skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Intestinal flora are complex. Here's a story about Akkermansia muciniphila (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-22458428) which appears to make it harder for people to become obese.

Here's an article from Nature that shows mice can become more easily obese if you infect them with some, er, stuff, and that this is transmissible (http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v444/n7122/abs/nature05...)

So you could be giving yourself stuff that would make it easier for you to become obese, or you could be giving yourself stuff that would make it easier for you to stay not-obese.

And that's just these few bugs. There are a whole range of really quite unpleasant things you could be getting.

Regulations are important. They're not to protect well informed people from making calm rational choices, although they do have that unfortunate effect sometimes. Regulations are to prevent cynical, or stupid, people from offering dangerous untested unproven "treatments" at great cost to desperate and ill people.

It'd be great if there was a safe way to decouple these, allowing people to gamble with their own health if that's what they want to do, but protecting people from evil con-merchants.
He could have cleaned up on The Golden Shot

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Golden_Shot
Interesting. I tested it in Firefox v.21 and Chrome v.27 (on Windows) and it works in both.
Facebook No Longer Talking To Waze About A $1 Billion Acquisition
OK sorry if this reply sounds like I'm nerdraging, it's because I am - don't take it personal, it happens so often here nowadays that sometimes I can't hold it back any more.

Can we please please please stop with the 'anecdote of 1 = data' and 'I do it like this and so do my friends (who are self-selected to be as much like me as possible)' arguments. It does not matter what you do, nor does it matter what you think. Businesses have much more data on this than the vast majority of HN readers, and while it's nice to think that they're all stupid in the 'I am so much smarter' sense, it is most likely not true. If Airbnb had, over the course of testing their validation approach against the first let's say 1000 users found out that the majority had little to no overlap in their social graphs between social networks, do you think they would keep using it this way? Clearly the answer is no, which leads to the prima facie conclusion that your generalization of your own behavior to the population at large is flat-out wrong. I'm not saying there is no way it could be that indeed most people have little overlap, just that the evidence we have so far, plus some reasonable thinking, points to the other conclusion.

Of course, if you do have (or can point to) data (i.e., not anecdotes, not 'I think', but hard data, obtained in a methodologically sound way) to the contrary, that would be a valuable addition to this discussion. All these "I don't do it like that so it sucks!" replies are just noise, and that was (in a passive-aggressive way) one of the underlying points in my reply.
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GC doesn't have to be terribly complex: https://gist.github.com/JohnEarnest/4522067
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Google adds nutrition info for over 1,000 foods to search results
1-hour interview with Elon Musk at D11
If you are looking to learn how to make a Mobile Application then this is a great class. It covers multiple SDKs for mobile development. No prior programming knowledge or experience required.
I wrote some kind of assembler on top of Brainfuck: Basically tweaked a Brainfuck interpreter that I wrote in C.

So instead of:
+++++++.
You would write 7+. or something similar... can't remember now.
Have you read Rob Pike's post here [1]? I wonder if your post is made with that knowledge in mind or without, and whether it'd change your perception in any way.

[1] http://commandcenter.blogspot.com.au/2012/06/less-is-exponen...
I can't quite recommend that book. A lot of the code examples contain errors and, worse, some of them are subtle errors in nomenclature (the text refers to the "myService" service but the code declares it as "service" in one place and then "myService" in another) and not jsut typos.

And yes, that was intentional.
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"I was just joking. Except, see, no I really wasn't."
Why China wouldn’t let Penny Arcade cover League of Legends All-Star Game
Can't wait for someone to build a "Deploy to Heroku" button that I can stick on a GitHub README. It will spin up the app, do all the setup and then pass it off to the end-user; the instructions for most Heroku deployable apps always follow the same repeatable actions so it would be awesome to automate this.

I tried out this project with similar aims in the past: https://github.com/rainforestapp/heroku.json but it wasn't quite enough to get an app up and running.
Thank you. Yes, to me, it seems a lot less "icky" (and more natural) than taking chemotherapy drugs, or biologics via IV, or surgical removal of the large intestine - but these treatments are the norm.
The City of Portland (Oregon) has a revenue tax as well, with a floor of $50,000, regardless of incorporation (so it affects freelancers as well). It was actually $15,000 until 1998, jumped to $25,000 for 1999–2006, then $50,000 since.
“We just couldn’t crunch those images down to a smaller size,” Zacharias remembers. “It would have taken a significant amount of Google’s entire processing power just to do that.”

What? Processing a thumbnail is insignificant compared to processing a video - in fact it's on the same magnitude as making a single frame of video... Maybe Google uses a lot of hardware encoders for YouTube?

In any case, I can't believe this is a reason. A billion images? Is nothing for Google. Google was offering a billion hours of cpu time to scientists for free in 2011. Don't tell me that a thumbnail takes an hour... http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/04/1-billion-computing-c...

