skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"does eating certain ratios promote muscle growth, yet fat loss? (this is a premise in the high protein diets)"

I think the key thing in extreme dieting is to ensure no loss of muscle. An obese person is going to have to take drastic measures to lose weight, and are highly susceptible to malnutrition (many times they're already malnourished due to poor diet to begin with) and cutting the amount of food you eat in half can be dangerous.

The key problem with anorexia isn't that they have such low body fat (it's a problem, but it's unlikely to kill you) it's that they don't intake enough protein. Once there's a shortage, your body starts using muscle inside your body, and unfortunately there's a extremely highly protein dense half-pound of muscle we all know as a heart.

What the Atkin's diet is great for is that if you drastically need to lose weight you can do it without causing serious and irreparable muscle damage and potentially heart damage.

If you're wanting a long-term (as in 1 month or longer) change in diet then protein is key for exactly what you said. Most obese people are at high risk of things like hernias as most never built up the muscle in the abdominal wall and are literally a ticking time bomb.
In the US, some of the most egregious bandwidth users use the equivalent of $10K+/month in bandwidth.
Well, one reason I keep going is that I'm not you and I don't have 15 years of living expenses. I have a wife and three-year-old girl who depend on me. I still have value in my house, even at deflated prices; it makes no sense for me to walk away from it. With my education and skill set, I can probably weather the storm as merely underpaid and underemployed. As long as I can put food on the table and keep the roof over our heads, I'll be happy.

> The older generations are gonna want us to work extra hard to pay off their debt

I agree, but what hasn't played a role in the prognosis for the future is technology. Slavery used to be the only resource leverage factor. But for the last two hundred years we've had technology as well. How many "unserviced people" (people who work but are not really paid, such as slaves or machines) x does it take to do the work of y? The further we push technology, the higher we can push that x:y ratio. So, if you look at it, at current ratios, we're screwed. But if we can really push technology, we might pull out of this ok. It's not fair that we should have to, but those are our cards.

And I don't want to be one of the millions of people telling you what to do, but in a similar situation to you, I would take everything and go someplace stable, safe and quiet, such as Switzerland, and keep things liquid and diverse, such as gold, silver, Singapore Dollars, Swiss Francs. I would absolutely get out. My wife's grandmother is Czech, and she was very rich before she had it all taken away in the 40's. It's not an uncommon story in such times, and such times are coming again. Get out; get safe.
Maybe Apple just don't think Opera matters. I mean, that does seem to be the general opinion.
He actually does mean a minor mode. Imagine using it while writing code, not just essays.
This one is located in Germany:
http://justaloud.com/
Bleh. I guess you can't expect too much from a publication associated with TechCruch.

As I said over there:

1) There's no stats, so how can they claim it's not selling well.

2) There are many iPhone apps developed by the Japanese, that would suggest that the phone is selling at least moderately well. (IMO)

With that said, the iPhone is not as special for the Japanese, as their phones have been very advanced for a long time — although perhaps not to the level of usability that iPhone reached.
There is also bus scheme which is written in ruby:

http://www.rubyinside.com/busscheme-ruby-scheme-interpreter-...
"A lot of people would be a lot happier if they could back off a little bit and see things for how they are rather than how they wish they were."

That's one of the central messages in Buddhism, FWIW. It's what "desire is the root of suffering" refers to.
Simple, yes, but too simple. That formula ignores the fact that (all things being equal) as your weight drops, your basal metabolic rate drops as well. This means that with each pound you lose, it becomes harder to lose the next.

This is why exercise is critical for losing weight. Exercise counteracts this effect by raising the metabolic rate.
Very good addition to Rails, truly a missing piece as putting stuff in cronjobs spreads the logic of the app around. This makes it more readable as well.
I want to be notified when someone replies to one of my comments - not stories!

Just a message box that would appear on the page that someone replied to one of my comments.. and this message box should appear only when there are new replies... along with links to the specified comments!

What do you think? :)
Very good collection, but wouldn't the value of this material have been much higher before the financial crisis? It seems like the theories and methods applied in these texts played a large part in the downfall of the financial system. Mathematical models != financial markets. A lot of good math and statistics for people interested in those areas, but it will probably be decades until "financial engineering" loses the stigma of failure.
Yeah, but I'm saying that, based on the contents of the article, a more accurate title would be: "Oldest human words that still happen to be used in English found"

The words they discuss are really more 'sounds with meaning' where the sound hasn't varied much relative to the meaning no matter which language or time period you look in. Just because the language 'English' wasn't differentiated before some century doesn't mean the words didn't exist.
I used to get them often and frequent and I used to live in the UK. I'm currently in Canada and in the past couple of months I've noticed the NYT is no longer a humongous pain in the ass and I haven't been asked once to register.

