skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You only mention that you have lost 50 lbs in 3 months, but what were your starting weight,height,age and bodyfat % ?

Looking at this regime, I find it extremely unhealthy (ephedrine,yohimbine, exercise optional, insufficient protein?).

Alternate day fasting, lack of exercise and what seems to be insufficient protein are a powerful signal to tell your body to get rid of lean mass. So, probably more than 50% of the lost weight has been lean mass.

When in calorie deficit, you should always compensate with some anabolic signals: heavy weight lifting (3-5 reps, 80-90% 1RM) and additional protein (at least 2 grams per kg/day)
I'm sure your right but my wife and I just had a kid through lengthy vaginal birth with antibiotics which is why I asked. (FWIW I'm a computational biologists working on medical studies and have the seen some of the research in this area before, not just one to randomly self medicate.)
"… but I will not use Microsoft Excel to run a bank "

obviously you never worked in a big bank. Most traders use Excel a lot, if not in every moment of their work. It depends on the bank of course but in some banks even the trades are made from Excel spreadsheets.
I think there's a very strong case to be made for programming as a prominent elective. But the context of this sub-thread is the claim that knowing programming is akin to basic literacy, which is a much, much stronger claim.
Is College Worth It? Clearly, New Data Say
>People wanted to "leave their mark"

TBF this had a lot to do with the stack-ranking MS was famous for. When you've got to justify your job every year making a name for yourself is mandatory.
Node.js performance tip of the week: Blocking Event Loops
Middle-click much?
Google Changed Its Logo This Weekend and You Didn't Even Notice
New Search Engine Lauches from Oregon
Can anyone please suggest a more neutral, less baity title?

Edit: No takers? Ok, I'll try to come up with one.
Benchmarking Apache Kafka: 2 Million Writes Per Second (On Three Cheap Machines)
Thanks for the feedback!

* Fixed the scrolling issue. Ios safari doesn't let you disable the bounce so there is a workaround now.

* Ios back gesture works fine... Except in mobile safari, again because there is no way to disable apples back gesture. This would work best in phonegap or Kik where you can control these kinds of things

* Will fix subject bug in demo soon..
Software is Eating Hardware – Lessons for Building Magical Devices
Introducing Avocado: A new toolbox for interaction designers
Growing more food per acre in an indoor hydroponic farm is a reality today. The problem is your romaine from that hydro farm down the road is $3.99, and from the traditional farm shipped across the country is $1.99. Lights are a big part of the equation. Most plants need 10+ hours of sunlight a day, so even if you put the plants on a rotisserie you still have to supplement with artificial light ($$$).
The amount of water and land you save is immense, however, the water and land cost of putting a farm in an urban area counters that.

Pollination is easy - bees. Even basement/garage growers will use bees to pollinate. That said, you don't need bees in this example as you never want lettuce (or any leafy green) to flower. You can control the flowering with reduced temp and different light temperatures, too.
In tomato/pepper/fruiting plants, you'll need manual pollination or a beehive in your hydro-warehouse.

Re: super-organic - Most hydroponic growing is not organic. By nature of adding nutrients (fertilizer, salts, ph adjustments) that replace what is found in soil means hydroponics is traditionally not organic. There are organic hydroponics going on (I am not aware of a large-scale one) and they are NOT clean nor bug free, given the nature of making organic nutrients (they smell like shit, really, as most are compost or something-rotting-based).
Does LINQ change the source?
As a potentially interesting correlation: difficult pregnancies/cesareans tend to produce more autism:

http://www.autismtoday.com/library-back/Autism_More_Likely_i...
google security did a nice blog post supporting the statement that CAPTCHAs aren't as effective as they used to be:

http://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com/2013/10/recaptcha-j...
Yes, Ruby has long had decent (i.e. comparable to Python 3) encoding support. But in the early days not much was made of this, perhaps because Rails was the driving force behind Ruby adoption in the west and Rails' encoding support was much worse than what Ruby could do.
You are afraid of sites like Stack Overflow? That's all they are - people exchanging information for little more than popularity.
Omnifocus2 for IPhone – a few thoughts
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Adjust the slider progressively, compare pattern to surrounding images. Or just brute force it. I'd give it a couple days before it would be botted on a large target like gmail or Facebook.
There's no real need for an API. Just do an HTTP HEAD request until you stop getting redirects (watch out for loops).
It'll continue I work in webview with panning (bounce) turned off. In fact that's usually the most optimal experience
Machine learning workshop in SF on the superfast and flexible vowpal wabbit pkg
Even though it's intended to be 'mid-tier' hardware, that screen is super disappointing in 2014 and, because of that, I'm out.
We are bringing competition to an industry that hasn’t evolved in years.

