skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Worry about it the month before you actually go to school, but I would recommend a good laptop. I don't think the iPad will have decent electronics sim programs and the like by that time. That stuff is handy in labs.
"In Defense of Food" has an interesting account of how that came to pass.

Basically, scientists told the politician, "We don't know what's causing it. Our advice is to eat less meat and dairy and less food overall."

The politician said, "I can't say that. I live in an agricultural state! I need something more specific to say... What's in meat and diary that MIGHT be to blame?"

And thus, fat and saturated fat were thrust into the mainstream as things to avoid despite there being little to no evidence to that point.
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There's the Facebook platform page here and its matching twitter account, but they're not really what you're looking for, are they? Some of my colleagues in platform are probably reading this; I'll ask around at work tomorrow.

http://www.facebook.com/platform
http://www.twitter.com/fbplatform
The only attacks against AES-256 are related-key attacks, and you need to screw up pretty profoundly in order to be affected by those.

The only justification for using anything other than SHA-256 as a hash is if you know that you're only ever going to run on 64-bit machines, in which case SHA-512 might be preferable (it's defined in terms of 64-bit arithmetic and is faster than SHA-256 on 64-bit machines).
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I have read no books on Vitamin D and only a couple asthma-related articles on its benefits. My lungs were in severe pain and I had been looking for anything that could help, so I tried it. WOW. HUGE difference. Turns out D is extremely important and being deficient can impair and damage many things. It has helped with focus, agility, and I feel MUCH better. It has really help with my depression and lack of focus, which were very serious issues (I was unable to work.. seriously).

Try it for yourself and judge. Not the puny 400IU a day. Take 10,000IU a day for a week (it's not toxic) and see if you feel better.

I have hypothyroid and this perpetuates D deficiency.. I desperately needed it. But most people need more Vitamin D, and its effects are widespread and largely unknown. You can do your own research, but please don't tell me its toxic because of the FDA. Try for yourself and pay attention to your body. Just know 400IU is worthless.
Also, I assumed it was a novelty item, but the guy talking about it as a home defense weapon at the end took me a bit by surprise... Not sure it's as efficient in the hallway struggling with a burglar. :)

Sounds like a good way to get "Indiana Jonesed" to me.
It happens on wikis all the time too. I run a little code-sharing site at http://www.codecodex.com/ and I would get lots of random ten digit codes entered -- I assume for the same reason. A number of other wikis have noted the same type of edits.
Barry Sears (of the Zone Diet), among others, has been saying essentially this for 15+ years. But I think ppl are starting to catch on, e.g., most know that corn syrup is terrible for you.
If you're typing the letters S-H-A-2-5-6 into your code, you're doing something wrong...

Oh come on. This comment wasn't entirely unreasonable when it was about AES, but saying that nobody should use SHA256 directly is just plain silly. How do you verify that the FreeBSD ISO image you downloaded is intact if not by typing

# sha256 FreeBSD-7.3-RELEASE-amd64-disc1.iso
It's kinda like BMI. It tells you what you probably knew already just by looking at the subject.
My prediction is this: ebooks will kill the mass market paperback distribution channel.

Hmm. I usually prefer to read paperback novels than their ebook counterparts, the main reason being that there's a barrier to reading something I don't know about and then looking it up on wikipedia and hey, there goes 30 minutes of link following, after which there's a 50% chance I don't return to the book. I wonder how many readers are like me?
Do you have sources for that info? I would love to read more about how the whole saturated fat recommendation came to be widely accepted.
I know it sounds corny, but it does feel good to hear someone say that. (-:
Interesting, I walked pass that 100 times on my way to the CBC. Never realized it was the new MIT media lab.
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That's because the longer a dough is proofed, the less white flour remains in its refined state — the yeast has had its way with as many sugar molecules as it could belch. The flour is still the GI determinant, it's just not refined white flour anymore.
I actually want to see them put their money where their mouth is, and that is actually happening. They are implementing CSS3/2, they are implementing HTML 5, my websites are starting to work correctly in IE 9 WITHOUT the need to do any of the hacks or workarounds.

Yes, I am painfully aware of what had happened in the past, and it is my hope that it doesn't happen again, maybe Microsoft has learned their lesson with Chrome, Firefox, and Opera eating away at their Internet Explorer market share. Only time will tell, but let me tell you as a web developer it will be absolutely fantastic to not have to use Dean Edwards "IE7" script to browbeat IE into compliance.

