skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's thermodynamics:
Calories In = Calories Excreted + Calories Burned + Calories Stored

so:

Change in Calories Stored = Calories In - (Calories Excreted + Calories Burned)

As someone else said, though: these variables are not independent.

If you eat less and exercise more and still aren't losing weight, I guess that means you are excreting less.
An "opinion more valid"? I don't think so. He might be able to offer a "this is how it made me feel" angle or something, and I liked hearing about how it's his favourite book, but otherwise he has no more insight or information than anyone else.

I am not trying to criticise jknupp. I liked his comment. But I reject the suggestion that only Kindle owners can legitimately comment on this matter.
Without standing very firmly behind the argument, Microsoft popularized computers in a serious way that provided the market that provided web jobs. You can argue that without Microsoft, the collection of marginal suppliers would have stepped up and provided the same large market, but you can't show that very well.

(Another argument suggests that the automatically provided browser enhanced the interest in the internet - "I have this program that doesn't work! I must make it work by getting the internet!" - that may not have existed without IE preinstalled. "If the internet is so useful, why didn't it come preinstalled, like Office did?")
Some more context is necessary on some of those items. But it's a neat list of thoughts anyway.
You suggest a monopoly is the requirement to subsidize other industries. I display an extant case of a non-monopoly subsidizing an industry.
Kongregate kicks an impressive amount of ass. I have had more than a few nights lost being sucked into getting badges where I never even manage to get my 360 turned on.

If this helps remove barriers to sharing flash data so things like linerider levels could be passed around and shared, that would be a huge step forward for flash apps and games that provide content creation/editing tools but are limited by flash's client side filesystem size/access limitations.

(an example of a linerider level, which had to be edited entirely in browser and can only be shared with a screencap to video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHr5L7ZXZw4 -- just an example, there are lots more).

Linerider levels might be an extreme example, but anything along that path seems like a good idea.

I'm all for it! Keep it coming!
In treatment to quit smoking. I've been a smoker for 15 years and recently I've decided to quit this bad habit. So my psychiatrist prescribed me Bupropion.

The treatment is working: 4 days without smoking. It feels great.
All those in favour say I, those against say nay. The I's have it. Dumbing down is complete ;)
use it yourself, "eat your own dogfood" or however you would like to describe it. That's the most important one for me. If you're not using it to solve your own problems then what are you building it for?
"Normally that's not a security problem" ? PulseAudio allowing arbitrary code loaded into a suid root app via command line parameters is a gaping security hole by itself.

This exploit used a trivial root exploit to setup a deeper kernel level exploit, that can bypass SELinux, hide itself completely, etc.
Any particular reason that you chose the CDDL instead of a more compatible license like the GPL or, even better, MIT?
Firefox 3.5.1 Released, fixes Windows load time issue
It's probably best to think of facebook as a giant, self-updating rolodex. For most contacts one has, the term "friend" is a misnomer, and "acquaintance" or "associate" would be a better term. But there's no need to get hung up on the word.
Hey hn. Sorry that it's vague. I'll take the time to fill in the details if A List Apart ever comes calling. Otherwise, I'm too lazy to blog, hence you could call it "an exercise for the reader."
Futurama voices are being recast by 20th Century Fox. WTF?
You're right, that was sloppy - I'd have trouble defining what makes an opinion "[more|less] valid". And even with the "intuitive" definition one could just as well argue jknupp is biased in his opinion on the perspective parties' rights in the matter, as he could be trying to justify the $350 we paid for the device (and more for the "books").
I hope Justin Timberlake isn't going to be the voice of Fry.
I don't see where you contradict anything I've said. Sure it wanted this kind of control to extend it to publishers. It preferred the interests of the publishers (its suppliers) to the interests of the readers (its customers).

How is that being on the customers' side again? No Kindle owner is interested in the publishers' being able to delete books of their device.

