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Yup, I was excited to see that.

I have a text file with examples of testing different kinds of API calls w/ curl, and I have to refer to it all the time because the syntax is so easy to get wrong if I just type it out. I've also had to waste lots of time supporting other developers using our API, who got tangled up in the curl syntax in the examples I provide them.
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thank you for posting this.
its brilliant.
Open web standards, but as far as I can tell, no RSS feed!

(Also, I know it's a Microsoft-funded thing, but the animation in the background of the main page runs very poorly on Firefox.)
All mandatory school systems are despicable and horrendous. The first major issue is the coercion involved: they control a child's life for 9 years (or even 12 years in some countries). It's absurd. This alone should be reason enough to dissolve the entire public school system (and possibly put various Ministers of Eduction to trial).

The second major issue is that they are a tool the state uses to indoctrinate children (naive by nature) with whatever the correct values of the day are. Prussia (where public schooling originated) needed obedient soldiers, modern-day Sweden needs a large underclass of socialists willing to support various hare-brained political schemes. The schools reflect this. What happens, for instance, if you call homosexuality "not normal"[1] in a Swedish school? It gets you an F in biology and a label as a "homophobe" in the state-run media[2]. One wonders what happened to students who questioned communism in the Soviet Union.

See "Deschooling society" by Ivan Illich, "Underground history of the American school system" by John Taylor Gatto.

[1] Which is surely true, statistically speaking.

[2] http://www.svt.se/nyheter/regionalt/abc/homofobi-gav-underka...
What a stupid statement. It is analogous to this:

"Why is this building crowded?"

Your answer:
"It's due to too many people inside. Simple as that."

Real answer:
There is a popular band inside, which has caused more people to walk into the building in a given 3 hour period than leave it.

The "too many calories" people (you are one of them)all think that the effect of a bad diet (which is often bad caloric partitioning in the body, causing plummeting energy levels as fat cells steal nutrients from the rest of the body, causing a fat person to feel tired and hungry) is also the root cause.

Do kids grow because they eat more? No. They eat more because they are in a growth spurt. Obesity works the same way. A bad diet wreaks havoc on the endocrine system, mainly with insulin levels, causing excessive fat accumulation due to calories being partitioned to fat cells at the expense of the rest of the body. If a person with this kind of caloric partitioning doesn't eat excessive amounts of calories, they will feel tired. If they continue to eat the wrong kinds of foods (foods which continue the bad endocrine reaction) they will continue getting fatter in a feedback loop.

But hey, with advice like yours, you should really go and help others. Go to an insomnia board, and when someone complains of being tired, just say "Insomnia is because you don't get enough sleep. Simple as that."

What a dumb ass.
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My guess is that publish must refer to making something public. That is the only sensible explanation.
Windows 95 contains special memory management code for the original Sim City, but I suppose that probably got removed with all the other 16-bit supporting files in x64 versions of Windows, at least. Perhaps it's still hanging around in 32-bit Windows 7, though?
Regarding Insulin, you'll probably love reading this: http://weightology.net/weightologyweekly/?page_id=319

Agree, but eating healthy isn't that much more expensive than eating processed foods. Or at least doesn't have to if you buy the right things (bulk frozen veggies, meat etc.).
There are also the network benefits (pun intended). If the rest of your app does benefit from elasticity, you've had to choose betwen:

1. Keeping your app on EC2 and working around the lack of high I/O options
2. Keeping your app somewhere else and working around the lack of EC2-style elasticity

In TFA, Netflix had chosen #1, and they used to run an extra memcached layer + I/O on 48 instances. They were able to bring this down to 15 I/O instances with no intervening cache, and lower overall latency.

That said, I'd guess the on-demand hi1.xlarge won't get a lot of usage; I imagine they offer it just for orthogonality's sake (all other instances are available both on-demand and reserved), plus the ability to try before you buy.

What's really exciting is that Amazon clearly recognizes their lack of good I/O solutions. Maybe we'll see a whole range of options stem out of this... one can hope.
I read through the first 3 of your links by taubes, which all seemed to be extremely verbose sophistry that don't address Guyanet's points at all.

At what point does Taubes actually address Guyanet's (clearly stated) claim, that if food is tastier, people eat more of it, consume more calories, and become fatter?
Well, skydrive and dropbox I would call both sync and backup hybrid solutions. They do provide backup features with old versions being accessible.
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Dude, it's not "studied data".

