skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The whole gluten free kick fries my brains. It exists because some people have an actual problem with gluten, but lots of people have jumped on the bandwagon since if it's on the label it must be for general health reasons. (Where are the "nut-free" folks? How about the folks that only eat things labelled "New and Improved?") Actual gluten issues have existed for a while -- I found a cookbook for those with Celiac disease from the 70s at a used book sale, but now it has a lot more attention.

This, of course, muddies the waters for those with an actual issue, as a bandwagoner gone gluten free won't have a reaction if they accidentally consume gluten. This leads to erroneous beliefs about what is/isn't gluten free.

Of course, this isn't unique to gluten. One can find plenty of people claiming to be vegetarian, even vegan, who solely refuse to eat red meat.
Balanced diet? For the longest time, the FDA has claimed that a balanced diet includes 5-7 servings of rice and grains a day, 2 servings of fruits and veggies, 2 servings of protein, and a small amount of fat.

That's one of the biggest problems here. What people have been taught is patently incorrect. It's a recipe for riding a blood sugar roller coaster.

We teach our kids from an early age to eat sugary foods. We use cartoon characters to goad them into begging their parents for them. What's cereal and milk? Most of the time, it's a sugar coated grain-based product soaked in a sugary liquid that is somehow healthier when you remove all the fat from it and add more sugar. What do kids want for a drink? Sunny Delight, a half-artificial sugar bomb which is nutritionally not much better for you than a can of soda. What do most kids get at school for lunch? Two enriched slices of bread surrounding a small piece of meat and some fried starch on the side. And more milk, because you can't ever have enough sugar to drink.

I can go on and on, but the point is, this starts with parents getting educated and taking charge of the eating habits of their kids.
You could create a new account that you only use for playing.
It's recommended that you have a different password for every site, not just for every type of site. If, for example, someone discovered your forum password, under your system attackers could take over all of your forum accounts.

Lots of us sign up for lots of sites to try out things, engage in one-off discussions, etc, so it's pretty necessary to have a password manager.

I'll point out that if you creates those passwords yourself, rather than using an entirely random generator, they likely have less entropy than you think, and so are more crackable. A password manager helps with that.
The policymakers agree that there shouldn't be pay-to-access journals?
Awesome, short and sweet. I read this as "do the opposite of these if you want to be a good leader running a great organization."
The authors are two of my favorite profs from undergrad. The curriculum at the time had some problems. This book is written for a course that helps fix some of those problems.

So yes, this is written for people who have never written a proof before-undergrads in first or second year.
If they are unwilling to commit capital, research or development then stuff them.
Dropbox help explicitly refers only to shared files/public links wrt copyright policy: https://www.dropbox.com/help/210/en

edit: on further reading of his tweets, it appears that he shared link to the file with another person. So while Dropbox might be overstepping a bit, imho it seems that their action was justified (assuming that the DMCA complaint was originally justified).

edit2: Dropbox response https://twitter.com/dropbox_support/statuses/450176566375366...
> Since v7.3, Vim supports Blowfish, which is much stronger.

No. Even the designer of Blowfish thinks you should not use it anymore: https://www.schneier.com/news-048.html
I don't disagree at all.

If Facebook puts itself to be in this position without possibility of opting out, that is what I hope would trigger people to seek an ethical competitor. And, similarly, that is what I hope would occur to them would be for consumers in aggregate to be an intolerable consequence of forcing on their customers Facebook's ability (and anybody's who could subpoena Facebook) to be privy to this sort of personal information.

