skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the paleo stuff is a simple rechecking/rethinking assumptions.

For instance, after I went barefoot, I had significantly less back pain and have been able to triple my walking distance; furthermore, I'm able to run now.

What is going to happen, we are going to learn a few things, uncover old ways of doing things, adapt them to modern time, or toss them back into the trash.
Anyone more knowledgeable on this issue care to talk about LTE network compatibility? I don't see why we wouldn't have chips that work on multiple frequencies like today but maybe it's not that simple. Like metageek said, there might be an issue with LTE voice.

This would finally bring a market more like Europe and other places around the world -- including their much more reasonable pricing.
R.I.P. Ruby Hash Rocket Syntax 1993-2010
Sort of old news, I guess, but worth saying: this is one of the 3 most-used tools at Matasano. It's a really excellent piece of code.
This is a great site to learn languages.
http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Main_Page

Sometimes, all I want is to look at choice "phrases" in the language, and learn that way. Maybe some minimal comments to illustrate side effects or concepts, but no text other than that. Just have at it. The fastest way to learn a language IMHO relies more on the order of presented phrases than anything else.
As a long time Android user I'm definitely looking forward to
a tablet. I've been holding off on buying anything until a good tablet comes out. I really wish I could watch this video without an ad preventing me from reading all the text in the video so I knew more about what to look for and not just stare at the omg eye candy.

As far as ChromeOS being dead, I dunno. I have been playing with my cr48 a few weeks now and love it. Its a great system for most things. The things it prevents me from doing well right now (ssh to hosts and doing dev/support) are minor.

In general I have a browser, IM App, and terminal open on my computer. If a good and secure way to remotely manage hosts via ssh is added into ChromeOS it will quickly become my goto system that I drag everywhere with me. I doubt I would ever say that for a tablet, unless its really good and has fantastic keyboard support. I just hate having to deal with wireless keyboards and their aaa batteries that never seem to last long enough.

*edit: i can spell
Great site. I was just thinking it would be nice to have some notification when books drop in price significantly. Most price changes are a few cents or a dollar or so, but sometimes they can change by $10, $20, and I've seen in the $50 range once or twice.
thinking about using drupal 7 on a new site we're making for a client. besides the whitehouse site, does anyone know some good government sites using drupal? any using drupal 7 already?
I hope Google will bring Android to the notebook/desktop, make it a rich platforms so that we can finally have Photoshop running on Linux. I'm guessing this is probably the direction: Apple has the same OS code base for phone, tablet and desktop; Microsoft is trying the same with its porting of Windows to ARM processor, targeting tablets.
really? I agree much more with the reviews near the ipad's release that it made the iphone seem almost like a too-small ipad (and it seems like it could be the same situation here).

what would you like to see that would be unique to the tablet form factor?
It takes longer than a week for your body to adapt to the new soap/shampooo regiment.
I'm really interested in giving this a go. I think the secret is to keep showering.
I've often given my hair a quick rinse when I haven't showered in days, and my hair looks and feels great for the rest of the day.
Yeah, but time and resources for keeping this place good are finite. The big negatives are being watched by pg and others. I think the rest of us can help more by contributing more positive stuff.
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A lot of Apple products don't have any activation at all and rely on the honour system. The times I've pirated desktop software was because I was annoyed that I had to tie the installation to a single machine. The Mac app store lets you install on multiple machines, so that will be enough to make me happy to pay for more apps.
It's a good point - FWIW, the jobs I was looking at were strictly software positions, but it stands to reason that the corporate hiring culture would be based on the needs of hardware people.
i think perhaps game studios moved on to 16-bit sound as the platforms evolved from using on board sound synthesis chips to sampled, real world sounds, because it became available. a similar dichotomy can be found in the analog synthesis; when digital technology was coming into vogue with manufacturers, analog had ceased to be the most cutting edge technology, but was by no means dead or obsolete.

