skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What would a scenario of such financial attack look like?
Suppose I had $100M - twice the bitcoin market cap.
What would I be able to do to destroy the bitcoin?

I can think of ways to manipulate bitcoin market with large sums of money, but nothing that would make bitcoin unusable.
Too be honest because it felt wrong to run such a site and know you were a huge part of the piracy problem. But yes, I basically decided that I didn't want $20,000 a month. At the height of its time it served 2 million page views a day!

These days I'm just thankful for everything it taught me, I can safely say that my programming skill comes from this one website and the trial by fire that is to scale a website to such high traffic and bandwidth usage.
I'm assuming that the renters are paying the mortgage on those properties, so at the end you'll have a fair bit of equity in them.
What's more radically different between people who are healthy and people who are not is how much they exercise rather than what they eat. There is much more worldwide cultural variation in what people eat, and much more individual variation within each culture, among healthy people than there is variation in the exercise level of healthy people. But seeking to change diet to change health sounds easier than getting more exercise, so that's what gets in the news (and on HN, over and over and over).

Doing serious scientific research

http://norvig.com/experiment-design.html

with controlled experiments and careful observation and follow-up on human nutrition is extremely hard. I recall a local television news documentary about a dietary study from the 1970s in which experimental subjects were confined 24/7 in a lab for many weeks (they must have been compensated handsomely to agree to participate in this experiment) and fed EXACT portions of food that were weighed with extreme precision. Oddly, I don't recall particularly what hypothesis that study was set up to test, but I do recall that it was described as the first experiment that relied on feeding subjects exactly measured portions of known foods (and excluding subjects from access to foods they chose for themselves) while involving lengthy (weeks of time) follow-up. It's still exceedingly rare for studies of human nutrition to have careful experimental designs. (And even at that, I suppose most of the subjects of that experiment are still alive, but I don't know if anyone is doing follow-up observations of those subjects in any manner.) Instead, we get inferences from Egyptian mummies (as in the submitted article) or from other uncontrolled case studies that never even had careful observation to begin with. That really isn't science;

http://norvig.com/experiment-design.html

that is trading anecdotes, and third- or fourth-hand anecdotes at that.
Why Java folks should stop looking down on C#: differences in similarities
Most "civilians" I speak with have an additude that if you have something to hide the government should find out what you're hiding. The government is, in my experience, obeying the will of the people here.

You're not going to win this battle by getting the chattering classes to agree with you. The in-laws (or people at your place of worship, or people bowling in a non-ironic fashion) are the folks you need to convince that civil liberties protect them just as much as they protect people that they're afraid of.
Dude. Your cheat sheets were amazing back in the day (2004) when I was first getting into LAMP. The HTML entities sheet and CSS sheet were lifesavers. I had them all printed out and hanged up on the wall above my monitor.

Do you have a Paypal donate button/email? :)
The series is very descriptive. You can learn something about Git itself and its logic too, not jsut the plugin itself. It explains what a Git command does, and it shows how to use it using the plugin. Better to read the series and decide yourself.
Anonymous allegedly took down two police websites in return. http://twitter.com/anon2060/statuses/71577232199524352
The Blue Marble
here's the link for people that just like to click like me. :) http://www.mobileusertests.com
The reasoning in that line shows the classic misunderstanding that has led us here. As Taubes says, saying you get fat because you eat too much doesn't explain anything. Of course you need to eat more calories that you expend to gain weight. But why do people do it, and why didn't they do it before?

Taubes says we eat too much because we eat carbs. If people had eaten a carb-free diet since 1970 we wouldn't be seeing that spike in calorie intake. Therefore the fact that calorie intake increased is in complete support of Taubes and Lustig's ideas.

