skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Insulin is tied up in fat metabolism and is a necessary molecule to move FFAs into fat cells. Inject a person with insulin and they'll gain weight fast. The rates of the growth of many types of cancer seem to increase in the presence of insulin.

Straining insulin production facilities may not be the real issue, as most people over-produce insulin (in response to all the high-GI carbohydrate they've eaten over their lifetime). A bigger problem is insulin insensitivity, which leads to high insulin levels.

Yes, insulin "natural" but that's no argument. Fever is a natural response of the body too, but high fever can kill you.

Now maybe the problem is what is called "low-GI." Stuff with GIs around 10 aren't that harmful. Green vegetables mainly. But get up to 30-50 (low-GI range) and you're nearly to white bread.

The best advice, in the absence of better studies than we've got is probably: eat like your ancestors evolved to eat. They didn't have any of this crap. They didn't have breads or pastas. They didn't have vegetables like potatoes or corn. They ate a good amount of meat, a reasonable amount of green vegetables, nuts, and berries once or twice a year when they could get them.
This is something I see frequently brought up; concerns for safety on cheaper airlines, that is.

I can't speak for Europe, but in the United States, we have the FAA that pretty much dictates how safe the planes are. Flying a "discount" airline couldn't be any less safe than flying one of the majors because the FAA is dictating how they take care of the planes.
I was waiting for that. The history of micro-optimization is replete with myths and legends which sound juuuuuuust plausible enough to be true (or were true a decade ago) and endure to this day.

I'm currently involved in a project at work which requires translating a (Java) coding standards document. I have filed probably two dozen bugs against the document that sound like "The rationale for standard 2.4.3 is translated correctly from the Japanese but contrary to technical fact." They include my personal favorite Java performance tip "Don't use the nice readable str + str syntax to concatenate, instead, use StringBuilder."
Understand that the point of the moderation system here is to promote civil discussion. The protocol most people (try) to follow here is a natural result from that.

I have a policy of only downmodding posts that are not a part of legitimate discussion. This includes obvious trolls, but also any post where I don't think the post contributes anything, such as an ad-hominem attack.

I do not downmod a post just because I disagree with it. If I disagree with the post, but it's not an obvious troll or incendiary in any way, I leave it alone. I see downmodding as a means to keep discussions civil, not to show disapproval with a point of view.

In contrast, I upmod posts I agree with. This means that a single control - voting up or down - has an asymmetric meaning for me.
I don't know if it is really indicative of anything, but I remember micro-optimization being a rather prevalent topic during my PHP days. Perhaps it was just the folks I was reading, I don't know.

The only thing worse than an article about micro-optimization is one that is both out of date and almost entirely backwards.
Now that it makes sense to plug the computer into the TV again, we could go back to the old 8/16bit format for computers, with keyboard and CPU in one case.
The worst airline in the world is still safer than your drive to the airport. Is safety on your priority list? (Humans are terrible at judging relative risks.)
try online dating, seriously, even if only to meet interesting people and hone your social skills

OK Cupid is used this way. I also knew a young woman who regarded online dates as "dating practice." (She was an avid martial arts practitioner.) If you regard the online dates as just practice, this relieves a lot of the pressure and focuses your attention in a way likely to improve your presentation.

About social skydiving -- I did stuff like that when I turned 27. If you psych yourself up, be confident, act like this happens all of the time, you can literally get 100's of phone numbers. Don't expect most of those to pan out, however. I found only about 10% of those were defunct or bogus numbers. But a majority of the remaining were not interested in me enough for me to get a date. Still, if you can keep your confidence up, you will get dates. If you can manage to genuinely have fun with your dates, then it will also lead to other things.

Keep in mind: you are doing sales. Expect a 90%+ failure rate. Pay attention to how your audience reacts. Make adjustments. Always be positive and cordial. Always keep your confidence up. Always believe that the universe wants you to experience happiness and beauty too.

Don't keep your confidence up by psyching yourself up with a sense of "entitlement." This can work. You can observe lots of guys working off of this. Unfortunately, it can turn you into an asshole and lead to big regrets.

One tip: if you and a beautiful woman keep ending up in the same places, she will sometimes warm up to you even if she seems frosty at first. But don't test that more than about 3 times with the same woman. Be cordial, positive, and after 3 meetings, move on. (Some of the best sex I ever had resulted from a circumstance like this. Caution: use condoms.)
Actually it is a question. I thought the link can be used as reference. Clearly I got it wrong.
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The patch in question is available at http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.file-systems/33529
"When simple strings with no variables in them are used, the performance is clearly better with double-quoted strings due to implementation details in the engine."

