skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The way I have organised is to have 5 varying levels. This limits the volume of passwords I have to recall whilst maintaining variety. While there is still opportunity for cross-use if one is hacked it does create breakage points from areas more likely to be hacked and avoids a single point of failure. It's structured something like this;

1) Random sign-ups.

2) Slightly personal information e.g. Hackernews

3) Personal or slightly financial: e.g. mail accounts

4) Financial: e.g. Banking/Share trading

5) Work accounts

I've been wondering if I should expand this to have the same as above but bring in a component of the URL into the password to create variance for all but keeping it easy to remember. Does that seem a good method or do people have better systems?
I've lost about 65 lbs in about the same timeframe once, but by going with a mostly carb diet (& a lot of exercise). The trick for me was just eating less overall and doing a lot of exercise...that seems to be the most consistent solution for weight loss I've found from personal experience.
You also turn orange if you eat too many carrots: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carotenosis

You turn yellow from jaundice.
The central problem with SQL is a lack of modularity and reusability. The syntax is easy to learn, it's just onerous to do complex things.

Dev teams and analysts use text files, Gists, and emails to save hundreds of useful queries containing similar patterns, subqueries, and clauses that could easily be repurposed if the language had any reusability features. There's a lot of waste and it can feel like a big task to ask a simple question.

That said, it's very easy to learn SQL and the author's suggestions don't seem to maintain that learning curve. I disagree that "human language mimicking" is a problem -- SQL syntax actually makes a lot of sense (I'm "SELECTing FROM a table and ORDERing the results" etc).

What we need is a higher level language or tool to describe relations in a database -- something like an ORM or XML used in legacy BI tools. SQL still lives underneath. IBM Cognos, SAP Business Objects, Microstrategy, and others tried this to varying levels of success. Another commenter (siganakis) gets it right: "I would prefer a syntax layer that can be compiled / transformed back to SQL."

We're actually working on something very similar to that at Looker (http://looker.com) if anyone is interested in hearing more about it, but we aren't quite at the point where we can release the language spec to the world yet.
Where are we going again?
I meant no runtime installation, it's statically linked.
I'd just like to join you up here on this soapbox and point out three nice benchmarks I've personally used to keep things I make nicely accessible:

- It must be simple to use your api via command line Curl

- Any site you make must look decent or at least be usable without css or javascript

- All sites must be fully navigable and understandable in lynx (the command line browser).

Keep with these, and the way is easy.
I'm wondering how much of the difference is due to what you're drinking, rather than eating. Cmd-f in the journal article found no "drink", "juice", "soda", or "beer", so it seems likely they didn't consider it.
Ah, and just to be explicit, I apologize for having taken that snarky tone earlier. It was completely uncalled for.
So... FWIW, I totally don't have these problems with twitter. It's probably because I only check my twitter feed and spout out a few tweets at a time once every two weeks or so and pretty much ignore it the rest of the time.

Full disclosure: I don't use any other social network besides twitter, either. It's because it's so non-committal that I can deal with twitter...
Use Python?

Most of the time I find myself struggling with Bash, it's because a simple script has kept expanding in scope and I'm well into the sunk-cost fallacy in trying to fix "just that one last thing".

But unless you have a really specific environment, I'm pretty sure most modern servers probably have Python or Ruby or some other stack that can be a shell script available. If you're in Bash, it's because you were trying to do something quickly.
Those conversations definitely happen, but usually a knee-jerk reaction to annual employee surveys (and managers can spend a heck of a lot of time spinning results that look bad).

An interesting alternate approach I was privy to and liked joining was a weekly 'spruce up the office meeting' where some of the management team would discuss upcoming holidays (how to best fit employee needs), decorations, budgets allocated to 'team building' events (more often than not - give the staff the money and have them provide a receipt for somewhere they've spent it), who has a birthday coming up, etc. Discussion of plants was included too. Team prizes, award certificates. I definitely recommend trying such a weekly approach and seeing if it works. We did ours on a Friday afternoon, where everyone was itching to get going as it was; pretty fun and relaxed.
I've read Taubes book, word of warning, it is huge and it is a book about diet, not a diet book. Don't buy it unless you're committed :)
Is America's health care underperformance a myth?
Why not just use:

https://lastpass.com/

https://agilebits.com/onepassword

http://keepass.info/
tl;dr: <picture> tag. It contains an <img> tag inside for backwards compatibility, and allows you to define multiple <source> tags for different sizes.
"Ephermal or temporary views that are session/connection based, or even loadable as modules would be useful to me."

