skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A lot of people will have a lot of advice, but the simple truth is that the only thing that works is diet and exercise.

Being in shape is a lifestyle issue. It's not something that happens overnight or that you can do in one go, it requires a fundamental change in how you approach living. I'm not trying to discourage you, but to steer you away from the "you can fix it quick with no effort" snake oil that abounds.

My advice:

1. Become your own expert. Learn how your body works, how nutrition works, how exercise works, how ... I've found that reddit's fitness community [1] has some great places to start. There's a ridiculous amount of good information out there. (Protip: most of the good info can cite studies, less than half of the bad even bothers)

2. Make it fun. Learn new recipes, try activities you've always wanted to do, do anything but force yourself to change. After a while the causation between "not fun" exercises or diet changes and their benefits will sink into your brain and make things easier, but to start if it sucks you'll probably quit.

3. Don't agonize over the scale. Your body weight fluctuates throughout the day and various activities. It's not uncommon to see a single day +/- 6lb change just in the water your body is holding. Aim for feeling better (or looking better, if that's your goal) not a number on a scale. Weigh yourself when you start, then come back after three months.

4. Be persistent. You're talking about a lifestyle change here. These don't happen overnight. You'll probably spend a long time being disappointed at apparent non-progress then wake up one day wondering when things changed. Do your homework and learn what you need to do, then start doing it and trust that the results will come. In a world where we can use our phones to identify and buy the song that's playing right now, results in this come agonizingly slow.

[1] http://www.reddit.com/help/faqs/Fitness
As an old (37) guy with experience in a couple of start-ups, there's another benefit to having older, more experienced people on the team -- if you get the right people, they will have seen the problems and done the work before, and will save you a lot of big mistakes up front.

The start-up I currently work for was founded by a bunch of very smart, very young engineers over four years ago, and we're still dealing with all the bad engineering decisions they made -- decisions that look obvious to an experienced engineer but aren't obvious to someone without the requisite cuts and bruises. Having even one seasoned engineer on the team then would have saved the company a lot of pain over the subsequent years and would have put us in a much better position now.
Well, you never can tell. When someone says they've found a novel test for weeding out bad applicants, that sounds interesting. When the test is described with a handwave as an interesting puzzle that the best applicants leap at the chance of solving before reading the rest of the interview.... and then you don't even give us the puzzle, but rather launch back into the HR aspect... well, that just seems cruel. It's like reading a murder mystery where the detective details how he figured out who the murderer is, and then never tells anyone. From my authoritative position as a random anonymous internet jerk, I assert that if you allude to a puzzle, you ought to at least include it.

I am apparently puzzle obsessed today. Slow day at work.
The normal user will still be able to use them for free. Google, however, can't use the uploaded data for free, but has to invest quite massively in order to prepare it for consumption.
I am absolutely intending condescension towards the idea. Since you're an anonymous user with almost no comments in your history, I do not concede the idea that it's even possible to condescend to you: I have no idea who you are.

The usefulness of work factors has been proven. You can start here: http://www.bsdcan.org/2009/schedule/attachments/87_scrypt.pd...
Why would I prefer that bunch of idiot hippies? My preference is for Karl Marx and Henry George (with the former being better at seeing what capitalism really is, and the latter being the better economist).

Come on, you don't think you can shock people with Karl Marx, do you? In 2012? Try some Maistre, Carlyle, Froude. Maybe even George Fitzhugh or R.L. Dabney. Here, this'll get you started: http://books.google.com/books?id=an2LWYTh2ewC

No, I thought someone was going to fund me because my adviser is well-known and prestigious within the field.

Maybe you're not such a bad bureaucrat after all! But I meant not while you're in grad school, but after. Of course, if you stick with your mafia, and it's a good mafia, you can keep the party going. Perhaps. Definitely make sure you don't alienate your betters.

Even the successful industrial programmers I know, unless they became millionaires off a start-up, did not actually make enough money to "settle down" out of working and "found your own little university of one."

Yeah, that's what I mean. Dedicate yourself completely and unreservedly to the foul, foul art of money-grubbing, and/or money-saving. Or possibly money-stealing. Anything is better than either conning investors, or conning the government. Have you considered growing pot?

(I won't say this worked perfectly for me, but it did give me time to write my purely functional operating system. Unfortunately this took longer than expected and I'm now kinda broke. And I really can't turn my daughter's closet into a grow-room. So, we'll see if anyone thinks they need a purely functional operating system... Kickstarter, here I come.)
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Since there are good password hashes that are also bad KDFs, I'm not sure I agree with the equivalence.
Hey spathak... I'm the author of the original source over at Hizook.com (which was referenced in the Engadget article):

http://www.hizook.com/blog/2012/04/03/new-darpa-grand-challe...

