skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have never understood diets like this. They don't make evolutionary sense. There's only one diet logically that is ideal in my opinion, and I'd like to call it the food diet. Eat food. Eat natural, unmodified food. If its processed and has things that aren't food in it, don't eat it. It's worth making more frequent trips to the grocery store to buy food that's real than to eat the non-food additives that make other things stay longer.

Guaranteed, if everyone were to cut all non-food / modified food items from their diets, the only people that would be unhealthy would be those who have medical conditions. And we'd probably have way less of those too.

Oh, and none of this should negate the fact that eatthismuch.com is totally awesome. Keep it up!
From the article:

> Obviously, the video is over-the-top. Nothing exactly like the incident depicted has happened in real life. The US government doesn't subject copyright defendants to the same harsh treatment as suspected terrorists. But after the commando-style raid on Kim Dotcom's mansion in January, it may be close enough to the truth to make effective propaganda.
Wonderful point. I've become convinced over time that how my life is going (at least, above a certain threshold and beyond short-term effects of recent unusual events) has relatively little effect upon how I'm feeling. It's more about how I choose to see things.

As a result, I've found my way to a great deal of happiness without any truly extraordinary achievements. Nowadays, my friends tell me I'm 'easily amused', which I take as a great compliment.
So what Atlant Schmidt wrote on development(at)qt-project(dot)org ML [1] came true.

Somehow it looks like this whole open governance transition of Qt was aimed to lessen disturbance of the inevitable sell off.

[1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.qt.devel/5502/focus=5...
How are you supposed to maneuver a 2 ton (or any rover for that matter) rover without cameras?

And I guess today they are cheap and easy enough (I mean, cheap as space exploration goes)
If it works like xmonad I'm not really interested. I don't like xmonad's approach to tiling wm's (mostly the master / slave window thing).
If you're using Firefox, you could do something like this with your userContent.css[1]:

::-moz-selection {
color: #FFF !important;
background-color: #00A /* or your color of choice */ !important;
}

[1] http://www-archive.mozilla.org/unix/customizing.html#usercss
Perspective, perspective.

1) They say: 95% of businesses fail.

2) I say: 100% of the remaining 5% are successful.
I'm reaching the point where that argument no longer holds water for me. So it's impossible to run a video site as large as Youtube without breaking the law or screwing people over? Then don't do it! Would the world really be worse off if instead of Youtube, we had 1,000s of much smaller sites, capable of handling their workload with real actual people?
India has a lot of things to be proud of. There is no doubt about that. But I am not a fan of "largest democracy" as something of an accomplishment. I always interpret it as "a democratic country with a serious population problem".
I second that. We have a standing weekly order with Ocado.

For those who've not experienced Ocado weekly deliveries:

It's fantastic - they automatically create an order for us every week for delivery on Friday between 6pm and 7pm. The order includes items we've said to always include, excludes items we've said to never include, but other than that they create a "recommended" order based on our past shopping patterns. Usually it's a very close match and we just tweak some quantities if we've used less or more of something or want to wary our menu.

We then have until about 1am on Friday to amend the order via the web interface or their mobile apps as our needs change through the week. It cuts down my total grocery shopping time to about 5 minutes a week.

Everything comes sorted into color coded bags for the freezer, fridge or cupboards, and the invoice (and web site) lists the minimum number of days until the use by date of each item.

I hardly shop offline any more - between Ocado and Amazon, 99% of my shopping needs are taken care of.
Being given correct information but making mistakes, and then learning from those mistakes in your efforts to recreate the good advice, is a useful learning technique.

Being given incorrect information, and making mistakes, and not knowing you've made mistakes, is not a useful learning technique.

And while these people are making mistakes and learning from them their customers are suffering buggy code and everything that goes with that - data loss and insecurity at the extreme end and unexpected behaviour at the mild end.
Woosh.. really it's time to put men on Mars, or is it just "for the lulz"?

Robots are meant to provide scientific data about Mars ecosystem, explore further on the surface and so on. What does a men, right now, add there? Nothing. Just danger and wasting money.

