skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not using Unity, so I won't talk to that point, only the phone/tablet opportunity you think they should be ignoring.

Apple is already a heavyweight in this area and Google/Samsung have a dominant second place. Viable tablet alternatives need to establish a foothold now, before there is too much lock in from the existing entrants. Every iOS or Play app that I buy will make me (as a consumer) less likely to switch platforms. This is true for me, even as an early adopter. For a normal consumer that doesn't have the free cash, nor the desire for constant change, it is a killer.

Every month that they fail to have this out the door, they lose potential customers.

[edit: just a bit of editing]
I've recently uninstalled NERDTree in favor of netrw and I've been presently surprised at how little I miss NERDTree and how much more productive I am on default vim installations.
I once asked a South Korean friend about the latest such threat from North Korea. She rolled her eyes and asked why I wasted time listening to such nonsense. Seems NK suffers from a governmental equivalent of Tourette Syndrome.
Nutrion advice is a fashion, not a science.
Why do people keep suggesting iTerm2? The built-in terminal app on the Mac does Unicode and 256 colors just fine.
I'm surprised that the air bag in that location is even that effective. Before the pedestrian encounters the airbag, they have already been struck in the lower body by the very front of the car, then roll up the hood before hitting the windshield. And while this may prevent them from hitting their head on the windshield or A-pillar, they are still likely to be thrown off the hood before everything is settled. So I guess in a situation that involved 4 impact points... making one of them softer is better. But this surprises me.

Also, not every body even rolls up onto the hood. Depending on the speed, height, etc... pedestrians often just get launched out in front of the vehicle.
Who cares if its ugly? Does money in the bank become any less valuable if it came from an ugly landing page?
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PG is there a way to have HN present the subdomain for github submissions?
It seems that cdist recipes must be written as shell scripts.
I'm not a nutritionist but I'll back up my assertion of 'very little correlation' by drawing attention to the following which aren't taken into account by the calorific value:

- Glycemic Index: how quickly blood sugar levels spike after eating

- Proportional mix of the protein, fat and carbs that you mention (Maybe someone can help me out with a citation on the affect on health, both long and short term, of the different mixes of these).

- Micro-nutritional content: presence or absence of vitamins & minerals

- Poorly understood factors such as whether a requirement to chew (or suck) food prior to swallowing primes the digestive system and/or alters perception of 'fullness' (peanut butter vs. peanuts, sugar in a glass of coke vs. same amount of sugar in hard boiled sweets)

It's also important to remember that foods are not simply energy, but have direct effects on the levels of various neurotransmitters in the brain, leading to feedback loops (sugar addiction comes to mind).

I think you are better off to literally trust your gut over a calorific value.
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Aviation, Liability Law, and Moral Hazard
I can't say I know the biology, just that vegetables + oil come to calories than only vegetables – so #1 :-)
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I have two panes of code side by side on a 15" 1600x1200 laptop. I've used 15.4" 1680x1050 laptops for programming and find them to be worse. I imagine 15.6" 1600x900 or 1920x1080 would be worse still.

Maybe the wider format works better in the 13" size, but at 15" it gains me nothing I want at a loss of valuable height.
Timing of this news is interesting, for the lack of a better word in describing it. This article is published the same week as CISPA comes back.

The news on Chinese cyber attacks to the US can help give a boost in public support to these laws, giving them valid reasoning to give away our online privacy.
Domain-Driven Design With F# and EventStore
Two ways to set a conditional breakpoint in JavaScript
The only online tool I've used is Smart Coach [1] so I can't compare it to others, but it has worked well for me thus far. I'm still building to a full marathon with half marathons, but they have programs for half or full. Goal for the next one is to break 1:30. After that I'm going to start training for a full marathon.

[1] http://smartcoach.runnersworld.com
Uh, carbs as in "you burn it, you get X carbs", or carbs as in "when your body digests this, it uses A carbs to process, B carbs go out in waste, and the balance is C carbs"?

