skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was actually trying my best to not pick nits, because HN has somewhat too much of that.

The reason I posted is to defend the OP against some assertions that I felt were picking at details of what started out to be a simple and fun visualization. I wrote what I did about the LLN to supply some intuition to the person who created the visualization, in case they wanted to put these two results in perspective.
There are three good solutions:

1. Maintain a 6 months (or whatever time is necessary to restart production) stockpile

2. Have a highly credible policy that, if any foreign country actively opposes free trade of anything important, an ICBM loaded with a nuclear warhead is launched on their main government building or biggest city

3. Change things so that there is no advantage to producing abroad, if possible (e.g. allow unlimited immigration, remove taxation, remove minimum wages, remove regulations, etc.)
Sucrose is glucose and fructose, stuck together by a single bond (hence the 50% fructose). The first thing your digestive system does is break that bond.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sucrose
This isn't an issue for Lua, because so much effort has gone into making it extremely portable. Regardless, a port to C++ would be possible, though I'd (without thinking about it much) guess it would take a performance hit due to the increased code size from to the EH tables causing icache misses.
I'm not sure 'essential but over-consumed' nutrient is comparable to 'cancer causing addictive drug'.
> now we are screwed for at least 6 months, since we don't have the ability to create the product anymore.

So stockpile it. Just buy 6-month's supply of cheap foreign steel and store it in a warehouse somewhere. Now if things turn south we just draw down the "strategic steel reserve" for a while - we have 6 months to either reclaim our prior ability or find another trading partner willing to sell to us.
what do you mean by "normalized for variance"?
And color me unsurprised - of course there's a Moleskine notebook.
It is stated in Laravel's homepage that you can use either native PHP or Blade in your views
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I worked a few months in Byran/College Station for TEEX. It is one of the nicest places I have ever been! the people are extremely friendly.

I like Texas a lot, and lived there (in Harlingen near the border, and Houston too) for a while, but College Station takes the cake for nicest people all around and a great place to live!

Strangers in the street literally greet you with a big smile and a 'Howdy'. :-)
Understanding that correlation != causation, the trend lines for obesity, diabetes and the use of HFCS is pretty alarming anyhow and should be investigated further.

Why do I have a particular distaste for HFCS? I remember a time when Americans would come to Canada and say, "where are all your fat people?" Our local newspapers would run stories about how Americans perceive our "indulgent" culture. You don't see those stories anymore. Now we're toe-to-toe in (childhood) obesity, diabetes. Data shows that the US started to use HFCS in liquids and baked goods as early as the 1970s. Canada on the other hand, HFCS has only recently become a regular ingredient in food. I know this is anecdotal and not in anyway scientific, but I have to wonder what other trend could have caused increases in caloric consumption at this magnitude. My understanding is that cane sugar is processed by every cell in your body and HFCS is processed by only your liver. The liver allegedly becomes overworked. If true, this domino effect has grave consequences.
I zoom on any website that has ridiculously small font sizes. A few of the blogs linked here have such small text for their content that I will crank Chrome's zoom up to 150%. (For most browsing, I use 100%.)
> it tastes nicer

That's largely acquired.

I grew up without HFCS and I think old-timey sugar tastes better.
As an American, yes, I think it would be. I like the current status quo, where we consume 10x as many resources per capita as the Chinese. Eliminating the ability to bomb specific other countries would curtail our ability to maintain that margin.
The title is still too general, if I understand the point of these photos: They appear to be intended as splash images for app websites (I guess the first batch of 10 is for desktop apps), with the implication that you will perspective-distort a screenshot and superimpose it on one of these, using it on your home page.

It's not a bad idea. It certainly can lend a more dramatic look to a low-budget brochureware site, although were these to become popular, they'd quickly become recognizable.
Wow, great article but terribly designed website. Really slow scrolling, confusing layout, not sure what I could interact with and what I couldn't. (Some elements used the "pointing hand" cursor yet indicating I could click, yet did nothing when I clicked.)
Do you have a human study you can cite regarding the glycemic impact of HFCS vs. table sugar? My understanding is that the body is very adept at breaking that sucrose bond.

Also: what scare quotes?
It's a distinct molecule.

It's also far from the first thing that happens during the digestive process, as it takes place in the duodenum. If you ate a 1:1 mixture of glucose/fructose they would be present higher up the digestive system. Fructose also absorbs faster in the 1:1 proportion than in other proportions.

I'm not saying Sucrose Good/HFCS Bad (could be the other ay around for all I know), just that there are differences.
Fuel made from food is a terrible idea, in more ways than one.
Ergo, Javascript.
Sounds like there is a lot of Pootential in there!

Which illnesses does it cure?
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Oh gawd. Yeah Windows is so junky that every business on the planet runs with it.
It takes a lot more than 6 months to rebuild war-making capability. It's not just the physical production that moves off-shore, it's the know-how and expertise. As we saw with the computer industry, it's not just production that moves off-shore. Eventually, so does much of the design capability.

