skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Off topic, but I find it extremely interesting that many Indian TV producers are actually putting up full HD episodes of their shows up on youtube directly (e.g., https://www.youtube.com/user/StarWorldIndia, which incidentally is a subsidiary of Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation). A far cry from just a few years back, when you couldn't even find them on public torrent trackers.

Does anyone know what the business plan here is (or is it just the fact that the overwhelming majority of the population have access to cable television and broadband speeds haven't caught up yet?)
> the internet will always be lightyears ahead of what is published in peer-reviewed journals

The thing is, its not as if r/fitness or /fit/ invented the low-carb diet or the paleo diet. They just spread it to people who'd otherwise never engage in debate/discourse about nutrition (which is of course commendable.)

> It's the perfect meritocracy of ideas, and the slow peer review process can't keep up.

I think Reddit and blogs have seen enough false witch hunts and outright lies to know that the internet is very, very rarely a meritocracy. Peer-reviewed processes aren't meant to serve as a proxy for the general population, or to spur rapid progress; in fact, their goal is serve as objective judges of validity and accuracy.

This is somewhat akin to when people complain about the difficulty in passing legislation in the U.S. Things like bicameral legislature and checks and balances were instituted specifically to slow down the passage of legislature and allow a more deliberate review process.
Bring back OpenID/Google auth for a little? Just so I can get access back to my account please? :(
Really? It was really asking too much to ask you to read the second sentence of my post?

Your reply has nothing to do with what can be said by a political opponent.

The OP asked "what is the political motivation for keeping the TSA intact." I answered. If you want to rebut my political analysis, fine. This particular thread is not about the actual efficacy of the TSA.

[Originally used more jerkish language. Sorry.]
This is as good as it gets: http://www.stanford.edu/class/cs193p/cgi-bin/drupal/
From what everyone here is saying, it is clear to me I am being put in some kind of fish bowl with the results I am getting while other people are not in my same fish bowl. I can't explain it, since (as I mentioned above) I cleared my history and cache, signed out, restart browser and still the same outcome. Personally I care a lot about the results both for my business purposes and my personal searching, so this upsets me a lot.
Have you ever worked with software projects going into several millions of lines? How would it be if all you are allowed is a Notepad to handle such a project?

Will it be possible for you keep a cache of all the keywords, API's, documentation, their interplay and their heuristic all in your brain and still continue to modify and extend the codebase?

If the answer to this question is yes. Then I presume you must either be a super genius with enormous brain power and memory to deal with so many symbols, their purpose and interplay.

I find math to be similar. Going fluently with math forced to have many formulas learned and kept in brain. Those fundamentally acted as abstractions to shorten equations and represent them in a more concise way. Understanding others work forced me to go many steps below to see what and how they try to use their symbols to represent concepts.

In fact many friends I know hated math because they needed to keep many things in their brain. Formulas, theorems, numbers, multiplication tables. Where is the space to put concepts?

We are in serious need of IDE's for math.
Not spammed at all -- this is what I am dealing with and thought it was google.
hmmm, I had not thought of malware.
I've lost a ton of weight (no pun intended) by being an active member of r/loseit. Nothing else. That community helped me achieve my goals. It is just an amazing place.
Disclaimer: this post is going to go into some of my personal experiences with weight loss, fitness, and reddit.

In March 2012, not all that long ago, I was considered obese. Living a life primarily behind the computer screen while leading an engineering team at a rapidly growing startup (over 100% growth in the last year alone) left little time for me to consider my fitness.

I'd eat trash -- burritos four or five times a week, pizza or fast food the rest. I never cooked, because I "didn't have time." I didn't work out for the same half-assed reason.

I realized in early April that I weighed more than I ever had before, that I was not satisfied in my appearance, and that I was very likely introducing unwanted health issues.

Like many other things in my life (coding, managing, infosec, etc.) I took the "dive deep" approach into health and fitness.

I experimented with several diet and fitness plans, until finally finding one that seemed sustainable for me. I'm not trying to start a flame war about diets -- I've seen far too many of them in the last few months -- but a very low-carbohydrate, ketogenic diet (called "keto") works extremely well for me.

I found a reddit community (surprise!) called /r/keto that shares recipes, support, and tips with each other. Especially in the beginning of my diet, it was an invaluable resource.

I started my keto diet on April 18th, at about 255 lbs. Today I weigh 189.

I'm still not where I want to be (yet), but I can personally attest to the extremely kind and supportive atmosphere that reddit provides when working towards a goal like this. We rejoice in each others' victories and help each other through the harder times.

