skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Should we listen to the government bodies and medical organizations that give us nutritional guidelines? This is a hard question to answer. I don't think anyone doubts that these bodies have good intentions and have our best interests at heart. But there is an obesity epidemic going on in America and spreading to the world, which has lead many people to question common nutritional teachings. Some people think we're just exercising less and eating more potato chips. However, those who are truly curious and go out hunting for information find evidence that contradicts the advice of these organizations.

We can see that slowly people are agreeing with the other side. They aren't doubting for no reason, evidence is coming from science and analysis of history. Really, you have to read studies. Science reporting is rarely accurate. Once you find the bad science that has lead to our current common knowledge nutrition, and how we got our current recommendations, you may doubt the advice of these organizations.

I am not saying don't trust them. They are working in the name of science for a good cause. But you have to be informed, and if your informing leads you to find doubting evidence (like it already has for me, some doctors, and many laypeople), then you can make your own decisions.
http://hidemyass.com/proxy-list/

I'm sure lots of botnets use China servers as well.
Importantly, facts are not copyrightable (/Feist v. Rural/ was the Supreme Court decision that cemented this into the case law), so not only is this not a DMCA notice, the DMCA -- as best I understand -- couldn't possibly apply here.

Now, a cease and desist from scraping would be completely within their rights to do -- as far as I understand, nobody's come to any consensus as to whether terms of use are legally enforceable, but given the way aaronsw's case was going, I'm not convinced that a court would back this use of Apple's site.
What's all the fuzz about?

I am happy that those kind of sites are taken down. Full of ads. They ruin the interwebs. Or am I missing anything?
Exactly. Once you're in office your audience changes. Instead of hearing directly from voters, you're hearing directly from very important people.

Think of all the people you meet when you are president and you interact daily. You meet with hardly any of them before becoming president. That dramatic change in people you talk with daily completely changes your worldview in a way that is incompatible with the American people.

I don't know about you, but I think the President and other elected official should be legally obligated to spend more time with real people at the bottom of the ladder. The president should spend 1% of his time hearing from the 1% and 99% of his time hearing from the 99%. Instead it's currently the opposite.

I'd love to see some investigative journalism done with respect to the demographic makeup of the people a future presidential hopeful spends his day and the demographic make up of the people with whom the president spends his day.
The screenshots of the ascii dump of the RPC calls shown in the WaPo article show that there is tons of information to work with, besides just the email account.

You're talking about the NSA here, an outfit which has cracked the cryptosystems of foreign governments in a variety of foreign languages, and even cracked a Russian one-time-pad that they had accidental;y used more than once.

I don't think it's very hard at all for them to reverse engineer RPC serialization that is not even encrypted if they can crack cryptosystems.
High gain antennas boost wifi capacity at Georgia Tech
GTD is a piece of crap
Tip: Put it in your profile!

Aside, were there really 2795 j.horne's before you?
There's a good article called "Bring back the 40-hour work week"[1] that seems to indicate that working more than 40 hours per week is less productive.

[1] http://www.salon.com/2012/03/14/bring_back_the_40_hour_work_...
You mean like working on projects to encrypt all of their data center links, which started, incidentally, before the Snowden revelations. Or the fact that David Drummond and Eric Schmidt have publicly said the diplomatic equivalent of 'fuck these guys'?
I work for a company bigger than Google, and we encrypt everything in flight between datacenters. It is security 101.
They buy the lines in the ground. It is suppose to be 100% private. It is like having a wire from one room of your house to another. Wikileaks has a list of vendors/products who allow these types of things to happen. What I want to know is how they tapped the actual line. I would assume these lines are going directly into Google owned (or controlled) buildings.
It looks useful....IF your app is already a success and has massive downloads/reviews. For those who only get a review every few days(guessing 95% of apps), how does your service provide value?
Well, I feel that encrypting traffic inside the data center is not a bad idea (and we do it at WePay where I serve as CSO). The reasons is that you never know who is listening (big smile here). For example, I don't want our system administrators to have an easy way to look at the traffic: yes, it is still possible to do but it is harder and requires some very unusual actions that will trigger alerts everywhere.

