skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow, this is sloppy journalism.
Ar drallison points out, potatoes (any subspecies) were unknown to the Old World altogether. The article makes multiple references specific to potatoes ("It has been argued that an increase in meat consumption could have triggered the increase in size, but now scientists believe that we may have another food to thank: the humble potato.", and "They say starches would have been readily available to ancestral human populations in the form of potatoes", which is categorically false

The article implies that dietary glucose is necessary for survival, let alone optimal brain development. Neither is true, as anybody who has eaten a ketogenic diet (like me) can affirm. Although some organs need glucose (the brain is not one of them!), the body can make all it needs from protein.

Agriculture only goes back 15,000 years or so, which is a blip in evolutionary terms. There is no indication of timeframe of the amylase adaptations,

The study is here:
http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/682587

The abstract makes some similar claims about the need for dietary carbohydrate, citing a 27-year-old paper, which is simply incorrect.
I've tried e-mailing you but it's not working would you please send me an e-mail to life.will.get.better.2016@gmail.com and i will reply? thank you a lot.
What's the hardest thing about developing iOS apps?
I want to break into the industry and I would appreciate the advice.
Excellent posst in the wake of Paul Graham's new essay!
Me! Once or twice a year I need that stuff on different occasions and each time I find it really annoying.
Food has no impact on the body's metabolism. All sources of calories affect the body equally, therefore weight gain is simply calories in and calories out.

I've said it out loud but it doesn't quite ring true.
Judge: "I'm a big believer that these are public courts," he said. "The public should know what we are doing here. It protects the integrity of the system."

Right on. Secrecy may have a place at the international level (NSA etc), but at local jurisdictions, if you're keeping secrets from your population, THAT is a problem.
Yep. Godsend in comparison to AMD drivers
> I'm pretty sure it all feeds into the same system

The system being? The digestive tract? What exactly does that imply that it feeds to the same system?

> Fruit smoothies are probably about as bad as soda

Well don't make fruit smoothies then but eat the fruit as is.

> I'm at a point where a bit of heavy starch (bread, pasta) throws me off for a couple days.

I mean starches are pretty bad for your body so it's probably trying to tell you something.
It's still quite expensive: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victorian_Desalination_Plant#C...
And that's (currently) depending on cheap Coal generated electricity.
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The Blacklisting of Hector ‘Sabu’ Monsegur
First hit on Google:

"Both controversy and confusion exist concerning fructose, sucrose, and high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS) with respect to their metabolism and health effects. These concerns have often been fueled by speculation based on limited data or animal studies. In retrospect, recent controversies arose when a scientific commentary was published suggesting a possible unique link between HFCS consumption and obesity. Since then, a broad scientific consensus has emerged that there are no metabolic or endocrine response differences between HFCS and sucrose related to obesity or any other adverse health outcome."

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23493540
Who is starting a company and needs tech advice?
I'm interested in lending what knowledge and experience I have to non-technical or technical founders who need help getting set up with the right people, the right technologies and the right methods so they don't have to recode the same website 4 times in their first year. Anybody interested or know a good place for me to find the founders I'm looking for?
> not a requirement by the FAA for aircraft certification.

I never said that. Where did you get that?

> Safety critical systems need a degree of auditing and testing, to be sure, but formal proofs have never been a requirement since they aren't that practical. (emphasis mine)

I was challenging this idea.

Are systems for self-driving cars the only safety critical systems? What about Intel manufactured chips used in those same cars and flights and a gazillion other devices?

You have an agenda to push and got called out on facts :)

Have a good day.
(Someone just went around down voting my other posts. Not you)
Exactly - his statistics are missing the important number, how many of those late stage YC startups had purchased the .com after they had raised substantial funding? (ie, could it be the pattern rather than the antipattern)
Good job dang. You continue to make HN more of an echo chamber.
I so want one of those but for the record my X61 worked fine for me and I love my Tablet 2.
Relatively speaking, there are very few mathematicians using those systems to discover new mathematics as opposed to studying them for their foundational interest.
like everyone else commenting, I despise java. However, I'm already using Trello, and this looks like a near full-replacement, so I'll suck up the extra ram usage and give it a try. thanks!
The solution for Vegas, given the vast amount of people and money there, will be to build coastal desalination plants and pipe the water inland. It'll cost a lot, and they'll do it in the next 30 years. It might be done on a 50/50 basis with California, sharing the plants.

A lot is a relative term though, is $50 billion spread out over 30 years too much to ensure Las Vegas has water? No, it's very cost effective in fact. San Diego's big new plant has a billion dollar price tag, but provides enough water for 300,000 people. Las Vegas has 1.4 million people in its metro area. In the grand scheme of things, this is a comically trivial problem to solve.

