skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is not a satisfactory experiment, at least from the article, which may be making the wrong conclusion from a study that doesn't make that claim itself.

The problem is that the Yupno could have a divergent mental makeup from other races. Or that early in their formative years Yupno kids replace the intuitive number line with the Yupno number system by way of example. The study's evidence is based on testing adults, and then makes conclusions on whether we're born with the knowledge or learn it young. You can't make that conclusion with that data set.

The premise may well be true, I won't knock it, but the article's claim is flawed. What may well just be a cool anthropology study on a divergent culture is possibly being warped into a sensationalist headline.
That is true, but the typical HN reader entrepreneur is missing also a big chunk of field knowledge. Those that are in the field, instead, don't read HN. It's a cycle of miscomunication on both sides.
RSS will never die
This is bizarre. Not for wrongness -- but because it is baffling that what is right about it should not be obvious and taken for granted.

Business is always, and has always been, about avoiding competition. One can start by recalling Adam Smith's comment on any gathering of industrialists inevitably leading to conspiracy against the public. Then simply look at what any business does or tries to do, legal or otherwise -- what is a patent, for example?

Competition between business is supposed to be good for the public, not the competitors themselves -- hence business always wanting to avoid it. Competition is, broadly, destructive. It is only worth it because of other effects (spurring effort, creativity), and when it is limited and substantially supported by other cooperative systems.
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This is a biological metaphor that has been stretched too far. Natural selection has produced impressive systems and ecosystems that provide some redundancy, but humans are much better at deliberate effort and fast conscious feedback loops, and as long as humans are writing software the way we do it should play to human strengths.
non-sequitur != different perspective
The 2022 date is no longer relevant, see: http://wiki.whatwg.org/wiki/FAQ#What.27s_this_I_hear_about_2...

Whilst there may very well be many advantages to your approach, please don't misrepresent the competition.
Pure CSS scrolling shadows with background-attachment: local
The generic drug he's talking about was never approved in the US. It's not available here. You can get it in other countries.
Similar library with namespace support (SVG, MathML):

https://github.com/mal/watson
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Another suggestion: my own site, Folyo

http://folyo.me/

A lot of companies have already used it to hire great freelance designers. It works especially well when you don't have the time to contact 10 or 20 designers yourself.
There's even more money spent on fighting idiocy, but despite the evident failure in your case I don't think that teachers have conspired in order to try and guarantee a future salary.
There's only one problem. When you do break the long chain you're out for the count. When was the last time you heard anything from Seinfeld after his long-running eponymous show was cancelled?

How are you supposed to motivate yourself to start a new chain, when it means you'll be working on this shit for the next 3,000 days?
I'm pretty sure in the past that the upgrade software itself was updated, so you have to update the old packages first to make sure the new stuff installs properly.

At any rate, better safe than sorry.
There are two kinds of people who hated Unity when it first came out. The first kind of people were mostly unhappy about Unity's bugginess and lack of functionality. These folks should be OK by now. The second kind of people just don't like the UI paradigm that Unity represents. Nothing they can ever do will make them happy with Unity.

After all, that's why Ubuntu has alternative DEs! I use Xubuntu on my netbook and I'm lovin' it. (Unity 3D is too much for that little bugger.)
I'm not so sure about the insurance companies. I am a pharmacist and I see insurance companies insist on paying for expensive things and declining to pay for cheap things all the time. For example, they won't pay for cheap Relion brand syringes, but they will pay for BD syringes (BD is the bad guy in the linked article), which cost much more. I'm not sure about the reasoning behind this, but I'll bet it's sordid and corrupt.
Thing is, the fact that you give more of your respect to that woman than to Chris changes little. True, we can try and “rate” these accomplishments, and that woman probably would receive higher “mark”. However, it obviously makes little sense—because we're unable to judge the outcome, since causal relationships are too complex; because what matters is doing things, not recognizing and/or ranking others' achievements.
Well put. I think monetary value and impact don't necessarily correlate. One could have an amazing, long-term impact on the world without it being reflected in 'price'.

Reminds me of some of the recent Valve stories, specifically the anecdote about Doom being the most installed piece of software [1].

[1] For those that didn't know this, see the post below and scroll down to 'Valve is different'

http://blogs.valvesoftware.com/abrash/valve-how-i-got-here-w...
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Which ones? Links please.
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It certainly is contagious. You can find it occurring in the same patterns of groups of people as other contagious diseases.

The method of contagion is peer influence on lifestyle and peer acceptance of the symptoms.

