skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just as a side note, nuts are hardly a primitive food source, or just "chimp food".

Mongongo nuts are the traditional staple diet of southern African hunter-gatherers (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongongo).

Per 100 grams shelled nuts (from wikipedia):

* 57 g fat:
o 44% polyunsaturated
o 17% saturated
o 18% monounsaturated
* 24 g protein
* 193 mg calcium
* 4 mg zinc
* 2.8 mg copper
* 565 mg vitamin E (and tocopherol)
> OSes that aren't limited during compilation to only deal with 1gig (hint: OSX)

What do you mean by this? There is no 1GB memory limit in OS X.
That's really untrue. The most productive Java programmers I know do not use IDEs.

I've worked with Java programmers in the past who used IDEs. They produced more lines of code, with far less functionality. Going through their code was horrible. I'm guessing because their IDE conveniently hid most of the cruft from them. As a result they knew far less about the code base than those not using an IDE. etc etc

If your bottleneck is how fast you can type the verbosity, then you're doing something seriously wrong.
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This is the internet, you're not allowed to have a sense of humor.
Tried it for a while, it was sort of fun, but way less productivity.
The same pays for Czechia and I think for all Central Europe.
No not in the least. Online advertising is still very strong from where I'm sitting.
Is this illegal now? I tend to use the free editions of these sites (e.g. coursework.info) to help improve my essay writing (I don't actually hand them in). They're a great source of revision.
That's crazy. There is no way this is actually illegal, except that some of the individual term papers uploaded probably don't have the permission of their original authors.
Aside from physical, eyesight, accessibility, noise, etc. problems, I pretty much can't stand pair programmming. It's good for social bonding and instructing noobs, but my work is hardly up to snuff.

I can't "navigate" someone moderately competent because it takes me forever to stuff a pile of someone else's code into my head. I have to keep scrolling here and looking there, which I can't do without a separate keyboard and monitor. I want to navigate from an extra computer so I can flip through the code, look up docs, and so on. But, by gum, that's not "pair programming." Hence, the only thing I'm good for as a navigator is catching syntax and spelling errors, which is something an appropriate editor or IDE can do.

And I can't accomplish much while I'm "driving" because either I have to spend all my time explaining everything to the noob, or I'm not allowed time to think. If I stare into space or scroll around a bit, the navigator thinks I'm stuck and feels compelled to chatter away with advice or questions or something. And unlike the author's "Progammer Man," the code I produce solo in the Zone is better than the code I produce in a pair out of the Zone. The best "navigator" is someone who watches awhile then gives up and "pairs" with someone else! No, I take that back. Apoorva is a decent navigator. He mostly just sits there and makes a few pleasant quips, occasionally raising an insightful question. I guess I'm very, very finicky about navigators.
They are making a push there. On Amazon EC2 for instance if you want a premade AMI with Django and mysql, you'll get Ubuntu AMIs. Same with lots of other platforms. You dont' see lots of Windows and no mac servers...
But when people are at work at noon, and their children are at school, it is easier to have the family meal in the evening.
Paul's essays are quite objective and plain scientific analysis of things with no subjective emotions attached.They are quite brilliant in that sense. But still life is not governed by plain facts. Emotions are also important and emotions are what differentiate living from non-living.Sense of identity is governed by emotions. But still as I think in some more depth, even emotions appear to be manifestation of the fact that our genes are engineered to sustain itself and propagate. And since in the presence of a given complex external stimuli, it is difficult to take decisions with in the constraint of limited processing ability of the brain, emotions help in coming with some decision. And this decision may or may not be correct. Emotions can be thought of as the memorization of some decisions for some patterns of external stimuli.So finally everything seems to be quite deterministic with cause and effect relationships.So I am just perturbed and want to know whether there is a free will? And as I understand about probability, it just quantifies how much we don't know ( bit amusing in the sense that we quantify something which we don't know...and that is done using statistics which again makes it somewhat deterministic ).
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Perhaps it's not targeted at you, but at someone who would like a cheaper, perhaps smaller system?

> And, which office suite can I use?

You could use the Google web apps.
I'm also a fan of Segoe UI, which (as far as I can tell) is actually used in the Vista dialogs more frequently than Calibri.

Unfortunately Calibri doesn't look great when it's used in small sizes so I tend to use Segoe as a small-size alternative.
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“This is so common I probably don't need to give one, but a great example was the constitutional amendment last year to ban gay marriage in California. What a stupid, pointless, hateful thing to do. And all because of these "ridiculous/irrational" beliefs. Don't seem so harmless now, do they?”

