skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure how you looked at the sentence "if you eat little enough and exercise enough you will lose weight" and managed to read "if you eat enough and exercise little enough you will gain weight".

We're not talking about helping sick people gain weight by shoving food down their throats, we're talking about losing weight.

p.s. Pooping out fat is 'calories out'. Several weight loss products even make use of this.
> No written guide to programming, no matter how thorough, will ever be sufficient [...]

Unless, perhaps, if you include exercise and solving them as an integral part of that written guide.
There is definitely a scientifically provable correlation between caloric intake and weight gain. It's somewhat causal in that if you suppress calories weight gain (growth) is reduced.

The tricky part is that causality runs both ways. When a child grows, they take in a caloric surplus. If you surpress caloric intake, the growth will be suppressed. It's the same for plants too. Block the sun & they will grow slower.

So (according to good/bad calorie theories) it's not that calorie accounting is incorrect. Take in fewer calories and you'll lose weight. It's that it misses the point. The correct question is why is your body growing (and pursuing the calories necessary to fuel it).

*My own pet theory is that foods aren't inherently bad or unnatural for us to eat. We're just wired to build different bodies depending on available food sources. Mono-croppers need to survive bad harvests & hungry winters. Sugary fruits usually aren't available for very long, it might be good to build up a reserve while they are.
Oh just saw the other comments about the parent and its other subsidiaries.
Interesting bit:

> Apple also announced that Bob Mansfield,
> who announced his retirement in June, will
> remain at Apple. Mansfield will work on
> future products, reporting to Tim Cook.
http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=maxko87
Precision and recall are a great way of looking at overall accuracy, but ROC curves and ROC AUC are highly recommended for model selection criteria on imbalnced datasets. For SVMs you can do a two dimensional grid search for C and Gamma looking for a maximum ROC.

I also use per class weights - by default SVM(libSVM, libLinear) cost parameter is the same for both classes. Penalize the classifier for false negatives more then for false positives(order of magnitude more).
maybe it was an online pre-interview question that you get to solve at home within a given timeframe?
That's because sizeof is for the size of the variable (a char pointer), not the size of the string up to the null terminator, which is what strlen's for.
We Give Developers Equity for Code
No one else can crowdfund a similar project for a long time after this public meltdown.

Huh? App.net is similar in many dimensions and just got funded for way more.

Yes, people will be justifiably wary of a very-young team with very-lofty technical goals, without a demonstration of a better plan and code. But that's as it should be. They tested a longshot idea fairly efficiently; the market (of funders and adopters) has now learned a lessen at not much cost.
For the beginners: Just start very gradually. Your calves will get extremely sore in the beginning. Soreness isn't harmful, but it's painful.
What you just described is basically the system in the Fisker Karma: http://onward.fiskerautomotive.com/en-us/karma/overview/
Think about a repeated game?

Also "The problem is that's impossible to accurately forecast" is true, but somewhat trivial. The initial investment and the M&A exit valuation are are subject to same critique, no?

Examination of the final node , while rational (is this the best out?) is not the right framework for evaluating the investment. To do that, one would think you looked at the deployment vs recovery (en toto), taking into consideration time (&tc).
How to become a great software developer
> 1. I read "Ethical" as "Legal"

They are wildly different things tough. One is about what is right (and is as such subjective) and the other is about what is authorized (and as such, should be objective).

I believe it's better to be ethical than to be legal. As you might have guessed, ianal.
I think you can get it to fire if you trigger requestFullscreen outside of a user-initiated event? I'll have to check on that.
> Graham demonstrated and patented the telephone, therefore phones are longstanding and the cellphone is just "modestly different from prior phones".

I've seen you mention this a couple of times now. I know you mean it to be ridiculous, but it's actually a true statement: once you have a telephone, and a radio, then the concept of a cellphone in itself is an obvious step. There are scads of patentable details in the implementation, but nothing to say that the concept of a cellphone itself should be protected. Perhaps you should find an alternative example?

> The iPhone doesn't have cameras three feet behind the screen taking photos of your fingers. But you would have us believe that a patent on using that method of touch interface

None of the prior art listed above claims anything to do with cameras.
To be fair, Call Me Maybe is played a lot in the US too.
VPS NET review – Mariana Ferents is intentionally misleading the customers
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So you missed the answer from ridiculous_fish there: on Power PC CPU's doing floating point comparisons the speeds are actually different. That's a perfect counterexample for your claim that "the premise is wrong."

