skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Letter to Dr. Oz Show from Department of Food Science & Nutrition
Can't reply to my child comment, but that makes it all the worse.
Yeah, I mean we have an election going on, China's housing bubble, numerous other big things and this is the cover story they choose?: http://www.theweek.co.uk/media/49493/newsweek-%E2%80%98hits-...

It's not a problem because it's heaven, it's because it's a self contained story.
That's awesome, I'll link last.fm now then.

I do have a suggestion, which may or may not be a terrible idea. If somebody does a perfect search for an artist, why not go directly to that artists page instead of a search page? If I type "Supertramp", I'm probably not looking for a genre or album by that name.

I suppose it could have adverse effects in corner cases (common sounding artist names like "rock" maybe?), but I bet there's a way to determine with pretty good accuracy if they're trying to do a search or go directly to an artist page.
> I similarly don't like all of Reddit (/r/jailbait and hundreds more)

Are you saying that you don't like reddit because it had a subreddit that doesn't even exist anymore, or are you saying that you don't like that reddit took a 180 on their "no censorship, period" policy once the media started turning up the heat?
I'm not sure you're bringing in the full picture. Reddit is a media community, not a media outlet. The parent company is a bastion of an authentic (however defined) self-policed system; to a limit, that includes the good and the bad. You might point fingers at the community, but you're talking about a lot of people, so you'll have to make inaccurate generalizations.

I think Raganwald's points are well taken because they relate to the Reddit company's mission as a provider of free-speech, not as a provider of things you find distasteful.
Screw tops are better. Tighter, less oxygen, easier to deal with, and they don't ever rot. If you ever get a glass of wine that smells intensely rotten it could be because the cork has started rotting.
Nice round up of tools, I keep forgetting AWS has a free tier, but mostly as I keep getting random issues with it not activating my account properly.

(p.s., the link is pointing to the disqus thread, not the article)
Ngram Viewer 2.0
Actually not a virus, just a bug in Windows XP - http://www.npr.org/2010/10/09/130451369/the-zombie-network-b...
HN member startup NewsCred acquires Daylife
Writing custom widgets in Qt isnt half bad.
Is it also cheaper to get overweight/obese on unhealthy food than consume just enough calories of healthy foodstuffs?
Mobile app Burner raises money for continued expansion
Brad Feld on Maker Mode and Living Well
It's passive aggressive because the people aren't directly speaking to their neighbors. Kind of like the notes in passiveaggressivenotes.com - those notes are direct, but they avoid direct confrontation.
The simplest reason is that there is an identifiable person here. Brutsch is now a known individual.

Anonymous is still just a bunch of persons with no coherent membership, who may or may not be reachable. Until Anonymous goes after an alphabet agency again, there's really no point.

Literally anyone could be in Anonymous, simply by claiming the name.
The first screenshot says "includes applicable taxes", the second does not. And as mentioned by siblings, the first screenshot has the "price set by the publisher" disclaimer while the second does not.

I would imagine that if he attempted to check out as an anonymous user, as soon as he put in his address, the first price would be shown.
So much time is wasted by non programmers interviewing programmers.
Again, the point is that these things that people fight over have meaning, even if they can't really be used for anything.

The crusades arguably were fought over things that had a lot of meaning, even if they didn't have a lot of utility. It'd be hard to argue that the crusades had no meaning.
So, you'd like Reddit to suffer from self-guilt as well? ;)

I think that they can champion free speech at the same time recognizing that free speech and notoriety have consequences. Doxxing is a problem, but a lack of accountability is also an issue. If Reddit wants to consider itself akin to a nation state (which its CEO has asserted), the question of accountability is a very real and very material one.

That I think is the real crux of the issue, not whether or not they stand behind Michael Brutsch's odious behavior (to be more specific. They can stand behind him or not, that's not the important problem. Brutsch is just one man. What about all of the other future Brutsches?).
I could not agree more, I know from past experience that being part of a group of peers whom you feel value your input can be a very rewarding experience, to say that it is meaningless would be to say that he didn't care at all. They have a meaning, both to him, as what he then felt was a valued individual in the community; and also to me.

