skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The aging and infirmity will come a lot quicker if you don't look out for your health. Being healthy might mean you live say 30 years longer, but that isn't just 30 more years of being infirm, it's say 20 more years of good hack-healthy years and 10 more infirm.

Besides, the energy benefits right now and the impact that has on how much you can hack is far more easily noticed than the potential lifespan differences.
Version 1 Sucks
Celebrity Trainwrecks
Critique: It's not obvious when you click on the shirt size that you're being redirected to PayPal. You need some visual feedback there other than the loading / progress bar in the browser.
Two years ago such a comment would have -2 votes and would be hidden just because of its tone.

Sorry for the meta, but I am missing the old HN.

I doubt we would be able to have the whole front page dedicated just to Erlang news if the need appeared.

It seems that the problem of maintaining quality of discussion in an open forum remains unsolved.

Maybe limits to entry (like the problem in the link) or ability to provide negative feedback to posters would help.
Make yourself a favor and buy the book. It's full of wonderful photos, and the story is unbelievable. For a complete tour, also read "The worst journey in the world" about 1911 Scott's expedition (available on gutenberg.org for free).
It's very confusing and unobvious what the percentages are percents of: the country's percentage of total IE6 users, or the IE6 users' percentage of the country? Based on the fact that they add to >100%, I guess that the per country numbers you get when you hover the map are % of that country still using IE6.

But then what are the percents on the ring/pie chart to the side? They don't add to 100%, so they're not percentages of the pie (total IE6 users). But China's percentage there (5.9) doesn't match its percentage in the map (34.5). So, 5.9% of what?

This is a terrible infographic.
Watch this now. Steve Blank on Mixergy
How to sign up multiple Facebook account with a single mail id.
Not to anywhere even close to approaching Red Hat's extend, and RHEL certainly isn't just repackaging SLES so my point remains.
Learning is Immersion
It's easy to offer a 110% guaranteed price match guarantee when you know most of your products can only be purchased at your store (never mind that the same model but for a different screw type can be purchased down the street for $100 less, it's got a different SKU).

I hate retail games like this.
IE6countdown.com – a wolf in sheep's clothing
Best read along with http://jacquesmattheij.com/The+start-up+from+hell as the next chapter ;-)
It wasn't until the end of 'Blue Mars' that Sax Russell and his team at Da Vinci were able to create a memory enhancing drug.
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Maybe, but if your competitors are dicks and you don't react you may find yourself on the path to Chapter 11.
Ginzametrics (YC startup) seems very well reviewed.
The high correlation is caused by default installs that are used in internet cafes. And, in China, most probably non-legit.
Be honest, how many of you clicked his profile to find out if he was a woman?
This headline is quite misleading. The article is about a new, less invasive way of diagnosing cancer, the prototype of which happens to have been implemented as a smartphone peripheral.
I was reading that and at the pre-last paragraph just thought "has my brain just gotten hit in the balls?"

"We're committed to open source ... open source makes the best code in the world ... were innovators in open source ... we just decided to give ourselves a competitive advantage" ... WTF!?

Its like in one breath he snuck it in. Bullcrap.
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Not meaning to hijack your post, but thank you for Grooveshark. Changed my life forever since 08.
I'm unsure what the benefit to Red Hat is in this case. All a competitor need do is become a "customer" by buying a copy of RHEL 6, and then Red Hat is compelled by the GPL to distribute all of their patches to that "customer". Seems like more of a PR gaffe to me, than an effective countermeasure against the competition gaining access to their code.
>They need to learn a lesson about wantonly pushing proprietary technology when perfectly fine standardized solutions already exist. I suspect they haven't learned anything though.

I think they did learn. Keep in mind that back in IE4/5 era when most of that stuff was created, they were competing against Netscape 4.
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You can anything you like in paper form to the competition, so you could print this guys thing and type it in at the competition. You could certainly do the same for boost (but you'd be limited to the very small subset that is easy to type in).

