skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Assuming your body, with your lifestyle, requires on average 3500 kcal a day to sustain itself, and if your body can extract 3500 kcal out of the sand you produce, then yes, you won't lose weight.

There are multiple factors that change:

1) intestines+stomach can have different absorption rates

2) food preparation can change amount of calories (cooked food simplifies calorie extraction)

3) glycemic index affects how readily cell absorb calories

4) body can only release a limited amount of energy out of fat cells per day (study seems to suggest 22kcal per day per pound of fat). Deficit beyond starts burning through other tissues than fat

5) Base metabolic rate - different weight and different lifestyle will have people have different amount of daily required calories

There are many things that are affected, and it is best to calculate out yourself. How efficient is your body in absorbing calories, and how efficient is it in burning them, and then ensure you absorb less than you need to burn.
Don't self-diagnose yourself too quickly, as none the features are not unique to ADD. Reading through the list of symptoms at http://www.helpguide.org/articles/add-adhd/adult-adhd-attent... I can more or less find myself from almost every symptom listed. I hyperfocus on programming and games, I easily forget conversations and deadlines, I constantly misplace and lose my things, my desk is cluttered, I can zone out during a conversation, I can blurt out things without thinking too much, I procrastinate very easily (I'm browsing HN right now instead working!), etc.

However, I don't have ADD. Despite the fact I share many features with people suffering from ADD, it doesn't take that much effort for me to focus in things I'm not exited about. I can do tasks I find boring for a long time if I really want to, and I can even consciously hyperfocus on almost any task that needs focus.
Programming with the Lowest Common Denominator
Insults and anger aside, it seems we agree that the source of the calories does in fact make a difference.

A moment of reflection reveals that "food" is a very vague and somewhat arbitrary classification of materials. And what may be "food" for some may not be for others.

I've never understood why it should be at all controversial to consider that different individuals could have substantial variance in their ability to absorb calories from different sources. As often as not, the response to the idea is anger, which is kinda weird, frankly.
Yeah, it's one of the methods that we use to gather event videos automatically: http://wesawit.com/events
It "snows" every year in Tokyo but it often does not stick around very long. 2012 and 2013 both had a lot of snow (by Tokyo standards) on separate occasions.
Good Good Let the Hate flow through !

A cyber-security cold war would be the best thing to happen to the CS industry and a lot better than real wars.
3 lines to a gram are some fat lines, it's probably more like 12-14 lines a gram.
This is a topic very dear to me, and I'd like to share the brief conclusion to Walter Pater's The Renaissance. The full text is available online[0]; it's very much worth the read if you're interested in literary appropriations to the problem of human connection and the nature of experience.

Experience, already reduced to a group of impressions, is ringed round for each one of us by that thick wall of personality through which no real voice has ever pierced on its way to us, or from us to that which we can only conjecture to be without. Every one of those impressions is the impression of the individual in his isolation, each mind keeping as a solitary prisoner its own dream of a world. Analysis goes a step farther still, and assures us that those impressions of the individual mind to which, for each one of us, experience dwindles down, are in perpetual flight; that each of them is limited by time, and that as time is infinitely divisible, each of them is infinitely divisible also; all that is actual in it being a single moment, gone while we try to apprehend it, of which it may ever be more truly said that it has ceased to be than that it is.

To such a tremulous wisp constantly re-forming itself on the stream, to a single sharp impression, with a sense in it, a relic more or less fleeting, of such moments gone by, what is real in our life fines itself down. It is with this movement, with the passage and dissolution of impressions, images, sensations, that analysis leaves off–that continual vanishing away, that strange, perpetual weaving and unweaving of ourselves.

[0] http://www.mccoyspace.com/nyu/10_s/ideas/texts/week02-texts....
Forth – The Early Years (1991)
Incidentally, Forsyth wrote a non-fiction book about Biafra: http://www.amazon.com/The-Biafra-Story-Making-African/dp/184...