Thought experiment: if the key to saving our civilization was on the moon, how long would it take us to redevelop the technology and infrastructure to get back there?
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I know that it's a kind of joke to make fun of Aggies, but they are extremely nice people and T A&M has a great community an culture.

(Not an Aggie, but every one I have met treated me very nice)
How does that trendline coincide with the market adoption of, for instance, sweetened energy-dense liquids as a hydration replacement for water?
*Sigh. Story of my life.
They would have a choice between two extremely unhealthy alternatives.
Obesity is also correlated with cancer. Metabolic syndrome includes elements of physical dependence.
Now a year later, China decides it doesn't want to export to us anymore and bans exports of Steel to the US

You mean they might do what Australia did to Japan in 1938, and the US copied in 1940? If it comes to that, we'll all have bigger problems.
Nothing is anything. We're all just subatomic particles destined for heat death

But, really:

openpgpjs, the topic of the article, is a program that implements the OpenPGP standard, and the cryptographic algorithms it depends on.

node-gpg, the topic of this comment, does not implement any part of the OpenPGP standard, nor any cryptographic algorithms. It executes a local C program, GnuPG. If you don't have that C program, it does nothing.

Suggesting that they are the same thing is silly. The distinction is massive.

Otherwise, I could claim I just implemented a world-class PGP implementation! To try it out, just run: perl -e "exec 'gpg'"
Yes, you should underbid in the beginning, until you get a couple of jobs and good ratings.

I started a month ago, and was the hardest to get the first job. After that one, and good review from client, jobs started to come up more often.

So, keep trying, underbid in the beginning, and don't give up.
The linked page on sugars.com is hilarious.

"sugar is an indispensable part of everyday life."

"The US sugar industry is almost as important to our economic vitality as is a steady supply of affordable energy. "

They could at least come up with some reasons that don't insult our intelligence.
Why is leaving Earth so important?
It's a very tricky decision. When I first started freelancing, I charged a pretty low rate (~30/hr around SF), and it did get my started (getting great amounts of referrals etc). Unfortunately, I had to sacrifice my code quality b/c the amount of gigs I would work on at once in order to live here, and I noticed that the people who normally book low rate devs are the ones you REALLY don't want to deal with. So I would say never, ever ever charge a rate lower than you think you are worth. It may get you some gigs, but low rate attracts crappy projects/people. The people you generally want to work understands that high rate means better code/happier life in the long term.
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[insert some bleeding hard shit Mark made up while guzzling a Starbucks venti Americana]
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Maybe a more relevant question: How many times in the last few years did you reference one of your books?

Unless you're keeping them for nostalgia/sentimental value.
Watchman uses inotify under the covers (or kqueue or portfs, depending on the OS) and abstracts the differences away.

For the Facebook www build it is no longer practical to hash every file to see if it changed because there are so many that it is pretty common for the files to have fallen out of the buffer cache. Attempting to hash the files can thus lead to a significant amount of I/O and translates directly to an increased wait time for the user.

In addition, because of the volume of files, it is not feasible for us to statically declare the build dependencies using a traditional Makefile or similar tool; it is crazy to maintain manually and generating the mapping is itself an expensive operation.

We chose to implement this in C because because it gave us tight and deliberate control of the resources and dependencies of the service.
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And that is exactly why I will pass on this kickstarter and wait until it hits steam.
> it's a good idea to retain a meaningful industrial base (eg domestic steel manufacturing).

Whenever we "protect" one industry, that has negative downstream effects on all our other industries that depend on it.

In the case of steel, the fact that we protected steel manufacturers made our own auto manufacturers much less internationally competitive than they would otherwise have been, because US automakers were paying twice as much for their steel as companies in Japan and Taiwan were paying for theirs. Similarly, the US nearly killed Apple Computer at one point when it tried to "protect" the domestic semiconductor industry, making locally-assembled macs artificially more expensive than foreign-assembled clones due to the artificially-inflated price of imported DRAM chips.

The best way to "retain a meaningful industrial base" is let our companies compete on the world market.
By "efficient" I assume you mean the object code is compact, filesize-wise? It's fairly typical that byte-code or otherwise high-level object code is more compact than machine code. For example, Java .class files will be smaller than their equivalent native-compiled object code.
I couldn't say for certain, but I do see that as a threat as well. I will say, among the people I know who have diabetes, only 1 is known for having a taste for sweetened beverages. I think what you're saying plays a role, but how do we explain the many who don't drink sugar water on a regular basis? For me, it seems like there's only a few ingredients in our food that make it through a broad spectrum of Western diet/culture, and of those ingredients only 1 seems to be eligible.
16% is about 1 in 6. It is very common to be at traffic lights with a group of 6 cyclists. You only need one of them, 16%, to jump the lights for it to cause a problem.

