skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No I actually mean it. I've had the good fortune to travel all over the world and it continuously amazes me that no matter where I go that local traditional food, made with local ingredients, is so commonly put together in combinations that are completely nutritious (and tasty).

The skills necessary to survive on the local available food in one place don't entirely translate someplace else. Somebody had to look at a squid for the first time and decide to eat it for example. Or that the rotting month old cabbage would be a good meal.

Traditional foods are often preagrarian foods in some cases. You can find expensive wild foods restaurants in South Korea for example that serve only food you can gather in the mountains, mushrooms, pine nuts, pine needles, ferns, wild onions, etc. These are things that people cobbled together before they had any knowledge at all of nutrition and amazingly, when we look at them today with the modern eye find out that they represent a fantastically complete diet, rich in essential nutrients. In Latin America you can still find plenty of pre-Columbian cuisine with similar characteristics. And I'd wager elsewhere as well.

Put another way, why didn't they just settle on say mushrooms? How come the entire diet for a people isn't just one food? Or a combination of foods that represent a diet lacking in a certain vitamin? Amazingly, wherever you go, the traditional foods tend to make up a complete diet.

It seems a modern curse that we can gorge ourselves on singular foods and grow fat and suffer malnutrition at the same time. Only today can somebody eat hamburgers and pizza 3 times a day for years.
Just do what you love. Period. I've had times in my life when that was programming - and it got me a long way, and I loved doing it while I did it. Then I felt the challenge of learning how to build a business. So I made a choice, and stepped away from coding, and started pursuing my passion of building businesses. There's nothing wrong with your passions changing - think of it as opportunities to learn new skills.

One of the funny (paradoxical?) results of this is that I've had my eyes opened on things that I'd love to code. So, I've gotten passionate about programming again. Ain't life funny?

You don't need to apologize for being honest and self-examining - you only need to apologize if you aren't following your love and passion.
That's the old argument: Rabbits are faster than foxes because rabbits are running for their lives, while foxes are only running for their dinner. For the sake of an interesting discussion, I would like to point out a flaw in applying this logic to FB vs. Google.

The dinner/life argument is true when we observe creatures that have co-evolved over a long period of time to reach an equilibrium of sorts in an ecological niche. Foxes catch some rabbits, but not enough to wipe them out, and not so few that foxes starve.

However, along the way there may have been other predators that starved to death because they couldn't catch any rabbits. And other prey animals that couldn't run fast enough and were wiped out. If we travel to a new ecological niche like a volcanic island that has risen from the sea, and there we observe one fox chasing a rabbit, it isn't a safe bet that the rabbit will escape the fox. We don't have evidence that foxes and rabbits are in equilibrium on that island, with both species able to eat enough and live long enough to reliably produce offspring.

Looking at Facebook and Google, we are not talking about the business equivalent of evolutionary time, and we are not talking about whole classes of businesses. Even though Facebook is running for its life, Google can easily wipe them out, just as on our volcanic island, one fox might easily eat one or for that matter all rabbits.

Footnote for the curious: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Ilha_da_Queim...
Why not show Sony that this strategy will not maximize profits? That's a more certain path than expecting the government to do the right thing.

Voting with your dollars is the most powerful way that you as an individual can express your opinion in a corporatocracy.
Totally relate. What I've always loved about programming was the satisfaction of creating something that people like and find useful, the craft of great design and implementation, and the time I spent in flow. After lot of learning and practice, I've gotten my writing skills to that point as well -- which means a lot less time trying to understand obscure error messages, fighting tools, working around bugs.

So I still enjoy programming when I do it, but spend much much more time writing these days. And I'm a lot happier, too!
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I didn't think of that. That seems much more direct than just not buying their products. Also a little risky for each individual.
I'm always curious where these mysterious "ads" are in Facebook. I have yet to see a single one in my profile (and yes even with adblock turned off). Do people really find their profiles plastered with advertising?
Well isn't it basically because when you are on Google you often have the intent to buy something say plan a trip, rent a car or find a restaurant or whatever.

On facebook you are checking out your friends and the adds are not immediately relevant to the reason why you are on facebook. makes a huge difference.

Facebook needs to build a search engine and the social graph should be a subset of the results like Google categorizes images, videos, maps etc on the top/left.

Once fb builds buys a real search engine (blekko) the game could change very very suddenly
This thing reads like a press release... Sponsored post?
Maybe they should start making their own adsense then. Allow publishers to put ad units on their own websites out in the wild.

