skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've personally lost 35 pounds in 5 months on keto, and I've had all my cholesterol levels drop, along with my blood pressure. (Which probably has more to do with my weight loss than the meat-based diet.) I literally can't lose weight while eating any amount of carbs; I ate 1250 calories a day for 2 months, lost 5 pounds, and was miserable. (Yes, 1250. I was super anal about calorie counting, and only drank water + black coffee. It sucked.)

The long and short of it is that every person has a slightly different combination of body chemistry quirks, so there's never really a one-size-fits-all method for losing weight. You've got to find something that works for you, considering both weight reduction and quality of life. If I didn't love meat so much, I'd probably be in a tough situation.
According to the Appleistas, it still counts as "thermonuclear war" if you detonate the nukes over your own cities. Keep calm and carry on!

(Insert joke about the 3D maps.)
I don't doubt that Go is usable and reflects an attempt to rationalize C's (non) conventions, which is a goal I appreciate. but it certainly isn't false for Python that 'the result - as anyone who has been writing [Python] for a few months can tell you - is something that works incredibly well.'
I like reading W. Patrick Lang's blog sometimes. Lang is a military man who retired as a colonel and now writes novels. He made an interesting comment about how, traditionally, it was through the arts and letters that soldiers got to know what their values were - values such as honor. In his view, with the decline of humanities education, the military has become increasingly purely technocratic and these values are being lost, with considerable implications for society as a whole. This is a defense of the humanities I had never heard before, and it really stuck with me. I think there is something profound to it.
Good point, I'll fix this in the next release. Thanks for the suggestion!
Mobile phones are pretty useful too.
$0 as well. Is kind of silly to pay for privacy. Is like going to a brothel and paying extra money to get a healthy prostitute. I expect my prostitutes to be healthy as I expect websites to respect my privacy.
You know, you're totally right. Thanks for calling me out on this. I apologize to the OP (and everyone else) for my negative tone.
Will Apple Be the First to Break $1 Trillion?
In another article author makes the point

"Also, the pins are so small that no current plug/connector manufacturer allows the 2A needed for iPad charging"

So, right now, all usb cables will suck when charing, nice.

Also, lighting is way easier to plug and eject, microusb is just horrible
Here's a New Way Facebook Plans to Make Money
How do we know this is Apple trying to hurt Google? How do we know this isn't Google trying to hurt Apple?

The fact that this sucks so bad for Apple's users and seems to be a net positive for Google would seem to indicate it is likely to be otherwise. The fact that Apple extolled the virtues of its map is immaterial. Of course they are going to do that.
Just like ctrl+3 in eclipse, command space in a Mac, win key in Windows. Find stuff by text is by far faster than anything else I can think of
I think that, to some degree, becoming an effective APL programmer almost required becoming good at data representation. If you want to do things the "APL way" you have to think about structures that work well with array, matrix and tensor processing ideas. When you could represent your data in the most optimal way you could sometimes write a function with only a few operators that could do what needed to be done to that data.

This means that, to some extent, data representation might have several local minima (in terms of being optimal) with each population of possible representations exists around the language or toolset you are going to use to process this data.

What I mean is that the optimal data representation for an embedded system (as an example) written in assembler might be different than that of the same system written in C or Forth.

I don't use APL very much any more. Back when I did I was also programming in Forth, C and Assembler. I know that the decisions I would make --in terms of optimal data representation-- varied from language to language. This is partly true because each language, in my case, was being used to deal with different problem domains. For example, APL could do high-level computations while Forth was great for low-level, real-time stuff.
Whether you or I would do it or not, it's virtually guaranteed that someone within your business circle has. Do you really care that they did?
Apple Shares Could Top $1,600 in Three Years
Happening already:

The Korean Times is reporting this morning that "Apple has reduced purchases of liquid crystal display (LCD) panels for tablet computers from Samsung Display amid the deepening patent disputes, said a leading market research firm, Friday. Market experts said that the move is aimed at minimizing its reliance on Samsung parts."

http://www.patentlyapple.com/patently-apple/2012/09/apple-cu...
> why would serious criminals continue to use any of these services?

For the same reason they use cell phones which are easily monitored - it's how the bad guys you're dealing with are already accustomed to communicating.

You have to get pretty high up on the chain before encountering a criminal who's taking any real steps at counter-surveillance.

However, an issue for the FBI is that while the big telcos have back doors in place, companies like Tango, Text+, etc do not, making it a pain in the ass to monitor/identify those criminals who at least take that step to duck law enforcement.
This app is gorgeous, but I found the UX to be confusing for my common use case of routing a trip (from the IOS6 Maps app).
I used return codes before I ever used exceptions, and even chafed at exceptions. Exceptions CAN be simpler. It's just an expressive tool, it matters more what you do with it.

