skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am about finished with "Why We Get Fat" by Gary Taubes. The main idea of the book is that carbs are what makes us fat and causes heart disease - not meat and fat as the medical establishment tells us. I know this same message is all over the place right now, one thing that makes the book unique is that he goes into the history of how the medical establishment came to the current viewpoint. According to Gary Taubes the European medical establishment was figuring out the carb/obesity link back in the 30s. WWII disrupted all that and when the Americans picked the question back up in the late 50s it was fat that was made the villain.

He goes into a lot of the biochemistry as well. As I was reading the book I kept coming back to this notion that carbs are pushed down our throats and the main reason why is that they are cheap. Not only cheap but they are easy to transport and store. It made me wonder if the common people of ancient Rome developed some of the health problems that modern people face. After all, they were kept on a state sponsored diet of grain and bread.
Don't worry: both these addresses are yours! See the first item in this help page:

http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=10313...
I feel better knowing you made an effort ;-) Well, shoot me a response or partial-response if you ever get a chance.
Sweet potato fries? When do I get sweet potato fries?
Euro has 1-in-5 chance of lasting decade: UK think-tank
Root Labs

SF Bay Area

Software developer

We're building a system software product with a web frontend. Security experience not necessary, but deep understanding of scalability, compilers, algorithms, databases, etc. is. Built from components including Python/C/Ruby/Redis.

Instead of a job posting, we've got a description of the types of projects we do in addition to developing this product to give you a flavor for our office. (It also has a link to the job description at the end).

http://rdist.root.org/2009/10/23/just-another-day-at-the-off...

Email me: nate / rootlabs.com

Thanks.
A Thinking Ape is currently looking for extremely talented software developers to join our core team in Vancouver, BC, Canada: www.athinkingape.com/jobs
What Money Can't Fix
The image for the old twitter page says 2007 at the bottom of the page.
Working hurts less than procrastinating, we fear the twinge of starting
Formsly - A Contact Us Page to End All Others
Smart move, not going with a .ly domain.
I still can't tell if eBay has actually gotten any better over the past 10 years. :P
When an author can't get facts like these straight, I become suspicious of the rest of his arguments.

I agree that this is a pretty good standard to adhere to, but there are other explanations: perhaps Taubes understands the issues well, but didn't do a great job of translating them to analogies. Or perhaps you (as reader) are not correct in your understanding of his argument. I suspect Taubes would agree with you that given an appropriate long-term feedback method that fine regulation is possible, thus I presume the actual issue is something else.

I'm inclined to trust Taubes because I've enjoyed some of his prior writings. Here's an award winning article of his that was published in Science: http://www.junkscience.com/news3/taubes.html.
You might enjoy this earlier article as an example of his style applied to a different topic. While it's certainly possible he's completely wrong here, I don't think it's because he lacks any fundamental understanding of science.

As I read it, Taubes' basic critique is that the 'calories equals weight gain' formula is so flawed as to be almost useless. The more I look into it, the more I agree with him. Yes, obviously at the extremes there are physical limits involved, but presuming a purely linear response just seems silly. I cheer him on in his attempts to come up with something better.
Tom Robbins on Failure
So you think that you're a failure, do you? Well, you probably are. What's wrong with that? In the first place, if you've any sense at all, you must have learned by now that we pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. Go ahead and fail. But fail with wit fail with grace, fail with style. A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success. Embrace failure! Seek it out. Learn to love it. That may be the only way any of us will ever be free.

~ Tom Robbins
Was youtube also a matchmaking service? I'm a little confused by that "I'm a Male seeking ..." form below the login box.
I have a side question if anyone knows. How does Facebook know contacts from my email address book even though I have not given them permission to search friends in my email?

