skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From what I understand it is a dangerous diet. Some foods are not to be eaten raw. Simply because our bodies can not handle that. Some raw foods (specially meat) contain bacteria that you certainly don't want in your system.

Personally, I think there are better diets.
Most programmers on this forum, especially those working open source, are opposed to software patents as currently implemented. They make it impossible to do anything non-trivial without running the risk of being sued for infringing what should probably be considered a basic technique.

The musical analogy would be something like copyright of chord progressions, such that any time you released what you considered a new piece of music there was a small but real chance that you would be sued for an amount greater than your life's savings. Are you confident of your ability to convince a court that your strumming of GCDG is sufficiently original to be non-infringing?

You mentioned in an earlier thread that you worked as a developer, so I presume you are familiar with these issues. Am I right that you 1) presume that you are legally shielded by your employer and 2) that you do not release the source to the code that you write?
Have you ever legalized marijuanua... on weeeeed?
I like this article (though maybe not enough to read it for the sixth time it's been posted here). As far as psychological labels go, "autistic" might have been a better one than "bipolar" for what Tarver is writing about.

Ron Garret once made the related point that Lisp culture never evolved in a social direction because a single isolated guy could get so much done on his own. I find it interesting how a thing's weaknesses can be bound up with its strengths. The thing I like least about the Lisp world (having come to it late and from a very different perspective) is this anti-collaborative tendency.
The difference in number of comments here (17 at the time of writing this) and on the article itself (0) shows a nice example of (lack of) usability.

I'm guessing a number of people thought about commenting on the post, then found out they had to log in, and just gave up there (at least that was my reaction). The author missed out on some interesting feedback he might've got otherwise.

[apologies for being slightly offtopic for the discussion topic, but it's related to the article]
I should add that the first person to catch this was a guy called John Baldwin, who sent me an email about it in May 2008, but who agreed to keep it quiet.
As far as I can tell, nothing about the C# language itself is patented, the issue revolves around certain parts of the base class libraries.

As for the point? Various Gnome apps seem to be doing well; I can see how writing them in C would've been comparatively tedious. And there's the obvious use in porting .NET apps to OSX or Linux.
Nokia's Qt Creator
To be precise, kowsik probably meant "non-human biological social networking" ;-)
Did you really figure this out in the time since the question was posed? Please say no, so I don't feel so inadequate.
Perhaps Tara could write her own wikipedia entry. Or is she too shy for that?
Sure. It's actually fairly public. Everyone celebrated iShoot making $700k. It's well-known that Mob Wars and a few other apps make more than that monthly. And as an app developer, I can attest to the sort of eCPMs that requires among Facebook RPGs.

To put it in perspective, I'll probably bring in more rev than iShoot this year, and I'm nowhere near Mob Wars in traffic numbers. There have to be hundreds of guys out there bigger than me. And unlike iShoot, I'll keep doing it indefinitely, not just until I fall off of the top 25 (which I never even had to hit).

When it comes to third party apps, Facebook is really the leader right now. In fact, I'd argue that in the tech world, they're setting the terms more than Apple at the moment, just in a different sphere.
If you want to kill the thread I can live with that. Or perhaps this is the answer to the social experiment you implicitly performed.
Python is intended to be aesthetically pleasing in some sense, so I don't think aesthetic objections to some of its features are unwarranted.
Check out the first quote:

http://www.paulgraham.com/quo.html
The Cloud's Hidden Lock-in: Latency
They are, but at least in a more honest way.
Well, showing "Opted Out" might save someone at the company having to answer eighteen hundred emails from people suggesting this cool service they should use. ;)
Reminds me of Kent Pitman's article about, among other things, why there's no generic deep-copy in Lisp: http://www.nhplace.com/kent/PS/EQUAL.html

His answer is similar: just because you know the structure of something doesn't mean you know anything about its semantics.

Because of this, I'm tending to believe that adding more strong-typing to languages is a losing battle, though I admit this raises more questions than answers.
While python supports some basic functional programming, it's primarily a procedural/object oriented language. And it shows.

