skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Heavy strength training in the vain of powerlifting or something like that with a bunch of potentially dangerous heavy exercises is certainly something you'd want energy for and drinking milk or something like that is probably a good idea. Personally I like a gallon full of water mixed with BCAAs and pure dextrose, but then again I don't really do power lifting much anymore, mostly out of vanity. I tend to think powerlifters have a tendency to look like blobs, and I like Vince Gironda's style of training at least partially for aesthetic appeal, but that's all personal preference of course. So yeah, if you were doing something like starting strength or madcow 5x5 then I'm not sure training on an empty stomach is a great idea, but then again I'm not sure that it isn't. I don't have the necessary data to make such a conclusion.

But I do actually think the average novice would benefit greatly from intermittent fasting because, at the very least, it's far easier to get exactly the right amount of calories and fat/carb/protein distribution with 1-2 large meals than with 10 small meals.

Edit: btw, I misread your name and thought I was talking to the Doctor for a second. I was a little disappointed :P
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CircleCI gets 1.5m to build out Continuous Integration service
My only problem with this article is the comparison of the M16 to the AR15. They share some parts but not lower receiver. The M16 is a military rifle with the ability to go full auto. The AR15 is a customizable civilian rifle that only shoots once per trigger pull.
AR15 does not equal M16
emailed it to you
It would be entirely fair to say that sexism is also on the decline, I don't dispute that. For example, my father can no longer sell me for 3 goats (without my consent, of course). But this doesn't make it a non-issue, just as violence is not a non-issue. Just because a program is throwing out fewer errors doesn't mean its fixed.
In the case of Chinese, the pictographic properties are often retained in the construction. For example, a common radical is that of the roof, which appears at the top of this character: 安 an1 meaning peace The perception (correctly or incorrectly) that the meaning of the word is to some degree derived from its parts affects the consumption of the language in a way that differs substantially from other languages with the roman alphabet. In the particular example, all sorts of people talk about how "peace" is a woman under a roof.
> Think about when you look at code and automatically chunk the bits you have seen a million times before but are somehow magically able pick out the needle in the haystack which tells you what is special in this instance.

I guess the real solution is to use a denser language?
Should have been clear. I wasn't saying beginning 2009, but their high in market share, which was late 2009. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers, which contains the graphic you linked to. In November 2009, FF's market share hit it's high of 32.2%. January 2013: 21.4%. Not FUD: the graph you linked shows the same. That's a reduction of 33%.
The path to permanent residency is however pretty slow. If you are from India or China and your filing is in the EB3 category, at the rate things are moving now it could take upto 50 yrs
Just curious. Could you explain this part? I used mongodb because it was incredibly easy to create a local cache of the JSON data I was getting from the apis I was accessing.

If you are using the data from the various APIs to render static pages, why do you need the local cache of the JSON data? And if you've got a local cache of all the JSON data, why render static pages rather than serve dynamic pages that reference the DB of cached data?
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Link to his tags in Github: https://github.com/emmett9001/iPhoneGameDemo/tags

I actually used a similar technique for a course I taught on rapid web prototyping, it turned out well: https://github.com/amontalenti/rapid-web/tags

The other cool thing about setting up these tags is making it easy to use Github's compare view to see the differences between any number of steps. e.g. in his example, here is the difference between step 0 and step 1 of his tutorial:

https://github.com/emmett9001/iPhoneGameDemo/compare/0_ready...
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Yes, but I don't like it. It is too slow. I only do it when I am forcibly on a long car-ride and driving and can't do something else.
"as good as former soviet bloc countries"... really.. ?

How many Americans (like Sarah Palin) are going the other way across the border?

According to one study [1], only 0.61% of Canadians are going to the US for healthcare. And you have to consider that that the Canadian government pays for much of that care in the US. I'd imagine that if things were as bad as you claim, that number would be a bit higher

[1] http://www.aarp.org/politics-society/government-elections/in...
TaxiBot robotic tug reduces airplane emissions and noise pollution
Dumb question, but isn't it possible for S3 to go down (or is the uptime just so high it doesn't matter)?
It's funny because that's perfectly backwards. :)

Machine learning is a model of this thing we observe in ourselves. Don't mistake a picture of a pipe for the pipe itself.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Treachery_of_Images
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reification_(fallacy)
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I thank you for the sources. What I was specifically doubting was the linkage between attrition and sexism(which doesn't seem to be mentioned in the text you quoted). I will take a look over the links you provided this evening, but if you have anything more specific to add on the linkage between attrition and sexism, I'd love to hear it.
The days of knowing the telephone company as intimately as we knew them are gone. So much has changed since our time. Although we never called ourselves phone masters. Thats the nickname the FBI felt they had to give us. I used to be Zibby. One of my coolest moments was getting to bluebox in the mid nineties. It was using the 1800 direct greece line. Ah those were the days.
This is hinting at the on-demand knowledge service to mobile handsets worldwide that Robert Steele proposed in this (very interesting) talk at Amazon: http://goo.gl/LKlcr
"The difference is necessity."