Google App Engine now offers the Image Service, but perhaps that was launched after this. https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/java/images/ove...
My pain is not linked to anything except stress and barometric pressure. I have been diagnosed chronic migraines (a diagnosis I do not really agree with) and chronic sinusitis. When I was 16 a classmate with whom I had a disagreement with saw fit to smash my face between his fist and a wall I was backed up against. This scarred my sinuses and two surgeries to attempt to fix it have failed (and they can't safely try again). In addition I suffer from something resembling a migraine, I say resembling because it has not stopped for the last 6 years (migraines are suppose to come and go, this just changes in intensity. My current theory as to the cause of my "migraines" is I have a sensory processing disorder, but according the the DSM I need to also be autistic to have sensory processing disorder (of which I only have the symptoms that overlap with being a programmer and academic and thus it does not make a lot of sense)

The first few years of these pains were exactly like you described. I was constantly suffering and it was breaking me down. I was mostly non-functioning and barely able to keep up with high-school. After three years of nonstop pain I realized my life was not going to go anywhere until I had made some changes. I decided I was going to strive to not suffer from my pain. That is an impossible challenge. It is not 'coping' per say, as I do not hurt any less but it is coping in the sense that I decided to put on the strong facade of not hurting to the majority of the world.

I've been neurologists, on multiple medications. The few medications that did work (Topimerate for example) lessened and even stopped the migraines, but with bad cognitive effects (short term memory issues and shortening of my attention span). Right now I am unmedicated and working on my PhD. My end solution to the pain is to work so much that I don't have much energy left for suffering. It's not fun, but it is better then wallowing and I'll take that.
I got to level 3. Then there's talk of writing code about Rainman, and now I'm fully stumped.
I wouldn't completely trust the WordPress Codex for everything. It has a lot of missing/out of date information, and the function descriptions don't always jive with the actual code. That function is still in use and in this case it appears the information is only partially accurate. From what I've gleaned looking through the code, is that (in 3.5.1) WordPress uses phpass portable hashes. These hashes do ultimately rely on md5. The phpass class is initialized with an $iteration_count_log2 of 8, but the actual number of iterations of the md5 function itself is 8192 (based on my testing). While this current hashing is not perfect, it is better than an unsalted single pass of md5, or the only 8 passes as documented in the Codex.

I believe that phpass portable hashes were used for their cross system compatibility, as prior to 5.3 not all crypto functions for PHP were available on all platforms. With 5.3 all crypto functions are now built in, so it should be possible to use the non-portable hashes of phpass everywhere, but I believe that WP still targets 5.2. The version of phpass shipped with WordPress has support for non-portable hashes, and it would be possible to make a plugin that enables this, but as you've stated, it isn't likely that many WP sites have a hashing plugin installed.
He's not paying. He contacted Moxie Marlinspike privately, and then Moxie posted on Twitter saying he wasn't paying. So he's not only wrong, but also a weasel. A WEASEL. I said it!
And if you're wondering why the car they're in doesn't go flying or get penetrated by windblown debris, well, it's not your typical car, but a highly customized 7 ton vehicle with armor and hydraulic ground spikes.

http://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/watch-storm-chase...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/wp/...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tornado_Intercept_Vehicle
> t's just that such a narrow view

I'd argue its focus and specialization, something Ubuntu lacks. The TV and Ubuntu-on-Android products have not yet seen anything noteworthy happen, the phone might do something but they are jumping in a big pond. Their lack of focus on the desktop and the resulting obsolescence of their software (the software center, from 2008, mainly, but also compiz and upstart) is hurting the primary product people engage with them for, and it is for a grander scheme that isn't playing out.

Yet, at least. I would never write Canonical off from eventually having one OS and thematic style to run on everything from phones to tvs to pcs to cars etc. It just doesn't look like it is coming soon, and their core product suffers for it. (I've switched my relatives to openSuse just because systemd + yast + software.opensuse.org is much nicer than searching launchpad).
You can prototype with the null-GC until you run out of memory...
As one with UC I can say that this helped me:
http://shop.vsl3.com/vsl3-ds-20-pack---prescription-only-p17...

It is magnitudes more powerful than anything else you will find. Taking it stopped my flare and anytime I feel a flare coming on I take it. I had to push my DR into getting the script after fistfulls of Asacol HD and prednisone a day only slowed my flare down.
I hear you.

I think he's doing good, true, better than nothing.
Didn't they already have this API available?

Can someone explain how this differs from https://github.com/heroku/heroku.rb ?
There's no "defense" here, just pointing out the potential influences.
Pica Pic - Retro handheld games collection
Oh.

I pushed the literal button.