I do hate to read code which uses exceptions as a normal part of program flow, it's very GOTO-like and remote and implicit.

But I don't write code that way and nothing is forcing me to write code that way. When exceptions are reserved for really exceptional conditions where a requested performance CANNOT continue, they are used much less frequently, and more locally and explicitly.

In short I think the problem is a matter of philosophy more than language facilities, and the big differences are within-language rather than between-language.

The reason I like to have exceptions used as a convention is that I think a better default for programs which have not yet covered some corner case is for them to decline to run, rather than to run in dishonor.
Yeah, I've seen them. They're very good, but for some reason I'd like to be there in person. There are several HTML5 Go presentations that are either: very demonstrative with real world examples being written and discussed, or very succinct: Andrew Gerrand/nf/enneff has a set of slides on 10 not-as-well-known features, or rather patterns one can use in Go
While true for the average developer, I would imagine a deal brokered between bizdev teams would look drastically different than those ToS.
I think the money is an important aspect because Apple uses patents on connectors to extract more money out of their users. The perennial favorite is the Magsafe power adapter connector but realistically ever since that connector Apple has gone out of its way to create a patent wall around their cables. I'm sure they justify this by saying it allows them to control the user experience, after all a shoddy cable really sucks, but its not clear that if you gave people the choice they would choose $29 'reliable' cables over $2.99 'might break' cables.

Apple has been pretty aggressive about patenting their connector designs [1]. So sarcastically I'd say this could be in use exactly 20 years from now :-)

[1] http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sec...
It is great to see that there are still "somewhere" in the world high level politicians who take these kind of things seriously. Judging by the coziness of the US administration with the Entertainment industry and its lacking willingness to clean up issues such as the Fast and Furious/AFT gunwalking scandal, I very much doubt that this would have happened in the US.
Are there larger versions of these pictures anywhere?
The whole point is they may have had no choice. Yes, it sucks, but if they don't have a contract, their choices are very limited.
No, it hasn't. It requires different hardware in the device itself to output HDMI/DisplayPort to what "should" be standard USB pins.
It should be noted that Mike Elgan is a prolific user and advocate of G+ with a big following.

https://plus.google.com/+MikeElgan/posts
I don't want to end up being the one defending the quality of iOS maps. I've been using it since iOS6 beta 1. There's been a lot of progress and other than the fun mishaps we are reading now, they are functional.

Are they as good as Google? Not even close, especially when trying to search for something specific (I think the dataset is not the problem, the search engine is). But I also wouldn't say that the product is not on a reasonable shape. It's comparable in accuracy with other maps solutions out there.

And we seem to be forgetting that Google Maps come with errors and funny gaffes as well:

http://www.cio.com/article/686778/6_Memorable_Google_Maps_Mi...

They are just the standard, the bar we measure any other map service against. And thats good, because they are really fantastic, but I think it would be naive to expect Apple to launch something of that level of quality in the first attempt.
The basic decision to not require account creation (and hence no login/password) is a key design decision that makes the app onboarding experience so pleasant. Now given that as a product requirement, what exactly would you use as encryption key other than information you can glean from the phone itself (IMEI, UDID etc.). These are numbers tied to the hardware and possible but not trivial to spoof (as you pointed out). It seems like a reasonably enough compromise for a consumer great chat sapp.

Also, for what it's worth, their biggest competitors in the field (viber, kakao etc.) picked up on that successful tactic and also don't require account creation at startup. Wonder if they've found some better ways to provide secure chat.
So it /matches/ the quality of Google's data in select few countries? Does it ever exceed Google's quality? Because it sure is worse than Google's quality in most other countries. Pardon me for expressing my disappointment.
Started with Notepad++ and Eclipse, moved to Netbeans, just recently switched to Textmate2
reputation with whom

the world is not just. there is no such thing as a "good" reputation, only popularity.

you are saying that if you are popular you won't need to defend yourself with anonymity, which is kind of like the point
Then why didn't they move to OSM or Bing Maps?
PM orders inquiry over 'unlawful' GCSB interceptions
I tried using your notes sequence and this is what I got http://cssdeck.com/labs/riffwave-js-test

Yours is much better imo, more soothing. I need to learn a lot
(4) Google and Apple couldn't come to terms (or Google refused to provide terms), so Apple put some lipstick on a pig and called it beautiful, knowing (1) would happen as well.

As a product manager, I can't imagine a company being that blind to the real state of the product, so I can't believe (3). Maps is too important for phones today to make (2) believable.

