skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well I'm not on Windows right now, but I guess it depends on the use case. For normal use of the start menu almost never. However pressing start key + typing the application name shows the best hit at the top as far as I remember. How is this solved in Win8? Does typing an application name bring up a search result list similar to spotlight on OSX/iOS?
As someone who lived in Toronto and moved to SF, it's a different scenario. Taxis in Toronto are plentiful, and there are almost always taxis available - just not where you want them so it fits. In SF it's different - there's not enough and they can pick up rides anywhere. That's why calling a taxi doesn't work as well as Toronto (where you can call one and they'll show up). In SF half the time they don't show up because they'll pick up a far on the way.
How did you record that?
It would be nice if someone did some stats on Ketosis diet users and (mostly) vegetarian diet (as per JohnsonB) users regarding general health and life span.

Also very interested in the outcome of fasting:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-19112549

We need moar stats!
Let's call them users
Lyft now automatically includes $2 gratuity, fyi. Still cheaper by 10-15%.
Oh good. Another failed startup with massive over investment, a sucky product and no revenue gets bought for megabucks. Nepotism and back-room deals abound.
Creative ideas that came from dreams
First homework due tomorrow!

That brings back some unpleasant memories. When I was a CS undergrad something the professors would enjoy doing was assigning problem sets on the very first lecture of a module that were deliverable by the next lecture (often the next day). I assume it was a mechanism for figuring out people's learning rates.

Of course it was great fun beginning a new term and having 2 or 3 such classes on the first day.
Many countries ban phone spam or have a centralised opt out list. A good side of the regulated telecom world.

edit: replying to comment below, many countries have
working opt out lists.
A deep, almost countercultural, conviction in the maker community that the gains from their efforts -- if there are any -- should flow to the pirates who helped to build the ship or signed up to go to sea, not the tradesmen who gouged them for supplies when money was short and the adventure had barely begun

-- Street cred is its own asset, and has its own market
Lyft < UberX
Haven't tried UberTAXI yet to know, but I would expect it to be in the middle.
This is true only in a test situation and untrue in every other situation in school. In lecture, in office hours, and when doing homework, if you don't understand something and just let it slip by, chances are you're just going to get more and more lost, whereas if you ask for an explanation, you're more likely to keep up, learn more, and do better on everything you're graded on going forwards.

I see this more as a criticism of test-driven undergraduate academia than as a counterpoint to the idea that people should be more forthcoming with admitting when they don't know something.
I don't know the official policy, but anecdotally, I won with an entry that used libperl back in 2000: http://www.ioccc.org/years.html#2000_dlowe
Piloto de aerolínea no tiene a dónde escapar,
Amazing entries.

These are also the winners for "language you currently hate" clear code contest.
OK, that's a good start, but I hope you're devoting a fair amount of effort to improving your decision algorithm. At the moment, it considers tretz.com to be 60% pronounceable, but llmyw.com, qenis.com and domyh.com to be 100%. I can kind of see how a naive algorithm would calculate that, and I'm pretty sure you can tweak it to make it better. Bonus points for using some sort of neural net or Bayesian technique to improve scores, perhaps with a button next to the score to allow people to adjust it.
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I'd like to see some error bars or confidence intervals on these plots. If you just compare the data from two different years there seems to be a lot of variation. Some error bars would help you decide if the variation between days of the month is meaningful, or if it can be explained by noise.
>This thread is going to be hilarious. There's nothing quite so beautiful as people who read the same half dozen pop science books arguing about nutrition, a stupidly complex science about which almost no universal statements can be made (with one and only one exception[2]).

I'm confused, you argue that nutrition is a "stupidly complex science" and as far as I can tell, are insinuating that most of these people who read "pop science books" on nutrition will be overconfident in their knowledge/understanding on the issue. But in your second reference to your blog you argue on one side of the issue, specifically taking the side against popular authors like Taubes. If the science is so utterly complex, why do you simply take the side arguing against ketosis diets (in that they are not superior to simply following calories in, calories out logic?) Are you more informed because you read blogs like Guyenet's instead of books by Taubes?

From a blind perspective, I wouldn't say that Guyenet is strikingly more scientific than Taubes. I'm not sure what the line about Guyenet being a "sciency scientist", but supposedly Taubes not, is about. On the one hand you argue against casual confidence in nutritional science based on popular science writings, and on the other you take a high level of confidence yourself in certain theories...based on popular science writings. hmmm.

From your blog:

>Net calories is, therefore, a forcing element in this system.

