skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As others have noted, not really possible. You can lose a lot of money very fast by repeatedly buying high and selling low. Everybody will trade with you, happily. The opposite, placing low buy orders and high sell orders, will simply result in nothing happening.
> Wouldn't this force people already worried about the future to buy into less abstract stores of value like houses?

It forces people to spend/invest money primarily, which keeps the economy growing, prevents job losses etc. Houses are one form of investment, but they're no less tangible than many others from the point of view of your average investor.

> But we use this newly created money to buy assets which the market had no interest in buying inflating their price and funding contractors at the expense of everyone else.

This is not about magicking up new demand, it's about restoring the previous demand before the fear set in. Inflation is a reality, yes, but it's not inherently a bad thing - in these situations there's an acceptable level where the benefits outweigh the costs.

> But unlike market investors, there's no worry about ROI. Building these large infrastructure projects may pay off but theres no downside and they could just end up making a few people very rich.

It barely matters if they pay off at all, the end product in this kind of capital expenditure is much less important than the process of doing it. Making a few people rich is the usual outcome of high-value expenditure, why would that be any less true in a recession? It's a nothingness on the scale of rescuing a flailing economy.

> I thought the gold standard was abandoned because Nixon refused to convert France's dollar holdings back to gold in 1971.

I'm not a historian. It's certainly why we don't go back to it, and why not a single country on the planet uses a fixed monetary system anymore.
Yeah, actually now that I'm reading the SEC report it appears pretty seriously reckless, also their lack of capital thresholds.
There are forks: https://github.com/greggersh/healthcare.gov
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4294959

Is it that hard to search ?
I would love to see Soylent someday include a strong feedback loop into tweaking/improving the product over time based on a stream of measured data from regular users. i.e. Pay some users to use the product in varying amounts and pay them to live a measured life with regular blood tests, fitness tests, etc.

It would be awesome if they reach the scale where there are always a certain percentage of Soylent users that are a constantly measured population used to see how changes in the soylent formula affects overall health. This way they could provably show a formula improving every year instead of settling for a product that is "perfected" and then never really messed with once it achieves market success.
It is difficult to keep reading when 'fiat' is used as an expletive.
Yeah, I remember reading somewhere that they have extremely strict standards at NASA, to the point that multiple reviews are mandatory on even single line changes for mission critical systems.

Here's an example: http://spinroot.com/gerard/pdf/P10.pdf

And another: http://lars-lab.jpl.nasa.gov/JPL_Coding_Standard_C.pdf

Dunno how closely these are followed in day-to-day operations, but they clearly put some thought into it.
If that's the only way you can validate claims and counterclaims made by others, please go ahead.

Less resourceful people, like me, prefer a more common-sense approach of searching & reading multiple authors & articles to arrive at something they feel could be reasonably close to the truth.
I guess the main issue is that the timeline of events has gone like this:

Snowden/Guardian: NSA is doing X
Govt/NSA: We are not doing X
Snowden/Guardian: Here are some slide/proof
Govt/NSA: Ok we are doing X, but it's for your own good.

Rinse and repeat each fortnight.

So each denial means less and less, and tips believability towards Snowden even where the proof is inconclusive in some cases.
My Atom-powered Windows x86 tablet weighs 1.5 lbs (same as iPad) and gets ~10 hours of run-time. How does Windows suck at power again?
One thing that isocaloric studies do not show is how chronic consumption of one particular diet or another influences consumption patterns over time. This is by design and is a huge flaw IMO.

Any diet that keeps you just above the limits of starvation is going to show no change in weight gain.

A much more compelling study would be an overfeeding experiment between a high fructose diet, high glucose diet, high protein diet, high fat diet, etc.
You can do a search to filter files in Xcode as well as cmd-click to select multiple files, the double click and enter the flags once for all of them.
A government in thrall to the "big food" lobby is the last place I'd go for dietary advice.

I'm not just talking about the US government here - but almost all western governments have got it wrong on nutrition for the last half century or so. It seems that Sweden is the first to buck the trend - I hope others catch on before they cost us more billions in health care spending trying to fix the symptoms of what they have caused.
pg, nice reference to Chris Dixon's talk at Startup School. Agree.

However, in this case we're "playing" with human health, and the good/bad effects of Soylent can take years to be clear.

I have the feeling that Soylent, or this particular area of business, is going to be huge in the coming years. Not surprisingly, A16Z has invested in it :)
Bunch of negative nancys in this thread so far. We need to open source this code so that next time theres an RFP for a government website like this we can be prepared with an open source solution. Let's not forget its our government and our tax dollars, if we want it to run efficiently its up to us.
Chemical 'clock' tracks ageing more precisely than ever before
This is excellent news.

