skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Where did I say that it was a part of labs?

I was just referring to the parent, that this step might indeed be an attempt to cut costs since the competition makes more profit. And if that is true than they might start cutting elsewhere, too.
Is It Cold in Here? (Sexism in Science)
Foods have complex interactions with humans. I can grab 20 papers that talk about the benefits of whole grains. It's extremely easy to cherry pick the data.

Take this quote from one of the papers noted by the author:

The studies summarized in this review show that the recommendation for increasing dietary fiber in Western communities would not be expected to have any adverse effect on mineral absorption if we increase not only the intake of fiber, but also the dietary intake of other food components such as protein (both vegetable and animal protein) and ascorbic, citric, and oxalic acids (in fruits and vegetables). The adequate intake of minerals, fat, and simple sugars are maintained with this type of diet. The recommendations should be best interpreted in such a way as to prevent the consumption of excessive amounts of phytate, particularly for those whose mineral needs are great. Further studies are still needed in this field in order to understand the conflicting results published in the literature regarding the effects of fiber on the utilization of minerals; however, the studies reviewed in this article may give us an idea of the complexity of mineral availability in fiber-rich, phytate-rich diets.

From a cursory skimming of the references that even your author gives, it seems like only diets exceptionally high with phytate are problematic -- in areas such as Iran. I don't think the typical US diet (even at a 1 std dev) is likely to approach a problem. And as noted here, with reasonable diet modification, the problem can be almost completely mitigated.

I'm not a nutritionist, and don't think about this daily, but the evidence just isn't compelling. And often completely contradictory. Given that, if whole grains in moderation lead to a better quality of life, that's my choice.

Of course if we see that most NBA athletes and centurians avoid whole grains, I would strongly reconsider.

With that said, I actually don't eat many whole grains, and eat more fice. But purely for non-health related reasons.
Right, I was talking about node. It sounds like perhaps node has had more people polishing the command-line tools? Stuff that probably belongs in V8, but goes in node because it's a more openly-developed project? The mention of node just seemed a little out of place at first glance.
Atoms are available now. Agents might come soon. Refs and Vars are questionable.
I think SQLAlchemy is designed for people who are comfortable dealing with SQL directly, while other ORMs want their users to be oblivious about SQL.

In Chinese, there are 3 stages of life:

1. Looking at a mountain, it's a mountain - this is when you start learning about SQL

2. Looking at a mountain, it's not a mountain - this is when you start using tools that shell you from SQL

3. Looking at a mountain, it's still a mountain - this is when you start using SQLAlchemy
Really? My 2nd gen top of the line (11") MBA was $1400 (I think), and now the top is $1650. Maybe it's different for the 13"...
Atoms are there. The others are not, but they would be pretty much meaningless in a Javascript engine anyway, since Javascript is specified to be single threaded.
That ClojureScript is the (mostly experimental & now obsolete) work done by Chris Houser quite some time back. These two are not the same thing.
All of the core syntax is not currently there, but you're right that ClojureScript only interops with js and not Java. For a more detailed differences list see https://github.com/clojure/clojurescript/wiki/Differences-fr...
http://www.iq.harvard.edu/blog/sss/archives/2011/07/detectin...
I have a faulty router that just this morning rebooted itself several times while Lion was downloading. Everytime the connection was lost it just resumed.

Why don't you try leaving it some hours and see how it goes?
Fake apple stores popping up in china
Products get knocked off all the time - designer bags, Oscar-night dresses, watches. But entire stores? That's something new. Which is why the internet is going crazy over a blogger's report that three fake Apple stores have popped up in her neighbourhood in Kunming, China.
Can Bookstores be Saved?
That ClojureScript is actually a different project, and is a much less complete implementation. IIRC, it's not a true compiler like the new ClojureScript, but just uses macros to transform forms to Javascript. This announcement probably makes that one obsolete.
Dirty jokes are intended to be fun, but they can be hostile. Hostility does not derive solely from intent.
Privacy Concerns Will Topple Facebook One Day
The most important statement in this article is near the beginning, and it's still relevant today:

"I've done small woodworking projects before, and I think I have a pretty good idea of what I need: some wood and a few basic tools: a tape measure, a saw, a level, and a hammer."

