skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I probably spend about 10 minutes a day tracking. I keep a textfile open and have a markup language for documenting what I eat and how I feel.

I shy away from prepared food, both because it complicates analysis and because I've noticed it has a higher chance of causing negative effects. It's unavoidable sometimes though. If I have a brand or a restaurant I'll note that, but otherwise I mark the item with ???? to indicate it's uncontrolled.

I spent a few weeks measuring everything so that I could build up an intuition. I can eyeball most things reasonably well. It's not perfect, but it's a good ball park figure which is all I really need for my analysis.

The depth of the food tracking isn't too great, just food item, brand, quantity. I'm debating starting to track cooking method.
I backup my parents' iPad on a monthly basis and apply any OS updates. They only sync when they want stuff they can't get directly on the device itself (via say, iTunes, Netflix or Youtube), usually music.

If I'm not around, no sync/backup occurs. Totally believable that some folks have never done it.
I avoid updating iTunes because every time I do Apple has introduced some new gimmick that's taking another 256mb of ram and making it less useful to run in the background. On my netbook I can barely use iTunes and open a Google Doc because the scrolling causes the music to stutter. I've actually started using WMP when I have a lot of work to do in Docs as it's the only way I'm not hearing stammering music.

Strange how the only thing I've changed on my netbook in literally a year is iTunes and it never used to pull this shit before that Genius and DJ thing appeared.
Because if people are searching for a product, they probably already know about it and it is hard to call that "promotion" unless you squint really hard in which case, Google is offering free promotion to everyone!
Very cool, but it seems they had some trouble counting to 5.
Captions are as old as the New Yorker or The Far Side and quite likely older. A large portion of Reddit's popularity is based on pictures. More to it, people send each other pictures through Facebook.

Lolcats may not be forever, but captions are. So are people who think they have comedic talent. Make a great online photoshop option, and there are many options.
Your taxes are already paying for much more intelligent people to do that.
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Posted a video of it too so you can see the scrolling in action: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MBZ8P7lm0A
YC startup http://notifo.com/ will do this.

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I dunno about lumps, but with a little welding knowledge I can imagine a lot of things I could try building if I could buy prefabricated shapes and sheets of the stuff.
I absolutely agree, the bitcoins themselves can't be taken away and neither can person-to-person trade in them.

But you do agree that Mt. Gox sitting there with several million euros frozen in its accounts (for whatever reason) and with its bitcoin accounts inaccessible (even just for a while) will be pretty damaging to the project? And even more damaging to the people who, unlike, say, me, are NOT just playing or experimenting with this concept anymore? The pure person-to-person volume is tiny; if it could easily be scaled, then exchanges would not have arisen.
I would take it a bit further and ask all web developers to try to use your own site with a screen reader and turn off your monitors. It's quite an experience. For Windows, use JAWS, for Mac, use Voiceover (it's free and embedded to Mac OS)
I don't have advice about mobile dev, but I can tell you that there is always an under-served niche of local businesses and artists that need web dev work done. They are under-served because they fall in the gap where they do not have the expertise required to do it themselves, nor money to hire a professional company to do it, and because most free-lancers, once they build a resume, do not bother with small projects like theirs and prefer to either get a full-time gig, or build their free-lancing career and price themselves above the range that these people can afford to pay.

Which makes them easy pickings for someone like you - especially now with the proliferation of open source frameworks, e-commerce solutions (just don't use osCommerce or any of its relatives for the love of god), cms's, wikis, and what have you, which cover 99% of what a small business/art gallery/whatever requires.

So, this is one way to bootstrap your resume by doing this type of gigs as a free-lancer for a year or so. It's nice side-income next to your full-time job, it builds your resume that you can demonstrate when you are next interviewing, and you get to figure things out and find solutions for people with real-world projects and problems that they need solved.

Do not underestimate the value of your knowledge and skills - to most people what you do is black magic, and even though you may feel like you are a beginner (and honestly, that feeling will never go away because there's _always_ going to be more stuff to learn - see Impostor Syndrome), it is still worth money to them to use your skills and time.
Original: http://onefps.net/post/6496478249/50-percent-of-iphone-owner...

That.. doesn't make total sense unless these people aren't using their phones either. According to one analytics company iOS 3 has been virtually eliminated.

http://insights.chitika.com/2011/just-in-time-for-ios-5-ios-...

To upgrade you need to plug in your device and sync. Not to mention you generally need to sync to put music on the device.

Something is fishy about this rumor. Are the only people going to the Genius Bar recent purchasers?
Unfortunately, none of these people will use iCloud until they buy a new phone, since they're even less likely to be updating the OS.
What are better alternatives to Groupon? shopkick, perhaps?
Awesome.

