skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is what is stocked at my office fridge:

- 20 cups of yogurt for $10 dollars at Ralphs.

- Nutrigrain bars

- delimeat (for lack of anything better, since i know i probably won't precook meat and bring it)

- precooked pasta

- shredded cheese and pasta sauce (for pasta)

- assorted nuts

- provalone cheese

- soy chocolate milk

- peanut butter / jelly

- bread

So basically i just eat meat/cheese/bread sandwiches or pb/j all day, and supplement that with yogurt snacks to curbe my hunger. Not the best, but it gets the job done.

Home cooked meals are for when i get home, and weekends.
Am I the only one who thinks that video is a highly inefficient (linear) way to communicate such a collection of ideas?: I must invest 10 minutes to see what ideas are new (i.e., I can't scan down the bullet points of a table of contents; nor can my eyes scan back up to consider an earlier point).

[ After all: he wouldn't suggest I tax the time of a prospective employer by sending my resume as a video. ]

Having the video as an additional option/supplement to the text it WAY more respectful to the visitor to the page. IMHO.
There's an option to render it all in MathML if you're logged in.
Or you could listen to the FSF. They disagree & they're responsible for the gnu & the gpl.

http://torrentfreak.com/the-war-on-sharing-why-the-fsf-cares...
Yes, AdBlock is more efficient because it doesn't load the ads at all while Chrome/greasemonkey load and hide them. No, I don't think it can be more efficient because chrome extensions like greasemonkey scripts cannot modify the page before it is loaded.

I may be wrong, I had only a cursory look at the technology.
After 3 minutes he's said:

Don't describe yourself as an XXX programmer.
Languages come and go.

Great insight - I switched off there, I can't be bothered spending another 7 minutes finding out another (extrapolating) at most two obvious points.
But they're often right. Most people don't think themselves above-median drivers, they think themselves above-average (mean) drivers, i.e. if you take all the car accidents and divide by the number of drivers, they've been involved in fewer than that number. And they'd probably be right: the median number of car accidents is significantly lower than the mean, because a small number of bad drivers account for a large number of car accidents. Not everything is uniformly distributed - in fact, most things aren't.
I'm pretty sure budget considerations were part of the equation. Why take a gamble by committing to two or more big-budget movies at once? If the Pirates sequels had been filmed separately, they would've cost even more to make.

As for the sets in TV shows, yes, exactly. And though perhaps not to the same extent as it's done in TV, they do reuse sets in films.

Edit: In answer to your question about Frasier vs. Michael Bay films, it's because not everyone has taste as good as yours. ;)
I expect that "nothing good will come out of the internet" to Sony... or anyone else who declines to leverage its power.

Sony has in past made some great contributions. But also some "great" trojans. This fellow's mentality will not help it rise via such former glories.
I find it funny that you'd vote a comment "right" in order to indicate that you found it "wrong". ;-) I'd rather reverse them, so you mark evil comments as sinister...
Agreevoted.
Damn, that's what I was afraid of. Thanks.
I'm considering making a website where you can give to a charity anonymously

This isn't a fun or easy problem to solve. Especially the clearinghouse of all charities bit. There are 1.8 million nonprofits in the USA. Luckily for you I helped build this back in 1999. http://www.guidestar.org

There are others but as far as I know Guidestar has the most comprehensive database. In fact, other sites purporting to do the same thing are probably syndicating Guidestar's data.
What a rip-off for you that they think enough of you to make a screen shot of Duck visible in the graphic... but mention you not in the text (let alone hotlink). "Journalism," they call it. :/
WolframAlpha Spits Out Search Data…with Quirks
Laws to Save Journalism (or The Most Unintentionally Funny Thing I've Read All Day)
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Probably he is only aiming for eternal fame. That quote might go around for centuries, like the "we estimate the global demand for computers to about 3 units" one.
I thought this was going to be a funny column about questionable laws intended to "save journalism".

