skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What I would like to see (if we are having a meta conversation on HN) is a view for the "Show HN" posts (like the "Ask" link above). What I enjoy the most here are the posts where people show cool stuff they've done, and it would be nice to have a separate view just for those (when I don't feel like wading through articles covering the Tesla/NYT scandal or whatever is the melodrama of the week)
Negative reinforcement through shock therapy is both easy and failsafe (it will not physically harm the child).
Qwiki’s New Storytelling iPhone App Was Downloaded 125K Times In 6 Days
The task is complicated, since it asks for a constant choreography of the mind needing to remember to be mindful of what the body eats in a situation that is clouded by suppressed feelings regarding food. Untrained, the mind tries to constantly downplay the positive impact of the diet and tries to focus on the immediate reward of eating food.

Something can only be seen as difficult if you have a clear view of the task at hand. Chopping wood or solving equations might be difficult. Something is complicated when the mind needs many different tactics to solve a problem. Solving equations and the understanding and acting upon multiple feedback loops is difficult.

People suffering from weight problems often cannot comprehend their whole problem. Understanding the products that are eaten will focus on perception, therefor clarifying over time the big picture. It's like asking a gambler to calculate the odds of every bet he makes. Soon, the math becomes more important than the winning, thus freeing the sufferer from the emotions that are attached to food.

Another way of seeing the complications involved with food problems is by understanding that most of the food we eat nowadays is processed. For example, we tend to eat the carbs but not the fibers. This unbalances millions of years of natural evolution and allows for exorbitant high levels of insulin without feeling saturated. Counter-acting these processes that happen partly inside and partly outside our mind is a complicated process that takes years or decades of someones life.
funny i was just reading this question on SO and someone answered it before I could!!
Java never took off on the desktop because people had to download a large VM to run it. Now it doesn't matter but in the beginning it was a huge deal. Secondly most Java developers concentrated on Enterprise Java and could not write nice GUIs that performed well.
Ok, thanks to Dropbox support it looks like we're back up!
One problem is that multinational corporations are multinational with significant operations inside of China. I doubt that the NSA is going to be of much help in helping a US company secure its networks inside of China, and if that company has large numbers of Chinese employees in China, there are security issues with having US intelligence companies sharing sensitive US intelligence.

For example, the NYTimes has a bureau in Shanghai, and if they use a private contractor to help strengthen their networks, then I don't think that the Chinese government would be cancelling visas. If the NYTimes brought in the NSA, then I give the Chinese government five minutes before all of the visa get cancelled and the journalists get expelled.
I assume you mean the black bar problem? It's a bug in iOS when you try to resize images client size. There's no workaround (besides disabling client-side image processing for iOS) AFAIK.
A Friendly Reminder About Password Security
As you noted Zuckerberg's experience would have been impressive, but I think his answers for all questions likely would have been impressive.

For example, "What do you understand that your competitors do not?" or the (chicken/egg question) "How will you get users at first?". Obviously Zuckerberg would have acknowledged the competition and how FB would distinguish itself as the college social network by limiting registered users to users with .edu email accounts and scaling growth from campus to campus, thereby generating untold interest among non-college email account holders around the World setting the stage for a flood of non-college users.

I am not saying that Zuckerberg's "growth strategy" was by any means a guarantee, but I think PG and team would have seen the wheels are turning with this kid and despite taking on the social network establishment of the time (myspace and Friendster)- who by no means had any intent of losing their market share - he devised a strategy to take a monumental task and turn it into "bite-size" pieces. Finally, as you mentioned he had experience/track-record to back-up his ability to not just think big but execute as well.
I voted No. I think it would be a distraction, although you could probably find willing candidates.

Hacker News is not as large as Reddit, and I think it's more useful to have everyone on a more or less equal level.

