skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you live in a place without freezers?
Market value comes from scarcity. When you need a million dollar press to print a newspaper, you can charge for it because the capital cost is a big barrier to the entry of competitors.

When the cost of printing collapses (to use the expression from Clay Shirky), the barrier to entry disappears, and the value derived from scarcity disappears with it.

AP's scheme amounts to a technical and/or legal attempt to reimpose an artificial scarcity so it can once again sell at a premium.

Their scheme is doomed.
I know Grammar Nazis on the Internet are annoying but people will think you are not smart. You know how it's a really big turn-off when you read Craigslist posts and girls are like "your really funny" and you just wince? It's like that! Except without the girls!
Flexible Membranes and Catch-alls in JavaScript
Bit of a diversion I know, but.. I'm a big TC fan (rare around here, I know) but find Lacy's posts severely lacking. Is it just me or can't she write for toffee? (Now Paul Carr, on the other hand, is excellent.)
Question: What do you think about E-mail addresses not ending in .com?

I currently use a g-mail address (firstlast@gmail.com), but also have for potential use:

first@firstlast.com
first@last.me

I don't like having a GMail address because someday I might want to switch away from GMail. I'd rather have an address on a domain I control.
This would carry much more weight in my eye's: except it's from Michael Gray. Who's been crying for something "insider" on TechCrunch, Google and the others for years (sometimes seeing the bordering-on-abuse he throws at Matt Cutts on twitter is awful).

Seriously: he's spinning the story for his own agenda. I'd queue that right up there with sponsored posts as "unethical" ;)
I create adventure. I leave slain dragons in my wake. I build monuments, plant flags, discover wonders, and lead armies.

I sing duets, dance tangos, and play concertos.

I cook banquets. I wheel, make deals, and strike bargains. I purchase fruit in large quantities. I partake and imbibe. I articulate, expound, and drive home the point. I maintain a strong moral fiber and act with integrity.

I forge trails and bushwhack through jungles. When I am not walking, I am running. I sail and drive and fly and ride and crawl.

I write encyclopaedias. I learn, study, forecast, ponder, and calculate. I know the answer.

I am nice, warm, strong, creative, solid, confident, funny, intelligent, and a little crazy.
DirecTV - an example of modern software incompetence
This is an excellent point! Just building an earth bermed home can save a fair bit from improved insulation properties. In the US we have not explored this option nearly enough, in my opinion.
Try replacing some of that with seasoned brown rice and beans. It will be cheaper, healthier and (depending on what spices you use) tastier.
It is important to think about eating in terms of return on investment. You can spend more money on better food (you can also spend more money on worse food) and get better overall fitness and alertness and performance in general from your body. The important thing to know is what is the cost and what is the benefit.

Nutrition is a vast science.

* All carbs are not equal.

* All fat is not equal.

* All protein is not equal. Beans are not meat.
Frankly I would suggest working an extra 4 hours per week and use the 30-40 dollars you will make and buy extra food. When we are young (like I used to be 10 years ago) we tend to think we can handle going with the least amount of food. Well, No. It definitely looks as if you are fine, but it takes sometimes years before poor eating habits start to show effects.
I know we're not supposed to ding Android for the G1's faults. But it's been, what, over a year and a half since the OHA unveiled the platform? Doesn't Android deserve some blame for being an OS that, in 20 months, only one company has been able to put on one model of one phone?

I'm looking forward to all of the new Android devices that are apparently waiting in the wings, but this long downtime hasn't done the platform any favors.
Gmail is fine, but having your own personal domain is always nice as well. People are conditioned to expect the .com, or .co.uk or whatever variant in your country. Remember, not everyone is a nerd/techie like us. .me is cool, but handing it to a 50 yr old potential business partner might get an eyebrow raise, and probably won't be memorable. At least not until they are more common.
Easy to fix: buy dried pinto beans and lard. Soak the pintos in water over night. The next day, pour off the water and simmer them in fresh water for about an hour. Strain your beans, put them in a pan (or cast-iron skillet), and pour liquid lard over top of them until the fat is about half-way up the beans. Cook over medium heat until the beans have exploded out of their skins. Now, take a potato masher to them. If they're too dry, add more fat. Season to taste.

Refried beans are a great source of protein, fat, and flavor, and are one of the cheapest foods around. Pair it with some rice and vegetables and you've got a pretty nutritious meal (assuming you need all those calories).
wow superman, I didn't know you were on here!
My bad, EBay. All other comments still apply.
The numbers you're using sound wrong now. In the last year or maybe 2 years food prices have skyrocketed. I'll go to store to pick up a few things and end up with a bag or two of groceries, and the bill is like $100 -- I know I could scrimp and figure out ways to spend less, but it wasn't always like that. The same stuff costs way more now.

