skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Leakers of classified information are traitors, should be executed
Best canned Beers of 2013 from Outside
The problem is that there really are times when I don't want to write out changes. Discrete saving isn't an anachronism, it is a feature.
Not sure that the Media Lab was that cheap, but it did innovate in funding in a big way (by creating industry consortia in sectors that were not accustomed to funding research, like newspapers).
I wonder if those icons are simply reinforcing your premade assumption of what clicking in that area does. I honestly do not know the answer to this question: without ever seeing it performed for them, would someone know how to close a window the first time?
6 Common Mistakes When Starting at the Gym
Interesting. My anecdote comes from a slightly different angle. I've always been in very good shape, lots of weightlifting and cardio my whole life, and been a very healthy eater. But, the "spare-tire" was always there, even with muscles bulging underneath.

Just for kicks I decided to try Steve Gibson's recommendation to remove sugar and starch from the diet. (https://www.grc.com/health/lowcarb.htm)

No knee-jerk here please, this isn't one of those butter-bacon-cheeseburger things. Nope, I eat tons of fresh veggies, lean meats, all smothered in olive-oil, nuts/flax, etc. I do actually allow myself some treats on the weekends for sustainability.

Still, one month later, for the first time in 20 years I no longer have a spare-tire. It makes perfect sense now that I think about it. As long as you fill yourself with sugar/starch you prevent the body from being able to go into fat-burning mode. Eat too much (as is common) and you go into fat-storage mode.

Bread may have built civilization, but now it builds waistlines.
I did read that point and find it perplexing. I would like to see hard data about that. For instance is the general diet for laboratory rats now the same as it was 50 years ago?

But also, if you have a look at my abstract, it does point to another potential cause of obesity and type 2 diabetes in humans (but naturally not the lab animals) - food addiction. The patients in this study were also successful (presumably) because they were actively involved in a 12 step program for food addiction.

On a personal note, I lost 30 lbs over 6 months by pretty much eliminating sucrose from my diet and also consuming a lower amount of carbohydrates (120 - 180 grams per day).
Plenty of phones are still wall mounted. The most common place to see them is wherever there are red emergency phones.
who cares because "Save" has become obsolete.
The article points to by-products of industrialization (namely industrial chemicals and artificial lighting) as potential culprits in the case of rising obesity, but the distribution of obesity doesn't match level of industrialization across countries. Obesity is seemingly focused in North America plus other anglophone countries, while mostly absent in other highly industrialized countries like Japan and Norway. Red herring, perhaps?
Ask HN: What would you add in a Letter of Intent?
Hi,

My company is being acquired by an other one. They are going to send me a (draft) letter of intent.
What should I add to protect myself/my company? (Things like "No information gathered during the due diligence can be communicate or used.", etc).
Do you have advices?

Thanks.
SaltStack is awesome. I use it a lot.
That may work for you and I don't mean this as personal criticism, but hostile interview techniques like that are enough for me to not accept a position if it's offered. Likewise, if I were interviewing someone and the candidate asked hostile questions to see if I "had balls" that would be a no hire. Just my opinion, of course. YMMV.
but very few people who are in college right now were perhaps old enough to remember floppy disks. I graduated from college in 2012 and remember having floppy disks as a kid (I think for Encarta?) but don't remember ever using them.

I think that we're right on the cusp of people graduating college who have never used a floppy disk.
All these brave pro DRM articles after microsoft drops it...
I like this investment a lot more than andreessen horowitz' Meteor investment.
1. Region can be changed in DuckDuckGo's settings, for more localized results -- by default it is set to "No region," so there is nothing localized in the results.

2. Bing is one of very very many sources, which are all remixed and combined, so the end result is completely different from Bing or any other upstream source (and most often, far better).

3. No, no, no. Nothing at all is sent to bing other than a plain request for an ad coming from DuckDuckGo servers with the query (for a page-relevant ad).
So, this sentence: "user agent (which I can assure you, it does get sent to Bing)" <-- Utterly untrue.

