skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I guess I haven't been paying attention but I thought the Atkins diet from a few years ago had been discounted as an unhealthy fad diet. But now I'm reading that it has been scientifically proven to be the healthiest diet. Is that right? Are carb-filled fruits and vegetables supposed to be less healthy than for example fried bacon?
You're wrong. But enforcement may make things closer to the position that you state. However I think relying on the media companies not to enforce their copyright is a bit naive.
It is. Everyone except the hard drive manufacturers uses GiB for technical reasons. Hard drive manufacturers use GB for marketing (and clarity, but mostly marketing) reasons.

It used to be common to speak of sizes in "hard drive megabytes". Eventually, the disk manufacturers won the pointless semantic battle and that went away.

In practice, it matters not in the slightest.
Liberty Media Offers to Buy Barnes & Noble for $1B
Making the app universal is on the list. I'll have to check out Textastic and see what kind of cross-app support we can do.
Calm down there. It is scientists after all that are informing you of the new evidence.
Microsoft links fake Mac AV to Windows scareware gang
Yeah, you could argue this... and then we could just point out that Jobs & co are right, and Flash has been a battery hog since the dawn of time. This is a reason why the iPhone can be so performant; you're arguing that it's perfectly acceptable to degrade the otherwise shockingly good performance of a mobile device when it can be avoided entirely.

Flash needs to stay out of this argument, as at the end of the day it's still a real ethical question - how much CPU are you realistically allowed to take and continually use from a user visiting your page?
I just wish the "evangelists" would stress "for some people" when they talk about these diets.

Some people stay healthy and trim on a low-fat diet. Some people do much better on a low-carb diet. Some people are physically harmed by eating meat (http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/gout-diet/MY01137).

Unfortunately we just need to experiment a little as individuals to find what works best - and hope for a day when we doctors/scientists can recommend diets based on genetic traits.
Facebook Gives Out Free Facebook Credits to Grease the System
Mobile processing power is doubling annually, GPU speed at an even faster rate. Hardware acceleration for CSS transforms is only starting to get good. (No negative values on cubic-bezier timing functions!)

No, web components haven't met native ones yet, but they only need to achieve 60 fps. They will get there, it's a safe bet.
Do you really think GNOME owes its "success" to it being able to be used in unlikely places? How are you defining "success"?

If you define success by its ability to run in obscure places, then sure, any change which limits this is going to cause GNOME to be a "failure". But that's not the only definition of "success" and "failure". Personally, I think the ability to run GNOME on obscure operating systems isn't all that interesting. For similar reasons, it really isn't impressive to me that NetBSD can run on ancient Amiga hardware. And in, fact, NetBSD's obsession of supporting legacy hardware slowed down their ability to run on modern hardware, I'd consider it bad and a direct cause of their "failure" in terms of market share as compared to say, Linux.

There's a similar issue going on here with GNOME and obscure/irrelevant operating systems. If that slows them down, then they should (IMHO) figure ways of not slowing them down. And in fact, it's not a complete abandonment of those lesser/legacy systems. There would be cut down systemd releases that would support what ever limited functionality that might be provided by that operating system. If Solaris doesn't have cgroups to provide resource isolation, then there's not much GNOME or the systemd/Solaris adapter layer can do to ameliorate the situation.
This is a small app I made for a friend who manages a university website. She wanted a Calendar of Events list that is easy to manage and can be styled using CSS. Now she can manage the actual events using Google Calendars and embed this on their site. Google Calendar offers embedding but it's pretty funky in usage and not easy to style because it runs in an IFrame.
Ironically, the article's header has Facebook "Recommend" and Twitter "Tweet" buttons. The Facebook one has 4,000 "likes" and the Twitter one has 235 Tweets.
Many vegetarians eat some food from animal sources, like eggs, milk, yogurt, etc. On the other hand, I have heard cases of people that tried to be pure vegan and had serious health problems.
House, Senate leaders agree to four-year extension of Patriot Act surveillance
Nice number crunching..

