skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perhaps it was written in the esoteric programming language Whitespace?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitespace_%28programming_lang...
If you can't make a tasty meal out of pasta or a frozen pizza, I would suggest the possibility that you are doing something wrong.

All frozen pizzas are not created equal. Shop around and try different brands and styles. Do not microwave them.

Pasta should be an exciting meal every time. You are probably using a low quality sauce, or overcooking it, or rinsing it after draining it (never do this). Use enough salt.

You can also doctor things up. A cheap box of macaroni and cheese is transformed by crumbling a couple slices of high quality bacon onto it.

You can dress up a frozen pizza with some extra toppings. Even canned black olives make a difference.
How did you get the pictures to each person at the bottom of the page? Photoshop over their genuine pictures?
In context, Chase Adam said something like "The worst part about being a non-profit: everybody is like 'yeah, this is really cool', but they don't write a check. Nobody says 'NO'."
$3.00 per person. That's $12.00 for a family of four. So let's compare. Last night I made for dinner:
1) 4-pack of boneless pork chops, about $5.00
2) 1 cup (2 cups cooked) yellow rice (rice with some seasonings) -- less that 50 cents
3) A couple potatoes sliced up. About 50 cents worth of potatoes (got the 10 lb bag for 5 bucks)

Browned the meat, put the rice in a skillet, cut up meat and put it on top, put potato slices on top of that, covered and baked for 45 minutes. Total prep time, 5 minutes, cost about 6 bucks. Feeds family of four, and had leftovers.

Some other recipes include things like a ham and noodles w/ cheese casserole (egg noodles, and a ham steak cut up on top), for around $6 to $7 or so; beef stew -- $4 to $6 for the stew meat, plus $1 - $2 for a bag of frozen mixed veggies and a couple potatoes; and variations on chicken fried rice, and even fajitas are all less than $10 a meal. Actually, the fajitas can go up to $15 if you get beef instead of chicken. And these all feed a family.
We have some pretty powerful in-hourse tools for visualizing information flow within a given worksheet. It will overlay borders around contiguous blocks of identical (R1C1) formulas and color code based on whether the cell has a value, a formula an off-sheet formula and cross-file formula, etc...

However, where our tools fail, and where your tool really shines is transforming the spreadsheet visual paradigm into something that more closely resembles the intent of the model. Very cool! (I signed up)
foo@example.com is a perfectly valid IMAP username. How else could a email service provider host multiple domains on one endpoint? For example Rackspace does this through imap.emailsrvr.com.
http://images.wikia.com/uncyclopedia/images/1/13/Thats_the_j...
>Because paying cash once for something is the opposite of proving credit-worthiness. You haven't proven an ability to uphold your end of a long-term agreement.

This is absolutely true under the current system. But, I think the parent is actually questioning the rationale behind the current system.

I agree to some extent. Accruing, then using significant cash-on-hand to make multiple large purchases should speak more than it currently does to the customer's financial responsibility and/or wherewithal. It's also potentially evidence of his/her earning ability. All of these should contribute more to the determination of a person's "credit-worthiness".

The current system is punitive for those who generally don't like debt, but recognize its necessity for large purchases (i.e. especially for homes). Debt elimination/avoidance is a sound and oft-recommended personal financial practice, which should show sound financial judgement. Why is there a penalty for subscribing to it?

Of course the credit-reporting bureaus profit tremendously by upholding the current system as it is. Their biggest customers as well as their source of information/power are the creditors themselves.
I got everything correct except XOR, which i can't do fast at all. ::Goes to write some tables::
Yea, so when you give a restaurant server your credit card and they copy all the details off it to use later, it's a) your fault and b) not wrong anyway?
In terms of personal information, it's a lot closer to stealing than copying. Consider the harmful effects of someone having your account login information or personally identifiable information (government ID number, etc).
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Can't you already use Ensure, the stuff people drink after they have stomach surgery and the like? I thought people could survive indefinitely on that.
Comanies that facilitate identity-based services should be charged as accomplices then, as well as receiving stolen goods.
Agreed--this is why I append a few random characters to the end of my catchalls when I set them up. Not a hash or anything, but the likelihood of someone guessing a few characters blindly hit on the keyboard is low.
I’ve mostly lived of my ‘standard meal’ (eggs, ham, tomatoes and pasta fried in a pan for breakfast and dinner) now for the past four-or-so years and I still like it.

Many other people eat bread with assorted cold cuts daily for dinner throughout their life.
Nice idea !

Now I can have a weather icon in my prompt.
Bad point. Make time for cooking.
I recall that at least some of the site's code is generated, which can sometimes result in code many times longer than equivalent hand-written code. Still, why would they could the lines of codegen and not the original code?