I created a fresh FB account, and right away saw suggested people showing up in FB and these people are all in my Gmail address book. How is it possible that FB know this?
China's Race for Patents to Build an Innovation Economy
Thanks for reaching out. But, your email is not in your profile..Perhaps you could write me? hacker.sales1@gmail.com
At least you should have given some explanation:
To assist you I am re-tweeting @mathematicsprof:

2011 is also the sum of 11 CONSECUTIVE prime numbers: 2011=157+163+167+173+179+181+191+193+197+199+211
The rules for using "ſ" (long s)
Sell or Buy Business with goal of Hybrid Retirement
Anyone looking for marcomm (marketing) or technical writers?
The only reason we don't have it is we don't have accounts.

It's even really a complaint. I am glad that when I show up on DDG (which I still do several times per day) I get the same high-quality results without regard to who I am.

I'm also happy to take requests to ban these stupid sites for everyone.

The problem is that I have, for example, en.wikipedia.org marked as spam, simply so that their juice doesn't overwhelm my search results. It makes sense for me, but I suspect it's not even close to what your average user wants or expects.

In any case, thanks for the recent addition of non-Google options for searches when DDG runs out of results. Small as it may seem, I consider that a major step in the right direction.
Coalition Of Lustre Users Announces Open Registration for LUG 2011 - SC Online
The PC clones of the post-PC era
That summary looks about right to me. Though there is probably some value in pointing out that a lot of people who try to get into cooking really don't know where to start and end up looking in exactly the wrong place, e.g. a recipe dependent on a large number of specialty items (I'm certainly not going to start my brother on something like that).
I'm not sure if I just had an epiphany, but I just sort of got lost in the thought of how our survival instinct prevents us from realizing our full potential.

Good quote, thanks for sharing.
"I don't think price was the problem, it was scale."

And it was a scale problem because the other little problems:

1-Price(>6000USD for London-NY USD is high enough for me)

2-Contamination(look at the tail of the one taking of in the article, an environmental hazard )

3-Noise

4-Poor performance, breaking the sound barrier means increment exponentially the resistance. Fuel is not "free" anymore as it was.

5-With Internet an small jet planes, not needed anymore.
I wonder if it would work to lay several always-on high definition cameras and project their outputs onto large screens in both locations. Call it "immersive telecommuting". Useful for virtual/distributed offices and the always-on, HD nature makes interaction, as well as supervision unavoidable.
Why Is Illinois So Corrupt?
So the crux of the argument is:

1. In this one particular study, caloric restriction diets were explicitly calorically restricted.

2. In this one particular study, low-carbohydrate diets were not explicitly calorically restricted.

3. Weight loss was similar for both groups, but we assume that the Atkins fatties were gorging themselves on meat while the other people were not.

But, the data from this study was self-reported. To me, this is an immediate red-flag. It's two large waving red-flags for the inference the author is trying to engage in. He's basing a huge article on an assumption which is absent from data. This is anomaly hunting, plain and simple. The author obviously has a preconceived desire to support carb-limiting as the Deep Secret of weight loss, and so any anomaly is cast into evidence for this desire.

This is not to say the author is wrong, I'm simply saying his logic doesn't hold and analysis falls apart as a result. It's at least as basic a concept to science as the notion of control that the article leads with: "You cannot draw strong conclusions in an absence of data."

P.S., I'm not inclined to believe this good-calories-bad-calories stuff. I lost 100lbs over the course of 13 months, and I didn't do it by carb cutting.
I am pretty tired of smears against Ayn Rand that amount to: I read her when I was a teenager and I was hoodwinked into her ideas. That's your issue, not hers.

I'll never forget her response to this very type of attack which you can see at the 8:15 mark of this YouTube video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6jkQKAv13A
Huh? All content on the site is CC licensed. You agree to allow your content to be released under CC when you sign up for the site. It's perfectly reasonable to discuss things in the terms of CC.

