skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hope this was a joke. Concepts like a "mandate of Heaven" are completely irrelevant in modern China. Also as a side note, China really hasn't had disproportionately more "revolutions" than any other nation with such a long history.
An associated paper was released by the author over here:
http://www.info.ucl.ac.be/~pvr/VanRoyChapter.pdf
Is this the only post you got with positive Karma?
The part about dumpster diving reminded me of when I used to help a friend of mine slop his pigs. He had arrangements with a few restaurants and old folks homes for their leftover food and we would drive around, pick it up in these large plastic garbage bins and feed it to his pigs. It would always surprise me when he would often pick over the food before we gave it to the pigs, looking for things like chicken legs which he would summarily devour. I never could bring myself to do it.
I've been able to eat a diet of 80%+ fresh produce on $90/month.

A lot of it involved getting the reduced-almost-bad produce and cooking it day-of, state-level farmer's markets, and dumpster diving, though. Plus, being a college student where every week you can find something free...
two sided panels that you flip over make a lot more sense
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BSBA Finance; 2 classes shy of BS in Mathematics; starting MSFE in a month; worked as an equity trader, trust analyst, and retail broker
Remember the smug responses from Boeing and the number of US media reports when the Airbus A380 wing failed at 149% and they had to add (gasp) 30kg of extra stiffening.
My experience running such a consulting firm in the (distant) past was that the best way to stay profitable is to focus on WOM. Use any connections you have now to get some gigs, do above and beyond (regardless of what those early clients pay you) to make those customers extremely happy, and new project will keep coming your way.
The best thing about those referrals was that they were mostly serious - not just checking us to convince themselves that using some company in India is so much cheaper, and tended to close.
Other forms of promotion, PR mostly, resulted in lots of phones and meetings that usually led to nothing and proved to be a huge waste of time. Since in a consulting firm time = money in a the most acute sense, that hurt.

Oh, and regarding your website, you should improve the design. Don't think of it as a way to get new clients, that's unlikely. However, even if someone had heard about you through a referral, they check out your website first. It must look professional (i.e. business-like boring). If it doesn't, you lost them before they even talked to you. So this isn't a matter of getting clients, it's a matter of not losing them.
Ever since I moved to the US I've gotten into the habit of packing half my restaurant dinners for tomorrow. If the average American actually finishes these things regularly, then you guys have got a real problem.

(Exception runs for certain restaurants of course. The more "mainstream chain" it is the bigger the portions get...)

Hell, I've even had to cut down on my portion size. Find good, nutritious food that is filling, and go for stuff that is slower to digest. I've now just about halved my carb in take and replaced it with vegetables, and I haven't felt better.
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Depends on how you define fun, and where you sit. All the "fun" stuff from the 80's and 90's has turned into companies like Apple, Microsoft, Nokia and Motorola. Their founders have been living what I'm sure they would consider "fun" lives for quite a while. :-)
This is one of the dumbest blog posts I've ever read. Your employer choosing to do something you disagree with affords you the same rights you had before they made that choice ... to vote with your legs. It doesn't give you the right to commit fraud, anarchy, and corporate treason.

Presumably you were probably hired assuming you could behave like an adult. Act like one ... unlike the author of the blog post.
It's not just the commoditization, but our efficiency. Searching for information is oodles easier (to use a technical term ;) than it has been (say pre-google/wikipedia).

Furthermore, on-line communities like HN filter up all of the more interesting new pieces of information resulting in much quicker dissemination of good ideas.
Poor people who couldn't afford meat have been much worse off health-wise because they weren't eating well in general, because they don't have access to medicine, because they don't have access to supplies for hygene.

Put another way: poor people are worse off for a great number of reasons, but I don't think that proves that rice and beans will kill you.

Jarad Diamond (among others) showed that switching to civilized society shortened lifespans. You're not advocating becoming a hunter-gatherer and neither am I, so it's not really germane. Civilized society has a lot of factors that contribute to earlier death, such as population density helping the spread of disease. To draw from his work that carbohydrates will send you to the hospital is to draw a totally unsupported conclusion.

"Weren't you the one suggesting refined beans?" I was the one who replied with a recipe when you suggested that the diet was lacking fat and protein.

You don't address the issues of cost and you still haven't shown that the level of carbohydrates present in beans are a problem. My point is that most foods present trade-offs and you should probably eat a reasonably balanced and varied diet.
...for varying definitions of "comfortable" and ignoring certain opportunity costs
The following page gives implementations in 33 different languages:

http://www.scriptol.com/programming/sieve.php

Of course, many of them (including the Haskell implementation) fall victim to the criticism presented in this paper.
IronRuby and the Road to 1.0
Hackintosh Capable Netbooks
Motorola to use automatic social networking updates to set its phones apart.
I may be wrong, but I think lard has less saturated fat then butter and possibly even cream cheese. So while not good for you in anything other then tiny quantities, it may be less bad for you then other stuff you have problem putting on your bagel.
The film Wargames was set in Portland, and I've always wanted to see if the arcade is still around.
In fact, you can eat all "unhealthy" food and be far healthier than 95% of the people around you by keeping a calorie budget and exercising enough.