If indeed Google does not know then it's just another sign of security failures at the company. Nobody is perfect and security incidents do happen. A good security will have in-depth defense and built-in monitoring/audit measure that would at the very least allow you to determine what have happened post-factum.
Yes I did. I figured out that I should go ahead anyway. More choice is always good, right ?
The Chinese are honest about it !
This posts seems to resonate well with the "Electronic Arts Spouse"-post from 2004:

http://ea-spouse.livejournal.com/274.html

(Poor management, poor planning, dropping productivity per hour worked as the workday is increased).

It's nothing new of course, Ford pushed for 8 hour shifts, not out of the kindness of his heart.

As for working "for free" -- that could be seen as poor labour laws. Norway has very strict rules regarding work hours (and compensation). Not that they're not broken -- but generally only managers (or others who realistically can set their own hours) are allowed effectively unlimited over time.
Collaboration or integration with Mailpile [1] might be a useful direction to consider. They are doing interesting work on the backend, but as far as I am aware, there isn't much frontend present yet.

[1]: https://github.com/pagekite/Mailpile
My choice of word was intentional, since the police is financed by people's taxes on their work and consumption, therefore people should be treated as "clients" by the Police, and not threatened in the absence of any good reason.
Quotations were used around the word to indicate skepticism. Believe those are called scare quotes.
I was taken off the list too, but I left voluntarily, and without drama(purposefully). It was the right decision for me. The friendships I made at YC are still awesome.

You might have just burned a potential bridge needlessly.

I read this article and saw too many inaccuracies, felt a little angry, and then let it go. I strongly advise proof checking your writing in the future.
1) It's hardly sudden.
2) People who buy Apple products aren't buying technology as much as they are buying into a culture that features technology as a badge of identification; they'll "know where to buy [Apple] stuff" whether or not this site exists.
^this gentlemen is how you openly admit your bigotry.
Wait, where's the YC gun club?
How long does it take to cash out in JPY ?
There is mathematics and physics, at least. A lot of arguing can be, and has been, had here but it's largely arguing about definitions; you cannot deny that they allow you to obtain the "truth" in the sense that that truth can be used to predict and affect what happens in the real world as far as your senses can best tell you. There's no arguing away fire or public key encryption.
It's rendered server side. The decoding is done entirely in JS, so no plug-ins. Not even <video> tag (try doing streaming with that, the latency is +100 ms). So, When you boot an AMI up on Amazon, the web page streams back the host FB as a 60 hz HD stream. Here in Los Angeles, my ping time to EC2 West Coast (NoCal) is 13-16 ms. Encode is 4-6 ms, decode in JS is 4-8 ms - I don't notice any latency. I am very curious to see the experiences others have. BTW I work at OTOY, and my username on the OTOY forums is "Goldorak". I can help anyone out there if they need assistance.
Yes. Go ahead. Competition is the driver of innovation.

However I am afraid without the opportunity to put a man year work into it, it will be hard to tick all the boxes.

I really hope you succeed, though.

(Disclaimer I am a backer of Mailpile)
>I'd like to see about 100 mile battery only

electric/batteries works great for start/stops. For highway cruising, which 100 miles range would probably include a lot, internal combustion engine isn't that bad. I'd expect that there isn't much practical difference efficiency-wise between 20-30 miles battery range hybrid and a 100-miles range one, especially considering that the latter would be carrying additional at least 200kg of batteries.

