skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
http://npaste.de/p/Cb/ Snippet for the pf firewall. You might have to place the 'block' rule after all 'pass' rules if you use inclusive firewalling…
Not to mention that S3 buckets tend to remain online when EC2 instances in US-east are exploding due to <insert a problem related to EBS, network, or datacenter power failure>. :)
Three takeaways from the API Strategy and Practice conference
Then exercise with weights at high-speed on an empty stomach (empty glycogen supplies) and wait for a couple hours before enjoying your large amount of carbs and protein. Maybe consume some branched chain amino acids to signal to your body not to break down any muscle. You'll enjoy all the benefits of interval training and your body will tap directly into your fat for energy at this point to burn through whatever small amount of spillover you're speaking of.

Obviously if you eat far more than your body needs you will get fat because that's how your body's efficient machinery works. But it's quite hard to do when your stomach physically only has enough room for so much and you'll throw up before consuming that many calories.
Having worked the full range of situations (full telecommute, full office, and everything in between) I can say that, for me at least, an arrangement like this is optimal.

- Working in the office every day is a complete productivity drain for me.

- Working from home every day makes it more complicated to collaborate with coworkers (especially over highly visual whiteboarding situations.

- Splitting the difference has worked really well. Generally we picked one day where we were always in the office (as much for social interaction as meetings). In addition, each of us was perfectly willing to come in 1-2 other days a week if there was a need.

Splitting the difference is by far my favorite mode.
Rap Genius launches Poetry Brain
See also http://www.petridish.org/
No problem, I just took the standard Bootstrap layout.
But right, the red info box is a little heavy weight. But I like to point out that this is not meant to be production ready, yet.

Anyway I am not a Designer.
I like my blog template, though ;)
Lemonade tastes great fresh, but it very noticeably tastes worse when canned/bottled. I think that disparity keeps it from being able to challenge carbonated sodas on a large scale.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WY_JKz9detM
Debating AV effectiveness with security experts
I'm 17 and over the past year or so, I've made a bit of money doing freelance programming. The Freelancer / Seeking Freelancer thread on the 1st of each month is a really good place to start if you have marketable programming skills. I've found that even a quick rundown of your experience / skills is enough to get a few emails from interested parties.
black magic!
> By cherry-picking patients with low odds of complications, Dr. Scheinin felt he could operate almost as safely without blood as with it.

And what does he suppose the odds would be if he applied the same cherry-picking whilst operating with the option of a blood transfusion?

I'm not necessarily advocating for reliance on blood transfusions here, but the logic (and ethics) of this seem highly questionable.
Even if you don't know how to pronounce a word, you might subvocalize (I do) using an incorrect pronunciation.
You fail to address the points the article presents about politics and media. The Michelin Chef is not pausing the children's favorite television show to inform them of the New COOL WAY To Eat Lunch! The chef is not bribing my representatives in Congress to get more obscure labeling so he can misrepresent what actually composes the product he's trying to sell me.

The Michelin Chef cares about the quality of the ingredients that goes into what he serves me. If he tries to pass off "Cheese Food" as cheese, a human enterprise that has existed on this planet for centuries, he will be rightly ridiculed and stripped of any credibility.
Nexus 4 available again
Human-Robot Relations: Why We Should Worry
Note that EC2 isn't in their critical path: it's a prep stage rather than serving directly to the masses.
Because the term "unprocessed" carries its own ambiguities. Is cooking a steak a form of processing? I would say so. What about the mashing of potatoes? Ultimately, processed and clean are largely subjective.
I'm okay with both the idea that the mechanism is either purely psychosomatic or the result of some coincidental element being cut out of the diet.

As a mechanism, it seems quite hazily understood.

I'm less okay with the wholesale exclusion of the lived experiences of my fellow humans; at some point, people have only one body that they can reliably poll for information.
Why do you assume that this is anything other than an ambitious goal? Recycling/composting in and around SF is a very prevalent cultural phenomenon with a lot of momentum.
You don't need to have traditional "insurance" to be exempt from penalty under PPACA.

There are exemptions for members of certain groups (IIRC, Native American tribes and religious groups that are opposed to the concept of insurance, like the Amish). There are also exemptions for participants in "health cost sharing ministries" [0]. My family pays $135/month for what, practically, functions like a high-deductible plan [1] -- a little more expensive than just paying the penalty, but it's worth it to mitigate the cost risk associated with catastrophic illness.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_care_sharing_ministry . There's a list of Christian health-sharing ministries at http://www.healthcaresharing.org/ ; I don't know what other religions or non-religions might have similar programs.

