skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Getting lean is not that hard, but it needs discipline:
3 Workouts a week - is needed that the body can't shif down on calory usage.
Restrict to 1000 calories a day. Eat 5 meales. Try to get 100 grams of protein a day and carbs should only come from veggies. No wheat, potato, corn or fruits.

And most important: count calories and prepare maeles a day before.

This way you can loose about 2-4 kg a week.
They did a terrible job of explaining WHY the practices from w3 are wrong.

FAIL.
It takes a lot of bravery to do what seem to be the most suicidal things in the world.

For now, it doesn't kill me...yet.
The old petition asking Netscape to add NGLayout (now Gecko) into next version
I hate to say it, but javascript games will not be viable until browsers are willing to relinquish keyboard controls to user code. We need two things, ability to enter full screen, and ability to take all controls, in a way that still protects the end user.
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If HN were to have an official mantra, surely one of the finalists would be "charge for a product based on the value delivered, not based on the cost to deliver" - so why wouldn't that apply here? The publishers think that a ebook delivers ten bucks worth of value to the reader. Seeing as they sell pretty well, it seems they're right to some degree.

Put another way, if the market is willing to sustain the price (and sales figures suggest it is), why not charge $9.99 for a ebook?
Indeed. Because the work IS pipelined

Pickup --> Travel --> Deploy --> Return to pickup
What being in a band taught me about management
America Knows Robot Warriors Will Destroy America
Apollo 11 transcripts on Spacelog
This, from the article:

"I linked to W3Schools' JavaScript tutorial in our 6 Free JavaScript E-Books and Tutorials post. I never came across the tutorials from Google, Mozilla or PromoteJS while doing my research for that post. I just checked, and although W3Schools' JavaScript tutorial still comes up as the top search result for "JavaScript Tutorial" none of the sites W3Fools lists were found in the first 10 pages of results for a search for "JavaScript Tutorial." This shows the uphill battle other tutorial writers face when competing with W3Schools."

So the W3Schools tutorial is #1 on Google, while Mozilla's vastly superior guide is buried. Right, that makes sense.

Exhibit A for Google's broken ranking algorithm.
New carbon nanotube aerogel is now the world's lightest solid material
As I remember, permissions on FB used to be exactly this back in the olden days of connect (you'd get a dialogue for each permission with an accept/reject, rather than a batched one). I can see why they removed that implementation because clicking "Allow" 5 times was obnoxious, but it's not exactly impossible for them to put a checkbox next to each one instead.
What would be cooler would be a completely separate bond-building robot that can weld / whatever and can independently traverse the completed building. When it was too far from its next destination a quadrotor would come and give it a lift.

You might have several different types of crawler. A couple to receive materials from the quadrotor and hold them in place while a third follows a weld pattern.
Cheques/checks are more common in the US as there is no national system like Direct Debit. Bills can be paid by card, but sometimes you are penalized for that due to the processing fees.

The government always requires cash or check. I had to buy a check book just so I had the privilege of sending The Man more tax. They are also used (bizarrely) as a proof of your bank account number for various things. It's not uncommon for a company that is doing banking with you (like your payroll) to ask for an invalidated check so they can get your bank account number right.

I really hate checks.
Wow, unions are gonna hate these.
Please don't bring conspiracies into this.

I don't believe that the cost of converting from physical to virtual doesn't lead to significant cost cuts. No shipping. No warehouses. No physical shops in expensive locations. No warehouses.
Robot Warriors Will Destroy America
that hasn't stopped flash games from being wildly successful.
There's something totally awesome about seeing your project on this kind of thing. Almost feels like being published.

<plug> I'm delighted to see Flax on the list there, it being my own project. </plug>

Edit: removed two extraneous instances of the word "something"
Just to be clear, I wasn't equating simple with easy.

Thanks for the tip re: swiss design. More info:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Typographic_Style
Possibly the 800 people per week who download the book aren't reading it? In http://lists.canonical.org/pipermail/kragen-tol/2010-October... I did some numbers, and reading an ebook costs around 240 times as much as simply downloading it. So a purely self-interested person would download it if there's more than about a ½% chance that they'd actually read it. If most people downloading it are just over that threshold, then 800 downloads per week might represent only 5 new readers per week.

(There is some discussion at http://www.mail-archive.com/silklist@lists.hserus.net/msg197...)

If you download a torrent containing many different ebooks, the ratio goes even higher. I have a Project Gutenberg torrent containing several thousand public-domain books. By the time I finish downloading it, it might turn out to have cost me ten minutes of my time, about a thousand times less than it would take me to navigate a web site to download a single book.
That's half true. It's all or nothing on first use, but you can revoke any non-required permissions later: http://www.facebook.com/settings/?tab=applications
This is my personal opinion of what could be the solution.

