skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the distinction is between the need to use willpower and our logical/rational abilities vs. not needing to use it. The Rational Rider vs. The Elephant/Lizard Brain. When we make something a habit, it just naturally becomes a normal behavior.

When we need to use discipline, we need to use self control in order to fight against a natural instinct that's more pleasurable. Of course, there's always a combination of the 2 that's needed, but habits generally rely on learning new behaviors that become natural.
Dug up this link:
http://theunderstatement.com/post/11982112928/android-orphan...

It doesn't contain any new-ish phones, but for phones it does have on the list that were released less than 24 months ago (which would still be under contract right now), none of them will be getting updated to ICS via their manufacturer. The majority stopped receiving updates less than 12 months from their initial release.
You might keep an eye on Zapier (our startup, https://zapier.com) if you're looking for a paid service. Similar functionality for a lot of things - still building and iterating.
As a parent of a 10 year old and a 12 year old I am intimately familiar with this argument as well.

How about this: delete your stupid mean comments, I'll delete my comments, and this whole stupid thing will never have happened.
BTW, don't use this service to archive your files, you can't download them back (Amazon cloud is better in this regard).
Nobody is writing Windows or Mac software anymore.
The first Crystal Castles album is perfect: kind of droney so it doesn't force you pay to a lot of attention but it's got a good beat throughout.
I purchased impactjs. It's great.
Reread the article.

Some quotes to help you process it:

"There is no consistent pattern to how people in the registry lost weight — some did it on Weight Watchers, others with Jenny Craig, some by cutting carbs on the Atkins diet and a very small number lost weight through surgery."

"Fat, sugar and carbohydrates in processed foods may very well be culprits in the nation’s obesity problem. But there is tremendous variation in an individual’s response."

The article isn't about good vs bad calories. It's about your body's fundamental changes in response to weight loss.

"For instance, a gastric hormone called ghrelin, often dubbed the “hunger hormone,” was about 20 percent higher than at the start of the study. Another hormone associated with suppressing hunger, peptide YY, was also abnormally low. Levels of leptin, a hormone that suppresses hunger and increases metabolism, also remained lower than expected. A cocktail of other hormones associated with hunger and metabolism all remained significantly changed compared to pre-dieting levels. It was almost as if weight loss had put their bodies into a unique metabolic state, a sort of post-dieting syndrome that set them apart from people who hadn’t tried to lose weight in the first place."

Read the article. Don't skim it. Actually read it.
Just because a congressman opposes SOPA doesn't make his statements magically profound. Although the direction of his statement is intelligent, his four points at the end are far too vague to be useful.

Phrases like "consider instead promoting approaches that empower users" and "promote innovation over litigation" are nice sound bites, but they're very "safe" opinions. No one's ever going to disagree with them. That makes them lose their usefulness, however, as proponents can easily twist logic to claim that SOPA satisfies those four points.

Not trying to disparage Wyden, but his statement here would be far more useful if it drew a clearer line in the dirt.
Also, don't forget that Motorola is going to be part of Google soon. For obvious reasons, future devices from Motorola will run AOSP-Android and get Android updates for as long as possible.

Google keeps saying it's going to be "Moto as usual"; let's hope that was wrong.
Bach's canon is not a Shepard tone. A Shepard tone would have been a more credible example of a "strange loop" than Bach's canon. But "Godel, Escher, Shepard" doesn't have the same ring to it.
I'm working in the US. Sorry for not specifying
Very true. Stress's impact on weight is probably underappreciated, both in terms of the hormone changes and the poor decisions people make when they're stressed. I think one of the biggest health benefits of exercise is the emotional uplift it gives, which in turn leads to making unhealthy things like drinking and eating bad foods less appealing.
It's a great service, I've been using for a couple weeks now. I'd pay 4.99 a year for it.
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:S1ltAY9...
He said he'd prefer not to. There's no harm in my gentle persuasion. If you're getting frustrated at a natural human interaction, maybe you need to step back and figure out a better way to handle that frustration.
I would also argue that the code delivered to your browser when loading a page is absolutely useless to anyone or anything but the browser that parses it.

You can nab a copy of jQuery or another third party lib and that won't make a difference, but the non-generic code that actually forms the substance of the app, or the experience on the page, is worthless, because that's inextricably bound to the specific design the developers had in mind - something no one on the outside will know about - and is anything but re-usable in its public form.

Maybe if you spend enough time looking at it, you can start to reproduce the idea, just like if you spent enough time analysing the actual behaviour without even looking at the code. Anyone with enough skill or talent can do something like this by eye, and they won't start with a copy/paste of the original source.