I agree that we should all rely more on actual facts and studies and that we tend to perpetuate myths heard from a friend of a friend, which is just bad, especially for us since we should think like scientists. However it is not our job to do studies on nutrition and the available studies on nutrition are either biased or not conclusive of anything - listening to your gut feeling about what is right is actually the better path to take at this point in time.

Also, I could have added details, such as race (Caucasian), geography (Europe, temperate climate, hills), family history (war veterans, poverty after communism came, rough life), etc... but I usually don't because these are personal details and I like my privacy on the Internet, even though you could probably find plenty about me or my family if you wanted to, but that doesn't mean I have to make that info easy to find.

You also misunderstood me. I actually think that genetics, lifestyle, local culture are all factors that play a role, so I don't disagree with you. I also haven't said that my grandfather's diet would be healthy for everybody, I only said that it was healthy for him personally, so you have to be careful about making generalizations based on limited data and biases.
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Windows Phone got a feature to auto upload all the photos you take on the phone to skydrive, I would imagine a lot of people would run foul of these rules...
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Has Amazon ever bumped the specs on existing hardware types? Or do they just create new hardware types? e.g. is it possible that if you get a 3-year reservation for an h1.xlarge, by 2015 h1.xlarge might have newer specs?

I had thought that EC2 reservations were upgradeable, but a quick check on the forums shows you're right, they're not. Of course, you can play your own "tiered usage" game, like laptops in IT departments, where the old h1.xlarge becomes cheap enough to use as a second-tier machine and you go reserve the h1.xxlarge for Cassandra.
I don't understand geeks' obsessions with space elevators. It's not like materials are the only obstacle holding us back - they would be continually bombarded by meteors, and travelling up them would involve extremely long exposure to the high radiation band of the atmosphere.

Now launch loops, that I could get excited about.
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I use both browsers, but Firefox is still the primary browser. The add-ons selection is not matched by Chrome.
Don't forget System76. Their offerings are a bit slim at the moment since the line is being updated to Ivy Bridge:

https://www.system76.com/laptops/

Or Ohava:

http://www.ohava.com/openbook
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Toyota's HSD system uses such a scheme, but mechanically, Honda's IMA replaces the flywheel with an electric generator/motor, the remainder of the drivetrain being your typical car (they use either a CVT or a manual stick, depending on models and regions). The key then is entirely in the logic driving the electric motor and the VTEC system.

[0] http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2010/06/2011cr...
In any event, that certainly does not constitute a massive propaganda campaign against the public.

Well it depends how much they spent on it no? I'd guess that Shell spends vastly more on putting it's point of view across than Greenpeace is able to.
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Nokia killed Meego. IF anything Windows Phone killed Meego.
The "real" engineering was done by MIT students. Before Oracle bought ksplice.
You probably didn't notice but the whole thing about linux and this "open source" everyone is talking about, is about contributing back and community. Not about buying and shutting down stuff. Guess what Oracle is known for and what RedHat is known for. Both make money.
Socket.io works well, we put together this demo where an iPhone is used as a controller for a browser game http://www.webdigi.co.uk/fun/space
I disagree. Unless illegal by law, it's your private data. If you share it, it would be something different, but as long as it's private, it's just weird.

Others have them, but as long as you don't use the content PUBLICLY, they don't enforce, which is exactly correct.

Edit: sorry, reread. You are right about the encryption part. I still stand by the rest :)
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Does anyone know of any cloud storage with client side encryption that is convenient to use? I'm using Wuala, but would like to hear about alternatives.
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According to the study, only 26.7% difference wasn't explained by age/sex/weight. Which means for almost 75% the values were somehow dependent on sex/age/weight.

And the difference between the top 5% and bottom 5% of the outliers was around 30% (which means for a 2000kcal average BMR, the bottom needed only 1700 and top 2300). This, in my opinion, is not enough for people to tout slow/fast metabolism for weight gain/loss as most people won't fall into the top/bottom 5%.
I am very happy that the Firefox team has finally managed to lick this issue. When at every occasion I used to raise this issue, the typical Mozilla Evangelist would answer:
"It is because of the add-ons".

My counter to this was that the whole Raison d'être for Firefox is its add-ons community. You cannot claim that there are great benefits to this approach while simultaneously ignoring the problems caused by it.
Better late than never. It is critical to have a popular browser alternative to Either IE or Chrome.

One is closed source and the other is produced by a company whose entire revenue model is built around showing you the most targeted ads possible in the maximum number of ways possible.
I always have iReader handy for such combat situations. :-)

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ppelffpjgkifjfgnba...
The idea is great, everything moves online nowadays.
It looks very similar to Facebook and their applications.

