skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Great response. My idea of the tool was quite simple. I want to remove the friction between eating and measuring. So here's what I was thinking (but please feel free to add your thoughts): 1) Just before you eat anything, send an SMS with a list of what you are about to eat and get an estimated calory could back instantly via SMS. 2) Get an end of day SMS with total "theoretical" weight gain/loss for the day.

What else should such a tool have?
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Free drink on FeeFighters (http://feefighters.com) - find the short Indian dude in FeeFighters/Samurai shirt to redeem.

Looking forward to seeing you all there!
Open source software is not limited to client side code. Reddit and hackernews are examples of open source software that is also hosted as a service.
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I don't think the author ever said that Consumer Reports should be a cheerleader for top-selling products. Rather, the author says that Consumer Reports doesn't seem to have much influence over what sells. It sounds to me like you agree with the author.
I disagree with the "simple mathematical equation". I am pretty sure that it is a fairly complex nonlinear mathematical equation with estimate and unknowns, not constants.

* How do you know you burned 2500 calories in a given day? Unless you are instrumented, you don't know. Various people burn more or fewer calories for the same level of activity.

* How do you know you ate 2000 calories? I find it hard to believe that every Starbucks latte is 190 calories - those syrup shooters, etc., cannot be that finely calibrated.

* Most of what I read indicates your metabolism is nonlinear with respect to efficiency: when you "starve" yourself, your metabolism tends to go down and your conversion efficiency is probably optimized.
Couldn't have put it better myself.

You could even cut it to "you can't understand just how big a gulf there can be between what people see when they look at you, and what you feel inside."
I give you 2 quotes and an answer.

Einstein said: We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.
Schoppenhaur said: All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

The answer is persistent or remanence tendencies. People learned to get used to growth when becoming an adult, but shrinking creates an imbalance between astral body and real body.

If you want to create a service the Jerry Seinfeld productivity secret should be a good start: http://lifehacker.com/281626/jerry-seinfelds-productivity-se...
It's very hard for people to sacrifice short-term enjoyment for a very vague and somewhat nebulous long-term benefit. Generally, as a race we take the short-term choice and discount long-term rewards - something that isn't totally irrational, if you think about it.

IMHO it's easier to lose weight by changing things so you don't have to CHOOSE each day to do the right thing. If you move somewhere that you walk to work instead of driving, that's good for about 10-15 lbs, according to some studies, for example.

As for the service idea, rather than making it something where I have to do the right thing each time, come up with something where I have to proactively choose to incur discomfort so I can deviate from my plan... I don't know, maybe make it so when I eat at a fast food joint and put it on my debit card, you double the bill and send the extra to a charity?
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I'd like to see some references or research to back up your comment. As it stands, I down-voted you, as I don't think you are adding valuable content: I would happily reverse my down-vote if you can produce even a small amount of evidence for this, that can be further discussed and critiqued.
From the article:

> The iPhone 4S really sends raw audio data. It’s compressed using the Speex audio codec, which makes sense as it’s a codec specifically tailored for VoIP.
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In j2ee (and servlet is part of j2ee, you should know that) there is no such thing as standalone servlet. Servlet is a part of the framework which includes all of j2ee interfaces and implementations.
Any genes that encode suicide would be selected against so quickly they would not make a dent in evolutionary history.

There are selective pressures on societies, but they are utterly and completely dwarfed by the individual selective pressures. Whenever there is any sort of conflict between societal selection and individual selection, evolution will not give the former any say.

The reason is that it takes many many generations for any genetic makeup to actually destroy societies as a whole, and it is an extremely rare event. Genetic selection based on individual success happens all the time.
I was going to say that Wikipedia content is licensed under CC BY-SA, but that's just wrong. There's tons of fair use content, and plenty of quotes pulled from various sources. This really could pose an existential threat to them were someone to get it into their head to shut them down.

edit: On second (third?) thought, why just Wikipedia? SOPA threatens youtube, facebook, and just about every other site with user-generated content. Why not a Universal Blackout Day, with every site that could be threatened by SOPA displaying the same message warning about its dangers and directing users to contact congress and the white house?
Whenever anybody uses that phrase I can't help but think of David Attenborough. In "Planet Earth", there were at least a dozen things which "are so large, they are visible from space."
Clearly the answer is to have a spec for the spec.
Ilya Zhitomirskiy, Diaspora's Co-Founder, Committed Suicide
I believe the DARPA project was purely textual, and speech recognition was only added after it was spun off to make it more consumer friendly.
Most job/hiring advice and anecdotes on HN seem to be very adversarial. Obviously this makes for a better story, but why aren't we seeing more posts about preventing this sort of employee-employer breakdown - i.e. "Don't Work for Assholes".

