skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Before this, the majority of Americans ate more modest, often meatless breakfasts that might include fruit, a grain porridge (oat, wheat or corn meals) or a roll, and usually a cup of coffee.

Pretty hard to argue that bacon is really as healthy as oatmeal & fruit.

Just for reference, fried eggs have a crapload of cholesterol (http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=fried+egg) and bacon is pretty fattening and in general, not too great on cholesterol either (http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=2+strips+of+bacon). And this doesn't even include all of the oil these things are fried in.
Methane, while less dense (thus requiring bigger tanks) has a higher specific energy than kerosene, and thus has a higher ISP (rocket efficiency). Methane is also less sooty and should have better cooling as its a "mild cryogenic" like liquid oxygen.

Basically, it's between LH2 (hydrogen: high ISP, very low density, very very cold) and RP-1 (kerosene: lower ISP, high density, room temp) and may be a good compromise.

And its derivable on Mars. Downside is there's very little flight heritage for a methane engine, so most of this is theoretical.

EDIT:
Paper: http://thehuwaldtfamily.org/jtrl/research/Propulsion/Rocket%...
Bacon is one of the few things that I refuse to eat. I don't understand how anyone likes the stuff.

It makes me wonder, if the all-American breakfast was a bowl of fruit and a glass of milk, would there have been an obesity epidemic?
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The name "x86_64" existed before AMD fully released their CPUs, and was latched onto by some of the open-source communities, so that specific one isn't exactly Intel's. But you're right about EM64T. :)
I totally agree with your fanrant. I think they did an excellent job paving the way with images, but there are still gaps to be filled with audio, video, etc. I've started working on audiour ('The imgur of audio') in my spare time and there has been a decent amount of traffic. I feel that giving the ability for users to fully participate on a site before they create an account is going to become more popular over time.
I guess Spaceball One wouldn't fit.
Yeah I looked in to the differences after I played with it a bit..generated code is never ideal in the first place though.

I wanted to see how close it was..but the mapping just isn't what I was quite looking for. There really is no silver bullet though.
No, because bcrypt uses a unique salt for each upload. Research bcrypt in a little more detail, it's the best choice for IP obsfucation.
Right, I was pointing out that their huge cash pile is a large reason for that high market cap despite their decreasing revenues.
> 'Free market' does _not_ necessarily imply no government.

'Free market' doesn't really have any consistent, coherent meaning in terms of actual objective features.

> Most libertarians wholeheartedly agree that bringing harm to another, either directly by initiating violence or indirectly by fraud, is wrong and should be legally punished.

The juxtaposition of this sentence with the last suggest that "Free Market" is a label for whatever a majority of current libertarians prefer; I think this is almost accurate (in use, it seems to mean more whatever any particular self-described libertarian prefers at the moment), and illustrates my previous point.

> The idea that some people should be able to make laws to tell other people what they can or cannot do in completely voluntary arrangements is in fact a return to tyranny

No, that's not true "in fact", its an equivalence based on a subjective value proposition.
On your example, the most obvious buttons are bright pink saying 'Continue Checkout' with the VIP Membership program in a separate set of boxes on the side. They are definitely not presented as part of the workflow of the checkout process for a consumer.

'With this purchase you are activating your VIP membership' is smaller and in black. Incredibly easily overlooked.

It is possible that the JustFab UI designers aren't very good and have made a terrible mistake but the overall look and feel of the rest of the site would suggest that they have put a LOT of thought into steering their prospective customers down a very clear route to purchase and know EXACTLY what they are trying to do here.
Great reference you provided.
I'm not arguing against its legality; I'm arguing that it's dangerous as written. It needs more enforcement of transparency on the side of the companies. The difference between gambling and "investing" of this sort is that at least gambling is 100% transparent. You know exactly what the odds are at the roulette table. And most people who gamble (barring those with addictions, of course) realize they're gambling; most of the new people who will "invest" probably won't believe they're gambling.

