skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Go read the article linked to in the post:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/24/magazine/the-extraordinary...

It doesn't take a conspiracy, or especially evil actors, or even the population acting unnaturally (WTF would that even mean?). All it takes is millions of local optimizations to get us into the state we're in now: optimize a marketing campaign for profitability, optimize a snack for deliciousness, optimize what you stock based on what sells and what takes the longest to spoil, optimize what you eat based on price and healthiness judged on limited and flawed information ("low in fat! just ignore the rest of the ingredients...").

Lots and lots of evidence out there for you on the malleability of the human appetite, from people changing the portions that they eat based on the size of the plate they have in front of them, to the absurd effectiveness of rearranging grocery stores to sell snack food, children's food, etc on top of what people would already buy. We are complicated creatures, and you only need a few percentage points from each of these things to justify doing them.

And again, there is nothing evil in saying "I will make a packaged children's lunch that kids will actually love", and there's nothing wrong with a parent deciding to get that lunchable for their kid. We could try to demonize both parties there (good luck with that), or we could try to change the fitness landscape and figure out ways to at least better stack the odds in favor of healthier eating.

Marketing at kids might not be the best lever, but it is one of the easiest, as it is extremely effective (again, see that article), children are already acknowledged as a protected class when it comes to some types of speech (definitely when regulated by the FCC, and narrowly-defined laws like COPA have been upheld by the supreme court, for better or worse), and there's precedent that the public will accept this (parents are already harried enough by requests for specific brands, and the cigarette ad bans in the 90s have shown that there could easily be support for this sort of thing).
Inside AT&T’s 83 GB/hour mobile cell tower
I work with a very good online marketer who runs an agency between New Zealand and the UK at my co-working space. With their UK clients they saw a lot of flagging over a year ago so adjusted their practices and moved on, this hasn't happened much in NZ yet. He predicts a massive amount of bloodletting here in NZ as google are only just starting to pay attention and flag sites for doing dodgy link building and, apparently, that's what most local SEO's here do.
You're right. It's harder to start with an RDMBS; the threshold of action is higher.

RDBMSes are like that because in return they make certain guarantees about their behaviour. Most of the time, the gratification from those guarantees is highly delayed and so, humans being humans, we heavily discount their value.
I hear you. But also, hear this:

It’s not the job of the artist to give the audience what the audience wants. If the audience knew what they needed, then they wouldn’t be the audience. They would be the artists. It is the job of artists to give the audience what they need.

- Alan Moore ( http://intellectual-thoughts.com/Alan%20Moore%20Quote.htm )
Thanks for sharing your insights. I appreciate the viability of the Mono option. Back in the early web development days (an approach that continues to this day), achieving cross-browser usability meant constraining design to the few portable features that worked well. It seems from your statement that the similar might be the case (product design within the constraints of the portable HTML5 featureset) which would mean better trained product designers (to understand which design elements common in native apps are more costly in PG apps) or more collaboration between them and developers.

But as you said, Mono/Xamarin is a technically better option with the same ultimate goal. Though a couple trade-offs there are unavailability of the source and upfront licensing costs.
The first season is a bit slow, introducing the characters, but it picks up :)
I am not convinced advertisement are speech. They are closer to business activity.

Also you can create free speech zones on TV akin to the ones where the security herded protesters while Bush was showing on public events.

You are free to tell whatever you want except in these time slots when you must shut up.
I can't argue with that. Now posted in the said group => http://www.linkedin.com/groups/AngularJS-Cheat-Sheet-4896676...
Isn't this the same CPU/FPGA that is on the Parallella? The 7020?

Should provide a decent sized ecosystem if it is.
I'd be interested in knowing how fast data can be transferred between the fpga fabric and the processor. Any idea?
I enjoyed RWH much more after having learned a lot of the basics. It starts off simple, to be sure, but then quickly jumps into the deep end. For a book that's about real-world stuff it gets into a lot of unnecessary detail, too, that should have been deferred until later "advanced" chapters. I appreciated the hands-on approach to real examples, though.

