skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It didn't say in jail, it said 7.3 millions incarcerated or on probation or parole, which is fairly significantly different.

Most recent statistic I could find (on Wikipedia, I did not drill down to their source) was about 0.75% actually incarcerated. (2.4 million people)
The thing which amazes me about Facebook is how perplexing the basic UI is and remains. My wife will tell me "hey someone has made a comment on your wall you HAVE to reply to it" and it will take me five minutes to figure out where this comment is buried. Oh it's not under "status" it's under "profile". WTF?
That site is really, really awful.
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"Those who can do, those who can't teach" - those who have no clue become guidance counselors.

My father was a psychologist who had a knack for analysis. One of his Masters projects was to do competency ranking of psychologists based on certain attributes. When he ran it through the people in his program most of the "worst" ended up going on to be school career advisors. He was pretty active in the community after graduation and unfortunately all the "horror stories" came from people who had done poorly on the assessment.
One trillion is nothing. It's a quadrillion of accounting debits that've been lost -- or which actually never existed due to massive fraud.
Ask HN: Review my side project
Hey HN,

I've recently read the '4-Hour Body' and got pretty inspired. Started the diet and muscle program. Have seen great results so far. Then saw a supplementation chapter, and decided to see about creating the actual stack. I then contacted a company who was making it, and worked out a dropshipping arrangement and set up http://paggstack.com/ (the name of the proposed stack).

My questions for you guys are:

- What do you think of the site? Do you think it looks professional? Would you make any changes?

- Do you like the concept of it?

- Any specific tips on marketing it? I know supplements and stacks are usually looked upon as spammy, but I want to do the best job at removing that image.

I'm mainly targeting SEO and Twitter at the moment.

Btw, I'm doing this to fund my main startup.
To drive an HD screen, you needs something that is somewhat powerful - for example, most of the new NetFlix interfaces are based on Webkit, which isn't trivial to run.

Seeing as my TV spontaneously rebooted in the middle of watching a DVD last night, and has had two OTA software updates since I bought it less than a month ago, I'm not too surprised at security problems, as basically it's a puny computer with a huge display integrated into it...
Clickable: http://www.paggstack.com/
If it's as good as EC2 and cheaper no-one should care if it's Canadian.
You can still do that now. You just need to make groups of your different friend groups (family, real life friends, high school friends, work friends, etc) and share what you want with those groups only, depending on what it is.
I don't buy this, you have to plan the versions of your "api" if I'm going to change a field into a required field I have to have a plan for clients who don't supply it. You skip all the business and validation logic with direct db access.

As for error codes, it doesn't seem non trivial to explain why your validation failed.
Or, from the consumer's point of view, what other service can I use to buy iOS applications?
just logged in to say this was a horrible article. how does this stuff get upvoted here?
Putting aside all the issues involved here, what I don't understand to begin with is why any other iOS dev has not done an app that can play back the kind of AVI files most people have in their collections to begin with. Is it that hard? Or did devs shy away from it because they never expected Apple to approve such an app? Now that Apple has, will someone else come in with something else? This is a capability that's truly needed. There's just no way I'm going to ever convert my AVIs to MP4s. It'd be faster and cheaper just to get an Archos Android tablet to play those videos. (Note I mention Archos specifically because for years they've developed that capability and have ported that native software to now run under Android.)
Contests are always great way to engage people. However, there does not seem to a prize other than fame. Well, I guess this is just for fun :)
Keep it Simple And Stupid
Lachy, I think the site is beautifully designed and you got yourself a great domain name.

I am not sure number of visitors from search are you normally getting but I see you are already #1 for the term PAGG Stack, which is great. You can perhaps try to rank for other related terms for 4HWW by starting a blog or knowledgebase?

Good luck with this project! If you get enough traffic, you will certainly make great revenues from this site.

EDIT: clarified
It's might be low[1]: in 2007, 1 in 31 adults were in prison[2] - 3% of the population. However, that may include all the people on probation, as wikipedia gives the number in 2009 as only 1 in 136 actually being incarcerated[3], with perhaps five times that being on parole or probation (from one of the graphs, in 2008).

[1] Low by American standards, at least.

[2] http://www.sanfranciscosentinel.com/?p=19911

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incarceration_in_the_United_Sta...
A Healthy Diet For The Mind
Kind of a fluff piece that doesn't mention the reason nearly 40% are dissatisfied and looking. Because they feel they are being treated as human automation, and their workplace is setup so that their only option for change is a complete change.

This is a completely different than both the startup model and also agile workplaces where employees contribute significantly to the direction their company takes.

It is also reflective of the difference between a static business model found in the data center and the dynamic business models of companies actively involved in web development.