I won't buy one of these if it can't be operated without a phone home. I don't mind sacrificing a bit of resolution or refresh rate with a competitor if the alternative is what you say. My hope is that Facebook recognizes that there is a significant market share they'd miss out on if they pushed that point... and, more importantly, that there would actually be a significant market share that they'd miss out on if they pushed that point.
You may appreciate this 555 kit made from discrete components: http://www.evilmadscientist.com/2013/555-kit/

(no connection with them; I just think it's cool)
More likely more electives. Because having 1/3 of the credits be non-CS and non-Math wasn't quite enough.

glares at his Carleton CS degree
Tell HN: Thank PG with a Donation to Watsi or Another YC Nonprofit
This comment from Jessica Livingston the other day got me thinking that it would be really nice for us to find a way to thank PG for all the hard work he's done for us over the years:

As PG's wife, I think I am the only person who knows exactly how much time, energy and thought he devoted to Hacker News. More than most HN users would guess, that's for sure. I don't think he ever planned it that way and I'm certain this site stole valuable brain power that could have been focused on writing essays. So thank you Paul for spending so much time making Hacker News such a great place to visit each day.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7494708

I think the most obvious way to show our gratitude would be to make donations to the nonprofits that YC has funded:

https://watsi.org/

http://www.immunityproject.org/

http://codenow.org/

https://www.1deg.org/

http://caremessage.org/

https://www.zidisha.org/

http://www.noorahealth.org/

Please let me know in the comments if I've missed any YC nonprofits.

Note: I'm not associated with YC or any of these organizations, just an HN reader.
My argument is "Personally, I think it's completely fair to demand that others conform with your political/societal ideas."

You disagree, and say that certain things are unfair.

You mentioned that it's unfair to bring private views/actions into professional life. I pointed out a couple of examples where people do exactly that. Which is fine - you're free to say that Supervisor McGoldrick is unfair. Just realize that you're calling a lot of people unfair by your definition.

My point of bringing up those other arguments is to show that many people disagree with you. This means that you need to have a stronger basis for your argument, otherwise I'm free to treat it as an opinion that I can easily ignore.

You mention "not being racist" as a similar argument. But in the US it's completely fair to demand that others conform with one's racist ideas. I can hold a protest on the sidewalk in front of a store and demand that they only hire Trafalmadorians. People won't respect me, and it would be illegal for the store to do so, but it's completely fair that I make that demand and be able to protest peacefully. There is no law which prevents me from being racist and ignoring Trafalmadorians that I meet on the street. Those laws you talk about deal with government, businesses, education, public accommodation, etc. but not individual people. (Otherwise it would be a free speech and right to assemble violation. Hence why there are still racist private clubs.)

If I were were a Jain, who believes that not even insects should be killed, I might demand that the president step down because he killed a fly once on TV.

If I were strongly anti-fur, it's fair for me to demand that someone step down at CEO for wearing a coon-skin cap at a private Halloween party.

If I were an absolute teetotaler, I might demand that a CEO resign because he enjoys a beer every once in a while in his spare time, while I believe that no one in a position of responsibility should ever drink alcohol.

I am completely of the opinion that anyone can call for the resignation of someone else based on "99% or OWS, or gun laws or whatever".

What's "unfair" about those? Nothing. I say that none of these demands, including a demand based on one's political contributions to a state constitutional amendment, are not at all "unfair". "Unrealistic", certainly, but there's nothing intrinsically unfair about these demands.

So my opinion is that all of these are "fair". Your opinion is that some are "unfair". It's easy to find people who disagree with you. So now we've got dozens of opinions.

You also mention that people who make these unfair arguments are bullying. Would you explain that logic? I don't see how these are connected at all.
You're right that's the stated purpose of patents. But that rationale arose before we had a solid understanding of modern economics. I'm talking about the rationale for patents in that context. Its prevention of free riding. Just as Posner would say the purpose of the tort system is to shift the cost of exercising care to the party that can bear it at least cost, or the purpose of environmental laws is to internalize negative externalities, etc.
Fond memories! The 68k was also key to many embedded systems, such as laser printers, the Mars Pathfinder, and cruise missiles.
The interesting part of the video start at 45 seconds.
Glucose is the only nutrient that neurons are using in normal conditions.

