skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Harland Sanders started franchising Kentucky Fried Chickens when he was 65.

It's only a big deal if you let it be a big deal.
cliche... torvald totally would take a pill to boost metabolism...
5 CEOs That Need To Get Fired
Around age 30, we start losing muscle mass if we don't use it. As we lose muscle mass, weight maintainence becomes even harder.
> As an example, imagine if the government focused on alternate energy years ago.

You mean, things like biofuel subsidies?

> Also, a lot of technology comes as a by product of working on something for the long term.

Yes, whether it's funded by the government or not.
http://wholehealthsource.blogspot.com/2008/09/inactivity-and...

overweight predicts inactivity but inactivity does not predict overweight. With the usual caveat that these are just associations, this is not consistent with the idea that inactivity causes overweight. It is consistent with the idea that overweight causes inactivity, or they are both caused by something else.

overweight is largely caused by diet composition. If that's the case, then changing diet composition is obviously going to be a more effective treatment than exercise, which doesn't address the root cause of the problem. This idea is supported by numerous diet intervention trials.

challenge your assumptions. I did.
As eloquent and thought-provoking as ever...

The dancing gorilla image of him has stuck for more reasons than that video...
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When we had a 94% top marginal tax rate in 1944-45, or >=91% for 12 years starting in 1951, was there a big "brain drain" emigration problem, and jobs going overseas? Perhaps international outsourcing has grown not only because of the internet, but in part because Reagan cut the top bracket from 70% to 28%.

Cuba makes European countries look like the Mises institute, just as Norway or France would deem Obama's policies to be tilted right wing/laissez-faire. But Cuba has one doctor--the gold standard of skilled labor--for every 175 citizens, compared to the US's one for every 300.
Microsoft and Salesforce bounce open-source competitors from events
Compare the government-efficiency fueled prosperity of Singapore or Malaysia to the more free market style economies of Vietnam, Phillipines or Indonesia.
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I'm sure he does see the big picture, he's probably just spreading FUD.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear,_uncertainty_and_doubt
His was one of the Technology-Guy/Business-Guy partnerships back in the day. He was the Business-Guy. The Technology-Guy has since left.
To clarify, a specific piece of hardware should not knowingly be a limiting factor unless you're testing for a specific case (for example, specifically testing for performance with a slow hard drive). I'm advocating a balance across all pieces of hardware.
That's just not true. Show me one sane person who only operates on two distinct, unequivocal levels of trust and mistrust.
I have a potential solution. Send me an email at markessien at gmail dot com if you'd like to help me test it.
$3-15k a customer? Is that per franchise, or per person being matched by the service?
Justin.tv goes High Def
As a student of economics, I am quite aware of the phenomena of market failure. However, the question to be asked before imposing a new regulation is not "is there a market failure?. Rather, we should ask "is the new regulation likely to do more good than harm?"

The central insight of the Public Choice school of economics is that governments are composed of people, and like all people they respond to incentives. Public Choice is widely respected in the Economics profession, though it is generally ignored in public debates. Rather, people have a tendency to assume that the government is composed of perfect angels who will optimally address whatever externalities they are tasked with fixing.

There is room for a "good governance" libertarianism, composed solely of economic arguments and with no moral arguments, that would oppose more than 50% of what modern governments do.
Technically, I've been in the field for a little over two years, starting at age 27 through an internship at my school which has been this far ongoing, of which I'm extremely fortunate and appreciative of to have the chance to continuously take part in. But I understand fully the experience points you've made. I would've moved sooner because of the connections the company I work for has, but in order to make any sort of impact in this large corporation as well as make a comfortable living in the same company I need to complete my degree and that time is drawing near.

As I said previously, I could totally go out there and if the same company doesn't have what I want, I think I'll be in a better position to move to a different company with my brief experience.

