skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was able to view my PC screen on my Droid 3 stock browser.
140 characters of infringing content -- Twitter DMCA takedowns by studio
This NY Times article from last August (http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/17/magazine/mag-17Sugar-t.htm...) goes into a lot more detail on the toxicology of sugar.
Not at all. From the article "Added sugar, more so than the fructose in fiber-rich fruit, hits the liver more directly and can cause more damage."
ITunes bug replaces explicit songs with censored versions
The bigger thing I remember from that video was that high fructose corn syrup and sugar weren't far of compositionally. That and how close fructose itself is to alcohol in its side effects.
This behavior doesn't break the web. It breaks the user experience for Lion users. It's their problem, not yours. Stop wasting your time on it. You have better things to do!
Apple will fix it if it's enough of a problem.
"Anonymous also published an e-mail purportedly sent by an FBI agent that gave details and a password for accessing the call."

That explains how they "intercepted" the call.
Awesome mobile/tablet job search aggregator: Job Mo
Call of Duty, Spider-Man and other 7 Largest Video Game Sites Hacked
I wish these were compiled in a Soundcloud - something mobile-friendly that lets you skip around in a mix without downloading the thing. And the hosting is pretty slow.
It didn't work with swipe gestures as I recall. I remember because I was looking for a good side-scrolling implementation that used swiping about 2 years ago and thought that might have it.

Not that it matters, I'm just clarifying.
On a 1GB stick that leaves 300MB room for persistence, if Ubuntu ever supports that.
This is encouragement to me (and I hope more people) to develop hobbies of data curating. Such information is just plain helpful and fun. I've never done it yet, but Wolfram Alpha seems to take volunteers (http://volunteer.wolframalpha.com/).
http://www.limbikfreq.com/
http://somafm.com/
Alternative: don't cover self-inflicted illnesses
forgive me for sounding trite, but isn't that the way it's supposed to work?
> Glad to see that

Exactly my thoughts, the submission title had me prepare a facepalm, but the linked comment is very good.
> the tech war is over and we won

Excuse me? I've just evaluated all possible virtual hosting services, and by far the best is in Germany.

I know dozens of people who hate the US passionately because of high-horse comments like yours.
Why Facebook Connect Shouldn't Be Your Only Sign-in Option
"You can't copyright text on a page."

uh... what? Of course you can.

Granted, Fair Use may or may not come into play depending upon the length of the text being reused, but "text on a page" is exactly what copyright was invented for in the first place.
All this talk of suddenly the scrolling going in a different direction reminds me of playing Halo in middle school. Everyone knew who played "inverted" to avoid picking up their controller.

I agree with you though, I bought a refurbished Macbook Pro for school this summer and I was so happy to learn refurbished machines still shipped with Snow Leopard.
We just ran into this problem yesterday. A box with overflow: scroll will appear un-scrollable to users. It is a great example of form over function. Apple is too far on the form part of the equation quite often. Another example are the sharp edges on laptops... it makes you wonder if "user is able to slit wrists with edge of laptop" is one of their user stories. Obviously "looks cool" has it's drawbacks as a product requirement ( and I'm a designer ).

Slicing apple with laptop video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZvMlzVxQJE
This is a good example of what was meant, IMHO.

There are interesting cases, though, where multi-selecting items and then acting on them could require using a query parameter. "action=remove", "action=update", "action=validate" or something like that.

When dealing with singular resources - it's much easier to follow the HTTP methods and verbs but I'm still at a loss for how to handle multi-select cases where you can't represent 20,30,100+ items as a single resource in the URI.

This, is only in the case of a user's UI web experience and not an API - because I haven't figured this part out yet, I haven't supported batched actions like this in the API (haven't needed to, but it could be useful?).
>> Sugar made from cane and beets is just as bad as HFCS.

That is false.