[1] the friend who referred me to this signed up for a no deductible option. He was diagnosed with cancer a month later, and they covered everything.
I am sorry, I only just realized.. I forgot to mention that the last quote is by Noam Chomsky (and it's too late to edit the post).
Launch Hackathon Grand Prize now at $75,000
This, plus a million. Nobody wants to take responsibility for their own diet these days. Stop feeding your kids luncnables and prepare them a damn lunch! Put the chips down, and don't buy shit with HFCS in it. Make your own damn pasta sauce (Crushed tomatoes, green onion, and garlic, it's about as easy at buying prego, but with a million less sugars/salts) Walk places and take the stairs. (brief side note, living in the burbs forces one to drive to the front door of wherever your going. it sucks, I crave either urban walkability, or rural space to move)

Everybody wants to blame Kraft, and Nestle, and Coke for being fat. It's up to you, not some company, to decide what you eat.
Jon Stokes' Wired article on the AR-15
Is Glen Beck a rapist? I'm just asking questions.

That is the exact equivalent of what you did. They clearly say "Why the buy link" right next to that link.

And if you actually tried reading it, right here: http://examine.com/supplements/Fish+Oil/#summary7-1 - "brain boosting"

So no time or energy for anything but wild accusations.
This is true for me to. Particularly the last bit, I never "like" embedded content (links, videos, etc), and never click the links themselves either (if I care, then I Google the description to find the link outside of Facebook).
I know several people that use terminal only, including myself, who use thin client devices like tablets ssh'd into a VPS.
I read an article in the Economist not to long ago, that seemed particularly insightful. It's about investing, but I think it applies equally well here.

http://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21569397...

Here's the money quote:

Investors selecting a sector on the basis of its prior five-year performance would have earned much higher returns over the following five years by selecting the worst-performing sector than the best.

So if you're looking for an idea of what business to launch look at what did the worst over the last five years... Rather than what did the best (obviously this is just one thing to consider out of many, but I think there's a lot to be said for it.)
Really appreciate this series. I always find a little something I didn't know or forgot about. Thanks.
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We did a lot of this at the Obama campaign as well. Can't recommend it enough.
Of course the reliable foundation is important.

But my main point was to have a fluent workflow.

That's also why I want to add a mongoDB backend. (as well)
I am also thinking of moving the Views completely to javascript (ejs would probably be my choice then).

That would result in a client <--JSON --> Server <--- JSON ---> Database
szenario. Which looks pretty clean, at least to me.
I actually read it as not contradictory. This was about two events: one which was a priori more probable than the other, based purely on the previous experiences of the judge. That is, he considered "X probably happened because Y has a history of happening less than X". I take that to be that the judge committed a classic fallacy: he took a frequentist, limit-in-the-long-run subjective judgement, and tried to apply it to a situation where it's really not applicable. He took his priors from a mistaken frequentist consideration, that is what I interpret the first quote to say.

What he should have done, the second quote says, is to "arrive[s] at its conclusion by considering on an overall assessment of the evidence". Instead of considering what happened before, he should have taken his priors from the evidence. So, in the end, it's a sentence that supports a Bayesian methodology, in this case. Or maybe the Court of Appeal just was confused at the time, who knows.
> How is Android kernel not a standard Linux ?

Historically it wasn't, but checking around it seems like the kernel sources for Android has been unified and merged with the standard Linux-kernel so now they are indeed the same thing.

My bad.
I'd agree with you that _ is overused but that is one example.

Having used Scala for several years now the claim is a long way from ridiculous.

I find the idea that an opinion contrary to yours means someone is drinking kool aid and failing at objectivity a little ironic.
How much does San Francisco's garbage collection cost? Is it more expensive? Is recycling the be all and end all?
I know cost isn't everything... reducing the monetary and environmental expenses of mining is very important, but on the other hand scrap glass is cheap ($3 per ton!), undesirable and is an inert substance that doesn't impact the environment in a landfill.
Instead of having and advertisement for "recology" we need to have a more open and honest assessment of the benefits of recycling, the cost of recycling, and the benefits and costs of not recycling. Hacker News, and the world, deserve better.
One of the ideas I've heard discussed is that the only way we will ever get the cost of health care down is if consumers are back in the drivers seat with how the dollars are spent. Right now it's disconnected. I go in to have something done, the doctor bills my insurance company, and I really don't know (or care) how much it costs, unless I happen to look at the insurance paperwork. The same goes for pharmaceuticals. Which pharmacy in your town has the lowest price on that antibiotic that was just prescribed for your son's ear infection? Who cares, right? It's a $15 co-pay no matter where you go, so you go wherever is most convenient.

One solution that's been proposed is the increased use of HSAs + high deductible policies. That way people are paying their expenses out of pocket (for the day-to-day things at least), and are therefore more likely to shop around.

I'm not hear to argue the merits of that, but it definitely seems like an approach that might work. I fail to see how anything that takes control out of the hand of the individual will fix this problem (short of regulating the prices, which I wouldn't be a fan of).
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5272025
Contributions will be tax-deductible soon!