That has to be carefully defined. My point with the eprom anecdote was that you're stuck with closed source if you put a z80 core and some rom/ram/decode logic in a FPGA and do a synthetic SoC and merely avoiding FPGA and doin' it with discrete Z80 and eprom and sram and some glue isn't going to save you, because in 2013 using PC hardware you pretty much need a closed source windows only USB eprom programmer. So if you're stuck with closed source doing a hobby project, at least do something "cool" and use the FPGA.

To do "about the same thing" but open source there are several completely open source alternatives that would result in CPU controlled I/O ports being wiggled. Avoiding closed source is not just as simple as saying "no FPGAs" or closed source is solely a disease of FPGAs. for example it took years as I recall before the Propeller had a non-windows/dos stack, although the BST works pretty well now.

Confusing the issue, if you just want to play around with Verilog as a language or abstract technology, Icarus is free software part of the GnuEDA project. Obviously that's playing with simulation not silicon, but it is possible. So you don't have to entirely avoid FPGA technology.
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... fresh fruit and vegetables are actually quite expensive and far more difficult to keep than your average junk snack.

Great points - and, besides the expense, even having access to fresh fruits and vegetables can be difficult for some.

Unfortunately, I over-simplified my view, but parents are a huge influence in their kid's behavior and choices. And the analysis of a market changing to be more healthy is not new - Frontline investigated this several years ago:

"The investment analyses -- and there have now been three of them that I'm aware of: one from UBS Warburg, and J.P. Morgan in Great Britain, and another from Morgan Stanley in the United States -- all three of them say the same thing, that if people start losing weight, they're going to have to be eating less. Eating less is going to be bad for business, and it's going to be much worse for some businesses than others, so that if these food companies don't fix their product mixes to make healthier food products, and market them in a way that emphasizes the healthfulness of food products, especially those that are lower in calories, they're going to be left behind in this mass movement towards more healthful eating."[1]

[1] http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/diet/themes/th...
You replied 3rd and this was already answered, but I don't think anyone is going to answer the continuation question.

So I'll give it to you. What email do you want?
While this may be good for code under 100 lines, anything more requires using Google. Either it be simple trivial things like email regexp (for those who don't have the luxury of having premade libraries for them) or harder things like algorithms.
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> I'm sure applies to many people who would not make great product managers

I'm sure it does, but that's beside the point. People who fit this description may not be great product managers, but they will likely be more satisfied in a product management role than in a design or development role.
> Why would normal, law-abiding Americans want to own
> a deadly weapon that was clearly designed for military use?

riiiiight. because all the other firearms are designed to open cans and turn off TVs.
I'm sorry, all of the replies on HN begging for invites are kind of annoying.
Watch this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Nx8jMbUW-U
So the security risk requires someone to somehow get your ASP? Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe you can only make a new ASP when you are already signed in and it disappears after you 'hide' it or leave the page. It kind of seems like if you can get a user's ASP, the account is probably already compromised.

It's nice that they are fixing a couple loopholes, but not sure if it will actually help any.
$10 x 10 people is $100. Somewhere you messed up on the amount of zeros?
Well I'm sure that plenty could be done to improve Twitter, but I'd ask whether app.net does any of those things. Last time I looked it is pretty much exactly the same.
Runa Capital invests $8M into "uBank"
My impression is that an AR15 lower receiver and an M16 lower receiver are sufficiently similar such that an AR15 lower receiver blank could be machined into either one.

Of course even if that is the case (I'm not so sure it is), the guns are still wildly different things in practice and under the law.
IOW, memoization is a pretentious way of saying result caching.
While that's a good point, things are a little bit more subtle than that. Changes in dietary composition have an effect on satiety and whether or not you experience hunger spikes, and thus can affect intake quite drastically. Two links in the chain of causality.
Are you suggesting that if I eat some grass fed beef that hasn't been elisa tested, there's a good chance I'm eating gluten? This seems patently ridiculous to me. The elisa test is also flawed - there are situations in which it can't detect hydrolized gluten.

