skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Thankfully I think the country is starting to come around to the notion that no amount of sodium reduction, fat-reduction, or carb-reduction will work if you continue to shovel it into your mouth by the gobful."

The things I usually want to shovel in my mouth are carbohydrates, and insulin spikes explain at least part of that. I eat far less when I'm trying to keep my insulin low.

Everyone knows you have to eat less to lose weight. The question is how. Some techniques are more successful than others.
I don't have numbers on that. We did have level02-2 hitting load 100 at one point, though. Also, from the first level08 server we put into the pool:

root@leveleight2:~# ifconfig eth0 |tail -n 2
RX bytes:8200746652 (8.2 GB) TX bytes:27399989757 (27.3 GB)
Our diets changed. If we revert to eating what humans ate 100,000 years ago we do NOT need to count calories and we do not get fat. What happened is we started cooking and eating things that could not be eaten raw, like grains, potatoes and so on. If you eat only stuff that can be eaten raw your body will do a pretty good job of maintaining your ideal weight without counting calories (assuming you don't have a thyroid problem or something of course)
You mean like the time when many people will be driving a long distance to visit family?
>As a result, cash back tends to be slightly less lucrative than points, just because they're able to charge an implicit 'premium' for this kind of security.

What's the premium? The annual fee? I've read through the comment several times, perhaps I'm missing something. Either way, the Blue Cash Everyday is there for nice rewards (3% groceries, 2% gas, 1% everything else) without the annual fee; I just chose to mention the BCP since, like most of the sought-after points-based cards, it has an annual fee.

I am skeptical of the actual worth of the points provided by various travel rewards cards. Here's an example: http://www.delta.com/skymiles/use_miles/pay_miles/index.jsp -- the typical conversion rate for a "mile" is one point per "mile", is it not?

10,000 points -> 10,000 "miles" -> $100 credit for total fare

Granted, there is the benefit of MQMs, but one has to consider the $150 annual fee for the particular card.

rdl specifically mentioned the Starwood Preferred Guest, which earns up to 4-5 points per dollar, although that is restricted to Starwood Preferred Guest Hotels and Resorts; it's 1 point per dollar anywhere else. Thus, there's a possibility for big travelers to earn an effective 4-5% cash back some of the time. In cases like this, I can see how points have merit. Otherwise, I'm in favor of cash back.
The best JS library for fullscreen that I've found is https://github.com/toji/game-shim

It's good because it shims the W3C specified fullscreen API; you only have to learn the specified API, you don't have to learn some other API.
heart attack

Thought for a minute after seeing the headline maybe the CTF was closed... I'd have thrown many (more) monitors out the window if I didn't get to finish lvl8 after spending so long on it...or at least ditch a few more monitors trying to finish it.
Emacs actually integrates pretty nicely with gdb. Just split the source file being debugged horizontally and fire up gdb in the other window:

Split the windows horizontally: C-x 2
Switch to the other window: C-x o
Fire up gdb: M-x gdb

You can set breakpoints with C-x <SPC>. Emacs will show an arrow next the source line about to be executed.
For spectroscopy, I'd go to the online handbook put out by Richardson Gratings:

http://gratings.newport.com/information/handbook/handbook.as...

For a textbook, this one is pretty good:

http://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Spectroscopy-Donald-L-Pav...

For optics, Hecht is the classic text:

http://www.amazon.com/Optics-4th-Edition-Eugene-Hecht/dp/080...

I'd suggest Keating though, since it is a more comprehensive overview and includes things like the human visual system and some basic math review:

http://www.amazon.com/Geometric-Physical-Visual-Optics-2e/dp...

For instrument design in general, these books are outstanding:

http://www.amazon.com/Building-Scientific-Apparatus-John-Moo...

http://www.amazon.com/Optical-System-Design-Second-Fischer/d...