It's a simple community for technical and technology news matters. We have an Ask feature, but I also wouldn't recommend instituting a system similar to StackOverflow (even though we probably have a higher average level of technical ability on HN).
The World Did Not End
I agree. The articles on intellectual property and patent law seem to have paved the way for off-topic political articles.
If there's nothing you can do about it, and no discernible consequences (we'd all cease to exist if it were to happen) why get upset?
Even if it expands at the speed of light, it would likely be outside of our observable universe though, right?
I dislike sleep and wish I did not have to do it.
Ask HN: What do you think of the "BingItOn" challenge by Bing against Google?
Really interesting commercial by Microsoft and seems like they are going hard at Google's strength: search. Have you guys tried the http://bingiton.com challenge ? It seemed fun.
If the Everett's many-worlds interpretation is correct, this could be happening all the time. But we can only experience one of the world lines where our universe does not collapse.
Show HN: Checkerr - automating web developer checklist
Any non-scribd mirrors?
Because as a matter of fact it happens to be so tha
To me, it would be ideal if AMAs were split off into their own site, rather than piggybacking off HN or Reddit. Same with ELI5.

(Also, the meta-implications of the fact that this poll is asking about AMAs rather than ELI5 amuses me.)
It is good advice; it just isn't time-effective to do a thorough job. By the time you've gotten through the tutorials and maybe built a couple simple sites, you've probably gotten to the beginning of understanding how it works, but you have yet to do basically anything that would be considered working with the framework as it applies to what you'd actually do on a real project. You might understand the very basics, but extrapolating that into "this is how working with it actually is" carries the very real possibility of a rude awakening.
Hey, let me admit, the video is crappy. What should I use the next time?
Do you have any concrete/verified descriptions of the firmware problems? I ran across plenty of people commenting on the problem, and my own intuition (or deduction, based on listening to the "click... click... click..." and eventually noting the escalating number of parks reported) plus the fix that worked for me strengthened this intuition. But I never saw a documented analysis let alone an admission on WD's part. (Admittedly, I may have missed one or both.)
Does Codecademy do any sort of QA or provide editing services for user-contributed courses?
Please, stop these polls. Nothing comes of them.
Bullets constantly got confused when you were copy-pasting text (word is no champion here either, but it's a bit more sane). Image paste tended to minutely resize images to be just not a 1 to 1 pixel mapping at 100% zoom, which coupled with a poor image scaling algorithm produced horribly artifacted images on screen no matter what you did. Images were a pain in general, positioning them and putting borders around them never worked right and I opened many a document to find broken images. The change tracking and review tools were painful to use. There were many issues, too many to cover in a comment.
First of all, congrats, that's great.

I've attended hundreds of Weight Watchers meetings over many years and I've personally seen at least 1000 people go from being completely helpless with weight loss to losing somewhere between 50-200lbs each. It's a great achievement.

> What the basic calorie-in-calorie-out equation doesn't take into account is that it is a biological imperative to eat.

I didn't say eating less calories than you burn is mentally easy. It takes discipline and hard work, no doubt about it. We all have slip-ups and set backs along the way, which is all part of it. Nothing worth doing is easy.

> And just saying "cut calories" does not work. Three percent of obese people will manage to lose weight by dieting. Do you think they are just "too ignorant" to "get" the equation? Or are they just "too lazy" to do what needs to be done? Because I know that neither is the case.

In my experience watching at least a thousand people lose a massive amount of weight, every single one of them did it by slowly reducing their calorie intake, and increasing their activity to burn more calories.
Why did they need WW for that?
There are a variety of reasons, though I think Number 1 is that people honestly don't know fries, coke, burgers, chocolate, alcohol, etc. aren't food and you shouldn't eat them regularly. They are so enormously calorie dense they mess everything up.

Reason number 2 is simply being completely and utterly overwhelmed by the contradictory and complicated information about weight loss, causing them to give up completely. This is evidenced by the > 200 comments here.

> Your "engine" becomes more efficient the less you feed it.

Of course it does!