"Learn You A Haskell For Great Good" [1], while much less complete, is the best intro I have found so far. It's also free.

[1] http://learnyouahaskell.com/
I can recommend "Jane and the Dragon", both my 3 and 6 year old love it:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_and_the_Dragon_(TV_series)
Breaking Tweets: How a Blog From a Chicago Apartment Gained a Global Following
Well I'd have gone with a retina version of the MBP at this point but I understand why you did not given your HD space needs. In your situation if I was happy with the 13" inch aside from the simulator issue I'd probably make sure I had a retina ipad to test on first so I'd just return the MBP and go that way.

Next I'd probably also buy a 27" thunderbolt. I have one at work and don't have one at home and it's kind of killing me - in a privileged first world problems kind of way... I like to close my laptop and just use the large display so I can have both Xcode and any reference material I want on the same display without needing to move my head to look at the laptop.
"Every time people say 'What's the problem if they're obeying the law?'"

I find that only slightly less annoying than the people who think that the solution is loophole-ridden "flat" taxes.
Completely unrelated, but I love the typeface he's used on his site. In fact the whole site is laid out really nicely (pretty, yet none of the aesthetics gets in the way of usability. a balance that most sites fail to strike).

Anyhow, tangents aside, this looks a really handy tool. Thanks :)
Legumes are probably the best source of carbohydrates with a low glycemic load, so you shouldn't forget about them.
* It seems a lot of people on HN are favourable to policies allowing working from home. Most companies still don't have such policies, but I suspect that if telecommuting ever becomes commonplace (e.g. due to software development process or technological changes), it will depress salaries far more than the measly 60~80k H1Bs per year have ever done. For every H1B holder there are certainly many others who are skillful enough programmers and speak English, but cannot work in the US due to the limited number of visas, or don't have a degree, or don't want to take the risk of working under the constraints of H1B, or simply don't want to move to the US for any old reason.*

Or live in states with poor economies and no tech jobs of their own and are willing to work for less than what a Bay Area programmer is.
In terms of content/overall quality, yes, Tumblr and others like Blogger and (less) Wordpress.com are what Geocities used to be.
Samsung swipes 95 percent of total industry profits earned from Android phones
Yes, it's the adverb of healthful. Healthily is the adverb of healthy.

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/healthful
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/healthy

Kinda/sorta like the difference between affect and effect.
Theoretically if said base could hover above the surface of the sea-bed during an earthquake scenario, perhaps it could resist most of the damage, provided it could remain stable.
I disagree. There's something else people could do: Wait for real data.

Of course this doesn't mesh with the "we have to write something or no one will have anything to click on and we won't get any ad revenue" angle, but my point is that "too new to do anything but speculate" implies something needs to be done.
Can't upvote this enough. I'm so sick of the constant haggling needed to get a good price on a car, getting quotes from a dozen dealers, and all the trouble with dealers during service.

Looking forward to the day when consumer gets the same best price from manufacturer owned stores everywhere.
Depends on the size and location of the event just like land. Being underwater didn't protect the water based dinosaurs from the impact that ended the dinosaur's reign over the earth.
Except that all kinds of auto immune diseases and alergies are rising across the board - so may be something else going on (An article in NYTimes recently suggested that we live in so (relatively) sterile environment that out immune system cannot calibrate itself and is going berserk with the smallest irritant)
"highly agended"

I don't think there's much of a clearly defined "agenda" other than pagehits. This sort of trolling is no different than their Camille Paglia: "Sarah Palin, Best Feminist?" or "Ask a Wingnut!" vein of trolling.
This gallery was going around recently:

http://imgur.com/a/mN8Zs

Apparently a journalist asked one family in each of 20 different countries to gather all of the food they bought in one week and take a picture. It's a fascinating look at global diets. The UK is even more disturbing than the US.
You raise good points, but I still think there are legitimate concerns.

