skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Summary:

"Subjects burned more than 300 additional calories on average when on the very low-carbohydrate dietcompared with the low-fat diet."

"Subjects burned 200 additional calories on the low glycemic index diet than on the low-fat diet."

"Ludwig also didn't recommend a very low-carb diet even though it offered the best metabolic edge. Some measurements suggested it could be risky for the heart, he said."

"The low-glycemic diet — which he has recommended for a long time — did not seem to have these problems, he said, making it the best bet."

"A low glycemic index diet is rich in whole grains, fruits and vegetables and is designed to prevent sharp spikes in blood sugar"
I'm just saying that it's technically possible to implement anything (including what you describe) without being forced to use C (though perhaps awkward), so it's not safe to assume that someone who doesn't know C is ignorant of the low-level. At the same time it's obviously not rational to ignore C just for the sake of it.

I do like C myself and plan to continue using it. I've been looking in to OCaml recently and as someone else in the comments indicated, they seem like they'd make a good team.
I do that by jumping to the particular line. :<linenum> or <linenum>G does that.
> Researchers today may alter, copy, and paste DNA with increasing ease, but they still struggle when it comes to actually composing DNA that does anything useful.

Leo Laporte did a TWiT Special on this recently: http://twit.tv/show/twit-live-specials/126

The discussion centered around taking existing genomes and splicing in functionality. The example given was setting up a Kickstarter project for trees that glow in the dark. The government is aggressively pursuing this tech.

[Edit] Direct links:

dna editor: http://www.genomecompiler.com/

dna printer: http://angel.co/cambrian-genomics
A web interface? Hurrah! I don't like typing on my iPhone but find it handy for storing information (eg: shopping lists) and when I went through trying to find apps I couldn't locate any with a web interface so I would have to type on my phone... I eventually gave up trying to find one.

Feedback specific to the website: If a user hasn't downloaded one of the apps yet have the "apps" link from the footer in a more prominent place. I didn't notice it at first and wondered how to find the app links.

Also the ability to login via the website would nice, so after logging in I scan a QR code and it logs me in on my phone too, typing out my password on my phone is an annoyance.
The relevant one in this case would be the 8-fold path, which has right mindfulness and right concentration as two of its steps.
Democratizing Creation [web-based genome editor]
There doesn't seem to be many similarities at all.
I don't think there's anything preventing you from using Services in other (PHP) frameworks, it's just that Symfony2's Dependency Injection Container component makes it very simple and straight-forward. I think it'd be trivial for other PHP 5.3 compatible frameworks to adopt this component to facilitate using Services themselves.
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Unlike chess, professional Go players overwhelmingly defeat the best computers
Actually, no. Here's an article that explains why this is not the case:

http://garytaubes.com/2010/12/inanity-of-overeating/
Looks really great. I love the idea behind instantly keeping things up to date on all devices.

I can't wait to try the Mac App mentioned on the Support page - https://cheddarapp.com/support. I hope it fits in a small horizontal space, so that it can be always open (much like a Twitter client).

Good looking stuff. Excited to see if I can incorporate it into my workflow.
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>In my belief this is patently disrespectful, in the same way that it was disrespectful for people to call Muhammed Ali "Cassius" after he changed his name

Possibly, but since I don't respect Kimmy, it's appropriate that I should call him by his (sensible) birth name rather than the (ridiculous and embarrassing) name he chose for himself.

I don't respect Cassius Clay much either. Seriously, all that bragging is gauche. Saying you're "the greatest" just because you're pretty good at punching people? Get back to me when you've won a Fields Medal, dude.
Is it possible to brag about humility?
No trademark issues with CheddarGetter?
A Good Samaritan on the Web
Why does 64-bit Windows need a separate "Program Files (x86)" folder?
It's time to do something more than just "like" things.
You're wrong. Anything you produce in company time that is even remotely jon related, is company property. The code, the binary, the password and any intellectual property rights protecting them is the company's property. Every contract clearly arranges that, so you can't extort your former boss, as in the story. If your contract doesn't contain such clauses, your company is incompetent.
OK, I will do that.
It's listed in Requirements at http://madlag.github.com /jarvis/ , but not yet in the RTD documentation.
Can you block sponsored stories? Besides, what good are controls if they keep 'evolving' and force you to actually maintain those settings. Settings and prefs should be fire and forget. I should not have to revisit settings in response to some new feature. For example, that jackass new @facebook email thing. Facebook is circa 1999 Windows.
Maybe tweak volume on video? (cant hear it)
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Well, that's pretty cool--I'm not much of an Apple user lately (iTunes not available for any of my devices/OSs) but I don't think iPhones have NFC and that's the part that I'm pretty impressed about. I guess I view streaming as a solved problem, so that's not really what I'm impressed about.

