skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Vegetarian will be tough - although I don't have all the specifics, I remember hearing about how Tony Gonzales (NFL tight-end) went on a vegan diet and he seemed to be managing OK. Granted he was probably more in maintenance mode, but diet looked like it would provide enough protein for significant gains as well.

http://online.wsj.com/article/NA_WSJ_PUB:SB12012211618291529...
fuck. well, i didn't see this comment in time. i used google checkout and just ran the card. we'll see what happens :-/
Great idea - I'm running a decent sized campaign for UniversityTutor.com and have found the Adwords tools a bit lacking in terms of generating targeted keywords for the thousands of pages and keywords I have. I ended up having to write some massive scripts by hand and using the Adwords desktop tool to import all the data (maybe 20,000 pages with several ad variations each, and targeting different keywords). The whole process took days and was complicated to the point where it wasn't easy for me to test variations.

The devil is in the details on a tool like this, but it could certainly be useful (and a quick flip to Google) if executed correctly. Wish you guys the best and would love to be an early beta user.
That's a relatively common thing to see on HN.
Yes, discussions between programmers about how to best implement things happen every day.

We work in an open work space, and I can't even count the number of times that someone has jumped into a discussion with a better idea of how to implement something. If that saves the original people a couple of hours (or days, etc) then we've immediately increased productivity.

I don't buy into the idea that being "more productive" means sitting by yourself in your home office cranking out code.
Taxes and the macroeconomy are business concerns.
The Evolution Of User Manuals
When people in technology hear the word "documentation" it conjures images of the '90s, when software shipped on CDs, in boxes, with thousand-page user manuals that were costly to create and bordered on useless to the end user.
Perhaps he could steal the Economics "Nobel" prize, like lots of other mathematicians have done.

There was a paper about how recognizing bad securities is a NP hard problem a while ago. So this is applicable. (Tongue-in-cheek.)
I love coffee, but when I go on a cutting diet, it makes me feel much more anxious than normal.
"Is it possible OSX just has more overhead?"

Most likely, it's because Apple hasn't cared much about 3D performance in the past -- and even if they did, they'd be behind, because nVidia and ATI can dedicate entire teams of people specifically to opimizing drivers. Apple really can't do that, because Apple makes operating systems and consumer electronics, not graphics processors.

And as the graphics processors get more powerful and evolve toward being ever more general-purpose, the driver gap between the specialists (ATI, nVidia, and eventually probably the Larrabee team at Intel) and the likes of Apple will only grow.

And the case in point -- Microsoft provides reference drivers, nVidia and ATI provide the real deal... those highly optimized drivers aren't Microsoft's code.
Right. People seem to forget that if you modestly restrict your diet daily and work out 3-5 times a week, you're actually shaving quite a lot of calories off your weight in a weekly or monthly timespan.

Halving normal intake daily may look good on a daily ledger, but it's really hard on your body.
Not for me.

I have zero interest in coupling some new Web app to any of my other online accounts.

Just let me use a validated E-mail address and a password to use your site, and don't require me to let you hook into any other services I may or may not use.
Well, I am using my own templating library, normal-template: http://github.com/gmosx/normal-template

It's similar to json-templates but with a few extra tricks. You can find some documentation here: http://www.nitrojs.org/normal-template
That's not a valid fear, I guess. Even normally you might miss those so called emergency calls - (1) You are in a meeting and your phone is on silent (2) You had few long chats over phone with friends/clients and your battery is dead (3) You are in a very crowded place or traveling and just couldn't hear your phone ringing (very common) (4) You obviously don't carry your phone in the bathroom; do you? At least, I don't. (5) And other technical/non-technical scenarios I can't think of right now.

