skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can find facts that are universally agreed upon in the field of health and nutrition, and which are demonstrated with evidence in a scientifically rigorous way. Unfortunately you have to wade through a ton of superstitious and alarmist bullshit, which goes all the way up to some professional nutritionists and major newspapers. This is a field that should be treated like a science, but for some reason often isn't.

But saying there is much we don't know, so therefore it's reasonable to conclude we know nothing, is just a stupid logical fallacy. (It gets invoked in every religious debate too.)
So how are you planning to keep the site afloat? If this is something you really believe in and want people to use, you're going to have to come up with a plan to pay for the costs.
I have a standard, cheapo exercise notebook (27.2cm X 16.7cm, it says on the back). I just jot stuff down in it, keep what I need and throw away the notebook.
I know from direct experience that my health insurance company will place obstructions in the way of getting necessary medication in a misguided attempt at cost-control.
One is an artist with lots of personal issues that sometimes show through his way of doing business (I won't forgive Apple for breaking my TV cable ;-) - http://www.dieblinkenlights.com/blog_en/i-really-want-to-lik...), the other is a spoiled kid (http://philip.greenspun.com/bg/) with a sense of entitlement (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Letter_to_Hobbyists) and a borderline psychopath white-collar criminal that thinks law does not apply to him (if you disagree, please watch his DoJ deposition at http://www.poetv.com/video.php?vid=56015) with delusions that trying hard to become a philanthropist will make people forget his past.

Do we really need to compare them?
The rate of change of technology has been "adopted" by hardware designers, now with a considerate built in replacement time. That way we don't forget its time to upgrade again. Moore's Law was really gathering momentum/social acceptance in the mid 70s.
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Village that never was is finally on Google Maps, but in the wrong place
This is a blog about functional languages, so this man obviously knows a lot about Haskell but still required help for a game that would be prettymuch a hello world for someone in almost any other language.

I know nothing of your abilities, even so, if haskell is the only language you know well, I'd be impressed if you could make the game as fast as me or most ppl here.
Is coding on a netbook comfortable? What if you wanted to code for more than a few hours? Does the lack of screen space get to you or have you figured out an efficient configuration? (If you have, could you please post a screenshot?)

I already have a MacBook, but I rarely take it out because I rarely do any coding outside my place and lugging the whole thing through the Metro and bus system is not exactly my idea of fun. Having a netbook that I can easily lug around the city might actually encourage me to take my code with me wherever I go.
I would be very happy with a 768x1366 10 inch screen. Currently, I use an Acer Aspire One with an 9 inch screen as my main computer. The thing is that, when at my home office, I connect it to a big monitor, a nice mouse and a keyboard.

The only part I dislike is the 600x1024 pixel screen. It's a bit on the small size and lots of programs (and websites) seem to think 768 lines is the minimum.
Alternatively, you could find a camp site.
Write when inspired
http://steveblank.com/2009/02/23/theres-a-pattern-here/

http://www.amazon.com/Four-Steps-Epiphany-Steven-Blank/dp/09...
It depends on Demand, Supply and Distribution of Cash.

Demand	Cash	Supply
Y	Y	Y (USA aka Consumerism)
Y	Y	N (Dubai)
Y	N	N (India)
Y	N	Y (Inflation Under Control)
N	N	N (Chaos as in Africa)
N	Y	Y (Deflation as in Japan, Germany)
N	N	Y (Inefficient Govt and Society)
N	Y	N (Inflation as in Ethopia)
Agile Programming process makes sure projects gets done. There are dozens of other project management methods, yet there are only a rare few processes that lets you discover what customers want, and how to get it to them.

Steve Blank developed a step-by-step, formal methodology to developing customers. Eric Reis's "Lean Startup" incorporates those ideas as well as others. Check out their blogs and get Blank's book. Why reinvent the wheel?
Is it a great find? In many cases you can't really believe what you find on the cover of a world known news paper, written by an author every body can connect to a face. That's why you have to add other sources in science papers and serious journalism, too. And here we have a description of something without even having an author. What can you really learn from this mail?
THE FALLACY OF THE GREAT IDEA

"The problem with the great idea is that it concentrates the mind on the idea itself. Unless the idea is executed efficiently, and with panache and originality, then it doesn't matter how great the idea is, the enterprise will fail.