What excites me more is I think Nexus Q is showing us how a future can work where we're surrounded by networked displays and screens that we may or may not own, but we can still get full use of just by being physically in front of them. That's what I think is exciting. I can see the functionality of the Nexus Q built into TVs in the future--just connect the TV to the internet and touch your phone to it and boom, everything's set up without fussing with passwords and accounts. Visit your parents, touch your phone to the TV and boom it's as if it's your own TV.
Argh! The caption in this article makes a grammatical mistake that is a pet peeve of mine. I cringe every time I read or hear it!

An example:
"Not all the donuts are eaten."
"All the donuts are not eaten."

Assume some donuts have been eaten. Which is correct?

As I understand English, the first is logically correct, but the second is typically used.

I apologize now to all of you who have never noticed this before, as it may haunt you now for the rest of your lives.
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My oldest son and ex husband are both really terrible with faces. I have gotten pretty bad at faces in recent years, but the evidence is that as my health issues resolve, some of my lost abilities are returning. I feel really weirded out when people talk to me like they clearly know who I am but I don't recall having seen them before. I try to not let it show and I try to interact in manner which honors their apparent assumption that we are acquainted. I also just tell people I have a medical condition/crappy eyesight/am terrible with names and faces, etc. I ask "What was your name again?" People seem to appreciate that I am interested and don't seem to hold it against me that I am handicapped.

My ex was career military. He relied on nametags. My son has done some reading on faceblindness. Faceblind people often identify people by voice or some other trait instead of by face. Sometimes it goes largely unnoticed because they find another means to recognize most people reasonably quickly.
As a chemical engineer who loves programming just as much, I have had some thoughts about bioengineering for a while now. Part of the problem is that the immense complexity involved in living organisms is unpredictable, even with today's computing technology.

Human-engineered circuits are easy to predict; they were designed in a way that made the most sense. With biology however, something that appears to be working may have a completely unrelated side effect that isn't noticed until decades later, or even something so bizarre that it isn't noticed until hundreds of years later in future generations.

The way we currently find treatments (grossly oversimplifying) is to grab some substance that looks like it might work, test it in animals, test it in humans, wait a while to make sure nothing really bad happened, and then prescribe it as a drug.

If computers get advanced enough, I would much prefer the case where all of these interactions are fully simulated. You can go through millions of variations of substances all while tracking every change they make to each part of the virtual organism. Obviously, this is a VERY long way off, but it would be nice because we wouldn't have to worry about unknown side effects.

Of course, our current way is the best we've got, and it saves millions of lives each year, so while there may be some future risk, we're doing the best we can.

*On a somewhat related note, I've always thought it would be cool to have programmable blood filters. In other words, you could essentially provide the type of molecule or cell you are looking to trap, and then something like a ccd would either redirect it or let it pass through.
I can do naught but +1 such a statement :-)
Dear God no, yet another pimped-up todo list? What does it do that the others don’t?
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Freshly Served: Cheddar App - Take your tasks everywhere
I must have tried over 10 different apps for keeping track of simple notes and tasks. I finally landed on Evernote (and emailing myself) mostly due to the sync issues across multiple devices. If this works similarly without all of the extra whistles and bells, I'd be pretty happy. The nice clean interface is encouraging.
Actually I'm more interested in seeing this guy's tmux config file.
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Yeah, I've met people calling them 'Tasks' too. If it _was_ a command object - if you were auditing logins, for example, and wanted to store the login command in your history - I'd see the need for its existence and its instantiation.

As it is, it's just the sort of thing OO programmers seem to create because they find nouns comforting.
Fuck the social graph.
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I keep hearing that, but honestly, 16gb is quite a lot of space IMO. Obviously if you feel the need to carry around 64gb of videos at all times then you'll scoff, and I'm not saying 16gb is more than you'll ever need, but you'd be surprised at just how much you can do with that storage.
Awesome, thanks! Can't wait to try it out.
The latest version of Opera Mobile supports WebGL, even on devices still running Android 2.3.
>Get back to me when you've won a Fields Medal, dude.

Quell the nerd rage.
You don't need one. It's a cost/benefit thing - is it worth having one? Do you really need to use Vim or Emacs or Eclipse, etc? You don't need to.