"We shouldn't be afraid of a few glyphs on a screen."
Seems like it's a branding problem. "Fecal transplants" might get a lot more traction if we called them something a little more benign-sounding like "stool infusion." Transplant makes it sound like you're moving an organ around rather than just some fungible bodily excretion. A transplant also doesn't sound like something anyone ought to do daily...
Using different domains reduces attack surface area [1]. That said, I agree that the blogspot domain and site design look amateurish.

[1] https://github.com/blog/1466-yummy-cookies-across-domains
Quite. I expected the "button" to have an effect on something. Instead I got "the little known twizzler that twizzles when it's time to cross", which is much less interesting.
Nor googleinternetsecurity.com. A TLD doesn't make it more legit, but at least under Blogspot, Google can shut down an imposter once discovered.
Your microbiome is essentially another organ in your body. You have 10 times the number of bacteria cells as you do human cells (they are a lot smaller) and they weigh over 2 pounds. Problems with this microbiome have been associated with very important diseases including autism, malnutrition and heart attacks. The economist had a good semi-science summary back in August last year [1]. I would recommend being just as careful getting a fecal transplant as any other organ, it would be terrible to catch something you didn't want like hepatitis.

It will likely be a while still until we understand the microbiome as the current sequencing methods only can sequence about ~1000 nucleotides at a time [2]. The strategy is to shred all the DNA into smaller pieces, sequence them and then try to assemble them back into the full genome. This is difficult to do in just single organisms and becomes very difficult when you're dealing with a soup of many different organisms in something like your gut. Hopefully we can make some good progress associating smaller chunks of sequence with phenotypes until we can sequence full chromosome lengths of dna.

[1] http://www.economist.com/node/21560523
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA_sequencing
Same way as before, open start screen and type the program name.
Official: HTC One Google Edition is real
I think we can give Dropbox the benefit of the doubt and assume they knew it was down before we did.
Well... either you can do image processing to count the number of blobs...or do a vague count, get a ballpark figure and brute force it
Level 3 is already impressive! The Rainman thing is a joke though ;-)
Curiously it is (so far) my highest voted comment in nearly two months, so I guess others had the same reaction I did.
Indeed! Again, that's part of the game. The server is having a bit of a hard time though, as you weren't the only one having this idea :-)
Good Old Games: gog.com and the DRM-Free Revolution
They are now taking orders through their website.
>bug Closed, overtaken by events.

Not exactly fixed. Also, moving the goalposts.
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Getting Comfortable in the Terminal
On seeing what it did, my first thought was that the result with his picture next to it was one of those horrible promoted pages/adverts. I'm used to just skimming over the first results that look different to the rest with Google.
How about internetsecurity.google.com? They control their own TLD, they can make subdomains.
I don't get it. Why are they doing this? This is not what people have been asking for. Are they just doing this so the headlines say "Microsoft brings back the start button" and trick people into buying Windows machines again?

Because it's clearly just for show, and doesn't resolve any of the issues people have had with Metro on a desktop PC.
Those repetitive setup tasks are definitely one of the things we wanted to provide an easier solution for. I definitely look forward to simple scripts instead of multi-step manual processes.
Thank you - I have looked into this. I think it's definitely worth researching more. At the time I looked into it, it seemed somewhat more risky and difficult to do than FMT.
Internet + Everything =?
I signed up to post to correct this comment.

My wife was nearly killed twice this year by NHS bean counting:

Firstly they missed a strangulated hernia because they wanted to cut back on x-ray usage in A&E. Then after five visits to A&E and threats of being sued, they did one and booked surgery on the "oh shit" moment the consultant noticed it. She was dragged in each time paralysed with pain in an ambulance, which took at least an hour to arrive each time.

Secondly, after the surgery, they left her without any post-op checks for 17 hours due to staff shortages leading to a collapsed lingular, pneumonia and a massive internal bleed which took additional surgery.

My wife now requires full time care as her immune system has collapsed from the repeated infections and started attacking her body which has pretty much fucked me as the NHS won't foot the bill so I have to work full time at home dangling off an RDP connection (thankfully I write software rather than fix cars or something) and look after her.

This is also problematic as I have a disabled daughter who requires full time care, who incidentally receives precisely fuck all care of any significance.

And they cut our child benefit because I earn too much but I have to pay a huge rent to keep a job that pays enough to live on in London which leaves me -£100 every month.

Fortunately I found a solicitor to work for free on this case.

The NHS is a disaster as is the rest of this country. They are thinking of their budget which is worse than their profit margins.

To hell with it.

Edit: There is a lot of completely un-objective, unrealistic propaganda about the NHS all over the television from documentaries to reality shows (24 hours in A&E for an example). This is all completely detached from reality.
That sounds like a fun weekend project! Instead of "try a live demo" you get "create a live demo of your own".
Cisco's CCIE Voice "Evolves" to CCIE Collaboration
I totally agree with this post,but the reasons people think this way is obvious. It's much easier to look at a ginormous rocket blasting off in a fiery cloud of steam and crushing noise as something BIG, than it is to see an operating system kernel as big.
The alienation of work I guess...
A screenshot of the error: http://i.imgur.com/oEipvNg.png

I have verified with 6 people on my skype that uses odesk and they all confirmed that the support page has not been working for more than 10 hours now.

