skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because you want other people to read it.
Markets are quite bad at developing any kind of reserves. So in the case of antibiotics: we have the antibiotics we need at the moment ( at least mostly). A new antibiotic would be quite expensive to develop, and then it would just sit on a shelf. Thinking about it, it is quite the same as the banking crisis in 2008, there was no secondary banking system, because that would operate at higher cost and therefore get kicked out of the market.
The renaming of the Secretary of War to "Secretary of Defense" has an interesting history that is not at all to do with manipulation of the language, but rather the fact that the War Department and the Navy were separate bureaucracies prior to WWII.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3rhQc666Sg
I guess my post sounds more pessimistic than I meant it to be. I don't think it indicates any horrible failure, I just find funny the exact way that Dijkstra's vision failed to come to pass. Honestly, as a programmer, I kind of like it that hardware is cheap and programming is expensive. ;)
How about xkcd's Blue Eyes puzzle?

https://xkcd.com/blue_eyes.html
Ask HN: Rails mentor for my first webapp
I started learning Ruby and have gone through Michael Hartl's tutorial. But I still have no idea how am I going to build this webapp I have in mind.

I am looking for someone who can mentor me, teach me and guide me on how to do this. I am ready to pay for their time and energy on me. I just want to do this myself.

I am presently in Sydney, but happy to work with Skype for remote.
Composition of food (amount of protein, carbohydrates and fat) can affect energy expenditure through TEF (thermic effect of food) but it's practically insignificant (+/- 5% of consumed energy).

I agree your metabolism is not a static thing. When starving it can adapt to as much as 30%, yet this only means you're burning less energy and you need to adjust your intake (or modulate your expenditure somehow - by exercising, not having too big of a caloric deficit etc.).

Stopping to eat certain kinds of food and/or starting to eat other kinds of food will not make you lose weight. Eating at a different time will not make you lose weight. Combining foods differently will not make you lose weight.

Weight loss is a result of a negative energy balance. Now, all these things you listed can impact your energy intake (and thus energy balance), especially if you eat calorie less dense food. But you're losing weight because you're eating less. All the things you listed are (more or less successful) ways to modulate your hunger. You're not necessarily eating less by volume, but certainly less by energy value.

Physics is clear - psychology and hunger management not so much. But I'm strictly speaking of physics and the fact that you stated that you lost weight without increasing energy expenditure or decreasing energy intake.
Funny thing is, I've browsed through for some ideas for electronics projects (not to use as-is, mind you, just to fiddle with) and found parts at wholesalers. What can I say, they were a handy supply of barely usable, often unnecessary rubbish, but as a museum of oddities and bad ideas, it was rather inspiring.
I think you're massively overstating how common WiFi is. First off it only exists over certain land areas, and secondly it is so costly on most flights few are paying for it ($35 for a 60 minute flight? Uhh no thanks).

Plus you'd still read Skymall during takeoff/landing where electronic devices are banned.
Leap Motion and the virtual interfaces
Xhibit's "Twityap": http://www.twityap.com/

What an insulting joke.

Looks like their Twitter account was suspended: https://twitter.com/TwitYap

Elancer from Punjab who put the app together has a couple screenshots: https://www.elance.com/samples/twityap-android/71857479/

Totally funny stuff...
I honestly don't understand people's opinion around this. I'm not trying to refute your comment, just understand and see if I missed something. As far as I have read, Google complies with NSA letters (which seems to be required by law, although perhaps not a favorable one) and PRISM is said to give the NSA additional direct access (but I haven't seen any indication of this being proved or confirmed to be known to the companies involved). Has there been some information proving Google and other companies are actually working with the NSA or is it simply based on the idea that you think it might be likely and they'd deny it either way (if they confirm it, they work with the NSA and if they deny it, they work with the NSA).

I'm not suggesting blindly trusting any company or person but do we have actual knowledge in this subject I missed or simply opinions?
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As an aside, you can't be self-taught in psychology. It's like being a self-taught doctor: Being educated in psychology is predicated upon you having a degree in psychology, because it's a very certification-heavy field.

I would actually advise you to not brag about being "self-taught in psychology" because it's a very strong indicator that you don't know what you're talking about.
twityap?!? you can't make this stuff up.

It's sad that this might work to get people to part with their money.
>Government does not have a 'monopoly of violence.' You are perfectly entitled to defend yourself if attacked by a criminal, for example.

That's a misunderstanding of what the phrase "monopoly of/on violence" entails. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopoly_on_violence) Though to be fair, I'm not sure the OP really understands that.