The reason I hate frameworks (even things like Django which is very easy to get started with) is that, at some point, I'm asked to re-learn a different way of solving a problem that I've already solved in the past.

I've been doing lots of thinking about this having written the Great American PHP Framework myself, and worked with other people's frameworks, and also worked a lot in the CMS space and the biggest conclusion that I've come to is that the best tools are those that enable you to do things faster or more conveniently but don't actually provide any abstraction.

For example, when deploying a website there are any number of tools to "abstract away" the HTML layer - templating engines, markups, markdowns etc. etc. but the best way to build HTML is using HTML and testing in a web browser, always.

When you need to write some code in whatever web framework you're using to handle a POST request, you want to be as close as possible to the HTTP layer without a bunch of arcane systems in between you and what you and the underlying technology.

Sure it's handy to have tools which automate some repetitive aspects, but if you understand the underlying principles and you know the syntax of the language you're working with, you should at all times be able to just "get it done" however you know how without reading endless documentation and shoehorning your knowledge through a bunch of layers of abstraction.

The same goes for ORM - I want convenience of access to my data, and some automation to handle some of the more boring aspects of writing SQL, but I need to be able to mix and match (yes I know most ORMs allow you to use raw SQL, but it's always one or the other - the ORM or the SQL - I've never used a tool that has a simple method for me to extend the ORM bits halfway through the query building process with some custom SQL).

This is my zeitgeist now and it pervades all the projects I'm working on.

[1] http://www.decalcms.com/
That's roughly how it's meant to work pre-IPO. Until they're a public company they're only supposed to care about the investors they chose ("the insiders").
Athletic != Meathead. I think by meathead he meant that the cast of Jersey Shore isn't coding for them.
No STM, that'll be interesting.

Ack no transients either! I know it's early but not gonna lie that one makes me sad. I love being able to write stupid fast list/map builder functions that bash inline but then return something nice and immutable.
Pneumatic logic board made entirely from wood doubles as desk/organ
Interesting, but I don't think I fully understand when you'd use it. Why would you need to couple object references with floating-point values?
Kind of reminds me of the scene in Portal 2 where you look at a painting for 5 seconds for your art appreciation time. I hope this isn't a mandatory activity like eating lunch with all your peers at StackOverflow. I understand the logic behind it, but its probably something I wouldn't want to do. I would like it if offices encouraged employees moving around more often. At my work the office is kind of small and I usually sit in the same spot for too many hours without getting up.
"I'm currently in the planning stages of building a hosted Java web application..."

Seriously, people are starting NEW projects with Java as the language of choice? Despite the plethora of 'better' languages you can run on a JVM.
Bear in mind that the wording is very careful. We took great pains to say things like "not currently implemented." ;-)
The point is that when someone invests speculative venture capital, which is what the U.S. did when it provided nearly half a billion dollars to a company with almost no revenue and no track record, that investor should get SERIOUS equity. Instead, the cronies at Tesla got a loan at a subsidized interest rate, and taxpayers got no upside and 100% downside in the likely event that Tesla fails.
Why Valuations Are Getting Too High for Seed Stage Investors
Reduced taxes on profitable oil companies are not the same as non-recourse taxpayer loans for 100 times the revenue of Tesla.

And it isn't "us," the Germans and Toyota are equity stakeholders in Tesla.
Good point about there being different levels of frameworks/tools.

