skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If I remember right, sucrose = fructose + glucose
"Gatorade isn't about your mental state, I don't know where the author got that idea."

Well, the author claims he got that idea from the studies that showed 1) a better effect when gargling with Gatorade than drinking it, 2) a better effect when gargling with sugar water than with fake-sugar water, and 3) mental state differences between the two sets of garglers. Presuming the studies were conducted well (and, to be fair, it's quite a presumption), it would seem to be a compelling case.
theoretically, Bitcoin doesn't require any trust. But with the majority of mining being done be a few large pools, I think the distributed protection of the system is severely compromised. As far as the initial block chain, you can verify it for yourself.
Ah, you fancy yourselves as flocks of wolves?
Its a film based on Daniel Domscheit-Berg book. Daniel, the person who covered up potential war crimes out of spite in his falling out with Wikileaks. Beyond the war crime video, he also indiscriminately destroyed leaked documents such as US government's No Fly List, 5 GB of Bank of America leaks, insider information from 20 right-wing organizations and proof of torture and government abuse of a Latin American country.

Lets just ignore the sacrifice that people must have done to provide those documents in the first place. DreamWorks and Disney going to glorify this behavior and produce a film baed on Daniel book, and likely make him rich from royalties? Meh.
It's been about 6 months total, I think, but there were significant breaks for school and exams.
The consequences of sugar addiction don't manifest themselves in an acute form immediately. They usually happen later in life, in the form of diabetes or some other inflammatory disease. Being harmful doesn't necessarily have to be a property of addiction. It simply means when you have a piece of chocolate, you want another piece of chocolate, then another, etc.
Yeah, the namespacing is somewhat poor, sorry about that. I'll get around to prefixing the names at some point.
While completely commercial, Ventuz is a worthy note in software that somewhat follows this concept - https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4007/4418935939_6b3471b34b_o....

For a much longer list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_programming_language
I agree. Self-report is fairly consistently a horrible measure in terms of accuracy across the board (this is a known problem in psychological testing). Even worse, any estimation of one's own competency is suspect considering how the Dunning Kruger effect would bias self-assessment estimates.
Huh. Average shouldn't be that pretty for most of the countries :).
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The Pentagon even red-lighted Forrest Gump and refused support. They said:

"the generalised impression that the army of the 1960s was staffed by the guileless or by soldiers of limited intelligance" was unacceptable. "This impression is neither accurate nor beneficial to the army."

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2001/aug/29/media.filmnews
That page needs to add an explanation. I've seen similar images before, but nearly every commenter on that site seems to think that they selected a bunch of really hot women to represent what the average woman should look like and posted the pictures to make people feel bad.
Interestingly the US military involvement in Top Gun was a reaction to their contribution to Final Countdown.

A US Navy Commander was dismissed for having authorized the use of US Navy assets for the latter film without appropriate 'controls' ( and technically he wasn't of appropriate rank to have signed it off ) . That's not a mistake they made with Top Gun.
Right. The average of a number of samples can exhibit characteristics not present in each sample, and so it does here.

One characteristic often considered attractive in a woman's face is a rounded soft jawline. The average of a large number of samples will tend towards rounded soft features, just by the nature of averaging which blurs together any large outliers.

A starker example: People who weigh 80 pounds and people who weigh 240 pounds are both considered unattractive. But average a bunch of each and you get a perfectly attractive mean or median of 160.
Did you read the article? Studies show gargling with gatorade improves cycling performance more than swallowing. Therefore you have to accept it is indeed about mental state (or mouth moistness anyway).
I just told you. You need a bootrom exploit. That's the non-trivial part. Nobody has one, and they haven't since 2010. I mean, the NSA might, but the forensics companies don't, and there aren't any public ones. Hence, it's far from trivial.

Even with the multi-thousand dollar forensics kits, you cannot even begin a brute force PIN attack on any bootrom for any iphone or ipad still on sale. The last devices it worked on was iphone 4 (not 4S) and ipad 2.
Now that I am back at my computer (I posted the parent from my phone), let me add a bit about my personal experience being homeschooled.

For me personally, being homeschooled was excellent and I am thankful that my mother made the sacrifices that she did for my sisters and me.

My perception of regular school is that a pupil's daily schedule as a student is very much dictated and regimented with little freedom for self-direction.

As a homeschooler, this was not so for me. After my mother had taught me to read and write, I had a good deal of freedom to do my work when I wanted to do it as long as it got done. This is very similar to the results-only work environments that work so well in the software industry. I was in such an environment by the time I was 9 or 10 years old.

As for politics, from the time I was 11 or so I was a bit of an A.M. talk radio junky - much to my dad's dislike. I was able to listen to the radio throughout the day while working on my school. This most certainly shaped my verbal debate skills and made the political science classes in college way more fun.