Perhaps they have stopped requesting sign-ups from international users.
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you don't need stats for this, why are they giving it away for free then? meanwhile here in the US some people bought the 1st iPhone version at a very high price!, is jp a smarter market? maybe!

I'll have to agree Japanese market phones are a lot more advanced than US.
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Even I have not seen this yet but I have heard about the reduction of bandwidth even on the so called "unlimited" offers. I thought Airtel was the only decent ISP left in India, but they also seem to be messing things up.

And btw these ads are not gonna help them sell their insanely expensive DTH services. Also the lack of understanding of the technology among their customer care executives is shocking!
I didn't know cooking pasta was this complicated. Directions:

1) Fill pan with hot water (your water heater already expended a ton of energy heating the water, why waste that? Or if you have an energy efficient water heater that only heats water when you turn the tap on, well that's still tons more efficient than a gas or electric stove top).

2) Put pan on the stove and add copious amounts of water.

3) Insert pasta and wait ~10 minutes, or to your personal texture preference.

4) Drain pasta and place on plate.

5) Eat pasta; a good pasta is usually tasty just on its own.
It took decades after Chernobyl for nuclear engineering to lose the stigma of failure.

Sarcasm aside, I think that you are half right. Some of the financial engineering stuff was genuinely wrong, and financial engineers will have to figure out what.
Clicking the up and down arrow on HN seems to work OK. Similar voting or comment moderation systems on reddit or other places are sometimes reasonably fast.

I would not mind selecting a pull-down or radio button and hitting submit at the bottom of the page, however. In fact I'd prefer it.

And there are more examples of such systems poorly implemented, often to the point that they kill the usefulness of the site. Slashdot's firehose with it's + / - buttons is like that, and slashdot's main page has become like that, but I am logged in have as many "new features" turned off in my preferences as possible. When I type text into a box on Facebook, I can outrun the letters appearing by several sentences. There are numerous sites that use various kinds of javascript rich text or html editors that are also pretty unuseable.

I like gmail, but not it's javascript features. I use the basic html setting, because if I live it up with the normal setting, my browser will become unuseable after a few hours. It was particularly bad in some of the previous versions of firefox, which apparently had some memory fragmentation issue regarding parsing javascript, but as javascript brings no benefits and makes the page take slightly longer to upgrade, I have never switched back even now that I have the latest upgrades to the browser.

I like google maps as an application, and I use it pretty extensively, at least once a week. I don't find it's panning arrows and so on particularly appealing, and I habitually restart the browser after using it, to clean out any javacrap memory issues remaining.

And it is not simply the idea of the type of interface google maps has that I object to: for example, I love Google Earth, and I like to change the angle of view and rotate around various landmarks and so on. This is on the same computer where I turn off java script for gmail. So it's not just that I have some Amish insteance on older interfaces. It is that javascript in the browser sucks.

Now, that doesn't mean you won't make a billion dollars making a web site that depends on javascript, of course. But all other things being equal, I think you should focus on interfaces that are very simple and very fast if you want to get adoption. It's probably more important to hand-code your html and run it through packing scripts that remove all whitespace and etc, to really scrape every last byte out of what is sent to the user, than it is to have an up/down arrow that automatically submits to the server.
Was it Ian Fleming that said you should never start writing a sentence unless you know how it's going to end? It seems we're now in an age where sentences are started without knowing how they're going to start.
That's the thing: It doesn't ignore anything. If your basal metabolic rate drops, that means you are expending less calories through those means. The bottom line remains the same. You'll either need to consume less calories as a reaction, or up your calorie expenditure through increased exercise or through metabolism 'tricks' such as consuming increased (but safe) levels of water.
I never said it was easy. It took me two years to figure out _how_ to eat less when my metabolism magically changed. There is nothing in any book could have helped me with that. Each day was an experiment. Still is, but the bottom line is I don't eat as much as I did before and the things I do eat just happen to be classified as "healthy." It's a big PITA.
Yahoo SearchMonkey Adds Facebook Profile Actions Into Search Results
Value of a social network user
how do you put a value on the user of a site such as facebook? or even more so on plentyoffish.com? I'm number crunching a marketing strategy for a startup and wondering where i could find information on the return per user for big name sites? or is this confidential?
Some are valuable, others are stark reminders of how much hubris exsited before the financial collapse.

