skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have lost 35 lbs in the past six weeks or so. I could not have done it without my simple, digital scale. After using several methods of measuring progress, I realized that the scale is the only tool that isn't horribly prone to operator fluctuations in use. You can keep your calipers, your body tape, your impedance scale, I'll keep my scale, thank you very much.

> No, the entire point is to lose fat, and retain lean body mass.

This is a foolish thing to try to accomplish, as it's impossible to measure your progress and be sure that what you are doing is effective, unless you have your own underwater weighing device or DEXA pod or whatever.

You can effectively have one of two goals, gaining lean mass, or losing weight. It's pointless to gain lean mass unless you've lost enough weight that you'll be able to see the results of gaining mass. When you lose weight, you will also lose a certain amount of lean mass, which you can gain back easily, at least easier than it was to lose the weight.

My favored method for losing weight is to combine intermittent fasting, calorie restriction and carb restriction. I eat a small meal once a day. The other day I had a pub burger without fries and water, that was a rare meal where I had significant carbs. I also do light exercise consisting of a daily 2-3 mile walk. I've gone from 205 to 170 so far, and intend on continuing until I hit 160-155. I trick hunger with small spoonfuls of almond butter.

It sucks for energy and mood but it's fantastic for weight loss. I suspect the energy and mood part are largely mental. What I love about it is that I'm literally melting away years of neglect in the space of a few weeks. I didn't start out so strict, I used to eat a lot more calories in my one meal, around 1300-1500. Now it's closer to 5-900.

At some point I will stop starving myself and start lifting again. I used to try to do both, lose weight and gain lean mass, but without tools I could use to make sure I was on the right track I just gained muscle and kept the fat.
And now you can switch between all of them on the fly easily, and anytime you're logging in on one or could be using Google's OAuth it provides a page to select which ID you'd like to use.
Cisco nearly lost "Chromium" over the same thing.

"33. Google abandoned any trademark rights in Chromium software by failing to control the nature and quality of the open source software developed by others but at the same time permitting others to distribute the third party software under the Chromium mark".

The case was settled.
The majority of Americans have spoken, and want affordable healthcare. You are not in the majority.
Can't you set screenly to a Webpage that just forced to update with new content, i.e. a different channel?!
Indeed there are! In fact we're in the midst of another minor tiff over just that issue right now

http://blog.easydns.org/2014/08/15/heres-why-we-took-down-a-...
Anyone who reads Taubes should also consider Stephan Guyenet's critique of his arguments:

http://wholehealthsource.blogspot.com/2011/08/carbohydrate-h...

http://wholehealthsource.blogspot.com/2011/11/brief-response...

I used to believe in the refined-carb/insulin hypothesis of Taubes, and I even lost weight on it, but I've ditched that model in favor of Stephan's more complete food reward hypothesis - the idea that more rewarding and palatable foods lead to increased calories ingested in certain individuals and hence lead to fat gain.

One approach to weight loss then is to lower the reward value of the diet. One way to do that is low carb, another way is low fat, another way is vegetarian, another way to use gentler cooking methods and less seasoning, the list goes on. But many successful diets that people have used are very well explained by food reward.

edit> I also believe calorie counting and intermittent fasting are very powerful tools used in conjunction with a reduced reward diet. Eating less calories with minimal hunger and losing fat is the holy grail, and these tools are helping me do that in a very effective way.
Smallworks builds a "BrickCase" that is LEGO-compatible.
The body likely has ways of losing weight that are faster than simply eating itself (burning fat)

Not all weight is fat

Metabolic efficiency varies, including by calorie type

Much of the chemical energy output in the body is involved in actually repairing or replacing, not only in expanding the volume of fat reserves or even muscle.

It's all a thermodynamically-limited bunch of processes but thermodynamics is a limit rather than a driver of energy transformations.

