skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Every story I read mentions that real sugar is cheaper to produce, but corn syrup comes from corn which is subsidized by taxpayers.

Secondly, it is likely that much of real food (as you call it) would be cheaper than it is now, if it were not considered a premium product.

Third, HFCS, more than corn, is the problem. It is put in many products, even hot dogs. Avoiding products with HFCS might be a good strategy to get in shape simply because a person may have to go out of their way to find healthy food they can afford. But a biological reason is that the human body is not designed for processing fructose.
We have a very similar problem [except we have videos that need to sit right next to the code tree] and we have added those video subfolders into .gitignore and use rsync for those instead - simple and effective tool-per-task.

I don't believe in 6GB source trees without binary blobs. Perhaps Windows codebase is that large but I would assume it's hosted in multiple repos and very rarely is built/checked out by individual developers all at once.
I've been both on the programming and business side, and done a little hiring. Pretty much the only indicator I can always apply is projects done outside of paid work.

I start with the usual "reverse a linked list" stuff or easier, go through education and work experience, play the whole game, but the thing that really does it for me is that he learns erlang in his free time, or has a self-made javascript game on his home page (if he's a web developer) or whatever. It only has to be completely non-paid non-contracted work. Then of course I look at the source code, but the decision is already half made.

There is a much longer list of things that disqualify a candidate. Anything Entreprise, any formal certifications outside college, personality (yes, I discriminate. I like working with people I like working with, apparently). But a checklist for a good programmer, I doubt it can be applied successfully.

edit: * entreprise = using oracle for mom&pop shops, not working in big companies. Sounds obvious, but it's sadly too common mindset to use the most expensive/complicated solution instead of the cheapes/simplest, to the point that just hearing "entreprise" turns me off.
Tried hiring sales people. Failed. Gained much humility and respect for good sales people and those who hire them.
The holiday is Passover and it's in a month from now. You should be able find the sugar versions in about 2 weeks.

Also, I've heard that the coke bottler in western PA has switched to sugar coke year round.
I love it that "flickr" phonetically means "faggot" (flikker) in Dutch and "flickrup" means "fuck off" (flikker op).
Couldn't I just eat 30% more vegetables? Or vitamin fortified wheat products?
Well, if you have any insights into hiring for non-programming positions, it would be welcome in the next version. On HN it's probably more needed then the original article.
You don't need to live by the border. Just go to a Mexican market and get the glass bottled Coke.
>For me, it's far more important to buy locally

Why? Certain plants grow better in different places. It makes no sense to grow a plant locally if it would grow better elsewhere. It usually costs extra energy to do so as well.

If you are not sure which one is better for the environment check the price - the cheaper one is better (pesticides not included).
Agreed. It's a tool designed for managing incremental changes to files that are typically merged rather than replaced. While some version control systems do better with large binary data, it seems like that would be better handled by a completely different kind of tool.

Keeping a script (or a makefile, etc.) under VC that contains paths to the most recent versions of the large builds (and their sha1 hashes) would probably suffice, in most cases.
I wasn't surprised ... if it was Flash, there'd be annoying music
you are a techie, you know the difference between an actual site and a landing page...your average internet user does not. They see a site like that, and think it cost hundreds of thousands of dollars to create
Both of these suggestions seem bogus.

I suspect people with a degree in computer science or applied mathematics tend to be on average better programmers than people who claim to be programmers who don't have those degrees. But the bar set by simply having a degree is so incredibly far from the level that you'd want out of your technical lead that it's not much of a useful metric.

Typing seems even odder. Doubly so where I live as they don't teach folks in school here to touch-type. These days I'd suspect that typing speed is probably more correlated to the speed with which one sends IMs than how fast they code.

Really, if your hiring requirements are "a guy with a degree that types quickly" you're going to find yourself pretty quickly up shit creek.
I'm a few hundred miles away myself, but in a border state. How far into the US interior do they ship it?
Well, I didn't read into it the way you did. Perhaps, I'm being naive but I see it more as an opportunity to match people with different talents (or at least talents focused in varying areas).

I agree that to be treated as a "proletariat" that was being used as an inexpensive means to an end would be a bad situation. I hope that is not the case here. I suppose it might depend on the specific venture and the people you would be working with.
If not, then why do nutritionists, athletes, diabetics, and bodybuilders favor sugar instead of HFCS?
That's why I do my best to buy produce suited to my locale. Cheap energy has spoiled us--we can eat blueberries in the dead of winter. I'm not sure that's a Good Thing.

If you are not sure which one is better for the environment check the price - the cheaper one is better (pesticides not included).

