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You're right. 2048x1536 is the retina iPad resolution.
Sorting algorithms demonstrated using traditional folk dances
Catalyst, an excellent science program on the ABC [1], Australia's national broadcaster, has just had a two-part episode called "The Heart of the Matter", about the science (or lack of it) behind the cholesterol theory.

The researcher Dr Maryanne Demasi[2], herself a research pathologist, has spent three years gathering data, interviewing researchers, scientists and doctors on both sides of the argument, and the show has caused major ripples throughout the medical profession in Australia [3].

The two episodes are on YouTube in full [4] [5] and the transcripts are on the ABC website [6] [7].

For anyone interested in this topic, these shows are HIGHLY recommended.

[1] http://www.abc.net.au

[2] http://www.abc.net.au/catalyst/team/maryannedemasi.htm?site=...

[3] http://www.6minutes.com.au/news/latest-news/expert-takes-aim...

[4] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDVf-00w5gk

[5] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAKaM330xzg

[6] http://www.abc.net.au/catalyst/stories/3876219.htm

[7] http://www.abc.net.au/catalyst/stories/3881441.htm
So what if your GP is not a leading expert on nutrition? He is a GP. Not a nutrionist. Would you expect on-point LAMP design recommendations from an IT worker?
> The purpose of the criminal law is to punish those who are morally culpable and to create societal norms certain kinds of behavior.

The purpose of any law should never be to punish the culpable. It may very well be reasonable to punish the culpable if it results in normalizing societal norms by way of a threat deterrent ("if you do crime $x, you'll get locked up just like this bad boy here"), but simply punishing a criminal for the sake of punishing -- hurting, torturing, locking up -- is an idea that I don't think stands to any thoughtful, philosophically-informed scrutiny.

I think if we get over this type of thinking society will improve. Now and then whenever debate about capital punishment gets picked up, people point out something about the histories of serial killers: almost invariably they've had particularly shitty childhoods, they were born to drunkards and criminals themselves, they were abused -- sexually, physically, they grew up in cultural filth, they had virtually no access to opportunity. The thing is, thieves, sexual predators and other folk who do sometimes petty crime aren't greatly dissimilar in this respect, they've also been enraged to some point to lose a sense of control, to lose respect for themselves and others. So to reform society for lasting good, the idea of punishment -- that you should make someone suffer -- is totally wrong. Instead we should should have social programs that hook criminals up with psychologists and therapists, see what's wrong, what's bothering them, give them a dignified place to live, and let them heal and let them rejoin society when they're better.

After all, this strategy works and gives good results where it's been tried: http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2013/09/why...
I wonder what the tax incentives to Apple were. A local story [1] reported: "Apple could qualify for several different state tax credits. An offer from the Arizona Commerce Authority is currently on the table but hasn't been finalized, senior vice president Nicole McTheny said."

I don't like tax incentives for big businesses to locate to a particular state. I see why they happen, as each state is put in a position to outbid the others and businesses are compelled to take free money. We should outlaw this practice with federal law and stop taking money from the middle-class to benefit the rich, under threats of having no jobs.

[1] http://www.petaluma360.com/article/20131104/WIRE/131109835/1...
The iPhone 5s resolution is 1136 x 640. How did you arrive at exactly 2x those dimensions? Just curious.
I have heart disease. if I hadn't followed the advice of Dr. Joel Fuhrman (drfuhrman.com) I'd already be dead. I don't have time to get into it here, but conventional cardiology is essentially malpractice in my opinion. if you have heart disease, or you know someone who does, please check out Dr. Fuhrman's work.
This is phenomenal but I feel a lot of people are not understanding its purpose. Perhaps you could better explain what it's really for.
Why are you comparing a string to an array with a less than operator? when would that ever happen legitimately?