In my case, I buy vats of lard at the local grocer and use it liberally. It tastes delicious.

I also work out at least an hour a day. No one feels the need to moralize about people failing to work out an hour a day, and yet that will have 10 times the benefit of micromanaging the nutrients in your diet. I'm strong and fit and my cholesterol is low.

Despite the fact that everyone knows I'm fit, they still say, "Imagine how much healthier you would be and how much more energy you would have if ate "better"?"

!!

Since, I'm the one who's fit, shouldn't you be asking me for advice?

Moralizing about people's diets is part of the same line of thinking as the Progressive movement that sprung Prohibition on us. And, of course, the Progressive movement can trace its philosophical lineage to the Puritans, so there you go.

Eating lots of fruits and vegetables and low-fat foods is not a good in and of itself. A diet is only healthy or unhealthy to the extent that its quality is reflected in your own health.
You should look into integrating the Songbird Web API. It's worked really well for places like the Hype Machine and SkeemR. http://wiki.songbirdnest.com/Developer/Developer_Intro/Webpa...
This is dumb for so many reasons. "Manually rank your site".. I don't think there's even a remote possibility for that in such a distributed system. "Redirect searches"... apart from the obvious unfeasibilty, it would take a few hours (maybe minutes) for people to start noticing and that will hit the blogosphere/twitter's fan. You won't get your comission as bloggers/twitterers won't rest until your affiliate account is locked, closed, banned and server that it was on been exploded for safety. "... let it last for a few months" Yeah, that'll happen.

Don't forget that chances are the guy or team that does the recommendations from the article would be sued for lost profits for sure.

The author talks from a standpoint where he changed a code on a small-sized project where there's no real oversight or distribution, so that it's actually technically possible to modify code to do extremely questionable action and get away with it. That won't work in huge company like Yahoo.

I really hope this article was tongue-in-cheek.
I suspect I have a super different background and interests than the author of this article, but totally agree.

I'll start from an arts angle.

I really like music, and one of the main reasons I live in Portland is the incredible music scene. Coming from San Francisco, one can see a million reasons why so many bands (and artists) move from SF/Oakland to here. A million more houses with basements, let alone dwellings that don't share two sides with others. (in SF, even practice spaces are hard to get, even when you're able to afford one).

And of course the cost of living is better than SF, so theoretically artists can spend more time on their art.

But then you notice a lot more "community" resources in Portland, too, like the IPRC for zinesters. (free/very low cost access to old-school letterpress, Macs w/layout apps).

And MANY small venues for bands to play/artists to have shows, including many all ages venues, sometimes co-ops, sometimes regular business, sometimes house shows (but houses that have "real" names, and a decent setup, and show schedule) (high turnover, but these places are always starting up).

The venues are a really important building block for artists. Sometimes they're coffee shops with 20 feet of wall space for photos, sometimes they're spacious warehouses for orchestra bands.

But they are not just a satellite for OTHER artists, these spaces are somebody's dream in their own right. I now see restaurants and cafes in Portland as their own kind of awesome art/startup business that I've never seen anywhere else.

A dungeon-like donut shop? Vegan convenience store (they don't even try to be healthy :D), An all food-cart food court?

For whatever reason, people try crazy business/art ideas all the time in Portland, probably because failure isn't that terrifying financially.

But it's not just the "low cost" that I give credit to in Portland, but the symbiotic nature of businesses and projects. It's probably fragile, but all these disparate pieces are critical parts of other peoples projects. It's not mere generosity or community spirit, but just the nature of the ecosystem that gets created when you have enough people with a sincere passion in different parts of a common theme.

Some of the traditional building blocks of tech startups are missing in Portland (VC, multiple universities with business friendly tech research), but I think one reason that Portland geeks are unphased by this is that we're so grounded in some of the DIY principles of punk (there, i said it), that resourcefulness/open source/small scale scrappiness are just "business words" for values we've already internalized.
Money, honors, influence - anything contingent on impressing an audience.

An externally motivated person is capable of doing good science, given the right incentives. However, the way science is funded in most of the world today provides incentives for showmanship, rather than results. This trend has already destroyed physics (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0465092756) and computer science (http://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.com/2007/08/whats-w...) as respectable, intellectually honest fields.

