skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can you imagine using Sony on your resume as a network admin? You could almost imagine those resumes being automatically filtered out before they even reach HR.
Around 400-600 euro a month selling subscriptions to people and schools who do exercises to improve their Dutch language skills.
We offer free exercises for everybody and people can get extra features with subscriptions.
Web App Configuration Analyzer 2.0 Tool Released
If you have Illustrator:
http://www.mercuryintermedia.com/downloads/iphone_ui_vector_...

If you have Photoshop: http://www.smashingmagazine.com/images/iphone-vector-pack/ip...
Well, taking down Paypal and Visa after they stopped processing Wikileaks donations didn't "help much" either. But it is some form of protest after all.
In big companies, talented people leave programming to do architecture and project lead - you're likely to find these guys in teams that are bound to executives and senior managers.

If you work for a big comp, get a clear idea of what role you want to have: support? IT? development? tech consulting? From there try to find single persons that do well, they probably have interesting connections.
It's also how many get their Ubuntu ISOs!
What I do is more like "paleo" than Atkins, but they are similar.

Apparently both diets avoid grains and sugar.

Check out the comment about by jpb that refers to Robert Lustig's talk. It is very interesting. It refers to your point that low-fat high-carb diets could also be healthy, but not all carbs are recommended.

Apparently eating fat together with carbs in conducive to fat accumulation, and sugar by itself has the same result because half of it, the fructose, is metabolized into triglycerides.
Actually, speaking seriously (for a change), I would like to see an agrep for Emacs (approximate search).
What is this constitution free zone? Wikipedia doesn't have anything

Edit: I get it, kind of like the G20 where the only free speech zone was at home.
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Americans use term 'Calorie', not 'calorie'.
1 Cal = 1000 cal

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calorie
While all of that is true I think the real story is one of economics.

It is VERY easy for me to eat as much swine as I feel like nowadays. If we assume that saturated fat/protein isn't bad for you then the fact that I can, in modern times, acquire the pig with less effort than my ancestors doesn't appear to harm me very much. It is tasty pretty much right out of the farm. I imagine it is difficult to make the margins on livestock very high.

Carbs have brands. They have business moats. They have high margins and great psychological keys that make selling them a great business (helps to be addictive). So they push and we buy.

Anyways my thought was that the obesity epidemic has less to do with how we are more sedentary than before but rather the peddlers of PROFITABLE products just got better at their jobs over time.
Like I said, he talks about metabolic pathways, which are independent of dose, though not your body's current state of glycogen deficiency.

He also speaks to the effect of insulin resistance, and how the very rapid metabolism of fructose in the liver (7x faster than glucose) can lead to insulin resistance. Insulin spikes redirect calories eaten directly to fat, without them ever being metabolized into energy. As a result you gain fat and have less energy available, leaving you both fatter and hungrier.
Yeah, what the rest said. I personally suggest some type of small, on-the-side Startup like a community centric site on something she's passionate about. Gals seem to be better than guys at adding value to people. Think Kiva.org or SlideShare.
There are many reasons why people resist the idea that carbs are worse that fat. For one thing, no one has proved that "carbs are worse than fat." It's a silly, over-simplified assertion.

Also, fats are the most calorie-dense macro-nutrient. If your calorie intake is greater than your calorie expenditure you will gain weight. You could easily supplement your diet with a 300 calorie bar of chocolate twice a day and your daily calorie intake skyrockets from 2,000 to 2,600. Over time this will lead to obesity if your activity level doesn't rise or if muscles don't grow.

Each tablespoon of oil adds 100+ calories a the dish.

2 slices of bread: 160 calories, 60g of peanut butter: 350 calories.

Carbs are good. You need carbs. Without carbs, your body overuses ketogenesis for energy, releasing toxic byproducts into the blood that cause kidney and liver damage.

Too many carbs at once leads to unstable blood sugar and insulin levels. The consequences of this are poorly understood, especially in healthy, active people. But intuitively, daily large spikes in blood sugar and insulin response are probably not a good thing. The good news is that eating high GI carbs with fiber, protein, fats, and sugars mitigates the spikes.

While not as calorie-dense as fatty foods, lots of high carb foods are low fiber, low protein, and low moisture with minimal micronutrients and still have very high calorie/weight ratios.

(Calories-in > Calories-out) in a sedentary lifestyle leads to increased body fat and weight gain which leads to cellular stress inflammation causing insulin resistance, which leads to more weight gain and more severe metabolic problems.

The whole carb vs. fat debate is a waste of time.
> and neither the Mac nor Windows have any real protection against trojans.

It is impossible for any operating system to prevent trojans. As long as the person at the keyboard has admin access, no matter how convoluted the process, they can install whatever malicious program they want.