The ads would be of various standard banner sizes

Placed via iFrame so they were contextually relevant to the page you were on, but also socially tied back to the person doing the viewing - cookie tracking the user.

Self management system through facebook gets an option for placement on the "extended network"

I bet facebook clickrates would go WAY up because the ads would be everywhere.

What's even better is people who get "BANNED FROM ADSENSE" would have a real viable alternative.

It's not a small task - but - seems the way to go. Facebook Adsense
I'd rather say they are being less inflammatory than possible. That a single Reddit comment triggered the placing of the device is silly in itself, but once you realize that only happened because he was already under surveillance for the unacceptable reason of having 'extensive ties to the Middle East', it just adds insult to injury.
The Nautilus Shell does NOT have a Fibonacci Spiral.

http://www.shallowsky.com/blog/science/fibonautilus.html
Wow. That's an amazing idea and gorgeously executed. You should be really proud of that, put some prices in - you're in a great position to make a killing from this service.
Salami - not just for eating
Banking: what’s coming next?
You don't think there's room for two entirely different kinds of businesses on the internet?

Amazon must be shaking in their boots because of all these hot up and coming flash gaming sites.
Personally I'd be happier in a place where I'd be protected by the law rather than the law being totally absent.
They occasionally show up in one of the columns on the homepage, next to the news feed. They're quite small, and very easily ignorable. Facebook even lets you close them, and after you do so enough times it seems to stop showing them to you.
The way a triple head 1920x1280(ish) 24" desktop was so usable on a 10" 1024x768 iPad because I could zoom out.

Years ago I remember playing around with a proof of concept for Archy[1], a new user-interface concept by Jef Raskin. The basic idea was that all the contents of the computer were on a great big canvas, which you could zoom in and out of. One "folder" of pictures, might be little specks up in this corner, which you could then zoom in on and browse. Then you would zoom out, pan to the side and zoom in on something else. The browser's "links" were really tiny pages, so if you wanted to follow a link you would just zoom in on it and the new page would take up the screen.

It was a very interesting concept, although it was difficult to use at the time. But with pinch and zoom multitouch, I'm sure the whole experience would be worlds different.

I unfortunately can't seem now to find the demo I played with. :-(

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archy
> You can't consistently make great cocktails if you're teetotal

Of course you can, just don't swallow.
I love the slimmer scrollbars. Unfortunately, it also makes apparent the massive amount of wasted space in the Back/Forward toolbar.
But imagine the backlash if Google announced that you'd not be able to appear in its search results if you used any advertising platform but theirs. It's completely unimaginable.

This is what I find frightening about the changing landscape of ever more tightly controlled "platforms". It used to be that the way software interacted with a platform was via APIs; now it's increasingly alignment with the platform owner's business goals as well.

When Microsoft crushed Netscape it did so by controlling the platform and making the alternative seem unnecessary, but it would have been unthinkably brutish for them to disallow another browser. But what the App Store and Facebook are doing makes Microsoft's actions look positively charitable.

I believe there is a question of at which point a platform becomes large enough that there is a legitimate concern of the public interest involved. Obviously the US and EU governments thought such was the case with Windows. I wonder if the resolution to these things will come by similar means.
It took it a couple years to get to the point where it could pay my rent. Today, I could probably live off of what it brings in, but thankfully I don't have to.
Prettied up my Digital Shadow with a CSS Animation
Didn't work at all in Belgium. Tried it twice, no SMS response. I'm in an area with perfect coverage.
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Martin Luther King was a "well-known Christian-American community leader". That's how you should read it.

That you think otherwise means they already managed to indoctrinate you that far, to accept the seeds of doubt and mistrust they try to plant. That way, however it turns out, they are always right.
I see a flaw in your argument:

Drive down to the poorest section of your town. Do you see any pawn shops? Do you see any signs offering to buy dilapidated houses for cash? Do you see cash for gold signs? Do you see payday loan businesses? Do you see businesses that advance you money against your tax refund? Will someone give you a sub-prime loan to buy a house you can't afford? Is there a WalMart ready to sell you plastic junk?

I am not saying that the US is an economic slum. However, I offer this analogy to demonstrate that it is a logical fallacy to assume that just because people want to sell you stuff and loan you money, therefore your actions must be respected.