Secondly, I'd be happy if my stock options amounted to more than the cost of a couple rounds of drinks. Expecting to receive high value from something so nebulous seems presumptuous.
Actually, long term studies indicate that if you eat a little bit less (say 10% fewer calories every day), you suffer no side effects, lose 1/2-1 lb every week and are able to keep it off in the long term.

Sorry for the PDF link but this FDA brochure (http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=http%3A%2F%2F...) lays it out pretty nicely.
Great! Hostility. A welcome addition to a discourse. What you said wasn't a turn of phrase. You stated it as a fact.
what depression has to do with it? this is exactly kind of disrespect i was talking about. To immediately declare the person to be psychologically ill just because of our deepest fear of what may happen if we accept that ending your own life may be a rational well-thought off decision. It is easy to blame the person's imaginary illness instead of accepting responsibility that human society normally creates conditions when such a decision can be a rational well-thought off one.
You don't have any contact information listed in your profile and I don't want to get into it in a public discussion but there was no long, detailed suicide note.
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I'd use underscore.js's _.debounce method, simples!
There's nothing wrong with investing, just investing foolishly.
I think this ties into the idea of MMORPGs. I used to play them a lot until I realized they were not fun, just addictive; they make you feel like you're accomplishing something by leveling and gaining skills, when really it's only your character that's improving - you're not getting better at anything.
yes, i was one of his three roommates who found his body, and the only one who read the note before the police took it as evidence. it was short, and simply said "thank you to everyone who was kind to me, this decision is purely my own".
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The similar but black input weight was not in use.

What is it with people's refusal to do proper split testing?
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Having money and a 'comfortable life' from a purely material point of view doesn't exactly imply being happy.

Money can buy an awful lot of things, but not everything.
as one of the three people who found his body and the only one to read the note before it was taken as evidence, please do not spread rumors like this. i don't doubt that you have the best intentions, and may think you have the facts straight, but the note was short and simple: "thank you to everyone who was kind to me, this decision is purely my own".

EDIT: i just realized you are the author of the blog you linked to. PLEASE take that post down. it is inaccurate in every possible way.
I hear what you're saying. Personally, I would have to change my entire life to do so. Microsoft basically puts food on my table. I enjoy building enterprise and desktop software, developer tools, etc. I don't enjoy building web software or mobile apps. Windows is the best fit for my skills.

If I am going to change my life that much, I would rather change careers and become a travelling monk, a yoga instructor, a physical therapist or a vegan food truck vendor. Actually, my plan would be to finish a yoga instructor's course while going to school for a physical therapy license and mastering my cooking at home. THEN, I would roam the country cooking for and healing people. I'm still thinking about it though.
while I found the opportunity that many commenting and interested in this topic, let me ask a question. Can one upgrade any android phone by himself? (I do not own one), or one need to wait for the carrier and or manufacturer need to do it?
Not sure what they used, but this software should be suitable:

http://www.thoughtcrime.org/software/sslsniff/
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ahem if you check mobile dev history you will find Nokia did the same thing with open source Symbian, etc..

No viable successful open source mobile OS gives equal access to public and OEM partners to a private tree
Now the only thing missing is a winning strategy for desktops/laptops. :-)

Seems like Chrome OS should be folded into Android and many people would be comfortable using it at home. Same apps could run and sync on all devices.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilya_Zhitomirskiy
> I guess this is where we differ. I feel that the designers of the .NET library have chosen to throw exceptions in places where nothing exceptional is actually happening, where no error has occurred, where the programmer may very well be expecting the "exceptional" outcome.

When does this actually happen? Are you really expecting it to fail when you open a file, or when you parse an integer, or whatever else? Where is .Net throwing exceptions in cases that no error has occurred and that you expect?

This complaint is common, but it feels rather hollow to me. Most of the time it seems to come down to a preference for error codes over exceptions, or an annoyance with the try-catch boilerplate, rather than a legitimate complaint about exceptions being thrown inappropriately.

> Where my code must handle such conditions, forcing me to handle them as exceptions makes my code longer, less readable, harder to change, and harder to reason about.

Are you suggesting that every function should have two versions like Parse and TryParse? Is this really what you'd prefer the .Net team work on, instead of providing new tools and functionality? Or are you wanting something like "ON ERROR RESUME NEXT" so that you can ignore these "expected" errors?