If you want to talk about really healthy food, especially if you have a strange diet like veganism, then forget it, your bill will be huge.
Yahoo Got a Great Deal, Says Microsoft’s Ballmer
'HN Designers': would not be nice to have a HN clone just about web design? UI is in the same way important as backend code and infrastructure we talk about mostly here
executive summary: base your meals around cheap food staples, such as rice, beans, oats. buy other cheap things, use coupons and buy expiring food in order to spice up each meal.
This smells of a heavy-handed ploy by Skype's founders to force the sale back to them of Skype for a low price. If eBay did indeed not purchase the core IP along with Skype, then they have no one to blame but themselves.
Are science and freedom incompatible?
With the audience on here, I doubt that internet is considered "non-essential". It sounds to me that he ate a pretty balanced diet. Not gourmet by any stretch of the imagination, but plain, and for the most part, healthy food.
And that's a problem with us, not with the valuable rant. This will get philosophical, sorry.

When we hear a "wise person" say something, we assume it has meaning, no matter how meaningless it may seem. This is why Zen koans are meditated upon, while incoherent babblings of toddlers are not. This says nothing about the objective value of the koan or the babbling, but rather the subjective value it holds to the listener. The "wisdom" metadata, the color of the text if you will, makes it valuable in that it forces our brain to create an insight for itself that could be rationalized to fit the content of the rant. It becomes a sounding board, a way of finding inner knowledge you weren't consciously aware of. This is valuable, at least to me.
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Good design: Dieter Rams' ten commandments
What happened to 'Operation Aborted' in IE?
Android is just an OS, no point in saying the G1 is slow as a critic against android. As for the rest, the iPhone OS has its quirks too.
a tangent: May I ask what AT&T Labs does?
Alan Cox didn't "drop from the Linux community". He's just resigned as maintainer of a specific part of the kernel.
Wal-Mart weighs role in U.S. H1N1 vaccination plans
http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSTRE56T4I220090730
I use linux as my primary desktop for work and home, I make a nice living, get things done quickly and never ever need to hack anything to make things work (ubuntu+intel laptop). Sure, if you get a laptop that's not linux friendly then it will be harder (to install) but that's not a fair comparison to windows/mac. Try getting a hackintosh to work, it's much harder then getting ubuntu to work on an nvidia/ati+broadcom wifi laptop or even on a mac.
Big mistake.

A better title would be, "How to sacrifice you health for money." No thanks.

I can be cheap with a lot of things, but not with the food I put into my body. The kind of diet OP proposes may work OK for a while. The younger you are, the more resilient you probably are, so that can be quite a while. But sooner or later, especially if you're a little bit older, you will be trading quality of life for a few bucks.

AFAIC, the best possible use for limited resources is excellent food. This first thing this means is fresh produce, which, frankly is difficult to find "on sale". OP's advice to eat at home is excellent, OTOH, I'd rather spend 7 bucks on a restaurant salad bar than 3 bucks for a home cooked highly processed meal.

Almost everything in life, including work, is a marathon, not a sprint. I intend to be just as strong at any point in that marathon with proper lifestyle, especially nutritional excellence. Saving $ intelligently is always smart. Sacrificing potential health and well being for a few hundred dollars per month is just not a good idea.

Pass.
I stopped just shortly after that -- the end of the article.
Those Tapbots apps are snazzy looking, but a bit overkill for unit conversion :) I think the workflow is less intuitive than maybe a table/nav-based design would be w/ picker wheels or some such. Anyway, the eye candy is getting in the way of an easy-to-use app.
I agree with you on the other ways people could cut back. However, I think people are used to not thinking about their food, and it's become a major problem, especially in America. People generally don't think of food as a necessity for survival if they're not focusing on a tight budget - and as such, they begin forgetting about things like vitamins, healthy serving sizes, protein, etc... The menu he described sounds very healthy to me. Nothing too fatty or processed. It's mostly natural, simple meals.
I just quit to run a consulting firm from scratch. Advice?
I just quit my job. It was too much to take any more. I spoke with my manager about this two weeks ago, and things have just devolved steadily, so today was my last day.

I've had a technology consulting firm called Deseret Technology ( http://www.deserettechnology.com ) for the last year or so. Heretofore it's received very little business, but as of this afternoon it's my full-time and my main support, so I plead for HN's advice on drumming up business.

Our target niche is medium-sized businesses in the Salt Lake City and Provo Utah areas, though of course we're willing to take accounts located elsewhere. The name "Deseret" emphasizes locality and hopefully conjures up good feelings inside Mormons.

What suggestions would you make regarding successfully marketing a thing like this? Should our webpage stay so plain? As a consulting firm, our target is much more B2B and low-level than a traditional web design shop (though web design is fine if that's all there is). This means our website is designed to appeal to IT workers who'll contract us to help with projects, etc.