It's very easy for people to say that Reddit karma is pointless and has no value to people, but when I look at myself I see myself making comments on another website (http://hackerne.ws) where by, if the other users feel I have made a contribution which added something to the discussion, they reward me by clicking on an up arrow next to my name, it's like they're giving me a virtual thumbs up.

So yes, it made him feel good and it's important to feel appreciated by the audience to whom you perform. Feel free to take away my hard earned karma if you disagree, but bear in mind that it will probably make me die a little inside, at least, for a few minutes, before the rush of internet-adrenaline wears off.
Wow, John accurately predicted the year computer Go would beat him, 15 years in advance, and made a $1000 by being slightly conservative. Nice long bet!
Kid? He's 49 years old.

People hurting themselves over trolling is an education issue. Education on the part of the troll for one, and education on the part of the victim as well. Children, teens, and young adults need to know that life is not over if you get trolled. Too often I see someone hurt themselves over online comments and lawmakers/advocacy groups begin clamoring for new regulations to clamp down on anonymous trolls online. That's the wrong approach.

I don't like what VA did, I find it distasteful. But that's his prerogative, and he literally hurt no one online. If anyone was hurt by his actions or comments while he was on reddit, then there is an education issue that needs to be solved. Electronic bits on a screen, even if they represent real words, cannot hurt you. It's the actions taken offline that hurt.
Getting Ubuntu to work reliably on a laptop that is sometimes docked to a dual-screen setup is a pain. It used to work very well. But recent releases - not so much.

I'll give this one a try again (sigh).
I found it funny they mentioned "I can hear you having sex" but not the reply "WeCanHearYouNotHavingSex".
UK to invest in future generation of code-breakers
It's very hard to convince ordinary people that encryption benefits them. Encryption needs to be unbelievably easy to use in order to make the average joe-on-the-street use it. I've been involved with such efforts- the cold truth is "no one cares" (except people who REALLY care). So what usually happens is very few people set it up, and the ones who do will struggle through to make it work, because they care.
Oh I know that side of it, but given that they have to be careful to stick within the legal framework I'd be interested how many would take the risk with a guy who's been accused of teenager sexualisation on a large scale on the internet. I'm sure a few won't care of course, he didn't break any laws after all.
I have been running Java on Ubuntu each release by just downloading directly from Oracle and exporting my JAVA_HOME and PATH variables. This is a pretty clean approach and allows me to use different JVMs for each type of application, and you can use update-alternatives to do it the Ubuntu way
You're completely missing my point. I'm recommending against using flags at all, correct or otherwise. It's just too much of a sensitive issue for many users.

And to your point about correctness: there are specific issues such as illegible text in the Saudi flag and general issues such as the use or gradients or borders throughout.
Watch out with that AWS free tier, it's only free for a year.
Am I the only one who thought this post was all fluff?

"I believe that the solution to this problem is exercise, and those who would like to decrease their weight should try different sport activities."

What about eating healthier? That strikes me as a more effective and maintainable solution.
A/B test shows how distractions hurt conversion rates
It's odd to me that everyone comments on the phrase "rocket science", when hindsight bias is a much meatier subject to discuss. I've learnt (by reading Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality[1]) that hindsight bias is pervasive, yet easy to get rid of.

Whenever you find that something is common sense, reverse the outcome and see if it's still common sense or not. If you find both cases equally (very) likely, then you've just fallen prey to hindsight bias. Here's an excellent post about it: http://lesswrong.com/lw/im/hindsight_devalues_science/

Something can't be common sense both ways. If one solution is obviously extremely likely, all the others must be equally unlikely.