Also about these emergency situations, can you think of the number of times, you actually received these kind of calls? In last 8 years, I can't think of any. And let's say, even if there were couple of them, I think it is unreasonable to consider that 0.001% probability. In that case, you already have enough from the above 5 points to worry about.
I solve hard problems better when I have quiet time where I can think through the problem. Some people do think by talking but I imagine most engineers do not fall into this category.
I lurk on a weightlifting forum, and this flow chart is the most concise description of bulking that I've seen:

http://images.t-nation.com/forum_images/auto/r/350x0/c/9/c98...

taken from here: http://tnation.t-nation.com/free_online_forum/sports_body_tr...

edit: also, try searching the fitness subreddit, which is pretty active, for vegetarian info: http://reddit.com/r/fitness
:) That's funny, but I guess I can find or develop something myself to block it on phone level.
"glycogen supercompensation" dieting definitely works. You eat zero carbs for about four days, going ketogenic. (Eat plenty of saturated fat instead; lots of butter.) Then you lift extra hard. Then for the rest of the day you eat a ton of carbs: loads of potatoes, whatever.

I don't think it's possible to put on a lot of muscle mass without either eggs or whey protein. If your vegetarian rules keep you away from even those protein sources, you may have to rethink your priorities.
To those upvoting this speculation about the author's frame of mind, why does this add to the conversation? To my mind, it distracts from the argument by focusing on the arguer. Is this TPM?
I think it's easiest to think about in terms of AT&T UVerse (an easy example). You have TV, Internet and VoIP service delivered over the same network connection. TV and VoIP (the VoIP isn't carried over the Internet, instead it's direct to the internal switching network and just happens to use IP for the packets) are independent of Internet access. TV and the VoIP service can be prioritized as needed, but Internet is just Internet and is only prioritized in relation to the other services (i.e., all Internet traffic is prioritized identically for a connection).

I actually like this distinction. It will encourage more broadband rollout as companies add more services that use the same infrastructure but aren't used for just "dumb pipes".
This is no review, it's a post about Google Closure, a great library that I think deserves more exposure.
Shifting taxes to sales, especially in a significant way, will just dampen aggregate demand, and push us into a deeper and longer recession. (See a comment I made here, on an article that didn't get any front-page time about states looking to raise revenue by taxing online sales: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1513784)

An alternative solution is to tax the unused value of illiquid capital like land. Unlike income and sales taxes, which act as disincentives on economic exchange, this kind of tax acts as an incentive for exchange, production, and employment: if you own capital which is not being put to use, this tax is either an incentive to put it to use or to sell it to someone who will.

This isn't a new idea. It was put forward by Henry George in Progress and Poverty in 1879: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progress_and_Poverty (Disclaimer: I haven't read the book, but I did buy it recently and it's on my to-read list.)
Allow access through both. Whether you default to using www or not is up to you.

On the one hand it's four more characters to type, but on the other hand lots of people still expect web addresses to start www.
Perhaps somebody can still come up with an improvement on the 1-click checkout of Amazon?
"meaningful harm" - meaningful? Is this a statue we talking about? Is there such a thing as meaningless harm? Is for example meaningful harm to prioritise slightly someone else's traffic. How slight does it have to be. Would it depend on circumstances and create a complex system of law which no one understands?

"the presumption could be rebutted" - Of course. To save the children I am sure, we must always think of the children! - and fat pockets.

"reasonable network management "includes"... to ensure service quality to a subscriber" - What kind of subscriber is he? Could google be a subscriber? Could an internet content provider be a subscriber? I mean, the presumption can be rebutted to save the children as we said!

"to prioritize general classes or types of Internet traffic" - well finally. You could not hide it much longer could you?

"could make use of or access Internet content, applications or services and could include traffic prioritization" Now what you even use the real deal word?

"Wireless Broadband" - Meh, these guys can be the third class citizens, we are only worrying about the second class citizens right now.

" community governance initiatives, and the FCC would be directed to give appropriate deference to decisions or advisory opinions of such groups." - Yeah community, that is, well, what is it? What is a community? What is a governance initiative? Can there be a google governance initiative? Of course to take care of us all.