We work closely with the development offices at universities to allow the university to provide tax receipts to donors.
This probably won't sound very useful for a 17 year old that's strapped for cash right now, but the fact that you're asking these questions right now is very good for the 20-something version of yourself.

Most people my age (ie anyone working full time) would kill for the huge amount of free time that 17 year-olds have. Use it to be spongelike - learn as many new languages, techniques, skills etc as you can. A great way to do this is with internships, or taking grunt-like jobs in places where you're surrounded by knowledgable people. By the time you're out of school (or whatever you're doing right now), you'll be vastly more employable than 90% of your peers.

But, in the short term... I made money at that age by designing themes for CMSs and cold-calling local businesses and asking if they wanted websites.

Good luck!
Recently I re-engineered an ecommerce site that takes many things from the "flat-file" montra. It's amazing how little database interaction you actually need for many sites.

I think the database-driven content comes primarily from kitchen sink packages like Wordpress. More often than not, it's better to get an overall look at your structure and decide what needs to be dynamic and what can be "static".

When talking about it internally, we refer to "flat-file" as "generated". Simply meaning that it's dynamically created by a task or user interaction.
Could technology help catch out lying politicians?
‘Entrepreneurs Should Be Miscalibrated’
"The Art Of Not Sucking"
Same here. I read this whole article a few days ago, and discussed it with friends. The main takeaway for me is the incredible complexity and subtlety that goes into researching the "perfect" junk food.

In particular, the term "bliss point" which seems to apply to a number of properties that food can have. For one example, a "bliss point" as applied to the "crunch" a food should have, ie the most satisfying amount of resistance for a cracker or chip to have is apparently 4 lbs of pressure.

But often there isn't just one single answer- sometimes there are multiple mutually exclusive, highly optimal combinations of preferences, as with spaghetti where you have plain, spicy and chunky. And sometimes, the most satisfying flavor preference is not the most optimal result for profitability- snacks with too strong a flavor will "oversaturate" the brain and you will not have a strong desire to keep eating them after a few samples. In these cases it's better to have a subtle taste that never leaves the consumer feeling quite fully satisfied.

So yeah. It's not really about "fat makes you fat" -- though perhaps there is an aside to that effect -- it's more about corporate junk food researchers foraging their way through a world of data on consumer preferences and designing the most efficient products.
Well in this case, the author of the article was praising (as an advantage) a TA feature that was also available in Vim (albeit via a plugin).

I would like to see articles like this demonstrate things that simply aren't possible in Vim (or something implemented with relative ease in comparison)
Engineering food to be "addictive" is no different than vendor lock-in. It's either a normal result of incentives, or a sinister Borg plot, depending on your perspective/narrative.
Fred Nerby talks about his viral Facebook concept and the power of Behance
Bridge - Three-Month Designer Residencies
Have you seen the Netflix streaming catalog? It's terrible. People would pay substantially more than that just for current episodes of the HBO original series, to say nothing of the movies -- which they already do pay for the cable package. Why do you suspect they wouldn't do the same over the internet if the choice was available? Once again, they would likely pay even more, because they could then more easily cancel their entire cable subscription while paying HBO more than HBO is currently receiving today from the cable companies and come out ahead.

The primary problem is that HBO would have to transition their subscribers to their internet service all at once or they would lose subscriptions. There are still plenty of HBO subscribers watching on analog TVs with no internet attached to them, and HBO can't take steps to make itself independent from the cable companies without causing them to retaliate by depriving it of all that subscription revenue.
Petridish appears to have no active projects and their blog hasn't been updated since August 2012. I'm assuming they are dead.
Don't be so sure. Google is also one of Opera's biggest clients, paying a significant sum to Opera for search traffic from their desktop browser, despite its much smaller desktop market share:

http://www.zdnet.com/opera-google-extend-search-deal-for-two...

Opera makes about $15M per quarter in revenue from its desktop browser:

http://www.favbrowser.com/opera-software-q2-2012-financial-r...
If you just took Europe and the US together, you'd have 700 million people. Convince half of them to donate an average of $100 a year for "science", then we could help accelerate scientific progress. The hard part is figuring out how to spend the money effectively.
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Watching Marco's Magazine
I'm a first semester Grad School at Pace. My major is Computer Science. To be honest, I don't have any experience working in the field. However, I do have some programming experience. I'm happy to say that Emmett was fantastic in explaining how to create video games. I was blown away with how much he really is into this. The wealth of knowledge that he possesses is amazing. I hope that he does another workshop at Pace. He's phenomenal.
Virool (YC S12) is Hiring a UI/UX Designer
1. Speeding up computers. Removing spyware/uninstalling programs people don't need is always in demand.
2. Making websites for local businesses that don't have one yet. In high school I traded a website for a cake a month from a new cake shop. The cakes were better than money!
3. Backup solutions for offices. It's difficult to back up Windows computers properly. Most businesses are not backing stuff up properly and they know it. They'll pay to have someone tell them what to buy/subscribe to and then set it up for them.
4. Carpet cleaning. Do they live near condo towers? Lots of demand for that. Not too hard to do. There are lots of non-tech businesses that teenagers can do too.
If you've had good luck with RSVP on your phone, I built a RSVP bookmarklette[1] a while back for reading articles on the web. I never had much luck reading with it, but it might be useful if RSVP works for you.