Calorie REDUCTIONS don't guarantee weight loss because obviously the body can choose to expend less energy. And if the term CALORIE DEFICIT is used, it is not justifiably used because science currently can't determine the necessary level of granularity since energy, weight, and measurable metabolic output/activity all change in response to factors other than the ones which are thermodynamically relevant, and this makes thermodynamic equations/measurement of human dieing problematic. Essentially the system is kind of a 'black box' and some of the relevant inputs and outputs in the thermodynamic equation are 'inside' that mathematical 'black-box.'

Edits for spelling

Oh and a slightly less vague explanation can be expounded onto the concept of energy transformation to explain why it wouldn't always correlate with a weight change...combining or dividing molecules.

What if your body doesn't have enough energy to go through the processes of burning a fuel source (or the necessarily mistake or vitamins, or other nutrients...)
Part of the problem with that would be telling which books are authoritative for which topics. Or, more interestingly, which authors.
Would love to have something comparable in NY area! Too bad I cannot be in Cali for 6 weeks :/
I had a brief time in Amsterdam last summer during my summer travels and it seemed to be a good scene, albeit a little scattered. That being said there are some co-working hubs like A-Lab and meetups like Appsterdammers (http://www.meetup.com/Appsterdam/) and their weekly event Meeten En Drinken amongst other more formal events. Mike Lemur (@bmf on twitter) founded both those and is THE guy I would point you to as he made a similar move from SF to Amsterdam just a few years back. It was a very inclusive vibe and a lot of fun.
"What I find utterly unfathomable is that the state wrote ONLY 43 POs totalling 132 Million fucking dollars."

Actually since you mentioned it:

"The purchase orders state that the purchase had to be split across multiple POs due to ADPICS controls. OHA explained that this was due to limitation on the authority of the OHA purchaser entering the POs into the ADPICS
procurement system."

So they had to split the POs up to get them past the business rules implemented in their accounting platform? Heh.

(http://www.oregon.gov/DAS/docs/co_assessment.pdf page 36)
I'm waiting for ubjson http://ubjson.org which is probably the most compelling json replacement I've seen yet.
Thank you very much. Perhaps I was wrong. This requirement seems to present an ongoing responsibility/burden for the trademark holder, so it makes no sense for anyone to do it.

http://itlaw.wikia.com/wiki/Naked_license

Does that mean places that explicitly allow "fan fiction" derivative works that use the trademark, are placing themselves at risk of losing ownership of that trademark?

If so, that's very disappointing, as it would seem to be suppressing the ability of authors/creators to be generous with their creations.
The best thing would be to post substantive on-topic comments which other users could then upvote. The absence of solid discussion leaves an opening for ephemeral conniptions.
It's a giant ball of Oracle product horse hair glued together with cat vomit. Want to see what that looks like? Look at any other Oracle customer's codebase. And yet the world hasn't yet plunged into the sun to end it all because of the shame.
World press freedom index 2014
um. just wondering. they have to test for failure conditions too, yes?
Or bacteria?
No, you'd rather focus on what he does that what he is.
Then I guess I missed something. It seemed like they were downplaying genocide because people who committed it are printed on dollar bills.
Google can (and does) change its terms without notice.

It's modestly better about this than many other SaaS / PaaS providers, but not by much.

I'm having a conversation at this moment with the chief architect of G+ over the G+/YouTube Anschluss in which the two services were integrated. I had separate accounts on each prior to this, repeatedly refused to combine accounts, and yet found them combined as of last November.

Worse: individual users have little or no recourse against such actions.

As for Gmail, as has been pointed out, parties not using Google directly have their private correspondence entered into Google's systems. And not just when emailing Gmail addresses, but many domains for which email is handled via Gmail.

Similar arguments could be made for many other online service providers as well. I don't consider Google to be significantly different from many of these, either for better or worse. But they're certainly a massive and major part of the problem, particularly for their size and scope.

Bruce Schneier and Eben Moglen have made this point quite well, particularly in their December, 2013 Columbia Law School talk, and Schneier's April, 2014, Stanford Law School lecture.