The former isn't nearly as useful (but of course is much easier to figure out with any accuracy).
Japan makes a rat robot specializing in making other rats depressed.
I use MacVim for editing files locally on my Mac: http://code.google.com/p/macvim/
There's a big difference between providing the OS to download and shipping a product. I wouldn't expect to be able to buy it and have it 2 days later, but a pre-order option would be good.
There may be certain tricks you can use to help you do this, but in the end it is all calories-in vs calories-out. The hard part is the hunger that results from this deficit.
You can't underestimate the psychological importance of tricking yourself into eating fewer calories. Carbohydrates are very calorie dense, and high-carb foods are usually psychologically less satisfying than foods you would eat on a ketogenic diet. A plain bagel has about as many calories as a 7 oz new york strip. Which would you rather have for lunch?
I think it's fairly obvious as to what the benefit is, considering how many times an app idea that's too "bootstrappy" gets railed on.

This seems like a decent alternative for out of the box design. Once/if this becomes popular then it too could become too standard- but for now, it's very different. That's good.

As far as design is concerned, I think more frameworks in the market is a good thing. The saturation could make the bad designers worse, but it gives good designers just more tools to explore with.
Historical. Terminal has improved greatly since Leopard/SL
I use nvi, and have tried to switch to vim a dozen or so times over the years. But there are so many irritating little quirks and misfeatures and annoyances that I can never manage to fix. Does anyone know of a guide to getting a sane, non-broken vim working with some basic plugins like syntastic? Last time I tried I couldn't bind F-keys for some reason, I couldn't get syntastic's error marking column to stay on instead of shifting my text back and forth all the time, I couldn't get auto-complete mapped to tab properly, and a few other things I can't remember now. I eventually gave up again as the extra functionality of vim ends up being counter-productive when none of it works right.
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Flax seed is much higher in Omega-3 than 6, so it is a very good oil by this logic.

Source: http://www.rejuvenation-science.com/omega-3-6-oils.html
Really? So they don't need to produce lots of documents, presentations, spreadsheets and emails?
Either China invades or they let the rest of the world do as they want.

China won't help NK, why should they? Nothing to gain by going to war with the west, everything to gain by trading with them.
Since porting Android to iOS is pretty much dead since the iphone 3g[1], I would assume not.

[1] http://0xdeadfa11.net/blog/2012/07/11/the-idroid-project-whe...
Welcome to your new job. Here's your tablet. Take this Mindflash course.
A little bit of exercise is something many people are lacking.

I have had a long commute (1.5h one way) for a little over a year now. Not long into it I noticed that I wasn't sleeping well. Not that I was sleeping that well to begin with but it got worse.

My day was sit in the car, sit at a desk, sit in the car, sit at a desk at home. My weekends were basically sit at a desk at home with some various chores sprinkled around.

So I bought a cheap exercise bike. I use it about 20 minutes when I wake up, and 20 minutes when I get home. I sleep far better. I don't wake up all bright eyed but I've never been a morning person. However once I do get up I feel like I'm well rested. I also don't feel like I'm going to fall asleep in the middle of the afternoon, or worse during the drive home, anymore either.
> For much, NaCl has a 2x perf penalty (v. native C++)

Huh? From the NaCl paper: "The worst case performance overhead is
crafty at about 12%, with other benchmarks averaging about
5% overall."

How do you get from 5% to 2x (100%)?

> asm.js already, despite being brand-new, for much has a 2x perf penalty: equal with NaCl

Have you actually run the same benchmarks on both and found them equal?

According to this comment no such benchmarks have been performed yet (at least by azakai): http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5228737

If not, declaring it "equal" seems a bit premature.
What's misleading in these requirements is that the "Python 2.6+" spec implies support for Python 3, which the Ansible authors have actually said they won't support for ideological reasons. It would be more accurate to write "2.6/2.7".
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I really hope Canonical doesn't intend to release a quad core Cortex A15 Ubuntu tablet with even the slightest lag or stuttering. I'd rather they delay it for months until they fix that, instead of releasing it like that. People are not going to take that for tablets anymore, and not with today's hardware.

