skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow. I think you severely miss-read my comment as some formal argument and you are holding it to a much higher standard than your own comment.

Your first paragraph is an ad hominem attack that is subsequently withdrawn adding nothing to the conversation.

I think you might have misread my questions for arguments. Questions have a symbol at the end: '?'. Also, sentences starting "I thought" are not formal arguments, but a highlight of the contrast between my past understanding and the article.

Also, in order for me to make such a contrast, wouldn't I have to read the article?

And just in case the attack at the beginning was serious, I would like to point out that the questions at the beginning of my post proposed two mechanisms whereby HFCS would be worse for you than sugar, which is what this study's results imply. That's hardly something a 'paid shill' would do.

The only argument I made, if I made one at all, is that just because HFCS is worse than sugar (as proposed by the article) doesn't mean that other sweeteners are good for you. This is likely an important thing to remember for all of those that will use this data when making decisions in their own lives.
Hmm, interesting. My wife has a pair of the noise canceling headphones. They seem fairly sturdy to me.

Those Sonys are great phones designed to be tough. They're mean to be used in a studio, get sat on from time to time. Have the cables yanked, etc. They don't have noise canceling and they don't run on batteries, so I consider them a different piece of gear from the Bose noise canceling phones. But I have no doubt they're probably tougher than most phones, Bose included.

An audiophile tube amp is not going to take abuse either - it's meant to be treated in a delicate way. The tradeoff for that is that it will deliver pristine quality. The Bose stuff is not quite that fragile, not quite that good either. But the point is that all gear is designed for a certain purpose and comes with certain tradeoffs.
I found the article to be inconsistent.

>Norwegians make more money.
>despite being the richest country in the world, we come in a paltry 38th. (life expectancy)

So which is it? How can the USA be the richest country in the world if Norwegians make more money?

>In a recent survey of young Americans, 63% could not find Iraq on a map (despite being at war with them)

Umm, we were never at war with Iraq. The perpetual proxy wars are being waged against an ideology called "Terror."

Then there are the references to CNN and Fox News. (vomit)
Do Americans really get their news from these sources?
Or is it only the TV-zombie masses?

That said, I do agree that we are too full of ourselves, and we do exhibit a fair bit of myopic tendencies as pertains to just where we actually stand in the overall global scheme.

I guess what I'm trying to say is, why is this crap on the front page of HN?
No they don't. The other brands make equal products for similar price, but they also make cheaper products for less money. Bose just doesn't have the cheap product line. You can buy a piece of junk Sony stereo or you can buy an expensive, high quality Sony system that is as good as Bose or any other consumer brand. With Bose you can only buy their top-of-the-line version, which is "pro-sumer" level stuff. They don't offer cheap products, and they don't offer audiophile products either.

Now if you want to debate about sound quality, yes Bose has a very distinct sound that may or may not be desirable. Particularly audiophiles do not want the signal processing that Bose stuff tends to give you.
This is a nice idea, but I wonder whether he did his research before starting this project. Due to the open nature of Arduino anybody is allowed to manufacture clones. There are plenty of cheap chinese versions on ebay and aliexpress.

Arduino clone for $8 including shipping:

http://www.aliexpress.com/item/Free-shipping-BTE-ROBOT-Main-...

edit: granted, it's not a leonardo clone, but it is also $5 cheaper.
Yeah, the Althing, I suppose. But while this was an early parliament, it was largely hereditary.
Same speed as instantdomainsearch.com, but that service does not track what you search.
Your second link is broken.

The study's conclusions are misleading. The total intake from food and the sweetened water were not matched for calories. The only thing matched for calories was the amount of sweetened water; rats were allowed to eat as much food as they want. They then drew all of these conclusions that aren't directly related to HFCS, but related to the fact that the rats were overeating.

