skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Where does one get the DV% that one needs? And are those % about surviving or thriving? There is literally no definitive place to get such information that is actually backed by science and data.

For instance, that 260% protein you cited is about half the protein I take in a day.

Also, FYI, the danger in taking in too much protein is very much overblown. I doubt you could actually consume enough protein to make it a problem unless you had a medical problem with your kidneys already.
Why hasn't anyone considered that David Miranda's detention could have been orchestrated in order to radicalize Glenn Greenwald, to bring him to "full froth", so to speak? Make him angry, make it personal by abusing his husband, so that his reporting becomes more emotional to the point where he starts risking his legitimacy and moral authority as a journalist. Something very similar happened with WikiLeaks.

I know Glenn and I'm certain he's smarter than this, but this is an explanation I've had in my head since day one and everyone seems to have missed. And, at least for the first couple of days, Glenn certainly did appear quite frustrated and did say he'll publish more aggressively. But isn't acting like this playing into their hands, by giving up his legitimacy as an impartial journalist? He must not allow them to make it a personal fight between him and the NSA.
They say not to have more than 4 servings of _Ensure High Protein_ because of the protein content. I am not talking about that product.

In the FAQ I pointed to they say that Ensure is safe for long term use, is complete, and they answer a question about how many servings a day are necessary for meet your needs.
I am very glad that people keep talking about this. I wish that I had more to contribute to the debate and conversation that isn't just rehashing the same discussions we've had for the past month. Something more than "Shut down the NSA!", something that can keep the ball rolling here.
What was unique about California?
DDoS Attack on DigitalOcean.com
When principles are outlawed, only outlaws will have principles.
Smart white guy gets locked up, manages to make something of himself once his hormones cool off over the course of a few years. This is not rare. Nor is it something you can apply to the general prison population. I.e., think of what the racial makeup of prison would look like 5 years after you started giving smarter people lesser sentences due to their lower rates of recidivism (and vice-versa).

The average prison inmate has an IQ of 85. What can you do with that? That is McDonalds or a government-job level human potential. Further, large swaths of criminals come from parts of our society that don't avail themselves of a traditional means of attaining social restraint: marriage. While everyone here on HN has been solving such important world problems as gay marriage, America's underclass has more or less stopped marrying. Bizarrely, the libertine paradise has not ensued.
All giant pandas are owned by China
Thanks.

Stripe.com says Charges made in a currency for which you haven't connected a bank account will be converted to your default currency. A 2% fee applies for currency conversion, and all fees are calculated in the currency we transfer to you.

So you can avoid it by having an USD / EUR account. Or you have to pay this 2% fee. I will add a note to the page.
Puma works great on Heroku. Rubinius, on the other hand, doesn't. It was incredibly slow, the app took more than a minute to boot up which caused Heroku to think it crashed. However, you can still use Puma with MRI 1.9.3 or something else and it'll still work great.
Pledged to get a board. Looks like it would be fun to play with.
Perhaps you're looking for something like this? http://technical.io/
We're losing perspective on 3D CSS
Agreed: I found this offer a bit strange.
It alerted my Ponzi-senses.

I'm open-minded, but how can they afford to offer this for free? Will this offer be attractive paying customers, and why do they want to attract non-paying customers?
Global Government Requests Report
10gen is now MongoDB, Inc.
I like progress but I think this deserves all the criticism it gets. Okay, so it may be a cleaner way to markup richer controls on a page but it's essentially $('.some-class').controlPlugin({ opt: ... }); (I'm not saying that's how it works).

Not to mention you still have to deal with the css and js files that the control needs. Personally I would have liked to see a better way to manage assets that these plugins (and now controls) depend on. Like some kind of way to bundle everything. Then again this whole custom html tags thing wreaks of Asp.NET WebForms.

Edit: spelling
Corp Dev Perspective on Getting a Big Company to Acquire your Startup
I'm in healthcare. We have a number of clinical applications that are only officially supported on J6 (and sometimes they even go so far as specifying specific updates that are supported). They actually work just fine on J7, it just requires tweaking a couple of security settings. But getting that across to non-technical managers that have had "You must be running J6u17" beat into their heads by idiot vendors is a bit of a nightmare.
Look at the subscribers of http://www.reddit.com/r/bitcoin compared to http://www.reddit.com/r/litecoin.