The only defense is education and awareness.
Sometimes the alternatives are worse than C.
C at some degree is portable, so some code can be reused.
C is ideal for the microcontrollers which have limited memory.
Think about having 1k of Ram and 4k of flash memory.Since at the assembly level each family of microcontrollers is different is very hard to learn each month another set of instructions ,and here comes C.Linux kernel is written in C too. C is just a tool , and once you get used to it is fine.
Speak for yourself. :)

I've been on a high-fat, moderate protein diet for almost a year now. I eat occasional small servings of vegetables because it's easier than arguing with my wife, but my diet is probably 95-98% meat/eggs/(dairy). "Low-carb" means 'low carb'. There are lots of ways of doing it, and frankly, we have no idea which way is right for most people (let alone for outliers).

Meta point on this whole discussion (and I don't mean to single you out). There are a lot of posts of the sort "come on people, this is easy"+(some simple dietary advice). But it isn't easy, and nobody really has a clue right now. The evidence is contradictory and poor. What we need is more individuals engaged in personal experimentation, and more methodologically sound research. It's a hard, complex problem.
One correction: Atkins died of head trauma after slipping on the ice, not heart failure. I guess you can call every death heart failure, though ;-)
Freedom is almost always lost in small steps.

Sure, discontinuities happen in extreme cases (e.g., the WTC's destruction -> the PATRIOT Act), and when they do a lot of people notice. The more subtle losses in freedom that occur gradually (the DMCA and its progeny, for example) are harder to notice until one day you look back and say "huh, how did we get here?"

The concept of the Overton Window [1] is interesting and germane here. 20 years ago the idea that you couldn't lend a book you own to your friend or loan them the new album you just bought would have seemed insane. Over time, a gradual shift in the concept of ownership has changed the scope of the issue to the point where many people would now accept that it seems reasonable that you can't lend your books to someone else.

People at the edge of the Overton window are like our canaries in the coal mine. Gradual shifts in the window are hard to notice from the middle, but easy to notice as the "edge" passes over you. In that respect, to me RMS seems most valuable to us for precisely the reasons others call him a crackpot.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window
Got it in 1. MBTA is 8 billion dollars in debt. They are the MA poster child for "too big too fail."
Beginning to apply DCI to Rails via conventions
Right. I suspect the colloquial use keeps "learning" on the y-axis but has "progress" on the x-axis, instead of "training". That is, the psychologists consider learning a function of training, whereas others consider achievable work a function of learning.
Because they are so dang delicious...mmmMMMmmm donuts.
I used to make about $1,200 a month from a website with dating advice on it, via affiliate sales of dating products.

It started off as a Digg-esque site for the vast quantity of dating-related articles on the net based on some custom Perl I hacked together, but I quickly realized that while that was getting me linked by 'dating experts', the traffic it was bringing in didn't convert, where traffic to very generic articles ("How to meet girls at the gym") converted much better.

I tried to make sure it was updated every day, and finding, sourcing, and writing the articles took an hour a day. I ended up selling the site for ~ $16k when I needed some money to pay a tax bill quickly.

There are now so so so many sites farming this kind of content, I think it'd be very hard to reproduce in this field. That said, the affiliate commissions are pretty good - one guy would pay you $40 for every $20 ebook of his that was sold as a result of you (because he figured you'd sent him a paying customer who'd end up spending a lot more with him).
If you love ^R, you'll also love http://www.catonmat.net/blog/the-definitive-guide-to-bash-co...
It might be interesting for you to know that great numbers of Irish people survived on little other than potatoes and milk in the period before the great potato famine. This was supplemented with oatmeal occasional vegetables, and very occasional salted fish, but the vast majority of their nutrition came from potatoes.

The results? The highest birthrate in western Europe and people historians of the time considered healthy and good-looking.
Littleworkers: Petite Python Command Runners
wait... now developers would have to remember numbers. dumb idea..

The reason we have characters for numbers, in cases where applicable is, its easier to remember/represent with characters. Like URL instead of IP. code will figure out, how to convert string to numbers.

what is the point of having format in numbers? In your brain, you are thinking "I need two/three character month", so I will put 'MM'/'MMM', instead of 'Jan'. In Go's case, I have to remember to use Jan or 01.

Nice try though.
New Supernova Could Nix Evidence of Dark Matter
Market Sizing
I'm actually kind of disappointed this wasn't more complicated, like actually hacking the system or altering cards (http://web.mit.edu/zacka/www/mbta.html, http://tech.mit.edu/V128/N30/subway/Defcon_Presentation.pdf) instead of just opportunism.
Tibco Tutorials for beginners
Major flaws in both points here:

1) You can lend your Kindle out all you want and let people read your books, just as you could before. You just can't duplicate the book onto someone else's Kindle or in any other way, just as you couldn't before. This is a reasonable restriction and not any worse than it was with a physical book, which you are also prohibited from scanning, photocopying and distributing outside of fair use.

