skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Table sugar is sucrose.

First off to turn sucrose into its component molecules, it must first undergo a reaction with a sucrase enzyme. So there is at least one metabolic step left out there. Studies are being done to test if Sucrase is actively regulated by the body or not. In either case, this metabolic step must occur, and can only occur so fast (limited by the amount of sucrase in your body), no matter how much sucrose you ingest. This means slower absorption of sucrose over HFCS as you get this with the whole load of glucose in HFCS instantly, but only see the sucrose's glucose released over time.

Secondly, fructose has many forms. In sucrose, the fructose is often of the fructose-5 variety. In HFCS, it completely depends on the application, as any heat applied to a fructose-5 molecule upon separation from the glucose turns it into fructose-6.

Fructose-6 is notably less sweet than Sucrose
This means when used in heat processed goods, you use quite a bit more HFCS (including all baked goods, etc) then the equivalent amount of sucrose. This means more calories.

Secondly, there are all different kids of HFCS. Notably, there is one with 38% less fructose than sucrose (HFCS 42), one with 22% more fructose than sucrose (HFCS 55) and one with 800% more fructose than table sugar (HFCS 90, often seen in diet foods I might add). They are all used for differing applications, but HFCS is not a single product, and most of the forms are likely metabolically worse in any amount of a single dose than the equivalent sweetness worth of sucrose. It is important you calculate your fractions correctly when realizing the differing amounts of fructose, as they're larger then they appear at first.

One could say a steak and the meal in your small intestines are "about the same thing" but I doubt you'd want to eat it then, and you'd be as accurate as saying table sugar is basically HFCS 55

(all percentages are in terms of "per molecule of glucose", which is what appears to be important as per the evolving science of satiation)
And Hg Init by Joel Spolsky: http://hginit.com/index.html
I'm one of the dev, feel free to ask if you have any questions. The site is running here: http://shapado.com

(we also have a mirror on github http://github.com/patcito/shapado)
How I fixed a Google disaster
The poem is about allowing incremental changes because they don't directly effect you; the poem itself has absolutely nothing to do with the Nazis or German intellectuals, or the genocide.

The poem uses what was currently happening around its author to demonstrate his point.

This is the essence of art.
It's an estuary, good grief! It's a transient mud and sand bar not a block of granite, they do this (disappear).
I disagree. What Schmidt missed is that Google has had great adoption, not just because of a good product, but because of good will from the public. By acquiescing to China's demands, they lost good will. In the long run, if they took Schmidt's path and became another media outlet for the state, they would probably end up more like Microsoft than Google, losing a lot of good will and customers in the US/Euro.

Despite what anyone says, the US/Euro market is their primary market, and the one they should be primarily concerned with keeping happy.
The thesis of the article isn't "pretty > learning and thinking", and I don't think your distinction between the two is valid. User interfaces shouldn't be left to rot in the name of "learning and thinking". It's important to consider the way something looks and functions as it affects your ability to use it considerably. Form matters just as much as content. You can learn and think and have things be pretty all at once.

Furthermore, I don't think you're really addressing the core of the article. He mentioned the word "ugly" once, and it wasn't even the bulk of his criticism: Emacs doesn't provide all the features he wants. The "Metadata" icon was left of off Emacs, and he goes on to mention things such as searching on class and method names.
I did a similar diet for a couple of years once. Lost lots of weight, about 40 pounds, had absolutely bottomless pools of energy I could never seem to exhaust no matter how much I exercised, recovered from sporting injuries alarmingly fast, almost never bruised at all, and grew hair and nails at ridiculous rates, like having to cut my nails 2 or 3 times a week on occasion and my cholesterol was absolutely fine.

I ended up quitting because:

1) It gets expensive.

2) It got boring, all the stuff I wanted to eat was not on the diet. I think much of the weight loss was from not wanting to eat another bunless burger.