Now, investigating technology that could put a man on Mars, that's interesting. But not just for setting foot on the surface, just for bringing to reality new tech that allows that.

Curiosity is an achievement itself. Great technology, and for now, greatly executed. How many different proves went to the moon before a man could set its foot on there?

It's not embarassing that in 40 years "we" haven't gotten anywhere else. To me it's embarassing that in 40 years we do not have yet sustainable way of keeping life on our own planet. Energy, on Earth and beyond, it's what could set a new standard for human race.
Coding Horror: I Was a Teenage Hacker
GitEdit - Online, Offline Markdown Editor
> Well, it means my product is going to be superior

Perhaps, but for many people, node.js will be "good enough".

http://journal.dedasys.com/2006/02/18/maximizers-satisficers...

And because of the big community, there probably already are, or will be, more libraries available for it, meaning you have more ready-made blocks to build with.

I don't write this as a "supporter" of node.js, either - I've actually known and used Erlang for the past 8 years on and (mostly) off, and would highly encourage any hacker to have a look at it, because its way of doing things is quite enlightening, and, IMO, is superior to node.js.
Anyone remember “Go to AOL Keyword: Coke”?

I try to avoid blowing the buddycloud trumpet (we're building an open federated/distributed social network) on hn each time there is a future-of-twitter post. Sorry - I can't hold back this time. Here's my context for reading this app.net post:

Twitter works in the same way the old AOL client did: you accessed some message boards and stock prices and film websites using AOL keywords. Marketers flocked to AOL to put up the latest movie premier website.

At the same time there was the small techno-elite downloading Mosaic 0.98 over their SLIP connection and starting to experiment with the "world wide web". In comparison with the closed systems like Compuserve and AOL, the open web took much longer to evolve becasue everybody was working on different parts without any central coordination. It was this lack of central coordination that brougt us a more robust system and I don't think that any of us will argue for a world where AOL is the gold standard of finding, hosting and accessing content.

Twitter is pushing hard to be the gold standard of messaging in the same way that AOL did. And are marketers flocking to work with Twitter along with newscasters giving out hashtags and @twitter-names.

But, in the backrooms and basements and hackerspaces of the internet, today's equivalent of Mosaic downloaders are experimenting with open, distributed social networks like buddycloud.

The buddycloud team and everyone who attends our hackathons that are working to build the post-Twitter future just like Netscape helped launch the open web.

The future will not be build around one company, but a couple of companies like buddycloud can help nudge it forward. The future will be protocol based rather than homesteading on another company's API for fear of API key revocation.

So to app.net,

I see them fitting into the twitter ecosystem like a paid email provider that doesn't let you send email outside of their domain: You are still tied to one company. Still tied into hoping your API key doesn't get revoked. To move away from Twitter, we must think bigger: a giant network like email where everyone can run their own servers and they all interconnect.

We're trying to solve some of these problems with buddycloud. And props to the buddycloud team, I think they are doing a great job. I'll go back to biting my toungue on each new future-of-twitter post.
VC funding is not investing, its speculation. VC money gets burned way faster than it gets pulled out. And generally they aren't looking to earn "actual profits" in the sustainable long haul. Just to generate enough hype to increase valuation for subsequent rounds when they can take their gains by cashing out early on SecondMarket.
Emacs webservers have indeed been around for years: http://emacswiki.org/emacs/HttpServer

Most of them required other solutions for accepting the socket however and also failed to address concurrency.

Elnode, btw, does reuse Emacs' syntax highlighting code. Just try it out and see what it's like.
"Brie cheese on bread", "Hummus pocket sandwich" or "Goat cheese herb omelet". :)

Bit impractical imho. I think it needs a "staple" option (i would choose legumes for example, others rice or potatoes).
Yeah, it's not entirely an accurate depiction of what goes on in a real copyright raid.

