skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
None of that stuff appears on the default screen layout though. I mean, I agree some of it is useless cruft (but seriously: you put malware detection on that list?!?!). And that's true for pretty much all mature software.

But as far as "just give me what I want" I continue to think Chrome does it better.

I think the only strong argument on that side is one you don't make: on first run, Chrome stops and asks you to sign in to your Google account. I do that willingly, because I really like bookmark synchronization. But it's definitely not a "minimal browser" thing and if you're not a Google user it's probably pretty annoying.
May as well provide evidence on the earth revolving around the sun.

But here you go: http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/12edbj/im_gary_taubes_...
> Insulin does not regulate fat storage, leptin does. Obesity is a complex state and there are no simple answers. A diet that may be best for weight loss in one individual may not be the same diet that is best for another. This seems particularly likely if one of the two individuals is not obese.

You have this backwards. Insulin DOES help regulate fat storage (among other things). Leptin controls appetite and can act as an indication of overall adipose levels. It is conjectured that treating things like diabetes with both insulin and leptin together is better than insulin alone.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leptin and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insulin

And I'll jump in on this calories vs everything else. If, as I've said many times before in other posts, all you care about is weight, only track calories (you'll most likely end up skinny-fat...but at a certain weight. Horray! You are now unhealthy at a lower weight. Congratulations!) If you care about losing fat, track macros and reduce carb intake to lose fat (along with weight lifting, HIIT and some carb-refeeds to manage hormone levels).

This is a rather complex topic, though I'm going to try and frame it a different way. What is the most effective way to put on lean, pure muscle mass? Weight lifting? A caloric surplus? High protein? Yeah, sure, all of that. Do you know what is even more effective? Steroids, specifically some combination of test, deca (or dbol), maybe some sustanon. What is the most effective way to lose body fat, particularly get to a ridiciously low level of body fat (think, getting on stage in a thong)? Caloric deficit? Low-carb? HIIT? hours of cardio? How about steroids again. Clen+Tren+Test. Sure, in both cases, caloric excess or deficit will help, but the stacks ALONE will work.

Why does that matter? Everyone always overlooks the hormones.

Why would it be any different if we don't talk about steroids? Hormones play a very important role in putting on muscle (think, stimulate the muscles by weight lifting, give them aminos (protein) to rebuild and spike insulin to make sure the muscles get the protein). And losing fat is no different (keeping fat high is vital to keeping testosterone high, protein to spare the muscles and lowerish carb to make the body look for an energy source (ie. fat) that you aren't providing. Throw in some weight training and HIIT to further deplete your glycogen stores. Viola, fat loss, muscle spared. Carb refeed once a week to reset your hormones (don't go into starvation mode) and you have a wash-rince-repeat cycle).

So, yes, calories matter, but only once you understand the broader picture. If you only talked calories, frankly, you can't be taken seriously.
Tyler, I have two things to say about this.

1°) I think you don't get it: when you're Facebook, Google or any other company receiving and interviewing thousands of candidates for a job, you're having a different hiring strategy than a small startup.
Their strategy is "hiring a bad programmer costs us more than rejecting a good one". So they tend to reject good programmers, but they mostly reject bad programmers. In the end: they only hire good programmers, and that's what matters.
In contrast, startups are having the "it costs us more to reject a good programmer than to hire a bad one" strategy. So they hire more easily, most of the time, even if in the end they hire average/bad programmers, they don't care.

2°) I was interviewed for a front-end job at facebook, and I didn't get in. I think I'm not the best programmer around, but I'm okay, and I would do a great job at facebook. And just so you know : my first interview question was way way way harder than any of your questions.
I think those puzzles are a good way to spot good programmers amongst thousands of good/average/bad programmers. I'll give you a really simple example: find the highest number in an array. You can find it using several different ways, but if you just go through the whole array, you might be a good programmer, but the next person I'd interview might be one too, and he will find it with a much lower complexity. I'd hire him. Simple as that.

Bottom line — here's the question I was asked at facebook : you have a matrix of letters, and you have to find all the words you can do with it. For a front-end/product design job. And I'm not posting an article saying they suck at hiring.
That's perfectly possible, but only the newer FPGAs are big enough to store the whole image in the registers.
If I had a bigger FPGA, I would not bother doing all this memory juggling that I am doing now and place all my data into the registers.
And then wait for 10 hours for the software to produce the bitstream!

Probably some combo of your pixel's X/Y coord and/or just a (very large) random number.

I would go with X/Y because it requires less memory than a random number.
Besides, random numbers on FPGAs need extra (though not much!) logic to produce them in LFSRs.
I would definitely not want to use this for my desktop (or my laptop really), but this seems like it would be a great way to make mobile sites feel a little bit more mobile-y.