I wanted to thank you for making a critical point: I'm realistic about the low chances of making it big... what I would find fulfilling is what you said, "you can make it an interesting, positive and lucrative five to seven years." and that is something I would be very satisfied with.
Of course not, but I'm okay with doing something that only somewhat resembles love of science.
You might want to check out the following, which was its own HN entry just a short while ago. This describes testing a million connections using raw Erlang as well as using a libevent/C front-end for the Erlang testing setup to handle connections. Of course, this person was doing C1024K, but you could probably dial down his presets for your purposes :)

http://www.metabrew.com/article/a-million-user-comet-applica...
Obama is already doing things I didn't know the President could do.
About time. This will be nice.
I certainly wouldn't advise those countries to use Microsoft products.
The Flat Earth Society doesn't get a lot of credulous media attention either--don't mistake correlation for causation. PG's essay on taboos carried a lot of insight, but it may not be applicable here.
It should be noted that pharmaceuticals being researched today by private corporations will not see market in the United States for 10 years.
I did not vote for Barack Obama, but I must say that this website is a great move. I pray that it is more than lip service and that they will use it to truly listen to all sides and respond in detail to the country on decisions they are making.
Great step, but still mostly fluff. Very light on specifics. Hopefully they will keep updating it as they go.
Well that's just an extreme case. I don't mean subsidies but actual investment in R&D.

But most VC companies won't invest in something for the long term. Do you think any VC company would have invested in a company trying to get into space in the 1960s?
I hope it doesn't get overrun by politics articles.
Got his stolen Mustang back after 38 years
Judy Smongesky, 55, got the 1965 Ford Mustang[1] car as a gift when she graduated from Long Beach Polytechnic High School. Her father bought it from a used-car dealer in Bellflower in Los Angeles County for $1,114. It was her dream car. They had the engine rebuilt in 1974 and painted it green, then blue-gray.
Obama adds symbolic NC victory to White House win
President-elect Obama won North Carolina on Thursday, a symbolic triumph that underscored his political strength as he turned nine states that President Bush won in 2004 to Democratic blue.
Physically pulling out the network cable from the router (presuming you're at home/in a place where you can) is also a beneficial psychological push to get on with your work.

I do this and have found myself opening Firefox/Outlook/Newsgroup/RSS readers only to find a flat "no connection" page - that immediately scolds me for sidetracking and I get on with what I'm supposed to eb doing again.
The charm of big cities
I figure my thoughts are just as randomly justified/qualified as Wired's:

If Facebook replaced Zuckerberg, I bet users wouldn't be opposed to paying a monthly subscription.

I agree that the Blockbuster CEO needs out. I think he has even been quoted mocking Netflix as non threatening.

I don't know what I feel about Jerry Yang. I feel like Yahoo's situation has to be more complicated than coverage conveys.
he is offering to sell because Yang knows it is only going to get worse and lower. and he is still making more to sell now then later.
Clean technology in the downturn
That's not accurate either. Those entitlement checks get sent out regardless of whether we raise or lower taxes, and come from FICA taxes. They have nothing to do with higher income taxes. They're a sunk cost. Raising income tax (and spending the newly raised money) would just lower the % spent on entitlements, since it wouldn't raise the dollar amount 1 cent.

If there is any FICA surplus, it's saved to help pay for the huge amount of retirees we'll have in 10 years.
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A Republican Reference to Obama as Open Source President
Dan Brown's writing is just atrocious. It's hacky, stilted and cliche. His dialogue is ridiculous, and he uses it to expose everything.

I wrote better fiction in third grade.
"Im pleased to announce that today Justin.tv officially supports DVD quality broadcasting using the h264 video codec - and it even works on a Mac!"

DVD quality, not HI-DEF (720p) But I guess DVD quality on the internet is Hi-Def when you compare to youtube quality.
It's easy to under-estimate how good the service is at Zappos.

I tried them once and discovered I'd ordered the wrong size (totally my fault). The exchange process was amazing - I called the number they included with my package and got through immediately to someone who was very friendly. I had my replacements within 48 hours.

