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Thank you for your well thought out opinion. Honestly. I know I come at these issues with a strong personal bias, so it's a good thing for me to hear a well constructed counter argument.

I guess I don't really disagree with you either. Where I become frustrated with the response to this leak is the seemingly obvious misplaced blame (again, maybe this is just my bias). The media and political talking heads are all spinning this as a referendum on big business/the mega rich, when it seems so obvious to me this is always the outcome when statist/socialist policies are practiced -- corruption is always the result. It's not news that people will generally act in their own self interest. Maybe we should stop structuring our societies in a way that when people act selfishly (like humans) it hurts everyone else.

But, alas, how will the political elite spin the outcome? With less freedom, more regulation, by building a taller house of cards.
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Very true. Sugar is not the entire story of why calorie consumption increased, after all.

http://www.usda.gov/factbook/chapter2.pdf

"ERS data suggest that average daily calorie intake increased by 24.5 percent, or about 530 calories, between 1970 and 2000. Of that 24.5-percent increase, grains (mainly re-fined grain products) contributed 9.5 percentage points; added fats and oils, 9.0 percentage points; added sugars, 4.7 percentage points; fruits and vegetables together, 1.5 percentage points; meats and nuts together, 1 percentage point; and dairy products and eggs together,-1.5 percentage point.)"

I do think going light on highly processed food (including refined sugar and refined grains), and going light on calorie dense oils and fats is pretty good advice for any diet. But that's entirely due to the impact on calorie consumption, not due to any other health bogeyman.
This article really ought to be titled "Who makes sure Google never goes down". It's pretty scant on actual details about SRE there.
Apply HN: Connyct – Complete IOT Solution
What are we doing?
Connyct is a complete IOT solution. We will be the facebook and twitter of IOT.

Features:
1. Create a Device: Just define the data structure and the GUI associated with that ( all with a UI interface - no programming required)

2. Follow / Share: People can follow or share their devices. For example a scientist places a weather station in Antarctica, you could follow that device. Or to be commercial, what if Kim Kardashain's weighing scale uses Connyct? Million would be interested in following her weight. Developers of the device just focus on the device, we take care of the rest.

3. Data Analytics: Sensors/Devices just send their data; We perform complex data analytics on them.

4. Interconnection: You can do trigger actions on the devices you own (in real time) - for example, if temp in antartica weather station is less than 30, email me or turn on light at home, etc . All this with no programming.

Use Cases:
1. Companies make internal phone apps all the time. In the future, they are going to make internal IOT devices and they need a platform for that. We are that.

2. You have an idea for an IOT device, use our service to create the device - you focus on the device coz the backend, website, phone app is all done. Scale from 1 to a million.

3. You own a company and need a custom IOT device - you need to hire a h/w designer, backend developer, phone app developer, maintain a server etc. Use Connyct and you only need someone to send us the data - may be an intern? Look at the cost savings.

Saving the best for the last:
FREE for developers and users. Only cost for storing data along term.

Youtube links to give you an idea of what we are trying to accomplish:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nk5QK7SE2ME

We plan to launch in about 2 month time. Please feel free to drop in your suggestions/questions. We are also looking for a 3rd co-founder. If you like the idea and are interested, please feel free to drop in a comment.
Talk about slippery slope...
Fotorama, a responsive JavaScript photo gallery
Seeing WEB in a comment thread with extensive references to Knuth is amusing.
I would say that's not an universally accepted truth

http://www.amazon.com/Why-Not-Capitalism-Jason-Brennan/dp/04...

http://www.amazon.com/Why-Not-Socialism-G-Cohen/dp/069114361...
Can't the logging be handled by a different thread, which subsequently writes the log entries to a file? This is how most loggers work I suppose (keep the main thread free from logging-work as much as possible).

