skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No. DO doesn't provide a remote block storage solution, only local disks where your data is much more likely to be lost if the machine fails and also much slower to back up and awkward to manage. Local SSD storage has been around for years and hardly represents innovation. The only thing DO did was slice local SSD drives into tiny slivers for customers which means you're sharing a drive with many other customers on the same box, some of which will be furiously scrubbing their disks when they destroy the droplet.
I hate this articles conclusion, I truly hate it. Every single body is different and you need to find out what works for you. That requires wading through an unbelievable amount of false and misinformation in order to find the truth - for you.

I followed a (modified) ketogenic diet very successfully for the winter and lost 20 lbs. That diet will absolutely NOT work for everyone but it will work for many people. As will paleo, as will atkins, as will south beach. Find out what works for you. Experiment.

Finding a magic bullet for dieting is like finding a magic bullet for fashion. There is NO one size, one style fits all solution.
>> I consider myself an educated, well-informed person, and I have no problem whatsoever with government surveillance. Like anything, it can be abused, but I don't think that outweighs the benefits.

You have cared enough to actually think about it and are prepared to engage in debate. Congrats, you are more interested/intelligent than 90% of the population.

>> I think it's sad that it makes you 'angry' that some people simply disagree with you.

No, I'm angry that most people don't care enough or aren't smart enough to think about it, and that's the majority, and so nothing can be done. Your assertion that I'm angry that people disagree with me is incorrect and patronising.

>> We have a democracy, and obviously only a minority consider this to be an issue of concern.

Our democracy is incredibly weak, it's arguable we even live under a democracy when we have secret trials and secret laws.

>> If you have a problem with it, stand for election.

That's a guaranteed way to waste time and money while achieving nothing.
Do you mean the people providing servers, or the people who are operating them?
Ask HN: Best resources to learn Java
I was wondering if anyone had any recommendations on the best resources to learn modern Java?

I am a juniorish Ruby and JS developer (mostly) and have a massive (web) project upcoming that will feature a fair bit of Java and so need to get learning it. I don't really have any other developers to help teach me that I know.

So, what resources would HN recommend? Help much appreciated!
Agree with this very much, the bar is indeed so low that the conversation should mostly be about eating real food and only then optimize further (and it's still very much inconclusive which macro nutrient ratios are "the best" and there may not be a single answer here).

Ime it's been most problematic to get "real food" on the go, on travels, airports, etc. I feel like there's a disruption waiting to happen here in many western countries (for example in Thailand it's relatively easy to get fast-food made from fresh ingredients just-in-time).
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I think your listing ate '_'.
It should be 'soup.find_all' instead of 'soup.findall' and 'link_end' instead of 'linkend'
Brilliant! I've been wanting to access my own playlists through an API for a while to back them up
I'm not convinced. Vegans have to be mindful of what kind of vegan food that they eat in order to get enough proteins, and perhaps also B12. This is something that is usually easily/trivially satisfied by a regular omnivore diet.

So it's not just a question of eating varied vegan food as a side-effect of not getting bored with it, but getting enough vegan food that has proteins in it.

Does paleo suffer the same deficiency, i.e. is it simple to be lacking in some specific substances that are pretty vital when following a paleo diet?
PMML allows you to use models generated by a variety of tools and systems, including external vendors. While you are right that making it core does create some constraints, it also allows them to easily replace portions of the model building pipeline with relative ease.

Yes, PMML isn't perfect (being kind), but it continues to be extended and is the one shared lingua franca we have across model creation systems, short of (sigh) SAS code and "recode the model in generic C", both of which I see too often.

I suspect in the future we'll see "standard" architecture with pipelines with multiple parallel feeds and runtime engines into ensembles, each of which allows various model types in "native" format (sklearn and other pythonics, R, java, etc.) which would be interesting, instead of having to cram all into PMML. Just a thought.
I believe once people learned to cultivate plants and process grains is when they started forming cities instead on being nomadic or cave dwellers. Also if you look at places like North Korea you will see what improper nutrition will do to a population's height.

Once we made the switch to a non-paleo diet is when we really started to advance beyond hunter/gatherers.
Disclaimer : I worked as an intelligence analyst.

1. I am not in favour of widespread, unaccountable surveillance of UK citizens.

2. During my time we disrupted a number of exceptionally serious terrorist operations.[1] [2] are public knowledge and there are a few others that are not open source at this time.

3. Neither I, nor any of my colleagues, were instructed to keep any files on individuals to be used as political leverage or "for dirt" at a later stage.