I have a counter prediction: Las Vegas will finish the century as the same engineering dependent marvel it is today. Except it'll be even more impressive.
Slides were pretty boring. People in business deal with a lot so they sort all input based on an assessment of how much they actually need to care. If you shape your communications with them in such a way that makes this process easier for them, they will respect you more. Film at 11.
The Many Lives of Abel Gance’s ‘Napoleon’ (2012)
> What about calculus [...and...] differential equations ?

I agree that calculus and diff. equations techniques are important, but if you look closely, you'll see they are only "necessary" for engineers and physicists, and other "hard" sciences, and not so essential for non-science studies.

Imagine "pitching" the benefits of learning university-level math to a class of Arts students. Can you honestly say their lives will be improved if they were to learn about a bunch of techniques of integration?

On the other hand, I wouldn't hesitate to recommend learning LA to them. Thinking about operators, vector spaces, dimensions, etc. is applicable much more widely. (I speak from experience here, because I've been "finishing up" the applications chapter in my LA book and I keep finding new applications to cover: balancing chemical equations, electric currents and other network flows, nutrition, least squares approximations, linear programming, cryptography, network coding, error correcting codes, Fourier analysis, prob. theory, and quantum mechanics. The LA party just don't stop ;)
I guess it depends on how you interpret "that", which I meant to refer to "requirement" (they are not practical enough to be a requirement). But I guess I should have been more clear in my sentence structure.
They don't explain what is inflamation. Are bone fractures relevant to inflamation? Chronic asthma? Surgery? Does eating less impact inflamation?
Very interesting approach. Choosing a company name is very important. I especially like the name-association part. I would just add 'meaning in foreign languages' because sometimes a company name can sound well in English but could mean something bad in a foreign language.
DomainAgents is a startup that helps people buy and sell domain names. We (I'm one of the founders) help startups get their ideal domain names all the time.

A few thoughts.

When possible try to buy your domain before any sort of serious traction, first thing people who own domains are going to do is Google their domain and see what comes up. So if you're running on GetHappy.com and are blowing up, you're making the generic domain "happy.com" more valuable every day. Even with a TM, a rocking responsive site, and editors pick in the app store, the value of Happy.com improves right along side your KPIs, your entitlement to the domain however does not.

If you're running on a generic term like "Happy" and things are going well, chances are the term is being picked up by other developers. If you're thinking "no one is going to go after that domain, it's mine!" you're wrong. The guys running theHappyapp.com and haappy.io have likely already pinged the owner trying to buy the domain. So has your arch rival getunhappy.com ... just because they want to screw you. The longer you wait the more people will try to buy the domain. The more interest in an asset, the more potential for the domain to become increasingly expensive.

A good domain name really is an asset. It's likely that for at least the next 10 years or more, a solid .com is going to be an asset that will, at worst, hold it's value. So even if Google enters your market, eats your lunch, then Facebook follows to finish you off, if you own happy.com, you will still have something that you can potentially borrow against, or sell to fund a pivot.

And finally, if you've got a round locked down, see if you can buy the domain you're after before it's announced.
Two considerations that help avoid the IP issue, but require user permission and so have a big obvious disadvantage:

1) We can prompt mobile users to enable location/gps and get their location that way.

2) We can prompt modern browsers to allow location services and get their location that way.

This is if a user wants to have their location 'auto-set' instead of via pulldowns.

3) A hard problem to solve is - mapping a unified set of city names to timezones, and updating the timezones as per Daylight Savings Time and general timezone updates.

Anyone have references for 3) ?
This is wrong. The notion of predictability in modern branch predictors is much more sophisticated than simply "strongly taken"/"strongly not taken". i%2==0 is periodic of period 2. If I am to believe Agner, we've been successful in perfectly predicting repetitive patterns of period up to 5 since the Pentium II. A recent chip is considerably smarter than that.
Oh boy, what I'm about to say could be throwing gasoline onto a barbecue (I've seen that done!) but I'll say it anyway.

The USA has historically been a country of individualists and has emphasized personal responsibility and individual actions over "harmony with others". At least in theory, in practice it doesn't always work that way.

E.g. a few years ago there was a tragic murder-suicide by a football player. IMO it probably had a lot to do with CTE (chronic traumatic encephalopathy), which an autopsy showed signs of[0]. But announcer Bob Costas was quick to attack the gun culture. He said[1]

If Jovan Belcher didn't possess a gun,
he and Kasandra Perkins would both
be alive today

To which many people posted rebuttals such as:[2]

Hey Bob!
This spoon is making me FAT!