And because you use threads instead of processes, you get shared memory for free.
The hub for all college students is actually a pretty big addressable market. It's certainly not as big as Facebook ended up being, but it's still big enough to interest VCs.
I think neighbors are in the same situation regarding to electric energy because of the "El Niño".
Apply HN: Wanderlust – Pandora for Travel
Wanderlust is a website that helps you find out where you could travel to based on how much you can spend. A new way to plan and book your trips and an answer to the question of ‘where should I go?’.

The majority of traditional online travel websites (e.g. Booking, SkyScanner) work under the assumption that you know where you’re going. But what if you don’t know this? We don’t always have a destination in mind, but what we typically do have is a general sense of how much we can spend, what we like to see, and when we’d like to travel. Taking these variables into account, Wanderlust provides you with a complete trip - including destination, flight, accommodation, and an overview of the best things to do and see while you’re there.

To be sure, it’s still a little rough around the edges, but here's a quick demo: https://vid.me/TnZL

Our Product Hunt feature a while ago: https://www.producthunt.com/tech/wanderlust-pre-launch

Happy to answer any questions you may have!

(A bit about the team:
Technical founder, BSc & MSc in Engineering physics; PHd in Artificial Intelligence.
Business founder, Background in Communications; previously at Google, Vodafone.)
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Voter ID laws are causing havoc. It’s time to do something
I replaced my existing "dumb" thermostat with a nest and it has certainly been worthwhile, both in terms of energy cost savings and in having a convenient, pleasant interface for temperature control.

I purchased the third party Skylark app and installed it on my phone and my wife's phone so that the nest goes into "away" mode only when we are both out of the house. I think the official Nest app also added similar functionality recently.

After this initial set up, and a week or so of "training" we haven't had to think about setting our thermostat. Our house is just magically at the correct temperature when we are there but our bill is lower than it was before we got it.
Intel didn't get "lucky". Going superscalar (and OoO) with CISC ISA's like the VAX, IBM/360, x86, ... obviously isn't impossible (as illustracted by IBM's zNext and Intel's everything), but it's VERY difficult (thus hard to design and verify => time to market risks) and expensive (it takes a lot of logic and more pipeline stages). An ISA like RISC-V tries to avoid as much as _practical_ of these obstackles, thus making it easier & cheaper for implementations to be fast. This part is straight out of the DEC Alpha playbook.

Re. large integers: the RISC-V 2.0 (non-priv) ISA is frozen solid so any change would have to be an extension. I've been gently pushing for the mythical vector extension to be at least friendly to large integers.
Hey guys, Stamplay's founder here!

It's hard to say by a simple landing page but the service looks quite different in terms of offering.

The visual workflow builder of Stamplay is just a fraction of the whole offering and can be used by developers to orchestrate services or build business logic of their apps quicker.

Aside from that we to offer out of the box User authentication and management API, social signup, Data storage API with automatic generation database and REST API on top of the data model you define, Serverless code execution to implement any custom logic (AWS Lambda like), 3rd party API integrations (Stripe, Sendgrid, Twilio, Firebase, AWS SNS, AWS SQS.. and more), Cronjobs, Webhooks, CDN backed hosting for static assets with SSL + custom domain support.

As long as you understand basic RESTful services, JSON and JavaScript you can use all our core API. Modularity is a key factor of our platform and developers can already share "Code Blocks" to add specific features to their apps.

Brightworks seems more close to be an API design tool and to manage it over the time but I look forward to see more :)
> I have a Nest and if the cloud service went away and I couldn't control it from my phone anymore, I really wouldn't be sad. It's a feature I use maybe twice a year at most.

I have to be honest, the number one reason I don't have a Nest is the required connection to the cloud. Even if I wanted remote control that badly, I already have a server, I don't need someone elses.
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I'm still waiting for a prominent figure in the nutrition world to start the debate about intermittent fasting just as Lustig is doing with sugar.