Carbs increase insulin secretion, which encourages fat cells to take in blood sugar and turn it into fat, and discourages the body from burning fat for fuel.
IMO, it's an understanding of the nature of man in power coupled with the history of man under such circumstances.
About $100 per month for http://giftyweddings.com/ -- a website that lets you make your own wedding gift registry/list (not tied to a specific store). At this point my maintenance consists of answering about one email a month.
I did in the early days, but they eventually banned me. (still paid what they owed me, though)

I hear from a friend still doing this that adsense is pretty bad these days. More graphic ads convert better and pay more. So ad agencies like Matomy(Xtend), CPX (basically any yieldmanager platform) performs a bit better. Of course, if you can get into platforms such as Tribal fusion then you'll make a killing as they have really high paying ads.
I'm always surprised at the theories people are willing to believe about obesity, particularly people on hn. It really sounds reasonable to so many of you that the cause of the obesity epidemic is people actually listening to nutrition advice from the medical establishment and following the food pyramid?

My view of what has happened is this: technologies and ingredients were invented by food manufacturers over the past half century. Foods manufactured using these technologies have the following advantages: cheap, high mouth appeal, non-perishable, convenient. They also have the following disadvantages: calorie dense, difficult to metabolize, addictive for some people.

For most peopele not explicitly making food decisions with a mind to control their weight, the advantages outweigh the disadvantages.

At the same time as this was happening, most of the reasons for people to expend calories vanished. As far as I can think of, the only reasons left to burn calories are pleasure and weight control.

In this sort of context most normal, perfectly rational people will end up getting fat. The only people who won't are: athletes, people with strong metabolism (this usually goes away with age), and people who dedicate themselves to not being fat.
It's "film at 11," which used to mean that the news team actually had footage of the news, back before it was assumed that everyone had already seen it on YouTube.

:P
The article says "Mummy Says Princess Had Coronary Disease." This leads me to believe they are talking about Egyptian royalty, even if they were not called kings and queens.
Very funky to have a list of "all known https sites"
You seem stuck on the "What". I was. Try finding a reason or "Why" you do what you do. I occasionally pick up small development jobs for non profits every few weeks just so I can do something on my own terms.
i tried and but their paiment system accepts only cards from US, canada and UK while i'm in Paris...weird or i'm missing something
Make a product.
Peter Thiel in regards to Twitter - “The broader question is, Is it going to help people have a much higher quality of living? And I think on that score, its benefit is a lot less.” - I think the people of emerging revolutions might disagree. Or wait, maybe only Facebook can help improve quality of life?
It can always be blamed on upper management. It's ultimately their responsibility to ensure that the company is employing competent people.
Argh. This is what I don't like about non-tech, -IT, and -CS articles posted on HN: people go off on tangents with so little (useless) information. I'm sorry to say this article is poor on information.

Let's stick to the facts. Complex carbs (brown rice, whole wheat bread, bagels, whole wheat pasta, beans - the list of delicious, healthy complex carbs is long) in moderation does not hinder your health. In fact, your body needs them because it is stored energy. Other sources of energy are used up quicker, such as protein. That's not to say carbs are better than protein. Your body needs both!

Now, refined SIMPLE carbs (table sugar, fruit juice, "packaged" cereals, chocolate bars, etc.) are not good for you, and only certain types of bodies with certain physical activity should consume them (e.g., if you are a bodybuilder or if you lift weights a few times a week, etc.). It is still absolutely tantamount that you consume unrefined simple carbs such as strawberries, raspberries, oranges, apples, plum, pear, a long etc., and the number one fruit because of its flavanoid content: blueberries!).

Put simply, fruits and complex carbs help you convert what you eat in slow-releasing energy that has less content that is turned into fat (as opposed to refined simple carbs). This steady release of energy is part of "moderation is key". If you have your body working too hard, your heart fluttering/palpitations and overworking it are not healthy, neither is when your body processes everything too slow.

The biggest factor when consuming carbs (both simple and complex) is the glycemic levels in your blood. You can't have this fluctuate so much, especially if you're pre-disposed to it, otherwise you throw it out of kilter and it may cause diabetes.