Maciej Cegłowski, "The Internet with a Human Face", makes the case far better yet.
http://idlewords.com/bt14.htm
Google’s self-driving cars get a steering wheel for testing in California
>I personally use and love Clojure, but wish it compiled to native code.

It is a matter of implementation, not the language.

So you can:

- use a JVM with AOT compilation like Aonix and RoboVM among many others

- use a bytecode AOT compiler like Excelsior JET

- join the Clojure to C or Clojure to Scheme compiler projects

- write your own compiler
Maciej Cegłowski: The Internet with a Human Face
http://idlewords.com/bt14.htm

One of the best discussions bar none of this issue I've seen.
Can anyone give an example of one of the optimizations that make this compiler so fast, and how it's connected to the whole-program approach—i.e., what invariants it's able to exploit that aren't available to more traditional compilers?
Software engineers expected to make sacrifices to work for this company
Found this anonymous post on pastebin. It reflects Silicon Valley's attitude towards software engineers very well.
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I'm using Hired to get a pulse on the the market for Software Engineers, my target compensation is 10% more than I'm getting paid in my current position. So far, Hired has delivered quite well by connecting me with companies that value my desire to rationally allocate myself in the market. It's all about return on investment: your salary and other compensation in exchange for your time interviewing and developing software at a company.

Then I see this in a company's pitch:

"""
PS: Please note that I'm looking for kickass engineers who want to build the backbone of an industry. But Hired encourages a bidding war. We don’t play along with that. Everyone here at _____ makes sacrifices to be here, because that's what it takes to be a startup, to build a successful company. You should be interested in _____ because of what we do, what you can learn here. We can figure out the salary / equity package once we both agree this is the best next opportunity for you. However, if the minimum salary is what matters to you, _____ is not for you and we’d just be wasting each others time. Please keep that in mind. Thanks!
"""

Software Engineers: please remember that everyday that you go to work is a market transaction and that transaction is something worth optimizing.
Things Computers Can Never Do [1987]
they testing failure conditions?
How does this compare to JSON when gzipped? I imagine any size benefit of stripping colons and parenthesis is negligible compared to a good compression.
Voyager 2 Encounter with Triton Moon of Neptune August 25, 1989 [video]
My apologies everyone - it was a facetious and tasteless remark, and my poor attempt at being funny, while being sarcastic at the same time.
I suppose it's worth mentioning that this post has little to do with JSON and more to do with the Expression Problem.
SpaceX rocket explodes at Texas test facility
In my mind, the ideal way to accomplish this would be:

- Encode the program in a data format like JSON or XML. Ideally, this should be readable (though verbose) on its own.

- Create an IDE that renders the JSON/XML using the typographical stylistic flourishes, and that possibly allows the definition of new styled "blocks". This could even be done with CSS.

Creating a language that is sufficiently connected to its IDE that it can define new syntax highlighting, autocompletion, etc. in the code itself would go a long way toward making something like this practical. DrRacket (http://racket-lang.org/) sort of does this already; it even has image literals!
^^ Oregon deciding to have Oracle consulting engage on a time and materials contract is the big problem.

Hint: always, always do these on bid. No one ever saves money/budget on consultants working time and materials.
The goal is to save keystrokes, not file size.
but what about the singularity?
Kids are exactly what you expect them to be. Never mind what you say; its how you treat them. As a youth leader for 20 years, we've had tremendous performance out of our youth group. Why? Because that's the expectation of the leaders and the older kids in the group. The young ones desperately want to live up to that.

So as long as its age appropriate and reachable, give your kids goals to live up to. If that means telling them they're smart, then tell them that.
You'll get to see more XML metadata than you thought possible.
Official press release: https://www.facebook.com/SpaceX/posts/10154736616455131
I see. "Nom de guerre".
That may be so. But there also may be an opportunity for Amazon to target ads better than anyone else could. Essentially retargeting for Amazon's platform.
So most mobile web access is while at home? I guess that makes sense.
Easy fix: just align the JSON examples out to the right of the LCON ones inside of your MD code blocks.
This, naturally, violates the Google Maps API Terms of Service: https://developers.google.com/maps/terms.