Internally motivated people, driven purely by a love of their field's conceptual beauty, are invulnerable to having their goal system perverted by such systemic rot.
I don't think the author works for Yahoo. I think it is a pretty hilarious idea. It is not really anarchy or corporate treason since if Yahoo engineers implemented this they would be benefiting themselves, and users may not even see a difference in the behavior of the search engine if it's done correctly. Search engine URLs are already very long, and if you are just a normal user would you actually look for affiliate codes? Just think about how many ebay/amazon links you see on search results and you will see that it could work. Is it fraud? Not necessarily since many of these affiliate programs allow people to drive traffic any way they want. It is using company property like the blog post said, though. That could get them fired, but if like you said they should just leave anyway, then what's the big deal?

Anyway, the author did acknowledge that it is very unlikely to happen because the whole team and more have to be involved, but I agree that it would be funny if it did and it would make a good geek movie.
Do not overlook the importance of trademarks:

Be sure that you can obtain a trademark for your name from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (uspto.gov).

Be aware of the "gotchas" in what are considered acceptable trademarks.

For instance, under U.S. law, a "geographically (mis)-descriptive" trade name is often very difficult to trademark.

Furthermore, trademarks are often not addressed by OSI-approved open-source licenses (The GPL, for example). Therefore, obtaining a trademark for your open-source project can be a very effective way of de-comoditizing your open source project, achieving containment of forks, and building a revenue-generating business around your code base. Example: Red Hat vs Centos.

Own your namespace.
He may have invested in it because he thinks it's a good company, but providing it with a permanent space on his widely-read publication significantly improves the odds of his investment.

I doubt even the most honest reporter can reliably cover a market he's invested in. Actual journalists seem to agree: http://www.nytco.com/press/ethics.html#avoiding

(Unfortunately it seems that the people who wrote this ethics code are now taking cues from TC, rather than the other way around)
The article points out that that strategy will cause your page to block while it's loading. See http://www.stevesouders.com/blog/2009/04/27/loading-scripts-... for more info.
What I meant by fun was higher productivity, better utilisation of resources, rise in GDP based on innovation and that sort of stuff.

What is fun to one is, well something else, to another. :-)
Cray's Comeback and the Future of Supercomputing
The confusion between problems with hardware and problems with software is one reason why Apple only sells packages of the two.
Why was the TC/Sarah Lacy/sponsored posts article deleted?
Many of the links here are to TechCrunch articles, so discussion of TC's credibility is certainly relevant to Hacker News.

If the article is false, I think it makes sense to simply post a comment, or submit a link to a blog post, explaining that. Otherwise, I can't see why would this be flagged.
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In fact, you can eat all "unhealthy" food and be far healthier than 95% of the people around you by keeping a calorie budget and exercising enough.

So you're telling me that if you eat McDonald's for every meal for thirty years, you'll experience no health issues as long as you exercise enough? Tell you what: let's have this conversation again in thirty years, provided you're still around.

An anecdote about a personal experience over a relatively short period of time is of limited value to me. Study after study has shown that the western diet has severe detrimental effects in the long run, including diabetes, heart disease, and cancer. Can you mitigate some of that by exercising more? Absolutely. But thinking that you can put whatever you want into your body with no ill effects as long as you exercise enough is ridiculous.
I fail to see how this is any kind of problem whatsoever, unless the externally motivated people impede the internally motivated people in such a way that negative progress is made.
There is a lot to like about Portland. Free public transport within the downtown "fareless square", a relatively lower cost of living, and you are not very far away from almost any kind of outdoor activity you can imagine and you can find a group for just about any interest (robotics, rocketry, etc.). It also has, hands down, the best new/used retail bookstore (Powell's books) and technical bookstore I've ever seen. The weather is manageable though it does rain quite a bit but I'd take a Portland summer over the lukewarm San Francisco summers/falls anytime.
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Super-mega-lol at $20/night as bar costs. Maybe if you and your date have a drink each.
Ask HN: how do you learn Math?
I'm going back to school this September to finally get my formal education in CS. Part of this process will involve me doing some really basic math again (exponents/log easy), stuff that I've forgotten over the years of doing basic CRUD apps and web-apps. Getting some tutoring from my engineering husband doesn't seem to help : he processes problems and learning quite differently than I. He likes "rules to follow" and knowing operations you can perform on a problem. I cannot learn that way, and asked if he ever found proofs useful, resulting in a look of absolute horror as we realize that we think completely differently, and any teaching efforts will go wasted and end in utter frustration on both parts.

How did you learn math? Any recommendation of sites to pick up this stuff easily again?

