skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> the uselessness of "calories in, calories out."

There's nothing useless about energy balance. It can be misinterpreted and misapplied, but Taubes throws the baby out with the bathwater and pretends it doesn't apply at all. For example, classical low-carber mythology is that on a low-carb diet you can eat virtually unlimited calories (as usually defined) and maintain weight, if perhaps not lose weight outright. As an example, there's an old post on Michael Eades's blog where he talks of a small woman allegedly eating 5000 calories and maintaining her weight. As explained in James Krieger's article, people's reports of their own calorie intake for studies have consistently been found to be way off the mark, to the point of being useless. When you actually measure what is being eaten under clinical conditions, the result is in line with the conventional theory of energy balance.

The main benefit of low-carb diets for weight loss is that they spontaneously reduce calorie intake by cutting out whole groups of foods (by looking at studies it's been shown that any diet that restricts food choices like this will tend to induce weight loss but is usually unsustainable), and especially lots of highly palatable foods (to use Guyenet's terminology). But most longer-term comparative studies of diets that look at the performance past the 12-month mark show that low-carb diets don't fare any better on average than other standard weight-loss diets. The one exception is a study the low-carbers like to hold up as a vindication of their views; Lyle McDonald addresses that one here: http://www.bodyrecomposition.com/research-review/comparison-....

Two other pertinent articles by McDonald are http://www.bodyrecomposition.com/fat-loss/is-a-calorie-a-cal... and http://www.bodyrecomposition.com/fat-loss/the-energy-balance....
This is exactly the reason they shouldn't even be trying to get into that market. Competing with Apple, Microsoft and Google, why?

There will always be workstations. It would have been a great opportunity for Gnome to make the best damn workstation UI that ever existed (and they where on the right track with Gnome 2) but instead they jump on the touch screen band wagon in the hope of being adopted by device manufactures while in the process of doing so they're alienating their existing user base.

In the end, everyone loses.
Apple Has Been Planning Google Maps’ Ouster “For Years”
Very Nice! Would love to see some news snippets from the sources within the page before landing on the actual site.
"running the company" is much much different than "running your own company".

After I sold I had to stay for 3 months for transition. That was brutal. I couldn't have been unhappier and felt that those three months would have been super valuable to get a head start on the next thing (which took about 5 years..)

If I did it again I would make sure that the consulting time was on an "as needed basis" and not 9 to 5 or any fixed period.

One interesting thing though happened. After the consulting was over I went on a ski trip. I was called during the trip because they had some system problems. Solving those problems I really enjoyed doing and I continued to do that free of charge for the next year or two. My payback was simply hearing the appreciation (this was back in dial into system by 2400 baud modem days.)
So then it sounds like one might say that lower blood pressure isn't necessarily good unless you already have high blood pressure (or are on the cusp of having high blood pressure)?
It's been a while since I've used an iPhone, but I seem to remember there were apps on the App Store that gave you (non-root) access to your files. Jailbreaking could, of course, get you root access.
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We're still toying around data categorization. Files are dull, hierarchies are almost meaningless since they require arbitrary ordering. DB-oriented FS aren't there yet (although BeOS found a sweet spot it seems, their c++ API has some ORM feel). '''Semantic''' still in progress.

The solution is barycentric: A network a loosely coupled types as a basis for ontology/semantic network in with `atomic` artefacts can be seen/search through.
Could even be used to feed dataflow-like graphs for user to manipulate their data.
Just like unix pipes but typed, and with an interactive side effect `free` GUI.
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Forget CSS3 Are you ready for CSS4?
I can't stand the 'portability nightmare' comment/sentiment from ORM (ab)users. How often do you swap out your DBMS from MySQL to Oracle to Postgres? Writing SQL should not be anathema.
As someone who currently makes a product geared towards improving the user experience of enterprise software, I think much of what you say is true. Some things I've learned from my own experience:

Rather than try to get people to change anything (like have them use a different product altogether) I built my product to integrate deeply with Salesforce.com (a product with a large install base). I tried to focus on specific shortcomings of Salesforce and fix those because a huge investment has already been sunk in their current system and the whole thing is not going to change.

Rather than focus first on design (which certainly factors in--it's a new user interface for Salesforce) I focused on improving the speed of specific tasks and emphasize time savings and increased user adoption.

It is a lot easier to get something sold and closed at a company with 50-100 users than it is 500-1000.

I have gotten feedback that I should have made things even more like Excel or ACT (ugh), because it's what people are used to. IE, many people don't want a new interface, they want an old one.