I'll keep the fat part short. We need fat, too! Let me be less "headliney". We need polyunsaturated fatty acids; in part, to keep our metabolism going. Foods like avocado, fish, flax seed, leafy vegetables, soybeans, walnuts (nuts), and shellfish. Sure, saturated fats may not be the major cause of heart disease, but lessening it while consuming a healthy amount of polyunsaturated fat and complex carbs might. You can read an article on that here (it's better than the OP's article, but still has its flaws): http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/health/rethinking-satura... (By the way, this article was published over a year ago.)

Having said all that, each body is different. You should tailor your diet to what your body reacts positively to. For example, flax seed is healthy for you, but I know people who get diarrhea from it. Obviously, don't force yourself to eat something your body doesn't like. Listen to your body, because, unfortunately, the science doesn't fully understand all body types.

I'm not a fan of fallacies from defective induction, so I shall refrain from an argumentum ad verecundiam on this, but on a separate note, I will say my friend studied nutrition and she has expressed a keen dislike toward the "Food guide pyramid".
Mathematicians have been dealing with this problem in concrete ways for longer than implied. For instance, the necessity of the parallel postulate for Euclidian geometry and the existence of non-Euclidean geometries where it doesn't hold were demonstrated in the 19th century. The question of how many and which axioms are required as the basis of a field of mathematics has long been known to be a valid, meaningful question.

What Gödel proved is that in the formal systems we use to model mathematical propositions and proofs, there is no finite number of axioms that enable you to prove or disprove all of the propositions that can be formulated. For someone who grew up in the post-Gödel world, this isn't shocking at all and looks like a natural progression from previous results. You need a certain number of postulates. To get Euclidean geometry, for example, you need the parallel postulate. It's natural to ask how many postulates you need to decide all interesting mathematical questions, and there's no reason to assume the answer to that question is finite. Apparently, that attitude reflects a lot of hindsight bias, but there is no way for us to experience the shock of Gödel's work the way it was experienced by mathematicians at the time, since the books we learn from now are written by mathematicians who have already digested Gödel's discoveries.
Yeah, the first time you take a site from nothing to large scale is awesome. :)
The Pros and Cons of Government App Contests
Use Google Trends (that's what I do when searching for the most popular terms)

http://goo.gl/SKdJC -- assuming your in the UK
Same, I'm not a good enough designer to be changing the default UI significantly so it's largely standard in my apps. I'd love a themeforest for iOS apps.
Also, the T doesn't bother to count the number of passengers and compare it to the number of tickets sold.

Passengers can get on & off the train at multiple points along the line. Counting passengers would not be very helpful.
What would he say? "HA! Fooled You!"
On top of that, phrases like "eat healthy", "eat healthy fats", "eat cleanly", etc are ambiguous, and not helpful. This is because each person's definition of "healthy" and "clean" is different.

We need to be very specific when describing what to eat.
Not exactly what you are looking for (at least not in terms of color or backgrounds), but may be of help: http://cocoacontrols.com/
Scripting is Dead; Long Live Scripting
Roughly $1,000 a month in revenue from http://isitnormal.com. Expenses add up to around $300 a month for hosting on linode and paid moderators. Given traffic levels, I feel I should be able to do better than this somehow. Still searching for the best way to monetize all the super-weird (but interesting!) UGC content.
The developer is the customer
recode is seriously useful if you need to take the output of a PowerShell script and process it on your Unix box.
They will. I tell everyone I know about affiliate marketing and how I make money online, but I will never show anyone any of my websites.

It's too easy for someone of low skill to completely copy your operation. Hurting your own bottom line isn't good for business.

If you want it badly enough, you'll figure out a way to make $1/day online and then scale it to $100/day. If you don't want it badly enough, you'll get nothing and that's exactly what you deserve. It's a lot of work, but it's rewarding when you see the results.
Mind if I ask you how to get started on iPhone business? (skill, rules, regulation, etc)

Thanks!
Who can be the first person to get a fake conversation posted on a major news source? Sounds like a contest to me.
"periodical" is a word used by people trying to get you to sign up to their spammy newsletter.

