skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This ensures I can create commits with just the stuff that works of my changes without first removing the ongoing work.

If I have ongoing work I want to remove, I just stash it, as you said. I don't need a staging area to stash things, and it's pretty rare that I'll have unrelated work anyway.

> The staging area surely adds complexity, but if you do not like it then simply don't use git.

Ah, the old "your arm hurts? Just cut it off!" solution. Yes, I will just not use git, I will just email my team diffs.
http://thenextweb.com/google/2013/07/25/google-reportedly-wo...
This is all very well, but what would Edward Sno.... Just kidding.

Good luck to everyone in all three Techcrunch pages. Entrepreneurs are heroes and I hope you all make it big.
I was indeed unaware of them, they sound good, thank you.
I have no knowledge about OS X and TPMs specifically, but I do know some people have concerns about what OS X stores in the SMC: http://www.nosuchcon.org/talks/D1_02_Alex_Ninjas_and_Harry_P...

I'm not remotely qualified to comment on the contents of that talk, but it's a very concerning read–they claim that the SMC stores your FileVault key (though they don't seem to prove this?) and that the SMC has a backdoor. I'm all ears if anyone else has any additional info/knowledge about this...
I agree. The fact that I'm signed in with my Google account and it still asks me for my name and e-mail address makes me think this isn't (going to be) a serious part of Google, it seems very much like a 20% project that slipped through.
> The article is basically saying that, because the malware protection is not good enough (i.e. not securing against NSA malware), it's worse than no protection at all.

No. If the OS is locked down so only MS-signed applications can run, it is impossible to run software that can detect malware that has been approved by MS. It is also impossible to run software that can remove such malware.

If the OS makes it impossible to detect or remove malware, it is less secure than OS that do allow detection and removal of malware. This is not FUD.

What should happen, is that MS should be held strict liable for any illegal acts which their restrictions helps to propagate. Held under vicarious liability by non-US markets (so they can't get immunity by the US government), MS shareholders would demand the elimination of the restrictions in favor of less legal risk for the company.
He was convicted in 2007, but insider trading was alleged to have taken place much earlier (1999-2002), long before his relationship with the NSA supposedly went south.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Nacchio
Thank you for this link - really great book. On nook it costs only 2 pounds. This helps me get stuff done - recommended.
The great thing about life is that we can make our own choices. I don't think judging other people based on the decisions they make is a healthy attitude. The more we provide new options for people the more diversity in human experience we create and that is often beneficial. Guess who didn't choose to partake in sex despite plenty of opportunity: Nikola Tesla. Of course he never did anything important...
> FUD.

Fud or not, this is what happens when you shake the public's trust in... anything. In this case it happens to be government, the internet and technology. The NSA scandal will have wide reaching and unpredictable implications.

Losers will be traditional technology providers like Microsoft, HP, Cisco, etc. Remember how the US blocked China from supplying networking gear domestically on grounds of "security concerns"? (Which no doubt are totally valid.) Well, would you trust your company's or government's security to Cisco gear?
I don't think so. It's not like this is the first spy scandal of this type and previous ones (Echelon etc.) don't seem to have any long-term effect on commercial or communications traffic.
Please read again what I wrote above. I'm not saying every button should look identical or you shouldn't use classes at all.
I also feared I'd have a problem switching between vi(m) and other editors, but if you use both regularly, It's not a problem at all, at least for me.
I'm heavily using Sublime Text for software development. Sublime has a "vintage" vi mode which I don't use, just to train my muscle memory on modeless editors.

It's the same with keyboard layouts. I've been using german keyboards all my life and just decided to switch to us layout a few years ago, because basically the keyboard layout had a huge influence on programming languages, stuff like []{}/<> is way easier to type on us layout.
I feared i will never be able to use a german keyboard again after switching layouts, but this is not the case. I can now use both layouts blind. The only problem are the () parentheses which are offset by one key on the german keyboard, i'll always press the wrong key for them.
How many "X for Y" ideas can you count?
>My argument is that having this specific option is a mistake.

That's a belief. I don't see any argument here. Why is it a mistake?

Perhaps modern users, not tied to a legacy of scrollbars, could not care less about them? Perhaps 95% of users (with the exception of hackers) not even use them or notice them when they are there?

>Those people are not designers, and should not ever be put in the position of designing a UI.

Whereas you are? And we should take your opinion on scrollbars over Apple designer's one, because?
If you are Google now, you don't get to ask people to show 'interest'. Open it up already and have people try it. Don't monkey around.
- Are the helpouts NSA approved?

- Will I get in trouble depending on which people I want to help?

- Will I get in trouble depending on what activities are the people I help involved into?