Kudos on the clever idea and well designed website.
Ask HN: Why not make everyone's salary public?
Say, hypothetically, I'm starting a new company that's extremely tech-heavy and I want to recruit the best engineers in the world. Fairness, recognition for effort, high hiring bar, the best equipment... all things that are important.

Why not go an extra step to be fair and make everyone's compensation public, including the founders? Why not open up the cap table to everyone, employed or potentially-employable? Then there's no question as to whether a candidate is getting a good deal.

What could possibly go wrong?
Absolutely. When I also derived that commonly known idea for myself (seems the only way to have a hope of internalizing it and having it stick), I tried to think of a pithy way to say it, so I would have a better chance of remembering it when in the moment. The version that won by being remembered the most, "They didn't take pictures of Lincoln's messy closets."
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While I do agree that web APIs should keep compression in mind, as the user of the API I don't necessarily want to type aReallyNiceLongNameThatDescribesTheAttribute either. I'd rather see a word or two than a letter, but I'd rather see a letter than a sentence.
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It's in no way insulting to me, personally, and I am not in a slightest way demanding the author to change and to write differently, I am quite content with it as is. I am just noting if there would be a man writing it, and he wrote something like "For all men learning to code, do this and that" he would very soon be reminded to avoid using non-inclusive language. I do not feel insulted by that either, just noting this phenomenon.
What I meant to ask is whether there is a type of ammunition that is specifically designed to damage a structure (the structure is what might be made out of a metal or metal alloy, or something else such as kevlar) rather than cause physiological damage. I wasn't suggesting that aluminum is a good material for a bullet.

Bullets that are designed to fragment upon impact because this causes damage to living things. My question is whether frangibility is desired when the purpose is to cause the most structural damage, e.g when the target is an airplane or tank.

I suppose depleted uranium or tungsten carbide bullets match this description, because they are designed to go through armor before they start to disintegrate. But these types of bullets are still meant to eventually hit humans.
Any thoughts on Mullvad? (https://mullvad.net/en/)

I also like the conference talk "#HITB2012KUL D1T3 - The Grugq - OPSEC: Because Jail is for wuftpd" most of it is based on hackers that have been jailed lately and specifically what they did to end up in jail, but there is also some techinal stuff about privacy and anonymity, specifically about TOR+VPN here: http://youtu.be/9XaYdCdwiWU?t=45m30s

EDIT: RE: Mullvad, AFAIK they don't have any presence outside SE, NL, or DE so I think your speeds will take a hit coming from outside Western Europe.
I think people just get used to Jira's special brand of awful and find it hard to move to anything else.
Three things:

1. I didn't see any explicit signs pointing to the supercharger. Admittedly, the glare from the headlights could have obscured a couple of those, but at 25 seconds, there doesn't seem to be any reason for the driver to turn at that point.

2. It's completely unlit. The nearest lighting is on the other side of the parking lane. The gas pumps have plenty of light. That alone makes it hard to find, especially if you're not sure what you're looking for.

3. The car in the video had to make 2 specific turns to get to it. Again, the gas pumps are immediately in front of you, and have signs pointing to them.
That's what I said
"Don't spare their feelings, just get the message across I guess."

I don't even know what you are trying to say....
Full text of the paper that launched the investigation into whether psychological research relies too much on people from just one kind of cultural background:

Henrich, J., Heine, S. J., & Norenzayan, A. (2010). The weirdest people in the world. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 33(2-3), 61-83.

http://www2.psych.ubc.ca/~henrich/pdfs/Weird_People_BBS_fina...
(Cofounder here.)
That's our motion retargeting algorithm at work. It'll fit the smoothest motion to your recording. In this case a constant panning motion does the trick. You can get perfectly stationary, motorized-tripod-like panning shots, and dollies with Luma without any equipment other than your hands.
I'm surprised that you're surprised that your incredibly negative comment yielded an incredibly negative response.
people who probably have good intentions but don't understand that by arguing against a straw man, they're actually making it easier for their opponents to discredit them

That's what I think whenever an Internet lynch mob forms (TCPA, SOPA, etc.) but somehow it never matters. There's hardly any backlash against the hyperbolic scaremongering.
> So you concede there's lots of stuff that many of us won't use? That's pretty much the definition of bloat. Hiding it doesn't make it go away.

I define bloat differently. It needs to a) unnecessarily add complexity to the core functions I personally use, and b) degrades performance. wget has tons of features that I've never used, but I don't consider it bloated. To me, hiding it well does in fact make for a bloat-free application.

Agree with your other points.
I don't think that's really OP's point. The point isn't that 1 calorie for me = 1 calorie for you. We know for a fact that the digestive performance of people can vary greatly, and caloric use varies greatly also depending on person and activity level.

