skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You could probably keep it at that point alone - eating a lot of whole, unprocessed food is difficult because of its volume vs caloric density and is typically harder to chew/swallow because a machine hasn't partially digested it for you.

Will have to check out that book though. Thanks.
In what universe is iPad non-programmable?
The interface looks a lot cleaner. Good work.
Oh My God is a 2012 Bollywood fantasy-comedy movie that satires organized religion directed by Umesh Shukla, produced by Akshay Kumar and Paresh Rawal.[1] The movie features Paresh Rawal in the lead role and Akshay Kumar, Lubna Salim, Mithun Chakraborty, Poonam Jhawer, Govind Namdeo, Mahesh Manjrekar, Nidhi Subbaiah, Murli Sharma and Om Puri in supporting roles.[4] The movie also features Prabhu Deva and Sonakshi Sinha in a special appearance in the song “Go Govinda”. An antique shopkeeper takes god to court when his shop is destroyed by a tornado.Oh My God 2012 2012 end the movie.
so nice movie
http://freemoviesite24.com/2012/10/oh-my-god-2012-720p-scamr...
My take would be that if there's an intersection where people are doing that many rolling stops, then it's probably perfectly safe. In my neighborhood people do that all the time at certain spots as long as they're the only one near the intersection.

If those people were driving safely, then ticketing them for a technical violation of the law probably isn't helping anything. The point of tickets is to punish the unsafe drivers so that they learn a lesson and have a record that makes it easier to reform or weed out the really bad ones.

So a cop that spends all day writing tickets on technical violations probably should get a talking to from their superiors. They're wasting their time and ticking off solid citizens while actual unsafe behavior gets a pass.
Actually, it's a good idea for anyone. Get everything in order, because you're talking for up to an hour. You don't want to be in the middle of a talk and some part of your brain pokes you about not having used the washroom, and another part of your brain idly speculates about how the audience would respond to an intermission...

Same with eating a reasonable while beforehand. Not too close to the talk, so you're not processing food too much while talking, not too far before... Helps your distributed mind care about your audience. And sleep helps you improvise better and have a sharper sense of humor.
Would like to see this for meeting yearly quotas, so month by month.
Show HN: Simple infrastructure control using stathat
For simple infrastructure I needed simple control. If you have any comments how to do this more simply, I'd like to hear your opinion!
Not only tech companies. At least here in the Netherlands the requirements for any job have been going through the roof, and border on the unrealistic. I think this is a result of there being a surplus of people competing for jobs so they feel they can make more demands.
Been using it a couple weeks now, it's actually not too bad. Trying to get used to Unity as it's obviously not going anywhere. I'm still not a fan but it is improving.
Ugh, what is it with this offputting language - their doing well, this isn't some 80s frathouse movie.

This is almost as cringy as that picture of a young bill gates in a 'sexy' pose.
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Great. Just signed up. Anyone knows of a similar courses/tutorials for C++ Game dev?
Until you have to frig around with apt sources which are all code name based.
Personally, Node.js+MongoDB is counter to my intended use cases. NoSQL databases are incompatible with my data models. Node.js has limitations in responsiveness, especially for complex (read: data/code-heavy) responses.

It simply doesn't meet my needs, and the community's focus is on improving areas that are completely orthogonal to my needs.

A native backend that is properly threaded and uses, e.g., continuations and thread pools to manage highly concurrent requests is far more preferable compared to Node.js, and proper support for RDBMS and memcached meets my needs better than MongoDB could ever dare dream.
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Silly notion, this is the same logic we use when we bomb a country then send people in to fix it up again.
my fav ui is still html5.grooveshark.com tho
So you would downvote a story because of jealousy? Whatever your opinion on Color it's still an important story and something other Hackers obviously care about. The fact someone can get funded so much money, completely fail, and then get bailed out says a lot about our industry.
It's super confusing to have your 'naked' domain and www. subdomain point to different things. Clearly, it also requires you to explain it every time you post somewhere. What's the reasoning behind this?
Mostly because they can. Developers don't have a reputation for being hard negotiators. Most won't even do so much as ask for a realistic salary adjustment when switching positions. Companies are more than happy to use this to their advantage and simply give you a token raise unless you make a point of negotiating yourself something better.

As a developer, it's important to realize this and act accordingly. Don't be afraid to tell them that since you're being moved to a position that should pay $X, you'll need them to pay you $X from here on out.

