skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This, and it's also a great book to give to junior hires or interns.

Most of the stuff mentioned in the book should be covered in schools, but usually isn't.
Not sure how you got that from what I wrote. As you correctly noticed, Thailand has roughly the same surf potential as Iowa. Possibly Montana. Unless you hit it on just the right day in 2004.

It does, however has some truly amazing rock climbing on the beaches in Krabi Provence. That's why I spend every other winter there.
It seems the tool is broken. In Europe, I get 6 ms to Ireland, but 1 ms to asia. I have been pinging my nearest hop, and I get 100-300 ms, with a lot of packet loss. I'm on really flaky wifi, and I think your ping returns 0ms when no result?
The lunacy of Steve Jobs’ "reality distortion field"
But North Korea's access has never been open by any stretch of the imagination to start with.
so it's like MS paint, except worse?

also, anyone can look through saved drawings by incrementing the drawing's ID in the URL. i think this was scrich's first penis drawing: http://scri.ch/0b
Tarpipe can now automate uploads to Dropbox
Be clear and concise when stating the mission and goals of the non-profit and specify how the donations will help
This is what is called a parasite.
I think this was one of the reasons MySpace originally took off. It was Geocities++. Once the current concept of social networking was adopted they should have started restricting user creativity...
I don't think anyone in the world saw the (still hypothetical) move to browser apps coming in... 1995. I don't think that was part of their motivation at all. Browser apps were barely (if at all) possible in 1995.
While it's a very good thing MS is endorsing this, they are very incongruent. They continuosly state that they love the web, that IE9 will deliver a more beautiful web and all that stuff.

But here we are. We have a 10-year old browser that still has a huge 12% global usage. Ok, that was a huge error, the good thing it's that MS is actually doing something, but are they learning from the past? I think they don't.

What will IE9 look like in 5 years? I think it will likely be just like IE6-- holding back the web. A little less, but still, barely support for basic CSS3 declarations, struggling with HTML5, no offline web applications, with no history.pushState support, using still old web forms and much more.

IE6 was great for its time. We have learned a lot from it, but the one thing everyone gets is that no matter how good you make it, it will get old. That's the real problem, there's no an easy way to upgrade those users or give them an alternative for their needs (like a standalone version for corporative software crapiness). And IE9 is heading in the same direction.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2176771
Rice and Thai Food. So add lean chicken and some vegetables to that if you want to be literal.
Would love to hear any feedback from the Hacker News community on this
Interesting question; I've used twitter to try and get in get feedback from who I think my customers are, but that's hit and miss. Whenever I use facebook it's mostly connecting with people I know, not people that would be customers. I'd be interested in finding out what other HNers are using as well.
I think the features should gracefully expand based on user preferences that could store in a cookie.

Why?
I like it the way it is. You don't. You should have the power to have a more advanced UI and store that preference, I want this basic usage, not an over-cluttered mess of things I'll never use in a million years.

Scalable features interface based on the individual user's needs.
Cracking helloCAPTCHA
Curious what others think about the animated gif CAPTCHAs from http://hellocaptcha.com/ and how hard they would be to crack.
From Messiah to Pariah: The Death of Open Source on Mobile
Shazahn Padamsee Pictures, Wallpapers and Images
Shazahn Padmase is the daughter of famous Alyque Padamsee the famous Indian theater personality and ad film maker.
Paper seems to be behind a paywall. I've copied the full version here: http://209.20.67.195/misc/memoryenhancement.pdf

See my profile for why I do what I do. Please email me to let me know when my services are needed.
(Was it Sam H.?)

When I was at MIT I had a lab partner who was blind for I think 6.002 or 6.003. I remember that one side-effect of using a screen reader was that he easily "recited" code, which I don't think most sighted programmers could do fluently.

Of course, in order to understand what he was reciting, my only hope was generally to try to type it into a text editor, format it and look at it. (And it's also hard to transcribe code being read to you.)
If you intend to pick one among the applicants/replies below (as the other kind contributor is doing), I suggest you make that clear up front. Your post makes me think that perhaps you're casting a wider net, though I'm sure no one would object. :)
Ask HN: Timesheets
Who tracks time?