You mean like temp tables in MSSQL? They come in various flavours, they're all pretty handy. The most flexible of these is the XML variable, but there are far simpler options than that.
The slow carb thing is fine (better than atkins, keto, high fat, etc) but still probably overly restrictive. I think what remains easier and possibly better for almost everyone is 1) eat in moderation, 2) avoid processed foods and 3) be minimally active (ie, 10 miles of walking per week).
If you want to buy a business, if you are a investor, then I think the best place for you to begin is connect with VCs, angel investors or visit crowdsourcing or crowdfunding websites like kickstarter.com .

The next best option is visit incubators like the one being run at IIM Bangalore. https://twitter.com/Shivanand_25

Lastly meetup.com can help you reach some developers, those developers would know about other developers who have put their products and businesses up for sale.
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I didn't know it.
How comfortable is it to live in Shenzen as an expat? I spent half a year in Changsha and Shanghai as an undergrad and absolutely fell in love with the country in ways I never did for Japan. I found that feeling odd since I spent years studying Japanese and ultimately wound up teaching English in Hokkaido for a year.

I'll probably spend another two or three years stateside with my family, but ultimately I am disdainful of American materialism. I can't come to grips with the price of rent, the long commutes, and the costs associated with living here. Maybe I'm just too frugal. I grew up an only child honestly having more than I needed, and as a consequence I don't want to accumulate anything material that is just superfluous. I'd love to live in a capsule hotel with just my laptop and bike. I suppose I'm getting way off topic...

My Mandarin is pretty bad as I only studied it off and on for six months or so. Do you see a late 20-something white software engineer as being capable of making a living in Shenzhen? Or is this a pipe dream? What recommendations could you make?
never experienced it. I just ate more vegetables, nuts and fats.
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Strangely for me- neither Chrome nor Firefox seems to load this. Would be helpful if we knew what's missing to make this work.
There are many browsers out there, not just Chrome and Firefox, esp. on mobile. Android Chrome is fairly out of sync with desktop Chrome. Kindle devices use their own browser and won't let you install another one, etc. Plus, mobile users update their apps or their OS rarely, if ever.

Shouldn't the solution come from the server side? You can serve different image sizes to different devices, whereas if you need the browser to do the work you'll wait forever.

There is even a simpler solution, which is to use just one image of average-to-small size, and size it in the page dynamically. If the image is of good quality in the first place (noise free), most users won't notice.
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if some people are interested in a little bit more details than a reverse culture chock blog post, there is a bunch of interesting videos here about the link Shenzen/Hong Kong, shipping your product, finding your factory etc: https://www.youtube.com/user/iantube/videos
This is a bit of a linkbait. There are maybe two lines on how the new "picture" element makes the web faster.

The rest is the story of how the "picture" element came to be, which is a very interesting story but has nothing to do with how it'll make the web faster.
I only ever choose unsalted. It's actually really frustrating - my supermarket sells unsalted bags of cashews for $2 more than the salted bags.
There's always http://www.realworldtech.com/
If you think recursively, the n log n divide and conquer solution is pretty straightforward.

The problem becomes much more interesting when you consider optimal parallel performance. The best span you can do is log^2 n. I believe the problem can be reduced to sorting, though it is not required to explicitly sort the sequence of buildings in order to achieve the desired asymptotic performance.
Even the <foreign country> resumes with false ages put down 27-30. Any ageism against 25 will be of the too-young variety.
Yep, this is pretty true. I've been working at an electronics company here in Shenzhen for almost 5 years and this is a pretty good description.
In case you did not know: This is closely related to an s-buffer (s for span) in graphics. And the first approach (height map) is pretty much a z-buffer. Your silhouette there is eye distance (z) across a single scan line. One difference of how it is approached in graphics is that usually not all spans are an input array but inserted one at a time.
This book is really good. I hope to have time to go through the whole thing in detail some day, but so far I've only read the first few chapters. If you want a (much more usable and readable) PDF version, go here: http://www.math.wisc.edu/~keisler/calc.html

Keisler also has another shorter book on the same stuff: http://www.math.wisc.edu/~keisler/foundations.html
Disgusting, but not surprising. A corporation is a soulless entity with one goal: maximize profits. That doesn't produce ethical, human-friendly actions.
Forgive my flip dismissal, bad use of caps, and general un-hacker newslike tone just this once, but:

NO MORE FAD DIET BULLSHIT, PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE!!!

It's just like we have known since the Ancient Greeks and probably earlier -- eat fewer rich foods, more light foods, a big variety of foods, and get lots of moderate activity.