There's nothing dubious about this legally at all.
I think you're missing the point. This guy saw a very common search term ("facebook login"), created a 15 page site with what is essentially a bunch of filler and duplicate content that is absolutely loaded with keyword spam. Then he hosted it on multiple domains, selected because they are exact matches for that term. The goal is clearly to rank well for those keywords, so that uneducated users click on the search result and then click on adsense links on the site. His claim that it's an "experiment" designed to benefit people is total hogwash.

This type of practice is nothing new, and it's much closer to efreedom and mahalo than it is to some guy writing about his new year's eve party on blogger.

Again, his research shows no evidence that people are looking for anything other than the login page for Facebook, which they are finding easily via Google if they don't know how do use the address bar.
http://duckduckgo.com/ works very well for me.

- less spam
- programmer oriented results, when relevant
- more legible search results
Probably just a way of summing up the changes that come with it. People more spread out, not everybody knows everybody anymore, you don't see the top execs walking around the office anymore.... not that Facebook isn't already partway there already. Silos and cliques develop, etc.

The whole feeling of working changes from feeling like part of the team to just being a job.
The Perl UTF-8 and utf8 Encoding Mess (by Jeremy Zawodny)
OS X tries to avoid requesting "new" blocks for write. (AFAIK. Not an expert.)
I am looking for a PHP developer who has previously written at least one WordPress plugin. Contact information in profile.
I'm looking for a strong front-end developer (HTML/CSS/JS) for a 40/hr week contract position for three months with competitive pay.
Depends how successful the sites were I guess, if IMDB started going backwards I'm sure it would have ended up the same as those properties.

I think having the founder still working there and not jumping ship as soon as some vesting period is over is a good advertisement for being acquired by amazon. Also it's still it's own site, could have easily been rolled into amazon in an attempt to push more DVD sales over the years.
All of these are possible. But open the company up to lawsuit.
the point is that if you only eat 20 calories/day more than you "should" (the amount that would cause your weight to remain the same) then you will gain the weight.

The point is that you won't ever gain the 40 lbs if you only eat the 20 cal/day extra.

Imagine you start eating the 20 cal/day extra. Initially, your weight climbs at 1 lb/year. However, by the time you gain that one pound, you have to spend an additional 11 cal/day to maintain that weight, so now you're gaining at a bit less than 1/2 lb/year. By the time you (asymptotically) approach having gained 20/11 ~ 1.9 pounds (which really only happens at infinity, but let's imagine you splurged to put yourself over), then you're at maintenance for your new weight. In order to gain more, you have to increase your uptake again.

As you gain weight, you accumulate metabolic load, so it takes a serious surplus of calories to continue to gain in the long term.

The steady-state condition of obesity requires a large ongoing surplus of calories to maintain.

Plausible fixes are incorporating more fiber in the diet to increase the feeling of satiety, reduce portions generally, cut out high-calorie drinks, and start exercising, even if only moderately but consistently.

Succinctly, the amount you "should" eat is not the amount to maintain your current weight, but the amount you need to maintain a healthy weight.
If you adopt sardine-style packaging, you might be able to keep them in a small office. Just think of how close everybody'd be!
Thanks, I appreciate that. I wasn't trying to troll at all. It's simply a reality that it takes a certain amount of resources to keep Wikipedia running. If a large donation is more favorable than purchasing them -- then by all means that's the route to go. I simply meant that I would hate to see something like WP suffer if the situation came about where donations aren't enough to keep it running.
That's a fair point, but those were the OP's words. The important thing is that he's polluting the area (search engines) in which people might encounter his site.
I thought that, since all the edits were kept in the database, more harddrives wouldn't matter. But as kens pointed out, that is not the case.
My (now 8 yo, but 7 at the time) daughter found Scratch to be mildly interesting, but not really compelling. She'd use it every now and again. But, she's pretty addicted to Kodu. I think the 3d aspect of it, as well as a more narrow topic (game/world creation and interaction) made things a lot more understandable for her, and allowed her to focus. She's still learning the same concepts, I believe, in the end, and that's what I'm after. I think of it as really a 3d Logo.

