skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the point is to be healthy over being thin. Some people have bigger bodies and have a metabolism that leads to them carrying more weight. There's nothing wrong with this. I mean, obesity is another thing in itself - nobody is naturally obese unless they suffer from some sort of medical condition, but the point is if we eat healthy - a decent amount of nutrients without going hog-wild, avoiding shitty processed foods, and also doing a good amount of physical activity, it will make our bodies happy and we can be healthy. I do hate the social pressure to conform to some sort of mythical perfect body, but at the same time I think looking after your body - not starving or totally over-indulging it is important.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4893022
I always remembered this as being "invalid" HTML, but a quick Google search turns up nothing. Can anybody shed some light?
Hadoop on Windows Azure: Hive vs. JavaScript for processing big data
why only the 'stache?
No, but the Dell XPS 13 seems to be a step in the right direction as far as something that could be competitive with a MBA.
One big thing they do is cache static assets for you at their edge locations. The majority of the bandwidth costs imposed by static images, CSS and JavaScript (assuming appropriate cache settings) should be offloaded onto CloudFlare once you set it up.
If Twitter could be used that way, it isn't in this case. @MiyagiJournal hasn't posted anything about the latest two articles...

I also add my voice for an RSS feed.

If the app was OSS, I'd happy send a pull request.
This article is literally ten instances of "How to destroy an IC: apply power where power does not belong, or apply too much power where less power belongs." with marketing piled on top of it. To be fair, if you did any of these things directly to the AVR powering a ruggeduino, the exact same thing would happen.

I'd not have been surprised to see "apply 120V AC to Vin/Vcc" on this list, simply for the common sense involved in such a statement.
I think you mean carbon instead of oxygen, and it's 2 at a time, not one at a time.

Your analogy is roughly correct but in the base, reductionist biochemistry of which the body functions, you have fats (chains of carbons with hydrogens on them - directly burned this way), carbs (basic form C6H12O6) which are also directly burnt this way with water coming off, and protein, which has occasional nitrogen atoms and some sulphur atoms. Proteins can also carry metals - so bits of iron or copper or other things we need to make some proteins function correctly are 'carried' into the intestinal system this way.
The only other thing we really need is lots and lots of Phosphate, which we take in largely through consumption of DNA in things we eat

If proteins are to be burnt in mitochondria the nitrogens are converted to urea and excreted.

Vitamins are just arrangements of carbon atoms with the occasional nitrogen and oxygen and hydrogen around. Some have a single copper or zinc atom there too.

We really don't use any more than this, our body literally does just run on carbon. To complete your statement, although there is more in food than just carbon, there really isn't much that we are interested in (biochemically speaking) than the carbon, although the body has uses for some of the myriad forms that are created in other plants and animals that we can't synthesise ourselves.
The fork/join framework in Java 7
OT: I'm looking at Javascript game engines/frameworks.

I want something simple. The only one I can find that looks promising is ImpactJS but it costs $99. Anybody know if it is worth the money?
This sounds amazing and 80% of the comments in this thread just sound bitter.
If, as a result of the voltage and current regultors in the AVR, the AVR only sources X amount of current, adding load past that point will not magically introduce more current (and thus, heat) into the equation, though... Assuming the maximum supported load is also the maximum physically available, the maximum heat generated should be tolerated OK.
That sounds interesting. Want to post your writeup of your experience with it?
Apple v. Samsung: Why peace can't happen in the patent war
That's a lot of research one one topic. Are you a bird person?
For one-off projects, the 25 extra bucks aren't really the killer. I don't see the problem with using an arduino in a commercial setting, so long as you're not mass-producing with said arduino.
Sigh...
you know, I really could've used those 4 hours.
30 years ago Afghanistan had a strong secular tradition. The West, CIA, armed and supported the Mujahideen tribal warlords of Afghanistan which has ushered in the tribal religious extremism. They've done the same recently in Lybia and are doing it in Syria. The West arms the Syrian rebels but the U.S. is now calling the leading Syrian opposition group, al-Nusra Front, a foreign terrorist organization. So my claim is that much of the Third World looks like basket cases because of Western imperialism.
Why fragmentation is great for Android developers and users
Now I'm curious—what does "Private Browsing" do when enabled in Settings > Safari?
Do Devs need more choice of 1366x768 laptops? No.
bash and anything else which uses readline offers a vi support mode [1]. Other shells, like zsh, allow you to use vi bindings as well [2].

[1]: http://blog.sanctum.geek.nz/vi-mode-in-bash/
[2]: http://zshwiki.org/home/zle/emacsandvikeys
Canonical Hunting for New ‘Head of Apps Design’
"That's a strawman; the bots never indicated intention to read. They indicated (via `User-Agent' header) intention to index content and got HTTP 200 OK response to that."

