skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, I very greatly over simplified.

What Pollan actually advocates is eating a traditional diet that has been refined over centuries. He says that which one you pick doesn't matter that much.

The traditional diets of people living around the Mediterranean and people living near the Arctic circle have nothing in common, but according to Pollan, either will give you better health outcomes than a normal Western diet.

If people have been eating a certain way over a long period of time, they have probably learned to avoid the stuff that will kill or injure you, and probably have discovered foods that nutritionally complement each other, as well. (He gave examples of such complementary foods in traditional diets, which I can't remember right now.)
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Tesla's battery technology pushes EV movement forward
Are you referring to
http://www.metabrew.com/article/a-million-user-comet-applica...

http://www.metabrew.com/article/a-million-user-comet-applica...

http://www.metabrew.com/article/a-million-user-comet-applica...

By Richard Jones of the Last.fm?

Thank you for your replying. The original C10k from Dan Kegel was a guideline for me when I worked on project during 2003 - 2006. I am wondering what is the latest progress in this area. I am glad this problem is solved to you. I will check out niver tech in future when the problem comes up.
Most of the value in question is in the information about the patches, and not the patches themselves. The explanation from Red Hat makes it clear they'll be closing up quite a bit of their back and forth discussions with customers about the bugs they fix and such (which I have a bit more of a problem with, actually; if a bug tracker isn't open to everyone, it's value decreases remarkably, including to the paying customers who are using it).

Oracle can certainly deal with it. Many problems are solvable with sufficient money. I just think Red Hat is trying to make it more expensive for Oracle to rebuild/rebrand RHEL while still remaining dedicated to supporting the upstream. I don't know if this is the best way to achieve that end. But, I have a great deal of mistrust for Oracle, while I feel pretty good about Red Hat. Oracle's handling of MySQL is not making me feel better about them, either, while we're on the subject.
Thing is: I don't care if you run XP or Win7 (or Mac OS X or Ubuntu for that matter) because my software does not run on top of the OS but on top of a modern browsers. So the IE8/9 difference matters to me, the OS difference does not. Don't forget that most (or at least a lot of) people here on HN develop or run web apps.
I turned off the sound on the homepage. Most of the feedback we get from normals concerning the popups is very positive - I'd definitely recommend it at as a customer development tool.
It says right there on the page: www.netapplications.com
I don't miss the 18hour europe-far east flights with stopovers in Alaska or India because you couldn't fly over the USSR.

Of course that was because the USSR was an evil empire with an out of control military, a bloated sense of it's own importance and a paranoia about foreigners.
The only significant differences are constrained stride length, and wind resistance (which definitely matters even before 10mph).
hey daniel, long time no see! we're probably going to cull the pics and delete the ones that fall below a certain elo/win/loss threshhold, so it should keep the quality of the pics high. and we can adjust the threshhold so that it keeps the total number of pics from getting too huge.
There was a British guy trapped in Toronto because he couldn't fly home to the UK after getting on the US no fly list.

His crime was having converted to Islam.
I would imagine that a large portion of visits to GeoHot's website was due to the publicity of Sony's legal case. If Sony is trying to provably demonstrate “defendant’s distribution”, shouldn't there be a distinction based on the intent of access?

E.g. IP hits from Google's bots out of Mountain View should not count as "those who downloaded Hotz’ hack reside in Northern California".
Thanks, I don't keep up on LWN. It seems to me then, that Red Hat has created their own fork of the kernel. Am I overreacting?
Where do you buy your affordable meat and produce? Every time I buy raw ingredients for a meal I end up spending like $25 (plus $100 worth of my time) for one or two servings that I could've got for $15 from Applebee's.
Why does it really matter if Microsoft says it?

Say you were interviewing someone and their resume looks great. You talk to them and feel the same way, and are ready to hire them. The fact that Knuth calls you and says, "this was my best student in 20 years" is only icing on the cake--you were going to hire him anyway.
$ telnet geohot.com 80
HEAD / HTTP/1.1
Host: geohot.com
User-Agent: Dear Sony, I heard you would be reading this log. Because of the way you treat researchers like GeoHot, and your own customers, I will never buy a Sony product again.
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Did you read the article? Your comment seems based on the headline, not the content.
That would only resonate with Americans, and according to the site already the usage is below 3% so it's pointless.

Plus this kind of slogan implies something along the lines of "Chinese people are evil communists".
The image is in a clean looking font, so the OCR would probably be decent. Also, the question I got (Find the least real zero of the polynomial: p(x) = x^2 + 6x + 9) I typed, as is, into Wolfram Alpha and well, look at that, x = -3.
Montreal would probably be on par with Vancouver and Calgary, but I'd guess it's still behind Waterloo and Toronto. I think the VC landscape is actually quite good in Quebec since there's a lot of government money to stimulate investment in the province. Or so I hear.
The point is not that there are no risky things but that many things we perceive as risky aren't objectively so. The things you list are all indeed objectively risky.
New Research on Ads in Magazine iPad Editions Strengthens Publishers' Case
huh, got in on my first try... 0/0x[... 0 duh :) Most are easy, but maybe scary looking to people not inclined to math?
I've only seen people say "It's Apple's App Store, they have the right to do what they want with it", not "It's Apple's hardware, they have the right to do what they want with it".

