skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I also read the Hacker's Diet, but I went to a doctor-controlled diet, and lost about 34 pounds so far (15 kg), in two months (not 6 months).

It's fairly similar to what John advocates actually :) - it's eating WAY less, slower, and mostly vegetables (the main thing about this diet was that the clinic provides the food so you can't overeat).

And yes, I was very hungry at first, what I did was drink lots of soup (the instant-soup type, there are some "light" versions by Knorr over here), and yoghurt (also "light").

I didn't eliminate sodas, I replaced them with diet versions (doctor said they were OK for diet purposes).

PD: as another poster said, NO SUGARS, no flour (that means no bread, etc.. . that part is hard!) and no butter and other dairies except for yoghurt.
It's a lot of fun reading posts like this and mentally replacing any statement along the lines of "existing tablets do this already" with "existing MP3 players do this already".
I am not the all powerful middleman for anyone as most people are simply not stupid enough to sign away their rights in that fashion. I just give advice.

But you're right that I'm acting in my own interest. I'm not making a moral case here. Nobody is forced to buy from Apple, so Apple is free to do whatever nonsense they want.

What I'm saying is simply that it is not in my interest to do business with Apple if they take away the most basic freedoms from me. Neither as a user nor as a consumer, and least of all as a hacker who likes to tinker with stuff.
The Atkin's theory, which I believe has been largely substantiated, is that carbohydrates (sugar, HFCS) do not satisfy hunger, they tend to trigger hunger.

John cut out the sugar and his hunger dropped. FWIIW, my experience was the same and there are many others who echo this.

See "Sugar: The Bitter Truth" (UCSF lecture) which goes into detail on the metabolism of carbohydrates, especially HFCS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM
and discussed on HN:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1006980

One of many references:
http://heartdisease.about.com/cs/riskfactors/a/lofatlocarb_2...
"The real disappointment is the fact that the device is locked down and we'll never get the chance to use it to innovate the way we interact with our real computers."

It's not a computer, though; it's a device. Apple doesn't want you to interact with it like a real computer.

It's disappointing but if you wait someone will come out with a computer that size and you'll get all of the interactivity you want from it. Hell, Dell has one in the wings.
The most common way to compute your distance from a deal is to assume the earth is a perfect sphere

I thought you would only really be finding deals at distances small enough to just assume the earth is flat. Or at least, aren't those the only ones people would actually be interested in? If it's beyond my physical reach, I don't care how far it is. I'll get it shipped.

Or am I missing something?
The main disagreement is on the existance of private property, which has far reaching implications.
Then your server is broken.
That's what the "accept*" headers are for.
I love this book.

Not really a marketing book but the principles are really practical to lots of situations in life.
> It's not a computer, though; it's a device. Apple doesn't want you to interact with it like a real computer.

Precisely. My point is that I don't want to use it in the way "The Jobs" wants me too. I want to hack it into an input device for my real computer.

Sorry for the confusion.
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The United States is not a democracy, it is a republic. Democracy is mob rule and is something the founding fathers were very much against.
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You have to use their sync software (iTunes) - not their store. There is no requirement to purchase anything.
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But he was the nice kind :)
yes. and to go after another one of matt's points, i doubt the people at nokia, motorola, et al were all that scared of the iphone in the beginning, either. ed colligan, then the ceo of palm, famously said "We've learned and struggled for a few years here figuring out how to make a decent phone. PC guys are not going to just figure this out. They're not going to just walk in." no matter how cool the iphone might have seemed, they just couldn't fathom it doing well in the tightly-controlled mobile space.

having said all that, i agree with matt's main point. i'm a little underwhelmed with the ipad as well. the scuttlebutt was that apple had tried making tablet computers for years, but jobs always torpedoed them with "what is this for, other than reading the web on the can?" since they were finally releasing a tablet, i figured they had thought up a compelling use case, other than reading the web on the can. personally, i'm not seeing it.

seems foolish to bet against jobs, though. if he thought it was a good product, i think it might catch on.

colligan quote here: http://www.palminfocenter.com/news/9110/colligan-laughs-off-...
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I've just started the cutting phase of my weightlifting diet. I'm eating healthily but at about 500 kcal per day less than my resting metabolic rate (2500 kcal down from 3000 kcal).

It's not so much the hunger I have problems with but the tiredness. I can still concentrate well on my work, but social situations seem to be a lot harder! I guess I feel a bit more grumpy than usual.
I don't know why we need 'amazing diet secrets' at all; it seems to me that, barring metabolic disorders, most of it is just "Do something, anything, about your diet".