In any case, quantity matters. Trace amounts of gluten due to cross contamination may not be enough to cause people significant problems. You don't have to be 100% gluten free to derive benefits from it.
Tesla Is The New Apple
Things to try before abandoning SQL
If you want an invite follow me on app.net.
Yeah. That's what sucks about technology. So much cool innovation, but it is ultimately used against you, or the misuses are forced down your throat until you're okay with it.
We put a lot of work into this release. This covers about 15% of bank accounts. Here's more information on the blog post: http://blog.balancedpayments.com/introducing-balanced-same-d...
Also an AR-15 is an assault weapon as opposed to what the military uses, which is called assault rifles. Those are fully automatic and much more powerful.

Assault rifles are already banned and the AR-15's you can buy in gun stores don't fit into that category, unless legislators invent things to be considered military... like "military grips" which is basically a pistol grip. Which often doesn't make the gun any more lethal.
Why do you think past efforts haven't "panned out" yet? Is it:

a) they're working on it, but just not there yet

b) the major EHR do everything in their power to delay progress by providing token access

c) it's actually very hard to sync medical records across so many different standards / systems

d) not enough patient / doctor demand / use-cases, i.e. people don't transfer as much as we think they do, diluting the value of inter-operability

? or something else? all of the above?

This area of HIT fascinates me because I hypothesize that it's a necessary precursor to reform. But, knowing little about the space, I'm not sure where to start my investigation.
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The paid angle was the only reason I never bothered with app.net. Seems like I need to ask around for invites now. :)

Anybody got one?
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Considering the difference is one hole, a pin, and some parts, there isn't much difference. If you look up the lightning link, you can make an ar15 full auto without modifying the lower, provided you can use tin shears and a saw blade (or other source of thin, flexible metal)
I think the point is that if you have few complicating factor, then the risk of the bloodless (vs. normal) surgery is much reduced and possibly acceptable. On the other hand, if you have these factors, then the additional risk might be too high. I think you might just be responding to the loaded word "cherrypicked"; the poor wording is chosen by the NYTimes, not the doctor.
My wife, who is Canadian, used to love the health care system in Canada. After actually relying on it, she came to despise it. We left Canada and came to the US precisely for health care for my son (who is also Canadian). He received more care in the first 2 weeks here then he ever received in Canada. She now sings the US health cares praises.

I could go on and on about the abuse my son received at the hands of the Canadian health care system, but I'll just say that I hate the system. At every step of the way, despite doing everything we could, my son suffered because of the system.

A part of me understands it's because it was Quebec, but Quebec is an example of how the Canadian system fails, and fails hard.

A part of me feels as if it was my fault. I should have moved sooner, when we were first lied to. But we figured if we played by the rules, things would work out. We were wrong.

So no. I'd fight tooth and nail to prevent that abuse from coming to the US. And if it did come, I'd leave. I will not let my family suffer like that again.
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There's a reason most combat troops aren't using bolt-action rifles or shotguns.
No.

I've been contributing to the Rust compiler in my spare time, and needless to say documentation is quite lacking. In fact, the Rust source code itself and git diffs are probably the best documentation available since everything is still changing.

In this context, you don't have the luxury of using Google for examples of common actions.

I'm also an undergraduate security researcher. In this position, you are at the forefront and Google doesn't help. Reading papers helps a little, but there's always the chance that someone else beats you to the punch and publishes first (happened to me 4 months ago).
Hunting is a pretty solid and common use for a weapon that wasn't designed for military use.
I see. You're using function in its mathematical sense, not in terms of programming.

Perhaps the article would be clearer if you stated up front that you're trying to talk about the mathematical underpinnings of the functional programming paradigm, and not how imperative and functional programming languages differ in practice? From a practical programming standpoint, your characterization of functional programming is both incorrect and confusing.
You can modify an ar15 into an m16 with a drill press to add the hole.
The main issue with this is the automatic login functionality. If a person has 2 factor enabled on their account, and any of their devices (phones, tablets, etc) are stolen, it becomes trivial to act without a password to steal the entire account. If they have a lock screen password, it becomes harder to attack, but any compromised device would likely give an attacker a few hours prior to a user noticing and killing its tokens.
To recognize an answer you almost have to know it. Somebody unfamiliar with the right solution will not recognize it even if it is staring them in the face.
Excuse me, what was that about Sarah Palin?
Android UI fails
Although this Immigration Innovation act that's going around will apparently get rid of the per-country limitation, meaning the entire world will get to enjoy multi-decade wait times and not just China and India.
Price transparency is good but, what's also missing in health care is value transparency. In other words, not only do most people (including most physicians) not know how much anything in health care really costs, they don't know how much anything should cost! The level of blindness in this business is truly unprecedented.
What's also needed are a number of consumer protection laws that we take for granted in pretty much every other industry. Those alone would go a long way toward correcting many of the problems we have in health care.
I'm going to look at this from their perspective. They have a ton of subscribers right now, but they have 2 problems on the near horizon:

1. They know that a lot of subscribers have abandoned the service and probably won't pay again, but they don't want to have to report that the number of users is declining once those subscriptions start to expire.

