skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a middle ground. OS X default configuration only allows software to run if it is signed by a developer, unless you right-click on the application and select "open" through the contextual menu, in which case you are presented with the option to override it.

I like this, and I am a software developer.

(Windows has something like this too. I don't remember the details.)
Yep eating natural food is all bs.

Please go back to your regular diet of ice-cream and cheetos.
>>> So, is that an example of reclaiming the word "bible thumper" for the moderate wing - very classily done btw.

Well I'm accused of being a Bible thumper far more often than I'm accused of being moderate or liberal.
"all users can install trusted root certificates" doesn't reject the notion of self-signed roots.
Yes, it's mentioned in the bug report.
Dragon's Den announces a new member
Yeah, he probably is. His units threw me off.
Fascinating. What an effective stunt! I believe you, but cannot find any links that confirm this is a hoax. Anyone?
Note this isn't a new policy; AT&T has been allowing this for almost a year now (a story mentioning it from April 2012: http://techland.time.com/2012/04/11/unlock-an-att-iphone-in-...). They're just reassuring customers that the LoC exception change won't affect their already implemented company policy.

The other three major carriers have also had similar policies for some time, and don't appear to have drastically changed anything since the LoC rule change: http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-57572492-94/what-the-dmca-c...
The problem with the "paleo-diet" is that it's not really an area of knowledge (like for example, plant evolutionary biology). Judging from the published studies it looks like proponents of the diet make up the plans and then studies by actual scientists later confirm some of the positive (and negative) benefits.

There are some scientific studies on the "paleo-diet" as an actual dietary plan, searching pubmed for "paleo-diet", "paleo diet" or "paleolithic diet" reveals 77 results, a few of which are concerned with how modern man might benefit of an old diet. Some of the published stuff is positive about paleo:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21139123

> Furthermore, doubts have been raised about the necessity for very low levels of protein, fat, and cholesterol intake common in official recommendations. Most impressively, randomized controlled trials have begun to confirm the value of hunter-gatherer diets in some high-risk groups, even as compared with routinely recommended diets.

It also seems to be good for sufferers of Diabetes Type II:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20144375

So it seems that the usual recommendations for nourishment and sports (that's always good) are pretty good, but the evolutionary science behind it is quite hokum.

A lot of this knowledge that has been published outside of academic circles in books is slightly contradictory and is, in the worst case, broscience [1]. The wiki-page for this diet has some great points: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleolithic_diet

[1] http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=broscience
The biggest problem I have with Zuk is that the entire premise of this book is based on a straw man argument. The "Paleo" in paleo diet comes from the fact that there was a clear dip in human health once we entered the neolithic era (i.e. started farming). We are not emulating a caveman's diet per se, we are simply trying to find and remove what caused that original dip in health.

To anyone uninformed about the paleo diet:

The Paleo diet is not a crusade against anything that isn't a meat or vegetable and its certainly not trying to perfectly emulate some fictitious caveman's food diary. The paleo diet is a recommendation to avoid things that have anti-nutritional properties, things that may tax our liver or our insulin response or halt our ability to digest vitamins and minerals as effectively.

The critical takeaway from the paleo diet is that there are many foods that the average person may have a "tolerance" for, but why eat foods we simply tolerate when we can eat foods that we thrive on?
If you're really struggling with the material and can't get an A after giving it 110%, you're just not at the top of the curve.

This was me in my first collegiate art elective. I put in enormous effort, but there was no there there. It was a valuable and humbling experience.

I'd used the author's "technique" in high school by making sure to get As in math and science, and simply not trying in the humanities classes. This plan backfired terribly, and in multiple ways.

Backfire #1: I was accepted by my top choice (CS @ CMU), but I wasn't offered any scholarships, and finances pushed me towards a less expensive option.

Backfire #2: it delayed recognition of the gaps in my abilities. I thought I was getting 'B's because I wasn't trying, when I actually had (sometimes serious) unaddressed gaps in my skill set.