I don't know anyone who would question a hardware owner's right to do as they please with it.
And we'll track all people who watch a youtube video of people watching BMW cars use that gas station.

Land of the free indeed.
OK COMPUTER is really about the perils of the computer age.
Manual discovery is fun, 'til you have to sift through 1TB of data looking for it, and hidden TC containers, and rootkits, and and and and... Gets tedious, and inaccurate, quickly!
The only people "coping" with IE are Web developers. Most users that have something greater than IE6 never even notice that poor experience nor do they know any better to begin with -- I don't even think a lot of users could tell the difference if you showed them. Try showing your grandmother why Chrome is better. I know I would have a hard time "selling it."

>Heck. Even Microsoft would stop spending money developing their browsers and that would certainly improve their bottom line

Are you just anti-Microsoft trolling? This doesn't follow any kind of logic. "They would sure benefit from having millions of users not use their Web browser." What?
I had to chuckle when I saw the domain this story was submitted from. On one hand, the technical aspects of Quora are quite nifty. But the interaction process is one big 'wtf'. Adding new topics to your feed is baffling. In fact for a while I didn't even realize there was a personalizd feed, I thought the majority of questions were just about Steve Jobs (must have been cause ceoSteveJobs is on my Twitter account, which I used to sign in). Other details, like wanting to post a question in anonymous mode, have inobvious answers. It's a shambles (although I suppose it's still early days, and really the content is the important thing).
IANAL, but the DMCA includes a ban on circumventing access controls. Recently exceptions to this ban were issued, allowing people to jailbreak their iphones. Unfortunately the broadest exceptions were limited to "telephone handsets."

The summary of the exception with respect to video games said this:[1]

>(4) Video games accessible on personal computers and protected by technological protection measures that control access to lawfully obtained works, when circumvention is accomplished solely for the purpose of good faith testing for, investigating, or correcting security flaws or vulnerabilities, if:

>>(i) The information derived from the security testing is used primarily to promote the security of the owner or operator of a computer, computer system, or computer network; and

>>(ii) The information derived from the security testing is used or maintained in a manner that does not facilitate copyright infringement or a violation of applicable law.

[1]http://www.copyright.gov/1201/2010/Librarian-of-Congress-120...
Every business that would rather pay royalty fees than for extra bandwidth required by a shitty codec.

Seriously, how much of a bandwidth increase are you alleging for a similar quality?

Great! H264 is what you want then. It's not only supported, but also hardware accelerated, on most devices out there. WebM isn't, and won't be for a long time.[...]You probably also want the majority of your customers to actually be able to view your content. So there's also that "minor" inconvenience.

Device adoption is certainly a good point. Based on the viewing habits I see of the kids, over the long term I'd bet on whatever YouTube is moving to over whatever remnants of IP the old television industry is trying to keep restricted.
Court Awards Trademark Holder Damages Against Advertiser On Google Keywords
Yep, that's what i mean, I think it's called "SmarteCarte" in JFK. Btw, i do love the air train by which you can get to the city center
I will continue to laugh off the "world hates the US" babble.

No, my point was that the world is literally routing around the US.
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That's vaguely related to what Canv.as is doing, except that people draw on top of images borrowed from other sources.
Well, the headline is sensationalistic and utterly wrong, so maybe it deserves criticism.
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>Suddenly this carpet looks positively filthy.

I can so relate to that. Though I clean my work desk (while telling myself I'll be more effective on a clear desk) not carpets.
So, where would be a good place to host your site to dodge the jurisdiction of this craziness?
Devil's advocate: software isn't free or easy to create either. Maybe open source license should require "best-effort" documentation, or prevent the witholding of it.
"Apple Hates and Fears Facebook" - Source
Repeating "people can't multitask" as many times as possible doesn't make it true. People can multitask. Some can do it better than others, but everyone can.
Morally I agree that something you buy is yours to do what you want with, but in practice there are routinely restrictions on what you can/can't do, each with their own degree of right/wrongness.

For instance most people find it reasonable that you can't:

-Modify/bypass emissions equipment on your car.

-Saw off the barrel of your shotgun, or modify semi-auto -> Full auto

-Buy one copy of a movie then show it to the whole neighborhood and charge admission
Ride on others coat tails, stand on others' shoulders. It's not that it's any harder, it's that the skills used day to day are different. The single skill I picked up that served me best was being able to rationalize about what complex , highly concurrent code was doing and the performance implications of it. And I got this by reading code, and not just little programs, but things like the udp packet handling in the Linux kernel, or the storage and firewall rule insertion mechanisms for iptables.