Many nutritionists are prescribing the exact opposite of it: avoid fasting for more than very few hours. Heck, my coworker have a timer that fires every 2 hours to remind him to eat something.
talk about missing the point.

it's hard to sign up to a provider nobody has ever heard of. doesn't matter if you're making 30 mil or 3 thousand dollars.
Those damn hair emergencies, always sneaking up on a person...
Fitness trainer here once told me don't eat any white carbs after 2pm so no white potatoes, bread, pasta ect. That pretty much has worked for me combined with daily exersize (cycle, pull up bar, walking a lot) and staying away from sugary drinks and carb snacks like chips completely. I'm not fitness model fit but good enough fit and also have diabetes in the family history which luckily so far have avoided (mid 30s)
Imagine a world where there are three languages of exactly-equal merit. X, Y, and Z. Y wins based on luck and network effects, and amazing things are done with it. Did Y bring us anything good? Not when X was there first. X would have worked fine to power those uses.

Now imagine Y was slightly worse than X, based on some magic objective measure. Even though it's the backbone of all these amazing things, Y has actually had a negative impact on the world. We could all have computers that are equally easy to program and use but slightly less buggy, if only that effort has focused on X instead.

So when you say there's no question that C brought a huge amount of value based on usage stats, you're wrong. It can definitely be questioned.
Nest is a cool product, but it might be just slightly ahead of its time, by a hair. Maybe the future generation of homeowners will be adamant about having a high tech touchscreen interface for their HVAC system, but for most people I know, it isn't a problem they're compelled to pay for. As the saying goes, the existing solutions are generally "good enough". I think Nest is on to something, but I'd bet it's another 5-10 years before they start seeing real breakthrough success.
I'm not talking about that. I'm talking about the hypothetical situation where an API itself is considered inheriting copyrights from the reference implementation -- similar to what Oracle argued about Java and Android.
It took them so long to produce a version capable of running common European systems (separate hot water), that I lost interest long back. They finally released something christmas last year.

The cock ups along the way didn't help either. Wouldn't touch them with a barge pole now.

Honeywell on the other hand seem to have smarter smart kit, and a decent reputation.
This comment is tangentially related to the topic.

Thomas and Patrick:

First I want to thank you for trying to address one of the most frustrating part of a developer's career.

As you know very well, after Silicon Valley, it's the finance companies in NYC area who pay top notch developer salaries. Even though I am a competent developer, it was quite a struggle for me to break in to the finance industry (They only wanted to hire people with finance experience). It took me a little while but I was able to break in. Now I am over that hump but I am faced with another problem. I have been working in 'Back office' for hedge funds for several years and would like to transition to 'Front office' and I am faced with the same problem again. I am not able to switch roles because I don't have experience working in the front office. The Stock Fighter CTF is a perfect way to demonstrate the relevant ability to prospective employers. Do you guys have any plan to work with hedge funds/investment banks for your recruiting platform?
IANAL, but that would be perfectly fine ... you are totally allowed to write a piece of software, and say that it's for Windows, or for Mac. Or manufacture a piece of hardware that's for iOS, or Android. Or an aftermarket car part "for Honda", etc.
The feature I like the most because it is usually missing from other galleries I encounter on the web is the ability to slide with your mouse to advance to the next picture.
How to be an automobile software engineer – Part 4 the Truth
An idiosyncratic look at the history of array processing languages [video]
JavaScript Widget Libraries
I see where brianwawok is coming from. You shouldn't feel an overwhelming sense of guilt, but you also still let people down.

Also keep in mind that most entrepreneurs raise some very early money from individuals ("friends and family") who don't have portfolios with dozens of companies.
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Not the OP but since they said the disease might have been caused by refined carbs, the most likely candidate is diabetes.