From what I read somewhere, Ubuntu for phones was pretty CPU intensive, which could mean it didn't have hardware acceleration. I did notice some stutters when switching between apps in their own video. So that better not be happening when they actually release the devices, or people aren't going to give it a second thought.

In Ubuntu mobile's case, the first impression will literally decide whether Ubuntu has a future in mobile or not. So they better make sure everything is absolutely flawless, instead of hurrying up to ship it. If Ubuntu for phones and tablets has the same performance issues as on desktop, then might as well call it a dead-end now.
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Yes, you really also need to consider reliability - building an app for the phone and imagine the phones go out - your customers will not be happy, so for me twilio is definitely worth it. Also at scale twilio price is definitly more price competive then the smaller guys can offer... Additionally, queue is a huge feature that twilio offers - not sure the others offer that...
You're correct about the present state of the law. But that doesn't actually prove that my argument is wrong, intellectually.

Why is this difference important? Many courts upheld slavery as a legal institution for quite a long time, and then in a fairly short span, they stopped. This change happened because increasing numbers of intellectuals of all stripes were changing their minds on the issue, and driving the courts to move along with their ideas. You can't simply point to what the law happens to be right now and claim an intellectual victory.
OfficeDepot, OfficeMax merger good for Staples
One of the benefits of entering late is they're able to learn from the competitions missteps.
If they would just sell the damn thing and not have advertisements built into it. I have been using (a paying) Ubuntu user since v.7. It just angers me that they just wont outright charge for it.
The Hal Higdon plans are renowned and come highly recommended.

I'm using his half marathon plan for my first half mara and training is proceeding nicely. The pace feels right.
Wait did he close doors and you're helping him with a new project?

I would learn marketing asap
I can point in the right direction if interested - I've created measurable marketing returns for small businesses , but never a silver bullet approach. feel free to shoot me an email at davidcristello (at) gmail (dot) com
I'm currently on a low-carb diet.

Since June 2012, I've been tracking my weight almost daily, the food I ate, and the amount of times I've worked out. I drastically increased my workouts from October to December, working out almost 4-5 times per week, and I gained 10 lbs. This was accompanied by a change in diet, since my company started offering free lunches.

In January, I went with low-carb (less than 30g of carbs per day), and besides cutting out most carbs like bread, pasta and rice, I increased the amount of meat and vegetables I ate. I actually eat more after being on this diet than before. As well, I cut my workouts down to 2-3x per day. Since then, I've lost 15 lbs. So, with less workouts, more food, and within 8 weeks, I've lost more weight than any period in the last 8 months. When you look at the graph of my weight over time, you can see that the only significant factor in weight reduction was my low-carb diet.
I am a bit tired of how much Ubuntu gets promoted compared to other Linux based solutions.

Here is a video of KDE's Plasma Active running on a Nexus 7:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bb7isMAmwW0

It is a real use video, there aren't any fancy photos, there isn't any CG in the video in contrast with Canonical's page.

Plasma Active is being actively developed for about 2 years now and KDE 4 was developed from the ground up to be able to adapt to various form factors.

Since most Linux applications run on many different architectures, with such an approach you can keep your low power ARM based tablet and run all your desktop software -albeit a bit or more slower.
>> Oh and yes you can motivate people with fear alone. History is riddled with instances of this.

Oh, I'm sure you can. What I mean is that it may be not the most efficient way of reaching your goal.

But yeah, there are a lot of cases where this works.
There are multiple ways to know what your users are doing, and there is more than just monitoring traffic. They can do surveys and qualitative studies, and they would have then known how widely used Google Docs was.