As the article demonstrates, using nested lambda's doesn't work the way you expect for closures. Using an object does.

edit: update. I found the presentation where guido talks about how he dislikes all the functional stuff, including lambda.

http://74.125.93.104/search?q=cache:2QztD1KncJgJ:www.python....
I'm curious; by the logic given in the article, a woman who was inseminated by way of a glass tube has the possibility of legitimate legal recourse for defective semen, whereas if it were provided via a meat tube, it would be seen as a cruel aberration of nature. It's almost as if in the former case, the semen is considered to be manufactured, since it was purchased. I would like to hear from someone with a legal background to comment on this.
Most people do not want Photoshop in a browser. Most people do not want Photoshop at all. They just want something simple to crop, resize, remove red-eye, fix color and brightness levels, etc. They want Picassa in a browser maybe but not Photoshop.

Anybody who does want Photoshop does not want it in a browser.

The reason Microsoft is in much less of a leadership position is that there are a lot more people who want Picassa than Photoshop. That doesn't mean desktop software is dead (the people who want Photoshop pay handily for it) but it does mean they're no longer as important as they were.
Too late for that. But it wasn't really a social experiment. I just wanted to say something that was only one sentence, and this seemed the most convenient way.
Only if everyone reading this thread commits to a vow of silence and in return pg (or should I say Tara?) agrees to take care of our children after we die.
I buy CDs on vinyl.
Its a start :) Thanks.
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'However, I think this point is significant: "People will die. It's a certainty. Some people are going to die as a direct consequence of legalization of marijuana." '

People are already dying as a result of current marijuana laws.

If your current medical software is buggy and causing deaths, you want the replacement to be solid but you also can't wait until you are 100% sure. You need to be sure enough that the consequences, bugs and all, are an improvement.
JanRain Offers Universal Logins, Puts Portland at Center of Internet Identity Movement
I am confused as to what the graph represents. Just looking at it, it seems like it would be the total remaining story points. As the deadline gets closer, you finish more tasks. After the deadline, you add more stories.

The impression I get from the article is that the graph represents rate. So before the demos, they do less work, and after them, they do more? That just doesn't make sense to me.
C# is an ISO standard.

http://www.iso.org/iso/iso_catalogue/catalogue_tc/catalogue_...
The point I was making was one of irony concerning select individuals and the uneven application of so-called open-mindedness. Paramount to open-minded behavior is to be comfortable enough with the understanding that others see the world differently than yourself, that you can be exposed to alternate views and evidence while being curious, skeptical, and feeling unthreatened.

Regardless of the topic, disrespect is generally a defense in response to the perception that one's worldview is being threatened. Every person, in particular those who claim to be 'on the side of reason' in a given discussion, should understand this and learn sufficient introspection to detect and counteract such behavior, because defense of one's worldview is silent admission that parts of it are not based entirely on evidence.
PawPawMail - Email for the Elderly
The best way I've heard it described is:

America: Sex, oh god PROTECT THE CHILDREN. Violence, that's cool.

Europe: Sex, it's natural. Violence, oh god PROTECT THE CHILDREN.
I'm not sure I follow. You're saying he's not being fleeced because he would make less if his video wasn't on YouTube. That's like saying a sweatshop worker in China is not being fleeced, even if they earn a pittance, because they'd be making less money working on a farm, for instance...
What is the deal with the Vietnamese hairdressers? From the charts, it seems that over 10% of Vietnamese workers are hairdressers (or "other grooming services"), and they are more numerous than the hairdressers of all other nations, combined.
This is one of the best uses of simple, clean interfaces I have ever seen. I tried it out yesterday, and it really looks like something a computer inept grandparent could use. Kids or younger family manage the email account for their grandparents, filling in profile information and pictures, so the elderly user's interface is devoid of anything that could be confusing. Its just very simple email and photos.

The result... if my grandparents were still alive, I could be emailing with them. Thats profound value.

