skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you provide me with some information, I can definitely fix the issue for you.

What browser are you using? what version? What operating system are you using?
I don't, I have a BS in Biology and these kind of disruptive ideas are exciting to me. After spending years studying biochemistry and nutrition, I realize that a lot of evidence is out there is crap.

Nutrition isn't some old-guard field with a hundred years of solid decided science weighing it down. In my opinion it's like genetics, a fast moving, exciting field full of interesting ideas and disruptive possibility.

Quite frankly, our understanding of the human GI and human nutrition is still rather pathetic, and a lot of the "common wisdom" is based on misinformation and bad evidence.
Jorge Bergoglio from Argentina elected Pope Francis
Yeah I guess you're right about the storage piece, however, I don't think it's useful at all. We always live in the moment of "right now is the most important moment in history", when really most of the content we're saving is junk, and, as more and more of it compounds, more and more junk will just accumulate on the pile. I'd assume that 90% of what's in posterous is worthless, the other 10% is just people reiterating good points, but the key word is _re_iterating. Do we really need tens, then hundreds, then thousands of years of files of things people said on personal blogs in the past? Absolutely not.
I (half-Swiss) like efficiency as much as the next HN reader, but at a certain point, efficiency must be weighed against enjoyability. I can't imagine not eating a delicious roasted vegetable strudel with a balsamic vinegar reduction, or potatoes with crème fraîche and chives in puff pastry. I delight in the delicacy required to prepare these items, and enjoy eating them even more.

Cooking is (obviously) an activity that is not enjoyed by everyone, but it's an enormous leap to call it "a waste of time". Imagine, if you will, that someone has invented a speedy way of deodorizing yourself without water and soap, as showering is as much a waste of time. Sounds great, until you realize that there is a reason for these rituals. It takes me away from code, writing, and working, and offers me a moment to clear my head. What does your morning shower take you away from? What does preparing your breakfast, a cup of coffee, or dinner take you away from?

Not everything needs to be optimized for efficiency. If you've ever been to France, you'll know that many people spend an hour or more at breakfast. It slows people down, and provides them a chance to think, contemplate, and relax. Sometimes, the very act of something being inefficient can be beneficial in its own right.
Being that he didn't actually tell us what was in his formula, I smell an amateur (or not-so) marketing campaign.
I strongly agree on that. That's just nice material with a bad presentation in the end for Matt
Hi guys! I recently published a new app to the Play Store. It's yet another text editor, with Markdown support and Dropbox integration.

Admittedly, there are tons of text editors and note taking apps for Android, but I find most of them lacking in some way or just plain ugly.

So this is my shot at making something decent. Any feedback is appreciated!
The New Apple War: Targeting Pro-Apple Writers
This seems like an appropriate place to quote Knuth.

"Premature optimization is the root of all evil."
Ah, that isn't something I considered. I don't write my apps multi-threaded, so it shouldn't be an issue, but definitely good to be aware of.
So maybe he'll make a killing in the meal substitute market. Or maybe he'll become the poster boy for why you need boron in your diet and you'll die horribly without it. Either way, we'll all learn something new and useful.
Even today, I never thought I'd see that sentence. Speed is relative, I suppose.
Here is a little summary of what he's saying: The only things we really know about nutrition are related to diets that cause obvious problems quickly. Ie, we know vitamin-c is needed because it causes scurvy. What we know now and are learning is that there are possibly thousands of other interactions and nutrients needed for diet that are more subtle. We do not yet have a complete model for this, and probably won't for a few more decades. Therefore, anything made now will be insufficient because we know our current model is flawed.
When I was a pre-teen I used to test the security of websites because it was a fun challenge. I spent days trying to find exploits in Myspace which allowed me to build cookie grabbers because it was very satisfying to know that I was able to beat experienced engineers. It's kind of like contributing to open source software... it's a way to use your skills in a way that doesn't feel like "work".
Sounds like a perfect application of a context free grammar.
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"grab a coffee and talk " - that rang a bell with something I read this week on TC
Too Many Podcasts
You don't even need that level of work experience.