The world doesn't boycott doing business with you. So what? That doesn't automatically mean that it respects what you are doing, any more than a pawnshop owner loaning money in the slum respects his clientele.

p.s. Please don't take my response too personally, I'm reacting to the previous 999 times I've read it or variations of it as well.

p.p.s. FWIW, If I were to argue that the world still looks up to the US, I wouldn't use treasury bonds to bolster my argument, I'd use immigration. It's hard to argue with the hordes of people who pack up their lives and cross oceans to start fresh in the USA.
Adzoogle, Neverblue - but they'll deny your application if you don't have serious publishing experience. I'm making an assumption that if you don't even know their names you're not going to have enough experience to get approved.

Your best bet for finding someone who is big enough to have offers, but not so that they turn people down. Try Commission Junction for a proper 'place CPA banner Ad' type setup.

They'll (probably) have you.

Once you're reliably making a few hundred to a few thousand a month, then you'll be able to waltz in to Adzoogle and any other affiliate network you want. As it turns out though, a lot of the smaller 'niche markets' are as good or better than the big guys.

Maybe sign up for offervault to get the names networks you want to apply to based on the offers that they carry.
Interesting. As a Brit I generally don't have trouble at UK immigration, but being married to a Turk my wife did (before she became naturalised).

The big problem with UK immigration is that it seems to take the lead from the US. Unfortunately we end up with more theatre and less security as a result.
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Reviving 100-year-old resting spores of diatoms
What if they put buzz(or orkut) as the first 'sponsored' result?
When the world stops buying your toilet paper, as you so eloquently put, you won't have the opportunity to take it seriously. Your economy is predicated on people buying your toilet paper so your government overproduces it. If it all comes back to you, you'll be lucky if the US is doing any better than Zimbabwe a few years later.
One of the difficulties in the legal analytics space is that there's not much incentive for lawyers to spend less time on a case. In fact it's the opposite, the more billable hours they can charge for their work, the better. Speeding up their process is not necessarily hitting their pain point.
As someone from a country with a long history of imperial aggression, bloated sense of self-importance and paranoia of foreigners you have to call it as you see it, and that's what the US is today.

You don't have to believe me, just ask an Afghan.
Very true and it's a great way for entrepreneurs to look for strategic opportunities. Yahoo! Answers is a classic weak market leader: the product hasn't moved forward, and the company's in disarray. Feeding frenzy! It's the kind of situation where a company like Quora can get an $86M valuation while still in closed beta and a long way away from generating revenue.
Never in history was a time when machines were capable of doing everything a human could do and do it more cheaply.

We might be approaching that time , and that makes predictions difficult.
Having worked in a corporate environment, these would be great. Giving gift cards is already a hassle (all the approvals you need to get), and you have to try and get GCs that your employees will like.
I can afford to be arrogant when people seriously claim that Jesus' resurrection is a fucking historical fact.
Warning: rant ahead (pet topic)

When HTML came out, it was purely academic. People said sure, it's cool, but how could you ever make money from just text with pictures and little links?

Now we have the answer: you create content -- text, video, pictures, games, etc -- that actively interacts with the user. Then, if you're smart, you make it so they have to "visit" your site to see this content, and, once there, they can only see whatever you choose. It's called a walled garden. All is beauty and loveliness. As long as you stay within the walls and don't piss off the gardener.

But this idea of "visiting" a site is only there because people type some text into a navigation bar and the browser loads material from a certain server. There's no reason or law that says I have to type in an address -- or that once I type in an address I am limited to seeing things from one server only. There's not even a reason I should see the information in some certain format or another. Why not type in "weather" and see various weather forecasts put out by various sources? After all, I want weather, not Joe's weather or Amit's weather. With all due respect to Joe and Amit, weather is weather.

Google is already doing this, of course, but only as a gateway. And they've got their own walled garden they're working on. Play by the rules and you'll appear on Google -- exactly where we want and alongside ads we feel are relevant to your page (and ads we make money from)

But what if you took the "location" idea completely away from HTML? Then you wouldn't be "visiting" anybody's site, and there wouldn't be any gardens to build. What if you simply interacted semantically with your computer and it gathered information from various sources and condensed it into plain text for you to consume? Gone would be "site stickiness", "addictive gaming", and "landing pages" and all sorts of other nonsense that's grown up around the idea of internet locations.

You could still consume multimedia and interactive material, of course, but only under terms you set, not terms the various site owners set. Perhaps you would want no ads, or no hyperlinks, or a time limit each day that would be acceptable for you to play games.

