skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You cant actually do that in the Uk, unless you can prove it. They could not, according to the judge, hence its slander.

On the contrary, I understand Samsung requested that Apple be barred from making public statements claiming that the Galaxy Tab had infringed upon the iPad design, but the judge specifically ruled that Apple is within its rights to make such claims in line with the company's belief that the ruling is incorrect.
I posted a similar comment on Reddit. We're a decent sized mobile dev house (around 20 devs), and $29 / month makes me think hard if it's really worth that money. At $290 a year it would be close to the most expensive piece of software we would use. I think at $5 - $10 per user they'd get so many more users that they'd make more profit. Just my opinion of course.
Marissa Mayer: How To Avoid Burnout
I love the way chrome handles tabs, especially the way they shrink. The icon is enough to distinguish it and even if there is no icon for that page you already know its appromixmate position and can quickly find it (which you just can't when everything scrolls and you have no idea where you are).

The firefox tab scroll feature is probably the feature I hate the most, in any browser (yes, you can disable it - but bad defaults stink and you can't just go around and change the settings in everyones browser).

First time I've come across someone that doesn't hate it :o
"Eventually"? That's putting on 30 pounds a year, assuming it's all about (caloriesIn - caloriesUsed) / 3600 = poundsOfFat.

Of course, anyone who has dieted long term knows that that's not the whole story. You might cut your calories in half and still plateau within a few months.
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Not to mention their bloody awful support.
> To me drilling for oil - is almost money for nothing.

You might want to learn about the high costs of exploration and building rigs and wells and all the innovation that has been occurring for decades to extract greater percentages of more kinds of oil out of more kinds of places. Something like gold diggers in the 1800's might have been a lot closer to "almost money for nothing." Maybe even oil back then. But any resource that was easy enough to get for almost nothing has already been used.
Is the link submitted here throwing 403 errors for other HN users? I notice that many comments here on HN could just as well be responding to the bare title alone, whether or not the participant has read the fine article. Until I can read the article (I can't so far after repeated attempts), I'll give some history of how the cholesterol hypothesis was developed.

Ancel Keys, a member of the Terman longitudinal study of high-IQ children and inventor of the K ration for United States soldiers during World War II,

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7213-2004Nov2...

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/23/obituaries/23keys.html?_r=...

was active at the University of Minnesota in some key years of his career.

http://mbbnet.umn.edu/firsts/blackburn_h.html

He did studies of human nutrition, including starvation, in an intellectual milieu that included some of the first studies (by other researchers) on surgery to treat heart disease. (It was the surgical research that prompted my mother, a nurse, to move to Minnesota after completing nursing training in another state.) Keys hoped to find a dietary explanation for the prevalence of heart disease in industrialized countries, and he thought his regression methods of statistical analysis pointed to dietary fat and cholesterol as the main risks factors for heart disease. He lived to the age of 100, so it's hard to say that he was completely crazy in his ideas, but the idea that cholesterol intake from the diet alone is the whole story in heart disease rates is now generally discredited, and it is especially controversial to say that a diet of the kind he recommended is as good for all-cause mortality reduction as it appears to be for heart disease reduction.

Like all other members of the Terman longitudinal study, Keys was never awarded the Nobel Prize. Two young people who were rejected for the Terman study (William Shockley and Luis Alvarez) because their IQ scores were too low later went on to win a Nobel Prize in physics (in separate years).
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Linux version http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/products/download.html?product=...
Don't know about Mach-O, but ELF is actually a rather nice and clean design.

Much of the hate PE gets is because of the silly overloading with .NET assemblies.
I've always found the whole diet debate a bit silly and overly complicated. Most people are probably going to be fine as long they eat a varied diet,don't overeat and get enough physical exercise, with emphasis on the physical exercise. The human body is simply not design to sit on a chair 24/7 no matter how incredibly healthy the food you're eating is.
UK Judge orders Apple to run adverts saying Samsung didn't copy iPad
Technology doesn't actually move fast - you just haven't been watching this progress over the last 5 or so years. Indeed I've found technology to be slow burning with a large bang. Similar examples are found in start ups, inventions and financial crises. Discontinuities only occur due to inadequate sampling of the information stream.
Apple Appoints Former AMD Processor Expert John Bruno
So it'd be like motor racing -- stock and modified classes?

How would the modified classes be regulated, or would they? Would there be 100m stock, 100m GT and 100m Prototype, based on the types of enhancements and weight of the participant? Wow, imagine if the rules changed year to year. Like suppose you had folks in Prototype chopping off their noses to increase their power to weight ratios, and next year they increase the minimum weight and now you have to install ballast in your ass last minute to get your weight back up.
I am not sure what they are going for.