I pursued the following program for a semester: 1 meal a day (a sizable, but not huge, dinner at the end of the day --often McDonald's), and a 2/3 mile walk. I lost 15 kg, from over 80 kg to just over 65 kg, in the semester, and a few of those kilograms went away already in the first week --talk about instant gratification.

When that drop was done, I went back to 2 meals a day but kept up the walking (although essentially no other regular exercise). I basically eat what I feel like, although, after a semester of eating 1 meal a day, what I feel like eating is much less than it used to be. I have been a bit over 60 kg for about 3 years now.
This video was a big inspiration for me. I've always been the kind of person who would rather do my own thing for a few weeks and then say "Hey, look what I did!"

The end result of this was always something that nobody but me understood. It's useful to get feedback on your code as soon as possible, even if by no means other than just trying to explain it to someone else.
> roughly 80% of photoshop before there would be any significant threat from this to the tablet market.

There are a couple of drawing apps which already implement a good portion of it.
It's the bulimic's secret: Eat enough to experience ingredient overflow. :-)
It already has USB and theoretically could use a USB-attached camera. The problem is, the iPad-to-USB adapter is something more you have to carry in addition to the svelte iPad and I would worry about inadvertently damaging the iPad connector on the iPad with the (relatively) big adapter.

Adding a USB-attached camera is even worse: two more things to carry plus a cord to add leverage for stressing the adapter.

Tethering a peripheral (e.g. camera) via bluetooth or WiFi would get around the adapter part, but it still is an ugly solution.

I agree with Tim, Apple's target audience isn't me, it isn't him, and it probably isn't most of the people on HN. It is consumers, not creators.
He has the freedom to promote what he believes are ethical lifestyle choices. You in turn have the freedom to follow his recommendations, or not.
You can lock down quite a lot with the Parental Controls in the iPhone OS
Isn't it ironic that everyone thought that the iPad was going to bury the CrunchPad, but the CrunchPad was vastly superior in every way -- and cheaper.
The only conclusion that I 've been able to draw from this mess is: climate science has been seriously compromised :(

I just cant decide who can be trusted as a source for accurate and unbiased information/opinion.
> if all I have is an iPad, I can write lots of potentially interesting software for it. They are still programmable, after all.

There is only 2 way such a thing is possible.

(1) By default, the iPad let you write, compile and run programs in it without requiring any external device (like a iMac with XCode). That would mean it is easy to distribute such programs without going through the App Store, just like with a plain old desktop computer. I don't believe it for a second.

(2) You had jailbroken it.

Therefore, it is safe to say that by default, the iPad is not programmable.
I wonder if results would be different if cooperation would result in a loss (as opposed to merely smaller reward).

Psychologically, it's much easier to forgo additional reward than to give up what you already have.

People have tendency to strongly prefer avoiding losses to acquiring gains:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loss_aversion
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If you loved the iPhone but hated all that annoying fits-in-your-pocket and voice-calling and typing, you're gonna be AMAZED at the bullshit we've come up with! Now open your wallets and bend over.
> I thought it was inappropriate, not for questioning Zinn, but for doing so in a way much more biased than Zinn himself.

Eh, the review was nothing special, but the fact that Zinn left out that the side he labeled as oppressed started the Pequot War with a murder seemed like an important detail. Or the fact that war was primarily Indian tribes vs. other Indian tribes, and the Anglo component was less than 20% of the winning side. But, you can't let the facts get in the way of a good story.

I imagine Zinn himself would agree he was more of an activist than a historian, and he fits history to his activism. The uberpatriot people aren't any better and might well be worse, but the message is more important than the messenger. Pointing out that a man claiming to be a historian is leaving out entirely crucial historical details is important.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1082824
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I felt this is a great write-up that (I think) many developers out there whose projects have dependencies which don't use the same version control system. Rusty Klophaus explains this wonderfully.
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So the real question is, is he a reliable counterindicator?
It's the same realm, but I find this especially prevalent in erlang/otp applications. The mixture between github and bitbucket is somewhat widespread for some projects.
There are so many internet business models to explore. Why is it that newspapers are only focusing on the subscription based model?
Same story as with the iPhone. When it first came out I laughed out loud: $600 for a locked in device with a crappy network? No thanks. Guess what my phone now is?

I think the conventional wisdom for Apple products can be applied here: don't buy the first gen device. Think about it this way, right now the iPad starts at $499. I mean that's almost two netbooks... On the other hand what if the next generation one is 2-3 times cheaper, with a better screen, etc. Where I wouldn't buy a $500 iPad, I might consider a $200 iPad.
You're absolutely right - in my experience the pythagorean theorem has less than ~50 meters difference from the Haversine formula for distances less than 20 miles or so. In the actual code I use a simple heuristic to decide when to use which calculation.