The high variance is really besides the point, which is that if you are gaining weight, you are consuming too much for your current situation. You can either work to expend more, or reduce your intake, both of which are perfectly reasonable options.

There is no objective measure for eating too much, but it's also trivially easy to find out if you're eating too much for you.
It's kind of an extension of the annoyance from not using G+ and yet having it crammed down my throat; it's the same tactic just with a little less gusto.
From the New Oxford American Dictionary:

scofflaw |ˈskôfˌlô, ˈskäf-|
noun informal
a person who flouts the law, esp. by failing to
comply with a law that is difficult to enforce
effectively.

I don't see anything there that precludes a first offender from being a scofflaw.
SAP HANA would be one but it is basically in memory so very, vey expensive.
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You can try to get the company offering less money to beat the offer made by the other. If it's Facebook and Google, as you said, then this shouldn't be that difficult.

Google working on groundbreaking things (they are not) or Facebook having all these hot products that everyone wants to work on (they do not) doesn't mean anything if you aren't working on them. Look at what you'd be working on and the group you'd be working with and see which you'd prefer. If there isn't much difference between the projects, then go with the company paying more money.

As far as which company is more popular or the hotter place to work, I think that Facebook's "buzz" has waned enough that both companies are about equal, but Facebook may still have a slight edge in this area. Previously it was clearly Facebook, because Google was becoming stagnating big company wasting everyone's talent and Facebook was the pre-IPO "startup" where you could actually work on something important without all the politics, bullshitting, and churn. That is, what Google promised, only Facebook delivered.

You want to pick the company that allows you to learn and do as much as possible, not just fix bugs, and you want to avoid being around people that don't know what they are doing or that will try to get in your way. Usually at Google, all you'll end up doing is fixing bugs, or working on irrelevant projects, so this would cast a vote for working at Facebook, but I'm hearing the same situation may now exist at Facebook as well.

You can also check the reviews for each company on Glassdoor to see what employees are saying.
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Hi, Denny here from Microryza. Excuse my HN pseudonym but I wanted to respond with regards to research regulations.

We are assembling a science advisory board to help us define several of the checkpoints you brought up, particularly when it comes to ethics and safety. Working with universities does help us to deal with this now, but we do strive to have a rigorous system that we can rely on, regardless if you might be an institutional or independent researcher.

We are also working on making the messaging about these topics on the site better in the coming weeks. I would love the chance to continue this conversation, shoot me an email at founders@microryza.com. We find these sorts of conversations very useful and important!
I think Fog Creek does this: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000038.html

They also have "levels", with compensation tied to a level, so it looks like they've basically removed compensation negotiation from the company. You don't mention wanting to do that. If you do want to do that, something like Joel's setup sounds like it can work out fine.

If you don't want to remove the ability to let people negotiate their compensation, it sounds like you're setting yourself up for unhappy and jealous and resentful employees, because some of your employees will be much better negotiators than others.
This is not a good idea because it breaks years (decades?) of expected behaviour on desktops.

When a user scrolls a page back to the top, the expectation is that they'll see the top of the current page from the most recent pageload. With this, there's no way to revisit the top of the page in its current state and it's just gone when you scroll back to the top.

This doesn't save much time/effort as a refresh is a common and well-supported function of browsers.

This conflates two user intentions: 1) scroll to the top of the page, and 2) refresh the page to get new content. This makes #1 impossible without automatically triggering #2.
Its not only resourcefulness but the ability to know what pieces you need to build the project. That is harder to find by Googling.
LOL @ this blatant advertisement. I love the pictures of raspberry ketone products at the bottom, complete with skinny woman and tape measure. Yep! This is it, folks! Lose weight now just by eating raspberry ketones! Sigh.
> Didn't the data pulled from the car indicate that the reviewer was almost certainly trying to fabricate a bad review?

No, in fact several people who are prominent in the field of the use of data in journalism have written long essays on how this episode shows that data is subject to interpretation. It's very clear that Elon Musk looks at the data and sees one thing, and that the writer sees another; Those of us who have some degree of training in the field and little emotional attachment can look at the data and see that much of it is not particularly relevant to either story.

That said, the car reviewer was an idiot for not plugging the vehicle in overnight; although Tesla should have emphasized that in their instructional materials.

And Musk made his hole deeper with his whole "going for the throat" attitude. I mean, is that how he's going to react to a customer complaint?
I think this article is focused around a fundamental change of user behavior that I don't see happening. The glass to be is a phone replacement, where the same rules and concerns about phone usage are projected onto the glass.
Are we going to wear them in class? Do we allow students to wear earbuds in class?
I'm a man that started to code in my mid 20s, and it is hard to shake the feeling that I'm a decade behind the curve.
I'm sorry but no. This article should be called "The best programmer I know can quickly understand things he finds from google, but I don't really know what he's doing that makes him so awesome".