"forfeiture of up to $2,000,000 for knowing violations of the consumer-protection or non-discrimination provisions" - how much? No I mean if I ear $1000 dollars and get "punished" by being charged $2 I would most definitely be deterred. Perhaps about three more 0s should be added seeing as it is "knowingly violating".

"would not create any new private right of action" - of course not, why would big daddy give the little kids any rights! They will think of the children we are all sure.

We knew you would be selling your soul soon google, but so early? What happened to our romance, was it just a blip, you want to join the evil side too?

Also, why would you do this, why would you just tell the world how self interested you are when the FCC has stopped the talks because and I roughly quote "the guys were becoming bad and greedy.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-10890495
A lot depends on your body and its preferences, so I wouldn't recommend anything specific yet. Nail down "what's healthy for you" before you aim to gain weight. If you can find the right diet, you can just eat more of it and add protein shakes[1], and you'll probably gain. But if it's the wrong diet, you can ignore its problems at a low level of consumption and function in daily life, but eating more will just make you feel ill, sleep poorly, etc. and amplify whatever was wrong with it in the first place. So figure out what you can eat a lot of easily, and what makes you sick. I did not gain until I did this.

[1] Again, a lot depends on what blend you're working with. Some are really bare-bones and use only one type of protein, others are heavily fortified meal replacements with a mix of different protein sources.
frankly screw being fair...this is business...you have to want it.

It's simple market research. Would you rather spend 6 months hacking together a product just so you don't offend 10 people?

if you always play by the rules you'll never make it. While you spend 6 months to try one idea, and another 6 months for another. Your competitor is going to run 10 tests in 1 week to find the idea that is the most profitable for him.

So by the time you get done with your 2nd test, the other guy has already been in a profitable business for a year.
It should be dead for a few years by now.
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The AK-47 typified this observation. It was a master piece of simplicity.
At least now Apple isn't operating with a massive performance deficit by using a processor designed for an ATM switch in its PC's.

And the price premium for example between MacBook Pro vs a comparably equipped competitor, excluding a factory direct Sager, is is relatively small now.

If Apple decides to support the gaming market by working more closely with ATI, Intel, and nVidia to get high-performance drivers into OSX and also work closely with the game developers to improve the tools and libraries to match up with what XNA offers, then the renaissance could be real this time around.
I expect we can agree that (1) sites ought to be accessible by both the bare domain name and the www subdomain, and (2) to avoid cross-domain cookie/AJAX/analytics (etc.) issues, one should be chosen as the canonical form, and the other silently redirected to that.

But which should be canonical?

Recently I tend to go for the bare domain for sites with a more technical audience, and www for sites I hope will attract some more normal visitors.

My feeling is that most of the times I speak a URL to someone non-technical, they mentally add www to it (they often clarify verbally that they're doing that, too). Even if, like this site, it's already a subdomain. Seems like it's comforting - why fight it?
There's a lot of glycemic index nonsense out there today. There is a low carb meme which will have you believe that just a few ounces of "carbs" will throw your metabolism out of whack and you won't lose weight even if you keep calories low. This is bullshit.

However, if you are trying to lose weight, it's often good to leave out carbs simply because it is so easy to overeat carbs. I love pasta and could easily eat 1200 calories worth of spaghetti and still have room for more. On the other hand , I almost have to choke down 1200 calories of eggs, fruit and vegetables.
i'll for sure implement login for jummpp.in itself. Before that though, i think it's a good idea I establish a baseline so I can see how many people actually want to use a separate login. This is one area i am not sure of. Some of my friends like facebook connect, some are surprisingly reluctant (despite knowing it's from me).
Because it smacks of second class citizens all over it.
PIOMAS polar-melting forecasts vs actuals
It takes at least 15 minutes for people to get back into a productive working state after being interrupted.

If you interrupt an office of 8 and one person has an idea that saves 2 hours, you are only breaking even.