Hailo launched a good six months before Uber in London, and seems to have done so by working with industry and regulators, rather than by skirting around the law.

As per the regulations, cars using the Uber platform do not have a taximeter – TFL have confirmed that smart phones used by private hire drivers do not constitute the equipping of a vehicle with a taximeter.

This is technically correct, and it's why London hasn't acted against Uber. They're not breaking any laws at this point.

However, the use of smartphones in this fashion provides the same functionality as a taximeter. There's no denying that; the letter of the law may be followed, but the spirit is clearly being violated. And that's why black cab drivers in London are upset.

I wish Uber all the best - it's good to have some competition in this space. But I can also see why the LTDA(?) would be annoyed by this - they're essentially evading regulations in a pretty direct manner, and in their place I'd be pissed off too.
I cant find information on whether the price includes all taxes and customs if ordering to Europe. I really dont want to log into everbuying.com to ask that question though.
Can one order it with a VAT-EU invoice?

A thought on the specs, it's a pity it doesn't support Bluetooth LE. Getting Flame to work with beacons would put it on the forefront of mobile development.
> Based on your other comments downthread, I realized that you meant the IT department themselves should develop the application using "proper tooling", not the business people.

Not necessarily, though that really depends on the technical competencies in the organization and a number of other factors.

> That means that the business people will have to hand over requirements to the IT people, who will write the software.

Well, I kind of think that if you are going to have an organization that effectively uses technology, you need technology-aware process/system analysis embedded in operational organizations at a fairly low level facilitating process optimization including, as necessary, technology acquisition and software development. That's a pretty big culture change for most organizations that aren't technology organizations, I will admit.

> I think turn-around time may be too much for business people who want to do their own data exploration.

I don't think the problem area in Excel use is "data exploration", but, yes, I think that overly bureaucratic, insufficiently agile processes which separate software development from operations do create friction which leads to use of suboptimal tools -- including, but not limited to, use of Excel where its not appropriate.
IMHO visual/audio recognition based CAPTCHAs are a dead end.
"Basically the same" and yet absolutely not the same.

The world did not need PowerShell.
I tried the demo on the site, it would have been very effective at stopping me because of the required precision. I avoid pixel hunting as much as I can. How acessible is this?
Perhaps you're not human after all…?
I've been vegetarian / vegan for almost 10 years myself and get my vitamin b12 levels checked regularly. A lot of meat eaters actually have low vitamin b12 levels too because of lower intrinsic factor (gut ability to absorb b12) caused by age or distinct genetic setup. Omega 3 is also something I keep in check with 2-3 table spoons of ground flax-seeds a day.
Flax oil is a good source of omega 3 as well but much more difficult to handle because it needs to be fresh, cooled and consumed relatively quickly.

Be aware that a vitamin b12 deficiency often happens without symptoms, also meeting the lower threshold of acceptable levels doesn't mean you have got enough of it.

I would advise everyone but especially those on a vegan diet to get their vitamin b12 levels checked regularly. Take your supplements! Don't ruin your brains!

Check out this very informative video by Michael Greger - vegetarian / vegan himself, he has debunked a lot of myths around proper veg diet some 12 years ago (yes the video is pretty long - so what it's your health that is at stake here):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7KeRwdIH04

Also good books on the topic:

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/541482.The_New_Becoming_V...

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/48307.Becoming_Vegan

Don't be a pudding veggie, be informed and healthy!
I am the same. Just want to add, if you want to be a vegetarian-convert try it by consuming traditional foods from vegetarian cultures it has done the trick for some of my friends. Vegetarian foods from traditional vegetarian cultures tend to be closest to wholesome vegetarian diet rather than the salad option available to most westerners or any other hap-hazard cookbook.
CD Duplicator – Lego robot disk changer
You may if you feel like paying every person on earth $500 a month to cover their captcha fees. Unless your goal happens to be excluding most of the world from Internet services and random web forums.
>why not just use a dedicated gmail account, just for HN, rather than "use my hn handle at that email service that everyone else uses generally". The dedicated account has spam protection and you can forward mail to your primary account as a filter if you want.

Because starting, configuring, and checking ANOTHER gmail address takes more time and effort than obscuring my current dev-related email address to be human parse-able only. Seems like a strange thing to have a pet-peeve about, as it could only barely affect your ability to get in touch with these people. Unless, you've been trying to slurp email addresses from HN profiles... I could see it being bothersome in that case.
Pixie Dust Graphical Levitation Technology
Did anyone grab a mirror before the site disappeared?