But then let's reassess this 1 BT/Day thing. That's $8 a day right now, you'd be pretty pissed paying $8/day for most any game.

What if we said 1 BT/month instead? Then all your numbers kind of point to that being pretty feasible no? If I'm reading your calculations right, then a gamer with one GPU would generate 2 BTs per month.
That's what I noticed. If you label the horizontal axis for the amount learned (more or less equivalent to his "Performance" that he has on the vertical axis) and the vertical axis for effort required, it would fit standard usage just fine.
Facebook and Microsoft team up against Child Pornography
What are you like? Do you enjoy digging really really deep into a problem? Perhaps a big company that provides the stability to work on a problem for years is the right place? Do you like doing lots of different things, none of them deeply, but all of them well, with never enough information to make a solid decision with? Go find a startup. How are you at interacting with people? Extremely outgoing, always meeting new people? Startup all the way. Introverted and terrified of sales? (well, work on that, but a safe place to get better at it is a big company.) No kids, no spouse, no debt? Totally going to help at a startup. There's no right answer to the question, it depends on what's best for you. I've done big company and startup and independent contracting and I don't regret any of them, but I'm also having a fantastic time at my current company. It turns out that for me, at this time, the best answer is a small profitable company with wonderful people where I can make things better with computers. And don't underestimate how important people are. Your coworkers make a huge difference.
The problem isn't science or the scientific method. It's marketers and salesmen (laypersons) that take one scientific study and go crazy with it. The studies themselves are probably littered with probabilities, statistics and caution conclusions. That doesn't work when you're trying to sell snake oil.

Just look at the whole anti-oxidant craze with cranberries, pomegranate and acai berries. Suddenly people are buying gallons of juice. The scientists didn't do that.
Go for it. In my experience, the profit difference between my paid app and my ads-based app is something like 30:1. (And my ads-based app is better rated)
I was moderately appalled to discover just now that Referer: headers are included in cross-domain HTTPS requests. Bang goes using a CDN to lighten the load on the secure areas of my server.

(Mozilla fixed the 'bug' that prevented this behaviour a long while ago: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=141641)
I recently discovered 'bc'. It stands for 'basic calculator' or more precisely from the man page - 'arbitrary precision arithmetic language'. It is all but a basic calculator, with better floating point precision capabilities than Java/Python.
Sigh. A good criticism of Lustigs demonizing fructose:

http://www.alanaragonblog.com/2010/01/29/the-bitter-truth-ab...

Key takeaway that Lustig ignores - USDA numbers by the way:

Total energy intake in 1970 averaged 2172 kcal. By 2007 this hiked up to 2775 kcal, a 603 kcal increase.
The recording industry would be making $6/m more from at least one person if they offered this service directly themselves.
somewhere around $100/mo from an adwords/affiliate thing, and less than $50 on a web app i'm slowly working on. in the future, web app will generate more income, and i'm working on a niche piece of hardware that ought to also produce a few bucks on the side.

edit: on the "takes money to make money" front, i make several hundred bucks on dividend-returning stocks.
LinkedIn Climbs Past $100 Per Share On Second Day Of Trading
Is there a new Tech Bubble?
I really like f1fanatic.co.uk for pretty good analysis and updates (and, of course, gossip and drama! :). There is a pretty good forum on there for people to chat too, and it has a lot of very knowledgeable people who hang around.

... I just realised that this article was on f1fanatic, DUH. But yeah, it's definitely the best site I've seen for F1 news.
Stackbox CMS: The Backend is Dead. (BSD)
6k-8k a month through small-time consulting. I've got one big customer, and two smaller ones. Good work, but it doesn't scale well.
I average about $300 a month from app sales of a paid app and an ad-supported app. (This month is looking better, for some reason)

[Edit: I didn't actually say it, but these are iPhone apps]

On average, almost all of my income is from app sales, and not from ads or In-App Purchases.