That is really all I can add. I am not in favour of how far the needle has swung but but anyone not involved in the Intelligence Community is just simply fumbling around in the dark trying to say what does and what does not happen.

The threat from Qutbism Islamic Fundamentalism (Wahhabi/Salafist inspired terrorism) is real and intelligence organisations work constantly to prevent attacks.

If the threat warrants the level of perceived intrusion...I don't know. That is difficult to judge. Each citizens attitude to risk is different.

The HN crowd are technologically-savvy, critical thinkers but our law enforcement and intelligence agencies also have a mandate to protect the elderly, the young and the incapacitated. Do you think my grandmother gives a fuck about your outrage at having your email read?

All she cares about is that we don't return to the time of consistent bombing on the streets that plagued the troubles.

In short; it's not all about you, your vote is worth exactly one other vote.

[1]http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/terrorism-in-the-uk/9...

[2]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_plot_to_behead_a_British_M...
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Just because you learn from certain businesses doesn't mean you need to start off selling to them. Many businesses start by meeting the needs of smaller businesses and work up to larger ones.
That's a good idea, although it feels kind of dirty to intentionally degrade performance when S.M.A.R.T. can allegedly provide ample warning.

I say "allegedly" because implementation of S.M.A.R.T. attributes is so inconsistent between drives/vendors, and is often totally undocumented. Most manufacturers seem to provide a Windows program that monitors the attributes, but since they're usually undocumented you're kind of out of luck if you're on another OS...
About your second point. That's the domain renewal fees not the acquisition cost.
The article makes the point that the breeds need to exist first. NARO is looking into the second half of that equation.
Maybe I've confused paleo with primal. But on paleo given you can't have grains. What is the majority of carb intake?
oh memories... Some were a bit more lazy and used "trashed" credit card numbers to get free phone calls... They were looking in some restaurant's trash can to get them... Not exactly hi-tech but working nonetheless :-)
Marmelade is my favorite Emacs package archive and I had no idea it was having such trouble. I wonder what an ordinary programmer can do to help.
True that. I rate the UK Military-Industrial complex as a far more dangerous threat to free, open society. The English already have their extremist-enforced laws - its called the Official Secrets Act. If only folks would realize: all the things they're afraid "Islam" will do to them, have already been done in the name of "British safety".
You're conflating tangible with the intangible. Land ownership stems from natural law.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_law

Animals are territorial and that's really the end of that.

However, the idea of owning an idea ... that's a legal construct and a very recent one at that. The idea of owning an idea would be entirely foreign to someone a thousand years ago.

And the idea that you have a moral claim on owning an idea is just patently absurd, for a very simple reason.

You have no means of proving one way or another that you were the first person to have that very thought. It is entirely possible someone else had it long before you. What claim to ownership can you have? Because you commercialized the idea first?

Most countries are moving to a "first to file" system to simplify bureaucracy, so now your moral claim is contingent not even on your business acumen, but on your ability to quickly fill out a form.
> That said, virtually every major health agency recommends a diet where carbohydrates (from vegetables, fruits and grains) represent the majority of calories.

Aren't these health agencies also associated with governments which frequently give preferential treatment and funding to certain groups within the food industry?
Are you equating promotion of "british values" such as democracy,freedom,rule of law with nazism? Or am I misreading your argument?
That's weird you can't break it down into smaller parts? I worked on a big book, about that size with several people and the major, mainstream publishing company wanted it in individual documents mapping to individual chapters.
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The weakness of Diffie-Hellman is authentication not the algorithm itself.

>Nonsense, it's not obfuscation.

The issue with in browser JS you seem to be completely missing is if you can't trust the network to deliver your message. How can you trust it to deliver your crypto unchanged, un-tampered, etc?

The answer is you can't. If you create a system where you can, you render your crypto unnecessary.
Couple of questions I have for anyone in the know about this.

While we may have not evolved a great deal over the last 30 thousand or so years, our bacteria may well have. That would cover our entire digestion systems mouth to anus. I suspect those bacteria have evolved in many ways that may mean we can eat a more modern diet without doing any harm or perhaps doing better. Has this been covered by any of the studies?

I have to question the avoidance of things like bread. Even in Paleolithic times we had crude forms of processed grains and bread. Are proponents of palaeo saying to cut these out completely or just cut out the highly refined kinds?
> At Canonical we use YUI as our JavaScript framework of choice.

Even Yahoo is moving away from using YUI, I'd adopt something else.
Unfortunately macro ratios only don't matter a whole lot in isolation, there are studies with any imaginable result out there for macro ratios so it's easy to pick-and-choose to represent any world view which makes the signal/noise ratio shit.