Why would you expect any language to do something that made sense doing that?
One kid getting dinner is obviously no big deal, there is however something percieved to be wrong with it being normal for the rich to buy access for their kids to business opportunities. You are probably right that it is massive overanalysis considering the subject

Correct. I don't think anyone here thinks Paul Graham is a bad man. I've never met him, but he seems like a good person who didn't intend to become a lightning rod. However, this was a dick move.

If they're going to give away spots at a YC dinner to teenagers-- and I think that's a good idea-- then they should give them to winners of a computing, math, or science competition. Or young people in the computing field who overcame some disadvantage.

This just proves that Silicon Valley has nothing left that can't be sold. Even the purr of a cat will eventually be metered and priced if these people can find a way.

Let's assume that most people in YCombinator are among the best and the brightest. Well, now the time of top talent is a just another resource to be sold off to rich, entitled Joffreys. Speaking for top talent here, I'm fucking offended.
if people had no voice youtube would still be showing quicktime or Real video.

I for one rather watch youtube (and uploads my videos there) because vimeo is a pain to watch (have to go get my closed source tablet). while youtube i can just hunt for a non-ad version that will work on html5.
Tool boosts iOS, Android app security testing
Most Rubyists try to keep methods between 5-10 lines long. 7 is the number for a Rails controller.
How much free time do you have to work on projects?

Also, where are you currently based?
Yup, but CoffeeScript introduces 99 other ways for beginners to create awful code, it's way easier to shoot yourself in the foot than with just JavaScript. I still prefer CoffeeScript, though.
Why are you being a dick? He explained the difference accurately - JS compares objects as individual objects. Arrays are objects. The other languages you cited do not work that way.

Here's another example:

4 == 4 // true
a = new Number(4);
b = new Number(4);
a == b // false
a == a // true
a.valueOf() // 4
b.valueOf() // 4
a.valueOf() == b.valueOf() // true

And if this isn't clear yet:

a = {}
b = {}
a == a // true
a == b // false
I think you are wrong here.

As I understand it, Sold was a service to help you sell stuff.

Services like this are by their very nature used mostly as a once-off thing - someone wants to sell something they don't want anymore. Once it is sold then the "user" has no relationship with the Sold service.

So now people who are selling things no longer have the opportunity to use the Sold service anymore.

I think it is unfair to criticize people for choosing not to offer a service to new customers anymore.

More generally I think it is even more unfair to criticize people for closing a business that wasn't very successful (because success = profit, and if it was so profitable it wouldn't be sold to be shutdown).

Finally, aquihires are much, MUCH better than most of the alternatives for a failing business. We've all heard stories of users panicking when a service shuts down after someone fails to pay the hosting bills. Aquihires avoid that scenario.
I program JS as my day job. It's a broken POS. You can do cool things with it but nothing can disguise the fact that it's only popular due to an accident of history, not because it's an appropriate language for the tasks it's used for.
One might nitpick that there was initially some distinction between the publicly available internet and a private facebook; although the latter seems to be making strides to narrow this gap.
>What's with the weird goal amount though? Is there some significance there that I'm not aware of?

It seems to be 2^16 * 3

No idea what that means.
This is a meme. Everything high quality happening on mobile is crazy resource constrained.
Even the purr of a cat will eventually be metered and priced if these people can find a way.

Hey, isn't that the Uber kittens thing?
>using a mechanism known to be insecure

Can you elaborate? I'm not sure what you're referring to.
To be fair, the application specifically asked the video to be 1 minute long...
To the extent that it is important to you, you can work with your doctor to modify the risk factors that you can and would like to modify. Interestingly, 90% of Americans over 55 will develop high blood pressure; it is the norm [1]. (Not saying you are an American, as I don't know; just saying that I also don't know if this applies to the rest of the world.)

1 = http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/guidelines/hypertension/speaker2.ht...
Hacker News is built on the Arc programming language (http://arclanguage.org/), if that answers your question.
Yes I have run into this issue myself. It is a public resource, if you're not logged in at all its fine or if you're recently logged in its fine.