3) I actually felt gross all the time, like oils were just oozing from my pores.
I'm surprised we can't grow sugar beets there: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugar_beet
Am I the only one who almost didn't scroll down, thinking that the keyboard graphic was the thing to see?
We've had very few wars compared to antitrust cases, free speech cases, procedural cases, etc.
Branches work just fine in SVN. Merging isn't great, but it is much better with merge tracking in recent versions of SVN.
I used to have a second hand Minolta Scan Dual IV, which is a dedicated 35mm scanner.

I've since started shooting 35mm & medium format, and I sold the Minolta and bought an Epson V700, which is a flatbed. I also used an Epson 4490 while I was in NY for a while last year, really good value for money.

I haven't updated my flickr site for a while, but you can see some here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/angusgr/tags/film/
And to see the best the Epson can do, see here:
http://flickriver.com/groups/466058@N21/pool/interesting/
(This last link exploits the rule that good photos are made with any combination of technology. ;).)
Javascript makes it a pain to get clipboard functionality working across all browsers. Flash is the lcd for this kind of thing. A cursory look tells me that it might be possible for firefox with signed javascript:
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/components/signed-s...

http://www.krikkit.net/howtos/13-howtos/16-copy-text-to-clip...

I don't think it will work on chrome though. IE probably.
Reddit had a really great comment from someone who had actually read the study that seemed to point at some serious flaws.
After reading Illuminatus! last night, I really couldn't help but click on this link. Talk about an eye-catching headline.

Voodoo Histories, by David Aaronovitch, would be a fun followup.
Hi, I'm one of the primary developers of Moby-Scheme. If you have any questions, please let me know!
subsidies != research funding
What blows my mind about flash performance on a mac is that I was watching a video from google videos and it was using up 50% of cpu resources on both cores. press pause and it drops down to 0.1%. This is on a fast 2.8GHz current model macbook pro with the latest OS and Flash player.
Just to note: It's a post by Rob Pike.
Good questions in here. While I'm personally inclined to be sympathetic to the study, I have to admit that if I'm to be skeptical about other things (I want to say AGW, but don't want to open that can of worms), I need to be consistent in looking for high-quality research here as well.
If you happen to be on a mac, control-option-command-8 is your friend. Also, the readability bookmarklet does wonders for the appearance of sites like these. (And thanks to the people on HN who originally introduced me to these)
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The key step in cholesterol synthesis is the formation of mevalonate from beta-hydroxy-beta-methylglutaryl-CoA (HMG-CoA), which is catalyzed by HMG-CoA reductase.

You can be certain that that HMG-CoA reductase is really, really important in cholesterol biosynthesis because statins work by blocking this enzyme.

HMG-CoA reductase activity is induced by insulin, and reduced by glucagon.

To really control cholesterol, it's more important to cut carbs, not dietary sources of cholesterol (which fall anyway when appetite control is restored as leptin receptors in the hypothalamus regain function.)
Shapado seems like a nice, thorough Stack Exchange clone. Nice work. Maybe you can give Gitorious.com some MongoDB love now ;)
Wow, seems to load faster and definitely performs better on my MacBook running latest Safari.

There's a bug with scrolling though: if you release the mouse outside of the network graph, it stays in scrolling mode until you click on the canvas again. I hope that's not some kind of inherent limitation.
I think that's a false argument.

If someone came to you and said "this village is dying of thirst, I want you to drill a well for them," and you had the means to do it, you probably would. Now, if that same person said "your well can provide water for the village, but we want you to add a small amount of drugs to the water, to keep the villagers satisfied with their meager existence," you'd probably tell them to go to hell.

That was the choice Google had: either offer drugged water or offer no water at all. They chose to offer no water at all.

The great thing they are doing is creating publicity so that the average chinese netizen surely knows they are getting censored results.

Btw, apologies if you are not, but your posts in this thread come off as propaganda from nationalists in PRC. Your english, however, is good enough that this is probably not the case.
Plus, if there's a global economic collapse based on the dollar, that money becomes pretty worthless in their hands.
Alcohol, ecstasy and cocaine might be of help: only in terms of a mind-state reference point.