Monty Montgomery is among my hero developers for nearly two decades now, building Xiph, Ogg, Vorbis, Theora, and the like.

Mozilla and Monty sounds like a wonderful match for creating free open source codecs, and bringing them to everyone.

Congratulations to Mozilla and Monty!
The definition of "protected" is narrower than "any webserver."
I think it will be the future of the internet domains, now we'll know much more about a site just from the domain (.App or .Music) it's time for a change... It may take some (A lot) of getting used to, but things must change.
Ha, did the same thing. Had to do a double take.
It's not a bad idea! I'm comparing the configuration to setting up an IPSEC or OpenVPN server&client, not just the client - that involves a lot of configuration. Certainly now that the server setup is almost eliminated (you need sudo + PermitTunnel), the client script is now the "tallest nail".

I do like the fact that a script exposes its inner workings and is easy to modify. It also sounds like TCP over TCP might be sufficiently problematic (in the general use case) that this option may be unsuitable for others.

But it's definitely an interesting idea... :-)
Look Inside a Chicken Nugget
We don't have to open source everyone source code. Sure it's nice to have everyone to audit. But how many of us here have the time and even the energy to read others' source code. Plus, the system is not even installable. It's like telling Google open source their entire search engine.

We should however demand an audit to be done and the result to be published.
Why it should be free to place bounties on Bountysource
don't I have to lose money on my puts for you to make money on your calls ?

Actually, we would both lose money if the stock price doesn't move. But yes, generally in order for a call or put to go up, the other must go down.

It's not zero sum, though. If you had purchased a 950 call and an 850 put just before Google announced earnings (with the stock around 900), the call would now be worth more than you paid for both options combined. The counterparty who sold the options is the one who loses (and it is zero sum with them, per design).
They are programmed the way shared memory parallel machines have been used since time immemorial in the HPC world. Hundreds of cores is normal there. The same Intel software stack (OpenMP, Threaded Building Blocks, parallel Fortran etc) is used, same one that Intel markets for regular HPC.

Yeah, you have slower cores and the SIMD is twice as wide, but its main selling point is that you get to keep the regular programming model - unlike with NVidia or AMD. Along with benefits that come with it (mature software, openness, etc).

See eg. Intel's Xeon Phi Programmin Guide for an intro: http://software.intel.com/sites/default/files/article/330164...
Good answer. I agree with notifications.

For the design, it is a harder one. They are two major segments, Tissot & co on one side (more fashion), and Casio & co (more practical). Apple would have to pick one segment instead of going after both like samsung or sony did. If it works, they can later attack the other segment.

Their big challenge would be the battery life. No one wants to have to charge a watch every night. They will have to work hard on hardware and software to solve that problem.

Like you said, Telling time should be the number 1 feature! haha
the Ivory Tower speaks
That wasn't a reference. (https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Apaulgraham.com+dismis...)
yeah why is it always Glenn Greenwald?

Now don't say "conspiracy" because then you're just being faddist and contrarian.
Why yoga is still dominated by women despite the medical benefits to both sexes
That was nearly four years ago; what's the current consensus on this issue? Has there been any new research that has come out in support of, or against, Lustig's conclusions?
certainly - I think I paid 3 bucks for my cert for a year and amazon doesn't charge me anything extra for turning on SSL with my node code. I use a micro instance ..with swap ;)
Are there any operating systems that run on an x86 machine that are open source, well-written and written in Common Lisp or Scheme? It doesn't need to be a production OS, just a toy one to learn from.
You should try to understand what he eats and why. Is it just a lot of junk food? He might not be feeling full, because fast food is not very satiating. Try adding more protein and fat in his diet and reducing carbohydrates. I'm not saying a ketogenic diet - just changing the proportions a bit to see if he feels fuller.

You can try to help all you want but he's a grown man and will have to decide by himself. Show that he can eat yummy things that will keep him full - as long as he has a caloric deficit, he will lose weight. Eating salads all day won't satisfy anybody. Try eating meals with him.

Good luck!
McDonalds or any fast food company isn't making bread or meat in their labs from some chemicals in the factory. All they are doing modifying naturally occurring foods and optimizing them for taste. As unhealthy as they might be, they are still don't fall on under the category of something that has potential to harm your body fatally in an irreversible way.

And prolonged exposure to anything. I mean anything will cause harm to your body. Its not just McDonalds.

Soylent is a bit like a drug company releasing a new drug.
is there more information on what rollbacks did happen and what the price rules are?
Open sourcing does not solve problems. The ultimate issues are (1) government paid an incompetent contractor the job and (2) people who were to suppose to oversee the contract probably has no effing idea how to do software engineering.

This means we need to hire better contractors and hire managers who have technical background and require an audit periodically.