[1] http://qwerjk.com/force-feed
How to Resample from a Large Data Set in Parallel with R on Hadoop
Not surprised by 37 Signal's opinion as they've gotten remote to work because of their passion for creating tools that foster communication.

For me, there are 2 ways to look at Yahoo's decision.

One is they are flat out wrong, but thats OK, because they are making decisions (Steve Jobs spoke of this)! Decisions are what moves companies in directions, good or bad, its better than being frozen and stagnant.

Two, I can attest to the cross pollination of ideas when you're together as a team, sharing lunch, sharing experiences, seeing each other in person, reading each other's body language, etc that just doesn't seem to happen at the same level when you're remote. If I were building a team from the ground up I'd want my team to be hanging out everyday ...the other meta of working together doesn't happen over Skype :). I can't tell you how many solutions were dreamed up on the walk to Starbucks. There is just something there that is hard to replicate with software.
This is cool, but I couldn't believe their video included the skiing example. As an avid skier, I can't think of anything more life threateningly dangerous than messing with menus to share a video while you're sliding down a mountain.

I get that it has nothing to do with armband itself, it just seems like a very poor choice. I cringed.
>Whenever someone talks about the need for socialized medicine because "otherwise people would go bankrupt", remember it is the socialization of medicine that caused costs to rise to the point where people would go bankrupt.

Because there are thousands of Canadians every year that go bankrupt because of health care costs. Your argument doesn't even begin to make sense.
Taeuber's Paradox and the Life Expectancy Brick Wall
It's not insane that progress is being made -- that's pretty sensible (because more guinea pigs = more data, and in normal circumstances patients don't volunteer for more dangerous paths). Deciding to be the guinea pigs is... well, not insane (people simply don't behave logically much at all, for religious as well as non-religious reasons), but sure, somewhat foolish.

In this case, JWs are presenting themselves as the control group for experimenting with blood transfusions... in a "study" that would be utterly unethical.

Imagine a doctor that refused a blood transfusion that would normally be called for in a serious surgery, because the patient was part of a study and fell into the "no transfusions even in dire need" group.

A randomized study like that is (still) impossible and unethical, but because we have this group of people who place themselves onto the higher-risk path, doctors can test out the actual boundaries of where transfusions are needed -- and indeed, seriously advance the science.

The Jehovah's Witnesses are at higher risk, and more of them will die because of this decision, but we're getting quite useful data in the meantime.

You mentioned the Army -- medicine is also advanced by the normally-unethical medical approaches to medicine that are required by battlefield medicine. There's some overlap with the real requirements there, and the self-imposed requirement of JWs refusing transfusions that actually are available -- so certainly they'd be interested.

Now we just need a new L Ron Hubbard to invent a religion that requires adherents to go all the way -- and always take the most-data-rich path through medical treatment -- then we'll be making progress in leaps & bounds (though of course more guinea pigs will die along the way).
While I agree with many points in the post, there are some things the author is missing.

I have several friends who have worked at large floundering companies cough Best Buy cough. As soon as a new CEO comes in, this is usually the first thing to go in terms of perks to the worker bees. They try and frame it up in many ways, but overall, it's an attempt to try and focus your work, and rally the troops in order to help stagnate morale.

The ironic part was the lower managers immediately convened a meeting of developers after the CEO's announcement, and told everybody, "Yeah, this isn't going to affect our group - carry on and continue to do what you need to do. Even if it means working remotely a good part of the time."
Have you experimented with any sort of feature-request pre-order tier where the entities that pre-order early have direct say in what gets built? I know that you're obviously building for them, but is there any way to stroke their ego and make that part of the package?
The Future of IT: Big Data and the Expert Integrated System
I love that you say some anodyne things and then, with no actual facts or reasoning, conclude that the "true issue" is something that fixes blame and dodges the issues raised in the article. And, naturally, is a classic example of the fundamental attribution error at work.

As somebody who has gone over the past decade from no exercise to running 15+ races and is now training for my first triathlon I am happy to say that "will to exercise" is not actually the problem for anybody I know. That certainly wasn't my problem.

The good news is that people actually study this for a living. If you want a readable introduction to the limits and uses of willpower, McGonigal's The Willpower Instinct is a fine place to start understanding why, "Oh, those people are just weak," is a lazy and wrong answer.