Any reasonably frequently updated personal blog that covers a wide-ish range of topics will have some truly bizarre search traffic referrals.

(or maybe it was just mine? Perish the thought..)
Note that 2007 is the iPhone's public debut. The project was started in 2004 [1]. Android the product was also announced in 2007, after the iPhone, although the project indeed started before the iPhone, in 2003 [2].

[1] http://readwrite.com/2012/08/07/4-real-secrets-weve-learned-...

[2] http://www.businessweek.com/stories/2005-08-16/google-buys-a...
Ask HN: How did you really learn Haskell?
I've been going through Learn You a Haskell and Real World Haskell, but I was curious to find out the experience other Haskellers had in their path to learning Haskell? The author of LYAH himself mentioned: "I failed to learn Haskell approximately 2 times before finally grasping it because it all just seemed too weird to me and I didn't get it." So I thought it would be very interesting and helpful to find out others experience and how they eventually learned Haskell.
This is likely the result of "another great meeting"
I wish Google would buy Digia and make it the default framework for Android 5.
Let's be fair. the_watcher posts a comment of fifteen words. It's too much to expect "nuanced debate" in a single sentence. I take it you were unconvinced by that sentence; do you believe your three sentences are much more persuasive? Can you imagine a viewpoint that approves most state-provided security services, yet still rejects the actions of the Attorneys General in this case?

Perhaps you're upset by the language? "Paternalist", to my eye, is a descriptive term that closely matches the circumstances under discussion. If you find that adjective has unfortunate connotations, by all means suggest another that has approximately the same definition.
YC is apparently into inside jokes now:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5363290 (t-shirt story)

I wonder what that's about, if anything. The last time I really encountered inside jokes was in high school. It always seemed like some way to establish a dividing line between cool and uncool people.
Hmm... I sense a potential startup idea here.
Django and Flask rock respectively... The other two not so much...

The article has left out Plones and Zope
Surely some security comes for "free". My iPhone has military grade encryption, but all I see is a 4 digit passcode. If I shut it off, however, and have the 10 max attempts, then it's virtually impossible to break in (without other data, e.g. smudges where the passcode numbers are).

In any case, it should be a tradeoff the user controls. People have drastically different needs, think OpenBSD versus Windows for a usability/security tradeoff.
The Gun Shop would have to volunteer that information to the government according to CISPA, so that wouldn't work.
Their "join free" footer at the bottom is a really annoying trend IMHO. It takes up valuable content space and gets in the way. The more intrusive and annoying those popups and bars are, the less likely I am to ever actually join. I guess it must work on other people though, unfortunately...
> "Unless that appointment can be made 10 minutes in advance and done perfectly by robots I don't see the competitive advantage."

Have you recently tried to book cleaning? I had to do it for my place in Brooklyn and it probably took a couple hours of research plus multiple phone calls to book times. There is a lot to be said for taking something this annoying and making it easy.

Look at Stripe for example. They didn't revolutionize anything about how payments work, they just took an extremely painful and annoying process and made it easy.
Please learn how to code. Please read the old-timer's books (K&R, Pike, Unix classics and manuals, etc.). Please learn about writing useful comments, following the KISS principle, and avoiding fancy stuff just because it is fancy and happens to be a fad du jour.

That is, if you want to be a programmer loved by your peers and those who inherit your codebases.
What a dick move, I didn't know who 'Matt' was went to look the `about box` and there's only this

"is one of PC World’s Top 50 People on the Web, Inc.com’s 30 under 30, Business Week’s 25 Most Influential People on the Web"

I'm this, this, this, also, I'm rich and I like to burn people publicly because I can
I'm not sure why "find" or "contains" isn't a member function of STL container types, but there is the std::find() function:

bool xIsMember = std::find(v.begin(), v.end(), x) != v.end();

Edit: I admit this is terrible API design. When you want the v.begin()/v.end() combination 90% of the time, why not at least have a std::find() overload that does that for you? Or simply add "std::contains(v, x) -> bool"? You can write your own version of that, of course, but... my take-home point: API design is very important.
See my other comments. You don't want to prosecute someone on the premise of being the originator. And the reason is that you can't tell the difference between a cracked network and an open one. From outside they look exactly the same.