Journalism does not need a bailout, but it does need a sort of "recovery act" to bring the legal landscape in line with today's publishing technologies.

These guys have learned their lesson well: When asking for a bailout, don't call it a bailout.

But to be fair, they didn't ask for any direct financial subsidies.
It is about pragmatic choices - what to cook and how to cook. The main idea - you can easily spoil usefulness of your dishes (in terms of gains to your health). Freshness is the key because of vitamins. Less boiling means keeping them and other useful ingredients from destruction. Combination of fresh, raw and cooked organic foods keeps them healthy in very hard nature conditions. Seasonal food means to eat what grows on the next hill instead of buying something from distant lands. And the last part is about keeping nothing for tomorrow - why to eat old and non fresh when you can make it from new fresh goods again.
A Financial Prophet Online Is Vilified in Reality
No one expects Mathematica to be a search engine. However, many people (not just you) expect WA to be a search engine, even though it clearly is not one.

It's a matter of expectation.

And it seems likely that creating this expectation is a deliberate ploy on WA's part to create publicity. "Google killer" is a much better media story than "mathematica online". They've designed the front page in a google-style, with a similar text interface, and probably many other ways I haven't noticed.
shell redirection does not work with sudo (at least with bash). You will get a permission denied with this command
If W. Antarctic Ice Sheet melts, how high will sea levels rise?
Don't editorialize the title, TomOfTTB.
Ten principles for a black-swan-robust world. #1 small companies that fail fast
Posted some days ago, some discussion already at:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=609206
My Computer Programmer Career Report/Essay
Just a little essay I wrote about programming as a career.
AMD taunts Intel, hoists EU flag
One person, several people.
Good point on the title, I changed it to better reflect.
People do it all the time. There's no rule against it. More to the point when someone (in this case me) submits an article what they are doing is sharing something they found interesting with the rest of the community.

In that sense I don't see how it's unreasonable to give my take on the article in the title.
They are working heavily on the Mac version and it is quite usable now. I have written about the mac version of chrome here
http://www.manu-j.com/blog/download-updated-native-google-ch...

The post will give you an idea of what is working in the mac version as well as pre alpha builds to play with.
So far I have made it through Weinstein's, Roubini's, and Taleb's talks. What I have seen is a good start towards understanding a subject that we have very little hold over right now. If you can find the time to watch even one of these videos, it is well worth it.
If you take each group of people in the New World to be an item, then the title is essentially saying "why didn't the various different groups of people in the New World invent the wheel" - it's trying to emphasize that each of group of people is actually being considered a singular entity. Whether or not this is actually grammatically correct, I don't know, though intuitively it seems quite reasonable to me (which is generally a good first approximation of grammatical accuracy for native speakers).
The problem is the measures of value are skewed. When people on Wall Street make even more money because they're subsidized by the government, it's not because they've generated more value.
I think you may want to reconsider your preferences among the food industry. Having a rich taste is one thing, but outright accusing less pricey foods as being lower quality is not exactly accurate. I can't imagine spending $150 a week on myself without buying * incredibly * fine cuts of meat on a daily basis.
"Why did the various people..." is shorter than your comment.
You can eat healthy on a whole lot less. My family is pretty health conscious (we are all vegetarians, and my mom is pretty much vegan). And I am sure we have never spent 500 a month for a family of three.

Not everything needs to be organic. Some foods usually have low levels of pesticides. And while Whole Foods has high quality food, it is usually pretty expensive. You can get high quality food for less money elsewhere.

That said, at least your food is probably healthy and high quality.
Big, Good things. Amazon S3 and Google Maps API are the only real ones that come to mind. You couldn't do either of those better if you tried.

It's the Big, mostly good things that are the most dangerous. Off the shelf Content Management Systems come to mind as the obvious example. They'll get you close fast, then morph into a soul-draining time sink as you try to get that last 5%. You'll know early on that you're on the wrong path, but it will likely be six months of torture and waste before you actually scrap it and build your own.
Or if you want a strictly economic explanation: The law is a cosmetic blemish upon what could be a top-to-bottom free system.