This puts the user back in control of their internet activities, the way it should be. It destroys many business models, but the internet is data-based, and it must evolve. I do not want the same internet in 2050 as we have now. It also gets back to the true meaning of HTML -- separating the data from the presentation. The designers of HTML realized that the purpose was structuring the data so that it relevantly linked, not creating a walled amusement park in the form of Facebook.

The curating and presentation of data is inherently a personal matter and best not left to others. We either fix this problem or it will continue to get worse, as recent events keep showing.
Some Microsoft updates did disable Netscape and not in the nice "do you want this to be your default browser" kind of way. Not that MS was the only one; a version of Netscape disabled IE's ability to display XML of all things. http://news.cnet.com/Microsoft-advises-IE-users-to-uninstall... (However, based on the late date I think this was more done out of spite than anything else.)
oops... "until most of their revenue no longer depends on..."

Sorry. Too late to edit.
Emailed you. I hope you can help me out! Didn't see this until now and thinking I may be too late.
I love this. In fact, i think it would be even more awesome if we can have something similar to Wave's scrolling style in normal desktop application.
Do real developers use UML and other CASE tools?
So I get huge speeds, virtually no i/o wait and when I delete something I can be sure it's gone forever? The only problem left to solve is huge capacities for these devices at relatively affordable prices.
My understanding is that there is no innate talent for programming, math, art, or anything else. It's just a question of how hard you're willing to work at learning how to become the best. (This is the thesis of Talent is Overrated, which I highly recommend. Alternatively you can Google "deliberate practice".)

The kicker is that even if this isn't true, people who live their life as if it is will be better off.
Memory lane ...

Netscape was the first customer for my startup's static analysis tool PREfix. So we would report gobs and gobs of bugs and they never had time to fix them. I think they had about 40 devs and only one QA person -- and this was before xUnit.

It caught up with them a few years later and gave MS and IE the chance to catch up and then own the market. Still, it was probably the right strategy ... Netscape was perfectly poised to become the early market leader and they capitalized on it.
My read is that the devices are still unfamiliar to investigators. I bet it's just a matter of time before someone starts figuring out how to read blocks that are waiting to be actually erased (which is a time consuming and energy-intensive operation for SLC flash, and sometimes deferred) on particular popular devices. Of course, it's going to be unfamiliar to those who have been working closely with HDDs at a low level for years.

EDIT: Speaking of which: http://sec.pn.to/pw/?plugin=attach&pcmd=open&file=ta...

tl;dr - That's just security by obscurity. Someone will figure out how to read unerased data. (That said, those blocks eventually will be erased and recycled, it's just a matter of when.)
Have you thought of making a hosted version (SAAS)?
Wouldn't organic bananas avoid that?
Real developers use the best tool for the job.
One could argue that the extreme level of interest in a field you must exhibit to practice gruelingly hard is a form of talent in itself, or that it stems from some kernel of innate talent.

There's bound to be a reason why some super intelligent people are deeply interesting in programming or maths and excel at it, while other people of the same level of intelligence simply don't and instead do something completely different with their lives.
Greetings,

There's some truth in here, and also a lot of hype. Plus ca la change, plus ca la meme chose. We've been losing digital evidence to technology ever since the first bit was written to a rotating drum.

And, even more interesting, they're completely ignoring the other side of the coin - some evidence is very hard to destroy on SSDs.

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/solid-state-flash-translati...

If you want to securely store and then delete data from SSDs, use encrypted volumes. Otherwise, don't count on it being unrecoverable.
I agree that it is not the most scientific, in-depth article, but I've seen these themes echoed elsewhere by those who have studied innovators. At any rate, I find for myself that it is good to review the basics from time to time. When I read the blog, I thought "Hmmm...how often to I "frame shift" or think in terms of "systems". Not for everyone I agree, but a good reminder for me.

If you are looking for something on the topic that is a lot more "scientific", check out "Iconoclast: A Neuroscientist Reveals How to Think Differently" by Gregory Berns Ph.D. It's really quite good, and I found the appendix on how different drugs effect the brain to be interesting (where he basically shows that if you are looking to drugs to help you think differently/better, you might want to give it some more thought.)
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Thumbs up for you!

I'm tempted to take up instakill's suggestion posted here.

I'll download and hopefully install/config it on one of our spare domains early next week. If I do, I'll post the URL on this thread.
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Cool. I like the idea, I wonder if there are other services that could use better display and benefit from a similar service. Are you working on versions for other platforms besides S3?