Now it's the only place I buy shoes at all - and I tell everyone I know about them as well.
Simply train yourself to abstain from something.

It can be very simple and small things, the only important point is to make it a habit.

There is no better way (all other things suggested can help, but if you are not able to do the above, nothing will save you...).
BitTorrent President Quits, Forms New Venture With YouTube’s Chen, Others « NewTeeVee
you're only as old as you feel

put this nonsense out of your head and give em hell, boy
Free market YC would absolutely destroy bureaucrat YC

...unless massive subsidies were involved :).
Try to tackle one problem at a time, that problem being the one that seems the most fun to you at that particular time.
What about the "earn $3,000/month from HOME!" signs?
Sounds like a paradox in Lisp since code is data.

Does this mean all Lisp code is good? :)
Glad to see they're finally getting some support. Bletchley Park is a great place to visit - the Colossus reconstruction is a treat to see in operation - but they give the impression that they're only just hanging on by their fingernails. With so many poorly-maintained buildings, the upkeep must be horrific. I think Bletchley Park might be better off if they sold some of the peripheral land and invested the proceeds in maintaining the core buildings.
Zuckerberg should be commended for his talent and vision but if you have do take out a loan to keep your company afloat because you don't have enough revenue (as was widely reported) and you are STILL not worried about having a business model something is wrong. He recites his "we are not worried about revenue for at least a few years, we just want to grow" line religiously but it seriously sounds like entrepreneurial advice crica 2006. Get with the program!
There are plenty of things that would change my stance on global worming. But, like most long studied subject's there is a lot of evidence to back up global worming. Everything from samples of arctic ice from thousands of years ago, to plant samples, weather models, and satellite data. But, the two basic factors that would change my mind are:

#1) A well defined mechanism that limits the impact green house gasses on temperature and weather.

#2) An accurate, global, and long term temperature measurement that strongly links global temperature to some other factor and shows little correlation with CO2. Which is more accurate than all the other data we have collected to this point.

I studied the physics behind global climate models and there are other factors that impact temperature, but most of them are short term factors and CO2 has a stable long term impact. At the basic level CO2 changes how much energy leaks to space though the atmospheric absorption gaps in EM spectrum. At temperature rise that changes some but 280 kelvin vs. 282 kelvin is minor etc.

Local areas can experience dramatic shifts in weather but as a global system energy in must equal energy out +/= extremely tiny fractions which are stored / released energy. etc.

PS: I am willing to change my stance with new information which is why this is not a religious stance. But, without such information there is little reason to change my stance.

Edit: The reason I called his statement as a religious argument is it equated the process where I gathered data to a religious viewpoint. However, if your staying that you feel global worming does not exist as a religious stance, I will stop talking, because there is little reason to present information to someone who does not care about it.
Be careful - sometimes people make offers to find out how viable your niche is as a business, get some inside numbers as part of their competition analysis.
Obama to tap Google’s Schmidt for national CTO? Consensus: 39%
Maybe I'm missing something, but the suggested HD examples still look like shit.
Researchers advance understanding of electrons & superconductive material
Web 2.0 Summit 08 Videos
Secrets of the Django ORM: group_by & having
you have fallen into adobe's trap. that's exactly what they want you to believe.

yes, it's perfectly possible to download the free sdk, and write your first "hello world" app that prints a line of text to the face of the applet. so then you start planning on how you're going to do this. and then say you want to do something simple, like for example, use flash gui controls, then you'll learn the horrible truth. it's impossible to do such a thing without buying adobe flash cs3, which costs 700 bucks.

and even if you spend that 700 bucks, adobe flash cs3 is a gigantic steaming turd. i spent a day or two trying to make my peace with it, and failed.

so i decided to forgo flash gui controls altogether, and used javascript controls instead.
Has Current Solved the User Generated Advertising Mystery?
Video Search Engine Mefeedia Relaunches
R is becoming huge in the bioinformatics world (I used it a lot for my own research), but I wouldn't go so far as to compare it to a general-purpose language like ECMAScript (and yes, ECMAScript is general-purpose when compared to R/SPlus). R is a good domain-specific language -- it has a great library of statistical methods for analysis and modeling -- but it's dog slow, a huge memory hog (i.e. forget large datasets), and has I/O facilities that are only a bit more advanced than what you get in FORTRAN 77.