At least, this is how it was seven years ago.
As the original article pointed out, the effect of strengthening the stabilizing muscles is WHY free weights are superior for fitness.
Wow, i was in the middle of making one of these. Ha. should i stop? i was almost done.
Yeah, it doesn't seem to be a complete solution. My client actually ended up deploying a virtualized IE8 to sit alongside IE6 on all workstations.
Talk HN: "YC W11 Gaming Startup"
If I could comment on their post (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2289425), I would question the "growing 10% per day" claim. I doubt any YC funded company is going to reach 1 billion dollar worth by the end of the year.
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It is true, however this is a bullshit example of loopholes of open source software. However to RH's defense I do see why they would do this. However part 2: RH is still mooching off the open source work of worldwide contributors. They need to respect that.
US airports aren't really fenced off by immigration. In fact the international and domestic components are mixed. Escape from an airport is easy in the US.

Once you leave an international flight you are herded straight to immigration for the fingerprinting.
Show HN: Phoneify - 20 hours with Rails 3 & Twilio
I wrote this over the last couple of weeks using Rails 3, Twilio and a variety of Gems, putting in about 2 hours per day. I'd love any feedback from the HN community on any aspects of the site (design, API construction, documentation, marketing, pricing which is TBD).

On a related note: I have to say that I'm really flying with Rails 3. Typically I roll with Django, but have been super impressed with the Rails 3. Feels really clean, and there are some Gems that make the more mundane parts of the webapp construction fun and agile: Haml/Sass, blueprint, Fancy-buttons, Devise.

I'll probably write up a blog post soon on all the tricks & shortcuts I used to get this off the ground. Many of the shortcuts have to do with design and layout, and less so about backend coding.

http://phoneify.com

- @sghael
bad call.
That could be turned into "Only Communists use IE". Not that I mind the message, but it would bite them in the ass.
Yes great analogy. He totally missed the point.
Exactly my thoughts.

We can't deny how versatile smart phones have become, but cutting edge in this case is not iPhone/any other smart phone, but TB Detector.
It was discussed in the CentOS forums, though:
https://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=...

To quote the forum thread:

The CentOS kernel is just a rebuild, so there is no problem there. In the case of the centosplus kernel, because it may add patches, some extra steps might be needed. But again, that is not a major issue.

Disclosure: I do work for Red Hat, but not on RHEL. Just posting info I saw earlier.
The point of granting a patent is that we're supposed to gain something in return, specifically the invention disclosed on the patent application.

If we don't even get the best idea they have for how to build it, the public comes out on the losing end of the social bargain.
Can anyone fill me in on the meme?
This is pretty much my thought as well. I honestly found some of the writeup, marketing and statistics of the "Snowpocalypse" shirt kind of interesting. I'm all for making a buck, but not sure if the I'm much interested in hearing about this meme/shirt idea anymore. Not to discourage anyone from doing it, just not sure if it's so newsworthy. I do find that domain name an absolute winner (no pun intended), and I'd keep it for some other project in the future if I were the owner.
http://twitter.com/Microsoft/status/43753653189885952

Their official Twitter ID gave better update..Could still have been better if the page was made it more clear
Microsoft agrees with IE6countdown.com - http://twitter.com/Microsoft/status/43753653189885952
Absolutely. But the premise we're testing here essentially boils down to "we should do things like cavemen because it's natural, because it's natural it's what we evolved to do, since it's what we evolve to do it'll be healthier"

The other component of that is of course that we're all fat and out of shape today because we eat foods that cavemen never had access to.

One measure of health is of course weight, but so is life expectancy. If we follow a life-plan where we're around some normal weight but die at 30 I'm not sure that's a great plan. We evolved to die around 30, most research into aging agrees with this (some say ~40), and that's "natural" I suppose, but I think I reject that notion that we should only do things in the modern world that fit what we were required to do a million years ago because it's what we evolved to cope with and eek out 3 or 4 decades of life.

Another is infant mortality, we evolved to reproduce pretty fast because we evolved to maintain population with lots of dead infants. We also evolved to produce slightly more males than females since men die faster, which is okay since fewer men can reproduce with more women.