It has been near impossible to sell a "one size fits all" solution for this, so I have gone the route of customizing heavily in exchange for much higher prices--a hybrid product/consulting approach. Simple sounds like a good idea, but every company has different processes and methods, and they want those integrated. (Probably why Salesforce itself had to focus on customization and a developer eco-system so much over the last 5 years).

Even with all this, what I thought would be a "slam dunk" has proven to be really really hard to sell. However, I have massively improved my sales conversions by ditching the self serve approach and embracing the hybrid product/consulting model.
Well thats more or less what xcode + a developer certificate gives you.
possible in NYC/SF? given the fire-safety regulations. How are the regulations in the UK, given this article?
I'm not sure which programming language would be used to create this but this is basically what I need for my MVP:

A decent looking landing/about page. After a customer (an employer) purchases a monthly account they receive a log in. Once logged in they can input their employee names which will be saved. Then from there on they can log in at any point and add hours to every employee for each date.

This will translate into an online spread sheet which employees (who will also have a log in) can view once logged in. They will be able to mark shifts they have that they want to trade with other employees. And they will also be able to mark on the spread sheet when they want time off.

Is it realistic to think this isn't an expensive project? I'm a student and I don't have a tech co-founder.
Why not just eat regular vegetarian foods? Why fake meat?

Many people love the taste of meat, plain and simple.

If I'm craving a medium rare NY Strip steak, neither a Portobello mushroom nor Ahi tuna filet will quite satiate that desire, no matter how good they taste.

A fake meat that successfully replicates the flavor profile and mouthfeel of meat while providing the ethical and health benefits of vegetables would be a game-changer.
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I agree that intelligence, after a certain upper limit, isn't required for success, and in fact an abundance of it at the upper levels may actually work against success.

Bill Gates stopped pursuing math because he realized at Harvard that he wouldn't be the best at it. He was actually taking graduate level math courses in his undergrad sophomore year.

source: http://askville.amazon.com/read-Bill-Gates-toughest-math-cou...

Anyways, I agree that smartest doesn't mean best at starting a company. Intelligence + Hard Work + Competitiveness + Connections + Luck all play a role. Bill Gates had all of them. Most people are lucky to have 1 or 2.

edit:: I guess the reason I'm replying to you is I get the sense that you think luck played a significant role in Gates' success. It may have, but if you read up on Gates you will learn how significantly better equipped he is for success: high intelligence (i'd guess in the top 10% in his class at Harvard if not higher), ridiculous work ethic, ridiculous competitiveness.

Luck plays a role in all success stories but I submit that Gates would be very successful even without it.
One way to look at MSG (the way I look at it) is that it has been shown to stimulate the appetite. As a result of this, people often eat MSG-infused food more than they should. My wife once said that MSG "makes me think this tastes better than it really does".

So, MSG may or may not be bad by itself, but the highly processed empty calories that it hangs out with, definitely bad. Bet you can't eat just one? I don't take that bet anymore, I lose too often.
I'm not familiar with Percona, what problem does it solve?
Interesting that all of the engineering positions require BS or higher in Computer Science when both of the founders skipped college
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> NSLs can only request non-content information

NSLs can't legally request ANYTHING. They are UNCONSTITUTIONAL. The government has NO AUTHORITY to issue them. The fact that they are presently limiting themselves to illegal request x instead of illegal request y is not relevant.

Let's skip the abuses of the FBI et al and talk about the government as a whole for a minute.

Are you aware that the NSA monitors _all_ traffic at major exchanges in the US?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSA_warrantless_surveillance_co...

The USA reads your mail and messages at several different steps along the way.

See also: recent changes in Skype to allow for wiretapping at the request of the US government.
DOnt worry about getting rejected. Interviewing is a skill. After a few, you will get better.

I also like techinterviews.com and projecteuler.net
Learning Ruby is not the same as learning Rails...
State-sponsored attackers also likely choose different targets. I'm not afraid to be a victim of such attack, but if I worked eg. as a diplomat, or as a defence contractor, or any government agency, I might actually be worried. There were some examples of attacks lately that targeted US government officials. So I guess Google shows this warning primarily to people who might be probable targets of state-sponsored attacks in the first place.
How long has this been in the works? Domain was registered yesterday... Great way to measure interest :)
You don't scale a language, you scale an architecture.
Just to let you all know that this is an old article (agree that a publish date would have helped there). Frank and I published this article originally in late 2009 or early 2010. That was around the time that WebSocket first landed in Chrome and there have been a lot of updates to the protocol since then. For example, WS was text only, and I don't think socket.io existed yet ;-)
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What would happen if the arcs hit exposed skin of a human?
As is the case with so many things, there's a range of healthy, and it's possible to be too high and too low.