Turns out special agent fiction sells a lot better.
Thank you! Seems to me like a sane and clean concept, i.e. how autotools and co always should have been. I'm quite fond of writing Makefiles myself, so that wouldn't be an issue. When I get around to rewriting the build system for my GPU code preprocessor framework [1] I think I'll give bsdowl another look - it's possible that it would fit quite well and reduce the amount of build system code I have to maintain myself.

[1] https://github.com/muellermichel/Hybrid-Fortran

edit: Ah there is something I missed though: BSD Make only will probably be an issue. My stuff mostly has to work on HPC GPU clusters which are pretty much exclusively Linux based, so GNU Make support is a must I think. Do you have any plans on supporting this so it becomes portable to Linux?
> 3 lines to a gram are some fat lines

What can I say? I miss the .com days of the 90s...
My experience is that when you're on the right dosage, no. I do hit a low around 10 hours after taking the pill (I have Vyvanse), when its effects start to wear off. Other than that, the only other side effect I have is that I end up biting the inside of my lower lip, I must be sucking all the time or something. Hurts the next day.

Oh, and if you take a pill, then forget and take another, well, it leads to a VERY jittery day.
TL;DR: beyond cleaning -> https://www.amazon.com/services

Ah thanks, it's been a while. I met some of the founders and thought the space was a capital-intensive, uphill battle without a biz model defensibility-component on its own. Also, I think the brand has to be crystal clear, and PathJoy / HomeJoy didn't do that. HomeJoy was again unclear as opposed to MerryMaids and the other million maid services. CleanJoy was nice, but I don't think they got the 0->1 solid first before pivoting the brand to something more general. Then, there's the threats of Amazon and Google are dropping in to offer all sorts of home services, WalMart and Costco will also want in, either acquiring established players per vertical or building their own.

It's a double-ended marketplace of getting customers and providers... it takes big bucks/hustling to inform customers and loads of sales time convincing small/medium providers to prenegotiate fees, terms and conditions. (Small business people can be a PITA to sell to, but it's possible with obvious, immediate examples of bringing them more business.). And, how do you vet thousands of suppliers meaningfully and keep only the good ones (feedback, reviews, certifications, training, etc.)? Google, Amazon, AliBaba have the scale to do this where a startup would be hard-pressed to match the meatcloud scaling of human-involved business processes where automation isn't quite there yet, but it's getting better (and lots of startups should focus on automation of service industry and white-collar corporate processes).
You can convert all your outlook emails to .eml files and import them into Thuderbird or whichever other client you use.
Is the FDA Too Conservative or Too Aggressive? Analysis of Clinical Trial Design
Ask HN: Ratio of points on HN to SO
Stupid question of the day - what's your ratio of points here vs points on StackOverflow?
My wife noticed a typo:

> Specify keyword and radius to get a result near what your want.

s/your/you/
Radar Made Easy (1974)
If you are accepting payments, it's likely to be considered employment/work by anyone who told you not to work. I recommend against assuming anything when it comes to bureaucracy and pedantic laws.
PSVita: mGBA alpha 4 released for Rejuvenate
That's strange I've always found low doses have the opposite effect : more empathetic.

Perhaps it just impairs performance on the simulators where emotion recognition is tested with images, and not in real life.

Or maybe my brain chemistry is different.
Ask HN: Getting started with JavaScript app development
I've been advised by a prospective employer that local demand where I live (Finland) is exceedingly high, to the extent that I was told just expressing interest in learning mobile dev, especially in JavaScript, increased the chances of employing.

However, being willing to learn, and having at least some basic skills, are a doable step away, and I'd like to get my hands dirty and at least try maybe building a basic proof-of-concept app just to show I can do it.

Unfortunately finding actual "getting started" information that isn't aimed at existing developers, esp. for JS app dev, seems to be more difficult than I expected.

Would deeply appreciate any links, docs, etc.
As a python developer I use only fonts which inserts tiny space between two and more following underscores.

