skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A few of my usuals (links are for quick nutritional info):

- low-fat/non-fat greek yogurt: http://www.presidentschoice.ca/LCLOnline/products.jsp?type=d...

- 1%-2% cottage cheese: http://www.presidentschoice.ca/LCLOnline/products.jsp?type=d...

- Smoked salmon

- Flaked tuna: http://www.presidentschoice.ca/LCLOnline/products.jsp?type=d... (great in salads)

Edit: Oh, and a good mix of vegetables is always good. Just watch that your fiber intake doesn't get out of control, since that can cause some digestive... issues.
FB's public float appears to be approx 5% of the company's total value. Though relatively small, the stock price of each share should reflect the company's total value. That being said FB is fairly unique in many ways and has been able to draw demand for its equity both as private and now a public company, that appears to defy typical valuations and funding scenarios. The writer maybe correct about FB's current access to capital as a private company, but secondary markets for most companies are generally not so liquid or transparent for most investors.
No, these new learning environments need time to grow before they standardize and this particular one brands itself as research which goes along with MITx very well which intends to grow into a certification system for MIT. Coursera and Udacity must have their differences and we'll all be better off with them competing as long as this trend continues.
Atomically update serialized PHP arrays in MySQL
I know it's not really related but still... this article reminded of the section in the book 'Behind The Golden Arches' that discussed that although many people think that there are too many McDonald's restaurants around, there are still more car dealerships.

And how many times do you buy a car compared to a burger?

So this article claims around 13,000 McDonald's restaurants, and I just found a page that claims 37,500 separate car and truck dealership franchises.

I don't know exactly what it is about those numbers that amaze me but every time I think about it I'm gobsmacked...
The Beer That Drove Kansas City Crazy
Just a nitpick on an otherwise largely accurate article. IIT Mumbai and IIT Powai (though commonly used in media) are erroneous ways of referring to IIT Bombay which still retains the old name of the city Mumbai in which it is located. Powai is a suburb of Mumbai around the Powai lake where the IIT Bombay campus is located.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Institute_of_Technology_...
video not showing in Firefox (on platform ubuntu xfce)
Well, shit. So much for host-it-yourself services being more secure. Which dogma do I trust now?
> Which begs the question: just how far away can you get from our world of generic convenience?

An interesting kind of related question is to ask what is the farthest you've ever been away from other humans.

For most of us, we've never been more than a few miles from others.

I've read that the record is probably held by one of the Apollo astronauts who remained in lunar orbit while the landing party landed.
Command-left, command-right.
I have never been in a meeting where consensus was reached. I've been in plenty of meetings where management edicts were handed down after an hour of wasted time with "rapid discussion" based on faulty assumptions that could have been fixed in ten minutes if someone had had an opportunity to consult relevant material at their desk in peace.

Either you're confusing "peers with a whiteboard" with "meetings", or you're living on a completely different planet from me.
That's a good thing, right? Just trying to make sure this isn't a bug report :P
Happy Anti-Valentine's Day from Grouper
Prom Week, a "social physics" game, released
It seems like Google's DNS servers are always MANY hops away from me, no matter where I am. The ping times range from 8ms to 45ms.

How is that faster than using a local DNS server?
Not only is this an interesting factoid, but the author is also a very good writer. I recommend reading the follow up articles.
DebtOcracy
turns out it's not OS related, firefox not working on both Windows7 and ubuntu
Very very useful!
Would you mind giving some details on where you hosting this ? I am also working on a Django project and struggling to decide hosting service to go live(Personal project so cant start with $20/m plans)!
Is this still true? This article is five years old.
LAME article
Privacy policy?

* Oh, I see it's in the FB app acceptance thing...sorry, haven't accepted a FB app inawhile.
The main problem I notice with meetings is that it's hard to get a chance to talk, and so when people do get a chance to talk, they keep talking to avoid pausing long enough for someone else to step in. I also hate the war between people trying to start talking, involving two people talking over each other until one admits defeat and yields the floor.

This is ten times worse with video conferencing.

One thing that surprised me about Google is that we have meetings and they proceed in exactly the same way every single time. The end result is a bunch of angry engineers, not new ideas.
Ask HN: Am I using the WTFPL correctly?
I have this time log spreadsheet that I have been using for many many years. I thought people may benefit from it so put it up on github (https://github.com/blj/timelog) and added WTFPL to it. My friend says that I have to remove author's name from the license text. I am not sure what the procedure is. Your opinion please. Thanks.
Personally I think 'coder' conveys better engineering skill than 'programmer' (though I prefer 'guy who makes web apps' to either).

Programmers are often enterprise types, who don't code in their spare time, have a degree but don't learn anymore, and love the hours XML generates.