The easiest take-away is to start with avoiding heavily processed food, regardless of the macro ratios.
There's a lot of poor science behind the paleodiet hypothesis - though it may well work as a healthy diet.

The one point I'm going to make is that our ancestors of a million years ago ate a very wide range of diets that were entirely ecosystem & lifestyle dependent (as we still observe in the modern world). So there is no such thing as "the diet" our ancestors ate, they ate many diets, some were better than others.

I also find the assertion that our digestion - even in terms of commensal gut bacteria - hasn't changed in that time a bit odd. We observe rapid adaptations to diet (e.g. in a handful of generations) in other species.
It doesn't seem possible to delete a playlist or remove tracks from one :( Other than that it's pretty great, maybe I can automate my playlist management now :)
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>Proponents argue modern disorders like heart disease, diabetes and cancer have arisen primarily from the incompatibility between our current forms of diet and our prehistoric anatomy.

I would argue these problems have been around forever they just may be more identifiable today. Now the rate at which we get things like heart disease is probably going up because of the rise in obesity. A diet is not exactly the problem its more of the rate and quantities in which a lot of people eat.
There are issues that people care about in theory, in books & political science courses and such and there are issues that people care about in practice.

In their political sphere, people care about their wealth (economy), their identity (nationalism, religion) & drama (political scandals). These are pretty constant. They are the bread and butter of politics and have ben since ancient time. When wealth decreases, identity is challenged or political drama whips the mob into a frenzy political instability ensues. So long as those are kept in check, political stability is hard to challenge.

If you look at most big stability events (eg the recent riots and protests in Greece), they relate to these. Wealth & political drama. The US banking crisis related to wealth (recession), drama (evolving doors) and identity (corporate welfarism).

Abstract ideas like freedom (of X), democracy, equality, privacy, justice, do not have political weight in their own right. To make them count politically they need to become one of the things that matter, bundled into the national mythology, people's identity.

The US for all their faults, have a genuinely principled foundational mythology/ideology. They can graft principles like privacy onto those making "privacy" into an identity issue. Government spying is offensive to Americans in the same way (though sadly not to the same degree) as a perceived islamization of the UK to the British. Most major political "principle" issues are really identity issues. That's why nationalism and religion are impossible to exorcise from politics.

Americans seem better positioned to put up a fight against this spying stuff than the rest of us because they already have government-skepticism built into their national identity. Europeans can build onto our 'enlightened" edentate though this is less wieldy. But ultimately I have a hard time believing that any of us will avoid being completely surveilled by several governments. There is too much momentum in that direction.
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Are you referring to lifespans? Of course modern medicine has been great. I don't think anybody would deny that. But the question is, where could that number be today with a better diet?
The view that education is or should be a job certification factory is one of the biggest problems with American education today and one of the reasons we don't have a democracy. Education should be about teaching people how to learn, how to teach themselves, how to think critically, and how to challenge both authority and their own ideas. That's what a liberal arts degree once aspired to be. That what a high school education should be, but really never has been. University should not be a job certification factory. We have trade schools and apprenticeships for that.
Um, the "people writing HTML" have done a lot of work to prevent XSS, by introducing Content-Security-Policy and other HTTP headers: http://ibuildings.nl/blog/2013/03/4-http-security-headers-yo...

The main problem is backwards compatibility, as older browsers don't support them, but the idea that people have their head in the sand re. XSS is complete nonsense.
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What extra-curricular interests do you have?
• Consider visiting a church.
• Go to an open language exchange group.
• Look on CouchSurfing, and meet someone for coffee.
Those are usually free of charge, and will put you in contact with mostly respectable people.

I'm a TCK, and I'm a foreigner everywhere. I'm now in rural India, and I started a conversation in a supermarket checkout queue with some Chinese coconut fibre traders. "Ni Zhongguoren ma?" "Oh, you speak Chinese? Where are you from? Want to come over for dinner with us?" and now I have friends who I meet every weekend.
If you want to make friends online, and miss the days of long conversations on MSN Messenger, try QQ. Several strangers have added me, just wanting to make friends with someone outside China. If you're concerned about language, you can use Google Translate. To save on copy-pasting, I made YouLing for Mac: http://peterburk.github.com/youling that automatically translates both ways.
I was also very shy and a victim of bullying when I was younger, so have hope! There are millions of people like you, and more who have had the same struggles before.
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You got me, it was more assertion than science!