That said, there are downsides, too. I already mentioned the diet/exercise flame wars that go on -- for example, Low-Carb/High-Fat (LCHF) diets vs. High-Protein/Low Fat vs. Low-Fat Generalized, etc. I think that each of these diets can work (science supports that), but different people need to figure out what works for them.

The problem with these subreddits -- /r/fitness included -- is that they develop a hive-mind towards their respective goal. /r/fitness almost makes a joke of it ("join a gym, quit facebook, get girls"), and "starting strength" is recommended all the time, in response to pretty much everything. Not that these are bad recommendations at all, just something that I see a lot.

The communities are very welcoming, but when an individual strays from the hive mind, they can also be very discouraging.

Hope this lends a little insight and personality to the article!
Thanks, I do know google shopping and even list my products there. I wonder if other people are having the same problems for things that they search for frequently -- whatever that is.
Brick-and-mortar shops don't have botnets.
Uh, no.

I and all physicians and our office staffs get back complete eligibility information for ALL possible care from a single query from existing insurance co queries: eligibility for all surgical, laboratory, radiological, inpatient hospitalization, partial hospitalization, psychiatric care, etc etc; along with deductible, copay, balance, etc etc.

Doctors have to refer patients around - we need to know which specialists accept what insurance and can see our patients. The insurance companies want us to know that. It's in their interest to let us know that. They let us know that. Already.

Could you explain how your query of the insurance company's information would be more complete than the insurance company's query of its own information?

On second thought, go have a nice day. I realize I am asking for technical information and getting sales spiel in return.
All of this is true. I'd add to this by saying that as depressing as a million COD clones is, see it as a maturing of the industry, and as a positive thing. Most movies are trash, most TV is trash, most music is trash, most books are trash^, and now-- congratulations-- most games are trash too. All that means is that the industry is more popular and catering to lots of audiences. Amazing stuff still gets made on the periphery, just like every other medium.

^Of course there are more good books than there are good games or movies etc, but that medium has had thousands of years to produce winners and forget the bad apples. If you ignore the accumulated history of books you'll see that the top selling books are, in order: Romance novels (especially now with eBooks as people feel less embarrassed about buying them), self-help books, and then the popular trash you actually see advertised everywhere (Harry Potter, Twilight, 50 Shades of Grey etc)
"There is no guarantee the price for the "real" domain name will ever be reasonable. It may instead become intractably expensive."

Thanks for saving me the time of saying exactly that.

I really can't stress this enough from my experience in this area both on the buying (and assisting sellers) side.

OP: "Pick a great name, then add something to get a domain name. It really doesn’t matter all that much - whether you get the domain later or don’t. Then get building!"

This is scary advice. And when contrasted with the examples given is dangerous. As you say "If you're committed to "getFOO.COM" forever, the strategy works just fine."

But then if you are "bufferapp.com" don't brand as "buffer" in your logo on your website and marketing materials, brand as "bufferapp".
Vitryn, a social product advisor
Ultimately, adding random methods to classes introduces many subtle side effects. (See my reply to a sibling comment above.)

There's noting intrinsically obvious about making the string class responsible for encoding and decoding, other than the fact that help("") mentions the existence of that method. Most other useful utilities that operate on strings are separate classes or modules; re, for example.
This is the company naming article you're probably referring to: http://thenextweb.com/entrepreneur/2012/04/22/before-naming-...
One of my favorite molecular biology books of all time is "36 Lectures in Biology" by S.E. Luria [1]. Luria was a great biologist and he wrote this book in a colloquial style based on Lecture materials from his MIT course in the 70's. It's accessible but deep and includes hand-drawn line illustrations and several appendixes on thermodynamics & chemistry to get newcomers up to speed.

It provides an unpretentious, solid introduction to core molecular biology theory, written in a personal manner by one of the 20th century's greatest biologists. And it's only $5 w/ shipping on amazon.

Read it, then go watch some of the short videos [3] by iGEM teams on their projects to get a sense of what's made possible by the synthetic biology approach.

[1] http://books.google.com/books?id=QUZRAAAAMAAJ
[2] http://www.amazon.com/36-Lectures-Biology-S-Luria/dp/0262620...
[3] http://igem.org/Videos/Community_Videos
Lynda: http://www.lynda.com/iOS-tutorials/iOS-SDK-Essential-Trainin...
Include a form that is specifically for getting work leads. Then put it somewhere on the page under the following title:

"You can hire the engineer behind BugMuncher to work on your own project. Just write your email below and click on send. I will get back to you through email, so we can discuss how I can make your ideas a reality."

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Thats it.
I think people remember these series for some days and then just forget.

If you have them on youtube, later people who missed them can go back and watch them. Besides its good advertising revenue too.

