skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This isn't your boss asking for your facebook password. The people doing security screening in Israeli airports are well-trained and experienced. As the saying goes "they've seen it all".

You say you don't have any other email accounts? How did you buy your ticket? Do you have an email receipt? No? Let me call the airline and confirm.

Any hint that your lying to them and you're back on the plane to where ever you came from.
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>Eating pounds of fruits and vegetables won't you make you full? Or rice and potatoes for that matter? Eating pounds of lean protein sources like tuna and chicken breast won't make you full? Of course it will.

I didn't claim otherwise

Fat accumulates due to an excess of calories. But this isn't the cause of us getting obese, it's a proximal cause, not the ultimate cause. What causes us to eat more calories than our bodies require?
Entertainers are liberal because narrative is a very Liberal Art. Data, myth and legend are more on the Conservative axis, although there are mighty quantities of overlap.

I always enjoyed Neil Young because he was always both liberal and conservative and mostly both at the same time. Artists who truly serve the muse will be like that.
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I'm thinking if the server dies, MyISAM tables tend to corrupt more easily, and repairing a table that large will take a long time.

But that's the only thing I can think of -- and the speed/size of MyISAM tables have a lot going for them, I'd be tempted to go with MyISAM. Anybody else?
I saw chunk load time increase from 1m40s to around an hour per million inserts.

Your insert performance falls off a cliff when a majority of the index pages for the table no longer fit into the innodb buffer pool. After that happens, there is gonna be a bunch of random i/o. You can solve this problem by using partitioning, that way only a single partition's worth of index pages need to fit into the buffer pool to keep inserts into that partition fast. Of course you have to size your partitions accordingly.

A few other tips. Disable fsync() at commit entirely. Set innodb_flush_log_at_trx_commit=0. If you crash curing the data load, start over. Set your transaction logs to be as large as possible, which is usually 4G.
I may have read the organiser's quote the wrong way, so I'll concur on that count, and agree that some degree of responsibility is required so that this behaviour is weeded out.

However, I'm still loathe to apportion blame or make anyone except the individual accountable for their own behaviour, insofar as it's suggested that the organiser doesn't condone that behaviour, and merely wasn't sure what to do in lieu of the ability to refer to existing policy.

That problem, with this particular conference, has been solved, I would think. However the individual will still very much be under the impression that he's not being a dick. Because he wasn't properly called out on it as and when it was happening.
Would you care to elaborate on the "working in a closet" part? :)
I like that Beyond Meat is trying to offer better vegan options. The product looks interesting, but after reading the ingredients, http://beyondmeat.com/products/ , I doubt I will try it. Titanium Dioxide (what color is it normally), Dipotassium Phosphate and tons of Phytoestrogens (Soy) don't sound so tasty.
If only they knew that Dropbox is cloud storage. It's Amazon S3 via python, the rsync library and a familar icon.
Brilliant!

Product comparison is a good point.
Also, you need to find an easy way for the seller to do batch upload of a lot of items that were taken from the same position and resolution (so they have to measure only one image).

EDIT: Integration with common eCommerce systems would be awesome as well..

But the idea is great - and beautifully executed.
Can we just please have the Netflix recommendation engine?
> What causes us to eat more calories than our bodies require?

One big reason is eating foods that aren't filling relative to the energy and nutrients they provide. There's nothing unique about carbs in that regard. I can barely put away a 1000-calorie meal with an equal amount of calories from chicken breast and white rice (100+ grams of carbs just from the rice). Putting away the same amount of calories split between chicken breast and greens would be almost physically impossible--I ate a whole pound of grilled asparagus with my chicken breast on Sunday, and the asparagus barely amounted to 100 calories. But I can easily put away a 2000-calorie pepperoni pizza with extra cheese. If you think carbs are the calorically-dominant macronutrient in that pizza, think again. I'm not blaming the fat either. My point is that the issue goes much deeper than simple macronutrient composition.
Oh I completely agree. Vegetables are great food. Whole grains are great sources of yummy carbs. And meats in moderation are likely Just Fine. Broccoli is food, highly processed soy injected with omega-3s and corn is a food-product, not food.
I appreciate the reasoned reply. I respect pg immensely, which is why I spend time on this site and why I found the post surprising.
Personally, one of my favourite discussions is Laurie Voss' "ORM is an anti-pattern": http://seldo.com/weblog/2011/08/11/orm_is_an_antipattern
I may have read the organiser's quote the wrong way, so I'll concur on that count, and agree that some degree of responsibility is required so that this behaviour is weeded out.

However, I'm still loathe to apportion blame or make anyone except the individual accountable for their own behaviour, insofar as it's suggested that the organiser doesn't condone that behaviour, and merely wasn't sure what to do in lieu of the ability to refer to existing policy.