Of course, any understanding of spectroscopy should include some background of the physics behind what you're measuring. Any modern physics book would be fine: Krane, etc.:

http://www.amazon.com/Modern-Physics-Kenneth-S-Krane/dp/1118...

Haven't tried this one, but it looks cool:

http://www.amazon.com/Spectroscopy-Reading-Stellar-Practical...
Jargon is wonderful once you've learned something. Then it lets you communicate concisely with others who share the same working knowledge.
Depending on what you do, the 'productivity tax' is often temporary. It can take a while to find out what tools you like best and get them set up just how you like them.
Not to mention, counting calories is just painful. Have you ever really tried to do this? Frankly, it just sucks.

Has any other culture in history EVER counted calories? I'm betting "no" considering the calorie is a relatively new concept (1842). And yes, somehow they managed not to have the obesity problems we have today.

>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calorie
Good AI discussion on reddit
And he has a (pricey) video course on AppSumo.
How Apple killed the Linux desktop
Exactly.

We are learning that certain things in the diet (sugar, grains) promote metabolic issues that fuel overconsumption.

The ideal state of being, which everybody would like to enjoy, is being able to eat until you are full and then stop.

That is not such a simple process from a hormonal standpoint.
I help run a game club, where we design card games. We've abandoned Creative Commons because no license allows selling cards containing their images.

It seems to me that this proposed change might allow us to use Creative Commons licensed images, which would certainly accelerate our path to market.
My neighbor at work looks through this book all the time-

http://www.amazon.com/Hadoop-Definitive-Guide-Tom-White/dp/1...
> Most people can sacrifice 3 months of their life and not see their loved ones. It is really only 3 months of your life.

Most people with kids live on the edge of a precarious childcare cliff. It's a marvel of logistics to allow both parents to keep their jobs as it is--3 months of one parent holing up would push the whole family over the edge of that cliff. What is your spouse going to do, take 3 months off work?
These Are the Samsung Products Apple Wants Banned in the U.S.
I haven't really looked at it, but I don't think DataSift is intended for twitter clients to use.
I had a similar experience while in Japan. Perfect time to use the Google Now currency card, right?

Nope, as soon as I set foot in Japan, the currency card doesn't show up in Google Now. The world is only going to become more and more internationally linked; hopefully Google figures out a better way to manage this than they have so far.
I love how people like to forget about that, software patents never carry the actual code in the patent, so I can't see how they are really divulging how everything works without the code. As it stands when a patent for software finally does expire, no one gets how it worked except for those who had already re-engineered it.

Please someone correct me if I'm wrong but doesn't this seem a bit strange?
I think we are going to need some seasoned vets because idiots like me won't be able to follow along otherwise. The only problem is that there isn't enough revenue in these systems currently.
Stephen Fry: “I Use Ubuntu”
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You're rationalizing what Semmelweis said with a modern understanding of medicine. Of course, today, it's obvious that thoroughly clean hands help eradicate pathogens, and so it seems obvious that to note in 1840 that handwashing in chlorinated lime lowers death rates is to come immediately to the crux of the problem.

In fact, doctors in the 1840s were well aware of the concept of contaminants. They had already assumed a regime of handwashing. Moreover, Semmelweis himself was not content to lobby attendants to wash their hands. He was instead fixated on the idea of cadaverine particles, going so far as to invent new vectors for their creation in cases where no contact with dead bodies could have occurred. Semmelweis wasn't even correct about the mechanism of action in cleaning hands; he believed the chlorinated lime more thoroughly removed particles, when in fact the key was to kill the pathogens.

A simple way to sum the problem up: Semmelweis advocated handwashing... for staff who had been conducting autopsies. Semmelweis was on to something, but he himself seems to have missed it by a wide margin. Things could have been different if Semmelweis himself stuck with the evidence, rather than seizing the first bit of it that confirmed his theory and running away with it.
And yet, repeatedly in its history, Apple has come out with major new inventions, while its competitors seem to just ship the same old stuff.