The stuff about maximizing profits is just a red herring. Any time any public company is criticized for anything it does there's always a chance someone'll pop out with "they're a public company, so they're just trying to maximize their profits". It's a sorta-meaningless universal excuse.
Also, if you're interested in what I've been working on lately, check out baconfile.com (web interface for sharing files via Amazon S3) and leafychat.com (web IRC client).
I made no such suggestion.
Because JPEG is a horrendous format for these types of pictures.

Using it is a mark of an inexperienced graphic designer.

Use JPEG if you photographed a real life object with a camera. ALL other images (for the web) should be PNG.

Oh, and the reason it's horrendous is that it makes the images blurry - and larger! And you can no longer realistically edit the image once JPEG touched it. (For example change a color: use a color picking tool, can't do it once jpeg touched it.)
It's not the publishers, it's copyright law. Copyright law gives the publishers certain rights. Publishers are economic entities which maximize profits. Blaming publishers for exercising legal rights which maximize profit is like blaming rocks for falling on people.
I like optipng better, it's based on pngcrush, but with some extra features and better defaults.
I read somewhere that, if humanity died out, after a few million years, all evidence that we existed on earth would be gone, expect the junk we left on the moon.
its only a bit of fun - even he shared it. Bloody hell, this is the one thing i dislike about Hacker News. We take things far too seriously...
you should support IE6 as a separate product, and via a separate feature timeline.

if you can launch a web app for browsers that are modern and relevant in 4 weeks, and doing it for IE takes an additional 2-4 weeks, why wait to launch those features for a broken browsers, support and reward users with current browsers by giving them 1st access to new features.

supporting IE6 on a different roadmap means you can do ROI on each feature, and if IE6 is to expensive to develop a feature for, then...... gasp... you can just skip it.
Leafy Chat looks really neat. The design is a significant improvement over mibbit.
how is this similar to / different from:

http://www.gocosmos.org/index.en.aspx

?
I think RiderOfGiraffes comes from an academic background. Those little html only professor sites frequently have more that one interesting paper or essay. I think you're right about the slurping (because clicking more>document_info in Scribd shows the uploader as Slurp) but they're making a mistake to not give you a link to the original document.

Can anyone explain what Scribd is trying to accomplish? pdf is already an open standard. Both require a third party viewer. Until iPaper doesn't use flash there is no reason for Scribd to be the youtube of documents.

Although an embeddable document viewer that allows you to force layout, keep the data on your server, supports math notations, and doesn't use flash might be worth having on the internet.
Supermodels seem okay with it, so it can't be that difficult. Just kidding (sort of)! It just takes A LOT of time and discipline which yeah, not many people have.
One day, someone's gonna come out with a 8 1/2" x 11" eBook reader that doesn't look like it ran into the ugly tree at 80 mph that doesn't have any associated DRM and I am gonna buy the FUCK out of that thing.
Interesting. I'm always astonished by how much DRM does bother people.

If a song costs $0.99 with DRM then it would cost more without DRM. Very simple. In most cases the DRM terms of use are acceptable to me, which is why I don't hesitate to buy DRM'ed content.

Of course, many DRM implementations are highly annoying, but that is a design issue not a core issue with DRM technology.
I know of no one who (knowingly) has had any negative effects from smoking weed, apart from a few who did it too often because they had nothing better to do.

It is harmless in my opinion (compared to other things people can legally do). Also, I know of people who find it extremely enlightening and helps them think of new ways to solve problems.
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No, but absolutely nothing against those who do, which is perhaps 60% of my friends.

In my opinion it is not good for my hacking abilities, in that I find it very difficult to take seriously the concept of "work" at all when high. I can be very productive, just probably not on the same thing I was planning to do ..
CAPTCHAs' Effect on Conversion Rates
I was struck by how half way through the article, the foreign object is revealed. Shouldn't something like that be kept in check by regular checkups? Maybe an MRI scan?
Clayton nails it down pretty good. For more about education and technology you can read this issue of this science magazine http://www.sciencemag.org/content/vol323/issue5910/index.dtl...

