skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you Ed, this is amazing!
"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?"

Who said this?

The anti-nutritional establishment claim being made here is that the incorrect demonization of fat led people to replace dietary fat with carbohydrates (see, e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SnackWells). You can complain all you want about food manufacturers making tasty/addictive foods which are bad for you, but they were responding to the public's demand for "low fat" driven by bad science.

On a slightly more meta note, it's probably bad form to be fake "surprised" that people have differing opinions for yours, especially when the theory being discussed is a summary of actual research and history and your counter is a "my view"-style list of anecdotes.
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Can actually see us using this shortly after we launch Eventabber. Great product! Feel free to call us at 1-626-88TABIT if you want to get complete feedback for use of this product.
Why not try and track down Dima Sidorchenko (the guy in the header of the source)?

Google thinks the name is Dima Sidorenko and offers up this guy who is a programmer:
http://twitter.com/#!/shadow1278

Unless it is Sidorchenko and Dima is a nickname in which case "Dmitriy Sidorchenko" might get better results.
I realized the other day that once about 10 years ago I got a Sony Vaio laptop. It was horribly designed garbage. It's no surprise that Sony is having all these security problems considering how sloppy the engineering was on the Vaio.
Also http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2568192
I didn't like Cube very much. The acting was bad, the premise was a bit silly... but still, it had something which made it interesting.

And it was the guys first movie, on a tiny budget.

I haven't seen Splice yet, but have heard mostly good things about it. So don't write off the guy just because of Cube.
That's out of context. The full quote is

"We will pursue nations that provide aid or safe haven to terrorism. Every nation, in every region, now has a decision to make. Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists. From this day forward, any nation that continues to harbor or support terrorism will be regarded by the United States as a hostile regime."

This makes it clear he was talking about nations, not individuals. Neither of us may agree with that proposition, but it's a lot more reasonable in the context of a world with many nations that stated they were against terrorists but secretly sheltered them.
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Capitão Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp) cruza com uma mulher do seu passado (Penélope Cruz), mas fica confuso se a relação deles é de amor ou se ela está apenas interessada em saber como chegar até a Fonte da Juventude. A bordo do navio de Barba Negra (Ian McShane), o Capitão Sparrow não sabe a quem deve temer mais: seu antigo amor ou seu rival declarado.
Are you sure that you can legally lend your Kindle if it contains copyrighted work? I would be surprised if this wasn't also covered by the strict sense of the law (not that I am suggesting that anyone would ever prosecute for it).
I opted out for the first time last week in San Diego (thankfully Seattle doesn't have them at every checkpoint... yet).

It was kind of disturbing. While the TSA agent that (man)handled me was polite and professional, I couldn't help but get the feeling that the patdown is designed deliberately to be overly thorough as a "lesson" taught to troublemakers like myself.

What is far more disturbing than that is that in the probably ~100 people I passed security with, I was the only one that opted out. One lady got the patdown anyways after going through the Rapescan, though.
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Until about 2 weeks ago I was the largest creator of stores on CafePress. I was earning decent residual income on existing stores that I had put up, but due to some external forces (some in my control, some out of it) I got my accounts shut down by CafePress. I still expect to earn some residual income for the next couple months on things I had already sold.

I had just started to seriously follow this path but I was earning between $100 and $375 per month in commissions from the test runs of my software that creates stores. I am in negotiations with them concerning turning my accounts back on.

I plan to expand this into a series of blog posts about lessons learned both business and technological. Upvote if that sounds like something you want to read.
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You took the words right out from under me -- although you said it better. I was going to more directly recommend not making specific career suggestions and expecting her to chose from among them. That method/approach will drive you two apart.
Precisely. Holding an official currency gives you the ability to stop the government from putting you in prison for nonpayment of taxes. This is a real tangible value that is a sort of baseline value store for official currencies that does not exist for other currencies.
These restrictions are not only preventing "cool features", they are preventing progress. You seem resigned to that fate, but I for one am not.
> Vertical splitting screen has.

Is vertical split in mainline screen now, or do you still have to patch it?

I use both tmux and screen but prefer tmux. Here are some (non-ideological) reasons:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1945637
I have a problem deleting some elements from the IPhone after I have dragged it into place for example the password box

I am on Firefox 3.6
The agriculture industrial complex is invested deeply in corn/soy/wheat processed foods and chemicals. Mega billions are at stake. The options for "low effort" and "low price" food are virtually all unhealthy from a diet standpoint. Yet, these foods have been engineered to be nearly addictive. That is why there is rampant obesity. Any diet that largely avoids these foods and maintains reasonable variety is going to be vastly more healthy.
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oh no! say it isn't true!!! it tracks our browsing history!!??!?! that's like as bad as dropping bombs on 8 year olds in iraq isn't it!
Out of curiosity, which?