Many Indians-in-India code because their parents want them to be engineers, not because they love coding.
Pasta, Not Bacon, Makes You Fat. But How?
I'm taking a class through my university right now that uses LearnSmart from McGraw-Hill. I was pretty irritated having to buy a subscription to a website in order to do my homework ($50 plus the $230 book, seriously?), but they have a study guide that you have to go through to get to the homework that is actually quite helpful. Right up front, it presents you with the question then asks how sure you are that you know it. If you don't know it very well (even if you get it right) it keeps asking the question until its sure you know it. You're supposed to go through this every day (or so), and it will ask different questions mixed in with the older questions.

Worth the $50? That's debatable. Helpful? You bet your sweet ass. When I miss a question then get it right the next time it comes around, it's difficult to describe how I feel.
This "article" belongs on Reddit.
Yeah, I bought mine 17 years ago and still use it.
Meh. I think India makes a lot of great programmers. I've worked with too many good guys (and gals) to know that the country is capable of making talent.

But, I think that it also produces a lot of mediocre ones, too, but that might be because programming is perceived as a respectable "default" profession for smart but rudderless people. In the US, those people go into law, or try out medicine, but coding is seen as deeply unsexy. This stigma is unfortunate but I believe it also acts as a filter as well. Of the people that exit CS programs with a degree in hand, perhaps a higher percentage might be of the caliber that goes on to do great impactful things.
Impressive and wise repurposing. When you said "longtail leads from the SEO", Dan, do you mean that eventually something like this page would rank well for queries like 'html for mail' and related terms (and push leads and traffic to Airtime)?

Assuming that's the case, it may help to make more reference to terms like 'Apple' and 'Mac' (on the page and in your HTML) that people may include in a query when looking for something like this. From glancing at the source, it seemed like adding those sort of terms and others from using the Google Adwords Keyword Tool (https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal) might be useful. Eventually it would be a great case study to see data and how well something like this works for you in driving qualified leads.
php-pear dark magic is nothing compared to installing the framework libraries from git! The pear.horde.org instructions fail to mention that you must install horde/Horde_Role before any of the applications.

The UI is currently undergoing a rewrite, but the default interface can be forced into the traditional view in the Horde configuration.
The 5 Wits thing mentioned sounds a lot like the Jejune Institute in SF. There's a whole city in the desert called Las Vegas that was explicitly designed as an experiential entertainment venue. One could argue that entire areas of New York have become theme parks offering constructed urban lifestyle experiences. Related, the way Americans consume travel and outdoor recreation is very engineered for specific experiences.
Tech Needs more Bees and Flowers, Fewer Wasps and Lemons
I don't think it would require a great "many extraordinary coincidences" for this to happen to a little girl. All it takes is for her parents to encourage it.

Certainly, as she grows, the overriding influence of her parents declines, but for a long time parents can be the primary driver in what a child determines to be appropriate.

Saying that "many extraordinary coincidences" are required for a little girl to like a puzzle game or legos or whatever else is entirely hyperbolic. All it takes is parents who encourage that behavior.
I guess this is why China is in such great shape socially and environmentally. The engineers and scientists have created a utopia.

"One needn’t endorse the politics of these people or countries to feel that given the complexities of an ever more technologically sophisticated world, the United States could benefit from the participation and example of more scientists in government. "

You can't make a claim "scientists make better leaders" then in the very next paragraph, state the outcome of this leadership doesn't matter.
The question is, why should I care to not end a statement in a semicolon? I gain no advantage. Any speed in coding advantage comes from my editor, not omitting semicolons. Most people commenting here understand ASI. Simply understanding something doesn't make it better. I could write code like I'm a bizarre minifier-human hybrid if I really wanted to. What would that gain me?

Indenting isn't necessary either. Less necessary even than semicolons. We do it for a reason. Maintainability, understandability.

The less ambiguity the better.

The only advantage you get is you can see a thread like this and say I DON'T USE SEMICOLONS CUZ I BE SO SMART I GET JS SO GOOD. But you're not coding to work with other people. It helps no one else, it's esoteric and unnecessary.
That's exactly what I meant by longtail leads. Thanks for the advice, I'm going to spend some time tonight going over keywords to optimize it as much as possible.

We're definitely looking to make this into a case-study for inbound marketing if possible, so hopefully in a month or two we'll have some reportable results. Thanks again for the feedback
What a bad choice for a paper title.
Play Framework 2.0 RC1 Released
Charles Stross wrote, in an introduction to a book, about the difference between James Bond and real spies, and pointed out that they are on the complete opposite side of any given spectrum.

Nobody wants to pretend they're a spy. Everyone wants to pretend they're James Bond.
Download buttons are expected to lead to files that you can download.

