skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Legitimate link building is basically press and blogs relations (to maybe get links from journalists and bloggers, give them free stuff) and content marketing (invite a blogger to write for your blog, or write content on other blogs, and make links in both directions). It's not really manipulating the system, more like playing with a full understanding of the rules.

Spamming every website out there with useless comments containing your URL is more shady business and can result in a ban.
There's a pretty good chance this is an over-analysis.

A daily 50 Calorie excess stacked up over 5 years amounts to a gain of about 25 pounds.

So it is certainly possible that a diet could be subtly tipping metabolism in the wrong direction, but between a complex explanation of more calories being stored as fat and a simple explanation of slightly too much consumption, I like the second one.

I guess that it is easy to consume large amounts of carbs makes them a frequent component of weight gain.
Please. Unless you have adopted a goat, don't call it a kid.

I hate the terms 'kid' and 'kids'.

What is wrong with 'child' and 'children'?
MoonString: A NSString Category for manipulating strings
Using terms like "unwashed masses" and "Joe sixpack" to describe the computer users of working class background where I come from is insulting. Why not just go all the way and them call them "white trash"? The inaccuracy I was trying to highlight with my rewrite was your idea that people of lower means and education don't care about what browser they use, presumably in your view because they are too ignorant to know the difference. Obviously, this is not the case with automobiles and is also not the case in choice of computers, browsers, mobile phones, etc... You don't have to have a college degree and a six figure income to be discerning about technology.
Bitcoin: Security amateur hour. The bitcoin community really is amateurs.
Also the traditional fireplace cools down the rest of the house.
Texmaker 4.0 released, now based on Qt5
My point is that Openness advocates seem to place Google on a pedestal. Whenever I see any criticism of Android, or Google, it's always immediately flamed down. Maybe because Google is the most "open" of the major vendors today. But don't ever imagine that Google is immune from the Microsoft scenario.

Microsoft competed with "closed" platforms of the day by releasing a platform that was (arguably) more open to developers, and could be installed on any hardware. Developers actually quite liked Windows back in those days. The PC clone wars ensured that Windows became ubiquitous, and it took years for people to realise just how sinister that was.

I'm not going to pretend that Windows was in any way open-source, but why aren't we drawing some parallels with Google's Android platform, and the any-hardware clone war it's waging with iOS and true open source mobile platforms.
Dinkum Thinkum eh? That sounds Australian. You can quite easily get a US work visa and green card if you are young, employed, and come from Australia or New Zealand, for example. That's yet another alternate route. It's in most countries' interests to make people turn themselves away. Putting some effort in and not giving up often works wonders...
I think at that point you begin meditating, where the point is to have no mind at all.
Nice spamvertisement for a lame side scroller. Oh and no mention of sound or music production. Double lame.
SimCity: Maxis says core problem "behind us", crashes down 92%
> I’ve seen companies who have built a site for a client, no index it then charge for an SEO package to ‘sort out the rankings’, Domain change audits with no 301′s, I’ve seen agencies charge £10k for ‘keyword research’ which is copied and pasted straight from Google Adwords and more than a few times I’ve seen companies charge a thousands per month for an IBP report.

I think I am in the wrong industry...
"IE in the days before Netscape"?
14 years is old enough to know you don't spy on girls.
One of the features the Reddit Enhancement Suite provides is the ability to collapse all child comments for an entire thread, and I find it immensely useful. In fact, that and the "view all pictures" features are really the only two I find useful in that extension. OP should add the former to this plugin.
Well, it can certainly find out what browser you're using.
I share your sentiment of frustration. I've read "The China Study" by Campbell and various other articles about paleo-diet and others and there is a lot of contradictory informations.

