skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think sugar based soda had less sugar per gallon. With HFCS they changed the recipe and added more, even though it's sweeter. Makes people buy more. Not sure what the case is now with back to sugar changes.

What I had in mind was intentionally consuming 1000 calories of proper food on top of a diet that covers physical activity. Often 3-5000 calories. You know you're stuffing yourself then.

And assuming the butter and mayo aren't packed with extra sweetener or leptin suppressors, they're not a big deal. They won't cause insulin spikes. A drizzle of typical salad dressing is full of HFCS though. Gotta eat your vegetables!

But note that soda doses and recipes changed around 1990. That's also when the word fat didn't quite describe the state of a growing number of people. You can get fat on greasier food. Fatter on sugary sweets. But nothing digests faster and makes your body react like liquid packed with HFCS and salt. Salt makes you thirst for more and more HFCS blocks out its taste. That's how those bucket sized cups get consumed.
It would be awesome to have a org mode -> ipython export that also supports all the languages that org mode supports (or rather, the main subset, I guess), though I think that that's a long way of. Julia lang also supports an iPython notebook implementation, but if I remember correctly, they replaced python with julia in there. It would probably be a lot of work to support all different languages within ipython. Actually, just porting Babel over might be easier.
Is that through credit card data? And how does that not violate HIPPA?
With $2.6M, BetterDoctor wants to use data to matchmake patients and doctors
Excellent work with IHaskell; I don't want to hijack this thread, but since it came up organically:

The PyCall.jl [1] package allows transparent calling of Python from Julia. It's quite stable and exceptionally well done (it was written by Steven G. Johnson of FFTW [2] fame – his software is uniformly impressive). The IJulia package [3], which primarily provides a pure Julia IPython kernel so that you can interact with Julia via the various IPython front-ends, also includes [4] a Python package for calling Julia from Python plus IPython "magics" for calling Julia from a normal IPython process. This is rather more experimental than IJulia, but should be usable.

[1] https://github.com/stevengj/PyCall.jl

[2] http://fftw.org

[3] https://github.com/JuliaLang/IJulia.jl

[4] https://github.com/JuliaLang/IJulia.jl/tree/master/python
They do when they're #f24613 -- my eyes!
Say more? Why more of a longterm solution? Longterm is what I need since I am introducing it in "Learn Ruby on Rails" which is my book for beginners that I don't want to have to rewrite often.
The bigger problems arent being solved because the people (or animals, plants) dont have money to pay back..

SV is solving problems for who can pay.. and that crowd already has too many people with their brains working all day to solve their problems..

The problems that are let unsolved, are the ones from marginalized people.. people smashed and invisible to the society.. the ones called the "loosers"..

Even if not targeting social issues.. the big problems and really cool innovations come from passionate human beings.. and not form short-circuit ideas; or money-traps companies.. this is just noise..

The passionate ideas may find a way to be profitable latter.. but it hardly start that way..

I agree with people that say that its hard to believe that really "disruptive" stuff will come from SV now.. because the culture that created the good things for start its constantly getting killed by the people who lend the money for the projects..

it need a long-term thinking, it needs to take a real risk.. the sort of thing banks and angels dont like to invest.. these are traditionally things that the state has invested in.. and the capital folks only get to the party later, when theres no risk..

So unless SV try to get back to its roots, and achieve that.. it wont be that magical place anymore..
That's nuts, the free shipping on something with such a low $/# ratio I mean. Loss leaders I guess.

If you really don't like your mailman, start ordering water too.
I'm also between a cheap android and this. Anyone know of any few-year-old phones that'll run 4.1? $200-250 is around what I'm hoping to pay.

EDIT: Thanks for the suggestions guys, I'm a tad sketched out by the no-name chinese copies. They look good, but you have to wonder whether they go through decent QA processes and have to comply with the same safety laws as phones sold in the US.
I really hate to go down this road because it's been rehashed thousands of times on Hacker News...

And I've yet to see a convincing argument that HFT is of any benefit to anyone else other than themselves.