1) Ebooks will be kept on publishers' servers

2) A standard which all ebook readers can read will be adapted (during the crossover period publishers can keep ebooks in multiple formats)

This could be it. Now the retail sellers can sell the book for a lower cost. Every time a purchase is made, let's say a key is generated by the retailer (e.g. amazon) that will allow you to download the book from the publisher's (e.g. penguin) server.

or

3) An umbrella organization for all the publishers is created. The organization manages the ebook standard and hosts the ebooks themselves. Publishers pay money to the organization per download basis (to cover the hosting cost) + a yearly membership fee (to cover the management costs)

4) The umbrella organization can actually sell the ebooks itself (maybe even use advertising to cancel out the yearly membership fee) and/or resell them to major retailers.

Everybody could sell their book to the umbrella organization, pay for the sharing costs and make their book available around the world.

This would allow easier publishing, cut out the 30-40% retailer margin and make the books more available.

The current model has the retailers to closely tied to the whole system. Without them, nothing works, so they are the price-makers. Furthermore, retailers actually make the ereaders so they get to subsidize the reader and spread the cost on the books, this unfortunately provides disincentives to support other platforms. Therefore we need to centralize the distribution system.

The first steps would be creating an open standard that every retailer has to support, so we wouldn't have to be tied to their devices.
Well, if you had uptreamed your fixes against 1.2, they would be in 1.3, wouldn't they ? I find it a poor excuse for not upgrade assuming API and ABI are stable.

It's just laziness. It's easier because that way you don't have to argue with Management. But you also don't educate on the necessity of fixing security issues. Hooray for 1.4 JVM still in production for instance. And it's perfectly ok. Until some breach happens .....
How is she trapped - has she sold the rights to her forthcoming books in advance?
This is so cool, just in time for me working on a popularity ranking algorithm.
Why the repeat submission? http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2110042
1) explicit != highlight

2) it'd actually be quite trivial, no notice required. If the user opts out of sharing a specific type of data, the app just gets an empty entry. Apps already need to deal with the fact a user may not have any photos/friends/whatever-data-they-want-to-access.
insurance? dispute resolution?
If she's already gone with a publisher (which she has), it's no longer up to her - she (likely, but it depends on her contract) can't submit that work to a separate publisher even if she wanted.

I'm also not sure I buy the people saying that she should go at it alone next time, and solely self-publish. Doing so means that, among other things, she'd have no advance to live on while writing it, no editors to work with her on making the copy better, no typesetters to make the text flow well on whatever platforms it gets distributed on, no artists for cover design, no translation support to release international editions, and - this is the important one - no advertising and distribution support to get the book places into bricks-and-mortar stores (as most stores look down hard on self-published books).

It's not just a matter of saying "OK, I'll self-publish"; there are all sorts of other costs that are a part of publishing a book that a publisher normally covers, which you have to pay for yourself should you self-publish.
Europeans have invented PHP, Linux, Python, C++, Ruby on Rails, Opera browser, Skype etc.

should promote european better search engines more , otherwise average-level product makers like Google and Microsoft will take over the world
Why You Need to Learn JavaScript
Hi,

I know, there are some seriously bad stylistic mistakes in that code, as well as doing some things "the wrong way" (stack move instead of a recursive page directory is a prime example).

The tutorial series was written in 2007, so quite a time ago. I got around to rewriting the code, but not the overlaying documentation and explanation so the old version is still live.

New version for anyone that cares: http://jamesm-tutorials.googlecode.com/ . Much better stylistically, and with sound practices throughout.

It should also be noted that my tutorial series was not designed to teach people "how to write a kernel" - more to show how to bridge the gap between theory and practice. There are many books and resources (Tanenbaum's book is an example) that deals purely with theory - algorithms used etc.

There are also many resources about assembler programming and C, but to my knowledge not really many that showed how to apply the theory, concrete it and end up with "something" that runs (which can then ideally be adapted based on better theory).
Here in Europe, it sure has been in every newspaper and every newspaper for quite some days.
And now I have an interested party willing to work on the social end.
Huh? How can an app depend on access it has never had? Has the app always been broken waiting for this feature?
But how many people have added their full address and phone number to their Facebook profiles anyway? I would bet that the majority of people have their city/town set and not their full address and won't have specified their phone number at all.

However, this really could be quite useful if used legitimately, i.e. Facebook commerce, having shipping address available; location aware apps etc.
Solutions based on expensive IMUs [0], SLAM [1], or visual odometry are more realistic than GPS. As a rule, never use GPS for fine-grained control. Even ignoring accuracy, GPS fails when you lack line-of-sight to GPS satellites, which is extremely dangerous on a quadrotor - how do you safely land a flying chainsaw with no feedback? When finely controlling a platform, you need accurate relative position. The global position is usually unimportant when the platform's position on Earth doesn't matter.

