skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you view the page on iOS 6 beta, an app banner appears at the top of the page, linking to the app store.
As someone with a low-bandwidth connection and that I often work in cafés I hate it when the only description available is through video when there could easily have been text and screenshots.
Thanks for the links, btw, both here and in the post. Watching the video now. It's interesting because when I first started working in functional languages like Clojure I struggled very much with how exactly one went about modelling an app, as opposed to the OO way. When I realised that the place to start was the service layer (and indeed individual use cases), things became much clearer.
I am currently in San Diego and really really liking it. I am homeless and can't imagine affording a home here. But I love the weather, the walkability of the gaslamp district and just a whole lot of things. I have never lived in a large city before and disliked most of the ones I have been in. I have toyed with the idea of doing a kickstarter project related to the city (and county?) of San Diego.

I have looked around and asked around a smidgeon for online resources related to San Diego. I am getting the impression there isn't all that much, at least not anything really good. I wondered if people would be interested in having something better. I am still toying with the idea. At one time, I wanted to go into urban planning or something related. Urban planners tend to be career bureaucrats, many working for government. That is not my comfort zone. Before life interrupted my career plans, I was increasingly wondering what that "something related" part might be. I am wondering if I might be in the process of stumbling into it currently.
His wife is hot.
I just tried turning off line numbers, and you're right, it's great. They really don't provide enough value to justify taking 4 columns on every vertical split.

I use a pretty large font size for my terminal, and the extra 8 columns finally allows for two 80 column vertical splits on my laptop. Thanks for the suggestion!
Quick note: This requires vim 7.3
If you read the whole article, Taubes isn't saying that there is not a link between calorie intake and weight-gain - what he is saying is that it's not "causal" in any useful sense. Why exactly overweight people consume more calories is still a mystery and it's a gross oversimplification to discuss the law of thermodynamics when considering "why someone is overweight".
Cool - I started using it in late '92. :-)
You should learn to code.
Proelia 2.1 - RPG encounter tracker for the Mac
This is fantasy, of course. My guess is that it's some college course doing a social experiment rather than an individual troll. Perhaps it's called The Creation of Myth (user's name is CM-NL). There's probably some college class out there patting themselves on the back for convincing so many people through a cleverly-crafted-but-just-a-little-too-perfect story that was tailor-made for Redditors.

After all, the follow-up is basically created from the most popular responses to the original post.
>. I think you can get things stolen in any co-work environment and there is no way Startup Chile can control this (other than doing what they already do).

Sorta? My company incubated at StartX and we thought nothing of leaving our stuff on our desks while we left to do other things. The thought of having our things stolen was just unrealistic.
> It is definitely not common knowledge amongst the general population.

For a good reason. First and foremost, general population just needs to eat less, a lot less. Once we get past that point, macro-nutrient composition can be the next level of diet optimization.
You are right that you have to adjust for metabolic rate; and while the content of your diet will have an effect on that rate (meaning getting an entirely accurate assessment of your expenditure is near impossible) the kcal value maintains;

I suppose it's my mentality that you adjust your eating habits based on your diet contents and its effect on metabolism, to match the kcal values, rather than viewing the kcal as an inconstant value.

Thank you, by the way. I enjoyed the opportunity to think though this
Except that many have been trying to prove they are created equal. http://www.slashfood.com/2010/11/09/eat-twinkies-lose-weight...
Part of the rationale for the patent system is that it is supposed to encourage people to disclose trade secrets that they would not otherwise disclose. However, if you can tell how a thing works just by looking at it, then according to that rationale there is no point in allowing such an invention to be patented (at least not on that basis). Unfortunately, that does not seem to prevent many completely obvious things from being patented (e.g. one click shopping).
> a service offered publicly

But there is no legislation that says my website must be publicly accessible. I could randomly return 403 errors, or only block people using Firefox, or only block people from the state of California.

When there's legislation saying that my website must not exclude people, then I'll consider accessibility.
I've been on the fence about quitting Facebook for a while.