The high level would be original free software and media - tools and inspiration.

The medium level is derivatives; things made using the tools and media built upon other media.

The low level is the consumer level, where the best things are filtered and distributed to the public.

The system takes the lowest-cost option at each step: remixing material and building on open source is easier than starting from scratch. Digital distribution is easier than physical distribution.

But it is entirely dependent upon the source material being permissive-use. When it isn't, derivatives become illegal material, and people will subsequently choose not to make value-added derivatives because any profit motive that would have existed is gone; settlement and legal fees are likely to wipe out any gains.

This doesn't affect the consumers of media, however, because consumers are largely anonymous and hard to target by the legal system. Thus you get widespread piracy, but few derivatives.
One people, several peoples.

"People" is not only the plural of person... it carries several meanings, in this context : "The entire body of persons who constitute a community, tribe, nation, or other group by virtue of a common culture, history, religion, or the like: the people of Australia; the Jewish people."

From http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/people
The general sequence of friction-reducing inventions is thought to have been runners, rollers, rollers held in place by guides, rollers held in place by guides and thickened on the ends to make them roll straighter, the wheel and axle

How to grow a wheel - it's not how smart you are, it's how often you iterate.
Ignorant grammatical objections like this are just pure pollution in comment sections and warrant a full removal of the whole thread, including my comment.
If you don't have any money, then it's a foregone conclusion that nobody has a salary and you're not going to hire anybody. That drops your operating expenses down to the cost of keeping the server alive, which paradoxically means that you don't need to bring in any outside money to keep going.

The main reason we haven't taken any VC for Twiddla is that we couldn't for the life of us think of anything to spend it on. What exactly are you supposed to do with $12M when you're only burning at $600/month?
The wheel in itself isn't anything grand. Its just a circular object which is quite useless on it's own.

You must invent 2 wheels, an axle and something to attach them to. Thus you have a use for the wheel as a starting point.

However wheels do not allow you to haul large super-heavy blocks for pyramid construction, you need a bunch of wooden sticks and manpower at best.

So yea a wheel was quite a unique invention. I am willing to bet 3000 years from now if humans still exist, someone will be saying "yea I can't believe people lived without this electricity thing... its so damn obvious! A two-year old can invent it."
Amazing JS rainbow effect
When buying costs significantly less than building. To us geeks its inconceivable... "I can build one better" is a common phrase, but our managers keep us in check by saying "That is great, but through distributed cost THEY can build one better and cheaper!" which is true some of the time. It is usually our job to see if in fact we can build one better and cheaper or if that product is in fact superior. Geeks and Managers keep each other in check.
Two wrongs don't make a right. The guidelines, although not rules, ask you not to do it. If the article is interesting, it'll get upvotes.

Your take might be different than mine, and more importantly, than the article author. If you thing the USA Senate (including a presidential candidate who snatched the popular vote), journalism's fate, new laws, and people with more power than we both deciding how we should digest information is "funny"... well... you're alienated.

Don't editorialize the title, it's just not cool. If you want to expand why you think it's funny, write a blog post or write a comment. I am sure we've never heard how the MSM doesn't "get" the internet, how their business models should change, how the hyper-local journalism is the future, etc... include a Bill O'Reilly video and I am sure you can also get Digg's frontpage.

And I am sorry for my agressive behaviour. It's 7am and I drank a few beers. Just don't editorialize the title, please.
Obviously if you go to a party to relax, you are going to be disappointed.

Have you noticed the similarity with the magic business model?

1. Sit down and watch your thoughts
2. Magic!
3. "harvest your crops of faith, morality , mindfulness and wisdom"!!!!

When you are happy, you are not really happy. If you observe really closely (I mean like really closely), there you will spot it. The horrible horrible evil undercurrent of all-pervading universal sadness.

