skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IPhone Dev Team Releases 3GS Jailbreak
Amazon Killing Mobile Apps That Use Its Data
You continue to conflate fat and meat and then make points implying that meat consumption is fine.

I don't see how controlled studies are possible for various reasons. For starters there are far to many variables and we have no idea how they interrelate. Second, we can't control humans to the degree that would be needed to truly isolate a single variable (which I don't think would be too useful anyway) and animal studies are always imperfect. I'm convinced that diet studies are most effective when performed at a higher level of abstraction.
Also, if you type in the blocked description and then click in that same description field it erases your text. :( I lost stuff. It's best for me if it just highlighted all text. I'm using Chrome.
I attended a high school named after him. (The school board was meeting to name the new high school in our school district while he was on the moon.) He did not attend the high school's dedication. Armstrong has never drawn attention to himself, and has accepted very little of the attention directed to him by admirers. That's amazing, and indeed probably does have something to do with why he was ready to be a test pilot who ended up first setting foot where no human being had ever set foot before.
Sounds like a bunch of script kiddies with a little more brains than usual and just as much malice.
Death.
Walking up to a girl and asking her out.
Failure.
That the economy will get worse.
New social situations.
Spiders.

I've recognized each fear and I know how to handle myself to confront those fears. They don't dominate me, but they are still present.

I am an Oracle DBA.
In the future, as network speed becomes less of an issue, web apps will increase in size and complexity to compensate.
Latency Lags Bandwidth, and What It Means For Computing (David Patterson)
Pipelining reuses a single TCP connection, but still makes multiple HTTP requests. This means that you still send and receive a bunch of mostly-duplicated request/response headers, and still have the latency of multiple request/response round trips.

Archives/sprites/etc. are better in some ways than pipelined requests. Consider the case where the client is making a conditional GET request and the content hasn't changed on the server. If the content is bundled into a single resource, then you just have a single request and a single HTTP 304 response with no body. But if the content is served as multiple resources, then you have the exact same conversation repeated once for each resource. For a site with 100 images, this will use 100x the bandwidth and take nearly 100 times as long.
Mind benders: List of paradoxes
Apparently the problem with doing something sane like using Gstreamer is that... it's LGPL. Which apparently isn't free enough for them.

This is not correct. The reason GStreamer is not used in Firefox is because the GStreamer backend wasn't finished in time for FF 3.5. Rather than push back the release date, they released an implementation that works for many videos. The GStreamer backend is still under active development, and will eventually be merged to trunk.

leading to the tremendous irony of having video playback vastly slower than Flash.

Using the most recent version of Flash and Firefox, I can play high-definition Theora easily on my laptop, but even medium-resolution H.264 in Flash struggles to achieve real-time decoding. A quick, unscientific sampling of other FF 3.5 users online has indicated to me that many others experience similar performance in both cases.
Does this guy look like a ninja to you: http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/3b4ddb8b9c296ecf6a7cc338da508...

?

Because: that is who posted the ad; Stephen Blum, 'lead ninja engineer @ trusted opinion, inc'.

http://www.linkedin.com/in/stephenlb
This is not necessarily the kind of awesome that makes for success. But it seems to have been working for them for 5 years, so best of luck.
Really? That's 4 times worse than I thought then
The Austrian theory of the business cycle explains why these bubbles occur. It states that when there is inflation via credit expansion that the sectors that attract that increased credit are in the higher orders or production that are more capital intensive. The inflated prices end up in areas like housing or the stock market. If you stop the inflation then you won't get any more bubbles assuming of course the theory is correct.
I can't wait for the overusage of "fail" to die out:

curl -s http://sfbay.craigslist.org/sfc/eng/1246353621.html | grep -ci "fail"
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What evidence do you have that the current lack of IPOs is due to the fee structure of VCs?