On one hand, it feels like junk-food-friendship: it feels like you're connecting and communicating, but in reality the time you spend scrolling lists on your phone could be spent with something far better: closing the FB app and calling a buddy.

On the other hand, so many people use FB that it's tough to completely pull away from it. It's where my generational cohort shares photos, so I can't fully walk away unless I want to miss out on the photos from last week's camping trip, etc.
10 i = i + 1
20 PRINT i
30 IF i > 100000 THEN i = 0: GOTO 10
40 IF INKEY$ = "" THEN 10
50 PRINT "Bible, Line:", i

http://www.losethos.com/files/BIBLE.TXT

God says... Line:16099

evil, they shall go in thither, and unto them will I give it, and they
shall possess it.

1:40 But as for you, turn you, and take your journey into the
wilderness by the way of the Red sea.

1:41 Then ye answered and said unto me, We have sinned against the
LORD, we will go up and fight, according to all that the LORD our God
commanded us.

And when ye had girded on every man his weapons of war, ye were ready
to go up into the hill.

1:42 And the LORD said unto me, Say unto them. Go not up, neither
fight; for I am not among you; lest ye be smitten before your enemies.
If Asus can make it for Google with a margin for themselves, then other manufacturers could do the same. I doubt that Asus is making these devices for Google at no profit.
I'll add it to Yellow Yellow's TODO list for when they come out of double stealth: http://doublestealth.blogspot.com
Yes - http://sendhub.com/developer
Don't get emotionally affected by every little annoyance in the world and especially technology, that way madness lies.

Madness, but occasionally madness and change. The OP and his angry cohort are trading their collective sanity for thousands of mostly invisible minor improvements that make the world a better place.

I mainly use Chrome on Mac, but also hate this behavior. Yes, clicking on an insertion point, cussing, and using Ctrl-A works if I want to select the beginning of the URL, but if I wanted to do this I would have stuck with the keyboard and not bothered carefully selecting my insertion point.

Rage on OP!
I agree, C doesn't itself explain "how things work."

But I think the process of learning C can (but won't always) lead to a pretty good understanding of how things work.

I'm admittedly not a very good programmer, but I love the ideas of programming, and it's probably my second best creative outlet. I just struggle with some of the higher level concepts... it seems the more abstraction that goes on, the harder I find it to understand. Closures, for example. Sometimes I think I understand them, and sometimes I don't.

I work in hardware design, and perhaps it is only because it is what is familiar to me, but it seems to be a very concrete way of thinking. Certainly not just because it's physical, but that probably helps too.

As far as programming, I think C and Assembly have to be my two favorite programming languages. By that I mean real C, not c++ or objective-c or whatever. And a "purer" form of assembly on simpler CPU designs.

Assembly is great because the operations are so simple. Move, Load, Store, Add, etc... My problem solving has always been to take the problem and break it down into smaller problems, and Assembly seems to be an extreme view of that.

Assembly is naturally close to the hardware. (Although how close varies with CPU design and can be argued in light of micro-ops, caching, out of order execution, etc...) Vanilla C translates so directly to Assembly, that if you know Assembly, it's easy to envision what Assembly could be generated by the code you are writing in C.

If you have an understanding of the hardware involved, there just isn't very much mystery to C. As such, it can provide a springboard to understanding higher levels of abstraction.
> Hopefully this will lead other browser makers to integrate Native Client as well which would lead to a world free of browser-plugins!

