skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because there is no mention of the license under which C-- is distributed (on the FAQ page it says "C-- is open source", that's it), there is no actual LICENSE file in the root directory of the source, but in the lua subdirectory there is this item:

"COPYRIGHT

The code, like the rest of Quick C--, is in the public domain."

In the README.ALONE file.
From the article "To say that newspapers are dying is to miss the point. Newspapers are changing. Maybe they won't be called newspapers anymore. Maybe they won't be delivered to your doorstep. Maybe they'll all be free, or maybe you'll have to pay to read them online."

Or in other words, newspapers are dying.
I didn't say that the writer of the blog post was the poster of the article. What I mean is that the writer of the article choose to use obscene language and obscene fonts deliberately because he know it would get a rise out of people. Hence the article gets submitted to Digg, to HN, to StumbleUpon, to Reddit, etc.

Its a famous technique, and very effective. To attract attention be a troll.
The Karma vs Days scatter plot is in absolute terms, and the karma outliers skew it so much it's hard to place anyone who's not an outlier.
Loved this response. You're exactly right about all of it. I see it as one of those that you have to do because you can't do anything else. Same way a musician or artist or hacker can't imagine doing anything else.

So... I guess I'll be seeing you at an open mic pretty soon so that you can become addicted?
I don't say this often:

Whoah.
Ask HN: How do you stay (somewhat) healthy?
I've been cycling for a couple of years now on a daily basis but find that most of my hacker friends tend to stick to the redbull+snacks+coffee+ramen diet. What sort of routines do you guys use to stay in shape?
You are 100% correct. This is what I was trying to say, but a lot shorter and more eloquently put. Thank you.
I've been dabbling in Linux for years. But recently I had finally had enough with worms and rootkits on my main XP desktop. I am witting this form Ubuntu, and couldn't be happier.
Small pieces, loosely joined by machine tags
I think the combination of mentioning Jason Fried and 37signals as well as being semi famous himself and an investor in Mint almost guaranteed posting here.
My brothers got that harsh realization with Pokemon. They got some very rare card (don't remember which, never got into it myself) that was supposedly worth 65$ the Pokemon book said. The guy at the shop wouldn't give them anything more than a free new pack for it though. Suddenly the fact that things are really only worth what someone will pay, not what a book says became much more clear.
Sometimes, industries do die, replaced by technology that enables the common man. It's a flawed assumption that there will always be full time professional reporters, it could just as well swing the other way. Real journalism is mostly dead on television already, it's mostly just new entertainment rather like professional wrestling.

Free isn't likely to go away, neither are bloggers, the future may well be mostly amateurs.
Today, I took my three year-old to our town's annual Fall-at-the-Farm (or whatever it's called). There was a woman there with two of her Alpacas. These animals are the greatest but least discussed bubble. Their only economic value is their wool, and a single alpaca produces about $50 worth each year. Feeding one of these beasts during that time costs $300! Yet, these animals will sell at auction for tens of thousands of dollars. It's the same story as every other bubble, "You make the money when you sell them." If I could figure out how to short sell these beasts, I would.

It's too bad I didn't read this comment earlier today or I would have quizzed her about her childhood obsessions.
There's a fair bit of information compressed into Pokemon cards and other card games so it's no surprise that if you're that into it you get good at it despite being so young. Same with sports - there's a hell of a lot of information in statistics for a sport like baseball or cricket.

My impression of 'dumb' means stupid - to me the complexity involved in these cards raises them above dolls and the like.

It may have something to do with the American use of the word 'dumb'?
Tony Hawk Carves a New Niche
To clarify, it looks like this is the HN top 100 by karma, sorted by karma/day, not the top 100 posters by karma/day.
Damn, wish this was a weekend. I don't think I can afford taking a weekday trip to Boston.
cycle to work. walk lots. eat lots of leaves. fruits for snacks.
oh, and dont drink fucking red bull
who bought it?
Does Amazon make such network-equipment statistics available?
Both of your views are, in my opinion, far too pessimistic, and not representative of the reality of the developing industry.