I had a Lite version of the paid app, but that seemed to do more harm than good.

I have In-App purchases (both to unlock some extra content and remove ads in the ad-based app, and to unlock each feature of the paid app into the free app), but these have been rather slow to sell (maybe 1 or 2 a week?)

My best paid app sales month was about $900. (This was actually Christmas and a strong early January, which was all reported as January) No other months have come close (although I've only been up since December, really)

I DON'T advertise of any kind. Even my official website gets zero traffic, so I don't bother to keep it up to date.

P.S. I honestly expected my apps to spike in sales and then drop down to a couple a week. In fact, all of my apps continue to be very steady. Even my highs and lows tend to be distributed across all three apps, implying (but not proving) that it's the market itself moving up and down, rather than anything I'm doing.

[EDIT: Responding to replies:]
[EDIT: Responded to wallflower]

statictype

-I don't openly connect myself to my apps, mostly because they are a little embarrassing. Maybe I'll write a blog post tell-all.

-They started earning steadily from the beginning, almost entirely through searching for solutions in the app store. I should point out that the paid app is actuall $2.99 so $300/month is really only an average of 4 sales per day or so.

hello_moto

-As for getting started in the iPhone business, I came into it as a young but seasoned programmer who had an idea for a market that was somewhat established, but under-served. Since then, my opinion on that market and my initial idea have completely changed, but I don't have any better ideas for iPhone apps at the moment.

As for rules and regulations? I haven't registered a business yet, so Apple treats me as an individual developer. I tried to hide my real name when I set it up, which half-worked, but took like a week.

I've run into IP infringement cases for my apps, and have even had a DMCA take-down against it, which was resolved very quickly by both sides (at the expense of my app becoming hideous). Apple actually reviewed and approved my changed app within 2 hours of me submitting it, which was awesome. I actually only had a single day of zero sales through all that.

I had an app take about 2 and a half months to get through review. Apple is MUCH slower with free apps than paid apps.

wallflower

The graphic design/presentation was absolutely awful for a long time. Now the app itself is decent enough looking (no where near "Apple" pretty, but the logo is still awful).

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Completely unrelated to your responses, I'm planning on submitting my fourth app this weekend (which is an optimistic estimate, to say the least).
The point of the article wasn't to discuss the opportunity cost of keeping or eliminating carbs. It was a discussion of what is optimal for our health.
So they're storing files on their servers and selling access to those files ... hope they have good copyright lawyers.
> To answer this question, we compiled a list of all known https websites from the Google index, and tested SSL FalseStart with all of them. The result of that test was encouraging: 94.6% succeeded, 5% timed out, and 0.4% failed. The sites that timed out were verified to be sites that are no longer running, so we could ignore them.

It's nifty being a Googler.
That is actually the complaint I have seen most often with command lines - you need to learn so many commands at the very beginning to do anything useful; thus producing a steep curve. Once you have the absolutely necessary basic commands down (cd, pwd, ls, mkdir, chmod, and so on) you can easily add more commands gradually, as you need them.
> The MS approach has always been to make money on working around defects.

Internet Explorer and Windows Defender are both free.

Also, the defect in this instance is allowing users to install software on their PCs and not helping them avoid installing malware. As this story shows, this is a defect that is shared and arguably worse on OSX.
What about if you have a lot of student debt? Does that change things?

I have a bunch of student debt and I start paying interest in 6 months. I elected to work at a big company to get out of debt. The benefits and perks are amazing...and the learning opportunity is definitely there. It's turning into a great decision :)

Anyone out there go to a startup while they're in debt?
And all of it stems from the fact that, JavaScript being a dynamic language, there's no way to statically determine whether the function will use 'element' or not (it could always eval() something evil and sneaky). Most functional languages would avoid packing 'element' at compile time, and I suspect that modern JavaScript compilers also handle this optimization whenever they can afford it.
I find that I need to lookup the special values when writing Go time format strings. In this regard, Go time formatting is no better than strftime.

