skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Given the current furore I think it not unlikely that pj is under a national security letter and dare not talk about it for fear of arrest.

She is probably gambling that they will not threaten to arrest her for closing her site if she makes no statement.

She always seemed pretty ballsy and I think she still is.

Or maybe she just doesn't want to be a journalist in America any more.

What do whistleblowers seek ? A journalist to leak to.

Imagine receiving a leak in America right now.

It would certainly be a BIG commitment and having received it, it might be too late to undo that action.

At the very least this is pre-emptive censorship - a chilling effect, but important in the Manufacturing of Consent.

What do you think would happern to Glen Greenwald if he were to step into a transit lounge right now ?

Nice of the White House to deny it.

Consent for what ?
Well one might wonder...
@Harry I've drawn the same conclusion, the only secure method is MUA to MUA... it seems like you're on the same wavelength. We should talk. How can I contact you?
it looks and feels great! i noticed in the search you have only 7 languages and in the video it says you support 8.

Best,

~Zakiya
You can do all that and be 'mildly out of shape'.

It depends on what your model is. Compared to the average person, he's more fit, but the average person is rather unfit, so it's a poor comparison.

I think 'out of shape' out to be an objective measure, not a relative measure.
Or the whole name 0mq can be read to mean no message queue. Which in context of middleware makes sense
It's much worse than that. Exporting and importing does not preserve social connections. You need either federation or a benevolent monopoly.
64-bit Time on OpenBSD
Your bigger problem is with this "trim the array" idea, which is definitely not an obvious solution. The way you've coded it you'd have to tally almost the entire days worth of deltas just to determine the trim point. And you may still exceed that single-day max memory, because you'd accumulate overruns in between trims. I'll leave you to think about that one.

(Hint: google round robin database. You know, the solution that I mentioned.)
So what's the story here would one just look a little different from the other depending on colour choice?
Americans! Every time someone wants to introduce gun control, you bang on and on about your right to keep and bear arms being necessary to the security of a free State.

Well, your free state is in jeopardy. Now is the time to assemble your well-regulated militia to secure it!
PM 'told Heywood to warn Guardian'
How about a banana?
Even funnier, the first sentence in the Wikipedia entry for EGFR states:

This article is about a cell surface receptor. For estimated measure of kidney function (eGFR), see Glomerular filtration rate.

The author could have taken a few minutes to research both the EGFR for cell surface receptor and the kidney function measure and come to a reasonably good conclusion as to which one is used on the lab tests. Instead...
Funnily enough, that's the whole pitch for Soylent. "I'm just a smart guy with a fresh pair of eyes who spent a few weekends reading undergrad textbooks and skimming pubmed".

Not: "we're a large company with deeply-interested professionals who've made this their life's work, our own multi-million dollar labs and decades of accumulated experience in the development, testing, validation and manufacture of temporary food substitutes". Because that's boooorrrrinnnng.

Basically it's getting buzz because of novelty (to people who didn't know there were existing products) and homophily (Rhinehart is "one of us").

The actual product is at this point nearly completely tangential to the marketing.

It's a bit like a dietitian bursting in and saying "I've invented a new thing, I call it 'computertalk'. What you do is you 'type' your 'instructions' into your computer. It's going to change everything, you won't need programmers any more!"
Go has asynchronous communication and synchronous communication.

And the other things you mention are in practice not significant differences. The model both use is based on Hoares CSP and the same general ways of using apply. Some of the specifics must accomodate differences but those are differences of implementation not the general model.
This is the wrong approach -- why not take a job as an ESL teacher (you won't find many people here hiring for that) by searching in the right channels?
I don't understand your criticism. Virtually every post that hits the HN front page was designed to draw traffic.

If you've followed Tim Ferriss, it's clear this is something he'd be interested in. His first company was a sports supplement manufacturer, and he's written two books that touch on nutrition.

I don't see this as a shallow post aimed at promoting a product. Did you even read it?
When you're that age you're entirely goal oriented. You don't care about structure, you don't care about speed. You wanted to hack Mech Warrior 2. You had a very specific goal, so whatever language helped you do that the easiest would be the right one for you. Whatever language and toolset is the easiest to get to the point where programming is fun is the right language for a kid.

Actionscript was actually great for me. I wanted to make flash games, and back in the AS2 days you could add code to frame 0 of movieclip objects. It was ugly, but it was the easiest way to get something to happen. It also tricked me into learning a form of object oriented programming.
This case is almost certainly preference. I prefer the indicators hidden, you prefer them on.
Devil's advocate: Maybe that $30K can pay for good UX which users definitely care about.
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What's the benefit of Muscle Milk over the same amount of Cow Milk? Is there some science demonstrating Muscle Milk is better?
Pi digits in music
But that problem you are describing is solved.