But, nothing beats working directly with geniuses. Earlier this year I made a change (at my last company) that increased the number of simultaneous users by well over an order of magnitude. The change was known and had been tried by others in the group, but was deemed infeasible. I didn't come up with the magic change needed, I found how to apply it. And what I learned in the process is applicable outside of that. Without working directly solving the problems, it's hard to learn how.
cough The whole US of A has only less than 4 times the population (308,745,538) of Germany (81,757,600) according to Wikipedia..

Comparing USA and EU: The EU has 501,064,211 people, according to the same source. Like - 160% of the US. And, as others pointed out in this thread: Large parts of it are part of the Schengen treaty(?) and therefor rather easy for travellers.

I do think you oversimplicate things here..
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> > Which is the worst browser you can easily download these days.
> This isn't some utopia where we can all get what we want.

Now you are just completely missing the point.

Microsoft is asking YOU, to waste your time, your bandwidth, and your visitor time to download IE8 if they are using IE6.

now i could argue "This isn't some utopia, MICROSOFT, where we can all get what we want." see what i did there?

now, it's your time. your site. you can very well show a banner telling IE6 users to download firefox or chrome or opera. Hell, it's my dam site. on some of my online games that i wrote for fun i even ridiculize people that show up with IE6.
Really I think it's surprising that MS hasn't done this rather than continuing to spend money on XP security patches.
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Depends on the people. I've heard the same drug referred to as both "deadly in 100% of cases" and "actually beneficial to long-term health". The actual science says it's detrimental to long-term health, but only modestly.
True. I've used VM's, kind of like ant farm to run images through a bunch of tests and see what happens. Most of it was hacked together. It would be interesting to see what kind stuff you could do with Cluster Computing when it comes to pulling apart everything.

I've had to do static analysis of memory images paired up with FPGA's for certain types of hardware. Yeah...It drains the life out of you.
I think Scoble's "The bar is low" is better expressed as the fact that it's an undeveloped market. Whether or not there is a gold-rush for this app store remains to be seen, but his other points still remain valid. By using the builtin APIs it's difficult to get a view to scroll smoothly, whereas with the iPhone it's in every scroll view. And yes, statistically I believe that the type of geeks attracted to Android are stingy, but there are other people on the platform as well (I don't have any actual percentages).
A great point in the article, but IMO this is a function of the screen size, not iOS.

The core problem is reducing the pain of switching apps. On a desktop, screen resolution and space allows you to position windows side-by-side or overlapping. On iOS you have to double-tap, and select an app from the bottom dock to switch to. Android has the same problem- you press the home button, and choose an app to switch to. Both forces the user to focus on managing apps, instead of focusing on the desired "task".
Offer HN: I'll design what you code
Hi guys,

I'm an entrepreneur bootstrapping my project and I would like to do some design work in the meantime.

I have worked with a couple HNers and they were very happy about what I've designed for them.
Some of my work was featured at css design galleries

What can I do for you?
From a website design with valid w3c xhtml, a complete brand identity to
an iPhone, iPad or web app design.

Since I don't have a live portfolio and my dribbble account has just a few shots (http://www.dribbble.com/nicogarcia/)
what I offer is to send you a draft of the design and see if you like it or not.

You have my email at my profile info. Let's do it!
Let me rephrase... They have apis in place for people that use it to make the service you are looking for... not that Google has developed an API for people to use to retrieve their serps.

I forget that I sometimes need to be very specific when posting on the internet...
I agree that it's a bad graphic. I think this is what the numbers mean:

On map: percentage of people in that country that use IE6. If there were 300 million people in USA, and 30 million people use IE6 means 10% would show up for USA

On ring: percentage of the world population that uses IE6. If the world population was 6 billion, and 30 million people in USA use IE6, then 0.5% would show up in the ring on the right. It would be better if the ring were bigger, and made to show the 88% of the world that doesn't use IE6 as a gray color.
Read a little closer.

Start with the beginning: "When I was 17 and a high school drop-out..."

followed by the (near) ending: "I was 22 at the time and making roughly twice what she was..."

So there's about five years in between the high school dropout and twice his mom's income stages. Success, but not what I'd call overnight. In between, we have...

- "Burning the midnight oil..."

- "...I got turned down again and again and again."

- "After 18 months of me beating down the doors of the HR department..."

- "Another 9 months and I got a call."

- "...apply for *every* programming job in the last 2 1/2 years"

and so it goes for a little more.

I have to say, I leaned a little more in Max' direction when I first read it, but give it a little thought, and the real message is, don't give up hope! Getting and running your own company isn't going to be easy. You'd be crazy to think it is! BUT, if you're willing to work your ass off for it, you can get there.