Probably not a big concern for a personal portfolio site, but for most applications this is a bad idea.
SSL was specifically designed to allow for eavesdropping
Someone has packaged it for Windows using the Chocolatey NuGet package manager:

http://chocolatey.org/packages/calibre

I'm sure OS X has something similar, but I wouldn't know where to find it.
BASIC as a Haskell DSL (2009)
Fez developer Polytron hacked in ongoing game developer harassment effort
10.1.1 (f) (x):

> you agree not to:

> (x) delete, obscure, or in any manner alter any brand features, logos, warnings, notices (including but not limited to any copyright or other proprietary rights notices), or links that appear in the Service or the Content;
I am enough – a way to change the world
Yet another former lawyer here, current engineer/PM. I agree with many of the already stated reasons why a career in tech beats lawyering, but what really did it for me was wanting to do something for myself instead of always just being somebody's lawyer.

Once I made the switch I realized the joys of building a tangible product that users get to know and love.
Why don't you open source the code instead? Then sell it as a service that you support.
Is there a description somewhere for how they're handling the security of secret keys on their end?

Also, it looks like the libraries are only offered as tarballs and are being served over HTTP?
I think the negative reaction with has to do with his overly aggressive mustache, not so much the intentional murder of 30-40 million. Not that numbers, scale, proportion, context, or substance should matter to this crowd.
Personally, I find Guyenet's reward hypothesis to be nothing more than a rebranding of typical fat-shaming ("just control what you eat, fatso; and why don't you exercise some more?"). However, that doesn't mean I don't think there is a psychological component to obesity; I just think that psychological component is mediated more by the gut biome than by anything else.

The biggest problem in nutrition research is that almost all the research is useless for drawing conclusions.

The second biggest problem is researchers wrap their identities around their pet theories, so they are immediately blinded to any competing hypotheses (note: I consider Guyenet in this category, but I also put Taubes in this category, and I think Taubes has done more to progress nutrition in the past 50 years than just about anybody else because he is loud and he doesn't tolerate crappy science).

The third biggest problem is people want to believe there is only one cause and therefore one solution. There is no question in my mind that the catastrophic insulin-flooded hormonal environment caused by "6-11 servings of grains a day in 5-6 small meals spread throughout the day" is a large percentage of the cause of the obesity epidemic, but it's not all of it. Literal addiction to sugar is a piece of it. Ignorance is part of it. Deceptive marketing and inappropriate marketing to kids is a part of it. The list goes on.

I like David Katz' analogy[1]:

What we're all up against—in our efforts to find health—may be likened to a flood. A vast, obesigenic flood. A flood of highly processed, energy-dense, nutrient-dilute, hyper-palatable, glow-in-the-dark, betcha'-can't-eat-just-one kind of foods; a flood of marketing dollars encouraging us to eat ever more of the very foods that propel us toward obesity and chronic disease; a flood of gadgets and gizmos that do all of the things muscles used to do; a flood of agricultural policies that subsidize corn to fatten cows rather than vegetables and fruits to vitalize people; a flood of obligations that leave no time for attention to health.

There are only two ways of dealing with this: build a levee to contain the flood and turn the tide, or captain a ship (or arc) across the floodwaters. One is all about us; the other is all about you.

I also like Yoni Freedhoff's comment about it, that people like to point to a sandbag (such as limiting marketing) and say "that won't solve the problem". It takes a lot of sandbags to hold back a flood[2].

Having spent 30 years obese before learning enough about biochemistry to be able to correct my metabolic disorder, one thing I know: we don't need any more fat shaming. It is deplorable and counter-productive. I'll just leave you with one woman's feelings about Guyenet and the realities of dealing with hormonally-induced eating[3]. She is one of the most knowledgable people I've read on-line, with a breadth of knowledge that I find humbling.

1. http://health.usnews.com/health-news/blogs/eat-run/2012/09/1...

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BuLAgnWCIDs&list=UUu_u-P3cBF...