The interesting thing in the science mag was this video http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/323/5910/53b in which they blamed standardized tests for ruining american education. Funny thing is none of them are doing anything to solve the problem.
"So if food labels are giving consumers a potentially misleading picture of their dietary choices, what should be done about it?

For many nutritionists, the answer is nothing." (the following phrases say revamping the system is too expensive)

We have enough money to study all sorts of disease and weapons and phenomena, but we can't afford to fix an issue that impacts most people's everyday lives? Yay.
disaster? are you kidding? I'm a kindle user and I could care less about this news.
I've found that I'm terrible at laying down code when I've been smoking. My short term memory goes down the drain, which makes it difficult to remember, e.g., variable and function names. However, I've also found that I'm quite good at other creative tasks that don't require such technical skills, like brainstorming about where a project should go, or thinking about high-level design details.
The horrible times children are routinely given are seen by many as just a fact of life -- growing pains, as it were. It's high time that we stop accepting it; I'm glad something like this was written which doesn't just accept the events for the sake of "moving on". Others need to see and understand this trauma.
and not very hackerish
Good point. It's not really Whispernet, specifically, it's it combined with control.

Taking the iPhone Kindle app out of the picture (though it's probably relevant, I just don't know much about it, so I'll leave it alone for the moment)... Whispernet and software that is in the complete control of Amazon gives them a capability it can't have on my Netbook.

The thing that always concerned me about the Kindle/Whispernet is that they could use it to control all of the content on the Kindle. Lets say Amazon decides that only Kindle purchased e-books are allowed on the device ... one software update later and your imported PDF files are gone (legally or otherwise). I don't think they'd really be that nasty, but it's not as though the software installed is available for inspection. If the publishers push hard enough and the circumstances are right, who knows?

I'm not begging for a GNU/Linux e-book reader. I paid about the price of a Kindle for a low-end Eee PC with a big battery. It lasts about 7 hours (not 9.5 as advertised, but enough). To me, the Kindle is something undefinable. What do I get for $300?. Text to speech on all of my books? Sometimes. The ability to import PDF files? So far. Getting to read the books you purchased... unless...

I "get" that Amazon lives at the whims of their publishers. Unfortunately, the book publishers live at the whims of the consumer and the conditions of the marketplace. They should take notes from what's going on with music today. Scanners are cheap, and OCR software is very good with print. Compressed, text-only renditions of a book are tiny and bandwidth to the home is plentiful. Top that off with an inexpensive device that gets acceptable battery life and offers convenience and an acceptable screen for reading text... It certainly sounds a lot like Napster and mp3's to me.
We are told that actions like Kelo and Didden are in the public interest -- that is, to the benefit and betterment of the entire community -- but this is clearly bunk. How can we discern which of policies being espoused are really net-beneficial to society?

I claim that in all but the most obvious cases, you can't. It's a fool's errand, and thus the term "special interest" has no use but in propaganda.
How does managed code & one address space improve performance? I can see that system calls will get cheaper, but is that a performance bottleneck? Or are there other improvements?
I agree about the design. Unfortunately though, the client connects to freenode as <username>@baconfile.com. Not something freenode is too kind toward, considering the mibbit fiasco.
Um, Amazon could point out that the decision to withdraw the book was that of the publisher, and that they are legally bound to defend the rights publishers as defined under US law.

Think of it this way - there are a couple of parties here. Both Amazon and most publishers are public corporations. That means they have a legal obligation to maximize shareholder value. The law allows publishers certain rights, and, in order to follow the law (maximize shareholder value), they must take advantage of those rights.

Amazon, in turn, has a choice of forcing the publishers give up their rights under the law. Doing so would decrease the number of publishers that sell books. I imagine they did an economic analysis and figured that to maximize shareholder value, they must protect the publishers' legal right at the expense of common understanding of "readers' rights".