"Although there are other reasons for investing other than financial returns, for example you believe in the mission of the company or you want to be a customer of the business."

Sure, but that's what services like Kickstarter are for. Let's not kid ourselves into thinking that most Mom & Pop retail investors are going to be day-investing in small businesses out of high-minded principle. They're going to see dollar signs and dream of getting rich quickly. And there will be plenty of people ready and waiting to sell them those dreams.

Maybe it'll take a bubble or two to get people to realize the dangers involved, and eventually, it'll normalize into sort of what day trading has become. But there will be pain before then.
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> Back in 1983 online collaboration was unheard of

Not really. Stallman mentioned Chaosnet which the AI Lab had used for, among other things, internal mail (not yet called "e-mails") between developers about changes to programs. He also mentions UUCP, which was the godawful Unix way of sharing files (and which could be used for mail purposes).
I hate to be a stick in the mud, but is your wife attractive, young, always well dressed and made (hair styled, makeup applied well, nicely accessorized)? If your wife is what you would consider "a very pretty woman", she may be discredited because she is in fact HOT. Our society has decided that hot women are probably stupid women. It is the same case if you aren't so hot, if you are ugly, you are probably also stupid. Perhaps the men tried to make a move on her and she shot them down, and as punishment are treating her like a box of rocks. Maybe there is another woman that works with her that is older and less pretty and is trashing her behind her back. I had a older, burnt out woman as a mid level super who treated me (and 2 other girls) like damn crap because I (and the other girls) were young, students, and not fat and ugly like her. She hated her life, and was insane and miserable. She wanted to bring us down to her level. Your wife needs to find a new job. She is being held back.
I really wish the Strangeloop talk videos weren't posted in an excruciatingly long timeframe. Last year's conference was in September 2012 but the last of the videos didn't appear until April 2013. 4-6 months is an eternity when you're considering the shelf life of tech conference talk content.

As someone who wasn't able to attend this year because I changed jobs a month before the meeting and had to give my ticket back to my old employer, I would gladly pay $50-$100 for a video pass if it meant getting access to the content sooner.
This was one of the most interesting things the post detailed for myself, makes so much sense - we do a substantial amount of allocs and reads for NSDecimalNumbers, etc in our payment based app and I can imagine the heap savings and mem write/read savings we will get as a result would of some significance. Pretty interesting innovation.
Release announcement http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2013-09/msg00014....

| Hello,

| I am happy to announce that, after a few years of development, GNU APL 1.0 has been released.

| APL is an ancient programming language.

| GNU APL has the latest and greatest features (nested arrays, complex numbers, shared variables) and is intended to be a full implementation of the ISO standard 13751 "Programming Language APL, Extended".
Right but if i can convert the java types to be scala code I can use the scala compiler to compile to whatever my target is.
Originally it was about the "Factory of the Future".
Well, it is only so, given the amount of money and resources IBM, Intel and friends put into Linux.

How far would be Linux without those investments?
Both C and Lisp will be available as system programming languages.

How I wish this became true, it's not too late right?
Can anyone recall any others?

Diamonds, and the various "Hallmark" holidays come to mind.
> I don't understand how anyone likes the stuff.

i can see how someone wouldn't want to eat bacon (for a variety of reasons, health, veganism, sodium intake, religion.... lots of things), but i can't see how they "don't understand" how anyone likes bacon.

it's primarily fat and salt. how is this a huge mystery to you? you REALLY don't undersatnd how a fatty, salty pork product is popular?

_REALLY_?
My 2 cents (not a woman):

- It may be bad in technology, but it's much worse in some other industries. (Like Finance)

- There are companies that are known for making a stand on discrimination and other similar issues. She should actively seek one of these out, rather than try to change the culture in a place that isn't.
I tried to find more information about this "pie zone" but was unable. Were pies assigned to zones at that time? Just what was going on with pie in the 1920's that they had to have their own zone?
I don't know scala so maybe I'm missing something, but does this just break with functions that start with a switch statement? eg.

public static void main(String[] args) {
switch (42) {}
System.out.println("Hello World!");
}

converts to

def main(args: Array[String]) 42 match {
}

dropping the println.

