skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good transparency on their business model, http://plato.stanford.edu/support/problems.html

"a subscription-based funding model would lead the SEP project towards a situation where it loses it focus and character as a project developed, administered and maintained by academics. Not only would the SEP reach a tiny fraction of the audience it once reached, but it might be forced to scramble each year to make ends meet, distracting its central staff from the academic mission of enhancing the encyclopedia's content and technological underpinnings. By contrast, if its basic operations and growth were covered by an endowment, the SEP staff could focus their fund-raising efforts on innovative grant proposals (taking advantage of their location at the Center for the Study of Language and Information) to push the technological limits of humanities computing"
The difference between six days and six weeks is that you learn to appreciate the limits of your own biology.
I'm not sure who is this for. It just seems redundant to functionality that is natively present in backends that integrate with Stripe. I mean, if someone's checking out on my site and a Stripe charge fails, the checkout code knows that, it logs the event and dispatches the alert. There is absolutely no point in funneling this through some 3rd party paid service. That's not even venturing into the area of confidentiality issues of letting some random service full access to our Stripe activity. In fact, privacy and confidentiality considerations is the major killer of any 3rd party Stripe extension service.
Yes, it was amusing to read in Graeber's _Debt: The First 5000 Years_ about economics' founding myth of barter. And "the fact that many of Adam Smith’s most famous arguments appear to have been cribbed from the works of free-market theorists from medieval Persia (a story which, incidentally, has interesting implications for understanding the current appeal of political Islam)."

Econ is indeed the dismal pseudoscience...
What an odd introduction: "Have you ever wondered what it would be like to go through training as an ISIS terrorist? Or better yet, where you would go to find such advanced training?"

Nope.
http://surescripts.com - they pretty much own the market
The article did not claim the energy used to proceed the hypothetical AAA battery was free. That certainly would oversell some things.

On the contrary, if they'd demoed the thing with a small solar panel I might have had some issues with it, and wanted to see some elaboration. The fundamentally good thing about the battery example is that everyone understands that making a battery costs something. IMO it's a better example than you give them credit for.

Certainly everyone reading here understands that it takes energy to make a battery, that the creators of the gadget haven't defeated the laws of thermodynamics, and so on. Hence my comment about trusting the reader.
No, we aren't arguing semantics. You're arguing semantics now that you have a lot of qualifiers on the statement you made earlier.

Your initial assertion was that high insulin levels cause fat storage (really, insulin causes blood glucose to drop, either through glycogen uptake in muscle tissue or lipogenesis and glucagon causes it to rise via the opposite mechanisms) in response to the prompt:

> Would you lose more weight drinking two liters of coca-cola a day or eating the equivalent total calories in a high-fat protein rich food?

I'm sorry that my made-up scenario isn't the same as your made-up scenario, which now has a ton of conditions and it suddenly "real life".

Yes, in real life, someone who consumes 2000 liquid calories is going to be hungry. As is someone who consumes 2000 calories of bread. Or donuts. Or anything else which is digested rapidly (and this is exactly why I brought up satiation).

But this isn't a "hormone imbalance." This is, in fact, absolutely typical and ideal action from hormones doing their job, unless your made-up-real-world scenario now also involves people with insulin resistance. Because 2000 calories is 2000 calories, and while studies show that the normal metabolic range is +/- 200kcal from calculated bmr, "hormones" are not some wild card. Men eat more (higher bmr, testosterone promotes liposysis and better nutrient partitioning), but a man or a woman doesn't go through massive hormonal changes on a regular basis, and consumption of an equivalent number of calories from different macronutrient groups can be expected to have about the same effects on composition (unless it's all protein, in which case you get to worry about dying).