Now, when you click on an ad, naturally your information is sent to both bing and whatever site the ad was for. That's to be expected, you are leaving DuckDuckGo at that point. This is also true when you click standard result links, of course.

Now that that's out of the way, my personal opinion of result tailoring/bubbling is: it's good sometimes.
I love being in my cozy little bubble when searching for coding things, and even local businesses and such. I do NOT love bubbling when I am doing academic research. Why would I want to see content I already know and like? That invalidates the point of research, and even gives me a false idea about whatever I am researching.

Bubbling and tracking, while good in some cases, should be optional in my opinion.
I'm punch drunk at this point. What are we going to do? What is being done?
A designer I worked with had lots of interesting stuff taped to his door, and rotated it regularly.

My favorite was probably the following:

“Can you just...”

no.
I've lost 12 kg over 2 months of keto, so I endorse this :). Since then I returned to eating what I used to eat, but with less bread and pretty much 0 sugar (I got used to artificial sweetener and diet coke) and so far (4 months) I'm able to maintain my weight (with +/- 1kg variation).

One thing I noticed while on keto is that it reduced my appetite a bit.
Yes, I know. I'm tarring all these formalisms with the same etymological brush.
I was thinking about that myself and came up with the idea that perhaps their diet is changing.

I wouldn't be surprised if laboratory food was centralized around corporations just like human food. Meaning, I bet cheaper ingredients (more wheat/corn) have made their way into it over time. I can't imagine such peripheral industries not being affected.
NSA can eavesdrop on Americans' phone calls, documents show
Yahoo's Acquisition of Tumblr Officially Closes
This is great news. I think we've only seen the beginning of what these guys are building.
FWIW, I've seen a trend toward merge or radix sort lately in a bunch of large systems, largely because they can be easily externalized (as datasets get bigger, you commonly need to sort data that won't fit in RAM). I also see a bunch of combined sorting algorithms that use different approaches at different stages of the algorithm, eg. timsort (mergesort + insertion sort) and combined mergesort + radixsort approaches for sorting data on disk or partially-ordered data.
It would be a good idea to provide the following info in presentations like this:

1. URL to the source code for the tests and instructions to run the tests to produce the same results.

2. The hardware, OS version(s), and browser versions that were tested.

Otherwise, the difference between Chrome and FF performance as listed in the slides is so great that it seems like it would quickly raise criticism, even though I personally like FF.
Bread now builds waistlines only because we eat too much of it. I would be surprised if a normal sized person gained weight eating mostly carbs but staying below 1500 calories per day.
Great! Just got an account with them and set up NodeJS in 2 minutes. Love that there is month to month payment and that you can change the plan. The control panel is very nice. Next PHP 5.5...
I like how these jerks think they can go around and just make up their own rules on what is and what is not allowed.

Why don't they just admit that their lying sacks of shit, set fire to the constition, and admit what they think all the along:

"The only limit on Federal government powers are ones that we decide is valid and ok. We can do whatever the hell we want and everything we do is secret. If you try to tell the American public what is going on we will throw you in jail or otherwise make your life a living hell. We are only obligated to admit what we do when we feel like it or are caught. The rules we can change any time and only exist for our own convenience. The only people that are allowed to judge us are the judges we select and appoint for life and the rest of you peons just STFU."
Kim Lee and Park only make up half the population. You may just have falsely categorized Koreans with other last names.
Talk about trying to create a distraction from the real issue here...
I think this is a great reminder to make our words on the web more meaningful. If you create something, make sure that the words make sense and are well supported by design, not the other way around.
> why not just use words

You may run out of room in the interface if the word is substantially longer in some language.

This is a particular problem if the original work is in a language like Japanese, which has short words compared to, say, English. (Japanese Kanji [1] has thousands of characters available, compared to the measly twenty-six of the English alphabet, so it's not surprising that Japanese words are shorter on average.)