another problem with game console sound is the long development time needed to get an actual computer chip ready for market; the curtis CEM series of sound-makers were excellent and widely used but had a hard time competing with something that could be altered or upgraded in software. they're still used in some new gear being made today, but no new console would dream of using one.

i don't see how hardware evolution was 'a problem with innovation', i view the trend as more of the nostalgism that is coming around these days.
Almost any Lisp implementation allows for starting your code as a stand-alone application. You may have to pass some interpreter option to your #! line, but that's all.
Why? Putting Android on the iPhone I get, but I don't see too many hackers out there wanting to flip off Apple by installing Windows, of all things.

To put it another way, how many macbook pros are running Win7 solo, aka w/o bootcamp or VMware?
It just occurred to me charging $5 a month may be a good way to control HN addiction... unless we end up with an addiction which also costs money.
Hiring: First sales guy after CEO
Website has all the details. Thanks HNers!
Tickets are transferable? That's news to me.
Discussion from yesterday: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2069419
Death is not zero. Death is a lack of growth. Large multiple are only justified under the assumption of a growing market. Stable/declining markets do not have a 25x multiple.
I think the book Managing Humans is a wonderful book on management.

http://www.managinghumans.com/
He didn't say top 80%, he just said 80%, which I took to mean an average score of 80%.
You're saying kids have to leave the house, go to the grocery store (good luck if you live in the suburbs), buy a gift card, go home, activate it, and then they can buy their app? Oh, and a bonus! They get to do it all over again next week to buy another few apps!

Homework: Go ask your parents (or grandparents) how they used to get money for the weekend. The answer is that they and 300 of their neighbors stood in line at the bank on Friday to withdraw cash. They'd have to plan the weekend before, grocery shopping, a trip to the movies, ice cream for the kids, gasoline, so they knew how much to withdraw. Ask Grandpa if he prefers that over swiping his debit card at any time of day on any day of the week.

It's not just about the ability to pay but the ability to pay with low friction.
Business plans are very much like 'big design' documentation.

If you have a 50+ page business plan that took you weeks to research & write you either become stuck with executing that plan no matter what, or you spend an inordinate amount of time on updating/refactoring your business plan as things change.

Business plans for entrepreneurs serious about starting a business (and not just finding VC) should be agile. The first rule of business is that how you see your business structured and operating now will change. So, make sure your planning doesn't eat your life and paralyse your implementation.
Oh, clever idea, but probably wouldn't work. First off, it's labor intensive (you have to go to the airport and check in, it's not like you can speculatively buy 500 tickets), and the amount you could potentially make is bound not only by the ticket price but by the fact that you can probably only reliably make a profit during rush times (i.e., Thanksgiving, December). Also, if you guess wrong and a popular flight did not fill up -- you have to take the flights!
Here's the competing bill:

Not getting nickel-and-dimed for Facebook: $0

Not getting nickel-and-dimed for YouTube: $0

Not getting nickel-and-dimed for Blogging: $0

Not getting nickel-and-dimed for Unapproved Sites: $0

Not getting nickel-and-dimed for Wikiwhatever: $0

Going and doing whatever you want to online: $10/GB.

Not burning emotional energy in constantly wishing death by fire and locust upon your carrier: priceless.

I suspect this is going to go over about as well as Rupert Murdoch's (disastrous) paywall strategies. So seriously, give it 3-4 ugly quarterly earnings reports before freaking out.

On the other hand, if this proves profitable, be very concerned.
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The demo is nice, but I'd like to see it running on real hardware.
That was my MO during college, and it seems to have worked pretty well for me ;)

Some companies though, will refuse to look at a resume, regardless of how richly experienced it may be, simply based on the fact that you failed to hit an arbitrary bar during college. To me this is lunacy.
Which school, if you don't mind my asking?
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How I saved $1364 a year by changing 3 monthly expenses
Kudos for pointing out that it's the shape of the distribution that matters, not how far apart its endpoints.