There isn't a single helicopter or dog in the entire video.
It's cool to see Jeff Atwood could take his skills and contribute so much later on.
I wish QT Creator will have built-in support for Python (along with PySide), I really like that IDE, it's really well designed for its sole purpose with a minimal UI (when being compared with Visual Studio).

Power of QT + Productivity of QT Creator + Simplicity of Python = Amazing, IMHO.

PySide-powered python scripts can be frozen into binaries with various tools such as cxFreeze, that's a good thing.

BTW, QT Creator is one of my inspiration sources for my new text editor with a Firebug-like UI for testing css/html in real-time (http://liveditor.com).
Let's see how we get on with just emacs? Elnode can communicate (asynchronously) with lots of other Elnode nodes... the Elnode RLE module (https://github.com/nicferrier/elnode/blob/master/elnode-rle....) provides code to spin up those nodes and offload processing to them.

I think you could scale with just Emacs.
Campaign behind it is here: http://www.political-prostitution.com/
QT = QuickTime
In reality there is no choice. If you choose case-sensitive you are basically fucked as there are loads of applications that will never run on your system. It is quite cynical of Apple really.
Google's 'quantum leap' for cleverer search
No nipples, but racism is OK - Facebook resisted calls to remove hate page
Brydge + iPad: Do more
Awesome Windows executable layout graphic and walkthrough
Yeah, I want to see that too. The UI differences between the platforms go far beyond chrome and metrics. An app that runs on three platforms may have a different set of views and different navigation logic for each.
Is it an oddly academic question?

If every search is personalised then what does a personalisation-free search tell you? It's possible that it will no be closer to what most people see as very few people jump through the hoops you're jumping through.

It might even be less like the majority of search results.
> This seems more like a toy experiment.

And a really cool one. Never thought about programming a camera to do things it does not by default?
Facebook hacks the world
http://thenextweb.com/facebook/2012/08/08/facebook-announces-its-world-hack-2012-tour-dates-and-destinations/
"Some folks have started voicing"... How old is the article!?
I can verify that your information is out of date. The widgets are to varying degrees actually native or drawn with OS functionality for drawing native widgets.

However, this is not all it takes to escape the uncanny-valley feeling. For example, the dialog layout still has to be correct, and lots of developers don't make the effort to achieve this.
I like the parody of the MPAA logo. Not sure why they made up a new name for the MPAA, however.
A narrow world view where entrepreneurs and businesses produce all the successful software in the world. The irony is that almost all of the software used to produce and host this blog post is made up of free and open source.
Nextends Turns Two Smarphones Into One For Mobile Games
1. You get exactly the product you want

2. You can collect the product whenever you want (24 hours a day)

3. Already paid, no queue

4. Price

5. Speed
SUSE slowly shows UEFI Secure Boot plan
Nokia to Sell App Unit Amid Increasing Microsoft Reliance
This is not an entirely fair comparison. Each nation has a quota of the number of athletes for each sport it can send to the Olympics.

For example, in swimming, only two participants per nation are allowed. Some of the swimmers who got the 3rd place in US National Trials could even win bronze, but they cannot participate.

More often the case, there is only one national team allowed for a relay or team event. So even if China has 300 times the population of New Zealand, it can send the same number of teams and is limited to a maximum of one medal per event.

The methodology is biased against larger nations with a good pool of athletes.
Nice!

Where are music and images being served from? Seems to have a substantial library. What are the licensing arrangements?
... not that that lets this guy off using a yellow highlight, of course. I think "highlighting looks the same on all sites" is a pretty ingrained UI expectation on the web, and so one that you shouldn't be breaking without very good reason.
You are right that India is something like 2 orders of magnitude behind China, and that their Olympic performance was horrendous.

However, 4 medals is actually an all-time record for India, a 33% improvement from last time and I believe only the 2nd time India has had more than one medal!

2 of the medals came from middle-class athletes, but the other 2 came from people born in remote villages. Things are improving, albeit extremely slowly.
I noticed a disproportionate number of Indian names in mathematics (i.e. seemingly beyond even the huge population, though I haven't checked stats). I was told that mathematics is respected in India, and there are annual examinations for admittance to prestigious mathematics-focused schools. So at least they are nurturing that talent, more important than athletic ability (IMHO anyway).
Meaning of "1x" has changed from 72dpi to 100-130dpi over time.