[1] http://hpmor.com/ It's a fantastic Harry Potter fanfiction novel, around 1500 pages and just amazing. If you've liked the original series, you'll love this. I read this before reading Harry Potter, and now the latter seems childish. Definitely recommended.
Tim works for Google who is widely known to test everything and show all sorts of different stuff to different people, how is he surprised that he sees different pricing based on his log-in status? He should also be clever enough to figure out the international/domestic difference (as a US customer I see the same pricing as he does when not logged in).
This article is ludicrous.

The protection of freedom of speech is fundamental, and one that Reddit is standing by.

The usage of that freedom of speech is a personal responsibility. Reddit nor any other organization can be held responsible for the consequences of using that freedom of speech in ways that others may find objectionable or questionable.

Reddit the organization is entirely in the right here. To say otherwise would be to misplace responsibility and fundamentally change the idea of free speech that the US—and surely the internet—has enjoyed for many years.

The author of the article, however, sure thinks he's got some moral high groung alright. I implore him to get off his high horse.
That's what I am thinking. But part of me is hoping it is more like going to a bar and saying:

Hey babe, ever heard of reddit?
If you live in the ghetto (where shopping options are corner stores or equivalent, not cheap hippie coops) and have no time (due to kids, poor time management, long hours at a low paying job, ...), don't have a real kitchen or any skills, etc., it is a lot harder to eat healthy and cheaply.

The first part of #2 is true, but the latter part is more a moral or philosophical question.
You aren’t confused enough, and that’s a problem.
...no it doesn't. Instapaper, AFAIK, syncs as soon as you open the app. It can't wait sync based on your relative movement from home (or the office) because it doesn't know when you will actually leave wifi/network range.
Amazon also adds about $1-$2 to pay for WhisperSync for each Kindle eBook sale outside the limited countries where it's free. So books that cost $9.99 in the US cost $11.99 or so when bought from the Africa-specific Kindle store on Amazon.com.

I don't think that applies in this case, which seems to be as a result of either Canadian Value Added Tax and/or the agency model, but it's why prices in other countries might seem to differ from the price you see when you're just browsing Amazon.com.
Fab.com Runs $8M TV Ad Campaign, Expects $25M In 2012 Facebook Ads
I think you're correct, but part of the Reddit mission is to try to remain as hands-off as possible by giving the users the power to handle things. It's not always successful, and it's fair to say that they will eventually have to set tighter boundaries, but they aren't motivated entirely by convenience.
If we find an exact match, we should feature the artist above the song results. Not exactly going straight to the artist's page, but just one click away.

It does seem to work for me for "Supertramp" http://cl.ly/image/0S253x0J3p2v

I wrote about half that feature and I made extra sure that something like "rock" should highlight the Rock genre and "kid rock" should highlight the artist and "party rock" should highlight the album.
it seems from that article that they've decided that their market is the religious right and are targeting that.

so are the religious right big consumers of online media? i don't know much about the usa, but my prejudices suggest they may be less connected than most?

and i guess their european sales never amounted to much?

(edit: maybe they plan to merge with readers digest ;o)
Not when the customers are from different countries... He is logged in as a customer from another country (probably Canada) vs browsing as an anonymous US visitor.
The same lightweight pattern has been used in YUI3 Grids for a number of years and it even works on IE6.

User guide: http://yuilibrary.com/yui/docs/cssgrids/
Code: https://github.com/yui/yui3/blob/master/build/cssgrids/grids...
The positive thing is that your perception of food intake also changes. I lost 10ish kg after eating less, and now I'm eating various things I like and binging a bit, and I feel like I ate an ox. When I say "god, I binged again today", people say "uh, you only ate some cereal and a steak", so I weigh myself after two weeks of "binging" and I'm at the same weight.

My point is that maintenance becomes simple once you get used to eating less. Eating the amount you used to eat before now seems like a terrible excess (and I wasn't even overweight before).
Not all of us are skilled at the front-end. I love your grid, especially how columns stack on resize, and wouldn't be able to just whip one up myself. The steam is cool too.
This is actually a really good point, and it's one that a lot of people miss. For Americans, I think the confusion largely comes from the conflation of "the First Amendment" and "freedom of speech". It is correct and valid to say that the First Amendment only applies to the US government. It is incorrect to say that freedom of speech can only be infringed by governments.