People that have had cocaine try and remember what it's like to be in that cocky and confident state and relive it. Also the memories of being drunk: if you can trick your mind into behaving tipsy or loose. Or the openness of ecstasy.

If only you could put yourself in these states without actually needing those substances. (btw, I am not suggesting you dabble in drugs at all)
Why are you starting a company?
Very professional, looks great!

Of course, the question is: did you build it in a weekend? ;)
Two things to add about the Mint.com success formula, based on a presentation I heard Aaron Patzer give at the Webby Connect conference about one year before he sold Mint to Quicken:

1) Patzer spent about 20% of his time talking to media or other blogs. He basically would make time for anyone that wanted to interview him, understanding the viral potential in terms of follow-on press coverage and of course, new customers. (Incidentally, Salesforce's Marc Benioff describes a similar approach to press in his bio, but mostly concentrated on major publications and journalists in the early days -- this was before most blogs and viral phenomena)

2) Patzer described spending a lot of time on finding (and paying for) the right name. Easy to understand, spell, and enter into a browser address bar were key. He thought his competitors were crazy for choosing names that were hard to spell or pronounce -- he specifically mentioned Geezeo.com and Wesabe.com .

One other thing: Patzer claimed he didn't spend anything on marketing in the talk that I saw. But from Putori's post, it seems that Mint.com did spend money on a PR agency, which surely wasn't cheap.
Cattle rancher here. You can get tapeworms by eating uncooked beef. Thankfully it's usually easily, albeit unpleasantly, cured. However, you need to know you have them first, which can take some time.
I use what reddit uses, works well

http://code.reddit.com/browser/r2/r2/lib/db/sorts.py

s = score(ups, downs)
order = log(max(abs(s), 1), 10)
sign = 1 if s > 0 else -1 if s < 0 else 0
seconds = epoch_seconds(date) - 1134028003
return round(order + sign * seconds / 45000, 7)

Let me know if you want my attempt at a MySQL translation of that.

ps. why is my account ( _ck_ ) so slow when logged in and my comments marked as "dead" ? Was I flagged as a spammer by mistake? Example: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1219475
K4 Version 6 now ships with Sticky Notes
Why does not Google Password Reset include the originator IP address?
Sorry to post it here, but I have thought may be this way I can bring some attention to what seems to be Google Apps account (and probably any gmail account) security issue.

Today somebody tried to retrieve a password from my Google Apps domain admin account and apparently same person tried doing the same for domain of my colleague.

Stuff like that is expected to happen from time to time of course, when your website is a potential target for attacks, but what surprised me was the fact, there was no any information on Google Password Reset email (which naturally arrived to my inbox) about the requester. So, I have no other means of tracking potential attacker, but to seat and wait for next attempts.

Granted, IP address could be spoofed, but is there any reason why Google would not want to include this in the notification email?..
Raw SQL Backups on Heroku
A colleague of mine's father was one of the engineers that designed the first Dubai "island" - the one that the Burj Al Arab was built on. Even more so than the subsequent Palms, The World was a colossal expense, but that is not the main reason for the Emiratis to save it. They will spend any amount to avoid loss of face in the international community. For an Emirati, title and appearances are far more important than wealth. This is just IMHO from living there for a number of years on 2 separate occassions.
Why don't all their high speed hackers turn against the gov, then? They have a lot of the gov's power, plus anonymity afforded by the medium of attack.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1211637

edit: thanks by the way :)
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there's tortoisegit, but just having a GUI oftentimes doesn't seem to be enough for people trying to wrap their mental hardware around the core concepts of git, I've seen devs using tortoisegit just unable to understand the difference between git and subversion and consequently mashing their code / losing changes very easily etc.

Not good devs, mind you, but you go to war with the army you have.
FSF Advocates Free Software for U.S. IPEC Joint Strategic Plan
To get out of a service based profession. To pay my mortgage without having to perform a skill based job.
One solution:

Use fewer files. I try to keep the number of files and folders for a project to as few as possible.

Then you spend much less time opening and searching for files. As more people get involved with a project, you'll have more files, but you should make an active effort to keep the numbers minimized.