Further, you've also identified the key reason that people move from job to job so frequently in this industry. That's how you get raises. You're never going to convince that Fortune 100 company to double your salary twice over the course of your first four years out of school. You'll have absolutely no problem convincing the market at large to do that though.
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I would say they are more high profile than Color. The only reason we think of Color as high profile is because it was a failure. Anyone outside of our bubble will never have heard of it. Siri and Chomp were both successful and had a lot of users. People actually cared when they were shut down. I doubt many people will care if Color gets shut down.
Screenshot mentioned there too.. in 2nd page http://guideme.itgo.com/atozofc/ch13.pdf
https://gist.github.com/3910435
I'd be interested to see this same graph run for each day of the week, again normalized.
This isn't the HN effect it's the future of news unfortunately.
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Do-Not-Track and the murky world of online advertising
I don't notice any difference in the ui but I guess that's because I'm never logged in, if I want to share music I usually just send a new artist to my friends manually. Speed has increased though which is very nice, good work!
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How is Grooveshark still in business? Weren't they having a lot of issues with copyright?
I think the writer was being intentionally "smart" in that first paragraph to underscore her point. It's one long sentence with too many clauses; though it's not muddled, it's definitely more challenging to read than the paragraphs at the end of the article.
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My conclusion: count() is horribly slow. Always precalculate it, if possible.

https://github.com/php/php-src/blob/master/ext/standard/arra...

In PHP they actually check the length of an array at every invocation of count(). As far as I can see the numeric value for length isn't stored anywhere.
I agree, this is wonderful news! Other than certain rough edges, battery life is about the only respect in which Linux lags behind its competitors that matters to me.
This is what I hate about these "I put up funny photos and slap some clever sentence below them"-style presentations. If you're not sitting in the front row, you cannot read anything.
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Without public availability of the source code and an auditable trail from source to build, there is really no way to trust it.

Also, this:
it reserves the right to shut off that person’s service and will do so "in seven seconds."
I don't mean to sound like I'm whining, but what was the reason to downvote the original article that is the source for the submission?
I really hope that TextSecure will be ported to iOS.
Also, don't save the best for last. In the first slide put the results/outcome/point of your presentation and THEN explain how you made such a brilliant deduction in the rest of the deck. Its not a movie, you're not there to create drama and keep us on the edge of our seats pining for the answer, you're there to transfer information - optimize for this.
$20 is more than what I pay for my whole phone & data plan per month, that is much too expensive for me and my peers.
A Data-Oriented, Data-Driven System for Vector Fields — Part 3
Managers have extremely wide latitude under the law to run the business as they see fit. As long as they have some hazy explanation as to how their actions could plausibly be for the benefit of shareholders, then they can do as they please. If shareholders don't like that, they can fire the managers. For example, Bezos could certainly say, "We think patents are stupid, as do many of our key customers, potential acquisition targets, and employees we'd like to hire." That could all be hogwash, but as long as he says it with a straight face on the witness stand, I don't believe he can successfully be sued personally.

The only reason eBay v Newmark exists as a case is that the managers are also the majority shareholders, which introduces a conflict of interest. (Well, that and the fact that eBay are dicks who were trying to fuck with a key competitor.) It's a weird case, and that decision has no practical implication for Bezos.

That bit from the decision comes up in regards to complicated stock shenanigans designed to keep eBay from getting more CL stock. The principle isn't being applied to ordinary management decisions, just decisions about stock ownership and board seats. So even if this decision did mean something for Bezos, it wouldn't mean anything about him deciding not to enforce patents.
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Maybe if OS X is your primary or only OS. I use OS X as a secondary OS (a macbook air I use mainly while on the move) and it's one of 4 or 5 OSs I interact with regularly. I know my laptop run 10.7 and I know 10.8 just came out, but I have no idea which cat either of them are. The few people I know who also use Macs also tend to refer to the OS by number rather than cat name.
We do in the UK, just forward the spam text message to 7726 (87726 for vodafone). That reports it to your carrier who then reports it to the ICO.

No-one knows about it of course, a recent survey found just 3% of people knew it existed or that the ICO were the right people to report these spam messages to.
Google, "completely wrong," and does it really matter?
I'd say it was "know what you're talking about".
For what it's worth, one of Sweden's major newspapers recently did an investigative article about the use of Google Analytics in so many websites belonging to banks, government institutions, political parties, etc. It's now being investigated by privacy authorities.
http://www.dn.se/ekonomi/webbsidor-avslojar-ditt-besok-for-g...
Ask HN: Rich company trashed my app, what to do as an indie?
Background:

I have a free (no ads, donation only) app that have been around the market for 2 years, had organic growth, 4.7/5 rating, 7000 ratings, 1 million + downloads. Many people have told me that they love it and that it has change their life.