The primary improvement for most PCs has always been the work of Microsoft or Intel, not Dell, HP, et al. Yet Apple has worked to actually improve the design and technology of the PC itself.

The truth is, genuine innovation is exceedingly rare. Nobody was working to revolutionize the cellphone industry except Apple. Apple was the only one who cared, and that's why they caught everyone flat footed.

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.

Two people who happen to come up with the same method at the same time is so rare I cannot think of a single example... and if they did, there would still likely be differences that result in both getting patents (even if one of them gets the patent on part of the solution because he files first.)

If samsung had been doing the fundamental research that would allow them to release an iPhone type device in 2008, Apple being to the patent office first would not have been a problem for them--- because the phone they produce in 2008 would have been so different because they would have had 5-7 years of working in isolation with the priorities of a korean company and sensibility of korean culture.

They would have produced very different solutions to these same problems if they had been working on them.

Instead Samsung was not working on a touch UI, not even trying to do novel work, and simply decided to copy apple thinking the litigation risk was worth it.
If you ever really developed a time machine, you could go back in time and either pay off (with money made from placing bets on events you know the outcome of) or in some other way prevent the original filer from submitting his claim.
The latter are necessarily in it for the money, if only to continue existing. As an example, Clojure: https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!msg/clojure/zH...
What I mean is: until you've won in your primary market. Until you've won, your effort is better spent on winning your primary market than expanding to new markets.
Do you have a source for how many submissions are done a day? I'll write a small script.
It seems that each new diet (based on scientific principles) contradicts the last.

Nobody gets paid for solving solved problems.
i'm sort of in between on this. I really don't like using the graphical debugger in xcode, but it is great when you have to dig around on multiple threads. I used ddd a bit, but always ended up just reverting back to cmdline gdb.

typically though, the performance of the graphical debugger is pretty lousy compared to commandline, and (in the case of xcode) it doesn't do everything. Knowing how to navigate yourself on the commandline is very beneficial, especially when you need to [for lack of better words] rip the shit out of something, inject chunks of memory, or forcibly reproduce bugs that don't happen often.

That being said, I have heard that visual studio is amazing. For some reason I've never developed on Windows platforms so I've never had the opportunity to use the debugger.

I'd be curious to hear other people's opinions/expereinces. I'll freely admit that I use the tools I use because I've grown comfortable with them.
I just really don't get it.

If the problem is that they can't figure out how to monetize third party apps, the answer is staring them right in the face.

So, Twitter is already going to dictate what the tweet view looks like. In-stream ads won't be much more than tweets. So why not stipulate that an app MUST show in-stream ads in a given format? 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. Sure, people might bitch about the high API costs, but it's better than nothing.

Or maybe that was their plan all along: throw out these API changes threatening to cut everyone completely off, then eventually "concede" with new ad-supported and use-fee API rules and have everyone applaud them for "listening to their customers".

You'll have to forgive me for being more cynical than normal... but with this twitter stuff lately it just seems like we've all entered into the Twilight Zone of Suck.
let's work on that WP plugin dan! ping me if you want
What part of the laws of thermodynamics imply calories in -> calories out? This belies a total ignorance of their actual meaning. The first law of thermodynamics would be satisfied in any of the following scenarios:

1. Your stomach explodes, releasing the caloric content of the food as heat over a brief duration

2. Your digestive tract decides to stop digesting, and passes the food through unmodified

3. Normal digestion

As you can see, conservation of energy is completely meaningless in the context of diet.

The second law of thermodynamics concerns itself with efficiency of processes. To apply it usefully, we'd take into consideration the different metabolic pathways of proteins, carbohydrates, and fats. We know for a fact that the pathway for sugars is thermodynamically more efficient than proteins [1] - the laws of thermodynamics directly contradict "a calorie is a calorie"! Not to mention the fact that consumed protein is metabolized and stored differently than consumed sugars, which are in turn different from fats.