If so, do you do it for yourself, or as required by your employer, or are you a contractor who needs it for billing? With what granularity do you track? What tools reduce the overhead of tracking?

I work for a small company (< 10 people) in a software R&D capacity, and it's easily one of the most frustrating aspects my job. I don't end up entering hours into the software until weeks after the fact, at which point it's based on the calendar, recollections, and combing through emails and SVN commits. It takes an entire morning once a month to get up to date, and the process fills me with contempt.

Is there some software or methodology which reduce this friction? Is it something I should push back on more?
Awesome Air Racing From the 1930's
Do check out the book. It's full of very good things.

> stumbled upon in the 1970s and can never be improved upon

Certainly it can be improved upon, and I'm pretty sure even GUI haters must know that. We're just waiting for that to happen, and maybe trying to think how to make it happen.

The big schism comes because there are "GUI people" who think it's the total answer to everything, if only we can make better widgets or something. I don't hesitate to tell such people they're missing something.
I created my own site http://cookingspace.com/ because I need to track my intake of vitamin K. Each recipe shows an approximate amount of 22 nutrients tracked by the USDA. The recipes are most of my favorites. Anyway, a simple site, but does what I need. Try "Show random recipe" or "Show random daily plan" to see some random recipes and aggregated daily diet plans.
He should probably email a few sprint coaches as well to get a complete picture
Shackleton’s Antarctica in colour, 1915
The central difference is whether the process is by addition or subtraction. 3d printers, like the reprap, add material (for example melted plastic) to make an object. A router on the other hand removes material from an object until it is the required shape. As a result you can use many materials (like wood) that cannot be easily broken up into smaller parts and reassembled.
It might be possible
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There are a few possible reasons for Microsoft to put IE9 on Windows XP that I can imagine. The first ones that come to mind (all hypothetical, incidentally): (1) it would, somehow, earn them money, (2) they have contractual obligations to do it, or (3) they get their giggles from updating a decade-old operating system.

1 seems unlikely. 2 also seems unlikely, since if they had a legal obligation to put IE9 on XP, they would probably be putting IE9 on XP. 3 seems deeply implausible.

I suggest that the largest group of people who care about this is not users or companies but web developers. If this is true, then Microsoft has no motive to put IE9 on Windows XP, and plenty of motives not to.
No, I'm saying that I personally have bought relatively few apps that are specific to the iPad, and where there was a choice between an iPad and an iPhone app, the difference was not often compelling enough to get me to both pay extra and forego access to the same app on other devices. The killer app category for the iPad in my experience is distractions and games, and they don't lose much being scaled up.
Always Thank the donors!
It does, last time I checked. It does not allow you to run Windows Update manually, though.
Open up web inspector.

var arr = (paste)

arr.sort()

for(var i = 0;i<arr.length;i++){if(arr[i+1] == arr[i]){console.log(arr[i])}}
I track my time religiously, and I can easily say it makes me more productive. I suggest using a stopwatch method because you can track your time as you are working.
First, it's not the patents that don't get practice, it's the entities doing the patenting. If you hld a patent, but don't actually use the technology yourself, you're an NPE, approximately.

Second, patent law doesn't have an independent invention excuse. One can invent something, not patent it, and use it for years without running into trouble. A Non-Practicing Entity can get a patent, and sue you into oblivion. How many cases of "patent holder sues 10 tech giants" have you seen in the news? Do you suppose that every one of the 397 companies (http://fosspatents.blogspot.com/2011/03/microsoft-and-google...) sued by GeoTag, Inc. filched the idea behind the patent? Do you suppose that any of those 397 companies copied the idea from GeoTag, Inc's product(s)?

Do you think that Intellectual Ventures has any intent of producing product(s) with any of it's large number of patents?
This recalls a conversation I had with a highly noted doctor of nutrition at University of Colorado @ Denver.