Interestingly there are articles out there which suggest that one distribution (of competence, rather than productivity, but intuitively you'd expect the two to be related) is actually bimodal rather than normal, "the camel has two humps":

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2006/07/separating-programm...
A Developer’s view on iOS development…
Dear Ycombinator,

I've been meaning to share some of my experiences as an iOS developer for some time now. This is just a small glimpse into the wide world of what's happening out there.
My impression of the video was that Android 3.0 applications will be entirely a Google stack... where does that leave developers?

I applaud Google for finally taking on the role of owning the whole OS experience, like Apple, but if they are going to do this then they'll also be judged on those merits. I give Android OS a lot of leeway for what it lacks by saying "a developer can fill that niche"... It looks like their tablet will be much closer to an iPad experience in having a singular vision.
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Is it better than 0xED ?
Don't work that much on the Mac anymore, always found 0xED quite nice.
I'm not married yet, but live with my girlfriend, so it's a similar situation. She's OK with my trying to bootstrap it and also offered to help me with my share of the rent, if necessary, for a month or two. She doesn't make enough to support the two of us indefinitely, but it's helpful to have somebody else with more stable income. The other nice thing about having a spouse (that I can't cash in on yet since we're not married) is that you can use their health benefits, which will get you better coverage and save you money.

Having kids changes the equation altogether. If I had kids, there's no way I'd try what I'm doing now with as little safety net.
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There's plenty of evidence that our government wants to restrict the flow of information. For example: When people in Iran were tweeting during demonstrations, it was hailed as the savior of democracy: people getting together and using tools to rally against their oppressors. When Twitter is used at protests here, at home, they get arrested, and called terrorists.

http://uk.reuters.com/article/idUKTRE5965KD20091007

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jhsmCMuwdg
Also remember that most companies arent willing to spend nearly as much recruiting effort per candidate for interns, and understandably so. I interned at NVIDIA a few summers back (although in software not hardware) and the university recruiter said that they more or less don't consider applicants with less than 3.5GPAs for internships. At my school, probably 80% of the people I knew and considered to be "good" programmers had above that, so I think its a perfectly reasonable thing to do.
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A classic book is "The mythical man of the month", It was published in 1975, but its worth reading.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mythical_Man-Month
Agree 100% -- ubiquitous tablets will cause some really interesting changes in society. It's illuminating watching a novice user use an iPad; I've seen both young kids and senior citizens become proficient with it in an amazingly short amount of time. You can take pry my terminals and Emacs windows away from my cold dead fingers, but for 90%+ of the population, something like an iPad / Android tablet (with perhaps an optional keyboard for writing) is really just about perfect.
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Behold, Android 3.0: Secret Weapon of Multiple Tablet PCs [video]
That explains the 30 minute outage earlier today!
Does Stack Overflow give points to users who follow these guidelines?
Now if only more gems were 1.9 compatible.
This is some of my experience as an iOS developer that I would like to share with you.
I've been following related research with interest and concern ever since I first heard of it. If these techniques are used to allow addicts who wish to conquer their addictions to do so, that is a very good thing. If they become used an in involuntary fashion ("Vaccinate your child against the effects of dangerous drugs!") it would be morally reprehensible. Voluntary alteration of consciousness with chemicals is a freedom that society should preserve. Involuntary vaccination against recreational drugs is not very different from involuntary brain surgery to prevent forbidden thoughts.
I don't mind a :10-:15 spot, but the overlay ad was covering a significant amount of the video. I quickly switched to the linked swf:
http://cdn.static.viddler.com/flash/as3/simple-publisher.swf...
A high-end ARM CPU would have lower single-threaded performance, but a higher number of cores, possibly achieving higher overall throughput. Coupled with an NVIDIA GPU on the same die, eliminating the PCI bottleneck, I think this could easily be more appealing than Sandy Bridge, for applications from netbooks to workstations to supercomputers.
This might be good for Apple as well. They might be able to use the prospect of ARM desktops as leverage with Intel.
I remember we had these in Acorn machines, when I was at school in the 90s (in the U.K.). They were always very fast I remember. They were replaced with PCs later on, but due to the budget the school was on, these ending up being much slower at the time but that was most likely due to Windows needing a lot more memory than RISC OS did.
How I ended up using S3 as my database
I went for almost a year never using soap or shampoo. Shampoo I still rarely use. I rinse my hair with hot water and brush it sometimes. If you don't use product in your hair you only have the daily sweat, dirt, and sebum to get rid of. Brushing and rinsing is almost always enough.