We also evolved to be able to bear children in our early teens, to grow beards, hair and nails, and to have bad eyesight in some large percentage of the population. Should we lower the age of consent to 13? Not shave or cut our hair or nails ever and not wear glasses?

I'm not sure any of these notions work today, but extending the central argument out:

If we should eat like our ancient ancestors did since we evolved to eat like that and therefore it must be healthy, should we not live like our ancient ancestors did since therefore that must be equally valid by the "it's all natural so it's good" principle?
Who Is Starting New Android App Stores: Everyone and Their Dogs.
A look back at Arrington’s 2005 “Web 2.0 Companies I couldn’t live without”
While we're at it, could someone fix Java so that I don't have to guess the f*!$ing heap size all the time?
Yeah, did they intend it only to apply to things printed on paper or something?
Would it not be possible to compute what patches have been applied?

I'd guess for many patches it'd be trivially easy to determine if they were in or out; for the rest a brute-force search could be done...
Phones have nothing to do with this. The advance was making an NMR small enough to be useful at the point-of-care.
i'm less interested in this link. i'd be more interested in the details behind how this guy got this going, what he's doing, and how well its performing.
Are vague threats illegal? Do legal threats have to be specific?

Not in general, if they're vague enough.

But when they come from the lawyer pool of a massively-funded cartel sitting on 1700 patents, they're inherently credible threats.
I am currently working on a recipe project: http://www.recipecan.com/

The goal of this site is to get people to make food and then blog about the recipe, ingredients, taste, etc. If there are any cooks out there that wish to join let me know and I will fire you an invite. I'd love to get some 'hacker' recipes up there.
I see where you're coming from, but I think there's another aspect of the value of Groupon that you're ignoring. A groupon allows local businesses to send an e-mail to many thousands of nearby residents, one which those residents have opted into and will not be regarded as junk mail.

I've bought very few groupons (two total maybe) but I often browse the daily deals and have discovered quite a few interesting local businesses just by reading the groupon. That exposure alone seems like it has to be worth something to those businesses.
Some quick shoot-from-the-hip suggestions:

1. After you pick a candidate, show the stats for that candidate. Wins / losses / score / % thumbs ups

2. Left and right arrow keyboard shortcuts are nice feature. It lets you go through the pictures and votes a lot quicker.
Aside from acquiring Farecast and copying Kayak's UI, what travel features has Bing developed? Seems wiser to let the Kayak team do this work, as they are really good at it.

(I'm unsure whether Bing is acquiring Kayak wholesale or if they're just sourcing their flight data from them.)
ie6countdown.com is by MSFT...
maintaining cardiovascular fitness doesn’t really take much more than breathing uncomfortably hard for about 20 minutes, three times a week

While that will help, I would not call someone who exercises at that level "fit" or "in shape". I'd call him something less than out of shape.

There are a lot of weight-lifting people who have convinced themselves that weights are the key, and that aerobic exercise is an afterthought.

Here's the funny thing, though: how many fat weight-lifters have you met in your life? I've known plenty.

How many fat runners have you ever met?
If you want to lift free weights, a great place to start is Starting Strength by Mark Rippetoe.
Asking a woman out. Giving a lightning talk at a conference. Shutting down a website to drastically change direction. Launching a product most people will call a "toy" or "feature."

You're right that there are objective downsides to startups (e.g., time sunk into something that doesn't pan out), but the lower bound is known and, to me at least, not that bad. Working on a startup that fails isn't like shorting stocks (which has a theoretically unlimited downside). In fact, I'd argue the worst case is many times better than working two years at Microsoft or Google, at least in terms of personal growth and development.
It's a reference to Charlie Sheen's recent comments about getting his show cancelled and accusations of problems with addictions and women.
This is fun. I'm curious; what technologies are being used in the backend?
Same here I avoid UK, Heathrow at any price as I had been stuck there and not only once.
http://io9.com/#!5548581/meth%20addicted-snails-prove-that-a...