Detailed explanation about reasons was given by Lukas.
I think it could work. The set of users who would pay is a completely different demographic than those who are following Justin Bieber. You're only devaluing the market for the adverts that would appeal to everyone.
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Stupeflix Ditches Subscription Pricing Model
I'm struggling to figure out if this article is a parody or not...

"Step 1: Copy Apple's font. Step 2: Change the font..."

Somehow that's the same thing as copying Apple's font? Furthermore, as the comments on the article reveal, it's just the Segoe UI font which Microsoft has used for other products for some time.

I really don't understand the point of this article, unless (like I said above) it is a parody.
I'm not sure if CDT and Visual C++ can't do that, but I don't think so: gdb can attach to already running processes. Saved me once from a bug in ruby runtime.
Sorry about that, I shouldn't have used the word 'heavy' figuratively when speaking of shipping. The items I will ship are in most cases going to be sub 1lb after packaging. Comparing prices between USPS and UPS, 1 Day shipping from the Northwest to Midwest on a 1lb 8x6x3 package cost about $70.00 through UPS while its in the mid $30's through USPS. Just wish USPS had a better tracking system. But I suppose that's part of what you are paying for with UPS!
Ah ok. I was looking at your original problem, which was travelling 450 miles to visit your family. That problem, at least to me, didn't involve cargo vans and one-way dropoffs. Sorry.
I get the impression that Samsumg went through three phases in their response to the iPhone.

2007-2008: We need something like this iPhone thing. Let's use Android.

2009-2010: Hmm, Android isn't selling well enough. Let's make our phones look exactly like the iPhone. This is where the S and S2 came from.

2011 onward: Oh shit, Apple is suing us. Let's not be so obvious. Hence the S3.
Tweetbot for Mac Alpha Pulled Due To Twitter User Caps
ASEA - Advancing Life
Let's say I go on a trip to visit a friend for the weekend and his/her apt does not have an easily accessible electric outlet. Then let's say I drive while I am there and then drive home. This is a very very common scenario for me where I might rack up 1000 miles without being able to recharge.

I threw out the 5k number as something where I would be extremely confident I would never hit before being able to recharge, not as a number of miles I go frequently.
FAA to reevaluate inflight portable electronic device use
This isn't a weakness in crowdfunding, at least not intrinsically.

Validating the team has always been important, but the general mainstream internet doesn't realize that yet. They will, after at least one highly public meltdown where millions disappeared down a drain for little to none of the promised deliverables.

(I hate to be negative, and I want to be wrong, but my money right now is on the Ouya - unproven team out of their depth promising an extremely complex product delivered at unprecedented low cost and unprecedented fast schedule)

I suspect soon we will see a redirection in crowdfunding and more focus on the ability for funders to assess the competency of a team, and I suspect we will see more credibility-building on Kickstarter projects than we have seen thus far.
Am I the only one who thinks rounded edges are so 1950s ?

No, Dieter Rams probably agrees with you.
For images that are part of the website design, it makes sense to use rasters since the websites are designed using pixels as a unit. Web interfaces might be responsive, but they rarely "scale".
But it's not like Assembly has no pragmatic use.

I agree, people often tend to use too low level languages, but there are also good reasons to use Assembly, just like for about any language. In most cases people had a good reason to implement a language and if there are still compilers and interpreters, which maybe even continue to evolve that's a good indication for a using a language.

And Assembly... well, when I think about boot loaders, operating system, that 64k ego shooter, implementations of (for example cryptographic) algorithms and how some things are actually easier to do in Assembly, because it is low level then that's enough reason.

And if you have fun doing so than it is more than enough reason. I mean if you don't do stuff for fun (and curiosity) in some way, I wouldn't call someone a good scientist. A passionate programmer, no matter what language usually gets stuff done.

I mean, here we often talk about things on a kinda philosophical level, but especially when you do some assembly it's just doing stuff and I mean even using a higher, more modern language they usually don't guarantee any of the things that make you better. I often see code that looks like C or Java by just ignoring how a language was designed.