All the evidence I know of suggests otherwise. VCs had the same fee structure back when there were lots of IPOs.
Steve Blank: Customer Development Fireside Chat
>My other fear is of cessation of consciousness; sort of an extrapolated fear of death. I really don't want to die; I don't quite like the idea of cryonics even if I'm revivable; I don't even really like general anaesthesia. If the brain processes that make me aware I'm me go away, where am I?

Do you have a hierarchical view of degrees of consciousness? For instance, do you consider general anesthesia worse than a nights sleep? Do you consider brain-rot-death worse than a year-long coma?

I do have the same fear as you. I have a medical condition that has caused me to lose consciousness around 20 times in my life and it has caused me terrible fear. I don't like the idea of cryonics either but I do plan on having my brain frozen because the alternative, in my view, is worse.

I don't like sketchy rope bridges across a chasm, but if I am being chased by pirates, I will sure as heck cross it.
Just as companies use your resume to screen you, you can use their ad to screen them.

I hope that they ran this ad to stand out and be hip.

But just in case the people in this company are like the ad they are running, run, don't walk, the other way from these elitist snobs desperately in need of an attitude adjustment.

Here's my submission:

digits = [70,85,67,75,89,79,85];

for(i=0;i++;i<7){print chr(digits(i))};
By your reasoning, all this stuff about climate change is just blah blah blah. Correlations seen numerous times in independent efforts are meaningful.

I'm also not sure what you mean by "controlled". For example, in the china study the group that ate more meat was compared to a similar group in the same country with the same lifestyle. Isn't this the definition of a control group?
The inverse, however, does little to guarantee happiness.

Here's my data:

http://www.livescience.com/strangenews/060629_money_happines...

And

http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p_mla_apa_research_citation/...

As well as:

http://www.astm.org/JOURNALS/FORENSIC/PAGES/JFS2004347.htm
The sort of person who is attracted to you becasue of money doesn't seem as likely to generate a true and fulfilling relationship.
"Well, the pay sucks, but I like the company uniform..."
Yes, that's true. But that doesn't mean there is something wrong with the fee structure. Most of the money-losing firms would still have lost money even if they charged zero fees.

The real problem is simply that most VCs are lousy investors. But it's not uncommon for most practitioners in a field to be bad at it. Most artists are bad, for example.

The point where the VC business is broken is where LPs meet GPs. Credulous LPs give money to incompetent GPs. It's not the VC model that's broken, but the LPs' judgement.

Most LPs shouldn't be investing in VC. They do it in imitation of LPs past who've made lots of money that way, like big university endowments and certain family funds, but they don't know what they're doing, choose badly, and end up losing their money.

A lot of them will probably pull back now, which will mean a lot of the worst performing VCs will disappear. Which is exactly what Fred has been saying. The problem is not the VC model per se, but inexperienced LPs' undiscriminating appetite for VC funds.

(Yet again, the macroexpansion problem. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=685713)
Point nine recurring ...
Could the exploit actually be on newer versions of ssh? If so, this could be an attempt to get people to upgrade so that more machines can be compromised.
Look, startups are death to relationships. Just let it go. Once you have time to have some balence in your life, you can search for a realationship. As it is you'll always be putting her second which is shit for everybody.
Thanks a lot Alan. Therefore, there´s no point on searching for the newest languages to do this kind of software because, actually, they are more inclined to write languages to solve high level problems then lows ... AI case, i guess. I got your point on new vs old, and maybe on that specific case, you are right.
10% isn't unreasonable for what you described. You'll learn a lot from them by being involved, it sounds like. And again, it's a long shot as with any startup.

My startup has offered 2% pre-dilution to a coder who will put ~200 hours into a project that already has about 800 hours on it. So he's putting in around 20% of the code. Dunno if that helps you, but that's what we're doing.
Thanks but no thanks, I can only work for people who speak English* .

Like in the 20th century, when I was born. Call me old-fashioned, but...

* not prejudiced, just not fluent in other languages.
What are the chances that the exploit is actually in 5.x, and the "anti-sec movement" is doing some social engineering to get people to upgrade to the affected versions?
Amazing; the very first sentence in the article is factually incorrect:

Pundits are roasting Apple over a scuffle raised by Mozilla and Opera to define the free Ogg Theora video codec as the official way to present video on the web in the new HTML 5 specification.