When the car is moving, it's not really moving. If you observe really closely, you will see that actually it's not moving at all!

>the essence of life is suffering, said the Buddha.

Well perhaps, he was wrong?

It's like saying the essence of the electromagnetic spectrum is red.

Even before we ask whether to bother with meditation or not, let's ask what is the probability that Buddha even formulated the problem correctly?

The first step to solving a problem is to state it correctly.
On Reddit, it's the short, witty comments that get the most votes. Unfortunately.

Well thought out, detailed, long comments often end up with just a few points, or worse, in the negative, because of "too long, didn't read".
Well, Pirates of the Caribbean has been a Disneyland staple attraction since the 1950's, so they've got nearly 50 years of data to go on, on whether they should continue it or not - it's exactly why they made the first film.

When you consider how much the first film made, given it's actual cost (and the acclaim Depp got for his character) - the 2nd and 3rd weren't really that much of a gamble, but one that ultimately paid off.

The film industry isn't entirely an exact science, WALL-E for example had an entirely different ending which Pixar redid after it's first screening, after Andrew Stanton realised he had made an error in the way the story flows.

You also have major blunders - Waterworld anyone? It cost nearly double the budget that was set aside for it and it's gross revenue was barely more than that. The budget doesn't take into account the marketing costs, so money was lost on that film.
On a semi-related note, does anyone here count cards? I'm slightly interested in teaching myself sometime.
I quote from the guidelines...

"You can make up a new title if you want, but if you put gratuitous editorial spin on it, the editors may rewrite it. "

So you're just wrong on this. (For the record I did write a blog post on my blog but I wanted to share the link and didn't feel my post's expansion of the issue was as relevant as the initial article)

As far as it being funny I'm sorry but it is. Saying Google should be guilty of copyright infringement for crawling a website is ridiculous. If someone said it on Saturday Night Live it would get a huge laugh. Because it's comical

(For the record I'm not deaf to the MSM's issues and again posted my full thoughts on the issue here: http://www.tomstechblog.com/post/Searching-For-A-Solution-to...)
That's my point. A big-budget film is a big risk. Film studios wouldn't take on the added risk of two or more big-budget movies at once without a good reason. The benefit is that it saves money in production, so they do it when the financial success of the sequel(s) is close to a sure thing.
Do you mean for Blackjack? I have done so, computing for myself first the optimal playing strategy (which mostly agreed with the published ones) and then running millions of simulated hands to see whether the assumptions made were sufficiently accurate. They were.

There's plenty of stuff on the net, and you can compute it for yourself. If you don't, then you're blindly following someone else's advice, putting your money on their advice without necessarily understanding what you're doing.

So, with that in mind, how can I help you?
I love ben and jerry's, but I'm also a huge fan of making my own ice cream. compared to ben and jerry's/haagen dazs/other "premium" ice cream brands, it's not much different in price, and homemade ice cream (and quiescently frozen confections and other such similar foods) has the fun twist of being able to easily add/change things to the ice cream recipe itself as you want, as opposed to waiting for that chunk of frozen solid store-bought ice cream to melt to edible softness then adding fruit in the bottom if you can even stand eating the ice cream in the first place. There's just something so satisfying and delicious about making your own that I only buy from the store when I can't make and store enough ice cream for a party.

Here's two of my favorite recipes from my favorite David Lebovitz (he has the BEST ice cream recipes, I swear...):
One for the coffee lovers: an espresso granita affogato (!) - http://www.davidlebovitz.com/archives/2007/11/espresso_grani...

One for the chocolate lovers: no-machine-required chocolate ice cream - http://www.davidlebovitz.com/archives/2007/11/the_easiest_ch...

