skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was thinking the same thing. They probably divided calories_produced/num_people (calories_produced being derived from agricultural output).

I suspect it's a mix of undercounting people and WASTED food being counted as eaten.

I read an estimate somewhere that 25% of food in the US is wasted (it's not that high in my house, my shamefully it's too high, and I have absolutely no problem believing that number).
I'd love to ask the hundreds of people on Twitter, and elsewhere, exclaiming "Awesome, jQuery Mobile 1.0 is out!", this one question:

Which app, that you use, built with jQuery Mobile, is excellent?
Alcatel-Lucent's "Carrier Cloud"
Past article 'Coding Horror: Scaling Up vs. Scaling Out: Hidden Costs' http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2009/06/scaling-up-vs-scali...

Although it's not quite the cloud, one of the founders prefer vertical stacks due to several reasons including licensing costs.
Two things that irk me is:

How a barbie or action figure is roughly ~$30, and an iPad is roughly $600. how did kids get to the point where they are asking for something that is 20x what they asked for the year before? Is it hype, marketing, the lost value of a dollar?

Maybe it's the get-off-my-lawn part of me, but I see an iPad as a loss to the imagination for a kid, whereas a Barbie requires and hones imagination because it doesn't do all the zany things that an iPad can do.

And lastly, iPad have a built-in obsolescence to them. Every time you update to the latest version of iOS, things get slower for your iPad. Barbies and action figures require no updates, and can be handed down over years to other kids.
I'd rather see Zagat succeed than Yelp.
That's debatable. I'm an Android fanboy, but the retina display is a year old and is still debatably the best screen out there. 720p is awesome, but pixel density is still not as high as the retina display, and the sub-pixel density is definitely not.

Don't get me wrong, I'm looking forward to figuring out a way to convince myself it's worth paying full price for this phone, and I love a huge screen (Droid X owner). But AMOLED is a mixed bag. I find it to be a bit over-saturated, and the power savings is only for blacks, and overall, I think AMOLED has been shown to consume more power, not less. But the pentile subpixel arrangement is the biggest thing I'm worried about, being one of those people who wants to vomit when looking at a screen like the EVO 4G's.

I'm not saying the retina display is unequivocally better, mind you, I just disagree with you that the NG's screen is "clearly a significant step up."
One of the most important things I take away from this isn't that anyone has subverted DNS-based filtering with a popular, easy-to-use system, but rather that they could. In an argument against SOPA/ProtectIP/etc., it is very powerful not only to be able to say "DNS based filtering is easily subverted" but to be able to point to specific examples of it being subverted.

There's a lot of power, I think, to end an argument against SOPA with "...and, at the end of the day, it won't stop anyone. It won't work." Having functional, working systems only bolsters that argument, and thus helps, rather than hurts, the case against this kind of ludicrous legislation.
Would Google block payments to the New York Times?
> And as Microsoft has discovered, the market leader tends to get a disproportionate share of attention from malware authors.

They seriously can't be playing that card when android was neither the first smart phone, nor the most populous until quite recently. Malware has been present from early on the platform, and worse has been distributed via the google application market. It's clear that Google's approach to openness brings the unfortunate consequences of non-curated content, this is identical to regular personal computers and puts the onus of security on the user.

The advent of the cheapest per feature smart phone however means that this is also the platform that will most likely be picked up in bulk by the population(already has), a population who isn't savvy and probably needs their hand held when it comes to common sense computing.

Part of the fault also lies with google as some apps are gaining root access to avoid remote-revocation, however even before rooting the phone they were allowed unfettered access to areas that should be highly secured such as SMS/Call features and access to personal information such as the address book and browsing history. When Google launched the android market, they took away the unpopular choices made by Apple: things like signed-code and more rigorous app approval criteria, but they didn't reformulate the system or add meaningful changes to protect their own users from the predictable malware consequences. (i.e the differences between consoles versus open platforms)

However, just like the open personal computing platform, google will be able to incrementally improve the software and possibly stamp out the vast majority of weak points. The downside is for the consumers who are stuck with premium-sms bills & possible identity theft, while developers get burned because regular consumers(i.e the vast majority) become scared to experiment with google marketplace.
The task switch vs multitask is a red herring given that computers also task switch, rather than multitask.

Multi core doesn't count since that's essentially two computers. And multiple ALUs in a CPU also don't count given that the brain has trillions of "logic units".

And in any case people multi task constantly - I can walk, talk, breath, enjoy scenery, look for obstacles, maintain cardiovascular pressure, digest food, maintain proper eye focus, and a really impressive number of other things (that are all brain controlled - not independent) in a true simultaneous fashion.

And if you mean multi task higher level thought - people do that too. How many times do you suddenly find the solution to a problem you are working on while doing something else entirely?