At the most basic level, HFT firms make money, right? Otherwise they wouldn't be doing this. Where does this money come from? Entities that are holding these same stocks for longer periods of time. It increases the costs to the longer-term buyers, and it decreases profits to the long-term sellers.

HFT is sand in the gears of the economy, not lubricating oil like they would have you believe.
(honest question) - Is windows 8.1 free if I have a (full, standalone) copy of XP or Vista, or only if I own Windows 8?

Mavericks appears to be free for people with Snow Leopard (at least, that's what I read).
Interesting - I will suggest that as well!
Calling it misreporting is harsh, but the implication of not counting some babies is that they weren't really people. I think that's worth thinking about.

Also, calling a fully-born human being a fetus is both inaccurate and even more harsh than this use of the word "misreporting".

For the sake of furthering on-topic discussion, let's all agree that infant mortality is a different problem than longevity and therefore a better measure than "life expectancy from birth" would be "life expectancy from age 1" or something along those lines.
I think it's still a design that is far larger than it needs to be. You could reconfigure the plug to use blades like the US and be in parallel like the italian plug. Then you can add shutters, shrouded pins, polarized pins and fuses and still be incredibly more compact. On top of it, the design will work well with folding plugs like many camera battery chargers yet still be grounded. That combination seems like the best.
So many cold-war era US criticisms of the Soviet bloc are coming true in this country, except that the surveillance here is more effective than what we saw in The Lives of Others.
The dotted type-variable on the right hand side of ... is what ensures both sets of dots get instantiated with the same sequence of types.

Both sides of b ... b are actually completely different. The left is a type (called a "pre-type") and the right is a dotted type variable currently in scope.

The trick is that the dotted type-variable is also scoped as a normal free variable in the pre-type.

It might help thinking of "b ... b" as expanding to "b1 b2 b3 b4 b5", where each is a fresh type variable.

Then, consider "(NonEmptySeqable b) ... b" as expanding to "(NonEmptySeqable b1) (NonEmptySeqable b2) (NonEmptySeqable b3) (NonEmptySeqable b4) (NonEmptySeqable b5)".

The b's "match up" pairwise, but they're quite different than what you might expect.
Apple refreshes MacBook Pro lineup
Microsoft Tests Eyewear to Rival Google Glass
37Signals nailed it. I have been working remote for FormAssembly for almost a year and it is amazing in many respects.

We're hiring strong PHP dev's. www.veerwest.com/jobs <-- The Makers of FormAssembly.
Cardinal seems pretty awesome. Thanks for sharing!
s w e e t
Apple unveils Haswell-based MacBook Pros with Retina display
This makes perfect sense. Brilliant strategic move too. "You still pay for OS upgrades?"
Review: Ubuntu Touch on a Nexus 7 is almost awesome
But the way in which 'real world' engineering is treated by companies is extremely different to that of software engineering. A structural engineer tells you that your mega-bridge is going to take another 2 years to build safely and you eat up the cost, a software engineer tells you they need another 2 years to make sure your program will work reliably and you tell them they have 6 months.

It would be nice to see strict regulation on systems where lives would be endangered should the software fail, but this also raises the issue of how you regulate.

In Structural engineering you can say don't use material X if the forces acting on it exceed Y newtons. The same regulation in software doesn't make sense, you can't say "only use Haskell" or "don't use library Z" because the interactions between the tools we use are much more complicated than many "real world" engineering tasks.

We then run into the fact that a lot of software engineers have no real power in their companies, they do what management says or they get fired, I'd guess that when any other kind of engineer says "this won't work" managers listen. In my opinion a better solution to holding software engineers responsible would be holding the company and managers to account, at least at this point in time.
For what it's worth, the Windows Phone OS for me has been great (Nokia 925). The maps will be much better on the 520 than the Firefox OS Phone, and you can download them do your device so you don't have to have internet for navigation to work. The new mobile IE is fast and comparable to the others, but one thing that I don't like is that a tap doesn't count as a mousedown like it does on the built-in android browser so some menus don't work on the desktop version of some sites.
Found the DroidBooster benchmark application APK after searching around a bit (it has been pulled from Google Play).