It's the same reauth you sometimes get when visiting a public blogger site. It is an edge case, but quite unpredictable and hard to track down from client reports.
I'm pretty sure a .doc file created fifteen years ago also still renders in Word.

Same for a PDF file created 15 years ago or most other formats. So I don't really see your point about open standards in this case.
Cybertown, perhaps?
Median wage falls to lowest level since 1998
"Receptive to feedback" isn't the same as "do everything I want".
I've done a number of things with Apps Script exactly because I couldn't do them with Zapier (or IFTTT, for that matter).
Spreadsheets are accessible programming to people motivated enough to understand what happens when you have more than a simple column sum in a spreadsheet, which could be called "programming in constraints." and then that beautiful code-less, flow-less, condition-less paradise lasts only until you need a macro.
Well I consider my time a limited resource. In trade for my developer time I can use an extra 8MB of ram for a little html web game I am making I think it is okay.
I emailed them trying to get a copy of the VHS mentioned on the site.

EDIT: I got an answer! And they are free! Just $3 for shipping.
Why not use that time to work on a personal project instead? Build something cool and useful and then show it to HN :)
Black backgrounds definitely have a different look on CRTs; that may have been a factor.
The biggest problem I see with that meal plan is that it is planned for someone with a ridiculous activity level - it reaches "only" 207g protein for 3387kcal.

For comparison, I'm a powerlifter. I'm 238lbs currently. My maintenance calorie intake is roughly 2450kcal on average. I aim for about 2800kcal on training days, and equivalently lower on rest days to roughly meet that average. Fitting 220g or so of protein in that is not that hard: I can eat 400g lean chicken and get 100g protein for <900kcal. I can tack on 100g beef jerky and get another 50g protein for less than <300kcal; which leaves it almost hard not to meet the protein target within my calorie goals.

If I were to eat 3387kcal to meet 207g protein, I'd be adding 1-2kg a week.

That's well in excess of the protein synthesis a typical human male body is capable of. In other words: A substantial percentage would be fat. Quite possibly I might end up adding 1.5kg of fat a week on a diet like that, which would get me quite a lot less protein than what I do on my current diet.

For a body builder exercising heavily 2-3 hours a day, on steroids (otherwise lifting heavily for that long every day would just be a total waste of time), that calorie intake might be reasonable. Or for someone who combines the exercise with a highly active job, like say, construction.

It'd be interesting to see that diet brought down to 2400kcal or below with the same protein levels. I suspect it would look a whole lot less pleasant (and that diet looks awful to me in the first place, but I love my meat).

(Now, protein amounts this high are in the "might as well, just in case" level - the possible incremental benefits hinted at in the literature are as far as I know quite marginal - so a lower protein intake would not necessarily be bad, and then it'd quickly become a lot easier to meet it with a reasonable calorie intake)
Agreed, Beaver is a great guy, but that website. Oy gavolt.

Also kitschy, in same vein: http://bassnw.com/ -- a couple hundred feet from my office. Great folks.
Not deriding them, just deriding a particular point of view.. and doing so with humour.

See above re: relativity.. plus I would note that the very definition of extremism means it is only relative insofar as it is a long way from everything else, which pretty much rules out edge cases. Allport's Scale was new to me, thanks!
I sell them all the time, then buy them back when they tick lower. There is no point in leaving your bitcoins dormant in a wallet when you can buy and sell in your spare time. I have made about $1000 on top of my $1000 initial investment a few months ago.
mnemonik: two thumbs up for the great responses you are giving in this thread!
The Simpsons pokes fun at Siri
How do you report?
security analyst / pentester
Deep Packet Inspection as a Service
I'm based in the US on the east coast(Georgia). I can normally put around 2-5 hours each day into a project.
Don't bother with the first episode. It is full of nonsense, including a naturopath as an "expert". The second episode regarding statins is far more evidence-based.
Sure.