http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/features/fastfood-logos-...
10 grams is 2.5 teaspoons. More than just a little.
Come to think of it, this is the same dynamic in the publishing vs ebook industry. Middlemen (bookstores / publishers / printers) are being obsoleted by a player with brand trust, unique value proposition and a method of direct delivery.
There's also http://www.bootstrapdocs.com
Ask HN: I'm non-technical, is Dev BootCamp a good idea?
I'm interested in product management, but I don't have a technical background. I came across Dev Bootcamp and I think its a good way to get the technical exposure. Any feedback from someone that is in product management?
Absolutely but it limits Tesla's ability to provide service and test drives in the states that ban it. It's practical for someone to take delivery from another state, but driving to another state just to get a test drive is probably too much effort.
Not at all. Diagnostics may be more common at the US, or mis-diagnostics. Or maybe they are just over reacting to those two problems.

But both problems happen all over the world.
What is the need for those "mathematical monospace/bold/sans" characters? Should that be a font issue?
Of particular significance:

since the gap never gets always-bigger than 70 million, and there are an infinite number of gaps between primes, by something resembling the pigeonhole principle it can be shown that there are an infinite number of prime pairs for at least one specific gap size between 2 and 70 million. That is, there might not necessarily be an infinite number of pairs of primes exactly 2 apart, but there are an infinite number of primes exactly N apart for some N<70,000,000.
I second that. Avatar: The Last Airbender deals with a lot of potentially serious material deftly, with humor and grace to match. All three season are on Netflix's Instant Streaming.
This also puts the universe of consumers on a level playing field. No longer will the loudest, most ruthless negotiator customers get the best deals. Such equality would be a welcome change.
Jobs that are obsolete _should_ be killed. Because the cost of having that job when a more efficient method exists to produce the job's result means wastage if the job is kept.

Sure it sucks to be a car dealer if this goes down, but that's the price of progress.
recs has this functionality, and _way_ more; worth giving a shot: https://github.com/benbernard/RecordStream
All they need is to be able to sell in one state.

Isn't that the case now?

http://www.teslamotors.com/findus

It looks like the sell in many states. There's a Tesla "store" (if that's the correct term) where I live. I've been there but never asked anyone there about the whole buying process.
> Although they have no products, that I'm aware of at least, that I'm using

Do you know anyone who does? Every time I see their name is a headline, I am mildy suprised that they are still relevant at all.
Email is killing USPS jobs, so should emails be banned? Exactly, and nothing is stopping independent dealers from buying new cars from Tesla and selling to consumers with a markup if they're so sure that their service is as valuable as they claim.
Julian Assange reveals GCHQ messages discussing Swedish extradition
but the question remains: Are social media art? are programmers of social media artists? I do not doubt there are programmers that are artists and programs or implementations of programming that is art. That's not what I am asking. And I don't mean art in the sense of "State of the art" or "term of art", as in patents.
Is it not legal to set up a subsidiary that only does test drives but not sales?

Service would be a tough problem though.
10 grams are 40 calories. 5 year old kids are like a panther on crystal meth - it will burn trough them for 5 minutes on the playground.
vacri@devbox:~$ ps aux | grep elasticsearch

112 6725 0.1 36.7 1965924 1411164 ? SLl May03 37:11 /usr/lib/jvm/java-7-openjdk-amd64//bin/java -Xms1g -Xmx1g -Xss256k -Djava.awt.headless=true -XX:+UseParNewGC -XX:+UseConcMarkSweepGC -XX:CMSInitiatingOccupancyFraction=75 -XX:+UseCMSInitiatingOccupancyOnly -XX:+HeapDumpOnOutOfMemoryError -Delasticsearch -Des.pidfile=/var/run/elasticsearch.pid -Des.path.home=/usr/share/elasticsearch -cp :/usr/share/elasticsearch/lib/elasticsearch-0.90.0.jar:/usr/share/elasticsearch/lib/:/usr/share/elasticsearch/lib/sigar/ -Des.default.config=/etc/elasticsearch/elasticsearch.yml -Des.default.path.home=/usr/share/elasticsearch -Des.default.path.logs=/var/log/elasticsearch -Des.default.path.data=/var/lib/elasticsearch -Des.default.path.work=/tmp/elasticsearch -Des.default.path.conf=/etc/elasticsearch org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.ElasticSearch
Becoming a better butler
All the same speed in JavaScrip http://jsperf.com/regexcwm/2
I believe being underwater wouldn't save you from the biology impact of a cataclism if you rely on it for food.
Moon is a meteorite target.
Keeping track of what you want to learn?
I spend time trying to learn specific items; then during my breaks I'll surf HN or Reddit and see a couple items I want to follow up. But a lot of times will forget until I come across it again.

