skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First off -- Congrats on making the huge step to "do something about it"! Since it looks like you posted your own link I'll add comments here so people of HN can see them too. Personally, I've tried many diets, workouts, and other combinations at the same time and find it really hard to keep focus.

- Building a workout takes time

- Building a cardio plan takes times

- Grocery shopping for a new diet takes time

- Finding that you're starving and can only eat XX food but don't have it at home is frustrating!

- Looking at labels to see how much sugar is in XX takes time when you're starving!!

- Making fitness / diet changes at the same time is painful!!

I would focus on fitness first and once you the routine down fiddle with your diet. I just focus on not eating fast food and cooking at home. Here is a awesome workout by the RCMP that includes cardio / weights in a 12 week program. This program was designed to get people who are out of shape and into shape before their program starts.

I am 5 weeks in and have a spreadsheet with my status if you want to copy it. Website with benchmarks and other info:

http://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/recruiting-recrutement/htm-form/pa...

http://www.scribd.com/doc/38653230/Pare-Tape-12W-Eng is a PDF with the 12 week program broken down into warp-up, cardio, weights, cool-down and stretching.

p9 - Warm-up
p15 - 12-Week Cardiovascular Training Program
p19 - 12-Week Resistance Training Program
p24 - Cool-down and Stretching

Good Luck!!
Do yourself a favor and read the comment thread on that post.
I'd also love to be able to blacklist accounts. I don't really need to see four different accounts from one person, especially if I _really_ don't want to see their videos.
These guys have been providing us lunches at Blekko and we are a lot happier.

[edit: dang I suck at tenses]
Well I think what you're describing there is exactly the reason Groupon isn't making a profit- they have to spend a ton of money on marketers, reaching out to businesses in order to secure deals. Google appears to not be doing that, and suffers as a result.
Is there really that much actual homebrew going on with the Wii?

Since the Wiimotes use bluetooth(and there isn't any other interesting hardware in the system), I was under the impression that most of the homebrew community was just syncing them to PC's rather than really trying to hack the Wii.
I think a content destination for now, but I am advocating an actually social network.
I've had a Nightingale CXO for about 5 years and I love it. I went to the store intending to buy an Aeron, but I'm glad I considered some other models that weren't quite as trendy. Wish I had one at work too!
I wonder if you could cheat with Where's It Up?

http://pro.wheresitup.com/

[disclaimer: i made the tool]

If you got a different page size, or response code, you could check different regions easily.
well, consumers will follow whatever link Lady Gaga or Ashton Kutcher tweet right? they don't care if it sends them to ladygage.com, twitpic or Google+... all they care about is getting more gaga
I've read most of the messages on this list with interest. I've done some benchmarking on LevelDB with billions of entries, and on commodity flash SSDs, and thought that summarising it might be of interest to folks on this list:

http://www.acunu.com/blogs/andy-twigg/benchmarking-leveldb/

Comments most welcome.

-Andy

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CTO, Acunu Inc.
www.acunu.com | http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/people/andy.twigg/
A land grab only makes sense if you have constructed or inherited barriers to entry... what are their barriers? They're grabbing land that will be stolen the next day from them by LivingSocial or Google Offers...
Python takes a different tactic, and has a
non-object-oriented len() method

What do you mean?

In Python len() is just a standard protocol for getting the length of something, but len() itself is calling obj.__len__() if it is defined. You can even override or replace it in an object instance, returning whatever you want.

You can argue that these protocols are a bad idea, or maybe a useless one since Ruby does just fine without such hardcoded conventions, but since it relies on runtime adhoc polymorphism, it is as object oriented as it gets.
Yes Javascript does it too, and it's considered one of its top warts for the same reason. The tl;dr version is: always use triple equals, never double.
Angry Birds 2
I think this would be the most bad ass guerilla marketing technique.

Say you are WePay - and you go to a Paypal event and hand out hundreds of PayPal shirts, which become WePay shirts after the users take them home and wash them for the first time.