So next week/month will be a different intake/burn than last week/month. It's a constant process to make sure you're eating less than you take in. Although, again being honest here, anyone that is 100lbs+ overweight can likely just cut out one enormous calorie dense food (soda or fast food for a lot of people) and they will lose weight for a long time before they need to re-jig the equation, because they've been eating an enormous number of calories for a very long time.

Don't be confused and think I said it's an easy process to achieve. Many people find it one of the hardest things they will ever do in their lives. I said it's a simple process to understand.
I have become proficient in about 10-15 languages over the years, but Python is sufficiently different from all of them that 2 weeks is not enough to give Django a fair trial. I'm sure Rails is the same. Knowing 80x86 assembler, Commodore 64 basic and Amos only go so far, but maybe knowing Python it is easier to switch to Ruby.
Yes, I think people on Hacker News might benefit from "Hacker News"-style AMA posts from technologists and investors.

The technologists and investors needn't be so high-profile. Reddit's Bill Gates AMA was great. And I'd also like to hear from smaller-profile founders, investors, developers involved in open source projects, and other like-minded hackers, if they'd be willing to be asked anything.
+1 for chef + puppet
I don't want to sound pretentious, but were you coding >6 hours a day?

Languages are as much a process of thinking as they are a string of instructions for a computer. If you think in object-orientation you'll learn object-oriented languages very fast. Likewise, if you know a language like Lisp you'll learn man of its descendants in the same family of language quickly.

I work full time and program when I'm not working, and I'm often surprised at the improvements and iterations I can make in (relatively) short periods of time. It's the same way you can become fluent in a spoken language in 3 months [1]. Talent isn't relevant after the first week - raw determination is.

That said, you're right, you shouldn't expect to be a capable programmer in a language after just 2 weeks, but don't be so hard on yourself that such an accomplishment is impossible.

[1]: http://www.fluentin3months.com/
It's exactly like ice-nine. The universe exists in some sort of meta-stable state. The usual argument against this sort of thing happening is that we'd already be dead. Cosmic ray interactions happen all the time at very high energies, so these interactions have already been seen in the universe. The LHC, however, pushes the energy limits towards unexplored territory -- due the fact that it is a collider, the center of mass energy of the LHC may exceed the highest ever cosmic ray collisions.
I don't know if your just being slammed right now but I posted a request for pricing and haven't got anything.. it looks like a nice API to integrate into our system but it really needs clearer pricing..
This doesn't make sense to me.

First, I'm not sure there's anything stopping people from doing this now. Can't a person submit an "AMA-style" HN article already?

And on the end user side, if a person is interested in AMA-style posts, can't they just go to Reddit? What's the point of "me too" HN AMAs when Reddit's already doing a good job of it.
As said earlier comments, I think that the best way for HN to operate is for those people to participate indirectly in the community (by commenting or submitting). Personally, I think its a more interesting way to learn and reveals a more genuine image of a person.
Just click the download button below the document. Here's a mirror if you can't access scribid for whatever reason: http://www.filedropper.com/126146785-aaron-h-swartz-fbi-file
I've heard that https://github.com/stomita/ios-imagefile-megapixel works around the issue. I haven't had a chance to try it personally, yet.
Not with current accelerator energies.
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v302/n5908/abs/302508a0...
Lol building an app on twitter is one of the stupidest mistakes a developer can make. They are one of the most hostile companies to developers. Anyone building anything on twitters API should assume their app will be banned if it gets any kind if usage.
This is possible, for certain definitions of "site".
No. AMAs perpetuate the idea that the people who move the earth are normally unapproachable.
Perhaps you could try briefly entertaining the thought that there's a modicum of good will between the two projects
that 'debunking' is full of such impossibly bad writing i have no choice but to dismiss it. I cant say Mandiant is correct either, but at least they know how to construct a sentence.
I usually find if I can't tell the difference based on the post and its replies, it's irrelevant to me anyway.
Is Django/Python going to get rid of the double underscore convention? If so, I'll switch from Ruby/Rails... :)
I liked this one (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35079)
> A person that is 100lbs+ overweight is eating an enormous number of calories just to maintain that weight.

