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> Thirdly, why would people living in urban areas be less literate than people from rural areas? Usually, people from urban areas are better educated than people from rural areas.

Hmmmm .... Certainly the high end (in education) of the population will be better educated in urban areas. And I imagine that will make the average better for urban areas.

On the other hand, virtually everyone living in a rural area is going to be an independent businessperson, in some sense, thus establishing a minimum baseline requirement for literacy. In a city, one can be a cog in a huge machine, leaving the reading for someone else.

So while I would expect the literacy highs to be higher in a city, I would also expect the lows to be lower.

But what about some data? I did a few quick searches, but urban vs. rural literacy data for the U.S. seems to be a bit hard to come by. I did find this map showing illiteracy rates for Texas.

http://www-tcall.tamu.edu/docs/09illitmap.html

The main trend the map shows, is for illiteracy to increase to the south & west. However, there is a big blob of illiteracy around Houston. On the other hand, there is not really any significant blob for the Dallas area. Go figure.

More data would be appreciated, if anyone can find it.
There are tens of great arguments you could have made against deletionism, why make a bullshit one? You know it's not about the disk space --- though presumably not all of the 16 people who modded you up know that as well.
I wonder when a real time GC will be available for openjdk.
We've hired something like 4 people since we started talking about it here, I think.
This is something a browser extension could do (though not as well as the engine itself, of course). There is Chrome extension called "Google Blacklist"[1] but it didn't seem to have any effect when I tried it out. Perhaps others will have better luck.

[1]https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/hbodbmhopadphblo...
That's a great point.

One thing I've always done is if I slip up and eat a lot more than I wanted to during the course of a day (e.g., big lunch, big dinner) I'll go ahead and keep eating a whole lot the rest of the day.

I figure my body can only store so much fat in one day so any additional calories won't hurt. I've never seen this idea proven or disproven anywhere but logically it seems to make sense to me.
I have read several of Gary Taubes books, including Good Calories, Bad Calories that he mentioned and his earlier book (massive tome, might be better) Bad Science on the cold fusion debacle. He might tend to get a little carried away with enthusiasm for his subject at times, but they have all been both fascinating reading and well documented.
We have lots of processes to head off problems, like OTRS. Also, Wikipedia benefits from the strong safe-harbor provision in the DMCA (the only good part of it).
I take issue with his statement that there are plenty of animals that have abundant food, which don't get fat. I just don't think that's true. Even for the animals that have plenty of food, they still have to go out and forage/hunt. On the other hand, if you just pile up food in front of animals everyday, they will eat it and get fat. Some examples of this are my parents' dogs, and there are no animals but humans and domestics that have infinite food with no work attached.

I think people and animals eat, because that's how we are wired. Any animal gorges itself presented with work-free food. Our body wants as much fuel as it can get at a very basic level.

However, I don't think it comes down to "personal responsibility." I think society is successful at instilling logical discipline in many members, and less successful with others. If you are fat, it's probably because your family didn't raise you to have the tools to make good health decisions and follow through with your thoughts. I also think unsatisfied people tend to over-eat, over-smoke, and over-everything else.

It takes both luck and hard work to be happy and fit.
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I'm not sure how the maintenance expenditure is relevant to his point - the point is that if you only eat 20 calories/day more than you "should" (the amount that would cause your weight to remain the same) then you will gain the weight. The fact that the baseline changes is an irrelevant detail. Regardless of what the baseline is at any given point, how does the system (meaning the person's body+brain) know when to stop eating?
Once they allow ad revenue to flow in, they will become dependent on it.
There's no relation between "the free software movement" and "freemium."

Also, freemium is only a special case of discounting where price is zero. There's a whole spectrum of discount pricing strategies. And there's a large number of other models as well.

And here's the worst thing: all of the different monetization models have lots and lots of products and companies. It's not just freemium that's crowded. It's a tough world out there and you're going to have to really impress. You're going to have to fight for your customers. Period.

First, make something useful. Get some people to use it. If you have people wanting what you've got then you need to figure out how to monetize it well. Which way you monetize it has a lot to do with your specific product and your customers. It may be freemium, or it may be charge a big fee up front, or anything in between.
Additionally, some of this points are so broad it should be really easy for them to declare "success" in the next year: "Auto apps", "Biomimcry" (anything inspired by nature?)

or which are quite obvious by now: "Buy one, give one away" (didn't OLPC use this model in .. 2006? 2007? Prediction?); Children's E-Books (ebooks are becoming more and more ubiquitos all the time - so yes, there will be children's ebooks) .. and so on.

Still, some of the slides are interesting reads.
That sounds like a rich travel budget.
Believe what?
| Concorde operations are from the International terminal at the airport, so even though we were not actually leaving the country we had to go through passport control.

