skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There's a large factor on satiety which is how hungry, or even happy, you feel at the moment.

Satiety is a measure of how hungry you will feel. It doesn't make sense to call hunger a factor. I agree that we need to measure the quality of the food correctly, and I suggested a way to do it.

The correlation between office work and obesity too small to call it a direct result.

I believe the obesity epidemic is caused by three things:

1) R&D in the food industry that optimizes for profit, where profit is maximized by creating foods that are irresistible.

2) Technology driving the price of food to near zero.

3) More women in the workforce leads to fewer domestically prepared meals. These meals are replaced commercially created meals (lunchables, mcdonalds) thus #1 applies more often.

#2, #3 are good things. The best fix is to design a system where profits are maximized by making tasty foods that with the constraint that the foods don't incorrectly inform our biochemical hunger feedback mechanism.

My plan attempts to address this problem.
You are not alone, amigo.
I've found a few problems from using Bootstrap 3:

1) By going mobile first, browsers such as IE8 which don't implement media queries now require you to add in an extra 15KB of CSS to fix it ( https://code.google.com/p/css3-mediaqueries-js/ ) , whereas all smart phones support media queries already.

2) By having glyphicons as fonts rather than sprites, we gain the ability to precisely size, place and colour the icon, but have now broken accessibility as the vision impaired or those choosing to have their browser use user specified fonts now get random characters displayed.

And that is it... the only 2 issues from a site currently in production and with users.

I should note that there are some really good bits, the extra support for mixins for example. I also personally also love that the new grid is now fluid and responsive by default. I like the declarative nature of col-lg-* and col-sm-* (though think a col-md-* should exist for fine-tuning layout tablets).

The biggest hurdle in coming from 2 to 3 is really the grid changes, the move to fluid, the changing of the class names. There are some minor changes to class names for buttons, forms, text colours, etc... but nothing that requires too much thought to deal with when upgrading.
I've posted a list of commands I often use, here: https://github.com/logotype/useful-unix-stuff/blob/master/us...
Side note: it used to be that Mexican Coke contained cane sugar instead of HFCS. Not sure any more.
Respect to this guy. Almost a year in a prison, and still learning math.
Rails' default session is cookie store, highly recommended is DB. It's a config issue that depends on your app's particular DB setup, so default isn't DB. But in session_store.rb you'll see this comment recommending against the default:

# Use the database for sessions instead of the cookie-based default,
# which shouldn't be used to store highly confidential information
# (create the session table with "rails generate session_migration")
# ShopMobile::Application.config.session_store :active_record_store
Mars has no magnetosphere which makes it a non-starter due to radiation unless you live underground or in heavily shielded dwellings.

If you have to do that you might as well start at either the Moon or my personal favourite Europa - a vast ocean of water kept warm by tidal forces underneath a thick protective crust of ice. Power would be a challenge, but there might be a way to harness either those tidal forces or the radiation from Jupiter.
Some of bootsrap selectors are too slow. I will try version 3 in my project. And will check.
If anyone had any feedback I'd definitely love to hear it.
I've started putting together a toolkit based around Evernote and Asana:

- All notes go into Evernote, no matter how small

- I drive my tasks (including responding to e-mail) from Asana

- I've written some Applescripts to pipe flagged mail (and eventually meetings) from Outlook to Asana

- I'm working on some Chrome extensions to help me track time on Asana tasks and also keep me on top of what's "in flight" or what I was working on when I got interrupted. The idea is to eventually build out some reporting so that I'll be able to look back on the week and see what I've accomplished and how long I've spent on various topics
I don't understand what you are saying? Playing minecraft or watching amateurs' videos of themselves playing is conditioning? By who, and how?
1Gbps assumes the tower has fiber. Since this was a temporary event we can assume they don't have fiber available, that and the article illustration shows a microwave backhaul.