2) You can not copy/paste a physical book either. I agree that this should be allowed, but it's not a dystopian future - there is no loss over physical books here, only gain.

Perhaps Amazon should allow some sort of way to help with "fair use" citations, and maybe they should remove restrictions on public domain material. On the latter though, those are generally available for free from many sources, so the fact that you can't copy/paste on your Kindle is an inconvenience, not a dystopia.
Its amusing to see nethack and cowsay listed as a full-fledged unix 'tool's.
Much of the Fortune 500 is one intern away from this happening. They have large web surface areas. Say you're a large bank, not like a Bank of Canada, but a bank kind of like that. You operate in a hundred different lines of business. Some twenty-something guy with a degree in business in your wealth management group figures out that it takes six months to get a new site spun up through IT versus like ten minutes to upload Wordpress on one of the servers that they had lying around from a promotion two years ago.

Two weeks later, foo.notbankofcanada.com now hosts a phishing site.
Salt - Python remote execution
New system to replace Func, MCollective and Func, github: https://github.com/thatch45/salt screencast: http://blip.tv/thomas-s-hatch/salt-0-8-7-presentation-5180182
I'd be surprised if you don't do well with AR too. You could probably benefit from an active sales force a lot, though I could certainly understand why one wouldn't want to go down that route. The place I get my hair cut at, for instance, makes dozens of these calls a day yet would probably never hear of your service without a cold call.
MeeGo 1.2 Released Officially
What are your apps?
I didn't see anything mentioned in your profile about it.
And how long did it take for your apps to start earning at this steady level?
Social Genetics: Demographics & Affinity to Gamers
I'm with execution over ideas. Shutting up and hacking it before talking is a great point but isn't this simply mind over matter?
Because you told them fat was the source of all evil for at least twenty years?
And Opera (which is a "modern browser" too)
cowsay is used on craiglist's 404 page.
An Inspiring Corporate Philosophy
Come on, Twitter is a tiny part of the Arab uprisings. (Yes, good communications help, but SMS works fine.)
What is WWAN
WWAN is the wireless wide area network. This service is provided to people who want to use network by not plugging in the cable. This can be used at any time and the speed of this network is quite fas
The function of the Kindle system (as opposed to the hardware), is that one can obtain current books easily for a fee and read them on your computer.

At least that's what it does for me. I am careful to only buy books that I am okay with not reading multiple times (ie, if Amazon yanks them or Amazon itself dies), though.
I once had a collection of poker-related software that did in the low 6 figures per month. Unfortunately recent government actions kicked that in the nuts.
Back when I was 13-15 I did some freelance web development (before everyone and their grandma was a freelancer) and made about 300USD a month. This was also back when the American dollar was great, the Canadian dollar sucked, and therefore profit. I made more money doing this than a shitty McDonald's job that I couldn't get because I was too young.
I get the feeling that the XBox team really isn't part of Microsoft culture.
Facebook will use Microsoft tech to find child pornography
Note that they did not give WikiLeaks their money back nor lose a lot of money.

I agree it's a form of protest, but not a very good one, because it paints WikiLeaks / Pirate Party supporters in a bad light, and having public opinion on our side is more important than taking down a few servers for a few hours.
Unfortunately the real world usually isn't that interesting.

Crooks in DC figured out that paper farecards had the same bits encoded over and over for the length of the magnetic strip. So they'd get a high value card and literally splice it into multiple high-value cards. http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2008/07/washington_dc_...
Your "facts" are wrong, or at least they date from the conventional wisdom of the 1980s.

There is nothing spectacular about "complex carbs" to make them "slow-releasing". Both potatoes and white bread have glycemic indexes much higher than the "simple sugars" you're trying to demonize. The human digestive tract is extremely effective at unchaining starches and other "complex carb" polysaccharides, and it begins at the first bite via salivary amylase.

Oh, and flaxseed has been linked to prostate cancer in multiple studies.

You may want to read nutritional research more recent than 1985.
My former manager told me once: "When my employees do a good job, it is their success. When my employees do a bad job, it's my failure."
In every browser except IE4-7, removing the DOM node from the document would result in the entire lot getting garbage collected. This is garbage collection collecting garbage. However, in IE4-7 the JS garbage collector isn't responsible for handling DOM nodes and vice versa. Consequently, this results in a memory leak; in IE 4-6 this persists until the browser terminates, and in IE7 it persists until the user navigates to another page.

There is a related application-level memory leak if you have some other reference to the closure that doesn't belong to the DOM node, and that applies to all browsers. See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2567847 for a simple way to deal with that.
I'd like to know what you do for your normal paycheck (and how much it is) if an extra $40k a year isn't anything to get too excited about. Isn't that close to the median household income in the U.S.?
My reading led me to believe that sugars and grains in my diet were the culprit and, sure enough, once I cut those out and increased the amount of animal fats in my diet, I lost 50 pounds. (I always had and continued to eat a lot of vegetables, too.) I have never felt more energetic or clear-headed.