I love this product. No association, I just think its great.
The Five Warning Signs in Programmer Resumes
Cool.

One problem I have with the video: the guy mumbles and have what is quite possibly the most unclear voice in the universe.
What's weird to me is the media is all over the place about Conflicker when it doesn't do anything. Then it eventually does exactly what the media predicted it would (download spyware/malware) and no one but the tech media seems to be covering it.

It's item #19 on cnn.com right now
Lawmaking is not programming. In case you haven't noticed, Congress can pass vague, incomplete, and self-contradictory legislation, and it won't generate a compiler error or crash the system. Steve Yegge underestimates four things:

1. How vague, illogical, and incomplete most of our laws are.

2. The capacity of lobbyists and congressional aides to generate thousands of pages of detailed (though absurd, incomplete, and self-contradictory) legislation.

3. The capacity of lobbyists and regulators to generate thousands of pages of regulations specifying how legislation should be interpreted in concrete situations.

4. How well this apparent clusterfuck actually works in practice.

Is it a problem of "vast, unimaginable complexity?" Sure. Can we commit to an underspecified version of it and let the chips fall where they may? YES. It's the only way we get anything done in the US, and probably the only way to get anything done in any democracy.
Dunno but she has a Twitter page. Not sure why PG would quote such a weirdo.

https://twitter.com/TaraPloughman
This is just childish and you know it. There are insane trillions of dollars worth of data trapped in various Microsoft-owned formats behind Microsoft-controlled APIs, from SQL Server databases to Office documents and Exchange servers. The code doesn't matter, data does, and Microsoft controls a lot of it, so I don't buy your BIOS comparison.

I work at a web startup myself, we sell SaaS to businesses and, unfortunately, they deeply care about their Windows-dependent data,
One warning sign in websites: white text on black background.
Well sure, but just because there isn't a solution, doesn't mean Google should foot the bill. The PRS, and organisations like it, face a battle against technology, as the ease at which an individual can pirate content and get away with it is largely proportional to how cheap bandwidth and storage are. Ultimately I don't think they can prevail, as it seems unlikely that current technological trends will stop any time soon.

Google is a figurehead of cheap bandwidth and storage, but ultimately the problems the PRS faces are global trends. Attacking Google is like attacking the snowflakes before an ice age. It's not fair on the snowflakes, and won't do the members of the PRS any good in the long term. Either they adapt to a more hostile climate, or be crushed under the glacier of the information age.
It's rate, not remaining points.

Yes, after demos, we were typically more productive, because we'd receive a lot of feedback about what needs to improve, and we started implementing that.

Around Demo Day, we didn't get a lot of product stuff done because (a) we were rehearsing and (b) we had some meetings afterwards. But once that was over, productivity shot up again.
Yes there are these tendencies in the censorship, but they're ultimately meaningless. The UK is a much more violent society than the US, statistically. That is real and meaningful. Who gives a crap about the differences in how movies are rated.
I ask a question TO someone.

Not in English you don't.
The only concern I have is the privacy implications. Knowing your caretaker is reading your email could be detrimental in many cases.
i'd call this light blueish-gray text on dark blueish-gray background.

white on black isn't so bad because its high contrast. this body text hurts my eyes because its lower contrast.
Readability, a noble cause
According to a recently completed report commissioned by the Web Standards Authority, the majority of popular websites do not reach the desired readability standards. Contrast, colour, sizing, positioning and other various aspects all have an effect on the readability of your site. Readability itself is of central importance; without it your message is lost!
It is not evolutionarily warranted. It is very clear that by the time the species Homo sapiens came around, hominids in the human ancestral line had already been eating cooked food for a long time, and many physiological and anatomic differences between humans and chimpanzees are adaptations to eating cooked food.

http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/wrangham/wrangham_index.html

http://www.economist.com/science/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1...
I think its a family product, so much of the communication will be between the administrator (son, daughter, nephew) and elderly person, and family and intended to be public in that group anyway.