Refined sugar (that is, sucrose) is made up of a molecule of the carbohydrate glucose, bonded to a molecule of the carbohydrate fructose — a 50-50 mixture of the two. The fructose, which is almost twice as sweet as glucose, is what distinguishes sugar from other carbohydrate-rich foods like bread or potatoes that break down upon digestion to glucose alone. The more fructose in a substance, the sweeter it will be. High-fructose corn syrup, as it is most commonly consumed, is 55 percent fructose, and the remaining 45 percent is nearly all glucose. It was first marketed in the late 1970s and was created to be indistinguishable from refined sugar when used in soft drinks. Because each of these sugars ends up as glucose and fructose in our guts, our bodies react the same way to both, and the physiological effects are identical. In a 2010 review of the relevant science, Luc Tappy, a researcher at the University of Lausanne in Switzerland who is considered by biochemists who study fructose to be the world’s foremost authority on the subject, said there was “not the single hint” that H.F.C.S. was more deleterious than other sources of sugar.

The fructose component of sugar and H.F.C.S. is metabolized primarily by the liver, while the glucose from sugar and starches is metabolized by every cell in the body. Consuming sugar (fructose and glucose) means more work for the liver than if you consumed the same number of calories of starch (glucose). And if you take that sugar in liquid form — soda or fruit juices — the fructose and glucose will hit the liver more quickly than if you consume them, say, in an apple (or several apples, to get what researchers would call the equivalent dose of sugar). The speed with which the liver has to do its work will also affect how it metabolizes the fructose and glucose.

Full article: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/17/magazine/mag-17Sugar-t.htm...
The headline is misleading.

The researchers propose regulations such as taxing all foods and drinks that include added sugar, banning sales in or near schools and placing age limits on purchases.

It's for the children, of course.

And for your own good, because you, yes you, are clearly irresponsible and can't think for yourself.

Funny ol' world where supposedly smart guys can't think of a better solution for a problem than to ask the government to step in.
I pretty much just play Trent Reznor when I don't feel like putting together a playlist.

I've also really enjoyed listening to motorik rhythms lately. Something about that beat makes me feel like I'm constantly moving forward. Stereolab are the modern masters...
ETN.fm guys.
When I say Unity I speak of mainly the Unity Dash (or whatever it's called), and it doesn't just save me time but also demands less mental strain to navigate.

The act of typing a single word, as opposed to browsing through menus of categories and programs, saves me at least 10-15 seconds each time I have to access a program. The only icons I keep in the launcher are Chrome, Terminal, Home, Inkscape and Gimp.

Same for documents. Starting Nautilus, clicking through to a bunch of folders, maybe going back a few times if I took the wrong path is significantly slower for me than just typing a keyword and getting maybe 5 or 6 results one of which is the document I was looking for.

I find this is similar to the functionality of the Spotlight search on the Mac which I also enjoyed.
Seriously how badly are they using the gitHub API, or scraping. Because if I find my profile. (I'm not listed in my area "Edinburgh", even though people with a lower score are.) and on my profile the projects are so severely out of date it's embarrassing.

Update: In my opinion, even though its not for "Hiring", http://coderwall.com does a way better job. Perhaps they should up their game and do what gitHire is doing - but properly.
> A GET request should never delete something just because the URL says "method=delete".

More generally, a GET must not alter application state. It can change a cache or a logfile (these are either implementation detail or irrelevant), but if there is any way for the user to see what was changed, then it does not belong in a GET[0].

[0] things like consumption quotas management are of course a different matter, but they're meta-data more than application state.
It is possible there are better ways to regulate booze than having a government do it for you.
Ask HN: Why CTRL+C and not CTRL+Z to kill ?
Doesn't CTRL+C mean to halt a command, so why does most server documentations say CTRL+C to kill or stop ? Shouldn't it be CTRL+Z to kill ? Am I missing something here ?
> Would a guy from Romania or Finland be more likely
> to find stories that interest him in an EU-wide
> site rather than in HN?