What is marriage more than a label? Would there be a difference between rights of people who have a marriage or who have a civil union? In some countries the government does not know (and does not care) who marries or civil unions who.

I suspect this debate has two sides – Christians who want to “protect” marriage and gays who want to “force” acceptance. Preferably the state should declare everything as civil unions.

“However, making such points is kind of useless. We have no way to know how many hospitals would be in Africa absent the CC.”

The point is exactly that the CC is the highest non-governmental donor of aid. You can criticise than, but per person the Catholic church gives more aid than most secular and humanist NGOs.

“Doesn't make their Interdimensional Space God any more findable,”

It is not about the findability of their god. It is what happens here and now – and Catholics are pretty positive influence.

“and their attitudes towards eg. Third World contraception remain utterly comtemptible.”

This again is debatable. The CC has had huge influence in the AIDS programs of Uganda and it is one of the few countries that reduced its HIV prevalence rate (with an ABC program). I live in a country that places a strong influence on contraception (South Africa) and AIDS ravages at a prevalence rate that is more than 20%.

“Once you accept that taking orders from imaginary friends - or their supposed representatives on earth - is OK and valid, how can you argue when those orders swing to an activity you don't agree with?”

Or if someone tells you to make peace? Religion has both positive and negative influences – just like any other ideology (e.g. communism). Religious people were fairly well persecuted in the name of state Atheism (e.g. ex-Soviet Union, China).

“it makes it very difficult to reject later on when the activities of the "faithful" turn counter to what you know to be the best interests of society and humanity. “

As I said, everyone has irrational beliefs (e.g. Humanism). Your moral basis is probably built on several irrational beliefs.
More memories of the transputer...
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I was rather surprised to see Georgia missing, however I don't know about it's availability on the Mac.

I actually think Myriad Pro is becoming a web-safe font if your primary audience is designers - it's shipped with Photoshop after all.
That post made me cringe.

It felt like he delighted in having a tiny snippet of gossip and made up excuses to announce it big. Eeew.
The problem is often the manufacturers, not the people who write drivers:

http://www.linuxdriverproject.org/twiki/bin/view

https://www.linuxfoundation.org/en/Linux_Graphics_Essay
It's not speculating about Steve's health that made me dislike the article, but the way it was done. I think it really was about "look here, I have a friend who chats with Steve", and not about caring for the AAPL investors. Those were just lame excuses for gossiping (my impression anyway).
An excellent, succinct, sensible description of web 2.0. Of course it'll never catch on because it lacks the hype factor. His punch line: "Web 2.0 apps are different from 1.0 apps in that they're native to the web, and you can do things with them that simply were not possible before."

My metaphor for Doval's concept would be web 2.0 is a STEW... which came into being because a bunch of (not necessarily related) tasty ingredients became available at approximately the same time.

One small quibble: This doesn't really mean that a higher quantum-level web3.0 tech-stew will not bless us at some future date. [Not holding my breath.]
Java is popular for server-side applications, where one program runs on a cluster of machines. The RAM consumption issue arises on the desktop, where lot's of apps run on a single computer... and Java didn't get much market on the desktop.
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I'd like it because I want an ARM netbook, I'm pretty excited by nVidia's moves towards that too.

It's kind of a hard question because you've only told us you're using XP, not really for what (besides office). I'd be nice if Android apps got more interesting because of this, but that's kind of speculative. It'll have some nifty touchscreen support so we might eventually get a tablet that doesn't cost way too much.

I haven't really used Android much, though. Is the web browser tolerable? It might be nice to have a browser that had a good zooming interface when using it on a smaller netbook screen.
"It seems that being an opportunity seeker is about seeking, not finding."

This "love of desire" is a fundamental human behavior, you see it everywhere.
Nobody knows a good way to measure this and you know it. Just because we can't measure it doesn't mean it is not real (I'm not claiming either way).
.... why "web 3.0" will never come...
Never say never!
Can 'Donate' button help?
Was demoing an early version of my app to bunch of friends, and one guy commented, put it online for download, and put a Paypal donate button next to it. A lot of people like him, woouldn't mind donating for downloading. That got me thinking ...
Can the Donation model be used to bootstrap a project? Have any of you done so?
Programmers think in terms of what is RIGHT and WRONG.