Although they go in opposite directions (Campbell advocates vegan, paleo meat), they seem to agree on at least one thing : unprocessed foods are better. Eat vegetables, fruits, whole grains and meat/fish, but avoid sauces/butter, sodas, white bread and various candies.
The "facts" you just asserted are unsupported.
Chrome Dev Tools were what ultimately lured me over to Chrome full time. The Sync tool is pretty good too. I don't really get these memory issues everyone talks about. Maybe it's because I'm not on OSX but on Linux and Windows I regularly have 20+ tabs open for weeks and have no issues... even if I'm playing video games that take up 60% of my memory when Chrome was taking up 50% as it was it seems to play nice.
Yes, I love lazy-loading tabs!
Flash vs HTML5
Really?

Yes. It is better. Absolutely. Unquestionably. But if you can't see that creating an unwanted, unused piece of stuff is obviously, necessarily worse than not wasting the raw materials and human time and effort, I'm not sure any amount of discussion will help.

It is not vanity for me to hope that my daughter might be able to enjoy a world at least as good as the one I did (although it is, alas, vain). When I die I won't be rewarded - or punished - for anything I have ever done. But she might. Not to care about the effect our actions will have on other people is the very definition of selfishness. And I'm glad that I don't live in a world where the only alternative to selfishness is vanity.
You're telling me IE's devs were so stupid they couldn't add a spell-checker until IE10?

Is that really more believable than internal corporate interests deciding that it threatened Word?
I agree completely with #1, although I disagree with most people that HN is a pleasant design. It's ugly as sin, as is Reddit, but they are link sharing sites, so it doesn't really matter what they look like so long as they make it easy to share links. People have grown used to the way it looks (as have I, despite hating the way it looks) so deviating from that is always met with resistance. If this were my plugin, I would not alter the look and feel of the site at all (much like the Reddit Enhancement Suite does not) but I would provide the ability to toggle the current design alterations on for those who want a more pleasant experience. That would increase your adoption rate, I'm sure.
Great find, I've been looking for something like this too.
The thing is, I now definitely feel like I'm "en route" towards doing something amazing and every step in the journey feels right and resonates with my whole being; something I never felt before even though I was doing a lot of self-growth and I got a huge adrenaline kick of learning new things. The goal, which in my case is raising a wonderful person, is not totally within my control, so the only thing that I can do is focus on the process, on the everyday things, the often mundane. I'm not working toward a big goal, and I don't feel like "It'll be great when I get there" anymore. In other words, I've become process-oriented instead of goal-oriented, and that's something I should have done a long, long time ago.

This is the first time that the cliche "it's the journey, not the destination" that makes sense to me. I feel at peace now, and I'm enjoying every minute of it. Before this, when I was self-growth and build-stuff oriented, I never got to enjoy the journey. I felt like I was always working towards some far and amorphous goal, letting the rest of my life to pass by. If someone told me I was going to die today, I would feel like I have lived to the fullest. Before this epiphany? it would had been a tragedy.
I hear you can style the buttons yourself using css!
I don't really see this working. And in a way waiting for it to happen, only to see how the public reacts to something like this.
I'm sure Krav Maga would work well against a 800 pound brown bear.
Developer Break: PHP, TypeScript, C++, testing, logging and updates
I'm not on the attack, I'm just sayin'. For example, Singapore is a bastion of fascist conservatism, plain and simple. The fact you even mentioned it as a potential destination shows that you are either hyper-conservative or that you haven't had much long term experience in the region. Visiting and living are two different things. I agree there are pros and cons to everywhere, but comparing a beach in Asia to a country town in the west is in my opinion ridiculous. Each to their own though. IMHO, the developing world is where it's at.
A search engine that ranks mainly on social-graph recommendation might be one solution, because the social graph is a simple data structure that transcends "ownership" by Facebook or Google+. The engine itself is a non-trivial system to implement, mind you.
Most Enterprise Software Analysts are Useless: Find the Right Ones
What a bunch of hogwash. Everything does not fit into the request/response model of HTTP and the Internet is certainly the web.
I don't wish to read essays but i guess it is just a way to transmitt information on web, get and post methods, mainly.
That sounds like an story I would like to read. I couldn't find details about it. I did find that Taleb's second book for mass audiences was "The Black Swan", but that knowledge didn't help.