So, yes, my personal experience tells me Taubes is correct, just as Horgan’s experience tells him Taubes is incorrect. But, importantly, I would not have had my experience if I had not read the nutrition literature with an open mind.

The last sentence is unjustified and probably incorrect. A lot of people get fed up with their weight, resolve to make a change, and then lose a bunch. Adopting an exciting new idea and making a change is the crucial part, not the validity of the idea. I lost a lot of weight as a vegan (over thirty pounds), got into the best shape of my life, relaxed my rules, and gained a little bit back. Did I gain that little bit back because veganism was the answer and I failed to be faithful to it? No, it was because the initial novelty and enthusiasm wore off. It's the same pattern no matter what the actual composition of the diet is. Low-carb diets' biggest contribution to weight loss has been to provide a psychologically viable option for meat-and-potatoes people who felt unsatisfied or alienated by the "hippie" food that low-fat diets would have had them eating.

the health effects of a high-carbohydrate diet often are not visible as weight gain—that Egyptian princess, no doubt thin as a rail (have you ever seen a fat mummy?), had a level of atherosclerosis that today would have doctors scrambling for a bypass operation

Now, this part is actually interesting and I await more information concerning the heart health of people who exercise and maintain a healthy weight on different kinds of diets.
Foxconn Chengdu Manufacture Plant Explosion
While I have to agree with you, your theory fails to explain why people in Europe (who have the same access to calorie dense and convenient food) are less obese (in proportion) than North Americans.

I believe that culinary customs AND some additives used in industrial food play an important role.

Just check out High Fructose Corn Syrup : this is in very product in the USA and is (almost) never used in Europe.
The Power of a Simple Magnifying Glass
About $7K per month in Android app sales.

(EDIT: Was at $15k per month last October before the competition started getting crazy)

About $2.5K per month hosting websites.

Then consulting income - I keep consulting because I feel like at any moment, the Android Market ranking algorithm will change or competition will wipe me out, etc, it's just to day-to-day to walk away from good old consulting.
DARPA's robotic hummingbird project
https://github.com/thatch45/salt

screencast: http://blip.tv/thomas-s-hatch/salt-0-8-7-presentation-518018...

I can see that you're a newbie, but out of interest, why did you not put in the links for yourself? Have you been trying to find out how to do it? If so, where did you try? If not, why not?

And why did you not put the URL in the text area for the URL?

I'm intrigued by how and why people use the interface the way they do - I'm keen to learn why the same mistake is made so often.
> You can lend your Kindle out all you want and let people read your books, just as you could before.

Only until that becomes a violation of Amazon's TOS, or reading your books requires you be 'authenticated' with a rights server.

These things happen in steps and just because it works now does not imply that is will continue to work next week/month/year.
Really? I always thought that was what TV anchors said after wrapping the daily news up, i.e. a movie was what was coming up next. However, Wikipedia agrees with you, so thanks for teaching me something!
Google kills newspaper scanning project
Apparently combining carbs with fat is conducive to fat accumulation. So, avoiding that pasta with olive oil or butter is a good idea if you want to loose weight.
Bigend at work? Blue-Ant? Thanks, Mr. Gibson...

And thanks to Simon, I am having a hard enough time with my work and personal to do lists, testing all of my tools for their extranet behaviors is not something I look forward to adding to them...
My Top 5 Open Source software for May 2011
Thanks, I didn't see that. I tend to like the back button, I just think they could have done it better. I think I probably will end up putting together some type of array driven navigation, where I can provide the workflow ahead of time.
What compounds this is that 'healthy' is a particularly ill-defined catchall term. If you are, for example, morbidly obese or horribly malnourished, you probably do need to change your diet. If you get winded going up a flight of stairs, or maybe worried about general physical fitness, you probably want exercise.

What is our ideal for a healthy person?
An underwear model? someone who lives to 93?

I don't know.
Oh yeah absolutely.. I think the video mentioned that things like donuts and cheesecake are the absolute worst.
"The concept of a 'steep curve' is the physical analogy to a steep hill"

Of course it is. That is likely the reason why the meaning got mixed up in the first place. The rest of your comment is rationalization (Otherwise, people would call it cumulative effort curve.). See richardw's sister comment.
it is simpler to remeber that those formatting characters.

Let's not forget:
go has a very simple way to implement your way of doing things from any pkg, struct. just implement a func (p *SomeNewCoolTimeDate) Format( layout String) as you see fit.
I don't really think its a conspiracy unless you consider advertising to the public to be very secretive and back-room.

I agree mostly with what is said above but I think it is important to emphasize that what the public wants to buy is heavily influenced by what they see on TV.
Minibloq: graphical programming environment for Arduino