Or, we can simply go to TeaParty campaigns and troll unsuspecting users there :)
Careers 2.0: It’s About Reputation, Not “Rep”
* HORRIBLE * * UGH * * Also, both un-DRMd formats are separate? *

I don't see what's wrong with the title page and the dedication page... It does its job. I admit that the Kindle sample could use some actual meat, but the samples on the website look good to me. I mean, you sound like it attacked you with a knife. Also, it's a 3 dollar book. If you like it so much that you'll want to re-read it in your next generation ebook, would $3 extra bucks be that unacceptable?

I'm curious. Was there really nothing positive worth noting to you? And if so, why bother commenting? Isn't it more beneficial to focus our energies on things that we enjoy and are excited about?
Since Heritage here provided data that ultimately appears to be correct, your assertion that it's a "worthless" source isn't borne out, and so I'm less inclined to pursue a tangent about protein "quality" with you.

That's too bad, because I have a lot of thoughts about protein quality, and I think you'd probably agree with them. Unfortunately, you're in a place where you seem more inclined to troll threads with politics, so, maybe some other time.
Causes open sources Buffet, a Ruby testing framework.
Looks like Simon and Schuster is cheating on agency ebook pricing?
The new version of the plugin does not require admin permission.
Hundreds of millions of dollars already went to the founders. The only risk is whether they'll be super rich or ultra super rich.
IIRC the new version of Chrome Frame does not require Admin access any more. I think it runs a secondary process that injects Chrome Frame into any new instances of IE starting up.
> they thought it would be better to get people passwords by "botnet keylogger" (and I am not making it up), steal about 1 million accounts and then DEACTIVATE THEM ALL, which would I guess do something terribly evil to Facebook.

That is not a bad approach. If you assume Facebook's network infrastructure is rock solid, then attack Facebook's human infrastructure by flooding them customer services calls.

I don't think you need a botnet keylogger to grab Facebook passwords because their users are easily confused or duped. For example, ReadWriteWeb wrote about Facebook's plans for login federation and many Facebook users, googling for "facebook login", found this blog and tried to login there!

https://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/facebook_wants_to_be_y...
Apple is the Most Valuable Company Today. Markets are Closed now.
Congratulations. Looks like a useful product too.
Help IActionable get on stage at Salesforce.com's Dreamforce conference
//Sub/Corpus: Calculating mileage for my Honda Wave S ...
But they let apps upload photos, why not just let the web browser only upload photos from the photo/camera section?
It seems crazy that they can't just allow photo upload. I am surprised that (many) others are not frustrated as well. It forces me to write an app just to allow the user to upload photos.
I think them using that stat in the first place is at best extreme arrogance or total cluelessness and at worst outright fraud.
It's speculated that Google's terms may have been less profitable for the early funders (ie, the controllers of the company) than the round G (which gave a LOT of money back to early investors) and subsequent IPO.

So it could be a case of the powerful people not making enough with a Google exit than going public, even though Google + Groupon might have been a powerful and long-term more meaningful exit.
Twisted has semi-decent documentation, see

http://twistedmatrix.com/documents/current/api/twisted.html

http://twistedmatrix.com/documents/current/core/howto/index....

http://twistedmatrix.com/trac/wiki/Documentation

It's not as comprehensive and shiny as the core Python docs, but along with the tutorials and examples, it's actually pretty decent.
how can I contact therealdiego?
They wouldn't have shown a "No Service" signal strength on the top left of one of the screenshots. Always show 5 bars and remove the carrier name if needed but never ever suggest that you get No Service with an iPhone.
I don't really want to download it since I'm not sure I really have a use case, but I'd be interested to know how it compares with a wiki. I can see that you can draw in it, and it's got some sort of WYSIWYNG editing.

Can you compare and contrast with a wiki?

Thx.

And congrats on getting the grades - I wonder how much was because you used this software, and how much was because you interacted with the material more due to wanting to test out your new software. Either way - good job on getting the grades!

(edit for typos)
My First Impressions of Android
I had to search for the full post too, which is the link I posted. I guess WSJ detects a user entering via an incoming link and converts into an excerpt.