That problem, with this particular conference, has been solved, I would think. However the individual will still very much be under the impression that he's not being a dick. Because he wasn't properly called out on it as and when it was happening.

(Given that we only have one account of this, I want to keep this general, because even if the story doesn't add up at the end, we know that such people do exist and that it does go on.)
Ya, recovery time is a big deal. It's like the difference between ext2 and ext3. With ext2 a crash is gonna require a lengthy and painful fsck, especially if your table/filesystem is large. A journaled filesystem is a lot like a database engine with transaction/redo logs. After you crash, you replay the last 'n' uncommitted transactions (they're all idempotent so you can do this multiple times) in the journal and you're good to go.

Also don't forget about MyISAM's lack of row level locks, and really nowadays there are fewer and fewer cases where it's faster than InnoDB.
I wouldn't second guess Israeli security measures...unlike TSA, these are highly trained people who undoubtedly have military training since with few exceptions (Arab or Orthodox Jewish) not only men but women are drafted for military service.

If you don't like the security measures then don't go there.
This is a bit of a tangent, but do you have any sources for consumer-grade desktop parts being lower quality than enterprise-grade? I'd like to read an in-depth hardware analysis that describes circuit board design, capacitor sourcing, etc.

I'm really curious to see how different equivalently priced ASUS and supermicro boards differ.
What are you defining legality as? Just because something is legal doesn't mean it's constitutional (and vice-verse).
At some point, there might be nothing left to do except to roll up your sleeves, brew some coffee, and tell your graduate student to read the paper and report back to you.

You can also delegate initial paper evaluation to your colleagues - allow them to let you know if the paper is plausible.
The Reddit link has no paywall apparently due to the query string:

http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/israel-airport...
Great job! Looking forward to learn more about it..
You can do this right now, it's called Apache Cordova(Phonegap) or Appcelerator. He's right, without giving a web app a more direct interface into your device, they can't compete with web connected "native apps".

It is not that you can't write highly complex native feeling things in HTML and JS, it's that without real native hooks (both UI and hardware), it is simply impossible to do things from the web that a user would expect their device to be able to do.

If the user expects to be able to do something and they can't, it is a bad experience and they find a better alternative, which right now means "native apps".
We're using EC2 to host MySQL. The DB admin does some advanced stuff with striping across EBS volumes, custom replication, and selective backups that couldn't be done with RDS.
yes. no complaints here. the multi-az hot standby has been very useful.
Thank you - much easier :)
Formally Concerned (about curation)
http://nerddinnerbook.s3.amazonaws.com/Intro.htm
http://nerddinner.codeplex.com/releases/view/45647

I heard that this is being updated for ASP.NET MVC 3, but the links should be good enough for starting
So let me get this straight. You have been playing Diablo III and will likely continue to play it through the end of the year. This is a game Blizzard should be "ashamed" of? A game that you will play for months on end? How many other games out there provide that amount of playtime? If it is so bad why are you playing it at all? You're ridiculous.
MusicBrainz to the rescue!

http://musicbrainz.org/doc/MusicBrainz_Picard

Harness the power of machine learning to identify your songs by what they sound like! Take control of your sprawling library with folder names that YOU define! Re-embed missing ID3 information to that mystery music!

Sure, it probably won't catch your live/album/recording distinctions, but I've had pretty good success rates with it.

I think there's a port to Mac OSX somewhere.
Thank you for reinforcing my point. I'm glad we agree.

Maybe the fact they got $30M instead of $40M indicates that the bubble is popping... : P
There's very little evidence that it does. You just have to look at the recent article on salt (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4069613) to see that conventional wisdom is often flawed. Similar cases were made for eating cholesterol (it has no effect on blood cholesterol) and fibre (doesn't prevent bowel cancer).

There is strong evidence that eating a "western diet", high in calories and processed food, will cause obesity, cancer, diabetes, etc. but there's a lot of disagreement as to what that root cause is.
Another thing, related but not frequently discussed, is the change in how important gear is vs. other factors. For instance, in Diablo II a high level item would give +20 vitality. Your character got 5 stat points per level which you could, if you wanted, put all into vitality. This high level item was roughly equivalent to only 4 character levels (of which you got 99).

In Diablo III, a high-level item is giving you 200+ vitality. I don't know about other characters, but I believe my Monk is getting 2 vitality per level (and there are 60 levels). A _single_ item can give me more of a stat than I gain from leveling all the way from 1 to 60. As such, leveling up doesn't do much other than allow equip items with better stats.