Sensors designed for computer vision applications are surprisingly light and small! Board-level cameras can fit in the palm of your hand, and reasonable IMUs are not much bigger than a matchbox. The biggest obstacles today are tradeoffs between performance/weight and performance/battery life. The platform needs algorithms with acceptable results, requiring almost no supporting hardware, and that are robust to the thousands of things that go wrong when trying to sense (noise, errors, resolution, occlusions, etc). Algorithms that fit all of these requirements are very uncommon. In fact, I would not be surprised if there was an Iron Triangle in there somewhere.

[0] Inertial Measurement Units: Devices that estimate acceleration (or some other measure of movement).

[1] Simultaneous Localization and Mapping. Using stereo vision, lidar, radio ranging, etc. to estimate your position, plus how the environment looks.
it was big news in europe and got a lot of coverage. also because 10000 german (among french, belgium, british, etc) tourists were in tunesia at that time and had to be brought back with specially chartered flights. almost everyone of my friends knows somebody who was stuck in tunesia until today. tunesia is like florida for the europeans. you go there when you want to enjoy some sun and beach in the winter time.
Great designs. Was the whiteboard software ever developed or were you thinking of using some third party software for this?

Btw I run http://www.UniversityTutor.com

The whiteboard idea is attractive (Tutor.com has made a pretty large business out of this). I haven't seen it be very effective though, especially for math/science tutoring.

- you can't write equations/diagrams nearly as fast/well with a mouse.

- purchasing a tablet surface for every tutor AND student (similar to what Sal Khan uses) is usually cost prohibitive and a technical hurdle for some.

- also, just simple stuff like looking at their textbook together can't be done well over the internet.

Btw didn't mean for this to come across as critical but was honestly curious what your ideas were around solving some things like that and taking on tutor.com? If you want to chat more I can be reached through the site on my profile.
personally mostly interested in the fiction section:

cat's cradle is indeed awesome. it contains what is among my favorite quotes from a character of vonneguts', "Any scientist who can't explain to an eight-year old what he is doing is a charlatan".

gravity's rainbow is next on my to-read list
She didn't even say what stats site the "800" number came from. Could also be a completely bullshit number.

Personally contacting potential buyers might incite them to buy your book, no matter if they were pirates before or not. It doesn't necessarily scale to do that. Though some authors actually do promote their books (go on tours and read from the books, for example).

I don't want to defend downloading, but it is a fact of modern life, so complaining about it is unlikely to help.
This is exactly the reason I have been rethinking the way my company develops apps. As the world splits and there isn't one standard technology like there used to be with Windows, I feel it is imperative to be thinking about how to go cross platform as quickly and easily as possible without cross platform tools. I think it means lighter native apps, simpler in design to do one specific task, and then more sophisticated tasks in the browser.
I believe the issue is more than Tunisia is not a country of interest, even for people who are interested in foreign policy. Take a look at the average person who actually follows foreign news - countries like Iran, Brazil, Argentina, Egypt rank much higher than Tunisia, Botswana, Azerbaijan, Guyana.

Some countries have just been in the news more, so have been noticed more and have more 'fans' or interested observers than others.

Even for the educated crowd here, if I said that the government of Sao Tome had been overthrown, that would be a lot less interesting than if I said the government of Libya had been overthrown.
Overcoming an ingrained mentality is a much larger hurdle than a contract or two would be.
I see TI's computers haven't changed much.
Imagine the damage virii of the future will be able to do to our infrastructure...
Fair enough, however, $9.99 is no longer the common price point. Most new releases are $12.99 now, which many people think is too high, and the problem is the retailers can't do anything about it because of this "agency pricing".

I had no problem paying $9.99 for books on my kindle, but most of them are $12.99 now and I just feel like that's too much. In some cases, buying the physical hardcover is actually cheaper than $12.99 too, and that's what REALLY pisses some people off. The physical nature of the product surely is at least $1 - $2 of the actual cost of the the book, so buying it digitally gets rid of this cost.

Also, many books are destroyed if they're not sold (hence the "if you bought this book without a cover" warning in the front of many books). By moving to digital, the publishers no longer have to eat these costs.

So basically, eBook pricing is complete bullshit.
The thing is, there is no entitlement to being a successful book author. If she can't make a living doing it, maybe it is not meant to be.
The Tandy 1000sx ad really surprised me, the ad must have worked as there is one in my moms attic. Thats the computer that got me started programming.
I don't get it, could you elaborate further?
By that premise, isn't creation just another form of destruction, just arbitrarily more complex because we see it that way?

To put it another way, someone, somewhere once said that luck was people taking probability personally.
He is ignoring economic realties..

Basically, to get USA back on its feet we have to encourage industry to invest in hiring and consumers to reduce their own debt and produce savings.

By having the deficit this high it encourages those groups to make those economic choice as they are the best option as far as return on investment compared to other rates of returns..

