skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had never even visited techcrunch, venturebeat, mashable or engadget before stumbling upon HN. There are a ton of links to these sites.

But the thoughtful and insightful discussion by like-minded developers is a breath of fresh air.
I can't get at the full text without paying $7, which is not quite something I'm willing to do, but I'd question the timeframe of the experiment. Low-carb dieters frequently report that the first two or three days of the diet are very rough days due to low-energy, but then they bounce back and feel much better, often reporting that they feel better than before. (Self-reporting caveat here, of course. Note that I have heard real people say this in real life, though, not just diet books making the claim, though of course placebo may be in play.) My point here is not that the self-reports should be "trusted", for some value of "trusted", but that there's already anecdotal experience that indicates that the timeframe matters, which I would consider enough experience that investigation across more than just the "short term" is fully warranted. I read the abstract carefully and all it says for the time-frame is "short-term".

In terms of trying to help me understand my diet choices scientifically, this isn't any help, as it doesn't bring any new information in (and then, if I am correct about the timeframe, over-interprets the results). Short-term effects aren't the same as long-term effects in a self-correcting system like a living body.

If someone else is willing to drop the funds, let me know if they're more specific on the timeframe involved.
http://embraceware.com/awaken/ can do that for mac os
I read a little of "jQuery in Action", but just enough to get started and then just used the API docs.
Well, that's just a single anecdote isn't it? I am a fucking Arab and I can tell you this; our economies are paralyzed because Arab nations are operating at half speed since women are pretty much outside the work force (or if they're working, they're underpaid, under utilized, or most bloody likely, worked to exhaustion but uncredited.)

The fact that here we have a group of men discussing the "problems" of feminism doesn't mean feminism is bad. It just means you guys don't like it; which is fine, you're not supposed to like an ideology that's out to make your social model of a benevolent-patriarch-at-the-helm obsolete. I come from a place where men's judgment and leadership has consistently failed.
Google Loses Search Market Share … to Yahoo?
Some interesting search market share numbers. Competition is a good thing.
http://www.psy.fsu.edu/~baumeistertice/goodaboutmen.htm

Interesting article talking about gender differences.
Step 1: Figure out a way to quickly and flimsily implement the idea and release it.

Step 2: See what happens next and react to it.

Step 3: Repeat step 2 until the idea becomes a success. Or give up if its clear it could not possibly succeed.
This guy may be making this up or exaggerating claims, as others here suggest. But does it seem odd to anyone that Zahi Hawass can simply dismiss the claims outright with the bizarre statement that "There are no new discoveries to be made at Giza. We know everything about the plateau."

There is nothing left to be learned? Really?

As the head of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities, Hawass has turned Egyptology into a one-man show. If you watch any television coverage of a new discovery related to ancient Egypt, it's Hawass who gets the interview and Hawass who takes credit. Nowhere is there mention of the other people who work at the digs, do the research, or interpret the results.

Maybe Hawass gets so much attention because reporters are lazy and don't try to contact anyone else for an opinion (as opposed to Hawass insisting on being the only spokesperson.) But the real danger is that Hawass's domination of the field may be holding back other interpretations -- and insights.
I agree with the groupthink thing, there are some pretty well defined no-fly-zones for ideas and opinions, but given that the charter is more "be nice" than "get to the bottom of every issue", I'm happy to let things slide when I don't agree with the dominant line of thought.

I so far gravitate toward other sites to balance my conversational diet.
I've been looking forward to this year's startup school for some time and hope I get the opportunity to go.

If accepted, I'd be flying in from the east coast. Since no one finds out before the submission deadline, I'm stuck making travel arrangements two to three weeks before the event, correct? Just want to make sure for planning purposes.
Here's a great response to the study from one of the icons of the Primal/Paleo/low-carb community:

http://www.marksdailyapple.com/high-fat-diets-make-us-stupid...

Executive summary: This study (or at least the media's response to it) attempts to extrapolate a 9-day study on rats to an overall implication on human diets.
Yeah, news.yc has changed my expectations forever about the way people interact with each other online. I can't look at any other forums these days without being appalled at how casually rude everybody is.
I'm sorry, I hate to break it to you, but citing dictionary definitions doesn't actually prove anything. Go out and look at real political discourse, and tell me that, well, almost any political term is actually well-defined in practice. Conservative, liberal, democrat, republican, socialist, fascist, feminist, racist, you name it, the term has been virtually stripped of meaning. People slinging the term like an insult, people wrapping themselves in the term to score political points, academics deconstructing the term for fun. See also: denotation vs. connotation

Heck, I'll even cut you a break and let you just use the discourse that appears in those gloriously-editor-mediated "major media outlets" without having to muck about with the hoi polloi that wouldn't know what the OED was if you (laboriously) hit them with it; it's still the same result.