Here's a little script I wrote to give quick stats on a project's size:

http://breckyunits.com/metrics_for_programmers
That was a fun read of an NES game submission...but to compare that with Apple's app store is out of place. Different era, different type of hardware, distribution model, etc. etc.

I've submitted games to NOA for the Gameboy Advance and Gamecube - out of the big 3 (NOA, SONY, MS), Nintendo had the most stringent requirements (not as bad as the article though).

I enjoyed the article nonetheless.
Don’t Ask Me Where I Get My Ideas
Notably absent from this list . . .
Amazing how quickly the original store made it onto every major news channel etc.

Yet not one fact checker or news editor seems to have spent the time Marion Nestle did in this article.
What is the internet?
Ask HN: Startups in Switzerland
I may have an opportunity to relocate to Geneva later this year and I am now trying to understand what the startup scene is like in Switzerland.

The only Swiss startup I am presently aware of is Wuala. Otherwise there does not seem to be much activity.

Is anyone here from Switzerland? Can anyone comment on the subject or share a personal opinion? What's the investment climate is like and such?

Thanks

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Miguel de Icaza's answer to "Does Windows cost Microsoft opportunities?"
Command-T is a relatively new Vim plugin that does fuzzy matching on the entire path, giving greater weight to characters immediately following slashes or other word separators in the pathname. I've been using it for a few days now and can attest that it is extremely fast and seems to "know" exactly which file I want after just a few keystrokes.

http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=3025 | http://github.com/wincent/Command-T
So I started gitready as a way to learn git better, and document my experience. (Doing so again with Go here for the curious: http://golang.tumblr.com)

There's already great resources on learning git comprehensively from Scott Chacon, namely the Git community book and now Pro Git.

I think over time gitready has evolved into a 'recipes' site, and I like it that way. I have X problem with Git, how can I solve it?

That being said, I really want to redesign the site and reevaluate all of the content soon. My other open source projects (read: Gemcutter/RubyGems.org) have been sucking up my free time. :)
Learning from game design: Gambits for influencing user behaviour
It is one thing to clone SO in an effort to give a FOSS choice to the StackExchange format but trying to compete with SO by building a clone is heading in the wrong direction. Challenging SO is not about technology, it is about the number and quality of users. Metcalfe's law wins the day here.
WhiteyBoard: An Instant Whiteboard For your Instant Office
Created by YC 2010 Alumni as a side project.
Alright, here's a problem for you, no one will assert that bullish pundits on CNBC are credible.

http://www.cepr.net/index.php/dean-baker/

Dean Baker is an actual economist and he called the housing bubble.

I find your last sentence bizarre as it asserts as a truism something that is not really true at all. You believe people who are on the on the fringe of economics and seem to enjoy it so more power to you.
Mao (founder of the Party in China) is pretty generally accepted to have knocked off 10M's of his own people through his Great Revolution. (E.g., check wikipedia.)

That's the Party in China killing its own people.
It's like the gold prospectors. For the most part, the people who really got rich off of prospecting weren't the prospectors, but the shopkeepers, hotel owners and the like who generated great profit from the gold diggers.

So, it's the enablers of such high value but short life products that are truly valuable.
To control my own destiny as much as I can. To make a difference in the world. Oh, and money.
We've known that this is possible for years (http://crypto.stanford.edu/ssl-mitm/ http://www.darknet.org.uk/2009/08/sslsniff-v0-6-released-ssl...), but the fact that it's now a commercial product indicates that it is actually happening for real.
Nintendo no doubt knew that they had to establish itself in the minds of parents as kid-friendly (though ironically, these days it seems like they're trying to shake the image of the 'kiddy console').

I wonder if a similar statement extends to Apple. Perhaps they're trying to establish themselves as being idiot-friendly, or at least clueless-user-friendly. Makes me wonder if the irony also applies and they will eventually have to go to great lengths to shake the image of being too dumbed down.
I did hide him from my feed altogether -- or, rather, his sweeps-entering profile. For the trouble of having him set up an extra profile, I saved the trouble of having to hide apps OR specially check out his page.
Aw, man, I thought this post had the potential to be interesting. Why'd you have to go and Godwin's Law it?
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No. It's a terrible webpage design.