I've always wondered why so many counties outside of the US require showing one's passport when leaving the country. Is there a restriction on leaving?
a stir-fry, a chopped salad, and the basic combination of rice and lentils, all of which are easy enough to learn in one lesson

Well, fried eggs with bacon or whatever else you want them with are quite easy to learn and quick to cook.

Also, I've learned to cook steaks recently, it's actually super easy - just heat the pan, cook 1 side for two minutes, turn over and cook the other side for two minutes!
Seems a lot like Go (http://golang.org).

See http://golang.org/doc/effective_go.html#interfaces_and_types and http://golang.org/doc/effective_go.html#embedding.
Oh yeah, I can understand that. Why didn't you get the 4GB upgrade? I'd have thought of that one as a no-brainer.
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This data is concerning to me, here's why:

First, most of the value of wikipedia comes from random users. Second, we've seen a pattern of Wales and wikipedia administration not understanding where the value of wikipedia comes from. Third, we've seen a pattern of policies and practices that are actively hostile to the users and usages that are wikipedia's bedrock (deletionism, edit wars, unnecessarily tight permissions for article creation etc.)

And then we have wikipedia's budget priorities, which indicate that Wales et al seem to value creating cushy jobs for people who don't add much to wikipedia much more than just keeping the site running for as long as possible, by a ratio of around 10:1 (roughly).

In short, the people who run wikipedia don't seem to care or value the source of content on the site nor the continued operation of the site very much. Instead they seem to care about extracting money by effectively holding huge amounts of content that they did not create hostage.

I love wikipedia, it's a great site and potentially very positively disruptive to traditional norms in human society, culture, and education. Yet increasingly I am driven toward the conclusion that the people who run it are not in any sense good people and are holding it back as much as they are keeping it running.
Yes, I would generally agree that fish aught be included and used as a primary source of protein, though with fish I feel is very important to know the source.

Also, I personally am not a huge fan of fish so I do neglect it in my diet a bit, but I make up for it with grass fed beef and bison etc (all good sources of proper ration omega 3 to omega 6 fatty acids).

To the other points....I do have this for people who have already gotten control of their diet.

After you optimize what you eat, optimize what your food eats!

Baby steps ;)
He meant that, as far as the tests in the main article, Webkit has nothing to do with the results. Chrome uses the V8 javascript engine, Safari uses the Nitro javascript engine, while the webkit project are building their own javascript engine - Squirellfish.
Big Night: also a great startup movie.

I might take issue with the (implied) assertion that Chicago lacks a food culture, or that the average citizen of (say) Rome is necessarily steeped in one.
As I said, it's possible I'm wrong but I definitely think psychosomatic is far more likely. Particularly with the low amount of reports of this phenomenon.
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I weight between 135-145 pounds and I'm 6' tall. I'm well past thirty.

I eat as much as I can. The only that stops from eating is stomach pain from overeating.

Some people may get fat from overeating. But it's hard to generalize here.
You know I wish I could. I completely believe in your mission but I just do not have the coding chops. It makes me so sad every time I realize the gulf that exists between my ambition and my ability :(
There really isn't that much range in the smartness or fitness of human beings.

Capitalism isn't necessarily about rewarding people that are "better".

It's about rewarding people that are productive in the ways in which other people value.

It rewards people for making stuff other people want. It's about rewarding me more for learning an in-demand trade than for skateboarding all day.
Exactly. Or to put a finer point on it: there becomes a much greater pressure to insert ads as content.

Why pay for an ad sense spot if you can just insert your own ad into the relevant wiki article?
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Go does. See my other comment in this thread: http://news.ycombinator.net/item?id=2058963.
So in order to register a domain name and start writing, someone needs your approval in order to not be considered "pollution".

That makes sense.
So, from a lot of random sources but (weirdly enough) mostly Cooks Illustrated, let me just observe that in a lot of cases, testers will prefer dishes that have been sweetened at various different points, even savory ones; similarly, you can get tasters to rate dishes more highly by boosting the "mouthfeel" with excess fats or - obviously - by frying them.

Take the same item prepared at home or "commercially" (either in a package or at a restaurant) and the home version is apt to be healthier, because you have to go out of your way to make it as unhealthy as the commercial version will have been made so that it sells better. The most obvious example is that you're much less likely to deep fry something at home, but you're also less likely to spike your salad dressing with corn syrup.
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Or get a cheap-o RC880 rice cooker and a $120 Auber PID controller and some ziploc bags, and you can make absolutely foolproof steaks, pork chops, chicken breasts, duck legs, rabbit, beaver tail, and what-have-you just by pushing a couple buttons.