The publishers aren't objecting to being indexed. They are objecting because snippets of their articles are being copied, placed on Google News, and used to sell ads without their permission, and they're not being compensated.
Shalin, this might help give you some perspective: http://norvig.com/21-days.html

The general answer is to read widely, program frequently and cultivate curiousity.
Pivoting could easily become the show's running gag.

Just before closing credits:
"Well, that space looks like it's going nowhere. We've decided to pivot and focus on coupons for pet owners, and it'll have a really big social aspect to it too."

Next week:
"Well, it turns out that cat owners don't get out much, so we're pivoting. We think that what they really want is to stream music over their pet's collar"

Third episode:
"Well, who knew that Cocker Spaniels are frightened by Ke$ha? So we're pivoting, and what we're going to focus on now is overnight construction materials delivery. Concrete mix, FedEx'd to your door!"
I don't think so. "Statistically significant" is a relative term and when testing an entire population is infeasible (as it often is), we instead sample some fraction that we believe is "statistically significant" on the assumption that it will accurately reflect the whole.

The point of this article is that a sample only accurately reflects the whole in some ways. Variability in particular scales with the square root of the sample size. And since misconceptions about variability have been at the heart of many controversies (male vs. female intelligence, school size, cancer risk, etc.), De Moivre's equation is important; even dangerous in the sense that ignorance of it has led to billions of dollars wasted.
#BiebsMeetAly
and OmniGraffle
An older such project, that already works for numerous use cases (such as running parts of Apple's toolchain) is maloader.

https://github.com/shinh/maloader
Beautiful math visualizations. When I browsed the site more, I found that MathBox, the framework he developed, is the real meat.

http://acko.net/blog/making-mathbox/
Young Jeezy Type Beat [Instrumental]
Dirty south Young Jeezy type beat instrumental. This one right here is dedicated to all the hardcore emcees who are looking for a dirty south instrumental beat. I see my man Young Jeezy spitting to this type of beat instrumental.
Just to clarify a few points about it from poking around:

1. It is _not_ windows only, but the setup.py _is_. Ensure you have the requirements listed along with pyscintilla2 and then execute Stellar.pyw directly (python Stellar.pyw).

2. Very little is currently functional. This appears to mostly be a QT GUI inspired by Gamemaker. Certain aspects of the UI are also currently nonfunctional (e.g. right click menus on folders).

2a. There appear to be some small issues with windowing (e.g. opening a sub-window fullscreen (in this case a sprite) and then opening a new window (in this case an object) leads to the new subwindow being minimized by default.

So, I didn't spend a lot of time reading the code (just enough to get it running actually), but this is definitely more of a call for assistance than a call for beta testers. When finals have wound down I'd like to spend more time with the code and see if this would be a good project for my Christmas pull requests.

As some of the other commenters have mentioned, Game Maker was a great product, but it certainly showing its age. I'd love to see something that improves on what we've learned from Game Maker to help train the next generation.
>I find it hilarious that Idiocracy wasn't mothballed because of its message

Are you sure about that?

>The film's scheduled release date was August 5, 2005, according to Mike Judge.[7] In April 2006, a release date was set for September 1, 2006. In August, numerous articles[8] revealed that release was to be put on hold indefinitely. Idiocracy was released as scheduled but only in seven cities (Los Angeles, Atlanta, Toronto, Chicago, Dallas, Houston, and Mike Judge's hometown, Austin, Texas),[4] and expanded to only 130 theaters,[9] not the usual wide release of 600 or more theaters.[10] According to the Austin American-Statesman, 20th Century Fox, the film's distributor, did nothing to promote the movie;[4] while posters were released to theatres, "no movie trailers, no ads, and only two stills,"[11] and no press kits were released.[12]

>The film was not screened for critics.[13] Lack of concrete information from Fox led to speculation that the distributor may have actively tried to keep the film from being seen by a large audience, while fulfilling a contractual obligation for theatrical release ahead of a DVD release, according to Ryan Pearson of the AP.[9] That speculation was followed by open criticism of the studio's lack of support from Ain't It Cool News, TIME, and Esquire.[14][15][16] TIME's Joel Stein wrote "the film's ads and trailers tested atrociously", but, "still, abandoning Idiocracy seems particularly unjust, since Judge has made a lot of money for Fox."[15]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiocracy#Release
What if Linux went closed source? Would you still use it?
While Bootstrap is "great" it really needs a viable competitor. There's a tons of things that could be done better.