It's not unreasonable to assume that same will happen with "2x" as screen densities gradually improve, and over time it will shift from 220dpi to 300dpi-400dpi (for desktop viewing distances).

Density doesn't need to improve indefinitely, it just needs to cross the "retina" threshold (which arguably 2x does already).
Mexico Kills 8 Million Chickens to Contain H7N3 Virus
Disney researchers use electrical charge to create virtual textures
Could Extreme Weather Take Down the Internet?
There's just one thing that's odd here.

How do you avoid Marketers disguised as developers?

You will still get the ads no matter what one way or another.
Staffing, stock-control, low margins, ...

A locker system is a little like a store - a store that stocks everything [that fits in to the locker] has no warehousing costs and very little staffing overhead, that's accessible 24-7 52 weeks a year, that allows for pseudo-anonymous shopping.

The last miles are hugely costly and certainly within a city it seems a priori that the optimal method of delivery is to require me to shift my arse and pick the stuff up from a mile or two away.
> For example, in swimming, only two participants per nation are allowed.

Really? http://www.usaswimming.org/ViewNewsArticle.aspx?TabId=0&...
Javascript libraries conflicts
>* Probably more affordable in a high density area with couriers.* //

Presumably the couriers are low paid too.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacon#Australia_and_New_Zealand

We have different bacon to Americans.
The only vaguely plausible rationale I could conceive of for your ridiculous assumption that all client-side javascript engineers would have server-side experience was an underlying assumption that any job in client-side javascript engineering would involve server-side responsibilities.

Evidently this wasn't your actual reason for thinking that, which just leaves me even more bewildered by your position.
I think the crux is objectivity vs subjectivity. You'd like to be able to get an objective set of results to a query.
I remember asking why anyone would ever want a camera on their phone?! What kind of stupid idea is that??!
Off topic for the thread but seeing as you highlighted it: isn't 'liter' the US spelling, while 'litre' is the (correct) UK one? (I'm in Ireland, and tend to cringe when I see 'Americanisms' :( )
Have you used the MDN? It's hosted by Mozilla but it's an open wiki. Almost any bug or oddity in a browser will likely be listed. There are pages for essentially every extension for most browsers as well. Webkit's extensions live at https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/CSS/CSS_Reference/W... for example.

The MDN also has fantastic tutorials (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/CSS/Getting_Started is the CSS one) and lots of examples of good or complicated HTML5, JavaScript and CSS3.

I see the MDN catch a lot of unwarranted flack and i don't understand why. Shoot I use chrome as my main webrowser and I still spend most of my time on dochub.io (which is sources entirely from the MDN) and the MDN itself.
I agree. I switched to Debian + XFCE a couple of years ago and really like the small incremental changes approach and focus on stability rather than 'Lets redefine the desktop' attitude taken by other desktop environments.

It works for me. I have "mastered" the windows concept and now I just want to use my computer to get stuff done, not learn a new UI concept every other day (unless it involves substantial improvements to my experience).
it's only a matter of time, the subject has already been prepared by saying that terrorism is helped by copyright infringement, this is a gateway.

Before 2001 there where no concentration camps in the US, now there is Guantanamo bay, also terrorism was way lower in 2001 than it was in the 70's/80's (look at Italy, France, UK).

There where no official State-planned torture (only rogue soldiers in war) now there are "procedures".

The idea is two stepped: 1) "everything is acceptable under terrorism" 2) "we can bring links to terrorism to some other matters".

For now I think linking copyright infringement to terrorism is not effective (it's been pushed for a few years), but that might change.
Java profilers, heap dump analyzers and APMs do not work as intended?
What really needs to happen here is that there needs to be a truly free social stream service for the internet, owned by none and by all.

Only then you will have total developer freedom, and no censorhip possible.

