skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lets roll in the science-mobile and discuss real, concrete things.

1. Not eating carbs has nothing to do with our hunter-gatherer origins, there are no over-arching truisms that can be made about the macronutrient distribution of how hunter-gatherers used to or currently eat. Concordantly, paleo "proper" insofar as it resembles utilizing our understanding of hunter-gatherer diets to eat healthier than a Standard American Diet is not necessarily low carb.

2. Eating carbs doesn't cause you to turn into the Stay-Puft man like magical fairy dust, even if they're relatively unhelpful to sedentary people as a nutritive calorie source. Sedentary people should get more protein and fat than carbs relative to what an athlete would.

Moving onto 'keto', which is the more GI/ketosis focused variety of low carb/paleo:

High-fiber and whole-grain calorie sources should be preferred to the opposite. The only thing that makes an apple not "junk food" is the fiber. Fiber has been shown to blunt the glycemic impact of carb-bearing foods. Apples are otherwise useless unless you really need the carbs to survive/fuel your activities.

>http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjourna...

>Determining which aspects of the Western lifestyle are truly aberrant for our species and pose the greatest risk of obesity is complicated by the conflicting and limited data on diet and metabolism in non-Western populations. For example, while Western diets are certainly more sugar-rich and energy-dense than more “traditional” diets and wild foods [4], [8], [9], many hunter-gatherers seasonally consume a large portion of their daily calories as honey [10], [11] (Fig. S2), which has high concentrations of glucose and fructose [12].

>As is typical among traditional-living Hadza, over 95% of their calories during this study came from wild foods, including tubers, berries, small- and large-game, baobab fruit, and honey [17] (Fig. S2).
Summer at Khan Academy
Tabasco Sort: A Super-optimal Merge Sort
NIST’s New BIOS Security Standards (Another Industry Tongue Twister)
As a student attending the University of Michigan this fall, I was looking through the introductory programming course syllabus and it mentions only ddd. Is gdb something used more heavily in further courses more specific to those pursuing a concentration in EECS?
> In which case, I find it troubling. The USA should have far higher standards of proof than that.

True. They should have.
And that's alright. Aaron is asking for feedback, not selling books and talks with this.
Massive Weekend Dumps of Accounts/Records
New More Professional Version Of My Website
Apple would patent "Rectangular input screen" if the legal system would let them. As a proud and happy owner of an Android Galaxy S2 I will do all I can to thwart apple from additional profit from me or anyone I know.
"That creates an environment which is exceptionally prone to failure. That is why I think it is a weakness of the model, it doesn't surface the root causes of failure easily."

Why are you being so negative?. Kickstarters give normal people the capability to invest in -fund other people and that is amazing. People will make mistakes, but real investors make mistakes every single day. Venture Capital is called that way because they accept risk and most of the projects they invest in don't make it. They get by with those that do.

It seems like you prefer people not being able to spend their own money in order to "protect" them. Maybe you have personal interest in that.

I funded a lot of KS projects, some of them with over thousands dollars and I am extremely satisfied by ALL of them. With video you have so much information and clues about someone to know if she will comply.

The best way not to fail is not to try, but good things in life come from trusting people and risking too.

PS: It was clear from the start Diaspora was going to fail. Too abstract "pie in the sky", like someone telling you he is going to do a diet versus the same person giving clear message of how, when, where and what is going to eat in order to improve his life.
Understanding the Genetics of Intelligence: Can Height Help? Can Corn Oil?
I'll avoid posting spoilers here, but feel free to shoot me an email (gdb@stripe.com) if you want to discuss more. We will indeed send out confirmation emails for the shirts -- you'd be surprised by how many people typo their addresses.
to test interest in your product use bing ad center to buy the traffic - cheaper and much easier to setup.

to estimate how big the market and competitors are use the spy tools.
I suggest updating your "why should I use it" section then. I also saw a trivial polyfill and stopped reading.

I also like the idea of an option to fall back to making the element fill the page if the browser doesn't support the fullscreen API. You could even breifly display the hotkey to put the browser window in fullscreen if it supports it.
If you want to experiment with your own dietary in-out behavior, I recommend you institute a change for 3 months and then plot the diff using this

http://bwsimulator.niddk.nih.gov/

It mathematically modelled from data of many large, longitudinal studies (Nurses' Health, Framingham, etc).