MBAs think in terms of PRIORITIES.
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Ask YC: How do you predict your "traffic/user growth"?
We've been asked to submit a slide deck and/or business plan to a few investor people -- we're a bit stumped on what numbers to base our web app traffic on?

Do we simply base them on our nearest competitor (we don't have any that are direct competitors, but lots that are vaguely competing) or do we simply base it on our user feedback surveys we ran before coding? (eg, 80% of n users said they wanted a service that ...)
GMA 950 its a great onboard video card. Even GMA 900 was great.
Run it for a couple of weeks, get some data and try to predict the life cycle of an account based on your initial findings.

Other than that your only option is to use a crystal ball, I don't think it is any use at all to try to do these predictions but I understand it is part of the game. You'll only have the data you need now when you're operating for a long enough time that you have seen several full account life cycles so that you can refine your predictions.

Your nearest competitor isn't going to be much help to you because for one they are established, and secondly they may do a much better / much worse job at retaining their users.

Every web site will start off great at launch time because there is nobody leaving (yet). Once you factor in churn you're in a much better position to figure out how big something will be over time but for that you need your actual data.
Wrong. :-\
I think you're missing the point. In your workflow, you create the branch before you started work on your new feature. In my Git example, I created the branch retroactively.

If you were to attempt the same feat in SVN, it would get a little messy. You'd have to first roll back the repo:

svn merge -r HEAD:96 http://server/my_repo
svn commit -m "Reverted last 4 commits"

Then create the branch and merge in the previous commit:

svn copy ./my_code ./my_new_feature
svn merge http://server/my_repo/my_code@100 my_new_feature
svn commit -m "Imported reverted commits to new_feature"

Then make your changes:

svn commit -m "Fixed bug"

Then merge your change into the new branch:

cd ../new_feature
svn merge -c HEAD ../my_code
svn commit -m "Merged bug fix"

And once you've done all that, your commit history looks like:

A
B
C
D
Reverted last 4 commits
Imported reverted commits to new_feature
Fixed bug
Merged bug fix

Whilst in Git:

Fixed bug <- master
A
B
C
D <- new_feature

Now, obviously you'd never actually do all this in SVN if you were sensible, but that's exactly my point. The Git concept of a branch being a reference to a commit is more flexible than the SVN idea of a branch being akin to a directory. Things that are perfectly natural to do in Git are rather more complex to do in SVN, and leave behind a messy history of merges.
oh, I got a great idea from the Marc Andreessen interview:

Run google ads for a product that isn't there yet - if users click your specific advert you know they're vaguely interested in it.
It works, but you have to have an enormous number of users or a very good cause.

Even on a site with 30K users per day it brings in less than $50 per month on a site of a couple of friends of mine. It's just enough to pay their hosting so they are happy but as a business model it is a total loss.

Take the most recent wikipedia drive as an example, they have an unbelievable amount of traffic and they raise paltry little bits from their users (big corporate donors are what is keeping wikipedia really afloat).

interesting read about this:

http://valleywag.gawker.com/5079643/wikipedia-volunteers-rej...
Andreesen lives in a billionaire fantasy world where the normal rules that apply to you and I when accepting VC money just don't apply. They can look 'to the horizon' for their revenue model while we have to have it baked in from day 1. He's earned it, so good for him, but I wouldn't start taking any lessons from what he says to Charlie for your own startup.

The fact that Facebook doesn't consider 175 million users to be a sufficient audience for revenu should tell you something about the scale of company they (believe) are running and funding.
"Because most web site designers assume 96DPI and set font sizes in pixels?"

It's sad, but I had to lecture a web designer where I work. It's amazing how he insisted that was the only way and how every monitor in the planet should be set at the same density.
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I've been looking into getting a simple Hakcintosh environment to fool around with, and this made me check for how well Hackintosh is supported on the EEE.

http://tigeroneeepc.wikispaces.com/working

I guess I'm not going to bother.
As an experiment in a different approach in getting user info it's really good. I too had fun signing up.
But if there is something more to it, I can't say I've spotted it. Why does the user benefit from this service?
It was kind of vague for my taste at least. On the other hand maybe I missed something.. :)

Just a technical note, I couldn't get it to work with Opera 9.51, after entering my name I was redirected to the first question and then instantly on the end page. You might want to fix that.