I mean we just came to a point where functional programming languages (which actually can be and are pretty simple, when you think about what you need for lambda) and on the other hand loose touch with everything else. Of course, abstraction. That's what it is for. You can forget about it, but that doesn't mean it's good to not know about it.

> complexities of some specific piece of hardware nobody will be using in twenty years.

Is that so? I mean one is usually still having some kind of interface, because of backward compatibility. And even if it is like that, is it really a problem. Everything changes, what counts is experience, learning from mistakes, ... That's usually very generic and that's the stuff that you spend time on and that will allow you to make stuff quicker.
I considered calorie counting too hard to do. Then smartphones and apps came to be. I've been using the myfitness app for several months, and it's definitely bearable.
I think you mischaracterize how CS journals work. What is described there is usually the characteristics of and results from a particular implementation.
> And I say that mostly as a compliment (though I still find the Ruby grammar atrocious from an implementation point of view).

I think there is something deep embodied here. Syntactic sugar items for languages are like features for libraries. It's been said that if everyone is completely happy with a library's features, the library maintainers haven't been doing their job.
In some communities, the usedeverywhere.com network dominates. Here in Victoria, it's usedvictoria.com and craigslist is secondary. We also use a local bit torrent site.
In fairness, what they have up right now is just the initial iteration of Tent. Basing Tent on PubSubHubbub (which is confusingly abbreviated as "PuSH") would address your criticism, and this has been suggested in an issue:

https://github.com/tent/tent.io/issues/7
To be really pedantic about it, it's arguable that they are inventions (someone had to be the first to put four rocks in a row), but it's such a blindly obvious "invention" that it's insanely laughable to afford it any kind of protections at all.
Also, the evolution time of tech is remarkably fast. 10-20 years (I'm not sure how long these patents are valid) is an incredibly long time in computing to hold a patent on a small feature. Look at where tech devices/interfaces were 20 years ago. Prototyping something digital is far faster, and things can be changed and refined at a rate that physical objects just can't match.
Nice writeup. I loved the CTF. Need moar.

Seriously, what else is out there like this?
Gaming the system, well done. The reason this works is that there is no punishment for stories that no one cares about.

You could literally submit the internet as it was created to HN and all you get are points.
The not telling people “I am busy” plan.
“Best of All Worlds”: Social Networking Site for Luxe Crowd
I realise that, I just misunderstood the title's meaning.
I wonder if you have to sign an NDA to be asked the questions? IMO these cutesy interview questions have gone over the top and I think I'm going to use this as my proof.
Diaspora Now Community Property: ‘Never Supposed to Be a Startup’
Craigslist Quietly Begins Testing Maps
What is the worst programming book you ever read?
Are you not able to use images that are CC (not NC) licensed? If you're trying to sell a game, you should probably be paying to license your artwork.
Do they really ? And why the heck would they believe that ?
We killed the hell out of this site. I'm getting their Index of / page now.
> If the app wishes to not show ads or to use twitter for more of an "infrastructure-like" purpose, then there should be some kind of use-fee-based pricing model on the API side.

No need for this complexity. They could just revoke API access for apps that don't show ads per their guidelines. It'd be easy to catch any Twitter client with a significant user base that isn't showing ads properly.

At the end of the day though solutions like this just aren't realistic. If Twitter's going to show ads and other content like cards in their stream, advertisers have to have confidence that the content and presentation will be preserved. The only way to truly do this effectively is to control how your product is presented in all cases.

The problem isn't that Twitter's making these changes. The problem is that Twitter's only getting around to doing this now, years after a vibrant ecosystem of third-party clients has been well established. No one complains that there isn't a rich market for third-party Facebook clients, even though the Facebook app historically has been pretty substandard. Facebook, wisely, never relinquished control over their platform.

Twitter, as ever, is cleaning up for previous incompetence, trying to clean up a mess that never should have existed. How could they not have assigned one or two people to build an iPhone client the minute the iPhone SDK was announced in 2008? How blind do you have to be to not anticipate that mobile will be huge for Twitter, a service originally engineered around being used over SMS?

Watching Twitter bungle issue after issue over the years gives the distinct impression that Twitter is successful in spite of their executive management, not because of it.
Baseline chance of cancer is what, half? Finding out you're likely to get a specific kind should barely affect quality of life. It'll just tell you where to scan.
A Construção de Casas pelo D-Process
Can-Con so far hasn't been applied to the internet, AFAIK. While Netflix in Canada has a bunch of Canadian content, it's only because it's relatively cheap and in demand, i.e. due to market forces.