And to elaborate, the other is ketone bodies produced
by the liver from fatty acids.

Their production occurs in healthy individuals as nutritional ketosis under a carbohydrate restricted diet (typically less than 100g/day) or in diabetics as the pathological condition ketoacidosis.
They should also sell a version with no drive. Let's be honest - you don't really need the drive. All the disks have already been dumped for you. If for some reason you still have a disk you want to dump there are other ways to do it.
I randomly ran into someone working for the movie association in Hong Kong and he told me that they regularly scan forums looking for links to copyrighted materials. From time to time they do find links to Dropbox and Google Drive, and they send takedown notices when that happens.
The text of the warning says:

"Certain files in this folder cannot be shared due to a takedown request with the DMCA"

I interpret that as he has some copyrighted files in his private folder which he is trying to make shared/public.
Perhaps dropbox has previously gotten a takedown request for those files (when shared by some other user), and to comply with the request is preventing anyone else from sharing the files in the future.
Great utility, though is less useful than browser extension that makes it easier to store/restore credentials. Also, lack of mobile support would prevent me from switching to it from Lastpass.
I really think that ultimately not all users deserve to be treated equally. Much as I tend to disagree with many of your viewpoints in comments, your own submission list is impressive and would mostly merit front-page posting.

I've played with various karma systems in the past, and it's a really hard thing to get right. In particular, I believe systems need to be responsive to recent activity, while reflective of legacy (this also tends to allow newcomers to rise the karma heap fairly quickly, if deserving). Tuned sufficiently well, this needn't breed apparent favoritism (and contempt).
In other words, you can't use Dropbox for any copyrighted content, even that which you own and are just storing there privately?

That doesn't even make sense... but then again, much of copyright law doesn't either.
Yup, bump map is indeed lower resolution (1024x1024) than diffuse skin texture (2048x2048).

It would be better to use higher resolution one, but these were the data I had at hand.

I also made a quick-and-dirty 2K gloss map so it should help a bit with adding surface details even if bump map is lower res.

Gloss variations give surprising amount of surface information - in another demo at one point of time I had bugged bump mapping and it took me a while to realize it was broken because gloss map was working so well.
Does "the rest of the world" include Britain, Japan, and South Korea?
Government ends investigation into Model S fires, absolving Tesla of blame
I'm rather disappointed that in spite of promises that transactions can be non-zero sum, on close inspection these transactions just draw money from other accounts - usually TUA. From the description, I expected new Strangecoins to be created out of thin air by transactions, and I wanted to see where you were going with that design.

If money's still just flowing from accounts into other accounts, then it's something that would be doable with dollars or Bitcoins if the people involved signed appropriate contracts. Some of your proposed transactions have real-world equivalents; "coupling" sounds like creating a joint account for a married couple. Others, like "inhibition", I don't understand their motivation.

What's Strangecoin for, exactly? Are you supposed to be buying goods and services with it? Why have features like continuous-time transactions or free money for all, what benefit is gained from them?
Point taken -- maybe a better phrasing would be that the purpose of the patent system is to try to mitigate disincentives to innovation, viz., the free-rider problem.
Intriguing observation. I hate to use this term, but it "resonates" with me. I'll mull upon this awhile....

EDIT: I just realized that I do exactly this when the "usual tricks" don't work, invoking "tomorrow me" as needed. Talk about context-dependent recall - I don't think I've ever thought about that technique other than when I am using it. Thanks!
A database table is just a storage medium. The programming model is what is important. Some tasks don't fit the imperative model very well, some tasks have transactions open for days, some tasks need correlation across hundreds of different integrations, some tasks need to happen in guaranteed windows after initiated, some tasks need to be parallelised across lots of systems. These are a few cases I can think of.