Want to lose weight? Eat fewer calories than you burn. Want to gain muscle mass and tone? Work out regularly. Etc.

Jesus christ, the next time I hear the words "Gluten Free" I am going to scream, jumping up and down, Remember The South Beach Diet!?? Remember the no-fat diet????!!! Don't you people ever learn!?!?!?!

Sorry. I promise to write more grown up posts in the future.
And, ironically, ArsTechnica isn't responsive and uses stock images that contribute nothing to the article (blurry hands on a laptop keyboard!)
Noise has nothing to do with good quality in this case. Pixels are the enemy, and they show up all too quickly when you scale a small image to a large size.
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One of my favorite snacks these days is guacamole spread on rice cakes. It's not zero-carb, obviously, but the carb level doesn't seem excessive to me.

Guacamole is better on chips, but if I have chips around I'll eat too many of them. On the other hand if I try to eat the guacamole by itself, without any sort of crispy substrate, it's just unappetizing.
Why stop at images only? A more general solution using CSS-like media queries would be much preferable; with a general solution it would be possible to serve all sorts of assets (CSS, JS, Images, Video, etc) tailored to the display device and network connection.
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A lot of what you are suggesting is quite feasible today. I work for a company that does its PCBA's and final assembly here in North America. PCBA assembly is so automated that there is actually not much benefit to making them overseas and has a lot of added flexibility. Exactly the reason we are able to do that is because we are located close to a major shipping port.

Tool making is such a labourious process (even with all the CNC machines available) that I don't see it coming back to North America unless wages significantly increase in Asia. Other countries like Mexico or Malaysia definitely can or are providing competition with China on these fronts too.
I love this paper, and keep re-reading it every 4-5 years. It's incredible how actual it still is. From Habitat, to Worlds Chat, to Second Life, or upcoming metaverses using Oculus Rift.
Recently, a HN job post brought me to a career page. It served up a 1MB css file, a 650K [mostly red] png image, and a 300K black and white png.

I don't know whether it's incompetence or indifference, but for most sites, slow loads is a developer, not a tool or design, issue.
Implicit joins idea seems has already been expressed in SPARQL
http://thefigtrees.net/lee/sw/sparql-faq#benefits

In my view, a good query language should support tool-free DSL-ization. Meaning that it should be easy to express data model entities in a DSL for a specific data model. I also think that a data architect should provide as one of the most important artifacts of his/her data model, a query DSL for the data in his/her model. This way the users of the data model will be using a type-safe DSL to get the data.

So to me the biggest limitation of SQL or even SPARQL or the authors' proposal in the referenced article -- is the lack of DSL construction features that can reflect a relational or graph oriented data model
Twitter is an optimal conduit for narcissism, trolling, harassment, mobbing, astroturfing, demagoguery, and manufacturing consent. The medium shapes the discourse, and Twitter encourages and amplifies bad behavior while inhibiting intelligent and thoughtful conversation. Even if it didn't architecturally push you toward this behavior the scale alone enables every bad behavior you would expect if you scaled a single IRC channel up to a billion people. There is no way to "fix" this. It is its nature.

It is a technology that exists because it makes a few people a ton of money and gives regular people a dopamine tweak along with heaps of suffering. It is the online equivalent of a crackhouse.
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ML brings much better heuristics to the party. Basically, the dream of declarative programming with hand written generic decision and data scheduling procedures hasn't really panned out. All the arrows point to it continuing not to pan out very well, while ML has recently blasted beyond our wildest dreams.
Linux Containers – Server Virtualization 2.0: A Game Changer
Your applications already sit upon a mountain of non-determinism.

A typical web app runs against a database with a genetic query optimizer, on top of a VM with a concurrent generational GC, sharing virtual memory with a dozen other processes, arranged in a massive pyramid of caches, which are competing for CPU time from a multi-core monstrosity of a data-flow engine.

The sooner we as programmers embrace stochastic methods, the better.
This is why I would never eat Soylent. It's mostly carbs:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soylent_(drink)
Bitcoin slowly goes global as businesses expand to international customers
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They are indirectly forcing people to follow their idea of how life should be, by forcing everyone to give them money to spend on sniffing petrol and drinking booze. They are indirectly harming people; if you trade with someone else without giving a portion of the proceeds of your trade to the non-workers, they'll throw you in jail, or kill you if you resist.