Because items in Diablo II gave, comparatively, closer benefits to gaining another level than those in Diablo III, I felt like I was making progress with either a level up or a nice item drop. If my character was getting decimated in Act IV of Nightmare, I could go back and gain a few levels and maybe get some new items in the process. In Diablo III, not only do your levels not increase your survivability or killing power in any way (besides new skill runes), by the time you feel like you aren't strong enough to defeat an encounter you'll most likely have few or even no more levels left to gain. The only tangible measure of progress is "phatter lewt" at this point.
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So Israel allows mixed-sex marriages? Urghh that's just gross!
No, I deliberately used the term "civil union", not "marriage" for that reason. The distinction is hairy, so I'm just going to quote Wikipedia:

Israeli law recognizes same-sex marriages performed elsewhere... It does not, however, allow same-sex couples to marry on Israeli soil. Civil marriage doesn't exist in Israel for heterosexual couples, either, (except where both spouses are non-Jewish) and therefore only a marriage sanctioned by religious authorities can take place within Israel.

The State of Israel allows foreign partners of its homosexual citizenry to receive residency permits. The Civil Service Commission extends spousal benefits and pensions to the partners of homosexual employees. The Israeli State Attorney's Office has extended the spousal exemption from property-transfer taxes to same-sex couples. Israel's attorney general has granted legal recognition to same-sex couples in financial and other business matters. Attorney General Meni Mazuz said the couples will be treated the same as common-law spouses, recognizing them as legal units for tax, real estate, and financial purposes. Mazuz made his decision by refusing to appeal a district court ruling in an inheritance case that recognized the legality of a same-sex union, his office said in a statement. Mazuz did differentiate, however, between recognizing same-sex unions for financial and practical purposes, as he did, and changing the law to officially sanction the unions, which would be a matter for parliament, according to the statement.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_Israel#Recogniti...
Sure – and what would that be?
Read the comments here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4063592
Hey Zaidf,

Yea we are working thru the site being more intuitive and making it simpler to explain how to use the site in general. I love the videos I've shared on Facebook idea. We'll put it in the que!

-Andrew
And Arabs can volunteer to join the army, even though they are not drafted, and some do.
How's the price compare?
Uh,

He points out that the study followed people for 30 days.

And made recommendations for life-long behavior.

And wasn't looking at final results but markers (blood pressure).

And was the main argument against salt consumption when we do have some data on people's life-long behaviors and their result.

And this wasn't "medicine" that spoke but a particular institution making recommendations.

Edit: removed possibly inflammatory point
And this, right here, is the problem with internet discussions. Fringe opinions derail otherwise interesting threads.
You're worried about people caring about scaling? What about the rampant PHP addiction? Focus on the real problem!
Yes, but without all the interesting meta-data, presumably?
Profit and art are orthogonal. shrug

I blame nobody for prioritizing money, I'm just saying that it's unlikely they'll have me as a customer again.
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How do you propose the said companies make sales without a sales team. (Not to be snarky, maybe I am missing something.)
Without thinking about it to hard my guess is there is some overhead in tracking what is readable and what is not readable at the higher read levels. Read uncommitted means it doesn't have to track anything.
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It's really not my problem that you don't understand video games or Diablo players.
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That would have been awesome years ago; now I'd just use gigabit iSCSI. Thunderbolt target mode OTOH...
Are there any good resources which cover HDFS+Hive? I'd really love to see performance measurements but the entire premise of "Let's analyze ALL the data every single query, we'll just use a zillion workers!" has always came across to me as incredibly inefficient and computationally expensive.

I'd wager they query their data frequently and in a predictable manner, at which point using some sort data structure actually designed for fast searching (such as a simple btree in most rdbms) makes perfect sense here.

If the data is purely for archive purposes and is rarely queried or is queried in very random patterns that can't really make adequate usage of indices, then I'd agree with your suggestion.
>As we in the .. Western Europe don't live under constant threat to our lives

Some of us did living in Belfast - and we would like to thank all those nice Americans in Boston for making it all possible.
Speculative science fiction is not so much a window into the future, but rather a reflection of the present in which it was written. By drawing on current trends, authors can extrapolate a future. The cyberpunk aesthetic arose around the same time as the personal computer, early Internet, 80's corporate greed, continuing urban sprawl, the Japanese economic bubble leading to property purchases all over the world, etc. -- inspiration for many themes that appear in cyberpunk works. Many of these things have cased to be novel (in the same way) or exist at all. For instance, computers and connectivity is ubiquitous now, massive conglomerate corporations haven't totally taken over for governments (depending on who you ask, at least), China has somewhat replaced Japan, and the world has moved on. Unless they were just writing genre fiction, authors like Gibson would not keep cyberpunk going because the world today is very different from the one that spawned it.