Taxis here don't drive around without fares generally. [Private] Cars often park on the street too. Cars are most often used for 2-4 journeys per day making the cost of resources per day quite large - taxis are used for ... well I don't know the statistics but a lot more than 4 journeys in a day and they do far more people miles.

So, just looking at street space, if instead of parking my car on a road all day a taxi occupies that space occasionally whilst also doing far more people miles ... the taxi gets more efficient use of space and the resources locked up in the vehicle get more people-miles per unit time.

Of course private cars park in lots too, as do taxis here. Private cars don't often do one way trips in a way that is possible to get a proximal one-way journey in the other direction.

Thanks for the link - I've only read the summary but it doesn't say what the $500million of lost time is compared against? If instead of doing those journeys by taxi everyone walks will they really save enough time to create $500million of benefit? Or, will it just be $500million benefit to the richer folks (their delivery will cost 5¢ less or whatever) vs. $5 work time lost to a poorer person who relies on public transport [blind, hand-wavy, analysis!!].
I have an app with auto-update, and one day I realized that I had (more or less) root on hundreds of users' machines. I'm not special in this regard.

I take fairly strong precautions with my keys: offline storage, encrypted, signing on an air-gapped machine. I'd bet you money that most people aren't so careful. There are probably a lot of secret signing keys sitting in DropBox.
Assuming everyone here is very aware of Hipmunk (YC S10), but right around the same time that Hipmunk launched with flights there was a hotel startup called Room 77, founded by some travel bigwigs including Brad Gerstner, that unveiled at Launch Festival (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DH2b7IUx_14). Room 77 was trying to tackle this exact problem (http://www.tnooz.com/article/room77-has-a-view-to-shake-up-o...).

However, Room 77 just recently announced a licensing deal with Google that indicates somewhat of a pivot to mobile with a portion of their team joining Google (http://skift.com/2014/04/07/room-77-taps-google-for-an-exit-...).

As a lifelong student of hospitality, former hotelier, and now cofounder in a hotel startup, it's highly unlikely that we'll ever see hotels letting travelers pick their own rooms. This would be a logistical nightmare with preparing rooms, early checkins, late checkouts, stayovers, etc. In Vegas forget about it; there are days when a hotel will turn over 1000+ rooms and it would be impossible to do so in an orderly manner. First to checkout are the first cleaned and the first available to whomever is at the front desk. Plain and simple.

Inventory in other hotels can get tricky with numerous bed types, room types, room view upgrades, etc. It sounds like a great idea for travelers, but a nightmare for hotels who would have to deal with irate guests if they didn't get their desired room.

Commodification is a thing right now with hotels (think of all those upsells on planes like extra leg room; a company called Nor1 - http://www.nor1.com/ - is working on streamlining hotel related upgrades) and the 24 hour stay (not so much technology behind this one, it's built into their property management systems). So if you check in at 6pm the first day you have to be out by 6pm the next day (or whatever time you checked in). If the 24 hour thing works, pre-checkin room selection might stand a chance and get built in to as a part of the upgrade process (I'd imagine it'd encourage you pick a better view or room type and for a fee).
I find it very useful to have an environment/toolchain that allows for quick validation of assumptions. Just something where I can quickly drop some code to see if it does what I think it does. If I get more comfortable, I start to write tests. For some stuff it helps me to put the hight level concept on paper in a flowchart or diagram.

Run some code formatter over the source if you get angry about indentation or other stuff that works you up.

Don't underestimate the human behind the old code. It might look wild to you, but the other coder had probably something in mind. :)

EDIT: about the fighting: Make peace with the code. You can't time travel away the problems. For me, I need to constantly adjust my mental attitude towards unfamiliar code. Sometimes that even helps a bit.
Something is off in these numbers. There are 9000 calories in a kilogram of fat. If Americans were really eating 1700 calories more than required each day they would be gaining around 1.3kg/week (about 3 pounds). Of course, given the same amount of physical activity, the heavier you are the more calories are required to maintain your current weight, so that eventually this 1.3kg/week would level off.

From personal experience, I would say the average weight gain per year in the US is a few kilograms, let's say 2. This is 18000 calories in excess, which is just about 50 calories a day, or basically one apple too many. The clear lesson to be learned is to cut back on the apples.

There are some studies that agree with my anecdotal evidence: http://www.livestrong.com/article/142567-average-increase-we...
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> With a user’s permission, developers can now access user profile information including playlists,

This is awesome news! The last time I tried to write something for Spotify to front-load my last.fm (I know I'm late to the game) account but couldn't get access to the playlists. Going to have to check this out when I get some time.
Root vegetables mostly. But the whole paleo community is just all over the place.