Meth makes you vastly more intelligent, that's partly why people get addicted to it. It may impair memory and intelligence in the long term, but this new drug may well do the same, so if you want to do an apples-to-apples comparison then you really have to compare the short-term effects of meth with the short-term effects of this new drug.

Also, I wouldn't say that the addiction potential of meth is that high unless you're abusing it. It's currently a prescription drug that's available to anyone age 6 and over, meaning the government thinks it's less dangerous than marijuana.
I think we have to bucket buyers into different groups. For one large group I think it is the dominant factor. I think the word "aesthetics" maybe be a bit of a misnomer. It's more than just physical appearance. There's a clean elegance to almost all aspects of the device including the software.

The tablets will be a good test, so far the android tablets aren't a lot cheaper than the ipad. We'll see how they do.
From Guns N' Roses bassist to money manager
My guess is yes. It's a Topre Realforce keyboard; they have a proprietary keyswitch design that they make themselves, and the emphasis is on quality. I bet the microcontroller is mass-produced in China though.

I don't really care; I avoid China for quality reasons, not for political reasons. I find that companies that manufacture their goods themselves in their own country tend to produce better products than companies that outsource the manufacturing to the lowest bidder in China. It is about cost and control; if you're willing to spend more and manage your own factories, your products are going to be better.

This is not an absolute; obviously some companies do OK with China, like Apple and Dell and Lenovo.
I got a Dribbble shot of a Twitter login button, and I was very confused for a moment.
They became more closed (patch information is no longer available to anyone but customers). So they adopted one tactic, closenesses, of one competitor, Oracle.

Obviously, they didn't adopt all of Oracle's tactics. Nobody else is doing what Oracle does either (though we can be happy about that).
out of interest, does anybody know how export.ly gets twitter data? is it by paying for the firehose, paying through gnip or another way?
This banner is less ugly and has a choice of multiple browsers: http://www.ie6nomore.com/
"15,000 years ago, nobody was lactose tolerant"
13 Real Examples of Why Entrepreneurship is Not Glamorous
With near-overnight successes like Facebook, Youtube, Twitter, and Groupon dominating the headlines of the day, it’s time someone injected a bit of reality into the mix.
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Hi HN,

I'm a longtime reader and poster. I created this last night with my roommate. We're both developers at Grooveshark and came home to watch the 20/20 interview with Charlie Sheen and thought it was amazing. So we had a good laugh, pulled out our laptops again and put together what we think is a pretty sweet design and brand.

We're not taking this too seriously, but thought it would be a fun experience. We'll get a blog and write up everything if this proves to be more successful than we realize!
At both JFK and EWR (Newark) the air trains are also the links out to NY/NJ mass transit (LIRR/Subway from JFK and NJT from EWR). I always thought/it's been my experience they were free for intra-terminal stops and you only had to pay if you were at an end that allowed outside access. It's basically their way of increasing the price of what would otherwise be a rather cheap trip on public transit (NY Penn Station to Newark Penn Station is about $5, but to the airport is $15 even though the added distance is negligible)
According to USDA, the recommended (carb, fat, protein) calorie distribution is (53%, 29%, 18%). Looking at McDonald's nutrition facts, the hamburger follows this distribution pretty closely; the other sandwiches appear to skew towards fat. Even fries still only get half their calories from carbs (and almost half from fat, well above the recommended 29%). When eating out, fat is cheap.

Again, good meat and produce (raw materials for cooking) are also accessible for less than it costs to eat out.
Good ideas! We'll definitely build those in.
A great story. Now you should go make a movie out of it.
Why are comments disabled on YC-related submissions?
I saw a worrying pattern: hacker news seems to have "sponsored" submissions like http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2289425 where the comments are disabled and there is no chance to comment on the submission.

This worries me since it gives the impression that HN lost its impartiality - it is now offering the chance to a privileged group of people to by-pass the voting system and show to us content without giving us the system of checks and balances in posting and moderating follow-up comments that discuss the submission.