Also this: http://www.google.com/trends/explore?q=bitcoin%2C+litecoin#q...
I'm glad it's gone since it forced me to look for better alternatives. I tried pretty much all of them, but settled on BazQux Reader. $10 a year for a vastly superior service is well worth it.
No it won't, in the US at least. It will likely not need FDA approval just like most sports supplement don't.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulation_of_food_and_dietary_...
The old applet can be used for that, but it should no longer be included in new JVM releases.
Only if you write unnecessary tests: e.g. for CRUD code, or for front-end UI. But when you have complex procedures with clearly defined outcomes, writing tests is never premature.
> Soylent has not reached this level of evaluation.

Do you actually know that? Presumably if there is US regulation/law around selling and marketing food products, then Soylent will have to be compliant just like everything else?

Though, given I live in Australia, a country which

> adheres to standards of food safety and has regulatory bodies to protect and promote public health

and I can still buy all the Quarter Pounders and chocolate I want, it seems these bodies are more about food safety, than choosing my diet for me.
No other desktop apps are commonly sandboxed, so that's a minor issue, if an issue at all.
I am not sure of the end balance of such action. Sure, maybe he would get emotional but on the other hand I'd expect the public to excuse that, given their knowledge of this particular abuse.
Stripe has never participated in any kind of government surveillance program. Quite the opposite -- we're trying to figure out new ways to protect our users: https://stripe.com/blog/towards-transparency. As CEO, I'll do everything in my power to make sure that that remains the case. If you follow me on Twitter (I'm @patrickc), you'll notice that I'm no fan of this stuff.
PC gaming is an increasingly tiny share of the overall gaming market. Mobile has put an enormous dent in that in the last few years, and consoles continue to gain ground. Android is Linux, so Linux gaming, in a sense, has become a pretty big thing. Just not on PC type computers. Not that Valve isn't working to fix this.

I don't know that Windows is wanted so much as it's needed by many, but only because the applications they use are tied to it. This group includes those in industries where they use specialized software that's not ported, or where it has been ported but other tools in their workflow haven't.

It's interesting to note that Pixar uses Maya on Linux even though that's a company created by Steve Jobs. Google uses Linux internally for workstations. It's not that Linux isn't ready, but that it's nearly impossible to buy a Linux laptop or desktop from a major vendor. Dell has maybe one consumer model in their entire lineup.

For the "Facebook and YouTube" crowd, which is arguably over 50% of the users out there, Linux is probably fine. Android shows how it can be cleaned up and made far friendlier than Windows ever was.
> attack ads, like Super PACs, are unimaginable here, legally and culturally.

Legally? There are laws preventing certain kinds of criticism of political parties, and we're celebrating this?

Perhaps it's because I haven't seen many attack ads (as a UK citizen who doesn't watch adverts), but I don't get the hatred for them. Is informing the populace of the downsides of your opponents' positions not better than putting contentless posters all over the city?
Recall that part of the economic impact would be to send the real value of gold plummeting, significantly mitigating any "economic damage" that might occur. Given the primitive communications available at the time, the adventurer's best option is probably to spend as little gold as possible in town as rapidly as possible, before the collective value of gold can catch up, then burn metaphorical rubber for the next large town to try to beat their own news about their stash, and repeat as long as possible.

If you price everything in terms of their gold value, the result would look like hyperinflation, but it wouldn't really be that, it's really just a one-time event. But it would be disruptive.
Anyone used Puma on Heroku? Is it as simple as [1] or is there more configuration required [2] as is the case with Unicorn [3]?

[1] http://blog.steveklabnik.com/posts/2013-02-24-using-puma-on-...

[2] http://www.subelsky.com/2012/10/setting-up-puma-rails-on-her...

[3] https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/rails-unicorn
Did they ever have any?

"Terrorism is the systematic use of terror, often violent, especially as a means of coercion. In the international community, however, terrorism has no legally binding, criminal law definition.[1][2] Common definitions of terrorism refer only to those violent acts which are intended to create fear (terror); are perpetrated for a religious, political, or ideological goal; and deliberately target or disregard the safety of non-combatants (civilians). Some definitions now include acts of unlawful violence and war. The use of similar tactics by criminal organizations for protection rackets or to enforce a code of silence is usually not labeled terrorism, though these same actions may be labeled terrorism when done by a politically motivated group. The writer Heinrich Böll and scholars Raj Desai and Harry Eckstein have suggested that attempts to protect against terrorism may lead to a kind of social oppression.[3][4]

The word "terrorism" is politically and emotionally charged,[5] and this greatly compounds the difficulty of providing a precise definition. Studies have found over 100 definitions of “terrorism”.[6][7] The concept of terrorism may be controversial as it is often used by state authorities (and individuals with access to state support) to delegitimize political or other opponents,[8] and potentially legitimize the state's own use of armed force against opponents (such use of force may be described as "terror" by opponents of the state).[8][9]"

- wikipedia, at the time of writing

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrorism
We should be skeptical of this study, though. From my experience, behavioral researchers tend to exaggerate their findings.
This is exactly what I believed web/html should have. I know how to simulate this (re: other comments), this is better imho.