Like I mentioned in the post, the distance function presented is a bit of a simplification I invented for pedagogical purposes (my goal was to examine languages, not geometry).
That quote from Colligan is from before the iPhone was announced. Matt's entire point was that after it shipped it was clear to everyone that this was the future of phones, and that other cell phone makers were scared. History has shown that that is precisely what they believed because 3 years out every mobile phone maker has an iPhone clone. On the other hand, Matt is saying that after the iPad was announced, most mobile PC makers did not think to themselves "how on earth are we going to go up against this" (whether they are right or wrong is of course another story). I agree that its not like every tablet/netbook owner now wants to throw their tablet away and get an iPad (the way a lot of phone owners wanted to throw their phones away and get an iPhone), however this may be because their simply aren't a lot of tablet/netbook owners or its a young market or whatever.
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I hope to someday make a product that gives such positive first impressions that people suspect my users might be shills.
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Could I train a robotic hand to catch a ball with this? What would be involved?
Ochlocracy is mob rule. As for democracy, it depends very much on which founding father you choose..
Seems doable with an app, though? There is the famous air mouse app for the iPhone/iPod Touch.
Yes, Twitter4J is nice, but I still somehow prefer to handle JSON responses by myself. It gives me greater control and flexibility to API changes.
There have been more ARM CPUs built than people alive. It has been winning for a long time.

When I read this, I hear the soundtrack for the first Terminator movie.
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I can't but agree.
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Yes, but they aren't nearly as notoriously capricious as the App Store. (Perhaps it's just not as well publicized?)
There is no real "secret". Its simple mathematics. Getting to know what the caloric numbers mean is the starting point. (Its like in personal finance knowing what the debit and credit columns mean.)

For the "math" part, I wrote this short blog post:
http://www.hackersinshape.net/archives/109

Oh and the diet part will get you only so far and it is the most challenging part, but without exercise you are missing the big step in speeding up your metabolism that in return burns more calories and the combination which results in exponential results. (Leaner more muscular look. Unless you want you leftover skin to be hanging on the floor of course, I'd strongly recommend exercise as part of the program)

I weighed 85kg on +/-179cm with 25% body-fat. Year later, I weighed 73.5kg with 7% body-fat. Healthier I have ever been and am still sticking to it three years later.
Here is my 1 year review:
http://www.hackersinshape.net/archives/16

[edit] Know that there is no secret or any form of black magic :), its a combination of "a) some basic knowledge" (Know what you eating [1 avg. donut == +/-250 calories. That equates to about an hour of running.]), "b) smaller quantities of whole foods at more frequent intervals" and "c) exercise" (Both cardio and resistance).
Can you release the source data used for the benchmark?

I'd like to compare it to C.
Cottage cheese is definitely an OK dairy for weight loss!
...but Chrome runs on linux too. http://www.google.com/chrome?platform=linux
Ask HN: Why is there no stylus with the iPad?
Shouldn't any tablet have handwriting recognition, or at least let you make freehand notes and drawings? I think that would be really useful to me, or to edit photos by drawing on them, etc.
Reliable contraindicator:

Apple comes out with something attempted by the Wintel cabal 4 to 5 years ago. (The Windows Tablet also had magazines and many other parallels with iPad.) However, Apple does it with a much better design, presentation, and end-to-end experience.

Techies who use tech so easily that they don't need the above so much proclaim that such things were already around, we can get better spec devices that do the same thing for cheaper, etc. (I call this the CmdrTaco syndrome.)

My prediction: this is only the first step. The functionality of the Newton/Microsoft Courier is the way forward. Integrate a camera with the thing, and we'll have augmented reality in a practical way. (One that doesn't make you look like a Cyberpunk RPG nerd in public.) I can imagine executives keeping their personal assistants on tap through iChat with this thing. I can imagine the same executives sitting in meetings with this propped up on its docking station/stand like a teleprompter, their staff listening in, and popping up relevant information for them. (And if someone develops a software bluetooth keyboard/touchpad App on the iPhone, they can do discrete chat under the table to ask their staff specific questions.)

Actually, integrate two cameras with the thing, so you can iChat and stream the video of the meeting/presentation.

Apple should do some Bonjour integration with Keynote, so that you can do a low-bandwidth sharing of someone else's currently playing Keynote presentation on a different through iChat by just pressing a button. The presenter could flip a setting and multicast the slides. Anyone on the same WiFi subnet could then share it with iChat partners automatically.
chess also happens to be a game about war.