For me, the stress has manifested itself in the following ways, I have high-blood pressure, I have fatty liver, I have high cholesterol, I'm overweight, my eyesight is horrid, I grind my teeth while I sleep which has resulted in broken teeth, I have one gold crown and another chipped tooth and have a really messed up "sleep" schedule.

I have chronic back problems, allergies and get frequent colds.

All of this due to the stress of working long, hard hours. Keep in mind that I have a diet which is better than the typical American's. I've cut a lot of sugar out of my lifestyle.
I made my own using a simple SQLite database with lua and Alfred. It works very well I just type start what ever to start a task and finish to stop.

I've spent pretty much a full day trying to find a suitable solution and besides the two listed there isn't much.

There is a stackoverflow thread with more suggestions http://stackoverflow.com/questions/398344/best-commandline-t...
The "responsive design mode" feature in Firefox's web developer tools let's you relive the magic of 640x480.
Student, and occasionally, freelance graphic and web designer.
We may not know much about it, but the doctor who invented bypass surgery and a partner did a study where they reversed everyone who changed their diets heart disease.

These were very sick heart disease patients who were told by their cardiologists they had a year to live, and Dr. Esselstyn (recommended in OPs blog post comments) and Dr. Farvalaro (the guy who invented bypass surgery) cured them all, then took photographic proof with an angioplasty.

Diet is the problem, and a proper diet can fix heart disease.
I'm all for AirBNB in NYC and otherwise, but the taxation issue is the real issue. I think other laws/zoning can and should be relaxed to accommodate them, but this is business - they need to pay their taxes to put everyone on a fair footing.
If his service runs on any sort of Linux distro, its stupid simple to call wget with a system call. Wget comes standard with all of the most popular distros.
Autobytel Teams with SaleMove to Enhance Online Automotive Shopping Experience
Thanks for keeping us informed - excited to see the results!
It's not naive, it's in fact how attempts are punished in most real jurisdictions, which, unlike the MPC, punish attempts less than actual crimes.
http://thingsy.co
More responsive than most sites today.
admin wonders why their traffic to the site went up by 1000% overnight... ;P
I have a theory that rather than heart disease being genetic, it is environmental that is passed down through family.

Lets say your family eats a certain way when you are young, and your family members die of heart disease. And you continue that pattern into adulthood, eating the same way you were brought up, and you get heart disease.

Is it genetic or is it passed-down environmental?

I think it's the latter.
White House Seeks Developers to Test New Tool on Petition Site
Possible equivalent titles: Developer, programmer, architect, engineer, hacker
There were no Math.random back then ?
"Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants." ~Michael Pollan
Understanding multi-armed bandit algorithms
Yeah, you point out the winners, think back 15 years ago. How many competitors were there just in the realm of word processing? Every format but the eventual winner (which couldn't be determined at the time) is now completely useless, whereas an abundance of old dud open image formats can still be opened (which is nice because some are really easy to programmatically generate)
Working for free? Why not OSS? </zoidberg>

But seriously, look into any project on Github that catches your attention. Mine, PuPHPet[0], is accepting PRs!

[0] https://github.com/puphpet/puphpet
Thanks...We too are in a different time zone. No sleep until 3am :)
A 28.8Kbps Internet Connection used to be considered fast!

Optional:
28.8 or higher baud modem for head-to-head play
For LAN play a local area network supporting either TCP/IP or IPX protocols is required
Internet access required for internet play; connect time charges may apply
Microphone for instantaneous voice communication during head-to-head play
Graphics accelerator card compatible with the Microsoft Direct3D® API (for Windows 95 only)

Compatibles:
Supports force feedback hardware compaticle with the Microsoft DirectInput® API (for Windows 95 only)
Supports MMX technology
Supports Pentium II processor platform with AGP
I agree with you but your conceptualization doesn't explain why people should put up with suffering just because they've seen suffering and are used to suffering. That's not logical. There's no reason to go in depth unless you can actually present an argument based on necessity or some kind of platform that would explain it other than "people put up with it".
I want to help out my fellow entrepreneurs if I can, and I will likely get a wider-range of experience working on things others need.
Wouldn't something like this be taking money from the rich and the middle class and redistributing it to the lower-middle class who are out of work in AZ?
This was not a prank.. Welcome to Australia.
What's the point of your nitpick?