In any case, the figure seems outrageous. If it is that long, I think the site is doomed, and will have to be rewritten from the top.
This is a classic case of engineering a solution to a problem that doesn't exist.

The first question you have to ask your self is for what reason would anyone choose to do that? Shits-and-giggles and malice against me personally are about the only legitimate reasons someone would do that.

Spammers wouldn't want my dummy addresses in their list, and harvesters who sell emails to spammers wouldn't either because I could easily invalidate swaths of their lists by disabling my catch-all giving them a bad reputation.

I mainly do this to see how my email address gets around. If and when I contact a company about my email address receiving SPAM, I don't name and shame in any public capacity. Its of little consequence how they respond because the damage is done, its not like they can undo the SPAM.
You should add Plumpynut to that list.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plumpy%27nut

I have no idea why this Soylent thing is considered new.
Here's a factsheet PDF from the World Food Programme for roughly similar products.

(http://documents.wfp.org/stellent/groups/public/documents/co...)

This suggests that shelf life is around 6 months to 24 months. Obviously this would be at suitable storage conditions - not too hot, etc. And I don't know what happens when the packet is opened. Some nutrients will degrade in contact with oxygen.

So if they get it worked out and good packets it could be long time.
I'm not sure, actually, what's the proper way to do it?

For fun, I wrote three programs that just print
1
2
3
...
to stdout forever, in python, go, and plain c. None do any error checking.

Here's the results:

$ py printcount.py | head -10
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "printcount.py", line 3, in <module>
print i
IOError: [Errno 32] Broken pipe

$ go run printcount.go | head -10
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
signal: broken pipe

$ ./printcount | head -10
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
$ pgrep printcount
$

Interestingly enough, only plain old C actually did what I wanted here. In Go and Python, we'd have to do a little work to not print the annoying error. But I don't think we want to check return codes from print in any of the languages.
That's extremely pretty but the FAQ suggests that it is highly misleading:

> Does an attack's source country indicate the location of the attacker? (...) The source of an attack can (and often is) forged to appear as though it is initiated from a different location and, when accurate, usually represents the location of an infected computer being used in a botnet

I also find it weird to speak of attacks on/from countries, surely the targets are specific sites or services? Right now it looks like cyber warfare between countries.
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Many of the problems they point out aren't just Java problems, they're FORTRAN problems too.
SecureBoot is a UEFI setting. There is no way for the OS to determine whether it was intentional or not.
But then people won't do it. You have to force security update installs. There's really no better way around it. I think you have 2 days after the updates install to before it forces you to reboot. That should be enough time right?
"If you want to show off what Android can do, you put it on all kinds of devices that people are using at the moment."

I'm not so sure about that. Blackberry didn't do that, and neither did Apple...
Why would you think that? Most executable code includes lots of comments, unless it's been preprocessed.

Still, I agree the figure is outrageous.
Yup. I experimented with adding some features.. but it looked way too creepy: http://cl.ly/image/3s2P2z0j1Q33
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>Why, I agree with most of what he said.

Sorry, then nothing I say will change your mind. It would be a waste of my time.
how is that breaking any law?
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One thing that might hurt Soylent long term is that it doesn't taste very good when it is not chilled. It might work well for stay at home/office startup people with a fridge, but when you are traveling the taste suffers greatly.
Awesome. Much better than my hand-written notes.

http://justink.svbtle.com/my-hand-written-notes-from-startup...
DDOS Mitigation
As a soon-to-be small business owner (web-based) one thing that's been on my mind lately is the potential for DDOS attacks to take down my site, lose me customers, and cost me business. I've found a number of different services that claim to provide DDOS protection but can't seem to figure out which one is the right one for me. I'm planning on deploying on EC2 and have found a product there called aiProtect. It seems to be an hourly service I can sign up for when under attack, or permanently with my instance for pre-emptive protection (a very costly approach). In digging around I've also found different providers such as Prolexic, Arbor Networks, Cloud Flare, and now even apparently Google is getting into the game. My question to you is: how do you protect your Amazon EC2 instances from DDOS attacks? Does aiProtect do everything I need? I suppose this could benefit more people if it were a general discussion of DDOS mitigation techniques and providers, so I'm fine with that too.
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Appeal to authority? Ah, I think you misunderstand why that is considered an invalid form of argument. An appeal to authority occurs when one appeals to an authority in an unrelated field in order to bolster an argument from a different field. For example, while watching football yesterday, I saw a commercial where a football player told me that CenturyLink had the fastest internet. This is an implicit appeal to authority. The player is undoubtedly an authority on how to play football, but this authority is unrelated to the question of choosing a good internet service. On the other hand, if this player were to tell me which football video games were most realistic, this would not be an invalid form of argument, since he in fact has some authority on what makes a football video game realistic (Of course, there may be higher authorities yet).