He was the first to admit that nutrition sciences were largely confused. All of those years of studying cholestrol and various other substances in isolation had led to a ton of barely viable nutrition advice that didn't seem to work in practice.

He has come to believe that the research continues to point in a single direction. It's more or less what the OP said, with a bit of twist. The problem isn't processing in the traditional sense... it's processing in the industrial sense. Modern processed foods contain a whole litany of preservatives that seem to have a profound impact on food in two ways.

1. It often more or less removes much of the health benefit of actually eating. Vitamins, minerals, and a whole range of amino acids magically disappear. Post-processing foods tend to be left high in carbs and so called "empty calories". This is why, in his mind, McDonalds and the like are so damaging. It's why TV dinners (even the 'healthy' ones) are terrible for you. By eating more "whole" foods (as the OP suggested) you avoid so much of this.

2. Those preservatives themselves trigger body processes that cause all sorts of strangeness. Why can you drink Coke Zero everyday and not lose weight (or Stevia, Splenda, etc..)? Because your body has a natural metabolic reaction to the sweetness. It's still calorie-in/calorie-out, your just sabotaging the calorie out. The prevailing theory about this has something to do with energy storage back in our caveman days. When eating sweet fruits and the like, our bodies would go into energy storage mode for the coming winter. In those days fruits represented one of the few times that we would experience a calorie surplus. Apparently many common preservatives trigger that same response.

For the last couple of years I've essentially followed the OP's advice. I eat as close to "whole" as I can. I eat quite a bit more meat than he's advertising, but I try to make sure it as unprocessed as possible. I eat a lot of whole vegetables and a bit of fruit. Nuts and the like are a staple. I eat fewer refined carbs, but I don't necessarily try to stay far away from them either.

I'm healthier, fitter, and all around in better shape then I ever have been.
Using unit tests to test concurrent Java code (MultithreadedTC).
Sinclair ZX81: 30 years old tomorrow
the higher screen resolution is great - I can RDP into my work PC and use it all day. The hardware is top notch, and battery life is plenty.

I worked out a way to do this with my iPad. And you know what made me say "wow"?

The way a triple head 1920x1280(ish) 24" desktop was so usable on a 10" 1024x768 iPad because I could zoom out.

You're not going to get desktop resolution on a tablet any time soon, and not properly without it being the same size. A few hundred pixels here or there is not much of an advantage really, good software is the advantage. It Feels good. iOS has it. Has Android? Has webOS? Has Windows phone 7?
just tried it - once you figure out that it uses your phonebook its very simply to use and good voice quality
Yeah, some failures are not detected as failures. When failures happen instantly, you get impossibly low timings.

Please feel free to play around with the source code and see if you can improve it. I'd be glad to merge your diff.
Hate to respond to pedantry with more pedantry, but that's a pretty questionable application of micro theory.

The main value of using Groupon is that in exchange for offering a deep discount, you get the firehose turned on your business - it's a customer acquisition tool, using equal parts advertising and pricing. Businesses wouldn't get the same demand spurt by offering discounts without using Groupon.

What the author gets right is that it's an open question as to whether merchants can convert the discount buyers into regular customers.
I agree there are no huge surprises, but I think you are underestimating the difficulty of redesigning the form factor in under a year.

Even just changing processors, radio chips, adding gyro, camera in the exact same mechanical form factor is a non-trivial change. This is a completely different housing that needs to be integrated and tested. To the user, it's the "same size" device- a flat device with a glass screen, but make no mistake, this is a re-engineered device less than a year from the previous. (Yes, parallel development, etc. but still.)

Not revolutionary, but far from "milking the original".
Have a couple of deals stand out from the rest. Have a good reason why they deserve more attention. If i'm window shopping, I don't want to see racks of same cloths in the store. Just show me one or two on a dummy behind the glass so I can reflect my head into the picture :-)

So you got me to your site. Now all I'm going to do is glance. This is your chance to make me stay & click on something.
I'm in more or less the same situation. Have you seen this? http://twiststartupeffect.com/

Developers are always short of interesting things to work on and business guys are always short of developers. There's a lot of potential for the connection process to be improved.
Where does the 40-60 hours for endurance come from?