The fact is that there is content being generated online - and while the prevalence of linkblogs and content aggregates get all the, ahem, press, I suspect that they're not close to being a majority, or even all that significant a minority, of the various efforts currently made to evolve the business facet of news to fit the new digital paradigm.

As for the aforementioned ragtag band of hacker journalists needing to feed themselves at the end of the day, hell - even print media took decades, if not centuries, to settle on what is now a static and matured advertising structure and method. Do you really think a whole generation of newsfolks that've grown up completely immersed in the frenetically paced digital world /won't/ figure out a way to carve a profitable niche from it all?

The fact is that the factors that've kept newspapers relevant even as radio and televised news quickly outstripped them in influence and coverage don't hold up so well in the face of online news. Not when online news offers the exact same content for cheaper overhead for producers, advertisers /and/ audiences, and without the physical constraints of the standard tabloid sheet, quality of print, incompatibility with other media, or the untimeliness of once-daily release. It shouldn't at all come as a surprise that there'll be a few enterprising minds that'll seek to take advantage of these blatant advantages and exploit them for personal gain.

If you can trust people for anything, it's in finding a way to profit. And I fully trust my generation of journalists and editors to find a way. As ideological as it makes me sound, Capitalism really did get that bit right.
The title of this article is in poor taste.
Pokemon cards and most trading card games are not "dumb." I used to dabble in a few (notably Magic). Let me go through some of the complexities.

At the simplest, it is a player versus player game. You are playing against peers that are getting smarter and more experienced matching yourself. This is way more meaningful than playing against computers.

A few more insights in order of skill.

Critical thinking is key. There are usually multiple ways to win. When direct damage is not going to cut it, you might have to go to plan B or C. Given your collection of cards, you can make multiple types of decks. You have to categorize all your cards and try to build a team out of them.

It teaches economics. Kids are (usually) limited by your allowance. Some cards are really good (or rare) but maybe buying 10 cheaper alternatives makes for an overall better deck. You already have certain cards, can you trade for the remaining ones? (Bartering and sales is a skill in it's own right) Can you feel that in the new season the archetype will be an aggressive deck causing this card you own to go up in price?

It involves next level thinking. Your opponent executed a seemingly unfavorable move. Is it because he has a trick up his sleeve? Or is he trying to bluff you? Is he trying to read if you have a trick? This of course varies based on skill but it is something experienced players learn (even young ones)

You have to deal in possibilities and assess your situation. You know your opponent has used x out of his 4 possible copies of this card. He has only (4-x) left in his deck of 50 so he is unlikely to draw it. Maybe the current board position is favorable for you, you are ahead in life so you should win within 4 turns. Or maybe you have 2 cards left in your whole deck that can help you win, you have yet to draw them but you need to set up the board position so that if you do draw it...

(In all card games, advantages can be distilled into two types: tempo and card. Tempo is when you are getting out ahead of an opponent in terms of board position. Card is when you have more cards in your hand. Aggressive decks sacrifices card for tempo, control sacrifices tempo for cards. Control decks chance of winning increases as the game wears on.)
Just remember, Cycling is not always better exercise than walking - for short distances, walking is "more work" than cycling.
The old media probably has a part to play in the future, just not as big or as rich as before.
How many of you have considered toy related startups? It is a massive industry ($26B) facing disruption from two angles (consolidation of retail and competition from games) and the major players have a history of working with small partners and no real internal R&D.

This is a great opportunity for hackers to build large, profitable businesses.
P90X satisfies both my inner nerd and my inner extremist. I started with a roommate last year. I really need to get back into the swing of it this year before I start flabbing again.

http://www.amazon.com/P90x-Extreme-Home-Fitness-Horton/dp/B0...