I'm not giving Microsoft a free pass by all means, however after the horrible beating IE 7 and then IE 8 got from the developer community it seems they want to make amends.
I always wondered about this as a kid in school, when they talked about 'the food pyramid' and that nonsense. It's not like when you eat animal fat, it slides out of your digestive tract unchanged into your own tissue. It has to be broken down and digested and turned into something else. At the time, I remember thinking it would have been like assuming you could eat someone else's brains and gain their knowledge.

But I was just a kid and they were the grownups, so I didn't say anything and believed what they were telling me.

(Nothing, literally nothing, I learned in school outside of how to read, write, and perform simple arithmetic has been correct or useful in my life.)
I don't think people preferring reading physical books necessarily do so because it signals anything to anyone, just as people preferring the e-book experience don't necessarily do so because it signals that they're tech savvy and can afford new cool stuff.
neat. taken from senior haus window?
(if i'd made a time lapse you would have seen 5 years of grass growing in the in-hold lot. almost forgot how time marches forward, progress gets made and buildings spring up.)
Interesting article, especially in referencing "The Two Cultures", which I had not encountered before.

Modern "Geek" culture actually seems very adept at bridging that gap.
*couldn't care less
Yeah. What's more, the same kind of bread from different makers can have significantly different GI. The sugar content of fruit (and so, presumably, its GI) varies with all sorts of things. So I completely agree that it's not that simple.
I'm actually completely indifferent to it. I completely ignore the left sidebar thingy.
I'm sorry, I don't have any sources other than Michael Pollan's book, "In Defense of Food," which I highly recommend anyway.
I found that having some equipment at home helps too. I am using Total Gym and it was the best investment of $200 I have made so far.
Almost all nutritional research seems inherently flawed to me only because it's so difficult to control the diets, lifestyles, and (obviously) genes of the study participants.

The China Study makes some compelling arguments for avoiding "animal-based" foods, but of course, there are people like the Inuit, who don't exhibit high incidence of cancer and heart disease despite eating mostly animal-based foods.

I try to take all this stuff with a grain of salt, but the idea of "Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants." seems most sensible to me. And I'd probably add to that, "Get some exercise."
Oh man, really? That's been my experience in high school, but I was really looking forward to college, where I heard that many professors make homework totally optional and the vast majority of one's grade comes from tests.
Myself and another contributor have played around with answering the 99 Prolog/Lisp/Haskell problems in Factor (http://factorcode.org/) at http://github.com/mikejs/factor-problems
Longer proving time gave a higher GI. That seems at odds with your explanation. Have I misunderstood?
Labs can definitely be an important factor - I know I had to use make use of my USB ports in several of my labs (something the iPad lacks). Also, many universities require laptops that meet a certain criteria - I would also look into that for your school before purchasing one.
Could you rustle up a link? That makes little to no sense to me.
That's what they told me too.

It depends on the college. I would imagine that Stanford would be a bit better quality than my school.
Actually, instead of a VAT tax, how about the US starts advertising the price of an item with the tax already calculated in? That way when I am going to the store and I buy a loaf of bread and it says $2.50 that is what I actually pay. Or when I go buy a new laptop for $499 that is ACTUALLY what I pay.

Shopping in The Netherlands where I am from is much simpler, I can keep a running tally in my head and not have to worry about getting to the register and having another X amount added on top because the local government wants their share, makes managing money so much more complicated.
What you're talking about was most likely including a link to the site in their name, such as in Wordpress posts. Those type of spammers actually have chosen to write things like "Nice, insightful post!" because it's generic and fits any blog and is more likely to be accepted (stroking the ego of website owners).
Full disk encryption. No worries mate.
its only been 5 days :)
Gifted students fail because the system is setup for hard work, not intelligence (or results).

I went to a special high school (Illinois Math & Science Academy). It was very difficult and very engaging; I learned a lot and enjoyed every day.

Taking hard classes, though, is not good for college -- I was mostly a B student (but in things like number theory, linear algebra, electricity & magnetism), and was being compared against the A students from average high schools when it came to college admissions. The result was that I didn't get in anywhere really great, went to an average school, and was so bored that I basically failed out. (Technically, I withdrew without credit after the second semester. The first semester was great, because I took classes that I wanted to take instead of "required classes", including DJB's UNIX security course. If every class was like that, I would have never wanted to leave college. But sadly, most classes involved little more than showing up and reading 1000 pages of boring books.)

If the college classes had been more interesting than kindergarten, I would have gone... but the reality was that the professors didn't speak English, the students didn't speak English, and I already knew everything they were teaching me anyway. It wasn't going to work. It depressed me, so I had to leave.