In former is predicated on providing a guaranteed stable environment, the latter an interactive collaborative model where you are building new things (using the crucial resources provided by the former.)

edit: looks like the link got killed, which is understandable since my first thought was it was one of the more vapid articles I've seen on HN: http://www.readwriteweb.com/enterprise/2011/01/is-a-data-cen...
Tips for Designing a Stereoscopic 3D Installation
Designing a proper 3D system can be tricky. Here are a few quick tips to keep in mind when designing a 3D viewing system.
The last table in this one is interesting: http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/2011/tables/11s0005.p...
I don't know why you think I'm angry. I don't own any Sophiestication software, and have no skin in this particular game. Let's focus on what I posted.

The headline is concise and accurate. I specifically wrote, "letter of license agreement" to convey that there is more to this story, and that the anger may be pedantic. There's only so much room in a headline, and I had to convey a lot of backstory.

I don't like your insinuation that I'm trying to bring down the decorum of HN. I think this is an interesting situation, particularly for the HN crowd, with its elements of entrepreneurship and customer service.
The potential for military coup had never been a problem in the U.S. military for the reason of well-established civilian control of the military as well. The closest thing to a real problem having been MacArthur's insubordination to Truman. That problem arose in part through the old system where senior generals kept their positions forever in a hard-wired seniority system. Many of the problems of that antiquated system were dealt with by the Goldwater-Nichols act http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldwater-Nichols_Act
My first thought on entering the site was "What is PAGG?" I'm not sure if you're just targeting people who have read the book specifically, but even renaming your "What does the PAGG stack consist of?" to "What is the PAGG stack?"/"What is PAGG?" or adding a page and a link (I'm envisioning a "What is PAGG Stack?" link up by the cart) that describe the basics would be super helpful.
Somehow, Google APIs always end up broken like that. Why don't they just have the balls to scale up like Amazon does?

I guess it might change. Google App Engine is finally beginning to make sense, be it mainly for intranet applications.
Can Google Get Its Mojo Back?
Sure thing. I'll add that. The market really is though people that already understand it (that's the way they'd find it). Will definitely still add it just to capture other customers.
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"Most valuable person in a community"? Xenophobia is pretty strong, especially in places with few resources or under oppression. Not many such places would welcome a meddling know-it-all outsider.
The design is great and I think you've done a good job at avoiding that spammy look (envisioning stock images of people with perfect teeth looking right at the camera).
Awesome. If you do some long tail SEO and set up a blog, capturing any of the current interest in the "Four Hour Body" craze going on right now could be a boon; you could potentially capitalize on people who haven't even read the book by marketing it as a "key component" if that's true (again, having not read the book).
Thanks. I hear that's great for conversions, but I just can't force myself to do that.
That's fair. Will being Canadian serve as an incentive at all?
Traffic Squeezer - WAN Introduction
Let's hope so.

What they were asking me to do was to rewrite a small portion of Rhythmbox as a QT app to expose the bug. I still think it was more reasonable for them to just get Rhythmbox from the repository and run qdbusviewer under a debugger.

Did I mention that I am not a QT programmer?
This week on This American Life they are asking "what exactly is money?"

http://www.thisamericanlife.org/
Apple doesn't have to spend their time discussing with you about legal dispute among copyright holders. If anything, you are lucky that they don't ban the developers who posted the app in the first place. I wouldn't mind a policy that said: "if you ever get us in a copyright dispute, you are banned forever from our store"

Instead, Apple was told that the app had a copyright problem, and it took them 2 months to take it down. Yes, it's slow, but no, they are not evil in doing so.
This is a tough one to swallow. I never knew Bill personally but it did hit home as shared some common connections. Sucks. Sucks that its too late to help him. I won't comment on what I think should be done to that person but they deserve the worst and then some.

Someone posted a great quote in the comments on the story on Gizmodo:
"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle."

RIP Bill Zeller.
Great points. Didn't really think about that. Thanks.
It's not ridiculous, but it's also not compatible with the principles of free markets that are in force in Canada and the USA at this time.

I agree, regulation has traditionally been put in place to deal with the creation of monopolies.

Personally - I think the question of whether Apple's AppStore constitutes a monopoly is a grey area. They are the only company authorised to sell applications developed for iOS. Supporters of Apple's current policy would argue that other application platforms are available.

To this, I would offer the counter-argument that prior investment (time/money/effort) encourages developers and customers to stick with (and put up with) most rules Apple decides to enforce. Choice is (theoretically) available, but many developers and users will be placed in a situation where there they aren't.

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These IP-marketplaces are new - and, as with most things that are digitally-based, a great deal of power is available to whoever is in charge. More power, provides more scope for abuse.

I think that some kind of regulation - either through new legislation or a regulatory body needs to be provided.