It blows my mind that more hackers don't cook sous-vide.
> Are you sure the Unibody Aluminum Macbook (Macbook 5,1) supports 6GB of RAM

The hardware limit is (and has always been) 8GB, the original firmware limit was claimed at 4GB and there's apparently been a firmware update late 2009 (december 8th) which raised the EFI limit. At this point, claims become muddled, it seems you can put 8GB RAM in it but it only sees 6, unless you launch the 64b kernel (apparently)
It's not about restraint, Malthus believed people were beyond stupid, that they'd continue to make children in the face of a dwindling food supply. It makes sense to have a lot of children in a scenario where most of them will die of disease before adulthood, or if not, soon afterwards. But in a hunger scenario, having one extra child may mean they all starve, so it's not a good idea.

In a subsistence world, each child will become economically valuable within 12-14 years and soon after that they can support their parents. In this world, children are capital investments. (Since money-capital can't form due to theft or war, people-capital is the only thing that gets created).

We are seeing that as people pull themselves out of poverty (as they are allowed to accumulate capital), they have fewer children.

In fact, it's not certain that we have ever seen a true Malthusian collapse in our human history. Starvation, when it happens, usually has a political cause behind it.
I simply set a timer before I go to bed (specifying how many hours of sleep I want). The input merhod is much faster and less bug prone.
> First of all, facebook is going to contact you shortly because you are infringing on their trademark.

Lawsuits those days... The insanity of them goes so beyond imagination, people are starting to think it's even forbidden to mention Facebook®™ without Their Majestic Permission. OH WAIT--
I think you'll find two audiences. There are those who are looking to flip domain names and pick up a lot of them to resell, then there are those who buy domains more defensively to try to figure out the best domain name for their ideas. In the end, it's just incredibly cheap to get a domain name, so it's no barrier to entry.

If I have an idea for a site, the first thing I do is try to find a good domain for it. Depending on how serious I am about the site idea, I will pick up any serious contender for a name. That means for any particular idea, I might register 1-20 domains depending on various factors like how serious of an idea it is and how quickly I find "the" domain name. I'll even buy from set-price brokers up to 4 figures for a domain I think I will eventually use.

My portfolio is about 350 domains at the moment, which costs me ~$3150 a year to maintain. That is a footnote expense in almost any profitable small business.
Chicago has a restaurant culture, a particularly fantastic one (in my opinion the best in the U.S.), but I don't know if I consider that the same as a food culture. While there are some pretty good open markets, it's nothing like you'd get in Rome or Paris, and the idea of taking a three hours for lunch would get you laughed out of the workplace.
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That would be fixed then, you can subdivide that 980px space into columns but nothing inside will stretch beyond the boundaries. Eg. here's one of our sites: http://nxbus.co.uk

You can see that while there's a background image on the full page, all of the content is constrained to a 962px width container with the auto margins. This keeps it centred but with a fixed width.
That's a pretty horrible indictment of WebInspect, because Skipfish virtually never finds anything for us (we ban scanners on our teams, but I like Zalewski and tend to run Skipfish just for kicks).
As several people have pointed out, within the community of software developers, the term "free software movement" instantly brings to mind Richard Stallman and the GNU project much more than the topic you are actually writing about. I was expecting something like "FOSS is dead to me because of <insert development mailing list drama here>".
I'd be interested to apply to the Herndon, VA location but are the interviews really bad? Would I have to study my data structures book before coming in?
Ask HN: How do you test mobile sites? Also, Kayak glitch.
A non-programmer friend of mine had me reproduce a bug he found in the Kayak Flight Search on his iPhone. If you go to kayak.com on the iPhone, tap Flight Search, select one-way, select two cities (I chose DEN and LAX), and click the drop-down button to show the calendar. The calendar doesn't show up! Worse, when you try to focus the text field the script code takes the focus away. So searching for flights is effectively broken.

I was reminded that testing mobile web apps is more difficult than testing regular web apps. I'm curious what fellow HNers are doing to test web apps on mobile devices. I'd also like to hear thoughts on how much mobile web testing will change in the near future and what projects will be behind it.
In the same vein.. if you want a delicious salad, try making this: an over-easy egg served on top of chunks of crispy bacon over baby spinach greens, with a dressing of a mixture of a decent balsamic vinegar and olive oil.
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On the other hand, virtually everyone living in a rural area is going to be an independent businessperson, in some sense, thus establishing a minimum baseline requirement for literacy.

As someone who grew up in a rural area, I can assure you that this is false. As in urban areas, most people in rural areas work for someone else.
No, IIUC, the WakeMate app's got its own alarm. This only applies to Apple's built-in clock.
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Stereoscopic pornography.