If you want to discuss hypothetical scenarios (2000 calories of sugar vs equivalent total calories in a high-fat protein rich food), discuss them. But don't change your stance when someone questions you.
Resistance is not futile. TextSecure from Android is coming to iOS.
I don't really see the big issue to be honest. When they split the app out, it was the first time I actually installed it, because I wanted to have the messenger, without anything else from facebook. Sure, it has some annoying features, but they can be disabled. I don't like it, but don't understand the hate people have for it.

There's also the issue of permissions, but they actually use all of the features. Maybe not in very attractive ways, but I can see how they try to make the app convenient for the average person.
I know there is huge variance for how much software developers make. Curious about what the variation for doctors in the same specialty is.
DigitalOcean, spend a couple of hours getting a server setup that covers your general stack and then save it as an image. Then in the future you can just boot a new server on that image for $5 p/m.
No, but they have access to it.
Kongregate
Are you seriously linking a study from the 40s from a blog post hawking a book? Please go read the last 80 years of nutritional research.
Here you go:

var ospry = new Ospry('YOUR_PUBLIC_KEY');

//UPLOAD
var el = document.getElementById('up-form');
el.addEventListener('onsubmit',function(e) {
e.preventDefault();
ospry.up({
form: this,
imageReady: imageReady,
});
},false);

//DOWNLOAD
ospry.get({
url: metadata.url,
maxHeight: 400,
imageReady: function(err, domImage) {
document.appendChild(domImage);
},
});

It's the same amount of steps.
> An attorney is called upon at the birth of an organization and then, later, when it is sick or dying. Two or three times a month like clockwork I would sign up a new client in the throes of a software warranty dispute; I would usually find out that the deliverables had been ill-defined, that there was a mismatch of expectations between the parties, and that the warranties and the conditions of acceptance had not been specified.

This is an apropos description of what a litigator does. They're there when the optimism and hype if a project "to be" gives way to the cold hard reality if a project as it "turned out." I imagine many people find this depressing.

That said, its really fun in its own way. My wife is a bankruptcy attorney, and loves this aspect of her practice. Bankruptcy practice is all about expectations meeting reality. The $40 billion EFH bankruptcy winding its way through the courts was a bet on gas prices going up that hit the reality of fracking driving up supply. Its fun, in its own way, to try and clean up the resulting mess. If I had my way, I'd only ever take cases where things had gone really sideways.
Isn't supporting new features one of the many issues? Each API level has many very useful new features but most users are stuck several versions below.

There's also the security issues of having an older version of Android. Each new version patches many security vulnerabilities, but most devices will be forever stuck on an old version.

From what I've read it seems to be mostly a hardware reason that it's up to the manufacturers to keep Android up to date.
I originally wrote Plumb for PHP, which has much more cumbersome lambda notation than Python, so the Python port is less useful; it's more for completeness (I'm playing with a Haskell version too, which is even less necessary).

Since the main point of Plumb is that its syntax is compatible with other languages, we might as well embed it in anything that works :)

As a bonus, the Python version will curry everything you give it. This is nice, since non-curried functions are unnecessarily painful to work with, but you could do that without using Plumb.
I hate you, I hate you, I hate you.

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Also please add voting ASAP, k thx bai.
I think they are just going to offer it as open source software be a use you can get the Lego yourself. The software scans the picture and translates that to calendar input.

the last line on the post says it is an experiment and not a product.
I refused, and then uninstalled the main app. Their required permissions for the Android apps were getting ridiculous.
I'm currently have 3 screenly[1] installations on RPis and works nice. Doesn't support channels though, which is a major drawback for DS but other than that works fine and it's open-source.

[1] http://www.screenlyapp.com/
Sugar does not cause inflammation. Sugar lowers cortisol and adrenaline levels. These stress hormones suppress existing inflammation. So in people with elevated catecholamine levels sugar intake tends to unmask damage and initiate a healing process.

