skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fair enough, but I would say that's only useful if you are wanting to lose a little weight before a cruise or want to get into a lower weight class for a wrestling match. Weight loss that doesn't "stick" is probably more dangerous than not losing, because it tends to focus as visceral fat instead of subcutaneous fat; and, unfortunately, study after study[1] show that dieting does not result in long-term weight loss[2].

1. This is a review of 31 studies that comes to the same conclusion: http://mann.bol.ucla.edu/files/Diets_don%27t_work.pdf

2. My anecdotal story, I tried restricting calories for 15 years with the result of hitting 350+ pounds. Seven years after a gastric bypass, I've found low-carb to be the only way I can maintain my weight. Even with the gastric bypass, I can't limit myself to the 1200 calories or less a day I would need to maintain (and I feel like crap). Low carb, I never have to even think about the number of calories (I trade one number for another :) and my energy goes up.

I was experimenting with this and, when the results were positive, it really drove me to understand why the results are positive. I'm (slowly) starting to get an understanding of the biochemistry involved (that is a lay understanding, for sure!).
Another really useful app is Spectacle, for keyboard shortcuts to dock an application the left or right half of the screen (like winkey+left and winkey+right on windows 7/8).

http://spectacleapp.com/
I work in a small research institute, and we cannot afford a Springer subscription (or any other for that matters). Just too expensive if your institute is small.

We skim through the abstracts and buy individual papers. It's a joke.. seriously. How are we supposed to work that way?
Agreed.... Find Problem before product
Wow, that is so sad. It reads like a parasitic relationship not a symbiotic one. As we get more data is there anyone looking a retraction rates vs cost? (does someone get bolder in their claims if the cost to publish is less, or do they get more conservative, or neither? [1])

[1] Interesting that you can do science on the publishing of science, nicely recursive.
If you aren't already, please consider collecting their tenure with the company. That way, you can see who's been there a week, a month, a year, or ten. Then, once you've been running this for a while, start looking at the data for patterns. See if people get unhappy after a certain length of time. Or, see if the responses all take a downturn after a certain date.

Then see if you can correlate that with public output from the company: products, services, that sort of thing. You could have something really valuable here: a finger on the pulse of a bunch of companies, in effect.
Ty for link ICBIT futures has no liquidity.

Bitfinex's current best lending rate is at 200% APY, or 0.54%/day with maximum lend-out window of 7 days. Making most futures and options delta-hedging trades, even if ICBIT had liquidity probably not profitable.

To compare, current US broker margin rate is 1.8% APY or 0.004%/day. Will stick to regular exchanges until this is fixed or if there is an ETF for BTC in regular exchanges.
I only see Bank of America options for deposits to Bitfloor. That entails filling out a deposit slip to Bitfloor's account at a local branch.

UPDATE: PEBCAK. That's for the default "cash" tab in the UI. There are also "wire" and "CapitalOne 360 P2P" tabs. Thanks for the tip!
He did mention Sublime Text 2, which does have this: http://www.sublimetext.com/docs/2/vintage.html

As for all the other additional things that emacs / vim does, they're not necessary to his workflow - he was just sharing what works for him.

As a side note, he also seemed to only be recommending bundle-style Mac OS X native .app applications. True, there's MacVim ( https://code.google.com/p/macvim/ ), but the learning curve is still very steep in comparison to Sublime Text 2.
Any experience embedding an application into Excel?
200 days ago, I suggested this exact idea:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4475730

I wonder if Walmart saw the post...
This is a ridiculously helpful blog post and it's right up my alley. I have a single-user (vanity) domain, and hate futzing with databases.

The those that haven't read this link: his implementation is done 100% with static files. Clever and looks secure enough to me (though I'm no crypto guy).
I think people basically carry over their Windows habits, treat each distro as a completely separate OS offering a certain look & feel and app selection.
If you have a family and are thinking of living in a house, you are in for a world of hurt. Houses are for people who have already gone through an IPO and gotten lucky.

I recently had an offer from a well-known SV company. It seemed really good, and was maybe 80% more than I was making in the sticks. But I also have a family, and in my case want to put the kids in reasonable public schools. After long study, I realized that this just wasn't possible, even on the generous salary.

Some people say that the Bay Area is simply full. For people with families, that might almost be true. Certainly it's a major challenge. Good luck!
Dayjob but they are allowing me to take time off to work on my startup and I received some no-strings attached grant money to fund my time off.
Meant to comment under this...
The Vault has provided this type of information for aspiring consulting, investment banking, and legal professionals. I used it to evaluate opportunities at management consulting firms. The Vault has information about interviewing, salaries by position, and life at the firm.
Those features are all well and good, but the only reason a business would be interested in accepting them is because they can convert it back into <currency>. There aren't enough other businesses accepting bitcoins, especially ones providing complex/critical services, for them to simply accept bitcoins with the expectation of using the bitcoins themselves for further trade.
Are you sure? This looks like the right file to me, and it says '-e production', last changed 6 days ago: https://github.com/TechEmpower/FrameworkBenchmarks/blob/mast... (unless that's an incorrect switch / something else overrides it - I haven't tried it, not too familiar with Passenger)
Agreed. If I had known at the time that there was a DDoS against Spamhaus, I'd have probably joined in against the self-righteous pricks. Block my home server, will you?
Don't blame just the users. The machines suck. They take what should be a simple scan and swipe, and add latencies to everything to make it slow and painful.