Thank you Mozilla.

BTW, this time next year you will all be use this in Chrome and bitch how IE is not following trends or something :)
Looks good. It would be nice to see it on the Web Framework Benchmarks (https://github.com/TechEmpower/FrameworkBenchmarks).

Edit: someone created an issue asking for contributors:
https://github.com/TechEmpower/FrameworkBenchmarks/issues/45...
The annotated web
"And, at least for the first couple of days, Glenn certainly did appear quite frustrated and did say he'll publish more
aggressively. But isn't acting like this playing into their hands, by giving up his legitimacy as an impartial journalist?"

The story about Greenwald vowing revenge seems to have been really effective propaganda. It isn't true:

http://www.twitlonger.com/show/n_1rm09tf

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2013/08/19...
I wonder if you have your cause and effect reversed. Maybe the recidivism rate is 70% because prisons are focused more on punishment and vengeance than on rehabilitation and reintegration into society?
Can we get a Keto version of this?

Bonus points for a Paleo friendly version.

As it is now, I would never get close to that carbohydrate-based drink.
Keep in mind that this may be the only form of nutrition the 'beta testers' are getting, and possibly have been getting, for a significant amount of time.

If you're eating normal food then some deficiency in one component of one meal may be masked by a surplus in another, and in particular if you eat a varied diet then that deficiency could start and stop within one meal. If instead your sole source of nutrition is suddenly deficient, it's not a stretch to think that you could notice a difference within 10 days.

I'm not trying to defend the product, I just don't think it's inconceivable that 10 days is long enough to notice a big problem with a formulation change.
Well, I dunno. I cannot say you're wrong. I'm just interested in stuff like this as long as their are large groups of starving people in the world. Maybe my interests are misdirected and I should be wondering why current solutions aren't being applied.
There's a swedish blog (and book) about alternative cooking devices such as hair-straighteners, dishwashers and coffee makers.

http://kaffekokarkokboken.blogg.se/2013/july/alternative-coo...
What Is UX: An Interview With A Senior User Experience Strategist
That doesn't really pass the sniff test. That's a conniving strategy, which isn't reflected in the extremely clumsy execution.

There's often no need to look for more complicated explanations when simple incompetence will suffice. This felt like a bad, impulsive decision.
Inherent in your guess at motivation is a belief that the intelligence services don't make mistakes. But they do, they screw up all the time.

If we're going to go up against the intelligence services using civil discourse we need to stop assuming they're infallible. They're not. They're a vast bureaucracy of fallible people isolated by their own walls and regularly tripped up by their own foolish office politics and bureaucratic machinations.

We should maybe start thinking of them more as the DMV and less like James Bond.
That seems to happen anyway in US. A lot of extremists, especially in the Republican party.
Alternative cooking devices
> You've now more or less written Cassandra.

More like you've now more or less written a tiny piece of postgres-xc: http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Postgres-XC
Oddly, I believe in God, but I don't see God as a being that sees all or even knows all (Note: I follow in the tradition of A.N. Whitehead on theology. I hope that explains the premise). And similarly, I don't believe it is good for the State to know all or see all as it weakens our ability to change the nature of the State when necessity requires it either democratically and peacefully (optimal) or otherwise (revolution, war, and other bad ends imo).
The Dirty Secrets of Tech
Does anyone remember the early post from this guy where he said that he just wanted to stop spending so much of his time and energy on food? Now it's all he does. He "wakes up every day thinking about it."

Now that's ironic.
Web Application Development with Codenvy IDE and Jelastic
how about: <bootstrap-website linkedin-id=XXXX twitter-id=XXXX facebook-id=XXXX github-id=XXXX> </bootstrap-website>
This is 2013, not 1950. You seriously cannot hold a grudge against companies that did business with nazis during World War 2. If your grandfather was an austrian businessman during the war and did business (I'm not talking about supplying Zyklon B or anything) with the nazis, would you shun him forever?
So... freelancers are vampires.

Just to pick on the most obvious one:

"Freelancers want to make money. They don’t care if your business succeeds or not."

A good freelancer does care. Ignore the other ones.
Good freelancers want to be involved in decisions regarding their piece of work. They take interest in what you want to achieve and try to do the best for your project. They pour in an extra hour for a bit of polish that would hurt their pride otherwise.

Freelancing leaves a lot of flexibility and ways to cut deals.

