skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of the things people are worried about with that it would allow something close to paid additions/rebuttals to Wikipedia articles, at least if ad buyers were good enough at the AdSense targeting. The goal is to have a neutral article that covers all viewpoints fairly, but then you'd have this little box where whoever pays the most money would get the opportunity to insert a link to their take on the subject.
You might find things like http://www.officelabs.com/ribbonhero interesting. It's a game to teach Microsoft Office (Word, PowerPoint, Excel). I'm not a huge Windows fan.. but it would sure give anyone young the 1 up in terms of learning something which will be productive in the future in a fun way!
All the editing history is archived, right?
If they just made it half as tall... it currently takes up 1/4 of the screen on my laptop when the page first loads.
The express purpose is to remain neutral and to avoid conflicts of interest. They're not in it to make money.

Wikipedia isn't in the Answers.com business, and doesn't particularly want to be.
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I'd really like to have the rules cleared up on how often you can post, please.
Xbox Kinnect user experiencing an afterimage.
Yeah, grains are a tough one. We have to love grains as they basically helped humans take over the world! I firmly believe that without grains we wouldn't have 6 billion people today.

That being said, I don't think eating grains is optimal for our bodies. Most of what is coming out of science today shows that we still haven't evolved to eat grains and use them very efficiently in our body. We use them, but they cause an inflammatory response and that is obviously suboptimal for overall health and nutrition. We get some nutrition out of them (nothing that we couldn't get from veggies or meat), but it also damages at the same time...catch-22.

I think of it this way: at the zoo, you see the handlers feed tigers raw meat and pandas bamboo because that is what they evolved to eat. What did we evolve to eat? Answer that question and believe you will achieve optimal health. Personally I believe what I wrote earlier is what we evolved to eat and I believe most of the science supports that.
If you have a landline then there's a chance that your telephone exchange has an automatic wake-up call service. You just dial something like * 55*HHMM# and it calls you back at HH:MM.
Azul is a great innovator in the JVM space, and I think their innovation will start to trickle down to other VM based languages like Ruby, Python, PHP, JavaScript etc. They've already open sourced some of their innovations: http://www.managedruntime.org
First of all, facebook is going to contact you shortly because you are infringing on their trademark. They are quite vigilant about this.

Secondly, it would have been a bit more interesting to actually post the results, and not just the site.

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.

Fourthly, if you are targeting people who cannot read well, why is there so much (pretty high-level comprehension level) text on your pages?
+1 for fructose video. Awesome watch.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM
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This article is my introduction to this author. After reading it, and being incensed at how thoroughly bad it was, I researched the author's previous work, his background, and the list of accolades he has received. It's distressing to see someone who clearly doesn't know what he's talking about being rewarded as a serious expert. The things he says are either false or nonsensical. He generates controversy. He knows how to sell books. That's about it. Whatever scientific reputation he has is based on tricking people who don't know how to dissect an argument.
Ah yes...I've had this cycle going consistently for years. I'm currently in the perseverance phase...again...
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tl;dr: Mozilla is hiring, and we have many different kinds of positions open. Main offices are in Mountain View, Toronto, Auckland, Paris; remote work very much a possibility, esp for people with experience doing it. I know most about engineering, but the fullish list is off http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/careers

Platform engineers: the native-code guts of Firefox, you could work on things ranging from network protocols to scripting performance, 3D graphics to parallelism, performance tuning to debugging and instrumentation. And you get to deliver new web capabilities to about half a billion people. Want to make contentEditable not suck? Want to fix the CSS layout model so people don't miss tables? Want to make Flash and Silverlight sweat more bullets? Us too.

Firefox engineers: 2011 is going to be a very exciting year for Firefox, and we have lots of ambitious work planned. There is lots systems work as we move to a multi-process model, as well as lots of "app logic" and more traditional front-end stuff. Client-side web skills map well, and we want to make them map even better; you can help with that too.

Web developer tools: we're going to be significantly increasing our investment in developer tools, to improve the web development experience dramatically. Package up the complexities of the web platform and make it grokkable to everyone from a grade-schooler to jeresig.

Engineering management: we need more people who know how to make developers successful and satisfied, and get joy out of doing it. Our engineering organization spans the globe, has a scope as broad as the web itself, and competes against the biggest software companies in the world.

Developer infrastructure: we run a large software operation on open source tools, and want to make everything from crash reporting to bugzilla to mercurial to the build system work better. Take the hard information problems of software development, make web apps and other tools to help understand and solve them. If you have partially automated your breakfast routine, and want to play with some pretty large-scale data, this could be a lot of fun.