Other than that, both options are about the same aren't they? You're doing curated music recommendation.

This is a minute detail, why are you worrying about it?
ResearchNation.net - publish your insights, make money.
Currently testing it, but have opened up the site for a few days for feedback. Would love to hear what you think of it!
works like a charm - is there a mobile version coming?
go for it! ;-)
I would be interested in some opinions about what the advantages are of using MongoDB (or any NoSQL solution for that matter) for storing logs.

- Could it have something to do with the fact, that this is a rare case where almost certainly WRITE > READ?
- Why not take advantage of a schema? It is implicit because of the API is it not?
A lot of people just aren't right for the agency world - I know that working on client work once in a while really grates my nerves. It's not particularly fun work but it can be challenging and you always get a fresh project to work on.

I think you're off to a good start by asking the tough questions now, just spend a little more time figuring out what you like and you don't like. Talk to your peers, talk to people in industries you're interested in, and just figure it out.

More importantly, don't rush.
And when you think that WW2 only lasted for 6 years...
real clickable: http://researchnation.net
Is the Jobs .... the Job? :p
Its been awhile since I C++'ed heavily, but I think this isn't quite right:

"But even there, the code (most likely) dereferences a pointer one past the end of an array, which is (1) invalid C++ and (2) not on their list of possible bugs."

There's a weirdo thing with array allocation in C++ at least which makes it valid to use arrays with all of the std:: algorithms that take a start and end parameter. Unfortunately I can't remember it well enough to find a good reference but as I recall it was more than just a pointer comparison as the std:: algorithms wanted to be able to dereference it occasionally.

Then again its been about four years since I've touched C++ so some of these details have leaked out and gotten mixed up.
Not a dig at OSX users. I have a macbook in addition to a thinkpad running a less common distro in front of me right now. I'm thinking of it in a Bayesian way: if a person is a Linux user or an OSX user, I expect them to know all/most of those tools. However, given that a person (limited to Linux or OSX users) doesn't know about those tools, I expect them to be an OSX user.
Festival de la cerveza en Praga
Es conocido como el evento gastronómico más largo de la República Checa ya que dura 17 días consecutivos y ofrece música en vivo, una extensa selección de productos de las cervecerías checas, puestos de comida y mucho más.
I think, first, one should differentiate between the part of the food industry that is actually the sugar industry - products like Coke and Gatorade and Snickers - and the part that is packaged convenience food that also contains a lot of sugar. (High-fructose corn syrup is just another sugar with 5-10% more fructose.)

The convenience food industry is highly motivated to sell what the public wants to buy. They follow food fads assiduously. When fiber was in, suddenly all products had added fiber. When that fad (which was actually a mildly good thing) passed, the fiber went away. Now that partially hydrogenated vegetable oil is out of fashion, packaged foods remove it and advertise "0% Trans Fat!"

There was a time when carbs were bad and there were plenty of packaged foods that upped the fat and protein and advertised "Low Carb!" When Dr. Atkins died of heart failure and overweight, the steam went out of low-carb. Now low-fat is ascendant, and packaged foods trumpet "Low Fat!"

The problem with this latest fad is fat makes food taste good. When you take it out, recipes taste like crap. Try a spoonful of fat-free cream cheese and tell me what you think. So the packaged food industry has to add something else that makes the low-fat garbage palatable: sugar!

It's evil, but it's not a conspiracy. People buy packaged foods because they're convenient and taste ok. They do this in preference to cooking, which may or may not taste better, because they're lazy or too busy. That's human nature. The problem is the low-fat food fad.

If the culture turned a corner and demanded low-sugar food, the food industry would fall all over itself taking sugar and corn syrup out and adding back in fat and protein to make the stuff taste better. They did it in the low-carb era and they'd do it again in a heartbeat.
Which GPU do you have?
Note that a software that doesn't let you copy and paste doesn't prevent you from copying text.
You can copy it manually to a computer, or write it by hand.
This is poorly designed software.