People do indeed tend to "get fat by being around fat people". Obesity can be called "socially contagious".

http://www.cbsnews.com/2100-500368_162-3097001.html
I'm the author of the piece and you were in my final draft, but I couldn't figure out the value proposition so I cut it. Also, because profile pages just lead to dribbble/twitter. If there was more eye candy and a clearer call to action it would have been in. Sorry. You have a great hook as a designer who learned to code though. email me at jflaherty@replicatorinc.com if you ever want to chat.
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Instead of trolling from wired about Narrative Science, how about we see how an actual reporter uses tools to automate his job?

Here's Ben Welsh of the L.A. Times talking about "Human Assisted Reporting" (which itself is a play on "Computer Assisted Reporting"): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iP-On8PzEy8

Oh, and here's the slide deck: https://docs.google.com/a/knowtheory.net/presentation/embed?...
I have been reading a study arguing that people are more predisposed to obesity if they have fat friends, being a factor more important than genetic predisposition. I can't find the link right now.

Also, more and more people are getting fatter / obese every day. Clearly genetic predisposition can't explain this problem for such a large scale in such a small amount of time ... so this is in fact a social problem that grows by network effects.

So whether it is our lifestyle, or our diet, it's clearly spreading.
Therefore I don't think it's a stretch to call it an epidemic.
This absolutely will not go anywhere if it requires either a browser plugin or buy-in from browser vendors. I'd suggest creating a JavaScript library that can read the XML/HSS format and render them as HTML/CSS/SVG.
Ah yes much better, nice work.
I'm truly happy to sill be being paid to write brand new C code, and its 2012. Of course, its 2012, so C isn't the only language I write and work in, but it is still a very strong contender in certain pro software industries, for good reasons. It really doesn't take much effort to become a good C programmer, fast, these days.

And all other language arguments aside, C is still pretty fun to code any application in, if you do it right. It is true of all languages, but 21st Century C is uniquely appealing.
In reply, I can tell you I've just taken an item off the Front Page with two flags, and then put it back again afterwards by unflagging.

Added in edit: Cool - I report the results of an actual experiment providing evidence in a discussion, and I get a downvote. Fascinating - I clearly still have much to learn about the people who read and react on Hacker News. I have no idea why this should get a downvote.
Samsung Confirms Exynos 4 Quad For Next Galaxy
> Make sure you define a width and a height for all images on your webpage. This helps save time since the browser doesn’t have to do the work of calculating the dimensions.

This isn't correct in my opinion (it might be technically but not to a level where anyone would notice it), what it actually does it reserves the space in advance for the image as the rest of the page loads. If you don't do this then what happens is that the content keeps being pushed down which makes it seem like it's loading slower. So this impacts perceived loading time over actual loading time.
This article definitely took its sweet time to get to the point. Sure it's interesting, but the first thing I want to know is, "what did they do this time?", so I can decide whether maybe I already know about it or not.

Certainly the story about developing new products for a failing healthcare industry is interesting, and I would love to have read about it, if I hadn't been skimming through "yeah yeah yeah and how did they prevent him from bringing it to market? skip skip skip, aha."--IMO, it's just wasting my time, though I would have gladly read the stories about the entrepeneurs if only they'd have gotten to the point first.

Even though I thankfully don't have anything to do with the US healthcare system, I'd love to pass this story on to some of my friends that unfortunately do. Except I don't want to waste their time either.

And that really is a missed opportunity to bring to light something rotten in the system, because of a badly written article.
The thing is, I need my taskbar: one click to change to another window, and I usually have several browser windows opened (each with several tabs) and hate having to right-click the application icon to choose the window. That's why on Windows I have the classic taskbar (never grouping windows) and on Mac OS... I just keep hating the dock.
Is it more than superficial though? Depends on your definition of 'superficial':

If I buy a book on SPDY (or any technology), it is likely because I want to use it in a production/live environment.

I want to buy a book on technology from someone who has run a live system, and got the battle scars one gets from doing so; who has learnt from the experiences, which they can then share.

When it comes to technology, one can research all they like about it, but until you have practical _experience_ in a live environment, I would call it 'superficial'.

(From the blog post it is not clear; if you have run all these technologies live then I agree, your understanding is not superficial)
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That view of compromise is actually at the core of what I don't see convincingly argued for. Why shouldn't we compromise on principles, rather than just concretes, if it would produce pragmatically better outcomes? Why is it better to have dueling, inflexible idealized political positions, the hardline socialist against the hardline capitalist, each knowing they're right through some kind of metaphysical inspiration which can never be shaken by the presentation of actual facts? I would much rather have people in closer contact with reality, working out case-by-case situations pragmatically, than people living in an inflexible, idealized world where they know their views are pure and good, and opposing views are evil and bad.