There was never any attempt to define Theora as the "official way to present video". It was merely provided as a baseline, a lowest-common-denominator format that could be relied upon by content providers.

Ogg Theora is based upon VP3 video technology originally proprietary to On2, and subsequently abandoned after it became obsolete.

Theora is not obsolete; it is superior to most popular codecs, such as XVid, WMV, and QuickTime. In standard-definition encoding, it's even superior to modern proprietary codecs such as H.264:

http://people.xiph.org/~greg/video/ytcompare/comparison.html

http://people.xiph.org/~maikmerten/youtube/

Apple has also voiced concerns that Ogg Theora may be encumbered by unknown patents. That risk isn't significant to Mozilla and Opera, both of whom could simply abandon the format for something else [...] Apple also has a bankroll to attract patent trolls that Mozilla and Opera both lack.

This hand-waving ignores that Google will also be supporting Theora, and undoubtedly has deeper pockets than Apple. Besides, a risk of unknown patents applies to any video codec. There's no technical or legal reason to exclude Theora support.
I do not play City of Heroes, however if you read his research paper and his comments, he did those things to remove those players as obstacles in order to complete the objective of the zone (capturing 6 towers as I understand).

Since I do not play please let me know if I misunderstand, but it sounds like he was taking a perfectly legitimate avenue to his ultimate goal of capturing those 6 towers and winning the zone.
I want advertisers (especially the national/global brands that are already well known by most consumers) to start simply underwriting beauty in exchange for my time. I might not use Bing very often, but I go there every morning to see the image. I've emailed them to say I want to see the metadata on the images too! If you want to get my attention show me a beautiful image or video clip that makes me feel good about the world, and from which I might learn something, instead of the same old, stale, boring, predictable, mid-20th century garbage.
Enabling Data Tethering for an iPhone on AT&T's network
I felt a bit like I was reading something translated into english by Google.

Putting on a 'better than thou' attitude can be fun and amusing at times, but it works better if you command a decent grasp on the English language.
Review my app: For you NYC Hackers/Subway Riders
"So assume that you can write all of the code for Stack Overflow in a weekend."

Only if you're a total idiot.
Nothing is impossible ... and i got some guts to face this kind of challenge. Some friends told me exactly that, to stick with ruby and then figure out a way to implement the brain with that. Thanks.
Some more sophisticated analysis from the author in the comment thread:

"I did read the Ars article, which similarly voices the "free codec is good, international standards body specifications are evil" thing everyone has been repeating.

The bottom line is that x264 is GPL so the whole "Linux users can't use H.264 video" is simply wrong, and in the big picture Mozilla and Opera don't really matter. Once Chrome starts gaining traction, do you really think Google will see any need to dump $50 million on the remains of Netscape's ashes? And what purpose does Opera serve other than to make the EU feel like it has some say in the browser market?"

Sounds like someone pissed in his cheerios. Bloody fanboys.
Admit it: if you needed the job, you'd be strutting your best "leet ninja hacker" moves.
There is a problem with this article: it's equating an algorithmic trade with an informed trade, and assuming that if most trades are algorithmic, most market moves are due to algorithms and not individual traders.

But those algorithms are basically looking for what future trades will be, based on current trades. For example, if someone invests $1 million, in $100,000 increments, they'll try to predict that $1 million investment. But the $100,000 increments are not the information the market ought to react to -- the final investment is (the trader, in this case, is not $100K more optimistic about the company during each increment; she's $1000K more optimistic, but is acting on this optimism in a more measured way).