Edit: looking at the site again, at least one of those screenshots is from OS X. htop lists /sbin/launchd and several processes from /Library/Frameworks.
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on the ethics of this thing - most people seem to think that using a users cpu without permission is unethical.

My browser is often brought to it's knees by badly written flash ads - is there a difference?
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You say "our" numbers. Is that $10k/mo split among a larger team? $10k/mo for eight people is very different than for two.
Yeah, they're all DDoSes. Look into the Low Orbit Ion Cannon; it used to be (and may still be) the tool that they used.

The hacks that are attributed to Anonymous seem to be mostly be the work of a small core of actual hackers who either use Anonymous as cover or support its ideology.
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Sure, that makes lots of sense. If they're bad at one thing, they're probably bad at another, totally unrelated, thing.
It also makes you wonder what "Verified Safe by Norton" means on the page for their video downloader.

http://www.ant.com/video-downloader

http://safeweb.norton.com/report/show?url=www.ant.com

The community rating contradicts norton's rating.... sigh.
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"Unless clearly marked otherwise"

This add-on was marked otherwise. (Well, according to the claims above.)

You can definitely argue that having unvetted add-ons on the site at all is bad, but your particular point isn't relevant.
Subtitles support planned? Uploading my own SRT and do some Subtler-like merge in the backend or picking one from the torrent files.
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Installation of the software on many PCs instead of one- #1 form of piracy
But you can lend - you just hand someone your Kindle. What you can't do (right now), is take a copy, send that copy to someone and be prevented from reading the .

Having said that, I clearly misunderstood his original point - I had physical items in mind when I responded.

There's an implication that we're all blissfully unaware, and one day we're going to wake up, and all the rights that matter will have been taken away from us, one imperceptible slice at a time. I pretty much disagree with this - I think the tradeoffs that are being made are deemed acceptable.

We yearn for more (the ability to share anything we want with anyone we want at any time), but we've have collectively decided to sacrifice some freedoms to gain others.
The files I've looked at have been authored by many different people. (Seed, Zak, RigoNet, Camille, Dmitriy, Dima Sidorchenko, etc.) I don't think Dima is solely responsible for this. The company that had this written should be responsible.
so? It'll just fork and you'll have two camps that spend most of their time porting features across.
Alias (though not 'man alias' :) ) could work. But I prefer my way (on server) because I have one thing less to worry about, namely putting 'alias ack=ack-grep' to .bash_aliases.
Yeah, it's quick and dirty I guess...
You should probably read the guidelines again. http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Most people don't seem to understand this until they encounter it on a close and personal level -- as rms has.
US law on lending copyrighted things:

http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/109.html

Kindle rules on lending things:

https://kdp.amazon.com/self-publishing/help?topicId=A2JGI9S4...
$7k/month in salary
I find it bizarre that the entire UK press can be censored from reporting on something as mundane as a footballer having an affair.

Does freedom of the press carry so little weight in the UK? Are you UK citizens not outraged by this?
Yeah, no 'sl' though... :)
The passes described are neither "fake" nor "forged" - they were created by a contractor hired to create them, using the system that creates all T passes. The contractor wasn't authorized to create these, but we could call this a licensing issue. It isn't obvious that this is a criminal case (even tho it is being prosecuted as such) unless the MBTA gets special treatment under law. The details make this look more like a copyright violation than a counterfeiting case.
What was suprising to me, is that this hasn't been the longest continuous interval in which the US was in a state of emergency. Apparently:[1]

"During the Watergate scandal which erupted in the 1970s after President Richard Nixon authorized a variety of illegal acts, Congress investigated the extent of the President's powers and belatedly realized that the U.S. had been in a continuous state of emergency since 1950....The Act terminated the emergency of 1950 on September 14, 1978"

So,currently only halfway through the US's longest state of emergency, which lasted 28 years.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_of_emergency#United_State...
Based on the general state of the computer, and many times customers asked me to try to identify the source of the infection.

To do this I checked the history for recently visited sites.
Before most browsers had private browse modes, and the ability to only delete recently browsed data, a non empty history with no obvious porn listings could usually be taken at face value.
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I'm not familiar with Mozilla's add-on policies. Is this an issue due to the user tracking? Or is it because the privacy policy didn't make it clear this was happening?
Picking a nit, but: I generally agreed with you up until you referenced HFCS. HFCS is a bogeyman and is nearly identical to sucrose (to be precise, HFCS-55 was formulated to replace sucrose by providing a nearly identical mix of fructose and glucose (yes, it's 55/45 rather than 50/50; blow); see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-fructose_corn_syrup).