Open sourcing does not solve these two issues. healthcare.gov is not Django project. You can't install that system and the code is going to be big few people will be able to do anything about it. Plus, even if you could read the entire source code, accepting pull request, going through 3rd party security validation is going to take a while and people are probably not going to take your pull request.

What we need is to put the incompetent people out of job and hire good one.
Why iOS Doom-and-Gloomers Misunderstand the Mobile Market
The London Whale (Bruno Iksil) was from JPMorgan Chase
Given that 17.68 C is only 63.83 F, i think you just hit two different data points.
Oh hey! Yes, configuring OpenVPN is sucky. I tried used Tunnelblik some time ago, but it was pretty flaky and I went back to using L2TP. Re: editing your script, you could always add a 'settings' option that launches your config script in a text editor (hrm, unless that's verboten now because of sandboxing).
No, it's how you take food very seriously.

Do you think it's possible people are taking food too seriously?

Empirically, Soylent has been on the market without causing any problems for a few months. What if it doesn't cause problems for a few years?

I'm interested to understand why people choose food to get so passionate about. When a new source control system comes out, people don't get so heated. Why for a food company?
So that's him living in MA working remote. He did not show up at monday meeting!
What happened to Priceonomics?
I feel like if the source code is released, things will get much worse before they get better. I would rather give the contractors time to fix their code and then release it later. Plus as a developer, an open source maintainer, and open source contributor the last thing I want to see is a half billion line program that doesn't work properly. They should probably just start over clean on GitHub and build it from the ground up correctly.
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Would that be the same "well-tested" science that said "fat" is "bad for you"? Because, it turns out, it's a little more complicated than that, and that products marketed as "low-fat" are, in fact, even worse for you.
How to make a million start-up mistakes and stay positive anyway
Do you have an email I could reach you at?
Should we embrace GM food?
Was anybody able to find the actual advice there?! It's all about meetings and secretaries but no guideline in sight...
I thought he meant "do us citizens operating services for third parties have to install pen registers". If it is your own service for yourself, they just go a layer down the stack and get your hosting provider or carrier to do so.
In case that you want to fend off eavesdropping by NSA, you shouldn't. But I simply just want to watch youtube, browse blogspot/wordpress pages and get around of the Great Fire Wall, so I do not care.
re: 5.5 Hispanic female here, but wow there were really only about 10 other females in the crowd. At lunch, we thought it was funny. By the reception, we were scratching our heads.

Why do you think women don't attend?
> Rice was an example that was palatable to both my lazy fingers and I hoped to those who may not have appreciated a jargon filled response. It does not detract from the clearly presented general case which you are more than encouraged to investigate

I am also using rice as a stand-in for the general case.

> I am not proposing anything, I am merely describing.

That's a meaningless distinction. Academic communists who supported Stalinism also claimed innocence when Stalinism resulted in the deaths of millions. I am not accusing you of anything on that scale, but I am saying that ideas have consequences. You are responsible for the consequences of the ideas you support and promulgate.

> This is classic market failure

Right, and I don't think markets are inherently failure-prone. If I drive my car into a light pole, is that a classic automobile failure? So I dispute the very terminology here.

Case in point: The 2008 mortgage crisis was caused by a massively distorted market for mortgages and easy credit. The first was created by Barney Frank with Freddie and Fannie, the second by the Fed. Future generations will remember this as a "market failure" and use it to justify the existence of future incarnations of Freddie, Fannie and the Fed.

> I would suggest that you are either quite the revolutionary thinker, or that you are, in fact, typically wrong.

There is a third possibility, which is that lots and lots of people think like me.
Check out this example, if you want to make a menubar item in Python: http://stackoverflow.com/a/5072734
Less people wear watches (number still important) because they can get time through their phone. As lsiunsuex mentioned above, a watch could be useful for notification, taking away the need to look at your phone. In this case, some people owning a smartphone (and not a watch anymore) would be interested in going back to a watch.

If a watch gives you important information regarding your health, would you not be interested in wearing one?
Cancellation Tokens (and Collapsing Futures) for Objective-C
How is it "real"?
And it's highly misleading for economists to use those words to mean something other than the English definition of those words.

To some degree, that is intentional, and we have a word for that: dishonesy.

English words also have established meanings.

There is a basic rule in language, which is don't overload words in a confusing way. Breaking this rule is never excusable.

If we were on an economics board, I would not complain about this, but well, we're not.
The God Machine: Labs race to build "quantum" computers
On an ipad so i can't even hope to author a lenghty reply.

>> I can't even attempt to understand where you might be coming from.

> MSCS student, ex-libertarian. I took a health care policy class in undergrad to satisfy a requirement and it changed my worldview.

Ah. OK. I get it now.

To be clear. I am not attacking you personally but rather making a comment on the frame of reference from which you are basing your views.