There are meal replacement shakes on the market already. There is fast food (cheap!) there are hot dog stands...
I can't count the number of times my coworkers have said something along the lines of, "What are you talking about? I never saw anything about... oh, wait... I didn't realize it was scrollable. Never mind."

After that happens a couple of times, they eventually find their way to the System Preferences.
The worst reinvention of the scrollbar was Google Wave.

Shudder.
> A lot of things were invented for "lazy" people so they could save time to do other more important things.

Those things were invented to avoid displeasure. Most people find eating pleasurable, it's something they actively seek to do.

It's like saying "guys, I've invented a way to have children without that boring orgasm nonsense".

For some small segment of the population, that is the best news ever. But I don't seeing it being a break-out hit with the general public.
i personally use Eclipse and XCode too.. but JetBrains' AppCode looks really kewl. i know Android Studio is based off their IntelliJ so i'm really inclined to try AppCode.
A guide to creating a basic REST API - Series Introduction
Node was created to make scripting fast servers easy. Nothing more, nothing less. Because JS (as implemented in the browser and known by many programmers) didn't carry the baggage of blocking IO calls, Ryan thought it would be a good language for an event-loop based server.

History of Node.js:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAc0vQCC6UQ
Eggs don't take very long.
You answered your own question when you acknowledged the areas Erlang get awkward in. Google supports more than 50 different languages. Doing that requires performant analysis of more than just bytes but of unicode codepoints.
I'm looking for other jobs too. I can do lots of things.
I was bothered by that too.

I think soylent would have a hard time beating my diet WHEN I eat correctly (some recent issues resulted into me drifting far from my normal diet, but now I am returning to it again).

My normal diet,

breakfast: toast, cheese, chinese tea (I like all colors) or matte tea (it remembers black tea, but with a less harsh taste and less caffeine)

lunch: vegetables and proteins (meat, cheese, sashimi, whatever..)

dinner: proteins (usually, fish)

and then you can sprinkle some fruit and cereal bars during the day.

When I did this diet for the first time (while ignoring my nutriotionist and doctors) my weight plunged from 125 to 100, most of that in fat, my cholesterol dropped from the dangerously high 270 to 170, and several other stuff in my blood tests that were unhealthy got fixed.

I see here lots of "healthy" people like the author, that avoid meat because it is supposed to be "healthy" that are quite unhealthy. Well, several of them are not obese, but they are obviously weak and have nutrition issues.

I met REALLY FEW non-cow eaters, vegetarians and vegans that really knew what they were doing...

(by the way, the advice that I ignored from my medics was eat more grains, like rice, and avoid fatty foods, specially red meat... I did exact the opposite and it worked, while when I followed their advice strictly I got fatter, to me it is clear that even the fat in the meat is useful and important for the body)
I think it's even better to read the comments after reading the article. Here's a possible flow:

1. Read the article

2. Analyze. Establish your position/beliefs

3. Read the comments

4. Adjust your beliefs in the light of new evidence

:)
In my talk I use a finite state machine as an example of something that can really benefit from proper tail calls. In this case, the difference between proper tail calls and loop/recur is the difference between "compiling" the FSM and running the FSM in an interpreter loop.
What's the big deal? What this guy is eating already is definitely above average in quality. A Chipotle burrito bol (fresh whole ingredients, sans tortilla) is a legit meal. Other than dental impacts from the carbonation, health hysteria about diet soda and aspartame has been debunked. I don't know about the take-out Thai, but at least it's real food and not some preservative-laden packaged food product from the grocery store. Not everybody has 5 hours a day or a stay-at-home wife to cook their Whole Foods organic produce into a masterpiece of nutrition.
I don't see a reason to buy overseas hosting. So long as your body is still in the US, the NSA could get your data if they really wanted to.

But the real goal here is not to stop a targeted government attack. It's to avoid cost-effective, bulk surveillance. For that, a server in your basement is quite good.
- I say that you should SUBLIMINALLY GIVE THE FOUNDER HINTS. DONT NAMEDROP. JUST GIVE HINTS and then mind your business.
Good points. I should revise what I wrote to touch-enabled scrolling hardware.

With a scroll wheel, both fine and gross movements are more difficult. The scroll wheel has a fixed set of positions, and is optimized for scrolling a line or two at a time. I also have never liked the modal "scroll mode" that you describe.