Am I the only one who still values things like http://www.useit.com/alertbox/scrolling-attention.html ?
I guess I was surprised by the example, as the modern commonplace banana (in the western world at least) is very static.
How do you do the crawls without getting banned? Are you using like 80legs or AWS for from cloud crawling?
Bridges don't process information, programs do. Pretty much no civil engineering product does information processing.
It's more of a StackExchange alternative than a SO one. You are free to create your own site about programing if you want to go against SO, but we're not. For example, this guy did http://www.coders.es/ for the Spanish community.
I had my cholesterol checked a few weeks ago as part of my annual physical. The Dr said it's in line with a normal 28 year old; Sorry, don't remember the numbers, it's never been very important to me.

I am curious- Where would you buy a meal with Steel cut oats near your office? As nice as it would be to bring things with me everyday to work, I really prefer getting out of the office for a while to clear my head, and re-focus on the tasks left to be done.

I can get a steak anywhere, but I'd have a hard time finding a more balanced lunch.
We'll see what we can do ;)
The general take-away is hard to argue with, I suppose: there are lots of reasons to start a company, and when making decisions, you should take into account which of the reasons are yours instead of just blindly following conventional wisdom. But it does seem like pretty well-trodden ground: surely by now we are all aware that you don't have to go the big-scaling-up/huge-VC-funding/looking-for-an-exit-in-5-yrs route, if you don't want to?
The 404 pages are cached, not dead-ends. I don't know what they do with them. They very well could have "Check out our awesome stories, they're so funny".
Google App Engine SDK 1.3.2 Released
If I search for a location (i.e. Lafayetta, CA), it would be great to see a map and get a link to google maps. I find this to be one of Google's most useful features. Otherwise, I'm liking this thing :)
We need one of these!
Agreed. I gave up even trying to read it. My eyes still hurt. :-(
I also use Notepad++ and like it a lot. It keeps things simple and just works. One of the coolest features is if you change a file anywhere, the changes are automatically reflected in the opened buffer.

I use Total Commander for opening files: http://www.ghisler.com/

Emacs and vim fill me with rage every time I try to use them. And I definitely prefer several small tools to a big, monolithic IDE.
Confidentiality agreement (NDA) short-form starter draft and annotated long form
The site and the god awful grid background image (appears on doubleclick) was enough to inspire me to make a new bookmarklet.

My first impression, article aside, was that the site made baby Jesus cry.

Edit: In retrospect I think it was the combination of the orange and the grid background (I have a tendency to doubleclick on everything) that really put it over the edge for me, the main design isn't terrible.
What is the status today of the name dispute ? Has it been solved ?
Nice work. I am curious to know how many human hours went into it.
You're right, we could. The range goes all the way up to canada.
I had a very handy WiFi scanner on my iPhone that I used for identifying dead zones on my network. One day after an iPhone update, the program was no longer on my phone — because Apple deemed WiFi scanner programs as having “mimimum functionality.”

I’d paid for that program, but I no longer had access to it — and Apple refused to refund the measly two bucks I paid because it was a purchase over 30 days old.[...]

The store works like that ? Poof, gone, no refund, if you dare to update firmware ?

To be fair, Amazon pulled this stunt with a copy of 1984 (of all things). But unlike Apple, as soon as Amazon became aware of how grossly stupid it was to yank a book off Kindles (and the delicious irony of it being 1984), Jeff Bezos came out with an apology and made an explicit promise not to do it again.

I'd rather they could not do it, period. And that one didn't even involve firmware updates - just a plain yank on the leash (their 3G link) ...

[I suppose it's a lost cause pointing out that the title is Nineteen Eighty-Four, not 1984 ? Ah, the time when writers were paid five cents per word ...]
That was a military program - hardly the same as propping up an industry. Even libertarians accept the need for a military.
https://www.ohloh.net/p/shapado