Of course, this might all be beside the point, and I do like how we're seeing more *.js libs and fewer jQuery specific plugins, and in some ways I can't help but think the progress github has made is conducive to that.
...and yet the site is one of the most unusable, unfriendly, and unattractive dating sites out there.
The article is not about getting obese, but about the fundamental flaw of all dieting methods - being "famished" changes the body and makes it much easier to gain weight.

If anything, this knowledge could put dieting itself among the risk factors for obesity.
5 comments so far and 4 have either missed the point or are distracting the discussion into lessons on semantics. I'll definitely fail to put it as well as the author did, but I believe the point wasn't "surprise, copyright doesn't exist", the point was client-side js by nature shares code, and sharing code is good, so this community is in a great position to fully embrace open source, and it should.
They burn through a _lot_ of coffee, which might be a downside.
Ask HN: What would happen if an EMP were detonated over the United States?
As the title states, what would happen if a large EMP were detonated over the United States so as to disable/destroy non-shielded electrical equipment? Are most things protected from electromagnetic interference, or are we talking full-blown riots across the entire country? What would be affected? Would you be able to use your cell phone? Get money out of your bank account(s)? How bad would it actually be?
Take one pass fail and letter grade the other? If both sound cool take both.

I would suggest databases is probably more relevant to web development.
I came to that conclusion because she seemed uncertain about what they could or could not do, and it seemed as though she expected a less severe outcome. Perhaps I was reading into it incorrectly.

It was dangerous as she could have been injured, detained at length, and possibly put on some kind of "harass this troublemaker anytime she steps into a security line" type of list. That her constitutional rights might be violated is almost a guarantee, although that wording is perhaps incorrect since you don't have those rights in an airport.

I agree the situation is sad.

It wasn't just a simple delay. It was a public disturbance. She was yelling out, causing a scene, being dragged around, etc. Seems to me that people planning mischief often set up a decoy disturbance. This seemed like exactly the type of disturbance one would plan deliberately as a decoy for another operation.
Effective DoS attacks against Web Application Platforms
Have you considered buying a used Mac on craigslist? Last time I checked in the Chicagoland area there were Mac minis going for $400. That's probably comparable to putting together a hackintosh. I'm currently using a 3 year old MacBook for iOS development and it's handling that pretty well.
I suppose that that is a...plausible irrationality. I wasn't attempting to account for such things. But sure, it's good to mention it explicitly.
This comes up in just about every talk on HTML5 to general app and game developers. People reasonably want to know how their application code and content will be protected. Some points:

* The best form of protection lies outside the code. There are a million Twitter clones out there, so Twitter's value lies not in the source code. It's in the service, branding, and user base.

* You can indeed obfuscate code. It's true though that DRM is not as acceptable as Flash (which is security by obscurity anyway) to content owners. People are working on this, e.g. the various JavaScript crypto standards.

* Fortunately, the people who will outright steal your code are rarely the people you have to worry about. They usually can't innovate (though there are exceptions to be sure) and will always be following behind you.
the author wasn't suggesting that her code was 'stolen' or copied verbatim, but reviewed and implemented in a similar fashion. she could have offset this possibility by obfuscating her code, using minimizers etc but the functionality is there for the world to see and from her article i got the impression that she approves of this.

consider:

1. small scrappy startup uses a copied snippet of code, gets successful and rewrites code better which original author gets to enjoy.

2. big company wants to save implementation time and knows they can't copy code. asks author for licensing fee.

win/win?
Viacom is ordered to pay $383 million more to Rock Band makers
Path v2 gives me a warm & fuzzy feeling that I have been craving
Reddit makes me hate atheists.
2011 Recap: 80,000 miles, 3 moves, 2 new jobs, and more
NuGet And Orchard?
Do we really have many lives or do our lives have many facets?

I think there are some people who actually have multiple lives, but most of us just have many sides because we have to deal with people in different ways, but it's nowhere close to being whole other person with a different life.
The whole article made me think of life here in Italy. Seems like there are a lot of things in common. Well, except for the massive copper resources.