If 16% of drivers jumped the lights, we'd rightly be outraged.
ha never made it past the first test... looks neat though.
I believe you'll be limited in feed rate (due to the weight of the axis), but that's basically it. GCODE is used in 3D printers as well. You basically have a 1/2 built reprap.

I think your plan is all you'd need to do.
What do you guys think of Stevia[1]? Has been recently approved in the EU for use as an all natural sweetener and I see products popping up here and there pretending to be based on it.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stevia
Not to mention that on a 13" rMBP it pushes the title below the fold. Doesn't give me a lot of confidence to try their "distraction free" writing interface...
> Science and religion are not incompatible, because they don't answer the same questions, and shouldn't.

What about "Is there a God"? Religion says there is one, and science says it hasn't found any meaningful shred of evidence just yet. And basic epistemology says that "poof magic" explanations such as a supernatural being aren't good explanations, and as such should not be trusted.

Compare God and UFOs: there are UFOs or there are none. It's a cold, hard fact about our world. Therefore, science is set out to find out. It may not know yet, but we do hope it will. If you believe in UFOs, and there are not, you're wrong as a simple matter of fact. Ditto if you do not believe in them, and there are UFOs. As for whether you should believe in them or not, that's for the evidence you know of to decide. It's not a question of faith, or choice: you can't for instance believe in UFOs by sheer force of will if in fact you don't believe in them.

Likewise, the presence in our world of supernatural anything is a cold, hard fact about our world. [Repeat last paragraph, with "God" instead of "UFO".]

Even morality may soon enter the domain of science, once (and if) we know enough about how the human brain works.

> You don't need to take Scripture literally to be religious.

Still, you have to stick to a given interpretation of said scriptures. That interpretation still says a lot of things about our world in most cases.

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Now, if religion is successful despite the massive amount of evidence against it, it's probably because it's damned good at building communities. Just being part of a community and chanting pretty songs once in a while feels good. I still remember the lasting tingling I felt when that priest touched my head to bless me, and I didn't even believe back then.
"The Bean Machine, also known as the quincunx or Galton box, is a device invented by Sir Francis Galton[1] to demonstrate the central limit theorem, in particular that the normal distribution is approximate to the binomial distribution." - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bean_machine
Out should ask this question in the 3d printer tips and tricks Google group.
C'mon, don't give up! There are hints.. :)
@EarthLaunch here's a thread with a solution.

Don't horde information, share it with everybody in the most accessible way. Let experts from all sorts validate and approve the information. Volunteers or Companies, need to be differentiated. Transparent IDs are neccessary for participants, but anonymous contributions should also be allowed.

Wikipedia is just the beginning of that idea, but it's not working until you people share your knowledge instead of keeping it locked for your own profit.
What are the answers? I can't even get past test one.
> It turns out that the entire compiled Lua VM fits in 200K when gzipped. That's too much for some use cases, but certainly acceptable for others (especially with proper caching).

Tell that to someone on a mobile device with poor connectivity.

> In particular, remember that the Lua VM is often significantly faster than other dynamic languages like Python and Ruby. These languages are useful in many cases even if they are not super-fast.

Something people often overlook is that performance is highly dependent on where the code runs. Ruby is fine for server-side programs because you can always go fast by throwing more hardware at it.

Languages that run on end-user machines don't have that luxury. This is why the playing field for client-side programming languages is much more constrained and why C++ is still hugely popular there. It's also why so much work has gone into optimizing JavaScript.

Being half as fast as JS could be tolerable for some apps, but that means your app will likely be slow and stuttery in some cases. When it is, there's little you can do about it. Is Lua that much of an improvement over JS to justify that?

> There are however some tricky issues, for example we can't do cross-VM cycle collection - if a Lua object and a JavaScript object are both not referred to by anything, but do refer to each other, then to be able to free them we would need to be able to traverse the entire heap on both sides, and basically do our own garbage collection in place of the browser's - for normal JavaScript objects, not just a new type of objects like Lua ones.

This is a huge deal. It basically means if you use this, your app is very likely to leak memory unless you are very careful. The difficulty of being appropriately careful is exactly why we moved to GC languages in the first place.

WebKit (now Blink on the Google side) actually has a similar problem already: WebKit manages memory for the DOM separately from V8's garbage collector. This adds a bunch of complexity to the browser to deal with those cycles and has, I think, a significant performance cost.

It's enough of an issue that the Chrome team is starting a new project ("oilpan") to provide a unified GC shared by both V8 and the DOM.

Don't get me wrong, I think this is a very cool hack. But I don't think it says much about the viability for using something like this for real apps, at least not yet.
Americans consume, per capita, just a hair under 2 eight ounce servings of soda (presumably not including juice, which is morally the same as soda, energy drinks, and other energy-dense drinks) per day. But obviously, the distribution of that consumption is much lumpier than that, and is presumably biased towards people with metabolic syndrome.
I stopped watching when I realised this printer is "cloud based" and "connects wirelessly to their servers".