The thing is, there's nothing magic about governments. They are just institutions with lots of power. Ideas like "freedom of speech" are meant to level the playing field so that people with little power are able to propose and discuss challenging ideas that can reshape society without being steamrolled by the powerful.

Gawker certainly isn't as powerful as the US government, but they are way more powerful than some guy with a lot of karma on reddit. And if they abuse that power to try to ruin his life, they are stepping on his rights.

For them to do so isn't (and shouldn't be) illegal. But we should express strong disapproval for that behavior.
CSS Frameworks are not for beginners. They're geared at developers who need to hit the ground running on a website.

I'd actually say to stay away from them until you've been doing front-end for awhile as the non-semantic naming conventions are not something beginners should be using.

I'm sure you could adjust positions with specificity, but in my opinion, that goes against a Grid Frameworks purpose.
Native Client Side Validation for Web Forms
Indeed, but in ways much different from what is usually discussed, and from what you (I believe) implicitly imply.

e.g., I've recently discovered that my unexplained weight gain (which over the last year looked like 4-5 step functions, rather than anything continuous) is a result of Niacin (Vitamin B3) deficiency.

That's something I discovered (accidentally) by observing inputs and outputs, the input being B3 supplementation (taken for a completely different matter), which quickly undid all the weight gain (and a lot of other symptoms).

10 or so Doctors (specialists and generalists) and nutritionists have seen me over the last 15 years for my weird weight. Not one ever suggested B3 might be the problem, or ever had a test that would indicate I'm B3 deficient -- although, I have reason to believe I've been deficient for at least 20, and possibly 30 years.

So, yes - observing input and output is definitely enough to control weight. But as this anecdote shows, it's not necessarily the caloric balance, which is what you stated in the first place.
I don't know if I agree with this. I think it's important for different members of the (small) team to interview someone they potentially, and most likely, will be working with. I'm a designer, but I would want to talk to someone interviewing as a PM, analyst or dev, since that makes up my team on any given client project.
you are absolutely right. Eating healthy is more important than exercise and the two together will lead to an overall improvement in health.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/10/121015142405.ht...

Though its a small sample and an extreme one at that, the contestants' diets accounted for approximately 65% of their weight loss.
I think it would go without saying on HN, but with all the focus on the negative at Reddit lately, the positive gets lost. Just like there is some horrible stuff on reddit, there is some really amazing places. /r/askscience comes to mind immediately. or /r/suicidewatch or /r/randomactsofpizza. A very long list of very good things are hosted on reddit, and I think it's important to keep that in mind. The presence of these things does not negate the horrible things. Like most things in life, the goodness or badness of something is more nuanced than a simple yes or no.
seems unlikely it's flash. why would people still use flash?
Launching Real-time Analytics for Education
How do you indicate a language in icon-like manner then? Is using the textual ISO codes the only safe option?
My favorite one in my neighborhood is "Hide Yo Kids Hide Yo WiFi"
Sure, there are low and/or optional fees. However these will likely increase in practical terms in the long run. Whether they ever increase to the level of credit card fees, for a fast transaction, is unknown.

This is still not 'no transaction fees and taxes in the least'. I would anticipate that if it ever gets wider traction we'll start seeing attempts to tax commerce in Bitcoin , just like real money. Bitcoin income should probably already be declared in many countries.
I would be more than willing to code for them on the spot (or even for free over the course of a week) - but I do however agree, there seems to be some prevalent notion that the only intelligent people in the world are those who went to university, which has some credibility to it, mostly, spending years studying does improve your mental capabilities and most mentally challenging fields require some level of further education, but I don't see why it has to be so, I understand that these companies prefer to hire someone who has gone to university, but the rudeness I have faced so far (95% of the companies I apply for never call me back) is more befitting of a bully, than of an 'educated' person who should know better.
Putting aside the problems of accurately figuring out diets, your charts show very little different consumption in total carbohydrates per day. In 1909-19 it shows 487g carbs per day, and in 2004 is shows 481g carbs per day. The carbs in 1909 were often processed, but there was less sugar (potatoes are starch, and don't contain fructose). Sugar/sweets consumption increased from 12.9% of the diet in 1909-19 to 17.3% of the diet in 2004.