It's funny how you argue against simplifications, but this one of the biggest made in any dietary context. Calories in, calories out, is only relevant to the weight loss issue in one direction. You can't burn more energy than you take in, but you do not necessarily store in fat energy that you take in but don't specifically burn out. So the argument is that with a ketosis diet, you can intake extra calories and not get heavier, so long as they are protein/fat calories. This is backed up by fairly strong empirical evidence, which as your blog suggests, is more important than knowing the dangerous and deceptive complexities of the exact chemistry of the human body. Go with what works, and for most people, losing weight on a low-carb diet will be a helluva lot easier than on a low calorie, high-carb diet, your personal experience notwithstanding.

And:

>"Calories in minus calories out, ultimately, settles the body weight balance."

In that this is not unreasonably universal advice, but that it should just be the default diet advice instead of "low calories" for weight loss, that statement is incorrect. It is ridiculously easier to lose weight on a low-carb diet and sustain it than on a simply low calorie diet. For most people. If you enjoy persistent food cravings and low energy levels, and potentially deleterious effects on your long term health (from low fat diets.), then sure, eat a high-carb diet.
Original: http://www.idg.se/2.1085/1.471850/nytt-sigtuna-tar-form-med-...
I'm pretty sure this kind of thing doesn't make governments nervous. For one thing, they can always place a virus or a bug on your phone. Or they can do it the old fashioned way and bug your car/office/bedroom.

This will only going defeat the "dragnet" type stuff that combs through millions of conversations looking for keywords. I guess that's something, but if you've managed to attract the all-seeing eye you shouldn't be lulled into a false sense of security because the link between your mobile and someone else's is secure.
Why couldn't they do that before?
It's all about having backers who have fingers in pies that they can arm-twist into buying you. It also makes people who have profitable growing startups without funding like yours truly bitter as hell.
Interesting, I had lots of success with the Body4Life plan. That combines weight training, HIIT and the 6/1 split of protein/carb-overload.

It works really well for fast weight loss: in 12 weeks, 22kg fat burnt and 7kg raw muscle mass added (if the measurement is to be believed).

Sure, I've gained 15kg fat back since I stopped, but that's the Achilles heel of all diets..
The fact that it won for "worst abuse of the rules" doesn't help your point much. :-)
If you really want to learn game development on the web, you should check out http://codehs.com

You learn how to make games that run in HTML5 Canvas using JavaScript, and there are custom libraries that make graphics and user interaction much easier to deal with.

Also, you can take the class at your own pace, so no need to worry about artificial deadlines.
You can force it to show 4-letter domains http://www.swola.com/index.php?limit=4 but none are actually available, they just don't have DNS records.

http://instantdomainsearch.com has this same problem when deciding if a domain is actually available or not.
What would you call Coursera and Udacity then? Because they're both for-profit...
Some crazy and not so crazy startup and project ideas
Gruber is plenty critical of Apple, look at his analysis of Apple maps. He justifies why they had to do it, but still agrees it is not ready.
I think the explanation that monthly tickets, arrests and convictions are easy numbers for managers to rate the 'productivity' of police is enough to explain such behavior. If your anywhere carrer minded as a police officer, or your getting shit from your manager, you'll probably initiate such behavior.
> It's funny how you argue against simplifications, but this one of the biggest made in any dietary context.

I was wondering when someone would point this out.

Oh wait, I already did that: " I’m about to do what every smart person likes to do: drastically simplify a complex phenomenon."

and

"Well, if it please the court: I’m guilty of this too. I’ve simplified enormously."

The point of that particular song and dance was that the ultimate cause of long term weight is net caloric balance. That's the one, simple, verifiable truth about nutrition that everybody agrees on. Everything else is a bunfight.

Any hypothesis which sincerely proposes that net caloric balance does not necessarily determine long term average weight must explain by what biological mechanism the conservation of matter and energy is being violated.

> Go with what works, and for most people, losing weight on a low-carb diet will be a helluva lot easier than on a low calorie, high-carb diet, your personal experience notwithstanding.

You have no idea what my macros are, you're just assuming. For me protein is the number one priority and I let the rest of the chips fall where they may.

Lots of people swear by keto. Swing past /r/keto and you'll find a success story every day. You can also swing past /r/paleo, /r/loseit and so on and so forth.

I don't really care about how the caloric deficit is imposed. In my case it was through intermittent fasting. What matters is that it was imposed.

Funnily enough, I thought of that point too:

"The key to weight control is finding the dietary template that you can stick to for the rest of your life. That will be different for different people. Some folks are happy with calorie counting a la John Walker. Some people are happy with paleo, primal or ketogenic diets. Others swear by zones or low fat and so on."
"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge." -Stephen Hawking
But Riak is much limited on the queries you can run.
This might be the first time I am using the downvote button after 3+ years on HN... click
hard to understand the drop-pricing-model.
In my experience, it's not just throughput that's important, but also 99th percentile latency. If I understand fractal trees correctly, you sometimes need to rewrite all of your elements on disk. How do you do this without causing lag?
I love the fact that he's an ex-SEAL. Dragging him into a little room at the airport to intimidate him might not work so well here.
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Didn't realize skulls could be so thick. This tangent on defining hypocrisy belongs somewhere else.
Exo IDE October releases boosts Java development in the Cloud
Considering iTunes match is one of the best things I've ever used I'm going to say no sarcasm and that you're in the minority.
Two wrong conclusions:
=== is infinitely better than empty() due to less glitchy behavior. don't use empty, ever.