Time asynchronous media consumption is the way of the future. Besides who has the time these days to sit down and watch a particular episode on that precise day and time. Being able to watch it on demand is a lot better.
The best tutorials I've come across: http://www.raywenderlich.com/tutorials

Open source iOS apps: http://maniacdev.com/2010/06/35-open-source-iphone-app-store...

http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/navigation/#section=R...

http://www.appsamuck.com
http://www.raywenderlich.com/tutorials/ is pretty useful in places.

Stackoverflow or Google when you have specific questions.

When you say the Apple Developer resources are designed for a bit more smart audience I assume you mean already informed and knowledgeable about the basic APIs.
I have a super-simple tutorial on UITableViews here: http://www.cocoacontrols.com/posts/2012/08/01/ios-basics-uit..., and I'm planning on spending a good amount of the next couple weeks developing similar content. What are you looking to learn, exactly, and how familiar are you with software development in general?
Right so you only have one actual example of a serious breach there post 9/11 (when the TSA changes were made).

And no the screening doesn't have to be 100%. It never will be nor does anyone seriously think it will be.
I agree there's a small risk of buggering up. But it's a one-time effort to get it right and reviewed, encrypting a string is not exactly rocket science.

AES overhead is a non-issue for all but the very largest sites. A modern CPU can pipe north of 100MB/sec through AES - it's very unlikely to become the bottleneck in a python web-app.
Your comment is also pure speculation. Has anyone ever abolished the TSA and then been not elected for being soft on terrorism? If not, why do you think that will happen?

Or are you saying, politicians think there will be backlash and therefore stick to the status quo?

(THIS is a 30k+ karma HN reader? -Forehead slap.- )

This is why it's recommended to not post linkbait political articles like this. But it's Saturday and it happens. You shouldn't expect much intelligent discourse, because there are no facts, only speculation.
I did mention Hiss in the Readme but didn't go into much detail what I didn't like about it. Growl was build from the beginning with a plugin API to support different display styles. Why should someone replace the entire Growl app just to enable one display style?

With MountainGrowl you keep full Growl support (remote notifications, e-mail, Prowl, ....) and you get the integration with Mountain Lion.
davewasthere, hmmm, folding sun hat is not exactly my search term. Seems you are in the UK, I am in NYC, but this is what I am getting: http://blog.thatwayhat.com/blogfiles/folding-sun-hat-Google-...

I would not have searched exactly for this before, but I am getting
4 in a row from ifactoryoutlet.com
3 in a row from dharmatrading.com
11 in a row from alibaba.com
etc
Like my username? orangethirty. In my case, it has a real world personal meaning. At least for me.
"Consider Amazon."

Using Amazon, Yahoo, Google, ebay etc., backed by years of free traditional media publicity (90's style) to validate a strategy I certainly take issue with that. I'm not saying it's not possible to develop a made up name but using those legacy companies and the advantages that they had at the time is not in itself justification for thinking any startup can do the same.

Similarly news.ycombinator.com is very successful in spite of the fact that the domain is highly unusual. It's an outlier.

And obviously you have to build something of value. But naming does matter and certainly deserves a great deal of attention.

"Four Seasons" - This contradicts your point. Do you really think any old name could be used by a luxury hotel brand? What if it was called "Roomsville Hotel"?
I am at a state university, and there's a couple of issues that people here aren't really aware of.

University funding comes from three sources: tuition, state funds and research grants (federal or industrial). The last two have been steadily declining, so that leaves tuition as an ever more important source of funds. The university is building new dormitories to get new paying bodies. It doesn't matter just how damn incapable the students are, what counts is that they pay. You can't encourage anyone to drop their chosen degree, if you do you might have to apologize to the chair and the parents.

Again, funds are scarce, and the administration tries to hive off teaching of introductory courses to adjuncts. It takes anyone a year or two to learn the ropes, then people leave because working conditions here are poor, the classes are too large and the workload too heavy. No one is concerned about the revolving door for introductory courses. Besides, you have to have an excellent command of the subject matter to be able to teach a beginners' class, you just cannot put a bottom-of-the-barrel type in front of an introductory course and expect the students to do well.

Again, it's the undergraduates that pay, and they money goes primarily into teaching facilities. Meanwhile the research space is neglected. There is no money to replace the fifty year old rotting tiles in my office, everything goes to provide a nice environment to the dear undergrad kids.

Someone might notice that mathematics and computing are peculiar in that there is not much capital equipment or education needed to be productive. One can be a decent programmer with a bachelor's degree and grow into software engineering. But consider the physical sciences, biology, chemistry physics. To produce any results one needs capital equipment and a PhD. No one goes anywhere far in biology even with a Masters.