If the benchmark isn't just for the show off and is actually benchmarking something, then the results are impressive - on my phone (quad-core ARMv7, MTK 6589 at 1.2 GHz) it reports a speedup which is, on average, 7x. Obviously, the benchmark could be just testing some edge case that, when Dalvik gets in the way, goes pretty slowly, when compared to native binaries.
Seeing as Google bought FlexyCore, it's probably because it's something serious. Too bad the benefits will probably only be available to future versions of Android to which I won't be able to update my unpopular phone or my damn slow ARMv6 tablet.
OS X Mavericks comes out today—and it’s free
The existence of the state is inseparable from the existence of slavery.

-- Marx

(who apparently was not "sufficiently left" - or maybe you're just ignorant of what the Left defends. Protip: the Democrats are not "left" by any reasonable standard)
It increasingly looks like the "ruling 1%" are preparing for social unrest, respectively for the protection of their power and wealth which will be questioned.
> going off

Just for clarification, this is a good thing?
Free upgrade or free for everyone? Would be awesome if it could be run in a VM on any hardware for free.
You don't even have to create value for your species, or lasting value for your genes.

The classic example is -- if I recall correctly -- a mutation sometimes found in mice. The mutation causes a male to only produce male children. This mutation will spread through the population until there are only male mice, and one generation later the mice are all dead.
Is this working for anyone? Can't watch it in Chrome, and on Safari I'm prompted to install Quicktime. I'm on a Mac. On the Quicktime download page it just warns that I already have QT installed. Very confusing.
Same could be said about individuals. Citizens are bound to follow the laws of the land.
As well as being able to set shortcuts for anything you access regularly that doesn't have a default pre-installed, every command can be accessed via one keyboard shortcut (Command + Shift + A on the Mac). You just hit that shortcut, type the first few characters of the command you're interested in, then hit enter.

I switched to PhpStorm from a regular text editor and would not go back.
I was impressed by the breadth of lovingly photographed coffee preparation methods. Chemex, standard pourovers, moka pots, espresso, the all-American drip machine.
Unicode filenames allow you to do cool stuff:

http://static.pg4.io/☹.html
There were attacks in London, and a while before that quite a few bombings in the Paris metro. The US don't have a lot of terrorist attacks overall, so I suppose that simply makes it less likely that any particular target might be bombed.
I've been shipping to a US drop location at the border, and crossing by car. Paying duties and taxes that way still makes it worth me while. :-)

(I use Ship Happens, but there are many more)
If you're too busy to read the whole article or watch the keynote, also note that you can upgrade directly from Snow Leopard or later. They listed the hardware models which will take it as well– the 2007 Mac Minis and MacBook Pros are supposedly good to go.
and Tokyo?
Congrats Ari and the team!
I came here to bitch that the inflated MtGox price doesn't count... Then I realized that is the non-MtGox price...

So it's officially a bubble? sigh
>I often see great remote employees, I just think it's important to note that we often view things in too binary a way. As in remote = good and we should hate everyone who doesn't allow it.

I think this is a very fair point to make.

>Not everything is so black and white and I honestly think in tech there are many roles that would suffer without the collaboration of an office environment.

This one too, but I think there's a big caveat there - these are roles that would suffer if the company doesn't adapt.

I can't speak for every company, but the ones I've seen & have experience with that have adopted some form of pro-"work from home" policy all fall into two groups: companies that adopt the policy in order to save money on infrastructure, and companies that want to encourage employee flexibility.

I've never seen the first group try to adapt: meetings are still held in conference rooms between the hours of 9:30 and 4:30, most discussion happens in hallways, managers judge employees on presence...

I think it's very possible for companies to design roles to encourage collaboration outside of offices; that said it's not necessarily easy or inexpensive. There are absolutely trade-offs that must be made.

