skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd agree with the last part of that, about people not wanting to offend. I've done it myself many times. It's an issue I had with Facebook early on. There was no way to really differentiate my 'friends.' My closest friends had access and were placed on the same level as those who were just mere acquaintances. Facebook has taken steps to help users establish stronger connections with certain groups of people, with their filtered news feeds, and various profile viewing restrictions, but I don't think they emphasize that enough. I will admit, that the features they've implemented have made the service more valuable and meaningful to me, because I can now share media and stay up to date with those I care to do so with, not with those I met at a conference who seemed to have tracked down my profile.

So yah, you can 'friend' someone who's not really your friend on Facebook, but that person can be very easily distanced. And it's probably in Facebook's best interests to focus on allowing users to establish more meaningful connections, rather than just acquiring new users. I've heard lots of radio segments recently about interviewees being subject to a Facebook profile check, and to parents keeping close tabs on their children, which ultimately makes people very image conscious, reluctant to say and share things they would've otherwise said and shared behind closed doors with their friends. So, the way I see it, the more comfortable I am with sharing information with specific groups of people, the more I'll say and share, the more Facebook will understand about the type of person I am, and the more highly targeted I am with respects to adverts.
Lots of businesses started out of garages and college dorms, a handshake is all you knew or cared about. Stay hungry, stay foolish.
Chrome for mac still doesn't scroll as smoothly as safari. It's most noticeable on a macbook using two finger scrolling. I keep checking to see if they've improved it, I hope it isn't some unavoidable side effect of their design.
Poll: Keyboard Layouts
Curious about how promiscuous this audience is about keyboard layouts
Only used QWERTY
Only used Dvorak
Went from QWERTY to Dvorak
Went from Dvorak to Qwerty
Went back to QWERTY
Went back to Dvorak
Yes, I've already set up my .ly domain, but I'm more concerned about legal and ethical issues going forward if I use it as my primary domain name.

The Wikipedia article on Libya describes some positive political movement as well as some current negative conditions. But I know very little about modern Libya and hoped to get more input on the country.
So, in other words Facebook is useless distruction we have to avoid.
Seeems to me friends are interacted with more than acquaintances. So it would make sense, if a user's privacy settings allow it, to expose this metric so it's more apparent which relationships are meaningful.
Really, California has a strong solvent economy. Yes they have a high gdp, but their government is in serious debt. I realize that their problems aren't only or possibly at all because of pushing an environmental agenda, but I wouldn't use California as an example of how environmentalism makes sense economically.
Pro malo legal work done for in terrorem effect - in the end, a Pyrrhic victory.
It's even better than that.

Real Buddhists are likely the most expert meditators you can find. And meditation, like anything worth doing, benefits from good teaching. Buddhism is not an evangelical religion. Thus a real Buddhist teacher will be happy to teach you meditation without requiring you to "profess your faith" or any of that silly nonsense.

This is a gift. Not only can meditation be a "separate thing", but those who are the most expert will be happy to unpack it from their own beliefs and teach it to you as separately as you like, because of those beliefs.

Isn't that beautiful? Does it remind you of open source at all?

(Also - if you decide to go further with this, you might make up your mind whether there is some reason Buddhism and mind training correlate so highly, beyond history.)
.ly isn't that bad now, since bit.ly more or less legitimatized it
Marketers, mostly. Researchers, a little bit.
> I would actually be most interested in how to overthrow communist regimes.

It is actually very easy - just get yourself a place on the CIA payroll. This will take care of funding for propaganda, bribes, and parties for the right locals. It will also arrange a speedy getaway should your plan fail. Do your best to create and gather up "dissidents." Hype the bright capitalist future with stylish American pants for everyone which will surely come. Provoke demonstrations at every opportunity, inciting the local regime to violence; or, if the latter has become sclerotic and emasculated, you can stage an "orange" revolution using herds of bored college students. After you're done, invite your moneyed friends to buy up whatever is left of the country's industry and natural resources.