It's still an interesting conclusion, but really the only thing they concluded was that rats consuming HFCS ate more food than rats consuming sugar. All of the other negative effects cannot be pinned on HFCS.
An easy first step: vote against everybody currently in office whenever they come up for re-election. Throw the bums out.
Fine, I concede the point to you, however, I amend my question:

What actual proof does this dude have that performance and memory of pocket-sized computers have started to slow down?

And how does arguing this point have anything to do with his overall "thesis"?

Forest for the trees, man, forest for the trees...
What language prevents TIMTOWTDI? And don't say Python. I'm not talking about the language motto. Because that's the nature of using these things called programming languages: http://www.paulgraham.com/langdes.html

Python has Pep8. Perl has Perl::Critic. C# has FxCop. Etc.

I've not yet seen any language possess the qualities that prevent it from being unreadable. It's an amazing open question though, isn't it?

I think you hit the point with "code maintenance can become a huge headache due to someone not understanding the idioms used by the person who originally wrote the code". But this isn't a language thing. This is a people thing.
I take issue with the sexist bits of this article, but I agree with the overall "Americans are cold and don't say how they feel" message. As an American, it gets confusing and lonely sometimes.
Awesome... now taggers can hold this against a wall in the night and carve their names into it forever...
The problem is not exactly solved, because it is not clear what the farmers should grow in the place of corn. As a grain farmer operating in a country that does not have subsidies, we still end up growing corn, even if it results in a loss. Bankers prefer to see a loss than to leave the land lay fallow, and there are not many famers who can operate against banker's wishes in such a capital intensive business.

You cannot just simply transition into other non-grain crops because nobody has the multi-million dollar investment that it would take to build up the necessary infrastructure, the environment is not always suitable for all types of food, and you cannot get away with growing the same crop year after year. Corn solves a lot of those problems, even if it ends up creating others, as you point out.

It is a pretty deep problem that cannot be solved with just a stroke of a pen, though innovation is always welcome on the farm, if you have real solutions.
does it work for top level domains other than .com?
I own a .in domain and the search did not yield a correct result.
Threat to cybersecurity: IT people can’t talk to management
I'm very interested in any theoretical connections between interactions of conscious beings and quantum physics. I've read a number of physicists discounting any such possibility, but it's clear to me nobody understands these things well enough to know.

Personally I think consciousness, perception, and free will are a great unknown, and likely involve the makeup of the cosmos including quantum interactions.

If anyone knows of any science in this area I would appreciate references.
I don't think there is -recursiveDescription in NSView or NSObject. I've seen -description and -debugDescription. Correct me if I'm wrong as it sounds useful. :)
Yeah, I'm not sure speed was the metric I needed improved when it comes to domain search, though it's a nice demo project.
The problem is that US dwarfs the rest of the continent in most things - economy, scientific development, etc.

In other words - if a random person somewhere in the world mentions 'America' they are most likely refering to the USA. So people (outside of South America obviously) just choose to save time and skip the 'Northern' bit. I know it's a bit unfair to South Americans - but that's life. Same way Scots and Welsh are probably unhappy when rest of the world thinks they are from England.

Perhaps if in the future the roles change and South America dominates, the language will adopt.
I can see why your statement can be true, but do you have any actual data on this? Or are we both just guessing? ;)

(No, I don't have data on mine, I don't even work in this field.)
Learn as many languages as you can and specialize in the one you love.
If you're watching everybody, you're watching nobody (2003)
http://i.imgur.com/d0oGNIe.png

It was the first domain that came to mind. :)
> Second paragraph: Irrelevant. Honey is not being discussed here.

No, it is NOT irrelevant. Testing with honey would be a natural followup to these kinds of experiments. It is entirely relevant for him to wonder about it.
I thought I've read other papers where a mechanism was both proposed and observed. Selective abortion - female mammalian bodies will abort fetuses in the early months of pregnancy when environmental conditions indicate that offspring don't stand a good chance of survival. IIRC the paper I read showed this happened in mice, but it's known that in humans a large number of women will miscarry in the first 1-2 months of pregnancy, and it may be the same mechanism at work there.
To be honest, an ad in Computer Shopper had a nice means of pitch. In just a few square inches they had to fit their pitch into an ad, maybe with a diagram. I couldn't get tricked into some website signup, they had to make their elevator pitch on paper for what ever product or service was offered.