Another thought is to compare it to the other famous "-punk" style, steampunk. Steampunk benefits from the fact that all the technological foundation (steam, mechanical, analog) it is based on exists. I'd argue that the genre can thrive because a well-defined foundation exists from which to create. With cyberpunk, some of the foundations exist (computer hacking and espionage), but many are still left as future speculation (synthetic organs, cybernetic implants). It becomes harder to have a consistent foundation when there are still moving targets. I guess we can still have trench coats and mirror shades ;)

I really enjoy the cyberpunk aesthetic, and I wish it had more of a footprint in current music/film/TV. It may be though that true cyberpunk is really a product of the 80's. The spirit of what drove it, technology-driven dystopia, continues to this day.
I don't think you directly told anyone that Facebook would be a $100B company. There are plenty of wall street analysts (like Lou Kerner from Wedbush, who called for $200B facebook) to do that dirty work.

But if some analysts are pumping Facebook and no one from the silicon valley is trying to temper expectations, people assume that the valley believes the same valuation numbers. The result is long-term damage to the credibility of SV and a contraction of the investment supply. After all, if someone comes up next year and describes DuckDuckGo as a $100B company, why would anyone believe the valuation? Everyone would point to Facebook and give it a much lower valuation even if it probably deserves a much higher one.

To make it clear, I think that this type of chicanery from wall street is scorned yet expected in the eyes of most people. We have all accepted the fact that they will pump stocks, especially at the top (http://www.scribd.com/doc/86194691/Long-Good-Buy was Goldman's paper which essentially gave a bullish case for equities at the top). But there is still some credibility lent to silicon valley, which people should not squander in the interest of one investment.
Ask HN: Should I build this web app (available domains)?
I'm interested in whether people would use a web app that gave available website domain suggestions from real people for a fee. I'd like to gather feedback as to whether this is useful before actually building it.

It would work by specifying what your website/business/startup/webapp is in a short description and listing some keywords or domains you like, as well as what domain extensions you will accept. You then receive only available domain suggestions from people.

The idea is that coming up with a website name is difficult for many people, primarily because the domain is not available for every good name you think of. For this service you would pay a small fee and receive a list of domains, all of which are available, so you just have to choose which you like the best.

Would you use this? What would it be worth to you if you could get 100 or 200 available domain suggestions? Do you have any other feedback?

Thanks very much for any input or advice.
I never said they had logic on their side ;) I suppose basically I'm saying you need to make it super-braindead-simple or it won't work. Dropbox and the iPad both do that (I mean it in a good way). I personally don't like the iPad I have at work but non-techies really love them. Small children, older people, no problem. They've discovered Dropbox more-or-less by themselves.
Ask HN: is there a torrent-like protocol for websites?
We've so far managed to distribute delivery of torrents across interested clients. Are there projects aiming to distribute the rest of the Internet?

The other day I've realized that it must be difficult to maintain archive.org with so many resources dedicated to crawling. Yet, on every computer in the world there are archives of websites stored in a browser cache. Would it be possible to utilize the cache to form some sort of passive distributed mirror of the Internet on which we could fall back on if the original servers go down? Hosting does die and websites go down regularly; also, it's a concern during an natural disaster, war etc.
EdgeCase -- Stops your cursor at the screen edge between OS X multiple monitors.

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/edgecase/id513826860?mt=12
Not to be a downer, but those are fairly mediocre logos.
The basic application logic of that, in my opinion, shouldn't take more than a week, and from then on it depends on how much effort you want to spend on design and polish.
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Fair enough. I'm not saying eating anything vegetarian, no matter how processed, is good for you. Just clarifying that, in my opinion, avoiding meat if you can is healthier.
Well, I don't know about the other ones, but if this actually acts like meat, then that can be pretty damn convenient in adapting recipes to be Vegan.

I can't imagine it actually acts like meat at a chemical level though. Like, if you cook this stuff at 60-65 celsius, it's probably not going to cook the same as a cut of meat.
You put this wonderfully. People are very little more than our experience with the world itself. Without external stimuli, we would be trapped within our own minds and only be capable of evaluating a limited set of possibilities. Merely the act of touching an object generates complex cognitive experiences. This is not possible by abstraction alone.
The dial-in authenticator apparently doesn't work with Diablo, the only ones that work are the physical authenticator and the smartphone app. (source: various forum posts, nothing I can find right now).

I'm not convinced there's any actual security breach, but Blizzard has been doing a pretty terrible job of explaining the authenticators to their players.
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Fats and proteins are more filling and satisfying per gram than carbs.

The pizza example you give is basically wrong. Carbs would be the largest source of calories. For example see http://nutritiondata.self.com/facts/fast-foods-generic/9307/... which is for a 2500 calorie pepperoni pizza. Almost half the calories come from carbs.
"push as much complexity as possible to the database"

In general, this is usually bad practice and difficult to scale. I do agree w/ using a single table, but I disagree with the general premise of that statement.
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