skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That was well-written and insightful - thank you.

In general diet seems to be one of the hardest fields to research. After, what, 100+ years of work?, there's still very little that seems definite.

Another one of the references that pops up in this context is Vilhjalmur Stefansson, and their attempt to overcome strong doubt that people could do well eating only meat and fish by doing exactly that for a year. (As I read just now, Stefansson was compensated for his efforts by the American Meat Institute.)

You mention inertia. While I agree, I think another valid interpretation is that money can act as a tie breaker when there's a lot of ambiguity. Selective sponsorship helps amplify the voices on the side of the fog you want people to go.

Cheers.
A distributed peer-to-peer Netflix is really what's needed.
You're describing how BTC looks today. The vision is that if liquidity is high (billions of transactions a day), then BTC could in theory replace all mediums of exchange between currencies. Today, for example, the dollar can be hedged because the price of oil, and vice versa. So we don't always get a true value of the dollar. (it's way more complicated than that, just trying to simplify) Additionally, using BTC massive lowers the barrier to exchange money (i.e. you don't need a bank). Banks make a lot of money (ever seen a "transaction fee"?) by simply moving money around.
So let's say that the jquery.com server was not compromised... What else could have caused RiskIQ to see the injected script tag at the end of the body element?

Could there have been an injection at the ISP? Was it a DNS heist? Or another BGP compromise?

I must admit I'm quite intrigued and looking forward to seeing what the investigation uncovers.
This is something that a company such as Microsoft or Apple should implement. It would be a killer app for either the X Box or the Apple TV.
India's Mars mission
Thank you for respecting their choice, though I'm concerned they've done themselves a disservice somewhat by missing out on free publicity, especially for something as glowing as this.

If the author of that email reads this I do hope you claim ownership so that I can reward your company with my patronage.
Indian Mars mission
> The Arabs think differently to American liberal arts students - they have a different ethical code.

The Arabs I've known ARE American students. It only takes a single example to disprove a universal statement about "The Arabs." (or The Blacks, or The Jews, etc.) They've usually been great people that I like a lot.
Got a 1943 copper penny? Don't spend it
Macros let you do option three, too, by just guarding the body with an if in the generated code. That way you avoid having to use an anonymous function each time. So in Lisp (log level (construct-a-string)) instead of (log level (fn [] (construct-a-string))), but with the same elisions logic.
Would it be correct then that any change in layout or diversity in Maryland newspapers, periodicals, and publications would also be illegal? For instance, asking people they prefer a Sports section prior to Entertainment, or having Politics or Local Interest above the fold? Would it be ok to make the changes given that the effects were never measured?
Dreaming is crap
Gccgo misses out on some key optimizations, like escape analysis IIRC, and therefore on real world tests usually is not as fast as gc. Also, since gc is the de facto standard, it has a LOT more real world testing. Gccgo has a few bugs (I forget exactly, something about embedding an interface or something just causes a panic - avoidable, but frustrating).
Monolog does that, you call the level that you want so you can early-return based on what environment/config you've got set up. Quite nice, means I can keep my debug logs around and deploy the same code to production without worrying about it. I think the PSR standard for logging actually specifies this, too.
Sam Altman's law of conservation of how much happiness you can put into the world with the first product from a startup -> the total amount of love is the same it's just a question of how it's distributed.
I can't even get the malware site to load anymore... also, nice way to redirect people to your website ;)
At least in Java, log levels don't buy you much when you wind up possibly rendering object graphs to strings (via your ohsohelpful custom, recursive tostring implementation), then duping it to concat "made it here" to it, then immediately abandon the mess on the heap for the gc to handle, since the production log level is warn, so your carefully built, highly detailed log message is never used. Repeat every other line or so... In tight loops, call iter.next in log message and on and on...
> A big one for me is keyboard input: at one point, I could use the Super key for whatever I liked, and I could easily set the right Alt key to be a Compose key. Now, there is no reclaiming the Super key from hard-coded shortcuts (Unity is even worse about this!), and the Compose key is outright missing from the keyboard settings menu.

Compose key is moved. To a non-obvious spot (if you're used to its historic location).

Settings → Keyboard → Shortcuts, the ‘Typing’ section. There's ‘Compose key’, which lets you set the compose key.

It's also in a more traditional form in Gnome Tweak Tool.
That line cracked me up. A great observation in an unexpected wrapper.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8358832.
I had never heard of this until today, suspect I will never hear about it ever again.
There is a segment of the JavaScript/Node community that embraces the UNIX small components that do one thing well philosophy. We see all of these things as incremental improvements to be used or not depending on need. Using something like ClosureScript cuts you off from that.
I had a few of those moments where I found something really interesting and wanted to hear more detail, but then the subject just changed.
Even without considering older browsers, the hash will be deliberately ignored by some clients for things like NoScript surrogates. Every tag and attribute is just advisory to the client; the client can always do what the user wants instead of what the server wants.
iPhone 6 Plus can be bent with bare hands
Darin L. Hammond on Writing Style and Einstein
I had a similar experience with Gnome 3, it looked nice but was always difficult to use despite trying for many months. I suggest taking a look at Mate. I moved to it after finally giving up on Gnome 3 and have been very happy.