If you never have a single great idea in your life, but become skilled at executing the great ideas of others, you can succeed beyond your wildest dreams. Seek them out and make them work. They do not have to be your ideas. Execution is all in this regard.

On the other hand, if you spend your days thinking up and developing in your mind this great idea or that, you are unlikely to get rich. Although you are likely to make many others rich. Ideas don't make you rich. The correct execution of ideas does."

-Felix Dennis ($400+M net worth)

http://sivers.org/book/HowToGetRich

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/article1084093.ece?pri...

Via http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=680578
So, you're arguing that there exists no other Apple internal rulebook than the arbitrary one that says 'apple decides' ?

I find that hard to believe. I think a rulebook does exist, but that they avoid publishing it because they want to have the 'final say' even if somebody would play within the rules as specified in the book.

And that makes sense, because it would open apple up to being sued for breach of contract, and that is exactly what this whole thing is about. A one-sided contract is no contract, consideration is to be given to both parties. Developing an application is an investment and you should be allowed to inspect the full terms of the contract under which you make your investment.
I found this a while ago when I was looking for something to break up a map into one-page segments so I could have a giant map. Never did find an ideal solution.

Anyone know another tool like this that doesn't convert the image to half-tone? I want to use one of those blank world maps from Wikipedia to print out as a giant tiled map to assemble on the wall.
Force companies to decide exactly what they're doing, and declare it to the government in unambiguous language so that it can be broadcast to the public. Yeah. While we're at it we should force them to submit a document declaring the types of all their variables too, and have it notarized.
http://www.krisjordan.com/2008/09/17/joshua-schachter-lesson...
Also this: http://www.technologyreview.com/tr35/Profile.aspx?Cand=T&...
Futures trading = http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liar%27s_poker
"What can you really learn from this mail?"

It makes (some) people feel good by "validating" closely held beliefs ;-)

Seriously though, you are right. There is no specific data of any kind on the application/company/customers etc.
Without data, this is hardly a "case study". (The Bingo Card Creator addition of MixPanel - http://www.bingocardcreator.com/articles/tracking-with-mixpa... - is a much better "case study" of a subset of the "Customer Discovery" Idea , especially if there is a follow up).

Comparitively, the referenced post in the google group is very lightweight, with no concrete insights or data.

You'll see many such "experiences" in lists devoted to specific methodologies (agile/lean/scrum etc) Sounds like a "testimonial" invented by a marketing person (not saying this isn't true, just that there is no data and the post is very content lite, and so practically valueless)
"Airwaves" are not infrastructure.

Apple and AT&T do have government-granted privileges (such as limited liability and the huge swath of regulations which assist larger and existing corporations against their customers and smaller competitors), but regulations for and against don't "balance"; handing someone a candy bar does not give you the right to tell them what to do.
Imho it produces cool results with large dot size and relatively small number of sheets, with some space between sheets. Here's one example:
http://img60.imageshack.us/img60/1267/rasterbationdt5.png

And if you do this, use some sturdy material to print on. Standard copier paper as it just looks crappy.

edit: Thinking of it, maybe canvas prints would be cool. 10in square prints, maybe 1in apart...
I don't believe in the billion dollar idea. I believe in the million dollar idea and then iterating :)
I prefer JSON. Though I do agree with the other comments that xml is more readable if the structure is big, and that one can easily (and perhaps should) do both.

In practice I have noticed that where I work we tend to have complex data structures but not very deeply nested ones. We wrote a simple find function that recursively traverses the JSON structure looking for keys. Not anything nearly as powerful as XPath but sufficient.