The problem with using her novels as an argument for the position is that they only really work in an affective, sense, imo, as implying consequentialist arguments, sort of along the lines of a morality tale or fable: look what could happen if things are done this way, or alternately, if they were done that way. And I think a lot of people do read them that way; the famous "going Galt" plot, for example, is commonly taken as a parable for why bad things will happen if you institute too much regulation and burdening of productive individuals. But she explicitly disclaims "things will turn out better/worse" as a reason to accept or not accept her philosophical/political views, so her novels aren't supposed to be read that way. But they're actually more effective that way! Which is why I think it's so common for fans of Rand to ignore Objectivism and instead read her as more of a general pro-free-market, libertarian author.
LinkedIn Unveils Its iPad App, Wants to be in Front of Your Face
You're welcome! It will be customizable, but not to the extent of the GNOME panels. Part of the other problem is that it's still new, so developers don't want to build a lot of stuff with it.
Xubuntu seems to be out now:
http://torrent.ubuntu.com/xubuntu/releases/precise/release/d...

I've been teaching the beta for a while now, I like it. Ubuntu 12.04 LTS comes with new vagrant, puppet and arduino 1.0. And with Xubuntu, you can use a traditional desktop. Some of my experiences teaching with the beta
http://terokarvinen.com/2012/xubuntu-12-04-lts-on-vappu
It looks like no cardio to speak of in your routine. So many people kill themselves doing an hour a day of running or riding a stationary bike and then wonder why they don't get better results. It's really 80% or more about diet and lifting weights. The more muscle you have the more calories you will burn throughout the day. You just don't need that much cardio if you train intensely enough when lifting weights.

Nice work Ryan.
Someone else with a similar attitude I find inspiring: Les Stroud. He'd go to some random remote wilderness location, take a few video cameras and nothing else, and record himself surviving for a week. Result: Survivorman, a hit TV show going into its fourth season, with at least 3 spinoff shows.

A more mundane example: my brother took a photograph every day for a year. Not a big deal, no particular subjects or goals, but getting that one picture a day was paramount. With some editing & on-demand publishing, result was a very nice coffee-table book of intriguing eclectic photos.

Same idea. Pick a topic, dive in, write/record for an audience, do it with passion and consistency and detail, the result is awesomeness. The more you strive the awesomer you get.
Hey! I made a programming language that only uses 1s and 0s... oh wait, never mind.
50$/ month web cluster?
There is another very interesting page on bezier curves which goes all the way into the maths you need, i.e. finding intersections, length of a curve, splitting a curve, etc. It's not animated but interactive, so drag the control points.

http://processingjs.nihongoresources.com/bezierinfo/
Indeed, and there's been much discussion that the chemistry that makes Lunesta patentable is trivial, basically a patent for its own sake.

"a single isomer drug rarely offers a therapeutic advantage over the mixture of isomers from which it is derived. However, the single isomer is patentable distinct from its multiple-isomer origin. Thus, the drug company can get a monopoly."

http://insomnia-relief.com/information/?p=49
It's "principle", "principal" means something else.
With regards to Twitter/FB, frustratingly in my Webmaster tools it shows our homepage loads slowly, and a huge percentage of this loading time is actually the FB/Twitter buttons.

For users this doesn't impact their perceived loading time much at all so when Google reports it as a slower load time it's an unfair bias in my opinion.

It's important to get it fast as it's a well known fact they use it as a metric in their ranking algorithms. I've tried various ways of delaying it but nothing seems to stop it being counted in page load time tools:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9502972/stop-pingdom-coun...
CSS and HTML have quite a few baked in flaws that are unlikely to get fixed anytime soon, but there are workarounds. Most of the benefits of AXR seem to be similar to using XML, XSL, and LESS, which has the extra huge advantage of running in every major browser today. I think writing a good XML, XSL, LESS tool chain would be more practical, but I admire your spunk.
What machine (and config) are you using?
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When I launched my first website about 15 years ago (a Fallout walkthrough site, if you must know), I used to discover new referrals and links every time I checked my analytics.

These days, even though my blog gets the same traffic in one day that my first sites got in one year, my referral logs look strangely empty. All the traffic comes from Twitter, Facebook, HN, and nobody manually links to anything from their blog anymore.

I think this shows a partial transfer of content from blogs and sites to social networks, and RSS has been hurt by this move.

Add to this the fact that the whole user experience about RSS has always been mediocre at best, and outright bad nowadays. It takes me something like 5 or 6 clicks to add a RSS feed to Google Reader, and that's after installing a Chrome extension.

So yeah, RSS will never die. But that's only because it's already a zombie.
Thanks. Glad to hear you're finding the baseline grid useful!