The point that you are missing is that this is not necessarily true. In fact, the converse may be true; that obese people require less calories to maintain their weight because they live a more sedentary lifestyle.

> I don't even care if the keep drinking coke and eating fries, as long as they cut their calorie intake somewhat, down to below what they are using, they will lose weight. Period.

> Once they've done that for a while, their body adapts and they'll have to cut more calories, as an ongoing process. In years, they will have lost a lot of weight, and they will have to cut things like Coke and fries, but that's years down the road.

And they will be literally starving, dealing with the effects of malnutrition, and have almost no energy to complete daily tasks. Switching to healthier sources of nutrition first will provide the energy the person needs as well as the ability to control caloric intake, which greatly enhances the chances of success.

You seem to have made up your mind about a subject you know little about. This isn't a simple single-variable equation.
By man-weeks I mean 40-60 hours effort per "week". I think that some developers can "learn Django in a week or two from scratch", but I don't think most newbies can.
The requires logging in, not exactly "pro privacy."
You can make it work in Chrome; there’s a way around the warning. Instructions are in “Steps on adding extensions from other websites” on the Chrome help page linked from that warning: http://support.google.com/chrome_webstore/bin/answer.py?hl=e.... In short, to add the user script, open Tools > Extensions, then drag and drop your downloaded 121512.user.js file into the Extensions tab.
Show HN: WireframeApp, wireframing for iPad (free open source)
I submitted as a link but failed miserably to get someone to download it, I hope you like:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/wireframeapp/id602466053?l=pt&ls=1&mt=8

http://wireframeapp.com/ (github)
Before your course gets published it goes through a 'beta' period where Codecademy users who have volunteered to be beta testers go through the courses.
No, I feel that this website shouldn't follow reddit, but instead maybe try something diffrent
Clickables:

http://wireframeapp.com/

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/wireframeapp/id602466053?l=p...
Doctors are usually learned people who have a lot of helpful (and often lifesaving) advice.

But the fact is, being a doctor doesn't make you an expert in nutrition or diet, and it certainly doesn't make you an expert in things like co-sleeping.

I'm pretty sure the only deaths you'll have these days as a result of co-sleeping is when one of the parents smoked, took drugs or was obese (and usually a combination).
Not really, but I used this link: http://trac.nginx.org/nginx/changeset/5073/nginx to set up this config: https://gist.github.com/octaflop/4991052 for this server: https://gist.github.com/octaflop/4991187 hosted on this site: https://legionofevil.org/

Hope that helps! (IRC is also quite handy today)
Amazon Redshift is 10x faster and cheaper than Hadoop and Hive
actually there have been talk about one common api for all .nix that is tizen, sailfish, meego, ubuntu, plasma
Python's Flask is a superb Sinatra clone, and Django's ActiveRecord equivalents are equally useful in Flask, especially for Mongo. Flask sits on top of Werkzeug, which is similar in power and use cases as Rack - middleware, fine-grain auth, etc.
I was just reading the Environmental Impact Report for rebuilding a Safeway supermarket in Oakland, and it does in fact have a section about predicting whether the store will "blight" any other nearby retail areas by drawing too much business away from them.

(They conclude that it will not have such an effect, even though there are already vacant retail spaces right across the street from the Safeway site.)

But just because the studies are done doesn't mean people will make the decisions that optimize everybody's lives. Every town wants the tax revenue from a new big box store, even if it means destroying the retail economy of the next town over.
This is on a page about Films, Festivals and Directors. Is this fact or fiction? Is this a film about a fictive discovery, or real?
I would suggest using the https://github.com/ap/vim-css-color instead.
That's a very compelling reason to use Python if you need those things.

On the flip side, RubyGems is much bigger than PyPI and has a lot of modules that you won't necessarily find equal counterparts to in PyPI.