That is self-contradictory. Native Client is a browser plugin (it uses the PPAPI browser plugin interface).
I had the original 7 Galaxy Tab and absolutely loved it. I have Transformer Prime now and consider getting this smaller tablet again because the 7 inch form factor is absolutely perfect imo.
Sounds about right. I graduated from UQ in 2008 - I had job offers from Honeywell in Sydney ($56k) and a local Brisbane firm ($45k) but took Microsoft (US$80k). Banks and IBM were offering ~$50k. A couple friends who went to Google in Sydney were at ~$60k, those who stayed in Brisbane were generally on ~$40-$50k. 5 or 6 of us from my graduating class came over to MS that year.
Solving the Wrong (Healthcare) Problem
This is exactly why relying on plugins and closed-source components for the web is dangerous. Adobe can just decide to stop supporting a platform (Linux), and only companies partnering with Adobe (Google) get to keep using Flash.
18 Year Old Kid raises X Million for Startup Y to solve Global Problem Z
While it's always nice to have a pretty frontend, why not use Google Apps or Exchange reminders as a backend? Yet another account, yet another site, disconnected and needing individual management. I use Exchange reminders, to set it up I just add my Exchange account to my iPhone or Outlook and it's done. It's not pretty but I don't have to remember another site
Lady Gaga and New TLDs – Why Google Has Assured Their Future
Seems almost identical to Fetchnotes, but with worse device support.
Another TODO list app? When I looked at the website it seemed like the main value proposition was that my TODO list will be everywhere. Countless apps already do this though so I don't understand how this one is better.
Super interesting, thanks for sharing.
cool platform, kinda like kickstarter for getting a message out
>Furthermore look at religeon, not a lot of benefit to the individual but the cohesive group survival is improved.

There is a very strong individual pressure to conform to your tribe. Humans are extremely vulnerable on their own, but benefit hugely from being in a group. It is therefore of paramount importance for an individual to avoid being outcast from the group. I think it is likely that religion is more or less the name we give to the feedback loop that causes tribal conformation pressure to override rational analysis in an individual's belief selection process.

> Heck, even look at cells cooperating to make an organism - thats group selection at the most basic.

No no, that is kin selection in its most extreme form. Kin selection is very strongly backed by evidence, and differs from group selection in that the individuals have an above average statistical overlap in their genomes. For example, a brother and sister have an average of 50% shared genes, so genes that promote sibling cooperation can propagate more effectively than their complementary alleles, even if that cooperation causes some reduction in survival of the individual.

In the case of cells comprising an organism, the overlap in genetic material is 100% (excluding anomalies like mutation and HGT), so we see enormous amounts of individual cell sacrifice which prove advantageous in preserving those cells' genes by benefiting the other cells in the organism.
"Mobile First" shouldn't necessarily mean you should build a native mobile app. You can put your efforts to build a responsive web app, that would scale from mobile to web.

It's better if your MVP is ubiquitous, without being tied to either desktop or mobile. This allows users of both demographics to explore and engage with your app.
How Brand Advertisers Should Make Use Of Facebook Ads
> ... I've always thought it would be cool to have programmable blood filters.

It is called flow cytometry. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_cytometry
Google Drops the Price of Google Maps -- By 8X
Google has drastically lowered the pricing for their mapping service.
Ha Tinh’s delicious peanut candy | Vietnam Travel News
Cocos2D JavaScript Standalone Beta 2 out now
Hometalk Aims To Be The One-Stop Site For Home Improvement Info
I haven't heard anyone but Mr. Taubes "discussing the law of thermodynamics". For me, there is zero mystery why obese people are fat. They have eaten and continue eating more (calories) than other people. And they will get less obese if they eat less. What exactly is the mystery here?
Our emerging Tablet Nation
This is what people aren't talking about. His attitude is what will put him behind bars.
Me too :) I used HyTelnet to make my first visit to a web page. HyTelnet's gimmick was that you did not need to install a web client (browser) -- you could use the Telnet client you already had installed.
Any.do works fairly well. I like its Chrome extension. However, its syncing is very delayed, which bothers me.
Ichiro Lambe of Dejobaan Games actually goes by the title "CEO & Janitor", which I've always liked a lot.
I used my orignial Galaxy Tab a lot for reading PDFs. Works great for me. Get the ezPDF reader and you have everything you will want. The usability of the reader is what makes it stand out imo.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=udk.android.re...
I know this question has been asked a million times since 2008, but is there really no way to remove banks and insurers from the 'too big to fail' category?