The actual application of physical coercion is delegated or permitted by the state ... the law might permit individuals to use physical force in defense of self or property, but in this case ... the ability to use force has been granted by the state, and only by the state.
Sure, the GPL is more permissive than simple copyright, but it's much more restrictive than BSD-style licenses. The GPL is controlling (compared to a BSD license) in that it seeks to ensure freedom, a proprietary license is controlling (compared to a BSD license) in that it seeks to ensure profit.
Author here. We published this about a month and a half ago so the stock price information in the post is out of date.

Since then, the stock price of the acquiring company (XBTC) has fallen roughly in half.

http://finance.yahoo.com/echarts?s=XBTC+Interactive#symbol=X...
r/circlejerk ?
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> Obviously you can be sued for things that aren't technically illegal, and you can lose due to a sympathetic jury.

If the trier of law -- which is the judge, not the jury, in a jury trial -- finds that the facts claimed in a suit don't meet the standards for a violation of the law, the case will be dismissed (assuming the defense moves for a dismissal on the grounds of non-suit, which is fairly routine in any case where there is even a remote question) without ever reaching the jury.

And even if the suit alleges an offense which meets the definition of a violation of the law, but the judge feels that the evidence presented doesn't support those allegation (such that no reasonably jury could find the allegations true based on the evidence presented), the judge is obliged to enter a judgement for the defense even in the face of a jury verdict in the opposite direction.

So, while people can write and file a suit for anything that suits their fancy, it takes more than that and a sympathetic jury to result in liability.
I've been thinking of taking it. Is it a rigorous crypto course at college level?
Here's the statement I have the biggest problem with:

That’s because willpower is a finite resource. No amount of willpower alone will make you get up every morning to run if you hate running.

You're just making excuses for your potential customers. Your willpower may be finite but you can choose to spend it on the things that matter the most to you. You can also improve your willpower, and you can place yourself in environments where you have to use less willpower to achieve your goals.

So, yes, if you're healthy enough to do it and you want to get up every morning and run, you can build up enough willpower to do it. Period.

I have to admit that after I read that statement, I just skimmed the rest of your article. You can't just make a bunch of fallacious statements earlier in the article then expect a few qualifications in the ending paragraphs to make it all okay.
This is an interesting article. I tend to agree that site owners need to set limits for what is and isn't acceptable.

But the list of what should and shouldn't be done has some things that I disagree with.

One of the problems with moderators is that it creates the gap that trolls like to exploit. Meta = death, especially when you can whip up an argument between regular posters about the actions of a moderator.

The accountable identities thing is also odd. I've seen plenty of people posting with their real name being absolute arseholes. I think some combination of persistent identity and karma is useful. The identity doesn't need to be shown. So it's anonymous from the point of view of people reading comments, but any up or downvotes go to the person's account and accumulate.

One thing missed in the list is "DO NOT FEED THE TROLLS. DO NOT ENGAGE WITH PEOPLE WHO ARE IDIOTS. JUST DOWN VOTE AND IGNORE. OR JUST IGNORE." Indeed, this should be emphasised so strongly that people down-vote those who do respond to trolls and idiots. It's intensely disappointing to see long threads on HN where one person has a viewpoint indistinguishable from idiocy or trolling. Sure, try to learn why that person believes the freakish thing they do, but don't waste time trying to convince them they're wrong.

> Because a company like Google thinks it's okay to sell video ads on YouTube above conversations that are filled with vile, anonymous comments.

Anything that can fix YouTube comments would be amazing.

> Because almost every great newspaper in America believes that it's more important to get a few more page views on their website than to encourage meaningful discourse about current events within their community

Controversialism makes page views. It's sad.

Perhaps papers need to stick to 'promoted comments'. Perhaps they need to offer small payment or prizes for best comments? Or they could find two decent commenters and ask them to have a (moderated) discussion?
Obviously Apple should use your strategy which has failed for pretty much all of their competitors and nearly destroyed them in the early 90s, and not their own, which has made them the most profitable tech company in the world.
Brendan Eich: ECMA Harmony and the Future of JavaScript
I recently installed ghc-mod [1] and configured it in Emacs; red squiggly lines appear when I have an error.

[1] http://www.mew.org/~kazu/proj/ghc-mod/en/
What sort of issues does ab have?
There's this thing called the 5th amendment that prevents them from making such inference.
> To summarize, I don't think 'animation lag' is in the same class of tradeoffs as 'open vs closed app stores.' Animation lag is a bug