Backfire #3: it delayed the realization that I really enjoy some of the subjects I'd blown off.
I'm having difficulty imagining a set of circumstances under which the behavior described does not constitute a felony.
I hate OS X's implementation. They need to allow third-party CA's.

I don't want to choose between what Apple allows developers to do and "fuck it let it run free and do whatever it likes". Nor do I want the global choice in System Preferences to be between developers that paid $100 to Apple this year and Wild West.
As the article suggests, the people who do this are probably 14 year old boys.
Its not always the direct innovation that government creates, is the seeding of an environment that allows the innovation or prevents the rise of extreme elements: Agricultural and mining state colleges in the US, UC system, infrastructure projects like the Hoover Dam, bringing electricity to rural areas during the Great Depression, public work projects that allowed artists to keep on producing works of art, the Space program. All these infrastructure projects and applied research projects helped lay the groundwork for innovation. Sowing seeds and letting the next generation harvest them. The supposed pay forward of Silicon Valley.
No, signed binaries are wonderful for users. Centralised CA's and not allowing self-signed roots are the only thing that would be objectionable.
The case against telecommuting
> Sigh. You web guys are completely blinded to the rest of the engineering universe. You actively oppose all attempts to do anything genuinely new, and then say "look! It never works!"

I oppose technologies (such as PNaCl) that I feel are worse than alternatives (asm.js). The reason they are worse is that they are not backwards compatible.

> The fact that you think no-compromises performance is only the purview of AAA games is exactly why you have no business being an OS vendor. I hope -- for the sale of our industry -- that Apple, Google, and Ubuntu eat Firefox OS' lunch.

I never said that no-compromises performance is only the purview of AAA games. I said that for most applications that are not AAA games, running more slowly is better than not running at all.
That sounds interesting!

Do you have any proof for this statement:

>there was a clear dip in human health once we entered the neolithic era

This statement seems hard to prove seeing as we didn't keep any health-records between 10,000 BC and 2,000 BC (I can see, however, that we currently live quite unhealthy).
The "Plankalkül" of Konrad Zuse: A Forerunner of Today's Programming Languages
It's been going on for a loooooong time. Sub7 anyone?

I'm sure most of us were once 14, and unsupervised and didn't do anything evil.
This reads as basic marketing fluff for Samsung. Why is the Note preferable to the Galaxy Tab, let alone the iPad? The article certainly doesn't give a reason.

I'm actually interested in knowing the advantages of the Note in that use case. To me the Tab 7.7 I gave a friend for Christmas seemed like the best possible form factor for a mid sized Android device. 'Phablets' strike me as a wacky compromise.
Ask HN: Visionary Media Startup Seeks Technical Co-Founder
I had considered using some of this space to initiate a thoughtful discussion about new music (specifically, a dearth of new music involving "blood spilled on the paper" during composition - i.e. inspired works), the music industry, and music factories that produce "streaming content". However, I realized that both the startup's efforts and the startup's ideals would be best served if the startup focused on its marketplace endeavors (winning over as many people as possible), instead.

Because of space constraints, I've included a link, http://duvo1.jottit.com/2.
this is the reason i detest facebook. People post pictures of others which links to their profiles. It is very similar to what this person is doing. Fb wouldn't falsely accuse people though.
By the age of 14 you are supposed to have a developed enough sense of morality to understand that this is very bad. I don't think this is an acceptable excuse.
I know this doesn't answer your question, but I have to ask: why are you even writing up a business plan?

I don't mean to be harsh, but in Silicon Valley writing up a business plan is seen by many as a negative signal. Lots of people (myself included) see it as something a business student with no real-world experience would do as their first step.

The reason for this is simple: you can't really know if users will actually like or use or pay for your product. A business plan is only going to be a bunch of guesses, the vast majority of which will turn out to be unfounded. If you think you can predict what users will like before users themselves tell you, then you should change your first name to Steve and your last name to Jobs. So instead of spending time on a business plan, the recommended route is to build a quick prototype and see how users respond to that.