Given that they abuse the Lidor to their own profit, take billions in 'virtual subsidy' from the implicit protection of taxpayers, surely there are means to reduce the risk they apply to all of us

Can people tell me how naive I am being with some of the below ideas. Where is the list of actually well thought out ideas? :

1. Create global chapter 11 provisions and let them fail

2. Work out some way that chapter 11's wont snowball

3. create a single inter-operable modelling language so that trades are analysed in real time, and force all trades to be public. At least we know how bad it will be this time.

4. err - unicorns? Fairies?

(Honestly, I am asking serious questions. Otherwise its down to the nearest Occupy! rally for me)

Edit: can't do lists, removed the splenetic
I think the point is that it's harder to see what line number you want to jump to if you don't have line numbering on. . . .
Duties, morality and short selling
Germany would love to devalue the Euro, for the same reason basically every country is trying to devalue their currency (US, China, Brazil, etc). They all think it will help their manufacturing sectors by increasing outputs. Unfortunately, not all currencies can simultaneously devalue.
I like meat and meat keeps me full for longer periods of time, while at the same time whenever I eat rice, or potatoes, or pasta (without any meat) I feel hunger in 2 hours tops.

I don't know if this is a property of high-fat versus high-carb diets, but either way it's a mistake to think in absolute terms.

I also disagree that we have a weight problem because "we eat too much". I lost more than 40 pounds by cutting all the sugars from my diet, while still eating plenty of food.
There actually is. If you read the sites for serious gamblers, they pay lots of attention to the exact rules in place, especially for blackjack. It's defiantly not a commoditized industry.
Xirra 32gb root server for 69 euros
... and what about palm pilot (or zaurus, n900)
I couldn't bring myself to read past this line:

if user && user.password == password
She's only there for his money.

Kim isn't a hero, nice or generous person. He's just a geek with money who is now 'abusing' his new found wealth.

I don't look up to him, personally.
This is very much...not new news whatsoever. I thought it was pretty common knowledge you need different types of calories.

This piece also seems to be pretty marketing/weight loss heavy, as opposed to proper nutrition. (I think for an active person, a proper diet is around 40% calories from protein, 30% from both fat and carbs?) or do I have protein and carbs swapped...?
Juan Enriquez: Will our kids be a different species?
I wonder how having photos showing up in real time, in "Party Mode", would effect the dynamics of events/parties (if it would in fact make a difference)?
It’s 2012, Why Aren’t You Using These Hacks In Your App?
The standard deposit insurance amount is $250,000 per depositor, per insured bank, for each account ownership category.

I wouldn't be all that worried though. I'm not sure if 9 billion puts a dent in their accounts. They move a lot of money.
"It's just money, Sam. It's not real."
This seems like the Kindle Fire done right. High quality components, good build quality, competent software and despite that still only $200. It's nice to finally see Apple get some competition.

I personally prefer the 10inch form factor but I can see arguments for both.

But I'm still not willing to predict whether this will be a success. I think Windows Phone 7 is extremely attractive – yet it continues to fail. This is really hard stuff to predict.
"Seriously, all that bragging is gauche."

It served a purpose. It got him publicity and was good for his career and in bringing attention to boxing. (I'm guessing you don't have anything good to say about Trump either.)
Microsoft Research Developing Accurate GPS-Like Navigation For Indoor Spaces
If you've already got a Nexus phone, you don't need 4G/3G on your tablet. You've got a mobile hotspot already. The Nexus Phone + Nexus Tablet + Nexus TV products fit each other very, very well.
I'm a happy RTM user as well. This doesn't look like it does anything better, although I guess for people who don't need the more advanced features of RTM it's a good alternative.
This is very wrong:

"It seems eclipsed these days in favor of Clojure and Scala."

Your view of reality is being warped by the Hacker News bubble. Consider the results of Google Trend:

http://www.google.com/trends/?q=grails,+clojure&ctab=0&#...

Mind you, I'm comparing Clojure, the whole language, to Grails, which is just one framework. While it is true that most Groovy work involves Grails, there is also some Groovy work that does not, so the results of this comparison, if anything, understate the gap between Groovy and Clojure.
"Allah is the Greatest. I'm just the greatest boxer."