The problem with HFCS is not HFCS, it's that the US government has subsidized corn production, lowering the price of corn, lowering the price on a sucrose-analog and increasing the total amount of sucrose-analog in the American diet. See Earl Butz [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl_Butz ].

Fascinating charts. Compare: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5e/Usda_swee... and http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c1/USObesity...
We still need light to read :) I don't use a kindle or any tablet, but have read hundreds of ebooks on my phones (Nokia + Mobipocket, Android + FBReader or the Kindle app). The books are always with me, and it's more convenient for reading in bed.
It was an exaggeration to make the point. Sorry, thought that was obvious.

For your example: If you had eaten a low-carb diet, you'd probably need to have eaten 50% more food in terms of quantity in order to meet the caloric intake you were getting on the "whatever" diet.

That's my point. If you simply focused on the caloric intake and kept it at 18,000 a week (which seems high for someone lying in bed, to be honest) and still ate whatever you wanted, you would't have put on 18 pounds.
There are machines that accept a stack of (unbound) paper and OCR it all. There's no "batch mode" for Kindle (apart from cracking the DRM, but that's a separate issue).
For myself and my wife, typical US serving sizes constitute 3 meals, though nowadays, we generally only eat out occasionally, and at local non-chain restaurants that serve decent quality food.
Nice catch, I thought the same as GP because of powertop.
The mental load only lasts a day or two. After that it's all muscle memory.
I would guess that some of that is b/c my developer friends are less likely to need my help with malware, so they don't tell me about it.

Another guess but the rest of it is probably behavior based. Developers are less likely to spend all day on facebook playing flash games, more likely to have flashblock and adblock installed etc..
> Work where you will be the dumbest person in the room.

probably the best advice you could give!

-

my biggest regret from when i started out was not working somewhere were i was the dumbest person in the room. i started somewhere where i was the _only_ person in the room. i basically had to teach myself everything as i went. although there are some pros to this, e.g. i really "learned how to learn", in the end i wish i had been in an environment where i could have been constantly learning from the experience and knowledge of others. the learning curve is _a lot_ less steep in that case.
The good old analog hole.
I host a couple hundred sites on dedicated servers. Mostly local business sites.

Hosting was hands down the dumbest move I ever made. I pay tons for servers, I'm fielding "I get too much spam" support requests several times weekly. Managing backups is a nightmare, then there's the endless responsibility of keeping the sites up and running. It's like jail I pay to live in.

That being said, I'm SLOWLY moving everyone to Rackspace Sites. Once everyone has moved, I think many of my headaches will be gone. Their email system is great and gets rid of 75% of my support requests.
Here's a much better article:

http://blog.games.com/2011/05/19/zynga-gets-served-farmville...
vim is actually more popular than Emacs (FOR NOW), so I don't really know where he's coming from on this one.
In the UK it is deemed that people have a right to privacy. This is overturned when it is deemed that information is "in the public interest," but knowing the sordid details of some "celebrity's" affairs is not necessarily deemed important enough. there is a balance to be had between an individual's privacy, and the right to public knowledge.

In Europe in general, and in the UK in particular, some reporting in the US is regarded with distaste, encroaching as it does on what the British regard as privacy, all in the name of "freedom of speech." The converse is also true, with USAians being horrified that anyone should claim a right to any kind of privacy once the press decide they are interested in them.

I never want to be famous.

And FWIW - I'm neither European, nor USAian.
Great question, I've often wondered about the same thing. I think it's probably a combination of factors, the most important being, in my view, culture. I suspect that other countries may have more homogeneous eating traditions than the U.S. If most people around you are eating the same sorts of foods, and eating occupies the same space in their lives, its probably less likely to occur to you to go buy a bag of fritos or a pizza or something.

If everyone around you is behaving in varied ways with respect to food, you may be more likely to make decisions based on price, convenience, or the "food buzz" you get from eating something. It may also be that buying everything based on price and convenience is itself a cultural norm in the U.S.

It might be economic factors as well. If the U.S. is the world leader in corn production and industrial-scale agriculture, the market for food products in the U.S. might just be very different from what exists in Europe.

Finally there is the possibility that the U.S is not alone in the obesity epidemic, merely ahead. I'm not totally sold on that, but it's a possibility.
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I think you guys are taking your conversion lessons from the wrong people. In other words, "fat chance."
It is possible for a person who is unaware that insulin promotes glycogenesis and lipogenesis to write what you just did. However, I'm not convinced that a person who IS aware could do so. Can you help me out?
>Have a look at `join', it joins lines of two files on a common field. Together with `awk' and `sed' you can use text-files as relational databases.