This recipe has an excellent track record in the former Soviet block.
Good for you, but ... some details would be nice. Reads like a lazy blog entry. Please inform us as to more of your specifics. Do you eat non-veggie carbs ... like, at all?
If your site is focused on visitors from a particular country / locale you lose the ability to geo-target as you could in Google Webmaster Tools [1]. Other than that you shouldn’t see any issues — check http://nic.ly/ for officially accredited registrars.

[1] http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en...
Qwerty

looking at dvorak, I fail to see how its more convenient

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:KB_United_States_Dvorak.sv...
Not really "advanced": most of this is pretty basic - includes cursor movement, searching as well as some more interesting stuff.
I use too many computers on a daily basis to bother to learn Dvorak. If I could get it down to 1-2 per week I'd consider it, though.
Thanks for bringing that to my attention. I hadn't considered geolocation among the issues.
If Apple's lawyers can can justify that legally unlocking phones will lead to more drug deals and collapse of cell towers, they will be able to justify this.
While I'm sure this approach has general merits, I'm also fairly certain that different dietary approaches will work with varying levels of success for different people.
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Sorry, I thought that I was clear on that: I eat meat, eggs, cheese, and green vegetables. That's it.

I suppose I do use wine, salt, and other seasonings when I cook. By "meat" I mean meat, poultry, and fish.

I don't worry about no-calorie drinks. I drink mostly tea. Sometimes diet soda. It doesn't seem to make any difference.
He's put that in to just the right words. While fake networking isn't that harmful, its something that wouldn't benefit you in anyway.
http://correspondents.theatlantic.com/conor_clarke/2009/06/d...

It's actually even less bad than I thought, because that six month difference is for 2050 rather than 2040.
http://or.ly has been taken. sniff
What Waxman-Markey Will Do To The Economy
All the vowels are on the home row...
Ask HN: review my idea for a consultancy/incubator [slides]
I have been considering several ideas for how to get my next startup off the ground without going back to zero income. There are several options available of course, but I wanted to focus on something that keeps paying the bills from the get go and leaves me without investors controlling the company. The idea is inspired by 37signals success turning a consultancy into a product. This takes it to the next level, a cooperative incubator funded by part time consultant work.
idlewords == Maciej Cegłowsk?
Interesting musings, but unfortunately for the author, they're not related to reality.

Not only is there no such thing as a "no obnoxious rich people paradox," but the English language has had a special term to describe just one subset of the obnoxious rich for over 200 years: nouveau riche. Likely the French have been sensitive to the concept for even longer: Molière's "Le Bourgeois gentilhomme" was written in 1670. For at least that long, rich people have not been free to do whatever they wanted. In fact, it's the rich themselves who policed "refined" behavior and codified it in the concept of manners.
Yes, a handshake is a starting point. Without trust between the original members of a project, you are doomed.

But I have met too many entrepreneurs who were foolish (small f) and lived to regret it dearly. Why take the risk?

Would you give similar quality advice on tecnhnical matters? "why worry about testing your code, just push your updates live". It's bad technical advice and you wouldn't want to give bad legal advice either, would you?
RSS Subscribers ofcourse. They have both the desire to actually read what you write and the ability to read more than 140 characters.
Measuring the economic effects of environmental legislation by looking at government debt is like measuring the speed of your car by looking at the price of apples.
Eggs (yolks) have a load of cholesterol. Watch out for that. IIRC, they're about 200mg each, where a sensible daily limit is 300-400mg.

EDIT: If you want to go all crazy-health-nut, the whites are 100% protein calories (~50/50 fat/protein in the yolks), have no cholesterol, and taste pretty much the same.

EDIT again: But I guess you don't really have much else in the way of fat sources, cheese aside. If you do this long-term, you might want to make sure your blood cholesterol levels don't go nuts.
I think you forgot that Microsoft has a near-monopoly on the consumer OS market, and as such a company in such a position, is subject to a lot of governmental regulation and scrutiny. Microsoft's ability to do anything with windows should be looked at carefully by all anti-trust bodies in all countries.