"What's the point of discussing silly made-up rights"

Well, to take one silly made-up right that has been the topic of much recent political discourse, there's the "right to healthcare" that has been making the rounds, which certainly can't be found in the Constitution or any discussion of rights of any significant age (such as the classic discourse of the Founding Fathers or Enlightenment philosophers), unless you squint really, really hard.

And, if you feel that isn't a silly, made-up right, well, I'm sure you can manage to find someone who will say "the right to pursue a career unfettered by non-gender-fair obligations like childbirthing" isn't either. "Right" has been ill-defined for a long time; it fits right in to that list I gave above. (Which, by the way, is a heavily abridged list; as I said, you name the term it's probably been stripped of all meaning, used to signify group membership more than any original denotation it may have ever had, with only rare people using it "correctly", and they not understood by any but those other rare people who use it "correctly".)
The tensions are between centralized authorities(command economies) and individuals(free market) making decisions.

The crux of the debate is whether the system should be centralized more or move toward individual human actors, whether these system could do better than the other, or whether it is something in between.(Ethical and political views are another story)

I believe the pundit was arguing that the most extreme example clearly demonstrate the fallacy of using central planning to do resource allocation.

Swedens, Denmark, and Canada are mixed economies which make it difficult to discern the effect of free market economies versus socialist system.
Way different than how I usually do it.

1) Meet someone at a pub and introduce each other.

2) Learn everything I can about his work/business, rank within the organization and what they do.

3) Discover something we can work on, either on the spot or after another planned meeting, this time over coffee.

4) Bet the farm and everything you own on a potential joint venture, give them a 2 month timeline til project.

5) Research like crazy and learn everything you can about the project, the client, their business.

6) Have the client write you checks weekly while you solve the general case.

7) Deliver the project, launch a "startup" on the side and get support and improvement contracts from the client.

8) Work 4-5 hours a day on this startup, reach out to the world and see who else is interested in the product and how can you help the industry.

9) Write articles for industry and trade publication and be sorta famous for computerizing one aspect of their business.

10) Gather ideas for sub-projects and launch a software sweatshop of one man, churning out good stuff for a handful of big boys, work like crazy, and be wired the whole fucking time.

11) Look around you for an exit, having discovered you pretty much painted yourself into a corner in terms of interesting problems to solve ;-)
Hm, looking forward to seeing if it's as misunderstood (under-estimated) as I think it is. I'll write this up as a full post later, but is it just me who imagines that Wave is sort of like Alan Kay's original vision for OOP - objects which "exist" across computers, respond to changes, etc.
Well, that's just a single anecdote isn't it?

Was it presented as data? I didn't realize that. Also, I didn't see any real data on your theory of Arab nations being at half speed because of the lack of women in the work force.

The fact that here we have a group of men discussing the "problems" of feminism doesn't mean feminism is bad.

Did anyone make that conclusion here, even implicitly?

You're not supposed to like an ideology that's out to make your social model of a benevolent-patriarch-at-the-helm obsolete.

Who are you talking to? Who here has put forward an ideology like that?

You obviously have very strong feelings on this subject. Let's keep it real and civil.
He, hehe, hehehe. I've been on that conference call.
Rails has certainly become loads better. But the source is still cryptic to anyone but a ruby master. Rails 3 is in the works which is turning into mostly a full rewrite as near as I can tell. I expect Rails 3 code base to be much easier to understand. But that's not out yet and when it is, I expect you'll need to wait a year before enough of the libs and plugins are running smoothly.

It sounds like you have enough python under your belt and like django well enough. I'd recommend going with that. Your not missing out on some other framework/language pair that is more powerful.

I use ruby/merb. I occasionally look around for something I like better but nothing is worth the switching costs at this point.
They sell more than coffee.
I noprocrasted my account for 4 months. I used to feel more involved in the community than I do now. I'll consider that lurking.
"it does not take well-developed political skills to rule over creatures smaller than you are, weaker than you are, and completely dependent upon you for survival or thriving."

Truly spoken as someone who has not spent much time caring for children. At least, I hope not. The implication that being smaller than you gives you more power, only makes sense if you are going to consistently use physical force to ensure compliance. The fact they are completely dependent on you only gives you power if you are willing to keep basic necessities from them to coerce them into compliance.

Otherwise, political skills are going to be pretty darn handy at times.
Not sure how it applies to this specific problem, but comparing JSON and XML in a general case is like comparing a Prius and a M1 Abrams. Obvious examples: XML has multiple ways of defining validation (in a way even your text editor will understand). XPath. XSLT.
Is it possible to make a listing for a particular event, e.x. say I only wanted to open up my apartment to Startup School attendees?
You could always make one :D

http://www.slinkset.com
Define idea as a problem

Find someone that has this probem [ID your target market]

Ask them if they would use your solution
Uhm...it runs linux.

cd emacs && ./configure && make && make install
This could just as easily be the effect of fats on the sense of smell (smelling the condensed milk, not the corridor).