It tends to be highly useful in my experience to create a list of objects. For example instead of a list of phone numbers a list of phone number objects. One may then easily add attributes to the phone number. Primary, cell phone, home phone etc. This tends to be highly flexible in that attributes may be later added that were not at all considered up front.

Of course all of this can be done with xml as well. JSON just seems more convenient. If I add an attribute in Javascript or Python I can just use it and get on with it. No messing with my SaxParser or building up some new XPath. Again I am not bashing xml at all, this is just my take.

In practice we use JSON exclusively in the core services for input and output. When we need to use xml we convert it to JSON and then back to XML as a filtering process rather than fool around with our core services. This adds overhead but keeps us flexible and loosely coupled.
"Airwaves" are not infrastructure."

Sure, but radio spectrum (which is what the OP meant by "infrastructure") is owned by the government and licensed to corporations subject to public good and review isn't it?

(pS: I don't have a dog in this fight. I've never used Apple Hardware or software and never will. So I don't really care what Apple does. Where I live Apple is a very very minor player anyway. Just trying to confirm my knowledge of how radio spectrum is owned and allotted).
Don't be a Lonely Planet Entrepreneur- startup mythology's death of capitalism
Starbucks: Howard Schultz vs. Howard Schultz
Moores law gathering social acceptance ? Moores law is a derivative law, not one that is to be followed by anybody.

It's more of an observation than a 'law' as such.

In its simplest form it says 'technology gets cheaper, smaller and faster over time', there is nothing you can do about it, it will happen. Social acceptance and momentum don't enter in to it, it either is like that, or it isn't.

Hardware designers do the very best they can, if they could they would prove GM wrong whenever they could, but they can only work so hard and the market is only willing to pay a certain premium for a certain improvement in speed/size and so on. After the early adopters have paid the way the tech becomes mainstream, the price drops and the cycle repeats (it really is executed several times in parallel with staggered outputs, one 'thread' for every big chip manufacturer, that's where all the leapfrogging comes from).

This is about as market driven a process as you could possibly find on planet earth.
Story about divers trapped when removing plugs from 9.5 mile tunnel
I hope - possibly against hope - that there will be some major shift around the corner, away from computing the way we do it today. There are plenty of contenders, a large number of which have passed the HN frontpage in the last couple of weeks.

So, I hope it will reverse, but I fear that it will get worse first...
Mostly google, sometimes yahoo, never bing.
That's a tough one. Ideally the javascript would render the page so that the absolute minimum would be transmitted across the line, basically just the raw data once per page, the javascript would stay cached on the clients machine.

But sending markup along would make the whole thing considerably easy to implement, I think (but this could be just a wrong gut feeling, I'll have to figure that one out).
Voted down as what? "inconvenient"?
How is it any spammier than any of the umpteen million other links to one-off idea websites that we get around here? Because the submitter didn't call it their "startup"?
A little off-topic, but if anyone is interested in making breakfast (lesson by Gordon Ramsey):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxV9QLuEwZo
Hmm. I have in front of me a Maxell MF 2HD 3.5" floppy drive with the following written it:

THESIS & PAPERS
15 FEBRUARY 1996
ZIP FORMAT / DOS

Externally it looks in good condition, but it's been stored in a box of other junk all that time. Tomorrow I'll take it to work and shove it in one of the machines there that still has a floppy drive and see if it's readable.
Yeah, oops.
I have never quite gotten billing in hours. The value of a project is utterly uncorrelated with them. The number of hours to accomplish X goes down as the skill of the individual goes up.

What sane model is it that says hiring average people to do unimportant work should cost more than hiring experts to do things that really matter for the business?
Don't get me wrong: I'm a huge fan of reinventing the wheel.

Google did this -- and people asked why on earth we might need a new search engine when we already had AltaVista and the rest.

It's just that, in my opinion, as you point out, not what the BBC should have done in this case. (And thanks for upvoting me!)
Where does it say you can't upload vector images? And, really, we're dinging someone for coming up with a product name that isn't perfectly descriptive now?
Homebuilt USB CPU tachometer
Neat :) 13 years. I'd bet they'd work with some errors. Mostly dependant on the mechanical condition of the floppies, the 3.5" are usually pretty good because of the hard case.