With this in mind, the governments must create a free market for browsers where there is a mono-culture of operating systems.
If you read the book mentioned in the article, he also talks about how the whole "eating cholesterol is bad" is also a myth and bad science.
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It's pretty clear what you were thinking of, and pretty disgusting. Wishing more bloodshed on a country that has seen so much of it in the past century is the worst kind of armchair punditry.

As far as references to a 'Chinese psyche' go, that's skating awfully close to 'the Oriental mind'. You really want to generalize over a billion people?
I use QWERTY, but I always remap Caps Lock to Left Control because I use Emacs (both in Windows and Linux).

http://steve.yegge.googlepages.com/effective-emacs
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I didn't have the eye strain problems, but did have pain in arms, wrists, under and around my shoulder blade for my right hand. I used my right had to mouse. Was working on a project that "must go live" and the last month of implementation I spent 60 hours a week coding. Seriously.

Big mistake. A day after the launch I could not type, mouse, anything with my right hand as my muscles would ache and lock up.

At work I had a desktop, at home a laptop. The laptop was on a desk that violated every law of ergonomics known to man. The chair was a cheap $79 chair I got in college from the local office supply store. More mistakes.

Fast forward a year, I'd begun to notice that my right arm/hand ached all the time and the area between my shoulder blade and spine constantly held a knot.

My PCP prescribed pills and sent me to physical therapy. That helped a little but the side effects from the pills made me feel drunk all the time. The PT used a technique called "traction" that I later found out was chiropractic in nature. That stretched my neck and seemed to help the symptoms. That an excercises and an occasional pill when I had a bad flare up seemed to help manage things.

Fast forward another year and after an ergonomic makeover (explained below) I was hurting again and figured I'd go see a Chiropractor which my family (all Chiro success stories) suggested I go to. Wow! I've just celebrated 1 year of Chiropractic care and feel amazing! It's not solved all of my issues and I still have to manage my time in front of the computer, but it forces me to use it wisely.

Here's a list of items that have helped me:

- Read everything you can about Ergonomics

- Buy an Elevator for your laptop - www.griffintechnology.com/products/elevator - By itself it isn't high enough for me so I have 2 thick text books under that as well to keep my eyes at a 90 degree angle from my screen

- Buy a good chair. I broke down and bought an Aeron chair from a used office supply store. One of the best moves I could have made.

- Take loads of breaks, stretch, excercise. Push ups, lateral pulls, "give yourself a hug" all relieve tension and strain. Find any and all stretches for your neck and upper back.

- Sleep. Really, look at the code you've written when you're fatigued and look at code you've written when rested. My CTO says that "every programmer has 4 good hours of code in them a day". That doesn't mean to work 4 hours, but that you need to listen to yourself when you're "spent". Accomplish the toughest tasks first thing, then once your "spent" do the menial tasks that take effort but little critical thinking.

- Go to a Chiropractor. I kick myself for suffering literally for 2 years! For the wrist pain, they can pop your wrists and relieve the pain.

Good luck and I hope my suggestions help someone.
Maybe. I've heard a couple people with similar diets wonder why their plasma cholesterol is so high, whether or not it's from the dietary cholesterol. YMMV.
This would work if you can find the people to make it work, consulting isn't really a "new" route to starting a startup and neither is using consulting income to support it instead of outside money.

The real question is how do you find these "entrepreneurial" people and convince them to join together with you for lower cash and higher risk than they would have if they were working by themselves
As has obvious.ly ...dammit, dammit, dammit

My life is a history of missed internet land grab opportunities. I suck.
No eggplant, squash, onions, peppers, and such? Just greens? Sounds boring.