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Lastly - as Apple isn't providing a free-market to those who sell through it's AppStore, isn't it a little ironic that a desire for free-market economics is provided as a reason against regulation?
iOS or iOS-based devices are not a market. Smartphones or tablet computers or personal computers are markets.

Consider that the government concern with Microsoft in the 90s wasn't its monopoly position in "Windows," which is tautological, but PC operating systems broadly, which includes Linux and Macs.

The smartphone and tablet computer markets are among the most competitive in the country right now. By definition this means no one has a monopoly.
(not attacking here, just curious)
Have you been in contact with the company that developed the app? Honestly, I don't seem why Apple would feel like they need to discuss anything with you, because you're not the entity they are dealing with for the app.
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Interesting idea, count me in. Lets plan it out.
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What do you mean by we lose all of the protestors? If I don't want my software encumbered by DRM, I don't want my software encumbered by DRM. Do I belong to you? Does my software belong to you? How is it you "lose" me or my software? If you want it, here are my conditions.

I don't owe "some Go enthusiast" anything. They are not the worse off for anything, I didn't give them something and take it away. In fact, what I did was say, "If you choose to use a platform without DRM, you can get this thing I wrote for free." But hey, if that doesn't float the Go enthusiast's boat, he sticks with DRM. It's his choice, I am not stopping him from doing anything.

Arguing that I have some moral obligation to write software for proprietary distribution is like arguing that I ought to write Windows software because more people can use it. Which leads to arguing that I ought to stop writing programming tools and start writing games.

You and the Go enthusiast are free to choose free software or proprietary software, or nearly free software, do what you like. Better still, you're free to write your own software from scratch and stop whining about what other developers choose to do with the fruit of their labours.

How much more freedom do you want? And where do you think the freedom to write software without kowtowing to a corporation came from? Free software, that's where.

And no, I'm not like an auto worker sitting all the time not working, and neither is anybody else who writes free software. Does this look like not working to you?

http://github.com/raganwald/

I'm working, it's just that I choose what I work on, and under what conditions it may be distributed.

A better comparison would be that someone writing free software is like a hippie who grows his own coffee beans and sells them at the side of the road by his farm. You can't buy them at Tim Horton's or Dunkin Doughnuts because the hippie doesn't like what the big chains do with the coffee.

So you go to the hippie or you don't drink the coffee he grows. The problem is that you bought yourself a shiny espresso machine that only takes pods distributed by the manufacturer. So even if you buy the hippie's beans, you can't make yourself any coffee with them because the machine won't take them unless they've been shipped to the manufacturer and packaged into little special pellets.

How is this the hippie's fault for not liking big coffee chains or espresso machines? You can drink plenty of coffee, and you can buy a plot of land and grow your own coffee to be distributed by the espresso machine maker. You can buy a different kind of espresso maker that takes ground beans directly.

The hippie is free and you are free. The hippie hasn't shut down the big chains, but that isn't his goal. His goal is to sleep at night, comfortable that he has made choices compatible with his personal beliefs and that he has given other people the freedom to make choice compatible with their personal beliefs.

I can think of no greater definition of freedom.
Lamprey or remora? Sort of changes the analogy. A lamprey kills its host. A remora just eats the scraps.
OpenStack is designed to be a collection of projects that together can be used as the basis of a scalable cloud deployment (public or private). Currently, there are two big projects in OpenStack: nova and swift.

Nova can be compared to EC2. It is designed to provision compute instances, and it's goals are to support a million physical hosts with many times that for VMs running on the hosts. It is currently under active development and used in production at NASA.

Swift is a scalable object storage system similar to S3. It's designed to support 100+ petabyte clusters each with 100000 requests per second, tens of thousands of hard drives on thousands of storage nodes. It is currently running in production at Rackspace as Cloud Files.

Unlike AWS or Eucalyptus, OpenStack is 100% open--both source and development.

The claim of "the new Linux" comes from the thought that Linux was an open OS that changed the way servers ran. OpenStack's goal is to be the OS for the data center. It's a layer above the individual machines and ties together the IaaS pieces needed for a DC.

Disclosure: I work for Rackspace and am a developer for swift.
Sometimes it is. Sometimes not. Don't you think the original question was at least interesting in a pedantic way if not useful in practice?

Yes, if you're worried about 1==x vs x==1 then you're probably writing code at the wrong level, but it's still a nice thing to investigate and reason about on a purely academic level.

In those cases, skirting the question by saying "You're doing it wrong" adds nothing to the conversation except to pull in a few "Yeah" shouts from the chorus.
They need to improve the suggestions:

> Reduce the amount of <iframe> tags. There are 1 iframe elements on the page.

1 iframe isn't bad. This shouldn't even be worthy of a tip.

> Reduce the amount of tags that use the style attribute, replacing it with external CSS definitions. There are 1 nodes that use the style attribute.

1 style isn't bad either. They use it on their own page.