Anyone have good connections in the UT area that can help me out? I'd appreciate that. :) My email is jeff@deserettechnology.com if you have anything you'd rather not divulge in a public forum.

Thanks for your time, HN. Looking forward to your responses.
sure it can, if you pick a name thats hard to spell correctly you pretty much lose all word of mouth references
Thing number 1 is that you need to put some effort into the design on your webpage. Maybe even just changing the font will make a difference.

Personally, I like the content you've got there, I don't think that's going to require much in the way of changes.

Also, you might want to do something to make it more obvious that your icons are clickable.
I think he was commenting on the lack of AT&T composing an actual email for employees instead of just attaching the same press release that they put out to the public.
That's a great point. I don't use Google News, but I can definitely see brand dilution happening in that manner.
A trick I learned from a friend while in grad school. When they have football games, walk around the tailgate parties right before the game is about to start, people will almost pay you to take their extra food so that they can get to the game. And it's usually pretty good food...

For better results, go next to the ones thrown by corporations. They usually order too much food and the employees do not care and do not want to bring the food back home.

Oh.. and bring an empty backpack :)
It will be really interesting to see how the partnership with justin.tv develops, could be a partial answer to their high s/n ratio.
I'll be the first to say that is awesome and I hope its not vaporware.
I'm an interaction designer and this RSS feed is a staple of my daily reading.
"If you want to build a ship don't herd people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea." -- Antoine-Marie-Roger de Saint-Exupery
> ...in the long run it wont be an interesting site to read.

If it isn't interesting to read, how will it make money?
I wholeheartedly agree with you now, but at the time it just seemed like the thing to do (during a 25 credit term at college). I didn't have a ton of time to think about it, was just trying to get by.

Flip to now where I eat 5-6x a day and have a nutritionist. Time and a place.
I wonder whether perfect names exist anymore. All the short, simple, meaningful names must be gone by now. Whatever you choose, you'll end up with something that's either long, irregular, hard to remember, overloaded or otherwise impaired. Which leads me to question: is the company name really that important? Or is myscream.com (squatted) a fine name for an emo icecream vendor?
Apparently this is largely the result of new management. After Alan Mulaly left for Ford, their culture shifted dramatically from the engineering/conservative mindset to a bottom-line-driven outsourcing model.
Portland, Oregon, is (one of the) most entrepreneurial towns in the world
It's doubtful a high school student and teacher know where to look. They should have asked someone in, only remotely related, research for a quick search to dig up these kinds of papers.
The numbers are very regional (cheese in the northeast is 1/2 what it is in Colorado, for instance) and were lower a few years ago (you are right). If you shop the right stores at the right times, I am sure you could come pretty damn close, even today.

Veganism can be spendy. I've only tried once (for a week). It didn't work out too well.
I've gone dumpster diving on a couple of occasions with some friends of mine. I actually think most people should, at the very least, watch other people dumpster dive at least once. You will be absolutely amazed at the amount of perfectly good food that gets thrown out.

Go to a bakery right after they close. There will be garbage bags full of bread (and nothing but bread so it's relatively sanitary) that was baked that day. Even if you don't eat any, it will probably change your perception of waste.
How about making them more reflective and aiming them at New England for a little winter heating help.
I expected MicroUnity to be on the list. They blew $200M. But I guess much of that money came from industry partnerships instead of VCs.
I remember carrying two flats of Gatorade from a football game back to my dorm room over two miles away to save some cash in college.

My arms hurt for a week.
Ask HN:  Mismatch between older founder interests and first adopter interests?
As you grow older, your interests change.

The first adopter crowd is probably mostly in their 20s/early 30s.

So it seems it that older founders may have a harder time creating a product that is of interest to people in that age group; they would probably rather create and have more success with products for older people.

However, when creating a product for older people, viral marketing would be a problem as older people are less likely to try out new things and tell their friends.

And so it seems that they would need quite a lot of money for more traditional forms of advertising.
"but it takes sometimes years before poor eating habits start to show effects"

Excellent point.

And then it may be too late to do anything about it.

The first clinical symptom of cardiovascular disease is often sudden death.

Many cancers are "discovered" after they've been growing for 20 years.

Poor nutrition is often a primary cause of both.
You'll be eating 2 grams of carbohydrate for every gram of protein that you get that way. Sure, getting your carbs from beans is not nearly as bad for you as getting them from sugar, but there are much higher quality, and more expensive, protein sources that one should prefer.

Then again, medical bills are expensive too.
If it's not too expensive I can definitely see this becoming very popular. Looks way more fun then a jetsky.
Most of the meals I listed are actually pretty balanced. If I listed 'eat mac and cheese and dollar menu items' I would be right with you, but salads, eggs, PB&J and rice and beef are pretty good staples to build any diet off of.

I'm not advocating anyone goes near as far as I did, but something to keep in mind for that friend that eats like shit out every night spending 10x what you could by making a healthier option at home.
Hopefully he is well.