Security: program management and penetration testing both. Your purview is security at the full breadth of the web.

Web development, apps big and small: top-25 web properties (without ads), software update systems for 420M+ users, demos for new web technologies, crash analytics systems backed by dozens of Hadoop nodes.

Mozilla is a non-profit organization chartered to improve the web. We pay competitive salaries, have great benefits, and work in the open. Wake up every morning glad you get to do the right thing!
Was it hard writing this comment while waving your arms so wildly about?

How about some of your own facts/links/corrections showing where he "clearly doesn't know what he's talking about".
Does the same on my 13 inch - it freaked me out the first time I saw it. Same for everyone else in my office who owns one.
Come on, you guys advertise this job post every month on HN. Hard to believe you haven't found the right candidate(s) yet...
Thanks for the leads. I'm in the Washington, DC area so I'll be looking into ShmooCon. I had never heard of it. The other's are on my "too investigate" list, too.
VBA seems really popular among YC startups. Didn't really gain steam in 2010, but I think it's really becoming a hot trend of 2011.
I played wow - so I know pretty well whats going on there - at least in the game circa 2005/2006, before the additions of casual content.

Road to 60 was actually pretty fun - but once you hit 60 - thats when it really begins. If you want to mean something, you have to raid almost every single day for 4-6 hours - else you don't get a guild and there are no casual raiding guilds since content is so hard that you need to be well versed to get it done.

I'm well aware that one is playing wow because it makes sense emotionally not rationally - but there is difference between "positive emotional action" and "negative emotional action" (meaning, repetition - grind, peer pressure, job like schedules,...).

So I would argue that no, people in WOW are not creating, they are destroying the very fabric that creates society.
Thanks for reminding me how far down HN has come in the last six months or so. Engineering, science, logic and rational thought is no longer a valuable concepts here. This site is now firmly rooted in constant appeals to emotion. It's not about right or wrong anymore, or even best, it's about feelings.

As of 1/1/2011, I quit.
Get the userscript Jimmy, Go Away:

http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/91712

If you're using HTTPS-Everywhere (Firefox) or KB SSL Enforcer (Chrome), add

https://secure.wikimedia.org/*

as an @include statement.
Build what kind of things? Is this a website, desktop application, iphone application, lincoln log cabin, what? You'd probably get better email responses if you specified at least some of the technical skills that you're seeking.
I'll update after I get my iPad upgraded. My guess is there will be little difference.

I didn't mention in the article, but I have run the emulator on the Wii's Opera browser and the PS3--both slow but the Wii is much faster. The XBOX360 hasn't heard about the WWW yet.
I particularly like the selection bias in the prologue, where they recap their "success" in predicting things in 2010. Of course, if you predict enough things will become trends, then surely some of them will.

Perhaps JWT might like to offer some percentage figures of how many of their trend predictions came to pass?
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You seem to possess a dogmatised notion of "healthy food." Burgers, even the over-processed fast-food kind, stack up pretty well as these things go. It's the fries and Coke that'll destroy you. And if a salad gets you down, it may benefit with more oil or cheese. Understanding the relationships between carbs, fats, salt, and spices is most of what you need to make something taste good.

"Healthy" just means that the food is beneficial and doesn't harm you. To know with some real certainty that something is or isn't harmful you have to run your own tests: The effects of sesame oil vs. olive oil, more butter vs. more sugar, etc. Given the speed at which dietary guidelines change, the facts and hard rules should be given less weight than your own feelings and behavior post-consumption.
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He wraps up a lot of obvious points in a lot of science that he doesn't understand.

That's odd. You would have thought that an undergraduate physics degree (even from a liberal arts institution) and a masters in engineering (OK, that one's from a real school) would have given him at least a basic grasp of the issues. :)

His "20 calories a day" explanation is not the argument he is making. Rather, he's pointing out that it's absurd to think that the sole difference between an obese 70 year and his svelte wife is the one sugar cube per day the fat one added to his morning coffee. Are you arguing that it is indeed this simple, and that all we have to do to have a thin and fit population is to drink black coffee?

p.s. Why the new account?
Wiktionary does provide equivalent terms in other languages. For example: http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/trawl . The problem is that this feature is no where near as ubiquitous as it needs to be for it large-scale use.
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I never knew that. Thanks for the heads-up!
Yelp is hiring software engineers, product managers and designers right now, along with lots of other kinds of jobs:

http://www.yelp.com/careers

Or email me (my HN login at yelp.com), particularly if you're interested in search and data mining.
Noticed that as well; about half way through he introduces the thermo-dynamics issue and the implied (but useless) truth-ly-ness of fat people eating more than non-fat people, then spends the entire remainder of the article stating, re-stating and re-phrasing that same point again and again and again with different analogies, examples and mock conversations.