> This is exactly what the author of the linked piece points out, this is a part of my complaint, and it's an issue Microsoft has tacitly acknowledged the seriousness of by the addition of alternatives to exception-throwing calls, like TryParse().

Eh, the linked piece seemed mostly to be pining for the days of error codes. There's no general way to determine if a failure is a "bug" or "expected", not for exceptions and not for anything else. If you want to avoid exceptions for "expected" failures, then you're asking for no exceptions at all, which is fine, but the problem isn't just the definition of "exceptional".

> It does not feel to me, as a user of these massive libraries, that there was any systematic way of deciding what should be and what should not be reported as an exception.

The systematic way was "it's exceptional if it's not the desired or expected outcome". The addition of TryParse was a nice bonus, but is in itself an exception to the exception model.
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By saying the EU is a stupid idea, you're attacking things that are core to the best experiences of my life, which is why I said I'd have nothing more to do with you.

Specifically, I live, work and travel in many different European countries, none of which are the country of my birth; and so too does my (German) girlfriend. The way of life I've experienced would not be possible without the EU or something very like it. Your opinion, as expressed, is in opposition to my way of life. That's the source of the vehemence of my opposition.

(Hopefully you'll note that I am neither a state nor a large corporation, yet I've benefited in many different ways.)

(This nationalistic notion that nations are important, that they should look after their own above others, I think is responsible for many evils in history, some very recent. I think humanistic cosmopolitanism is far better than "us for ourselves" ideologies.)
I agree with you, I meant that from outside America it just seems rather pathetic, I hope it doesn't pass. Its a bit like the UK Digital Economy act that went through in 2010 which is similar to the French HADOPI law. How is it in the public's best interest?

I do find it ironic though that the US argues that the great firewall of China makes doing business with US companies difficult while supporting this bill that will do the same with local/national companies. http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Internet-China-Great-Firewa...
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Unfortunately, there are not many companies building these engines commercially (at least at these power outputs). Most of the engines I have seen are built by hobbyists (either too tiny or crude :( ). That's changing in recent years with increased focus on solar power.
No one is at all concerned that this is a hack?

I know it's interesting stuff, but I'm curious what "rights" Applidium have in publishing this information.

With this information, (if I'm not wrong) it wouldn't take long to simply DDoS Siri...

Or port Siri to Android (effectively stealing IP).

(I have no bias either way, just pointing out, if someone figured out how to reverse engineer dropbox, so you could use their space, without a dropbox account, would we all be going "wow, this is so cool!" or would we be crying out "this is such an irresponsible hack!")
We recently launched an app - http://droptype.com - that tries to do static site generation using Markdown files over Dropbox. It's still very much a proof-of-concept and we're retooling to make it a bit more full-featured; but the eventual idea is to let you let you publish web content by just arranging files on any cloud storage platform.

Again, it's still very early and this is more to prove that the idea is doable, but we'd love to hear any input. We're working on some commonly requested features like customized designs, cname redirection, rss feeds. The idea is to have a very hacker friendly publishing tool that doesn't require very much work to set up.
It'd be nicer if he had realized the fallacies of the prevailing 'legal' environment before he signed up to be a prosecutor (specifically, widespread laws make everyone guilty of something, so enforcement is really more about your place in society). Instead he was a cog in the system long enough to unjustly ruin some people's lives, then suddenly gets some critical thinking skills. Is it really that hard to think through your actions beforehand?
Placebos can work even when you know they're fakes (2010)
Now that Google has released the Honeycomb and ICS source code, I hope Amazon will keep their Android fork up to date. I heard rumors Amazon would go it alone with their Gingerbread fork, but that would be app compatibility difficult for application developers.
See my comment above. We've built and launched this at http://droptype.com. Would love to hear your thoughts.
Yes, very true. I'm one of those you're talking about. I'm a lone founder, coder, sales team, accountant... I do it all. Alone. And it gets very very depressing even when you're kicking ass and taking names it can get depressing. I have little to no social life, my girlfriend couldn't handle my new lifestyle and left me and no amount of success is enough. It's draining. I'm not antisocial. I'm attractive, outgoing, and well liked but the job becomes you and there are sacrifices. I'm even on the board of a charity organization but that interaction isn't enough (everyone else is much older than me on that board).