[1] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC506782/#__sec4ti...
Indeed, I did ever worked. Of course you need some breadth of knowledge, but unless the place was absolutely tiny, your low-level developers writing VHDL weren't going to be asked to optimize a SQL query or tweak CSS.

Not that they couldn't, but why would you?
You want a "peaky" light source to build the spectral response model, xenon or deuterium flashbulbs are cheap on amazon... I would lean towards using deuterium because I think the relative power of the peak to the blackbody floor (the rest of the light freqs) is less than the xenon, so you'd have less chance of the peaks dominating your sample with a less sensitive webcam type sensor
This may be of interest to you

http://news.yale.edu/2012/08/02/hunter-gatherers-expend-same...

People researching modern hunter gatherer societies are finding that they expend roughly the same amount of calories as westerners.
machine generated "content" must be profitable, no suprise here
How 3dcart Bootstrapped To Success And Continues To Grow 40% Per Year
Okay, sure. So let's do the unthinkable: I'm going to see what Enterprise wants for a unlimited mileage full-sized sedan, over the Labor Day weekend (pickup Friday noon, return 8am Tuesday). Big car, big holiday, short notice.

$179. Still not seeing "hundreds of dollars" here.
If sunk costs (based on missed opportunity cost) factors in, then you also need to know what future earning opportunities would be for all (or most) founders/employees had they taken a job in Big Corp vs working at the startup that was acquired. You'd at least want to be able to realistically forecast earnings over the next 10 years. If they've increased their future income by more than what they gave up, it's a net win.

The problem is that's impossible to accurately forecast. An additional problem is that the basis is only financial, when (most?) startup employees aren't there just to make the biggest possible payout. There's an increase in responsibility and autonomy across the board in a startup. How is that valued for each individual?

The point in saying "was the acquisition a success" can only accurately be viewed by looking at the other alternatives at that moment. Any other analysis is significantly flawed.
Also, Zooko and Amber Wilcox-O'Hearn are reviewing the science related to ketosis and diet here:

http://www.ketotic.org/
I haven't done it (i.e start the company _as_ the kid was born) so I can't be sure but he was born during the most hectic phase of the company, bootstrapping our way up, with lots of travel. Even during that time, I still had plenty of time to enjoy watching him grow up.

The best lesson for me was watching my co-founder Tony Thomas, who could maintain his Buddha-like calm in the face of trying circumstances. He was the one who taught me it is possible to keep that balance.

Of course, I haven't watched any television in years (for the longest time, I didn't even own a TV set) and I cannot name any recent music band but thanks to the Economist-habit, I can quote the per-capita GDP of most countries within 10-20%

So you have to make judicious choices, but it is possible to achieve that balance between family life and entrepreneurship.
Unrelated to the topic, but all the "X is not a X" subtopics remind of this interesting paper I read not too long ago titled "A File is Not a File: Understanding the I/O Behavior
of Apple Desktop Applications"(http://research.cs.wisc.edu/wind/Publications/ibench-sosp11....)
Counting calories is a great way to lose weight actually. Every time you go to eat something you think "Do I really want to record this in my food log?" Then you say no and don't eat it. I ate drastically less as a direct side effect of trying to count calories.
Processing takes many forms.

Removing of fiber, adding of sugar, etc.

The end result of many types of processing is a food which is both more nutrient dense and less filling.
"Sunk costs" aren't a part of the discussion we're having.

Nobody is arguing that founders should turn down acqui-hires.
It was apparently novel enough that a number of companies and open source projects have now implemented similar UI feedback where they didn't have it before.
For the love o' Pete - break this up into paragraphs. As-is it's unreadable.

If I were a hiring manager (I'm not, but I scan resumes for them now and again) I'd give you an A for enthusiasm and circular file it.

The actual content .. this won't fly at all with a mid-to-large organization, or an HR person, that's for sure.

