard to really measure. Each framework is doing such diverse things that each website will get different performance. Also I wouldn't trust a framework maker to do these tests.
So much wasted time on talk.
Blogging. Blabbing. Socializing:)))
Do your job, with passion and deep knowledge.
That's enough.
First look: Screach packs serious interactive potential for TV and beyond
In an interview with Andy McNab (former member of the SAS and now a fairly successful author) in the Scotsman at the weekend I was rather surprised that he has been taking part in a UK research program to develop technology to suppress the parts of the brain that "implement" fear and empathy - arguably making a person more machine like. He was being studied as he clearly doesn't do much in the line of fear or empathy!

The interview is here:

http://www.scotsman.com/spectrum/Interview-Andy-McNab-soldie...

The bit about the brain scans is on page 5:

http://www.scotsman.com/spectrum/Interview-Andy-McNab-soldie...
I'm going to try this after releasing Appointment Reminder.

For solo Rails developers who want the automation but don't want to deal with big icky configuration, can I recommend autotest?

http://ph7spot.com/musings/getting-started-with-autotest

I have mine configured to pop a little window on Ubuntu any time a change causes a test to fail. It is quite motivational and has saved my bacon many, many times these last few weeks.

It isn't really great for using for e.g. running a suite of expensive Selenium tests frequently, but it cranks out simple unit, functional, and API tests.
Amazon.com eyes Chattanooga, TN for new distribution center
I've had no luck with any Ruby CI solutions. We use Hudson (Java) and it works great.
It was the sentence before that which caught my eye:

"The cost of a move, in terms of training, hiring experts, rewriting entire application and tool suites, rounds of testing, and final deployment, will easily run higher than continuing to build and deploy Java applications."

so... your costs will go up; whether you end up licensing java, or switching. I'm not sure about you, but that is relevant to my business needs.
Notation doesn't apply just to the symbols in which you write but the meanings and operations assigned to them and the way in which they can be combined. This applies as much to the expressiveness of language semantics as it does to the language syntax. Consider how things like first class functions change the way one approaches a problem and expresses the solution.