She's into 3 and 4 page programs now, with multiple actors, and fairly deep storylines.

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/kodu/
CCC-TV video archives of hacker events from the last 10 years
I've always wondered this, but I could never figure out how to google it.

...I'm juft glad we ftopped ufing it.
Data from almost all diet studies is self-reported (see comment by dkarl) and inherently unreliable, but it's the best we have. And his argument in this article isn't that carb cutting is the source of the weight loss, just that because we don't isolate the variables, we can't know for sure what the source is.

How did you lose that much weight over 13 months?
Ask HN: Editor used by ninja devs.
YC startups developers : what is the text editor you use for modern Web development in general (php, ruby, python, javascritp, frameworks) and why?
The Dirtbombs on Detroit: a city of unlimited possibilities (2010)
Did you feel like there wasn't enough outdoor space?

Comparing this (via aerial imagery) to working on the Microsoft campus in the late 90s, it seems like Sun campus is mostly indoors, as opposed to the "college" feel of Microsoft or Google.

I would think that Facebook would want to emulate Google's campuses more, with a larger number of smaller buildings to promote a more collegiate atmosphere. But this is all based on four 45-degree aerial shots, so I'm curious what your thoughts are on the place.
This. I don't understand how people can ignore how sedentary society has become when discussing the obesity problem.

You can easily get away with eating a lot of carbs; being physically active not only allows it, but often requires it.
This is all true, but I'm wondering if you are mistaking a strawman for Taubes actual argument. The bit about '20 calories/day' is his attempt to explain the current philosophy, which he feels is fatally flawed, in the way you mention among others. He's setting up this argument merely to tear it down. Despite being the simplified version of the standard wisdom, he agrees with you that it's wrong.

His actual point is at the end: 'Maybe when we get fat it’s because those physiological, metabolic and genetic factors you mentioned are dysregulating our fat tissue, driving it to accumulate too much fat'. He might be wrong about this, but his point is that the difference between an obese and non-obese person cannot be fully explained by an intake difference of 20 calories per day over a lifetime. There must be something else in play.
The title of this paper could use some work. Either that, or the space-time cloak has worked as advertised and has successfully concealed the events which are revealed in the new study.
If you actually read the PDF, page 23 shows that they had 47 paid staff for 2009-2010, and they plan to have 91 (almost double) by the end of 2010-2011, so it's a case of increasing staff numbers, not (or at least, not entirely) increasing staff salaries.
Typical think tank thinking: make an outrageous statement; lots of contracts if you are right; no one remembers if you are wrong. There is so much political and economic damage to be done that the euro wont be allowed to tank. Restructuring of banking relationships, sure.
Your contacts have your email on their list, and they gave permission to facebook look at it.
Ask HN: Finding a remote job / Creating a resume
As someone who has never actually even needed to apply for a job, i'm
perplexed on how to create an internationally viable resume to be able to
seek remote jobs. I've had the blessing/curse of being employed straight
out of secondary school, so i've actually never had to seek jobs,
especially not in another country.

How does one create an attractive looking resume based on that?
No real degree, 6 years working experience from the same place, some personal
minor coding projects, nothing big.

I'm a fast learner with a hacker mind with no doubt that i'd be able
to perform as well as people with degrees and more diverse experiences, but
how do i express this?
yeah for HangWith. I will post a link to HangWith occasionally along with a comment when I see a post where someone is seeking someone to hangout with or 'forever alone' or something relavant to what the site does.

I don't do it very often. Only when I think the link and comment in appropriate and genuine to the thread. However, when I do and, I think, because the link it relative to the OP I always get amazing click-throughs. Again, the key is being genuine and relative to the thread. I've probably generated 20k+ site visits and well over 1k signups from reddit alone from maybe 3-4 comments posted in relavant threads.
I use the OptimizeGoogle (and previously CustomizeGoogle) Firefox plugin for this:

http://www.optimizegoogle.com/
I often find that things that really don't exist wind up with spam results. For instance, if you type in "free ipad" into google you will likely get thousands of search results, all spam because they don't actually exist.