First. Academia is chock full of socialist extremists. Not sure how well you are/where able to see through this if present and filter it out.

Second. Don't think for a minute that a class such as that actually reflects reality without getting out to the real world. In other words, trust but verify.

Finally. You are wrong about such things as medicare being wonderful. My wife is a doctor. I won't go into some of what I've learned other than to say that people are suffering horribly due to the failings of that system.

In looking at our system versus other you seem to be ignoring the effects our litigious society has on the cost of, well, everything. I won't go into what we are paying for malpractice insurance (without even the semblance of a negative mark on her entire professional history).
Right, now parse HTML :D
Professor's quantum teleportation theory to be tested on space station
Have them in pairs or teams, war games style.

Guy1 "Sir, we're losing money much faster than predicted, turn your key"

Guy2 "It could just be market variance"

Guy1 pulls out gun "Turn your key, sir"
Linux solved a problem, VLC solves a problem, MySQL solves a problem. Its ridiculous to say "open source doesn't solve problems".

We need to do those things you mentioned in addition to open sourcing the code. Its our code let's see what we paid for.
Hi Greg. Thanks for your work here -- it looks great! I have a few questions.

Which mistake was Zuck referring to with "That mistake cost me billions"?

What did he mean by "When a problem arises, lockdown"?

What did Chase mean by "The worst part of being a nonprofit is that nobody says no"?

What did Balaji mean by "Show people what a world run by Silicon Valley would look like (without disrupting)"? Politically?
It looks like that's all in regards to the 2015 guidelines which have not been written/finalized yet. I'm betting this works kind of like the Census, so look here for now:

http://www.health.gov/dietaryguidelines/2010.asp
What you mean is a non-deterministic programming language?
Similar to SICP 4.3? But different and expanded?
http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book-Z-H-28.html...
Code where expressions has success and failure paths, where the failure simply is reversal?
So, being fairly recent to Silicon Valley myself, I would say without a doubt, start-up reading is insanely helpful. I'd start with some of the books with lots of amazing start-up lessons like the Lean Startup and read blogs from other entrepreneurs and notable VCs (Paul Graham, Bothsidesofthetable, AVC, et al). Hacker News is also a pretty great community to search for help on stuff as it comes up.

Beyond doing lots of reading, I'd say, it depends. The start-up mantra is, build something people want. If you find writing/blogging can help you on that path, do it. Certainly meeting and talking to lots of potential customers is a must. Building a product is also a must. I think about the choices of what I'm doing and always try to filter it by whether or not it will get me closer to these things.

But it will really depend on your business. I'd personally recommend finding certain things to relax you that you invest some time in, whether it be meditation or exercise etc. Other than that, try to focus your energy on the next best thing that will get you closer to customers.
actually, could you pass a study that shows that. On pubmed, I see a lot of studies between carbs and protein.

On the fructose vs glucose side, I see most studies pointing out the bad effects of a high carb diet (where carbs = starch/glucose/fructose/sucrose), but nothing that compares fructose with glucose per se.

In fact, I see there are a few studies that show fructose is better than glucose, but they are primarily funded by the ILSI [1]

[1] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2682989/
Can anyone explain what's going on here?
>Their problem is that they regularly eat thousands of extra calories.

Which is so much easier with fructose. It gets in the way of feeling full and it has lots of kcal.

Nowadays, we consume several times more fructose than we did 100 years ago. Our bodies still handle it very poorly.

If you want to lose weight, watching your fructose intake will make it a lot easier.
Another Rant about Academia and Open Source
BART strike over as deal Monday night finally ends labor war
It did say that, once upon a time. But if we can never forgive science for being wrong, we'd still be holding a grudge in astrophysics over the whole "sun revolves around the earth" thing.

This is the summary from the 2010 guidelines:

The Dietary Guidelines for Americans, 2010, released on January 31, 2011, emphasize three major goals for Americans:

- Balance calories with physical activity to manage weight
- Consume more of certain foods and nutrients such as fruits, vegetables, whole grains, fat-free and low-fat dairy products, and seafood
- Consume fewer foods with sodium (salt), saturated fats, trans fats, cholesterol, added sugars, and refined grains

Notice they do not advise avoiding fats altogether- only full-fat dairy, and saturated & trans fats.

Also notice it specifically recommends the very things we are discussing here- omitting added sugar & refined grains.
BBM for Android & iOS released
Aaah, all the text rendering, that lends more weight to storing them uncompressed. Hadn't thought of that, I was pondering more on the I/O being way slower than (uncontested, in retrospect) CPU of basic decompression.

Well, Path is amazingly smooth for how much styled stuff is in it, so nice work :) The UI really does stand out in how well it's done.
Direct link to his announcement: https://plus.google.com/110063726540320603118/posts/PdXWDAyT...