See in __call__ method
http://sourcefoundry.org/hack/assets/img/mockup/python-sourc...
A fast geo database with LevelDB, Go and Geohashes
Reminds me of when I was paid £6.66 / hr back in 2000 to do some VB6 work in a northern-England location. It was enough to pay for the rent / food over the summer holiday, but I appreciated the experience. So I think 7 would be underpaid compared to that, allowing for inflation. Well a true Scotsman knows how to get value for money :-)

I agree with the "ask for more but don't quit" sentiment (unless there are other reasons that make it worth quitting). It will pay dividends when you try to get your first full time job, as it proves you are employable and you will even have a reference to help you. So do good work there and be nice to them when you leave.

P.S. Try to get a MV* framework experience in PHP that will translated nicely into Ruby/.NET job rather than doing vanilla PHP ... if you can. Convince them to try it out if they are not, and then you have a nice "I'm awesome" story for your full-time job interview.
Yup. There's even a strange thing where as we get older, our perception of low tones changes so that music that sounds out of tune for an 18 year old sounds great to an 80 year old.
Atari's “The Book” (1980) [pdf]
As with everything in biology there are exceptions, imperfect measurements or wrongly self-perceived measurements. In other words: it could be one of your two suggestions or something else :)
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That wouldn't be a very good control; it was probably a placebo made to look like the real drug as they do in most clinical trials.
Its already known that Windows 10 (and now presumably earlier ones because of the Telemetry update), ignore the firewall (or, alternatively, have hidden rules on it) when talking to specific Microsoft servers.
Your comment, and many others, seem to make an unstated assumption that CS programs are all alike.

To your point that a "CS degree doesn't actually teach you... [about] building a website, or building an app", I can only say that any number of classes that were part of my 1987 degree (Rochester Institute of Technology) are directly applicable:
-- fundamentals of computer graphics
-- data management (btrees, isam files...)
-- networking and client/server programming
-- analysis of algorithms (performance and optimization)
-- discrete math (boolean logic, binary math, octal/decimal number systems)

My degree gave me the tools to understand computing concepts and that has served me quite well even though most of the tools, languages, and hardware that I use today didn't even exist when I was in college.
Do you believe it is literally as simple as calories in calories out, for all people equally?
pbpaste | grep -wc ago

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0.3% faster and 1.7% more correct :-)
[video] Protest in Tokyo against new security bills
Yup. Transmission limits its handshake resends only 3 times.

https://trac.transmissionbt.com/ticket/5984
https://trac.transmissionbt.com/ticket/5888
Show HN: Audio Indexing and Search via API
There are many illnesses that are considered very treatable or curable, but that doesn't mean every case can be improved. I definitely wasn't implying that people with ADD aren't trying hard enough!

A great example of the above is OCD. People with the illness have to work extremely hard to experience improvement, and not every case improves. But it's still considered to be something that people can recover from nearly completely.
Why You’ll See Some High Profile Movies Leave Netflix US Next Month
Ruby on Guix
Thanks! I was going to write the same comment, and I don't think it is off-topic.

Many HN readers probably won't understand the word-play behind "DRDoS", as they are too young to have worked with MS-DOS/DR-DOS/etc. So I think it is worth mentioning that this title is a word-play.
At this point I've given up on any of these "package managers" for OS X.

I've thought about starting a project (possibly with some support from my company, which focuses on Linux packaging) to provide a) a tool to download and install .pkg files, and b) a toolchain for more easily building .pkg files for the things that aren't available.
Just had to respond to that domain name; there wasn't a abbreviation available?
Boss of the company sold his business and paid to each of the employees $ 200 000
"Is this site authorized or endorsed by the DMV? No, and I have no idea how to ask."

Messing around with a computer system without permission (especially one owned by the government) could land you in significant legal trouble. If the DMV wanted to allow you to write apps that made appointments for people, they'd probably have a public API for it.
Sure, and abductive reasoning can be formalized in certain modal logics with Kripke semantics.