But I fear that if you look at remote work only through the lens of saving money on office space -- or attracting top talent -- your company probably won't be one of the ones that does it well.
They're two different things, but often have significant overlap. Both need to get new customers, hire employees, create infrastructure, and so on.

I'll suggest "bootup" for "bootstrapped startup".
I have never felt so far that Snowden was "malicious" as far as what he did with the NSA was concerned. In fact I felt the opposite.
So if you aren't allowed through the checkpoint, you may not even be able to rent a car to get to your destination?
Report it to Amazon customer service, they can't do anything if they don't know.
The article has reached a new low in bullshit, knee-jerk, commentary. No one bothers to read the FAQ, or the technical information on how it works. Oh no, just hit "Reply", put on the tin-foil hat, and get going. Yeah, vote this down. I'm frustrated at the quality of HN posters recently.
Apple is all about that planned obsolescence, right!
Guidos' Presentation On Python's New Async I/O Library
I agree with paulgb and others -- most of my past work with python could be called scientific programming in one way or another and pip has been enormously useful.
You should consider applying Bayes' rule here. For reference, there are 800 million airline passengers in the US every year. Good luck.
If the book goes into useful and functioning ways to come to such a . However, there could be some caveats to take into account relating to the type of people who'd be attracted to work on the products that 37signals follows. I'm curious if having a distributed / de-centralized team is possible. I can understand the values and would love to see if it's possible within my own scope of plans - though it's a lot of directed effort and wasteful if it ends up not working.
I don't know why this got any downvotes, it's absolutely true. If someone's going to downvote something, they should always at least comment on what they don't like about it.
This is a chart on coinbase.com. Interesting, for a while, coinbase prices seem to be following with bitstamp price. but at this moment, it seems to be closer to mt. gox price.

At the very moment, I see mt. gox and coinbase price at $202. And bitstamp price at $194.
I bought a ZTE v970 for 130 euro on pandawill. It's fast, good size and runs the latest android. You'll find loads more Chinese phones if you research well :)
Bitcoin Market Summary by Spark Capital
>The idea that there's no war going on the world, or that you don't need universities is complete nonsense.

...

> the insular, ignorant, and shallow attitudes that pervade Silicon Valley

these ideas and attitudes pervade only very young or very rich heads. It is also natural that such heads are the most vocal ones, especially when they are both - very young and very rich - at the same time.
Argentine scientists tap cow burps for natural gas
I'm a remote worker at the moment. I love it.

I can take a break when I need to and be in my comfortable space. I don't have a commute. I can open my door and see my daughter when I go downstairs for a coffee. I can take a walk to the local coffee shop and sit down with the other freelancers and remote workers and catch up on local happenings. If I need a break or I'm done for the day I'm not just watching the clock and waiting for a few other people to leave first.

I contribute regularly to open source projects and so I know what it takes to collaborate remotely. We're experimenting with sqwiggle, screenhero, and use github and pivotal. We email each other constantly keeping the teams up to date. We have a VPN and use our ssh-keys for as much as we can. It works really well and I think the tools have come a long way.

It's good to see that the world we were promised in the 60's is finally coming to fruition.
We just launched a talent agency for startup founders who aren't interested in full-time office positions, but are willing to take on contract work that can be done part-time and remotely. We got over 400 signups in the first 5 weeks. It sounds like this could be a good fit for you. Check it out at http://getlambda.com
Plus, if you get the Costco Amex card, you'd get cash back. I got $170 back last year with my $110 Executive membership, and I didn't even try very hard.
"Papers, please" has been replaced with "Wait while we review our database containing your personal information".

This is the road to a police state.
OP here. Maybe this is what I should do for my example applications and the "Learn Ruby on Rails" book. Use mixins from either Bootstrap or Foundation in a CSS file so I can use my own semantic CSS classes in the application views and isolate my code from the front-end framework. Though it sounds like too much complexity to introduce to Rails beginners in the book.
Using Personas for Copywriting and AB Testing
Replying to myself: the site loads normally now.
You don't really know what a bubble means do you...
> Rather than hold up WebP over a future imagined codec that doesn't exist pending research, a never-going-to-implement-anyway HEVC, or a doesnt-have-all-the-features JPEG, why not work with the WebP folks to fix any deficiencies?