What's important is using the right tools for the job. Sometimes you might need the high level, very abstract framework, but it's not cool if that ends up being the only tool available.
I'm not sure by what is your criteria for arranged marriages being successful. Is it because there are less divorces? The reason for that is probably because divorces are extremely taboo or illegal in the places that have have arranged marriages. As for the sacrificing in the military. Some of that has to do with the kind of people that want to join the military (a very small portion of the US population). Also from chats with family and friends that have done service, they did not feel like their "buddies" would be willing to sacrifice themselves for them.
What changed in spaces? I really can't stand stock spaces in snow leopard and am currently using hyperspaces to get reliable hotkey switching in spaces, if something breaks this I would like to know so I can not upgrade.
SoundHound demos LiveLyrics iPhone app
Maximizer brings Lion’s “full-screen” to apps that don’t currently support it
I only mentioned Node because the parent post did, but as for the reason it was chosen for the target of the first round is because it's definitely got the polish as far as libs, installation experience, etc. go.
1) Wait, they're up to Firefox 8 now? I thought I heard something about Firefox 5 coming out a couple weeks ago.

2) Wait, they're still mainly 32-bit? People still use 32-bit computers? Maybe that's my being a Mac user, but I don't think I have very many 32-bit apps left.
I sugest reading the article and don't take thigns out of context.

- First it's from 2005 (when was Java made open source.. 2006?). I'm no expert in the JVM but I guess any signifcant community gains where made after 2006.

- Secondly he makes it perfectly clear he no choice "yes, it has to be Java, for a variety of reasons that I don't feel like going into right now"

That aside many people still choose Java for various reasons over other languages. Hell I'm still doing .net 1.1 and VB6 work for clients.
Article is from 2005. I do think the framework situation has improved a lot since then.
Zero-install, toilet-mounted iPad valet: Help me build it
Ask HN: Should I used a lexer and parser for this?
A technical question I'm hoping some experienced hackers can help with:

My django application has a search feature for searching articles. It needs to handle logic features (AND, OR, (), etc.) and search articles accordingly using django's ORM tools and be used to create a regular expression that's used in my python code for certain searches that aren't performed at the database level. I've read about lexers such as ply - but I'd be interested to hear about anyone else who's had a similar problem. Take logic expressions, then transform them into something a database can use for searching, and then transform them into something else entirely for regex searches.
To be very honest, I have a 3G connection with a limit of about 1.25 GB per month. Since I wanted Lion as quick as possible, I downloaded 1 GB of material using the 3G connection (took me a very, very short time - relatively). When I tried to resume the download from the App Store using my normal internet connection it didn't, and I lost about 1GB of stuff.

That's why I posted the earlier message.

In the interest of full disclosure, it was probably because the Mac App Store needed to re-authenticate me (I changed IPs remember), clicking resume resulted in me not being able to start the download, and the App Store just decided that the 1GB downloaded was useless.

The point about flaky internet connections, and "chunk"ed downloads still stands. I don't expect to be able to get through this download, and even my current issue would have been more gracefully handled with a smaller download size since only 1 chunk of data would have been lost.

Note: Interestingly, my 3G connection is more reliable than my broadband with respect to reliability. Even more interestingly, the provider is the same in both cases.
16 Suspected Anonymous Hackers Arrested
He shouldn't use that $22 million average value for these calculations. It's based on current values of often quite young startups, not exit values. As I say in the post, "unless the top VC funds as a whole lose money, this number should be a lower bound on actual exit valuations."

His math also assumes you invest randomly in YC startups. Any angel who was paying attention ought to be able to narrow the field a lot, which would justify proportionally higher valuations.
The only reason it won't be as bad is because not that many people are employed by these companies this time.

Most people are already out of work or under-employed.
You just saved me another few hours of figuring out wtf was going on. Thank you.

Apple, seriously? Is this what pro's can expect from the App Store? It's half assed at best.
the best and biggest feature of TextMate is the huge community
JavaScript does have Web Workers, though, which are threads/processes.

They have no shared state though, not sure if that is a problem in this case or not.
They say if you open the installer folder, you can see the disk image. Hint hint.
My knowledge of the situation is entirely based on watching "The Social Network", but that sounds more like Eduardo Saverin's lawsuit, whereas the Winklevosses' was about Zuckerberg stealing their idea. Did I misinterpret/misremember the movie or was the movie wrong about the lawsuits or what?
Only reason I can think is that if the customer messes up the implementation and creates a subpar service with it then it reflects poorly on the source provider.