Or maybe it just wasn't as hungry, and thus less motivated. Fat is well known for giving a feeling of satiation.
Interesting thing about this article. Most of it is about dental care, which isn't covered in Canada. Not sure about other places with nationalized health care.
That looks awesome
>attempts to extrapolate

and fails
The class warfare angle is the rich and upper middle class simply don't want to pay for the poor

Every time you put measures in place to stop people getting something their not entitled to, you make a compromise between the percentage of people you stop vs the pain you inflict on those who are entitled.

Eg - DRM. The harder it works to make sure no one can copy something, the more pain it inflicts on those who've purchased the item legitimately. At some point you need to decide that you're willing to let a certain number of people get away with something to ease the pain on everyone else. Where you draw the line is the difficult bit.

I think that's what's happening here, but there's a certain demographic who are so determined to make sure that absolutely no one gets any sort of free ride/handout that they're willing to take the risk that they too will be disadvantaged. Instead of deciding that for the benefit of most people a few may receive a free ride, they'd rather members of their own demographic face the possibility of bankruptcy and/or death at the hand of your insurance companies.

Like I said, I honestly cannot understand this mentality.
The people defending are the people for whom it works pretty well.

Ironically, I have read (forget where, sorry) that many of the people protesting an overhaul are elderly people who receive public healthcare. The reason is that they are afraid it will mess up their current plan, which they like.

Politics can be very strange.
That's not part of HTTP 1.1, just a popular convention for URLs carried over from Telnet/FTP, see: http://www.w3.org/Addressing/rfc1738.txt
It would be more REST-ful if a GET simply resulted in coffee at my terminal. (More restful for me anyway...)
They're more like comedians than trolls. People who agree with them enjoy listening to them say audacious things and people who disagree with them enjoy getting a rise out of the audacious things they say. I think some people must really enjoy outrage, because there's a surprising number of liberals who read Coulter, listen to Limbaugh, and watch Fox News.
I almost instinctively downmodded you for how stupid that remark was before remembering it was Dvorak saying that and not you.
Agreed on all of your points other than "power-hungry politicians with a deeper, anti-capitalist agenda". There are some true morons in office in this country, especially most of Congress, but if you can provide me with a single example of an elected official who appears to be truly "anti-capitalist" I'd be shocked.
yes, but it may not resemble the linux you've come to know and love. they've already said that it has a custom window manager, i.e., not X11. so who knows what else they've left out.
"Health spending as a share of GDP

US 16%

UK 8.4%

Public spending on healthcare (% of total spending on healthcare)

US 45%

UK 82%"

The most interesting thing about this, is that the U.S. government is spending about the same percentage of GDP on healthcare as the U.K. government. So, throw out the entire private health insurance system in the U.S., and we would still be spending roughly the same amount of GDP on health care as the U.K.

So the real question then becomes, why can we not get the same health care system as the U.K. for the money our government is already spending?

That's a good starting point for this whole discussion, I think.
I have no commitments. Though I might have different risk-tolerance. However I'm not entirely sure that's a bad thing.
It's actually the opposite. The universe has a speed limit. And light moves as fast as it is possible to go.

As opposed to light itself being the decider of the speed limit.

Light is not the only thing that moves at the speed limit. Gravity does too. Magnetic and electric forces do as well (which makes sense since light is made out of a combination of both, but the point is that the individual elements also move at the speed limit).

Now, why did the universe pick that specific speed as the limit? No one knows.
I'm in a similar situation. My favorite podcast is The Skeptic's Guide to the Universe, which follows in the footsteps of Houdini and Sagan, applying critical thinking to life.

Still, even though No Agenda is basically the complete opposite, I just can't stop listening. There's something about it.

Also, Dvorak is a columnist, people, not a journalist. There is a difference.
Those definitions are quite different from each other!
Looking for competitors can be discouraging. When is it a good idea to seek out the tougher aspects of the idea? If you get discouraged too early then that's no good. Ideally one would be able to stay excited and keep working either way.

Anyone have any experience with this?
Recession Triggers the Year of Open Source Adoption
Yes.

I buy lots of printed books (and not just for programming). I've probably bought at least a dozen computer books this year alone. I've read several of them cover to cover, substantial portions of several, and used several just for occasional reference. My favorite type of computer books to buy is more theoretical books. Most books to learn a technology are not much better than tutorials online. Reference books don't really beat Google. However, books intended for READING are much better in print. There is no way I would read Code Complete on a computer screen. 800, or however many pages it is, is just way too much not to have paper and ink.