My general research workflow was to do all of my custom logic in a faster, smaller language (i.e. Perl, C++), then to dump tab-delimited files that I could load into R for summary analysis and graphing. I would also sometimes prototype my code in R (if it involved tricky matrix math or statistical models), then re-write everything in a more capable language when it came time to work with real data.

That said, R has its strengths -- the graphics language is really powerful, once you take the time to learn it. Kind of like a functional interface to postscript...
He laughed at the iphone too

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=So7qrFO_p44
New structure re-defines the term "Mobile Home" by walking on legs (Video)
Craigslist cracks down on illegal "erotic ads"
I have lost 20 lbs in the last 6 months, so I have just recently gotten into the exercise craze. I run 10 miles a week, and do 30 minutes of ellipticals on my off days. It sounds painful as heck but there are really 3 major reasons for exercising on a daily basis.

1. You'll look better.

2. You'll feel better.

3. You'll think better.

Ultimately, it's about making a conscious choice in life, do you want to sit around waiting for magic pills to get you in shape, or do you want to take control of your life. I've taken the latter, and I highly recommend it.

As a side note, I recently became a vegetarian too, that has really helped me maintain my weight, and I can still eat all the good stuff (Chocolate, Ice Cream, etc.)
What difference does it make if the events really happened? It's all in the past anyway, so fiction is just as "real" as non-fiction. What matters is the insights gained, which are often just as common in good fiction and often more eloquently presented.
Unrelated to Got Junk -- just correlated by a latent factor (telephone poles).
Interesting question, but what's so great about "getting things done."? I'm guessing it's just a matter of personality, but contemplation is at least as important to me as any accomplishment.
Taking advantage of open for proprietary purposes
Obama’s Self-Fulfilling Economic Recovery Plan
Why are you posting this again?

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49968
Made with Gimp!
Original Grim Fandango design document released [pdf]
that's the conversion value.
It's also a lot easier to segregate traffic this way. Once you're coming in via openvpn, the traffic is on a completely different interface and IP range, making automatic/transparent proxying a breeze and firewall/iptables setup really straight forward.
I believe we need a "converse of Lisp" - in Lisp code is data, I believe what we need is the notion "data replaces (most) code". That leads to the question, what really is data, and I believe Codd supplies the best answer to that question. One of the truly original ideas in Computer Science that post-dates Lisp (and is not anticipated by Lisp) is Codd's relational model of data, which is not to be confused with relational databases used for storage.

Note that Codd's model is not Turing-complete, while all but the most trivial definitions of code lead to Turing-complete systems, hence the parenthetical most in my "data replaces (most) code". Data is easy, code is hard could be another way to state that.

We have experimented with such ideas, and we can report that they do significantly improve clarity and therefore productivity.

As an aside to a pg essay, I believe clarity is not the same as succinctness and as a corollary, succinctness does not imply productivity except in the somewhat trivial sense of ease of typing.
Thank God for HN! (and thank you for your post)
Very interesting to note some of the links you can see commented out when viewing source, including:

/newsroom/blog/

/newsroom/events/

/newsroom/press/

/learn/inauguration

And, within a comment block labelled "comment out america serves":

/americaserves/plan ("Service Plan")

/americaserves/serve ("Find a Way to Serve")

Probably gonna need to get that new CTO to clamp down on accidental leaks by the IT staff. (Edited for formatting.)
> By any reckoning, Jerry Yang should be out of a job.

> The Yahoo CEO spent a good part of the year fighting off an unsolicited bid by Microsoft which valued his company at about three times what it's worth today.