Kudos for the idea though..
I don't know why this is getting so many negative comments, I personally like to hear of the personal stories behind a success. That was more interesting to me than any of the other depthless articles about "iphone app makes $x" featuring his game.

Yes the game did save his families home, he had a job, he had more bills than he could pay due to unexpected medical fees and I assume he couldn't afford everything at once, if he hadn't had done something the house would have probably had to be put up for sale.

So he did something about it. Isn't that what its all about?
There's been a lot of VC money flowing to green-tech projects, and I'm sure there's going to be more. Those projects are capital intensive, and have the potential for VC profitable exits.

Software projects don't really need money on a VC scale any more. They need angel level investment.

Silicon Valley is going to start needing a lot more EE's with a specialization in Green tech, and few and fewer software engineers.
Ask HN: any suggestion for DNS providers? (need to outsource my bind setup)
I am hosting a number of customers' (and friend's) domain names and websites. In my effort to keep my expenses low I sat down and calculated how much it would have been to move them into the cloud. Since it would actually result in reduced expense (both in terms of money and time) compared to my current setup I am going for it.

I will have to "outsource" my current dns setup and I am looking for some reliable [paid or free] service, possibily with a decent web based interface. It would be a plus to be able to deal with domain zone files directly (or with a certain degree of freedom), since I master them pretty well.

As of now I found this one: http://www.dnsmadeeasy.com/pages/dns.html -- it looks quite good and the prices are not bad at all, but I am wondering if there are any valid alternatives.

Thanks
Look guys, I know slides are cool for some (I hate them), but watching a hundred slides is a PITA instead of one single web page (or two) with the same information which makes it more digestable and easier to get the important tidbits.

In short, slides suffer from the same shortcomings of video.

Long and boring.
There's no reason why you couldn't put stipulations on a plan like that. Just make the money go to new green tech ventures.

I'd also venture a guess that after Manhattan, So Cal has lost more money per capita in the real estate bubble than many other places in the country. So Cal is where that investment and research is needed. There's already a lot of Solar and Wind power projects down there. It would be a great idea to invest green tech VC money down there. So Cal _is_ "Main Street" for millions of people that are hurting right now.
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Enom is reliable and they have APIs, which would likely have some value in your situation.

Not sure if you can edit zone files directly though.

I run my own nameservers in addition to using enom for registration and some basic domains. I never really considered the cost of maintaining a DNS server to be all that significant.
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Not just Rails apps. You should do this whether you're using PHP, Python or whatever. The web server is much better at handling static files than the backend app.
I fail to see the connection between moving your friends' stuff and the DNS hosting.

Hosting DNS costs next to nothing, it is hardly any bandwidth, and any old server will do. A $9 / month shared host would do the job.

As for hosted DNS, almost every big registrar offers this service, it is fine as long as your requirements are simple.

Enom, godaddy, moniker, netsol they all do this, with some of them it is free if they are the party used to register the domain.
I agree that it's kind of an ugly article. However, all articles about Steve's health, bar a hypothetical one saying he's completely fine and over whatever he has, are going to be a bit distasteful. So the question was - how should Apple, Steve, and various and sundry journalists approach the issue? It's not an easy question.
In Gandi's expert mode you can deal with the RRs directly, but as with any DNS provider you will have to move the names there.
I use everydns. The guy who created it is, amongst other things, an occasional HN user:

http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=davidu
And how would a beginner know this, unless they are told?

Rails seems to change on a daily basis. Navigating the forest of semi-obsolete tutorials is a lot of work -- believe me, I know, since I'm coming back to Rails after some time off, and everything is about 30% different.

People who (a) know what the state of the art is and (b) are willing to restate it are called "teachers" and they provide an invaluable service.
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I know the term has rules for being used, but those rules are too permissive if GPL is accepted (not to mention GPL 3 which now includes hardware restrictions).

If I want to run away with a library and do my own thing, I don't see a problem with that if I'm giving back the changes to the library itself. Otherwise it cannot be viewed as a public good, as some might suggest. You can't compare a public good, such as a road to GPL software, because you aren't required to transport your merchandise for free on that road ... I know, stupid analogy, but you get my point.

Proprietary software shouldn't be considered a virus that we should get rid of, that's not an open mindset in my book.
Huh, I had thought about that, but because the bins aren't dynamic, like they are with trees, I figured it would give some odd aberrations. I'll try this first since it's the simplest. Thanks. I didn't know that Craig Reynolds tried it out this way also.
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