The only thing we don't multi task is attention. And that's by definition not by reality. Something that can multi task attention is considered to be two somethings rather than a multitasker.
Steve Jobs and the Singularity
4000+ word post about Jobs which is really about a lot of other stuff.
If he was pushing a random android app on an article that was about a random android phone then you would have a good point. In this case it is more than just tangentially related, the vast majority (read: pretty much all) android phones don't have barometers, this is pretty much the only phone that can even run it. And it also answers the question of "what would I ever do with a barometer on my phone?".
I agree. Personally, I don't expect great photos from my phone, but I am really excited about how fast the camera is. (This was one of the things that made me really envious of the iPhone 4S.) Because if I want to take really nice photos, I'll bring my DSLR. But the phone camera is for situations when you want to capture a moment, and speed is more important in that situation than quality, at least for me.
Hooray for semantic arguments that miss the point.
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Habitually taking responsibility for things outside your control is probably a bad thing though.
If you focus on multitasking then it's a single task.
I think there's a pretty big difference between "US companies that make Title III complaints" and "any US company".
Ask HN: How vulnerable am I if I outsource my development to non USA developers?
I am a Product Manager based in Silicon Valley, USA. I have an idea that I would like to develop as a product. I am technical enough in a sense of knowing the tech side of what I want to build, how I want to build it, etc, but I am not a developer. What I am thinking of doing is to create a customized software solution across all 3 mobile platforms, iOS, Blackberry, and Android.

I would like to outsource my product development to an IT firm or developers/hackers. There is a big chance/possibility that these firm/developers are outside USA based because of the potential cost as I am investing my own capital (I am looking for local developers or within USA as well).

Now the question is how vulnerable am I if I outsource my development completely. Vulnerable means if my source code is stolen or the firm/developers instead develop their own product based on my idea. Of course I would have them sign an NDA and non compete document and all that, and most of the time I would think I am protected if the firm/developers are USA based, but how about if it's non USA based (most probably India, Russia, or some eastern europe based).

Am I completely screwed if these things happen (even if the developers/firms have signed all NDAs, non compete, and so forth)? Would I be able to file a lawsuit on the developers country and maybe USA? Do NDAs and non compete agreement they sign are even applicable in their residence country? What options do I have if these happen to me?

Thank you for the advise.
this is sadly extremely accurate
the disruptive part especially
Oh wait, isn't this the patio11 stalker/back-handed compliment guy????
I couldn't find the link so maybe not...

Wow, he's really on a roll with his Nov 17th post too:
http://www.sebastianmarshall.com/an-open-letter-to-simon-and...
So what does it actually do?
If you don't need concurrent learning to be motivated you can watch videos later. I wish there would be a way to be evaluated without any after-deadline penalty.
And I don't understand why you couldn't have clicked the "sources" link yourself and found this, but okay: http://www.fao.org/fileadmin/templates/ess/documents/food_se...
>My own cynicism grew enormously after witnessing the dramatic change that money brought into women's attitude toward me.

This isn't necessarily because these women are after your money, though I'm sure that's true for some of them. The other factor is that your success in business is evidence of your innate qualities, which makes women more attracted to you.
I don’t know. The screens seem a wash to me and whether one is better than the other depends more on taste than specs.

I personally don’t like how those OLED screens look (I like their contrast and blacks, don’t like their colors) and I also dislike PenTile immensely. The screen being larger is actually a negative point for me. I guess it would still be alright for me but only just.

On the whole I get better contrast and blacks and higher resolution with the Nexus but also lower pixel density, worse colors and larger size. Whether one or the other is better for you personally can’t be determined from that.

For me those screens seem about equal with different upsides and downsides. If you like larger screens you might clearly prefer the Nexus.

A clear verdict about the screen doesn’t seem possible, neither one is clearly inferior.
He Who Dies With The Most Toys... Still Dies!
Note that Joel's company Fog Creek software actually did develop their flagship product, FogBugz, on their own compiler: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2006/09/01b.html
The old template story back and forth (node.js)
Data Scientist: Important New Role Or Trendy Job-Title Inflation?
He's self-admittedly bipolar.

>I’m cyclothymic too. Like Nieztsche and Byron and those guys. Albeit, much less talented; I’m just saying I got the same affliction. [...] What’s a cyclothymic? It appears that we feel emotions more strongly than other people, and cycle through them. I’m fucking awesome when I’m manic, I can rapidly invent, experiment, implement, advance science, build systems, recruit and hire people, and just massively do unhumanly large amounts of stuff. Cyclothymic mania is when the SPIRIT OF GOD is within you.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pressured_speech
A screenshot of it in action would be nice.
Is it just me, or is anyone else incredibly impressed with The Verge? Their reviews are incredibly detailed, and yet they still manage to make extremely interesting, short, and informative video reviews for many products. Add to that the fact that the site, at least to me, is absolutely gorgeous, and I think I've found my new favorite gadget site.
Why do people think they can turn it around, i.e., make profit? Yelp has been around since 2004, that is a good seven years to show that they can generate at least minimal profit, and if Yelp is not profitable yet, there is a decent chance they never will be. Yelp is not Amazon, they are a crowd-sourced review site. Growth is great, but operating in the black is better.