"willyreport.wordpress.com is no longer available.
This blog has been archived or suspended for a violation of our Terms of Service."
They're okay with it because the competition (e.g. Huffington Post, Business Insider, BuzzFeed) built their brands on aggregating terrible content. It works.
I thought the further-up comment--where the poster apparently didn't realize that many would see 90K as quite a lot of money--was a better example of this.
"We don't have HR"... Sounds like they are risking a github-style fiasco.
The lack of palletization on Target's trucks seems inefficient at the store level, but may be justifiable at the company level, since Target owns its own distribution centers:

* Trailers are 9-10 feet high, so a fully palletized truck would (a) Have very tall unwieldy pallets, and you'd have to carefully order things so boxes on the bottom don't get crushed, (b) need racks or something similar to hold multiple tiers of normal-height pallets, or (c) be half-empty

* Even with the current process, getting boxes off the truck is not even close to the bottleneck. When I worked at Target, 2 people threw boxes onto rollers, 5-6 people sorted the boxes onto pallets organized by area of the store as they went by, 2 people rolled those pallets onto the sales floor and threw each box in front of the appropriate aisle, and ~20 people opened the boxes and stocked the shelves. The 2 people unloading the truck could always keep well ahead of the 20 on the sales floor.

* An alternate strategy might be to sort the boxes into pallets by store area at the distribution center rather than at the store. You might get some economies of scale out of doing this process for 100 stores at 1 distribution center, but it may still not be worth it to put all that needed floor space, latency, and congestion in what I imagine is already a very congested point in the supply chain. Better to distribute that part to the endpoints, since you already have 100k square feet per store to work with that's just sitting there while the store's closed.
"It's madness."

Its just conformity. Try to change the topic to religion, anything other than vanilla Evangelical Protestant Christian, and see how much they like it. Or, "I don't like large pickup trucks/SUVs".

(edited to add, tell them their prices are too high, if you want to tweak them back. I'm not a vegan but our family has a relationship with an organic farmer who provides us with almost all the meat we eat (other than fish), so in the very rare event I get questioned at the market my trollish side often comes out and its sometimes pretty funny)
By being able to control the nutrients and how fast the lettuce grows. Potassium intake varies with how fast the plant grows, so adjusting the light and temperature (along with other nutrients, like nitrogen, salt, etc) allows the lettuce to grow quickly (possibly under lights 24hrs a day) without taking up excess potassium.

With a clean environment, potassium levels can be reduced as well, as high potassium soil (fertilized that way) will allow the plant to uptake more potassium and increase its resilience to disease and bug damage.
Reasons for poverty extend beyond lack of a marketable skill. News at 11.
This is quite likely because at higher densities making effective use of the GPU becomes even more critical to get anything approaching decent performance.
With spreadsheets a lot of steps needlessly require human transcription (cut/paste, typing and so on). So there is a casual relation.
Twitter and Omnicom Strike $230 Million Mobile Ad Deal
This is deducing that pesticides increase potassium uptake and storage in the lettuce which is not true.
You can, however, use lower potassium levels for plants that will not be subject to disease or bug stress. But there is not a direct relationship here.
I don't know where you got that number from, that's extreme. This is a one-time fee we're talking about here. Also why should I pay anybody? Strange reply.
This is stupid. If you've ever actually made a drink, you'll know the only thing a robot can't do that a human can do is peel an orange (maybe, though I'm sure someone could figure that out). I make my old fashioneds and gin and tonics the same way every time. And for a cheaper drink that arrives nearly immediately? A bar like that would be a new favorite hangout.
When You Might Have Too Many Message Queues
China cites US for “unscrupulous” spying, wants IBM out of banks
To be fair, most of CNN's budget goes to advancing holography science, not astrophysics or investigating/analyzing news.
New Domain Extensions for Property Websites
user readable and user typeable aren't the same thing. your WaPo url is perfectly readable - it includes the author, the source, the name of the article, and the date. if you click on it, it takes you where you want to go. if you see it in a context where you don't want to click on it but want to read the article later, you can still find the article because it gave you all the information you need to google for it. if for some reason the link breaks, you can use the information in the link to find an alternate source for the article.

apple.com/ipad is a good URL because it describes the destination. so is nbc.com/parks. but there is a practical limitation to that sort of url scheme - you only get a couple hundred pages max before you exhaust your namespace. you couldn't use a URL like that for every single article a newspaper writes without an absurd number of collisions. so you have to start using unique IDs. and if you only use the ID, you lose the memorable/describable aspect.
I don't think the playlist thing is related to the breach at all.

This is likely just a side effect of the new version being an entirely new Android app instead of an upgrade to the existing one. If the local playlist data and/or offline settings were sandboxed to the old app, a new app wouldn't be able to access it.
Vegetarian is a way of life. Whether its healthy or not I can't judge and I'll leave that to the scientists that are doing research on that specific matter.