There was no lying about CS -- you were buying a telephone book sized tome of ads, and that was fine -- that's the reason you got it. It was a virtual analog marketplace. Anything and everything you could have wanted was in there.
Amen brother.
While this article is a break from the PRISM fodder that's seen quite a bit of play here, it has absolutely nothing to do with software development, technology, or the internet.

If I could downvote the article I would, and I'm not the type to flag submissions, but to see this on the front page is, I guess, indicative of the audience and their views.
It seems that age is superfluous to your argument.
I predict MacWorld will soon follow up. Sad... I always loved reading PCWorld at the grocery store as a break from the monotony of shopping for food.

Print is dead. The LCD hath killed it. Long live the LCD, and long live e-Ink displays.
Ignorance isn't a concatenation operator.
Perhaps I should have been more explicit than trying to imply with "interesting personal projects".

Too often IRL and in communities like this I come across people who are obviously wistful that the apparent "correct one-size-fits-all career path" means doing business stuff in Java, C#, or whatever.

If you realized your options and went mainstream then you aren't who I meant. I apologize if I didn't make that clear. I've also done mainstream business stuff, and with a good company it can be fulfilling work. I certainly don't mean to denigrate that choice or those who take it.
This is true, BUT there is a law of diminishing returns. The value of a large library scales nonlinearly. The added packages are more likely to be unrelated to whatever you are doing, and so become progressively less likely to be useful.

That said a culture of testing all of the time makes the Perl packages less likely to have serious conflicts. Which is a huge value proposition. (For the Ruby fans who jump up to object, do you run unit tests by default every time you go to install gems? Do you have people volunteering lots of machines with different things installed for the purpose of running unit tests on everything in Rubygems? No? Then you don't know what a "culture of testing all the time" is.)
I prefer USians. ;)
Not all babies that are conceived are born. If the woman's body proves inhospitable to the developing fetus, they could easily skew the sex ratio without skewing the sex of any one individual child.
All language zealots are close-minded by definition.
> The problem is not exactly solved, because it is not clear what the farmers should grow in the place of corn.

It's quite possible they should stop being farmers and that the nation should farm out (get it?) much of its agriculture to the developing world. This is certainly what "the market" dictates and something which government spends a lot of money working to prevent.
I would make this a priority if you want to try to differentiate in something besides size as compared to jQuery. Performance is quite important, and I frequently find myself spending the time testing pure JS solutions compared to a jQuery solution to make sure my code is optimized. jQuery does a really good job in this regard most of the time, but there is always room for improvements.
Design process of a ‘Tour of France’ infographic for Grinta
My favorite: http://instantdomainsearch.com

Includes the ability to save and encrypt searches, links to whois data, as well as alternative names based on similar spelling.
Now pseudo-intellectuals can double the quantum woo!
Thanks for the suggestion! It's hard to do Whois as quickly, but I'll think on it.
> What use is packing compute into it.

1. Do computation locally on local data, thus avoiding round-trips to a far away server.

2. Distribute an app to lots of people without having to pay for a lot of server resources to match, since the computation is done on each user's device.

3. Enable users to keep more data private, by keeping it on the user's own device.
fascinating response! I'd be happy to help spread the word when you begin your inbound campaign, just shoot me an email and I will share with our client base!
Presumably you mean not disproving quantum involvement in consciousness doesn't imply it's existence. That's far more than this snipey comment deserves in the way of response, but feel free to form a thought here.
As long as the subsidies exist, there is no capitalistic incentive to solve the problem.