You know what? Call me when it can connect wirelessly to my computer, just as my 2D printer does right now.
This debate has come up on HN repeatedly; it is again worth pointing out that HFCS is "HF" relative to "CS", not to table sugar. Table sugar is ~50% fructose, HFCS 55%.

The point isn't that HFCS is good for you --- it isn't --- but that a flight to "natural" sugars isn't a good response. The problem is hyperpalatable foods and (even moreso) liquid calories, not which sugar is being used.

You can't look at the percentage difference of fructose and conclude that HFCS is not much different than regular sugar.

The reason HFCS is so terrible is because it is chemically different. As opposed to table sugar, where the sucrose, glucose and fructose are chemically bound, in HFCS the gluctose and fructose are unbound. What this means is that HFCS is digested much more quickly, often before the body can signal the brain that it is full.
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A search engine with every online course and the custom meta data associated with it. Still in beta but getting closer to pulling that tag off. Love to hear how we can improve it.
This is cool, good work. My startup is in the photography industry–don't worry about competing with Flickr's CC images or even microstock sites. Just focus on "Splash images for your software/mobile startup." ... if anything, you're competing with the free PSDs you find on Dribbble

I have a full studio with Profoto strobes. If you need some more contributors, let me know.

Some other thoughts:

- I think you'll grow out of Tumblr and Dropbox real quick (I'm already seeing Dropbox errors)

- Give people an option to "buy out" an image from the set. For, say, $100 someone can license exclusively an image and it's no longer available.

- Include some Photoshop files that place a screen shot on the image and apply the proper perspective/warping. People can then just drop in their screen shots.

Good MVP.

EDIT: Here's a quick-and-dirty example of a PSD with a "placed" screenshot that is adjusted properly to fit the screen:

http://cloud.bigfolio.com/unsplash-1.psd
Some personal thoughts and opinions here:

People that go on Elance to find workers, well, they get what they pay for. I am sure that there are some great freelancers out there but you are far better to find yourself local clients, charge more, and get referrals.

Really, try face to face business first. More and more people are realizing that talking to India at 4am is pain in the ass. Also, a lot of people think that they can go on Elance and hire a guy that is charging 14 goats, and they expect this to be done as if they were paying him 100 goats.

However, face to face business will really depending on how you present yourself, your age and if you can sell.

All these websites: Elance, 99 designs, etc etc are making money for their co-founders (hopefully), and very little for freelancers.
Getting 40 logos for 299 dollars? 40 people working for 299 and 1 of them is getting paid.

Don't sell yourself low.

PS. I deal with small businesses that tried these things, even larger companies that make millions of goats / year. And they tell me these stories after they hire me. I laugh! :)
Ah, so that is what you meant. Your original comment sounded like you were saying sucrose did not chemically consist of 50% fructose.
Acetone baths don't really work with PLA. Though I've seen it get beautiful results with ABS.
A search engine with every online course and the custom meta data associated with it. Still in beta but getting closer to pulling that tag off. Love to hear how we can improve it.
I see the super chargers (and electric cars in general) more as a way of putting many gas stations out of business. Who will need to ever "fill up" their electric car when they can charge it over night each day? The only time you'll need to charge on the road is on long trips, which is exactly the void that the superchargers fill for Tesla.
As someone mildly effected by colourblindness, I am happy to see this consideration. I think it's important to note that making UI colourblind-sensitive, you don't have to do a whole lot of work. Contrast being the most important.
No, I kept almost all of them. I bet that out of maybe 40 textbooks, I've used maybe 4 - all programming-related (Programming Pearls, Numerical Recipes, some algorithm texts). I also have hundreds of non-textbooks sitting in boxes now.

Doing it all over again today with what's available online, I'd get rid of almost every book after I was done with it. They are so easy to replace that it's not worth the hassle and storage. Think of Amazon / eBay as your book storage mechanism.
I often think it would be useful for a filesystem to provide a digest of a file's content. It's the FS that knows when the file's content changes and the digest is out of date, and it also only needs to recalculate if anything asks. It wouldn't necessarily have to read all the bytes of the file to re-calculate; it may be a hierarchical digest where much of the existing, stored, labour can be re-used.
look in the console log if you're stuck :)
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Nice to see how it all adds up over time, at least it isn't compounding like my mortgage interest.

Couple UI notes, when I put in 7.2 the UI doesn't round the resulting 5.5999999999 to something reasonable so overflows text. Also it might be nice to have a gradient of colors (or at least a yellow alert) it is a little abrupt that 7.99 hours is "Drowsiness is red alert" and 8.0 hours is "perfect amount of sleep".