Anyone know how to post a link to WSJ that goes to full article?
He quickly changes the URL to the Apple domain in the first few microseconds of 00:00, pause the video and rewind a bit :). Looks good though!
Go on, I'm listening. What could I do to make your desktop experience better?
Fark Gets Patent Troll To Settle For Nothing... Did Reddit Pay Up?
Revenue per subscriber has absolutely tanked. AKA - people become stale and aren't buying so those marketing costs they were trying to hide as one time subscriber costs are going to be around forever.
The Orange Book, Red Book, Lighthouse3d tutorials, and general experimentation. One nice thing about WebGL is that the cruft is largely gone, due to its ES parentage. This means that a lot of old tutorials are completely irrelevant, but that you can safely use just about everything without running into horrible practices. (Not that there aren't plenty of pitfalls left.)
The backend for IndexedDB in Chrome is LevelDB, which is what Google uses internally for most of their webapps. That certainly shows that it's not just a half-assed NoSQL spec.
ok, my initial thought was one document per logfile, containing an increasing amount of loglines, but that's probably the worst approach possible. One document per logline which is appended to the database should be much better.
Motion To Quash Against Copyright Troll Explains How IP Address Does Not ID User
I have no idea how this has become the most controversial thing I've ever posted... It's pretty straightforward.

Ah well. TIL not to poke FizzBuzz.
Oh so fake.
http://blog.chromium.org/2011/06/introducing-non-admin-chrom...
The website where most of it happens (wiibrew.org) seems to be down, but here's a Google cache of the list of available homebrew: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:hODdueH...
See also: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2865380

More discussion there.
Designing gtrot.com in 60 seconds by nomoregoodnames
I understand why you'd rather not provide this as a standalone tool, but I'd much rather run such a tool as part of my existing compilation process than use your proxy service.
https://github.com/symfony/symfony

http://flow3.typo3.org/download/ This is still in alpha but has good source code regardless.
Show HN: Where Will It Close?
Awesome. Time elapsed between the reporting of the bug, acknowledgement, resolution and release: < 3 hours.
Oh awesome, thanks! I'm gonna pick one up just for zsnes...
It's a proof of concept to see if people will engage with the market as a game. It should be pretty obvious I'm no designer, but the algo behind it is pretty cool taking into account various factors when awarding scores at market close, including:
- volatility that day
- when the prediction was made
- how close to the actual close the prediction was

Would love HN's feedback on what next steps should be to get people to give it a go.

Given how turbulent the market has been recently, thought it would be a fun few hour detour from my normal work.
I can't seem to get in because I don't have a facebook friend on Chill. Does anyone know another way to get invites?
London rioters are tech savvy
I assume you mean "we are now a lot happier"?
An alternative wording of that statement could be "The average of the [already averaged] Yelp ratings of the restaurants listed on this page is over 4 stars."

I don't think that they're claiming that every restaurant has a 4-star or above rating. The claim is that the cumulative average of the 60-some restaurants on that page is over 4 stars. It's possible that they have 46 5-star restaurants, and 14 1-star locations.
I'm confused as to why Apple is named as a co-conspirator. Apple certainly pushed the Agency model for e-books, but they don't set the prices. The publishers do. The only wrinkle here is that, according to this article, Apple has a "most favored nation" status with these publishers so they can't turn around and give better prices to Amazon, but that has nothing to do with who's actually responsible for the prices. Namely, the publishers. I see no reason why Apple would have an interest in keeping ebook prices high.
I don't want lunch delivered. Lunch is time to leave the office and socialize with team members I'm not working with all day.

Bill splitting is the service I want.
Actually their API already returns that information. I think this was it: http://code.google.com/apis/youtube/2.0/reference.html#youtu...
Sorry, what does this do? In Chrome it just redirects to /NaN when you put it in the console, am I missing something?
You know that a "legume" is a "bean", right?
or break switch statements with:

#define break
I think it is really hard to become a limited partner in good VCs, unless you are godlike in some domain (which I guess you especially would be when you eventually exit) or were a founder of one of their successful companies.
Please Help East Africa - Millions are Starving
Opera scores huge mobile win in China with Oupeng browser
There's not a ton, but there's some. It's allowed me to use my Wii as a media center (accessing media on my network) and a DVD player. Works great for those of us who haven't made the jump to HD yet.