Also, no organ meat?
Indeed, the French has such a problem with the obnoxious rich that they coined another phrase two centuries after Moliere to describe the same problem: parvenu.
I have a Macbook, and I love it to death, but I also know a guy who had this happen to his thinkpad, and it was actually fine. It turned out the keyboard was hermetically sealed from the rest of the machine, and it had drain holes through the middle of the laptop. He let the water drain, let the whole thing dry, and turned it back on, and it was in perfect shape.
Well, read up on Gaddafi and decide whether you're willing to indirectly trade with the country he runs or not. Ultimately that's an ethical decision only you can make, but I think you should make it based on your informed personal view rather than what your customers might think.
the same thing used to happen to suspected communists in the U.S.

Name one suspected communist, please, who was detained by an authority in the U.S, who was denied a public hearing before a magistrate to challenge the legitimacy of the grounds for the detention or was denied a procedural right customary under English common law, such as the right to a trial by jury.
There is no free software, only software that is paid for by somebody else.
Warning: Anecdotal Evidence ahead

I tried dvorak on a whim back in high school, and now I could never go back to QWERTY. It's something that can't really be described how much nicer it is to type on a dvorak keyboard. If you have a couple weeks to learn it well, I highly suggest it.
In passing, weightlifting is mentioned. I think this is perhaps as relevant to the story as diet. Even if weightlifting has always been a part of the story, boosting protein and the resulting increase in muscle mass, can account for dramatic fat loss, as well. Muscle burns more calories than fat, so it is self-reinforcing.
"That $1,100 looks like a lot, but of course the country is projected be almost three times richer in 2050 than it is now. Average household consumption in 2050 will be $164,348."

That's quite the assumption. After all, growth usually flattens out after a while.
I can't believe everyone on TechCrunch can't see the difference between "highest percentage increase in green house gases" and "worst greenhouse gas emitters"... are they that foolish...

Of course countries that emitted few greenhouse gases have a higher percentage increase because any slight variation is a big one, while USA who is a mammoth when it comes to greenhouse will logically have small percentage changes because it's already huge (similar with GDP changes, 1% of GDP increase in USA is equivalent with 380% of GDP in Sweden for example and so on... btw, bogus numbers just to exemplify).
Your anecdotes don't match the research. Consumption of animal products is not much correlated to serum cholesterol. Serum cholesterol in turn is not much correlated to mortality. If anything it's been found that low levels are of greater concern than high levels.

Cholesterol is not really worth measuring. Triglycerides and insulin levels/sensitivity are maybe worth measuring.

Avoiding egg yolks is stupid. All the vitamins and minerals are in the yolk.
Wow. Words are so slippery, especially for a bad writer like me. Let me be clear: I have no desire whatsoever to see a bloody revolution in China. I am by no means advocating a revolution. The "lifting a finger" bit was a joke about our laziness, not a call to action, although I see now how poorly it was worded. It would be hard for your interpretation to be more at odds with how I actually feel. I'm for peace and quiet and hacking Lisp. That said, I was calling it as I see it, and I can very easily see what I called.

As for the Tank Man bit, would it change your mind if I told you I was half Chinese (I'm not, but still)? It's like saying "there's a revolutionary streak in the American mindset" -- totally innocuous.

Damn, talk about miscommunication ...
I generally choose the fattiest cuts of beef and pork that I can find. My triglycerides have gone down and my HDL has gone up, as one would expect given the link between carbohydrate intake and serum cholesterol. I'm planning to get retested in January.

As for the link between dietary cholesterol and serum cholesterol? Here's an ACN meta-study:

http://www.jacn.org/cgi/content/abstract/16/6/530

"The misperception that dietary cholesterol determines blood cholesterol is held by many consumers in spite of evidence to the contrary...10 clinical trials (1994 to 1996) of the effects of dietary cholesterol on blood lipids and lipoproteins indicate that addition of an egg or two a day to a low-fat diet has little if any effect on blood cholesterol levels."
I have been experimentally attempting to avoid reading TechCrunch over the last week and discovered I don't miss it.