What Gödel tells us is that, as long as you have a sufficiently powerful formal system, you cannot prove the consistency of the system itself. Modal logics are no exception.

If you are a computationalist (that is to say, you believe that the human mind can be emulated by a Turing machine), then you might want to take a look at Gödel, Escher, Bach, where Hofstadter discusses how the second incompleteness theorem applies to Turing machines.

You might also enjoy "Forever Undecided" by Smullyan. It uses puzzles to guide you to an intuition about what the incompleteness theorems means to human knowledge and its limitations. In the worst case it's a fun read.

Peace!
> Diet and exercise is actually very well understood, and the same thing will 'work' for everybody.

> just an aside, there is no 'ultra efficiency mode' you comment here:

Do you genuinely believe that metabolism doesn't vary across individuals, or for an individual over time? Do you think the bodies of all individuals have precisely the same ability to both absorb calories from ingested food, as well as produce motion with the exact same efficiency? Do you believe enzymes present in the digestive system have absolutely no effect whatsoever on the calories in / calories out calculations? Do you think every calorie you put into your body is converted into energy?
Yeah maybe I just believed I was being more empathetic while in fact I was only more confident in my belief.

They are called psychoactives after all -- how reliable could my report be if my perception was altered?
Is the study suggesting that most Politicians live on Cocaine?
To play devils advocate here: when it's their own startup project, everybody is totally into analytics and data driven design. Heck, we even usually defer our analytics to a third party (Mixpanel, Google Analytics) that will allow them to form personal profiles aggregated over multiple vendors.

But when Microsoft wants to do the same kind of analytics we all swear by, then the big outrage starts and everybody is all up in arms.

Personally, I'm against tracking and I fought the powers that be in order to not get analytics into our products, but that's a battle I lost. So now I really feel like I'm in no position to complain about MS doing analytics when even my own stuff does it.
On win 10 you can set it to collect only "basic" info, but not turn it off completely.
The majority of people who use Bash on OS X will not be using advanced features.

The people that are likely to use advanced features would also hopefully be aware of Bash's fragility/compatibility issues between minor versions, and thus wouldn't rely on it for anything like shell scripts.

So we're left with people who want to use advanced features and are doing so purely on machines they control.. So what stops them from either compiling their own bash, or using one of the third party package managers to install it?
Just for fun, I'll paste my reply to another comment here:

Do you genuinely believe that metabolism doesn't vary across individuals, or for an individual over time? Do you think the bodies of all individuals have precisely the same ability to both absorb calories from ingested food, as well as produce motion with the exact same efficiency? Do you believe enzymes present in the digestive system have absolutely no effect whatsoever on the calories in / calories out calculations? Do you think every calorie you put into your body is converted into energy?

I'll add an extra one for you: in controlled lab tests, would all subjects lose weight precisely as predicted by a formula that considered their diet and physical activity?
How to set up cron job for WP Active Directory Integration?
An accent is when you do it occasionally and accidentally, not pervasively, the wrong way, every single time for every single sound. That's something else.
Can this be applied to an electric piano to get a similar type of colour in the sound?
Okay.

Personally I'd find it hugely more draining to be tracking and worrying about volume / mass of every bit of food I ate.

4HB - go buy / borrow a copy, and read the first fifth or so (that's the bit about diet and weight management - there may be some useful stuff regarding exercise in the latter sections for your wife, by the sounds of it).

Basics are: drink more water, reduce your salt intake, cut out starch (the 'avoid anything white' rule of thumb), eat much more (seriously) food to compensate for lack of starch / carbohydrates - often up to three times the mass of what you'd be eating previously, eat (lots of!) beans - they have some carbohydrate component, but often locked up or less digestible, and they're a cheap, nutritious, environmentally-friendly versatile food, monitor your weight very carefully, don't fret about fat (but watch out for fatty foods that contain lots of salt), have a high protein breakfast early, say with 30-60m of waking, and one day a week eat however much you like of whatever you like at lunch & dinner. That last thing is what makes it a particularly palatable (ha ha) and sustainable diet for many people.