This opens the door to all sorts of abuse.

And while we're at it, we should put FBI warning messages on all legally purchased DVDs, because, yes, they do a lot to catch the bad guys who rip them off.
80% of App Developers Don't Make Enough Money: The Reality of Mobile Today
Stormbrew said pretty much everything I would (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5370718), but the one thing I would add is that most people are not going to keep their requires up-to-date for all but the most stable projects. Once your requires start to get stale/incomplete, they can easily become more of a liability than a benefit.

Again, I tend to agree with you more than I disagree. I think were I disagree is in making it a recommendation -- if someone is on point enough to effectively use Bundler.setup, I don't know that they need to have it recommended to them; they just need to know the difference between Bundler.setup and Bundler.require. On the other hand, if someone does need a recommendation and not a description, I'm not sure that either is the appropriate response.

I guess at the end of the day, I'm just not looking forward to the change-sets this might generate ;)
I find it a great way to tell if a person is worth engaging on this issue based on whether or not they think CISPA involves the government proactively asking for information.
If this guy is phony, there's no harm in reading a couple articles and laughing at it.

The problem starts if he is right. We could be reading about the food of the future. Normal food will be a luxury reserved for a few.
Aaron Swartz Lawyers Officially Accuse Prosecutor Stephen Heymann Of Misconduct
Awesome! I'm sure there can be a whole series of "typical response emails"....from Management, from large Co to Tiny Co, from girlfriend to ex-bf :)

In fact someone should create a Yahoo like auto-memo creator from a few years back for this precise reason.
You couldn't be more wrong and, unfortunately, I don't have the karma yet to enable downvoting :-). Easy example as long as we're on the topic, the Chrome browser or ChromeOS.

I can think of a dozen things that could be done to Android to both mitigate against current threats and exploited weaknesses and either not interfere with or improve user experience. Unfortunately, we are long past the point where fundamental architecture changes can be made to Android. We are stuck with a system that allows execution of downloaded code at runtime, that never updates, and that blames the user for security problems. Android would have been wise to adopt some of the best security decisions from iOS.
You have a security problem. You call the police. Now you have two security problems.

I'll stipulate that this isn't what we were taught in junior high civics, but it is the experience of many communities in the USA that security problems are best handled without the intervention of police.
Not only did Heyman withhold evidence, but then the DOJ lied about when Heyman produced the evidence. This is bigger than just an overzealous DA's office.
But that won't make up for the glop's likely deficiencies.

Exactly. Yeah, he seems to have done a pretty good job of making sure his glop includes all the things we know we need.

It includes exactly zero of the things we don't know we need.
...didn't he have a Bachelor's in Physics? Either way, he didn't build/design the rocket himself. There was an enormous team.
I saved for ~18 months, then spent two years driving from Alaska to Argentina, because I wanted to.

I blogged the whole time at http://theroadchoseme.com

All the financial details are at http://theroadchoseme.com/the-price-of-adventure

You'll be interested to note I only spent $1200/mo on the road, which is almost exactly what I was spending month-to-month to go to work every day.

I'm currently back working as a Software Engineer, saving for the next adventure. This time I plan on saving up enough money, and maybe contracting a day every two weeks, that I can go traveling for at least 4-6 years next time. Current estimated departure is spring or fall 2014.

I'm extremely passionate about helping/encouraging other people to do the same thing. If you have any more questions, or I can help in any way, please don't hesitate to contact me (here, my blog, email, whatever)
Freedom to voice politically unpopular beliefs is far more important than making law enforcement easy, and so I believe we must ensure that it is always possible to circumvent the kind of tracing measures you describe.
Did you know? Jokes are much funnier after you explain them.
> still looked healthier than this guy

What makes you think he's unhealthy? Because he has whiter complexion and he isn't bulky?
The Computer Science program at my college.