Even if it takes five years.

Hell, it could take ten, or even longer, but if that's enough to stop you, it'll probably take forever, so why worry?

As for the talentless hack, you might want to look a little closer at his story, too. He might not be so talentless, himself. The guy you describe apparently knows enough to:

- Program (even if it IS VB6)

- Reimplement existing software(?)
(Not so easy to do without the source, and if he *had* it, then he could...)

- Read other people's code (which could be even harder?!)

- Talk someone in the right position at a big company into investing in it
(and as if that weren't hard enough...)

- Talk said someone into investing *a lot* of money in it!

On top of all that, if a kid that talented spent most of his teen years reading science fiction and watching movies, I'd be very disappointed to learn he didn't at least try writing a little of either. You practically have to try, when you've got that kind of initiative.

So, yeah, you can do it. You'll have to work your ass off. You'll have to keep your eyes open, and you'll probably need a boatload of patience.

But don't let that stop you.

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What Sony's trying to do is locate jurisdiction in the location where the data ends up. So, it would be irrelevant as to where it came from. You could host in Iran and they would still attempt to show it being under a CA court.
I use ratpoison for X11 (http://www.nongnu.org/ratpoison/) (1 Full screen program at a time. CTRL+T, # to switch, CTRL+T, w to get a list of running programs.
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1. Find bottleneck.

2. Remove bottleneck.

3. Repeat.

4. Every once in a while, make a bold move to throw something out that can no longer work that way and replace it with something more scalable. But while this is important, it comes up less often than you might think.

The difference is that you spend a lot more time in that loop than a desktop dev, but if you understand programming it isn't a special black art until the very, very top end.

The other thing to get is that it's always about buying time rather than solving the problem forever. The goal is to have bought enough time that you don't have to be stuck in a local optima or make panicked decisions.
The car one is easy, there is plenty of non street legal cars around. Race cars is just one example.

The gun example is the only one I can refute

Movies are licensed not sold. You own the disk, you can hack saw the disk all you want you just aren't supposed to make a copy and sell it.
“My claim is that it's best for Microsoft to keep their users on their software, which it is.”

Pardon me, but you posted 20 comments to this discussion and your only “claim” is backed up by you saying “which it is”? Then what is your point? Not to be rude, but why say anything at all?

How does anyone know it’s “best to keep them on their [old] software”? If no one used IE8, would not Microsoft also be free to use newer web standards to create better, faster-loading web apps with less development time? What benefit to Microsoft is there having IE8 users?

Edit: Your reply still doesn’t show how you figure it’s better for Microsoft to have people on IE8 than on (say) Chrome, despite my possible counter-argument. You say market share for market share’s sake is good? Why?
They've gone a little weird recently, but https://www.readability.com/ still helps a lot with most articles longer than a screenful.
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I think in all those cases you mentioned it would be usage restrictions rather than actually being able to change the physical object you bought. And it would be the government saying you can't do something, not BMW or Colt handguns.

Again, INAL, but I thought you could modify a semi-auto and saw off the barrel as long as they were used at the shooting range (for instance...probably a state by state law as well).

And I'm fairly certain you can bypass the emission on the car to modify to make it a track car, for instance, or make it farm equipment. Again, not really up on the law, more anecdotes I've seen in my personal life.
If true, you could pretty easily take down a call center simply by calling up and leaving the lines open with no caller. Managers would need to be running all over the place.

Since call center employees commonly have the ability to perform call transfers, I can only imagine they have the ability to hang up on calls. Otherwise, I imagine they could simply transfer the call to an invalid extension to "hangup".
Looking to put something together? I deal with hardware most of the time. I'm trying to get out of that world and into building applications.
Your analogy falls apart because there isn't such a thing as an open source mechanic. I develop open source software and I get tired of things like feature requests that amount to "please rewrite this project to do the exact needs of my project/site."

If it's a reasonable request, I'll try to look at it, otherwise, tough luck unless you want to become a client. If one of my clients came to me and said "I did something and some other thing broke" I wouldn't snap at them, but when it's someone who's getting free support, then it's on them to take part of the responsibility to provide as much information as possible.
seems to be a lot of new aliases making their debut in this thread
I had a Vertex 2 SSD fail after about two weeks.

Anecdote != data. We have 8 of them in database-server for over 6 months without problems. Yes, we abuse them for a server workload.
There is no doubt in my mind that someone has a registered patent that the VP8 codec infringes on, due to the terrible state of the patent system as a whole. Now whether that is a valid patent is something that lawyers and lots of money will determine. However, someone needs to front that money, and AFAIK Google isn't providing patent indemnity for using the codec. It really is a smart business move to pay the relatively small license fee to MPEG LA than risk losing your entire company to a lawsuit (or lawyer fees)