skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm interested in the strategy of focusing on customers for whom $29/mo is intimidating. Certainly a lot of them are served (perhaps not well) by the ebay's and etsy's of the world, but in both cases their featuresets have evolved to cater to larger sellers, which has undoubtedly added complexity but probably in the interest of growth and profitability.

So... Is the plan to stay small and simple forever, and allow people to grow out of you and move to other services? Not saying it's wrong, just curious.
Amazon May Finally Be Ready To Battle Apple In China With Kindle Debut
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Mathjax :-)
Aha. Binutils = compiler, linker, weaver, ....

I think this is one person who can legitimately say that he programs with a magnetized needle and a steady hand.
http://xkcd.com/378/
Great story about the Hole Hawg, but... I've had two houses built. For about five years, I spent 8-12 hours a day with some of the best contractors in Massachusetts.

I never saw a Hole Hawg.

I kinda wonder if that's the story you tell yourself to explain why you were hanging in midair from a drill.
first time web guy here. Any answers would be appreciated http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10326902/how-to-scrape-re...
Laconic: A Sane Method of Generating DOM Content in JavaScript
That makes two of us. Apparently some pretty screenshots and vague, meaningless fluff is enough to get to the front page of HN.

As best I can tell, it's a GNOME skin.
I'm curious about the decision to not charge more. I think you may be assuming that people won't pay a setup or monthly fee to get a single product up, but I think you may be leaving money on the table.

I could see this being a great way for college students to sell tshirts to parties or groups to sell event tshirts on Facebook. Why not have them pay a larger listing fee up-front? I don't think there is necessarily a correlation between number of items and willingness to pay (especially if you are comparing to Shopify's $29/month plan which is aimed at small stores anyway).

Anyhow, this is a really interesting idea.
Pretty sure he's talking about the correlation between increase intake in fructose to increase rates in diabetes.

The popularized view is that high rates of diabetes (and various other health issues) are broadly caused by an increase in overall calories. This research breaks down caloric-intake into what those calories are and correlates these individual components to diabetes. That's how I understand it anyways.
Not very sure if this is by design/expected, but capturing packets from a freshly booted iPad seems to indicate that the browser leaks DNS queries and HTTP GET requests when visiting YouTube through this browser. I am transmitting outside the tunnel

1) DNS query to YouTube cache server
2) GET request to Google's servers for /videoplayback

This seems isolated to the QuickTime player only. No other DNS queries or traffic appears to be visible. I suggest you warn users that video playback does not go through the tunnel.
I haven't read the article and I have no experience in the relevant field, but I think it's a simple idea: P(disease|sugar) = 50 * P(disease|calories from sugar).

That is, if all you know is that you've consumed n calories, we think you probably you have probability p of getting the disease; if you've consumed n calories' worth of sugar, we think you have probability 50p of getting the disease.
Summary:

The problem: When provisioning a disk, the provider reuses an old disk that has old customer data on it. Part of the disk is overwritten with the OS image but the rest is not.

The fix: Zero out the disk. Either when de-provisioning it, or when provisioning it.

The author's ability to turn 49 words into 2,543 words is quite impressive!
A password works by there is a piece of text that only you know, and thus, when you give that password to a server, that server knows who you are.

can't you also view a url as a password? (If only I know the url, then only I can download the file).

I am able to give out a url to someone else, so they can access the file, likewise, I can give out my file server's username and password, and whoever has it can also access my files.
The professor specifically meant the statistical inference, e.g. that accounting for all other factors that some factor X1 (in this case sugar) is Y times more correlated with Z observation (diabetes) than X2 (total calories).

The main issue I would have would this video is the excessive focus on sugar the product and its direct sweetness associates rather than blood sugar levels which is far more directly relevant to diabetes and obesity in general. For example, common wheat bread and many sodas have a higher glycemic index than granulated table sugar! Therefore, they are converted into higher levels of blood sugar while at the same time being incredibly easy to over-consume (compared to trying to eat sugar directly).

There is an excellent documentary created three years ago which explained in simple terms a huge amount to laymen about current scientific understanding and the unbelievable lengths to which industry and governments have gone to "encourage" a specific type of modern agriculture and associated food industry regardless of its health effects or consistent scientific evidence, especially in the US. It also covers why the Lipid Hypothesis is completely unvalidated, if not provably wrong.

It is called "Fat Head (2009)" and it was available in full on Youtube until copyright notices removed it. It starts a little slowly and actually begins with a deep criticism of the logical fallacies in "Supersize Me" the movie, uses at one point slightly silly comic imagery, but by the second half there is excellent up-to-date food science and historical explanation as to why society is at is now. I am very grateful to another HN user that referred it to me about a year go.