2. Acquiring new customers is not happening fast enough to keep critical mass or grow.

This move is to address those two problems. I also think it's a negative signal for the future of the company because I don't think a limited free account will get people to join. While they make clear that they are not a Twitter clone, the concept of following people is a Twitter concept, and you don't have those same limitations on a Twitter free account.

There's something in general that bothers me about App.net. In my career I've found that software engineers rarely are able to climb the org chart like business people are. The reason I've found is that engineers in general have a certain disdain for schmoozing and company politics, so they try to isolate themselves from it. App.net's marketing pitch I feel appeals to that isolationist desire and that's part of the reason it was such a hit.
> And you have to consider that that the Canadian government pays for much of that care in the US.

It does not pay a dime.
You are implying that "men" wouldn't do something similar?

I don't think this is a gender issue, so it's not fair to say that either "men" or "women" are at fault here. People are weird.
Sublime is better than Emacs and Vim!!1... in some ways.

(Fast, flawless rendering, not relying on regexps for syntax highlighting, proper fullscreen, graphical UI instead of text-based, nicest extension language...)
Could a mass extinction kill Homo sapiens?
Yes, you could modify it, but it is by law different. In fact, try it and you go to prison.
They are still not the same.
I wonder how good this can be at spatial accuracy. With optical motion sensing, you can relate gestures to physical space: you can point at something.

I love the concept here, but I wonder how it can go beyond "the user is wagging their finger" to "the user is pointing at an object on the screen"
I know that is typical, but in this case Google didn't approve of it either and Marissa came from Google.
I'm having trouble parsing your statement: mistaken double-negative?

(I'll delete this comment if your wording is clarified via in-place edit...)
After reading this very informative article, it occurred to me that developers of new tools that will be built upon heavily would do well to try to think of names that can be vocalized in one or two syllables. Reading the name PHP or the mouthful WYSIWYG should take longer than words such as C or Java or SCRUMM or perl if we are indeed vocalizing them. Perhaps the convention of adding www to the beginning of website names has had a substantial impact on the efficiency of web navigation?
I like this response, its basically saying "don't assume anything".

How much experience does everyone have of remote working? My experience outside of tech is that it gets used to enable daytime shopping, social activities and other such.

In the industry I've not seen the practice abused, but then it is also rarely offered, usually under the guise of naive security concerns...

I would love to work from home... then I could move somewhere cheaper. Its a fantastic luxury, and it won't attract the best in the same way that not being a tech giant will anyway... ;)
"Heroku for testing" CircleCI nabs from Heroku founders and early investors
Not long ago I've tried to find out what are the most popular versions of Python available.

I've started by asking people heavily involved in the Python world. Statistically irrelevant, but the majority of answers I've got back were:

1. production systems: 2.7.x

2. old maintenance mode: 2.6

3. some 3.x

I've also tried asking the PSF, hoping that they might have more data. They pointed out to the download page:

> "The current production versions are Python 2.7.3 and Python 3.3.0"

A statistically relevant survey would need to take in consideration:

1. what major Linux distributions include as the default Python version

2. what versions hosting providers support by default

3. the percentage of Python libraries that work with Python 2.7 and Python 3.3

A lot of effort would be needed to pull together all these details, but I think the Python community would benefit from having this data around (even if some might find this detrimental to the advance of Python)
From the comments on the article:
"However, instead of upgrading to ASP.NET, they decided to.. write their own proprietary language that compiles down to VBScript/PHP/JavaScript."

Atwood then goes on to call it "crazy town."

Am I the only one who thinks that this decision might've paid off down the road for them? It sounds like he was just trying to code his app in a way that it would work in multiple types of server stacks, rather than trusting that MS wouldn't break their backwards compatibility again after doing so with ASP.net.

Maybe I'm wrong. I'm curious what the people who know way more than me think about this. I knew next to nothing about web apps in 2006, other than dabbling in PHP as a side note in a MySQL class.
For reference: Jeff Atwood and Joel Spolsky founded Stackoverflow two years later.

[1] http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2008/04/introducing-stackov...
This has side effects. In my case I was becoming more and more lazy and never bothered thinking about the problem properly and taking a chance at coming up with a solution. I became expert at search and finding solutions. Ex search: 'display uitableview in a grid view' came up with lots of libraries... I did end up using one of them. But I wish I took sometime to do it myself or at least try to understand how this library is working. As I continue to use more and more libraries I realized I was becoming more lazy and more prone to searching for solution as first thing rather than giving my brains a chance. I felt dumb...
Let's build a JPEG decoder: Huffman tables