I'm a former endurance athlete and used to train twice a day
How do you know that for sure? What about all the products that didn't make it to market because they couldn't negotiate a license that worked for both parties? How about all the products that didn't make it to market for fear of incurring a suit from a troll?

It's probably a tax on the system of more than 10-20%. There, my unsupported assertion beats yours, rock-paper-scissors.
Low hanging fruit?
Fun. http://scri.ch/br
It's the timing aspect, and it's particularly an issue with squats. Even at lower weight, it's far to easy to get your knees pushed forward or your back arched when trying to pump through them as fast as possible.

I don't think anyone is saying that it's not possible, it's just much more likely that your average lifter is going to run into injury.
Samsung Chief Calls Galaxy Tab 10.1 ‘Inadequate’
When I travel on business, I carry bunches of receipts around in my wallet - it sucks. I downloaded paperphobic and look forward to using it on my next trip.
It's pretty simple:

If you could care less, it means that you don't care, but not wholeheartedly :)

If you couldn't care less, it means that not only don't you care, but that you care so little that there is no way you could care any less.

Seems simple to me.

Ie, it is the same as dislike vs hate.. one is stronger.

What's the debate?
$data = "http://hackerunderground.com/solution/blank;
$ch = curl_init($data);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
$base = curl_exec($ch);

for($i=0;$i<10000;$i++)
{
$data = "http://hackerunderground.com/solution/$i;
$ch = curl_init($data);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
$response = curl_exec($ch);
if($response != $base)
{
echo $i;
}
}

I like my solution best. Everyone should try it!
As someone who went from being pretty overweight to really fit simply by following a policy of eating no sugar or grains and as much deliciously fatty meat, eggs and cheese as I want, I have strong skepticism towards the conventional wisdom about "healthy" foods.
Same in the south and midwest... I've never heard the other interpretation at all:)
Parallel processing in R for Windows
Not only do live-chat windows pop up at you, but they make an annoying, little noise as well.

It is obnoxious to say the least.
why am I not surprised.
I track time every day, for both my day job as well as contracting work on the side. It seems like an unnecessary effort, but I look at it as a time-saver, analogous to not leaving dishes in the sink or doing your laundry regularly. I don't want to have to blow hours every month trying to guess what I've been doing so I can backfill timesheets just like I don't want to have to do three loads of laundry after I run out of underwear.
Are you behind a proxy server by any chance?
It's not just about users being able to install video cards or whatever. You as a developer are going to have a harder time inventing the next email or WWW or Google or Netflix or Twitter, if your potential users are all using closed platforms rather than open ones.
Using HTML markup to make captcha recognizing bots work harder
I am sure there are thousands ways to make text captcha harder for bots. One idea I just figured out is when we mix words from the question with some crap words so the question looks like
What _bla bla bla_ is _do-da-du_ seven _hey there_ hundred _brum-brum_ and _go-for-it_ forty _do this_ four _again_ as _blah_ a _mlah_ number?
I marked crap words with underscores here.
Then we can easily style these words with CSS to be faded or grayed out or anything like that so that user could clearly see the question, and trash words wouldn't be visible clear enough. It could make bots work harder. More than that, we can use inner HTML markup to make the question look like crap when we look into source still looking good if we look at it in browser. What do you think?
Ruby itself doesn't provide this power. The modules do.

In any event, "more power per line of code" is a terrible metric. According to such logic, the best possible programming tool in the universe would be one that implemented your plan with a single statement: readMyMindAndDoIt.