Edit: It also seems to be dropping autoincrement/decrement, and random other blocks of code I've looked at, so I guess it's still in a fairly early stage.

Definitely a cool project though :)
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One of the most disappointing things I ran into when I moved from Australia to the US was American bacon.

Oh how I miss Australian bacon: http://3hourspast.files.wordpress.com/2012/08/picture-28.png

Because to me, American bacon is just the crappy bit which is attached to the awesome bit.

http://www.foodsubs.com/Photos/bacon.jpg
Why would you hope that? This is someone who has made money from this situation, and if it is a scam (which I strongly believe it is), I don't see a lot of value in 'well, for his sake I hope his lawyer told him to be quiet' (because God forbid he demonstrate guilt or complicity in fraud...)
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I've always liked this site, and come back to it very often. The close 2nd, geared toward real-world buildings (but some imaginary ones) is SkyscraperPage [0] (link goes to their diagram of the current world's tallest buildings ... but you can see the buildings in a given city, or state, country, etc ... as well as details of a specific building)

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http://skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?searchID=200
Speed and size would be the two biggest.

The start up time of the JVM and the size of the generated executables ( jar files ) make scala not terribly useful for those small programming tasks ( scripting and such )
No, the rich in many cases (but not all) rigged the rules so that they could legal steal from the rest of society.

Twas true in the Gilded Age (1880-1900s) which is why Teddy Roosevelt busted up the monopolies.

Twas true during the S & L crisis.

Read http://4closurefraud.org/ to understand how the banks are stealing, getting rich and not having to pay a penalty.
It's interesting that the traditional NASA launch morning breakfast is steak and eggs -- apparently protein/fat foods don't cause gas or other GI upset in space, unlike breads, etc. http://www.who2.com/blog/2009/07/t-minus-2-days-and-counting... (although this seems to be less the case now)

(Which is why "steak and eggs at [the place astronauts go before launch]" is the ideal answer to "what do you want your last meal on Earth to be".)
Yes. People who eat bacon and eggs for breakfast are probably demographically favored not to be obese, because they by implication have access to a grocery store and time to prepare their own food.
When I first read the title, I thought it was some new license they were announcing. ;-)
I'd guess sugar and high GI foods are more responsible for this than bacon. For example I'd imagine sugar coated cereals are likely more to blame than bacon.
Yes, Empire should be up there with required software like a spreadsheet app and a text editor.

If you're even more curious, this is the one to try: http://www.killerbeesoftware.com/kbsgames/edee/index.shtml
Oh, I see the problem now; you have no conception of how the law works and no inclination to learn it.
Just created an account here to say I downloaded this and gave it a go... Very cool indeed, and love the use of socket.io! :)
Why would I want a knob of pork loin stuck to the end of my bacon?
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Making a stand on this situation may lead to retaliation from the team.
Thank you, Mr. Stallman.
SMCs are not the problem. The problem is code in OSX could put your key there in a way that someone could dump it.

Of course, since FileVault is not open source, we have no way of knowing if it does this. Is this paranoid? Perhaps, but if you are worried about cold boot attacks you should be worried about this as well.

You might also be worried about some strange design decisions in FileVault such as the fact that it uses public key cryptography[0] for what ought to just be symmetric disk encryption. While not a red flag,it is a bit strange.

[0]http://deimos3.apple.com/WebObjects/Core.woa/FeedEnclosure/u...
I can't imagine life without stimulants. I hope to move off into the woods one day and live a completely natural lifestyle for a while. Reset myself. No caffeine, no nicotine, no amphetamines. Just me, a dog, and a nice ranch property in the middle of nowhere.

Meanwhile, nicotine is a staple of my day-to-day. I quit smoking a long time ago, now I stick to Swedish snus and vaping. For a period I was chewing gum too. Definitely lots of ways to get it without smoking.
Love it already. Just look at those face buttons.
Twitter Engineering recently posted about their move to the JVM in detail. It's worth a read.