I can imagine some reasons why it might be useful to have it as a plugin. Making a plugin means giving it a name and a URL (and if it's on vim.org, a place in a well-known directory), and that makes discovery and communication of its existence easier. The fact that it's useful to have a gist for it bears this out, I think. I can't think of why it's that bad a thing to have a plugin for it.
How many task manager apps do we need? I've seen a huge influx of these apps recently. Nevertheless great UI!
Looks simple and clean but I already use "remember the milk" to do the same thing. The landing page doesn't give enough convincing arguments to pull me away.
Google Tasks has covered this piece for some time? Not much recent development there it's true - hash tags would be a nice (and obvious) addition. Does anyone know if Google has forgotten about this useful application?
I "unsubscribed" from the family member I no longer want to hear from. That way we're still "friends", I can visit his page and read what he's been posting, but it doesn't show up on my feed.
It's more like cable access. Occasionally, there'll be something interesting, but most of the time it's a bunch of people standing around trying to put on a show about stuff about which no one cares.
This looks great. Will try it out for iphone.
There is much incentive for you to make an Android version of Cheddar, too. The reason why is there's already plenty of similar task apps for iOS, but good task management apps are lacking on Android.
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A solid hypermedia API first.
Is there any way to add a date or deadline to a task? I've been having issues with Wunderlist syncing between devices, but due dates are key.
Small nit: on the bottom phone, the text "Simple, just text" is horribly kerned. Otherwise, the product page looks great!
Just remove them. They'll still stay on as subscribers and see public posts.
Emerging markets are directly transitioning to mobile instead of web. Developed markets will take little more time to shake off legacy. But if you are starting today, you are ignoring mobile at your peril.
Although I agree with your overall point that the early Web is essentially a creation of the government (and of individual programmers) and not of the free market, I disagree that CERN had anything important to do with the Web.

The extent of CERN's sponsorship of the development of the Web was that Tim Berners-Lee obtained permission from his boss to work on it during work hours. His boss's main reason for giving the permission was that he wanted CERN to start evaluating NeXT, Inc, as one of CERN's suppliers, and development of this Web thing seemed just as good a test of NeXT's marketing claims about the excellence of its development environment as anything else.

Probably the biggest way that CERN helped was by providing a good living for a relatively large population of potential early adopters of the Web. (Before the "discovery" of the internet by the mainstream media in 1993, adoption of the internet was almost completely by very-high-IQ folks.)

ADDED. The much more important point, though, is the fact that when Tim BL started developing the Web, the Internet was a very fertile and welcoming environment for experimentation. If you are on Linux or Mac, take a look at /etc/services and realize each of the port numbers you see listed in that file is an experiment. (Note that most of the least successful experiments might not have made it into that file.) I tend to agree with those who say that if Tim BL hadn't invented the Web, it would not have taken long for someone else to invent something similar (something that allows owners of web sites to create experience on graphical UIs that are more compelling that the plain text that was dominant on the Internet till then).

In discussions like this about which individuals and organizations caused an important technological development, it is important to keep in mind one's reasons for wanting to know. My reason for wanting to know how much of the Web and the Internet was caused by government is that it helps me decide how likely government-employed or government-funded individuals are to contribute to future important innovations.
How & when to enable non-blocking javascript
Learned about statoliths in university. Didn't realize the statolith theory was up for debate.
No official Android app in the works. https://twitter.com/cheddar/status/218385506533249027
> <strong>pushes to all of your devices</strong>

iDevices you mean.
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I don't understand how this quote from Taubes proves anything. If I stop eating, I will lose weight and eventually die. Also, if I eat more, I will gain weight. Thus calories must have SOMETHING to do with weight, right? I think Taubes is fighting a straw man here: I haven't heard anyone argue that eaten calories are stored in 1:1 ratio. But they have some causal relationship.
This attitude right here is how things snowball into firm failures/recessions.
kcal may still be a kcal when verified in a bomb calorimeter - I believe for food they do it the same way everyone else does it: Put it in pure oxygen atmosphere, and light that baby on fire, measure the increase in temperature in a controlled environment, and the 'heat' produced is expressed in kcal.

now, my body does not have an active flame, and I don't have a combustion engine in my stomach. I use a (mysterious to me) metabolic process to convert what I eat into energy that my body can use.

For me, an individuals metabolic rate may be roughly proportional to kcal intake, but it is not the same thing, and it is different for different food types, combinations, and for different people.

I liked the article - even though I am not a dietician, I do think there is something wrong about the Adkins diet.. not healthy.
What is the deal with all these "I made an app using trigger.io" blog posts that seem to have been paid for by trigger.io? I don't think I've seen a mention of trigger.io yet that doesn't grossly misrepresent phonegap as being some difficult, arcane, "only greybeards can use it" monstrosity.