Having zero blood pressure whatsoever is strongly correlated with being dead.
"extra cash makes some basic problems go away"

"basic problems" are an important thing to make go away.

Let me put that a different way from my personal experience.

Some things that money can buy can make you happy obviously. Of course if you feel like crap that day for any reason the fact that you have those things that money can buy won't change that.

Having money means importantly being able to avoid things that make you unhappy. Small living quarters. Bad food. No air conditioning. A car that breaks down.

Added: To name only a few things which vary in importance depending on the individual.
Fat Head (2009) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgBLQIJEcbE
Before any kind of Israel bashing starts, I want to say that unless you have lived under constant threat to your life like nearly all Israelis have during some point of their life, you cannot really grasp the lengths you will go to to preserve your life and the lives of your family.

Nonetheless, this does seem a little overboard. From having personally been grilled by Israeli airport security, I can say that they are very thorough. I doubt they really need this intrusion to determine if someone is a threat, as it is easier for them to just not grant access, but I suppose if someone really needed to get into the country they could be willing to divulge the information.

Security, in any form, is annoying. Implement two-factor on your gmail account, and it will occasionally annoy you when you have to dig out your phone for the code, and that's just to protect your email from prying eyes! What if you had to legitimately protect your life and the lives of your family? What kind of inconvenience would you accept for that protection?

(Edit) Why is this downvoted? What did I say that did not add to the conversation? Just because you disagree with me? That's rather childish. I think my point is rather poignant, that security is a necessary evil, and that for some it is more necessary than others.
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I'd suggest looking into freely available online listings and writing a script or two to extract the data out. BeautifulSoup (if you're using Python) helps make it a nearly painless process in most cases.
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I've worked through most of the 2nd edition PDF when it first came out though received an email this afternoon stating "I'd also like to note that the latest PDF incorporates lots of improvements (including some big ones) discovered in the course of making the screencasts."

Out of curiosity do you have a list of big improvements between the initial 2nd edition PDF and the most up to date release?
How being an unemployed drunk made for the most compelling pitch
Mr. Market sounds pretty reasonable the way you describe him. But just 7 days ago he thought Facebook was worth 25% more than he thinks it's worth now. So he looks to me like the familiar Mr. Market portrayed in Benjamin Graham's book.
>Airtime is a Web-based application designed to foster spontaneous sharing and interaction with video. There's no download or registration required

How about this instead:

"Airtime is Chatroulette limited to your Facebook social graph. Eg, no more random strangers' private parts, but instead chat with your friends, and meet their friends, via video."

It's basically curated Chatroulette, automating the curation with your FB social graph.

It's also pretty cool in that it's using Flash multicast to stream video P2P instead of via central server.

It's pretty much made for a Facebook aquisition. Completely dependent on FB's social API, co-founded by Sean Parker, adds social video to FB, and released right after FB's IPO.

I can't help but wonder a few things - could a FB acquisition of Airtime actually help FB's stock price? It's a rather brilliant addition to FB.

Also, could FB buy Spotify too? There are several parallels - It's also a P2P service that integrates the FB API (not quite so dependent on it as Airtime is though), Sean Parker is a board member.

Facebook + Spotify + Airtime (+ Instagram) covers almost all the social media bases. Only thing missing is movies and TV, but that's not as social as music or user-generated pictures and videos. That would be a hell of a social web company.
Performance, for one: http://www.percona.com/software/percona-server/benchmarks/

They also provide a lot of nice tools:
http://www.percona.com/software/percona-toolkit/
With all due respect to Mr. Iverson, whom I had the pleasure of meeting at an international APL conference many moons ago, I think J went in the wrong direction.

Part of the power of APL is in the symbolic representation of concepts. The symbols are important. They form a language in more than one sense. Replacing them with ASCII/unicode equivalents rips the guts out of the language.

Here's a thought experiment: Take mathematic expressions and replace every symbol with two or three character ASCII (or whatever) equivalents. The integral symbol might become "integ"; the root symbol become "root"; first, second and third derivative periods become "der1", "der2" and "der3"; and so on. What have you accomplished? Well, at the very least you've ruined the superbly expressive nature of mathematics through agreed upon special symbols.

One could do the same with music and the results would be exactly the same.

In general terms, I believe that we don't need to go in that direction. We need to search for and find the programming equivalent of music and math notation.

If you've ever looked at some VHDL code you have seen an example of just how ugly this can get. Whenever I do FPGA work I use Verilog, which feels very much like C.

Defining a register in Verilog looks something like this:

reg [0:7] my_register;

In VHDL:

my_register: std_logic_vector(7 downto 0);

It's been a while since I touched VHDL so this example could be off. I don't remember if you have to add IN, OUT or INOUT to the declaration.