If you like laminar flow stuff, check out these DIY laminar fountain videos:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEqrRV0jMw8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sDs_r91uJE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ijn98G0I99E (very ad-laden, beware)

If anybody has plans or instructions on how to make a laminar flow sheet of air (air curtain), please reply.
Roll With It
You don't need a macro to do that in a lisp. Typically you just use a built in 'partial' function, which just makes a closure that will call the original function. (It's simple, so you can just make your own if you're using a lisp without it built in.)
I wonder that they didn't do the correlation of length of time on SO (i.e., since join date) vs. reputation. Did the older developers join SO earlier, on average? How many rep points per day did older vs. younger devs accumulate?
Don’t Be a Dick
A slight tangent, but this is a personal peeve of mine: There should not be a space between syllables of the same word in pinyin.

Ie, it should be written "hanyu pinyin".
Stop talking AT me
Why does that make the algorithm incorrect? At most your method might be faster, although I doubt it because the probability that the left's last is greater than the right's first is small and gets exponentially smaller as the length of the sequences you're merging increases.
I like the basic use of space and layout, but the graphics are pretty crap. Bet that'll change though.
Why would you ever add contacts by hand? Just make sure they're in your address book and sync away.
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iTunes store is an integral part of iDevices, they couldn't sell the things without it. They're trying to separate out the cost to try to justify their fees but it doesn't make any sense because it should be built into the price of the devices. Before the app store existed Apple still provided the iTunes store service to customers for free with the purchase of the device.
Apple co-opting third-party app features in iOS 5: Fair or Foul?
Hmm. Am I the only person who actually likes it? I mean, to me it looks very incomplete but I really like the design concept with the pixel art and pixel gradients everywhere. The site as it is right now looks like dogshit to me, so this is pretty refreshing. Engadget looks marvelous as well. I'd like to give these guys the benefit of the doubt and assume it's a work in progress.
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From what I've heard from people in YC, Sam, Garry, and a few other YC alums have been incredibly useful, in addition to the senior YC partners. The only bottleneck has been food distribution at events.
It does not surprise me, Same with Android, I bet > 50/75% of people who have bought Android does not know its Google/Android and hav'nt downloaded a single app
Mark Cuban, are you listening?
Presumably he had added those 110 contacts over the last month.
They need more rev so they become to big to fail and can use the fed discount window or QE3.
"tally clicker"

"weight counter"

"hike mapper"

"vnc client"

People search for solutions to problems as often, or more than, specific apps. Appearing in that lineup is an important opportunity.
Interesting juxtaposition with this:

http://www.insidefacebook.com/2011/06/12/facebook-sees-big-t...
The "efficient market hypothesis" is broadly misunderstood. What it really says is something more like "a free market will strongly tend not to have easy arbitrage opportunities", not that it's guaranteed to produce a result that conforms to any particular person's goals for ideal societies or anything, not even free market advocates.

(Micro)-Economics is much more like physics; here is how it tends to work, how it tends to optimize, how it tends to in practice actively subvert attempts to predict what it will do (and thereby actively resisting any attempt to create a macro-economic theory, or at least one that lasts for any period of time). It's a very physics-like definition of "efficiency". The fact that the dam broke in the most energy-efficient manner and the resulting water deluge can be modeled with a high degree of accuracy by assuming it will follow the least-energy course in an efficient manner doesn't make the resulting flood "good" or "desirable"... just... efficient.

On the other hand, start your economics model with anything else and it's like trying to rewrite physics starting with material ether or something. I have "faith in the markets" in much the same way I have faith in physics (which I will remind you contains a lot of similar "merely statistical" theories, what you learned in school is the aberration, not the rule, and also is really strong on the fundamentals and gets progressively weaker as the systems get larger, rather like economics), but that doesn't mean I blindly trust them. Physics will kill you without blinking. But if you want to prevent that, it's a lot better to come to understand the laws of physics than to try to create new rules for the universe by sheer force of denial. Trying to guide the physics while actively refusing to learn about it is doomed to failure, too. Same for microecon.
You can just type the IP address into your browser.

But that is unlikely to be it. If the puzzle maker has even half a brain, those four numbers are only some part of the puzzle. If you look at the equations, they are way more complex than they need to be to give those four numbers. There must be additional data encoded there somehow. Of course if the puzzle maker is clever, there'll also be a clue there somewhere.

Of course these things tend to be done by marketing people who have no idea how to set puzzles. So the solution will probably end up being something really silly. And someone will somehow divine the answer, possibly because they were told ahead of time how to solve the puzzle.