But, what if a competing programming tool provided the same brevity of expression, but its implementation of readMyMindAndDoIt performed an order of magnitude faster?
I agree. Nothing worse than having to cram your working memory full of arcane commands when you could be using it to help solve the problem at hand.
Whoa, that's a surprise – I wrote this back in late 2006 and it has been unmaintained since then. A lot has happened in the <canvas> world in the past four and a half years (font drawing API, get/setImageData, lots of implementation improvements and bugfixes).
Serious competition with the iPhone took time to emerge, but it did. It's a temporary advantage, not a permanent one

I'm not convinced that's true.

The more integrated the iOS platform gets, the more effort it takes another company to get from scratch to competitor.

The more effort it takes, the more money and people it needs, and the bigger the potential competitor has to be to try it.

And what are bigger companies worse at? Pivoting, innovating, making well integrated polished products that mass market consumers thrill over.

Is it possible that the further we get from "any company putting current off-the-shelf technology into a package", the less likely we are to ever see "serious competition"?

Maybe Apple is a freak one-off. Maybe Apple will put a retina screen in the iPad 3, enable wireless sync and full airplay so it doesn't need a storage space bump, and that's it. No revolutionary changes left in that niche, "Post PC" finished, no other companies in any position to do anything but copycat and Apple spends a few years polishing the software integration in their ecosystem, SJ leaves, Apple stagnates. The next decade of "computing" started, dead-ended and finished and it's iPad clones and Windows 8 notebooks until 2020.
A good number of people in the tech world hate MS, at least partially, and IE6 has been one of the influential reasons for this hatred. Till date, a lot of people avoid IE like the plague and even the modern IE browsers have suffered because of the tarnished brand image. People need to understand that IE6 is a decade old browser and heck it was a good browser for its time. People not moving away from the browser has been a bigger cause of pain than MS itself. This is a good initiative by Microsoft.
I have no data to test the following hypothesis, but I suspect that a significant portion of Groupon revenue comes from deal hunters.

These are people who love to find a deal, and if they went shopping and found an item with a great price on the tag, they still wouldn't feel excited about buying it unless it were ON SALE.

If this hypothesis is true, these people go from deal to deal on groupon every week. They surf the hottest local deals, but the only company loyalty they have is to Groupon themselves.

Who know's, maybe I'm wrong. But if I'm not, local spas and restaurants will eventually wise up.
I've run an IT consulting firm where accurate time keeping was critical to our success. And I've done a host of other jobs that required time keeping for internal accounting, audit, or just management purposes. It truly isn't onerous if a) the tracking tool is easy to use and b) it becomes habit rather than a chore. Clearly b is more important than a.

I've found the people who consistently opposed time tracking were often the people who weren't using time efficiently, and therein lies some of the friction.
Celebrity tech endorsements you shouldn’t trust
It looks like they aren't accessible to blind or low-vision people, so I'm going to discourage you from using them in any case. I might add color-blind too for some of them. Clever, but inaccessible.
Indeed; the other pole is just as bad. I'm guessing at some point they're going to meet in the middle and something wonderful will be born. If I could create great software by staring into a flashing light whilst waving my arms around and humming, I'd be all for it - but we have a ways to go yet.
Of course, the experts have a better sense of why these advices work (that's why I trust Marion Nestle's advice more than Michael Pollan's). You're right, I meant processed in the industrial sense (you can consider tofu processed out of that context).
MIT Scientist Captures Son's First 90K Hours and First Words on Video, Graphs It
The author does have a few indicators that his teacher was in the top tier; the teacher trained special forces troops, the best mountain climbers, and ski racers. These are people who you can trust to be among the best trained in general fitness.

And in the end the author was vastly more fit than the majority of people trying to be fit. The majority of people trying to be fit go to the gym once in a while, do a few cardio exercises, and go home. He was among them before meeting with this guy. He's still well below a lot of people, like professional athletes, but the people he is still below only represent a small fraction of the population.

I get your point though. He still can't say whether or not his trainer is the best or if his ideas are the best. What he can say, though, is that his trainers ideas are much better than those of the typical gym trainer at a franchise gym. This article is clearly not targeted at Michael Phelps. It's targeted at the average gym-goer.