Besides that, there's a couple fun homebrew games, mainly ports of emulators and games that you could also play elsewhere.
"What I don't understand is how this vector occurred (on the Android phone) given it is no different to connecting over public (open) wifi"

See the talk from BlackHat titled "Femtocells: a poisonous needle in the operator's haystack"

http://femto.sec.t-labs.tu-berlin.de/bh2011.pdf

Basically, they set up a rogue femtocell, you connected to it as you walked by and voila. It would also explain why you sometimes couldn't make calls (you need to be within 15 feet of most femtos to make a call, but you still have signal strength up to 40 feet).
The title page and dedication page do not give me a taste of the book - which is what I want from a sample. I want the table of contents and a few pages of one of the chapters to get a feel for what the book is like. That's what I look at when I pick up a book in the store.

Note that only looking at positive comments is harmful. wccrawford's criticism about the sample is important, and changing it should help sell more copies.
We'll see..

http://www.minyanville.com/businessmarkets/articles/web-ipos...

"Groupon is still effectively insolvent, and without capital infusions is unlikely to exist in 18 months."

In my opinion, valuing a company at $10B when they haven't ever shown a net profit is ludicrous.
Implement Socialize, win $2500. Its as easy as playing Solitaire
that said, they need to fix their portioning. We typically get wayyyy too much food. and our vegetarian options are always out of whack with the number of vegetarian's we've listed.
Storybricks: Opening the Pandora's box of MMO design
This guy is an inspiration:

http://madebyevan.com/about/

I've been struggling to complete a web page app like this for a while, and he has finished several even though he's still in school.
Two fresh ways to view your Google Tasks
I'm sad that none of my Facebook friends are on Chill so I couldn't check it but the whole concept of group video watching sounds awesome.
SETI is back on track
I think that would be revenue per customer, which has been pretty steady at around $40/customer/qtr, for the past year. The reason revenue per subscriber has dropped is because the ratio of subscribers to customers has fallen. That is a different problem that they are now signing up people who aren't really interested in buying a coupon.
Monsanto Empire Hungry For Sweet Corn
I skimmed the front page of questions and answers, it looks more like "Yahoo Answers: Health" than "Mayo Clinic: Social". Trust is going to be a problem.

Also, this is essentially a StackExchange type site, and if you search their Area51 page for medicine and health, there seems to be minimal interest over there.
Interesting to see how fast G+ is maturing. There's still a lot to fix, though:

Mr. Allison said they planned to continue holding classes through the Google+ Cooking School, but hope that the Social Skillet classes will help sidestep some of the limitations of Google Hangouts. For example, each session on Google+ can have only 10 participants, and it is difficult to control when people pop in and out of a session, which makes it harder to streamline something like a culinary lesson.
I guess not everyone is as altruistic as you, dedicating their time to societally useful things like talking about intercepting cell phone communications on HN.
"Anecdote isn't the plural of datum", and all of that, but here's a point for the scatterplot. I was in Detroit visiting family a year or so ago, and we spent a day driving around the downtown area sightseeing (featuring commentary by elderly relatives about theaters, stores, restaurants, etc.). At one point, while leaving the Indian Village neighborhood, we came across a police roadblock; a series of U-turns and detours revealed that, in fact, the police had closed off an area several blocks on a side including a good-sized stretch of Jefferson (a major road in Detroit). There were several police helicopters buzzing around, lots of armed cops, etc. etc. This was during rush hour. After talking to some of the officers and some bystanders, we discovered what was happening: somebody had, upon being evicted from some sort of residential treatment facility, begun threatening people with a gun. When the police arrived, he shot at them, and then ran away. The police were currently trying to figure out which of several buildings he was in, and had closed off most of a neighborhood as well as a major street to try and contain the situation.[1]

In most cities, this sort of thing (major police operation, shots exchanged between police and armed member of public, street closures, etc.) would have been big news; that night, none of the local news broadcasts even mentioned it (one traffic report that afternoon did mention the closure of Jefferson, but didn't go into details). No headlines in the paper the next day, either.[2] My point here is that this sort of thing was apparently commonplace enough that it wasn't considered to be a newsworthy event, and none of my Detroit relatives seemed particularly surprised or concerned.