As a physician who reduced caloric intake in January, I've found the bwsimulator to be very predictive and informative on how I can modify things further in the future. But you really do need a couple of data points on yourself to plug in first.
Glad you enjoyed :). We have a few places linked on https://stripe-ctf.com/about (namely http://google-gruyere.appspot.com/ and http://www.hackthissite.org/).
Agreed that HN is better when articles are on topic.
> metabolic pathways

well, here you go!

http://web.expasy.org/cgi-bin/pathways/show_thumbnails.pl
I wonder if can affect variety of the diet though? "I have no idea how many calories this salad is, let me eat that well measured donut instead and be done with the paperwork" would totally be my train of thought...
I've only recently become much better about testing and TDD in general and it's only since I actually started trying to do it. It's much more rewarding than I ever gave it credit for and it gives me an opportunity to keep my code from violating a lot of bad design practices.

Addressing a few of your points:

b) Absolutely, it's not easy to keep testing when incorporating 3rd party data sources and APIs. I've found that Dependency Injection is a hugely useful tool for attacking this kind of situation. Take this small snippet:

def save_image(s3_library=AWS::S3::S3Object)
s3_library.store(...)
end

I just was working on this today. Typically you would put your AWS call in the method - this separates it into an injectable dependency that you can mock and set expectations on in your tests. In fact, once you start doing this, you quickly realize why the Law of Demeter is such a good idea! Stick to testing only the behavior of the current class and relentlessly stub and set expectations for collaborators - each collaborator already has its own set of unit tests (presumably) so testing the results of collaborators does not add value and makes tests harder to maintain.

c) It sure does feel like you're writing the app twice and I've fought with myself over this very issue. I have compromised with not forcing everything to have a test and instead to test things that aren't default crud. Alternatively, look at it as an investment in maintainability and refactorability.

I recently switched away from using Cucumber to using Rspec's built-in integration testing methods and I feel a lot happier writing integration tests. I encourage you to evaluate why you think Cucumber is a good idea and seriously consider discarding the layer of indirection that gherkin introduces.
New Arizona Law: ‘Pregnancy Begins 2 Weeks Before Conception’
Does anyone know of a way to fix the problem when getting out of a fullscreen page in Chrome for Mac? Normally, when trying to exit fullscreen page when the browser is already maximized, it gets thrown out of its workspace - a minor annoyance, but it's irksome enough that I try to avoid using HTML5 fullscreen in web pages.
I misread your name as "Can, TADA!" :)

Maybe it can be a website that tracks things you can do in Canada! (maybe even focusing on things that you can't do elsewhere)
I'm impressed they kept up in Rails versions, starting apparently with 3.0 beta

https://github.com/diaspora/diaspora/commit/0390bbde8a74ec30...
I really, really appreciate your response.

The micro-religion fanatics were causing me to question why I even bother.
500 euros is not crazy. It is the normal first job wage in Greece and the way things are going will be the normal in many European countries. I do not think the reason people do not join is the year contract. The days of severance payments are long gone. The commuting is more plausible given the high cost of fuel. So you should consider work from home arrangements. As for creativity, I think it is something that is special in all countries. Your average person, including me, does not have the courage to be creative (in the sense of creative you are employing.) Entrepreneurship is an exclusive club everywhere, and if you look I am sure you can find its members in every country, including the poor countries you mention.
Bill Nye ‘The Science Guy’ Hits Evolution Deniers
[LLVMdev] [RFC] Resurrecting the C back-end
Your timeline does not reflect the reality of a product development cycle. But to my untrained eye, the first Galaxy S looked most like the iPhone 3GS. The Galaxy S2 adopted a brand new design language (more business-y and kevlar-like, super thin, bump on the back for some models) and I believe it sold the most. I remember reading the specs for the S2 when it first came out and it just impressed me how significantly it outclassed all phones up to that date. It was a no-brainer phone to get at that time all on its own merits not as a cheap copy of something else.
> What part of the laws of thermodynamics imply calories in -> calories out?

The part where you restrict your assessment to more or less normal digestive function? Obviously if your stomach explodes or your intestine just plain stop working, caloric intake/deficit is now one of the least of your worries.

I think you actually hit the nail on the head here though, in using the word "imply". Calories in - Calories out doesn't give you an exact picture, but it comes reasonably close for the purposes of most people.

It's by no means a perfect understanding, but someone who is obese needs simple rules that can successfully get them started more than they need a perfect knowledge of the science involved.
Previous discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4436253
Correct assumption.
saying “You were right, I was wrong.” It didn’t destroy her reputation; it rescued it. [...] Wayne Hale took full responsibility: “The bottom line is that I failed to understand what I was being told…I am guilty of allowing Columbia to crash.” He was promoted. When JFK admitted the responsibility for the Bay of Pigs fiasco was “mine, and mine alone,” his poll numbers soared

I would guess that the survivorship bias is at play here. How many people we will never hear about took responsibility and were demoted, fired or prosecuted?
> I thought he was a terrible President but still would love to have a beer with him and shoot the breeze.