It's rarely worth solving problems like these.
Panhandle in an unusual spot with a funny sign - like near a driving range with "need lessons badly".
Fix 1-2 of my friends computers.
Offer a one-day-only special on taking graduation / Father's Day pictures.
Offer tutoring, especially to groups of kids at the same time.
I've learned that certain refined carbs (white flour) give me an energy boost followed by a satisfying crash, whereas other refined carbs (white rice) just make me moody. I avoid refined carbs in general, but I have occasional insomnia so it's good to know which things can induce a good crash. Sweet potato yams are probably the best pure carb source that I've found for inducing sleep. Nuts and fruit help as well.

I've discovered some food allergies (soy, bananas, oranges) which have greatly eased symptoms after removal (especially digestion problems).

Magnesium and calcium have strong influences on cardiac events (skipped beats, bounding pulse, etc), but I haven't been able to leverage them to eliminate symptoms completely.

Ginkgo is great for circulation and body warmth (probably specific to my own body chemistry though, as it sounds like most people don't have any reaction to it). Ashwaganda is ridiculous (for me).

I wouldn't be surprised if nothing I've learned applied to anyone else. I don't encourage anyone to follow my specific diet (except for avoiding refined foods), but I do encourage people to track themselves. It's quite empowering.
In principle the purpose of design is to provide a particular product with utility. Judging from the screenshots below, this provides no real more usability or better user experience.

Reminds me of Gawker redesign; can't wait for the fail.
Ultimately, the terms on Facebook or SmugMug or any other service say that you "own" your content. Unfortunately, they store it in a proprietary format which means that it's pretty much useless without their services.

None of these apply to this project.
Back when I owned an iPhone, I used to sync it every other day. Since I switched to Android, I sync every few weeks. Software geared towards syncing versus software geared towards cloud services; it's all about how the OS is designed.
Happy Birthday!!!

And I agree with 6ren. You definitely look like a 20-something.
Agreed.

I also loved their work on Daily Beast and Vogue. Hard to make some real design statements on content sites.
These are very real problems with current web technologies but Adobe's solutions seem a little strange. Content flow and region styling are both something that should be made easy to do in html and would make it easier to design great looking websites. But, the syntax they propose is weird. They put all the text in one div that is presumably hidden by default before being inserted into other divs that you leave empty in your source.

I feel like some sort of pure CSS solution would be better than requiring empty divs in the HTML, this further mixes content and presentation. (not that HTML/CSS does a perfect job of maintaining that separation at the moment, but I believe this proposal would be quite a departure.)
Fair, because Apple will do it on less battery and fewer crashes. Feature lists don't really matter, most people have never used remember the milk and won't care to read all of what it can do.
I've only ever wanted to do this once, I just went back a few times in the original tab and opened a second tab then.
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> It's quite an experience

It is, but it is mostly meaningless unless you are willing to spend a lot of time doing that and thus coming closer to the true experience of the blind users.
50% does not tell us the whole story. We need absolute number to make sense of this data.
I actually like it. after all it's just a blog - you gotta try really hard to mess up it's UI/UX (and in that case the usability). Gawker I reckon has put a tremendous effort into it. The new look just seems classier with the pixelated logo, althought the one thing they really gotta fix is their page loading time.
I've had my phone for over a year and I never knew what it meant to sync the phone until I read the article and discussion today.

I've rarely even turned on my computer at home since I got the phone; consequently, 99% of my browsing is done on a mobile device.
But then you'd have some sort of cyber John Dillinger/Martin Luther style martyr to contend with on the intellectual plane.
I was laughing with them when they were making fun of Sony, but now I'm not so amused. :(
That this is true is a bit of a tautology. Assuming the graph is monotonically decreasing sounds unlikely to me, though; I think there's likely to be multiple peaks - like the proverbial "7-year itch" for marriages.

Another graph that would be relevant would be the likelihood of people who have been exposed to facebook through their friends, media saturation and advertising, yet still haven't joined, to be tempted to join later. In other words - facebook has already saturated the internet world's radar, and people who haven't joined already are completely aware of its existance, function, and benefits, and still not joining. Those will be very expensive users to get, so IMO retention should be their major focus. I stayed through the "6-month updates-full-of-farmville problem", because they fixed it, they barely kept me through the "1-and-1/2-year privacy panic" after backing off on some portion of their stridency (and profitability per user), and they lost me completely, along with a number of other people I know, after the "2-year bored-to-shit-with-people-I-went-to-HS-with-telling-me-where-they-went-to-lunch-and-what-they-think-of-Obama lull" which I'm not sure they can do anything about.

