skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tim Cook ordered to testify in ebook price-fixing case
Indeed, if I was to make this I would have to up the fats. If you're a health 5'10 175. You may have some fat you can burn.

I'm 6'2 and uh... not nearly that heavy. So I think this drink might be a bit dangerous for me, as it is.
I was wondering how far down I'd have to scroll before I saw the "disable Javascript" complaint.
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I look forward to food, but not paying $8 a day to eat lunch from one of two crappy places I can easily get to from work. Nor the weight gain that comes from them. Obviously I could pack a lunch, but I hate that shit. If this could actually sustain me I would consider it for breakfast/lunch with a real dinner. Clearly I could probably get away with an off the shelf replacement for those meals though...
I think this may sound crazy but android's days as a apremium OS are not as secure as they seem. Take Samsung out of the android picture and you will see that there is barely any device maker that is leading charge.

Add to that the pressure brought on by Microsoft which runs almost the same version of OS on its phone and PC. This will allow them to innovate much faster. Google wants to be there. So even though the brand name will stay, Android as n OS will evolve to what is Chrome today. Completely controlled by Google.
How many people actually curate their Timeline and/or care about it? Do you look at other people's Timelines? I don't. I rarely venture beyond Feed and Inbox.
No it isn't. The GP isn't saying people buy the phones for the crapware, the GP is saying that the carriers wouldn't have adopted it if they couldn't put their bloat on it.
Generally speaking, one can always be correct in saying "I never have to eat again in my life."
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Many, many people already do far, far worse to themselves with a steady diet of fast food and other trash.

I don't think we're as delicate as you're worrying. Heck, for those people, this is probably an easy step up.
I wonder if it's an efficiency thing.

Maybe the human body is not efficient when eating heavy, processed things like bread, steak, etc. etc.

Is it possible that by eating only what is essential, and in the right balances, the body is more efficient and can extract more useable energy from what goes in?

And obviously the mix is different for every person / body type / activity level etc. You can't do this kind of thing and not watch your weight, blood content, etc. carefully.
So iOS was adopted why...?
Manuel Blum strikes again! I always marvel at how often I come across or use something created by him or his students [1].

[1] http://genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/id.php?id=13373
I love this. This topic came up yesterday at a SXSW panel on getting young girls and women interested in programming. We think a key factor in getting more women to want to join the tech industry is to stop talking about learning to code and algorithms, and start talking about how software can be used to solve problems and to help people (building stuff!).

Learning something complex for the sake of leaning is appealing to some people, but not everyone. For some people, that first website can be very empowering. It can be a gateway to trying to solve increasingly complex problems with code.
Holy crap! The time trigger is a brilliant idea.
"plants that tweet when they run out of water."

Get off my damn lawn.
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when I set up my debian VM on a new laptop recently, it took me a few days to (be bothered to) figure out how to fix font rendering in XFCE. Once I did, I could use the same fonts and font sizes as in OS X with comparable (although slightly different) final effect.
Mhh I could try this with Guinness, on second thougth ... its still a good idea.
No they don't. I think it is extremely confusing to talk about theft of data at the same time as talking about someone hacking a nuclear power plant to go into meltdown or something. When people say things like "cyber pearl harbor" at that time they could be talking about a DDOS that makes it impossible to do online banking or they could be talking about an attack on SCADA systems at a power plant that takes out power for a city. It really drives me nuts because either everybody in government talking about it is a poor thinker or they are intentionally being vague.
I'm so sick of companies connecting to Facebook to steal my info and spam my friends. I guess people must want to do this but I can't understand why.
Agda's use of Unicode makes it far less readable to me. Readability is a subjective thing, of course.
Though I can't find any official sources to back it up, various internet citizens seem to claim they're using a D* Lite algorithm. I find it hard to believe. Either they're using some much cruder algorithm or they've implemented D* Lite horribly.
fame?
Your evidence for app incompatibility is... variant icon art and placement on a bunch of pre-ICS phones that aren't sold anymore?

I mean: it's true, Google failed to enforce a layout for the original Android buttons (Home, Menu, Back, and Search). And device manufacturers put them in different places (sometimes omitting Search entirely) and used different art, and that was bad. And Google fixed it with ICS (a year and a half ago!), which uses soft buttons exclusively. So sure, it's a valid point.

But to argue that somehow you can't write a compatible app because Samsung put the back button on the other side from Motorola is just ridiculous, sorry. Get a better example.
One question I have is where he acquires these materials, if not through some form of agriculture.

I mean, harvesting wheat isn't exactly what I would call "inefficient"
I took Geoff Hinton's Coursera NN class last year - excellent.

I am glad that he is remaining part time at his university.

I share other people's opinions on the importance of deep learning. At first, when it was introduced in class, I thought that it was a nice hack - but it is much better than that.