I still have one of the first bernoulli 10MB removables here, I wonder how good they would fare. Not much point to try to find an adaptec 1542 just to satisfy my curiosity though.

You mention a bbc micro somewhere, do you still have that one ? (elite ???)
Oh I have a great anecdote about my Sharp MZ-700.

I got into the habit of loading up games then entering the debug console and poking in random points in memory. As they say: It's ROM, you can't break it!

But I broke it! I rebooted and found the caps lock in the debug console was broken (but did still work in BASIC). caps lock never worked again in the debug console.

I think it's pretty bizarre to accidentally rewrite a ROM chip, but amusing too.
How Hashtags are Remaking Conversations on Twitter
I took a trip to Europe, first trip in years without a laptop. All I had was my iPhone and at no point did I feel disconnected. Was able to follow the Wimbledon final, check out webcams to see mountain conditions, keep tabs on places I usually keep tabs on (including this one). My laptop is where I do things in bunk (everything from recording music and editing video to writing code and crunching through 100's of emails). Of course, everyone is different, but just as "stay connected" devices, I've always wondered where netbooks fit in. That description you just provided, easily fits a top notch smartphone today. Heck you can even ssh into running machines and check their state.
While the first type of ad (the 160 hours in 2 weeks for $500 ones) are obviously ignore-worthy, the second I don't see the big deal about.

It's simply some new slang around the growing-in-popularity field of software development. It shows the company is light-hearted and paying attention to the community it operates in. I wouldn't call myself a 'rockstar' or 'ninja' but I'm very open to working with a company that doesn't take themselves so seriously. In fact I already do, and I love it. While my current company didn't use these terms in their job posting, I can easily see us doing so -- it's amusing!

I said in another thread on this subject a while back that, essentially, it's just another way to say "Senior Software Developer" or "Experienced Ruby Programmer" or whatever without implying age (or even actual years of experience... or worse, education level).

In short, let's not take these words literally when they're just meant to evoke a sense of the style of the company. Wanting a 'rockstar' just means they want someone passionate about their tools -- they probably use a Mac or other Unix, they switched to git from subversion, they spend most of their time in the shell. They are interested in discussing and debating what the best tool for the job is, the best approach to a problem, etc.

Put even shorter: The times, they are a changin'.
I have a BBC Micro Model B in working order with the associated tape player and a variety of ROMs. I also have some 8" disks with my code on them which was for the Research Machines 380Z (code written for CP/M and MP/M)
Being cool takes a lot of work. You can't just write one text editor, get your 10 minutes and then carry on. It's a constant battle where you always have to be looking for those 10-minutes-of-cool. In other words, people who care about 'cool' have very short attention spans.
i have had way too much experience with people who need to really grasp reasons 1, 4 & 8.
Yes and no. When I first started off with Emacs, I used the CUA bindings (Windows-esque bindings for C-x/C-v/C-c). That was great to begin with, but inevitably a change of settings as big as CUA never quite sat right with the rest of Emacs, and prevented me from really moving on. After a while I declared cua-mode to be a crutch that was holding me back, disabled it, and I'm extremely glad I did.

More recently I've moved mostly away from the arrow-keys navigation (not just up/down/left/right instead of n/p/b/f but Home End instead of C-a, C-e; C-left, C-right instead of M-b, M-f; C-up, C-down instead of M-{, M-}; C-Home, C-End instead of M-< and M->, etc.) to the more central commands. This is less of a win but has nonetheless sped up my editing still further.
Thanks. I don't use GS, but I might have to start using it - will give it a shot.
When you say "Caps Lock" are you referring to the ALPHA key? I don't recall there being a Caps Lock on that machine.

Of course, it's entirely possible that writing to the ROM was decoded separately and used for some control signals. The Apple ][ I believe did some interesting address decoding to get control signals from the address bus.