Anther superb and complementary programme was a Feb 2009 BBC Horizon episode called "Why Are Thin People Not Fat?" which is available on iPlayer (http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00hbsk2). It is almost two programmes side-by-side. One sub-programme is a loose experiment to attempt to make a random group of young adults fat and why in some cases it effectively failed. The other sub-programme covers the summary results and science behind a deep, long and published study of a large number of obese people at a specialist clinic which profoundly contributed to scientific understanding of how obesity develops and what makes it so difficult to reverse beyond a certain point.

I highly recommend both programmes. They will change they way you think, even if you have absolutely no interest in changing your food or lifestyle, and in some cases are surprisingly uncommon "common sense". But the kind of common sense only your grandparents and all those who were born before the 1970s would implicitly understand.
Creating XSS
Yay LUKS/dm-crypt kernel level disc encryption.

We had need for short-term (several hours) EC2 compute nodes with sensitive data from customers. They'd boot up and encrypt all the drives using a random key without persisting it anywhere. Even so much as rebooting them made any data unusable. YMMV =) I'm thinking one could set the key using a start-up file so reboot would be possible.
Clever DSL. Thanks for sharing.
I think it's likely that Linux users are more likely to respect product licensing. There is this general stigma that Linux users are cheap, but in reality I think cheapskates would just download a cracked version Windows.
In other words, perhaps git is like C
So they ripped off the OSX UI completely and then changed a couple of things?
Introduction to Mobile HTML5
Sorry I don't understand, but why not what?

Often times users change their password because they've forgotten the old one, so we cannot ask for their last password in that case.

In other cases, users may have a number of previous passwords (some of which we know to be compromised). We want to check against these lists as well, and asking the user to enter all their previous passwords is obviously unhelpful. They also are unlikely to remember which ones are compromised (because e.g. we detected an unauthorized login from them and the user confirmed that it wasn't him; or because we found them in a publicly-available list of credentials from a phishing site or 3rd party database breach).
Where do you get 50,000 TSA agents to do this sort of thing? That is the question that has to be asked by all Americans;
http://www.caseyresearch.com/articles/ascendence-sociopaths-...
It's easy to miss, but if you care to watch the video, you also want to read the comment on that same page by Professor Richard Feinman.

In summary, he concludes that while it's a nicely presented video, it is factually incorrect.

http://www.uctv.tv/search-details.aspx?showID=23591&fb_c...
Thanks! We really appreciate the feedback. You're not the first to suggest there might be room to charge more. The most important thing for us is that we always have a risk free option. We want it to be really easy for someone to get started. But pricing strategies moving forward is definitely something we're taking a hard look at.
What's interesting is the NERC CIP push from federal to get power distribution devices onto a common IP network. I'm a bit fuzzy on the details, but there are major incentives and/or regulations to doing this, and it's a pretty important inflection point for the technology used in power companies. Even then, there are only a handful of companies playing in that space (Ruggedcom, Siemens, Cisco, some other traditional manufacturing PLC folks).

From my experience most of these devices are read-only monitors, but I'm sure there are exceptions. This little issue could be a big deal for their certification. I'm surprised they didn't take it more seriously. This is the hackers-will-take-over-our-power-grid kind of scenario the public doesn't like to think about.
no profiling is illegal in America. That whole equal protection under the law thing.
I've seen "Fat Head," but I found it focused too much on bashing "Supersize Me" rather than explaining/advocating the right thing to do, and why. One book I've read recently that talks a lot about this is "Why We Get Fat" which is a sort of abridged version of "Good Calories, Bad Calories: Fats, Carbs, and the Controversial Science of Diet and Health" both by Taubes. Definitely check them out if you're interested. I've applied the reasoning in these books personally with great success, so there's my anecdotal evidence :)
Have to agree that this stat smells a liiiitttttle fishy

https://twitter.com/#!/search/socialcam -- you'd expect more twitter action for a social thingie with 4MM new users in a weekend
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I agree with these definitions. For some reason, most of the films I really like to watch over and over again are actually not the films I'd say are the highest in quality.

e.g. I'd consider The Shawshank Redemption to be a high quality movie, but I have no particular desire to watch it again (even though I enjoyed it). On the other hand I can't watch enough of Big Trouble in Little China even if it's a cheesy movie.

Some of my favorites though have both qualities, e.g. Blade Runner.
Sociologists everywhere are panicking.