1. Notably, the particular chunk of neighborhood in question was at least half-abandoned (judging from the amount of ivy covering every second house).

2. Technically, by "the paper the next day," I mean the Detroit Free Press's website. At that point in time the DFP wasn't printing week-day paper editions.
There are more stakeholders in the company than the founders.
Congrats Arram and Bill! I vividly remember the "Wave of Food" illustration from Demo Day. If that's not a reason to invest in a company, I don't know what is. (http://i.imgur.com/umToE.jpg)
From my experience, the largest hurdle first time programmers have is being able to execute programs in their head. It takes a cognitive leap to go from the source code in front of them, and what happens at runtime. This disconnect is not present in straight-line code, but it becomes a problem when loops are introduced.

So, I agree with you. If the goal is to get beginners programming, then they have to program. No amount of reading is a substitute for programming. This book may be an excellent way to introduce people who have already done some programming to important concepts, but I doubt it will get them closer to being programmers.
I'm an engineer on the Facebook Messenger team.

Quick answer: Messenger does not sync your contacts to the server.

Official answer to the inaccurate meme that's going around: https://www.facebook.com/facebook/posts/10150353502026729

You might wonder how we match up your Facebook friends with your contacts so you don't see duplicates in the list: with Messenger, instead of doing it on the server, matching and de-duplicating of Facebook friends and local address book contacts is all done on the client.

The only time Messenger will send a phone number from your local address book to the server is when you use Messenger to send an SMS message to:

1) A non-Facebook user, or

2) A Facebook user who doesn't have a mobile contact point already on the server
Banking, trade and taxation is at work decimating our entire country right now.
Google: Ewmew Fudd Mode
Leaving the office is nice. But who among us has never had this conversation?

"Let's get lunch."

"Okay, where?"

"Chinese."

"Ugh. I don't feel like that today. How about that sandwich place?"

"We were just there on Monday!"

"Yeah. Feel like a burger?"

"That place isn't very good. Kind of expensive."

"Wish there was something new to try."

Then everyone goes back to work.

Then 15 minutes later you realize, ah, fuck, still hungry!

So the appeal with ZeroCater is that with no effort, boom, there's food. And it's often new food. And it's tasty. And you give no effort to thinking about it. So lunch is just a nice, social thing that lasts as long as you want it to without being prolonged by bad service, slow kitchen, whatever.

It's a pretty solid deal. Not a bad tradeoff. Picking lunch can be a miserable affair, especially when you work in a place with thin food options.

Oh, and as someone who was once subjected to truly fucking terrible office catering: wow, what a joy it is to get quality food delivered.
Bernie Madoff's pants have been turned into iPad covers you can buy for $500
It is still sort of surreal that right next to the Tiger's stadium there are a bunch of condos, but right next to the condos are a bunch of overgrown/condemned buildings. Also, I've been at the waterfront for the freedom fireworks (combined July 1 and July 4 fireworks display) on the Windsor side of the river and it was a pleasant experience. I'd never consider doing the same on the Detroit side of the river.

Though I should note that I haven't lived in the area since 2005, but most of my family still lives there.

Edit: Here's what I'm talking about. There are rows of condos right by the intersection of I-75 and Woodward Ave, but to the north there are some empty fields with abandoned houses. At one point those lots (which are now empty) were lined with houses.

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&...

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&...
The entire quote:

"We’ve got a real problem…this is a mathematical fact. Tens of trillions of dollars are being extracted from the United States of America. Democrats aren’t fixing it, Republicans aren’t stopping it — an entire integrated system, banking, trade and taxation, created by both parties over a period of two decades is at work decimating our entire country right now."