As for soap I use it as I need to. Sometimes I can't get whatever is living in my pits to go away with any amount of hot soapy water and scrubbing. I posted on reddit about not using soap about 6 months into it and caught a lot of flack from people who just assumed I was a stinky hippy that didn't realize it.

A relatively healthy person with good hygiene can definitely get by without soap: sweat, rinse, dirt, rinse.. it's pretty easy to stay clean. I shaved (with a buzzer) my pits around when I started this and kept them short; this seemed to help a lot.

As to why people would do it; I was literally getting compliments on my skin. Your skin gets nice and soft after a while and then, when you use soap your skin isn't adjusted to it and it gets sucked dry.

That being said, I use soap regularly these days (just on pits/groin/ass).
Other applications have tried to address this already. An example I can think of on the top of my head is Hellotxt, but I'm sure there are others.
While the HR datastore is designed so events like that won't happen (and it was not affected by said outage), there's no correlation between this launch and the datastore unavailability earlier today.
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> Nvidia's pretty clearly wanted to expand into the desktop CPU market for a while now

While trying to just hold position as a supplier of GPUs for x86 PCs would be very difficult for nVidia now that both of the big x86 CPU manufacturers are pushing their own GPU systems hard (and increasingly, integrating them in the CPU). This is probably quite an up-or-out situation for them.
Well, I know for certain I am not an economist.

I'm curious - is Delta's decision to start such a program premeditated in a similar way? Personally, were I to run a business, I'd be very ill-equipped to handle anything approaching such a level of economic theory.
For me, it's $2.25 and 45 minutes. I would imagine that most people who live in major cities are similarly lucky. (OK, not Tokyo. There it's at least 1200 yen to get from Tokyo to Middle Of Nowhere International Airport. But I digress.)
I prefer 0xED.app:

http://www.suavetech.com/0xed/0xed.html
Resolving to be optimistic
There are four active competitions going on right now -- you could try one of those. Good luck!
One can't really tell from a promotional video, but the main thing that stands out to me is the improved home screen over iPad. It's too "technical" to be mass market in this version; viz. "Books \n 3x3" type stuff - my parents won't know what 3x3 means, even after explanation. Even I'm only guessing is the size the widget takes on the home screen. However, assuming they fix that, it's rather an improvement on Apple's iOS SpringBoard, which is looking rather dated (alongside their notification system). Here's to competition accelerating an upgrade in iOS 5!

The rest of the applications, one can't really tell in short clip. A lot of them - mail, video chat etc - seem very similar to what one would find elsewhere, except with the Honeycomb chrome (take it or leave it, as personal preference dictates). In others, I worry they've gone for eye candy over usability. For example, in "Books", the circular scroll is all very well, but I can't see any way of telling how far through your collection you are, nor where the book you want might be. Of course, the is prerelease promo, so it might be obvious in the real thing. What most people don't seem to get is that Apple tend to use eye candy only when it's useful - not just to look like something in Minority Report. Even they don't get it right all the time (I'm looking at you, Time Machine animation!). Eye candy is really cool for promotional videos, but when you're trying to use the application for the 4562nd time you really hope that it's added just to enhance usability, rather than impress CES visitors.
Why? For the sole purpose of getting Win8 running on an iPad.
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Talk by Dan Bernstein: encrypting and authenticating the whole Internet
It is quite a jump from needing a pittance of RAM, touchscreen, connectivity, and a SD card to requiring a dual core. Android's model requires large market penetration, and requiring a dual core doesn't really make sense.
All the iDevRecipes code is now available under the MIT License: https://github.com/boctor/idev-recipes
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The author seems to be upset by this, but why? If you don't want to sell your seat back to the airline, don't.