An exception to this might be if the product you're building is something you need, in which case it might be excusable to build something that's more than just a prototype. Nonetheless, the same problem applies: you don't really know if other people will find what you build useful until you get it in front of them.
+1 fixed
> there's nothing wrong with capital letters or all-caps

In the transportation world, all-caps is known to be harder to read than mixed-case in fixed-message signs:

http://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/5892/is-all-caps...

All-caps is also generally less legible than all-lower-case:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_caps (in particular reference 7, Tinker, Miles A. (1963). Legibility of Print. Ames, Iowa: Iowa State University Press. p. 65. ISBN 6316674.)

My point is that it isn't just a matter of taste. There are known, quantified ways in which all-caps is worse. Ditto Comic Sans, if you read another response to your post.
It's gay porn (Corbin Fisher). Maybe they're banking on the shame factor for some people.

I don't want to speculate on the legality of it but overall it's pretty damn offensive.
Which VPS providers are serious about privacy?
A friend of mine is developing an encryption application, and I'm working on his website. He wants to go the founders of truecrypt and the founder of bitcoin route of remaining anonymous. We already decided on Namecheap for domain hosting because of their history of standing up for the EFF and privacy in general via anti-SOPA movement, etc. Can someone recommend a VPS provider that has a proven track record of taking privacy seriously?
Amplified Greenhouse Effect Shifts North's Growing Seasons
Usually, they used the height of specimen. Heights are good proxy for health.

I am not an anthropologist.
You are still a zombie, risen upon us by the benevolent necromancy of Paul Graham, believing that without 10% weekly growth in "some metric you weren't measuring" you, somehow, at some indeterminate point, became a "kind of" failure.
The article probably should have stated the obvious - it is cheaper! When it comes to buying a thin client for enterprise applications, there must be sufficient feature parity between an iPad and Galaxy Tab.

As the article mentions, they did this only for volume i.e. flight attendants and technicians. The pilots still get an iPad.
This just makes me sad for the future. Ugh. I couldn't read the rest of that article after page 1.
No windows apps?
Perhaps. Or maybe they are adults with a 14yo mentality.

Either way it is so 'not cool' that even a 14yo should know this.

They are inflicting real pain on another human being for laughs, and that is evil in my book.
There's a wide gap between a "paleo diet" and modern junk food.

One of my local science broadcasters[1] often uses the phrase "don't eat too much of anything your grandmother wouldn't recognise as food" - and I suspect that's pretty much the same good advice as the paleo movement's, the marginal difference health-wise between eating common 1950/1960s food attempting to re-create some idea of paleo diet is almost certainly tiny.

High fat/sugar/salt junk food, high fructose corn syrup, hydrogenated vegetable oil - there's no doubt that they shouldn't form the basis of your diet. But the paleo movements arguments against agricultural societies grain-heavy diet, with it's several thousand year ongoing trial, doesn't seem to be quite so real.

[1] Karl Kruszelnicki - http://www.drkarl.com/home/ Another one of his food/diet related phrases is "Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants."
Another interesting post! It's even more interesting for me, since I've been testing with various JS frameworks in the last two weeks; namely the three major ones - BackboneJS, EmberJS and AngularJS.

Aside from the points you've raised, here's a small conclusion I have made.

"Creating a complex web application with Views, Sub Views & Deep-linking is difficult, no matter what framework you use".

I feel comfortable with BackboneJS because there isn't too much abstraction and convention. Therefore, once you get the hang of it, you know what you are doing (not sure if it sounds right, but it feels... pure, or purer than others).

But BackboneJS does in fact make me repeat a lot - which is why there are a number of plugins and other frameworks that try to cover this (e.g. Backbone Marionette, Backbone layout manager, Backbone.Subview, Backbone.Courier).