With a magic mouse or scrolling trackpad, you get a much larger surface area available for scrolling, and there are more gradations. Inertia scrolling also makes it easy to scroll to the bottom or top of documents quickly: you can quickly "flick" to get to the bottom or top, which feels pretty natural.

As a result, I find I interact with the scroll bar a lot less on my MacBook Air than I do on my scroll-wheel equipped desktop. I'm not sure what the situation is like on Windows though.
- Shakespeare had this nice poem on friendship. When I see it, Ill give it to you.
I know only of these guys:

http://www.kroll.com/

HTH
The issue isn't about planning. It's, "Holy Sh*t, the baby just pooped 3 times in an hour, and I have 1 diaper to hold me until tomorrow" When that last diaper goes, instant service is at a premium.
Or you could try different foods. There are probably more distinct dishes to try than can be tasted in a standard human lifetime. Or enough that you might be forced, say, to try something twice in your entire life. Oh noes.

And it goes on. Perhaps you really enjoy Caesar salad. I know I do. When I am trialling a new place I will often order the Caesar salad as a reasonably reliable proxy for the quality of the kitchen, because it is a finicky thing to put together and requires the ingredients to be fresh and properly balanced.

Over-oily croutons? Bzzt. Stale cos leaves? Bzzt. Swimming in commercial dressing? Bzzt.

So if you have a particular favourite dish, you can enjoy the excitement of discovering the different ways different chefs can approach it. Consider the humble BBQ rib. There are a few schools of thought on the simple question of how to apply heat. And then you get into dry rub and wet rub, what herbs, what spices, what order they're applied ... the variety and possibilities are endless. Truly endless.

It's like wandering into the library and saying "well, I guess I could walk around the stacks and try the different books that catch my eye. Or I could stare at the 'this page intentionally left blank' in that dot matrix printer manual most days for the rest of my life."
I wonder if they bought it with instant delivery in mind. I assume someone in HN should have insight into how integrated their back ends are.
But can your computertalk run in the cloud? Please advise.
A small just-add-water packet that can keep you alive for two weeks is going to find a home in every survival/hiking/camping/boat pack. Also things like disaster recovery, refugee camps, anywhere that you need to get sufficient food to a lot of people in a hurry.
They have a proprietary wiring solution and a cooling system that works very well at preventing problems with one or a small batch of cells from spreading to the rest of the pack. On top of that is proprietary software that manages charging this system, and allows for things like quick charging without exploding the cells, which is no small feat for 60+ kWh.
I just pray they dont use sha1 salted passwords or I'm pretty f*cked...
I believe muscle milk doesn't contain lactose. So I suppose soy milk might be equivalent to muscle milk.
-shrug-

Don't know what the distribution is, but that varies.

Other than not dying, I just don't get what all the fuss is about.
Couldn't you argue that Scheme is on the safer side of the spectrum? (Or maybe it's just how I was taught Scheme)
I feel like I'm the only one in the world who actually likes overlay scrollbars on Linux. They give me the ability to easily scroll the terminal when I need to, without wasting space during the majority of the time that I don't.
I think skeptical is a more apt description, in part due to the claims made by the company.
He didn't stop eating. He stopped chewing.
Let me know what you have in mind. Currently we focus on our Indiegogo campaign. You would help us a lot if you help to spread the word :)
If it's any consolation, comments like those from 'rayiner and yourself prompted me to do an in-depth study of United States history from a quality-of-life perspective, and eventually led me to make the same arguments, so they are working, don't be disheartened :)
- Thank you for your time and patience susi22.
https://github.com/gilbitron/Arrest-MySQL
I'm not in a position to do step 2 on this subject, as I'm not sufficiently into nutrition or medicine or judge the claims in the article independently, and for a non peer-reviewed source addressing what looks like a food fad, there's a good chance that it won't be worth my time to repair that deficiency.
Apart from the art, is there any reason you couldn't do this in JS/HTML5?
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As said somewhere else this does not prove anything. This could just happening as well if you fast. People fasting for a couple of weeks have reported better mental abilities as well. Nothing of what was written is unheard of, and besides you have to realize there is a placebo effect since the guy knows he is going to take Soylent and expects something out of it (even if he does not realize it himself). Placebo effect can be extremely powerful.

So this kind of first hand report has close to zero credibility.
My comments, as mentioned, were ignoring real memory constraints. I don't know why you feel the need to come off as frustrated.
That's not strictly true. Google Search itself has inherited the ability to run image search, mail search, drive search, and calendar search within the front page.

Sorry to hear about your firing BTW, hope everything works out. I believe in second chances and I don't think people should be blacklisted for all time for something far in their past, with certain exceptions (e.g. sex crimes and working with children, etc)
>Finally, a DEXA scan is really silly in this scenario. It's for old ladies and others at risk for osteoporosis.