Algo trading funds are betting on secondhand opinions. They aren't creating their own. The directional effects of this algo trading should be very hard to detect -- after all, if you can make a sensible prediction about what the market is going to do, you should probably be working for a hedge fund rather than writing (or commenting on) the Journal.
Was going to send this to them, but they requested serious attempts only, so here you go HN:

WSA:

push 10
push 97
push 106
push 110
push 105
push 78
push 32
push 111
push 108
dup
push 101
push 72
push 11
label 100
swap
outchar
push 1
sub
dup
jn 200
jump 100
label 200
exit

Whitespace is actually a really easy-to-code-for stack machine, you just need an assembler. Now you too can pretend to be elite.

EDIT: post originally included the compiled Whitespace code, but HN does not approve of that. Fixed the line break problem, thanks to someone reminding me it needs a blank line before and after.
It's just a cheesy job ad. Am I missing something?
"He didn't back out because he thought it would be too hard. According to him, he backed out because it would be disrespectful."

Excuse my language, but this comment deserves it: I've seen horse-shit with less horse-shit in it.
I don't understand why people don't do this it is so much harder if not impossible for people to break into your server by normal means especially when you add MaxAuthTries 3
Hi HN! My buddy and I just released an app in the App Store for all you NYC Subway hackers.

If you like saving a few seconds to a few minutes on your subway rides, take a peek at our app :)

We figured some of you here in NYC love little hacks to save time so we thought we'd share and here your thoughts. I always love the discussion here on HN so I'd love to hear some feedback if you have any!
I would hijack the ocaml raytracer at http://www.ffconsultancy.com/languages/ray_tracer/comparison..., make 3-d font primitives, and write it out. But I'm a bit underskilled and unmotivated to do anything other than propose it as the ultimate over-the-top answer to the ad.
I count 4 ninjas in that photograph.
My thoughts exactly... If I had an exploit that only worked on the latest versions and I wanted to make use of it I would likely try a scheme like this.

Of course if this is the case then the exploit is likely to be used aggressively sometime in the near future...
Synopsis: The ipod touch has better software architecture and mass-production has made it cheap ergo it is better than the OLPC.

My conclusion: Apples to oranges. The touch does little to teach you to be computer literate, and the lack of keyboard means learning to type isn't even an option. For the target market in developing nations, the OLPC is still better than an ipod.
That's really cool, I've talked to psych people and publicly logging your progress when dealing with an anxiety problem is a really good way to keep you on track. From my perspective, I love the insight into the process - especially because it is such a uniquely individual experience for each person.
I don't mind "fail". But the overusage of "ninja" really annoys me to no end.
That´s a really good point dmix, C is amazing and i already have experience with it. But let´s make some thing clear ...

a) Interesting, but i´m planning to write my own algorithms

b) C speed is just unique, maybe only lose for assembly

c) True, a very decisive factor.
You missed a few, try going frame-by-frame. Remember there's 5+ ninjas there.
"It also doesn't approve of line breaks."

Indent each line 2 spaces, format it however you want, and resubmit.
Agree. I have a lot of experimental codes here that must be rewrite immediately. Looks like it´s the best way for me so far ...
Actually, it's pretty tough for an algo fund to make money when Aunt Harriet sells the 100 shares of GE she bought in 1962. The big, dumb mutual funds that turn over their portfolios in a year do get hit by this kind of stuff.

On the other hand, algo funds can't make money without 1) making market prices reflect the intentions of traders, rather than just their most recent actions, and 2) making the market more liquid. Both of these add a lot of good to the economy in general, even if they do it at the expense of one class of investors.
Agree, I'm still trying to figure out Win 5.
I don't think you're correct about the gstreamer backend.

Some Mozilla-based projects use Gstreamer (Songbird for one), and I believe they're having discussions about a future collaboration for accessing user's video cameras in the browser but Mozilla don't want to support any old codecs.

Their mission as a non-profit is to support the open web, and promoting royalty-free codecs fits with that mission. They can make a difference by actively choosing not to do stuff, just like at one point in the past they refused to support ActiveX despite having code available. It would have made Firefox a more useful browser at the cost of making the web less open.
It isn't about the implementation's license, it's about patents. H.264 is patented while Theora is not. This makes it illegal for anybody to distribute H.264 decoding software, whether open source or not, until they've paid for the patent license.
Don't bother, the point if it is advertisement of yahoo job search services.