Then they don't trust you (which perhaps makes sense), so if you do something off-script, it halts the entire process.

Self-checkout
This requires performing all mutation on dedicated code paths. If you require non-asynchronous completion, you have to use the 'wait' variant, but this introduces deadlock risk between threads.

This in turn litters your code with Core Data isms, and means that one can not simply make use of their model as a standard in-memory model.

Compare to SQLite, where one can simply open and commit a transaction synchronously on any thread.
I was a little confused by the different urls used in the tests, as for this sort of light test, particularly in Go, where all the serving stuff is common between frameworks, you're mostly going to be testing routing. Any reason you chose a different route here? (/json versus /(.★) )?

I can't think of much else that this little web.go framework does (assuming the fcgi bits etc are unused now and it has moved over to net/http). I don't think many people use web.go, gorilla and its mux router seems to be more popular as a bare bones option on Go, so it'd possibly be interesting to use that instead. It'd be great to see a follow up post with a few changes to the tests to take in the criticisms or answer questions.

While you may come in for a lot of criticism and nitpicking here for flaws (real or imagined) in the methodology, I do think this is a valuable exercise if you try to make it as consistent and repeatable as possible - if nothing else it'd be a good reference for other framework authors to test against.
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An understanding of how to automate common tasks so that they can be reproducible and a deep enough understanding of your stack to be able to measure and test you assumptions. Also, like mryan said an understanding of the business needs that lead to the existence of the infrastructure in the first place.
yes, our servers were not ready then so we deleted the post within 10 minutes to not waste people's time.

Thanks for the suggestions, one idea with the exercise db we had is to allow users to submit new ones / update existing ones. We would have to approve it, so our db would stay clean. Thoughts?
I did try it again (after many years) just last month, unfortunately I find it hideous and cluttered, even after an hour or two of tweaking. You're right it should be the answer, but I felt deeply unhappy using it. (My problem I know).
Relevant Kids in the Hall sketch - "Quarter Life Crisis": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiESfUGC_Pw
I'm glad I could help. Go 1.1 RC should be out early next month. So if you want you could wait for that (for production use).
Not only typed arrays. Arbitrary reasonable JavaScript code. I would like to see sweet spot grow, not shrink.
I like it, could be big
Having to touch the mouse while just editing text slows me down and breaks my rhythm.

My standard vim configuration is this:
set ts=3 "I like a tab space of 3
map <F5> :set hls!<bar>set hls?<CR> "Turn text search highlight on/off with F5 key

You can add more stuff, but the basic functionality I use everyday is just there. It takes me the actual time to install vim (if it's missing) and plug in those 2 lines and I'm ready to edit.

Using buffers comes and goes for me, I'm not a vim power user, I usually cut/paste blocks of text by checking the line numbers and doing :<start#>,<end#>y to copy, and p to paste. I learned to edit back in the day using a modified version of ed on a MUD, so my approach probably
isn't the norm, but it's always worked for me. Adding
Cscope as a backend pretty much makes it do everything Eclipse can do, only faster.

I usually am not adding tons of text at once, more usually I have my window split (:split <filename>) between a couple
of source files pondering what is broken/working/needs to be added.

However, someone starting out can make more sense of one of the Wysiwyg editors, vim and the like (emacs comes to mind obviously), require a little more time to make productive. Once you have enough arcane incantations, the thought of doing something and the action happen almost instantly, and it's very, very, very hard to go back to having to interact with a mouse-based editor (I still use my mouse for copy/paste in some situations, though, so I suppose it's not as big a deal as I feel like it is).
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What happens when a smaller company makes such a promise, then later they are acquired or sold? If the acquirer is a big amoral company, I wouldn't count on them upholding the promise. And as more and more companies take advantage of a 'safe' technology they think they can't get sued over, the patent gets juicier and juicier as an acquisition target.
1) How is this a problem?

2) I don't get this. Your model is tied to a context manager, even if they are mutable, you don't need to merge context throughout your base unless you want to.

3) They are not thread safe, the same way UIView isn't thread safe. Why would multiple managed context become out of sync unless you allow it? It's not difficult to deal with. Create a context in the queue you are in. Merge it when you're done.