I'm no sure what you mean? Cheap food is better for the environment? Feedlots, which generate much of the meat you find your supermarket, literally put out tons of pollution.
On several occasions, Perforce has introduced merge errors when merging from one branch to another.* Without mentioning (or speaking for) my employer, we have a project with about ten branches (4-5 in current use), 50-60k changelists in the history, 2-3 gb of data. The project is 10+ years old, but I don't believe the full history has been kept. We use Perforce, but several major developers don't fully trust it, and we're investigating other options.

It does seem to handle large binary files reasonably well, at least, though fully scanning for any changes (the equivalent of "git status") generally takes about two minutes on my computer, so it's a mixed blessing. I think tracking binary data would be better handled by a fundamentally different kind of tool, really; there are major differences between managing large binaries vs. managing heuristically merge-able, predominantly textual data.

* One example: Two functions with similar names but reversed arguments (i.e., methodA(from, to) and methodB(to, from)) had the arguments transposed during the merge in many, many files. It introduces some really subtle bugs. It also happened again during the next major merge from ongoing-development to release.
I've found it in Minnesota and Oregon.
pg is part of why the active moderators behave the way they do. The effect ripples to all users, and creates a (planned) broken window effect.

I was surprised when a few of my comments were downmodded just because they had a "reddit style". But I got the message - this is not reddit. I suspect most newcomers have the same experience, and later themselves help set the tone.
Mathematics of music is a frequent guest topic of John Baez's This Weeks Finds in Mathematical Physics. Week #234 was one of the most interesting, referencing lots of work, including Tymoczko's : http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/week234.html Many books are mentioned there already, but I would like to add one more, Benson's "Music : A Mathematical Offering", which is a little lighter read (at least not going into category theory stuff), downloadable here : http://www.maths.abdn.ac.uk/~bensondj/html/maths-music.html
I like the subtext of developer humility on these points. Over-thinking scale might be just as annoying a problem for you down the line as over-thinking complexity.
Having a database and quotas will encourage illegality only a little bit less than it being illegal. Some people will sell their quote to others with larger intake, some will be encouraged to buy dope illegally just to avoid being in the database (how long would it be before the government used that db for employment screening, followed by the obvious next step - selling the db to private companies for the same reason?).

As a total aside, this came up in an episode of Weeds - our hero Nancy Botwin managed to discourage her clients from purchasing medicinal marijuana just by suggesting that there was such a central db.
Ok, I'll play devil's advocate.

Money.

Not so much to spend it on stuff, but rather the freedom that money buys in today's society.
They really should modify the tax-exempt status of churches, especially the big mega-churches that make a mint.
Hmm. Remember, Canadian Coke also uses sugar. Minnesota is a border state, and Oregon is not that far at all.
Huh. When you find just one name you don't know in a list, you know you found something interesting :) Thanks. (it was Susan Blackmore).
http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/library/mj_overdose.htm says LD50 is 1/3 your body weight.
Please spare me of your pedantism. I can google myself, thank you. Please note that:

1) "Widely know" is not scientific at all. Opinions of laymen count for nothing. The truth is found through experimentation and observation, not by consensus. Show me scientific papers, please.

2) Overdose is not the problem. The problem is that people react differently to the same dose. Thus the need to come up with a threshold. Even if this threshold were not enforced, it could serve as a guideline.

3) If you have indeed smoked a truckload of pot and felt OK enough to drive (for instance), all you have proved is that the truckload of pot had little influence on your brain on that day. You can't generalize to the rest of the population.

You seem to be like the Inquisition: you're not even willing to consider any idea which goes against your dogma. Prove me wrong.
I can buy glass bottled Mexican coke in Missouri. You don't get much further from a border than that.
Vlad, that's an un-sourced argument from authority. (And particularly unconvincing authorities, in the case of athletes and body-builders, who have been known to jump on a lot of wild and often harmful nutritional fads.)
Its not less energetic, it has more carbs and less vitamins. Possibly. 5-40% is an absurd range.
Yeah, but I'm talking about the Mexican Coke. It only comes in glass bottles. The regular Coke in MN and Oregon is corn syrup.

This stuff:

http://www.mexgrocer.com/6295.html
You know, most of the freedom money gives you is the freedom to buy stuff.
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Right, but unless they specifically source it from Mexico (as that link seems to for that outlet), it might be Canadian Coke, which also has sugar and which you can also buy in glass bottles.
Oh cool. I think it says made in Mexico on the bottle, though.
It doesn't take much land to grow a significant amount of food

This is very true!!! Although I live on ten acres, I only have a relatively small garden (about 20x40') and it is still capable of producing much more than my family can consume unless I preserve a lot of it. A single pumpkin seed for example, can result in almost 100 lbs of pumpkins even if you don't take care of them. They just grow like weeds!
Tomatoes, potatoes, squash: plant a few seeds and you're up to your neck in veggies in a few months.