On the other hand, they'll probably expose a whole bunch of "decided" research fields that new psychologists can revisit.
Actually, it sound like he's agreeing with you. Be gracious and accept that. Good job.
She does provide various arguments. There's no shortage there. Whether you find them convincing is up to you but please don't mix that up with her not publishing stuff to argue her point. For example, not living in a second-handed way is a main theme of The Fountainhead, and that's closely related to the altruism issue.

> Her answer wasn't the consequentialist one that Adam Smith and other market-economy defenders proposed: that self-interest produces the best overall outcome.

Correct.

One thing that might be helpful is to understand Rand's view on compromise. She said you can compromise on concretes when you agree on a principle, but you must never compromise your fundamental principles.

For example, if you agree on the principle of trade, you can compromise (haggle) on the exact price or contract terms, and you're still both following a good principle and can both benefit.

But you must never compromise between collectivism and individualism, capitalism and socialism, life and death, freedom and slavery, rationality and irrationality. Those sorts of compromises between opposite principles amount to sacrificing some good that one shouldn't give up, and allowing in some unacceptable evil. Nor should you compromise your values in order to get something that you don't value or value less. That isn't a reasonable compromise, it is surrendering your values and principles for the benefit of others.

Given this sort of view of compromise, it's no good to ever compromise your own life, no good to ever sacrifice yourself. Anything that asks you to do that is evil. If there is a rational trade to make, then make the exchange and benefit, but don't sacrifice yourself for unspecified or vague future benefits which no one is accountable for providing to you.
I did something similar here:

https://github.com/petehunt/htmldry/blob/master/demos/events...

It's a little more HAML-inspired though.
I don't get it: he claims that sugar is bad because the fructose in sugar is bad leading to dozen disease including diabetes. But fructose is is the core of many fruits which are considered as healthy.

Nutrition/metabolism is still a black box and this video confuses more than it clarifies.
Why I'm writing my own Instapaper
Perfect hacking food?
Under your logic teens can't be arrested.(you get patted down(aka molested) in the process)
Having capital to invest in more start-ups reduces risks and increases the chances of the VC earning bigger returns. In order to invest in more start-ups, the firm needs top-notch people (partners, associates, etc.).

1. The best people are not going to join a firm that's giving away 50% of their management fees and carried interest income.

2. Not enough people & capital means

-Less investments, therefore more risks and less return.

-Less due diligence and monitoring of portfolio companies (again more risks)

-investors hate risk and low returns
Modular gene networks as agents of evolutionary novelty
The actual quote:
"This is incorrect. Increase in diabetes and obesity correlate not just with sugar but with all carbohydrates. Fructose is metabolized through pathways that are most similar to the way glucose is processed, notwithstanding the important differences. Alcohol is metabolized by a completely different pathway. At high levels, alcohol is metabolized through a different pathway, the cytochrome P450 -- in other words, detoxification. Whereas part 1 emphasized how fructose does not turn to glycogen, I am flattered the Lustig has learned that it does in fact lead to glycogen, sometimes preferentially. The presentation is terrific (I wish I could speak as well) but the content is the kind of thing that makes professors shake their head at lunch over how screwy student presentations are. The very detrimental effects of fructose occur at high levels of total carbohydrate intake and whereas it is good to point out that low fat has been bad advice, the label from the low-fat food was on screen long enough to see that flour was the second ingredient. Frequently, it is the first. Reducing carbohydrate is the best strategy for improving diabetes and obesity -- you can do it by emphasizing sugar but if you keep those healthy high starch fibers high, you will still have a problem. Lustig is nice guy and we try hard to avoid personal things, but the CONTENT of this talk is dishonest, biased, inaccurate and, again has the danger that it will continue to encourage high consumption of starch with or without grains. On the other hand, I have elsewhere suggested that it would be great to hear some sugar-eater jokes, like drunk jokes. Two sugar-eaters go into a Dunkin' Donuts...."
Your API will explode violently in IE < 8 || Quirks. This is because of gratuitous use of `setAttribute` along with `Array.prototype.slice.call` (dirty hack)[0]. IE < 8 || Quirks already treats HTML attributes and DOM properties identically[1], so really, DOM properties are preferred. More standards-compliant environments will reflect the property value in the corresponding attribute value (if possible).

Using `Object.prototype.toString.call` is also a pretty dirty hack, especially to detect an "array". I think `typeof obj === "object" && obj.length` would suffice, even if certain false positives like string objects leak through.