They should have picked me, dammit:-) After years of living in Italy, these sorts of bureaucratic hurdles are easy to deal with. And I may not have an awesome, world changing startup, but at least my niche effort makes money, and... I've been around. I have war stories!
One you start a heavy diet, you've lost. There may be ways to lose weight that don't prompt the same response for your body. Maybe losing weight much slower? Or alternating fasts with periods of eating well? There is still much research to be done, and many ideas to be tested.
I think a lot of photography sites use Flash to make it harder to save the photos. You can't just right-click on an image and save it. Of course, there are ways around that like taking a screenshot, but the hassle might deter some people.
I think the average age of Reddit is 16. High school students have infiltrated it ages ago. This is why I don't take anything I read in the comment section too seriously.
Thanks. I just checked their pages are .aspx which is Microsoft ASP.Net.
Strange. I see your post is from 10 mins ago, but many of his responses are much older than that. His name is highlighted in blue and has a green leaf next to it.
I'm not sure what the problem is -- there are a whole bunch of his comments on the page. Make sure that the comments are sorted by top or best (you can change the sort order right under "top 200 comments").
Hackers: Wizards of the Electronic Age « Coding In My Sleep
Poll: Do you get more out of computers than you put in?
Do you feel like there is a net gain of overall value in your life from the amount of time and energy you spend on your computer every day, or do you feel like you are just breaking even or a net loss?
Net gain
Break even / Net loss
This poll is stupid
2011 Recipe Website, App, & Publishing Trends
Starting a business is always difficult, but not anymore
I'm taking a Masters Machine Learning class at a top UK university and I must say that I'm sure the lecturer is an expert in ML but he's got absolutely no teaching skills. 90% of the class has absolutely no idea what's going on, and the 10% has extensive previous ML experience. Professor Ng's lectures are like a life savor to me. They help me understand the basic concepts of ML so that I can go on and study in the deep waters.
"Thinking Fast and Slow" was the wider, more interesting book, but I found "Willpower" to be the practical one. Got at least a couple of potentially life changing things from it - its views on dieting, and the concept that creating a habit gives basically free willpower. But they are both excellent books, and I would be extremely happy to see them reaching as wide an audience as possible.
It's very true that losing 10lbs fat and gaining 10lbs muscle will only net 30 calories/day. So what? The goal isn't to get your weight below a certain number unless you are a boxer aiming for a weight class. The goal is to get a healthy body composition.

I'm 6'5", and I weigh 242lb, for a BMI of 29. (Overweight is 25, obese is 30.) If you looked at me, you'd never guess I was overweight - the most you'd see is a little excess belly fat if I took my shirt off. On the other hand, I bench 170, squat 200 and press 120 (no deadlift due to back injury). When I hit 253, I'll be obese, just like pretty much everyone in the NBA. Yes, I know my squat is low.

And, like most people in the NBA, I'll be eating just as much as any fat guy. That's what gaining muscle buys you - it lets you eat as much as ever while being "that jacked guy" rather than "that fat guy".

This also ignores the fact that to build and maintain the muscle, you are burning calories anaerobically, the same as you would if you were sprinting (slower running burns fewer calories, since it's primarily aerobic).
I pride myself on being able to move between many different worlds, being able to communicate and befriend different kinds of people. I don't speak the same way to my peers and to 50-year olds. There's nothing wrong with that. It's challenging, but it's good for the mind. Moving successfully in different cultural circles gives you better perspective on the cultural forces which unconsciously shape you and your peers.

"Just be yourself" is one of those overly facile pieces of common advice that is more harmful than helpful.
How to Get a Celebrity to Endorse ALL your Products on Google
Yes, this is why I mentioned muscle preservation and focused on the hormonal impact of different kinds of exercise. The "calories-burned-per-muscle-pound theory" is probably a drastic simplification of the benefits of resistance training. Then again, the article in point shows that muscle mass isn't the only relevant metric - the article shows that changes in muscle quality (becoming more "slow twitch" in character) can have vast health implications. Conversely, it might follow, that nobody needs to gain a pound of muscle to accrue benefits from weight training.
Your point is valid, but it doesn't rule out genetics. Our genes express themselves differently in different environments. So our changing environment could cause people on average to get fatter, while genes still determine who gains weight and how much.
If you haven't yet read it, I also highly recommend, "Nudge". It's similarly eye opening WRT how incentives shape outcomes.
Of course the guy who came up with it taught himself, there was nobody to teach him. The point of a college is to speed a lot of this up, though, and tell you the results these people got and how and the implications. I think you're drawing a bigger contrast between what we said than I intended. I'm not saying that Applied courses are wrong or should not exist. I have taken several in my day because I just don't have the mental discipline to learn a lot of theory all the time. What I am saying is that I don't think really smart people complaining about not getting enough out of the course is not a matter of them thinking they are elite but that they just want more and don't see the point in wasting time on something that won't give it to them. My favorite classes in college were always the ones that required a lot of theory and a lot of rigor because it brought so much more together for me (even though I often didn't really understand it), I think a the elite you speak of probably have similar feelings.
It seems to me that what Bjarne likes about C++ over C is its provision of copious quantities of syntactic sugar - turning things that are perfectly expressible in C into supposedly more 'natural' formulations. I suppose if you like cancer of the semicolon, C++ may be the right place for you, but in my opinion if you really want abstraction you should be using lisp (the simple, unbound syntax makes every function you implement act like an extension of the core language), and otherwise you should use C.

Of course, I'm atypical - when I'm not writing in C it's because I'm writing asm.
"OMG the carnage in London is brilliant!"