And there it is. How much of people's behavior should they be responsible for, and how much of it is because of society in general? I don't think this debate will end anytime soon.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronic_traumatic_encephalopat...

[1] http://www.usatoday.com/story/gameon/2012/12/04/how-bob-cost...

[2] http://i612.photobucket.com/albums/tt201/L_Bo1994/costascont...
It leads with exercise in a pill because AMPK manipulation is broadly expected to be a path towards an exercise mimetic. Go do some background reading on AMPK and related proteins and pathways and their effects on longevity and health in lower animals.

What I find annoying about this reporting is that it is being spun as a success when by all measures it is a failure. It is a failure in exactly the same way sirtuin research was a failure, in that it only appears to produce benefits in metabolically abnormal individuals, and even then they are not high quality benefits. Meaning it isn't at all what was aimed for: the researchers have failed in even their original modest goals of slightly slowing aging by recapitulating the broad effects of exercise.

Of course you can still make a profit selling very marginal treatments for type 2 diabetes to people who have that condition because they are obese and thus metabolically abnormal. This is a condition that can actually be reversed right up until very late stages by dietary restriction ( http://dx.doi.org/10.2337/db11-1835, http://www.bbc.com/news/health-13887909 ), for all that few people appear to either know or be willing to act on that knowledge. The sort of therapies that might result from AMPK manipulation would be terrible in comparison to the outcome of just eating less. But that has nothing to do with making real progress in medicine.

Medical research in general is so very vulnerable to disruption: you have entrenched groups producing terrible products at massive cost under heavy regulation in the midst of a revolution in the underlying technologies and plummeting costs of creating new knowledge and therapies. Something has to give.
Okay, well, other experts like Robert Lustig think they're not very different.

The thing you have to watch out for is that lots of people want to find the "good" form of sugar. That's why we see products in the stores with ingredients listed like brown sugar, "evaporated cane juice", etc.

I concede that there might be a bigger difference between sucrose and HFCS metabolism than I was aware, and you did start off your comment with "Sugar would be bad but...". Nonetheless I think it would be easy for someone reading your comment to take away the idea that HFCS is the big problem and sucrose is okay, because people want to do that.

So I think the point that sucrose is not really okay either deserves more emphasis than you gave it.
> Ironically, the land for Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) which is located in Atlanta, Georgia was donated by none other than The Coca Cola Company.

I don't think this is ironic at all. A company needs living clientele.

Also, the CDC has better epidemics to worry about than the obesity one. I frankly don't care if people want to be fat.
This sounds implausible to me. I have acquired a couple five letter domains in the past year or three. They kind of suck and are hard to pronounce but they exist.
Would it be possible to run some kind of GeoIP DB over a P2P/DHT network?
I get the feeling you don't actually program. Or your writing is disconnected from the programmer part of you.
This I can agree with. It almost seems as though this new kind of "DevOps" (to use the same air-quoted term as you) is being used as a band-aid for companies to be able to accomplish traditional sysadmin goals, without having to pay for people with depth of knowledge. Things like Docker and cloud services make it easy to think that one does not need the knowledge a sysadmin needed to have ten years ago, but that's not true. What's happened is that applications like Docker have obscured the need for that knowledge by making things easier to accomplish. And then when those companies run into problems, nobody on the tech team knows how to put out the fire. Now, I suppose that's not such a bad thing if you're outsourcing all that work to a cloud services provider. Then it's a matter of opening a support ticket. But then again, you're at the mercy of those providers. I can see why Docker is so attractive for companies, which implies one can self-host these cloud services and save a ton of money, while also appearing to not need that raw knowledge because of ease-of-use provided by applications like Docker. It looks like an attractive way to cut down on quite a lot of cost. But what happens is that the cost is actually offloaded from needing the knowledge to build and maintain the infrastructure, and onto the moment of failure. And the thing about that cost offloading is that this cost could kill your business. Just picture a tech team with red status pages and buzzing phones, but without the knowledge to dissect what's happening. It's a ticking time bomb. Also I should mention I'm saying this as a huge, huge fan and user of Docker, but also as someone with twenty years in the industry, watching the "new DevOps" crowd.
I would also add AR/VR. Running 4K screens on high framerate or actively parsing suroundings to overlay new data on top requires a bit of computing power.
12-Year-Old Girl Has Higher IQ Than Hawking, Einstein
But, convictions would go down! /s
Agreed. The "best" in my comment was entirely in the bang-for-your-buck sense.
rwh86's post upthread shows the fatuousness of your sarcasm.