Personally, I can't get upset with a situation where I have 100% control. Amazon's pricing experiments are similar; if I don't like Amazon's price + value add, I can just buy from one of their many competitors. So no need to get mad at them for changing their prices randomly. Similarly, I would probably be willing to give up my $50 seat for $2000, so I'd type that number in. If I got my $2000, great; I would walk over to the competitor's counter and pay the $500 walk-up fare. If not, travel proceeds as planned.

What is there to be upset about?
Core OS is expected to go anywhere. x86/x64 today. Itanium/Alpha yesterday. Power for XBox360. ARM for embedded. What is XBox720 going to have?

The HAL was built so that you can retarget quickly. I think people would be pretty upset if it was your team that checked in some code that blocked them from porting to a new platform quickly.
They were fast, but they were not necessarily faster than x86 machines. They were RISC compared to CISC(old x86), so hard to compare them directly.
This makes sense in the era of webapps and python and java. If people were still reliant on programs explicitly written for x86 this would never go anywhere.
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Starts at about 14 minutes.
I doubt nVidia will be competing against x86 but rather x86-64, which has many of the "legacy" features you're no doubt thinking of (e.g. segment registers) removed or sequestered.
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What if you stood up a sign outside the ticketing area that just read: "Delta 1500 LAX->SFO, please enter $5000 as your bid price."

You have an opportunity yourself there (assuming everyone plays along) to earn $4,999 if you are naughty.

In such a situation, would an airline actually pay out?
Doesn't the strong response demonstrate that the offering price was too low?
Am I reading this right that it only applies if your hash key is a symbol? So really, the hash rocket isn't dead?
From the article: "Critical examination of ill-supported assertions takes a lot more time than making the assertions in the first place"

Anyways, it's really an unfalsifiable claim, isn't it? For any study that doesn't show a 10x difference, you could claim that it didn't have any truly "good" programmers.

The burden of proof should be on those who make the claim.
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Forgive my ignorance, how does the sell back auction benefits the airline in an over-booking situation?

Let's say person A and B both bought a ticket for $100, and on departure day, A offers to sell the ticket back for $150 and B offers to sell the ticket for $120.

B sells his ticket and made $20 profit, A takes the plane. The airline made a total of 100-20 = 80 dollar for the seat, although it would have made 100 without the auction.

Am I getting it wrong?
How does a small customer battle a large company?
What should I do? I run a small company that ships water saving
toilets. Today, I set up shipping through frieghtquote.com. I was
charged $400 last night for the shipment. I looked at the Bill of
Lading today before the shipment was to be sent and saw they had put
the incorrect address for pick up. I asked my representative to change
the address and about twenty minutes later I received 5 additional
separate charges totaling around $1000. Plus I now have 1 overdraft
fee and several more seem to be in the works.

Obviously I don't have that much money and I need that money in my
account plus the overdraft fees. I called my representative and she
was blatantly rude and still hasn't called me back after 2 hours. I
called customer service twice and talked to two different people. They
have not called me back. I need that money back today and all they
said was they could put the money back into the account in 3 business
days. I have already cancelled my card, so this plan does not even
work. I have also lost much of this day working on this situation.

Does anyone have any input for how to solve this situation in timely

fashion. Does anyone have any input for how to solve this situation in
timely fashion. How do you a get a larger business to take you seriously
when you aren't one of their "main accounts". This isnt the first time
this has happened with a larger company which is why I am asking.
CVG?