Fixed it for you.
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C is still in use because it is still the best tool for many jobs.

It is the only language available on every platform.

For many platforms, it is the only non-assembly language available at all - most microcontroller architectures, for example.
This does seem like a dangerous proposition if you dont want authorities to track your downloading habits from a single point of "privacy" failure

P.S. I posted a direct link(didnt care to bring traffic to lifehacker) yesterday, but it never got any traction

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2565861
Big companies are great in a few areas and highly recommend them to anyone graduating.

1. You learn strict business processes that are reproducible and repeatable. They don't teach these in school.

2. You'll be surrounded by senior people who have years of experience. Albeit (in my experience) these people are not very good at what they do, they do offer a good mentor model.

3. You can make an endless amount of mistakes and you won't effect the bottom line of the business.

4. You'll quickly build a network of professionals. This is key. Networking is (almost) everything in business.

Finding small companies that do all of these well do exist but they are hard to find.
They don't have a Bill of Rights that explicitly grants this "freedom" do they? Apparently they use this to define what they can and can't do as journalists: http://www.oup.com/uk/orc/bin/9780199556458/
I probably use 'git checkout' 50-100 times a day, which I imagine is typical when you're working on several branches at once.
I understand that.

My point is why call it Paleo-anything (2.0, etc.) if it only resembles it in a maximum of 35%? And that's not even counting that you eat cheese, butter, yogurt and chocolate.

I'm not criticizing your diet, I'm criticizing how you label it.

From the little that I've read in your post, it sounds like you're just a healthy ovo-lacto vegetarian.
I'm not taking sides on these matters, because I don't know enough, but if these claims about the scientific community are somewhat true, it also explains why there isn't any peer-reviewed material on the skeptic side. All these other arguments are also flawed. Science based on peer-reviewing papers resulting from closed source code and data is also flawed.
I can attest that Jack Daniels is litigious and they will actively defend their trademark. Jagermeister will also. And Chuck Norris. I speak from personal experience.
Well, depends how you define 'healthy', but most vegetarians eat plenty of grains and legumes, if not sugar.
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Thanks for giving such a great summation. This was the key point for me from Lustig's presentation.

Essentially, if you treat sucrose and fructose as a condiment, rather than as a key source of kCal, you will be consuming simple sugars, protein and fat, food that actually nourishes and sates you directly, versus sucrose and fructose that in high doses simply transform to fat.

Per Lustig, it's important to differentiate between starches found in bread, potatoes etc., that break down to simple sugars like glucose that are metabolized directly by the body, and added sucrose and fructose that are metabolized in the liver to fat. For people saying that our carb consumption was the same back in early 20th Century, take a look at how much of that was likely breads and the like, versus the highly sweetened cereals of today.

edit: added a para on why looking at 'carbs', misses Lustig's point.
We are predisposed by our Victorian ancestors to assume that anything which gives us great pleasure must also be bad for us. Hence fat is believed to be worse than carbs.
This bears pointing out. People like knowing about their influence, so affiliate program may not need to give out money, just rewards and kudos.
Great post, I didn't know about a lot of these - I wrote my own version of qmv, now I don't have to use it :)
So I run http://tweethopper.com/ and we are up to $300 a month in paying accounts. I also have http://webpulp.tv/ which brings in around $1200 a month in ads.

Nothing major, but certainly room to grow!
Dima is a standard Russian-language short form for Dmitriy. Like Pete for Peter in English.

The name Sidorchenko sounds Ukrainian.
Until 5/1 I was making about $1,440/mo from google adsense on my site dodgit.com and a network of other sites I had purchased from flippa. Then I received an email 'your google adsense account has been disabled' and Google seized about a thousand dollars from my account. I had been using a personal account and a brand new account I set up for a business I wanted to build and sell (acceptable, per google's TOS) but they shut down both. Google's claim was that the website content was lousy and the multiple accounts were forbidden.

To be honest, the blogs did have some crappy content. I would be happy to pull the ads off the bad blogs and put them back on dodgit, a service I have lovingly maintained for 7 yrs. Sadly there appears to be no way to appeal to Google once they drop the axe.

I'm pondering next steps. I know a few people who work at Google but haven't contacted any of them yet. I've played around with adbrite and some other ad networks, but none of them seem to generate money the way adsense can.

I've also created a number of websites that generate revenue over the years, that aren't dependent on adsense in any way. I'll definitely make more!
Wouldn't that be a good enough reason to move?
Can someone please tell me the benefits of BankSimple over all the other online banks or your local credit union? I'm afraid I don't get it.