Lack of knowledge is not an excuse.
I use unity for the fullscreen windows / mac-like menus.
In fact, I:

- use gnome-do instead of unity dash

- use docky in panel mode as my beloved taskbar

- keep the horrible unity sidebar well hidden on the left

And I am happy so far.
Users don't think like that. They generally don't know what redirect means, let alone recognise when it happens. I'll add that more and more attacks seem to come from trusted sources recently. This only goes to further the issue.
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I have fall in love with Strava - minimal iOS running app (http://app.strava.com/mobile). I am not affiliated with them in any way.

I can also second Hal Higdon's site above.

A lot of people in a recent half marathon I ran were using the half marathon as a staging ground for their full marathon. By running a half marathon/5k/10k you can get a feel for what running an actual race feels like, which is invaluable.
How to manage file uploads with Backbone.js and...
Australia or Asia? ; )
Hello from your West Australia GMT+8 cousin!
You can already do this with Bitnami Cloud Hosting http://bitnami.org/cloud (disclaimer: I work in the project)
> http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=2937

This one doesn't need gVim, with rgb() and rgba() support https://github.com/ap/vim-css-color
> "There is no way any codebase will turn out to be harder to fix than changing the spark plugs on a 1996 Porsche 911 Turbo. No way."

Famous last words
I don't know much about the history of nutrition. However, I will assume that prior to Paleolithic time we did eat a pure vegetarian diet.

So what? Vegetation diet 100 million years ago I'll guess that obesity is nill comparatively to today.

I'll also guess that there was comparatively virtually no obesity in the Paleolithic period.

Nowadays we live in a period where we're told pasta is healthy, or orange juice is healthy (a lot of brands have more sugar in the juice than coca cola). We all eat lots of bred, refined carbs. Sugar has never been so readily available. Parents buy their children sweets all the time.

And guess what? We're turning into a developed world of obese people and higher levels of heart disease.

So yes, a modern vegetarian diet probably is healthier and safer than sandwiches, crisps and orange juice.

Paleo diets are not fads. Our bodies are tuned to metabolise those sorts of foods. People relentlessly defend carbohydrates when they are the most likely candidate for the epic levels of obesity and other related diseases.
You didn't know you could connect a capacitor to an inductor and let it bounce away until resistance slowly drained the power?

And it's not constant current that would hurt you, it's constant voltage. Because the extra voltage bleeds away into the resistance of your components. If you had ideal components without resistance or inductance it would be impossible to actually apply a pure voltage source to a capacitor.
> things were separated enough so you knew what you were looking at

Until I noticed the low-res quality of the screenshot I didn't know what it was. Lossy images in 2013; great first impression.

> Nathan has a unique design style

I'll keep my opinions on that to myself, but when someone writes two books on design and hawks them on HN, people tend to be more critical of your work. I think it says something about someone's expertise when at least two of the HN posts on his products had people confused about design choices and what they were supposed to do on the page.

> And it's well designed on top of that. Not everything on the internet is perfectly suited to your tastes, lay off.

Design isn't someone's aesthetic or someone else's taste, it's the ability to communicate. This page is confusing a lot of people, so by definition, it is not well-designed.

HN also advocates raising one's prices to imply value, and I think that's why this and other posts have had people questioning the price points for the content. Additionally, I don't think "Good question. Not sure." is good copy for when I can expect a product I've paid for.
The Pearl Harbour attack forced a nation that was reticent into an actual, real war against a serious foe that presented a genuine threat; a war that would dictate cultural and economic supremacy over the Pacific region for the next half-century. It also pushed the US into the genuine battle for national existence raging over the other half of the planet in which millions of people were already under the yoke of an invader. The ensuing economic activity towards the war effort created the situation post-war in which the U.S. dominated the world whilst at the same time providing massive, massive increases in living standards for the U.S. population and also in large parts of Europe via the Marshall Plan. The echoes continue to ring today.

Comparing this to 9/11 is like comparing a tank to a soap box racer. I might as well say that the price of pork belly futures is the next Pearl Harbour as that also affects US policy.
"carbs are very rarely converted into body fat".

Yeah, you probably need to brush up on your biochemistry before you make statements like this.
Who's recommendation? I've seen recommendations all over the map.