No, thanks.
My thought process went something like 'That's cute. Should I bother? Guess not—it's Google, very unlikely to last long.' Seems they may have a reputation problem.
Interesting Twitter & Facebook stats
Yeah, I can't guarantee they are better than fast food. But, I bet you can find one that is similar to Soylent. It is more convenient than fast food.

I actually kinda like the McDonald's salads. I mean, as far as you can like fast food at all. If you go easy on the dressing, (the dressing comes in a package that looks like a giant-size katsup packet, so you get to decide how much you eat.) I think it's probably pretty healthy, I mean, at least when you compare to shakes.

I have used meal-replacement shakes in the past as supplemental breakfast; I like to load up on calories in the morning, but eating can be... hard before my system wakes up, so the meal-replacement shakes (with as much breakfast as I can choke down) is a reasonable way to consume as many calories as I can in the morning.

Of course, for me? meal-replacement shakes have never quelled hunger like real food, so I'm no longer using them just because I'm trying to reduce the number of calories I consume. If I eat something, it had better make me feel not hungry for a good long time. I'm having the best luck with meat and vegetables... the carbohydrates tend to make me hungry shortly afterwards. On the other hand, I have not lost significant weight. (I vary from 200 to 195#, and that has been true for some time now. As far as I can tell, most of that 5# is either water gain or loss, or inaccuracy of my cheap bathroom scale.) so "you shall know him by his fruits" - don't take my advice on losing weight, as I've not managed to do so myself.

Also, a big, sarcastic thanks. after that 'meal replacement shake' query on google, now just about every webpage I load is trying to sell me some sort of 'optimized nutrition' (Google seems to get that I'm male-identified and thus is trying to sell me the shakes targeted at 'building lean muscle' - you know, the stuff with the rippling abs on the can. Google does not seem to be smart enough to notice that I quite often google things I don't intend to buy. Really, books on what I'm searching for are usually more appropriate than products I'm searching for. Not that I often buy books through ads... but it's more likely than me buying nutrition shakes targeted at bodybuilders.)
AppEngine VM based backends
Medical issues aside, do I really want to buy a food substitute named after a dodgy scifi flick about industrial scale cannibalism?
I genuinely thought it might be April.
I have an app that does some prediction based on values that a user enters. The prediction works pretty fast – unnoticably fast, like 50ms or so.

However, I had the idea to use a progress bar to achieve the opposite effect: To introduce an artifical waiting time together with a sense of progress (hence, progress bar). This should convey the feeling that the app is working hard to make Your Personal Prediction and since the app appears to be calculating a lot of stuff, the prediction Must Be Totally Accurate.

Surely, the target users are not necessarily sophisticated technical people.

I haven't implemented it but I definitely want to try it out.
Gartner Tempers The Expectations Of Big Data
"Rob is a Y Combinator alumnus with professional experience in electrical engineering, computer science and entrepreneurship. Lacking the means to produce cheap energy, he invented a form of fusion as a more efficient approach to powering his home and hopes to use it to reduce the global disparity of electrification."

On one hand, the entire field of nutritional science (and several associated topics), coupled with a wealthy and powerful nutrition industry who, despite literally decades of research, have never succeeded in creating a total meal replacement. Oh, and don't forget the world's militaries, who throw enormous amounts of money at research groups for anything even remotely useful and for who full meal replacements would be a holy grail.

On the other, this one computer hacker dude who is going to 'disrupt' the expert opinion and hundreds of thousands of years of human evolution. He read some papers guys!

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. And yet the sum total evidence is 'Me and my friends haven't died yet, and we feel good'. His company still has no staff with biology experience, and the blog sells more merchandise than science.

Still, otherwise incredibly smart and driven people on HN eat this up.
It's irritating because it feels like they're deliberately shipping it slower to get you to buy the expensive shipping. With newegg if you choose "up to 7 days" you get it in 3-7 depending on when it arrives for them. With amazon it seems like if they get it early they'll deliberately hold it so that it always takes 7 days.
If you do not know what cf" does, you've been using Vim like you would use a normal text editor. Which is fine. But you're missing out a lot.

Do yourself a favor and go figure out what's the difference between:
cf"
cF"
ct"
ci"
ca"

Note: you can substitute c for any "verb" (d, y, ~, etc) and " for many delimeters.

:help text-objects
I have a Windows 8 notebook and for the first time in my life I have no control over my own general purpose computer:

- I can't enter BIOS before entering OS.

- Once I enter the BIOS from the OS I can't activate the hard disk password.

- I can't install the Windows 8 OS clean. The MSFT has the deal with the computer producers that doesn't allow them to deliver the pure OS medium, you can only backup the already present installed files to some external HDD.