At the school I went to, you had to apply to your program at the end of your Sophomore year, and in order to continue, they had to accept you. The advisers basically told us up front that you had to have this GPA overall and this GPA in classes in that program and it helps if you get good grades in classes X, Y and Z since they are the weed outs. I didn't meet either GPA requirement, and I only had good grades in classes X and Z, with an average grade in class Y. I was also pretty shy and antisocial in the academic setting, so I didn't have any professor friends to go to bat for me. I got the acceptance letter anyway, and my plans for a back up degree in finance didn't have to come into play. I've always been thankful that they took a chance on the under performing dude they didn't know and let me develop my passion.
SOPA isn't really related to CISPA all that much, I don't know why people think they're similar.
First Interview with New Groupon CEO Eric Lefkofsky
"researchers could predict personal information based on non-obvious cues. Not everyone successfully predicted to be gay, for example, had Liked “Gay Marriage.”

Supporting gay marriage is an obvious cue of someone being gay?
Especially striking and inspiring was how he thinks of food as an "old technology":

> I don't miss the rotary telephone and I don't miss food.
"we'd love to grab a coffee"

I couldn't help but chuckle at this as Harj even included the concept of "grabbing coffee", which is discussed in "Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule" [1]:

"Business people in Silicon Valley (and the whole world, for that matter) have speculative meetings all the time. They're effectively free if you're on the manager's schedule. They're so common that there's distinctive language for proposing them: saying that you want to 'grab coffee,' for example.

Speculative meetings are terribly costly if you're on the maker's schedule, though. Which puts us in something of a bind. Everyone assumes that, like other investors, we run on the manager's schedule. So they introduce us to someone they think we ought to meet, or send us an email proposing we grab coffee. At this point we have two options, neither of them good: we can meet with them, and lose half a day's work; or we can try to avoid meeting them, and probably offend them."

[1] http://paulgraham.com/makersschedule.html
Let's look at what a VC is trying to accomplish here.

- They don't want to invest for reason {X}. Could be as trivial as someone not liking the founder or they could genuinely think they don't know whether the company will do well.

- They don't want to tell the founders what they really think. Mostly because they want to hold open the option in case they are proven wrong as often happens. As much as founders say they like honest replies, I've seen so many founders say "VC X said he doesn't want to invest in us because he disagrees with us on {reason}- I'm going to prove that moron so wrong".

- They want to help out the founder with a couple of intros so that the founder doesn't feel like he got nothing from them in return.

The boilerplate/corporate B.S language? Terrible and everyone could easily do better. But there's no easy to tell someone you don't believe in something they're putting their heart and soul into.

YC has the nicest rejection mails of all of VC-land and I've still seen YC-rejects get really angry and make it their life's work to prove pg wrong.
Very true. We have been used customer's feedback as a primary source of ideas for growing our software products. Instead of copying features from competitors, listen carefully to the questions and requests that your customers have.

(It's also often that customers will sponsor new features just to get them faster)
Something about the tone of these things makes my skin crawl a little but I can't help but read them. It's like the space aliens trying to convince everybody to board their ship in "To Serve Man".
Of course it is a hard problem.

It is a mix of politics and economics and ethics and a very small probability of doing any real experimentation on other people.

So far I have more faith in Internet communities doing self-experimentation than with big corporation-sponsored studies.
Maybe when you're not prepared - I used to have all the tools necessary emerged and ready to use. Not to mention that most tools that I met compiled under five minutes.
It's a big market and it's being targeted pretty successfully.

It's a medical market, which means he's going to fail getting through the tricky regulatory problems.