EDIT: Also, thanks for posting this! You inspired me to finally set up the pull-up bar I bought last week. Having it outside the bathroom will hopefully prod me into starting up again.
I'm not sure, exactly, to which discussion does that contribute.
Sorry to self-promote, but I'm the creator of a Drupal competitor that may be worth looking at for you:

http://www.sitellite.org/

It's a mature project (9 years old, so yes there is some cruft, hell PHP 4 was brand new when it started!), but doesn't have the same community size as something like Drupal. It does have a clean UI, decent documentation (manual, courses, API reference, etc), several dozen modules, and while there is a developer learning curve, it's really flexible once you get into it.
Would love to jump in on a hn meetup - Monday morning or evening works best for me.
Vitamin B-Complex tends to help my fingers from feeling numb when typing all day. (Told to me by a doctor many years ago when I came to him with numb finger tips).
I've never been big on exercising for the sake of exercise, but I do regularly go to a rock climbing gym. It's good exercise, but more importantly it's fun, unlike lifting weights. It requires the use of your brain: a good climb is like a puzzle you solve with your whole body. Great way to meet people, too.

The only concern for hackers would be strain on the wrists. If you have wrist problems climbing probably isn't for you, but personally I feel like climbing has strengthened my wrists and actually been beneficial.
Deer-Vehicle Collision Frequency Jumps 18 Percent In Five Years
Kas yra lockerz?
Informacija apie tai, kas yra lockerz, kaip būti pakviečiami lockerz, kas yra PTZ ir z-list, kaip jūs išpirkti ir daugiau
I know it might seem intimidating, but try some abbreviated Crossfit workouts (http://crossfit.com/) to get in shape quickly and then stay there.
Refuse to use any type of drugs other other than the occasional aspirin. Of course, unless my life is really depending on it.
I do not know, but any competent hosting facility will have those stats on call, it's what you base your billing on, so you'd better have them.

For the sites I operate this is my 'general health' indicator, bandwidth says a lot more than my alarms, if there is a problem it usually shows up in the bandwidth graphs before the alarms trigger (unless it is a power failure, but those are extremely rare).

Our providers make them available to us, and this has been the case with any provider that we've had to date (the planet, vxs, leaseweb and a couple of smaller ones), I'd imagine amazon has them too.

According to the Amazon FAQ you have to use 'cloudwatch' to get at this data:

"An Amazon VPC router enables Amazon EC2 instances within subnets to communicate with Amazon EC2 instances in other subnets within the same VPC. They also enable subnets and VPN gateways to communicate with each other. You can create and delete subnets attached to your router. Network usage data is not available from the router; however, you can obtain network usage statistics from your instances using Amazon CloudWatch."

You may have to do some arithmetic to see if a link got overloaded, one telltale on the bandwidth graphs is 'flat caps', where in spite of the machines inbound limit still not being reached you see a fairly flat top on the in or outbound bandwidth graph on several machines at the same time (if they're on the same segment, which on amazons infrastructure could be quite hard to figure out).
Funny story: A startup I used to work for occupies the former offices of a snowboard company. We continued to receive monthly promotional cases of Red Bull for as long as I worked there.

I was a jittery mess for the two months I had a 3+/day habit.
How do you get more undergrads into startups?
How do you get more college undergrads to consider startups as a career option?
I make an active decision to (most of the time) eat good food, and to not eat bad food. I drink mostly water and try to exercise a few times a week. Easy on the coffee, almost no energy drinks.
It might be more appropriate if the names were removed.
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/07/30/google-acquires-omnisio...
Why Perl 5.11.0 Matters
Sprixel, a Perl6 compiler powered by JavaScript
C++0x Support in GCC
I've looked into it before. I concluded that it was not feasible unless you have an enormous amount of money (several hundred thousand) to invest as principal. I think poker bots have a way better risk:return ratio.
There's lots of 5-minute exercise routines:

- walk up a couple flights of stairs, around the block

- do some yoga poses or pilates core strengtheners on the floor

- anti-RSI things: these powerweb and DynaFlex things I'm always shilling (they work, my wrists are ok after lots of pain)

http://www.fitter1.com/Catalog/Category/35/HandWrist.aspx
Whoah. It's my navel! It looks beautiful in that shade of blue!
Wine worries?  Worry no more
"Ever have that sinking feeling in your stomach that comes from organizing a big party or dinner and not being sure if your wine is going to match the food? Got a special bottle you've been waiting to crack but want to make sure that when you do, you're pairing it with the perfect food?" Free wine help from an award-winning sommelier.
Why? The raw data is linked from the top of every page:

http://news.ycombinator.com/leaders
honestly?:

- eat crap one day, eat healthy other.