Example: here's one from Goldman Sachs which is essentially a sales pitch for adding Mortgage Backed Securities to a portfolio: http://bit.ly/N4dMb

A quote from that: We believe investors have the opportunity to significantly improve their risk/return profile by strategically
allocating a portion of their portfolio to the MBS/securitized sector for two important reasons:
1) the historically attractive risk/return profile of the securitized sector and attractive yield opportunities
relative to Treasuries and 2) the diversification benefits from introducing new sources of risk and
potential return to the portfolio.
Hunt not the Snark but the Snarker
When you have more people voting, naturally each vote is worth less than when fewer people are around to vote.
I don't think the point of this article was to be a copy and paste twitter alternative, it's more to show that it's possible to do it (at least that's what I got out of it).

There's also no hashing/salting of user passwords or anything. Even with some minor coding experience you should be able to pick this out.
Well, of course: Facebook started by serving a specific niche (campus social life) that was very large, but that no social networking site specifically focused on. By doing so, it built critical mass quickly.

Lots of new social networking sites are starting these days focusing on specific niches, and they're very useful within those niches. And then there's ning and its ilk, which are "meta-niche" social network sites.

There are also still a number of very large unserved niches that create openings for new Facebook-like social network sites. (I'm actually kicking around the idea of going for one of those that I happen to be very familiar with)
thanks for the response; what you said makes sense. I guess my question is more about why should I keep working honestly, when the whole world seems to be working dishonestly.
This is Hannes from Popcuts. What Zed describes ("Competitors Don’t Get It") actually did exist for a while. Snocap used to offer a service where you uploaded music and could sell it through an embeddable ministore. AmieStreet has something similar. And, of course, so do we.

But I think the author oversimplifying a bit. Sure it's technically easy to sell music online. The stuff that's hard to come by is people's attention.

And while it's true that the Internet lowers distribution barriers, it has also decreased the perceived value of music recordings. Because access has gotten so much easier, people tend to think of music less as something you can own, but rather of something you have access to, be it through MP3s on your hard drive or streaming. We at Popcuts set out to address that. Because we think there's a deeper sense of ownership possible than simply having access to a sound file. And we do think music should have a price tag.

Our site is based on the idea that buyers of a song get a share of the revenue that song makes in the future. So when you buy a song on Popcuts, it's in your interest that that song does well. You might tell your friends about it, but you probably won't seed the file to a BitTorrent site. In addition, we try to reward the behavior that a lot of music fans already show: They know of a hot new band before everyone else, and they want to show it off. </selfpromotion>
It's not that the music industry is dead, or even dying. It's that the record industry is.

For a long time, the record industry has been the epicenter of the music industry, the point from which everything else originates.

Spotify is succeeding because they understand that consumers don't really care about owning music — what's really important is spontaneous access to it.

With or without Spotify, the music industry needs to realize and come to terms with the fact that physical records are increasingly becoming irrelevant and adopt their business models accordingly. Spotify is merely making this more obvious than before.

The music business can flourish, as long as they adapt to the new circumstances instead of longing for the ridiculous successes of CDs in the nineties. CDs were perfect for that time, but they aren't for today.

The author is probably correct that Mariah Carey like contracts are probably not coming back, but instead the industry has an opportunity to let a thousand flowers bloom; recording and distribution costs has lowered to almost zero.

As with other media, the people are now in control of the message. The music industry should realize this and let great music crystalize itself through demand, instead of trying to control which song will be big right now.

I think the author is wrong about a Spotify for movies, however. People often think that what is true for music is also true for film, but that is certainly not always the case.
I don't post any comment on HN anymore and I don't read comments often. It's time consuming. I visit HN every day and I pick 2 to 3 interesting links on average. That's it. If I need more time to waiste I go to reddit it's more fun.
I have a huge appreciation of the WWII generations. They lived through the hard times, and learned frugality/sincerity/compassion. Baby boomers...not so much. That's why the current crop of congressmen (who are mostly baby boomers) decided to give billions to the banks without getting rid of the executives, or kill the bond holders, etc.
I think you're not aware of the Cocoa development culture that spawned Atlas/Cappucino.

People in this culture don't tend to build the kind of endless, mindless forms you're talking about. They build real apps.

And they don't generate code--they generate linked objects (freeze-dried in .nib/.xib and now .cib? files) that are unfrozen at runtime.

If you had to generate a whole bunch of mindless forms, you're right--metaprogramming solutions would be a big win.
Oh I agree completely that it isn't a nice assumption; it is just a simplifying one (like the proverbial spherical cow) that's mostly wrong. But I don't think it is entirely wrong, and the ways that it is right may be useful, as an experiment.

Maybe I shouldn't have used the word bad. But new users may not know the established traditions of a group, maybe they haven't even bothered to read the FAQ. The articles that got me thinking along these lines were: http://www.shirky.com/writings/group_enemy.html and http://www.cc.gatech.edu/classes/AY2001/cs6470_fall/LTAND.ht... . The gist is that an important group function is to defend itself against (new) users.