So, where exactly is the problem here? Is it in people following the laws?

I would say no: the problem is with the laws themselves. Which laws is an interesting question, one that is very much lacking discussion on this forum :(
youre god damn right i do
Food labels are still incredibly valuable - they have been for me at least since taking a real nutrition class.

For one thing, if you're calculating calories to that sort of margin, you're doing it wrong, and are more likely to get yourself into an eating disorder than anything.

Labels help you avoid high-fat and high-sodium foods, and steer you towards high-fiber choices. Above anything these three factors are the most important in your diet. I've tried the calorie-restricting diets, I've read about Atkins where you can glutton yourself on greasy meat patties all day... none of those things work.

Even if you eat moderately, if what you're eating is crap, you will not get the results you want. 500 calories in the form of a Big Mac is not the same as 500 calories of balanced vegetables, fiber, and meat.
Whew - big... 300k, I think.
This is ridiculous. 19 lines of mediocre catchphrases, half of which don't even make sense: "8 - don't wanker in technology". OK, I won't "wanker in technology".

Even if Ms Culver is some kind of mini-celebrity in the startup community - and honestly I had to look her up - I don't think she deserves a free pass with no-effort garbage like this. And when I saw it, it's #2 on HN. Really? This?

Flagged for "does not deserve to be on the front page".
Having grown up in the UK, I've always taken for granted that this level of healthcare is readily available to me whenever I might need it, money no object. The concept of having to consider the cost implications of treatment like this seems very alien to me. I'm now contemplating moving abroad and this is something that I've been thinking about lately. Not having the NHS around would have made me hesitate more before starting my own business, I think.
Cosmos has focused more on building little pieces of an OS than on trying to build a real OS with a solid set of goals. This approach isn't better or worse, but very different than ours. In addition, Cosmos is built using C#, which I find far slower to work with than Boo.
We're working on a fix for that right now. Freenode has been incredibly patient with us which is cool (thanks!).
Documents To Go for iPhone: (Almost) Microsoft Office in the Palm of Your Hand
Ask HN: BitsyBox needs beta testers for web platform
We have a new startup called BitsyBox. Without giving too much away, it's a platform to help developers create sites more easily, and to allow site owners to take greater control of their content.

Our web app is currently in private alpha. However, we are giving away our first 20 beta invites in the next 2 weeks. We launch publicly in September, but our beta testers will get all the information and tech support they need starting now.

Not only will all beta testers receive six months of BitsyBox for free, but one lucky participant will even win this electronic drum machine t-shirt (http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts-apparel/unisex/generic/ac0b/). We chose this t-shirt because it is obviously awesome -- maybe next time we'll give away the Chain Mail Shirt (http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts-apparel/unisex/generic/9080/) but for this round of testing, it was too expensive, despite it's obvious advantages in protection against weaponry.

You can sign up two ways 1) by emailing info@bitsybox.com or 2) follow us on Twitter @bitsybox.

We'll notify the selected 20 beta testers next week.
Nope, do not do it regularly. Never tried it while hacking though, I suspect I wouldn't get much done... I mean, it's not like it opened any crazy doors for me. Things just got funnier and I just got hungrier.

To be honest I'm not a big fan of the ganja, but that's mostly because I lived with people who had a pot problem, as opposed to a pot hobby. When you're blowing all of your limited student income on pot instead, say, feeding yourself, you got a problem. The people they brought over weren't much better.
I like it a lot, especially with technical content (http://zacharypinter.com/2009/03/01/technical-content-on-the...). However, the SD card is a bit annoying.

I really wish somebody would make an ebook reader that's easily hackable, reasonably priced, good on battery life, and displays PDF's well. The eSlick gets 3/4.