I was on a DARPA NN advisory panel in the late 1980s and did a fairly successful commercial NN product. Lots of advancements in the fields in the last 20 years!
Very nice. I totally agree. The reason why I picked up programming in the first place is not to become an 'uber geek', but simply to build cool things.

Apparently this same sentiment is held by Zuckerberg as well in his code.org video. "It didn't start off as this mission to learn all of Computer Science, but rather build something cool that me and my sisters could use."
The marketing guys think it adds pop.
To provide anecdotal support, I live on the northwest side of Chicago (Zip: 60647) and they did have results. Not a lot, but some opening dates for the next few weeks.
I suspect this is an example of oversimplification; it doesn't make sense to say "1/3 the calories" without including the quantity. The actual meaning is probably closer to "equivalent nutrition from an average American diet would require consuming 3x more calories", which sounds reasonable.

The article mentions that he can raise or lower his weight by simply changing how much of the stuff he drinks, so consuming more calories is simply a matter of drinking an extra glass at "dinner".
I think it's pretty clear that the endgame should be that Gaia can run in other browsers when they're ready. The ideal situation would be that the platform is developed and standardized enough that you can swap out the middle layer without any problems, even in complex apps like Gaia.

But it would be a bit silly for Mozilla to pursue that at the cost of an expedient release of FF OS, when there aren't even any other implementations to test with. :)
Just 5 grams of fibers, from what I've read.

AFAIK, dietary fibers are required to properly properly expel wastes and to maintain a healthy gut flora (which is not only used for digestion, but cooperates with immune system). And from what I've read, a normal amount is considered somewhere between 20-35g (daily).
But isn't it a plus to put yourself at a slight caloric deficit, so you can make up the difference with whatever real food you indulge in?
I don't know why you were downvoted, but I agree with you - It's highly unprofessional of someone like Matt to reveal some random Marketer's personal information, especialy considering the fact that he is not someone at the top like Matt, but works hard for a living to make his both ends meet.

And my advice to Matt - It's a great offer, Wordpress is so FUCKED UP right now, worse than drupal that I wouldn't be surprised if this was even sent on purpose. (Try working out pagination for static pages, you will notice there are two GET variables ($page and $paged) for the same functionality (example of inconsistency) or try updating your Wordpress to the recent version AFTER a couple of months and tell me if it doesn't break your theme or plugin. They depreciate so many functions randomly, rename them unnecessarily, etc.)

If I wanted a blog engine right now, my solution right now would be:

$ rails generate scaffold Post name:string title:string content:text

Which I'm sure is much, much better.
Is SimTower really less complicated?

They each have multiple methods of transportation. SimTower has stairs, escalators, elevators, and express elevators. You can see congestion as your sims' silhouettes pile up in front of elevators. To get to their destination, they can switch elevators once, and take four staircases/escalators. Sure everything is orthogonal and not curvy like SimCity5, but cities could be build that way too.
> I started wondering why something as simple and important as food was still so inefficient, given how streamlined and optimised other modern things are.

Things must be really different in Atlanta....

EDIT:

Downvotes? Really? On a site presumably full of hackers, you are gonna tell me "modern things" are really streamlined and efficient? Software for the most part isn't. Cars aren't. Houses, apartments, restaurants, workplaces, none of it is. Come on. It's a pretty absurd statement.
Are you sure about that? How does that possibly work? If the shared secret is known, how can you possibly prevent people from hijacking the connection?
From the "recipe"[1]:

This mechanism can also metabolize protein and fat, but the brain can only use Glucose for energy. In fact, the brain uses 25% of the body's glucose, though it accounts for only 2% of its weight.

This would have me concerned if I were considering this. While 100% true, it neglects the entire ketone metabolic pathway[2], which the brain will use fine instead of glucose. If this something big like this has been missed (it's the foundation of many very-low carb diets, treatments for epilepsy and other brain disorders, etc), what subtle things have been missed?

1. http://robrhinehart.com/

2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ketone_bodies
This is an interestingly timed article. We're building our Android app right now, and its certainly more annoying than when we built out iOS app.

As an app developer, in Canada (not Canadian however) i'm excited that RIM have attempted to prevent further fragmentation by sticking close to the Android stack, however i really don't want to deal with the distribution and other issues (such as screens, OS bugs etc) that i'm sure will come with releasing on a 3rd platform.

I feel like we're dealing with the issues similar to what were encountered during the 17-1800's with different size railway tracks. Is it just a matter of time until we agree upon a standard?
AFAIK it doesn't even have to be wrong turns. You can just have some agents prefer to turn more often and others to drive straight for longer stretches, or have some prefer to approach things from the left and others from the right. They won't be randomly turning the wrong direction, but they'll prefer different paths.
Apple doesn't allow 3rd party apps to use their JIT, which means all the JS is slow. http://daringfireball.net/2011/03/nitro_ios_43 And they're not allowed to make certain calls into the OS to make a fast native JIT, even if they wanted to make their own browser from scratch. So due to artificial policy decisions, it's doomed to be slow.
"Before Android, you could write a Windows Mobile app and have it run pretty much on every Windows Mobile device" - yeah, all one million of them.
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His approach assumes (among other things) that we know absolutely EVERYTHING there is to know about nutrition.