I think the bottom line is that without the help of a caretaker, the elderly this is aimed at won't use email.
Yes, but I have a strange ability to see certain patterns in data very quickly. I almost instantly saw without thinking that it contained Paul Graham.

This ability manifests itself on a daily basis in one useful fashion. I can look at an entire screen of text (say a log file) and almost immediately take the whole thing in and spot something 'odd' or 'interesting' to examine.

Drives me nuts watching people using computers though. I can find the button or icon they are slowly searching for in a flash.
Whenever I see Mono in the news there's always someone like you mentioning Microsoft and patents. It gets old. Everyone already knows about the issue and has an opinion. I much prefer to read interesting (technical) opinions about Mono's new functionality instead.
I'm one of the developers -- we're trying to get as much feedback as we can get, so please let us know your thoughts, good or (especially) bad. As far as privacy, the caretaker ("Manager" is the term we're using for the application) only screens incoming mail when it is NOT from someone already in the address book. We hope that that minimizes the concern, even though it clearly doesn't entirely negate it.
I think this blog post makes too many assumptions, and I don't put any stock in it. Besides spelling mistakes on a resume the only flag I see in his post is someone with a MS in CS and an undergrad in something random. Many of those people who were 'retrained' are far less qualified than people with just undergrad degrees in CS. However, I have known many people in who fit that profile who are great programmers.

Basically, the degree doesn't mean everything; so lets not put it before everything else.
That's just the thing: there is no sequence class in Python. There's only a sequence concept. A sequence is any object that implements a particular interface. Strings aren't more basic than the concept of a sequence in Python; strings are a type of sequence.

See http://docs.python.org/library/stdtypes.html#iterator-types and http://docs.python.org/library/stdtypes.html#http://docs.pyt...
i think it means the number of accomplished tasks.
as it says it the blog
{
We're using Pivotal as our bug tracking system. In Pivotal, you assign points to features and bugs. Roughly, the points represent the time and difficulty of completing each item.
}
The only way I've made money on any site is by selling something. Ads are great, but I can never get them to cover anything but basic operating costs, and even then they will barely cover the costs to keep a server running.

Depending on how the site is set up, you can either sell a product or a service. The problem with that is largely that you have to have something people are willing to pay for. I know quite a few blog-type sites have had success with a model along the lines of Current month free, Archives require payment.
We set my grandfather up with an account, and I've emailed back and forth with him. He still writes emails like they're telegrams, but at least he can write them at all now. And the photo album is awesome.
For those people who like to read instead of watch:

Bateria

o oldest living things

o very few genes

o consume nutients

o grow and divide themselves

o good and bad Bacteria

o Considered before as "a-social reclusive organisms"

Human

o Trillian Human cells

o 10 Trillion Baterial cells

o DNA counts, 100 times more Baterial life than you are Human

o Bateria cover us outside, they make our vitamins, etc. They are vital for us.

Case Study: Vibrio Fischeri (3:00)

o makes biolumencense

o they make only light in a special situation

o alone no light,

o secretes small "hormon" type substances to communicate

o after a certain level of "hormon" type substance is gathered they "turn on"

o Bacterial Quorum Sensing

- They have a Signal Producing Protein)

- They have also a Signal Receptor Protein

- Locks on Proteins then Group Behaior Genes are

activiated

Case Study: Squid (5:00)

o squid uses those Bacteria in symbiosis

o buries itself in sand during day

o senses moonlight with a special eye like organ on the back

o analogy "stealth bomber of the ocean"

o only active during night

o pumps up bacteria if needed to make light

Quorum Sensing in Bacteria (9:10)

o All bacteria can actually talk to each other.

o Bacteria are multi-cellular

o Bacteria can distinguish self from other

o Quorum Sensing, every bacteria can "vote"

- "counting your neighbors"

o the most votes get carried out

o Bacterial control patogens with Quorum Sensing.