Is there any way this could be true except that they went out of their way to slow down single-quoted strings? How could it possibly be slower to do fewer steps?
Unless your facebook mentions your medical condition or your drug use?!
"""I cannot seem to get an answer from the AWS forum""" - This is because you asked your question in the S3 forum. Someone then replied that you should ask the same question in the more appropriate EC2 forum, which you did not do.

And now you try here ...

So, to answer your question: yes, all 'IaaS' services have these problems if you approach them with your attitude and problem solving skills.
We actually have quite a bit of data in there besides Twitter, and we're adding more sources all the time. It does take some time as we must convince publishers of the value of pushing their data out. Some of the result set you get depends on your query. One of our initial prototypes was launched for the Obama inauguration, and the amount of photography going through that day was amazing; it was almost like watching a strange kind of television.

We don't think that real-time search is the best thing for every query. We estimate that about 20% of queries would be better served by time ranked data. Think about all the situations in which time is the most important factor: decision making (such as stock trading), weather, news, television, etc.

Sometimes a person just wants to know about earthquakes in general, and sometimes that person wants to know about the earthquake that just happened.
Fifty years from now all current languages will be depreciated and all but the most famous programmers will be forgotten.

I aspire to one day become one of the famous programmers. Real women will flock to me in droves and my every need will be satiated by my lines of code.
If it's not true.
There are a number of them:

* trend spotting, analysis
* finance
* brand management
* entertainment
* faster news information
* weather, disasters

There are a lot of possibilities, and even more arise when you enable the feedback loop. You can think of real-time search in a number of contexts... chat is real-time search on a topic, FriendFeed is real-time search on your social graph, etc.
" I would imagine there is a business opportunity for airlines which are willing to cut costs in every way other than safety and passenger space"

Are you implying the current crop of low cost carriers are somehow "unsafe"? You would be very wrong (at least in the US).

Also, such a carrier exists. It's called Jet Blue.
If I was going to guess, I'd say that double quoted strings are passed to a different "engine" than the single quotes, and perhaps over time the double quote engine has received better optimization.
I (naively) read Google's performance tips as fact and wouldn't have thought twice about it. Lesson learned.
Heh, pretty much every 737 I've been in, regardless of carrier, feels and sounds rickety on takeoff. I just remind myself that the family of plane I'm in has had only ~200 accidents in approximately ~300 million hours of flight.

That's a seriously good safety record.
Well, what fraction of cheap flights have crashed vs. normal flights?
PHPwn.
Something I find astonishing is that the passenger/employee ratio of no-frills airlines is more than 10 times that of traditional airlines, yet all the labour related savings together seem to make up a relatively small part of overall savings. Any explanation for that?
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I upvote comments: that provide useful information; that I agree with, and writing my own comment would only be clutter; that I disagree with, but think is well-presented.

I downvote comments: that fairly strongly don't add anything to the conversation; that contain a high percentage of profanity without saying anything useful; that I disagree with and are not well-presented (e.g., trolls).

But not always. Most comments I don't do anything with. If I see a moderately insightful comment with 1 point, I'll probably upvote it. If I see a similarly moderately insightful comment with 4 points, I may think that's high enough and leave it alone. If I see a moderately trollish comment that's at -3, and I didn't think it was that bad, I might upvote it, not because I like it, but because I think -2 is sufficiently low.

On the whole, I try to vote such that the more I want to see similar comments, the higher the score; and the less I want to see similar comments, the lower the score.
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I can't even consider a Pre unless I know there's a reliable ssh client for it, and casual googling doesn't turn one up. So there's something for your to-do list.
I know this sounds like a spam post, but it is the story of Dresden Dolls front woman, Amanda Palmer, using twitter in some creative ways to generate business. Actually filled with useful ideas that could apply to many other businesses, especially in the service market.
"Discount air carrier Southwest Airlines flew thousands of passengers on aircraft that federal inspectors said were 'unsafe' as recently as [March 2007]."

http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/03/06/southwest.planes/index.html
Definitely +1 for car control. For a while, I have seriously thought that 1) US driver's license requirements should be much more rigorous, 2) we should have a second class of license for those who pass an even more rigorous "advanced driving" course (car control, threshold braking, wet / snow / ice, only manual trans, etc).
Despite google dropping ball on this one, some good may come from it having spurred Gwynne Raskind's reply: Anyone out there writing PHP might find real optimization value from Alex Songe comments, concluding with (following Gwynne's article):

Good resources (written by the guys who actually work on the php engine):

http://ilia.ws/files/phptek2007_performance.pdf   (13 MB)

http://ilia.ws/files/phpquebec_2009.pdf ( 1.1 MB )

edit: added file size
> They didn't have vegetables like potatoes or corn.