-- Muhammad Ali
If you don't like typing, vim is not the right editor for you!
and I think they are going to try to get Groovy 2.0 into Grails in 2.2, which will be awesome!

Definitely. I'm very much looking forward to Groovy 2 support in Grails. We're just about to migrate our project to the Grails 2.x series, to start getting ready for the new hotness.
The policies that Germany is forcing on other countries prevents inflation in Germany. If they were willing to accept a reasonable amount of inflation, the situation could be eased for the majority of the EU countries.
Ubuntu Adoption Grew 160 Per Cent In India Last Year
I wouldn't worry about it. I have used several styluses and note-taking apps on the iPad and in the end the handwriting experience is still horrible compared to pen and paper. It's just not happening on hardware that assumes input is coming from a finger many, many times larger than a natural pen point.

iPad is a great buy for lots of reasons but handwritten note taking isn't one of them.
LaunchValue - my simple signup page app
Dear Hackers,
I have been a silent reader here for a long time. But finally had something to share, so keeping my fingers crossed!
I ended up writing a simple app to create landing/signup page for one of my startup ideas. I thought there is an audience who might be interested in simple, quick and cheaper launch page app itself. So, I thought I will turn this app into a product/service and see if people really want it.
I am making it live for signups today and would love to have your feedback on it- http://www.launchvalue.com/

Thanks
Congrats on launching Sam!
Sure, if you stop eating you will lose some weight and die. But, you can die of starvation while obese. In animal studies, it is possible to reduce calories and the animals won't lose weight or to add a lot of extra calories and not become obese.

Calories have something to do with it because they are one part of the equation. Calories in does equal calories out. Calories In = Calories Stored + Calories Expended. But, the mistake is in thinking that the law of thermodynamics means that the type of calories in doesn't impact the ratio of calories stored/expended -- the variables are not independent. The content of the food you eat impacts: your hunger, your energy level, fat storage rates, and your metabolic rate, all of which mean that attempting to cut or add calories may not have the expected impact depending on what the food is.
Hackers love to make todo lists. It's like some musicians' work remixing pop songs.
"Unfortunately, the "cool kids" part gives you away."

I am unsure of your intention here, but I think you are just not getting this at all. If you are assuming I am a cool kid then you are mistaken. I am a 42 year old software architect at a fortune 500 company.

I think you have this all backwards. Early adopters picked gmail (as did all their friends) not to signal, but because it was better, faster, more secure. Those that didn't and stuck with yahoo and hotmail (and who continue to have their accounts hacked) are perceived by others (no matter how secure they might be in themselves) as not keeping up.

Maybe an example will help, let's say you put your myspace account in your profile. You can be the most secure person on the planet, but people will look at your profile and a draw a conclusion.

"The path to discover one's true self is a lifelong journey, and I bid you good luck on it."

Haha - I think it's a bit of stretch to go from email host provider to some zen moment, but I guess you didn't really have any point to make, so resorting to condescension was the next best thing. :)

Now, let me get back to my Well account...
Or Gmail Tasks
Have you tried Tasks? I used Any.do, it is good but I like Tasks better. Maybe you should give it a shot. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ch.teamtasks.t....
Drains the battery of what? Wifi is more battery friendly than 4G. I just don't appreciate paying an extra $50 a month for a tablet I use twice a week
Right, the alternative is to just sort of guess how much you need to ctrl-u/d or j and k to get to a specific line. Also, I guess it depends on screen size. I usually have plenty so the line numbers' usefulness outweighs the extra space required, at least for me.
New Trends in Data Education
The static features in Groovy 2.0 look like they were integrated from the Groovy++ project. Seeing as how there was an entire side-project created by the community I'd say there was a big interest in adding static type checking to Groovy.

http://code.google.com/p/groovypptest/wiki/Welcome
Slow Web Movement: My 2 cents
When pg used a todo list as an example app to challenge email, this was to be expected. A million todo apps everywhere. People have so little imagination.