I did find that Taleb is quick critical of poor-quality reviewers, but did not find something which matches your description. I presume it's described in his third book?
The current Navigation System is Broken
Antibiotic resistance is scarier than terrorism. A once-in-a-century terrorist attack killed 3000 people. TB still carries off more than a million people per year, and used to be incurable.

Drug-resistant bacteria sounds like a paranoid tinfoil fear, but hospitals already deal with the problem. Doctors do not want to hear the words "drug-resistant MRSA", ever.

Probably the worst culprit is the abuse of antibiotics in factory farming. The animals live in disgusting conditions that require antibiotics to keep them viable. (As a side effect, the drugs also make them fatter, producing more meat per head.) This is a huge contributor to the problem.
"Não entre em Pânico" in portuguese.
As an amateur at scraping and programming as well, I'd like to ask what the benefits are of using python to scrape over building a php scraper.
> Not having a gun when someone armed threatens me will most likely increase my chances of survival/getting out of the conflict unharmed. Maybe with a gun I have a better chance of retaliation but I'm also more likely to die.

And this is known as the fallacy of making things up and asserting that they are most likely true.
Show HN: Harlemify.com - Make any website do the Harlem Shake
Paleo is not a "low carb" diet. The point of Paleo is not to reduce the number of carbohydrates you ingest; nor is it to enter ketosis; nor is the primary goal of Paleo to lose weight. You have been reading the wrong things, and I can't even imagine what lead you to believe that you could run at any serious level without ingesting carbs.

The pop-fad elements of the diet that have been parroted by journalists are generally the "elevator pitch" version of the diet, not the real 'meat' (pun so intended).

The main tenets of the diet are to avoid processed and/or high-sugar food, grains, (non-fermented) legumes, bad fats/oils (especially those from seeds), and dairy, and to seek out whole foods, fish and lean meats (especially from ruminants and organs) and good sources of fat (with good omega 3/6 ratio). Some folks can handle dairy just fine and do so. Some can eat white rice or white potatos and suffer no ill effects. Those are not outright banned by the diet. Carbohydrates can come in many forms that are accessible on the diet.

You were lied to, and I'm sorry that you tried to run without eating carbs, I image that would be unpleasant. But please discontinue spreading misinformation about Paleo, as it has vast benefits when applied correctly and in line with your body's needs.
Puppet and CloudStack
A Ketogenic Diet May be the Key to Cancer Recovery
I've been using Firefox more myself.

It's the consistent tic- tic-tic of disk access by Chrome. I have all extensions and plug-ins disabled. All caching disabled. And yet when I try to concentrate on something I'm reading in Chrome I'm continuously distracted by the tic-tic-tic of chrome accessing the hard disk every second or two.

Right now this window I'm writing in is the only Chrome window open. Yet there are three Chrome processes running. One of which is writing 7k per second to a temp file.

Chrome is not the sleek beast it once was. It's living off its reputation at this point.
Yes, they're real. Ars has done some good articles on them, particularly IsAnyoneDown. Ex-boyfriends post sext pics online, ex-girlfriends then pay "independent" lawyers to take the pics down, it's a brilliant racket.
Reductio ad absurdum is:

(x->(~x))->(~x)

Law of excluded middle is:

x | ~x

Proof follows:

(x->(~x))->(~x)

From definition of implication is equivalent to:

(~x) | ~(x->(~x))

From definition of implication is equivalent to:

(~x) | ~((~x) | (~x))

From de Morgans law is equivalent to:

(~x) | (x & x)

From identity law is equivalent to:

~x | x

I am not a logician and I might not have gotten all the details right, but I certainly think this is possible. I also have quite a good proof by authority ;) in form of an article by Alonzo Church:

http://www.ams.org/journals/bull/1928-34-01/S0002-9904-1928-...
So Ryan Tomayko's conversions with his wife are akin in tone and style to a language textbook aimed at tweens?
A Theory of Key Points: What tennis can tell us about technological change
If you customize toolsbars (on Mac, View > Toolbars > Customize..., similar on Linux and, I assume, Windows) you can move all (most?) of those icons to the addressbar. I think this is going to be the new default in the upcoming new Firefox theme (see <https://people.mozilla.com/~bwinton/australis/customization/...).
Do you have a way to send donations?
Pedantically speaking, a paleo-something probably shouldn't have an axe to grind.