Sure googling something fast can be a nice little boost to productivity, but only if you know what you are doing. If I drag and drop code from my web browser instead of using copy paste, I might save a few seconds after doing it 50 times; but if I totally fuck up my code-base because I don't know what the code is doing, then productivity is going to decrease significantly when the entire team gets backed into a corner and has to take the time to figure out where the bugs are, if/how to rewrite core systems, and hopefully this wont happen, but where the security holes are that let a hacker pwn your DB or worse.
From the article to which you linked:

> But wait: Oxford Dictionaries online, while giving a similar definition – "a figurative or metaphorical use of a word or expression" – adds a second: "a significant or recurrent theme; a motif: she uses the Eucharist as a pictorial trope".
Great reasoning, it certainly resonates with my experiences.

Two additional notes:

1. Working remotely demands the ability that you can assess each-other's work. Most managers are not capable to measure how SW developers work, so they fall back to measure the hours you spend in the office.

2. Moving information is much cheaper today than it was even 5 years ago. It is certainly cheaper to have a regular daily videoconf / whiteboard meeting, than move everyone in the same location. And we haven't even mentioned that moving families across the country or across countries is not cheap either. I'd really love a honest analysis on how these aspects compare to the perceived loss in office communication. My guess is that the benefits outweigh the drawbacks.
Thanks Alex for submitting this. I wrote the piece, if anyone has any questions!
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No, we have never had an infinite cache. What is more likely is that your friend may have encountered a bug. If he has information on this issue, please file a bug at crbug.com/new and I will be happy to triage it.
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>> Obviously most, if not all men are rapists.
>
>That's Marilyn French's view, as famously quoted from "The Women's Room":

Well, technically:

"At one point in the book the character Val says "all men are rapists". This quote has often been incorrectly attributed to Marilyn French herself. "
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marilyn_French

There's plenty of crazy around the subject, though:
http://www.avoiceformen.com/mens-rights/false-rape-culture/l...

> Maybe. I personally will suspend judgment until I see women open their own businesses and banks and refuse to do business with men any more.

That will never happen, as the bubble will pop soon.
http://www.singularity2050.com/2010/01/the-misandry-bubble.h...
I wrote this deeper in this comment thread, but the fact that both genders suffer from it in equal numbers does not mean they suffer from it in an equal manner.

Towards the end of the paper, it says that men with IS are much more likely to take risks, so either women with IS are more affected by it or that view society has on their capabilities - that is mentioned at the beginning of the paper - actually does come into play here.
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0.6 mile is what, two or three circles around a large parking lot? Even if you know how the superchargers look I don't think it's impossible to miss them once or twice.
Interesting suggestion. After putting it that way, I did a bit of rummaging of the estate agents website. Combining their rates for landlords (7% of total property revenue + VAT, the 'middle' option), with the data they have for properties, I managed to give a rough estimate that they earn about £320,000 p/a on student properties. This doesn't count properties listed before January or so, as I wasn't recording them and they're now gone.

Now, they have a 'No let, no fee' policy. Let's say they don't manage to let 10% of their properties, that's £32,000 of missed revenue. 20% and it's £64,000. Obviously, I'm not sure on what the rate is, but if my student union is anything to go by, supply > demand, so it's at least relevant. As such, my service at least on the outset, aims to reduce this figure by funnelling students into a central portal and quickly directing them to properties available (availabilities are updated daily). Furthermore, I realise they at least spend >£2000 p/m on advertising in the student newspaper. The service also aims to eradicate this by becoming 'the' place to go for student properties. By not having to advertise so aggressively, agents are left with more resources to acquire new landlords.

Moreover, the top of the funnel starts with students who don't know where to look for properties, are rushed, mislead and unfortunately hurried into contracts. By having one site that deals with the whole process it becomes simpler, more relaxed and students have the opportunity to browse all the properties available. They get to find exactly the property they need. Students are happier, properties are let quicker.

Given this information, what would you suggest? I don't wish to scare them away as ideally I want all real estate agents in the area to sign up in order to fully benefit students. I'd love to chat more if you're up for it, you can catch me at c.k.howell (at) warwick . ac . uk
I think the "resistive" thing wasn't Jobs, but Apple fans defending his word as gospel.

But yeah, iPhone screen size.

"If you expect the iPod to do video, you're mistaken".

"You don't need copy and paste if you do the UI right".
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Plus if you combine S3 with CloudFront you have a very potent combination for uptime