There is strong evidence that a ketogenic diet helps prevent/diminish seizures in epileptic patients. And there's some initial but promising research it can help reduce symptoms of Alzheimer's disease – and possibly Parkinson's and ALS. There's also some very early research that a ketogenic diet might slow the growth of certain cancerous tumors. But specifically for cancer, there's also evidence that a ketogenic diet has no long-term improvement of survivorship – though might have short-term improvement. My conclusion is that the science is still very much out, and it's way too early, from my layman's reading, to make any claim about those diseases being caused by refined carbs.
How to Prototype Mobile UI Patterns for Real Users: Part 1
I've been working at home for 4 years, and I sort of disagree with point #1. Maybe this is good for some people, but part of the high degree of flexibility comes from being able to work different, odds hours. Because of my freedom of working at home I can run to Costco at 10:30, or take my daughter to her soccer practice at 4pm. If I'm trying to wrap up some code, being at home allows me to stay focused past 5, sometimes 7 or 8pm, without the need to get in a car. It's give and take.
Do you have any sources for this? I'm looking for academic literature on the effects of tetrasodium pyrophosphate on satiety, but I can't find anything.
Apply HN: Trely – Outsourcing on Demand for Latam
Trely is a outsourcing platform that offer on-demand services for Latam made by curated freelancers.

Initially we are working with design and copywriting services.

For every task generated we take between 20-30% of the money.

Trely solves two problems of the current outsourcing space for latam. And in consequence of solving that 2 problems we offer 3 great improvements.

Problems:

1. Freelancers usually take more work than they should. And we get it. It's hard for a freelancer say no to a contract/work/gig because is the way they make a living.
But this often end in a big workload and then delayed deliveries of their tasks.

2. Companies/entrepreneurs spend a good amount of time looking for a good freelance when they have to outsource some work. Checking the portafolio, the references, the reviews, the background. And then, the conversation between freelancer-company can have between 8-15 emails before the work is begun. Next depending on the work size the delivery in no less than a week.

Solutions that trely offers:

1. We look, interview, and vet the freelancers before we accept them in our platform. We look in their resumes, portafolio, background, and references. Then we make them 3 test and the result is that we work only with 15% of the initial candidates.

2. Companies only need to fill a detailed form of their needs and a freelancer can take the job. They can select a time frame of delivery. If the clients are in a rush the price increase.

3. As consequence of #1 and #2 the freelancers only take and work one task at a time. Our platafform only allow freelancers to take one job and delivered fast mantaining top quality. This allowed us to offer services on-demand (24 hours or less depending on the task).

http://trely.co

https://youtu.be/olBBWpDOiiU (spanish)

PD: Sorry if my text have typos. I'm working hard on improve my english :)
Are you really asked to be a spokesman for seasteading? Or are you just pointing out that fellows will find themselves associated with it
I love the chromebook pixel with a debian chroot (aka crouton). I use the 2015 pixel with a 2560x1700 screen, i7, 16GB ram, and I get 12 hours battery life.

The chromebook pixel has been my only laptop for three years, and it's been rock solid. I never spend time troubleshooting. Setup upon upgrading from the 2013 to the 2015 pixel took about two minutes.

At this point, I'd prefer to use a chromebook rather than loading ubuntu on a laptop, because the stability of the pixel has saved me so much time.
Electricity is sold to consumers at a price lower than that at which it can be bought from other countries. This of course is the source of the overuse and failing infrastructure.

The country is communist, so the government has direct control over prices, and of course set them this low because it was politically expedient, not because it was sane.
The main takeaway from the article (they don't make this argument directly, but I'm inferring it) is that the main opportunity is for a cloud/services company to provide a standard and backbone services for all the individual appliance manufacturers to connect to. So we wouldn't be seeing a Nest washing machine, but rather an LG washing machine that connects to your (for example) Nest account.

This still leaves an opportunity for Alphabet (who knows better than them how to offer a free service and profit off the data?), but leaves Nest in a category similar to Nexus - a line of HW that demonstrates the value / usefulness of the services, but is not really a key profit center for the company. It's not bad, but it's not somewhere I personally would want to work.
The Nest requires less interaction and less thinking than a normal thermostat or even a programmable thermostat.
Naturalistic fallacy does not apply to food (it only has only ever been formally applied in moral philosophy)

The idea that more natural foods are generally healthier than less natural foods is based mainly on inductive reasoning, eg. breast milk vs baby formula, grass fed cattle vs grain and animal protien fed cattle, vitamins in plants vs vitamins in tablets, animal welfare limits vs antibiotics and growth stimulants etc
Solution for square: spawn threads, distribute PIX instructions for each pixel evenly across threads.