If a solution NEEDS to be found, it is more likely to be found.
As someone who lived outside the US for about 10 years as an adult, in several countries, this pretty much rings true.

It's not that all 10 items are only true for the US and not true for any other countries -- there are certainly other status-obsessed countries, other unhealthy countries, etc. -- but I think the most important take-away from the article is that America is not nearly as special as Americans assume it is.

I remember being shocked as I discovered that on my own, long ago. America may have the biggest military or invent a lot of things, but it's still just another country. But because we're so big and so insular, it's hard for most Americans to realize.

(However, I still like the US an awful lot too -- living in NYC now is great because there's such a mix of people from everywhere.)
I really, really, really hate to be "that guy", but, but...

I think the author of TFA is misunderstanding the idea behind Lean Startup and Customer Development if he thinks "get out of the building" means "go out and find an idea for a startup". Steve Blank states very specifically in The Four Steps To The Epiphany that you start from the idea that the founder has in his head. The "get out of the building" bit means to get out and validate that there is actually a market for the thing you are building, and - if you can't find a market for it - then (and only then) modify the idea or change ideas.

It's totally fine to have your own idea about something new that you think the world needs, and to start building it without any external validation. The mistake that the "lean startup" movement is warning against, is to waste years of time, and millions of dollars, building something that nobody wants. This is why "customer development" runs in parallel with "product development".

So yeah, stay in the building long enough to come up with an idea, build a prototype if you feel the need, then "get out of the building" and show people the alternative to "a faster horse" that you've developed.

This really isn't a binary situation anyway... any successful businesses is going to involve a mix of your own "inside the building" ideas and "outside the building" validation. The goal is to find the right balance. I think Steve Blank and his peers would argue that, in the past, there was too much emphasis on the "inside the building" part and that people waited far too late to "get outside the building". But don't over-interpet that to mean that everything happens "outside the building".
I've been playing with other search methods. Once you have all domains in memory, it's easier to do things like lookup every English word or pronounceable combinations of letters very quickly.

I also highly recommend http://bustaname.com
Having given it some thought, I think that leaks that shows disruption of democratic processes can be considered a 'worse nightmare'.

This could be election fraud, corrupt officials or some kind of shadow government.
I don't think anyone would describe US television as "dismal". Maybe you've missed The Wire, The Sopranos, and Deadwood but there are some wonderful programs being produced in the US these days. Of course, there is some serious dross among those gems. Having seen a fair amount of Canadian television, I can tell you it contains some serious dross as well.

And yes, I don't think a show demonstrating foreigners lack of knowledge about US culture would be produced here. That sounds like a very boring show.
10speak.com

DailyViva.com

PeriscopeGIS.com
In the end, we're all whores.
I had a bit of trouble adapting to the kinds of results I
was getting and what sort of language I used when
searching (I didn’t realize how tuned-in to Google’s
search algorithms my subconscious had become), but after
using it for a while I began to love it.

I'd love to read a tutorial about how to adjust search queries to suit DDG. Maybe this is why I find it to be such a pain, and always switch back.
Imagine how far a game company could go if it employed only 18 year-olds at minimum wage.
And also.

http://paper.textfiles.com/
Absolutely. Seems almost funny in hindsight, but I absolutely bought Computer Shopper for the ads! The articles were basically an afterthought, most of the time.
And then there's http://instantname.me/.
IMO he kinda missed the main ideological differences, benefits, pros, cons of both ruby and python.

No. He wasn't arguing ideology. He was saying that for his needs, this is how he compares things.

Of course his needs implicitly assume his own ideological biases. Yours may vary. But he's not trying to convince anyone else - merely say what went into his decision.
You should incorporate colors (green avail, red not avail) so we can grasp quickly.
Intel In Bed with NSA?
I don't track what you search beyond looking it up in the Bloom filter. How could any site not transmit the domain for lookup? Frankly, I don't understand this comment.
I'm stuck in a cycle of continuously rediscovering this, then forgetting it again almost immediately because CTRL+ALT+DEL is so damned ingrained.
In the paper, they state that they did daily measurements of chow and sugar drink intake. So the intake was mostly unregulated, but it was measured.
PriceWatch was a late entry into the game. (1995)
It looks beautiful, but has anyone ever found 3D "viewing" of 2D interfaces to actually be useful?