We work very hard to put together these top-notch articles, and it sucks to have other media sites get all the attention.

EDIT: I had already made a HN submission for Hizook, here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3806243 but I suppose this post already has a lot of comments, so it should (obviously) remain. However... if you're interested in this type of robotics news, be sure to check us out.
Ah, the $64,000 question!
I had a biphasic schedule about 8 years ago for 9 months. I slept at night from 1:30am to 6:00am and in the afternoon from 3:00pm to 4:30pm. I was never tired. I felt like I had two days in one. It was great. I worked from 7am - 2pm, ate lunch, and went back to sleep. When I woke up at 4:30pm, I had 9 hours of free time until I would sleep next.

I don't have a flexible work schedule like that anymore, and now that I live in San Francisco, the environment is not exactly quiet enough at 3pm for quality sleep.

I recommend trying it out if you have the flexibility. Avoid caffeine. Treat the afternoon sleep time, the same as you would the night time. Block out noise and light. Be consistent. Having two days in one is pretty awesome.
Downvote? For quickly summarizing a wikipedia link? I guess we all have time to waste skimming wikipedia articles, don't we?
So I randomly zoom into a spot, and find the exact same place you have in the first place without meaning to. Can anyone calculate the chances of that?
Only sites that pay are sites with many thousands of requests per day. They're more paying for the infrastructure overhead than data. Would you rather have Google Maps covered in ads, ala Search, or have the top 1% of companies making money from the product pay for it?
Totally agree.

<rant> My personal opinion is that RT is simply jazzy anti-American propaganda sold by Putin to the english speaking world. I do not think they are a legitimate news source. For a backup of my propaganda claim, please compare their coverage of the Occupy movement with Russian protests against Putin. </rant>
And:

https://github.com/Rotten194/Tenc

https://github.com/Blecki/DCPUC
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But what he's saying is very straightforward:

The MD5 vulnerabilities that this post talked about don't change the security of PBKDF-MD5 (or any iterated MD5 password hash), because password hashes aren't used to authenticate data. Similarly (this is a little mindbending): HMAC-MD5 has no known viable attacks, so many crypto protocols that use MD5 don't have viable attacks.

and

Because they all seem like acronyms, people get MD5 and SHA256 (which are core hash functions, "primitives" in a cryptosystem) with PBKDF, which is a standard for turning passwords into crypto keys.

(I know you know both, I'm just trying to restate).
Interesting, but does Phoronix have some sort of editorial policy against every linking to primary sources?
How do you inspect encrypted data?
I wonder about copyright issues. Aren't the floorplans and directories in malls and such copyrighted? Who has the right to upload them to Google?
This is a perennial topic on HN. Prior discussion highlights: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1464142 and http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=652747
Saving themselves is logical. Saving themselves by adjusting to the new world and being leaders in of "new content" is equally as valid "destroy all that threatens our current model". The later is probably more logical too, as making enemies who then seek to destroy you is less productive than making friends who seek to further the aims and goals of both groups. Right now the MPAA has chosen pyrrhic victory over a win-win, this is by definition illogical.
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My email from 1982 was a pretty good journal of my high school life and work (I was a programmer).

Today my text messages are a good journal of my personal life, email a good journal of my work, and my Facebook timeline a good journal of my interests (I post news I find really interesting).

Those are all "implicit" journals but they work pretty well. I can "relive" the financial crisis by reading my facebook timeline.

If you want a pure, deliberate journal, today that would take the form of a blog. I wonder how many people still keep a private, deliberate journal along the lines of an old school diary. Interesting survey maybe.
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It's said one cannot understand quantum mechanics. Humans can merely get used to it.
I actually see a benefit in uploading incorrect floor plans. A security measure, if you will.
A bigger reason PBKDF2 is easy to implement on GPUs is that it's (almost always) built out of primitives that are already widely available in GPU implementations, like SHA1 and SHA256.

That's why I recommend PBKDF2 with the PRF set to the authentication tag from FEAL4 in GCM mode. Nobody's got that in a GPU! Arrrrr!
You decrypt it, obviously. A lot of the so-called encrypted traffic is barely encrypted at all because key generators aren't sufficiently random.
Hi Carguy,

It is fair question. The simple answer is... I don't know. The site only launched today. We have a range of body types going through challenges but I was the first to finish the 12 weeks. Michael has also finished but we haven't got all his data into the site yet.

But I think you are right, there will be more people bigger than me who what to get in shape, than people my size. But we will just have to wait and see.