You're welcome.
What's the policy on working from home one or two days a week? I only ask because the commute looks do-able, but unpleasant for 5 days/week.
Well, to be fair, our enemy was the Soviet Union when these projects were started, and stealth technology would have been very helpful in a war against them.

It's interesting how the world has changed. Any political entity with the ability to make war has realized that wars do not help them get richer, and so everyone pretty much gets along. It's the people with nothing to lose that want to start wars now.
It's just easier to eliminate intellectual property all together.
This technology could be extremely interesting -- especially if they make it easy to provision on EC2. Getting rid of the overhead to customize OS distributions simply to run a JVM would reduce TCO and time to market not to mention better resource utilization.
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We also have the Green Market and a smattering of farmer's markets, Paulina Meat Market, next week we'll have Rob & Allie's Butcher & Larder for traceably farm-to-table meat, sometime next year we'll have Paul Kahan's butcher project, and we have Fox & Obel for stuff like duck legs and hanger steaks. Lots of great bakeries, too. And that's before you get into the Mexican and Asian groceries.

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free software movement => FSF in the minds of most HNers. I cannot in good conscience vote this up, unless the title is changed.
Stuff breaks. Engine failures and "turning back" are not amazingly rare events. Like all complex machines, sometimes something fails, and it's best to fix it sooner rather than later. The engineers that design the airframes understand that things fail, and they design the system to function in a degraded state. But you don't really want to keep the thing in a degraded state for very long, so sometimes you try to land the plane as quickly as possible (even though there was almost no actual danger).

It's like when a drive fails in your RAID array. The hot spare takes care of the failure, and you aren't even in a degraded state. But you still order the replacement drive as soon as possible, because it feels bad to not have as many backup systems as you had before. Same with planes.
Ask HN: I want to go paper-free. How?
I would love to scan all my documents and turn them into ocr'ed PDFs. However, most excellent scanners are cost prohibitive. The typical $450 is well outside my price range (college student). Most of my documents are letter-size, or odd bits of paper. I have a HP four-in-one, so I could scan them manually.

So, do you have any suggestions for software, cheaper hardware, or the ilk? Any great hacks for getting rid of the paper sprawl?
Left to my own devices I would wake up only when I get hungry for lunch.
I'm surprised nobody's mentioned this.

Twitter is hiring in San Francisco. I just started there.

Here's a list of the positions available: http://twitter.com/positions.html.

I wasn't originally going to post this, but i saw this http://mashable.com/2011/01/01/twitter-jobs-2/ and thought it might be worth adding.
That is because I suck. You asked a pretty interesting question about our business, I put the message aside to write a long response to it, and dropped the ball. You're one of a couple people in my "Drafts" folder. Cold comfort, I know, but I apologize.
You have captured the spirit of deletionism perfectly. There is nothing wrong with the comment. Quite the opposite: it was witty, hence the upvotes and it's position at the top of the page.

Deletionists feel they can approach perfection by mechanically removing content according to some standard, even when readers are finding it useful or enjoyable.
I can't wait for NFC to become standard on smartphones. Think of how many apps are going to get better because of it. There's the obvious winners like Bump and Square, but I can't wait to be able to open locked doors, send files, share links, swap photos, etc...
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I don't think price was the problem, it was scale. It's cheap and easy to fly a 737 because there are a lot of them, and there are a lot of parts and a lot of expertise on how to fix them. Concorde, not so much; there were only a few, and so there was no secondary market of parts and labor and extra planes.

Another problem might have been that Concorde was not priced highly enough. Today's first class costs as much as Concorde did, and it's twice as slow... and people still buy it.
One person's wit is another person's snark. On HN, either is fine if accompanied by content. Stavros' comment not only didn't have content, it had anti- content; WP's notability requirements are not a space-saving mechanism (surely they could save more space by getting rid one of of the several tens of thousands of War and Peace's worth of words in the Wikipedia: namespace.)

The (most commonly expressed) logic behind deletionism is that WP occupies a privileged place on the web and thus the onus is on the project to have content be verifiable, so that people can't stuff totally bogus topics at the tops of Google searches. The project can't verify content for non-notable subjects.
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I disagree. I think the initial landrush of ads would allow them to set up a trust to fund them in perpetuity.

One year of ads. An eternity of freedom.
Slightly tangential but James Bridle's printing of an article's history is an interesting kind of archiving:
http://booktwo.org/notebook/wikipedia-historiography/
"a system of passing interfaces from objects to the object they contain"

How is this not inheritance? You still have some attributes "hidden" in the contained object and some "right there" in the child.