The ones I often see are somewhere between .6g and 1g per lb of body weight, with 1g being the most common recommended on body building forums.

This article (http://mennohenselmans.com/the-myth-of-1glb-optimal-protein-...) calls the 1g/lb recommendation a total myth.

Another important question is whether the ratio is against total or lean body weight? If you've got a lot of fat, you may be over-calculating your protein needs.

Eating too much protein may or may not hurt. Some say excess protein taxes the kidneys (which filter it out into your piss). Some say your body ends up converting it to fat. (http://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/maki1.htm)

Also following recommendations from people who's goal it is to look like Lou Ferrigno may not make sense for most people.

So you don't think I'm attacking you, here's a pro-protein link: http://www.livestrong.com/article/556322-how-much-protein-is...

Who's right? Who knows?
Yeah, because citing a lot of papers increases your credibility and you can go ahead with promoting whatever agenda you had in the first place ("evidence-based approach", as they call it).

In the long term, protein has a strong association with improved bone health and a lower risk of fracture (18, 19).
Additionally, studies don’t show any association of high protein with kidney disease in otherwise healthy people (20, 21).
In fact, two of the main risk factors for kidney failure are diabetes and high blood pressure. Eating a high protein diet improves both (22, 23).
If anything, a high protein diet should be protective against osteoporosis and kidney failure!

The quoted studies actually question the presence of evidence that a high protein diet contributes to renal or liver diseases, they do not provide any evidence of absence of those ill side effects, that's quite a difference.

Bottom Line: Newer studies have proven that saturated fat does not cause heart disease. Natural foods that are high in saturated fat are good for you.

Of course the amount of saturated fats you consume and how the rest of diet is composed does not matter at all here...

The low-fat, high-carb diet is a miserable failure and has been proven repeatedly to be vastly inferior to lower-carb, higher-fat diets.

And "low-fat, high-carb" is of course a fully accurate and meaningful description of a diet.

Seriously, do not get your nutrition advice from SEO landing pages with bulleted lists.
They learnt everything from others by launching late, but added most of the good design patterns. Great work all together. Worth mentioning, Ubuntu is emerging as perfect web platform with tight integration with web-services.

"And now web applications are first class citizens too, wow. I was waiting for this to happen fast."

At this stage they need:

1. More Partners.

They must have strong tie-ups with OEM partners, who can make in-expensive devices, otherwise its not going anywhere. Get those chinese manufacturers.

2. Please NO device fragmentation and open strict standards among OEM's.

3. Nokia backing up this project?

Isn't this the best time for Nokia to make Ubuntu powered devices? I think so.

Under the current circumstances, Ubuntu and Nokia can make a good win-win fit. Nokia maybe can now come back strongly, instead of believing in a closed ecosystem like windows, which is not going anywhere.

3. Get Funded.

4. Apps. Quality and tested apps.

Can this happen with Open Source methodologies? Debatable. :)

All together this is great progress in a short span. Incredible team-work, lets not forget this comes from Open Source World. Love this, Made my day.
I'm not convinced that dropout rate is meaningful at all for free online courses. Personally I've signed up for way more Coursera courses than I could possibly complete, just so I could dip into the most interesting lectures, come back to them later, etc. Seems to me that's a good thing.

I did come close to completing a couple courses. When the certs start to mean something I might work harder on the last bit of effort to get them.

Paid online courses with college credit are another matter of course.
Hal Higdon. Although his app is really bad.
It is quite frustrating. More so when the project demands the system I'm building be very lean and fast. I'm talking 100K/requests per second here.
Humans TXT: We Are People, Not Machines.
I tried to use Cinnamon and it was a very poor experience. It is very immature, simple things that are the norm on existing desktop environments are not there. I can't say I use Unity too much, I'm more of a KDE user, but Unity is a lot more stable.
I'll see your luxury carpart and raise you one AbstractAbstractWidgetFactoryBuilderFactory.
You never win if you never begin, right? And what do you lose by applying?
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