Could be a way to kill MySQL ;-)
This poster is correct. And, apparently, Drop Box already leaked a number of emails, so it would be nice to have an option to encrypt that also.
Let me explain it this way.

"TV experience for your Facebook videos"

Your news feed videos are automatically fetched and organized. You just need to turn on "auto play" and turn into fullscreen mode :)
He started off as a developer and worked his way up to create a company and become the CEO. Why on earth should he had been versed in the things other than development? And isn't it unfair to pretend changing the world when all you want is to work for yourself, which is Ok?
Non sequitur my friend. Just because someone contributes to Linux projects, doesn't mean they are a. Not making money for their services, while contributing back to the community he uses to gain his income, or b. he has a job (related or otherwise) that provides him with an independent income.
The main issue with running an email server yourself is making sure you aren't caught as a false positive on spam filters.
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Because it's not funny - it's just a silly, hyperbolic meme.

I've had funny comments upvoted (and a few I thought were funny downvoted, but c'est la vie).

( I always liked this one: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=458155 )
That's the beta version. Release is on 14, beta on 15, aurora on 16 and nightly on 17.

Firefox nightlies are here: http://nightly.mozilla.org/
The New Republic of Porn
Ya, they've got it backwards. I was a little confused when the TL;DR was longer than the first part.
You seem to be saying that the Ksplice guys don't deserve to get paid for their hard work, because "community, maaann". Which is an odd sentiment for a site based around startup companies, but ho hum. If they had been acquired by Google would that be any better?
With a few weeks of using W8 as my primary OS, I constantly forget I'm not using 7. The only time I see anything that reminds me I'm on 8 is if I move my mouse over the Charms or when I hit the Windows key to launch a new program.
Yahoo would probably make a lot more $ too because AdCenter is a joke.
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How I Would Unschool My Kids
Business Insider Tech Writers Need to Stop Pretending to be Entrepreneurs
Buy the upgrade for $40. No word on if it will be on AA or Technet, but odds are it will be when it RTMs in August.
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At the risk of repeating my self, the F- Off would still stand.

It is illegal to 'threaten' someone like that here. Sure, many people would cave and do it and that's why many employers still have this stupid mentality, but taking in account the law is on my side, I would repeat the F- Off, and if fired, I would sue until I would get my job back and some nice pocket money to go on holiday with my family :)
Even without doping, athletic training is not necessarily what you would call "healthy". Take an anecdotic example: A guy doing basketball professionally for years, and now requiring knee surgery because his knee is just destroyed.

I think it's the focus on extreme athletic performance that encourages people to "fuck up their bodies". I guess encouraging doping would make it worse, but then my expectation is that the athletes who actually win competitions already do doping most of the time.

I'm not saying sports should be banned. Just be aware of the costs.
Maker iOS app adds "show and tell" feature
One of the issues I've seen people complain about is having to close Firefox after a few days. I understand you shouldn't HAVE to close a program, but how are people using their browsers that this becomes such an huge problem?
Wow that Bing Maps example is scrolling smooth! Great work. My company currently evaluates mobile frameworks and I hope we can include Enyo in the list of candidates.
The laser is 6.5KM wide when it reaches the moon. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_Laser_Ranging_experiment
I was skeptical at first, but Toshio's false sentiment software won me over in the end.
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I remember all this. The highlight for me was working past hours in our first customer's warehouse (yeah, enterprise) room and being locked in because the guards forgot about us.

Or not getting back to the hotel until 4 AM and realizing you had to wake up at 6 to finish a feature to present to the customer at 9AM, and not sleeping anyway because of it.

Or the months when you couldn't pay yourself, barely scraped by on rent. The miracle of becoming "ramen profitable" and being able to eat again. Disagreements with the business partner about bootstrapping or funding and heated arguments... been there.

And all the friends who were there for you, even the ones you lost in the turmoil.

Guys: I know this, I've been through this, and I just want to say: it gets better. And not necessarily when you're magically successful (because that always happens, right?)—it just gets better in time. You can't stay unbalanced forever, and at some point your project will pull itself together, or it won't, and that's okay. You'll move on to another project, or maybe a decent living somewhere, and then you'll get an idea for a second new thing to create.

And you'll do it better the second time. You will. I will. Because it doesn't have to be like this. It might be a true story, but it's still not right.

Good luck.
"The Plural of Anecdote is Not Data"
After the failed Google Tax, France now wants to tax eCommerce sales
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Add browser support for RSS discovery (restore it, in the case of Firefox):

Chrome: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/nlbjncdgjeocebhnmk...

Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/rss-icon/
This tagline is misleading. A single paragraph discusses "How Yahoo kept it all under wraps" while the rest of the article is an also-ran discussion about Mayer's potential success/failure at Yahoo.
About tthe first paragraph, that's exactly what it is doing.