I might be selling the sophistication of the electorate short but I think this attitude is probably a little unusual. I suspect for most people likability, approval, and electability are all rather synonymous. Difficult to prove since the polls don't include the beer question, just the questions related to actual approval.
> Thankfully, at least with iTunes music, this is not an issue of DRM. If there had been any music on my mom's laptop that I wanted, it would have been easy to transfer it.

With iTunes music sure. What about TV shows and movies? Books?
Very cool guys! :)

Flattr support would be nifty too
Go's unique approach to OO
It's weird. Often times you'll hear people saying they ate an apple for desert instead of that chocolate souffle the waiter recommended, when their main meal was a 2000-calorie monster full of breaded chicken, onion rings and french fries. And then they will tell you their dietitian told them to eat more fruits, so they are following his/her advice!
A Best Case Scenario For Why The Recent Mac Pro Sucks
You can use conditional breakpoints and watch expressions in gdb, too. It works how you would expect, not dissimilar to the GUI way.

One advantage is that gdb might be available in more environments.

In general, whatever you are more comfortable with is the better tool. I prefer command-line interfaces for most things, but find it easier to set breakpoints by clicking next to a line of code.
> The day after election day, you're probably going to be telling us that 45-55% of the voters were idiots.

You replied to me but I really don't know where you were trying to go with this. I assure you, I think way more than half of voters are idiots. ;)

(at least in their capacity as voters)
Yikes, that'd be nearly two fifths of vodka. I'm could be naive here, but I'm not sure the hardiest of alcoholics can put that away in one day.

I get the point, mind you, just shocked by how much alcohol that is...
>"Indeed, one of the most successful teams in Y Combinator’s 2011 class ripped up its business plan eight weeks through the 12-week program, switched to a different industry, and wound up raising $2.5 million in funding"

And then...what?

I guess I'll never understand how, in this world, getting funded is some sort of end. Getting funded means you now have the cash to become a real business, rather than having a two-man team eating ramen and sleeping on the floor. But it's still only the beginning. What proportion of funded startups end up failing? I'll fathom it's a lot. And if you get funded, then flame out, are you a success?
We will also end up being a lot shorter by eating the diet of ages past, which suggests that that is not the optimal diet either.
If it's so narrow, why is it a problem for Samsung? You can't have it both ways. Either it's just an obvious, trivial idea, or it's a specific implementation that's a useful but not necessary extension of the art.
Now I know how politicians define "misconception."
the number of jobs that can be supported is really just an easily understandable analogue for growth potential. any business, no matter how efficiently they use technology, will end up supporting a large number of jobs if they grow sufficiently large.
I actually somehow missed SUSE studio while looking around for similar things. They're pretty sleek, although I think they're targeting a slightly different audience. I'll be playing around with it for inspiration and possible sticking points.

ISO Generation, and particularly livecd generation does tend to be text-heavy. A whole lot of that can be abstracted away and automated though.
Go native, HTML will lag for a while
Please provide citations if available.

It is entirely possible there is a well-understood theory with masses of supporting evidence that for whatever reason the public don't think is sexy enough to be true. This is the problem with evolution for example, where there is the data behind it but the US public still think its controversial.

Note: If Person A provides a book reference (secondary evidence) and Person B provides no specific reference (no evidence) then I am biased towards Person A. If Person B could provide a reference to some research (primary evidence) then I am biased towards Person B. If Person B ends with some general slur against my profession after someone asks for a reference, Person B loses the bias.
The Challenges of Cloud: Infrastructure Diaspora
"First-party clients" is certainly a new euphemism in this context.
> My opinion - food processing and the agricultural revolution. A metabolic derangement caused by overly processed agricultural products.

It's simpler than that: dense food and lack of exercise. More people have access to more calories than at any other time in history. At the same time, we spend more time at work and at play sitting and expending minimal energy than at any other time in history.
wrong solution to the right problem.
Plentyoffish, Taleo, Club Penguin. All global leaders in their space from Canada.
This has been the complete opposite for me in Europe. I have to get a new account on the national Amazon website if I want to avoid paying extra fees for out-of-country delivery. That also screws up Recommendations, doesn't transfer my Wishlists and so on. To make the experience even less enjoyable you cannot change the language of the page and have to translate grind the whole page.
> Don't sell yourself and other high-altitude-ballooners short—40km is almost halfway to space and is an amazing achievement.