Many HN readers are probably familiar with the example of video games that are English localizations of Japanese originals. Sometimes the UI or art simply doesn't have room to accomodate the longer English equivalents. (Particularly in earlier decades when localization wasn't as high a priority as it is today.)

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanji#Total_number_of_kanji
People that lack analytical thinking are doomed. They are preyed on from every angle by unscrupulous companies peddling their processed garbage. No sandwich without mayo, no salad without dressing, no food marketed to children without loads of sugar and artificial ingredients. Entire aisles of frozen fatty foods, entire aisles of soda and chips. Shelves and shelves of sugar-laced yogurt. The key lies in the individual's hands, but governments must step in and put an end to the criminal businesses that peddle their poison to a largely ignorant population.
Ativ Book 9 Plus, 3200x1800, Haswell, "12 hours" battery
Blanqueado de dientes natural en casa
>There was also Usenet which people often posted links on and which was sorted by topic and a handy way to find stuff.

When my college roommate showed me how to download a graduate student's thesis from Usenet, I thought my head was going to explode I thought it was so cool. Here I am, halfway across the country, and I can download, read and cite some grad student's paper from the University of California Berkeley.

I now feel like a guy who grew up during the 1950's when you tell kids, "Yeah, the internet wasn't always about Reddit and Porn kiddies."
Poll: What do you do when companies won't let you apply through email?
On my job hunt, I'm running across a small but significant percentage of companies that refuse to reveal any email address where resumes could be sent.

They'll insist on making prospective employees jump through hoops by registering at job sites and filling out profiles, or submitting web forms.

The former is especially common at large corporations, but sometimes startups do it too.

Am I the only one who avoids these alternative resume submission methods like the plague?
I love resume sites and web forms. Email should die.
I don't like resume sites or web forms, but I'll jump through any hoop to land a job.
I hate resume sites and web forms as much as you do, and will only apply through email.
How I Finally Faced My Weight & Debt Problems
No, but they need to ask HW mfrs like Cisco to put backdoors in for NSA's use... at least, that's what some Chinese newspaper was suggesting recently. Based on the talks I've been watching by the group of NSA whistleblowers who worked on what became PRISM, I'm not sure NSA was a "center of excellence" regarding computer networks back in the 90's, when the general public started connecting to the internet. There was (and maybe still is) a huge effort to "transform" the agency. Away from what? Just my opinion, but it seems they are spending a lot of money and effort to become a center of excellence. It's like an updated version of that old Uncle Sam poster: "We want you," addressed at BlackHat attendees.
I believe that evil only exists in fairy tales. There are better words to describe the immoral actions of others, including Hitler.
Excel and word have a proper autosave that runs in the background and writes to a hidden file. That is the way every program should work by default. I have no idea what you mean about minutes to restore, but if so that's a bug, not a flaw in the idea.
> This is true for this specific program and only under the current policies. Let's just stop kidding ourselves and assume that the NSA stores our communications indefinitely, and design our software accordingly.

Really?

And you believe this... because why? Because that is what they said?

I seriously believe that if I was to tell you that Obama had a massive program to collect and record the phone activities of every American at any time for any reason two months ago you would of called 'bullshit' so fast that it would of made my head spin.

I see zero reason to believe anything these guys tell us about anything. The only way to understand what they are really doing is to get information that they say is illegal for you to know.
Oracle's Fiscal 4Q Sales Disappoint Wall St. Again
Did they shut you down for risk or for using a personal account for business?
You americans should go out on the streets and protest, like Brazil.
Build. Break. Learn.
Why Call of Duty veteran Robert Bowling abandoned free-to-play for his next game
Skype made backdoor access for NSA before MS purchase as a secret project.
It seems to have held up since the invention of cameras.