A couple of notes:

- for some of the apps, native apps will provide greater experience, especially on mobile devices. Browser is very portable though

- I would recommend to make it like an open platform where 3rd party developers may contribute - so that your model could scale. At the same time - you need to do marketing homework first in order to get visitors on board and then become attractive to those 3rd parties. You will become infrastructure provider in this case and this is slightly another kind of business.

- Don't do many things at once. Focus on typical and most frequent workflows so that you can do less but at better quality

- You will hold lots of personal data, think about how to ensure clients that they are safe, there are back-ups and there is no vendor lock-in.
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Don't spend so much time titting about on the internet when you are at work....

Oh :-(
Firefox lost market share because Chrome was a leaner, faster, and better browser. I have started to hear more stories about folks switching back to Firefox because a lot of their issues with the browser have been fixed. And based on independent review sites like Tom's Hardware, there is no longer an appreciable gap in the performance of Firefox and Chrome.

As regards market share, Firefox's market share would be in the low single-digit percentages if all was lost. This is indeed not the case. With the profiling and telemetry tools and infrastructure, the Firefox team has built a foundation that will ensure future releases do not regress memory usage and overall browser snappiness. Market share is a fickle metric for success because it is amenable to change. The strides made in the last few months by the Firefox team have paved the way for adoption growth in the future. Let us have a constructive conversation around what they need to do next to ensure more switchers among the HN community.
Oh, and having kids is THE most completely awesome thing you will ever do, so don't be afraid of it.
I have used all 3 of them. Here are my impressions:

-Marmalade ( Airplay when I used it ) is the most professional framework. I have never found a bug and also the number of documented bugs is very low. The framework is supported on many platforms ( IOS,Android,Ipad,Bata, Nokia,Windows CE, [Blackberry also if i remember well]and also consoles if you are willing to spend some more big bucks). It is possible to develop on windows using Visual Studio and one can obtain installations packages (ipa,apk and so on) with a single click without ever leaving windows. The framework is pretty low level so you are going to write more code using a more robust platform. Documentation is very complete. The framework has also some tools for asset packaging, fonts, etc. Both 2d and 3d apps are supported. There is also a basic GUI engine that is resolution/device indipendent ( with a basic GUI designer ).

- Moai is the easiest framework to use if you are willing to use LUA as your main development language. However I have found it a little bit counterintuitive if you want primarly to do C++ development. Documentation is sufficient. 2D games only. MOAI license put some constraint on apps that store information on the internet/cloud and/or have multiplayer support

- Cocos2d-x is a community effort. I found it more convenient for pure C++ development than Moai. Cocos2d-x API is modeled after Objective-C and sometimes uses Obj-C idioms instead of C++ idioms. While this considerably ease the porting from pure Obj-C Cocos2d app it may not be to everyone taste especially for experienced C++ developers.
Cocos2d-x community is bigger than Moai's. While Cocos2d community is very activy on further developing cocos2d-x and fixing bugs Moia community is more active on the development of extensions and new features. 2d games only. Support for lua even if I have not used it.Almost no documentation. However the API is a 1 to 1 mapping of Cocos2d for which there is an abudance of information.

At the end these are my suggestions:

- You are a big studio-> go for Marmelade.Documentation is better, you have professional support and probably the framework is the most stable and certainly the more mature.

- You are a small/indie studio and like to code in Lua-> go for MOAI.

-You are a small/indie studio and prefer pure C++ coding and not be constrained in any way by the license-> go for Cocos2d-x.

After using Airplay when it was free now I am using cocos2d-x for my new projects.
Ask HN Teachers and Edu Hackers :  How do you prepare educational materials?
Do you copy and paste text books? or Do you have any system where people can share educational materials in schools? I'll really appreciate if you share your way to do it!
This would be absolutely suicidal for a political campaign.
SpiderOak (most similar to drive, dropbox), Tarsnap (nix-only, have to compile it yourself), aes.io (browser-based, like box.com)
I mentioned that at Corkboard and mailed the guy about it; http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4224524
And sleeping tablets and laxatives are not a good combo.
US News & World report does an annual survey of dieticians: http://health.usnews.com/best-diet

Unsurprisingly, those dieticians overwhelmingly say that meat-heavy diets like paleo (ranked 25th out of 25) are horrific. The idea that there is some controversy about this is mostly due to people on HN without much formal education.
Your diet sounds like a lot of the 'low carb' ones.

I personally try to eat a paleo/keto-ish diet which mainly consists of eggs, meat, veggies and a bit of fruit and nuts. In general anything that doesn't contain sugars or things that get metabolized into sugars (carbs, starches, sugary stuff itself...)).