Startup mania. I'd love to join a startup in my field. Try that with a sick wife. Can't afford it.
Anybody who has been around professional (without quotes) software development wouldn't make as facile an analogy.
What 'Worse is Better vs The Right Thing' is really about
App Store Failure and Personal Responsibility
I apologize for the karma comment, it was a jerk thing to do so I removed it. Sorry.

That said, I really wish you wouldn't take the thread wildly offtopic, I was just trying to answer the guy's question. And I honestly wonder if you read my second sentence.

>Your comment is also pure speculation

It's informed speculation, but is it so far out on a limb to say politicians are risk-averse and want to avoid being seen as soft on terrorists? Obama in particular is keen to dodge right-wing charges that he is weak on, actively likes (!), or IS (!!) a terrorist.

>are you saying, politicians think there will be backlash and therefore stick to the status quo?

I am saying politicians believe abolishing the TSA is risky, and possibly beneficial for their opponents. The risk is enough to outweigh the political benefits to them from such a move. That is why a critical mass stick to the status quo. It is very easy for a politician to understand why he wants to avoid being seen as soft on terrorism. It is harder for a politician to understand why he should stick his neck out on airport hassles. This is about odds and costs and benefits, not about people being certain in a binary way that something will or will not happen.

If enough politicians come to believe that favoring the abolition of the TSA could motivate voters to their side, they will favor that policy. In other words, I'm not saying the TSA is with us forever, I'm just trying to help explain why it's still with us.
When you're a kid in a dorm room (even a Harvard dorm room), the cost of "facebook.com", low as it might have been at the time, is already intractable. When you're a funded Silicon Valley startup, the cost of "facebook.com" is higher in absolute terms, but relative to your buying power is more affordable.

Having such a successful startup that domain squatters will charge more for your domain is a good problem to have. The most any domain squatter will earn for the domain is the most they can get from you anyway--they can't sell it to a competitor since it'll be subject to immediate trademark dispute, and they can't sell it to anyone else since no one else will pay as much as you would. I don't think it would ever actually become intractably expensive--the business model doesn't even make sense that way.
You could at least hack something like that up. From within screen, yu should be able to type C-a H to begin logging to the `screenlog.0` file.

From another terminal, you can then do something like tail -f screenlog.0 | etherpad mypad

Also, look into the ttyrec and script commands

The limitations: The screen method won't follow you across screens and it won't interpret ansi escape codes
Haskell is a pretty heavy dependency when you're not using it otherwise, and whatever it other benefits, does not make for a good configuration file IMO.

I don't really know what to think about the trend among some software of having a full programming language in use in the configuration file. It seems like a good idea at first, having all that power at your disposal, but it really complicates things at times. Especially when the language in question is far from the normal languages in use. If you ever find yourself wondering why the $ or. operator was needed in someone's configuration you'll see why that's a bad idea. (yes, I know if you know haskell the reason will be clear. The point is that you shouldn't need to know details of a programming language like that to configure a WM)

Awesome isn't entirely guilt-free with its Lua configuration file, but at least Lua is similar enough to languages like Ruby and Python that you can mostly get what's going on in a config file without having learned Lua specifically.
I have a pet hypothesis that one of (for instance) Keto's main benefits is that it shakes up habitual eating patterns. Instead of trying to eat less of foods you're used to eating a lot of, you're forced to develop new habits around entirely new food.

I've also gone from 250-ish down to 170-ish (although over the course of 2 years, not 4 months, lol), but I haven't really bought into any specific diet. I just don't eat out.
Yes, they are different pages on each of the .com sites, but still, it is really repetitive. I would if others like you are getting duplicative results on other topics. (Though for me it seems to be all around -- even Sunday News which I would never be actually putting into the google search engine). This duplication problem is not appearing for me in yahoo to anywhere the same extent.
"My current startup is named Buffer, but the domain name is bufferapp.com. My previous startup was named OnePage, but the domain name was myonepage.com."

Best of luck to the OP with their strategy and advice. But I wouldn't say "myonepage.com" was a big success by any stretch.

http://siteanalytics.compete.com/myonepage.com/

I'd also like to know specifically why the OP feels they have the long term experience to offer advice in this area? I'm seeing someone who is a few years out of college and doesn't really have the depth of experience in this area to write an article titled "How to name your domain name". Maybe "my experience with how I named my startup" would be more appropriate.

Add: Some of the things he says I agree with somewhat (stick to two syllables) and some I don't (see reply to tptacek below which hmm, by the way I can never remember how to spell lest you think naming doesn't matter) The problem with advice like this is that if you know nothing you won't know what is correct and what isn't.