> Found 116 <script> tags on page. Try to reduce the amount of script tags.

This shouldn't be just a normal warn. 100+ script tags should be a major warning.

> Nesting depth is very high. Some of the nodes are nested more than 15 levels deep (these are marked with a dashed red border).
> Nesting depth is a little high. Reducing it might increase performance.

Both of these are shown on HN. Only one should be shown.

> Some nodes use transparency. To improve rendering performance, try not to use the CSS opacity property (found 2 nodes, marked with a dashed blue border).

It would be awesome if it could highlight these nodes somehow. Actually, would be awesome if it could highlight all visibile nodes that match any warning/tip. They already do that with nodes at 15+ nesting depth.
Since the web is a global community I'm not convinced that a US public / private partnership can be that effective. For better or worse (probably the latter), I think FB with it's substantial global presence is the horse to beat on this one... and if FB gets invited to the US gov's little slumber party, I'm pretty sure competing identity systems - potentially led by other governments - will spring up faster than you can order a Chinese takeout...
You're right that enough information wasn't provided to get a meaningful answer. I disagree though, that the response to that is 'you messed up' instead of 'give us more info'.
Oh wow that sounds great. Need a first customer? Can you now explain to me how that helps me deal with the guilt of my friends dying there?

Thanks.
No. Companies don't get their mojo back.

Edit: with the exception of when certain original members of the company come back.
The winner will be the first poster that will provide a program able to fragment Redis memory. Even if another program will be the first to be verified to work, the winner will be the first program that was posted and actually works.

Is there a deadline?
Any chance you'll go into detail on what it was like to work out the dropshipping arrangement?
Agreed. I'm all for a wall of shame. In 2002, if you didn't know that double linked lists exist, you deserve to have your name and picture on every billboard in Silicon Valley.

Will a generous sponsor (EFF, FSF), spend the $2,000 to get a banner on highway 101?
This tool was created two years ago (http://ajaxian.com/archives/javascript-performance-rocks-bew...). I guess the big news now is that it's been open sourced and made available for free.

Were there any updates on the rule set in use?
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I think this might the tablet for me. My main reservations are:
1. Some of their UI design choices seem quirky---I may need hands on time with an Adam to be sure it's for me.
2. All things being equal, I'd prefer higher resolution than 1024x600. Will that be good enough to comfortably read PDFs with smallish type (e.g., academic CS papers)?

The pixel qi and rotating camera (that could face towards the speaker when the tablet is flat on the desk) seem like killer features to me.

What other tablets have got people excited?
It seems to me that the industry is ripe for disruption right now, with the massive focus on mobile everything, major companies have forgotten about 'normal' users on a desktop (or laptop) with a beefy Internet connection, huge processor and big monitor.
Robert Scoble: Our car just rebooted
Telecommunications companies have a regulatory body because their market is a 'granted monopoly'. They have a pseudo monopoly in the sense that for any other company to compete would require a giant initial investment, and possibly a concession from the government, as is the case in wireless communications, so immediately they have all the customers. The government says, ok, will lets you use this spectrum, but you play by our rules.

It's not the same as in IP-marketplaces, or any other kind of marketplace for that matter. As long as they are not violating any law, the government should not try to regulate them, it doesn't matter how invested society is in it.
Freedom 2 is not absolute, since I can't help my neighbor by making an improved version of the software that compiles against closed source libraries and distributing it to them.

Same with freedom 3 - if I make changes in that manner, I may not distribute them.

As a user, I am less free with the GPL than other licenses.

Not that this is a bad thing, but if the goal of the FSF is freedom of the user, they've got a ways to go.
"I have a big problem with the GPL."

Then don't use GPL'd code. End of discussion.
Once your network DNS is hijacked aren't you screwed anyways? What's to stop someone from presenting fake bank or email website logins?
With all respect, IMO paying 99 dollars a year, getting a developer license and re-signing the application yourself is far from 'trivial'.

That aside, for me it is hard to see how Apple would not be the first-hand distributor for apps in its app store, as it clearly wants to control all distribution from the beginning to the end.

By loosening their stance on this (allowing easy installation of applications by other means) they would position themselves quite differently.
'Course. I don't think it'll be the great story you're after though. Initially I contacted the private label nutra companies, but the MOQ was like $5k, and I didn't want to risk that.

So I found a company that was going to be doing it, talked to them and became friends. Then we just negotiated a price per sale, and how we would do shipping (I'd just email them a daily xls).

Very simple. Contact, negotiate, execute.
Yeah, I shouldn've been more specific; I forgot the phrase encompasses a pretty broad range of jobs. Well right now, I'm mostly interested in working in a lab analyzing confiscated equipment for some contractor that does such work for police or whomever to get started. Malware analysis is pretty interesting as well; though I'm not trying to start there.