I used centos for a bit with my cluster, but now use http://www.caoslinux.org for use with Perceus. Not that I had problems with centos, but the integration of the latter two couldn't be better.
I a lot of people are suggesting that this diet is not healthy, but I'm not convinced.

Eggs, salads, veggies, fruits, rice, beans, cheeses, beef...As long as things are taken in the correct quantities I see very little problem here, am I wrong?
Not a bad summary and it's nice to include the screenshots/examples of non-Apple apps, but here's a more formalized description of the three application styles: http://developer.apple.com/iphone/library/documentation/User...

Part 1 of the iPhone Human Interface Guidelines is a good read in general if you're an iPhone developer, and it isn't too long.
The above link is the top search result from a search for bacteria and polyethylene: http://www.google.com/#hl=en&q=bacteria+polyethylene&...
Sorry,

The article is correct in stating that internal consumer demand is not a proportionately large part of China's economy. The two largest, disproportionately largest, sectors of China's economy are real estate and exports.

Further, China's recovery program is not oriented towards increasing the relative size of this sector of the economy but rather, as the article says, increasing the amount of internal capital investment through forced bank loans.
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Charles, Tom and Nick to EngineYard - and the future of JRuby
So this is why we'd define the US as having a "service economy"?
I worked for a place where our boss quit with less than two weeks notice.

At least he was still quite friendly to us, and would answer any questions we had over AIM.
It's a management failure. The employees are not going to magically get excited and proactive about PR just because some out-of-touch Internet marketing celeb thinks they should. It's management's job to make sure people are trained properly in how to handle these situations, and also, more importantly, to provide the clear vision and incentive that makes people care. Finally, if employees are hurting the image of the company, it's management's job to fire them.

If a random employee starts taking up issues caused by other people in the company, and there is no culture of communication or escalation procedure then one likely outcome is that they are going to waste their time and not get their job done. That doesn't mean an employee shouldn't be proactive or whatever, but just that in a large organization the solution can not come from the bottom up.
Wow! Its cheaper than buying taco bell every day!
I disagree, I still believe that the revenue streams are incompatible (due to culture, web users don't want to pay) or insufficient (such as ads) for a news agency to operate. What needs to happen is for someone to suggest a web culture compatible revenue stream that is sufficient to quench the financial need of a news agencies operations. This is lame attempt to do so, i.e. an iTunes for news segments. But at the end of the things the main problem is that users still don't want to pay for these things.
Chances are he put money in Seesmic for the same reason he put the widget on Tech Crunch: because he liked the product and thought it had potential. Putting money into a company because you can give their widget page views seems like an incredibly poor investment strategy.
Spending all that time working seems to be much more economical.

I just eat bread in the morning and afternoon and cook a different meal every night. Probably comes down to about $20 a week. I could eat for less that $0.75 if I want to, but I don't.
Excellent point.

If "slowly reducing its dollar exposure" means selling dollars in the morning and buying more in the afternoon, then it might be true but ...
Anyone else get the feeling he's talking about Yahoo?
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They say it's planned to cost $130,000. You can get quite a few jet-skis for that.
I'm one of those "nuts" who insists that fresh produce comprises about 80% of what I eat, so that's my major source of disagreement. I have never found a way to eat like this for even 5x what you're recommending. Salads and frest fruit are definitely good staples to build any diet of. Eggs, PB&J, rice, and beef, OTOH are compromises. But that's another whole debate outside the scope of hn.

If I ate like most people then $36/month sounds difficult, but achieveable. But I don't and I wouldn't advocate changing away from eating excellence to save money.
As I have had it explained to me by someone else when I asked the very same question: People view the number as part of their self worth. If someone downvotes you, you are suppose to care about the fact that an arbitrary number, which has no real meaning in the greater scope of things, went down. For instance, I am suppose to care when a lot of people come and downvote my response to your question.

The only thing I use karma for is to figure out if I have said something factually incorrect or if I have made someone upset. I only get upset about it if someone starts voting me down, when they merely disagree with what I have to say. Negative scores tend to prevent other people from actively engaging in conversation, even if the downvoted post is well thought out and meant to encourage constructive dialogue.
I agree that it sounds like he ate pretty healthy, but stuff like this really freaks me out:

Lard is the highest calorie per cent food you can buy.

That just seems to be the epitome of penny-wise and pound-foolish for 99.9% of people, who would be far better off trimming their budget in other categories so they could eat healthier instead of viewing food as just a source of calories.
Water-propelled, not really water-powered.
Are you saying that older people cannot innovate on the bleeding edge of X industry / discipline? Or are you saying older people are not early adopters? I'm both. I'm older. I'm a founder. I'm an early adopter and I experience viral marketing from my age peers as well as older and younger people that I know.