I worked in an open space before and it drove me nuts until I finally left. It was fine when there was just a few of us but as they started adding more people, the number of interruptions started to go up exponentially until some days it seemed like I was being interrupted all the time.
> There is no significant evidence that refined or unrefined carbs are bad for your weight loss

There's a ton of evidence, actually. See GCBC.

> there is no evidence-based way to get results

High fat diets work. The clinical trials are pretty clear. Eat more saturated fat and less starch, and people get thin.

Also, this "refined carbohydrate" and "glycemic index" business is pretty much nonsense. Carbs are carbs. It doesn't much matter if the source is sugar or rye bread. The total resulting insulin exposure is the same.
kls,

You've certainly taught me a thing or two. I never knew Javascript had such limitations across (sub) domains. There's an old article on it here: http://radio.javaranch.com/pascarello/2005/12/30/11359624608...
I didn't get the idea that he was saying that 1200kcal was an everyday thing; if it was, then I totally agree. I can picture having 1200kcal days here and there when he's not really active though, like his aforementioned 12-15 hour hacking days. The main point being: listen to your body. I you feel like you really need to eat something, then eat something. If you don't, then don't.
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Fun - a new programming language for the realtime web
"What if you could build realtime web apps with the same ease as you build static web pages in PHP today? Without long polling, event handling and state synchronization, the engineering complexity of realtime web applications would drop by an order of magnitude. There would be a fundamental shift in the way we build the realtime web. This is the future of Fun."
> The oppression and gulags were there too, I am not excusing them at all.

Then what are you saying? I'm finding it very hard to work out what your point is.
Chess is a bad example, since the only thing you lose is maybe a few hours of time. There’s nothing stopping you from playing a new game with all your pieces back.

The roguelike games are a better example, though. However, they are for the most part very niche. (Full disclosure: heavy Moria/Angband player in college.) When such a game goes commercial, like Diablo or Torchlight, they invariably make “hardcore” an optional, unlockable mode instead of the default.
I can give you a God algorithm that consists of a huge lookup table.
Actually a nice cast-iron pan would be better.
Technically, in the US the employer shares the FICA tax (SS + Medicare) burden.
I've generally adhered to a "paleolithic diet" this year and have seen a steady improvement in my health. Meat, eggs, fish, vegetables.

More recently I've become wary of gluten, particularly its harmful effects on the gut and on the Thyroid.

I found this article very enlightening:
http://thehealthyskeptic.org/the-gluten-thyroid-connection

I'm now avoiding gluten altogether and plan to stay this way for several months. So far the results are positive.
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I like to think I've made such dents, but have never been granted a Ph.D.
Apple Acquires Rights to Liquidmetal Technologies' Advanced Metal Alloys
You would need to ask other visionaries who also understands your market (hard to find). Of course, chances are they would steal it, since it is revolutionary ;)
The science behind losing weight really isn't complicated: just make sure your intake of calories is less than you need to sustain your current weight.

To lose 1 lb, you need to give up 3500 kcals. This can be accomplished by eating less, exercising more, or ideally, a combination of the two.

Say, you're a programmer, you're 6' and you weigh 220 lb. Assuming you don't exercise, you need to consume 2700 kcals to sustain your curent weight. If you want to lose 2 lb a week, a doable and healthy method would be to cut your calorie intake down to 2000 and burn 300 calories through exercise.

Ofcourse, the trick is to eat well, so that you don't feel hungry all the time. Foods that are rich in protein (like chicken, fish, beans and greek yogurt) will keep you from feeling hungry. Corn syrup, trans fat, and saturated fat are the stuff to stay away from (that's most processed foods), those will only make you more hungry.

Also, timing is important to keep from eating too much. Start with a breakfast rich in fiber, and don't skip meals during the day. Drinking enough water is important too, at least 8 glasses a day. And for each cup of coffee, compensate it with a glass of water.