> These electrons are zigzagging through the air as they meet paths of easier passage through the air--paths with a lower dielectric strength. Each stroke of a lightning strike is usually about 50 m (150 ft) long and lasts about 1 to 2 microseconds with a pause of about 50 microseconds before resuming another stroke in a slightly or significantly different direction.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightning#A_typical_Lightning_S...
SV = El Salvador? South Vietnam?

I suppose you mean Silicon Valley, but I live on the East Coast (~3000 miles away). Also, our "tripartite separation" is based on yours, with the President taking the place of the Monarch/Prime Minister, the Congress taking the place of Parliament, and the Judiciary being roughly the same (we even use the same style of law, called common law, whereas most non-English-speaking countries use civil law).
So, technically and appearantly practically, you cant privately store a picture of yourself being born.

Seriously, when did it suddenly become okay for companies to police our culture?

Imagine cars breaking down because you used it to drive to known bad neigbourhood?

Imagine dinner plates that break down because you out meat on them?

Imagine fruit juice that evaporates if you mix it with alcohol?

Why is Microsoft targetting the amish people? It does not make economic sense.
Good idea. With my pet project (artJutsu) I've already experimented a lot with jQuery's ajax call to asp.Net web services. The results actually changed the way I approach problems at my 9-5.

I should figure out how to incorporate this html5 game dynamic into the site somehow. Perhaps as a chat-game project. Who knows what cool things I can learn from this.

Exposure is the greatest thing a developer can have. It helps spur up innovations. Kinda like a kid with an Erector set.
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Here's the thing tho': pranks are fun. Developing alternative energy sources is hard work, and what sponsorship does Greenpeace do in that area? Not much...

That, and not any conspiracy theory, explains everything.
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As you put on more weight the amount of calories you need increases.

I don't think cutting your calories in half would result in a plateau within a few months in most cases. That's quite a major reduction, pretty much a starvation diet.
USPTO Releases Rules To Let Third Parties Help Reject Patent Applications
Command-line documentation lookup for Cocoa APIs
Not following. Their QA is cheaper so it must be better?
http://codepen.io/anon/pen/HaFIr
Google harvests African Mobile Phone Numbers with Gmail SMS
As per his Twitter feed[1]:

"We're being kicked off HostGator for crashing their server due to volume. Working to get a dedicated server. Sorry for inconvenience!"

In the meantime, Google's cache of this article is here:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?client=safari&#...

And the direct link to his talk [video] is here:

http://vimeo.com/45485034

[1] https://twitter.com/EatLikePete/statuses/225822001154117632
Just how much does the banking industry depend on drug cartel profits?
"where's daddy" problem is rarely an issue for entrepreneurs.

kids are very good at adapting to their environment as long as their environment is stable and predictable. for example if you spend with your kids whole their life only 5 minutes a day, they perceive it as normal and wouldn't expect it any other way because "that's how daddy always used to be"

the key for entrepreneur with kids is to deliver consistency no matter what that consistency is. follow my advice and you will be happy entrepreneur.
I am curious why you are asking this. Are you a teacher wondering what others do, or are you a hacker looking to build something in the education field?

Education is one field where tech solutions have a long way to go. I believe copyright and cost are two issues that need to be thought about carefully in any ed-related technology venture.

For example, I am pretty sure most teachers still do all their lesson planning using word processing software, which is like architects working in MS Paint. Teachers need a well-designed lesson planning tool. That tool needs to be open-source to see widespread use, for a number of reasons.

I am excited to see where ed tech goes in the next 10 or 20 years. Tell us a little more about what you are thinking, and I'd love to share some more specific thoughts.
I hope they test the laptops more thoroughly this time. The Dellbuntu laptop i bought last time was returned because there was a bug with the graphics drivers that prevented X from working.
Indeed. Or footballers with massive lesions in their brain from all the impact trauma. (And by massive I mean walnut-sized holes in their brain.)
Rent a fracking server and be done with all these third parties. I'm sure that there's a simple, OSS web based file explorer for when you need to browse the files in Firefox. SSHFS will let you mount the drive as if it was native. The cloud is massively overrated for stuff like this.
Wish we had read this last November when we started! We're using Pusher for the connections instead of Node.js. Working on switching now.

One thing we've done you didn't mention was using Redis for the game state, instead of writing to the HD most things are handled in RAM. We run the risk of losing the last ~five seconds of data on all running games if the server goes down or something but that's a small price to pay for being able to process most game actions faster than the eye can perceive them.

Our game: real time multiplayer HTML5 version of Risk http://warsocial.com
You're right.

It seems like there's so many places to watch. Its really a coin flip. You can either choose to look one way, or look the other. That is, focus on what you know, or go on a technological safari. I think having a R&D day will help balance this out.