And about the strawberry comment: everyone who loves strawberries should do themselves a favor and grow some, even if it's just in a small pot on the windowsill. Home grown strawberries are vastly superior to the ones in the supermarket in every aspect except shipping ability.
You're assuming awareness requires a nervous system. If a plant dies because of lack of sun or water, you can be sure it's aware of its environment. Conversely, even if a mammal is aware of something doesn't mean it has any meaningful effect on it.

Living things tend to be complicated systems, and assuming the nervous system the only part capable of interactions is just a bias. Lots of subsystems are a lot more complex then a primitive cortex (the immune system comes immediately in mind)
I think that's a pretty good indication of origin. :)
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Also, a language with Ruby's syntax, Lisp's metaprogramming abilities, and Python's library base.

You've just described MetaLua.

http://metalua.luaforge.net/
Love the design. Does anyone have any recommendations for a CSS framework?
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to stay healthy. everything else is minor in comparison.
It would be cool if Synthetic Biology advanced to the point where one could start hacking bacteria to synthesize THC ;-) One would order a few bacteria over the internet and have a THC factory in one's room. No need for marijuana plantations that can be spotted with evil remote sensing satellites. No need for a database that could be used against the consumers.

This is wild speculation, of course. I just wonder how the government will be able to enforce certain laws when citizens are able to synthesize chemicals on their own homes, for their own consumption.
I'm currently in love with http://www.blueprintcss.org/
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I wonder how much of the profit comes from selling customer contact info.
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Because its a marker for a junk food, but not literally the problem.
A link on mnesia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mnesia) would have been helpful.
I'm not sure I'd call him that. He interviews other people. So he's sort of like a geeky Oprah.

So what ever you'd call a geeky Oprah, that's what he is :)
Erlang supports hot code migration, which allows you to use your new code in each process AFTER you merge the new code in. The processes that were running when you merged the new code will still be using the old code, until they end execution. This isnt really that big of an issue if you write your code in the erlang-way, which is using as many processes as you can to spread data, and then passing messages between the different processes. In this situation,each HTTP session would probably be running the old code, but each new one created would be running the new code.
It never is, unless you're sending data to satellites in orbit. If they lease the network access, how exactly are they fixing the latency issues on hardware and software they do not control?
As a longtime GHC user and sometime #haskell visitor, I find your troll HILARIOUS. One thing though, you forgot "Clojure has a better library of persistent data structures." That would have sent dons into an epic flameout.
"I've always thought they look too cheap, scammy and desperate for most people to bother with..."

The reason all these pages have that look is that each paragraph is designed only to get you to read the next paragraph. The idea is that if you've already decided that you're going to buy it, you'll just scroll down to the bottom. And if you haven't yet decided to buy it, then the next thing that needs to happen before closing the sale is that you need to read the next paragraph. The logic of it actually makes a lot of sense.
I have 18 strawberry plants ready to go into a new patch, nice and big, so they'll propagate outward into twice as many... :D

I just moved to a house on 7 acres, so I tilled, manured and fenced off 25' * 25' for vegetables, but... found myself wanting more room for corn, so I tilled 25' * 50' more, plus the strawberry patch.

If we spent as much time as we do on our lawns on vegetables, every house would easily be self sustaining for fruits and veggies!
These books are also interesting (and require no more than elementary math):

Mathematics and Music (by David Wright)
http://www.math.wustl.edu/~wright/Math109/00Book

Theory and Techniques of Electronic Music
http://crca.ucsd.edu/~msp/techniques.htm
In addition to blueprint, you could go meta with compass: http://wiki.github.com/chriseppstein/compass
> I don't believe in 6GB source trees without binary blobs.

No kidding! Even the worst copy-and-paste programming would compress well. (Also, .gitignore + rsync seems like the best option to me, too.)
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I spent a few minutes on mixpanel.com trying to figure out what it does and I'm still confused. I think you need to work on your presentation.
My supergoal: Get everyone to the top of Maslow's hierarchy. Forever.
I like the Musimathics books:

http://musimathics.com/
Somewhere in the middle of all that text on the page is the actual complaint

'The product never arrives!! The user ID and password won't get into your mailbox!! You will keep getting daily emails urging you to buy products for your pets!'

This obviously is a pretty serious complaint. I can't help but think it should have featured more prominently instead of 'The guy is an Indian and an SEO!!!' being the main thrust.