My ideal device would be one that can read RSS feeds and sync with Dropbox over wifi. Maybe the easy-on-the-eyes netbook screens are the answer?
"Don't wanker in technology" just means not to get too caught up in background technology at the expense of your end users and end product.

For example, instead of switching to a trendy key-value store (or developing their own), FriendFeed has done some incredible database stuff on top of MySQL. It was the right solution for them (even if it is less cool) and it helped scale their architecture quickly.
To be fair, I was able to get the Silverlight plugin running on FF3 on Vista, and the video presentation is very nicely done. I typically prefer to watch videos off my local drive using VLC, but the bells and whistles wrapped around these videos are top notch.

I get a kick out of Feynman's accent, too. Like something outta Cash Cab ( a great show for NYC expats like myself who miss the way people there speak).
Yes, quite frequently. It makes you a terrible coder, but I wouldn't go to a live concert now without it.
Why Amazon pulled 1984 off users' Kindles
From the article:

Amazon says that that the books in question were added to its catalog using the company's self-service platform by a third-party who did not have the rights to the books. And it says it will no longer delete books in this manner.

When we were notified of this by the rights holder, we removed the illegal copies from our systems and from customers' devices, and refunded customers. We are changing our systems so that in the future we will not remove books from customers' devices in these circumstances.
Is that what people are thinking - that I'm angling to rake in 10 cents on some kind of business relationship with Lee Valley? I sure am curious what they have in mind.
Not going to get into a big license debate while on my Kindle,but simply put I beleive the CDDL preserves the rights I want better than any other license.
First iPhone VoIP app with push notification appears
File System Evangelist and Thought Leader: An Interview with Valerie Aurora
That assumes that it was simply an issue of royalty payments. Publishing agreements can have many more restrictions (only authorized content, limits to which markets can be served, editorial veto, etc.) that aren't just about paying $0.20/unit.

Regardless of the feasibility, I wouldn't expect Amazon to have any interest in creating a precedent of them paying to cover up for the mistakes of publishers on the Kindle store. Unlike many people, I actually think that yanking unauthorized books after download is totally reasonable, provided Amazon offers a detailed explanation of the reason.
Well why didn't you say that then? If you have to explain what you meant, you didn't communicate it properly the first time. And "wanker" is not a verb.

Agreed that FF have done very well.

(edited to remove "helpful hints" which, on further reflection, came across badly)
Breaking someone's fingers for the hell of it sounds pretty extreme to me.
Tree Museum (Dial-a-Tree)
What a mess. IBM DB2, Oracle, and MS SQL Server all support native storage of hierachical data (as XML). MySQL needs to catch up.
This has turned out to be overblown, as usual. More info here:

http://www.informationweek.com/news/personal_tech/drm/showAr...

Somebody (third-party) decided to sell 1984 and Animal Farm on the Kindle Store without owning the copyright to it. Amazon is of course forced to take down said illegal posting. The only questionable part here is whether or not they should be allowed to delete purchased copies (with refund).
see: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=711031
I find the primary problem with average diet is too little fruit. when you increase fruit intake the craving for processed high sugar high fat foods diminishes significantly.
He lost. He failed to take action when it mattered, which could've been bulking up or learning social skills or whatever.

Then he won. Earned a great life, does great work; different day, different game. Should've moved on.

But then he lost again, by leaving the final laugh to any ex-bully who can google.
This 1982 textbook by Siewiorek, Bell and Newell seems to be available in HTML from Gordon Bell's pages at MS: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/gbell/Computer...

If memory serves, the book illustrated concepts by examining implementations. It's interesting to see how many bones have been moved from multi-ton mainframes to single chips ...

P.S. At the very bottom of this page http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/gbell/Pubs.htm, the book links include the above book and a similarly titled 1971 book (apparently an earlier version), which may be of historical interest. Page 280: core, drum and tape - Mel can't be far ...
How long does it take to get in shape? I know this is a difficult question: what's in shape? So how long does it take until other people start to notice?