If a large cohort of similarly aged users hit some peak that facebook is unable or unwilling to iron out at the same time, and there's no supply of cheap "Wow, there's a place on the internet where I can keep track of all of my college buddies!" users to replace them, there could be a precipitous fall.
More ca. 1930 - precursors of the Church-Turing thesis showing up. And if anybody then had predicted that "one patent on computers, and IBM is out of business", they would've been wrong too.
Pretty much anything significant will need SQL, even if Node.JS includes databases, so you write it in JS I'd rather do the sql myself.
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I like the idea of it, but something feels wrong about the implementation, something about how it feels, can't put my finger on it though. I think it's potentially how they've taken the idea slightly too far, the text doesn't feel the focus enough (from the small amount I've seen)

Also the lack of adverts is proof it's a very early idea/prototype, proper design includes careful positioning of adverts for effective advertising and none ruining a users experience, they would never just dump adverts in after, so we can assume this is just a basic idea of what they want the site to look like.
The beginning of the end...
Nice! Also, IBM was named by one-upping ever letter of NCR.
That's a great point. I try to actively fight conservatism, but it's probably a neurologically losing battle; as I get more experienced, I necessarily get more scarred, and will instinctively avoid the areas that have caused me professional pain. When this helps, we call it "learning," but in the limit it tends towards rigidity.
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Towers of History
My point is that for something meant to be totally decentralized, bitcoin has become nearly completely centralized instead - virtually every transaction (even that buy-newegg one) has to pass through Mt. Gox, since suppliers have to be paid in dollars, and Mt. Gox is the only place with sufficient volume. I think that's an interesting and non-obvious outcome, and I wish that people would try to do a serious economic analysis of bitcoin, instead of giving us the standard opinions of "it's garbage" or "it's going to take over the world, you'll be poor and I'll be rich".

Even if there are 2 exchanges, or 5, or 10, that doesn't change the basic fact. After all, there are hundreds of central banks, but we don't refer to regular currency as peer-to-peer. My further point, as an aside, is that the shaky nature of the bitcoin exchanges makes this a dangerous investment for anyone who is treating this as more than an experiment. Failure of even one exchange out of several is still very damaging to an economy.
231 + 158 + 553 + 68 = 1010

Of course that leaves the infinite omega. 1010 appears to be base 2. So, "10 to infinity" maybe? Maybe? Maybe not. Alright, my 2 minutes of thinking about this are up!
Yes; just sign up for Notifo, and put your Notifo id in the notifo field of your profile.
You mean http://notifo.com.
They had that system in Russia when the rouble was fluctuating more. All prices were posted in "comparative units", which were basically USD. You'd then pay using the day's exchange rate.
Thanks, though I already have a small language working with the LLVM Jit that accepts the language described by this grammar: http://selmer.warwick.ac.uk/c.grm

I'm in the process of rewriting it to use peg though, as I was using a parser generator that is not open source, and it started to bug me that it wasn't.
syncing is a massive PITA, thats why.

I just bought this new album and am halfway out the door ... but oh wait!!! I forgot to sync it to my iphone, and I really want to listen to it on my 30 minute drive to work ... now I have to go back in the house, hope that my iphone shows up in itunes when I connect it (on windows sometimes you have to restart your computer for this to happen) then select the album and hit 'sync' which takes another couple of minutes.

oh joy.

Then have you ever gotten your phone/ipad played with it, installed a few apps, downloaded some books before finally connecting it with itunes, only for Apple to tell you that its about to to wipe out all the apps on your phone since its a new device and you downloaded all those apps before your first sync?

Yeah ... lets just say the number doesn't surprise me.
The real problem is that assistive technology is very slow to catch up with the technology and are expensive. For example, JAWS, one of the most popular screen readers, is around thousand dollars, and people purchase these type of software not on a regular basis and don't update year to year. Even if the screen readers catches up, it will be a while until the adoption spreads due to the high cost. Also, as you can imagine, disabled people do not make a lot of money ON AVERAGE (not saying you can't be well off being disabled), so upgrades do not happen often.

Another thing that sucks is that reader interface are not standardized. Try using JAWS, then Voiceover on Mac OS. Way you use them is very different and way it works is different too.

Accessibility is a tough problem, but I don't think we should hold back on using modern technologies and process. We should definitely have accessibility in our minds and know in our heads that it is hurting some users in using these new technologies however.
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Theoretically, someone could make a BTC to BTC anonymizing service. You could even put your BTC through multiple anonymizing services, similar to how you can route network traffic through multiple proxies.
I find web development less enjoyable than 5 or 10 years ago because of the increasing size and complexity of the stack.

At least us old fogies have had the last 15 years to learn web development. How the hell do young programmers learn such a big stack in a few years? I'm guessing half using youthful energy and the other half skipped in blissful ignorance?! :)
i'm not referring to spain, where delicious tapas are cheap and plentiful, but to the americanized concept where the going rate for 3 bites of food seems to be about $7
Youtube starts renting videos
seems to be down right now.
If you purchase music from iTunes on your phone, then sync, it'll wipe out your music more often than not.

Hence, people avoid doing this.