If there were a law preventing you from copying the text, now that would be a problem.
But there is no such law as far as I know. In fact, I live in a country where, so far, such copying of any book is expressly authorised as long as it is for private use.

As for the kindle, I don't understand which of its function couldn't be performed just as well by a small laptop, but I barely know what it looks like, so I may be wrong.
Briefly. I like the name. The format of the copy is confusing. The text sounds slightly off.

In a little more detail. On format, why is there a tagline in the middle of a dictionary definition? I can see using a dictionary definition format and I can see using a name and tagline format, but I can't see mixing the two. At first, I started reading it as a name and tagline and wondered why there was a pronunciation guide in the name. Then I realize it was a definition and was confused as to what "great, recommended audio for the urban commuter" had to do with the definition. I would drop the tagline altogether unless the design of the page somehow makes it obvious that the tagline and definition are completely separate entities.

On the text, please don't take this the wrong way, but it sounds somewhat non-native. I don't think I have ever heard anyone describe something as "great, recommended." In fact, if you Google "great recommended" in quotes, most of the results are clearly poorly written (like "what some great recommended psp games"). I feel the same way about "conveniently enjoys", which only has 247 results on Google when quoted, including this page.

A little restructuring of the text might make it read a little more smoothly as well. Perhaps, "Busy commuter who enjoys hand-picked audio recommendations from well-informed guides."

Finally, "audio recommendations" is vague. What kind of audio do you mean? Music? Poetry? Speeches? Anything and everything? If this is supposed to be clear, I would make it clear in the copy. If it's supposed to be vague, I guess that's OK too, as long as it's deliberate.
That doesn't help much.
I don't think jQuery is necessarily relevant in this discussion. This post is talking about JavaScript closures in general, regardless of whether or not it's DOM events or plain old callbacks.
I'm not sure the difference is that big. Amylase in your saliva starts breaking down starches to glucose even before you swallow. Non-digestible carbs (fiber), protein and fat can slow down the process, however.
+1 for this. I work at Heroku and it has really been the best of both worlds getting to have a large impact on meaningful projects and enjoy the perks of a startup combined with the resources of a large company (Salesforce).

The market is so strong for engineers right now that you don't need to choose between decent compensation and startup environment; you can have both.
"If I really did the SEO and worked on the site I could probably make 5-10 times as much, but I couldn't really grow to other niches."

Ditto on this. http://islostarepeat.com doesn't get much love these days...
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(Edit: I think I'm wrong here. It does indeed look like the OP is saying that the DOM node would leak after the cycle has no incoming pointers. I read it to say that other objects in the closed-over scope would be leaked as long as the reference was live).

I don't think the OP is confused. Nothing he has said is inaccurate, and you're asserting something he didn't say.

> A proper garbage collector will collect cyclic structures.

Absolutely true, so long as they are garbage. However, nothing the OP says implies that the DOM node is garbage. As I read it, the leak comes from accidentally extending the life of the enclosing scope to the life of the DOM node. That's a real leak (in the web app, not in the browser).
Apparently he hasn't discovered autojump yet :-D
The jQuery Mobile team is considering removing the Back button due to usability concerns. More info:

http://jquerymobile.com/blog/2011/05/13/jquery-mobile-team-u...
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Social Gaming has Reached Market Saturation
Hilary Mason: An Introduction to Machine Learning with Web Data
They can!

# Make git completion work with aliases
complete -o default -o nospace -F _git_checkout gco
complete -o default -o nospace -F _git_rebase grb
complete -o default -o nospace -F _git_branch gbdf
complete -o default -o nospace -F _git_branch gbd
complete -o default -o nospace -F _git_diff gd
complete -o default -o nospace -F _git_log gl
complete -o default -o nospace -F _git_log glp
Hmmm. More complex carbs are pretty much chains of glucose. The sugars you are talking about are glucose and fructose, about 50/50. If your explanation is the correct one, does that mean the problem is really fructose?