If you've also been thinking about this for the last 2 weeks, drop a line.

Think of IRC evolved (message horizon based on #tags not rooms, just like Twitter), syndicated, P2P Server Network, served over HTTP to the end user so that it has all of what Twitter has to offer (maybe a few more characters)

would love to think together with people who like tough challenges about a new HTTP on top of P2P architecture to solve this and other problems to leave a new arm of the internet for our kids.
Why not just, uh, keep the money? There's nothing wrong with referral links if people keep it reasonable.

How many people here honestly would sacrifice their reputation for a few bucks? The book is genuinely of interest to this community, not just something someone's spamming.

I'm a bit dismayed that as the founder of a service for referral links, you're not a bit more defensive of their use, but perhaps I'm misunderstanding. Offering to donate the money makes it seem like "ill gotten gains".
I meant two participants per nation per event. It should be clear from context.
Yes, really.

I'm from Australia, and we have the same issue. The Jamacians have a similar issue in the sprints (I think you can enter 3 per event there).

I'm not sure what you think that shows - perhaps you are missing that there are many different swimming events?
Thanks!
The images are from Last.fm, the music from YouTube :)

Really wanted to focus on the interface so it seemed the logical approach.
They said that last century. We put a man on the moon. We haven't been back in decades, at least thirty years.

The USSR planned on sending a man to mars to live, and die there. It was feasible during the cold war, and we still haven't done anything about it.
The R. Buckminster Fuller FAQ
I think the article explains this. People are free to write CL versions, personally, I find EmacsLisp the only really practical Lisp.

node.js has been over the performance grounds a lot, it's scalability that matters, not raw per request performance and for that Elnode could score.
There's the rub. A startup cannot be about the money - it's
about changing the world and the way people live.

My reading of the post wasn't that the guy only cared about money - just that a start up operates in the intersection of exciting world changing technology and commercially viable technology.

And the guy's exciting world-changing ideas weren't his commercially viable ideas.
Google announces 'Enhanced Search' on iOS via official Google app
Through self experiment I found out that soap does nothing to remove armpit smell for me. It works just for 10 minutes and that is because most soap has some amount of perfume in it masking smell. Anti-perspirant on the other hand works very well. So I wonder who convinced us to wash parts of our body that are not covered in hydrophobic substances with soap?
Since I stopped using it my skin is significantly less oily thus I don't need soap to remove it anymore.
As I understand it the van driver gets a computer generated route with delivery stops, their GPS then gives directions for the next stop. They enter delivery details and are tracked by a centralised computer.

Given this couldn't the central computer take the driver's current location and call/text the customer with an estimated delivery time that's going to likely be within a half-hour error window (closer I'd think in town). The logisticians must have a pretty good idea of the timing for a route after all.

So when you sign up you'd ask to be notified n hours before delivery. Once the route is calculated, with say n=1, if you're first drop then you'd have a call/text (1 hour) - (first leg duration) before the driver starts their round.

Wouldn't such a system reduce delivery failures, anyone know of a company that's tried such automated delivery notifications based on routing data? [and reverted?]
Jeff Atwood is cyborg
The last few rack-mounted servers we bought came with DVD writers, which seemed a little redundant to me. In our case, we only ever use the DVD drive once, to install CentOS, and then it's closed up and never used again. I can't imagine any situation where you'd want to write a DVD using a server...
It rearranges all of my beautiful icons :'(
Based on the Australian experience Great Britain will start dropping back in 12 years time (assuming funding for elite sports falls off somewhat like it has in Australia).

You'll get plenty of silver though...
Can More Code Mean Fewer Bugs? - ACM Queue
It may be possible to reduce some of the risk with escrow tied to locker opening and probably with added ID requirements and maybe recording of locker contents.
Isn't the general consensus relevant predictor/measure the ability to fund full-time athletes? A much more interesting (and perhaps fairer) list of adjusted medal total would adjust for an economic measure (likely GNP or GDP).
Credibility is affected by more than the OS itself. I say this as an N900 owner.