Some aspect of (1) could have influenced what both parties were willing to do in my (4) case. Apple may have said, "It's not worth $XXX million dollars for another contract when we are 50% of the way there, and the last 30% will require a shipped product, anyway, to get all the POI data."
I think you don't realize just how big Samsung is. If you're making hardware, it's not like you can just drop a partner like Samsung because of legal troubles in another department. They are huge, and it's hard to replace them over night.
What did you/he use to make the presentation?
Is this a case of media hype -- and/or the researchers themselves using innuendo to inflate the importance of their research?

http://erratasec.blogspot.com/2012/05/bogus-story-no-chinese...
Entertainment can be equated to information in a practical sense though.
Didn't watch the video.. was hoping for announced design/plan for mass-transit system to the ISS =(
Hey Skymt,
I implemented the first part of your suggestion and it worked well.

However, when I tried to implement the \W, it gave me a very different count. When I checked it against Microsoft's Word's count for block of lorem ipsum text, the original function matched it exactly. Any thoughts as to what happened?
That's some loophole! Pay a $210,000 contractual fine for buying less power than estimated, or spend $70,000 achieving that estimate... in three days... with a space heater.
Hey Josh,

I went ahead and implemented all of your suggestions (I think). Seems to be a little bit faster! Thanks.
I think this is spot on. I agree with many of the things in the article. Especially the part about setting quantifiable goals. Too many times I find myself not doing this and getting "lost" in the process of learning and then kinda giving up from being overwhelmed.
Thanks for all the support and suggestions everyone.

I've gone ahead and implemented several of the suggestions. You can check it out here --> http://wordcount.is

Thanks again for the support and programming help!
What you did was not a healthy way to lose weight and unless you make a LIFESTYLE change that you can live with for the rest of your life then you will find yourself repeatedly using this starvation technique to lose weight unhealthily. Find something sustainable, keto is not sustainable for most people, and especially not at 1250Calories...
I really hope that people reading this know to apply Ockham's Razor to their abstract models (lest they write a lot of AbstractSingletonProxyFactoryBeans).
Awesome way to read fashion blogs
really?

NZ should never have gone along with it - just trying to please the US.
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I thought about this too. But the timing plane is not typically available at the application level in telecom systems, nor would it be distributed to millions of different hosts, so it's not quite the same thing.
What do you mean by this? Why would he not want say 5% equity if offered? cheers
At a certain point, Apple is going to run out of partners to piss off.
I hardly got to the article because I couldn't quit laughing at the image at the top! Apparently that was an old painting that an 80 year old woman "restored": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecce_Homo_(El%C3%ADas_Garc%C3%A...

It's a very interesting story in and of itself.
The article stated that in some academies, at least, they were surpassing the 20% civilian faculty goal, so it seems that they are trying to make it less 'technocratic'.
I would call it the same shit that's been happening between almost every tech company since the early 2000s.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smartphone_wars
The physics of skipping stones
Just switched to Cloudfront. It's running extremely fast! Thanks for the suggestion mate. :)
>It's funny how often I run into people in the tech/science/math scene who have similar opinions.

Likewise lots of people in other fields wonder why they are subjected to "maths I will never use".

It's easier for people to justify something they prefer than that which they have less interest in.
Need a key for the icons.
It's worth noting that in NZ, the Prime Minister is also the Minister overseeing the GCSB. He has to sign off on all surveillance warrants, too. So at the very least it's a huge and public failure in his department; at the worst, he's complicit in illegal surveillance.

It's yet to be seen what his involvement is, but his whole involvement in this case has reeked of ass-covering and distancing. It'll be interesting to see the outcome of this inquiry.
No other approach to error handling is less fraught.

CL's condition system is less fraught: http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/beyond-exception-handling-co...
Aside from the initial raid, and the illegal surveillance, and the invalid warrants, and the illegal seizure of evidence. Sure.
Could the "some reason" be that the USB plug is not a mag-safe plug? I for one would definitely not welcome going back to a different type of power connector.
Totally agree. I work at an eBay Inc. company, and I feel like we announce both a new partnership and a new lawsuit with Google every week. Welcome to the valley.
You don't need much. I can fit all my possessions into less than a contractor van. http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41XCuLPUjsL._SL500_AA3...