3. http://itsthewooo.blogspot.com/2014/08/food-reward-hypothesi...
I imagine there's a difference between using "you're smart" as a motivator, as you describe, and using it as an exclamation of praise for something that has already been accomplished (as opposed to praising how hard the person worked toward what they accomplished).
I think this text should be on the homepage: "Homeroom creates a secure environment for students and teachers to bring intellectual discussions from class and other parts of their educational experiences to the web. "
Shameless plug: The guys behind OpenTTD are also working on a remake of RCT called FreeRCT [1]. It's still in its infancy and it doesn't have many features, so any contributions are welcomed!

[1] https://code.google.com/p/freerct/
The first thing you show is a signup page. Why would I sign up if I find no value in the site?

"Where the world comes to learn"

If it's a forum, learn from stackoverflow, reddit, 4chan, etc: give everyone your content, and if people find value and want to contribute, they'll sign up.
This appears to be the newer "embed" version of Google maps, which is the source of your UI clutter.

Just use the API and you get no "view on google maps" and you can turn off the zoom and satellite control with disableDefaultUI: true. You still have the copyright line, but it's not really that intrusive.
Google Buys Product-Design Company Gecko for X Projects
This is great. It's like Mint, but instead of showing how you're spending money, it's how you're spending your time.
I just had my wife go through it, and she had similar sticking points. She seemed to grok most of it, with some small explanations of syntax along the way (=== as equality vs = as assignment, [a, b, c] is a list of things, etc).

I think that the value of this tool is to help non-programmers discover that code isn't scary, and that it's made of simple things that regular humans can understand. The key would be to have a developer beside them to (briefly) explain things that look utterly foreign or step in with some guidance if things get frustrating.

Overall, in my opinion it's a fantastic "gentle introduction to programming". It was a real confidence-builder for my wife, and she's agreed to go through tryruby.org with me tomorrow. Mission accomplished, IMO.
read this for about 15 seconds before I realized it didn't say "WordPress"
It depends what the contract is exactly. We all know the Oracle isn't some altruistic company who is going to take losses out of any kind of moral obligation.
I worked for a collaborative ed-tech startup from 2012-2013. Happy to talk about it / give advice, my email is in my profile.
With adequate exercise you won't lose muscle mass.

I work construction and went on a strict keto diet, I was losing ~1lb per weekday. I actually got stronger whilst on the diet, which I attribute to the increased testosterone that comes in after your body becomes adapted.

It's important to note that the Inuit used to live on an exclusive ketogenic diet, they also live in an environment that requires ~6,000 calories a day to simply maintain if living the traditional lifestyle.

What I found working outside whilst on keto and running into winter was that my body managed to maintain its heat extremely well and far better than previous years on a normal diet. I estimated my caloric use at between 4500-5000 a day by how much I ate and how much I lost.

As with any diet it's important to eat adequate protein and exercise. Protein is quite readily converted (very inefficiently) into sugar, and if you don't force it into ketosis you go into starvation and that's when you really risk muscle atrophy.
The shallower the problem you're solving, the more important UX issues will be, relatively. When you're writing complex software, putting the text in boxes instead of quotes matters approximately not at all.
How about fixing the physiological problem that is telling you you are hungry? If you are feeling hungry all the time, it is because you are leptin resistant. People become leptin resistant in an insulin-flooded environment. Solution: restore leptin sensitivity by stopping the flow of insulin. You stop the flow of insulin by reducing carbs (and possibly protein). You maintain leptin sensitivity using intermittent fasting (if you have iron will-power, you could use this as a starting point, but that sounds miserable to me).

Note that this physiological state (leptin resistance) is likely an evolutionary survival advantage as people would be insulin-flooded when eating fruit in the late summer and early fall, just as packing on weight for winter would be most advantageous. Since we never have the proverbial winter to lose the weight and restore leptin sensitivity, we are left starving and eating more all of the time.

People don't get fat because they are eating too many calories. People are eating too much because, physiologically, they are getting fat. Hormones drive the behavior.