That was my thinking too. There are lots of small countries with relatively small hacker communities that don't generate that much news on a regular basis.

That said, I've always struggled finding EU-based services, so this might be their chance!
Off the mark? Perhaps. Wildly so? Unlikely.

But if that's so, then simply view this as an explanation for why I don't use server-side Javascript. And Node is still a tool built around a language implementation which is going in a different direction from where a server side environment/general-purpose language needs to go.
RSS is now live

http://hackful.com/posts/90
All Hail the Stand-Up Meeting
Hosting seems pretty borked at the moment.

And yeah would be great to be able to preview some of this without downloading a 100MB+ file...
And I'm going to agree with you - if you're learning programming, there's no reason to spend $10-20k. All you really need is a good computer, some relatively inexpensive software, and a few subscriptions to online services that will save you time and headaches. Beyond that, all you need is free time, a project to work on, and a willingness to invest the effort.

I spent that much because I was learning and doing much more than programming, and even then, some of my spending was inefficient due to lack of good guides and less useful online material at the time. I bought a ton of things that weren't that useful in the end. Even with the "waste," it's still the best investment I've ever made.

I think it's entirely possible to be too frugal when it comes to learning. If you can take a course that costs $1-2k, and it directly teaches you things that help you make 5-10x more money on a recurring basis, that's a bargain.
Well that's nice. I have some favorite bread recipes that call for sugar. Not a ton, just a pinch.

Sugar - added sugar - is just a tool for creating edible food.
I would say that completing high school is rather high in the list since a great deal of companies wouldn't look twice at him since they often want to see university degrees.

But I guess it all depends on where you live.
Your wish has been granted by the genius that is Elias (@8bitpal)

http://hackful.com/posts/90
Anyone with a bit of time and a mild interest in chemistry and/or nutrition should watch this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM

It's a talk by Dr Robert Lustig called Sugar: The bitter truth.
This particular little war was launched by Motorola, which sued Apple before Apple sued it.
I have no idea why companies that suddenly become wildly successful without press, start to go out and make themselves public, hence waking up every smart guy in the game. Keep a low profile and milk it, maan.
i was thinking the same thing. both albums are really good.
>1. Fuck Apple, they deserve it for trying to use patents themselves. All they do is make overpriced pretty black plastic toys, there’s nothing remotely innovative about selling jewellery to metrosexual fanboys.

The first sentence is independent from the rest. See below:

>4. Apple is innovative and deserves its patents, these people are just leeches and trolls.

That might be true, but that implies Motorola isn't inventive and doesn't deserve it's own patents. There has been a lot of innovation into packing such advanced technology into a palm sized device that Apple had nothing whatsoever to do with, but is leveraging. If Motorola is a leech, then so is Apple.

By firing the first salvo, they have needlessly stirred the hornet's nest.
Peopleware is a book every software manager should read.

And ALL mangers I have worker for in large corporations had read it, but it did not matter! Noise and cubicles everywhere!

So my question, is how do we prove to a majority of large companies that noise negative affects their bottom line?
Not too long ago a link was posted here regarding some research that suggested bodies that had been overweight will process foods differently to try to return to that weight, even after a person had lost weight via diet and exercise. The gist was that a person who was, say, 200 pounds and lost weight down to 160 pounds had to eat ~20% fewer calories to maintain that weight than someone who was at 160 without ever being overweight.

If that research is upheld upon further examination, then any policy which prevents young people from becoming obese in the first place would be perhaps the most promising way to obtain objective progress against societal obesity.

I'm not suggesting that taxes are the right way to go, but if taxes merely discourage the young from developing obesity, that's not a mark against it.
Just grabbed these and started the first track for while I work from home (go go Denver snow) and I'm really digging it. Thanks for the pointer.
I would be curious to know which service that is, and what boxen they run, and what company made those boxen.

In hindsight I realize that probably just opened the door to a pissing match over whose contributions to software/computing/startup culture is greater, but I think that would be an interesting conversation to have here.