This is related to the reason people think low carb diets work. Low carb dieting sends stress hormones way up, because cortisol is necessary to break down proteins into needed sugars. People tend to feel pretty good at first in this state. The problem is it totally breaks down into bad endocrine and metabolic problems after two or three years. Nobody debates that ketogenic diets seem to work for weight loss in the short run; the issue is that in the long run they're a health disaster.
Why don't you help out? It's fully open source.
How is this remotely as likely or important is genetic testing? We don't need to make up new things to be worried about, really.
What's in your bag?
Yeah, the condition you mention is the key: what are the odds that the US economy (or the overall world average, if you're diversified with a global index) will continue to grow as gloriously as it has done in the past 50 years? (when the guy started investing)
He did improve the evolutionary odds of most people on HN, so that counts for something.
Regarding the VRBO research, how does this help you vs. plain ole' Google streetmap? Or is she using streetmap in a non-traditional way? We've been renting a property sourced from VRBO for the past 6 years, so I'm curious how you're researching properties.
Be careful what you tweet
I can't reply to your comment & don't want this to turn into a flamewar, but we're essentially saying the same thing.

Calories in > calories out can "work", but it's not an efficient way to address body composition - especially with people new to nutrition because of the hunger / craving factor that invariably comes up.

Also - continually drinking 2000 calories of coke is going to lead to chronically high blood sugar / insulin levels and will degrade their insulin sensitivity over time.
I don't suppose he's backtracked on his awful position on auto-updates?
What's wrong with that? Assuming you escape the table names correctly, that seems reasonable. And if you can't escape the table names, you're going to have a hard time dynamically generating queries anyway. Parameterized queries are a baseline requirement for values, but are rarely supported by client libraries for things like table or schema names.
here's one for you.

http://www.cracked.com/blog/the-5-most-useless-pieces-advice...
Countries that don't have 911 as the emergency number often have to mount campaigns telling people not to dial it.
Ah, that makes a lot more sense. Thank you for explaining.
that guy is a troll. he's literally repeating the same useless thing over again. everyone knows how simple it is to lose weight, the problem is the difficulty with people who have a physiological and psychological problem of overeating. that's the thing he doesn't address at all and is the actual problem today.
It's definitely an idea I've thought about a lot (and would gladly work on). I really think strictly using plain-text as the interface to the compiler is a dead-end for language design. Language designers base features around what's symbols are available in ASCII... What would be needed of course would be library support for extending this interface. For example, an image library, and a complementary IDE plugin for managing image resources.
What about transferring the site's hosting and its ownership to a US entity?
Actually, no. Nor is it related to the Gamecube game Super Bubble Pop.

Or Fizzy Pop.

Or Popcorn Time.
Mathematica/Wolfram Language enables this with quite a bit of success, but it's by no means a silver bullet. The reality is this does not change semantics.

http://www.wolfram.com/language/fast-introduction-for-progra...
Thanks! Once I do some work on the parser I'll probably try and write up some basic Haskell lessons.
I tried this but was unable to reproduce it.
Humans are very inefficient at converting carbohydrate to fat; we don’t do it under normal conditions. (The cost for this conversion is 30 percent of the calories consumed.) Subjects overfed large amounts of simple sugars under experimental laboratory conditions, however, will convert a small amount of carbohydrate to fat. For example, both trim and obese women fed 50 percent more calories than they usually ate in a day, along with an extra 3 ½ ounces (135 grams) of refined sugar, produced less than 4 grams of fat daily (less than 1/8 ounce). That’s just 36 extra calories stored as fat per day. You’d have to overeat all of those extra calories and table sugar every day for nearly 4 months just to gain 1 pound of extra body fat.