I think we will start to see cars' internal combustion engines which are specifically targeted to work only as generators, i.e. highest efficiency only for specific rpm value - current ICEs available are "wide rpm and load range" designed to be a primary engine of a car. Volt (and Karma) as far as i understand have such generic engine, not a "generator" one. Dropping a lot of old requirements and having the ability to match generator to the engine, we may see very different engine types coming in which would match new requirements much better.
Not necessarily. Focusing talent on a collaborative effort can make one great product instead of many not so great ones.
The idea is to leave the growing to the MMU. And a contiguous stack does not have to shrink immediately when its size goes down, whereas a segmented stack does (or at least it has to do something that causes it to set its stack pointer back to the initial smaller stack segment).
Henry Ford tested his workforce, he discovered that reducing hours to a 5-day 40-hour workweek increased total output.
> it works the way I expect it to on my macbook

What? Not at all? Not working when you unplug headphones? Not working for Flash?

Google for "osx sound problem" and you'll get plenty hits. What exactly do you think your link from 2011 demonstrates?
The same reason you should not accept the TSA's opinion on security, or the FED's opinion on economics, or the DEA's opinion on marijuana, or the NSA's opinion on information security, or the SEC's opinion on market manipulation.

They are not working for you; while they try to avoid uprising, and that often does correlate with what is good for you - they generally care more about the profits/benefits to themselves/supporters/friends/industry.

Somehow, it is clear to almost everyone on this forum about the TSA and the DEA, to many (but not all) about the SEC - but almost everyone believes the FDA and FED are "the good guys". (The NSA switched sides from good to bad recently thanks to Snowden, I believe).

But there's no difference. Regulatory Capture has happened in all of these. Follow the money trail and the revolving door with the industry.
Erm, what? Which law did they break, and which civil rights did they violate?
Here's one potential cultural snafu - my understanding is US intelligence based almost entirely on SIGINT. I'm not sure how great we are at plain old HUMINT, i.e. using people and relationships to get information and an overall picture of the world.

So all the defense community was raised on SIGINT, and anything seen as a curb on this - technical or legal, they will probably view it as some sort of existential threat. They would then fight tooth and nail to block any sort of reform. And the military industrial complex has quite a lot of legislative muscle....
This is exactly why Australia is very leery of letting the Chinese telecom hardware manufacturer Huawei have any of the contracts for networking hardware on the nascent National Broadband Network -- they are suspected of having ties to the Chinese government / army: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huawei#Security_concerns
Not going to argue with a stranger on the internet.

Rather I'm gonna go out for a run.
Stay safe on unencrypted public Wi-Fi networks
Very often there was a crunch time around getting a deal done.

Could be an IPO, restructuring etc

That means lots of modeling and dicking around with slide decks

RE lunch: I took fewer than ten lunches away from my desk over those two years.

Generally dinner at the desk via Seamless
Get users, revenue, and growth and go through the grind of raising capital. You'll find out the black box that is the mind of investors and then you'll come to appreciate the algorithmic efficiency of YC.
I think it is well established that you are better off with saturated fat and cholesterol heavy foods if it means no longer being obese. Since compliance with any diet is so important, it probably is healthier for people in general to not worry about saturated fat and worry more about sugars and carbs and keeping weight in check. But that doesn't mean saturated fat in your diet is an ideal you should aim for.

I'm partial to this explanation:

http://www.mprize.org/blogs/archives/2010/01/hi_dr_feinman_a...

>What I think we're seeing is exactly the divergence within these populations that you know: that carb is really rather bad for overweight, insulin-sensitive people, such that replacing it even with SFA is relatively harmless -- whereas for lean, insulin-sensitive people, SFA (and dietary cholesterol, its fellow-traveller in omnivorous diets) is likely more relatively harmful, because carb is less able to derange the metabolism. We have to remember that any time we look at these studies and see only modest or borderline-significant effects: 66% of the US population is overweight, and half of that majority is obeese; Europe is somewhat better-off, at 49.8% and 13.3% in men and 36.0 & 13.5% in women per MONICA. So the deleterious effects of any nutrient with a differential effect on low-BMI, insulin-sensitive people will tend to be blunted by the much larger number of people for whom such effects are blunted by their "larger" problem.