The bitstream format of VP8 (which WebP is a derivative of) is frozen.

> It's highly reminiscent of fight over the ACA in Congress. "Repeal it". Rather than work with making the bill better or fixing the problems, just filibuster.

Come on. Google is not a legislative body.
Hi guys, just wondering if anyone with remote work experience (either as employee or employer) can shed some light on these issues:

* How about same-time communication? E.g. I need to discuss things with my designer, oh wait, he's gardening at the moment, or he works at night.

* How do you know when to start/stop your day? E.g. In "normal" office, it's usually 9 to 5.

* How do you schedule projects? Fixed time simplifies scheduling ("This project is 5 man-days").

* Who pays for supporting equipments (desk, LCD, internet, nice coffee) if I work from home?

* Specific to 37signals: How did they make the video? Did the video guy traveled to each and every employee in the video to tape them?
They'll run out of gas and be in the middle of nowhere. (Kind of like what happens when you multitask as a software developer)
That's the way it was before 911; before the Department of Homeland Security. After 911, there was a clusterfuck of confusion about who knew what because Customs didn't want to talk to the TSA who didn't want to talk to the Secret Service who didn't want to talk to.... Or that was what we were told.

In part to alleviate this symptom, the responsibilities for 22 departments were thrown together under the DHS. So, at least the administration running things at the time thought they saw evidence that it was needed.
Congratulations! You are the winner.
People care about security

The TSA doesn't do anything to make us more secure. They might (maybe) make you marginally more secure on the airplane, but if you stop and think about it... a terrorist doesn't need to blow up an airplane to cause terror. All they need is a large number of people compacted into a fairly small space, where their destructive devices can cause large numbers of injuries or deaths.

Like, for example...

...

...

...

...

in line in front of the TSA security checkpoint.

Yep, by adding another chokepoint / bottleneck, the TSA have created a new target. They haven't done anything to solve the problem, they've only moved it.
Network Solutions DNS is down, taking a couple million sites down with it
Doesn't seem to be a link anywhere - but everything I know of with DNS hosted there (including my employers site and www.NetworkSolutions.com) is offline.
As far as I can understand, as with every organization in the world, when the-entity-that-represents-the-marketing-and-legal-concerns of that organization writes a cease and desist, it kind of comes from that organization. The USB IF itself didn't make a statement because they don't make statements on these matters; that's why they hired VTM Group for.

Don't underestimate the USB Implementers Forum. Despite its name, it is not an organization of USB users (big and small). They have a direct interest in this matter because:

a) Like every organization, they need to have some source of income. Technically, they're a non-profit organization, but they're also the one who issue the VID, and a company giving out PIDs to whoever wants them is eating their "lack of profit".

b) Its members who have an interest in consumer devices/end products (i.e. companies that don't sell chips, but devices using chips) tend to be large and slow-moving. The Kickstarter crowd is pecking at their business options. (True story).
While they may be good to go, I still like waiting a week to upgrade apple products. They do occasionally break things important to my workflow. The last one for me was VirtualBox support along with the Xcode commandline tools. While workarounds and patches appear fairly quickly, it is prudent not to put myself out of action, potentially for days or weeks, if I can avoid it.
The fact that the Gox gap is closing makes me suspect that a lot of this rise is coming from new money. I'm guessing few new Bitcoin purchasers are buying through Mt. Gox, which is driving the price up on other exchanges, and closing the gap due to Gox's illiquidity.
$2,999 Mac Pro to go on sale in December
A boot to the face of Microsoft.
8.1 is a smaller update than Mavericks, which is itself a smaller update than Win8 or Win7 (in terms of release schedule and scope, not judging quality or quantity of engineering). Apples and oranges, so to speak.