(disclaimer: I'm part of the team at Typecast)
I didn't know that this was the case! Thank you for explaining it :)
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If Canonical is reading this, please put up a torrent link on the main page with both versions. Obviously your servers can't handle the load right now.
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Please please please have an ultrabook style book on launch. I'm in the market for one and it seems most have trouble running ubuntu :-/. I need a reliable linux laptop seller, so good luck!
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Exactly. Very little cardio. My heart definitely gets a workout though. After doing weights properly, your heart really pounds.
hey man... I'm going to try this out.
Well as somebody who has built stores from scratch and used Shopify, I don't think Shopify is a bad deal actually. Even when I build my own from scratch, I still have to pay for hosting that runs at least $30/month. Of course Shopify also takes a cut of sales revenues, but for somebody anxious to start selling, these costs are not huge. Add in difficulty and costs of setting up certificates, and to me, Shopify is not a bad option.

I think that if somebody is sitting there with a bunch of stuff they are eager to start selling, they are not going to mind pulling out a credit card and spending $20-$30 to get started. That's why I think these guys should raise their prices to capture that impulse buy up-front. I think there is a lot of value in knowing the brand. If I know Shopify is a proven product, I'll probably pay a premium rather than try an unknown service.
Shame you didn't talk more about your diet in the regards that what you actually did was cut out all the carbohydrates! This to me would appear to be the #1 reason to your success, a low carb diet.
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Congratulations, you are awesome! Not only did you accomplish your goal, but you have tangible evidence of your achievement. Your name is on the cover of three books, and no one can ever take that away. So what now? Does the bar get raised. Are you saying to yourself "Wow, I can't believe I did that, what else can I do?" The difference between success and failure is ambition. You sir have tapped into your inner ambition. Harness it, focus it and you are unstoppable. You've inspired me. Thank you!
Using petrol on personal transportation is such a waste. I'd like to see a heavy carbon tax so that this fantastic, but finite, resource would be directed to things where it really adds value. The US subsidising wars to get more of it makes selfish sense, but to burn it immediately instead of building infrastructure is shameful.
Smaller copies:

http://omgubuntu.co.uk.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2...

http://omgubuntu.co.uk.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2...
A programmer who worked with the compilers on the Convex C3800 series supercomputers related his experience as "having to program as if the compiler was my ex-wife's lawyer."

Reading this made me realize very few people fully appreciate how good compilers have become these days.

I'll add some love to the MS C# compiler, despite its shortcomings, just because whoever worked on it absolutely deserves some love.
True, but it's the complete package that does it. Not just dropping carbs.
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Yes, stateful firewalls are almost as much of a blight on the Internet as NATs are. The way it's "supposed" to work is for security to be handled by the endpoints (e.g. the SIP hardware phone). But that's a totally unrealistic goal because it makes it very difficult to do centralized administration of security policies. It's also rather undesirable when mobile devices are involved (you would like to stop unauthorized traffic before it enters a wireless network where it wastes precious bandwidth and battery life). We're just going to have to live with the problem.
I love that you take the time to put in so much attention to detail. But this is really about vertical rhythm. Robert Bringhurst neatly covers this in The Elements of Typographic Style when he says that the text should return to its rhythm after interruptions (for example, subheadings, blockquotes, images etc).

I also find pretty hard to come up with a scale that is neatly divisible by the baseline and that it's a lot easier to use margins to bring things back into line.
I prefer the style of Python to the ones of Ruby anyday.

I also prefer the style of Hackernews/Reddit to the one of Digg. Digg may look better, but its style and content is what i don't like.
We're not doing our own brand machines (not yet ;-). Are you after any specific ultrabook already on the market? Frankly, we are not keen on any of them and find them quite poorly built for the price. The Macbook Airs are much better.

We're doing the Thinkpads because the keyboards are by far the best and the build very solid. The X1 is the closest to an ultrabook we could offer.
sudo do-release-upgrade

It's generally better than dist-upgrade anyway.
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I heard they did a lot of testing with dist-upgrades from 11.10, 11.04 and even 10.10. But doing a backup wouldn't hurt, right?
I imagine that running and riding (on a real bicycle) is more beneficial when you are overweight because there's more to carry around.
I asked some friend of mine to read the post and give a feedback. Sorry if comments are void().

My mistake as publisher
Lenovo X220. Standard Ubuntu 12.04 with Unity. Laptop display configured for left, 22" configured for right. Because I have launcher configured for auto-hide, every time that I scroll across to the left to reach the laptop display, the launcher gets in the way, hence I want it on the right.

I've read some of the other comments below and I've decided to try gnome-classic instead. It's a pity, because I really wanted to fall back in love with Ubuntu. I can't believe they didn't make it configurable to switch which side a bloody launcher is on. Sure, have your defaults, but make them configurable.
Related: Magnetic Core Memory, the read/write version of Core Rope Memory. http://www.corememoryshield.com/report.html
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Considering how numbers are represented, I'm reminded of John Horton Conway's article on Surreal Numbers, wherein he starts with an empty set and one rule, and derives the totality of all numbers. Could make for an interesting basis for a language.
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I got an update on the change from free to fee. They're profitable now.
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