Finally, knowing how many calories are in the foods you eat helps a lot. I use Livestrong.com's Daily Plate service to track my daily intake of calories, calorie goals, weight, and weight goals. Any math geek or stats addict looking to lose weight should use it. There's even a free DailyPlate iPhone app.
If you disassemble your cube and put it back together, there are 12 possible sets that you can land in. Those sets are not reachable from each other.

The proof is quite elementary.
You just convinced me to never try EVE. If it is normal for players to spend months creating content that admins can willingly delete with no recourse, the real-to-virtual-currency conversion issue is the least of the game’s problems.
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Mexico Ex-President Fox Calls for Drug Legalization
Well yes it is not a misleading statement strictly. The statement is true, but it is presented in a misleading way as the one you chose is hardly representative of the general market.

I am not saying that the market is or is not highly competitive. Personally with seeing such share markets of 80% and 90% and one even 98% I think they hardly differ much from monopolies especially since unlike internet businesses there is I would think a high barrier to entry and unlike PCs it is not a new market.

As for retail stores, at least in the UK, they hardly are competitive. We hear of price fixing all the time. They just engage in some game where they lower the prices by a penny and put them up by ten pence etc.

But in any event my point was not to conclude whether the market is or not competitive, but only to provide and alternative.
I'd like to say congratulations to Vinay Deolalikar for getting to this point and putting the paper out there. As randomwalker and others have said, this appears to at least be a legitimate attempt. It must take some seriously thick skin to work on a paper that a) is in an area so full of failed attempts and error filled proofs; and b) that EVERYONE is going to read and try to tear apart.
Wouldn't that be really easy to dodge? Something like iPlayer or Hulu integrated with your TV: is that internet or TV?

What if you can get the news from a website, or its app? The app "just happens to use IP for the packets".
Some of the “low fat” foods are actually bad for you because they are high in HFCS or other sugary additives.

This is a biggie. Much bigger than people realize. Foods that are advertised as "low fat" must have those fat calories replaced with something. And that something is usually refined carbs of some sort, be it sugar, HFCS, or something else.

My wife has fructose intolerant, so we don't eat anything containing fructose or HFCS. You would be shocked to see how much food contains HFCS, and REALLY shocked to see how much "healthy" and "low fat" foods contain HFCS.
Agree completely. I am surprised it has persisted so long; the positive reason I can think of is that people are familiar enough with it that 'w w w dot (something)' is a useful cue for people listening to radio or TV adverts, who might otherwise not register the internet context until they hear the 'dot com'.

For example 'Attention listeners! Are you sick of your nose? Get a new one at Doctor Bob's rhinoplasty. Whether you want roman, retrousse, or rhonocerous, we have them all in stock! Just go to...'

...our office on 5001 big highway? or nosesbybob.com? Of course, you could signal with 'point your browser to...' but apparently a majority of people don't even know what a browser is, they just think of it-and-the-web as 'the internet'. So I think 'wwwdot'* will stick around as an aural cue.

On the other hand, any sysadmin who doesn't redirect automatically from the main domain should be shot.

* There was once a comedy program on TV that used to read it out as 'wuh wuh wuh dot...,' and I have to admit that this is how I've always thought of the string in my own mind.
Why do we anticipate a market failure with net neutrality? If one broadband company throttles services in a way we don't like isn't there a market for one that doesn't?

In other words why won't a competitor come along and offer a neutral service if some providers start throttling?

I must be missing something in the argument, broadband companies don't have monopolies do they?
This metric is used in Go as well, somewhat in jest. One of the top players has said that he could beat God with a five-stone handicap.

This indicates that God has a professional Dan ranking of 15 or so...
They didn't optimally solve every position, but they did solve every position.
> looks like you can use skype on most android phones anyway, though, just not as easily/freely as on verizon.

Serious question: any idea how? Everything I've read says it's limited to Verizon handsets, even when trying to install the .apk manually. I'd love to have Skype on my Vibrant.