- growing while doing nothing, then when enough numbers

attack

o Bacteria can develop strategies to impede/improve

quiorum sensing

o Display of different molecules

- left hand part of the molecule is same only right part is slightly different

- each bacteria uses a special right hand side version of vibrio fischeri

- In-trust species communication by unique molecule types

o Bacteria are multi-lingual. They can also communicate Inter-Species. (11:40)

- There is a bacteria molecule which is always the same

o Chemicals are their "word"

New Anti-Biotics (12:30)

o Can we disturb communication of them so that they can't release pathogens?

o Two strategies

- disturbing -> targeting intra-species communication (works, mouse)

- disturbing -> targeting inter-species comm.

o This will be the next generation of Anti-Biotics

Future work (15:30)

o Study bacterials because they have been longer around then us

o Application to other Human diseses and behaviors

o Anti- but also Pro- Quorum Sensing bacteria

- Making you more healthy

o Her team (17:20)
"If you really want to do the right thing"

Minor point: they're not here. Tell them that in their comments. :)
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It's always fun to find ways that you can make things cheaper, more efficient, more automated. That includes reducing latency and bandwidth costs.

Look at javascript minimizers. Y-Slow...
I wrote this last week for another 'Ask HN' thread regarding starting a successful blog. Thought it would also apply here -

"Generating revenue - whole books can be written on this subject (and they have been). But it can broadly be broken down into five categories -

1. Advertisements - the magic word here is CPM (read up on that). The higher the CPM, higher the payout for you. A word of advice in this matter - adsense is complete horseshit when it comes to CPM. Don't buy into the hype, it's absolutely pathetic. Same goes for Adbrite, Chitika etc. The real money is in PRIVATE ads. Take a look at the prominent blogs - like techcrunch.com for example - do you see any adsense or other types of nonsense on their blogs? It's mainly used as a placeholder in case any private ad spots weren't bought by advertisers. NEVER rely on adsense for your primary ad revenue. Having said that, you won't have private advertisers till you have good traffic, so it's ok to start with adsense. But as soon as traffic spikes up, dump adsense like it's the plague.

2. Affiliate - this is a bit trickier than ads being that it's not completely straightforward. The basic idea is that you link to products on your site and if you readers follow your links to buy those products, you get a cut of the sale. Amazon is a good start, but they're not the best. The key is finding a good affiliate that fits YOUR blog audience the best. The next step would be to beef up on your affiliate marketing skills. Start reading affiliate marketing blogs like shoemoney.com for this.

3. Merchandising - you can sell stuff on your blog. This can be as complicated as actually creating your own product or as simple as setting up a cafe press store and selling related merchandise (INSANELY easy! Just go to cafepress.com and set up a store for your blog, and they will handle the rest, by taking a commission of your sales.)

4. Job Board - a specific section on your blog where ppl can post or look for jobs. Charge based on traffic. You can either set up your own job board from scratch (check out the problogger job boards on the bottom right of problogger.com) or do some research on alternatives - http://www.blogtrepreneur.com/2008/04/29/make-money-with-you... (Job-A-Matic has a good premise). Read up on this.

5. Donations - Bloggers like Steve Pavlina and Leo Babauta use this method and it works out great for them. But it's not for everyone. Your audience has to LOVE you, or at least really appreciate you, for this."

There's actually two more methods as well -

6. Newsletter - http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/feb2009/tc200... - this guy makes a $40 CPM, which is absolutely incredible. Sign up for successful newsletters like dailycandy to get an idea of how they monetize them.

7. Sell a Service - from freelance writing to consulting etc.

What's your site about? That could help narrow down your options.
The only use I have for a resume is determining the chances of the applicant stabbing me during the interview. It's almost impossible to qualify/disqualify a candidate before the interview stage.

...that and references...
i saw a lot of people interested on Ruby, so i tried to see what this thing. i didn't find it really interesting and PHP is more advanced; ruby is cool and good for small projects for amators. (my point of view)
Insoshi (YC '08) shuts down business side, re-licenses social network software from AGPL to MIT