Another point for books, you OWN them. Most digital content, you don't really own. If it has any DRM at all of any kind whatsoever, you don't own it. You're leasing it at best. Furthermore, accidental deletion and disk failure are much more likely than your house burning down or flooding to destroy your books. It's even worse if the content lives on someone else's servers. I don't want the availability of my books to be subject to some company's continued existence. If Honda goes out of business, I still have a car. If O'Reilly goes out of business, I should still have my books. There are other ways this comes up. If my internet access goes out, I should still have my books.

Another point of books, you can resell or gift them. I bought a computer book recently that I didn't find very useful. I think I got it for like $30 used on Amazon. It's still going for about the same price. So basically I can sell it and have paid nothing for it. Try that with a PDF.

Another advantage of books, you can go to a bookstore and browse through them all you want. If you really wanted, you could go to Barnes & Noble, get some coffee, pick up a computer book and read the whole thing there in the store. Sure, some places give previews, but they decide what part of the book the preview comes from and how much you can see. When you're shopping for books, you decide (assuming you're in a store, not on Amazon).
Perhaps replies should include the business(es) that was/were yielded from the the steps outlined.

I'm all for discussing ideas, but this question is more about getting better results than merely throwing out "this is how I do it".

I'd want to know how the dropbox, reddit, google, basecamp, balsamiq, uservoice, pbwiki, weebly... idea-flow worked.

Not so much the "yeah this is how i come up with ideas that never really ...uhhh...worked out ....".

No offense of course, but just so we can be clear on the matter!
Just read the article. The problem is, people are not ready to listen right now to the idea that markets naturally produce the best outcomes. We are trying to get out of a world wide economic collapse that was the result of unregulated markets. At least, that is the general perception. And I must admit, it is my perception as well.

More specifically, if you make a mistake in the market for a new MP3 player, you just have a crappy MP3 player and you're out a couple hundred bucks or so, and you buy a different brand next time. If you make a mistake buying health insurance, and only discover that your policy does not guarantee you the right to continue purchasing insurance at your existing rate when you are diagnosed with an illness, it could result in bankruptcy or even death.

So you understand the hesitancy to trust unregulated market forces when the issue is literally life and death.
> I've been programming low-latency, high throughput C++ systems for more than 5 years now

You will cringe at the web stuff then. Lots and lots of CPU cycles are wasted to shorten the development cycle and simplify (dumb down) the life of the developers. Layers upon layers of abstraction. Using PHP to generate a static HTML page is not a big deal. This sort of thing.

It certainly makes a lot of business sense as the hardware is cheap, and the labor is not. But if you are used to squeezing every last drop of performance from you code, it will be painful to look at some of the web stuff.
It was tested on rats, so the type of fat probably doesn't matter (in regards to the effect on rats), since rats are more capable of handling and neutralizing the effects of bad fats than humans are.

EDIT (quoted from the comments by the author)
"AND MORE INFO FROM DR. MURRAY:

This particular study didn’t look at any specific fat types, but used a fairly normal mix of saturated, polyunsaturated and monounsaturated fats, as well as long chain and medium chain fatty acids. The readers are absolutely right that not all are likely to be equal, so we are carrying out further studies to flush out the real culprits. My own feeling is that the long chain fats are the worst offenders when it comes to decreasing metabolic efficiency, with medium chain fatty acids (such as those in coconut oil) possibly being less detrimental."
I built a social news site this past spring called cuuute.com. It was a reddit for cute stuff. I built the site because I thought my wife would enjoy it, and I thought I would enjoy working on it. I was wrong on both accounts, so I shut the site down 3 months after it started. I still think it's a viable idea, I'm just not the person to make it happen.

I took a few months off, and mulled different ideas around. I'm a nurse, so I thought a lot about opportunities in health care IT. I kept coming around to "I really don't like health care, and I don't want to work in it".

I bought a list of 50,000 top paying google keywords, and cross referenced it with a google scrape of how many hits per keyword there are. That gave me a ratio of (top paying keywords)::(# of hits). I sorted the list by that ratio.

There were thousands of items near the top of that list on financial terms.

So, during the months after my last project, I traveled visited family, and rolled a lot of this information around in my head. Two weeks ago I decided to make a social news site devoted to financial news. Why? Because 1) I think it's a subject that can hold my attention for several years, and 2) I think there's a need in the market for news aggregators/filters and 3) I think it can be monetized.

Friends and family have both tried to talk me out of the idea and have encouraged me. Most of those conversations have not been helpful at all. The really helpful people have suggested ways of iterating on the social news idea to improve it.
You'd think so, but why is healthcare so different than everything else? Most human needs are cared for by markets, albeit with government assistance as needed. Why should the government centrally run a health care monopoly rather than simply giving financial assistance, as needed, to people to pay for health care on an open market? That's how we've accomplished "universal food".
You did not mention what your father's out of pocket expenses were. In the Canada example, out of pocket was $0.