It was about 2 paragraphs away from the end (before the last mock conversation) that I realized he was baiting for his book OR doesn't have a conclusion strong enough to share.

I absolutely could be wrong, but I can't stand being lead around by my chin with arm-waving tomfoolery and flashing lights just to find out there is nothing there.

If he had made his compelling point, or at least hinted at it more than the very last comment -- "Maybe when we get fat it’s because those physiological, metabolic and genetic factors you mentioned are dysregulating our fat tissue, driving it to accumulate too much fat, and that’s why we eat so much and appear" -- I would have been more interested.

I don't know that what I quoted there was even the correct "hook" at his book premise as it starts "when we get fat..." talking about AFTER someone is already fat, when the premise of his book is "why we get fat" which is the before... the cause.

I am interested enough to want to pick his book up, but also annoyed enough to take my sweet time doing it in case it's hollow.

---- EDIT ----

I was critical above of Gary's blog post so I did some more reading to see if I would be interested in his book and his ultimate point being made.

I found this review on Amazon that completely sold me on it:
http://www.amazon.com/review/R1IGC558QIFYRU/ref=cm_cr_pr_per...

While I haven't read the book yet (downloading on iPad now) and proposition that Gary is making (according to this reviewer) is fascinating to me and jives with the way I feel at times.

Gary talks about how sugars and the insulin response feed your fat and your fat itself takes on a self-sustaining role in your body, not the passive storage-mechanism we understand it to be.
I, too, would like to see these AppleScripts!
It also shows that money is not needed for even the most amazing services or projects. (Yes, apart from running costs, though I am sure he paid for those out of his own pocket in the beginning because he felt like it.)

People sometimes get angry at others who live without wanting to pay for this and that. For example music. If people stop paying for money and that industry fails, so be it. Others make music in their free time because it is their hobby and passion.
I agree with most of your statements. However, the designer stated that it was a concept design, not meant to be implemented in real life. I could see this used in a futuristic movie, for example. To discourage someone from creating art that gives them pleasure though nonfunctional is wrong to me.
What happens when people get past the login screen? If they need help with logging in, how will they ever be able to actually use the site?
I really, really hate sales sites that don't list prices.

I also think their use cases are either a joke or written by a fool. "Scary for Apps"? Seriously? http://www.azulsystems.com/products/zing/use-cases Also makes a lot of bold statements that it doesn't even try to back up with numbers like "Better application performance under hypervisors than if run natively".

My scam sense tells me to run for the hills just from that one page. I hope for their sake that they redo that page in a hurry.
Did you miss the PNaCl part? Check it out here: http://nativeclient.googlecode.com/svn/data/site/pnacl.pdf
I agree with you. I thought I must have missed something, and I'm pretty sure it was the very last line:

"Maybe when we get fat it’s because those physiological, metabolic and genetic factors you mentioned are dysregulating our fat tissue, driving it to accumulate too much fat..."

I think that's probably what he intends to elaborate on.
I grew up with a pretty strong culinary tradition (Sicilian-American), and it was only when I left home around 17/18 that I realized how privileged I was to have a grown up with a father and grandfather that were extraordinary cooks. My grandfather was master baker at Gonnella for decades, a genius in many ways, and my father is easily following in his footsteps.

My family was not rich, but I would not have traded their cooking skills to have grown up eating in the most expensive restaurants.

It was not unusual growing up to have homemade bread around.

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs887.snc4/72084...
(From my dad's fb)

My father bakes pastries as a hobby, at one point, he made three large bins full of different types of cookies because work was slow and he needed to keep busy.

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc1/hs124.snc1/5331_...

While my grandfather was more traditionally Sicilian in his style, my father is more Chicago. His deep dish pizza will knock your socks off, and sausage and peppers with fresh baked Italian bread is the stuff of champions.

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-ak-snc1/v1976/129/117/510... (Arancini, Octopus salad, Pasta salad, and Caponata)

I always took it for granted. When I moved out, I missed it. As I got older, I praised it. When my grandfather died, and I realized that I had spent a solid week talking about food, even the Priest talked about it, I realized that I need to get serious about doing it. When my father passes, it's up to me and my brothers to keep things going. Without it, all I have is the name.