- Because of the previous and the fact that the binaries are controlled on the hardware level (TPM), I have no control of what's running on my computer -- I can't know, to be precise.

- It's even worse than that, there is some Intel built-in technology on the hardware/BIOS/drivers level which also has built-in "features" that allow communication with some external "command and control center" which I don't control. It supposedly allows, among other "features" disabling the notebook once it's stolen. But I don't control how it's done, and I don't know if it has additional backdoors. It proudly claims to facilitate "remote access."

It's scary how it looks like all together. I haven't even figured out how I'd be able to install Linux on the computer. In some forums people claim that the OEM should allow that, but apparently a lot of people haven't managed to actually install it on different specific computers -- there are BIOS problems that can't be avoided, and the OEMs don't give you support or the updates. Mine is an Intel i5 processor-based modern Acer. It's fast, but I have no control. Definitely not FUD.

Personally I like Apple approach more: thanks to their approach of the OSX or iOS (no third party pre-installed crap) at least I have to just trust Apple. Here I have to trust Microsoft, Intel and every company who has the drivers on my machine. Much more chance for some of them to do what they want, in the name of "cloud." Remember routers that are controlled from the producer of the router, even "protecting" you from browsing all the sites? Remember Android phones which upload all your passwords to the cloud of the mobile operator? That's where the "cloud" support of the driver writers goes now. It is scary.

(Globally, we're talking about this: http://xkcd.com/743/ -- We've been giving up the control of "infrastructures" for a long time)
yet another WordPress based design company... the world doesn't need anymore of these
"Former Qwest CEO Joseph Nacchio, convicted of insider trading in April 2007, alleged in appeal documents that the NSA requested that Qwest participate in its wiretapping program more than six months before September 11, 2001. Nacchio recalls the meeting as occurring on February 27, 2001. Nacchio further claims that the NSA cancelled a lucrative contract with Qwest as a result of Qwest's refusal to participate in the wiretapping program." [1]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qwest#Refusal_of_NSA_surveilla...
How is it abuse exactly? Live consenting naked people in exchange for money is not illegal in much of the world.
Yeah, especially it't not released as some addon to G+, so it might likely to be shutdown in next few months.
Most protein products have substantial amounts of carbs and fat. The point is not - unless you are buying pure protein products or "diet" protein shakes for cutting - to avoid carbs and fat, but to get more protein.

It is far easier to stomach large amounts of protein (due to taste and consistency) when mixed with a lot of carbs than alone, and unless you're cutting you generally need a lot of carbs too when training hard, so there's little incentive for most general protein supplements to keep carbs down.

In fact, there are a large number of protein supplements on the market where the majority of calories comes from carbs and fat, and many will have more carbs alone by weight than protein (many often also are specifically advertised for weight gain / bulking).

They are still commonly referred to as protein products because the main basis for calling something a protein supplement amongst suppliers and people using them is generally large amounts of protein, not low amounts of carbs and fats. (And yes, that means some of them - intentionally - have massive amounts of calories)

You also probably talk about "pure" milk, but there's also a number of milk products on the market that are milk + extra casein extracted from milk, for very high protein concentrations - my favourite has about 40g of protein per 300ml; you are free to not accept that as "milk", but it tastes like milk and is generally marketed as "protein milk" or similar.

But milk alone is also frequently used by weight lifters for the decent protein content and good ration of protein, carbs and fat (a well known "supplemental diet" for bulking for lifters is called GOMAD: Gallon Of Milk A Day)

The main point being that large amounts of protein is being ingested in liquid form every day all around the world, and has been for decades, and we're not seeing mass deaths.

Barring actual evidence to the contrary, there's very little reason to believe that the deaths referenced in the article had anything to do with getting "liquid protein", and very good reasons to believe it was hysteria.
For most contacts you just move away from people who don't use secure communication and may compromise you in the future, no need to convince someone. Works for me.
Sorry Google. You've lost my enthusiasm.

Why would I invest the time into learning how this works, trying to become part of the community etc when I can be pretty sure that they're just going to shut it down in a few years time?
This may be all true, theres nothing I can say against this article, but there's really a reason to split an article or comments section to multiple pages - battery performance.
On heavy ad-based sites with flash content etc, the page rendering can get really cpu intensive - at least on smartphones and tablets.. (I'm referring to a 30000x1024 pixels to scroll through. OSX sometimes really fights with them and smooth scrolling (i have a retina macbook, maybe thats the reason, macericks should bring some improvements to that...) on ios can get laggy.
Tumblr pages with infinite scrolling and heavy imagery are an example for that.
Nice article though!
As my doctor pointed out to me when I warned her to expect significantly elevated creatinine because of my protein supplementation: Raised creatinine in itself is not a "negative". Substantially raised creatinine may be a symptom of reduced renal function, but it is also a symptom of any number of other things - such as, indeed, increased protein intake.