I know of Evernote, just haven't used it much and not sure it will fit this instance.

Is there any situation where someone has grouped what they want to know by links/time spent look at subject?
There's no biology on Mercury either, so whatever system you use there, would work as well or better underwater.
It will be in Yahoo's hands.
I have one problem with Phineas and Ferb, a show I otherwise enjoy. The sister is a classic Disney tween show girl. It sets an awful example for my daughter as she relates to her brother and other peers - the boys are doing all this great, awesome, fun stuff while the girl tattles on them and cares only of boys and popularity.
I went through the Ruby course, Rails for Zombies I && II, and thought they were fun and intuitive. However, the main things that I retained were how rails works such as migrations and generations. Being new to frameworks, the "auto-magical" aspect behind all of this was fairly confusing so I guess that's not a bad thing to walk away from. Your question is, however, for Ruby itself, and I have to conclude with saying that although it was entertaining, I didn't retain much technical knowledge of Ruby.
>The only obvious changing variable is food availability. So yes, obesity is a public health hazard, but it's not one based on some fault with people or social structures.

Okay, but it's people growing and selling all that food. Social structures subsidize most of our foods. Sure, food availability is the "only variable," but it's a variable highly caused & correlated to people and social structures.

>physiology of humans are not the changing variable

Of course the physiology of humans are a changing variable. African Americans did not exist as a physiological idea 400 years ago, but today they represent a medical population that's much differently susceptible to disease, especially obesity, than Africans living in America or white Americans.

>no "disease" to cure

Similar language was used by the tobacco industry to argue against the link between tobacco marketing, tobacco use and ultimately lung disease. [0]

http://archive.tobacco.org/resources/history/strategieslb.ht...
The part I really had trouble with was the shows had kind of a pervasive cynicism to them while the dialog consisted largely of biting sarcasm. The message seemed to be "whoever is fastest on the draw with a sarcastic insult is coolest."

Just taking an episode of South Park and s///g'ing the profanity with disnified words like "dweebiod" doesn't alchemically transmute it into "wholesome family entertainment". If you talk to your real life friends like the "friends" do on these shows, you're not going to have many of them.
I agree! Innovation drives businesses and society to advance. To summarize the needs (or in this case, benefit) of the many should outweigh the few.

Ebooks helped people read more I think and publishers to cut printing costs and ultimately benefited the consumer.

Music in iTunes, Pandora, and Spotify, I think I remember reading that piracy was down for the music industry.

Tesla helps the environment and the end consumer by cutting a useless middle men. They may be out of jobs (if they're ignorant...lol, have you even haggled with a dealer), but new jobs are always created with innovation!
It’s not important for this to be settled definitively. I suspect it never will be. Plus, I think many here probably agree that it’s likely that Google didn’t do anything illegal. So why discuss something most people agree on? That’s pointless.
"Completely different" is a bit of an exaggeration. Some number theorists are really algebraic geometers.

But yes, there are people who switch away from their thesis areas. Barry Mazur, if the story is correct, wrote an awesomely short thesis on topology. But he's famous as a number theorist.
> I'm sure I can't just email these professors and say "hey, want to chat?"