(I don't really have a point, but it's interesting how focused pop culture is on chipping rocks when polishing them is one of the foundational aspects of civilization)
The diet represents a significant change in my eating habits. I would have to look really hard to find a different cause.

I significantly reduced bread, rice, potatoes, pasta, legumes in the last 2 weeks. That's extremely unusual for me. In the same time, I probably ate more veggies than I would in 6 months. Broccoli, cauliflower, celery, lettuce, cucumbers, asparagus, kale, swiss chards, butternut and spaghetti squash and a bunch of other stuff. Some tubes for variety (yams and sweet potatoes). My fruit basket is always full and varied (avocados, papaya, bananas, grapes, apples, pears, oranges, tangerines, etc). I eat eggs, meats (including bacon) and seafood exactly like before. I eat nuts like before. I still drink green tea daily. So far my only previous snacking habit that seems to be "legal" in the new context is plantain chips, I'm not sure if it's really allowed, but I don't care, I'm not changing it.

My philosophy regarding diet is to encourage good habits, not discourage bad ones. In other words, fill myself with as much good stuff as not having to crave the bad. My brother bought pizza on friday, I ate it and drank some coke. Yesterday he brought home a sandwich for me, I ate it the same. I won't feel guilty about that.

I did have various cravings in my first week, but I simply increased my meal portions the second week and I've been fine for the most part. I stay extended periods without even thinking of chewing on a candy bar.

Regarding physical activity, I noticed that I recover better from training and swimming sessions and I also have more endurance.

I haven't bought into the grass-fed and organic mindset so far. I'll see where the current regiment carries me in term of performance and well being, before attempting to go "all natural" and see if it really makes a difference.
Same is true in parts of the US as well. Here in Maine, it costs 3.80$/gal for heating oil, but you can get wood for 100$/cord. This means I can heat my house with oil to the tune of about 3k/year, or wood for 400/year.
Requiring a refresh is not outlandish. If they failed to load the content due to network error, they will already be used to that kind of flaky connection and the refreshes it requires.

Specifically building your app to attempt to handle the "bad data connection" use case that users already are familiar with in the context of the internet seems like bad programming.

Why provide a usable but substandard experience when those users would get a superior experience after a simple refresh?

As for the "turned it off crowd": in terms of web apps, who cares? If you've disabled Javascript, you're not looking to use web apps -- period. Javascript is required to use web apps for anything other than fancy form posting...

Of course, every site's audience is different, and you should prioritize your development for your audience.
I honestly believe Mozilla is committed to freedom and privacy on the web. Google is committed to making money and knowing everything I do.

The majority of the revenues comes from Google Inc., which is the default search engine on Mozilla Firefox.[1]

Doesn't Mozilla exist because Google exists?

[1]- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Foundation#Mozilla_Corp...
I'm with you on basically all points. For a good time, take a look at carbapenem-resistant enterobacteriaciae [1] and totally resistant TB [2].

Regarding the antibiotics, it's not completely clear why giving them to animals makes them bigger, and it may well not have anything to do with poor living conditions. It seems to work in humans, too, and these results were discovered as early as the 1940s [citation needed].

But those are just quibbles; on the key points, I'm with you.

[1] http://www.cdc.gov/hai/organisms/cre/index.html

[2] http://www.who.int/tb/challenges/mdr/tdrfaqs/en/index.html
Right, that.

Border Guards probably counts as a sequel. I hope we'll get a novel-sized story set in that universe, eventually.
Working within the system is always the easiest approach, but it produces very predictable results. Some people don't get the same affirmation from following the expected path.

There are very strong arguments for and against college. The right choice depends on the temperament of the person. Unfortunately that person is rarely equipped with all of the information/maturity to make a good choice for themselves. This is a failing of parents and schools, who themselves generally don't know any better.