To be candid I've never felt any aspect of it was especially tough - there's the social outings that may complicate things, but that's the same problem for anyone considering what they eat.

Good luck. : )
It seems we agree on everything except semantics, but I'll respond anyway.

When I said "physiological fact", I meant to suggest a category including things like Down's Syndrome. I did not mean things like depression or other mental illnesses that may be observable using brain imaging and/or caused by physiological circumstances.

I won't get into the problems with trying to draw generalizations from brain imaging (easy enough to Google it), but I also have a problem with the idea that observable, physiological problems can't be fixed through behavioral means. We definitely agree on that.

> I can assure you that ADD has been a constant thing in my life for 39 years and that depression and anxiety have not been.

I should have been clear that I don't think ADD is only a symptom of depression and anxiety. I was just sharing the theory that ADD is a common symptom of many conditions, rather than a true condition in itself. In my experience, the cause has been depression and anxiety, but that's obviously not an exhaustive or scientific sample.
> I think what the author is trying to get across is that this new "devops" culture is creating a large number of developers who don't have deep knowledge of anything.

I dunno about that. My experience has been more that a team may need one person who's both wide and deep (T-shaped, or maybe just "rectangular"), but the companies I run across generally seem to hire younger developers who do have one or two core competencies--I-shaped, if not just dot-shaped and hoping to train them up.
Yes, Menlo is my go-to font, I use it in the terminal and with Xcode. Always had.
It's really, really difficult to do that without understanding (intimately) all the components in play from top to bottom.

I disagree. If a component is essentially a black box, where I know the inputs and I can test to check I get the expected output in known conditions, then that's enough. It has to be, otherwise there wouldn't be any way to use a middleware, or a third-party API, or anything too complex for one person to understand.

There are lots of software businesses where no one fully understands the internals of the product. That's fine. So long as there are people who expertly understand the part they're responsible for, and the APIs are well documented, everything will work great.

The problem with devops is that it gives people the impression that everyone can be responsible for everything, with everyone on the team having a hand in the design, the code, the testing, the deployment, etc. For a sufficiently complex product that is just not possible. At some point it gets too big, and people have to start accepting that they can't do it all, and that they'll have to trust their colleagues to get things right.
The trend OP doesn't like is primarily because 'full stack' responsibilities, DBAs, release coordinators, etc. is probably the easiest it's ever been, so you might as well have developers throw in some extra hours to do it. I've worked at a fortune 500 that used a Ruby gem called "lol_dba"... you can spin up environments and deploys trivially with PAASs, or at the least use various automation tools, scripts, and cookbooks for provisioning machines, running deploys, CI, etc.

OP seems to think "full stack" developers no longer devote time to writing code... "This is why we see so many developers that can't pass FizzBuzz"... but really it just doesn't take us long to do the non developer stuff because it's just easy these days, maybe he's not aware of the tools people use.
I've never met a developer that could setup a MPLS circuit or OSPF over an IPSEC tunnel. The author says that developers can do these things, but I highly doubt it. Let alone be proficient enough to do it in JunOS and IOS. Network operations should not be lumped in with devops.
I didn't say that mindfulness would cure ADD. I just said mindfulness has been shown to decrease the effects. It's a not-very-well-defined condition to begin with, so I wouldn't believe a study claiming that something could cure it.

At the moment, there's no way to measure whether someone is cured. It may even be that "curing" ADD has some unintended/negative consequences -- perhaps some people have good qualities that are linked to their ADD. I really don't know.
It shouldn't be the job of a third-party package manager to do this. I want my vendors to stay up to date not just for feature purposes, but for security ones, too. (Remember how long it took Apple to get a Shellshock patch out there?)

But I have less of an interest in that than in discouraging jerkish pedantry.