I'm always using new techniques and technologies, but they are only logical progressions in my current scope of knowledge. What I need to really do is to go from A to Epsilon to Z and then to B. At least for one day a week. I just want to be a bit more well rounded and beef up my "bag O' tricks".
This is what happens when you rely on the "cloud" for private data.

Private data is at home, or in backups stored in the bank, not at someone else network.
I'm not saying that eating 300kcal over daily maintenance everyday would not make you fat.

What I'm saying is that I really doubt the most of the people that are overweight/obese are eating according to what a BMR calculator says and because of slow metabolism they are getting fat. Also, body uses more kcals per day than BMR, you also have to take in account the activities per day.

Using Harris Benedict formula:

If you are sedentary (little or no exercise) : Calorie-Calculation = BMR x 1.2

If you are lightly active (light exercise/sports 1-3 days/week) : Calorie-Calculation = BMR x 1.375

If you are moderatetely active (moderate exercise/sports 3-5 days/week) : Calorie-Calculation = BMR x 1.55

If you are very active (hard exercise/sports 6-7 days a week) : Calorie-Calculation = BMR x 1.725

If you are extra active (very hard exercise/sports & physical job or 2x training) : Calorie-Calculation = BMR x 1.9

The thing is, most (and I know this is pure observational) people I know that are overweight/obese either underreport calories (they say they eat just a salad, but forget the 5 table spoons of dressing/olive oil they season it with) and over report activity levels (jogging is not moderate exercise!).

I know it isn't data, but my mother and my mother in law are some of the people that most annoys me related to this. They swear they don't eat treats (I see them eating on average 2-3 cake slices or ice creams per week) and they say they only dine salad (but include 2 loafs of bread and a lot of oil based seasonings) and complain they don't lose weight. And this is what I see in about 90% of the people I know that are overweight. Maybe it is cognitive dissonance/bias but some people just believe they can't lose weight, so they bend the truth to support that idea.

ps: sorry to be such a 'asshole' related to this. Fitness and nutrition is a passion of mine, and I hate when people use excuses for their lack of progress, or attribute 'genetics' or 'luck' to my progress (sure, they don't see me at the gym 1.5 hours every day working my ass off, or not eating bread for months at a time.)
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Life at the "top" is lonely. Explaining to people what you're doing would probably have most people put you in a mental asylum. One of the things about this that he is trying to explain is that when youre the CEO of a start up you're doing things that a VERY small percentage of people would ever do, and very few people would understand why anyone would ever choose to do that.
I guess I fumbled the satirical point that I was trying to make.

Most folks don't read terms of service documents. But, putting this particular terms of service document on your SkyDrive and reading it would incite many people to express their opinion of the document using profanity. (It certainly had that effect on me ;) )
It's a cool project, but I wouldn't necessarily call it a start-up. How will you monetize while depending on FB? Is this currently a pain-point for people, to the point that they would pay money for it?
Agreed 100%.

I'm not giving my private data to someone else to store.
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3D gaming in the browser is coming. Interestingly, while in the past people like John Carmack had to get around the limitations of the hardware, in the browser we'll be working around the limitations of the software layers between the game (presumably written in Javascript, using WebGL) and the hardware.

Anyways, I think this is a super interesting line of research and development, I wish I would not be tied up doing other stuff for the next 12 months. I'd love to just take the Quake 1 engine and (try to) implement it in Javascript with WebGL and see what happens. I estimate that's the level of graphics that's ambitiously doable in the browser in 1-2 years, by the time something like this would ship.

EDIT: As helpful commenters point out below, Quake 3 seems doable.

Also see yesterday's post on this topic:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4258670
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One very important factor about building a good relationship with a person is what she or he does for living - their profession.

Profession of a person gives us a lot of idea about them. People are more likely to connect with and meet the person if they work at reputed organizations.

Smilerr is a fun, safe & easy way to connect & meet like-minded singles from top organizations. At Smilerr, we validate the work email of our members at sign up to make sure that their profiles are real & legitimate.

We are not a dating or a matrimonial service. We are simply creating a fun, easy & safe medium to help connect like-minded singles and build a good relationship.

Would love your feedback.
I like how the branches are represented as actual branches.

But I do not understand why they chose to build a Chrome app instead of a Web app.
My parents encouraged me to be active and do interesting things, but every time I really started to get into something they seemed to get scared of me really committing to anything. It's like they were scared that if I tried really hard at something and failed, I would feel bad.

I would tell myself to go all in on whatever I was interested in, no matter how young I was. I would tell my parents to let me go hard at whatever I was interested in.
so interesting , I thought about distrubuted search, the first thing that struck me was that it was a monte carlo method of search(i.e. search with some random element). Its amazing how once a solution is found it is stuck to despite the potential for optimisation, the loop at the top.,