But I think that what it'll do is to make votes matter because they cost something. Mostly, I'm interested to see what the implications would be.
I get that, but when I'm not browsing Hacker News I keep company with hundreds of teens who take code like this and implement it into their own sites, or edit it a bit and redistribute it. I think releasing code of this standard without specifically stating that it is not ideal for actual public use, you put these teen's sites at risk - perhaps without even realising it.
Agreed. I love articles that tell you how to build something from scratch, they always give me new ideas.
Because WebKit releases nightlies titled "WebKit.app" that people can download and run as a standalone app.
I've always been fascinated by how that works. Hindenberg pretty much killed the Zeppelin industry, yet airliners crash all the time and no-one's afraid to fly. The Titanic didn't herald the end of sea travel either. What's the difference?
I had high hopes for mp3.com in the late 1990s -- they had a system that was kind of similar to MySpace, but also let artists produce and sell on-demand CDs, and take a cut (50%, I believe). While the downloads and CDs were never big moneymakers for artists I heard of one local band in the Boston area that managed to build up a respectable fanbase thanks to the service. The on-demand CD pressing arrangement was also convenient for creating and selling limited numbers of CDs to sell at shows.

That iteration of mp3.com's business model didn't survive, but I really think that has more to do with the power of major labels and existing distribution/sales channels. In my opinion, it's hard for Band X to make it as an indie artist without the backing of a major label's marketing budget and arrangements with Apple, Amazon, Walmart, etc.
Live video of the event?

Watching the Hindenburg burn is just frightening. I think airplane crashes are far less scary because they are so fast. Financial disasters don't really seem to prevent the next bubble, but video of Chernobyl burning and an abandoned city have real impact.
I don't think all code should have to come with a warning label.

I'm 17 years old, falling into your teen category, and there is no way I would ever run that code in a production environment - just by looking at it I can tell it's unfit.
Right--whatever your session cleanup strategy is, it's got to be run from cron.

It's great that the author includes a cap task in the documentation, though the role should usually be db, not app.
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The difference is that there is enough demand for airplanes/ships to overcome these events. That kind of demand doesn't seem to exist for Zeppelins, probably because they are so slow.
Going off of the "show your work" idea, is it possible to analyze the writing style to prove that it was -you- who wrote it? Or is there too much variation? There was a bad episode of Numb3rs where they used someone's "typing profile" to identify someone, so it just got me thinking :)
How about just installing laconica?
Wordpress is the complete blogging solution, or so I'm told. So why did I bother to code a CMS for myself from scratch? Because I wanted to learn and it better suited my needs.
Again proof the moderating the posts is the secret. The hive mind does NOT work. Moderation is vital. pg does it here, and no one does it on reddit, the difference is obvious.

Slashdot is semi-dying due to lack of moderation, the karma system is not enough. Thery still have traffic and good stories, but you can read pages of comments and they are all junk.

Ask MetaFilter works not because of a hive mind, but because it's strictly moderated.
Analyst: "Apple's 99-cent iTunes model does not build a market for apps"
I'd imagine that it is at least a few factors. For one, there is a dramatically longer history of sailing and boating such that the occasional accident, even one on a massive scale, doesn't shake confidence so readily.

With respect to airplanes, I think it is again a proven volume/historical problem. Zeppelins (and blimps) have very low maximum speeds and limited capacity. As for airplane accidents, I don't think they are very frequent so much as it is just that they are generally so heavily broadcast (for good reason).
The article appears to be referring to Morris Swadesh's list of words

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swadesh_list

used for comparative language studies. Swadesh pioneered the study of glottochronology,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glottochronology

which is not an exact science, but suggestive of the kind of interesting patterns mentioned in the submitted article.
Anyone have any technical info on this? Is it flash? Java? Something else?
What are the stakes, why are they low, and what can be done to elevate them?
It doesn't now, but back then Zeppelins were pretty quick compared to ships!
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Don't think it's either.

I had an invite for the closed beta, went through all the steps to register and create an account, only to find they only supported Windows. What a waste of time.

I'm told they'll be support Mac and Linux eventually... but if your browser-based game requires yet another plugin to be installed, you've kinda missed the point imho.
I don't believe this effect is restricted to the computer-related industries. I distinctly remember there being some rather vicious altercations between artists, particularly during the Renaissance period, over whose style was better.

What it boils down to is reputation. Trolls seek only to reduce the reputation of his victim.
Mike Turner's Do-It-Yourself 95 MPG AeroCivic (Slideshow)
True. I think the event just brought about the inevitable death to an industry that wouldn't have been able to keep up as the cost effectiveness, carrying capacity and maximum distance of airplanes grew so rapidly.