The real reason a lot of these services aren't in Canada (or other smaller markets) is due to regional content licensing.
That is a better way of phrasing my concern. I'm wondering if there is a way to build a system along the lines of a web reputation type thing which could identify people who could execute well. I could imagine something like:

This team has:
delivered 3 kicstarters (a, b, c)
failed to deliver 1 kickstarter (d)

Of course that information will get accumulated and used but I'm thinking of a formalized way of doing that like ebay seller feedback or something.
Many thanks! I love the both the book and the screencast. The way that you arrange the words and sentences make it easier for non-native English speaker to understand. But for now I'll stick with the PDF version as it is more easier to switch between text editor, terminal, and browser.
We use /.well-known/host-meta for OpenID discovery.

Explanation:

https://sites.google.com/site/oauthgoog/fedlogininterp/openi...
Kudos for supporting TOTP (what Google Authenticator uses), I hope other services follow their lead.
Unity3d running in a webbrowser? Wicked.
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Strangely, that's not what the publishing industry says when they raise the prices of physical books. Then, the primary determiner of prices is the cost of paper.
I did not follow the case at all, but how did the litigators obtain internal Samsung emails ?
I don't use fiverr, but now i use some of the services on fiverjobsite.com instead. They are fantastic!!

Give them a try.
"Part of our problem, I think, was that we were attempting the project while taking classes full time, and working."

I think your project was fantastic.

I see the main problem is the price. Most of the normal people can't justify expending $800 on an spectrometer. They don't even know what they could use it for.

People that could justify it because they need it will buy tested equipment anyway, they have money but not time.

So you need to fill the gap. The new project is making it super cheap so they could get traction like Reprap machines. At first they are terrible, but with enough people and huge market improvement is so fast like with the PC that at some point in the future it could get better than commercial closed systems.

Start small, if you can't detect UV it does not matter, remember it is 100x better than Newton ever had.
I disagree with the sentiment that the best way to move forward is always to start hacking. I too tried to learn TDD by simply writing tests first, which was frustrating and unproductive.

That approach seems similar to learning to program by typing random words into iPython until something happens - it could work, but it's going to take you months to even discover a "for" loop. It's better to read a tutorial and the documentation while experimenting.

I finally caught on to TDD after watching the screencasts at destroyallsoftware.com, and I highly recommend it to others wanting to learn. TDD is a completely different way to develop, not just an additional step on your old routine.
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How much of the digital information you possessed even ten years ago is still readily accessible?

Most of it. I've been careful.

(Now if you asked about twenty years ago you'd get a different answer; I think I've lost about 75% of the email, but most of the actual written material survives. 1992 is roughly when I got serious about personal data retention.)
Perhaps they can but until science can unlock the psychological interaction of people and food they're not going to change anyone's food habits.

If you look at the progress of medicine with respect to addictive behaviors, there seems to be very little progress. I believe food eating behaviors are very similar. In fact I think obesity is the hardest addiction to overcome simply because you can't eliminate food from your diet as you can eliminate all other addictive substances.

I know I've lost 30-40% of my weight several times and kept it off for a number of years but it always returns due to my inability to resist the psychological pressure to over eat and/or eat dense caloric foods.
Someone said the other day in the submission about Tent, they should have published a protocol first. It should have been designed before they wrote any code, app.net at least seems to have this in it's favour.
Sorry for not being clearer — it's probably a fair downvote, but I'm being totally honest and don't mean to disparage the work of the Diaspora team. I thought it was a great project and really hoped it would succeed. I don't fault them for their failure or think it comes unfairly. I think they gave it their all and it's sad that it didn't work out. Perhaps it will in the hands of the community.
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Anyway, patents don't require that nobody else be working on the same thing you are, quite the opposite: patents are designed to get everyone working on this new invention, by publishing it.

They seem extremely poorly designed for this goal.

Edit: Just as an example. Our company had one of the lawyers come in and talk about patents in our office for a couple hours one day. They wanted to encourage us to file them for any work we might be doing. One of the first things he told us was to not ever search through existing patents for any reason whatsoever.
not at the moment but I'll let you know if I ever release it