In this case, William Kahan actually has authority on the proper use of floating point, as the designer of IEEE 754 and a well-known authority in numerical analysis. His credentials in programming language design, granted, are weaker, but you cannot deny that his authority does in fact extend to the object of our discussion.
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On a project I worked on, the government had this idea that we should put an inference engine (essentially an AI) into our software (which ran on a military radio). The idea was that it would be able to process XML-coded regulatory instructions and be able to develop a spectrum-use strategy that followed the appropriate regulations. It added unfathomable complexity, along with a Prolog interpreter, to what was otherwise a tractable system.

My guess is that the "500 million lines," to the extent it isn't pure fiction, is not actual program logic. Rather, it's data files capturing the legal and regulatory distinctions between the 50 states, all the different providers, etc.
"As soon as Soylent is successfully shipping safe product"

Ha, good one!
For comparison, the Linux kernel sits at about 15 million.
Private citizens don't have IT staff, so their security is often unaudited. The law considers authorized access via a vulnerability to be similar, conceptually, to trespassing.
Everyone is praising you on the look/feel of your website, which I agree is pretty cool; however, the content of what "people" learned from the conference seems all but completely useless (unless the conference sucked that much that all you got out of each speaker was a couple of 1 liner's??). Not sure if you were serious about the content or just messing around to demo your website.
I'm always disappointed when I receive SPAM from large online companies like that. SPAM on non-profit emails or from small businesses that probably use Outlook are no surprise but large IT related companies are disappointed.

I was pleasantly amused when I got an email from my congress man asking my specifically about my email address and wanting to know what was going on. We had a nice back and forth conversation about it and I had a greater appreciation for him as a result because I knew that a human was actually reading my emails. More than that, he was looking at the email address.
The amazing thing is that Miran is writing in his second language -- yet his command of idioms and obscure US cultural history is unequaled in any other programming book I've ever read.
McAfee was scornful of CGI Federal, the American subsidiary of CGI Group, a Canadian company that received a contract initially worth nearly $100 million to act as the primary contractor in building HealthCare.gov.

"It sounds a little bit absurd," McAfee said. "The Canadians are not well known for being high technologists compared to the Americans."

Couldn't have said it dumber myself.
Ask HN: My father is so obese he'll likely die from a heart attack this year
This is not a a technical or technological question but I need advice.

My 60+ year old father is obese, he's over worked (works close to 15 hours a day for many many years), sleeps very little and lately started suffering from pains in his chest. The doctor said he doesn't think he'll last it until the end of the year. He said it 6 months ago.

Today he's been submitted to hospital suffering from mild pains in his chest. The doctors checked him and everything seemed to be alright. He didn't agree to stay for examination over the night and left a few hours after the tests results arrived.

My father is very intelligent, he's hard working and has a very strong will. Non the less he isn't willing to do anything active to lose weight. He's been dieting this last half a year. He hasn't gained weight but hasn't lost anything either.

He won't go to a dietitian, won't do sport.

What can I do (I'm 25) to get him to take this thing seriously. How can I help him to lose weight? Each time I raise the issue he treats it as though it doesn't exist.

Any advice is welcome, thank you.
The flat definitions don't do a good job of taking degree into account. You have allegiance to your boss at your job. You don't worship your job.
Why is it so slow to add new features and technologies then? It took them, what, like 3 years? To add TRIM support for SSDs? Their first attempt at ASLR was woeful and badly broken and even that was a year after Vista got it.
Its a valid question. Writing low power software is a deliberate act, just like writing secure software is a deliberate act. Look at Linux, as far as I can tell absolutely nobody cared about low power and the Android folks did their 'wakelocks' design, which got a lot of push back.
1 month too late? Try 5 years too late. $BBRY should just give up and try to sell off any remaining IP they have left. Don't see BBM generating any real revenue for a company that is already experience extreme decay.
I need this as an emacs extension. Would fit right next to my nyan cat progress bar.
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Arbor (disclosure: my employer from 2001-2005) is the commanding market leader in DDOS data. You'd assume any service built in any way on DDOS data would have some kind of relationship to them; they've instrumented pretty much the whole Internet backbone.
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This is a vacuous article...Why does using Azure or AWS make it worse? Why would you get an email every time a backup was downloaded?