Actually another reason might be that the source provider doesn't want other users to know about each other to compare licensing agreements and such.
"This video contains content from SME, who has blocked it in your country on copyright grounds."
The Case for the Single Founder Startup
I dont think you have to be a jerk to have a successful team. I do understand what your alluding to. I find that being a successful team leader you have to be very decisive. This sometimes means giving the opinionated but talented team member a firm no. Sometimes this can bruise egos or offend. But it has to be done for progress to be made.
It would be nice to provide the game tree for the 10x20 case. If it's not too big, then it would be an easy way to check the result of your experiment. Even if it's big, it would probably be fun to navigate.
No response? Just downvotes? Neat trick.
Wifi only?
The upside would be as follows
1. Future taxable income
2. Jobs
3. Chance to create a CoE for electric cars domestically(which feeds back into 1 and 2)
Ask HN: Movie/film post-production tool - thoughts on the Landing/Beta page?
Hey guys,<p>After a busy 5 months some friends and I are <i>nearly</i> ready to start alpha/beta testing on our web/mobile app for managing the post-production of movies (plus short films, t.v etc).<p>We just threw up our landing (and beta signup) page yesterday - and was wondering if anyone had any thoughts/ideas on this?<p>Any advice or opinions would be great - thanks in advance.<p>Cheers,<p>Chris
Q: is there a _real_ "hacker news" I can frequent?
One puts a task bar on the same screen as the applications which makes it easy to switch applications per window, the other hides pictures of the application in a task bar on another screen which makes it harder to switch applications at all and completely ignores screen distinctions.

They aren't virtually identical; they aren't even the same thing done differently, they're completely different.
Mock T-Mobile Commercials Poke Fun At AT&T Deal
2011 Commencement Address at the Harvard University
Amy Poehler shares her antics, lighthearted comedy and words of wisdom with Harvard's class of 2011.

Read more: http://www.sweetspeeches.com/s/2030-amy-poehler-2011-commencement-address-at-the-harvard-university#ixzz1ShHn9oaR
I ran a marathon in my VFFs and I've bene running for a year. I was hurting afterwards but definitely survived. In fact, the VFFs allowed me to start running again. Before them, I would run 1-2 miles and have massive knee pain and shin splints.

VFFs are awesome, but take your time, get used to them and stretch a lot. They're worth it.
The Hunter S. Thompson You Don't Know
I've emailed John before to ask him about language issues on OS X – I think this was back around the time that Apple decided they weren't going to roll their own Java runtime anymore. He responded back promptly and pointed me toward some reading material he thought was insightful.

Not only are his reviews and articles awesome, he seems like a really decent, chill guy.
The trouble is, there are only negative examples in these pieces. Even Rebecca Watson's video, she just says, "Don't do that, it makes me uncomfortable." There's no positive examples - in mainstream media, in "geek" media, in the public geek consciousness - of a good way to treat women. They're always being hit on, at least. So, if guys with few social skills go by what they see other people doing (following the only examples they have), they will be offensive without meaning to be.

So, instead of a list of "bad" behaviors, are there any examples of good ways to interact with geek women? TV shows with non-romantic relationships with geek girls, good topics of conversation, lists of things to say when you just want to hang out with someone and don't want to seem like you're hitting on them, anything?

Also, Watson's complaint seems to contradict some other accounts, like Mac McClelland's quote "When a French UN peacekeeper I'd met went AWOL to knock on my door, wanting to know, when I gladly unlocked it for him, please if he could kiss me," she let him in. Is there a quantitative difference between hitting on a woman in an elevator at 4 in the morning, vs. knocking on her door and trying to get in her pants?
"Feeling stupid" isn't necessarily a good metric for determining whether or not something is worthwhile doing. Lots of people doing something "stupid" end up being incredibly successful.
Predictions of the Future From the 1960s
"I've never used a tool that has a simple method for me to extend the ORM bits halfway through the query building process with some custom SQL"