>It also means that the deleterious effects of a rise in SFA intake are at least temporarily outweighed if it is is part of a dietary shift into a lower-carb diet when it is successfully used for weight loss (as opposed to just being a person's self-selected default diet, which of course is what's going on in teh studies in Jakobsen and in the Swedish, Greek, and US Nurses low-carb/high-protein studies). But it's reasonably clear that if you're insulin-sensitive -- which, interestingly, is what one is likely to become after losing weight on a successful low-carb weight-loss diet! -- the effects of SFA become more relatively harmful as teh deleterious effects of carb recede.

>t the end of the day, we have to go with what we've got. Until we get a couple of thousand healthy twenty-year-olds locked up in metabolic wards for sixty years or so for a really vigorous diet trial, I think saturated fat AND carbs (especially starchy carbs) stand out as things to reduce in the diet, in exchange for vegetables, fruit, lean protein, and PUFA (and probably MUFA) as things to maintain or increase. And most people should lose weight!
That's true, but the majority of those 64-bit servers only have a 48-bit address space to millions of gigabyte-sized stacks would still be a tight fit.
Apple: Report on Government Information Requests
Is the XFCE/xubuntu community more active? I suppose that plays a big role on how much ongoing development activity there is...
But why do you believe you should minimize fat, saturated or otherwise, is bad for you, and that carbs (low in fructose) are better?

See e.g. http://blog.sethroberts.net/2013/10/25/saturated-fat-and-hea... for a different perspective (including some references)
I wish they would have tried to bump the price up to save the service.

The bump would have to been at least something like tenfold to solve anything. According to the article they were -$2,294,818.17 south at the end and their subscription revenue was only $254,060.57. I'm quite confident that would have eaten their 12.4 percent conversion ratio badly.
Dragos Ruiu on the badBIOS saga. [podcast]
At least you didn't lose money :)
At this stage it wouldn't hurt too much to hold onto it for a little longer. It's not increasing at exponential speed at this stage, so I'd say it is likely to go up a bit more before we see another crash. Difficult to predict, though.
I think it's pretty clear that we need both technical and legislative fixes to NSA surveillance. Just one of the two isn't enough: to get be even vaguely confident that surveillance ends, we need both. The technical fixes I can't speak to, but the legislative ones I've been thinking about for a while. In the last week, there have been two prominent bills announced to deal with surveillance:

- Bill 1: The FISA Improvements Act, from Feinstein and the Senate Intelligence Committee. In short it legalizes most of what the NSA has been done.

- Bill 2: The USA FREEDOM ACT, from Sensenbrenner and Leahy, currently being considered by the House/Senate Judiciary committees. It amends §215 of FISA to end bulk phone metadata collection and fixes some of the problems with §702 of the FISA Amendments Act (under which PRISM is run). But it doesn't fix §702 fully, does nothing to end BULLRUN (undermining encryption) nor the surveillance that happens outside FISA (MUSCULAR, for example, and god knows what else).

Obviously the Feinstein bill can't be allowed to pass. But some really big names (ACLU, CDT) have thrown strong support behind the Freedom Act. I'm wondering what we as the Taskforce(.is) should do. It's clear to me that it doesn't go nearly far enough. And there's some chance that if it passes, Congress will view this whole thing as "dealt with" and not revisit the issue for years to come. But unfortunately the Freedom Act barely has the votes to get out of the judiciary committee, and getting it to pass through both houses requires a lot of momentum.

We've been working on a campaign asking folks to call and oppose Feinstein, and potentially to support the Freedom Act. But I'm not sure if that's a right move. Unfortunately, the public doesn't understand why privacy is important, and Americans aren't nearly angry enough for Congress to do anything more substantial than the Freedom Act. We might be able to push for amendments, but it's a long shot.