You can do this, especially if you have an intelligent question, or interesting insight. I have emailed top people in various fields with specific questions and gotten answers. They usually won't want to do a private tutorial to someone with no knowledge of the field, but if there is some ambiguity or possible error in a paper of theirs they pretty much always will respond. I have also on a number of occasions made cold calls on luminaries in fields when I am in their city, and when going to conferences the opportunity to meet and greet are one of the main purposes.

I also receive cold calls, visits and emails from people interested in the couple of fields where I am known, and I always respond positively to them. My email responses get more spaced out if there's too much tutorial, but brief yes and no questions, or interesting comments are pretty much always well received. I don't really like getting phone calls, but I have had some pretty interesting conversations with people who managed to find my phone number, most of these are from people overseas.
>>Taxes are a necessary evil to begin with; they're a direct impingement on the freedom of citizens.

Wrong. They are the price citizens have to pay for those freedoms. Want to have the freedom to use public roads? Pay taxes to fund their building and maintenance. Simple as that.

The same applies to businesses as well. Heaven knows how much public infrastructure Google is using in England. So why aren't they paying for it? (Not to single out Google of course.)
> I dumped the ROM of a Tamagotchi using the code execution ability...

I don't understand this. She could execute arbitrary code but couldn't just rip the ROM directly?
I haven't had the time to go through it all, but I tried to gain an overview as to why he was refused distance learning. The main problem is that the official response is missing and I can only find letters from Anakata and his mother, either requesting or appealing the missing decisions.

Side-note, I had no idea that his mother was a professor (emeritus) in linguistics.
>The magnetic field of Mars is .1% of Earth, and its atmosphere density is 2% that of Earth, so protection from ionizing radiation would require underground habitation, the same as on Mercury.

Curiosity has gathered data that suggests radiation on the surface of Mars is actually tolerable to humans [1], comparable to low-earth orbit, and presumably not too difficult to deal with for long-term surface habitation. I presume this article is a few years old due to the mention of Spirit and Opportunity but not Curiosity.

[1] http://www.marssociety.org/home/press/announcements/curiosit...
I use none of these features you mentioned.
My pet peeve is "resources". It is usually used to mean people (and not having enough of them), but somehow abstracts away the messy nature of humans by implying they are a commodity no different than other resources like iron or coal.
It depends on the job. While I don't doubt that is true for a simple web development task, most programmers who live in states with poor economies and no tech jobs probably have not written service-oriented distributed systems on AWS that have handled Google/Amazon/Dropbox/insert-big-tech-company-here size loads reliably with fault tolerance etc. I can see how that knowledge will eventually become more common all over the world, but the companies in the Bay Area will be on to the next technologies and want senior people with 5+ years in SomeNewWebScaleDB and production experience with EvenMoreTrendyLanguage which is still likely to be less common outside of tech hubs.

We'll certainly tend towards more telecommuting and less emphasis on physical location though.
Lemme simplify that for you:

Children can't consent. So the state has to protect them. One way to do that is by shielding them from things that hurt them.

It happens that junk food hurts them, and a lot of the reason why they eat junk food is because of television ads. Since they can't consent and the state must protect them, we ought to limit advertising unhealthy things to kids.
What's funny about this is in San Diego guess where the Telsa dealership/store is? In the local mall, right across from the Apple store. There are always a ton of people in there looking at the car (yep, a "dealership" with just one car). I think it's great and gets a ton of people familiar with their product that otherwise wouldn't be.
It would have been the biosphere collapsing, that killed off the water based dinosaurs. But if our hypothetical colony was self sustaining (perhaps as some sort of precursor to space colonies) it should be ok.
I just started the paleo diet and lost 10 lbs this last month.

Overwhelmingly I've been amazed to see that most people seem to have no regard whatsoever for their nutrition. Things go into their body but it often has 0 nutricional value.

Also - it's actually really really hard to eat well. Since so many restaurants cater to what people are familiar with, there's next to no alternative for people trying to eat nutritious food.
Do you mean via wemux? https://github.com/zolrath/wemux
276 fg

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74 git

72 ls

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clearly no one else uses vim like i do.