To give you an example:
I had multiple prospect clients where I straight-out said "don't build that feature (now) and especially not for my price.". Quite a few ended up not doing (or delaying) the project and were very happy with the decision. All of these turned out to be lucrative events, because those clients pass you on to others with kind words. Find the ones that jump on your idea once you tell it to them and want to work with you. Enthusiasm is (relatively) hard to fake.

Also... I'll never do a fixed price project, unless you agree that: a) it is time-constrained, b) you won't change any of your wishes during the project.
From Hayek to Satoshi and Beyond
Ask HN: How do I stop targeted spam from a botnet?
I have reason to believe that a former friend of mine is using a botnet to target me with spam and other nastiness. Some of the messages have a threatening undertone which has me extremely concerned. I have never been in this situation before so I have no idea how to proceed...

Has anyone on HN ever dealt with something like this before?
Maybe we'll decide to mass-produce and/or subsidize? I don't know, I just think it's cool thing he's doing and want to see the conclusion of it. Maybe it's all a big waste of time, who knows. I just want to be kept informed of the progress.
Good chefs will always tell you: Use the right knife for the right job. Can we not simply use our kitchen appliances and tools for what they were designed for? The author suggests (and I'm inclined to agree) that using a dishwasher to poach salmon is a fairly wasteful use of electricity and water. If you want poached salmon, get out a pot and some water. If you're really particular you could buy a cheap thermometer to poach at whatever temperature you choose, and I'd be willing to bet you'd get more consistent results than using a large machine designed to clean plates. I'm all for new techniques and ideas in the kitchen, but this is a fad that should not and will not stick around for long.
The "ball rolling here" will accomplish absolutely nothing. The ball has to get out of the building where 'real people' live, where politicians are, and so on.
Thoughts on Chef
India-nigger -- what do you expect.

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GoCardless (YC S11) is looking for software developers
Have you experimented much with the timing and layouts? I think I'd prefer repeated images to stay in one spot and maybe get larger. Or would that be difficult to keep speedy?

I'd also like some way of slowing it down. Did I miss that?
>why are we making brand new HTML elements for things[?]

<div class="Foo">...</div>

vs

<x-foo>...</x-foo>

Semantically, as far as machines are concerned, there is no difference between these two. For humans, however, the latter is way easier to read if there are some lines between the opening and the closing tag.

Custom elements also allow you to create your own shadow DOM, you can have your own "native" functions, and there is also some scoping for CSS.
This is from a person who persued the initiation of an illegal war. I was watching as Blair said "If you knew what I know, you would support [our war]" (paraphrasing). It turned out of course that he knew nothing that would justify a war. Why would we expect anything less than draconian measures from Blair on the issue of state secrets?

Reference for illegality of the war: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legality_of_the_Iraq_War
Are you doing so with MRI/Ruby 2.0? Been considering Puma over Unicorn since it works so well for one of our JRuby apps but was wondering about how it would perform on MRI since it seems like it was never really designed with MRI in mind.
Less memory usage then Unicorn here, though we recently moved to Passenger enterprise which is really similar: https://www.phusionpassenger.com/enterprise

good writeup on the subject here: https://github.com/phusion/passenger/wiki/Puma-vs-Phusion-Pa...
Maybe just a spectrum with opposite ends?
> If you're in the latter camp, writing test code is prematurely optimizing for stability.

Not sure test have something to do with stability. Writing test code will help document the code for the next developer who touches the hair ball and will force better definition of requisites in the MVP phase.
>Next year it will be Windows XP which still has between 40% and 80% usage.

Source?
I would not expect "1.30" == "13e-1" or "0xb" == "0xB" to compare as true, but it's of kind of cool that they magically do.

I don't think 0 == "zero" is a meaningful comparison, so I don't think there is any single sensible answer. I know "zero" will be cast into 0 and therefore it will be true. That's not a matter of expected language logic, it's just personal preference on do you want your language to fail hard when given garbage input, or continue.

Most input to a PHP program is going to be strings. It is going to have come from an untyped GET or POST request string decoded into string parameters. If you expect it to be integers it needs to be cast somewhere. For most applications you should be doing that explicitly, taking control of the process and deciding how to respond to user error or other invalid input.

Our main difference of opinion seems to be that I think it is good that the language tries to help when the programmer is lazy, and you think it should immediately reprimand them with a rolled up newspaper so they will be forced to do it properly before seeing any output.
Rhodecode 2.0
The problem comes when some of the advertised downsides are fictitious and/or designed to appeal to people's irrationality.

Personally I think it would be great if there was some enforceable way of making it illegal for politicians to lie about each other. But then you have the problem of who judges that . . . which may end up being an easier problem to solve than the problem of electing good leaders in an American political climate. Not sure.