If you already have the user:pass for someone, why does it matter who holds the keys if the key was generated from the password?
As an American I find it creepy but minor. It's a largely-meaningless ritual that you forget about immediately.
Yeah, I got bogged down in monads, but I've promised myself I'll finish it this year. Learn Yourself a Haskell[...] is extremely well-written and entertaining, so it deserves completion.
Yeah, the picture linked above kinds of creepy. I like the one currently being used better. By the way, it's a really impressive piece. Job well done!
"pivot" as commonly used now is code for "we did not pull an @ev (i.e. undo existing investment on change of direction such as odeo->twitter) and chose to continue using the $incubator brand licensing arrangement"
Direct app store links:

Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bbm

iOS: https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/bbm/id690046600?ls=1&mt=8
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Hey I've documented your API in https://www.mashape.com/community/wjs-io#!documentation Feel free to email me so I can transfer it to your account- chris@mashape.com
Two days ago I was very tired. My grammar (particularly written) goes to shit at that point. If you're trying to nitpick someone who was nitpicking, I anticpated that so I rarely make these sorts of comments. I've just noticed a trend of "systematic" being used for "systemic", even though they have very different meanings. It confuses the discussion when vocabulary is used incorrectly like this.
I didn't expect this to be illegal, but now that I think about it, it should be illegal-ish.

Do you know what's the general principle called, or have a reference ? Something like "hiring without intention of providing work". Wrongful hiring ?
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How often does it make a http request? Every time PS1 is printed?
One ostensibly controls (through the ballot box) a domestic outfit. Ostensibly being the operative word.

Plus, it's hard to storm the Bastille if it happens to be overseas.
Because if he's a reader of the NYTimes, he doesn't need to see his articles anymore? Hopefully they'll replace him with someone who the commenter has a higher respect for?
This is interesting - are we sticking to $3 per meal, or $65 per week? Because bulk buying rice and grains and pulses, tins, stocks, spices, etc helps a lot. You then buy fruit and veg daily / weekly. You use meat that can be turned into several meals - buy a chicken and roast it. Use the left overs for sandwiches. Boil the carcass for soup.

($65 per week is £40 per week. That's doable.)
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These are beautiful! You should sell these, maybe individually as mugs/posters - I'd definitely buy some key one-liners for our office.

For those of you who want a bit more context, here are two sets of notes from this weekend:

https://github.com/charlesfeng/startup-school-2013
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Xo99mjzc4nyK3J4_GBiba_Kz...

There is some overlap between the two but also some differences so I'd suggest reading both.

[Disclaimer: I produced the first set - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6578780]
Hey Loren. Congrats on applying and, more importantly, congrats on Penflip! I applied as well, so hopefully we have the chance to meet in person. :)
Awesome link there, I had not heard of 'nutraloaf' (which is a good thing I guess). That suggests that if you wanted to use it in prisons it would have to be the 'standard' meal for everyone. Interesting.
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I know, I've used Arbor in the past and my current employer does as well. I've had nothing but good experiences with them... Just from the about page, we get two Google Research related groups + Arbor which would suggest a relationship with Project Shield
Yes.

Borland C++ for MS-DOS had such a framework.

Basically you had to #define the desired set of type definitions before each #include, if I remember correctly.

That is why I find tools like gotgo a form of time travel back to the time when generic programming wasn't mainstream.
Maybe it depends on the hardware; battery performance on my MacBook Air 3,2 with Fedora 19 is very good.
Yea... We're gonna go ahead and ask you to move your desk...
Still the fact is that computation has different goals than "generics" or whatever you want from the rest of the language "cleanness." On x86 and most other CPU's, reading 32-bit FP variable and doing computation with 64-bits doesn't cost you anything: it's just how you fill the bits of the register during the load. As long as you don't have FP registers spills, computation has the same speed, and the final store to the destination is of course faster if you store only 4 bytes instead of 8.

You can omit some aspects from your language, but don't be surprised that people who use C continue to use C. If you really want bigger acceptance, even if it's "harder" to do it "properly," you can't pretend that people don't need it.
> Google doesn't seem to do any rent-seeking (as MS) nor does it try to lock down its platform to prevent any competition whatsoever (as Apple). FRAND is a shitty situation, but I think it's fair to claim even with that, Google is a much less threat to freedom than Apple or MS.

I take it you don't advertise with Google? Google is just like any other company - they want to increase margins on their main revenue streams, and commoditize other areas so other large companies that gain revenue in those spaces are so weak they can't challenge Google.

For a long time, Google was not rent-seeking on their advertising platform, and gained a lot of cred. Then they bought double-click and it's been downhill from there. Google knows they're the biggest/only game in town and their prices (on their main revenue stream) reflect it.