The win comes from reading format strings. I find that it's obvious what the format is supposed to do with out looking at the doc.
Links to HN post on "Picking holes in mathematics: Finitely stated, undecidable propositions".
I totally agree, the problem is that it's harder for people to eat healthy than simply pick a single thing and demonize it. Plus, telling people to eat healthy doesn't sell a lot of books.
Using jquery will avoid this issue, because it automatically removes event handlers when a node is taken out of the DOM tree.
Links to HN post on "Searching for the missing truth: Axioms and infinities in mathematics".
Well-said. Lately one of my mantras has been "Do What Works For You". We tend to broadcast our opinions as if they were the only possible approach for all people, because our insecurities make us fear being wrong every time we see someone with a different solution. Or, worse; we choose to take the "easy way" of following someone else's belief system to avoid the uncertainty of nurturing our own, even if it obviously doesn't work for us. Each individual person experimenting and drawing their own conclusions seems like the most reliable way for everyone to actually see results.

If only everyone would just be quiet and follow my opinions about that...
Indeed. Last I checked, jQuery breaks the cycle when elements are removed from the DOM by going through all their event handlers and data members and dropping them.
Why do shell aliases make you uncomfortable? If we are talking about your personal machine, and not a server where another user can be bitten by not understanding your personal alias preferences, what could the harm be?
Though "carbs are evil" implies that it affects everyone.
Monkeys protect Indian government officials
Google ascii art - Google logo easter egg
Yeah this is bad ass, the site looks awesome. Great job! I'd totally pay for this service.
Just a reminder: the votes haven't happened yet. So call your Representative and Senators, send them email, write on their Facebook walls, etc. etc. And tell your friends to as well.

And then in 2012, remember how they voted on this -- and cast your own vote accordingly.
Wrong. The problem is that people think low-carb equals bacon grease and no vegetables. It really just means little to no bread, grains, rice or potatoes. A low carb diet is predominantly fruits and vegetables, but for some reason, people really like to focus on the meat and fat aspect.
I agree. I guess I didn't make it clear that I was saying that those foods aren't necessarily bad just because they are carbs. My personal data is irrelevant (and largely due to the fact that my metabolism seems to be on par with a smelting furnace).
Facebook has a (somewhat) similar process: http://www.facebook.com/careers/puzzles.php
I was in Brazil in 1995 and one of the Brazilian girls I was eating with mentioned she is not going to eat the pasta / carbs because she is trying to lose weight. I thought she had no idea what she was talking about, what she needed to do was cut out the fat. Turns out I was wrong.
I beg to differ: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roux
Startup marketing lessons from the Kindle
Apple actually fell down on this one; it should be possible to create natively scrolling divs without resorting to JS trickery. (In fairness, Android only acquired this feature very recently.)

> Broadly speaking, investment in mobile webapps largely seems to be about improving the entrenched web developer's experience, rather than the actual user's experience.

While there is some truth to this, it doesn't tell the whole story. Most developers don't have the time or desire to maintain multiple native codebases, and so using web tools improves user experience by allowing the app to exist on their platform at all. Also, sometimes these things come in handy on actual websites (personally, I consider "Click here to download our mobile app!" terrible UX).
Sure plenty of people are talking about it -- PATRIOT Act renewal was _the_ biggest topic on blogs and Twitter in February, with opposition both on the right and left. It's just that most of the mainstream media isn't covering it.
Any thoughts in this direction will be cool
Yeah, I guess as a Guiness lover I forgot Mike's doesn't actually have a great selection.
You can trust them to continue working on the research that gets them grant money. Where that grant money comes from tends to have a disproportionate impact on the outcome of the research. This is a problem that must be addressed before science is actually science and not marketing.
Another cool one is xmlstarlet.
It's like grep and sed and some on top, but for XML files.