That's just my opinion though. So feel free to criticize.
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I was at a 6-7 years old soccer team party and 7 of the 11 dads (including me) were sitting looking at their phone for half of the time.
I would assume for items which have a resale value that this is a form of money laundering.
I'm really digging it as well. The layout is pretty great. Whatever the CMS is, they're getting a ton of flexibility out of it. It feels like a more integrated media experience -- typography, video, photography, infographics, user comments, all pretty nicely wound.
From The DB class FAQ:

Q: Will the materials still be available after the course is over?

At the very least, all of the materials in the OpenClassroom repository will be available, including videos with embedded quizzes, lecture notes, course materials, software guides, and extensive do-it-yourself exercises with solutions.

http://openclassroom.stanford.edu/MainFolder/CoursePage.php?...
The vital statistics (I'm no expert) :

- 61m Monthly Uniques

- 22m Reviews

- 529k claimed business listings

- There are 19k active business accounts contributing revenue.

First 9 months of 2011

- Revenue $58.4m

- Loss $7.6m

- EBITDA loss $1.1m

[Derived figure: annual revenue of $4 per review.]

- Sales, marketing and admin ate $50m of the revenue.

- Looking at use of proceeds (p37) they don't intend to take money off the table for founders/VCs.

Highlights:

(p15) Google in particular is the most significant source of traffic to our website accounting for more than half of the visits to our website from Internet searches during the nine months ended September 30, 2011. Our success depends on our ability to maintain a prominent presence in search results for queries regarding local businesses on Google. Google has removed links to our website from portions of its web search product, and has promoted its own competing products, including Google’s local products, in its search results. Given the large volume of traffic to our website and the importance of the placement and display of results of a user’s search, similar actions in the future could have a substantial negative effect on our business and results of operations.

--

(p22) an action was filed against us on behalf of current and former employees claiming that we violated labor and other laws (we have agreed in principle, subject to court approval, to settle the suit for up to $1.3 million)
Depends on what country you send the work to, and if there is rule of law in that country. Also depends on the amount of money on the line.

If its a big concern, and your project allows it, split the project up into separate modules, each worked on by a separate team - at least that way no single team would have full access to your codebase. The code quality could potentially suffer though, as there would be little consistency in style (unless you establish guidelines and enforce them)
This is an EU parliament resolution, and the EU parliament has very little real power. That doesn't make it politically meaningless, but it in no way compels the European Commission or the joint EU governments to actually do anything about it.
The whole app is contained in the source of http://kibi.herokuapp.com/

It looks like each page is defined inside a <script type='text/plain' data-kibi='{pathname:'',id:'',location:''}'></script>

Where data-kibi is metadata to specify when, with what data(jsonp) the content inside should be rendered?
Not sure I'd want to invest in a company that rings a bell every time they close a sale [1]. Unless of course it's 7-figure enterprise sales. I'd rather put my money into things that ring up sales non-stop.

[1]See the 8:00 mark at http://techcrunch.com/2011/02/03/dogs-unicorns-and-mysteriou...
Seems like a distinction without difference. If Facebook weren't doing this on their own they would very likely be working with someone like KISSMetrics.
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The thing with subjectivity is that it is subjective.
Warning: that link is an Excel spreadsheet.

I do note, however, that:

a) It still doesn't say precisely how food consumption is estimated.

b) However it does say this: "The food consumption refers to the amount of food available for human consumption as estimated by the FAO Food Balance Sheets. However the actual food consumption may be lower than the quantity shown as food availability depending on the magnitude of wastage and losses of food in the household, e.g. during storage, in preparation and cooking, as plate-waste or quantities fed to domestic animals and pets, thrown or given away."

-- which explains the implausibly high numbers for some of the western countries; not every calorie bought is a calorie consumed (I know a lot of my food goes off before I get a chance to eat it).
I have a enormous amount of respect for the EFF and I am very concerned about SOPA, however I am a little troubled by the tone of the article:

"Many of the online watchers took to Twitter
to voice their concerns about being shut out
of the hearing by the poor quality webcast.
But the Internet community was shut out
of the hearing in a more fundamental way"

I think that the lack of representation in the hearing is appalling. I can certainly imagine that the lack of representation is attributable to malice. But the poor video streaming? I really doubt that the video quality is part of a two pronged plan to shut out the opposition. Given the subject matter I bet that this video stream has attracted more attention than any in the past.
pic or it didn't happen!
I agree with your sentiment but this is really not a convincing argument. You could say the same thing about common thievery, don't worry about all those people stealing TVs from stores, that just means the people who would have bought those tvs will have more money to spend on other things!
Perhaps you should have constructed an API, and tell them "This is what your code should abide to", instead of just giving them code for the button. That is: abstract the spec away from the actual code.