Standard microwave backhaul in a licensed band typically tops out around 263Mbps as that's what you get with 256QAM in 40Mhz of spectrum.
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I have a solution for the obesity epidemic which would be difficult to implement, but might actually work:

Address the socioeconomic and political factors that create so much poverty in our country, and which also depress income in general.

We evolved to eat meat. The ethics of this I won't touch but the economics are only a sticking point if you assume we must have a poverty-stricken underclass in our country. And by poverty stricken underclass I mean anyone who can't afford a couple of lbs of free range organic meat per day.

Do the math. Because most of our pre-civilization ancestors ate like that all the time. Why can't we afford the same?

And don't say overpopulation. Back of the envelope math says the US could easily produce meat at those levels for around 600 million people. And modern societies have negative population growth in the wealthy demographics.

So isn't the problem just the ever increasing number of people who are being dragged in to poverty?
Yes, but any application running under the same UID can get the secret token -- or it can be grabbed from whatever file sets up the environment. This isn't necessarily an improvement in security and is probably a step backwards. It's more helpful to make sure you don't allow secret_token.rb into the repo than it is to make sure the token gets loaded from the environment.
Hey smalboy! OP here.

To your question: Haven't started using the disavow tool quite yet, no. When we really went through and did our initial clean-up, it was before the tool was released. I need to go back through the audit we did and tag / disavow links that are potentially hurting us.

But it's still difficult: which links are hurting, and which are providing great link juice? You can guess from the anchors given that's the majority of the problem / penalty, but sometimes it might be a better approach to build new links with varied anchor to a page and - once you start ranking again - have it be even stronger as you haven't hashed all your backlinks.

And I agree. I'd love to see more SEO posts here on HN. :-)
What's with the periods?
pg nailed it in a comment from a while ago:

“For me this is the most critical part. It's not enough just not to be interrupted. I have to feel like I couldn't be interrupted.

That's the great thing about programming at night. If everyone else is asleep (except other people who don't want to be interrupted) they won't even think of interrupting you.”

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3146815
I had the same feeling. Inspired by this post, I just moved my secret token config into production.rb, test.rb, and development.rb, and deleted secret_token.rb.
(Tubgirl, maybe? :S)
How old were you the first year, out of curiosity?
IRS sued for seizing 60 million medical records
Attempted proofs of Fermat's Last theorem by cranks used to be so common that Edmund Landau, a German mathematician, had a form letter for them: “Dear Sir/Madam: Your proof of Fermat’s Last Theorem has been received. The first mistake is on page _____, line _____.”

I have sometimes seen notes on the pages of prominent mathematicians that they don't have time to examine unsolicited attempts at major problems by amateurs so there must still be a good number. I also have known someone whose sibling is a software engineer and whose hobby is trying to resolve P ? NP.
Thanks for your detailed comment. I definitely think iOS is more polished and has a better app selection than Android.

My biggest gripe with Apple devices is the closed-wall garden; I have no Apple devices at home (the only one I've owned was a 3rd gen. iPod Touch) . As a longtime Linux user, I don't see a lot of interoperability between the iPhone and Linux. The S4 also has a removable battery and an SD card slot, which is nice.

Also, thanks for the reminder about the Google Edition S4, might want to get that over the current bloatware-filled one.
Open allocation is great if your project lead can accurately and honestly define resource needs.

Having worked in many a megacorp, that would seem to be an incredibly rare scenario. Most teams can't even track actual resource usage, let alone accurately project the data.
First of all sorry for the confusion. I'm starting to think that our associations are not clear. Apologize for some tautology below.

There are no documents sharing or mobile app (the last one is temporarily). We just want to be an Evernote in time tracking world. Be used by people in personal needs and at work (as currently majority use time tracking only at work). Be simple but yet powerful.