6 . Hellerstein MK. De novo lipogenesis in humans: metabolic and regulatory aspects. Eur J Clin Nutr. 1999 Apr; 53 Suppl 1: S53-65. 7 . Acheson KJ, Schutz Y, Bessard T, et al. Glycogen storage capacity and de novo lipogenesis during massive carbohydrate overfeeding in man. Am J Clin Nutr. 1988 Aug; 48 (2): 240-47. 8 . Minehira K, Bettschart V, Vidal H, et al. Effect of carbohydrate overfeeding on whole body and adipose tissue metabolism in humans. Obes Res. 2003 Sep; 11 (9): 1096-1103. 9 . McDevitt RM, Bott SJ, Harding M, et al. De novo lipogenesis during controlled overfeeding with sucrose or glucose in lean and obese women. Am J Clin Nutr. 2001 Dec; 74 (6): 737-46. 10 . Dirlewanger M, di Vetta V, Guenat E, et al. Effects of short-term carbohydrate or fat overfeeding on energy expenditure and plasma leptin concentrations in healthy female subjects. Int J Obes Relat Metab Disord. 2000 Nov; 24 (11): 1413-18. 11 . McDevitt RM , Bott SJ, Harding M, et al. De novo lipogenesis during controlled overfeeding with sucrose or glucose in lean and obese women. Am J Clin Nutr. 2001 Dec; 74 (6): 737-46. 12 . Danforth E Jr. Diet and obesity. Am J Clin Nutr. 1985 May; 41 (5 Suppl): 1132-45. 13 . Hellerstein MK. No common energy currency: de novo lipogenesis as the road less traveled. Am J Clin Nutr. 2001 Dec; 74 (6): 707-8.
Work on RedShift?
All You Can Eat – What Makes Us Fat
Grilling up Good Ideas
it makes little sense to plead the 5th here, because whether parliament has sat in the last year will not effect the outcome of your trial

Ah, but you're looking at Section 5 of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and when people say "plead the fifth" they're talking about the fifth amendment to the constitution.

Of course, we don't number our constitutional amendments; but if you look at them in chronological order, I believe the fifth would be the Statute Law Revision Act, 1893, which... well, actually it did nothing at all except to repeal sections of the British North America Act which no longer had any effect.
Stalin: a global optimizing compiler for Scheme
I could imagine that it keeps resorting to overtime out of sight and out of mind.
Senna: A Blazing-fast Single Page Application Engine
You call it "spamming Twitter", others might call it "developing a web app": In April 2014, the group developed a free internet application called The Dawn of Glad Tidings, which automatically posts tweets - approved by Isis media managers - to the accounts of the application's subscribed users.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-27912569
I found this to be very insightful, as I am not familiar with the cited research. It brings to mind my own memories of growing up, and how being told how "smart," I was could actually act as a hindrance.

As the article notes, I was only praised when I got a correct answer, or used a big word without stumbling. In one particular memory, I am afraid of taking a new mathematics placement test in school -- not because of the difficulty, but precisely because I had gotten a perfect score on the last one. There was no room to grow, if I didn't get them all right again, would that make me not "smart?"

Very simple changes in the language we use with young children could possibly avoid that kind of anxiety in bright youth.
Nice. They are on github! https://github.com/ngageoint
Show HN: Balance – A Work-Life Balance App Using the Moves API
I do not believe that is true. I can eat greasy hamburgers minus the bun and feel completely fine. I thought the body would use fat and ketones to convert to energy and only convert a very small percentage of protein to glucose.

From the Harvard Medical School Family Health Guide:

"Don't be so refined. The bolus of blood sugar that accompanies a meal or snack of highly refined carbohydrates (white bread, white rice, French fries, sugar-laden soda, etc.) increases levels of inflammatory messengers called cytokines. Eating whole-grain bread, brown rice, and other whole grains smooths out the after-meal rise in blood sugar and insulin, and dampens cytokine production."

http://www.health.harvard.edu/fhg/updates/What-you-eat-can-f...
Not so, because you can always transact to lose money. Just cross the market to buy, cross the market to sell what you just bought, as fast as you can. You can blow off an arbitrary amount of money in an arbitrarily short amount of time. It's basically true that you can't make money by picking losing stocks any easier.
ICU at NorthSide Festival
It is more complex then the situation you presented.