[0]: http://i.imgur.com/RNBYd.png

[1]: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd347148(v=VS.85).as...
That's what I'm wondering too, I don't see how this would work on a normal website since a normal website probably wouldn't be whitelisted by Google like AWS is... What am I missing here?
Those are very simple facts. I think there is way more into it. I recently a good article similar to this one. I wil try to find it and post in here...
I simply generate global functions corresponding to tags, so my stuff looks like this:

div(span('hello world')).inject(document.body);

Very simple to do and even simpler to use.
The problem with git is that its defaults are suited to large teams collaborating. For example if you create tags then push won't push them unless you specify another flag. This makes sense when there are lots of collaborators (you don't want everyone's tags polluting) but is annoying in small groups (you do want to share). This isn't to fault git, but it is what makes it harder to use.

I'm also confused by the github love. Exactly what is it that people think is so good about it? The ticket tracker is terrible (no prioritization, no attachments), the wiki doesn't have table of contents/document structure, you can't cross link between projects etc. As an example Google Code does quite a bit better on those issues, and they let you have multiple repositories per project so you can share the wiki, tracker and downloads as makes sense.
A illusion? how so? It is impossible for a security system to be 100% effective especially when people are involved.
This is what happens when you give minimum wage idiots that would normally be working at McDonalds fake badges and power. I know for a fact there are a few good, knowledgeable, professional TSA people at every airport, but the majority of them around the country are not. The majority of them are completely incompetent, completely unqualified, and glad they get to tell someone what do for 8 hours.
This is really neat. The coolest part is being able to register your own "tags" which take any arguments you want.

The problem I see is that this only works for "all known HTML tags." If you want to use custom tags, like <template> (I believe that's what meteor uses), this won't cut it since it uses $.el.tagname syntax, every tag has to be loaded into the $.el object.

How about a very similar, more jQuery-like syntax instead:

$.el('template', [
$.el('div', {'class' : 'foo'}, [
//other children here
//so basically, the last arg is always an array of children
]
]);
I think we see this graph very differently. I see a linear rise in measured temperature, and a prediction that shows an inflection point at the year 2000. If I were trying to match the actual to the prediction, without knowing the labels, I'd probably match it to 2c. This turns out to be the hypothetical coal phaseout in 2000.

http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2012/04/evalua...

After looking for a bit, my questioning side kicks in:

How did they choose the zero point for the overlay? Since it was published 1981, shouldn't the measured match up with the prediction until then? If not, why not?

For that matter, what exactly is the overlay? Is the pink line a time smoothed average of the red or a pencil? Would it create a different impression if extended to 2012?

In what way is a prediction that is 30% off a good prediction? Has it been long enough that we should have seen the change in slope? If anything it seems like it levels off.

I don't think that I ask these questions because I'm a "climate skeptic", but because I'm "generally skeptical". If you tell me a graph tells me something, my first instinct is to doubt you, and then see if the evidence supports your position.

This one feels more fuzzy to me than terrifying, and there are lots of things about the direction of the world that terrify me. What about it makes you weep more than the rest of the news?
Did you just create this account to make that post?

Also did you read the whole thread? Nobody mentioned that you can _actually_ pay back for the 2 years and actually get a waiver for it. It was a hypothetical ("what if" type scenario) that the original poster suggested in response to my claim that US govt. spent the money on these "future leaders" not to help these kids easily become American Citizens, but to share and spread American culture, ideas and ideals in their home country. So hypothetically since you didn't fulfill that goal (the 2 year stay is a proxy for it) _in theory_ you can think of them letting you pay back all the expenses they incurred having you in this country.

You can try another country like the original poster did. Canada is a great country and probably better than your home country at the moment.

> ... applied for a waiver based on "no objection" from the home government.

Yeah not sure I see how that would work. I can imagine any post Soviet block country having a "student exchange program
monitoring and tracking system". So who wrote that "favorable recommendation"? Be honest. Was it someone in your family and then you paid someone to sign. I am saying it because that is how things run in my home country and that is why other (let's say "Western" governments) don't really trust letters, transcripts or recommendations from any such places.
It'd be interesting to see the overall variance on quality vs. rewatachability. That could give some clue on the objectivebess of users' answers to quality. Perhaps quality is just one of those things that is more universally objective than it is subjective?
Fructose in five oranges: 16g

Fructose in one can of Coke: 39g
Well, it is important to note that society has often been incorrect about what things are healthy or not; so I think one should always be careful about the way things are 'considered' (not that I am arguing against fruit). If you check out some of Dr. Lustig's other work you will see he states fiber is the main reason fruit is not as 'dangerous' as fructose outside of fruit. Obviously all fruits are not the same either (in terms of amount of fructose and other characteristics).
A beautifully written but easily misunderstood statement. Thanks for sharing. I have read it at least 3 times today.

I came here expecting the worst from what can be a youth-worshipping and wealth-worshipping crowd at times but was rather pleasantly surprised by this and other responses today. Perception altered.