There are not so much details on coming soon page as we are launching alpha very soon and working on a complete Tour page and FAQ section. Wants to present it nicely :)

We are in "stealth" mode now, so not too much marketing, only friends and most interested parties. Thus I feel comfortable to provide details and answer questions in person. If you'd like me to share more with you now - just drop me a line - mike {at} everhour.com
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I'd be interested in reading this, was just going to look into morning home work outs this week any way.

amarghose [at] gmail.com

Thanks
I suspect it's the fantasy of innocence. A person who says "fuck" is a person who's mature and jaded and frustrated. They've seen things and they know how much life can suck.

Many parents aren't willing to imagine their child having gone through that already, even if that's not actually what it means.
Let's get some dates going since we already have the venue.
It's not if you're Japanese and it causes a bond crisis. Their debt equals over 20 times their government's revenues. Even 2% inflation will cause yields to move and debt service to exceed government revenues. They will be forced to default or inflate. Either will cause the value of the yen to nosedive.
I'm not sure how this:

inflation is punishing savers who will start buying foreign currency instead to protect their savings, or take it away from banks to do something else with it.

leads you to believe this:

This, in return, will reduce the amount of money that can be lended to the private sector and therefore will drive the economy down further, too.

If savers were sticking all their money in government bonds and cash, what more could they possibly do to reduce the amount lended to the private sector? Their money is effectively gone from circulation already.

Besides, the Japanese stock market is up 70% (!) in the last 6 months. In what universe if you're Japanese do you dump your money in foreign currency in an environment like that? Heck, I'm thinking of buying a few Japanese stocks, especially in export driven businesses.
You will find the intro books don't talk much about parallel computing. Most of the general data sets in intro books will be no more than 30 observations. They are trying to teach classical methods moreso than useful computational techniques. As for parallel statistics, I don't have a good book recommendation. Most of my knowledge on the topic comes from papers and vignettes from the R community and not books. Maybe check out one of those O'Reilly books about big data techniques?

I haven't seen this OpenIntro statistics before. I'll check it out!
Because CEO is company's main representative and being charismatic/attractive certainly wouldn't hurt company's image. This applies to both male and female CEOs.

And since when calling a person pretty qualifies as sexism? Or is it the lack of "women in IT" threads lately that makes people throw the S-word around irrelevantly?
Cool. I'll check Asana out.
Ah, I see, that makes sense. Thanks for the explanation.
> There is one caveat with the new redirect support worth noting: GitHub Pages sites are not automatically redirected when their repositories are renamed at this time.

Surprising that they didn't implement this as it seems like the easiest thing to implement and pretty damn useful.
How does this not violate several Constitutional amendments? Unexplained solitary confinement sounds like cruel and unusual punishment, and not allowing his lawyer to see him is clearly a denial of fair representation.

I'm not sure about the legality of the diet, but maybe someone more informed on prison law could step in.

Rooming him with terrorists and gang members? Denying entry for a woman not wearing a bra? (which, in addition to making no sense, is also creepy) This is clear abuse of state power, and I don't understand how people aren't outraged over it. But then again, the state effectively owns the media, so there's yet another obstacle in Weev's path.

In a word: disgusting.
Bill Gates: Good Feedback Is the Key to Improvement
Ask HN: Crowdsourced travel sites? (similar to 99designs or Flightfox)
I'm trying to plan a trip to Japan and wanted some kind of site to plan out the entire thing for me in return for some kind of finder's fee. I found this project by FlightFox (https://flightfox.com/trips/crowd-sourced-vacation) and was wondering if there were any.

For reference: flying to Japan (start or end in either Tokyo or Kyoto [Osaka]), cheap-o in Tokyo (sub $60/night) and can go premium in Kyoto or Hakone along the way (~$200-$300/night). 6-9 nights. Budget is around $1500 to $2500 for 2 people inclusive of food/lodging.
Personally, I would hate to take away your choice to make yourself fat. Less competition for me in pretty much everything - jobs, friends, women, you name it.
I think there are real structural problems that need to be overcome for the economy to grow. Debt monetization is OK - but what about a shrinking population, stagnant productivity and very low immigration levels?