>I decided to go with Trigger.io to achieve my goal, as I wanted to spare myself endless hours spent on configuring environment (as opposed to PhoneGap/Appcelerator)

Huh? Have you tried phonegap? How does "click next on a couple of installers and extract a single zip file" take hours of configuration?

>Trigger.io provides you with a pleasant environment, where you don’t have to touch command line at all! It works as an app within your browser, from localhost. I do understand that a lot of folks may prefer “hacker-style” black terminal over Trigger’s clean and minimalistic web app, but for me clicking a button that i can see instead of typing a command is a much better experience, especially at the beginning.

I can't figure out what on earth he is trying to compare it to here. What html/js mobile app framework involves typing commands in "hacker style black terminals"? With phonegap you just click "run as android application" (or whatever you want to run it as).

This is how hard it actually is to setup phonegap:
http://docs.phonegap.com/en/1.8.1/guide_getting-started_andr...
I asked this in the other thread but no one responded so I'll try here again: This appears related to Dotcoms house raid and seizure. Is the raid on all of the servers in VA still valid? I'd assume that is where the majority of all of the evidence in this case lies, and if that is still valid there is still a huge case to be had. Does anyone know?
Life's too short to be watching cat videos and sifting through sponsored stories.
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He's got that on github, too: https://github.com/myusuf3/dotfiles/blob/master/tmux
https://github.com/myusuf3/dotfiles/blob/master/tmux
While an interesting read, it feels like I just read some long winded analogy describing metabolism?

In the parent comment, I'm including bodily factors like metabolic reactions within "expend".
The degree to which this makes a difference in overall expenditure is the un-quantifiable part; but adjusting your diet further to counter this lack of expenditure will still have the same effect. It still is a numbers game in my mind.
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I find the dynamics of the expectation of countries having to bail other countries in the Eurozone out quite interesting. Normally, inside a nation, say France, you have wealth distribution since politicians and the public can, through taxes, take money from the rich people in order to help the poor. This works where the notion exist that it's fair, because the rich are rich because of luck or power, or whatever. Now it gets interesting where you get the same dynamic in the Eurozone, where the countries that can't manage their economy well because of their bad policies, corruption, incompetence, etc. want countries that do manage their economy better to bail them out. It gets extra interesting, since Germany is a country where wealth is not something that was created because of imperial conquest or the likes, or because of abundant natural resources. They lost a war, and half of it was even under communist rule until two decades ago. They achieved their wealth, and Merkel in particular don't see having to pay guilt tax on that achievement as making any sense.
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This is nothing new, there are a ton of good task syncing apps. What makes this apple-specific app so much better? Oh, wait.
And randomly a different serif font. The line-height on the actual app's UIToolbar title is a bit too much too, should be slightly higher up, imo.
And people that do use Facebook feel it their duty to post status messages everytime they take a dump. Who's the real ass here?
Go ahead and lose your hard earned money. It's only money right?
There's never any Windows Phone love...

sigh...
Exactly what I was going to say.
RTM has been around for a while and integrates with a lot more devices, they are committed to maintaining their Apps and provide much more functionality for power users with saved searches etc.

Link: https://www.rememberthemilk.com/
Didn't this study have a terribly small sample size? 13 adults were divided into 3 groups. That is 4 people in each group. There must be major individual differences how their bodies react to different diets during a four week period. I don't see how this is statistically significant.
Totally agree -- it'd be great to get a product comparison on the site to see some feature differentiation laid out. Except for the nice UI, it looks like just another to-do app.
I agree with others who are saying that waving your arm can quickly become tiring, but maybe you could point this device on a table so you could rest your hand on the table (or surface of the laptop) like using a mouse and only your index finger would be in the air. I think that way it would be less tiring.
I really like the 4:3 ratio on my 8 inch Vizio tablet; so much so that I've been avoiding upgrading to Honeycomb. Android 3's onscreen toolbar would definitely throw off the usable aspect ratio.
I'm not really sure why they are even using NFC for the setup. All the streaming is done over wifi anyway. I guess NFC could be used to reconfigure the wifi as needed which could be useful in some cases where your streaming target is on a different network.
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I'm aware that pg believes that intellectual property should enjoy less protection that it currently does (which I'd suggest is the consensus view of HN?). Your claim that he clearly feels that there should be no intellectual property is at odds with what I've read from him. Can you link me to what he's written or said that displays his feelings as you understand them?
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There's never any NetBSD clients for the apps I like...

sigh
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If any app category needed a parody video and site, it's to-do lists and productivity.

Time to charge the camera batteries.