He's just being accurate. 'Ballooon reaches spaaaace!!1' articles upset H-A-B-ers more than most.
GDB's not the only debugger out there. I think the real limitation is lack of debug methodology in general. I've discovered numerous features of proprietary debuggers just by thinking "I wish the tool could do X" only to find out that it already could.
Opensignalmaps: Who has the strongest signal in the areas you frequent?
Twitter API Changes Are Already Posing Challenges To Tweetbot Developers
It's not an imperial unit, but it's not an SI unit either. One glaring example of it's inappropriateness is that the 'calorie' varies depending on what you're measuring (as you say, sometimes a gram, sometimes a kilogram). The SI unit is the joule.
"Sunk Costs" ARE part of the discussion you're having. You're just choosing to include them when they probably shouldn't be. They aren't relevant to whether or not an aqui-hire is a success or failure, mostly because they require us to bring up a number of other factors that are nearly impossible to evaluate (we're speculating on pricing that opportunity cost, without speculating on future impact on earnings, or any factors outside $). The idea that an acqui-hire needs to recoupe everyone's potential opportunity cost to be considered successful is silly.

The answer to the question is "it depends", and what it really depends on is the possible alternatives at that potential acquisition point, not all possible alternatives that could have happend in the past or future. An acqui-hire is a success if it leads to the best possible outcome at that time.
... and the classy thing for Apple to do now would be to say, "ok our point was made, keep selling your crappy old phones, just make sure any new ones don't infringe on our designs."

Jobs is dead and buried, let's bury his hatchet too, eh? This is all very tiresome. I'd love it if this became a widespread PR negative for Apple and became a pyrrhic victory for them.
Why platform matters in web application security?
Yep, my diet is ridiculously consistent. I cook my food in bulk (saves time and money), drink lots of protein shakes, and when I eat out I usually order the same foods. My typical weekly meal list probably contains fewer than ten items that I switch around. Most of the variety comes from experimenting with new zero-calorie ingredients like condiments (e.g. cinnamon) and salt/pepper.
I would simply have the probate judge order Apple to transfer the DRMed files to the party inheriting the files.
This comes up often in communities where there aren't many parents. As a parent, I can tell you that every single doctor in the country uses the "40 weeks" standard for preganancy, which counts from LMP (last menstrual period). Anybody who tells you "I'm 16 weeks pregnant" is counting from their last period. That means, under the "40 week" system, the first two weeks of "pregnancy" occur before conception. (Or, as pregnant people say, the first two weeks are free.)

Yes, this is a silly system. But it dates back to a time in history when it was easy to know the date of your last period but hard to know your date of conception. Ultrasounds have changed that, but the "standard" 40-week calendar remains.

Eg (in honor of About.com's transaction): http://pregnancy.about.com/od/pregnancycalendar/p/week3.htm
Kicktraq is Like Google Analytics for Kickstarter
"[T]here’s a certain irony to Craigslist suing other companies for creating maps with Craigslist ad data — claiming a breach of proprietary content — then turning around and using an open, crowd-sourced mapping solution to create its own maps."
My truck can't do 260 miles on a tank. Luckily, 260 mile journeys are exceedingly rare, rarer in both a truck and a $100k sports car than in anything else. Both of those have tradeoffs on long journeys; the truck costs $70 to fill and the car takes a good amount of time to recharge. Both are enough deterrents of long journeys to keep you living within your means.
"Facebook, wisely, never relinquished control over their platform."

What did Facebook do differently? Third-party Facebook clients have been possible for quite some time, perhaps from the initial launching of their API.
Building the First Underrepresented Minority Tech Incubator in Southside Chicago
Supporting African-American, Latino, Women, LGBTQ, etc Tech and Entrepreneurship. We need this: www.indiegogo.com/buildCibola
Twitter's image would be better served by the bandaid-removal approach. Everything bad - all at once, rather than this drip-drip-drip of changes perceived to be hostile towards its developer community. You have to figure they've got a road-map of where this heads, so why not do it all at once and consolidate the pain?
while health insurers can't discriminate on the basis of genetic tests, I'm pretty certain life insurers can.

- good to know
I (and in anecdata, many people I know) use it to follow some "big names", and a splattering of smaller names, for broadcast information.

Why is this a negative? To a first approximation, the "big names" you follow are an indication of your interests, and advertisers are very comfortable with broadcast media.

Following anyone also indicates a degree of commitment that simply hitting a "Like" button does not: You're willing to see everything that person/business Tweets.
This is a great point. If you're not to the point of running out of money, and you don't yet have substantial evidence that the niche you've targeted is severely limited, considering an acqui-hire seems silly -- unless that was really your goal to begin with.

This makes me wonder at what point in the life of the startup most of these acqui-hires are occurring.

EDITED TO ADD: Further reading (e.g.: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4425364) suggests that indeed, the usual point at which an acqui-hire becomes relevant is when the business is on the verge of failure.
I work in Democratic politics, and I'm a progressive.

That said, I come to HN so I can get away from stories like this.

Also, while this is a travesty, it did happen four months ago.
Please. They play 'Call Me Maybe' on the radio every half-hour in the SF Bay Area.