After 'giving up' on EmberJS, I've looked at AngularJS. Their example was quite simple and made sense. But as soon as I tried to create a complex app, I got stuck.

Working with these frameworks has been quite interesting, because we are trying to somehow capture the state of the app in the URL (e.g. http://a/#b/c/1/3/2) so that if that URL was bookmarked and user directly goes there, we want the web app to be able to render all the parent + child views, grab the necessary data (sometimes making sure that the order is correct) and display them as expected.

It's all do-able in either BackboneJS, EmberJS and AngularJS, but this type of apps are complex and I'm not sure if any one of these frameworks make it "magic".
I think this really only applies to coding and other skill-type jobs. This wouldn't work for finance, law, and other lucrative fields -- yet.

I'd like to see some case studies on someone who walks into Wall Street without a degree. That'd be interesting.
Why not both, and have a link to both?

If you don't think you could pull that off without it being awkward, I feel like I'm not the best person to offer an opinion, since I'm probably not in your target audience. But if I was the person in charge of the decision I'd choose female. This isn't a knock against females, but there's something about a female talking deeply about something incredibly technical that I think a lot of guys will find really sexy and compelling.

However, I really think that the most serious metric you should be considering is charisma in general. Can this person project that they really care about what they're saying? You're gonna get better response to an excited-sounding male than a terrible female actor, and vice-versa.
This is self-centered and egotistical to a fault. So a thank email is too hard to deal with, but I'm expected to read him whine about them?
> Cordain, who has a Ph.D in exercise physiology, assured Zuk that human beings had not had time to adapt to foods that only became staples with the advent of agriculture. “It’s only been ten thousand years,” he explained. Zuk’s response: “Plenty of time.”

We have documented measurable evolution in large mammals in timespans of only several hundred years.
I do not know the literature well enough to cite anthropological studies. But as far as I understand it, this is a relatively uncontroversial claim within the field. Jared Diamond's article is a good introduction:

http://www.ditext.com/diamond/mistake.html

Edit: As others have mentioned below, the main evidence is a decline in the height, bone density and tooth health of skeletons of pre and post neolitic humans.

Average lifespan also declined, from 33 --> 20 according to Wikipedia. (I don't know if the studies cited are good sources)

Keep in mind that these lifespan figures include infant mortality. This explains why they remain so low up until very modern times.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_expectancy#Life_expectancy...
> This statement seems hard to prove seeing as we didn't keep any health-records between 10,000 BC and 2,000 BC (I can see, however, that we currently live quite unhealthy).

Much can be done with forensic anthropology. There is one North American area in present day Mississippi that was inhabited across the adoption of agriculture, and the decline in health is documented in the teeth and bones.
Lehman CFO Erin Callan regrets letting career overwhelm her personal life
How to name a variable when the word is both a noun and a verb?
I don't live a paleo diet[1], but I think the focus on fresh foods is good. Just like anything, there may be a kernel of extremely important wisdom that gets surrounded by a huge amount of marketing to make money off of it (think agile programming as another example).

I also have yet to meet[2] a scientist whose word I would trust as the last word on the way I should eat. On the other hand, I've met a lot whose words have influenced how I eat. And based on the reading I've done, we are still so far from really understanding how the body processes food that the only sane approach is to read a lot, experiment on yourself, and monitor the results[3]. Unfortunately, there are just far too many people trying to sell something[4] when it comes to food.

1. I've settled pretty close to Atkins. In fact, one of the things I really like about Atkins is the "on-going weight loss" phase where you literally experiment, journal and measure to find out what is working for you.

2. "Meet" in the "I've read" sense. I'm always looking for more to read on this topic. Due to lack to good information being available, I passed 350 pounds. It took surgery to have a chance to start again; then a lot of studying to take advantage of that start.

3. The scale may be the worst way you can measure your progress. Blood tests are good. A journal of the way you feel is also good.