Japan's economy has got a nice jump-start due to the unprecedent monetary stimulus. But, as others have commented, there are also issues are energy prices and the negative effects of inflation. Japan still remains an expensive place to do business. I wonder where the economic growth will come from without further reforms.
While a good article, i disagree with his statement that by providing a free service, you are implying it does not have any value. I think the free service model is much more deeper than this comment suggests.
"That's all I was reacting to, I probably could've been nicer about it." Not at all, you were nice enough. :)

Yes going beyond the everyday meaning of the words we use, I agree with you fully. I'm just a beginner on the path, full of the fabrications and paradoxes we all live with, and I'm really looking forward to having them all blown away, or more likely - dissolved - as I dive deeper into it. Ah, aspiration!
At least the physicists' models let you land on Mars.
The "something resembling the pigeonhole principle" is the fact that if the union of finitely many sets is infinite, then at least one of the sets must be infinite as well.

I don't know whether it has a name.
An app to browse your friends' trips
For the time being, here is Google's cached version of the page, sadly missing the images.

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:www.kwa...
While his reasoning is sound, the link title here is really misleading. It has not been confirmed that Mochizuki created Bitcoin, it has been hypothesized.
Of course, Bloomberg is interested in this as it effects his importation of H1B wage slaves.
A lot of operators are switching to higher frequency bands for their backhauls, I see a lot of Ubiquity airfibers popping up here in India. Airfibers are 800mbps full duplex
Try adding hummus, if you are into that sort of thing. I thought the same thing, but found that I felt great after eating veggies and hummus. Fresh fruit like Fuji apples, oranges, and red grapes are great instead of sweets or soda. And I've found coconut water to be the best beverage all around. I still like my meat, soda, and banana splits too, but as in everything, moderation is key.
Asgard AMI: Try Asgard with no admin hassle
Ads destroy the experience. No point spending so much time on design and then shoving ads in there.

Short answer: No. We won't monetize through ads

(Creator @hikeapp)
The thing is, I read "Super Immunity" by Joel Fuhrman and I've been obsessed with following his recommendation of eating greens, onions, mushrooms, beans, berries and seeds every day. Whole Foods is the only place around here where I can get all of these grown organically.

Pesticides scare me. Especially since I can't be bothered to wash my food before eating it. But as I understand it, if you use pesticides, then the plants don't produce their own natural chemicals that fight off pests and other symbiotic organisms. I don't remember where I read it but according to my research those chemicals are very beneficial part of the total nutriment.
I can't speak highly enough of the transformative capabilities of Minecraft. My 7yo has been struggling with reading because of working memory issues, even though he has a verbal reasoning score that is off the charts (we had him psych tested as part diagnosing why he was struggling with his reading).

Minecraft was about the best thing we found to motivate him to read. He wanted to know how to do stuff, I told him "it's in the Wiki" and point-blank refused to help him do it in the game. He struggled at first to even be able to type stuff into the Wiki search box, but he persevered and his reading has improved dramatically.

Every now and again (mostly at random) I will 'reward' him by jumping onto the console and dropping in a couple of special items that he hasn't seen before, and then watch him go off to the Wiki to try and work out what to do with it.

As I said, I just can't speak highly enough about it and I've told everyone who will listen about how good it is. The simplest explanation I've come up with to explain to grandparents and other interested parties about what he is doing is this: "it's Lego for the mind".
I love the site design. (aside from some issues with the rendering of bold text)
I wanted to try Asgard and couldn't believe no one had put anything like this together yet. I found a couple AMIs, but quick searches didn't yield any real data on them.

Hope this helps a few people, let me know if you spot bugs.
Ask HN: An open source orbital rocket?
This has been on my mind recently, and I'm looking for some guidance. I think an open source (orbital) rocket could be an interesting and important project.

Since, generally, the only parameter to optimize in orbital rocket launches is cost, the goal of the project would be to design the cheapest possible rocket that can reliably deliver a payload of some size to orbit. SpaceX has already done something like this, but we know very little about their design and it may be able to be improved upon in some ways for this specific goal. For example, smaller solid rockets might be much cheaper but are not well rated for life aboard and often cannot carry an average satellite cheaply.