- don't own a car/walk and take the stairs rather than lift.

- avoid public transport (where possible).

- work hard.

- get a good full 4 to 9 hours sleep per night.

- do some light weights every other day (or when bothered).

- drink lots of juices and waters and avoid fizzy drinks.

- alternate drinking beer and shorts without mixers.
Only 10 karma per day. I do not feel as addicted now.

It is interesting that so few people contribute so much; the community feels bigger than it is. But I think it is mostly "the regulars" and the occasional random commenter. I wonder what Reddit is like.

BTW, it's weird that Google does not have a "fork this document" feature. I don't want to request write access; I just want to play with a copy for myself. (Actually, I just want to sort things.)
Don't eat junk.

Try not to overeat.

Definitely don't drink sugary drinks.

I'm jogging 3 miles a day every other day. Worked up to my first 5K over the summer (following "Couch to 5K" program, google it), hoping to work up to 10k next soon.
Learn to be comfortable eating while walking, spend your lunch time walking around exploring and observing... This happens to be good for the mind as well
Work (and life) is a marathon, not a sprint. No redbull|snacks|coffee|ramen here.

Eating: "Eat to Live", mostly produce:

http://www.amazon.com/Eat-Live-Revolutionary-Formula-Sustain...

Exercise: jogging, stairs, body weight exercises:

http://www.amazon.com/Pushing-Yourself-Power-Ultimate-Transf...

Heavy hands:

http://www.amazon.com/Heavyhands-Walking-Book-Leonard-Schwar...

Perhaps the hacker's favorite (this is hilarious, but it really works):

http://shovelglove.com/
One of the most fun active sports that I have played in a long time is racquetball. Very physical and very fun. Get a standing game going every week with some friends and you will notice your cardio benefits quickly. I also have a blast doing it because there is so much action going on that you don't have any time to think about breaking the build or anything else really.

I will also second the rock climbing gym as a fun exercise too. While it is physically demanding it takes longer to get physically drained so that could be a consideration. (3 hours vs. 1 - 1.5 hours for racquetball).
Jog at the very minimum 9 miles a week.
On Palm, Competition, and iTunes Sync
Jogging in place, 3-4 hours a week, 15-45 minutes per session

It doesn't have to involve jogging pants and running shoes -- you may do it barefooted and pajamas in the bedroom, before dinner.
Palm will be able to do this exactly as long as Apple chooses to let them. The problem Palm is facing is nowhere near as simple as just spoofing the right ID's.
I think karma/(comments+submissions posted) will make much more sense than karma per day.
That's interesting, I didn't know about the alpaca bubble. Now I'm fascinated.

Googling a bit I found an article http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/28/national/28alpaca.html?pag...
implying that the "people are realizing this is a bubble" stage of the bubble stretches as far back as 2004. And one guy quoted in the article says:

When I started, I would tell people I thought the market would be good for another five years. Well, I've been saying that for 15 years

Still, alpacas wouldn't be the first bubble in a useless commodity to stretch on for several generations. (That honour belongs, I suppose, to gold -- a bubble at least five thousand years old and still going strong.)
Can I ask the rationale behind "eat crap one day, eat healthy other"? Why not just eat healthy (or better than "crap") both days and realize 2x the benefit? This sounds like an excuse to rationalize poor eating habits.

Also 4-9 hours is an incredibly wide range of sleep to prescribe.
Hmm, this definitely looks interesting -- I'll try this out. I've been doing the P90X workouts when it's too cold/rainy outside for a ride.
I'm figuring out how to stream it. Check the homepage next Monday if you'd like to watch.
About 3 months ago, when the scale said 204 lbs, I decided I need to do something. I'm just over 6'2", but that weight was not muscle.

So: I stopped eating crap out of habit. Ate less at each meal. Started walking/jogging/running ~2.5 miles 2 out of every 3 days.

Much improved. Not that hard (once I get my ass out the door), doesn't take a lot of time, good results. Now at 190.