Checkerboard and 4 Squares:
http://imgur.com/a/dJRhM
One of the reasons. The other: nationalized industries are rotten with corruption.
70% nature. 30% nurture.
Not because you made them slightly less rich, but because you did not help them make money when they trusted you with their money. But then i wouldn't call someone sociopath if they don't feel any guilt. After all we are not all wired the same way.
From Encrypted Drives to Amazon's Cloud-The Amazing Flight of the Panama Papers
Fair enough. Though, I've tried vim/neovim inside a tmux session, and the terminal in neovim. And I find the latter(my personal opinion) to be more fluent to use.

There's only one .nvimrc to manage as opposed to also, tmux's file. Also, when I was using it, tmux it didn't support 24bit colors.

Again, that's a trade off, for the maintainer of the editor, it makes sense to make it as simple as possible. But this means that the user of the app will have to manage a part of the complexity, of setting up and maintaining a tmux instance.

About terminal integration, I think neovim does it by embedding libvterm, which takes care of handling the terminal part. This might be an oversimplification though.
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> the utilities are starved of funds for maintenance

That's all it is, tbh, without resorting to hyperbole. This happens even in capitalist economies -- companies have little incentive for maintenance at the best of times.

IMHO, when 40% of energy for the whole country is provided by one single plant (regardless of plant type), things will go wrong at some point. To overcome a situation like that you need money and vision to build a redundant system. Clearly the Venezuelan government lacked them.
Well a CPU doesn't inherently use any I/O pins so that shouldn't be a problem.

You can easily add some logic to let CPUs share pins, too.
Cool; I didn't know that. Thanks, Chris.

I'm sorry we missed you at coffee on Saturday. The next one is in two months -- hope to see you then if you have time.
In general I agree that LDAP(S)+Kerberos isn't a very good solution for federated ID management, but I'm not aware of anything that's better, that allows sharing an id for system logon, email logon, web-app-logon etc easily. Even for a home setup.

> This is important so that it's possible to transfer grains between servers without all the user IDs changing (which probably makes the grain useless, if it stores user IDs at all).

I see only two sane ways to deal with that: map users to GUUIDs (so logins becomes aliases) - or use user@domain (essentially email addresses). Maybe even both at once.

One thing I've been meaning to look into, is Debian's (the projects) new SSO solution, announced here:

https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2015/08/msg00...

Source code here: http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/debian-sso/debian-sso.git/tre...

> One thing we want to add, for example, is public-key login, where your identity is your public key fingerprint.

Uh, see above. Even ssh doesn't do that - it binds a key to a login. Building on top of ssh certificates might be a way - but not really for web-apps I think. I shudder to imagine how one would try to handle ssh-keys securely via the browser, that has bad enough support for X509 certificates.

In general I think these are two problems, were one might be a superset of the other: Allow users to set up federated/centralized login/authentication and authorization for all systems, including system login (the system login screen, console login) - the other being allowing users to integrate with an SSO for web apps.

Ldap generally allows for both of these, while other solutions, like eg: facebook-login doesn't in the general case make sense for system login.
The Daft Punk version is pretty much the raw direct sound you get from the synthesizer. Maybe a touch of reverb, a hint of EQ but nothing that changes the sound.
Trans fats were indeed terrible for you, I think we are still pretty sure of that.

And I personally object to the typical strategy with fructose- "You say it's twice as sweet as sugar so we can use half as much? Nonsense, we're going to use FOUR times as much, and it'll be EIGHT times as sweet!" - so I'm happy to see ordinary sugar being used once again.

So even if the trend is misguided, some good things can happen.