Similarly, contact and personal information for CEOs of major corporations does not exist online either and any search will turn up spam.

One more example, to add to the many. If you get a genuine wrong number call from somebody who made a simple mistake and type their caller id into the internet, you'll just get a bunch of reverse phone lookup spam while if you search for a phone number of a know telemarketer or bill collector, you'll likely get a full dossier on that company.
Emacs. Programmability.
For the various reasons other people have commented, I can't see anyone ever trying to buy Wikipedia.

However, in reply to your question: In many (I'd argue most) cases, people have a price. Hell, I'd bet that with enough billions you could bribe a hell of a lot of married couples to split up, yet alone someone to abandon their community spirit and sell a volunteer-run organisation.

(Second paraphrase doesn't, however, top the first.)
I'm guessing at _least_ 15 out of those 16 people knew that deletionism has nothing to do with the cost of disk space. It was more a vote of frustration over the overreaching that occurs when seminal figures like _why have their Wikipedia Page deleted. There are _shades_ of notability, and I agree that someone has to make a call:

Not: o How many times have I sneezed today.
Barely: o The Ties of my Local Anchorman
Notable: o Pokemon Characters, _why, Canada

Unfortunately, the deletionists have moved from "Not" to "Barely" and in some cases have started yanking out very clearly notable pages. The upvote, above, is, I suspect, people expressing that frustration.
It mas most likely an ad (image) made to look like it was part of the page. Those are still around and still fool neophytes.
Like EULAs, license agreements, ToS's, etc.

I prefer how YouTube handles it[1]:

“You shall be solely responsible for your own Content and the consequences of submitting and publishing your Content on the Service. You affirm, represent, and warrant that you own or have the necessary licenses, rights, consents, and permissions to publish Content you submit; and you license to YouTube all patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright or other proprietary rights in and to such Content for publication on the Service pursuant to these Terms of Service.

For clarity, you retain all of your ownership rights in your Content. However, by submitting Content to YouTube, you hereby grant YouTube a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicenseable and transferable license to use, reproduce, distribute, prepare derivative works of, display, and perform the Content in connection with the Service and YouTube's (and its successors' and affiliates') business, including without limitation for promoting and redistributing part or all of the Service (and derivative works thereof) in any media formats and through any media channels. You also hereby grant each user of the Service a non-exclusive license to access your Content through the Service, and to use, reproduce, distribute, display and perform such Content as permitted through the functionality of the Service and under these Terms of Service. The above licenses granted by you in video Content you submit to the Service terminate within a commercially reasonable time after you remove or delete your videos from the Service. You understand and agree, however, that YouTube may retain, but not display, distribute, or perform, server copies of your videos that have been removed or deleted. The above licenses granted by you in user comments you submit are perpetual and irrevocable.”

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/t/terms

(Can someone tell me the <pre> syntax or something appropriate for a blockquote?)
The engineers that design the airframes understand that things fail, and they design the system to function in a degraded state.

The linked site has some interesting info on the technical design of some of the flight systems. There are multiple redundancies on the hydraulics, for instance. Very interesting stuff.
> (Can someone tell me the <pre> syntax or something appropriate for a blockquote?)

prefix with four spaces
'ſ' is just an 's'. It's a typographic variation carrying no semantics. The proper way to reproduce it in a new medium is simply to use 's' everywhere. To do this is no more unfaithful to the original work than using Times Roman on the screen when the original was printed in Caslon.
It made me smile to see this note at the bottom of pg's essay on ramen-profitability:

http://www.paulgraham.com/ramenprofitable.html#f1n
No offense, but that's complete bullshit, and the sort of tautological reasoning he's mocking. Of course you should eat "not too much" -- eating "too much" is too much!
Wait... did you just call me a non-native plant species?