I don't want to give my email address out unless I actually want to be emailed by you (with something I care about, not with what you think I should be reading). On terrible sites that have not realized such basic facts but have software I really want (VMware for example), I use bugmenot or mailinator. Thereby this sort of thing only serves to reduce the amount of people that try your app and annoy those that want it bad enough into giving you a fake email. And a couple poor sods that get spammed by you later on, either because you decided to spam them, because you took improper care of your contact database or because your company got sold and stripped for assets (customer data = valuable).
Crack WPA on the cloud
Just showed it to my gf who found it very cute. Thanks for this, well done. =)
No in many US universities rigorous calculus proofs are saved for a class called something like Real Analysis which is typically take as the 4th or 5th class for a math major.

Compare e.g.

Transcendental functions, techniques and applications of integration, indeterminate forms, improper integrals, infinite series.

with

Algebraic and topological structure of the real number system; rigorous development of one-variable calculus including continuous, differentiable, and Riemann integrable functions and the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus; uniform convergence of a sequence of functions; contributions of Newton, Leibniz, Cauchy, Riemann, and Weierstrass.
I grew up in rural Australia, and we used to host a ton of exchange students from North America.

Driving from Melbourne back to my home town, there is a huge billboard saying "Next McDonalds 100km" (60 mi.). Many times we would have to pull over so the American exchange students could take a photo, as they were in disbelief they were so far away from one.

On that same road you're easily 250km (130mi.) away, but there is no sign.
"given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow"
There aren't enough eyeballs.
HN discussion at the time: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2029175
I totally agree, however here in IL we are even allowed to have company policies the prohibit sharing and technically it could be a reason for termination.
I really don't think it is about not using enough entropy. I think that someone took a shortcut and reused private keys without realizing that they were compromising their public keys by doing so.
I think their privacy policy disallows it: http://code.google.com/speed/public-dns/privacy.html

> We don't correlate or combine your information from the temporary or permanent logs with any other data that Google might have about your use of other services, such as data from Web Search and data from advertising on the Google content network.

And they say that the logs are only used for debugging, DoS protection and abuse.
HTML email signatures need to die. There's nothing more annoying than getting an email with a huge, colorful and distracting signature.

Signatures should be plain text and a few lines at most. Apple got it 100% right here in limiting the software. Please stop including entire resumes in signatures.

Here's mine, by the way:

---
Kenneth Ballenegger
www.kswizz.com
From a cursory look, the plots just seems to correspond with population density more than anything else.
Nortel Networks hackers had "access to everything" for years
2D in Unity, or Hobbling a Giant
I don't agree. It's short and gets across the main point to the right people. If you don't know the names being referred to, you're probably not the audience for the paper.
What's interesting is to "View Image" on each in two separate tabs and flip between them. Notably there was one closure in the west that left an even bigger black hole.
The "textbook" reason an enterprise sells shares to the public is raise more capital as it's entering a mature phase of its business. (Not saying this is why Facebook is going public, or this is why other companies do it anymore, but this is the logical reason a company goes public.)

In that respect, Facebook went "public" privately last year when Goldman invested at $50B valuation.

The broader point or context poorly laid out is that businesses don't have to go through the same amount of public hoops that they used to raise the same kind of "public" levels of capital.
Ok I definitely agree that we should change the Download Now button to something else if it's misleading. Thanks for the feedback!
Just tested Firefox on Win7; the video isn't supposed to be there. It's just used for playing the music in the background.
Mobile Web Design Help
Can anyone help me find a good resource for information on mobile web design? More specifically, I'm interested in "responsive" web design where a single website (and related code) can be used both by a desktop and mobile browser.

Is there a way to code your HTML/CSS to recognize the device your user is using and display the appropriate webpage?

There just seems to be so many features/changes to the design of some pages when viewed on a mobile browser and my knowledge of CSS/HTML doesn't encompass this.

Any help is appreciated. Thanks!
I also accidentally submitted a dupe (sorry). You also need a search function.

Looks great though, and nice idea.
This looks very cool. However, I'm looking to go a different direction: an alarm that automatically opens the room-darkening drapes and lets in sunlight, for a natural and gradual waking process. Imagine my surprise that no such product exists outside the expensive and complex home automation market. I have no experience in hardware hacking, but I might have to see what I can do with an Arduino.

Still, this looks like a very cool alarm clock, especially the top-of-the-line nixie model. Good luck!
Because if they can get him to like their product that would be a huge achievement for them. They want to be the ones that win him over.
India's college education system is broken, and the statistics bear it out. Comparing it to the United States' -- a system that really isn't so good either -- doesn't even begin to describe how serious the problems are in it.