Anything important they cover is covered in more detail elsewhere (usually they're just re-reporting something from the WSJ/NYTimes) and surfaced for me either by Techmeme or Hacker News. All of TechCrunch's original reporting is dross, and often inaccurate.

There seems to be this consensus in the tech community that TechCrunch is an industry-shaping dealmaker, but that reputation seems mostly to be coming from TechCrunch itself.
Basic or not, this is a fine collection of VIM patterns. While vim help is OK but far from usable, it's just too long to read without a proper formatting. This site is just the opposite, short and easy to navigate tips, quite handy as a reference.
+1 for Caps Lock to Left Control

I was amazed how easy this was to do in OS X. I could only do this with registry hacks on a PC, and I can't remember how I used to do it in Linux.
Right now the best way to add an app is to email your setup program (or a link) to contact@baseshield.com. Then we'll get it packaged up and added to the store.

We know this process is a little awkward now, but we've got some exciting new stuff coming out soon that makes sandbox creation easy.
It's more accurate to say that this had little to no track record in the former Soviet sphere. The US had essentially no involvement (often to the despair of Soviet bloc citizens) in any of the three major uprisings (1956, 1968 and 1980-89). In fact, in the last of these (the period of instability beginning with the Gdansk Shipyard occupation in Poland, kicking up in 1988 and continuing through the "Year of Revolutions"), US reaction was initially completely curtailed by the lack of a coherent Reagan policy on Russia/Poland. People were speaking freely, striking on a regular basis and eviscerating censorship, and the US couldn't decide whether providing increased economic assistance to Poland in exchange for continued toleration of the political situation might be a threat to detente/whether detente was really the best solution at all. It wasn't until later in Reagan's presidency that Gorbechev handed him an effective Russian policy.

Another thing that I think it's hard for the modern observer to acknowledge, given the benefit of hindsight, is the incredible ambivalence the Western left felt for some of these revolutionary movements. Many leftists of the 1968 generation wanted some form of socialism to work, and there was always a hope that an East Germany or Czechoslovakia could slowly reform into an authoritarian, yes, but competitive working-class social welfare state. The Polish uprising especially seemed to throw leftists off guard; here was a revolutionary movement dominated by conservative, Catholic traditionalists who wanted things to be _like they were before the war_. This wasn't in the discourse of the Democratic (by which I mean the party) mainstream, but it was a major element of leftist political thought of the time, and it's not hard to see how that could rub off on the measures and rhetoric American administrations were willing to take.

In short, the US was pretty much a nonentity when it came to "interference in the internal affairs" of Soviet puppet states. The "hardline" right was all talk and no action in deference to the longstanding policy of detente, and the moderate/radical left was too focused on criticizing American nuclear policy and too ambivalent about the broad-based dissident movements focused on individual liberties springing up in the Soviet bloc to push for intervention.
Most people in the US don't eat organ meats (other than what's in hotdogs).
For almost two months, exclusively Colemak. I had used QWERTY, and never tried Dvorak. I'm enjoying it.

http://colemak.com/
No, I don't avoid any of the above. I do avoid grains, starchy vegetables like potatoes and plantains, rice and beans.

Everything else is fine. I use onions and garlic more than anything else. Broccoli or asparagus when I feel like having a side dish. Green chili whenever I can. But I eat far more meat than vegetables.

I've been experimenting a little with organ meat. To be honest, except for liver, it's generally not that appetizing to me. So I don't eat it.
Do I hate that the only implementation of Qi is not fully FOSS? Yes.

Do I love this essay? Yes.
I've owned a .ly domain for about two years now (with libyanspider has been the only registrar I know of for that time). While the prices are high, and the support staff speaks limited english, and the site is confusing, I haven't had any serious problems.

The service is as advertised; support exists. When they accidentally locked me out of my account by changing their control panel, things were resolved in less than two days via email.

That's good enough for me. Just remember: you are subject to Libyan obscenity laws. No porn, no bashing Islam.
I always like to see a little more science in articles that use the word "science" in the title.