That seems pretty clear cut to me. In terms of share holder value, that's pretty catastrophic.
Absolutely. It definitely beats going with your average access point's default of bridging wifi to your LAN, though it does make your wiring slightly more complicated. I use two separate VLANs actually, one for the unprotected wifi access points and one for the actual LAN traffic. You have to watch out that you use high-quality VLAN-capable switches, however, as some of the cheaper ones fall over and supply the world with your protected packets if you fill up their MAC address table with spoofed packets... which is of course easy to do via an unprotected access point. That kind of thing might stil DoS you with a good switch, but it shouldn't open up your network.
> If Facebook replaced Zuckerberg, I bet users wouldn't be opposed to paying a monthly subscription.

I'm curious as to why you think the users willingness to pay is linked to Zuckerberg being the CEO.

Could you elaborate?
We're using Flex Builder which should allow us to create all of the GUI controls we need. It's $250. Regardless, it's true that the free tools aren't all that useful.
Does News.YCombinator.com load faster in IE for you?
When I navigate to http://news.ycombinator.com/ in Firefox 2.0.0.17, it shows me just the main header (the orange bar) and then it takes an average of about 8 seconds for the list of stories to appear.

Doing the same in Internet Explorer 7, everything loads just about instantly.

Does anyone else have the same experience?
Guantanamo seems a pretty popular option these days...
I'm not 100% sure on how WPA works, but I think the crack allows you to log onto the protected network and exchange data with everyone else on the network. However, it doesn't allow you to sniff traffic that isn't headed your way. For example, Alice is using her laptop to load data from Bob's PC, which is attached to the access point. Eve cracks the AP's WPA passphrase and logs onto the network. She can initiate traffic to Alice and Bob's machine, but she can't see the data they're exchanging because individual wifi users' encryption is negotiated separately.
That happens to me sometimes. I always assumed that it was server lag because its very inconsistent.
very interesting to compare to 2004:
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mejn/election/2004/
Obama's new blog uses Expression Engine
I do like Yahoo Sports though. I always go there for stats because the ESPN pages take so damn long to load. If sports fans benefit, then they've done well!
The really cool thing is http://change.gov works too and doesn't redirect to http://www.change.gov. See, progressive leadership already ;)
They really got to the ground running eh?
Whats the business? Can you name it?
Alas, now the Service Plan and Find a Way to Serve links are visible...and link to pages that read, "Need Content". Launched early, I guess.
Yahoo is Left in the Cold
We're doing exactly that with our biz model for NewsCred. And no, it has nothing to do with advertizing!
Sun still radiating open source
Realistically, I don't see a way other than strong, SSL-style crypto with private keys and AP certificates. I'd like to see a crypto expert analyse and write about RADIUS-authenticated WPA2 in a way us mortals can understand. My understanding is that it should be safe, but I'd like to hear about it from someone like Schneier. A lot of APs actually support RADIUS, but you do still need to set up your own RADIUS server somewhere on the network. I guess the open-source firmware available for some APs could help here.

My current OpenVPN solution is actually pretty user-friendly - it doesn't "magically" connect as soon as my AP comes into range, but it is just one click to start. It's almost certainly possible to run the script from the event directly. The nice thing is that you can implement this now, and OpenVPN runs on Linux, OSX, Windows, probably the BSDs too.

I also have an OpenVPN server that's accessible from the internet, which is handy to use from public wifi. I realise that it's not end-to-end encryption, but having my cookies etc. available to everyone around is just a little too scary.
Doesn't have to be better; just more and different.

Besides if its government run, it might have a strict form associated with getting funding. There will probably be a part of the application where you need to specify your revenue model. If you leave it blank, no funding. That might qualify as "better".
I know it's a prototype and I know it's a house but that was really slow. Not really too sure what that demonstration demonstrated at that speed. I didn't get any sense of viability. Too harsh?