The competitor must be really nice looking by default, responsive, use Stylus/Sass not LESS, and be modular. There isn't one today, but I hope there will be one in 2013.
This is what any CDN does, including CloudFront (although supposedly CloudFront's cache hit ration is fairly low). The specific issue at hand is in what way CloudFlare (a CDN) saved more money than CloudFront (another CDN): neither "it typically saves money" (eastdakota's answer) nor "it is a CDN" (effectively your answer) answer that question: these are both nothing more than tautologies restated from the initial question, and do not help someone attempting to compare these two services. (Personally, I use CDNetworks, after having used EdgeCast for a while and evaluating Akamai for my use case; I personally see no reason why I would use CloudFlare, but am always curious.) (Is the issue simply that CloudFront is so expensive that you don't feel you are saving much money? Hence my question then about negotiating with a larger CDN, such as any of the ones I was working with.)
> Lua was never designed to be used for really large code basis

I'd certainly agree that "maintainable for large code bases" was probably never on Ierusalimschy & Co's language design requirements document, but you could say the same of same of Perl, Python, Ruby, Javascript, and most Lisps. None of those languages have any additional mechanisms traditionally associated with enforcing uniformity and consistency across large projects. This hasn't stopped people from building large successful projects using these languages.

As for your comment on the implementation size: I'm not sure which way you meant it (complimentary or pejorative) but I often find people react to this in exactly the opposite fashion I would. I see "self-ish/JS-ish/python-ish semantics in 20kloc of ANSI C? Sign me up!". I find some people see it and assume it to be a toy. It reminds me of the Bill Gates line about (paraphrasing) "measuring software's success by lines of code is like measuring an aircraft's success by its weight".
In Chrome.

But I seem to have gotten it now by messing around with the page. Here, a screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/DirT2.jpg (yes, I do browse the web with pages enlarged -- 1080p on a 15" laptop results in text being too small for my eyes to comfortably read)
Does anyone have any experience with some FeedBurner competitors that they'd recommend? I'd be happy to pay.
What about Zurb Foundation?
Just saw your comment, turns out just the setup.py is. Try installying pyscintilla2 and then running it directly with python Stellar.pyw.
That would explain the cost (that is a really slow pick and place). For comparison I designed a board a few years ago that was a 6" by 8", 4 layer PCB, parts on both sides, 163 parts, several orders of magnitude more complex than an Arduino. For 1,000 unit runs the the per unit costs were $2.97 for the PCB and assembly with flying probe test was $3.51, including post processing for several parts that were not reflowable, done in Asia by a contract manufacturer.
Equations aren't dangerous. People who make policy decisions about things they don't understand are.
OS X apps that 'shell out' to the BSD under-pinnings could be an issue. The CLI options can differ between Linux and BSD/Darwin.
And perhaps focused on the semantic web instead of presentation? A guy here turned me on to the idea, although I'm not sure I yet completely understand how it would go from the abstract to the concrete.
The original question was, "What are some [legitimate] examples of non-science ways of understanding the world?" and the answers given were largely things that aren't very useful as validating mechanisms under the scientific method, e.g. dreams, intuition, emotion, irrational thought, consciousness, and [subjective] experience.

The point here is that just as non-science is useless for understanding the world in objective scientific terms, science is useless for understanding the world in non-scientific, subjective terms. This seems to follow from the definition. You cannot apply the scientific method to create art, but art is nevertheless created to communicate an understanding of the world.

To experience an emotion is to understand the nature of existence at a personal and subjective level. Science cannot give you this. You cannot know the 'truth' about what anger feels like by reading it in a book, you have to feel it for yourself. This kind of truth is non-scientific.
Don't own any, but just find them to be uniquely interesting animals for their odd behaviors and habits (such as why many birds end up pairing together for a number of years to raise offspring while most other animals do not), which I end up finding to be similar to many of the quirks that us humans also tend to share at times.

My family did have a budgie (parakeet) though when I was younger, but it was not my pet specifically and I didn't take a huge interest at the time.

I jump from topic to topic a lot, hyper focusing on it to suck up whatever useful information I can. History, programming, art, music, whatever. Just like many of us here, I just have a curious nature about nearly everything and want to find out what makes something do or act as it does :)

Since I started to take more interest in them, I realized how much more they happen to be around while running errands or just getting some exercise at the park. I guess if anything, they make me feel closer to nature when I'm surrounded by concrete and skyscrapers. Sort of an oasis in the middle of a desert if there's a metaphor for it.

Even the lowly house sparrow is more savvy than I used to believe. They've been observed making use automatic opening doors by triggering the sensors (http://elibrary.unm.edu/sora/Wilson/v103n04/p0725-p0726.pdf). After I read that, it made more sense how the sparrows at a nearby supermarket by me happen to find shelter inside its walls.

For anyone that just has a general interest or wants an informative introduction to birds, the BBC did a great series on them a while ago, narrated by David Attenborough (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Life_of_Birds). Can't say I like all birds, but I think they're a species that tends to be underestimated and taken for granted by us when compared to mammals for their intelligence and adaptability.
If you haven't seen it, I highly recommend Judge's 2009 movie 'Extract' with Jason Bateman of Arrested Development.