Actually, DEXA can be used for very accurate calculations of body fat %, so it could be used to show how much lean body mass (as opposed to fat) the author lost.
A php version would be useful for someone with an existing php project who doesn't want to add another tech stack to their build/deploy/host requirements. This is especially useful for authors who might target customers self-hosting on low cost shared hosting services, where php & mysql is ubiquitous.
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I don't see this as a shallow post aimed at promoting a product. Did you even read it?

Not what I said, and yes I did. I know why he'd be interested in it, or more to the point I know why his readership would. Having someone else do the (unscientific) experiment pulls all the traffic while allowing TF to look objective without investing anything. It's shallow in that (as shown above) the medical claims made are quite meaningless.

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According to unnamed sources in media reports, the USS Jimmy Carter's cable tapping abilities aren't functional. See e.g. The Shadow Factory by James Bamford.
If it's a conspiracy, it's a great way to cover it up ("oh, he was driving under the influence of drugs") and to smear his character.
Onshore equipment can mirror fiber optic cables without interrupting traffic.
I have developed a very similar scheme for myself independently (haven't heard of z before, but thanks). A further idea is another command <code>e</code>, which is used like: <code>e reg1 reg2...</code>, and it will query z's database to see if there is a file in z's directory which matches the regs, and if found, open that file in Emacs. A similar command <code>f</code> will only print the path, so that <code>firefox $(f reg1 reg2)</code> will open the found file using firefox.
False choice.

With Amazon, it sits on the shelf for 5 days before it ships and then takes another 5 days to arrive.

With something like walmart, it ships immediately and then takes another 5 days to arrive.

Amazon's in-transit time isn't any faster than other merchants. They all use UPS or Fedex, so no difference there. The only difference is that Amazon takes 5 days to ship while other websites take 1.
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I'm sorry, but this has nothing to do with "us programmers." Humans, by and large, don't have a good way to tell a desired story with all of the branch points accounted for. This is why cookbooks don't have recipes with "if you cooked it too long here, switch to this recipe..."

Hell, this goes so far as to how we currently give people directions to cross a state. Consider http://goo.gl/maps/4F89Z This clearly doesn't work because there is not a car that can do that trip completely non-stop (well, that I know of). Yet, it would be silly to even try and account for all of the random stops that a person making that trip would want to do. How is this the fault of "embracing integers, strings, lists and trees?"

Having looked over all of the various ways that we give directions to kids lately, I'm becoming more and more convinced that the higher theories of programming are missing something (for a great presentation on this idea, see [1]). Look at how music is written. Look at how lego directions are written. Ikea directions. Shampoo directions. Cooking recipes. All of these are relatively successful methods for communicating often complicated sets of directions. None of them necessarily encode things to the level of detail that our programs require.

Are you concerned that all of my examples are not necessarily life and death detail oriented? See the blueprints of rockets. Sail boat designs from ancient times. Heck, sailing routes.

If anything, I would say that our programs should, instead of offering fancy ways to escape the consequences, programs should offer ways to "get back on the desired path" of what was supposed to be accomplished. The canonical "FileNotFound?" Don't put my program somewhere where I have to somehow set things back up to try again. Resume right here once the file has been found. (Sadly, I don't have any good thoughts on this. Just late night ramblings.)

[1] http://www.infoq.com/presentations/We-Really-Dont-Know-How-T...
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He lost weight, but his body fat % went up. D'oh! Seems like a lot of water loss. And losing 3% of your dry (muscle) mass seems worrying, especially since he got enough protein. Perhaps these measurements aren't very specific?
Well, to be picky, no one has made a wing suit that does what the Reichelt hoped to do. The current version just lets you have some fun before you open your parachute. Unless you want to count stuff like hang gliders.
Soylent is affordable. Many other complete food supplements which are primarily used by hospitals and other care facilities, will cost significantly more. Other than that, it's a "fun" experiment as it has not been clinically proven to be either healthful or harmful, though the ingredients are FDA approved.
First time I've read the whole way through a blog post in a long long time. Nice writing!
"I don't really see much of a problem with our food/nutrition system as is."

I'm not sure how you cannot see a problem. Obesity alone affects 36% of the US adult population!

I am looking forward to the energy boost and increased alertness (and could stand to lose a few pounds). As well as saving 5 or 10 hours a week on food preparation.
muscle milk isn't milk
You mean mistakes like forgetting iron?
We're stuck with facebook for the rest of our lives. Aren't we?