Might work with a smaller company, or startup.

Best advice echoes that above: tailor your letter to the recipient. Use this enthusiasm to tell them how you would solve _their_ problem.
Apple Wants To Kill These Samsung Products In Patent Case
Thanks. However, I'm more interested in evaluating a market to see if I want to enter it in the first place.
Implementation of CSS Layers using Z-index and Positioning Attributes
Jason, be very careful about putting much weight on comments from programmers. When you get a bunch of guys (mostly guys) with the same skill together in one place, they'll tend to start spouting machoisms to show off. Programmers will say things like, "You don't really understand X until you can do <something I just learned to do>" or "You're not a REAL programmer until you <abandon some modern convenience in favor of the programming equivalent of stone knives>" or whatever.

Ignore it. Programming is like any other skill, where mastering the fundamentals is the heart of it. There are a LOT of basic concepts---basic and composite data types and data structures, the difference between a thing and some kind of pointer to a thing, ways of repeating operations (looping or recursion), breaking big problems into small ones and building back up to the big, being aware of causes, symptoms, and cures for common errors (off-by-one bug, overflowing an int, testing floating point nums with equals, etc.)

What matters most is training these basic ideas into reflexes and learning to easily match combinations of these basics to most problems you encounter.

Learn the basics, then tackle lots of fairly simple, common programming tasks (google for sites that offer lots of programming exercises) until those basics become part of you. You should also work on "fun" projects of your own at the same time so it won't get boring. Forget the arcane and obscure features and techniques for a while. They won't make you a great programmer; mastery of the fundamentals will.
Sorry, there was a bit of sampling bias there. Most of the juicers I know will lean heavily on juicing fruits, not vegetables/leafy things, for the sake of flavor.

It's fine to juice things, especially if it helps you to get vegetables in your diet, but avoid fruits and excess sugar. I know too many juicers who end up getting like 70% of their calories from sugar because they're sucking down glorified fruit smoothies all the time.
Not certain about DataSift, but we used Gnip and part of the terms was you couldn't display tweets to your users directly off the firehose. I'd imagine DataSift has a similar restriction.

Besides that; neither give you access to private tweets or DMs, so you pretty much have to use the API for a client of any worth.
I couldn't have said better!
using a 2D sensor, you could actually just block one half of the slit at a time with your sample, and let the other half of the slit pass through unchanged... that way you could get a calibration shot for every sample, assuming the dynamic range of the sensor was high enough that the calibration lines didn't bleed (or conversely that your sample didn't get buried in noise because exposure wasn't high enough)
Just telling them how to start it and use "bt", "up","down","print", and "cont" would be a huge step forward for most developers...

On a related note, it drives me crazy when developers don't know strace/ltrace or the equivalent for their platform. I use strace many times a day to diagnose anything from my own code to figuring out what config files an application actually loads to finding out what's slowing an app down.
yea, agree with this. emacs integration is very nice. as a side note, if you're particularly aggressive with gdb or the project you're working on is very large it helps to increase the buffer size significantly
The CEO of Meetup Does Not Have a Desk [video]
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Assuming this is true, how much is control rights vs need for de-novo architechture?
Facebook was not taking on Facebook.
>This is why I don't bother with Google Music. I'm not interested in having my files disappear to "not available in your country"

i think you might be misunderstanding how google music's restrictions work. i have full access to google music without any restrictions just because i signed up while using an American VPN. i've never even accessed google music from outside of Canada, and it all works great.
I wish I knew. I have trouble with this with even my closest friends. I have a difficult time saying "you know, this girl probably isn't right for you" which after they break up they say that they wish I'd have said something.

The only thing I can think of is to make a concerted effort to be honest. Not too honest. I have noticed that if you're too honest it comes off as rude and abrasive even if it's true. Hopefully that will encourage my friends to be honest with me which is the kind of honesty I value the most from all the people I know in life.