It's textbook knowledge that this is an incorrect claim.

Corn was developed in Central Mexico at least 7000 years ago and eaten throughout North, Central, and South America since.

http://www.campsilos.org/mod3/students/c_history.shtml

Potatoes have been dated to 13,000 years ago in Chile and eaten throughout South America since.

http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-5474753_IT...

How do you think our ancestors ate? Like the Massai and Inuit, isolated cases of peoples forced to eat as carnivores? Anthropology shows that these are exceptions, and that humans have been eating from plants, primarily starches as the bulk of their calories, for over 10,000 years.

> They ate a good amount of meat, a reasonable amount of green vegetables, nuts, and berries once or twice a year when they could get them.

How about fruits, vegetables, tubers, and later, grains?

Do you have commonly accepted references that our ancestors ate mostly meat and a negligble amount of calories from plants? Greens provide little calories, and you claim berries only once or twice a year, so basically you are saying 95%+ of their calories were from meat. A bold assertion - any references?
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The idea for the celebration location is easy: obviously they should celebrate it on the moon.
Fine, I'll mark statements by Dr. McDougall with [D], WikiPedia with [W]. A few brief examples:

[D]: Worldwide, populations of hundreds of millions of people who eat high GI potatoes (Peruvians) and rice (Asians) are trim and active for a lifetime.
[W]: The high consumption of legumes in South America and fresh fruit and vegetables in Asia likely lowers the glycemic effect in these individuals. The mixing of high and low GI carbohydrates produces moderate GI values.

[D]: the American Diabetic Association dismisses the value of GI in treating diabetes.
[W]: The glycemic index is supported by leading international health organisations including the American Diabetes Association.

If you read Dr. McDougall's material carefully, you'll see him stringing together sets of unrelated facts and strawmen in such a way that it almost appears that a valid argument is being made. Like this gem:
[D]: "For the most efficient means of replenishing spent glycogen reserves, athletes have learned to choose foods that have a high GI. Selecting foods with a high GI is just as sound advice for anyone yearning to be strong and energetic throughout the day—not just for athletes."

The second statement does not follow from the first. Doing what athletes do to replenish their reserves when you haven't even used yours is incredibly bad advice. I'm speechless.
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Writing a shell on a java application platform with the principle that "everything is a filesystem". Shell is really mininal - just enough to browse the application, launch an editor and trigger simple programs in jvm languages like js, objective-j, jython, ioke and whatever else they like.

Achievements so far? I now have the beginnings of a shell, filesystem API (that was pretty simple), and a jython implementation of ed with basic functionality but some bugs. :)
I would want to avoid hiring people who are unusually racist

Uh, would you also favor giving them separate seats in the back of the bus?

And what would you say about a manager that avoided hiring followers of some other ideology, e.g. Communism?
It would be good if more drivers had these advanced skills.

I was amazed at the level of detail one of the referenced how-to's had on how to escape from a sinking car. Someone really thought that through, to the extent of mentioning to avoid possible falling debris or boats in the water once escaping the vehicle and swimming to the surface.
"Not start-ups and/or business, but just hacking on for fun in our spare time."

Hacking for fun means, we code on things we like. If we try to find an idea on how to make them useful, this will be much more better. What do you think?
In fact, I am quite curious if there is a certain connection between Kirkhoffs law and opensource software (well, open-idea-software, but giving out ideas is almost as good as giving out source, but giving out source definately is more than giving away an idea).
Recall, Kirkhoff's law dictates that the security of a cryptosystem must not depend on the secrecy of the system itself, but on the secrecy of the key's involved (and probably P != NP).
And now, remember again: There are some ridiculous well-going open source programs (linux, gcc, ...) and even more, there are certain really well going commercial open source systems (such as mysql). Thus, I am pretty curious, if there is a similar kirkhoffs law for software (as in: the commercial success of a software can be achieved even without keeping the source secret, or something similar).
Workers in any field that requires creativity, yet is subject to industrial production and economic realities, will likely air the same sentiments.
True and good advice for girls! This revelation came to me over a decade ago, as I recall, when my male roommate bought a modem, and was about to install it in his room. I (female) asked if he could show me how to do it, since I had no idea how to install a modem. He said sure, he knew all about it, he would show me. As he was installing it, it became clear (as he was trying to figure out what the lights on the front meant) that I actually knew more about modems than he did -- but he, full of confidence, was certain he could figure it out, while I didn't trust myself at all.