It would annoy me greatly to own more things than I could keep track of or haven't used/looked at in the past 12 months.
Hackers ransom $3000 from NT business
That's what I hate about my country right now. We're seemingly bending over to all the whims of the US. Not cool. We're supposed to be independent little hobbits, not getting in the affairs of things that don't concern us.
I remember something very similar - I wasn't even a Google fan then and I remember just not wanting to go back to Mapquest after having seen Google Maps.
Evolution is a slow, gradual process. So it should not be surprising that much of our behavior first appeared long ago in our evolution. The fact that a female chimpanzee was observed wearing a chimpanzee made necklace in the wild shows that such behavior is deeply rooted in our biology. The behavior likely spans back to the period of time when our evolution diverged away from the apes. It makes you wonder how much of our behavior, and indeed how much of our society, is rooted in our genes.
I'm strongly reminded of Peter Menzel's 1994 book "Material World: A Global Family Portrait".

http://www.amazon.com/dp/0871564378
See also MP John Banks' “I can only help you if your donations to me are anonymous” to Dotcom. This case is making public a whole lot of what looks like routine corruption.
Speculative at best. High density display sales are ever-increasing across the market - it makes sense for Apple to diversify the supply chain. That said, it makes little to no sense to feed your competition purely from a business standpoint. Samsung can of course continue to sell their parts to other OEMs.
Google News turns 10
You do know that rice/fruits get converted into sugar, right ?

If you switched to just vegies and meat I guarantee you would lose weight.
You write a well documented application that is useful, adheres to as much of REST as you can and leave the theories to other people.
I wonder how the public would have perceived a situation where Apple took that path originally, or even if they played ball and kept the default Google app as it was, being behind Android and paying money to Google, until a few months time when they release their own.

Anyway its all hindsight I guess, now they need it fixed as soon as possible to stop the jokes, everyone is talking about this, most of my friends are not into tech and they all know about it. I really hope they release a stellar iPhone 5s when the time comes, with this and just giving money back to shareholders I can't see them lasting the next 50 years.

I hope Apple really gets this fixed soon. The joke has to end.
Google's interface was revolutionary, but MapQuest had deeper and more accurate data for years.
What Educators Need to Know About Tech
Do you have any sources to support dietary fiber as the real causal factor, as opposed to other diet / lifestyle variables?
Despite the fact that this was filtered through HN seeing a stock picture of a key and then skimming quickly and seeing even more stock pictures turned me off from reading the article. I thought it'd be interesting to point out.
Good on you. AirBnB should not be allowed to succeed with a business model that supplements people's income in an absurdly high rent market.
They're using OSM - as for Bing, they'd be trading one headache for another. The notion that Apple is doing this to take control of a core aspect of iOS seems to make historical sense given how Apple likes integrating and controlling popular functionality into their products.
Hacking startups strategies
same posting again, are you spamming?
I think you misread the comment. Ketogenic was one diet, 1250kcal/day was another. I lost a significant amount of weight on a ketogenic diet as well but it's been about a year and a half and it's hard to keep away from those carbs...
I see the reasoning, but I can't help thinking that any event that would disable two or three well-planned backups is also rather likely to disable the fourth - especially if that one comes with no guarantees. I'm thinking that in the event of a major natural cataclysm, societal upheaval, etc, tarbackup.com is not going to be foremost on nanch's mind.

I think this service could be most useful for spreading out the risk. For a user outside North America with a backup drive in their house and another backup somewhere else on their continent, adding an extra one in the U.S. might make sense. If your backups are already on S3 in Oregon it's probably realistically less useful.
He has enough money, he won't need investors.
Ok, so you raise an excellent doctrinal question, its one of philosophy. What is the role of the state in employment?

A libertarian view would have the state remove any barriers (short of money) that would prevent an individual from improving their own skills.

A traditional capitalist view would have the state provide enough educational opportunity to become 'minimally skilled' and achieve a living wage.

A socialist view would add to the capitalist view with a support network for folks with additional disadvantages such as learning disabilities or other impairments.

A communist view would provide jobs regardless of skill even if the product produced nothing of economic value.

A despotic or corrupt view would empower people to enslave others to increase their economic output as long as it didn't make the state 'look bad' to the international press.

Its a spectrum (more like a 3D surface) with folks all over the map. So far there have been few long term successes when the laborers were not able to improve their own skill sets, and some pretty spectacular failures when the labor pool was artificially prevented from improving itself.
Yet NZ is supposed to have next to no corruption. OK...

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption_Perceptions_Index
Yeah - to call Google+ the Google Maps of social networking is like calling Smalltalk the Facebook of OOP.
Didnt even get into the issue of what happens if you already have a rent controlled apartment that you use airbnb to make a profit from. Theres a entire gamut of issues around airbnb that have yet to be explored and frankly I dont see how they will continue to be able to operate.

Right now its on the outskirts, since they are faciliating vs doing it themself. They have some ToS which says "You confirm you have a BnB permit" but of course no verification happens
Seriously? I found the story to be intellectually stimulating. There's a lot in the news about how the new version can be an interpretation of both secular and sacred themes. I hardly consider my comment un-hacker-news worthy.
$300k/year is not abnormal at all for a fairly senior engineer or director at Google in Silicon Valley after bonuses and stock grants. It doesn't matter whether people say those numbers or not, anyone who works in the Valley knows that's the market rate.