Well, I am not sure if this is exactly what you're looking for, but Django's ORM allows you to write custom SQL and then collect the resulting rows as objects. You can also circumvent the object layer entirely and deal directly with the SQL. Take a look at this page:

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/db/sql/

I have found this functionality to be incredibly valuable for quite a few of the projects that I have worked on.
I know. I meant to say they could have managed without using that PCI slot at the time (ie. using only 3 PCIe SATA HBAs, or using a mobo with 4 PCIe slots).
Uneducated conjecture: They're not just any floating points, they are doubles. You need twice the capacity of one (32-bit double) in order to fake 64 bits. I assume that this helps meet the requirements of other pieces being hacked together.
With or without scrollbars
I remember a quote from the person who worked on Google+ before heading for Facebook saying "things got to bureaucratic and political" or something to that effect. It feels like a downward spiral or at least seems like a common pattern where an organization loses its agility (not to be confused with "agile") and starts compensating with cutting down.

Labs had an amazing run but Google surely needs to re-invent itself to handle the challenges ahead. Honestly, their setup is not that different from Microsoft where they have cash cows concentrated in several areas whereas Apple has more flexibility with a wider range of services without being spread out too much.
Ask HN: Billing rate for contract work for a startup
I'm going to be doing contract work for a startup and I'm not sure what to charge. I have a personal interest in the project the startup is working on.

I will mostly be doing front-end web development, and I have 5-10 years experience in the relevant technologies (5 years doing it for money, before that just for fun). If it matters, I am in my mid 20s and located in the United States.

Any suggestions for what rate I should charge? I don't want to charge too much, since I really want to see this startup succeed. I don't want to charge too low because I need to pay my rent. This is my first time doing contact work, so any other tips would be appreciated as well.

Also, any links to other relevant HN threads would be helpful too.

Edit: I forgot to explicitly mention this, but numbers or number ranges would be extremely helpful. I'm really clueless on what to bill, so I need something to work off of.
I am a clojure intermediate-beginner who would like to use it to learn about web technologies, which I know almost nothing about. Would people recommend this as an entry point? If not what would you recommend instead?
Oh yeah, you're right. It was Pearls Before Swine that (recently) turned a box into a spaceship. http://www.gocomics.com/pearlsbeforeswine/2011/07/11
Even if your design doesn't have a use case for it - isn't it reassuring to know that your ORM has the functionality available if it is ever needed?
I think it would be a bit too meta (and work in progress) to start with. Check out this article for standard Clojure (A Brief Overview of the Clojure Web Stack): http://brehaut.net/blog/2011/ring_introduction
Yeah that is a bummer. Oh well. Is that actual address up?
If you haven't done it yet, click the code on the bottom of that page :)
no, they will be viewed like

http://www.ausbcomp.com/~bbott/cars/oldsgas.jpg

"Ransom E. Olds was the first mass producer of gasoline powered automobiles in the United States, even though Duryea was the first auto manufacturer with their 13 cars."
I wanted the EPUB version, so I bought an Ars Subscription for $5 (it auto-renews, though). You can also get MOBI and PDF versions with the subscription.

Interestingly, I was offered a 1 year subscription to Wired, or a $10 refund (which requires printing something and mailing it in). Does anybody know if I can send that in and get my EPUB for an effective -$5?

It's not really worth the time, but it's amusing.

BTW: Gruber had an Amazon affiliate link for Siracusa, which was almost enough to make me get the Kindle version: http://amzn.to/oJtmGd
FBI Arrests Alleged Anonymous Hackers
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You mean other than Parenscript[1], which seems to have been written about 4 years ago?

Edit: Parenscript was just the first to come to mind, but check out http://www.cliki.net/JavaScript

[1] http://common-lisp.net/project/parenscript/
Bridgewater Associates, Ray Dalio Principles
Burn Notice Season 5 Episode 5 
Burn Notice Season 5 Episode 5
Hidden Features in Mac OS X Lion