From a current position perspective, we use MQs for quoting. Someone raises a quote, this is parallelised across 20 providers all with different integration methods, transformed back to a common object model, inserted as a single transaction into a database table, handed over to another system as an integration task which calculates risk, posted back from that to our system, a risk model is applied, the data is updated, the user is notified. This is all plugged into a 2 million line java and c# jumble that evolved over 15 years from a C++/COM nightmare.

We rewrote it with full test coverage in a month. We can add a new provider in an hour.

Imperative/table integration. No thanks!

People who distrust this methodology need to grab a copy of Enterprise Integration Patterns. There's a huge amount of wisdom in that book that puts Joe blogg's average dynamic language task queue to shame.

Without wishing to use the phrase, but enterprise software is about a hell of a lot of stuff people don't understand. This is probably 1% of it.
Supposedly it was a private folder, but he'd shared a link to that folder with someone.

https://twitter.com/darrellwhitelaw/status/45010355895258726...
Ah, good memories of flamewars in pre-Internet age. The Atari ST was a good piece of hardware, but the Amiga was superior in almost everything it did.
Oh the irony - the ad I was served with the page informs me it's a ”Pillsbury Cinnamon Rolls weekend” with an image of a child about to stuff one into his mouth.

http://i.imgur.com/UBRJOIa.jpg
True. When Commodore went bankrupt, there were tons of companies who went in court to pick up the assets or confirmed what they owned of the technology. The Amiga Basic was for example made by Microsoft.
Pay back all kickstarter contributions. Let carmack build a rocket and admit beeing puny sellouts. Facebook has a record of running a php app and bad policy making. If this isn't about money then it's about carmack thinking Zuckerberg has a sweet ass. Orrrr Facebook was the only place that allowed carmack to open source all things.. Dream on.
Goat Simulator Official Launch Trailer
That's not how DMCA works. That's how some of the bigger copyright organizations (RIAA for example) want it to work.

Besides, what might be copyright infringement to one user might be legitimate usage to another. For example, you might have an illegal copy of an ebook in your folder, but I have the same copy, but mine was paid for. Should I lose access to mine? OReilly books don't have DRM, so it's possible it could happen.
I mentioned the story about Razer to give an example of shitty things companies do to leverage a user base.

G+ and YouTube. Microsoft and Skype. Anything Apple.

Even without a suggestion that this might happen with Facebook and Oculus, it happens all over the industry. There might not be a suggestion of it, but there is definitely a fear of it.
This looks like a very neat tool, but the difficulty with many of these systems is the need to install the password software and have access to a copy of the password data file(s)
If you login to many different systems, possibly on different OS platforms, then they all need to be kept in sync every time you change or add a new password.

Here I've listed a few other password management options with pros and cons:
http://ss64.com/docs/security.html
$ pass insert mapping -m

:)
> I'll point out that if you creates those passwords yourself, rather than using an entirely random generator, they likely have less entropy than you think, and so are more crackable.

So true. I generate my passwords separately, for the simple reason that I haven't yet found a pssword manager that would fit me perfectly. Pass is getting relatively close.

In the meanwhile, I keep my passwords either on [LUKS] encrypted partition or a GPG protected file. I can even disclose the exact method I use for generating these passwords:

head -c 9 /dev/urandom | base64 -

For high-value targets or if I'm feeling a bit more paranoid than usual, I go for 12 octects instead.
I'm English and 'get' and 'git' are used in different contexts.

"This job will be a complete git to do" and "He's always been a bit of an old git"

vs

"He is a complete get"

As for your question, the only source for git been a corruption of get I could find is a wikipedia post which has a big [citation needed] next to it and the sentence is incomplete.
.NET Atomics and Memory Model Semantics
Exactly. The participants were given extra information that are subsequently NOT given within the statement of each "Program". gabemart's point about the probabilities is correct, but it's a much minor one compared to the omission of information from the statements.
Well, what's your motivation for building the app? Do you plan to make money from it? Build a company around it? Build subsequent apps as part of some big picture plan?