I see this as inevitable: the technology is nearly here, the market demand is certainly here, the dots will be connected, legally, or otherwise.
I'd love to see Google say that they will only respond to the N.S.A. in hard copy / paper.
According to the Guardian's original article, they can

Retain and make use of "inadvertently acquired" domestic communications if they contain usable intelligence, information on criminal activity, threat of harm to people or property, are encrypted, or are believed to contain any information relevant to cybersecurity
Heh, I wrote about this: http://techcrunch.com/2012/07/14/iconoclasm/

The reflection of the real world in the virtual world has to do with abstractions, usually going back to among the earliest of concepts that had a similar function at the time but not necessarily for the current age. Which is why we still have pencils, clouds, houses, and arrows instead of ... try to think of something better.
Report: Skype Considered Government Requests
Well he can just sign another secret authorization. Maybe he already has.

I am sure that in 5 years the number would be extended to 10 years. And in 15 years it would just be indefinite.
...and then your car gets blown up, and they call it an "accident". The press is, and has been, the 4th branch of the government, so I would really hope that our last refuge isn't found on the pages of CNN.
Have you stopped to think about the fact of enforcing the CFAA so harshly against private citizens (e.g. downloading too many JSTOR articles), while their government boasts about hacking into the critical network infrastructure of other countries? Something doesn't seem right. Wild west, but global, I guess.
Email? Web forms? I only use Facebook and Twitter.
I only apply in person.
Microsoft restores game ownership and expects us to smile
I don't need to apply anywhere. They come to me.
I think that what you're saying is most likely what is happening.
Reviews for online games: Are they still relevant?
"Never attack, always emphasize" when trying to help others lose weight at commit to a goal...great advice! Especially in sports, I find as a D1 athlete, that remaining positive and showing empathy for others actually increases their confidence and in turn, their performance!
I figure a college freshman's knowledge of tech should surely go at least twelve years back in all but the rare case. I haven't seen continuous stationary printers, 8-tracks, or even 5.25" floppies since I was in elementary school, but those things would not baffle me today, let alone 12 years from when I saw them.

12 years ago flash drives were barely 1 year old, were quite expensive, and barely stored more than a floppy anyway. Network storage in organizations like schools was abysmal (actually, this hasn't really changed from what I have seen...), services like dropbox were non-existent for regular consumers, and who the hell ever used zip drives? Floppies were everywhere.

If you told me that people graduating highschool right now did not know why floppies were called "floppies", then I would not be terribly surprised, but I think we've still got a few years left until they don't know what they are.

I don't know, maybe my school district had some sort of technology lagging bubble around it. That actually seems plausible.
I honestly believe that we could fix HTML by stripping javascript out, or narrowing its scope such that it was incapable of asking anything about the presentation of content and interface devices.

Why should anyone care whether a web-page is being read by a human using a cell-phone, from a terminal, by a blind person with a braile reader, an elderly man with essential tremor (hint: fiddly pop-up-and-disappear menus are really hard for some people), someone using JAWS or other screen reading technology, whether someone is actually not a someone at all, but a rather a computer program Jim wrote to alert him of news stories he might want to read. Why should we care if someone uses a mouse with or without a scroll-wheel, or if he has an 24-bit display?

It's frightening to think that the peak of web-accessibility may have been in the past, and that the web is getting harder, rather than easy to 'design for', as people slowly but surely continue to try and gobble up the browser's job of presenting content, so that they can get it to do display according to their own arbitrary sensibilities instead of expressing basic intent.
Leaked Documents Reveal How NSA Minimizes Americans' Data
Something like that already exists: http://www.wired.com/business/2013/05/one-click-selling/
And, ironically, those ethanol subsidies are classified as "renewable energy" or "green biofuels". The law of unintended consequences is a bitch.
Xbox Live is down (update)
Our $10M Series A takes our AI and semantic learning to the next stage.
You might try the link above given in my other comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5915794

The new info about sugars and starches is that the starches have the same effect on our bodies, they just work a bit more slowly. What does that mean? Well, we knew in the 90's that starches could rot our teeth just like sugar. But today we also know that grains (wheat, corn, rice, potatoes, oats, other empty carbs) raise blood sugar and are only a bit slower than actual sugar. They are chains of sugar.