The good news is that once you get out of academia and into the real world, the odds shift very greatly in favor of the gifted. Nobody cares how hard you work, they care that you solve their problems. Seems like every year, a new job offer comes around that wants to double my salary -- not exactly what the academic establishment would say about long-haired hippies that get up at noon and dropped out of college.

But the programming world is an odd one :)
well big day was friday which took in over 5K in 24hrs that got us in top 30 highest grossing apps for a while
I doubt any have real people doing the submissions, it's automated. It would make sense to find which one's are vulnerable, but they wouldn't need to test with a fake spam post, they'd test with a real one and check their backlinks (yahoo site explorer for example).
also please bear in mind thia app has a brand and company behind it with lots of market share in its niche allready through other products other than iphone, so lots of avenues to generate awareness of the app through other channels including facebook.
That's probably a good recommendation. While getting an iPad and a mac mini could be an interesting option - and you'd have a great opportunity to develop software for it in order to actually make it suit your needs - keep in mind you couldn't do any programming on it.
Wow! Apple certainly gets a free pass when it comes to scrutiny. Apple is definitely playing in the gray area when it comes to anti-competitive practices. google voice rejection and a whole lot of apps that got rejected had no good reason except to main control of the platform.

Is Apple letting the better technology win? Or does it let customers vote with their wallets w.r.to their eco-system? Plenty of evidence sites the opposite. They instead want to be the guardians/gatekeeps of content/apps and many times it crossed the line to dictatorship
I'll second the opinions of the people who felt lost in the college. I work since I finished high school, and the best colleges in Brazil require full dedication, so no time to work. I regret the fact that I decided for continuing my career instead of dedicating myself to get into a public college, right now I just can't do that, because I'm 22 and would have to spend an extra year working on the admission exam preparation.

So now I have to pay for whatever college I can afford, in order to get a degree ASAP. And man, they are totally tedious, not to say stupid considering it's a college class. What's left for me is work hard on my Masters once I get my Comp. Sci. degree, this time in a good institution, hopefully.
While the glycemic index doesn't tell the whole story, it is more actionable in today's environment than "eat whole foods, avoid sugar." There are plenty of whole foods that are little better than sugar, and some processed foods that are not horrible. Plus, if you don't have the luxury of eating whole foods for each meal, the glycemic index can help you choose the lesser among evil alternatives. That something is imperfect does not make it useless.
I'm suspect there will be a drop off - all though this app target is cyclical so new consumers appear 2X a year.
Why even use objects, then? Why not just use a hashref with key/value pairs? That's like 8 percent faster, and definitely not overkill!
Different application have different scalability characteristics (how much can be cached? how much integration is there?). A certain number may look very impressive for one sort of application, but not so impressive for another.

E.g., some of Yahoo's non-search properties receive tremendous traffic but their scalability stories (while still requiring a great amount of difficult engineering work) aren't as interesting as those of Facebook or other Yahoo properties e.g., Search, Flickr.
I hate how science writers get to the part of the article where they have to write about why it is useful. They usually start dipping into their stock cliché material. This one is particularly bad. The whole last half of the article is junk.
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Intensive document creation, like writing papers, is not well handled by an iPad at present. It syncs horribly, is not good for copying/pasting from other documents or websites (due to poor multitasking support), etc.

On syncing: http://www.macobserver.com/tmo/article/file_sharing_with_an_...
But reading is faster than listening. In my case, about 7x faster. So having someone literally tell me is slower than having them write it to me.
Would you have expected that people who are slightly overweight have a lower mortality than those who are of normal weight? Though BMI is imperfect, it does allow for interesting observations such as that. I would be very enthusiastic about a noninvasive, cheap, rapid, and accurate way of measuring whole-body (and especially abdominal) fat, of course!
FWIW, I think the most important thing here is not to confuse use of unit tests with the adoption of TDD. The former does not imply the latter: you can write unit tests after you write your code, or even before/during writing code for that matter, without being test-driven in your approach.

I have yet to see any credible study that showed a benefit for TDD and controlled for the use of unit testing as part of a more traditional development process. There is some evidence that, at least for some types of project, TDD has been more successful by some metrics than a heavyweight, waterfall process with no unit testing, but there are usually so many uncontrolled variables involved that it's hard to read much of value into any of those results.
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Headline is quite inaccurate.

More accurate, but less exciting, is: zombie satellite causes radio interference.
Good. That's why I said it. :)

I had a 4.7 GPA in high school. (Yay honors classes and my school being more interested in making themselves look good than math.) By my sophomore year of college, I was completely burned out. If I love learning so much, why did I hate college? It was supposed to be different...