I've thought about that story many times in the past decade -- to remind myself that half of the game is trusting myself, and having confidence; something that seems to come less naturally to many women than to most guys, for whatever reason.
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There are video phones on a couple million desktops. They usually go by the name "Macbook".
A Facebook page is part of the context for interpreting an interview and resume.
Yeah, thats what I also figured but, really, how much can you optimize a constant string literal (which I'm given to understand the single-quote thing is)?

Must be some kind of caching optimization and not really something that saves CPU cycles
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This is exactly the business model Midwest Express/Midwest Airlines pursued; a single-class cabin, 2x2 with first class-style seats. There was typically a $50-$150 premium on Midwest seats.
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I've found that the only way to get accurate information about performance is to test it myself or use a source that actually gives data. I tested this myself a while ago and found no detectable difference between single and double quotes. (And if I hadn't done this, I'd know not to trust this post:) )
Not particularly, though perhaps the technical term (which escaped me during the authoring of that comment) may help you: I was referring to Microexpressions.
Uh huh. Compare the incident records of Southwest and any major carrier, and then get back to us.

The real cost/safety tradeoff in air travel is between national carriers and the rebadged regional carriers that do the short-hop fights for the nationals. Southwest doesn't have any such arrangements, but all the majors do.
I'd bet it went more like "Automated software detected a large spike in queries for this, and determined it was an attack".

Though that's a far less interesting headline.
You mean Northwest Airlines in the USA, which has the oldest fleet of any carrier? They are a "regular" airline. In a study a few years back their fleet had an average age of 18.1 years.

http://news.minnesota.publicradio.org/features/2005/02/21_ap...

How would you like to be in your 30s and flying on a plane older than you are?
Wow! What a stinging rebuke. ... and well-deserved, it seems.

Considering Google's influence and reputation, it's really important the PHP Team took the time and effort to respond to the "tips" and set the record straight.
One way to naturally start doing more of these things is to pretend you are an actor playing an older, successful, energetic more confident version of yourself. Not perfect, but it can be a bit more natural then trying to remember all the little tips about sitting up straight, etc.
A 24"x18" poster for Black Hat, my BH talk (vulnerabilities in stock exchange order handling systems and trading protocols in general), and helped Chris and Mike with their BH paper (Ruby for penetration testers).
I really don't care how (un)comfortable I am when I fly for two hours. I walk off the plane and don't give it another thought. You are paying for the A to B ness of the utility, if you want comfort then stay home with the bigscreen and sofa :) Seriously though, for anyone that sits on a commuter bus/train/subway every morning a quick trip in a cramped plane is really nothing.
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I think you might have meant deprecated?
Awesome. I guess I've been biased by a lot of the stories I've read where the writing is of poorer quality and less relevance than blogs I read. I think the problem is that there were too many linkbait postings (i.e. what I saw as irrelevant to here, or sensationalised) from nytimes.com and so I flipped the bozo switch on that domain.
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Am I the only one here who has gotten a good ways into their adult life without ever needing a credit card?

The only time it's ever been an issue for me is renting cars; we have a corporate Amex account for that, but I haven't gotten a personal Amex.

What is the huge advantage of having a credit card? I get that regularly using one builds your credit. But that's a circular argument. The people who care about your credit the most? Credit card companies. We've bought houses twice in the last couple years, and our credit history wasn't an issue.
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I've always found being able to braid has helped a lot.
I'm not being an ostrich. I've just had enough of investigating many of these skeptics' claims only to find out that they hold little merit.

As for this opinion piece, another commentator has pointed out that the senator in question, Steve Fielding (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Fielding) is a known skeptic (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=676593) but the article makes no mention of this. Instead it portrays him as a fence-sitting politician who has been let down by the Obama administration so he has "decided" to vote against his country's climate-change legislation. His decision was made well before his stunt of asking the Obama administration for advice.
They need a secondary goal. "Getting it out to the public" is incredibly vague. One of these would work:

1) Inspire high school kids to pursue a career in engineering
2) Get younger kids excited about the space program
3) Recording the notes for historical purposes

All of these seem to beg different formats and different presentations. I wish they had given more details about their secondary PR goals here... It's NASA, I know they have them.
You can't choke off satellite uplinks. Maybe the CIA should smuggle some into Iran.
The airline/subway comparison is a little bit apples to oranges. I don't know about you, but I rarely travel, so I don't mind being subjected to discomfort for a few hours. However, for a daily commute, it's annoying to get shipped around "like cattle" every day.
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to be fair, though, she has a little extra clout backing her endeavor. your average local indie musician will have trouble managing this level of response.
Our TVs are a lot bigger now, though. It's much more practical to have a wireless keyboard than a wireless display interface.