Especially, xmlstarlet sel lets you select whatever data you want from XML files, being a command-line XSL templates generator.

Don't know anything else useful for XML, so it fills a vacuum.
The timing's due to the three-month extension in February. With strong libertarian, progressive, and tea party opposition to the PATRIOT Act, Democratic and Republican leadership both want to remove it as a campaign issue for 2012: the House Judiciary Committee was proposing a six-year extension, and in the Senate Feinstein was proposing 2013.
Ask HN: What's in a name?... or in a tag line?...
Hi,
I'm about to embark on a new startup (which is a pivoted idea from a previous startup) called Smug Owl and I want to get the messaging and tone right of the couple of lines of copy that we put on the 'register your interest' page. This copy intentionally doesn't go into too much detail but it should give people coming to the site enough of an idea to register their interest.

Rather than tell you what the startup is I thought I would put the 2 options I have come up with for the mentioned copy.

I would love it if you could help me out by telling me: 1. What do you think my startup is, based on this copy? 2. Would you sign up? (why or why not?)

Any thoughts welcome. You can be constructively cruel if you like. Thanks in advance :) BTW, this is in the style of a dictionary definition.

Option 1:
Smug Owl [smuhg oul] - Great, recommended audio for the urban commuter

- noun 1 . Busy commuter who conveniently enjoys audio recommendations hand picked by well informed guides.

Option 2:
Smug Owl [smuhg oul] - Great, recommended audio for the urban commuter

- noun 1 . Busy commuter who conveniently enjoys periodical audio recommendations selected by knowledgable curators.
From what I gathered in the article, logging out doesn't solve the problem. The cookie works if you've logged in anytime in the last month
Definitely agreed, but is there anything more complex than DF?

As a sidenote, to anyone who doesn't know the story of how Dwarf Fortress is being made, you should check it out. It's one guy, working full time on it, and managing to support himself and his brother through monthly donations. It's released completely free of charge, so this is just solely from people donating. That alone would be a pretty cool story, but when you look at the immense, mindboggling, ridiculously ambitious scale of the the planned finished game, it's incredible. He's basically trying to build a completely "generic fantasy world simulator", with procedurally generated world, history, etc. The amount of detail he goes into in this is amazing, and he has so much more planned. If you ever need to be inspired that one person can make a living doing what they love, or that you can actually implement features that are ambitious beyond most AAA developers' wildest dreams, look to Toady One.

As a bonus, it's a pretty fun game!
And Lustig responds to those criticisms here:

http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201104211000

Key takeaway is that Lustig doesn't make any claim that you can't get fat by eating too many calories, regardless of the source. Lustig's research is on the metabolic pathways for fructose and glucose, and they are substantially different.
I somehow don't think that 'cavemen' were eating cheese. :P
Many vegetables are low in Carbs.

They are the staple of the ketogenic diet, a diet which is high fat and protein and very low carb.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ketogenic_diet
Lubrication of the earth axis [joke]
I guess giving a steep educational discount and a free iPod and printer isn't enough, huh?
That's not a patch on Brainfuck: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainfuck

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The Fugitive Series - a retrospective
Intake is the key point in the entire argument for me. The dose makes the poison, and at this point we're arguing over whether it is healthier to poison ourselves with excessive calories from fat or excessive calories from carbs. If you don't eat too much, you don't have a stake in the argument at all.
Does anyone know if fetch.io or put.io caches requests across accounts? It seems like a pretty obvious optimization, but neither services advertises this ability.

Find appropriate torrent, it already exists on the server, start streaming immediately. With enough users it would be like a shady version of Netflix. At least until the MPAA catches on and floods them with DMCA requests.
Veganism isn't a diet. It's a lifestyle. And a poor one at that. It's the anti-paleo diet, because you can't be vegan without modern technology and supplements. There are just too many gaps in nutrition.
The antagonist in Hypercube was alright, but other than that, yes skip them and forget they exist.