I think there's a lot of use cases one can come up with where one language's library offerings suit them better. That was how I chose between Ruby and Python. I chose Ruby+Rails but it very, very easily could have been Python+Django.
Thanks Jeff! It did cost us some sweat and blood to get right, but Twilio's API is a joy to work with. Connect looks awesome, not sure how we missed it, will investigate and probably migrate.
Yes, he wrote Facebook himself but only after consulting with Eduardo; not to mention, Eduardo funded the initial servers and such.

So I guess the most realistic hypothetical question would be whether or not Mark and Eduardo would have both been invited for an interview. I'd still say yes. Given their main competition was myspace, their concept of exclusivity was an innovative and clear edge. In essence, at the time, I imagine their goal was to essentially make Myspace irrelevant by making Facebook a friends-only environment.

To address whether or not Mark would have been invited for interview if he had applied by himself: I also think yes to this, purely because YC seems to care about the people more than anything. Mark's track record before Facebook is extremely impressive so I would say AS LONG AS Mark expressed a desire to add members to the team (in the written application) before coming to YC, he would have been accepted.
Not sure... I'll have to give it a go to see if it really is.
I'm pretty sure caffeine increases stress levels which is what you want, if you need to start focusing on your work.

Of course, too much stress is bad for you, which is why you shouldn't have multiple cups a day...
You can swap out Django's built-in ORM for something else (like SQLalchemy) and you can also swap out the django templating for something else if you want.

Flask http://flask.pocoo.org/ is pretty awesome and I've used it for a project that was really light on server-side code (http://palettecomp.com/), but I've never used Sinatra so I don't know how it compares.
The use of sentences like "Period." and "Fullstop." really has become a giant red flag.

I guess that's handy, actually.
okay, I increased the limit to 5000 URLs
Yeah I agree. But I'm not a big fan of having programming revolve around the "big guys." My two cynical cents.
Go ahead, someone somewhere else won't.
Ask HN: collection of Anki decks for programming?
Hello everyone, I'm trying to experiment the technique described by Derek Sivers on his blog (http://sivers.org/srs) to see if it can help me learn faster. But I'm looking for more programming decks for Anki. Maybe C, C++, Java, Clojure, Common Lisp, Lua...

do you know if there are any available for download?
What about this:
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/14707221/random/126146785-Aaron-H-S...
It seems odd that his whole file would be an entire 23 pages in its entirety, and amount to 21 releasable pages without a single page relating in any way to anything other than publicizing the PACER records.

Surely they have more...
Do such power stations even have enough computer behind them to host a virus? Certainly one can imagine a camouflaged dongle that sits on top of the charging port (much like those snuck onto ATMs for stealing check card numbers), but it seems unlikely to me that it would be possible to infect a simple USB charger.
‘State’ Opinion Network Defines You By What You Think, Not How Famous You Are
There's also the matter of "is this worth starting a war over?"

One thing about this is that Chinese military is not the same thing as Chinese intelligence. The main Chinese intelligence agency is the Ministry of State Security. Mixing up the PLA with the MSS is like mixing up the DOD with the CIA.

I doubt that the United States government will do anything more than "raise the issue." The trouble is that if the US does something like file a formal diplomatic protest, it will be a promise by the United States not to try to do anything similar, and I don't see how the US would consider that to be in its national interest.

One other interesting thing is that the Chinese hacker community is very different from the US hacker community, in that US hackers tend to hate the military and authoritarian systems whereas the Chinese hacker community sees themselves as patriotic defenders of the motherland. A lot of this has to do with differences in history (i.e. the US involvement with Vietnam). Something that gives you an idea of the difference is that if you go to any newsstand, you'll see a lot of military magazines, and so hackers in China are "solider wannabees" in ways that hackers in the US aren't.
Could this be Facebook's new video ad format? (Concept Video)
This ad format displays in the news feed like a photo and plays like a video when the device is rotated.