4) You can use Core Data without persistent store and make it fully in memory and everything will work fine. You can even separate your memory context with multiple context managers. Separating your creates and your deletes and etc.

5) Fud. Write a wrapper, use existing wrappers.

6) Agree.

I am actually kinda curious what problems you've gotten into recently. I've seen Core Data be improved ever since I started using it in 4. I wish it had Cocoa bindings on iOS... but ah well.
I've never had any concerns here.

I don't use it for complex stuff. Ironically I didn't use it for a graph though I was told it would be a perfect fit, i wasn't really sure how to traverse without pulling everything into memory. So ended up just using NSObjects and keyedarchiver. But I would be curious to see if someone more familiar with Core Data would have solved it with CD.
You're still able to input the number of reps per exercise within a round. The reason why only sets is included in the Round header is because a round is considered as a collection of exercises (i.e., circuit training). So 1 set would equal completing all the exercises within a round (where you set the reps you want to complete for each exercise).
Uh... if it's not "existing" enough to enable in Chrome, what makes you think it's "existing" enough to enable in Mozilla?

But also, see the Pepper discussions through these various threads. "Existing" for PNaCl also includes being specified enough to actually be implementable, which runs straight into Pepper.
Obviously, you can do the same things in Java, as people have demonstrated with alternative languages that target the JVM.

It's the expressiveness at the language level that is really the "magic". For example, doing the equivalent of OO is not intuitive in Erlang, but completely possible (actually easy, but it looks...wrong) whereas it's supported by every Java tool. By the same token, pattern-matched message passing, lightweight green threads, and hot code deployment are primary concepts in Erlang.
A lot of merchants are giving 25% or more discounts when paying with bitcoin. That's a way to factor the appreciation of the currency into the price and encourage spending.
Never had any issues. I guess what I build is not complex enough.
She doesn't use multiple IDs. She only uses one. But in order to make things work, she has tried everything in the book, including trying to sign into her old account when this stupid bug pops up.

And no, she can't use the phone as it was advertised. She has multiple apps that use iCloud for storage, and every time this happens, she just stops using the apps, as it can literally take hours of trying before she can successfully sign into iCloud.
One way to improve stuff would be to show you how you could have done stuff more efficiently.

For example if you press v and then repeat l until you're at the end of the word, and then do something with the selection, vim (or a plugin maybe) could tell you 'hey, you could have done that with ve (e moves to the end of the current word)'.
ty gailwinds, we'll add your ideas to our discussions on how to handle public workout plans
The success of bitcoin in taking over fractions of global markets also depends on its learning curve, both in how to use them and how to keep your bitcoins safe(while still having access to them everywhere you need). Right now that's a pretty steep learning curve for non-technical folks.
Yep, this is exactly what I was wondering. Opcode caching is a key part of production PHP environments - in this case, since the code isn't changing, they should even disable the "change check" (apc.stat=0) as one would do in a production environment.

And if this is the case with their configuration of PHP, it makes me wonder what other platforms are not configured for production in this benchmark :)
The thing is that vim is actually pretty simple to learn. The arrow keys still work. in macvim you have a high level of usability out of the box with mouse support enabled, copy and paste from the system pasteboard using normal keys, etc....

Even if you are using vanilla vim you can learn the basics of how to edit a file to notepad levels in about 1 min. (command line vim "new file name", press i, use as a normal editor, press escape, press :wq)
You shouldn't feed the trolls :)
Ha! Gotta love Zed
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I struggle with the "could not do it without military hegemony". I think the issue is military. Coca-cola achieved significant domination of world markets after WWII by piggy-backing on the distribution channels of the US Army.
(essentially the troops were given morale boosting shipments of coke, later bottling agreements were put in place)

So it is reasonable to argue that Coke has achieved its position on the back of The American Military, but not reasonable to say it achieved it because of US military action.

An awful lot of US influence is down to pure dollar spend, which mostly comes through military related channels.

Is the US' international reach down to its military, or its money?

I would argue that had the last 50 years seen a global spend by the US Forestry Commission equal to that of the US military-industrial complex, then we would see Occupy! marches burning effigies of Yogi Bear.
...flask?
I like that someone else spent the time trying to figure it out so that I could read about his experiences, then spend only 10 minutes figuring it out. I don't know if that was the purpose at the outset (probably not) but I still find it highly worthwhile.

I am a Linux user that likes to stick with distro defaults for everything that isn't part of my core tool set because it seems like my system is less prone to breaking when updates happen, and because I get more updates that way. It's nice to see others' reviews of those distros so that I can make a better decision without doing all of the legwork, so I say kudos to this guy for doing it. I might try Fuduntu now based on his review, and I wouldn't have bothered otherwise.
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MIPS port is fully maintained by MIPS people. These days they even have commit rights.