The article contains no useful information whatsoever, just 10 phrases which no sane person would ever say.
Six Reasons to Stick with Your Startup: Survival Stories from the Trenches
There's more than one way to skin a mongoose and in this case the more common shard solutions are fundamentally different from distributed DB in that a distributed DB often times contains large amounts of a a subset of data that has to be merged with data on other DBs whereas a shard can have entire schema duplication on different shards where you can use relational technology just fine and even if the query is distributed you can just add rows to the end of a dataset rather than joining the data columns manually (implementing your own relational joins). In many cases you partition your sharded data in such a way that the majority of your queries are not distributed so that they can continue to leverage the relational model you had before, only performing a distributed query for more complex actions like reporting and such.

Also going back to the first place isn't really an option, shards usually come of a system that has grown, not ground up design. Ultimately I still support the distributed model myself, but a shard model does support relational data much more so than a distributed DB (at least out of the box).
Your and radu's comments are exactly opposite, but none of them is quite right - you need to take the middle road.
I love the idea. Had it myself, but please please don't tell anyone about it. Isn't it nice being the first one to the stairs? Let's keep the best exits to ourselves.

Downloaded the sample on my kindle. It would be nice to see an actual map, if only just one instead of a huge listing of all the stops.
Poll: Does point 9 recurring equal one?
This is something I'm interested in getting people's opinions on.
Zero point nine recurring equals one.
Zero point nine recurring does not equal one.
This makes my brain hurt.
It could also mean your home life sucks.
The monoculture has an invader, adapt or die.
My opinion: kids don't need laptops to learn. Old school concept/understanding based learning works fine! I even think having a laptop then can be a distraction or a hindrance to actual learning.

By the time they are in 8th or 9th grade, they can use normal computers. No toy devices required.
Added the 2-space indent; it did not work.
Because they're much easier to pin down and enforce than spoken promises: or even publicly published ones. Note that they often have clauses indicating that they supersede any prior agreements [read - the salesman's "promise" isn't enforceable].
I agree that the complaining about Theora's quality is blown of of proportion by people who don't know any better. Theora is definitely better than low-definition FLV files as streamed by YouTube and better than MPEG-2. But can you really claim it is better than H.264? I don't see many differences in the Theora vs H.264 images on the comparison page, but I can clearly see the differences in the actual videos. H.264 is better than Theora, although not by too much.

I'm more curious about how Theora compares to XviD/DivX, which is (was?) the standard in the video encoding community. But so far I haven't seen any comparisons.
It's a feature if users don't want to pay for it. It's a company if users do.

Facebook is a feature :)
> 1/3 = 0.3333... remainder 0.0...1 (yes this is 0 recurring with a one at the end)

The main logic failure is there.
First read: WTF!

Second look: Awesomely original
See https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=422540 for the progress of the GStreamer <video> backend.
Now sure what happened to you. This is a regular line followed by a blank line.

This line is indented 2 spaces.
So is this one.
This is the third indented line.

After another blank line, now I'm back to normal.
"In standard-definition encoding, it's even superior to modern proprietary codecs such as H.264"

That's arguably true in some senses, but not in the way most people will take it and it's not really backed up by your link.

Theora only needs one qualification, being in the clear with respect to patents. If Apple's lawyers don't find anything (and it's an interesting question as to whether Apple would be pleased if they did) then there's still a chance Apple will support it.
The VC Model, The Funded, and The Problem With Associates
"Oblong" can both describe programming skill and be a sentence by itself?
Most women look for successful men, because it is fundamentally wired in human behavior.

Creating a successful startup makes you more self-confident and it changes you in the way you will be more attractive to women. So, having money is just a side-effect. Having money is good sign you are successful (alpha male).

So it is not true, that with money you are likely to attract bad women. You will simply attract all women.