The point though is that one (Verilog) is compact and to the point whereas the other (VHDL) beats the crap out of you with unnecessary verbosity. My definition of "unnecessary" is that, if the exact same result can be had without the extra stuff then there is absolutely no reason for it to exist. The entire VHDL language is like that, this is just one example. If I remember correctly, there was one thing that was nice about VHDL way-back-when which had to do with parametric generation of code. Later Verilog implementations added these capabilities without making you feel that you were typing a novel.

The long post is to say that notation is important. It is a tool for thought as much as it provides expressive power. J, in my humble opinion, went the wrong way.
It's a fork of MySQL that provides substantially better durability, admin tools, an easy hot-backup solution, better instrumentation of your DB, etc etc.

Deploying is it a question of "stop db, replace mysql server binary with percona server binary, start db".

My personal opinion is that unless you have a support contract with MySQL AB, there is very little reason not to use Percona.
It is addictive if you do hardcore (multiplayer, with AH).

Anyway, it's wonderful, check it out and see for yourself.
I suspect a large part of the problem is Australia's very conservative investment culture. This is a country where Fortescue Metals Group was a risky investment because they were building a mine, some rail road, and a port for one big iron ore project.
So imagine how popular investment in developing technology is over there when it is both:
1. little understood by the investors, and
2. perceived as highly risky.
So with little technology investment, there are few options for graduates, aside from work in places where technology/IT is a cost centre, not a profit centre, which depresses the salaries and increases the appeal of moving to some place where their skills are in demand and highly valued.
Let's say we have a calendar web app that we can run in the browser, or as a chromeless popup, or downloaded as a chromeless app.

That calendar.app is a container to all the resources that conform the app, made from html, css, js and varied media (img,audio,video) in plain readable code, which has made the web safer, so everybody can poke under the hood.

calendar.app
/media
/storage
config.js
main.js
style.css

That app must explicitly say what resources it will access in a config.js json file but still, all resources will be off by default, so the first time it uses a defined resource it asks the user for permission, like location, network traffic, storage, webcam, mic, etc. and it can never use any resource not defined in the config.js file so no sneaky pics from the cam if webcam is not define in the config.

The app would be sandboxed in its own installation folder and would have access only to its own storage folder, plus, as TBL suggests, a shared storage folder.

This all can be done today, we just need to put all the pieces together, so I see that vision fully implemented in the very near future.
a good one :)
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ANECDATA: A numerical majority figure it out. Typically a visit to the genius bar gets them on the path to Migration Assistant.

The ones who understand where their photos are or attach significance to them will make the effort. The remainder tend to work exclusively out of Facebook or iOS Camera Roll, which is why iCloud now backs that up.
the credit card calibration was nice. Would be interesting for electronics (Which I buy more frequently than jewelry). Would be neat to have life size faces for hangouts and Skype.
Wasn't the core of the ThinkSecret lawsuit related to enticing people to break confidentiality agreements? Maybe this offer should be restricted to legally obtained and propagated screenshots.
Don't forget that government officials, defense contractors, etc. also use Google products. Not all hacking is criminal or local. Some of it is geopolitical in nature.
'haberman's comment includes actual information. Can we not punish people for posting information? I doubt very much that 'haberman approves of NSLs, especially since he said as much.

Moreover, your comment may actually be incorrect; a good chunk of all the mail Gmail handles is never on the wire in a format that can be decrypted with any known attack without access to Google's (often pinned) secret keys. The NSA's ability to snarf it off the wire, stipulated, does not connote their ability to read it.
I fail to see why setting the transaction isolation level to read uncommitted would make any difference to the data load process.
Wait so were we in a bubble or weren't we ? And what about now has the bubble burst or not ? All of this bubble talk has been shown for what it is.

Complete nonsense. One or two companies != Bubble.
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I fear for facebook long-term only because I can't imagine the things I said when I was 16 lingering around on my timeline forever. Fad or not, facebook's standing with teenagers today will not be a long-lasting one. High School you will eventually be abandoned by college you and then again by professional you. How will facebook synchronize with rites of passage? Maybe this is why the proponents of facebook are usually 30-somethings...already done morphing and, as such, don't get it.
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FTA:

"...I decided to migrate the existing system into a single table setup."

"Alternative Proposed Solutions: MySQL Partitioning and Redis"

I'm surprised he didn't consider at Mongo, Couch, etc.
I believe the 3rd party website you're referring to is d2jsp.
The best thing you can do is hire people smarter than you. There's no shame in it.

Nevertheless, I think it's safe to say the accomplishments of both founders far exceeds the career expectations of a degree-toting computer engineer.