I'm fairly confident that that's not a good assumption. And that a long-term diet of his soylent will lead to some nasty deficiency. (Of course, if he's willing to be the research guinea pig for the rest of us, more power to him.)
On the same note, everybody in Peru would be searching for gay porn if their sample set was representative.
I'd be really curious to learn how his teeth and gums are doing. If you can find a way to eat without ever having food touch your teeth or gums, I'd imagine you'd have incredible oral health. Thoughts?
"...Sure there are probably quite a few white people that also search for ebony porn. But I doubt it's that much higher amongst whites in the south vs. whites in the north..."

That's an interesting question. It would be illustrative to get the data for that. My own wager would be that it is slightly higher... just as searches by whites on 'Asian' is slightly higher in California than it is in ... say ... North Dakota. But that data would be telling.

In any case... I do agree with you that it's not "cross burning racism" that is driving these searches. My own suspicion is that it's probably more a matter of simply close 'proximity' combined with the natural difficulty of starting those relationships in the first place.

But of course data would be needed to validate any of this.
Except, the Glass UI isn't an overlay over your entire field of vision as this mockup shows.
Setting aside the question of whether the subject is actually feeding his body everything he needs (a question that he appears to readily acknowledge as "good skepticism"), I have to wonder about the consistency of statements like these:

we'll have to give up many traditional foodstuffs like fresh fruits
and veggies, which are incompatible with food processing and scale.

Soylent can largely be produced from the products of local agriculture

If local agriculture suffices to produce Soylent, why not just eat food? What concerns me is that it's somewhat unclear what's actually involved in producing the constituent ingredients, whether there are limitations on how much of them you can easily produce, and what the byproducts of the production process are.
Actually there is a lot of evidence to show that calorie restriction can lead to longer lifespans. I'm not a nutritionist, doctor or someone who is on a calorie restriction diet (though I'm sure I eat less than the average American).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calorie_restriction
yeah but if we switch to that we will probably start noticing the holes quicker
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How is steak processed?
Andy rubin steps down from android
I work at facebook on our whitehat program. To clear this up we have not, and would never come after someone properly submitting bugs to us. Quite the opposite we are very appreciative when someone takes the time to find something and send it our way. Everything is aligned around rewarding responsible disclosure instead of punishing its inverse.

Nir in particular is one of our best supporters (rough rankings https://www.facebook.com/whitehat/thanks/) we certainly have no intention to sue him or anyone submitting bugs to us. He even stopped by our office last week to talk about bugs.

Some external opinions of our program - https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/12/knowledge-power-facebo...
Do you know about the compare view?

http://jbuckley.ca/2011/09/githubs-compare-view/

http://zachholman.com/talk/git-github-secrets/
I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that even in a community where "acculturation factors" is something people actually say (crit lit? sociology?) it's something that causes people to play that community's equivalent of buzzword bingo.
Side note: the video player is really annoying, hitting the 'full screen' button uses the terrible full screen functionality of OS X rendering my second monitor useless.
Eating to me is a leisure activity, like going to the movies, but I don't want to go to the movies three times a day.

For anyone that doesn't understand that statement, I recommend taking a few years off work, where you spend your time getting up early every day, doing something all day (hiking, walking, gardening, building, whatever) and go to bed late in the evening (i.e. Full days of activities you want to be doing). I spent 2 years doing this, and I was shocked how much time is wasted buying, cooking, and eating food three times a day. It's really a huge chunk of time you can't spend doing what you want.

Now I'm back in the 9-5 routine, and it's not so obvious - partly I think because taking time away from my desk to eat is actually nice, as-is dinner with my girlfriend and others.

When you've got other things you'd rather be doing, eating is a time-consuming PITA.
Because Apple had a heck of a lot more clout than Google did at the time.
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> I don't think your average teenager doing this kind of thing can raise the defense that their parents and teachers didn't teach them right from wrong.

You are talking not about the "average teenager" but about the "average teenager doing this kind of thing", yes?

One is a very tiny fraction of the other.

I think, looking at the tiny fraction, it is way more likely that (lack of) guidance by the parents/teachers/society is to blame than the kid being inherently "bad".