I lost 12 kg while eating tons of meat. For me the 'just don't eat a lot of carbohydrates' part of it really works.
Hi WiseWease, Thanks very much for your suggestion, we decide to use EasyNip as the new name.

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Chronic stress and sleep deprivation are known to have horrible effects on personal health -- up to, and including, fat storage and cardiovascular fitness. The extent of these effects has not received enough attention, and may be greater than we currently realize. I strongly suspect that, in the next ten or so years, we'll see a surge of scientific studies documenting the importance of these factors on health.

Over the last few decades, much fuss has been made over the societal switch from whole foods to processed foods. But people have been getting less and less healthy every decade, obesity rates have been increasing each decade, and food hasn't grown all that substantially more processed in the last few decades. (People in the 70s and 80s ate nearly as much processed junk as we do, and they were healthier on average. People in, say, Japan eat a metric fuckton of foods processed beyond our recognition, and they're healthier than we are).

Processed foods are probably to blame for our obesity crisis in some respect, but they're not the single issue. We should be taking a closer look at lifestyle factors, especially sleep and stress. Americans don't sleep enough, and lead more stressful work lives, than the citizens of almost any other developed country on the planet. (It's actually debatable if we're more or less sedentary than other nations, too. Pretty much everyone in white-collar work is sedentary these days, by the clinical definition of the term, and working out even an hour a day is not going to completely mitigate the effects of sitting on one's ass for the following 10 hours).
Hey guys, we decide to use 'EasyNip'. Thanks for all of your suggestions :-)
I did the ff-chrome-ff switcheroo a number of times. Now I generally use both: I find that chrome is a snappier startup and has a better flash runtime (since it does its own rather than relying on adobe). Firefox is more stable / uses less memory for a larger number of tabs.

I do believe in the mozilla mission for an open web, and it's got fairly comparable performance overall, so I use it for my main browsing / firebug. Chrome's for flash-heavy sites and playing with webrtc occasionally.

Inspector on chrome has certainly become quite good -- I've missed firebug less and less over time as I started using it. Though Firefox's new built-in developer tools are really sweet and might add enough functionality for me to miss in the near future. They're adding a command line thing that is super cool!!
Not here in Australia. Our wheat = American corn. Subsidised and used in everything. Its terrible for coeliacs.

Though as my fiance found out while living in the US, over there things can be sold as gluten free which have oats in them. Bad news for 1 in 4 coeliacs.
You should see US News' annual survey of dieticians.[1] They agree with you, it's just an odd publication bias that gives these "alternative" diets traction.

1. http://health.usnews.com/best-diet/
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well, I doubt there is a culture where there is no distinction between a part and the whole.

What "partial nudity" means is very arguable and _has been_ argued (e.g. many stories of services not allowing breast feeding pictures), I was just pointing out the specific differentiation between full and partial seems simple.

About children: of course I don't see anything bad with pictures of naked kids, but the service has very little chances of knowing whether those pictures of 7 years olds are your nieces' or you're in a shady business, and they are reasonable to protect themselves.
We live in a fucked up society.

Obviously, there are huge gaps between stating rules, actually enforcing them, and enforcing them in a dumb way.
If you're willing to believe that via a malfunction he was able to get photos off, you've missed my point.

Its possible because they're there. Anything beyond that is arguing against the reality of the photos on the web page.
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I know JS isn't the only thing that makes browsers feel slow, but Chrome 20.0 just scored 276ms on Sunspider on my machine and FF 15 (alpha) got 248ms. Honestly I haven't noticed FF "feel" slow in at least a year.
I think there is a huge gap between private and shared pics; if you share you should take all kinds of cultural stuff + site rules into account, but hosting them in private folders?

If I like to take naked pictures of myself and put them in a PRIVATE, never shared folder, I really find it a huge error of MS to close down accounts for that reason. And it'll bite them if they keep doing it.
Then you should host it on your private cloud.

PS: owncloud.org
Even after that it's still not clear. So it's a messaging service without ads? Uhh... So what? How is this audacious or fundamental to the web in any way, shape or form? It just sounds like a Twitter rip off with a different business model. I'm not even sure what the business model is supposed to be except that it's 'not ads'. What a confusing pile of confusion this project is.
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So Microsoft is peeking into private folders, and judging the contents based on political and religious values not inscribed in any law? And completely terminates all Microsoft service to anyone found wanting to obey by these fundamentalist directives?

The warning should not be "watch what you store on SkyDrive", the warning should be "stay the hell away from Microsoft".