But the crux of the argument is that the default choice is very very often the (or a) bad one. It's an important conversation to have.

Edit: your "here's the facts" line is overemphasized, and demonstrably incorrect.
am i the only one who thinks this was no apology at all? (judging from the comments in the forum that's not really the case)

it did not look like an apology at all. It looked more like an excuse saying that the drm is fine as it is and they just underestimated the userbase. essentially putting the blame on the users. one of those apologies that really isn't...
wolf3d.exe on a floppy -> "This self-extracting zip archive is corrupted!" :P

P.S. Now that I typed the file's name (it was really wolf3d.exe), I suddenly feel old... Not to mention the "floppy" bit :)
Anti-circumvention measures are baked into laws in may territories.

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-circumvention)

While the ROM might not have much DRM some cases suggest that tools for ripping ROMs, and tools that allow playing of modified ROMs on a console, are probably illegal. (See, for example, the MrModChips cases in the UK.)
You have obviously never been to Alaska, where the option to even buy food is non-existent in many areas. Even in areas where you can buy meat, many don't because it is a lot cheaper to feed a family by killing your yearly moose.
> The faculty shouldn't be stunned. Harvard has been reading the e-mail of students for a long time. Why should the faculty be any different?

Are you sure you went to Harvard? :) It's not a surprise that Harvard treats students and faculty differently. It would be a surprise if they did. The caste system is extremely strong, or at least it was when I was there (class of '96).

And that's my read on this tale: the Harvard castes are re-aligning. Traditionally, it's been faculty at the top, with administration below. The administration is now rising, to the point that it feels it can pick off the lower rungs of the faculty, like the resident deans.

This is a shift occurring all over academia, but perhaps a little later at the Ivies.
I'm sorry, English is my second language. Could you explain the difference?
This makes little sense. Say only 7 people died from inhaling cyanide last year, does that make cyanide 100 less dangerous than guns? Nope, because 100% of the people who inhaled it died.

The real questions is, of the people who are within harms way of home swimming pools, how many suffer injuries, and of the people who are within harms way of fire arms, how many suffer injuries.

Both are not that easy to measure, especially firearms, but looking at absolute causes of death is clearly nonsense.
Visual live cues when playing snooker
While I appreciate that Hacker News and Reddit have a historical relationship, they're still different sites. This really isn't an appropriate forum for this sort of thing.
Man, some people are weird.
can't go back, at least not now, at work we've standardized on ruby. for personal projects, i've also decided to stick with ruby as well, the main reason being mostly the gem package manager and community support, not saying that python doesn't have a good community with great libraries (egg, setup tools, etc), but ruby's just cleaner for me with regards to web app development.
>My skepticism antennae are twitching
Firstly it has the tang of religion - we have found the answer, it requires certain rites and adherences and we must now persuade you to believe

I'm not sure how any of this addresses the claim that carbohydrates are a major cause of disease which is the only issue my post addressed.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM

>Finally and th biggest question to me, is why assume that so many maleases are solely or primarily diet related. Obesity is pretty obvious but asthma? Cancer even?

A transitive relationship is being inferred.

There's evidence that cholesterol plaque build-up is driven by inflammation. There's evidence that many cancers are driven by inflammation. There's evidence that insulin spikes are involved in bio-molecular cascades for driving inflammation which are also involved in diabetes. Therefore carbohydrates are involved in inflammation which predisposes a person to cancer, heart disease, and diabetes. Proving anything beyond doubt in biology is difficult but it's a compelling hypothesis that needs further investigation.
They will wake up one day, like website owners did the minute Google decided to "compete" with them. It's not really a competition, Google controls all aspects of search and decides how much and what type of traffic to send to ads, to their advertisers, to it's own sections and to poor Jane's Delicious Pies that can't afford the $2.50 a click.

Judging by the increasing earnings Google is clearly winning, so to all the lurking Google engineers, a hearty congrats! You beat them fair and square, just as IE beat all other browsers when Microsoft decided that it was the best and made it the default one.
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