Somebody has to make the petrol and booze. If you say the people making these products should give them to the non-workers against their will, you're telling them to live their lives how you want them to, not how they want to.
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For the technical side, instead of the historical one: http://responsiveimages.org/

An example from the homepage:

<picture>
<source media="(min-width: 40em)" srcset="big.jpg 1x, big-hd.jpg 2x">
<source srcset="small.jpg 1x, small-hd.jpg 2x">
<img src="fallback.jpg" alt="">
</picture>
You could probably pick a better target than "Gluten Free". A coeliac can experience debilitating stomach pain (almost wanting to scream or not being able to jump up and down) from a tiny piece of everyday bread, as one example.

Being able to eat out with such information readily available is liberating for a coeliac and I think it's a really positive thing that restaurants and manufacturers have become more forward-thinking with their labelling.
<picture> is responsive; when you change the viewport's width, the browser can load a differently-sized version of the image. How would JS be made responsive like that? Once one version of a script is loaded, you can't magically replace it with a difference version.

Of course, you could limit the media queries that could be used with JavaScript, but then your general solution isn't really so general anymore. And there's already a way to dynamically load scripts, so we don't really need another way to do that:

<script>
if (blah) {
document.write('<script src="a.js">');
} else {
document.write('<script src="b.js">');
}
</script>

And there's also already a way dynamically load CSS (using media queries, even):

<style>
@import url(a.css) (max-width: 800px);
@import url(b.css) (min-width: 801px);
</style>
Which is kinda lame IMHO. Why can't we use progressive JPEG, with offsets? The first rough scan for small size image, a second scan for normal image, a third scan for retina sized image?

One file, one URL, different offset for different dimensions, done.
It's a trope (Richard Stallman was right, as usual), that I was intentionally paying homage to. Genuinely sorry if it annoyed you that much, certainly wasn't my attention. I really have no feelings one way or another towards Stallman, other than being amused at his hit rate on these type of predictions that people mock him for.
Do you mean the drop they later used to analyze cache line coherency when adding cores? They improved this if I understood the latter results correctly.
The study doesn't condone any of the diets you mentioned. Instead it compares a lower fat diet (<30%) with a higher one (>40%). No measuring of calories.

It's just a study with interesting data, no fad diets.

Although when you consider how prevalent carbohydrates are in western diets, you could be forgiven for jumping to the conclusion that lower carb diets are a fad.
http://www.reddit.com/r/ketoscience
Not really - a corporation is a group of people. Sometimes those in control of it have no goal other than profit maximization, but by no means always.
I don't understand why there is this constant search for a diet that isn't just calorie restriction - learning about caloric content and restricting yourself in calories is much easier than following a diet. You basically eat the same foods you enjoy, but skip the occasional item that will take you overboard.

Learning a few facts about caloric content of different types of food is much easier than changing your lifestyle.
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Good point about JS.

But there are potentially more types of media (audio, video, html via frames, etc).

Even if a general solution isn't applicable to JS, it can have lots of other uses.
I can second that, great book, with really interesting analysis of not just carbohydrates, but cholesterol too. Also his second book 'Why We Get Fat' is great too. He realised the former book was too lengthy for most, and wrote it to condense and abbreviate the info.
When the author says infinitesimals can be used to define calculus in a perfectly rigorous way I get a bit skeptical. After reading this Wikipedia article though I see why.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperreal_number

I still think there's a certain elegance of not needing to define a whole new set of numbers, but there's also an elegance to the intuition of infinitesimals and infinitesimals.
Ask HN: Using stripe to charge client?
Hey guys,

Doing a small gig for someone, but I don't have paypal.

Is there a reliable medium to send invoice and get paid for programming work? I am thinking of using Stripe but not sure if this is possible for charging customers directly.

Also what should the terms be? 2 weeks prepayment of 40 hours and then repeated payments after?
looks nice! But why such a flowery Google forms page? Looks like I am registering for something else. Because you need only the email, try having an input form on the landing page itself, but if for some reason you want to have external forms, try out typeform.com (I am not associated with typeform in any way).
It's worth noting that whilst low calorie diets (of any macronutrient ratio), will usually aid weight loss, they won't all improve your health in other areas.

This study also looked at other health markers (including triglycerides and cholesterol) and measured improvements.
I'd second this. I've been there a couple times and it is quite the experience. I only visited one electronics factory, and the rest were other types of factories that make mechanical components (injection molding, die casting, sheet metal, silicone molding, etc.) but they were all fascinating and I have a lot better understanding about the supply chain now.
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IMO, any company that asks employees to work more than 40 hours a week and doesn't pay for those hours is doing 'wage theft'. Classifying employees as exempt seem to be a common method used by employers.

It surprises me how often on HN startup employees claim to work 70-80 hours without any complaints. And, startup employers expect more hours without paying.