Numeric arrays in PHP are AS SLOW as associative array, that's pure fail and one of the reasons PHP::fannkuch is so slow.
Voice communication is not going away any time soon. Twilio Client lets them continue powering it for developers well into the future. (disclaimer: used to work there)
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The free service can be tested at http://www.cloud-ide.com

Amazon Beanstalk is now supported.
There are big concerns with mobile phones, especially with the radio baseband. I'm reluctant to consider phones genuinely 'secure' until the radio doesn't have access to the user OS or non-radio related hardware, and the microphone and sensitive storage is physically separated from the phone.
Would be good to see what "that" is
Correcting myself: they do say in the methodology section
that they are using RAID 0 and say that the write benchmark
is multithreaded. So that explains it, it's measuring
write throughput for 4k writes.

Nothing to see here, move on...
Larry Page Defends Google's Privacy Policy
Jumping the shark means to have peaked and now being past ones former glory. But Apple never had any peak or glory as far as social apps go.

My bet is that upcoming Apple products will continue to break previous records; the supposed acquisition of Color notwithstanding. Would you seriously bet against the next Apple product selling like hot cakes, based on this?
Copy and paste not working properly for you?

Let's not ignore the larger issue. Data science is not science. It's a title that was made up by some clever people to manipulate their way into high-paying jobs.

Doing some fancy math on data or running a few gigs of garbage through an algorithm, does not make you a scientist. It makes you a script kiddy with some math skills whoopdy friggin' do. Most of what "data scientists" call science is an insult to the great and noble effort that is science.

So, what is science? Well, science is not data, and science is not something that is done on or to data. Science is a great art that uses data as a tool for discovery, and here's where I think the definition of science is lost on "data scientists". Discovery? Discovery of what? A data scientist will tell you it's about the discovery of value and how to extract it. Oh really? That's a load of b.s. if I've ever heard one. No, the data in science (real science) is used to discover fundamental laws of the universe. These laws make the universe simpler and easier to understand. The stuff data scientists sell you makes nothing simpler. They just offer suggestions based on questionably-calculated probabilities while feeling their way around in the dark along with everyone else. The only hypothesis of the data scientist is "this data model will help me keep my job."

Sorry if this sounds biting or bitter, but the bullshit people perpetuate to con money out of others evokes an emotional reaction in me.
If you are getting truly unsolicited calls or messages you can email Twilio and ask them to check it out. However, having worked there and looking up numbers I was getting contacted by, I never had a positive match in Twilio's inventory.
The centralized opt out list does not work. We have a centralized "Do Not Disturb" (DND) list in India and it does not work. The marketers always figure out loopholes in the system.
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Ah, diets, where bad science reporting meets physicians with pet peeves, "folk wisdom" and fads.
A VIM script snapshots the file every so often, and another program turns the recording into HTML. Package for both is here:
http://uguu.org/arc_homura.html

Manual:
http://uguu-archive.appspot.com/homura/manual.html
Came here to write exactly that

This is 'feeding the startup trolls'. Where's the value in Color? Nothing

Maybe that's what Apple can't do properly: acquisitions.
I don't look at them as 'diets' per se. I think of them as lifestyles that fit my current goals.

So, for instance, when I want to maintain weight, I eat moderate carbs after I workout. If I want to gain weight, I'll eat more carbs, and higher GI carbs, after I workout. If I want to lose fat, I'll do the 6.5 day refeed approach (this was nutshelling in its heaviest form....there are many nuances, but you should get the idea).

You don't have to gain the weight back. Just realize what made you successful and start adapting that to how you live after you hit your goal, whatever that is.
Theo de Raad's analysis of the problems with releases of current open-source projects is pretty impressive.
What kind of quick meals would you suggest for a very busy person on a students budget? Many of us hackers do things outside the norm, sleep deprivation is long touted as a form of achievement. What do you hackers out there eat to 1. Maintain your cognitive ability, 2. Ensure you get your minimum nutrients and 3. don't take too long or cost too much to prepare
They aren't accredited.
CERN & CloudSigma talking big science - big cloud
I agree - the service is great, but the client apps are not. In particular, if you have a lot of songs, the iPod app can get really slow and confused (things have improved a bit in iOS 6, but it still crashes on me occasionally, especially when shifting between networks)
All I can say is "finally."
The FSF opens nominations for the 15th Annual Free Software Awards
Database access latency will always be an important factor of _latency_ .