It could be just fluctuating in his case, or it could very well be, given his past diet (how could he survive on that), that he was finally getting decent amounts of protein.
Unless you're at high risk of a heart attack or totally dehydrated, negative health effects of high sodium are almost entirely negligible.
While nacchio was convicted of "insider trading", the trades were of the stock in <his own company>.

He was, in essence, convicted of not disseminating <honest> information to the public. The information that he was basically hiding, related to pre-merger qwest assets.

The purchase of US west provided a tactical means to merge a loss making entity with a profitable entity, and blend the accounting.

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In 2000, during Nacchio's tenure as Qwest CEO, the company acquired its regional rival US West. In 2002, Qwest admitted to false accounting during the time of the merger.[7]

The company was also involved in accounting scandals... [deals in] question were a series of deals from 1999 to 2001 with Enron's broadband division which may have helped Enron conceal losses.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Nacchio

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qwest
I am working on something like what you are suggesting. I currently have only the email container done(Postix/Dovecot) and working on a small cmdline tool that will take care of bootstrapping the containers by asking a few simple questions. The point is to make the whole setup as frictionless as possible, by providing a sensible set of standards and only asking for the bare minimum configuration parameters. In the future I plan to expand the tool with a web interface so you can install and uninstall applications from a central repository or a git repository.

I will publish what I have soon, just need to build a few more applications containers(think rss reader, owncloud, git repo).

It seems like a useful thing to have and I am curious if there is a demand for such a tool.
See a better explanation here: http://danielmathews.info/blog/2013/08/statement-of-resignat...
The core-argument is that the Windows 8 way of using, implementing and enforcing TPM and establishing a so called feudal security approach isn't considered good security practice any longer.

It's not so hard to understand.
The Case for Talking to Users in the Age of Big Data
Same for me too, I don't use iCloud or iOS, I don't even have an AppleID. But my MBA/OSX a very nice unix client.
Australia implements a form of proportional representation where the votes of losing candidates in an election can be directed to other candidates who remain viable, so as to ensure they are not wasted even though they are no longer optimized. Candidates encourage their supporters to vote themselves #1, and give their second-preference votes to someone else, though voters are free to disregard this. In such a system, by voting for every candidate in order you can also make sure that your least favorite candidate is disadvantaged, essentially an explicit vote for 'anyone but X'.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant-runoff_voting

'white-anted' refers to erosion from within, as by termites.

As for the particular events of the story, I am somewhat surprised (eg by the idea of giving preference to right-wing candidates), but also not. Assange's comment that Wikileaks is a party of accountability and not government sounds to me like a desire for power (as a kingmaker) without responsibility. The coalition structures that often emerge in proportional representation systems lend themselves to this sort of politicking.
>I understand, but those are hardly two conflicting things, are they ?

Yes, they are. Nobody (ie. small amounts of somebody) likes Lispy syntax, except Lisp programmers (and those are not that many nowadays anyway).

Julia wanted a chance to be a succesful scientific language.
I think by now it's very naive to still assume they do it just to stop terrorism. But the good thing about this whole mess is that a new generation of people realises that politicians are liars and are not to be trusted, ever.
I'm sorry, but you've collected no data, only noise. Eating rice for 2 weeks would have produced similar effects. As to your subjective experience – it's probably 100% placebo.

If you want to call something an experiment, you should know how to conduct an experiment in that respective field. Your experiences only show how a product like Soylent induces magical thinking in its consumers.

If you want to produce a single data point with Soylent (that would hardly be relevant, as it would be a sampling size of one, but still, it would be one sampling of data rather than zero), eat nothing but Soylent for at least 6 months.
What bothers me a little is this is basically a reinvention of the wheel for sup-mail, developer by a Twitter developer and was/is very cool (I use it on Mac occasionally for backups of email I have in a Maildir). Maipile would add the web interface, and they just started transitioning to that idea in the sup community, calling it heliotrope.

https://github.com/sup-heliotrope/
I am interested how would customer, provider and Google handle VATs. This could go wrong in so many ways.
You probably realize that doing crypto right in js is very challenging. This has been discussed several times on HN, usually this article is brought up: http://www.matasano.com/articles/javascript-cryptography/
Perhaps I have missed something here, however does this mean that a Google+ post that has zero +1s will pass the same amount of link juice as one that has fifty +1s? I guess this would be dependent upon the author that posted it, so let's assume these two posts are both by you, Cyrus Shepard.
I had know idea call/cc was that powerful. Very cool, and thanks for the breakdown for someone who did not know the difference.