Thanks,

Julian.
I agree, especially in contrast with all those horribly overpriced "hacker"-keyboards. I've used it for 5 years now, and love it. My only complaint is that I wish it had no key pad as it takes up too much space between the typing keyboard and the mouse.
Based on what I have seen, the turnover rate of musicians in a symphony orchestra is much slower than the turnover rate within software development organizations.
Its hard for me to get a good feel for what your experience level is from your post, but I'm guessing you've worked mainly as a freelancer thus far. I'm someone who started off similarly to you, I don't have a degree, although I am close to finishing a BA degree thats not in CS as I just had a bunch of units from general ed courses. Basically, I just pushed my way in by starting off working at a really small company that couldn't afford to be picky. The pay was fairly lousy but after a few months I found a better opportunity to work with a startup. Then after that, I had enough experience working full-time to start working for a contracting company that did a full-time placement of me at a mid-sized company. Once you get experience working full-time, it gets easier to find the next job so you should really just focus on getting your foot in the door. I've found that companies are often wary of people who just want to freelance as they often want a longer commitment and someone who is going to be more invested in their product / company. Also, there's no reason not to work on your own project and put it on GitHub, its helped me get at least one job, just from being able to talk about it in the interview, as the interviewer found it interesting.
I see where you're coming from. I guess my argument comes from your statement

in imperative you start from one step and keep on *thinking of next step*

I'd argue that the thinking there is far more right brained that the thinking in functional programming. When I'm doing functional programming, the steps are large enough that there's usually only one step I can take which won't go off into a horribly wrong direction. With imperative programming, the steps are much simpler, but also much smaller, so I can't think of just one step at a time. Instead, I need to think ten steps ahead, which feels like the kind of pattern matching that the right brain does.
In the US, "Blueprints" etc. are protected by copyright and the vast majority are provided to building owners under very restricted usage rights which do not anticipate such use.

The suggestion that people just upload them is somewhat problematic in so far as it is akin to Napster's approach to music a decade ago.
> Java's original purpose was to run in machines like automatic coffee pots and TV "set top boxes

from my time at sun, i remember speeches by Gosling that included microwaves and refrigerators ( i vaguely recall an example of the fridge telling you via java applet that you had run out of milk ). the hotjava thing ( web browser written entirely in java http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HotJava) created some anticipation around Word & Photoshop & Powerpoint written in java, which were brought up when Sun hosted a gigantic industry conference in Vegas. The Java Chip ( picojava http://www.jopdesign.com/perf.jsp ) was supposed to revolutionize the industry by running java bytecode natively. Honestly I think the dumbing down began once EJB's crept in. There was some nasty visual shit called the Beantool which automatically inserted getters & setters by mandating every EJB to be a Bean, and from then on things got downhill really fast.
I have a sort of strange sleep schedule.

I work for international teams with no one I work with being on my timezone, I work from home.

So every day my sleep schedule is different. My wake schedule is different. I should record my schedule since it's difficult to remember since it changes every day.

To give some impression, yesterday I had meetings at 2am, 6am, 6pm, and 10pm. Through that I slept, and had social time. I ate and had normal experiences.

They just weren't on any sort of real schedule. Tired? I sleep. Awake? I go do things or work.

Anyone else do this sort thing? So far I don't ever feel "wrong" about the schedule physically, because it's always changing. Now constant change feels right.

Sleep all night tonight? Sure. Wake up at 2am and work till 10 am this night? Sure. Have a meeting a 3am, then sleep till 6am, then work some more? Sure.

I just follow whatever seems like the most reasonably course of action. Including work 10 hours today, and 6 hours the next. Whatever makes sense.

International-Logic-Phasic Sleep. Heh.
Thank you. I fully agree. RT is sponsored completely (they have next to no advertising) by the Government of the Russian Federation.

I have a really tough time believing anything they say, too.

I turned it on the other night because my conspiracy theorist loving buddy enjoys their programming apparently, and everything was "USA is bad because of this"... "USA doesn't do that right"...

I mentioned that you shouldn't believe everything the russian goverment says and said "buddy" literally flipped out. He accused me of attacking his character and intelligence. I'm half worried he has been brainwashed by that channel. He is usually a pretty easy going guy.
Since those were blocked the revolution was directed through dating sites. Example: http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/muslim-dating-site-madawi-s...
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PBKDF2 is more complicated than just iterating a hash 1000 times, but for most applications, iterating SHA1 many thousands of times is just fine.

I'm not sure what kind of research verification you're hoping to get for a password hash. These aren't the kinds of constructions where the possibility of spending 48 hours of cluster compute time to generate a collision will actually hurt you.

Sometimes, "research verification" is just a fig leaf for "too many Rails developers got uppity about using bcrypt and now I need to signal that I'm not one of them". Password hashes don't get a lot of research attention because they're pretty basic, cryptographically speaking.
Also a useful FAQ section: http://examine.com/faq/
I'm sensing that the only sensible thing to do is read the bill and just start from there.