It wasn't just about a move to a service oriented architecture. They also got well over 10X performance gain out of each machine by moving to the JVM. (They attribute it to better concurrency.)

See: https://blog.twitter.com/2013/new-tweets-per-second-record-a...

I think the article's methodology is fine. It's not about the most popular languages in terms if developer head count. It's looking at what powers the biggest sites.
A fascinating contrast to the announcment of Linux:

http://www.thelinuxdaily.com/2010/04/the-first-linux-announc...

RMS starts with a grandiose vision, which (at the time of writing) he hadn't even begun. He then asks for time, money, and equipment, before the end of the first paragraph. The very first thing promised, a kernel, has never been effectively delivered.

Linus starts with a modest disclaimer, then asks for feedback as to what other potential users might want most.

Night and day. Yet, could we have had one without the other?
I agree about the unsigned ints.

Java does have its own form of type inference that revolves around Generic functions and once you make peace with it, life isn't so bad. Rather than writing

var xyzzy=new ArrayList<Foo>();

you can write

List<Foo> xyzzy=Lists.newArrayList();

Similarly, the lack of first class functions can be worked around by various means. The Guava toolkit contains map/fold and other functional operations, and when worse comes to worse you can write

for(Thing that:things)
fn(that);

In cases where you might be tempted to do something that's more verbose than if you tried to do it the cool way.

There is a lot to like about JDK8 but unfortunately I'm coding to JDK6 these days instead of JDK7 because it's a waste of time dealing with trouble tickets caused by people who are running the wrong Java version and don't know what is going on.
"Grilled cheese and tomato soup" - at first I thought you were having a laugh. Then I googled. I like to think of myself as widely eaten (hence being widely sized), but that's a new one on me. I do vaguely remember in British "bistros" seeing soups topped with cheese (and sometimes with pastry) then salamandered until the bowl (or glazed pot as was the vogue back then) was so bloody hot it removed your fingerprints, and you daren't eat a mouthful until it cooled, lest it blistered your tastebuds. This was in the 70's and 80's, but never with tomato soup, usually some nasty fish bisque type of thing.
I was thinking more on the lines of data-rich apps like Google Maps or Flipboard or Evernote. What would you call apps built on lots of data?
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However, eggs have equal amounts of good (HDL) and bad (LDL) cholesterol, so most nutritionists feel they cancel each other out and hence eggs aren't considered bad. Few are recommending bacon (although Canadian bacon is fairly lean).
>ignored or disrespected for no apparent reason other than being a woman

Well that's your problem right there. She hasn't figured out how to play the game. The way you have framed the problem, it will never be solved. She will never stop being a woman, and if that is the only thing you see holding her back, there will never be a solution.

There are many disadvantages within IT, and being female is just one of them. How about being black? Being from not-Harvard-MIT-Stanford? Being 65? Being 15? Not having a CS degree? Not having any degree? Not being able to speak English clearly? All these things will hold you back. It sucks and it needs to change, but it's a separate issue from helping your wife succeed.

She needs to strategize, play hardball, and burn the motherf*ers to the ground. They have to be beaten at their own game, and it's not a technical one. All's fair in love & war.
GNU is alive and well -- the GNU kernel isn't (or has been making very slow progress). The project just diverged from its original technical goals, which is common.

Stallman would say GNU is an OS without a kernel. Debian GNU/Linux would be the complete OS. Someone pointed out on HN recently that many things user space on a typical "Linux" box comes from non-GNU projects, and it's not x11/GNU/Linux, or gnu/FreeBSD, or llvm/FreeBSD. So yeah I sort of see their point.
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Uhhhh.... unless they don't make the bacon and eggs themselves.

See: Denny's, McDonald's, Burger King, etc.

This is not to say that bacon and eggs are solely responsible for the obesity epidemic, but I think it's kind of silly to say that the only people who eat bacon and eggs are those who cook it for themselves, or are more healthy.
money != time.