The flexible schedule is also what enabled me to start teaching myself computer programing starting at 14 years. I devoured every computer book that I could find at the county library. I wrote lots of code, including a full invoicing and accounting system for my lawn care business using nothing but QBASIC in DOS 5. By my junior year in high school I was already doing web development for corporate clients and I started a web hosting business before graduating high school. The first contract that I ever signed, on the day after my 18th birthday, was a merchant agreement so that I could accept credit card payments for the business.

My education was not entirely directly from my mother either. The homeschooler community where I grew up was quite strong. There are schools designed around homeschoolers where the student is enrolled for various classes - math, science, classical logic, foreign languages, etc. I took all of these classes. The best part was that I had class all day, but only two days per week. This freedom is what let me market and build the Internet business that I had then.

There are many paths that education can take. My experience was that of being homeschooled within a Christian community and then going on to study computer science at the Georgia Institute of Technology. In my personal experience, the whole homeschool process was a highly effective educational environment. It was not until my freshman year at Georgia Tech that I felt constrained by class schedules and having to show up everyday at certain times. However, I adapted well enough even to that and went on to earn both a bachelor and a master degree.

It worked out wonderfully for me and despite being a less common path, it made all of the difference!
Wow. Speechless.

"At the moment, our website cannot be viewed on the Google Chrome web broswer"

The fact they recommend Firefox or Internet Explorer 8 should send warning bells to anyone with two brain cells that this is a business you will want to avoid at all costs.
Better luck next time guys. Unfortunately they don't always work out. Nice exit note.

Game development and game related development is pretty tough market to crack unfortunately.
for a moment there i thought this was a new attempt at unladen swallow... [if you've not clicked, it's a python lib to access llvm tools]

http://qinsb.blogspot.com/2011/03/unladen-swallow-retrospect...
Ghosts of Planets Past: An Interview with Ron Blakey
Very similar to this set of Rake tasks: https://github.com/gummesson/jekyll-rake-boilerplate

Looks good regardless
People underestimate the difficulty of writing "boring" CRUD apps.

I remember the bad old days, before Ruby on Rails, when we were writing Perl cgi-scripts to connect to the database, or when 100% of the time I'd inherit a PHP application the people either: (I) had magic_quotes_on which caused everything to be FUBARed or (II) didn't consistently quote HTML in forms or in SQL, so you could easily bust forms by typing in a " or '.

Today the ideas in rails have spread to every other language, and it's better, but people still screw up database schemas every day.

Steve McConnell's book "Rapid Development" is really about efficient development, which, in the grand scheme of things, takes about 10-20% more time than truly "rapid" development where you consciously spend more to compress the schedule over efficient development.

Efficient development is a matter of getting things mostly right the first time rather than expensive "iterations" on a series of bad database schema designs when a system has customer data in it.

Frankly, I've never seen a software project fail because the developers were too careful. I see them fail all the time when people set an unrealistic schedule and run around like chickens with their heads cut off and wind up taking much longer than they would have taken if they'd really practiced project management and design and all the other things that the usual (failing) company fails to practice.
But... why? Just for the dropdown menu?

There are cross-browser compatible scripts for that.
I think you are a little out of date on mobile development. This has always been easy on Android, and many apps show a notification while they are upload large images, like Facebook. Any Android app showing a notification can request foreground scheduling priority for a background process. iOS7 recently caught up as well with background app refresh letting you make requests to a content server in the background without being started, just the system starting you regularly. Not that the iOS4 ten minutes after use background task was usually insufficient and the server failing to see it complete could have been used to send a push anyway...
In the comments there is so much focus on the convenient aspect of TouchID. I agree, but the main point I think is that we have a situation where:

- fingerprint authentication will be seen as more casual and mainstream than it was before [1]

- people will still leave fingerprints everywhere, including around and on the fingerprint sensors

- once a high resolution image of a fingerprint is done, it can be re-used for literaly a lifetime (imagine keeping track of someone for years and use his/her fingerprints anytime it's needed)

- if enough applications rely on fingeprint authentication, exchanging fingerprint databases might become lucrative enough

From this point of view, seeing TouchID as just a cute way adding some security to a phone is too candid I think. It will have an immediate positive effect for casual phone locking, but would bring much worse effects down the line.

Optimisticly no one would rely on fingerprints alone to authenticate users for anything important. But the definition of what's important is blurry, and there is so many situations now where weak passwords are used, but it would be so tempting to switch to fingerprints (door unlock for instance...).