Let's just allow that the point is still debated, even by the scientists.
It's possible to do a lot better than TOFU or Keybase. Andres Erbsen and I have been working on dename, a key distribution system based on the anytrust model: as long as at least one of the servers you rely on is good, you're safe. See his writeup here: https://andres.systems/blog/2015-07-22-another-take-at-publi...
Why? Encryption of VPN is enforced on the OS level, not the router level.
Actually, calorie restriction has shown to provide life extension in every species tried so far except for one highly over-referenced rhesus monkey study that were contradicted by a later study[1]. Human study results are much more difficult to obtain due to our average life span lengths.

Also there was a recent article that made it to the front page of HN talking about a positive study of intermittent fasting's longetivity-related benefits - which is probably a closely related or identical phenomenon (my guess).

[1] http://www.nature.com/ncomms/2014/140401/ncomms4557/full/nco...
> You can get a decent self-winding mechanical watch for $150 from Swatch.

For a certain value of "decent"...

http://watchguy.co.uk/review-a-trip-inside-the-swatch-sistem...
Here's my advice. It's the same advice I gave my three teenage daughters, and it helped all three land jobs they wanted:

Don't ASK for help. Instead, OFFER your expertise and wide range of diverse skills. Don't ASK for food and shelter, SAY you're willing to be paid in food and lodging.

And so on. See what I'm doing here? Come at it from a position of strength. Clearly set up a win/win situation.

I'd re-write this post, this time sounding more in control and with emphasis on what you can deliver. Hope this helps.
The provisioning process.
Did you read the whole paper or just the abstract? If you read the whole paper, why are you linking just to the abstract?
Show HN: Share and store all your most important links. Snowflake
Constant fear of Apple breaking backward compatibility by shipping new versions of their operating system every year.

Apple is now running a beta versions of iOS 8.x and iOS 9.

This puts a massive brake on the impulse towards creating new products if you have fixed resources. It creates a strong bias towards optimising existing products even after the point of diminishing returns.
Count yourself lucky. In Alameda County I pay over $200 per month while using almost no water, and as for electricity I pay typically over $200 again, because I have to subsidize the people in Bakersfield who run their air conditioners all day long (and in fact the PUC has voted this year to raise my bill and lower theirs so that I subsidize their lifestyle choices even more). It sound like you're getting a really good deal in comparison.
Because you can't predict offline which names you need to obscure with fake NSEC records.

If there is any company in the world actually using Phreebird in production, I'd --- for more than one reason --- like to know about it.
Let me guess, you didn't actually read the paper did you.

This post right now shows the fatuousness of your post.
He moved from Convergence to TACK, which is on hold during the rollout of HPKP, which is like 80% of the value proposition of TACK.
The amount and ratio of water soluble to water insoluble fiber to other substances in food, in addition to how much breakdown there is during intake (such as a smoothie, vs raw berries) definitely has an effect on absorption. For that matter, taking in additional fiber will help inhibit absorption.

There's also a given persons reaction to different macros over time... sugar vs fat vs protein have different chemical reactions in the body, where too much sugar in some will have different affects over time. Some will gain weight, and show signs of metabolic syndrome, others may have the issues, but not outwardly show via weight gain. Others still won't develop diabetes.. and this can be on roughly the same diet.

BMR isn't in and of itself the only measure... while it's true that you will gain/lose weight depending on how many calories you take in/out... but beyond that is what types of mass are gained/lost. Most fat people don't have enough lean muscle once they're over 35-40, which means losing too much muscle (or any) is a detriment. If you start losing more than a sustainable muscle mass, you can actually be worse off. You need to take in a minimal amount of protein to maintain/gain muscle (combined with exercise to promote gaining/maintaining muscle)... with a calorie deficit enough for weight loss, but doesn't cause starvation response and metabolic slowdown.

All of these are definitely variable by person.
Yes: a choice between two very unattractive options. Isn't DNSSEC great?
Another MaxMind employee here ...

Please don't try to use the dat file format. The binary files ending in ".dat" are the Legacy format, which has never been documented. Use the MMDB format linked by oalders in the top comment.
Have you checked HN's jobs section? You'd probably get more attention responding to a thread there or maybe posting your own if that's in the rules.

If you pitch in with non-technical founders, be prepared to have them question a lot of your recommendations and decisions. Do you have the patience for that? Be sure to choose wisely... your advice probably won't turn around a couple of clueless suits. You can't run a startup the same way you'd run a big business, and anyone with that in mind isn't going to, on faith, listen to the contrary advice of a hire.

In other words, don't do this as an act of charity for someone you think will fail without you. You're investing your time, so spend wisely. Just a reminder.