When the employment, savings, and consumer deficit figures improve then you reduce the deficit.

That is not to say that parts of the budget do not need fixing, they in fact do..
You can't take back the data tha you already gave to the app, however. Revoking permissions prevents the app from accessing your info in the future, but it's sort of limited once you've already given that data to the app
Eric Sink suggested pretty much this exact idea some years ago, but said he didn't think it would work because of the risk of people treating cars badly.
http://www.ericsink.com/Choose_Your_Competition.html

I tend to agree; I'd not be at all keen to loan my car to some random stranger. I'm more attached to it than the average person, but there just seem to be too many things that could go wrong; what if they smoke in it? What if they drive it into something? What if they steal it? Maybe those things aren't likely, but they'd worry me too much. And yes, they're apparently insured, but the inconvenience of having your car off the road for a week or two goes far beyond just the cost of getting it fixed.

But if other people want to rent their cars this way, great. Sounds pretty good from the rentor's point of view. Also, the existing car rental companies could do with a damn good shake-up and if this gives it to them, so much the better. I guess I'm not in their target audience - I'm not anyway since I don't live in the States, but I'm interested to know if enough people are keen on something like this to make it work. My gut feeling has been 'no', but I wouldn't mind being proven wrong.
We don't know what the settings of his computer are (the fact that the UI is in english makes me guessing he has the "hl=en" setting). He should add "&hl=ru" to the url to make sure he is searching the russian version of Google.
I own thousands of printed books. A few I have actually read.

I don't own an ereader and don't plan to get one. I also hate reading pdfs on the computer since the text is straining and I prefer to read for fun lying down or outside and not at a desk.

I think the author of the article is delusional. She thinks of herself as a NYT best selling author because of some number she estimated of downloads of her work, all of which she assumes are by people who want to not only read her work, but buy it as well.

First there is no evidence of the number that read it electronically. So 10 a week bought it, fine those are the fans. But the others may be hoarders, may be downloading bots, who knows.

Second, if comparing to best selling authors by multiplying sales figures by a factor of 80 to account for "piracy", one should also multiply the big name authors' sales figures by 80 as well since they should be accorded the same privilege. And then, not a best selling author anymore since the relative ranking is the same as before.

What is very normal is most authors never make back their advance. This has been happening for 100 years. An advance of $15,000 says that the publisher knew the book would not sell a lot of copies, and they were right.

It's nice to have a printed book, gives you some credibility. It's not typical to make a living selling printed copies of your work, that's something that only happens for a small number of authors.

To make more money, improve your skills, write more, and even develop a fan base by giving away free short stories, or selling them to magazines for the (very low) magazine rate. Few read magazines anymore so you can instead develop fans with free samples.

It's very unlikely that the pirated copies are changing the bottom line in any meaningful way. It's just as likely they are bringing in more fans and sales as it is that sales are being lost. It's entirely possible that without the free advertising of the piracy she only sells 5 hard copies a week instead of 10.
Well comparing a search for a russian word in the US version of Google vs the same search in Yandex, this are not unexpected results... He should compare to the russian version of Google.
Amazon has already demonstrated that it's more than willing to sell DRM-free products, as evidenced by its DRM-free MP3 downloads.

I think the issue here is that publishers are the scared ones. I suspect that ebooks will follow the same path that the music industry did: first with terror, paranoia, draconian restrictions, and maybe even lawsuits; next with acceptance of copying as a way of life, but refusal to make it easy for people by lifting DRM; finally, by realizing that it's usually in their best interest to remove DRM, and then allowing certain distributors to do so--like Amazon.

If the music industry is any kind of parallel, we still have a few years to go before publishers agree to lift all DRM. In the meantime, clever people will simply use any of the Kindle-DRM-breaking scripts out there to unlock the books they've purchased (usually for nearly the same price of a physical book, I might add) or just download them from torrent sites.
There are two orthogonal issues here: allowing apps to access contact information at all, and allowing users to select which of the requested permissions to grant. In retrospect, I glossed over the quoted portion of your comment and your proposed solution, so I assumed you were referring solely to the former. My apologies.
I've been developing Facebook Connect applications for a long time, and I'm wondering - hasn't facebook had this feature already for email addresses?

One of the permissions read:
"Send me email" (optional: send through a facebook proxy)

So now, you can also let the apps know phone number through the graph? I don't find that too big of a step. CAN-SPAM still applies. Perhaps they should set up proxies for the phone number, though.

What I find more funny is that ReadWriteWeb writes:

"Thankfully, this sort of information cannot be shared via your friends' careless actions, unlike other profile information."

which is in direct opposition to the attitude that blogs had on the same issue when Google complained that facebook was "trapping your contacts" by not letting you export them. Now they are thankful facebook doesn't do this :)