See, for example, Ensure or Ensure Plus.
I learned to use it for math and scripting by doing Project Euler problems.
It's got nothing to do with a "tight lifestyle" more like a "I'd rather be doing something other than eating" lifestyle.
An ecellent and entertaining summary. I was looking forward to this game based on the previews but it seems like one big disappointment after another. Guess I'll stick with Netlogo...
The day Google auto-pushes a new OS to my phone is the last day I ever use any Android device. It is my device, not theirs, and I will decide when and if I will change its OS.
not working for me on Chrome Version 25.0.1364.152 m on Win7
Same problems here, get audio only:

Windows 7 Professional x64 SP1.
No video on the following 3 browsers:
Firefox 19.0.2,
Chrome 25.0.1.1364.172, and
Cyberfox 19.0.2 (a 64-bit build of Firefox).
I get video, but the audio is choppy on
IE 9.

It seems to work on my iPhone with Safari (iOS 6.1.2) but
the bandwidth required is too great for my 4G connection.
When consuming all vitamins and minerals together, some cancel each other out.

I tried Googling some articles to back up what I'm saying. Unfortunately, there is nothing presented in a pretty pre-packaged form. So go with this. e.g.: CTRL + F "vitamin C supplements can destroy dietary vitamin B12" and "Potassium" here: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/druginfo/natural/926.html

He may not be absorbing all the nutrients. Talking about absorption, through my own experience, I believe a body absorbs naturally occurring things like protein, carbs, and fat better than when it is isolated. Again, I couldn't find some quick hard scientific evidence, but found very general malabsorption of nutrients info here: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/000299.htm

Generally, it is thought that loose stools means you are not absorbing nutrients properly. So, joking aside, I am interested to know what type of stools this man has.

I'm sure we can gain some interesting insights, albeit from one single person, if he tracks his experience/diet properly.
Libreoffice, Google Docs (Online), Abiword. Dokuwiki for document management.
Hey Tim, sorry about that. You're right, unfortunately we don't have teams out that far yet. Will definitely let you know when we do though. Sorry again for the trouble here.
As someone pointed out in the comments section, Puma (http://puma.io/) is another alternative.
The field of food preparation has been around for tens if not hundreds of millennia. We've been trying to optimize it for a long time.

See also: Invention of Fire.
That's very likely the intention here. If not merging them fully then at least synergies between similar areas of the two and a merging of the app ecosystem of each.
"Typically [smart people] live in their heads. They look upon their body as a form of transport for their heads. It’s a way of getting their head to meetings."
Netlogo is an open tool written in Java for agent-based simulations (and much more), and quite mature, well worth checking out if you are into this sort thing. I always had a down on Logo because when I was a kid it seemed only to be mentioned in the context of turtle graphics, but the implementation here is powerful and reasonably terse.
This is clearly the comment of someone who has not used Android recently, and only occasionally reads articles about what is going on in the space. Enjoy your koolaid...
I'm surprised at how many people are pointing out objective, scientific issues with the product instead of the subjective component. Even if this stuff worked perfectly as advertised (highly doubtful) I wouldn't buy it because I don't share the same viewpoint as its creator. To me and you, eating isn't an annoyance that needs to be optimized away, it's a one of the fundamental joys of being alive.

You mentioned strudels and potatoes, and one could extend your list ad nauseum with all of the magnificent culinary fare, all of the diverse textures and smells, the sublime human sensory experiences that can only be shared over a fine meal. To trade all of this for some homogeneous slop would be like adopting artificial insemination in order to avoid having to waste time with all of that inefficient sexual intercourse.
I hate sites that intercept '/', which I normally use for searching text on a page. If I wanted to use your search function I'd click in the box. I'm looking at you, Gmail and Bitbucket!
How about countries like Ukraine... 'Raincoat (gay)'
It's about HN increasingly becoming like Reddit.

(And yes, that's a joke too.)
I wonder if app.net has a better shot at becoming a single-signon service than whatever its primary aspiration is?
If you're eating aged beef, you're going to know about it, because it's going to be $30/pound... and this is hardly the sort of processing people should be concerned about.
rather WISIWYG (what I see is what you get).