It sort of inverts the Office Space formula and shows the sometimes taxing, even soul-crushing nature of entrepreneurship.

It seems to follow the pattern of Office Space and Idiocracy in being panned by critics and ignored by audiences at first, and then quickly developing a cult following and being recognized as pretty brilliant.
Your most productive time.  How do you do it?
I am Co-Founder/CTO at vid.io in San Francisco, and I'm iterating the most ideal work environment for all parties. If you have any favourite links related to this, I'd love to see them!

1. Under what circumstances do you get the most work done? What time of day?

2. How do you feel about having predefined hours every workday?

3. Stuff breaks, wild opportunities arise, people freak out. Interruptions are
an unfortunate reality. How do you manage them, and how do you wish people would work with
you on this?

4. I think there may be some business side->tech side correlation to these answers, so...
Do you identify more with being a hardcore hacker or a business guru? Myers-briggs type?

5. How often do you realtime chat, voice chat, and in what way does this affect your output?
Related to that, do you ask more questions than you answer?

6. Do you get more done around people or away from them?
My understanding was that he exploited a buffer overflow in the inventory menu to get the cpu to jump execution to data he had crafted.
>The crux of the matter is that you're missing the newspapers motive. They don't want Google to ask their permission, they want google to pay them, which is a huge difference. They DON'T want google to ask for their permission and then delist them from Google News if they had to pay for it.

I haven't missed their motive. Of course they don't want to be delisted from Google News. In a sense, they're like patent trolls, but with more of a moral high ground. Unlike patent trolls, they have produced something and sent it out into the world. It is not their job to preempt what they rightfully view as copyright infringement, even if that infringement might benefit them.

>Google should be free to delist them if they want money from their link

They are.
Why not just make this permanent and keep traveling? Better yet, stay in one place for a month or more so that you can buckle down on projects and get to know the area better?

It seems like you are doing this as a temporary thing. Or assuming that because your girlfriend is going to try picking up work, then maybe it's just temporary for her? Why not remove the blocks and take on / seek good projects that wouldn't be limited by a 2 - 3 days / week schedule? If your girlfriend is able to pick up work, then why not continue hammering on that to bring in more clients and build up a strong business?

It just seems like a waste to be building a client base for a certain lifestyle and then breaking that back down when you finish your travels. However, I do understand that a lot of people do freelance work to bridge income gaps and it's not a good way to maximize your reach in making your mark on the world.

I moved to the Philippines and then quit traveling. ;) I guess I decided that I really like the Philippines and would rather focus on work. Good weather, lots of English speakers and an easy to work with visa.
Well, it's basically bringing together 2 groups - technical hacker news reader types and non-technical people with an idea. If I can't get to 30-40 points on hacker news my hope is not that high. Which is not to say it does not have potential or is not worth pursuing. I might not be doing it justice. But based on the new school of thought, where you validate your idea before you build your startup, I am not feeling this is a white hot idea.

Still there is potential. I do feel like it may be worth exploring. The source of the idea was going to bootstrapper breakfast in Chicago and hearing a lot of non-technies asking technies what they should do. That was arguably my favorite part, helping those who were not technical figure out the best way to build out their technical needs. Anybody can hire a offshore developer or get a local student to help them out, but there is no guarantee what that person offers to develop is what you should develop.

Building out the MVP? I could build it in Rails in under a month as I work full time and can only code after hours. Costs could be close to none if I do the work. Maybe I would buy a bootstrap template so it looks decent.

What I really want is what stackexchange already has, with a bit more functionality as it relates to the payment part. I like the upvoting of answers to questions, the way it tracks reputation of users.

I'm going to send you an direct email, this idea is worth discussing. Thanks for not abandoning this post.
Real Gamification Mechanics Require Simplicity
Indeed: http://foundation.zurb.com/
I agree that they shouldn’t use the Apple Game Center logo. Not only is it unethical, it is also confusing. The use of that logo made me think that Stellar made games that only worked on iOS. That confused me when I read further in the README. The Game Center logo also doesn’t mesh well with the name Stellar – there’s plenty of potential for a logo with a cool-looking starfield, spiral galaxy, or rocket ship.
Exactly. Lenovo was on the right track a few years ago with X200(s), providing 1440x900 on 12.3" with hardware very well supported on Linux.
It isn't $2.50 but you can get a chip running .NETMF/netduino (no carrier board etc) for under $16: http://www.ghielectronics.com/catalog/product/117
I think the issue is most software is not designed with security as a primary concern, so a determined users can produce a convoluted input that breaks a system. Having said that, if you take out buffer overflow exploits, how many games would still be hacked?
This has been discussed a lot, in cases like Jehova's Witnesses refusal, for example in the event of pregnancy.

http://jdwmed.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/ethics-paper4.pdf
New App Uses Image Recognition Technology to Display User Info