Seriously I'm having trouble doing some simple algebra...it's scaring the heck out of me.
Eclipse hooks into your command line java compiler, that's why you define it in your preferences. There is also an environment variable CLASSPATH that you can set that the javac command-line command will use to resolve jar locations
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I believe the reason is actually to avoid intentional over production. If the employees know that they'll be able to take home any left overs, then why not bake a few extra cakes... that kind of stuff.
Brown rice gives me severe abdominal cramps - YMMV. Rice is good for bulk and brown rice gives more fibre but whilst it's a staple for many it's not great nutritionally.
Physics hasn't been destroyed. I love your passion but your claims are sensationalist. I looked at the reviews of the book, and apparently it's about how particle physicists are headed in the wrong direction. Oh no.
Perhaps I'm misunderstanding you, but I regularly use abstract classes with subclasses which add relationships to other things, and I've not seen this problem.
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Drive OpenBSD next time... rather than a head-on collision with multiple fatalities, it'll just be a small bump in the road.
I go the rules route. I don't know that you can learn algebra any other way, can you? I mean, if you don't know the rules, how are you going to do the problem? I hated proofs, though that is more applicable to geometry.
I'm sorry. Thanks for clarifying.
Clever! I like it.

It's kind of like how the Google Chrome logo looks like the Windows logo spun around.
Except for breakfast, every meal seems to be above his own 33 cents/meal budget.
What he proposes is immoral IMO, but what part is illegal? Possibly a breach of contract, but that's a civil wrong.
still not working for me
However, the story of the renaming of the Mitsubishi Pajero is not only true but weirder.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitsubishi_Pajero
How do you approach a problem?
I'm in Taiwan and I've got ADSL (10M down 2M up) through So-net. It's 400NT/month, or about 13 USD. I also have to pay about 10USD to the phone company each month. The service has been fantastic, with a static IP, no caps, and no noticeable slow-down during peak hours.

There's also talk of a gigabit service, similar to the Tokyo one coming soon.
Not if you put it at the bottom. Yes, it does block the page, but hopefully your page will degrade gracefuly until the js is loaded. If it doesn't, then you want it at the top, where it will block. It will load slower, sure, but people won't have to see a broken site.
Wow, I was pretty surprised that the US does so well in terms of the percent of the population using the Internet.
Knowledge passes from the paper, to the pencil, to the hand, up the body, and to the brain. My point: do lots of problems. Schaum's has some good material. Mathematics is just like anything else. If you want to be good at it, you have to practice it. It doesn't matter what level you are at, whether it be arithmetic or writing complex proofs.
>>> ' You won't get your comission as bloggers/twitterers won't rest until your affiliate account is locked, closed, banned and server that it was on been exploded for safety. "... let it last for a few months" Yeah, that'll happen. '

I'm sure you can get an affiliate account with a Russian viagra seller (servers and front end in Russa or similar, backend distribution in US or similar, tenuous links). You might not get your money, but it won't be because they locked your account.
I don't get this feeling often, but I felt dirty just reading this post.
Confessions of a Math Idiot
Ask HN: How To Accept Mobile Payments
It seems so natural to want to accept payments from mobile phones for digital content. Any companies doing this well? Zong.com?
The future that your looking forward to is already here but, as usual, not evenly distributed yet. I live in the UK and have had an HTC magic (http://www.htc.com/www/product/magic/overview.html) for a couple of months (with vodafone). It's a really good handset.
I think there is less math in undergraduate computer science programs than you might think.

If they require you to take calculus or a discreet mathematics course then you might have to re-learn some things, but exponents and logs aren't that common in pure CS classes.

I know this doesn't really answer your question, but good advice might just be: don't freak out.
This is assuming that the script file and the page it's included in are coming off the same server. Most people who are tweaking performance at this level have probably already separated the serving of static and dynamic content.
That's not anti-competitive because we aren't competing companies, we're friends and (to follow this metaphor the rest of the way through) my girlfriend hates you because she's afraid I'll leave her for you, and she'll throw such a big fit if I have you over, but she's on the lease and there's nothing I can do until the lease is up without causing even more drama.

It's more like, you're Standard Oil, and I'm Ford, and because my dealers are allowed to use every brand of motor oil except yours when they do oil changes, you refuse to let your service stations fill up my cars.
Yeah, you are wrong. In the windows 3.1 era, macs were at least as stable and much easier to use and maintain than the Microsoft alternatives. It wasn't really until Windows 95 came out that the stability of macs started to fall behind. Windows continued to close the gap on usabilitiy and ease of upkeep, but I'd argue that apple started opening their lead again once OS X was desktop ready.

There are a lot of reasons for Apple's failures in the 90s. Many of their wounds were self-inflicted. They f
The original System 8 was finally incomplete when it was cancelled well after it was expected to ship. It's successor also died in the womb or crib. Jobs's team finally got things in line by creating a roadmap for improving the legacy OS, readying OS X, and smoothing the tradition between the two.

With competent leadership, Apple might have fared better in the later 90s, but I still think Microsoft would have remained the biggest benificiary of the growth of the market. Wintel just had better looking upfront costs at a time when people didn't think as much about ongoing costs. This led to a positive feedback on economies of scale, installed base, and software availability.