Looking at the memory map for the MZ-700 it appears that it implemented bank switching so that the ROM could be paged in or out and replaced with the video RAM and I/O ports. Some of those I/O ports are connected to the keyboard.

http://www.sharpmz.org/mz-700/coremain.htm#banksw
And now you've learned a valuable lesson, which is that titles given by a third party to pop summaries of studies somehow (amazingly, I know) don't invalidate or replace the information actually contained in the study. Not being able to live life based on the information present in headlines is kind of tragic, huh?
"Also: The Emacs mouse support is not great. It probably hasn't been a high priority."

In what way? It's certainly as good as it is in any other editor, with the addition of several very Emacs-esque mouse-driven commands. For example, right click marks the region from point to the click point and saves it in the kill rin (like M-w); double right click kills that region. Using M- does the same, but modifies the secondary selection. Using C- with the mouse pops up several useful context menus. Try playing around with C-h k <mouse button> in various contexts.
Introduction to the Occam programming language [pdf]
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Bill by the project. You can use your hourly rate to estimate the fixed cost. The more projects you do, the more accurate your estimate will become. Over time you develop your own time-saving methods, such as pulling code out into reusable libraries you can use on your next project. Say you do a project that takes you 50 hours and you charge $5,000. If you get another similar project but this time you know it will only take 25 hours, are you going to charge $2,500 for it? Hell no! Charge as much as the market will bear, but set some kind of a minimum threshold for yourself. Here's an old article relating to technical writing, but I think it still applies to software development: http://www.writerswrite.com/journal/jan98/kent.htm
So, you're arguing that there exists no other Apple internal rulebook than the arbitrary one that says 'apple decides'?

Excuse me? I said nothing like that.

Yes, they probably have an internal rulebook but that's completely irrelevant because they chose to not disclose it. They are free to make that choice, just like you are free to not do business with them on these terms. It's called "Free Market", wikipedia can tell you more.

A one-sided contract is no contract, consideration is to be given to both parties

I'm starting to think you have serious reading comprehension problems.
The contract is not one-sided. You get to read it and you must agree to it.

Developing an application is an investment and you should be allowed to inspect the full terms of the contract under which you make your investment.

You are not only allowed to inspect the full terms, you are required to inspect and agree to the full terms.

The full terms are: Apple may or may not accept your application and they are not obliged to tell you any reasons for their decision.

If you think apple "should" be operating differently then don't do business with them.

You seem to think there is some sort of godgiven right to get into the App store. There is not. It is Apple's personal playground. If they choose to accept apps only on mondays then they are free to do so. If they choose to reject apps because they would compete with their own products then they are free to do so. If they choose to reject apps without even telling you the reason then they are free to do so.

They have this freedom because you, the developer, checked that little "I agree"-checkbox, remember?
The maverick is starting to sound like a disconnected old coot.

Cutting off access to aggregators - Mark feels that this somehow makes the content more valuable and convince readers to come directly to the site. Bullshit. If a site blocks access to a particular news story for an aggregator, the aggregator will simply link to another site that has another article on that same news story (Breaking news? more like leaking news. It takes a grand total of about 2 min for someone else to write up the same story).

The whole point of staying on top of aggregators is that when readers follow a link from an aggregator, they will stick around and go deeper into the site - thats where money can be made. Instead, if they let the aggregators link to other sites, they just took another giant leap towards extinction.

John Gruber said it best - the way for newspapers to make money is to cut the bloat. As opposed to the current model where the editorial staff makes up only a fraction of the total head count at major newspaper and magazine companies, they should become lean and mean organizations with little or no management bureaucracy. Operations where nearly every employee is working on producing actual content.
Gruber cites the example of Talking Points Memo (which is profitable and hiring) and I wholeheartedly agree.

Welcome the aggregators to link to you. Keep your organisation wire tight. Those are the first 2 steps newspapers should be taking.

P.S. Reuters has the right idea - http://blogs.reuters.com/mediafile/2009/08/04/why-i-believe-...