And one I discovered today that I'm sorely tempted to try: absinthe ice cream - http://www.davidlebovitz.com/archives/2009/05/absinthe_ice_c...
It turns out you need a US-based credit card to use Amazon Payments, by the way..
No. I have both downloaded and bought far more music than most people on this site. I no longer own my massive collection of 3,000+ CDs -- they got stolen -- but have rebuilt it up to about 500.

I've also probably downloaded 1TB+ of music over the years, so I could give it a good listen before I bought anything.

Not to mention the hundreds of concerts I've attended over the years....
Is it me, or does nobody seem to quite understand why Adblock Plus is such a good solution for blocking ads?

Let me list a few.

Automatic updates - a requirement for me.
Ads are removed as the page loads, rather than after loading.
Element Hiding Helper lets me pick DOM elements to remove and create filtering rules based on that.
And all of this is wrapped up in a nice UI too!

Yes, yes, Adblock Plus doesn't block as much as Adsweep by default, but I don't care because I don't just use the default blocklist. I add my own on top. And I can see no way of doing that in Adsweep, so Chrome + Adsweep remains a no-go for me until they sort that out!
Does anyone have a good algorithm for using a password template/seed for different sites? Choosing a template, say 5_h_7_s_9_j, and replacing the _ with characters from the site's name works (and you could increment the characters or whatever), but if anyone gets two of your passwords it's pretty obvious there's a pattern and it's not particularly hard to work out the relationship between the site name and the password.
Doubt it:

"""Theodore Ts'o, developer of ext3 and ext4 filesystems, said that Btrfs “has a number of the same design ideas that Reiser4 had” and that “the filesystem format has support for some advanced features that are designed to leapfrog ZFS.”""
Definitely - good points. My wife actually bought me an ice cream maker for the above reasons. Hoping to start using it soon and see what I can create :)
"No, I don't think it can be more efficient because chrome extensions like greasemonkey scripts cannot modify the page before it is loaded."

Thus guaranteeing I will never use Chrome.
Oatmeal is so delicious! I made a habit of keeping a container of oatmeal (bought in large bags from costco - no steel cut, but good enough) soaked in soy/cow milk in the refrigerator overnight. Serve cold the next morning with dried or fresh fruit or whatever else you might fancy (yes, it's muesli). For cold mornings, I'll go with hot oatmeal instead and steel cut, otherwise it's too much work to serve steel cut oats cold. It's a really flexible food with (what is to me) an infinite combination when it comes to toppings, and best of all it's cheap and nutritious.
I thought it was to do with terrain
Historically, most famous revolutionaries, from Che Guevara to Ghandi or Trotsky, were well educated, often coming from solid middle-class backgrounds (e.g. Che Guevara was the son of a doctor).
32bit Windows can use more than 3GB of RAM, MS just doesn't want you too
I think the point the author wants to make is that the possibilities opened up by more powerful JavaScript engines lure people into ever more feature laden web apps, which are mostly closed source. It's not about the JavaScript code itself I believe. That's how I read it but I could be wrong.

My own view is that open sourcing end user apps is pointless in the first place. Open source should be about sharing low margin, foundational code among developers, who can reuse it and learn from it.

Giving away finished applications to end users or competitors leads to a situation where software development has to be subsidised by consulting, support or ad revenue.

I think that's ultimately bad for the quality of software as the interests of users and developers tend to drift apart. Simple software becomes a drag on consulting and support revenues and the main purpose of software is no longer to solve a problem, but to make users click on ads.
Yeah I was thinking about blackjack. So what did you end up with for a profit margin with you strategy? Looking at articles it seemed like your advantage while counting cards is razor thin. And computing an optimal playing strategy just requires some basic knowledge of statistics, right?
The traditional way is this: soak in warm water overnight with a little vinegar, then warm it up the next morning slowly, serve with salt and a little butter. Delicious!

For a treat sometimes I have it with maple syrup and vanilla icecream...
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A surprisingly good article. I thought it would just rattle on the same old points, but it had a personable, fresh perspective. Thanks for posting it up.