[1] laptops had finger unlock features for years now, but it never really made it to the wild masses I think. Fujitsu phones had a fingerprint reader too, but again, I don't remember other makers picking up the feature.
I'm kind of at a loss for words. Are you including the past 20 years USSR did not exist in your comparison with US? I remember the timeline of lunches, if you start in 60s, overall it was much more densely packed for USSR compared to US until 90s. Your mention of 'Polyus' is the end of this timeline, 3 years past completely destructive actions of Gorbochev. Do you think Skylab beats Mir?
You are incorrect. Second sentence of the article: "A fingerprint of the phone user, photographed from a glass surface, was enough to create a fake finger that could unlock an iPhone 5s secured with TouchID."
I've been looking for entry level developer positions as a recent graduate and boy do I hear it repeated so much "Get to me on LinkedIn." "I got my job through LinkedIn". Over and over. I really don't want to create an account either but I suppose I might at some point. Sucks though. Because I get all these e-mails too from people and I've only read somewhat creepy things about LinkedIn.
Hong Kong Unison threatens court action on racially segregated schools
Apocalypse Now is more recent than The Deer Hunter.
I also believe Python is one of the target languages for DRAKON.
To be charitable... they make... whatever "precision coil winding machines" are (I guess machines that precisely wind coils.) There's no requirement that this reflects on their ability to make a decent website. Blame whoever they paid pocket change to set it up.
Oh yes!

Well, I want the Without Their Permission tour to help remedy that!

The best thing any of you can do to help is email epicbooktour@alexisohanian.com offering to help! Even if we're 'booked' it'll still help because we can assist you in spreading the word as the date approaches.
While I do think Marco is often arrogant, in this case it seems he's just expressing frustration at other landing pages that he's seen. I think we should cut him some slack.
It is a Touch screen !

YOUR FINGER PRINTS ARE ON THE PHONE...

Don't lose it !! =D
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> The goal is to get more consumers to move from zero security to pretty good security.

One might argue that Touch ID is too strong to be used where there was no security before. In an arms race with thefts and hackers, leaping too far forwards might not be the best option in the long term.
Paperwork - Using OCR to grep dead trees the easy way
Use Only as Directed
The concept is flawed. You can never trust a 3rd party to not read your data; the only option is to run your own server.

Also for passwords you don't want the data to be permanent. Something like this would be better: https://github.com/badgerodon/selfdestruct.
>Addiction is the continued repetition of a behavior despite adverse consequences,[1] or a neurological impairment leading to such behaviors.[2] - Wikipedia

Adverse consequences are necessary for it to be called addiction. If the sugar isn't negatively affecting your life, it doesn't count as addiction.
Shiny:  Easy web applications in R
They could gargle fro-yo instead, which is somehow perceived as being healthy.
The same thing, implemented in Go:

https://github.com/kid0m4n/gorays
slow golf clap

Wow... yes... you really straightened me out there. Way to go.

Blast. And I had such high hopes that my framework would become the Next Trendy Javascript Thing.
In graphics design I usually pick the colour that contrasts most with the background, and use a text-shadow (looks better than an outline, anyway) in the other colour. Use none or very little shadow blur.

What you should most definitely not do, is give each character (or word) its own colour depending on the background. As others pointed out, this would be a pain to implement, wrapping everything in spans etc, but most importantly it also just looks terrible.

Though the very first step is to simply try and see if you can avoid the situation entirely :) [which may be harder if the images are user supplied]
For Migrants, New Land of Opportunity Is Mexico
There is a third: they want their kids raised in an environment that isn't actively hostile to their religion and beliefs.
I did, and that's what I found bothersome. He clearly seized on the "I am special" header and then interpreted the C-level exec comment in terms of that, when the whole point of the "I am special" part was that I'm not. Or, at least, that everyone is unique.

I may have responded harshly, but certainly in kind.
I've been developing websites since 1996 myself, and MDN hasn't really been on my radar for an html reference. I did use it extensively back in 2009 when I was doing work with <canvas>, and back then MDN didn't really have a general html reference. I think it's only in the last couple of years that MDN has really developed their reference documentation.

So, if you've always used MDN you really must be a young whippersnapper :)

I think MDN has an advantage in that they've only really been around since HTML5 has become standardized, whereas w3schools has had to deal with the changing standards of html4/xhtml/html5.
>Yup. Matt's Script Archive was a long time ago...

Argh. FormMail. FormMail. Its a near-PTSD-like flashback.
I can't make sense of what point you're trying to make.

I think Apollo trumps Mir/Salyut/Almaz, and I think Voyager 2 alone trumps the entire Soviet unmanned space program, even the Venera missions. As does COBE, for that matter.

Edit: which is to say, that while the Soviets may have made impressive contributions to science in the form of the peaceful exploration of space the idea that their contributions outclassed those of the US is simply preposterous.
Are there any performance benchmarks?

EDIT: The language looks pretty cool in general. I'm not a huge fan of the recursion syntax. In particular, the `this` keyword seems to just refer to the current function object, which is confusing since in other languages that usually refers to the object a method belongs to. Further, the choice of immutable lists as the default data structure is odd -- arrays would be much more performant (and are the usual choice for scripting languages anyway).
Given the underlying architecture of most relational databases, is it realistically possible to do "point in time queries", without requiring playing back the entire log history into a clean database up to the point in time you want? That's not going to be very efficient.