EDIT:
To get the ball rolling, we've got

Matsumoto : Ruby : Japan

Ericsson: Erlang : Sweden

Torvalds : Linux : Finland
It's a concept, not just a word and there's no other word for the concept. Sure, if everyone were to agree to start using the word "wizfoo" instead of "hacker" for the concept, maybe that would help avoid the confusion that occurs due to some people confounding different definitions for the word. On the other hand, the English language is filled to the brim with words that have multiple (and sometimes opposite) definitions, so I see no reason why the world can't deal with that fact here. If there's blame to be placed here, it is certainly the fault of the journalists who refuse to acknowledge the distinction, as it is their job to be masters of words, and to understand these sorts of issues.
Yeah; maybe if you're using it to build a Big Fancy Webapp it's actually a stupid idea, like if you use a Swiss Army Knife to do carpentry and build a home, you're probably doing it wrong.

I'm using node for a small tool to analyze network traffic. The author of this drivel can cope. :P
Indeed; I've never really had an issue with this in Safari, but Chrome's version is very easy to trigger.
Have you ever tried to read wrapped code? It's pretty terrible. Obviously that's opinion, but I've never come across anyone that's disagreed. Plus, your line heights now differ, which makes navigating vertically even harder.
The cycle of programming languages
I do have one, although tangential.

What is it about automation you explicitly disliked? Personal care and scripted events are not mutually exclusive I think. Can you please elaborate on the way your service is managed?

(Wish you luck, by the way. I'll wait and see how this is going to differ from an average CDN.)
They are obvious because someone (the patent holder) MADE them obvious.
I should add that in the last year, I've started to bike to and from work....maybe only 15-20 miles a day.

I love the quality of life....just not sure I could live without options!
wundergound.com?
Terrorism: guerrilla warfare largely against civilian targets.
What is this strikethrough?
GitHire is the sleaziest, scammiest spam setup I've come across in a long time. It shocks me that it's treated with legitimacy by the New York Times. Additionally, it saddens me to see so many people uncritically praising the idea as if it was anything other than a spam house.

GitHire does nothing more than scrape GitHub profiles and spam users with unsolicited junk mail -- regardless of the users's qualifications or desire to be recruited. It's spray-and-pray spam and companies wishing to keep their respect among developers would do well to avoid them. Any company willing just resort to spam is neither a company I'd want to work for nor a company I'd wish to be a customer of.
Incidentally, I'm an Irishman in Germany, and here's the usage for the main site I work on. We didn't look for an American market. Do people have very different experiences?

1.	United States	29.69%

2.	India	6.76%

3.	(not set)	6.57%

4.	United Kingdom	5.56%

5.	Canada	4.05%

6.	Germany	2.86%

7.	France	2.36%

8.	Australia	2.15%

9.	Italy	1.86%

10.	Japan	1.86%
On a touch device, side-scrolling feels very natural. The problem is that Apple is trying to create a consistent set of rules for devices that are inconsistent (with very good reasons) in their UI designs. A touchpad is not the same as a touchscreen.
There's a good chance that if FB is the only sign-in option, I will immediately close the window and never use your service. It's pretty much an insta-bounce for me for the exact reasons cited in the article.
I like to avoid the either/or option... That would be a great way to redefine the problem. Thxs!
They were practically begging my co-workers and I to interview. They were offering $10 Amazon gift cards for an interview, which was just insulting. It wasn't even the amount; it turned what could have been a good fit into a cheap business transaction.

Here's how I saw it: If I invited you to dinner, it would be considered a nice gesture. But what if I offered you $10 to come to my house for dinner? It changes everything.

I feel bad for the company, who we blamed for the "stunt". Turns out, the company had no knowledge they were doing that.
Apparently, Ben Barry just released the posters under Creative Commons.

https://twitter.com/#!/benbarry/status/165493765526667264
Not really.

A strong case can be made that having access to mobile broadband intermittently is an improvement for the user over the way things worked before.