I think a bug is more forgivable than a deliberate decision to make things broken (closed app store).
The majority however don't like Windows 8 metro interface with a keyboard and mouse (the majority of Windows 8 users).
Well maybe there's some light at the end of the tunnel: If hackers had an easier way to gain recognition and being rewarded when they discover vulnerabilities, I'm certain most would choose to disclose their findings rather than try selling them on the black market. I'm working on a startup right now, www.crowdcurity.com, where we want to let any site easily create a bug bounty program (similar to Google, Mozilla, Paypal, etc.) and thereby leverage testers around the world to find vulnerabilities; hopefully initiatives like this will strengthen the security of web apps and websites around the world.
Sure you can, that way you can get the "Apple took back its #1 position" clicks in the next couple of months.
I like not having exceptions (that are widely used). It's easier to reason about your code. It's, let's just say, "stressful", to know that any line of code you write could potentially blow up and start re-winding the whole stack. Especially in a language like Java that doesn't have stack objects with destructors. You have to indent everything 30 lines in, with finally blocks all over the place. It turns into a mess. Go has a bunch of "if err != nil"s, but for some reason those are less objectionable to me. I feel in control with those. And the code runs down the page, not to the right.
You could scrape them, if you want to. http://xkcd.mscha.org/ has direct links to all images (and cached copies and more).

If you do, remember to upload the results somewhere.
It'd be more to the point to remember that we survived the cold war, an era where good intelligence was even more necessary and the dangers to the country were bigger and more immediate, with tighter controls on what intelligence services could do.
Those are nice things, but they're also orthogonal to the license choice, which happens to be the detail which made the headline here.
Akkk... sound... must... turn... off!!!

Ok default sound way too loud, and at least on Safari the little speaker icon in the top left doesn't seem to do anything.
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Very cool! Proud to see that it's made with ImpactJS[1] (my game engine :))

[1] http://impactjs.com/
WARNING: I implemented a tiny library for that in go a while ago. Go under Linux is not safe! Linux is not posix compliant and only sets the IDs for the current thread. Go almost always spawned more threads before initializing your code which are then still owned by root and are in the threadpool for your goroutines:

https://github.com/sarnowski/mitigation/blob/master/mitigati...

Comments mentions safe OS and golang bugticket.
On this matter I posted this:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6078124
I wonder if anyone has ever constructed a real-world replica of a Tron-like grid to see if the visual instability mentioned ~60% down the page isn't caused by being in a very dark environment with very bright lines running across it, rather than an artifact of the display.
TL;DR: lobbyist group for special-interest industry A wants to change laws favored by lobbyist group for special-interest industry B. Both industry A and B are motivated by nothing other than self-interest; specifically, tech. companies that allow users to post content online are annoyed with requirements to police that content, and the more copyrighted content contributed online by users, the better their own business models become.
Take a frequency chart of all trigrams in English, and take the vector product of the frequency in the decrypt with the frequency in English.

So, let E(t) be the frequency of occurrence of the trigram t in English, d(t) be how often it occurs in the decrypted text, and compute:

Score = sum( [ E(t)*d(t) for t in decrypt ] )

If common trigrams turn up frequently in the decrypt, this will be "large". If uncommon trigrams turn up frequently, this will be "small".
I, too, am obsessed with fitness. In my experience, most people can't lose weight because they don't know how habits work and cannot use that knowledge to form the right ones.

Every habit consists of three components: cue, routine, reward. Something triggers the behavior, you perform the behavior, and you reap some reward. Rinse, repeat.

For example, a lot of people eat food - especially sweet food - to deal with stress. The cue that triggers the behavior is stress, the behavior itself is eating food, and the reward is the taste of that food. Repeating this enough times causes the person to get fat.

Knowing this, it is also possible to engineer new habits. The way you do this is by starting from the end of the loop - the reward - and work your way backwards. For example, the reward (your motivation) for working out may be to become more attractive. From there, you may decide that going to the gym would help you lose weight, gain muscle and become more attractive, so that would be your routine. And the last part would be to figure out a cue, something that would trigger the routine. This works best as something that will remind you of the reward, such as looking at pictures of hot women.

After you engineer the habit, you can also engineer your life around each component. For example, you can put up posters of hot women on your bedroom wall so that even if you come home tired, the pictures would remind you of your motivation and trigger the gym routine of "put on clothes, go to the gym, work out." You can choose to live within a few blocks of said gym (or build a home gym) so that executing the routine after it is triggered by the cue is as easy as possible. Basically the formula for making sure you continue the habit is: maximize cues + minimize the effort for the routine = maximize rewards. (Side note: this also works the other way around. If you're trying to quit smoking, keeping your cigarettes as far away as possible, such as on one of the top shelves in the kitchen, helps quite a bit.)

The part that takes willpower is executing the routine. That's why willpower is so important, especially at the beginning. The further away you live from the gym, the more willpower it will require to actually go. In contrast, the stronger your motivation, the less willpower the routine will take to execute.