Further, your chart shows that meat consumption went down (13.3% of diet in 1909-19 to 8.2% in 2004), whole milk consumption switched to lowfat milk and cheese, green vegetable consumption dropped, butter dropped (4.4% to 1%), lard & beef tallow consumption dropped (3.8% to 1.4%). These animal fats were replaced by salad and cooking oils (vegetable oils), going from 0.7% of the diet to 11.1% of the diet.

Basically, while total carbohydrate and cholesterol consumption remained the same, Americans began eating more sugars and less starches and ate less animal fat and more vegetable fat.
Gender and Swag
The New Platform War
Reddit Ranking Algorithm on the Cheap with SQL Only
The Future of Functional Programming Languages
That's a disturbing sense of entitlement. The creators spent 100+ hours on this work and you're asking them to cover the bandwidth costs of hosting it for you?
The article summary of Universal Music's defense seems to say that since Universal had no procedures in place to determine if something was fair use, they can't be liable for the portion of the DMCA that punishes take-down attempts that are, in fact, fair use. Kafka-esque barely begins to describe this situation. I imagine that the defense will also introduce pictures of Universal compliance officers with their fingers in their ears as well.
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They're selling prepaid "Ronin" cards. Or you can fund your account with a prepaid Visa card (hint: Pay in cash at a supermarket you don't normally frequent)

The SaaS part of it is pretty necessary. In order for your phone/pad to traverse a NAT firewall there needs to be a common device that acts as a matchmaker between callers. This also solves the problem of "What if the person I'm calling is at some random coffee shop, and not at home?", where they can't set up a firewall rule.

But really, their initial audience is business people who won't blink an eye at $20+ a month to secure their communications for a multi-million dollar deal. Not cheapskates like me. :)
Is it possible to stop calling it 'doxxing'? It's revealing personal information in public that's the issue here. Sometimes that's justified, sometimes it's not.
Of course it positively contributes. It's the first comment to say that it's a silly way of encoding the form as utf-8 when utf8="✘" will also do the same thing, even though it's counterintuitive.
Is there any reason the wine industry seems to stick to cork then, other than just being an old fashioned industry?
>I open a nightclub. People drink. They fight. They hurt themselves. Do I get to shrug that I exert very little control over what people do in my nightclub?

Don't you? If they're hurting your other customers that's your responsibility. But if someone gets into a fight in your nightclub and gets fired from his job because if it, I think you have every right to shrug and walk away.

>To my mind, they took the money. taking the money and then saying they're not responsible for his fate is not the moral high ground. It may be pragamatic, it may be just business, but it's hardly laudable.

I don't know; to my mind they didn't so much take the fruits of his labour like an employee (as Nike essentially did with Armstrong) as sell him a service; he was their customer as much as anything else. To my mind that puts Reddit in the same camp as the printers who'll put whatever you want on a poster and not ask what you're doing with it, or the gun store who sells you a weapon no questions asked, or the casino or wine merchants who let you spend all your money (I don't mention the drug dealer since I believe Reddit blocks anything outright illegal). Some of those businesses are pretty scummy, but they're also some of freedom's greatest defenders.
http://snltranscripts.jt.org/03/03qcork.phtml

For the uninformed.
Also many of the cited services are free only for opensource projects (webstorm ide, transifex, tender etc..)
Why does everyone claim that price discrimination is some kind of injustice when it's done by a computer?
I also enjoy cycling and used to cycle-commute. Unfortunately I have now moved to a cold, wet country and work too far from home for it to be practical, and am getting fatter...