In other words, if you don't get rid of the bread, pasta, and crackers too, removing sugar will have only limited effects.
I'm not really a hardware person, but I always thought "chipset" meant the on-board non-CPU chips that don't drive external hardware, but are nonetheless an essential part of the PC architecture expected to be present by all OS's, like the 8253 timer [1], the PIC [2], or the DMA controller [3].

By contrast, I'd say hardware like the 16550 UART [4] isn't part of the chipset, rather it's part of the serial port which it drives.

> northbridge and southbridge controller

Yeah, memory and I/O control is part of the chipset too, since a CPU without I/O or memory is just an expensive paperweight (or, if powered, an expensive heater).

> HDD controllers, audio and network integrated circuits.

I'd consider these to be more like devices or device drivers.

> bios and cmos

This is kind of a special case. If you ask a CPU guy, it's not a part of the chipset, they're just memory modules with different properties from normal RAM. If you ask a motherboard guy, it is part of the chipset. It depends on who you ask.

I can't really cite these distinctions anywhere, it's more along the lines of the intuitions I've picked up from spending decades around computers.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_8253

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programmable_Interrupt_Controll...

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_memory_access

[4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/16550
"Big web app? Compile it (To Javascript)" would be a better title.

The presentation is confined to cross-compiling languages (C, C++, Java, Ruby, Lua, etc) to javascript and asm.js. The last ten, or so, slides actually has some content about the trade offs.

My personal opinion is that most of the benefits from "compiling to asm.js" seem to be just removing the JS dynamic types and applying known compiler optimizations.
This is now beginning to damage the entire silicon valley brand.
Your mention of Kanji is particularly salient, as the blog post catches these skeuomorphic icons in the act of evolving from pictograms to ideograms...
the problem is that the general public will still think the surveillance state is okay because it puts "bad people" behind bars. this would not work unless it starts being used to indite innocent people, who can then prove their innocence. unfortunately the general public still would not care more than 1-2 weeks after the case first breaks.
Sizing Up Big Data, Broadening Beyond the Internet
Evil is a very poor word to use outside of some sort of metaphysical sense or fairy tale.

I think the use of the word "evil" to describe the actions of our well meaning but thoroughly righteous and shortsighted government is counterproductive. If evil exists outside of fairy tales, it does so inside of us. All of us.
GOG Releases “No-DRM” Summer Sale amid heighten awareness from gamers
Gasland economy here we come!
SSH into your EC2 instances with ease
I just spent the last couple of minutes digging through links trying to understand what your product is and does. I would consider finding a simpler way of explaining your product in one sentence.

The blurb above and the link to your other HN post does not clearly describe your product or visions. It reads as a collection of thoughts.

The closest thing you have is this: Marquee is an easy to use, flexible platform that’s perfect for telling stories.

It looks like a kind of hybrid content management / blogging / editorial / tumblr platform. Is that correct?

Having said all of that, the site itself looks stunning. Without signing up, I have no doubt that it delivers the professional user experience that you advertise in your video guide. Focus on driving the business growth now and reap your rewards :)
If you want to play around with another version of the document that you'll throw away, fork. Alternatively, make your changes, then throw them way by going back in time.

Save is an anachronism. Don't enforce usability hardships for the common case to satisfy the special rare niche case.
A few people do... My neighborhood has a pretty good culture of leaving free stuff on the curb for a day or so. There's enough for traffic that stuff gets picked up pretty quickly if anyone actually wants it. I'm always surprised by which things go immediately and which things go into the trash after a day or so. But I feel much less wasteful throwing something out if the curb has already demonstrated its complete valuelessness.