I can always get more money. I can't live any longer.
OpenBSD does this by default. It also now directly boots cryptodisks eliminating the need to create a /boot partition and carry it around if you're concerned about evil maid attacks, though I would imagine a camera or keyboard hardware keyloggers would defeat that pretty easily
The key to this is the haptic feedback technology that makes it more than two weird touch surfaces. Sounds awesome.
"How do they know the water is everywhere? How do they know it's not just in the one place they dug and nowhere else?"

Mars is believed to have a global soil layer, due to massive windblown dust storms. The area sampled is specifically chosen to be this dust and not local soil.

"Why hasn't the water evaporated? Isn't Mars almost a vacuum? Why didn't the water evaporate from the soil after being dug up but before being put in the oven?"

Air pressure is very low, though not close to vacuum. The water detected is probably bound in various chemical bonds, and is not ice, which indeed would sublimate quickly if exposed.

"Could there be large underground frozen aquifers?"

These are indeed conjectured. Large parts of Mars could be water glacier with a thin coating of dust.
Of course now that is the case. I am considering the originating cause and effect of salt and fat as a full and necessary way to start your day in a core cultural aspect. Given dietary science has come a long way since the early 1900's, I am just daydreaming and speculating on an alternate reality.
This is just points right? Any plans to expand to other shapes? (ie: PostGIS)

I wonder if anyone has substituted a Hilbert space representation for geohashes... ;)
She may need to find a new team. Not saying its fair, nor right.
I'm skeptical that the trackpads will provide the same precision feel that a good analog stick can do, even with the haptics.

But I'm not going to count it out. I'll reserve all judgement until I get to try it. And that's the only real sticking point for me on this announcement; everything else about this controller I love.
> There's already a scala implementation for .net,

Scala.net was abandoned a while ago. It's close to impossible to get it to run because .Net's generics are reified.
It's difficult to comprehend how a bus has turned into a symbol of oppression, although I guess there is a history of that being the case in this country. In this particular instance, though, I'm sure people would be equally unhappy with the resulting traffic and gridlock if all of the bus riders started driving their cars instead. The difference is that there wouldn't be a big object which says "Bauers" on the side of it which people could use as the poster child for income inequality.

The sad truth is that Google, Facebook, et al. wouldn't easily be able to navigate the byzantine system of transit organizations that comprise the Bay Area. For Google, that would mean dealing with Muni, SamTrans and VTA and maybe Caltrain and the Peninsula Corridor Joint Powers Board. That's a pretty difficult tangle of bureaucracy to deal with. It's easier to just provide your own private transit company.

One thing they could do which would go a long way to allaying the vitriol would be to allow non-employees to make use of the bus. That would further decrease traffic and would make it seem like the service was more equitable.
The problem of course is that we live in a litigious society and there may be problems with insurance or other factors.
Analogous: LA Fitness. You can become a member online, over the phone, in person.

To cease being a member, you have to send a certified letter to a certain address, and you have to make sure it arrives by a certain time (up to two weeks) before your next renewal date.

I read an interview where one worker said they literally had someone whose job was to throw away all non-certified mail, unread.
I agree with most of what is suggested here, except forking. I think that even for small teams forks are the way to go: you get a cleaner upstream, plus you get a backup of your local repo.
Wasn't the story of the orange juice the same? Overproduction + marketing as healthy = tradition (no sources, sorry, something I saw on TV)
Stallman taking credit for others work? Nah, don't believe it.
I don't mean individuals making a stand, I mean the companies themselves. Some companies are visible and vocal about non-discrimination, valuing diversity and being good place for everyone to work and advance their careers. One sign is how many women and minorities are on their boards, and in senior positions. Then look to see how vocal they are about these issues. If a company takes a stand, it's a good sign.

This is why I say find the right culture, don't try to change the existing one.
I think HURD's kernel would have had more pressure to deliver something (instead of endless academic bickering) without a serviceable Linux kernel. And GNU userspace has been pretty good!