4. It is sad that, even the best intentioned scientists, still need to "sell" their work to their funding agencies. I don't have a concern than anybody is outright faking things; the concern I have is that anything that doesn't match the current dogma as decided by the FDA, USDA, etc, is getting silently thrown away. Not just "not published", but not even submitted for fear of what a result that challenges the orthodoxy can do to one's career.
Allow me to offer a suggestion: Instead of having the mindset that you always need "to find a co-founder, CEO type to move forward" (a very self-defeating and self-fulfilling idea, in the sense that having this mindset usually means people make no effort to improve themselves in this arena), why don't you try to generate an idea and then take this opportunity to learn sales/marketing/business skills. There's no inherent reason you can't try to improve your skills in those areas. There's no such thing as being to old to learn something new. And even if you find yourself lacking in social skills, many aspects of sales/marketing have nothing to do with sociability - internet marketing, cold-emailing etc.

Also read pg's essay on getting startup ideas, if you haven't already: http://paulgraham.com/startupideas.html
Is this "revenge porn" for real or is this another case of the media taking porn industry kayfabe at face value? Between 2257 record-keeping laws and various state anti-peeping-tom laws doing a profitable revenge porn site for real seems a lot harder and riskier than just faking it.
But then why don't they allow water bottles? Is a flammable liquid worse than a flammable solid like Lithium?
In some states it is still possible to sit for the bar without attending law school. But who would hire you, when there's a glut of credentialed attorneys with no job?
I wonder what this means for https://www.quixey.com/
Very nice brand/domain and style. I also like the idea and I thought about doing this many times but I didn't because there was just too much similar stuff on the net.

However, the brand would suit well nightly hackathons.
Book publishers blast Amazon's plan to control domain names
Also, if you have any interest in relocating to other countries, a degree is in most cases a requirement.
Are you just building a landing page to test the market response?

It would be extremely helpful if you could provide a demo or mockup or sample of one of the interviews you have already completed. Is it going to be a short video or blog post or something else?
Treating a Nation of Anxious Wimps
First, women are smaller and weaker than men, on average, and there's nothing wrong with that. Sometimes reality has a conservative bias, you know? (But it would be more accurate to say that traditional ideas often have some basis in reality.)

Second, I don't see why you have to demean all the men and women who are weak and passive. Their lives are perfectly worthwhile too, and they have something to contribute other than brawn and testosterone.

Third, boys embraced video games as a pastime when most girls thought it was stupid crap for loser nerds. I think it's great that many more girls are into video games now, and that all the big companies want to make money by selling video games to girls. But don't act as if the large back catalog of boy-oriented games is some sort of social injustice. When the first GI Joe doll for boys (aka "action figure") came out, did people start whining because almost all existing dolls were designed for girls? No.

Fourth, there are many girls (but also boys) that would be better served by something other than a simple sprite swap on the same action game idea. But your ridiculously limited ideas of what's good and valuable (big, strong, person! Death to enemies! Woe be the weak!) would leave them high and dry.
Not just bad interface design: Incomprehensible interface design. Interfaces which have nothing in common with any other interface the user has seen before.

With HTML you at least have a stronger pressure to use the same text boxes everyone else does, for example: There's more standardization of basic building blocks. You can go whole-hog with reinventing the square wheel only this time making it diamond-shaped and made out of cream cheese, but it's harder.

In Flash, apparently, there's less of a counterbalance to going off entirely on your own and making something only you can understand.
Ask HN: How Do I Improve My Native Language Skills?
This is going to sound really weird but I think I am horrible at English. I feel like when I speak I sound like a drunk even though I never drink because I don't feel fluent in my native tongue. Any ideas on how to fix this? I know this is not related to startups,programming, or any of those things. I do however feel being able to communicate properly in English is vital part of all of those things.
I'm sorry, but could you please explain what you mean by "predicated in reality"? I feel stupid, but I just don't understand what that means, and I'd rather feel stupid than remain ignorant.