If closer inspection shows that their code isn't following the spec, you've earned the right for some serious fingerpointing.
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Yelp's motto: 'Let's legalize extortion!'

Built a review site? Fine, but leave the reviews alone. All of them. No, it is not "OK" to close users' accounts with no warning, thereby demolishing all of their reviews. No, it's not OK to "hide" some reviews or to take down reviews when your blackmail tactics actually work. No, Yelp: it's not acceptable to solicit and harass people and businesses who have explicitly posted "no soliciting" signs on their establishments.

Show investors your business model transparently, let's see it. How is this supposed to work legally? Is this really going to be sustainable or build value in the long-term?

If Yelp's public offering gives them anything substantial, we have a lot to worry about. If the IPO market says it's OK for companies to make money by extorting the little guy and stifling the small voices, we are in a world of trouble.
At the end of the relationship, people stop doing things to keep the relationship afloat. They start to act like they would around anybody else. It's a learning experience.
Someone a few years back had an alternate Python syntax with λ for lambda, ∀ for all(), ∃ for any(), and so on.
I've built web apps in the past using JQTouch. Should I use this instead?
Also (unrelated), My favorite quote from the article:

"Race conditions are why sane programmers don’t program with threads or, if they do, they use shared-nothing architecture and pass all communication between the threads through a message queue written by someone who knows what they are doing (if you have to ask, it isn’t you — seriously, multithreaded programming is hard)."

Sounds like an advertisement for Erlang :)
I think I need to swear more
Actually, a bad lens can have an effect on color reproduction by not letting all light through equally.
I'm in my early twenties.

It's not a good feeling to have. Don't let it bother you. Nothing good ever comes out of it.

It automatically made me dislike people who've had sex; and until a couple of years, every single friend I had (in college) was a virgin. (I just wouldn't get close to a non-virgin, because of the feeling of hatred his/her's non-virginity brought.)

In any case, I would say try to get rid of the feeling as much as possible. At the same time - even though it may be hard; try to genuinely care about others and love others. Try to follow this advice:
"Be genuinely interested in those people, their lives, needs, and desires. Be open about yours. Have real-world relationships, participate in real-world activities."

You'll be happier person not having these feelings and having true relationships with others.

True happiness comes from love & friendship (not just romantic love.) Having real friendships and being able to serve others and make others happy is what makes men truly happy.

And accept people for who they are; even if they have had stuff you haven't had. (On the same note, accept people who are not as "good" as you - perhaps in areas of skill, like coding, math, etc.)
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I think it's just very practical (regardless of the light it casts, and FWIW, the Nexus got a perfect score).

Comparing form factors with the iPhone works because the iPhones have always been around the same size. Comparing displays to the retina display works because it's the most common smartphone display.

If they said "it's good" or "it's as good as the ObscurePhone X4", it would be harder for me (and probably others) to rate the Nexus.
For those that do not want to open the sources spreadsheet, Short answer, the do not compensate for food waste. Interestingly, they also do not account for the food your pets eat.

"The food consumption refers to the amount of food available for human consumption as estimated by the FAO Food Balance Sheets. However the actual food consumption may be lower than the quantity shown as food availability depending on the magnitude of wastage and losses of food in the household, e.g. during storage, in preparation and cooking, as plate-waste or quantities fed to domestic animals and pets, thrown or given away."
I don't think there is anything that can't be done with HTML5 (the whole stack, I mean), nowadays, and that Flex can do it.

Flex can open a direct TCP socket connection. With HTML5, you're stuck with long polling, keep-alives and WebSockets, all of which require HTTP headers and hence can't be used to interface with existing services without a proxy.
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I'm totally with you -- they have fun, that's what they want, end of story.

But they did say that people who use the cloud don't care as much:

> If you just want to use someone else’s computers, it means you don’t love computers — at least not every aspect to them.
When I visit the U.S. I love the variety that's available - it's extraordinary. Whole Foods is a carnival to me and Trader Joes.. I don't know how they do it. My U.S. friends complain about how expensive Whole Foods is, but have they shopped at the Albert Heijn in The Netherlands lately, for comparison? (not that I'm knocking Dutch cheese).
Because they may have millions of dollars of custom web applications that break when you don't use IE6, and explaining to management why you need to spend tons of money to fix something that isn't (to their eyes) broken is difficult.