That doesn't prevent anyone from coding stuff that requires 20 times less application servers while using the same amount of database (+caching) servers.

The very idea that because the DB call takes a while to complete, we can waste even more CPU cycles is a complete misunderstanding of real world use cases.

But then, the very use of PHP means that you don't give a shit about execution time or server costs at all.
love the second idea! would totally be willing to help build something like that :3. I can already see a few ways it could be expanded, as well.
"Diet" in this case is not something to lose weight. Diet is 'whatever you eat'.

If you're 'dieting', you're doing it wrong. Instead of dieting, avoid crappy food and you're fine. Dieting shouldn't be something you 'succeed' or 'fail' at - if it involves restrictions you can 'fail' at, it's probably a terrible thing to do to yourself in the long term.
This is really awesome, thank you for sharing it.
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Using powershell:

PS> Get-Weather

gives:

Location : Secret, Location (ABCD) 12-34N 123-45W 85M
Time : Oct 18, 2012 - 02:30 AM EDT / 2012.10.18 0630 UTC
Wind : from the SE (140 degrees) at 9 MPH (8 KT):0
Visibility : greater than 7 mile(s):0
SkyConditions : mostly cloudy
Temperature : 50 F (10 C)
DewPoint : 46 F (8 C)
RelativeHumidity : 87%
Pressure : 29.18 in. Hg (0988 hPa)
Status : Success
Or the Underpants Gnomes? If only he'd share what the "???" are.
Fantastic. Thanks :)
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IOS photo/video Wi-fi transfer made easy
You're correct, but in the case of patent acquisitions in many cases having a claim of priority (i.e. filing/invention date) is far more important than whether a patent is granted or not. In any patent litigation, the defendant will argue that a patent is invalid regardless of if it's actually been published.

In other words, when you look at a patent, you can concretely say a couple things: a) what prior art exists and b) what the priority date is. You would like to say c) is this a viable patent, but even if the USPTO grants a patent this is never set in stone (thanks to the court system).

Edit: sounds like the priority dates are all in 2011, which isn't particularly early, still a little dumbfounded.
Note that this question and the corresponding answers are several years old.
Yes, with the second idea I'd be scratching my own itch. I guess a MVP wouldn't be hard at all. Get in touch if you'd like to discuss further olalonde@gmail.com ;)
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iTunes Match would have been the best thing I ever used had it come out one (or more) years earlier. Instead, it arrived after I had already tried Spotify, and by then I had tried something better.
Yes. I guess that's what the grandparent means. I don't find it abnormal, it's a very good practice - create user accounts for public-facing processes and give them as minimal rights as possible. Still, the possibility to somehow break out and gain root exists.
I understand these calls could be coming from anywhere, and Twilio isn't the only game in town. Since I am familiar with Twilio, and I know how easy it would be to put up a robo caller, I can't help but suspect. Its what I would use to do it. A self-service search tool would be neat, or maybe a tool to see if any Twilio services have called your number recently. Despite the annoying calls, I don't want to bother Twilio staff with inquiries.
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An attacker can just remove the <script>-tag that points to the HTTS-served verifier.

In general: If the site the user visits is plain HTTP then there's no way to trust the site.
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My all time favorite is Wesley's code in 1992 that prints world map (found through A to Z of C):

main(l
,a,n,d)char**a;{
for(d=atoi(a[1])/10*80-
atoi(a[2])/5-596;n="@NKA\
CLCCGZAAQBEAADAFaISADJABBA^\
SNLGAQABDAXIMBAACTBATAHDBAN\
ZcEMMCCCCAAhEIJFAEAAABAfHJE\
TBdFLDAANEfDNBPHdBcBBBEA_AL\
H E L L O, W O R L D! "
[l++-3];)for(;n-->64;)
putchar(!d+++33^
l&1);}
bonch your account has been hellbanned. Looking at your comment history it has been for a while.

Update: Just to be clear, I don't mind hellbanning spammers or obvious trolls, but looking at bonch's comment history he/she doesn't seem to be either.
If you're going to be programming long enough, saving yourself a few minutes a day by mastering your tools is a real and genuine benefit. When you intend on continuing a career in programming, you're already committed to investing time into deeply learning novel things as you need them to keep up with work -- a new language, a new library, a new system, a new subfield of study -- so it's not as if your work is nothing but trying to complete your current project, as fast as possible.

You shouldn't spend a week learning about an IDE feature in the middle of your project, but you should eventually spend ten minutes to learn to write a macro instead of making the same change seventy times, and maybe you should spend an hour and a half wiring your editor up to your favorite static analyzers and compiler so that you can test and debug your code quickly over the next month.
Can't believe people are getting so jazzed over proprietary encryption technology! It's a truly horrible idea, especially as there are already existing F/OSS alternatives, such as https://chatsecure.org/ for iPhone.