I've only seen SQL logs presented as solutions to replication and disaster recovery, not point in time functionality.

What I'm getting at, is it even possible in principle to expose part of the inner workings of some relational database systems to get this kind of capability?
Aww, I liked Minefold a lot. I think it was a tad too expensive, though: for my own uses, it was a good order of magnitude cheaper to rent a "normal" server. Still sad to see it go.
Are we talking drones or passenger aircraft?

Passenger aircraft definitely don't auto takeoff and don't really use auto land. See http://www.boston.com/community/blogs/askthepilot/2013/03/th... and http://www.askthepilot.com/cockpit-claptrap/
Sure, a few people use long passwords on their phones (usually when forced to do so by corporate security policies. However, most don't, because it's impractical. Many don't even use a pin lock.
Sounds like a great startup to me. People who get it, love it. Everyone else is agressively defending the status quo. You sure do make a lot of enemies when you disrupt an industry.
I don't understand how you write a post this long and meandering, talking about how Google will select a 64-bit processor, without even noting the obvious, fundamental fact that Apple's new processor is faster because it's a new ARM architecture, not because it's 64-bit. It would probably be faster if it were 32-bit. Doubling the size of your pointers and/or machine words certainly does not make typical code (passing around 32-bit integers - or smaller - most of the time) faster. Architectural improvements make code faster, and the arch used in the A7 is much improved.

EDIT: Does the new iPhone even have 2GB of addressable memory? Does it benefit from the 64-bit address space at all? Apple's specs don't say how much RAM the thing has, and whether it has any VRAM. What else would the address space be used for? I imagine you could map the whole internal flash to memory, but that seems like an incredibly awful idea to me unless you want random addressing errors to corrupt storage (maybe it'd be fine if only ring 0 had access)
> One of the problems with the ultimate design is that the Shuttle stack relied in part on the SSMEs to get into orbit.

In addition, the SSMEs were only reusable in principle; in practice, they were rarely reused, and unit cost was very high.

> while the Energia from the Energia/Buran combo would have been useful in its own right (sadly the Energia was discontinued with the Buran).

The engines used for its boosters, however, are used in modified form in the Zenit (RD-171, like RD-170 with extra axis of movement) and Atlas V (RD-180; size-reduced version) rockets, and will be used in Angara.
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https://ilovethatshirt.com

I want to hear some feedback on why we might not be getting the conversions expected. We launched using a WordPress setup just to limit our risk on development (e.g. produce an MVP), so I would hope that is not the feedback (but if it is, so be it). Please be brutal as normal :) If we suck, we need to hear it.

Thanks!
Citing the Google Chrome Security team regarding security is the exact opposite of the appeal to authority fallacy. It's an appropriate expert for the context.
I think my point is that being the first to plant a flag on the moon is not space exploration. You think Voyager 2 trumps the entire Soviet unmanned space program, and I think I would prefer all the papers and progress made by Soviet program. Luckily I can read them in native language. Thanks for your perspective.
An interesting confirmation of this theory is explained in the recent Washington Post article entitled, "What killed BlackBerry? Employees started buying their own devices." That article basically explains how the smartphone market shifted from a business market to a consumer market, where consumers wanted the superiority of non-blackberry devices. While not dealing with the modularity issue, the article supports the different values in those two market perspectives (they're really not segments). http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2013/09/20...
Harvard Would Like Another $3.7 Billion, Please
Wow I didn't know that. That is absolutely reason enough that gravitar should be replaced (from both end user and app perspective).
I always use Z for up/down even though I'm a programmer. For some reason I just find it easier to reason about. In fairness, my first forays into 3D were extending a 2D top-down game with an "altitude".
BlackBerry is doomed and not because they don't make good products (BB10), but because their image is so tarnished and their reputation has been severely damaged. I have no idea how their going to change the perception that their phones are slow and lame. Maybe they can sell out to someone that knows how to market.
Sorry, you're just misinformed about this: http://www.gnu.org/gnu/thegnuproject.html
I think the Social Network, for example, is quite accurate about the most important things (the zeitgeist of how a startup like Facebook comes about .. the energy, the betrayals (both perceived and real), the craziness, the attitude of great founders etc).

This is a movie and not a documentary .. for my money I expect the Director to put his creative efforts into making something enjoyable to watch. As long as it's not a blatant fabrication, fact for fact historical accuracy isn't why I'm going to watch this movie.

Aaron Sorkin viewed Zuck & co as a vehicle to tell a larger (and more important) story about modern culture .. if The Fifth Estate accomplishes the same, it will be a great movie.
AFAIK the new iPhone still only has 1 GB of memory.
These are YC backed companies. Their job postings are automatically brought to the HN front page.