I really don't like it and I worry that something else might be compromised as well - where do you draw the line if you're willing to disable the comments for said submissions, maybe even give some artificial votes to the story... Does anyone else finds this worrying?
I think most of the answers are zero, and that this is largely a joke.
Army Wikileaker Manning Faces Possible Death Penalty With New Charges
I wrote Phoneify over the last couple of weeks using Rails 3, Twilio and a variety of Gems, putting in about 2 hours per day. I'd love any feedback from the HN community on any aspects of the site (design, API construction, documentation, marketing, pricing which is TBD).

On a related note: I have to say that I'm really flying with Rails 3. Typically I roll with Django, but have been super impressed with the Rails 3. Feels really clean, and there are some Gems that make the more mundane parts of the webapp construction fun and agile: Haml/Sass, blueprint, Fancy-buttons, Devise.

I'll probably write up a blog post soon on all the tricks & shortcuts I used to get this off the ground. Many of the shortcuts have to do with design and layout, and less so about backend coding.
500 startups hits 100 investments
How exactly is RedHat not showing a commitment to open source? Do they invest in open source? CHECK. Do they contribute to the adoption of open source? CHECK. Are they abiding by the open source licenses that govern the use of the open source on which they rely? CHECK.

All they have done in this case is make a legal, wise, and likely necessary move to protect themselves. Nothing they have done damages the kernel or prevents you from getting it. Nothing they have done damages any other OS projects.

Sounds like you've got a whole mouthful of sour grapes there...
IE9 was built from the ground up to use technologies like DirectWrite, GPU Accel. etc. Porting all these to XP would not be trivial. I guess MS wants to nudge people off that platform so that software can start using new technologies instead of getting stuck in 2001.

Anyway, they supported it till IE8 and MS has one of the best track records for backward compatibility(if not the best) in the industry. Just see Apple to see how quickly things are deprecated.

I am sure developing IE is an enormous cost since MS has to be careful about not breaking corporate software. The benefit to them by making it for OS X and Linux would be negligible or even negative (how many would even install it? Most run those OSes because they don't like MS).
"2) If you eat that orange, are you eating something that's "all natural"?
3) If you squeeze that orange, and drink its juice, is it still "all natural"?"

The In Defense of Food argument is not so much about whether or not the food is still "natural" at that point. The point is you are throwing out much of the orange, and there is probably stuff in the part you are throwing away that is good for you.

Pollan talks about how at one point a scientist thought he had isolated all of the necessary parts of nutrition: proteins, fats, and carbohydrates.

Then they discovered vitamins. Oops. If you actually believed what that first scientist said, you probably died of scurvy.

So, let's take our food stuff made from proteins, fats, and carbohydrates and inject some vitamins in them! Should be all good now, right?

Except, we continue to discover stuff in the food that grows out of the ground and on trees that turns out to be good for us. (I forget the more recent examples he mentions in his book, but you get the idea.)

So your choice is basically to take the chance that the scientists have finally found all the parts of plants and animals that are good for us, synthesized or extracted them, and injected them into that box of Chocolate Frosted Sugar Bombs you are eating. Or you can just eat the actual plants and animals and be done with it.
ITC votes to investigate PlayStation 3 further to LG complaint
Washable Placemats
This is me too. I manage to impress other people with what I accomplish, yet feel dissatisfied because my dreams were so much bigger.

I also find it ironic that I own one of Prof Perry's philosophy books (Personal Identity). Bought it 15 years ago, but have yet to get around to reading it!
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Redhat is not obligated to take on anybody and everybody as a customer.
Monarchs have had civil servants do the governing for a long long time.

They don't want to govern, they just want to rule. And Monarchies still rule in most of the first world.
Note that you have to show up for an in-person interview with documentation about your job, family, and finances just to apply for a transit visa. The appointment for the interview costs $140. And the visas are frequently denied without explanation. No refunds.
GeoHot to Hack Windows Phone 7 in Next Weeks Pwn2own Competition [Report]