I also occasionally play Wii games as well, often wearing wrist weights (depend on the game), jogging in place.
But I'd bet jogging outside is a heck of a lot more fun than staring at a wall
I'm terrible at sticking with a regular workout commitment, but I try to do whatever seems fun - and, most importantly, try to never turn down a chance to exercise (sports, workout, whatever) with friends, because that's always a lot more fun.

Over the last two years, I've done: rollerblading, soccer, jogging, P90X, tennis, frisbee, golf (driving range), swimming. I'm far from good at any of them, and I do occasionally go for a couple of weeks or even months without doing much, but I figure every bit helps. Fun is the key - as well as doing as much as possible with friends.

P90X is great for someone looking for a hardcore solution - it's hard, but it WORKS, if you actually stick with it (it's not a small time investment). I only did it for about a month, and I could feel the difference - now that winter's coming, I might start it up again.
Check out the site on your iphone for fun –
I run a half-marathon twice a year which motivates me to train and run frequently. Also, I eat clean 6 days a week Mon-Fri,Sun and eat anything on Sat. If I do drink soda, it's diet dr.pepper. I try to limit alcohol consumption to Sat.

Summary: Eat clean 6 days a week, run/cycle/swim at least 2-3 days a week, and take a multivitamin daily.
Well, that's a function of the complexity and the customisation of your site.

You use 70+ modules? Probably some custom work as well. There's just no easy way to get that. Drupal or no Drupal. You can DIY, which comes with its own troubles.

You could probably do a lot of what you do for free in a couple of hours with Slinkset or a few days with a custom reddit. But if you want to define so much functionality exactly the way you want it, you have complexity.

No way around it.
Actually, I am an avid rock climber and have noticed that rock climbing is good for my wrists. I used to suffer from severe tendonitis and climbing has helped strengthen my forearms so that it doesn't affect me as much. My tendonitis has never gone away, but climbing has greatly diminished it.

On top of that, I am pretty sure climbing is the best full body workout you can do. I am in the best shape of my life at 25.
Key: Ignore the inbox. Your labels define what is important. I have a label !!!Priority, color red. I've trained myself to focus first on that label. Everything else is secondary.
buy this book: http://www.thechinastudy.com
Depends on the weather, doesn't it?
Not sure. I'm ok being down voted by I think this is the kind of honorifics that leads to the quality of the site going down. Homogeneous opinions and comments. Look how great and special we are! Aren't we all just like each other? :)
I love comedy, and would love to give it a try myself but (a) my sense of humour is very unusual and there's many things I laugh at hysterically that most people don't get, and (b) would be too nervous (sober anyways!).

An example of (a), I was at Subway the other day, and a 20-something girl was in front of me. The guy asked what kind of cheese she wanted, and she sort of hesitated and said "the uh, uh, the um, white triangles", which sent me into a fit of laughter, I thought it was the funniest thing I'd ever heard (can't wait to go to Subway again so I can use it). But everyone I told since sort of looked at me like "Uh, okay?". And I can imagine how well something like that would go over in front of a crowd of strangers, told by a scared shitless comedian at his first gig!
I saw Zack at the UCB theater on Doug Bensons podcast taping about 3-5 years ago and though it wasn't his "standup" he was hilarious. I wish I had the stones to get up and do that kind of stuff. I am forever indebted to the ones that can and can do it well.
I actually wouldn't recommend this. Doing something else (watching tv, working, driving, even walking) while eating takes most of the enjoyment out of the food. Also, I can imagine very few foods conducive to eating while walking that are not street- or fast-food.
As Mitch Hedberg once said, "Drinking for the comedian is like stretching for the athlete."
Just to note that PG is not on this list. I believe it is because he intentionally keeps himself off the leaders page. I recall reading something a while back.
I count calories and try to stick to a consistent limit, and bike around 8 miles Monday through Friday. It's probably the 8 miles of biking that provides the benefit.
Which is, I believe, what searchyc.com shows you when you search on a username.

Or, rather more usefully, it shows you the average for comments and submissions separately.

...

"Usefully" in only the most abstract sense of the word ...

/me sheepishly gets back to work.