So you're right, man. Even when things are looking up it can sneak up on you. I can only imagine what this poor guy went through. He set out to raise $10,000 and exceeded it by far in under 2 weeks, gets thrown into the startup spotlight, the pressure gets intense, and all the while he probably had the mindset of someone doing something much smaller. Not to assume what his thoughts were but it seems like he was just trying to something small and cool and it grew far larger than anyone had anticipated so fast that wasn't enough time to adjust and them that depression snuck in there and now he's gone.

It's so sad. I wonder if the lightning fast growth of Diaspora had anything to do with it. I wonder what effect being in the spotlight can have on someone unprepared for it.
I wish this said "Ten recent Google search algorithm changes". When I clicked the link, I was anticipating to read an intellectual article related to relatively recent innovations to computational algorithms.
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How do you know you burned 2500 calories in a given day? How do you know you ate 2000 calories?

A typical person wouldn't know exactly, but in theory if he did eat exactly 2500 calories or more and he ate exactly 2000 calories or less every day, over a long period of time, he would lose weight averaging about 1 pound per week. Of course there could be other factors at work, such as the body adapting to eating and exercise patterns to more efficiently store and burn fat, which might slow the weight loss. Another thing that makes it hard to follow the mathematical is equation is that you can't measure calories in or out exactly. So you have to overcompensate. Maybe you'd shoot for 600 calories on the treadmill every day, and aim to eat 1900 calories, just in case you over/underestimate burning or storing rates.
User generated search engines
Are there any search engines being created that give users the power to vote good sites up and spam sites down? It seems like this would be a way to clear out some of the weak content that bloats up the internet. Thoughts?
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Well, almost any module:

$ perl -MFile::Slurp\ 9999
<hangs forever>
It's definitely a people problem more than it is a technology one. I don't think a direct social networking approach is right. Consider the following:

If your friends' idea of a meal requires pizza and Coke(and not that "pussy diet stuff"), you are likely either to join in with them, or stop being friends. They've already formed a supportive network around bad habits, and if one member tries to introduce technology with the intention of changing the habits, they'll get ostracized.

So what you are really in, if you are aiming to help the most at-risk people, is the business of propaganda. The people who have overcome the social hurdles already have plenty of resources.
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He also shows a fundamental ignorance of evolutionary pressures, and basically makes up a story that fits his prejudices. There is, of course, much precedent for this in human history; for example, to demonstrate how black people were racially inferior.

It's a fundamentally anti-scientific thing to do.
Or at least an easy way to browse through the source on the web - rather than having to dload it and have some special tools to allow me to read it.

I probably won't be doing anything with it, but very interested to see what it looks like.
Only if there's an exploitable bug in the Siri client.
About the Google Reader API: I think part of the reason so many things rely on it, despite the fact that it isn't "supported", is that we actually designed an API for it. When we built Reader we decided that instead of trying to bolt an API on later we'd have our UI go through our own API. This would help ensure that our API was "complete" and would stay that way -- if you could do something in Reader, chances are the API supported it. (I feel like this is obvious, yet so many web apps don't do things this way.)

Our original plan was to document the API, but it turned out that there was a separate project going on concurrently to create a "standard" sort of API for Google products, GData. Reader's API wasn't GData compliant, and actually used a very different philosophy from GData. GData is CRUD-centric while Reader's API was pretty much just RPCs over HTTP. RPCs with side-effects would go over POST and those without would use GET. We also supported responses in either XML or JSON. GData used Atom for everything (something I found a bit ironic), though later GData added a sort of JSON support (really XML in JSON syntax -- Object literals with XML namespaces).

Anyway, my point is that GData was very different from Reader's API. We were told we'd have to GData-ify our API before publishing it since all new APIs were supposed to be GData. Nobody was really interested in doing that, so the only API documentation that exists is "unofficial".
No.

People like you, who think that mental illness which is every bit as real as a broken arm is "imaginary" just because you can't see anything wrong, are one of the very worst parts of human society. You are part of the reason, probably the main reason, life is so hard for the mentally ill.

I really shouldn't have to explain this to you, as a great deal has been written on the subject in the past several decades. I beg of you, as a sometime depression sufferer, please go read up on this. Your ignorance hurts humanity.

If you are not ignorant, but simply unwilling to educate yourself, then please take your insane ideology back to the Dark Ages where it belongs.
Actually, Apple included an additional proximity detector to make sure Siri works when you bring the phone to ear. Here's iFixit report:

http://www.ifixit.com/blog/blog/2011/11/09/little-sister-sir...

This means that Siri won't provide optimum experience (pick the phone to ear and Siri is ready to take the command) for iPhone4 and older versions.