Sugar is literally a poison, it's the reason why unchecked type 1 diabetes leads to deterioration of various organs. The body knows this but also runs on the stuff, so it tries to keep it at a sane level that does the least amount of damage to the body while still providing enough energy to run.

When blood sugar spikes, the body starts storing in the liver, when that storage is used up, it starts converting the sugar into cholesterol(and fat). Insulin is the primary hormone involved in this mechanism. So the body starts storing the energy in alternative non-immediately usable forms not because it runs out of storage and an excess of sugar in the blood is extremely harmful.

Protein based or complex carbs which convert to sugar interaction with this bodily hysteresis differently. It does not cause the blood sugar spike and the associated insulin surge.

Using a completely different line of logic, it's trivial to say that energy in / energy used is the dominating factor in weight gain or loss, when you examine people that eat a lot and don't gain weight regardless of exercise/fitness related factors, vs those that eat moderate portions with moderate exercise but nevertheless do not lose weight.

In short, there are a lot of factors involved here.
"Like many other medical conditions, obesity is the result of an interplay between genetic and environmental factors. Polymorphisms in various genes controlling appetite and metabolism predispose to obesity when sufficient food energy is present."

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

Over-eating is required.
>"Our country doesn't have a tradition of unlimited anonymous election spending. That only started happening with Citizens United in 2010. So we're not about to unleash some new torrent of attacks on previously anonymous donors."

To be clear, Citizens United was engaged in either campaign spending, candidate advocacy, or issue advocacy, depending on how you look at their actions; it is difficult to describe what they did as 'election spending' because the money was not going towards an election. This is a meaningful distinction, and not merely semantic for a number of reasons, of which I am sure we are all aware.

There is a history of anonymous political speech in the USA, beginning with the federalist and anti-federalist papers. If one agrees that media corporations should be allowed to spend on anonymous campaign speech, then it follows that everyone else should have the same right. It is illogical to limit anonymous speech to broadcasters, publishers, as well as their friends and allies.
I got an email today that easydns bought out ZoneEdit, something my company uses. I hadn't heard about them previously and now I read this. I'm glad they bought ZoneEdit, I'm down with a company like this.
As both a developer and someone who takes medicine, I'd just like to say: NO

I shred my Prescription labels, and now they're basically going to be opened up to the world for some stupid developer to expose because he/she didn't think it through?

Apple's location data was secure until 3rd party apps leaked it. No thanks. The convenience is not worth the loss in security/privacy
I think an old internet adage applies here:

'Ironic shitposting is still shitposting'
Entrepreneurs distinguished by their well-rounded experience (2002) [pdf]
This is common knowledge by now. I didn't even have to read the article, just skimmed it. These types of articles really cater to people who were often told they were smart when they were little, or found school to not be difficult.

I have even seen non-educated mothers state this fact even while playing poker, "yeah I never tell my son he's smart, I congratulate his hard work instead because it changes his mindset".
Android, unfortunately, has really, really broad permissions and they're only getting worse.
I play a bit of OpenTTD from time to time. There's quite a learning curve, but it's enjoyable. For all the tweaks though, there's a couple that I always want, are always the source of me stopping play:

I don't like negotiating with towns to let me lay down roads and other infrastructure. After a while dealing with this nonsense by planting thousands of trees gets old and doesn't work all the time. I wish I could just turn that off.

I wish resources didn't run out. By the time I have a pretty cool multi-mode transport network worked out, somebody will run out of resources and I have to undo the whole thing. The maps are big enough that infinite resources would still be fun.

The game gets into these weird modes were my boats or trains or whatever are shuttling around tons of mail, or the lines to use service at one stop are unbelievably long and there's no activity anywhere else. I think it's a bug (but I'm open to it being a problem in my transport network as well).

The GUI gets a little obtuse and fussy for my taste. It's okay when you're building up a mode of transport, but once your network starts to get really medium sized you quickly run into trouble trying to keep track of what's going where or doing what.