I ended up not finishing my degree to get into the startup game. I feel much, much better now. I don't think I'm going back, even though I only need one or two classes to be done. Yeah, a piece of paper might be nice in the general sense... but I don't want to give those bastards another dime. I had to take out loans to pay for all of school, so I'm a solid 70k in the hole. Fun times.
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Tables 1 and 2 will give you a quick summary.
Get a notebook. If you have to do presentations you might want to demo code in which case an iPad isn't going to be much good.
Demonizing any particular part of a diet is a dangerous route, as people tend to feel justified in eating how much of whatever doesn't contain the currently demonized nutrient. Example: the explosion of "low fat" snack foods that are downright bad for you,but sell well.

With refined carbs (refined foods, actually) it should be seen as a spectrum, with less refined things (whole vegetables) being on on end and highly refined things (HFCS) on the other.

Just favoring less refined things over more refined things, without specific prohibitions of any particular ingredient can be a good place to start. Example:I've cut out HCFS soda altogether, but I still put a teaspoon of real sugar in my coffee.
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Will there be another one this year, or is the next one next year? At around what time?
we need an open source alternative

BUT, what we really need to do is use facebook data on the open source alternative platform. So, someone can see activity feeds from their facebook account and from their facebook friends on this platform. It makes the transition to another platform smoother.

Then, when facebook send their legal team to crush this, Use it as a means of publicizing the fact that "hey guys, facebook says it owns YOUR data and it doesn't want to share, but there is this really great open source alternative that you can sign up for"...

of course, the message would be spread via facebook and we could all watch zuckerberg scramble to delete all these posts and links being passed around about how dirty facebook is. (I've actually noticed some of my posts about facebook on facebook deleted!!!)

The virality of facebook could also be a chink in it's armor. People have far more power than any one entity when organized collectively.

If anyone else is serious about it, I will personally offer my services to a project such as this. A truly open network would be a dream come true, and another great success of the internet age and further proof that success does not always have to be monetized.

To quote Bill Hicks (to the marketers): "Stop putting a dollar sign on every damn thing on this planet!!!"
It's not difficult at all. Cheese, butter, and eggs are all cheap. Hell, if you're not a stickler for local and pastured meat, that's quite cheap as well (though you can usually manage to find decently-priced sources of those -- especially if you find a group to cowpool with.)

My standard meal is eggs, sausage, and onions sauteed in butter and topped with salsa. Very cheap and fast (and good).
> And I’m happy about it. High taxes but a lot of bang for the buck.

Actually, the per-capita taxes in the EU are about the same as the per-capita taxes in the US. (That's dollars in taxes collected per person, not rates.)

There appear to be two differences - the per-capita GDP is much higher in the US (we have more money after taxes) and folks in the EU get better services for their money.

The latter suggests that giving the US govt more money isn't likely to be a good idea.
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It's not just about massive scale. I like SQL, but my experience is entirely on MS SQL, and hosting costs for that are pretty high. So I can either go with mysql/postgres, or a nosql platform. I have to learn something either way. It's looking to me like nossql can be simpler, with less administration, and very high performance on limited resources.

Redis, for example, is much more about making single boxes perform like crazy, rather than massive scaling (although they are working on a clustering for version 2.0).

Cassandra is mostly about the scaling, but is also very fast (though not as fast as redis), and if you set it up on three nodes you've got high availability. Since I plan to keep my day job, I can't drop everything to deal with server issues. I want something that just keeps on trucking no matter what.
Can someone provide a rationale for the downvotes? While I feel there's a decent one, I'm unable to articulate it.
Scalability stories are generally interesting, as they're about solving problems that out-of-the-box commercial software doesn't. They're interesting to hackers, not all of whom are entrepreneurs.

If you'd like to share a story, however, on using statistical techniques to measure and act on virality, doing multi-variate testing, et al that would be very interesting.
On a related note, doing some searches on twitter I have come across some sites like this:

http://www.articlenutrition.com/science/what-is-the-differen...

The text seems to be scraped from somewhere else, translated, then re-translated. I assume that these sites are simply to attract ad views. I remember seeing "comments" that seemed to be clearly concerning American topics (along the lines of "here in Chicago I always rode the L when I was growing up"), but the text didn't seem like it could possibly be written by a native speaker, but all of the text on the site had the same idiosyncrasies.

Any ideas?
Perhaps Intelligence never did define success. Perhaps it was this unrelated determination that drove people to succeed regardless of their graded abilities.
Get a laptop and fun unix on it -- linux or mac os x.
Some of the claims Pollan makes are sketchy. I don't recall that passage, but I'd probably want to see a source before believing it.
eBook readers have a clock and a dictionary. Paper is dead to me.