He's simply saying that backwards compatibility and open standards are good things in that they don't break old sites/docs/etc...

You could have just as easily said the same thing and ended with "So I don't really see your point about backwards compatibility in this case".

Backwards compatibility is often the forced result of open standards because when multiple vendors adopt those standards it is in their best interest to not make breaking changes.

This in turn is(obviously) a good thing in that things designed for those standards will remain functional indefinitely.
Both pea protein and soy protein products with comparable protein to kcal ratios are available from the company I buy my protein from.

I'm not vegan, so I've never bothered trying them, but it doesn't seem like it'd be a big problem.

My concern (see my other comment) would be that the diet shown certainly is extremely high calorie, and it looks like it'd be pretty much all nasty shakes to get it down to a more normal level with the same amount of protein.

(EDIT: Note, this would only really be an issue if you do heavy resistance training, as the protein level in that diet is very high for someone who isn't doing weight lifting)
I laughed at the zoidberg thing. But yes, I am a fan of FOSS, and that project looks pretty neat. I will definitely have a good look at it.
Worked fine in Windows 8.1, just use compability mode and then this: http://www.zeus-software.com/downloads/nglide
But that is presupposing that a) data is undeniably king as a competitive edge, (it might be, but we don't know this for sure, we might be in for a surprise), and b) that Snapchat is simply unable to make any significant change in its operations.

The Snapchat team is ostensibly pretty talented, and apparently on fire right now, so who knows, they might start something new on the side and link it to Snapchat which may really take off.
It could be, but don't the lower-middle classes get the most benefit from government dollars? (which are being redistributed to the business, which is owned by the upper classes)
Sounds like their broke, so even if you did sue and win, you likely not get paid. As CIO, ask yourself if going off the grid for a week after launch was a good idea? I'm surprised it didn't come up during your discussions before you left. Regardless, I'd chalk it up to lessons learned and move on with your immediate need to secure future income. Good luck to you!
Soviet Union represent! Moved to America bout 22 years ago. And of course after all these diseases hit the family. For the record only my father is overweight, and he's the healthiest of them all (not true but at least his heart is alright for now)
Good luck to those that are waiting!
Hired.com Destroys Recruiting Invoices With New Pay-As-You-Go Pricing
Rather his tone of "Why would it be true?" sounded dick-ish. As in "How could possibly one consider [1] == [1] be true, are you crazy? It should obviously be false".

So I gave a couple of examples from other dynamic languages where the the sane behavior is "obvious".

I am not being a dick I am saying the language is broken. Explaining the historical context or the internal implementation of it doesn't make it unbroken. Like one can explain why COBOL uses this construct or that and how it came to be, doesn't make COBOL better or more appealing. One of course might not have a choice and be stuck using it but lying to oneself about how awesome it is, is not necessary.

> The other languages you cited do not work that way.

The don't, and I like how they work better.

Now whether one has a choice to use or not use JS is a different topic. Usually there is no choice on the client side. But somehow extolling Javascript typing rules as being sane, making sense, or as someone below put it "brilliant" is a bit silly.
I looked through the site and watched the video - I think you don't handle the logistics of it?

One of the things that most appealed about Sold is that they send you a box, you put the thing in it, and that's it. For me, that's the biggest pain point.

Is that something you're looking to do?
>> Don't the lower-middle classes get most of the benefit from government dollars?

I wonder how that could be determined. I'm curious to see graph of benefit-per-capita grouped by income brackets.

EDIT: This link is "kindof" it, but there is no way that I can see to break it down by income.

http://www.usgovernmentdebt.us/US_per_capita_spending.html
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how easy it to render wordperfect files now?