tl;dr - We've got two bills in Congress. One is terrible, one is mediocre. But we don't have the political momentum to do anything better than the mediocre bill. What do we do? Tech advocate conundrum.
For all its vaunted touch-friendliness (or touchiness), the evidence is that it was a couple of years before they even in fact tested GNOME 3 on an actual touch screen: http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3017371&cid=4083522... Is being able to unlock the screen a "core functionality"?
This was featured on HackaDay a while back. Some cool documentaries in the comments:

http://hackaday.com/2013/10/29/retrotechtacular-automata/
Indian government is already spending billions on poverty problem. Money spent on this mission is less than 1% of money spent on welfare. You can't stop everything else and just focus on poverty. Poor people are not the only ones living in India, there are educated people who need jobs too.
I think you're missing the point of the article. The article was to keep the community motivated and positive.
I'm running XFCE on a 4 years old laptop with 1 GB RAM. GNOME and KDE aren't even options here, but XFCE is beautiful, efficient, fast and never makes me feel the laptop is so old.
Uhh, I don't think best practices include logging the passwords people try to login with.
They could also sue Google for this violation.
The biggest pain I've experienced with similar web interfaces was mobile. For the desktop there are a few that are decent, but on mobile they generally suck. So do the native email clients for Android and iOS.

Do you plan to stick with a desktop version? Will you always design 'destop first'?
I think you missed his sarcasm. He feels that objective truth exists. :)

BTW, I have found Yudkowsky's "The Simple Truth" an effective argument against those claim that objective truth doesn't exist. If you walk in the way of a speeding train, you will die irrespective of your beliefs. Beliefs don't alter the reality. http://yudkowsky.net/rational/the-simple-truth/
All this changes is that from now on Apple will always have a 'we did not receive a 215 warrant' in their transparency report, no matter if they got one or not.
ketogenic diets have been shown to help a variety of conditions, obesity on one hand, and epilepsy on the other (although, as far as I know, the mechanism is unknown)
“I responded in what I thought was the most truthful, or least untruthful manner, by saying no,”
When everyone's money is at stake, it'll be very quick. This March, when the network forked, miners with newer version 0.8 agreed to forego mining rewards and abandon their own branch (incompatible with v0.7) just to resolve the issue quickly to not shake the confidence in Bitcoin.
I left on my own volition. Founder problems are the rule, not the exception. I'm still friends with quite a number of my batch mates.

Can you point out the inaccuracies? Because to me, these were my experiences. Shed some light. :)
I shouldn't seem that way to anyone reasonable.

I know what TeX is. I should know what luatex is because I've been to their website, read through some links and even read through the introduction to their manual, and still I don't know.

And just listen to yourself: if I want to know what luatex is I shouldn't find out on their own website, I should have to go to Wikipedia?!

Do you know what it is? You've managed to reply to me twice and in neither of those replies have you simply stated: "luatex is software that does x. You'd want to use to to do y."
You gloss over the salient points in Lustig's presentation:

- A calorie is NOT a calorie.

- Fructose is a toxin; Liver hepatic fructose metabolism is completely different from glucose.

- A high-fructose diet IS a high-fat diet, due to how fructose is metabolized.

- The focus on saturated fats gave way to the low-fat diet, which is really a high-carbohydrate diet, which in fact raised incidents of cardiovascular disease, and increased the US's over all consumption of sugar.

- Lastly, the effort in the 1970s to try and control volatile food prices has yielded the cheap availability of sugar and high-fructose corn syrup, and that has in turn adulterated the food supply in the US and other countries, where sugar is in practically every sort of food product.

These are congruent with the points raised in the latimes article. No good, and quite a lot of harm, has come from the focus on saturated fat, and the continued assumption that a calorie is just a calorie.

The science is there, but public opinion and public policy are all still stuck in the past.
I guess I should have been clearer that it's just not PG serving it anymore. :)
That being said, I think a lot of physician work takes a lot of personal connections - it's not easily "handed off". There's probably a way to make this more efficient/manageable, but it's probably not trivial.
BTW, "at least they weren't supposed to" is not a good enough argument in security :) You have to think about people who are not following the rules or your security is only protecting from a well-behaving 1st grade student.
> Because people do not care about their TeX interpreter.

I think they might if they're at the luaTex website. How does it become interesting? Is it a secret?
The article wasn't about getting YC validation, it was about continuing and creating community locally to support startups and help them move forward.