This doesn't really incite violence in my mind and is just an opinion. I don't see how the person violated any laws.
No surprises here.
Unions give to democrats who support them after getting elected, its a vicious cycle. And many of them are government unions using tax payer money, go figure.
Big corporations always stay on the fence as they do not want to be on one side if the other side gets the reign.
Because, if you can't keep one friend's secrets in a different box from another's, you'll never have more than superficial friendships. People will learn that you cannot be trusted and won't tell you anything important, particularly if you ever publish things. There are all kinds of things I know that I cannot publish, or repeat from one friend to another; that's the price of intimacy.

Because the ability to change your focus, your attitude, or your mood – to adopt, perhaps, a wholly different personality – by changing contexts is a superpower, not a liability. Put me on the karaoke stage and I'm a big ham; put me in a suit and I'm a professional; put me in a library with a math book and I'm a mathematician; put me in the kitchen with a chef's knife and I can make dinner. I don't try to solve complex math problems on the karaoke stage, and if I can't stop thinking about cooking in the library I'm not going to enjoy doing math problems. My programmer self turns out to be annoyingly nonverbal when he's focusing, so it's a good thing he's not always around or my poor friends and relatives would never hear from me.

And because the idea that one has a unitary, consistent, conscious personality is ultimately an illusion anyway. I've read enough psychology and philosophy to know this, but I've also met enough Alzheimer's patients to understand this.

There are other reasons, but this is a start.
> strong justification for policies to keep people from getting overweight to begin with

Thinking that legislation is the solution to everything is part of so many problem in the US. You can't stop fat gain with laws any more than stopping people from driving over the posted speed limits on highways (which are government legislated and policed).

Education and free market effects are the only real and long-term solutions to these and other problems.

Educate people and they will vote with their actions. Food quality will improve overnight if Walmart shoppers stop buying everything with corn syrup and a myriad of unrecognizable chemical cocktails added for flavor, looks, preservation, whatever.

Finally, one needs to recognize that a certain percentage of the population will be fat no-matter what. I don't know what that number might be, but the key point is to face the reality that one can't fix every life. It's an individual choice.

If health insurance costs were paid directly by the policy holder and the market was free and open across state lines you might just see insurance policies that say things like "if your body fat content is over 20% your deductible increases by 100%, if it's over 33% your coverage is cut in half." or some such thing.

People react immediately to things that affect them directly. This sort of a free market approach is proven to motivate people to change behaviors. Your automobile insurance gets more expensive if you accumulate speeding tickets, therefore you slow down.

Keep government out of it. Almost everything they touch turns into an ugly mess.
too bad both sites use the old stereotypical pictures+profiles approach to dating unlike flirtrs which actually makes you go meet people (cause you know, if you are trying to meet people it helps to go meet them)
Fitzgerald: "The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposing ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function."

Hitchens: “Some people say it’s a sign of intelligence to be able to keep two contradictory ideas in your head at the same time, and it can be a sign of intelligence. It can also be a sign of stupidity, or of unwillingness to make up the mind.”

Take your pick.
I loved the way the brains of dieting people reacted and "consumed" willpower when sitting near a bowl of sweets, but the brains of non-dieting people didn't. I think I quit all thought of ever dieting again that moment. I'm working now on slooowly losing weight by behavioral means (stopped eating near a computer, for example), and so far it's a stallmate. But I'm hopeful.
Love the speed.

Don't know where you guys will go with this, but so far you've covered all bases. Congrats. (Although you could have got a better domain for $10 and outsourced a quick logo).
NYTimes sends e-mail to 8,000,000 addresses instead of 300
Drivers aren't the issue, though. There are only a few OEM-provided SoCs used in name-brand, major-carrier Android devices, and OEMs already tend to end up supporting a few future Android versions with drivers for each SoC. Most Android phone boards lean relatively close to their SoC's reference design, and while building board support for each device certainly isn't trivial, it's far from a difficult task (hence the speed with which CyanogenMod is ported to and maintained for a wide range of devices).

The common bottleneck in Android devices isn't device drivers and board support - it's stupid manufacturer customizations which integrators don't want to spend the money to front-port to a new Android API. An obvious example is the Galaxy S ICS disaster - the Galaxy S hardware is entirely able to support ICS and will almost certainly be supported by CM, but Samsung simply don't want to frontport their integrator customizations to Android 4.0 for that device.

Google could certainly introduce rules surrounding upgrades and integrator customizations which would alleviate the upgrade issue - CyanogenMod is proof of it. Sadly, that's not Google's goal, so the wide variety of Android versions in the wild will persist for the foreseeable future.
Of course you are correct, copyright protects code. But I didn't think that was her point.

I could be wrong, but what I took from it was that (1) the code is there, so you can learn from it, and (2) that there is a culture of tolerance to people learning and using some amount of other people's code. Both of these are true, and they made the web a better platform to develop for IMO.