I know quite a bit about rockets, and I would be willing to get familiar with some more specifics if needed. But, I don't know if I know or can know enough to get this project off the ground. People would have to be interested in this, then there would have to be a consensus in the goal, and a consensus in what meta-route to take (solid, liquid w/ gas generator or staged combustion cycle, etc.)

Might there be interest in this? If so, how can I best help get something like this organized?
"The proposal mandating 50% of something in food marketed to kids is stupid nonsense" + "Do you have any reason to believe the experts know better what is good for one's health?" = flamebait => downvote
Eh? I'm regularly pushing several times that out of my $5 VPS.
What does consent have to do with advertising? No transaction occurs.
I help run a conference in Portland, OR and would love to look into this further.

Do you have any contacts still or any idea who I could get in touch with to get more information? Thanks!
Isn't the plural form of formula called formulae?
We've built SSL on our HAProxy boxes. The concurrent load one can handle with SSL on one of these boxes is significantly less than without. Applying this to mobile traffic further reduces the average concurrent load we can manage on a HAProxy box. Given how quickly we've had to scale up its a technical decision we've taken.

Eventually we'd like to have it all across.

(Creator @hikeapp)
Mass Assignment Rails and You
Talking to other people in the field is a great way to find influential work. You can only read so many papers, but by talking to many other people, you expand your accessible information. Other people can mention that this paper is great or that they've seen a series of great papers from a particular lab, etc and point out connections that you might miss. It's not just the frequency of names that matters though, it's the quality of work? Are they doing revolutionary or deeply insightful work or are they doing lots of good work, but that isn't _great_ work. (Yes, the comparison is a little vague--leaving that open to interpretation intentionally).
Malone, at the current price of Free, I'd love to sponsor you. Here's to hoping the demand gets you to raise prices soon ;)
Samisaleh
Sorry, I was taking it as a given that a new Nexus phone would be announced. So my question was more along the lines of: Why would Google choose Samsung and not support HTC, Asus, LG or its own Motorola instead?
Innovation Lessons from the Rise of Tesla Motors
It's AUD $5. He meant "Free" as in available.
The Feds Are Cracking Down On Mt. Gox, Not On Bitcoin
In order to handle realtime indexes Sphinx requires using SphinxQL which in turn uses MySQL client protocol. So you'll need the MySQL client package. MySQL server is not strictly required and I am guessing can be replaced by Postgres since Django models make the DB backend transparent to the developer.
10 things you need to know about Firefox os
Well said, I'll make that clearer.
The intention was and is never to spam at all. There are a couple of screens that allow you to invite your friends. It's pretty clear that users don't pay attention to this, so we've decided to remove this completely.

We learn quick :)

(Creator @hikeapp)
Thanks, I'll look further into that project.
Show HN: Visualize CouchDB and PouchDB API
This is helpful, thank you.

Based on this definition of fitness how would we evaluate the design of Craigslist, Comic Sans, and the Drudge Report?
Numerically, these are not comparable.

> There were 478 initial applications made for fashion models in 2010 ... U.S. ... approved 250 ...

> 325,000 H-1B petitions were filed for computer-related occupations ... about 90,800 visas were distributed to foreign information-technology workers

It is equally true that 90,000 more people were renewed or accepted for the first time for computer work vs for fashion modeling.
I like the NIST/SEMATECH e-Handbook of Statistical Methods (http://www.itl.nist.gov/div898/handbook/).

The e-Handbook won't make you an expert statistician, but as an engineer needing to understand and apply statistical methods, I've found it to be a good starting point.
Your environment is not secure. The solution for this type of problem (keeping secrets out of source control) is to create a deployment-specific configuration file that is not kept in source control. It can be created out of a generic version that is kept in source control. Then, OS-level permissions are applied so the file is only readable by the processes that need access.