A startup with lots of VC backed funding comes out with an identical app, looks better, but does not work on Android (through me testing on various devices, their iOS version works). Their app got 100 ratings on the first day with about 5000-10000 installs, which is 10x the rating/downloads ratio that I have been getting for the same kind of app. The same week my app suddenly got lots of 1, 2 star ratings with nonsense accusations such as draining battery, interference with phone calls (my app does not even have a service running in the background if you close it, and I have not received any user actually emailing me about it from all the emails I got), (also it turns out those are just the things that Android users are scared of when it comes to downloading apps). Their app now, within one month, has 1/10 of the downloads of my app but half of the ratings.

The most important part is that it does not even work! (why it doesn't work is not the point here since I am not trying to call out any company here) So through carefully reading through their comments etc, it was obvious to me that it was a PR action they did.

Question:

As an independent developer, how do I protect myself from this? How do I fight with the bigger fish for them trashing my app's reviews? Isn't this not ethical?
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My Android keeps auto stopping after current song... probably, due to screen power saving(?)
This isn't just about social apps. If this story is true it really doesn't reflect well on Apple's senior management.

Apple will continue to print money in the immediate future, just as Microsoft did in the 00's, but buying a startup which never had a viable product, business plan or assets for an inflated valuation like this is a good sign that Apple has lost direction and focus. Social is not their core competence, and should not be, and even if it was color is the last company they should buy. If color is failing, they could easily poach the best staff after it implodes, rather than buying the shell.
Isn't the point of this type of ban to avoid alerting the presumed troll in question?

I read with showdead, and have noticed we seem to often tell auto dead users about it, which seems to defeat the point. Perhaps I've misunderstood the whole idea.
It's also a raccoon: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring-tailed_cat
This is my biggest gripe with hiring, and it's something that will have to rise as requirements and responsibilities rise for developers.
How's the performace? I tried a beta of Quantal a couple weeks ago and Unity was so slow compared to vanilla Gnome that it wasn't really usable (I have a Radeon HD 3000 card, using the FOSS driver). I hope it's not that bad in the actual release.
Interesting to see how long a bad reputation can stick to someone. So Amazon used some ridiculous patent in the late ninties against the small start-up Barnes&Noble. It made Amazon big and maybe it wasn't right to use it against other ecommerce sites. But that was in the ninties, back than Amazon was far from being as big as they are now.

They used what they had to great effect, the only effect patent battles since 201 have are huge law fees and huge costs for companies. So was Amazon right to use one-click back than? I don't know, but it served them in the long run. Does it serve Applesung if they prevent the sell of Applesung products in certain markets? I don't think so.

Based on this, yes Bezos is right that the system is broken, as broken as it was back in the ninties but today the associated risks grew higher from my point of view. Why? Because patents are strategic weapon which is now used tacticly, and that is always bad.
You have obviously never used Oracle RAC .. :)
that's by far worst case of that i've ever seen. is there some way we can report this and have it looked into? he shouldn't be banned, or should at least be given the respect of notification. it's been well over a year of constructive posts from that guy and nobody ever sees them. all from what looks like one snarky comment he made. that's not right.
I am also very interested, but could not find this kind of course
Without public availability of the source code and an auditable trail from source to build, there is really no way to trust it.

This is where I feel you might be a little bit dogmatic.

You don't need the source code to audit software. Software that are heavily used are audited.

Microsoft software is probably more scrutinized that any other open source one (I'm not implying it's more secure, just that it's more analyzed).

Security is a question of trust, not a question of source code. Even if you do the audit yourself, it's a question of trust: it means you trust your own abilities to evaluate the security.

I'll go a little bit further.

Did you check that the computer you bought isn't rigged? Maybe someone can remotely control your webcam or eavesdrop your keyboard.

Did you check that the operating system you have hasn't been compromised? Maybe someone intercepted your download and patched it on the fly to insert a backdoor.

Is your home physically secure? Maybe someone is copying your hard disk every day.

You're right when you say Silent Circle should be scrutinized and criticized.

Nevertheless, I disagree when you imply that the unavailability of its source code is a show stopper. Source code only makes one small part of the security audit a little bit easier.

Security is a process, not a feature.
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Looks a little bootstrappy.
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Having more money than you know what to do with is a sign that you've pretty much exhausted your growth potential. That's not quite the same as jumping the shark, especially if at that point you're the most valuable company in the world.

The correct thing to do is to start paying out dividends, and Apple has done that. Making a relatively small wild-ass investment vaguely related to their core business is at least a better thing to do with the other surplus money than going into finance or real estate.
In default, non recursive mode, it's only returning the value of zval->nNumOfElements (with a few indirections).