So is the game RISK. But the actual relationship of both games to war is exactly nothing.
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There is no source data.

I just iterate through each latitude from -90 to 90 and each longitude from -180 to 180 in increments of 2.5 (for both the start and end). Check out the source code for any of the 5 examples (included in the post).

If you'd like, post the code up somewhere and I'll be happy to run it on the same machine and post the results along with the rest.
That's funny, because the countries highest on the Democracy Index seem anything but governed by mob rule.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_Index
>They’re Microsoft and Intel rolled into one when it comes to mobile computing.

Anyone else get a chill when reading this?
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The iPad is still going to bury the CrunchPad. First of all, no one outside of geek circles has heard of the CrunchPad, TechCrunch, Fusion Garage, Juju or whatever the hell other name that thing is going by these days. Whether it's superior in every way or not couldn't be any less relevant when hardly anyone knows anything about it. Is that thing even going to see the light of day? If so, does anyone know what it's going to be called or where it can be bought?
This is self-correcting.

When people are bored of talking about the iPad then they will stop voting the articles up. If more exciting things appear then they will be voted up.

Give it 24 hours, and the wheel will turn again.
Are people still calling Lisp slow in 2010? That was somewhat true when most programming was done in C. Plenty of languages slower than Lisp have risen to popularity since then.
I'm pretty sure you haven't developed for DOS in the 90ties, otherwise you wouldn't be saying that.

People that bitch and moan about HTML, CSS, Javascript and about choosing a (high-level) language/framework for server-side development ... should really try developing for DOS, having to deal with Turbo Pascal or C (since C++ in the early 90ties was a mess), having to drop to 286 or 386 assembler to do their job, having to deal with the conventional memory limitations, going through hoops choosing between extended and expanded memory, or having to deal with the protected 386 mode, and always having to reinvent the wheel because open-source practically didn't exist for DOS ... like writing their own windowing tookit, or simulate multi-threading / background workers with hardware interrupts.

The truth of the matter is, we've never had it better. People bitching and moaning about web-dev are just conservatists ... but really, they should get over it since this is 2010, not 1992.
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Counterpoint: my mac stopped seeing my iPhone. There was no advice on the internet on how to fix it. I'm completely lost at what to do. I can't upgrade the phone's software, and can't load new songs, I can't backup my phone :-(
They told you what they needed multitasking for.

At the moment, on my Symbian phone, I can listen to Spotify while surfing the web. You cannot do that on an iPhone or iPad.
I can honestly say I never even thought about the Crunchpad during the initial iPad release info.

The Crunchpad/JooJoo seems like a dead project to me, so it doesn't take up any space in the forefront of my thoughts.
They have been on the market for a few years now so feel free to wander on in any time you feel like it.
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sign with your finger? That's probably harder than signing with a mouse.
Fair enough. But then that raises a more important issue: you are showing Lisp is faster than more popular languages in a way that probably doesn't matter much. When I read the title, I was hoping this isn't some benchmarking or academic exercise, which does not have relevance for real applications. So I was delighted to read that this is something you use in your webapp, only to be disappointed again now.

I don't mean to discourage you or be cynical. I love the fact that you are writing interesting articles on the practicalities of using Lisp with actual data behind it. So, keep up the good work. I look forward to more posts.
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Yeah, I find it an odd criticism too - but you'd be surprised how many people still bring it up.

I think most people played with Scheme/Lisp in one class in college in the 90's and have been soured on it ever since.
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Indeed - the classes are sociopaths, clueless and losers:

http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-o...

Mapping these classes to those in "The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism" I will leave as an exercise for the reader.
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Don't hold your breath for a $200 iPad. Apple will most likely add more features to the lineup, but keep the prices the same. That's why I still can't afford a single Apple product.
Context: http://folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story...
The iPad might be a lot more like the original iPod rather than like the iPhone. I don't think Creative or Nomad were cowering in fear after Apple's presentation in 2001.

The Apple of 2001 is certainly not the Apple of 2010, so it won't be all that similar, but relativly slow yet steadily accelerating uptake coinciding with constant evolutionary revisions seems plausible.

The only difference is that in 2001 not many cared whether the iPod would become a success or not. Apple was still the Mac company, that's no more the case today. If the iPad uptake is relativly slow we will most certainly see dozens of "iPad dead" articles within the first month the device starts selling.
So now the iPhone OS supports a mouse cursor? That seems unlikely. That's my big fear here.