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?c112:6:./temp/~c1127OY...:
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/t2GPO/http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys...
this is so cute!! congratulations. Song is a great teacher.
From the Op-ed: "Should hackers uncover classified information and hand it over to the Chinese, writes Clarke, America’s “competitive edge” against other nations will be jeopardized."

An alternative to legislation might be to spend money and effort on a programme teaching American firms how to implement modern security. But this kind of practical approach fails to open the channels required to snoop on the general public.
imagine an 2-qubit unsigned integer being all four permutations at once, then you add 1, now you have manipulated all permutations at once. However, the trick is that you haven't done anything yet. So, we need new algebras to collapse wave functions in interesting way.
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I fully support this mostly because I absolutely love doing the puzzles :). (So make more of them!)[1]

One of my favorites from a few years ago was when reddit was hiring. One of the more fun aspects of it was:

git clone our public repo and tell us the most commonly used word

Another fun one was (I think? This was a few years ago):

find me a right triangle, the length of which's sides all add up to: $some_number.

[1]: In fact, this would be an awesome website if somebody hasn't made it yet: be a "recruiter", sortof, except you just post programming/math puzzles, we get to solve them, and then you get to match us up with employers.
I'm curious: how did you figure out your sleep cycle that precisely (105 minutes)? I have been feeling like 90 minutes is not exactly right for me, but I haven't figured out a way to measure my sleep cycle.
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I just bought that C++ book. Thanks!
You can't get even an offline dump for statistical/data-mining purposes, though; it's not only real-time, live use of the data that's restricted. That's why I contribute to OpenStreetMap but don't participate in any of Google Maps's crowdsourcing efforts, because I want the data to be available for bulk download to enable various kinds of analysis and reuse.

If Google provided bulk downloads I'd support their service, though, even if the online API required payment, because I do think it's reasonable to charge people who're using Google's infrastructure as basically their webapp backend.
The puzzle can be found at http://meshcapital.com/application.tar.gz
"We're all entrepreneurs here and we all know what actually matters, so if you had just told us about your business and what you did to grow it, you could have skipped the half naked picture."

Which, agreed.
Sorry the site was attacked, I am still trying to fix that.
Maybe it's just my lousy Dell laptop... but the difference between those two colors on the graph is nonexistent.
I wrote up a quick blog post to spell out some of the examples and show how the design aims for a consistent meaning for the `ret` keyword:

http://smallcultfollowing.com/babysteps/blog/2012/04/06/for-...
I'd say it was a bet on Apple's part as well... I mean, if the platform vendor isn't sure of the platform's success, then how would the VC have any excitement about it?
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We are planning to form a startup based on smart lighting solutions.We just want to know what the folks at hacker news think about this idea?
>the top OSS projects aren't on GitHub and similar

Hmm?

https://github.com/torvalds/linux

https://github.com/rails/rails

https://github.com/ry/node

https://github.com/jquery/jquery

https://github.com/twitter/bootstrap

https://github.com/symfony/symfony
It would be amazing to see more than one plan for females. Also, will there be a provision for people who are sensitive to certain supplements? For example I am unable to take stimulants, even tea, so it would be nice for me to choose a regimen which I knew in advance was based around something else.
I experimented with this though college. I found the idea that you could have extra months in your year amazing. But I could never stick with it for more than a couple days at a time. It was primarily this that kept kicking me off:

"I also have a theory about just being conscience that long, you start to lose a sense of time there is no finality just this never ending loop of waking up and sleeping"

I really decided I needed significant time sleeping to reset my brain. Otherwise it did just feel like a single extended consciousness.

And if you believe John Medina in Brain Rules (http://www.brainrules.net/) sleep is what solidifies memory. Which missing that isn't so helpful to a college student.
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You don't want / need to cover your full field of vision. A 400 x 200 pixel display that covers 2-3% of your field of view and an unobtrusive system to get it there close to perfect for this kind of thing. Otherwise I might as well just look at a screen.
Good lord, yes - it's the Russian government's state organ. Their appalling Syria coverage is also worth taking a look at.

http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/90971/disi...
That is a very good point. Most top-tier orchestras have tenure for their permanent positions and it's not uncommon for musicians to stay 20-40 years.

As a result, the consequences for a bad hire are extremely high. Many orchestras have the audition winner perform with the group for a probationary period of a season to help guard against this. That said, I read a lot on HN about the consequences of a bad hire for a an early team member, so although the timeframes are different, the fear is similar.
did you also refrain from using punctuation in your report?
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It's up for me. Looks great.
The act includes a 270-day deadline for the SEC to issue specific rules governing how it'll be implemented. So until they do, it's not really operative yet. Hopefully when they issue the rules, i.e. sometime between now and January 2013, that'll answer some of the questions about how precisely the process works.
Guys, these whitehouse.gov petitions are completely meaningless.