Or do you just want to create a cool bit of tech for either self-gratification, or maybe "web credence", or "hacker cred" or whatever?

Or is this just a learning thing, a platform for you to tinker with stuff while learning technologies that interest you?

Or maybe you just want to make the world a better place... does your app help people find clean water, medicine, food & shelter, etc?

Anyway, I'd say think hard about what you're trying to accomplish and why you started this in the first place. Once you understand your "why" then your motivation will probably become more apparent. Or maybe this little exercise in introspection will lead you to realize that your time would be better spent on something else after all.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCQ6DV_3u1g
You missed a big one - gitweb.
For me, the first thing I decide is why I'm building something. If it's for me, or to learn, then abandoning it is part of the process. Get out of it what you can and move on.

Regardless, definitely get involved with other people. Join communities like JFDI. Follow authors like Nathan Barry. Form a mastermind group with other entrepreneurs, online or in your community. Email it to me, and I'll give you feedback!
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http://web.archive.org/web/20010406105746/http://www.wikiped...
Darth Vader wants to run for Ukrainian presidency
Not sure if there is any market for this. For small businesses and hair salons, there are already scheduling apps like schedulicity, which have reminding functionality built-in. I think you should try doing automated debt collection. Something like this => http://www.debtordaddy.com/
To me it just underscores that even a lot of smart people don't really think about far reaching consequences of data mining. Sure, most people don't care that [insert company here]'s algorithms are crawling your data and sending you product ads based on that, but what about the NSA and their secret courts and secret warrants forcing companies to hand over that data? Even if companies don't comply, SIGINT agencies will just hack their systems and get their hands on the data anyway.

And even if there is absolutely nothing incriminating about that data NOW, there's no evidence that will stay the case forever.

I've just lost a massive amount of respect for Carmack. I actually thought he'd have an intelligent opinion on subjects like this.
Incredible result. Eyes are not on par with the rest, however. Could you add SSS material on the eye-white, I think that would bump up the realism a notch.
I have hope for the raspberry pi to fill a similar niche. The only thing that's held it back so far was the lack of documentation for the GPU.
U.S. autism rate surges, CDC reports (1 in 68)
Not ketone bodies, but lactate. More details in this article titled: Energy Substrates for Neurons During Neural Activity: A Critical Review of the Astrocyte-Neuron Lactate Shuttle Hypothesis[1]:

> The brain can consume lactate as a substrate, as has been demonstrated by studies showing that the brain uses lactate during hypoglycemia or during periods of elevated blood lactate [...]

> However, because lactate does not pass through the blood-brain barrier nearly as well as glucose [...], lactate cannot serve the brain as a blood-borne substrate the way glucose does.

[1]: http://www.nature.com/jcbfm/journal/v23/n11/full/9591474a.ht...
I'm a little surprised by the fact that none of the Atmel chips made the list, considering how foundational the Arduino is for introductory DIY electronics.
That was my experience. That chart gives a little comfort. I dropped out for the third and final time in 2006. It was a task that I was not well prepared for (I was prepared for what I expected it to cost). In retrospect I can see things that I might have done better (can't everyone?); but a number of those things amount to 'ignore the advice of [parent, grandparent, other well-meaning people, etc]' or disregard culturally imprinted ideas x, y, and z. In that light, I won't second-guess my early-twenties self for his lack of wisdom. I don't regret my college experience. I am glad that I don't owe a large student loan debt for a failed degree attempt, but if I had taken a small amount to help me complete my last year, that might have been worth it. So maybe just the one regret.
One possibility is that Dropbox deduplicate files (they almost certainly do), and somebody else had a public copy of the same file, and that was given a DMCA takedown, which now also applies to his copy since it's the same file even though it's private.
Apparently, i have 887 entries in the osx keychain.
Mind you, some sites show up multiple times.

I try to use a different password for each new account. Since the password manager handles the credentials for me it's not much more effort than reusing the same login/password everywhere.