It's not count() that's benchmarked here, its the difference between "$a < $b" and "$a < function_call($b)".
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yes, like youtube and the piratebay. ;)
As of 0842 UTC, it's not actually released yet. The link still refers to 12.04. Ars appear to have jumped the gun a little.
He was, of course, satirising some arguments in favor of capitalism.
A lot of HN users find the whole concept of hell banning objectionable. Because for a large number of those affected, they're not spammers or trolls, they've just made one comment that has irked an admin. It is our duty as decent human beings to inform them.
You can't query the json type as easily in postgres. I would guess that is an important use case.
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> Across the board, yeah, food puts you in a better mood. To be more exact, research has shown that 2 cheeseburgers = one orgasm.

At the same time it has become far too common to shun and judge pretty much all overweight people as nothing but lazy, disgusting pigs. I know, not everyone has trouble with their hormones or glands but I think the sooner people would see it and especially treat it as an addiction to food similar to caffeine and nicotine, the better.

You absolutely have to be in the right state of mind to stop over eating or eating for comfort and solace and you need a lot of will-power and self awareness to keep it that way when you hit a rough patch, much like giving up cigarettes and drinking lots of coffee.
> 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.

Only in the tautologically meaningless sense, in which you define "calories in" by "what the body laters takes out at some point".

Everyone agrees carbohydrates provide 4kcal per gram, right? Well, cellulose (e.g. paper) is a carbohydrate as well. But eating it does not provide you with energy. Xylitol is a sugar alcohol, which, when first introduced to a diet, makes zero (0) kcal per gram available to the body, but apparently settles at 2.7 kcal after a couple of weeks of consumption, in which the body ramps up the enzymes that can actually digest it.

Furthermore, the amount of fat your body uses for e.g. skin lubrication, can vary by a few hundreds of percents (depending on factors not perfectly understood, as far as I can tell), so the "energy out" balance also includes "energy in the form of fat used for mechanical purposes".

The "calories in - calories out" balance is a very crude approximation, that works for most of the people most of the time - but there's a very significant chunk of the population (under their present living conditions) for which it is completely useless.
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Really back Hackers inject Windows 7 start menu code in Windows 8
Have they turned the Amazon stuff off by default or are they giving an option to do so at install time?

If not, I will not be downloading this.
You can disable it after installation.
I find this to be the case for me, too. I'm a network tech at a non-technical (very non-technical) workplace. We're constantly dealing with new situations, new tech, a fast-changing media environment, and new requirements.

I'm honest when I don't know something, mainly because I don't want "my mouth to write checks that my ass can't cash." Claims of competence are going to be tested.

This doesn't impress the bosses. It kind of pisses them off.

This is a side effect of two things. First is a hierarchical kiss-up, kiss-ass culture -- this is in labor unions, so the organizational hierarchy is extremely important. Second is that they don't deal much with creating new IT services, but deal with people selling IT services or products. So the perception is that IT is magic, and it'll fix everything, if you just buy it. (LOLz)

There's also another reason, and it's that to a great extent, being able to get ahead or get things done within hierarchical organizations is about being a good salesperson. It's to bullshit enough to convince someone else with more power that something great is possible. It's useful to be a good salesperson.

Organizations value this quality in different quantities. An engineering consultancy, for example, would value having one person like this, to help make sales, but if they had too many it would be harmful - all the engineers would quit from being abused by salespeople making impossible promises, and there'd be no business at all.

A political consultancy, in contrast, would require this of almost every employee, except for people doing research or analysis. It would be a critical skill, because being able to bullshit many powerful people at once, in a coordinated way to achieve a specific result, is extremely difficult.
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Seems like there's a few issues with sections expanding to 100% of the available width within the main centered container. If anything they should just have the centered container expand to the full width of the screen a-la Netflix to make use of maximum screen real estate (not that I condone Netflix's obscene use of use of hover events to scroll sideways).

Screenshot for reference (1440x900): http://cl.ly/image/1r2906063g20

A great improvement over the old interface, but still has some room to improve.
I want the option to opt out before I'm forcibly opted in and can possibly trigger the functionality.

Even Windows 8 religiously asks you these questions at first boot after installation.
"We track usage of the site with Google Analytics, using their API heavily to build dashboards"

http://digital.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/govuk-launch-colophon/
Paleo diet with "diet" as in lifestyle change and whatever-you-should-be-eating. It seems to have its fair share of followers and they appear to be loving it and there are studies that show beneficial effects like lower blood pressure.
It's only disabled by clueless admins. The security gain from the tiny amount of work it takes to get working is massive.
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