I'd be interested to see if there is any further information on this. I wonder if Cringley (anonymously) ordered the product to make sure he would be comfortable promoting the guy's business practices first.
It ships with Perl 6's source code. :)
So a script is needed to keep the GUI of a program and the artwork in sync? I think that keeping all parts of a product in a single place, in sync is the most basic requirement of the source control. Saying that git is not designed for this sort of thing is saying that git is not designed to be an adequate source control system.
This comes close to being the definition of 'fluffy stuff dilution'
Apply to YC, and if you make it to interviews you can get grilled by him in person.
Well.. If HN moderators changed mine for $ sign I've no prblem. But it won't stop me using $ sign instead of S when I talk about Microsoft. And this is HACKER news right?
Would you consider an article like this reporting or commentary: http://eureferendum.blogspot.com/2009/03/yesterday-in-parlia... ? How is this different than reporting in the print magazines? And of course there is this gem of investigative reporting ( although in a way it is "riffing" off of the main stream press): http://eureferendum.blogspot.com/2009/03/yesterday-in-parlia...

Of course most of EU Referendum's articles are interpretation rather than raw reports from primary sources. But so are most Times articles. From the perspective of a reader with limited time, interpretation and summary is much more important than raw facts.

As for bias - sorry to bore you with my tedious arguments, but every source is biased. What matters is whether the source gives you an accurate view of reality. Or another way of putting it, a source of information is good if it leads you to not being surprised by future events, helps you make accurate predictions, and aids in making good decisions. I find European Referendum to be good on these accounts. On the other hand, I have found the NY Times to be a consistently crappy source of information ( the War in Iraq, financial crisis, and many others), and so I have mostly stopped reading it.

Ok, fine, Abu Ghraib. Broken by Seymour Hersh, based on a report that would otherwise never have seen the light of day.

What? Did Seymour Hersh secretly trail Pentagon officials and listen to their conversations until they revealed their dark secrets? No. The report was leaked by someone in the Pentagon who wanted the public to know about it. If Seymour Hersh hadn't been the lucky winner, the leaker could have distributed it to any number of people, including bloggers. Again, the press is not doing investigative journalism, it's being a conduit for leaks.

Suffice to say that I think all of these options appear considerably more difficult to achieve than finding new and reliable sources of funding for investigative reporting.

I actually have no doubt that journalism in its current form will continue. Foundations will fund the NYTimes if no one else does. And there is always the government funding route ... I just don't think that the current system of journalism, or the system of journalism in the 1970's, leads to good government.

(particularly the one that assumes people will find it easiest to uproot and move their families to express their opinions on their rulers)

Only a small fraction of families need to be mobile in order to properly incentivize the government to rule well.
Well understood the point. And agree too. But wonder why I saw some other headlines of the kind before on HN even on main page. Different ways of treating? I hate that.
Freedom to do nothing.

Everything else comes from that.
I've not been on reddit. But on Digg. I started to hate digg and thank god I found HN. I don't want HN be another lame social news site. If my headline tends to drag HN towards their, Hell yeah it's great they changed it. (I don't know who I refer to by 'they'.)
I thought it depends on where I use it.
Yes I'm a non-native speaker :).
I do love blueprint. It made the frontend design a snap.
source control.

Tracking large data dependencies requires very different techniques from tracking source code, config files, etc. which are predominantly textual. They're usually several orders of magnitude larger (so hashing everything is impractical), and merging things automatically is far more problematic. Doing data tracking really well involves framing it as a fundamentally different problem (algorithmically, if nothing else), and I'm not surprised that git and most other VCSs handles that poorly - they're not designed for it. Rsync and unison are, though, and they can be very complementary to VC systems.

In my experience, tracking icons, images for buttons, etc. doesn't really impact VC performance much, but large databases, video, etc. definitely can.
You could also try the yahoo user interface library (yui).

http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/base/
http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/reset/
http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/grids/
http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/fonts/
No, I'm sure I can squeeze out a lot more performance. But I have a lot of other stuff going on at the moment (Demo Day is this week, among other things) so it is nice to be able to buy my way out of trouble for a change.
I don't think these graphs are (in all fairness) accurate. Twitter by all accounts has had about a year+ headstart on Friendfeed and if you compare the two assuming the same starting point, Friendfeed are doing OK.

I agree with Paul, it takes years of effort to become an overnight success.
Definitely should add a video of one of these jellyfish aquariums on jellyfishart.com
I've been playing with CodeIgniter, thinking of using it for a small project. Did you like working with it?
RE: http://www.stratfor.com/weekly/20081222_death_deep_throat_an...

Well this certainly isn't journalism. It's just a big conspiracy theory with no sources to back it up.