Of course, there's quite a bit more to be said about the topic. But that's the psychological aspect of it.
Most people would just take out their camera phone and take a snapshot, as they do on snapchat. Trying to make something like this secure from screenshots is absurd.
Meh, seems like it can be revived with another tweet.
apache bench

It lets you simulate hitting your web server to benchmark the speed. You can do cool things like test concurrent and sequential connections.
Not sure if others are interested, but I'm considering writing a book on CS topics with self-taught programmers in mind. If that's interesting to you, check out https://leanpub.com/computer-science-for-self-taught-program...
Those four frames would still have the strobing problem when the eye is tracking a moving object. Instead of perceiving a solid, moving object, I think we'd see four copies of the object as the eye moved but the four strobes of the laser did not.
In any other context I would have assumed anything named "twityap" was a parody. I'm still having a hard time believing it's not.
Looks like some Semitic language.
That just makes it an even sillier byline.
Interestingly, Wikipedia disagrees.

For a radix of 10, there is thought to be no number with a multiplicative persistence > 11: this is known to be true for numbers up to 10 to the power of 50.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persistence_of_a_number

I guess the problem is that when you multiply lots of digits together you become increasingly likely to end up with a 0 digit somewhere.
The S4 is the wrong device to compare against; have a look at any of the Nexii.
I think you're massively underestimating the future trend. More flights will have wifi for cheaper. Not less for more money.

Sure, from the looks of today it might not seem like a big disruption for SkyMall but it will.

On most flights I go on I'd say about 10-20% of the folks have a tablet device. That trend will also go up and continue to decrease the effectiveness of SkyMall.
Am I the only one that finds this 'feature' utterly pointless?
I think the most plausible scenario is that SkyMall wasn't a good investment to begin with, so their private investors dumped them.

We have no hard numbers. Magazine advertisers often don't pay list price for ads and their expenses are private deals with the airlines, who are likely to drive a hard bargain if they can. And I'd be skeptical about how many people actually read them regularly; a survey commissioned by the company could be exaggerated or flawed in some way.
Today was my first real experience with Windows Phone (I set up a -- yes -- Samsung device running Windows Phone 7.8, the latest update to the previous release, for a relative). My first impression of it was that the UI and the core apps felt responsive and well-designed. Sadly, I ran into a error whereby Outlook.com refused to import an Outlook 2007 CSV file with contacts to sync with the phone. I soon figured out the reason behind the error was Office 2007's UI language being set to something other than English, which caused Outlook to generate a header for the CSV file with the field names listed in that locale, which in turn Outlook.com refused to parse. Disappointing, particularly in light of otherwise decent localization. Other than that, though, actually using it has more or less convinced me to consider a Windows Phone device as my next phone. AFAIK, WP8 doesn't rely on Zune the way WP7 does. Does it play well with Linux in practice?

By the way, how do the privacy policies of Windows Phone and Microsoft Live services compare to those of matching products from Apple and Google? I have tried and failed to find a systematic comparison (i.e., a table) of how much data about the user the three mobile OSes and their vendors' apps collect and what they say about redistribution the data to third parties. I'd rather not try to perform this analysis myself (IANAL).

Perhaps there's a market opportunity here.
Clean water is often harder to provide. People that lack clean water usually don't have any use for wifi; if they had enough money for a wifi-enabled gadget, they'd probably spend it on clean water provisioning or other life-support needs. So they are a bad market for wifi deployments.

From business point of view, "well-off people everywhere" is very desirable, since poor people are poor customers. Unfortunately, this problem is not readily solved by pouring in some modest money.

Imagine donating to North Korea; probably the money will mostly end up in military programs, even if some of the money will actually feed the undernourished. But political influence is usually a big no-no.
Well it doesn't have to be 100% right now for people to be able to read the writing on the wall, right? They can look at trends and see Wifi adoption going up and legitimately worry about it even though not a lot of flights today have Wifi.
This is awesome, glad to see I can put my ruby skills to good use playing a game!
Apple still leads in profit per phone and in gross profit margin. Furthermore, Samsung overtook Apple in its weakest quarter (not for the whole year), as people hold off iPhone purchases as they await the unveiling of the newest iPhone model. Finally, Samsung's number includes sales from non-smartphones. The story is mostly still the same: Samsung is making progress in attacking the high end, but most of their profits come from selling cheaper, lower quality phones to a wider audience.
You Can't Write Proper English Under Pressure
whoa.....this one had me reading a few times.
I disagree with other posters, I think this is a great concept. It would be fantastic for brands to share promotional offers and voucher codes as people would have to tweet to revive access to the code therefore spreading the promo further.
How does the traditional "double-ask" question:

If I were to ask you if you are the
truth-telling god, would you say "da"?

fit in your scheme?

In particular, I think you'll find the solution to 2 does not fit in your scheme. At least, not as far as I understand it. I'd like to see your scheme for enumerating possible questions fleshed out in more detail, but I don't think I believe you.

And you haven't answered about 4. Or 9.