Especially since kids with developmental problems, that maybe have trouble developing their own moral compass, can still be raised with proper values, given the right environment. The converse (bad environment+neurotypical kid) however, is very likely to result in bad behaviour.

edit I am NOT trying to excuse any of this behaviour btw. Just saying that environment is a huge factor. And speaking from just over a year's experience teaching kids (computer stuff) roughly this age (a bit younger, 8-12 usually), quite a few of them have impressively well-developed moral compasses :) And the ones that are a bit more .. rowdy, I meet most of their parents at the end of the day, and I do notice some "patterns" (it's none of my business of course and I try to not judge, but little things like some make their kids thank me for helping them this afternoon--absolutely unnecessary for me of course, but it's still a signifier for caring about their upbringing and manners, etc)
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You're actually the one missing something important: complexity.

His examples are simple, meant to give you an idea of how sass/less work on a basic level. But I'm currently working on site that is several thousand lines of CSS, employing enormously complex css structures. Pseudo-selectors are in use everywhere. As are complex gradients, shadows, sprites...

It's imperative to have some sort of organization in your code. Working with really long class names or IDs isn't an option.

For instance, on this project, we have a defined color set of colours. The red we're using is #c03838. The blue is #2767d1. A shadow used throughout the site is 1px 1px 3px rgba(0,0,0,0.2), and one of the gradients (used in a few places) looks like this when written out fully: http://i.imgur.com/YZi3f0B.png

It wouldn't make sense to memorize those values/strings. Not only that, but it would become a pain in the ass to change them in specific places over dozens of iterations if that becomes necessary. Instead, if I define things like $headline-color and $highlight-color, I can refer back to those in my header file, and change them throughout the site simply.

In the case of complex selectors, it becomes vastly more simple. Not only is your style sheet organized analogously to your dom tree, but it's infinitely more flexible, and doesn't require duplicate writing in the case of long chains.

Less/sass are a huge boon to front end development because they help you manage complexity. That won't come through in simple examples, but it should be obvious if you've ever written a stylesheet more than a few hundred lines long.
I was looking at Bitnami yesterday but I couldn't figure out what stack the images use. You should list the exact system setup (Linux version, web server, PHP implementation, etc).

I then dug through your support and found you're running Apache. Why not nginx + PHP-FPM? Why is Varnish disabled by default? How about Percona instead of MySQL?

I'd find this much more useful if you provided an optimized stack instead of this default, unoptimized stuff. Anyone can find Apache hosting but high end, app-specific optimized hosting is much harder to find and more expensive.
Doesn't necessarily have to be, but I think this kind of application for it would be fairly nice. It'd let the whole thing look unobtrusive and if done correctly could be a very easy way to do it for people who have little to no other control over themselves (ALS is in my mind mostly).
Also, it doesn't have eye tracking.
I don't think you should take that quote literally, it's just figure of speech. He probably exaggerated both the average and his reduction in calorie intake.

Also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_food_energ...
The "fresh" part comes into play here. We can be more efficient if we can immediately process the agriculture to render the ingredients of Soylent, then store those ingredients for a longer time or in more forgiving conditions.
Just to add data to those wondering, iOS 5 released 16 months ago (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IOS_version_history)
(menu-bar-mode nil)
(tool-bar-mode nil)

It'll force you to climb the very steep learning curve to Emacs mastery.
"almost all key divisional leads at Google were born in India. Android, Engineering, Advertising, Youtube"

So factually wrong.
"It doesn't have everything the body needs." - Mouse

I'd be interested in the long term effects on cognition and mood. I already supplement my eating with mixes of protein powder and half n' half, this could be an interesting addition.
The entire purpose of the article was to demonstrate that Traffic Congestion doesn't make sense. Your initial response made it appear that you were referring to a different article - I was wondering which one you had read as well.
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Wonder why the downvotes. Did I wrote something irrelevant to discussion or obviously factually incorrect?
How is this any different from other methods of meal replacement? Maybe his is formulated better, but this is pretty much what Slim-Fast/Ensure is.
Also in Korea because of the Sino-Korean word for 4.
You're welcome. But I'm now not sure if I got my point across correctly on the monad part of the post (but then again, smarter people than me have failed on that front). I'm confused about what you mean with syntactic sugar. I wouldn't call semicolons in JS syntactic sugar, as they are automatically inserted by the compiler. So I guess you could call lack of semicolons syntactic sugar for semicolons. Personally, I would call it idiocy :) (not necessarily the lack of semicolons - I like the appearance of e.g. Python - but their automatic insertion).

In general, I'd even say that Haskell provides very little syntactic sugar, and the stuff that it does provide is both quite useful and rather understandable. Examples being list comprehensions, or even list syntax to begin with, where [1,2,3] is sugar for 1:(2:(3:[]))). Yes, the do-notation (which is what you normally use with monads) is also sugar, but it's not the difficult part of understanding monads. The difficult part is understanding the various bind operators (or equivalently, join or Kliesli composition) and how exactly they model different computational effects, and lastly forming the "bigger picture" from the examples.