I haven't seen anyone even attempt to make a case that intermittent access to one's data and apps is an improvement over the current systems.

In other words, why would anyone willingly switch to this model? And among the unwilling, how does it better meet the needs of business than a thin client or other conventional solutions?

Having to select "Keep Available" requires the user to accurately predict the future value of access, cache space for it, and adds another step to the process of saving stuff for later use.

It's not availability for next time that's the issue. It's availability now, when I need it that matters.

A better analogy is a allen wrench sitting in a toolbox out in the garage. It's not at hand when the disposal is stuck, but access is predictable. What you are proposing is that someone comes by once a week and swaps out the tools in the toolbox based on which one's you have been using most recently.

Again, where is the advantage to the user?
So you generally found it relevant? And bear in mind it's been up for just over 24 hours... :)
I installed Lion last night and had the same reaction. I wanted to make my disk show up on my desktop so I went to:

- System Preferences -> Desktop (duh!)
- System Preferences -> Appearance (ok...)
- Right click on desktop -> Show view options (surely it's here!)

By the time I finally found it, I had a familiar feeling of low-level frustration that I usually associate with Windows.

The new maximize feature is rather passive-aggressive as well. Instead of something sensible like making option-clicking the '+' maximize the window, they added yet another button which does a needless animation and disables the menu bar and the dock. It almost feels like a fuck-you to people who have been asking for such a feature for years.
Hackful has currently 424 users, that's not enough to redact the content meaningfully. Once there are (much) more users, and the primary dedication (startups/programming/socializing/job-platform) has been established, the topics will make sense. If it gets that far - I sure hope so, since many things must be approached differently here in Europe.
At least in the US, government regulation of food and alcohol was a response to the (in)effectiveness of market-based self-regulation. You can certainly disagree on whether things were all that bad, or that the particular degree of, or programs of, our government regulations are not the best way to do it.

But it's not like government forced itself into this position on a whim. Society experienced the alternative to government regulation and decided it wasn't sufficient.
If a vocal minority complain about the new design, but still carry on using the app then you probably don't need to worry. Look at the data.
even worse, you're treated as such by a large number of people who don't seem to understand how to properly invest in that type of commodity
I didn't get it. What can be a off-topic for HN users? We, hackers and entrepreneurs will start a topic about our grandmas? I don't think so. For relevant topics, we already use ASK page.
Beyond Instapaper: A guide to minimalist reading apps and curation sites
Tumblr introduces highlighted posts for $1
If you expect a lot of callback it makes more sense to design that functionality as an object rather than as a single function. That way you can spread callbacks over many functionality and still maintain modularity.
While I agree that FB Connect as the only login option is a bad idea, I also don't think that the average user even reads the permissions dialog. We've run a few A/B tests in the past of asking for different permissions- there will be a decline when asking for more, but not a significant one.
Pile of Poo was actually included in Unicode 6.0
Funny, the whole point of restarting for me is either "my battery ran out and I need to boot up again after plugging in" or "I had to install software updates", and it's a total pain in the ass to lose all my tabs and stuff when that happens.

If I just wanted to close all my open applications, I would just close all my open applications.
It's by design. Make the text so long and complicated no one bothers to read it and go by the falsely written summary.

That's how the U.S. Congress works, as an example. There are so many laws on the books written by people who purposely wrote them to be difficult to comprehend so that practically every U.S. citizen is a criminal of one sort or another.
I met one of the founders of Upverter this week and was pretty impressed by the polish of the product during his demo. I ended up signing up myself and I've already used it for a couple of my hobbyist electronics projects. I like the product and I'm looking forward to the road ahead with options to layout PCBs and have them printed.
I am managing a portal which offers the possibility to use FB Connect (in addition to own Login) and since you get no SLA from Facebook for their APIs I only can warn everyone to use the FB-only login. FB API can be randomly buggy for some hours without the possibility to get your users online.