Although speaking from my own experience... I ain't a vegan I eat meat, and a lot of it cause I gym. I keep a healthy and balanced diet for a long time now. I am healthy and that's what doctors have been telling me on my annual check up. In the other hand I got a cousin that we are close with and he is a vegan. Although he is a vegan he drinks alcohol, not excessively but occasionally.
He is unhealthy and unstable at the moment...

Life is not only about food but there are a lot of factors in there that needs to be considered.

Also regarding mental health... WALKING I found is the best solution.
I've worked for many large financial institutions as a quant and am intimately familiar with use of spreadsheets in critical functions. I believe this is a multi-billion dollar opportunity. If someone is interested in start-up ventures in this space, I would be very interested in discussing further.
Perhaps. A awful lot of wealthy and reputable companies thought they were solidly prepared against cracking attempts, too. It's harder to take their word for it now than it was five years ago.
Ross Anderson's own comment:
http://www.lightbluetouchpaper.org/2014/05/27/post-snowden-t...
I wouldn't say we're predominantly JVM based. We've also got ReSharper, dotTrace, dotMemory, dotCover and dotPeek, which are all .net based.

But basically, it's because Nitra is an extension and evolution of work done on Nemerle, and Nemerle is a .net language.
Validation is provided by Authenticode signatures embedded in the EXEs themselves.
> I add that Python is excellent at data representation and transformation

Indeed! It's a very practical extraction and reporting language.
Actually, it looks like the "upgrade" is actually a new app entirely, so it's probably just that since it's a new app, the offline data has to be regenerated.
As mentioned in the first sentence, I started at 210 and am currently 160 (I'll have to see if I can make that more clear). Thanks, the BF% is a good point; not sure about starting BF%, but right now it's roughly 14%.

Where do you see anything about insufficient protein? The point of not ingesting excessive protein is avoiding unnecessary gluconeogenesis.

As far as I can tell, I haven't lost any amount of muscle (and might well have a net gain). Either way, that doesn't contradict my point that exercise purely for the sake of weight loss isn't valuable as a first line of attack.
That makeashorterlink is unneccessarily long I guess.
> That's also why PowerShell treats file system, registry, WMI, etc. as first-class constructs, because it has to to be effective.

Also- it exposes them as filesystems & files.
Inmarsat MH370 logs
While I (sort of) understand someone in Leo's position having an aversion to walking in and opening a traditional bank account, in today's society we have very good solutions for the 1 in 12 people in the US that are "unbanked". The guy holding his money could just buy him a reloadable prepaid Visa/Mastercard and load the money on there. No banks, social security cards etc. That way he isn't walking around with $10K cash, and he can go to an ATM at night when no one is around if he is afraid of people.

There may be issues I'm not aware of. Perhaps Leo is a former drug addict and doesn't trust that he can stay clean (or alive for that matter) if he has a sudden influx of cash. Even that could be dealt with though, as his benefactor could simply transfer money to the card in small increments. It just seems that there are easy solutions to whatever issues exist, and that they haven't been explored (based solely on the information in this article).
Gotta love the way they stress safety as a selling point even after all the stories about how they lie about safety.
To your first question: In the hospital, they use a device similar to that used for a normal colonoscopy. Then:

When the scope reaches the top part of the colon, the doctor injects through the scope a feces suspension prepared from a healthy donor, usually a family member or close friend. … The scope is slowly withdrawn. As it is withdrawn, and more fecal suspension is put in from the top to bottom of the colon.

Not sure of the answer to the second question.
He's a very smart man, a true hacker in the technical sense. His set of free tools revealed amazing details about Windows internal. Those have helped me tremendously back in the days when I work on Windows kernel internals as an outsider. Thanks to Mark.
Plane?
This would sound interesting only for a service provider who is willing to build a long term relationship with you. So if you could find someone like that, it would be a definite win for you and him/her as well.
I care more about battery time than battery size.

How often do I need to plug it in to the wall.

Btw it looks cool.
Griddify, a Tiny Photoshop Panel for Guides and Grids
It's a shame that Firefox OS is still pretty much unusable.
I went with the agent who sold me the house in the first place, and found me a rental before then. I don't know how much of it was luck and how much was by design but the rental is in a location where rent is higher than mortgage payments by quite a margin and I found a good company to manage it.
> So he’s now working to merge the platform service and the infrastructure service, giving people the power to run any software while still ensuring this software operates in an automatic way. “We want to blend the two worlds,” he says.

That sounds very much like App Engine Managed VMs.

https://developers.google.com/cloud/managed-vms
Hacker 'Sabu' walks free from court after 'extraordinary' FBI cooperation
How to Visualize a Real Time Data Stream: What Miley Cyrus Can Teach Us
Wait, you go and delete the search history from someone else's account? And it's your client? Wow. And then you complain about what you see when you're in there?
Evading regulations is the whole business model of companies like Uber and AirBnB.