You can see full list of people and organizations that contributed to V8 in the AUTHORS file.
I posted a note above that might help:

apc.enable=1 turns on Opcode caching (when php-apc is installed), and apc.stat=0 turns off "stat" checks - this means that once a file is opcode cached, PHP won't even have to touch the file on disk to execute it. The I/O gains from this, as well as the execution gains from not having to parse the file, should help quite a bit.
Great article, unreasonable demands are often tough to debunk. I agree with the fact is that often, the requirement needs has to asked differently. That would often prompt the developer to try to meet the requirement as close as possible instead of just saying no.
What's the benefit of this over just adding a PayPal button?

http://en.support.wordpress.com/paypal/

Sure, it opens in a new window, but is that really such a big deal? You just pay PayPal fees this way...
Thanks for the great info, very helpful!
Does anyone know when we can start buying again on coinbase? I'm still getting error messages.
"Although macrophages also attacked blood cells expressing CD47 when mice were given the antibody, the researchers found that the decrease in blood cells was short-lived; the animals turned up production of new blood cells to replace those they lost from the treatment"

That's great -- does anyone know if any other cells in the body express CD47? Especially ones that can't be replaced so easily?
* Add activity could use a text input search box that filters the activities.

+ If you're going to show Exercise + Variation, it might simplify things to not include the variations in the Exercises column.

- For example, Barbell Shoulder Press (4), Barbell Close-Grip Shoulder Press(1), Barbell Wide-Grip Shoulder Press(1), and Barbell Reverse-Grip Shoulder Press(1) are all listed under exercise. No matter which I choose, I have to choose it again in the variation. Seems to me like you shouldn't include a variation in the exercises list if it's a variation of an exercise already in the list.

* Add Exercise through Journal>History: I should be able to tab between lbs, sets, reps, mins. I have to click each to edit.

* Let's say I want to add my workout history to this. Adding my historical data is difficult. I have to go day by day in the journal and then click Add Day from Plan or Add Exercise. Can you handled any kind of CSV import?

* I see I can track my body weight, but can I track my weight gain/progress per exercise? How many lbs have I added to my squat this year? What did I bench press during my last workout? Similarly, when I lift weights I look back at my previous workouts in my workout log (which is currently a thread of emails) to know how much weight I should be lifting for my workout.

* I added individual exercises to my journal for yesterday, but they don't show up on the calendar. Only activities show up on the calendar.

* When I click the activity on the calendar view, I'd like to be able to see what I did. It doesn't show me the exercises in the popup.

* There's not great support for me missing a rep. Let's say I'm squatting 3 sets, 5 reps each. That's easy enough to plan, but what happens if I miss a rep on the last set? For me to enter that data I have to change the exercise to 2 sets, 5 reps each, and then add a new exercise with 1 set, 4 reps. But that doesn't seem right because I didn't plan to do 4 reps on that third set. I planned to do 5 and I failed.
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What if a 3rd-party API only works on Beans? (i.e. doesn't support private properties).
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> So, yeah, no technical limitation, but explaining to Jeff that you've spent a year retooling the build system to support node.js but not actually shipped any features yet might lead to limitations of another sort :-)

Indeed, and this is why I agree that it's pretty unlikely :).

During my stint at Amazon we barely had time to build the infrastructure we absolutely needed to launch features on the artificial deadlines imposed from somewhere in the stratosphere. How anyone had time to work on paying off technical debt or building new infrastructure is beyond me.
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2 things: 3rd-party API that only works on "beans" and thin object (not your Services or DAOs that use DI heavily).
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The cost of publication and the cost of access are both significant factors in scientific publication, but the major issue is quantity. Most fields are overwhelmed by the volume of publications.Individual papers tend contain only a small amount of new material and a lot of redundant information. Because there are so many, most papers, even important papers, are not read by very many people. What's needed is a curated channel that filters and deprecates noise and identifies the gems. But, even if we had that, we'd be complaining that serendipitous discoveries and correlations are masked by the process. Arguing about the costs makes some sense. I personally get angry when some paywall asks me for $15 or more to view a two page paper. But the real problem is finding a way to minimize the noise and get the gems to people who will find them beautiful.
Blacklists are the only reason e-mail is still usable.
I'm guessing, but I think it's because yesod uses a lot of magic such as templates and the like. The other frameworks like Snap use more idiomatic Haskell.
Unsupported assertion:

"Compounding this problem is the unspoken yet universally acknowledged truth that many people drawn to technical professions are not very adept in social interaction."
Some heart-wrenching comments from the page:

"Husband and father of 3, age 31, high grade spindle cell sarcoma, stage 4 with mets- help! nuclearcouple@hotmail.com or find me (spouse) on fb, Heather Cimino in Fort Myers, Fl, willing to travel anywhere, just save my husband!"

"my wife has tumor that are killing her will you hurry up and get this sorted - is there anyway one can volunteer for a trial tim.parry@xtra.co.nz"

There has got to be a way to address this need.