Industry groups complain that 90% of college graduates (75% of college engineering graduates) are completely unemployable. Not merely untrained, but not even worth training. One of the major industry training companies has recently increased their training period to a full 7 months.

Plagiarism is endemic and encouraged on every level, from the Dean down, even in graduate schools. Most students write papers by copying off the internet and citing "Google". Many "programming" students assemble programs by begging for "the codez" or otherwise copying "the codez" from existing projects. Professors rarely bat an eye when the entire class turns in the same work.

By comparison, in America, plagiarism is looked down upon and stigmatized from as early as the start of elementary school. It's still a major problem, but it's not socially expected in the same way that it's become in India.

In this kind of environment, it's not surprising that "coders" are being trained rather than "programmers". Programming is about problem-solving, and it's hard to teach problem-solving in an educational system that revolves largely around copying other peoples' work in place of solving problems.

A few of the best students manage to succeed -- after all, even a broken system can't stop some of the smartest and most motivated from succeeding. But even for them, the soul-sucking nature of such a system can hardly be encouraging, and it does no favors for their job prospects -- since being "Indian" carries the stigma of being a product of that broken system, even if you managed to become a great programmer regardless.

HN often likes to demonize traditional education, but the most important role of education is not to teach skills, but to teach you to think. That is the purpose of writing a 10-page critical analysis of a theme in a Shakespeare play, or building a toy memory allocator: not because knowing Shakespeare or being able to write malloc is important, but because it teaches students to think and analyze. By plagiarizing papers and programs, students completely miss the point of the exercise -- to learn to think!

Indian colleges are by and large failing this primary responsibility of education, and their students suffer as a result. In true cargo cult fashion, they have adopted the trappings of education without understanding the real purpose behind it.
Infinity is not a number
May be it's got something to do with this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlrzzeFsMXo&feature=relat...
I'll be playing this song on repeat all day :)
Thanks for the comment! I agree to some extent but using HTML doesn't necessarily mean a gaudy signature. For example your two line signature could be reduced to one line by linking your name to www.kswizz.com.

I don't think that we should limit use of a technology because it could be used to create something ugly (almost all technology can be used that way) but instead look at what kind of beautiful things it can make.
I really like the look of the scrollbars on HTML5 Rocks' home site under Mobile and Business and I want to use them, or at least check out the code for inspiration on making my own.

That said, my usual route of inspecting the element, grabbing the relevant class or id, and then scouring scripts via Find has left me empty handed, in large part due to the minification making the scripts much harder to read, and my inability to find any js references to that one_half class that is applying the new sex.

Does anyone have any other strategies?

I reposted this text since it doesn't appear under the parent (apparently you can't do a link with text).
Chirply is giving away greeting cards for Valentine's Day
Apollo 13 holds the record for farthest distance from Earth, because in its aborted mission, it swung farther around the moon at higher altitude rather than dropping into lunar orbit.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_13#Mission_notes
Does that include all car brands? What happens when you include all fast food burger joints (Burger King, Wendy's, etc.)?
You'd be surprised how fast that alarm clock would stop working ... I'd just forget to plug it in at night :P
Obviously it cannot be faster than a local DNS cache/server (for the RTT). What can be significantly faster is forwarding queries to Google Public DNS instead of your ISP. At least in my experience, ISPs often have slow and overloaded servers which are not well maintained. Recursively resolving completely on your own is often even slower than either of those two choices.
Why? I can't see any gain to converting to 48 volts if you just have to convert it again anyway. There isn't much difference between converting from 120 vs 48.
a new disturbing trend
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But there were 3 of them together in the capsule.
The followups are nicer than the original one, and I think that, in spirit, NW Nevada/Southern Oregon are a better fit for 'far away' places. The desert out there is very high and lonely, in a hauntingly beautiful sort of way. It's also extremely empty.

One place in particular that merits a visit is Steens Mountain - you can drive most of the way up it and hike around. The view from the top is amazing - you can see for miles, and there are very few signs of people visible.
Arjen Lenstra gets to pick whatever titles he likes.
I don't think the cloud specifically should be excluded or even a factor in and of itself, I think the most innovative companies in the world are by definition the ones who are innovating the most, cloud or otherwise.

Twitter belongs on the suspect list too, how can they still be one of the most innovative companies in the world for a product largely unchanged in 5 years, during which time a jaw bone was printed and transplanted into a person?

This is innovative: http://news.discovery.com/tech/printed-jawbone-120207.html

This was innovative: "It was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey and launched that July."
This would be a more convincing take down of this "market era" if it named one other "resourceful and clever" company implementing this model.

Put another way: When was there a market where something like FB -- explosively grown, headline potential for more, profitable -- could _not_ have raised substantial private capital?