So I'm a big advocate of building and rebuilding a culinary culture. It's easy for me, because mine never disappeared, but I understand it's more difficult for others whose families immigrated earlier, or whose cultures were purposely stamped out, to build that. And I think, for most people it's about enjoying cooking, and understanding the ingredients, for me, a culinary culture can't just be about assembly. It's about everything from philosophy to ideology, sex and love, family, emotion and science. And so much a person's personality and memory is wrapped up in how and what they cook. This Christmas, the first Christmas without my grandfather, my father made a traditional Christmas dinner, and it was heaven. One of the dishes was called Scacciata, a salty bread with tuma cheese that's just incredible. It was wonderful, but it was uniquely my father's creation, and I realized that I would never have it exactly the way my grandfather made it ever again.

I love America, but to be completely honest, the only thing I've ever considered emigrating over is the food culture. I get so envious of other countries that if I ever I do decide to leave (doubtful), that will be the reason.

This was long and somewhat meandering, but I'll leave you with this final scene from The Big Night, one of my favorite movies:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oerP7FRMWa8
Agreed. In stark contrast, I appreciate Michael Pollan's pithiness:

"Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants."

It's not that complicated, folks.
Using firefox or chrome, if you just type facebook into the url field as far as I know it will do a "I'm feeling lucky" search and send you to the first website in the search results.

My guess is a lot of the "searches" for facebook or other well known brands are not from computer illeterate people (they use bookmarks) but from lazy people like me just typing the first part of it and hitting enter.

(If you use safari however and just type some domain name without the .tld part you may be in for a surprise. From what I could see it just adds .com, which may or may not be what you're looking for. IE used to be the same, but I haven't seriously used it for a few years so I don't know.)
500 thousand times. 16 million dollars donated, but only 500 thousand donors.

EDIT: Paragraph wondering about A/B testing removed, as two people responded with links to the results of A/B testing, which I was not previously aware of.
Thanks for the comment, Max. These are really good questions that I didn't address in the article, so I'm going to answer them. After that I'm out of here. I've learned that if you post an article with a title like "What kind of idiot do you think I am, anyway?" people will be very happy to tell you :)

1) Facebook is always welcome to contact me. Happy to help them try to provide login help to the audience I've selected.

2) I don't have results yet, but I promise to post everything you could possibly want to know about the site in a few months. At the slow rate of traffic the site is getting, it's going to take a while to come to any useful conclusions.

3) I don't know. I was going to make an extended metaphor and never really finished it. I was trying to say that the average Facebooker isn't a college kid or programmer any more. They're, well, average. I'll make the change in the edits. This was something I thought about in the shower and just pushed it out there. Wrote the whole thing in 15 minutes without any rewrites, which is unusual for me. Very sorry for the poor quality.

4) Now this question is an awesome one. Riddle me this, batman, how do you use a text-based search engine to provide assistance to people who can't read? If you have no text, the search engine doesn't know what it's looking at. If you have lots of text, people can't use it. If you hide the text, well, search engines don't like that, either.

This was an initial stab. I'd like to try this again with another topic area, but I'm stumped with the problem you bring up. Perhaps a totally video-based site with extensive transcripts? It's worth exploring. You could even do the navigation in video format.

I screwed this site up royally by personally writing the text. I should have asked a elementary school kid to do it. Live and learn.
thanks. what were you advertising? http://hangwith.me? And what kinds of threads - are you posting links on forums?
> Using firefox or chrome, if you just type facebook into the url field as far as I know it will do a "I'm feeling lucky" search and send you to the first website in the search results.

Not really relevant. Most of these people are using IE, and I'm pretty sure it doesn't have that feature.
Can someone buy him a http://www.wacom.com/cintiq/ to help with the visuals?

The presentation format of "let's draw everything super low quality with a mouse" gets old quickly. I believe we've found a case of intelligence without a designer.
What did we evolve to eat?

In my opinion? Whatever we can manage to digest. We are omnivores, after all.
Start balancing your joint checking account in 2011 with SMS.
I've had hotel wake up calls NOT happen. For really-must-wake-up-on-time situations, you need to diversify: phone + hotel + a tiny clock.
Considering that you can put on night-vision goggles and see the pattern that a Kinect puts out, and it's just dots, not shapes, I seriously doubt this guy's problems are actually from the Kinect.