The issue is you cannot select the 2nd drop down menu to advanced you in the page and thus you are stuck there.

I am not sure if this is intentional or they just don't want anyone lodging anymore tickets. Please reply if you guys are also having problems.

Cheers,
Merc
>Why on earth would anyone want a face associated with a program, website, or anything that's not a social media account?

A coworker runs one of those aggregate-amazon-affiliate-link sites (think http://www.thisiswhyimbroke.com/) for camping and outdoorsy things. He saw a noticeable increase in traffic by associating his wife's picture in his search results. He's of the opinion that a pretty face helps sell things.
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The Google security folks have been getting more and more selective about what goes under google.com (especially user-generated content) because stealing google.com cookies gives you the user's auth tokens.
I don't see a live editor on the React homepage!
:) However, would you call your bellybutton a "button"? I think it's a compound noun where "button" can't stand on its own in a meaningful way.
I can't why this application will need all these permissions:

+ Read Tweets from your timeline.
+ See who you follow.

Why's that?

Are these standard twitter permissions?
Would you be willing to pay more for a higher SLA?
Just targets on how many patients they can see etc. Plus good luck booking a same day appointment with a GP.
I do think the actual photo chosen is a turn off though.

I wonder if he tried a better more professional photo if the results would change.
In the places I have been in Dubai, they definitely have addresses, but its more like "Office X, Jumeirah Business Tower, Jumeirah Lakes, Cluster W." (I am not sure about post boxes or post codes)
Sometimes the building names are arabic, so you would instead say "Building 4" in english as they are well numbered.

In some places in Africa this is definitely true, an example of an address in Mauritius would be "Second house on the right, past the hindu temple, the house with the red wall".
Screenshots work universally across language settings, so I think they're very appropriate.
Crashlytics for Android released
Ask HN: My Startup is Illegal
My Startup Is Illegal

I am designing a P2P hardware product that will (among other things) make it harder for governments to intercept or acquire the data from users’ private communications. I am working with one other person, and our concern is this:

How do you move forward with something when you know you might be taken to court, put under surveillance, heavily fined, or otherwise harassed?

We are both shy people who like to work behind the scenes. Our current strategy is to keep to ourselves and try to get a working product while off the radar. Unfortunately our other problem is that we need help and don’t know how to ask for it. We specialize in software and security and we have no experience with building hardware prototypes. Both of us are working for free, he supports a large family doing side jobs, and my family is helping me out.

I guess the discussion I would like to see is twofold:

1) How do you stay strong when faced with a huge legal grey area like this?
Have you ever survived being typecast as “the wrong side of the law”?
How can you move forward with innovation when you are constantly in a paranoid state?

2) How do you meet people when you feel uptight discussing the details of your project? Especially when you can’t afford to hire someone, and you need to appeal to the small group who are motivated by similar passions?

I hope we are not too DIY for our own good. I would hate to see a creative project like this get killed because of something so surmountable.

It might be difficult for me to answer questions about my situation, especially publicly. I am open to the idea of talking privately, and I apologize in advance if I seem cagey.

notme8000@hushmail.com
Sounds like you aren't being conservative enough with who you show the widget to. Just show it to people who use the app a lot, recently, and over a long period of time.
Mark Snow, CCIE #14073, offers a number of clarifications and analysis here:

http://blog.ine.com/2013/05/28/ccie-collaboration-is-not-jus...
Go is awesome, and I'd love an excuse to use it in production. The problem is that being a young language, there aren't many libraries, and the ones that do exist are often at very early stages at best too. That means when you need a library to solve problems like printing a PDF, you are out of luck.

The other thing that makes me a bit nervous about using it in production is the idea of linking to the latest/head version of a dependency. Maybe I just don't properly understand the paradigm though.

Those nits aside, I believe Go has bright future and within 2 years will be mainstream. Meanwhile, Scala is better suited for projects that need lots of libraries and mature tooling.
How's this?

git clone https://github.com/whatever; heroku create; git push heroku master
Unless you have locked your account (missing the whole point of Twitter IMHO) this is public information…

And yes, this is just the default settings :-)
Also screams "this site has been SEO'd to death". Better when every top result has a picture then it doesn't stand out so much.
What baffles me isn't the lack of a version pinning package manager, but that a significant portion of the Go community actively criticizes projects trying to implement them, like http://gonuts.io or https://github.com/GPMGo/gopm
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Because the machines run out of disk space. A resync does a compress.
BitTorrent Sync :D