I dunno, I've never felt a reason to use Firefox's 3D DOM view to debug anything ever, or that it would help at all. If anything, the 3D view just confuses things for me, not being able to see how things line up, etc.

I'm very curious if this is just novelty eye candy, or if there are people who have found this useful in real-life interface work, and what those situations were.
Beware of Sync Platforms
About 1GB to get very low error rates.
You sound like you are a paid shill.

This kind of comment is never helpful to the community or to thoughtful discussion on Hacker News, and is a violation of the Hacker News guidelines.
I work at a ~60 employee company, and while we have apps they do all of the above, they're not that usable (having been designed and written about 10 years ago). The biggest issue is HR apps are not our core competency, so management seldom allocates budget to update these tools.

Our apps do the following:
- Time off
- Shipment request (i.e. UPS, Fedex, etc)
- Purchase order request (part of this process is still paper based)
- Employee directory (currently a hodgepodge of excel sheets, paper booklets and a 14 year old intranet site)
- HR news/communications (recently purchased a hosted wiki app for this, seldom used anymore)

The biggest selling point for us would be to have the app outside the firewall, and accessible from our mobile devices or home computers.

Beyond that, having the app be a "one stop shop" for HR information (benefits, corporate policies, etc), time off requests, shipment requests and an employee directory listing phone extensions, emails, photos, bio, etc. It definitely doesn't need to be everything to everyone, but if it was a place I could reliably go to for benefits information, time off, it would surely take off at my company.
NameMonk was registered less than a day ago, so it's not in the root data dump yet.
I am a poor man using services of Google. Thanks Google.
I want to know how the alternative service users are so sure that this will solve their privacy issues by not using Google services. Are they insiders in NSA, or NSA cannot track you on
other alternative services. HOW DO YOU KNOW ?
Nice to see a podcast about this.
I'd love more technical/scientific podcasts... nowadays most of podcasts are either very "work" related (HanselMinutes and such) or web/mobile relates (Which I'm not interested about).

I just learned about Realtalk, which looks really nice.
UIView has recursiveDescription (though it's not declared in the header as it's for debugging only). For NSView (on OS X), try _subtreeDescription.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4166879/how-to-print-a-co...
Absolutely, what a great program to be running.
I agree that this discussion needs to remain at the forefront of our collective thoughts and discussions.

We have an awful tendency to forget these things, and as the old saying goes:

He who forgets the past is doomed to repeat it.
Europe is not a country. Hence no ambassadors are recalled from Europe.
For the humor version with the same backend: http://findafuckingdomain.com
Indeed, I think you're right. So far, the only justification we have in support of these programs is to protect from terrorism. If it can be shown that they were used to subvert democracy, there would be zero support left for them.
I see a lot of SaaS marketed directly at 'users' e.g. developers etc.

In 'enterprise' the person you need to be pitching is the CFO/FD - when finance teams see SaaS they love it - even if net it costs more than existing solutions over same period.

1) It helps to qualify/budget projects - splitting the service cost monthly by default

2) SaaS can be turned off - unlike massive cap-ex or long-term op-ex commitments
In a way the market does work as you describe. If you recall (I'm not sure how publicized it was), the non-subsidized grain farmers of the world were on the brink of bankruptcy around the 2006 timeframe. The solution turned out to be changes to ethanol usage, for better or worse.
It isn't just subsidies, there are also tariffs on the import of sugar to keep the prices high. The market is grossly manipulated by the government and the farming industry.

http://www.ers.usda.gov/topics/crops/sugar-sweeteners/policy...