Here are some of my complaints from a previous post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7723073
so I said "Ya know what - I'm going to give them a chance." then downloaded the app, filled out the form on my phone and since I didn't go to college I'm 146,333 on the public waiting list. Awesome.

I haven't used a prepaid card before - But I figured I'd play around with it and get my friends to join as currently we're transferring funds for rent/food etc.. (use case?) but now apparently they need a different kind of feedback.

Good luck Clinkle
Did anyone actually click the link? To be honest I'm a bit reluctant to.
Based on the holdings disclosed at the time of Facebook's IPO, and even accounting for the rise in the company's stock, I doubt very much that employee #100 at Facebook is sitting on $200 million in gains from his or her options or RSUs. In the case of Dropbox, looking at what the Box founders own according to Box's S-1[1] probably provides a more realistic comp.

One thing worth noting is that Dustin's slide apparently fails to take into account the cost of exercising options. You can absolutely make a lot of money at a startup, and you don't even need to be one of the earliest employees to do so, but today's valuation trend works against employees. Startups are raising money at significant valuations earlier and earlier, so even early employees aren't receiving cheap equity.

As an example of this, consider that Facebook had sold shares at a $15 billion valuation just three years after the company was founded. Google went public at a valuation under $27 billion (edit: corrected). If you had your choice, you'd almost certainly have received a better equity package as an early rank-and-file employee of Google versus Facebook.

[1] http://fortune.com/2014/03/25/aaron-levie-owns-more-of-box-t...
And then what? You watch it once and keep it forever?

Is there an online way to sell used DVDs?
Quite a silly response, considering the content and how easy it is to view just the text

Earlier today, RiskIQ published a blog post stating that the jQuery.com web servers were compromised and serving the RIG exploit kit for a short period of time on the afternoon of September 18th. Our internal investigation into our servers and logs have not yet found the RIG exploit kit or evidence that there was in fact a compromise.

RiskIQ was able to make contact with the jQuery Infrastructure team on September 18th, at which point with members of the RiskIQ team tried to find evidence of compromise. So far the investigation has been unable to reproduce or confirm that our servers were compromised. We have not been notified by any other security firm or users of jquery.com confirming a compromise. Normally, when we have issues with jQuery infrastructure, we hear reports within minutes on Twitter, via IRC, etc.

At no time have the hosted jQuery libraries been compromised.

Currently the only potential system compromised is the web software or server that runs jquery.com. We have asked RiskIQ to help us look through our server logs and systems to help identify when and how a compromise happened. Please check this blog post for updates on the situation.

Even though we don’t have immediate evidence of compromise, we have taken the proper precautions to ensure our servers are secure and clean. If you happened to visit any of the our sites on September 18th and are afraid of your system being compromised you can follow the advice RiskIQ recommends:

Immediately re-image system
Reset passwords for user accounts that have been used on the system
See if any suspicious activity has originated from the offending system
I agree, however since he has seen and dealt with so many startups he gets to notice a lot of patterns about what makes startups more likely to be successful than the average person. There was definitely some valuable info in the lecture.
And I'd tell you no.

And to the GP, adding that to consumable code, particularly a distributed package, is generally seen as impolite behavior. What happens if I load your package and then another one which assumes the standard default?

If you absolutely must mess with peoples options, the way to do it is capture the original state, modify the option, make your affected call and then restore the original options.

I do agree that for my purposes I generally would prefer that as the default but even after using R for ~15 years I don't see it as some huge burden to specify it each time.
iOS 8 tracks your physical activity by default
- Step 1: prepare yourself
- Step 2: open the "health" app
- Step 3: open "health data"
- Step 4: open "fitness" from the menu
- Step 5: open "steps"
- Step 6: WTF!
- Step 7: search for other data your phone is keeping on you without letting you know and post it here.
Are there any consequences for the hosting AS? Would they know who registered the domains and hosted the kit? If not, why are they still getting peers?
There are a few on there that people may be doing without realizing. For example:

3. Interrupting people regularly for status updates.
4. Falling into "doom loop" of rushing software dev.
6. Changing communication tools regularly.
10. Being overly stingy with hardware.
14. Failing to deliver public praise.
17. Being stingy with information.

Given enough naivete and inexperience, I can see a well-meaning and honest manager failing at some or all of these.
Tivo currently does this (albeit without a bit torrent option) for upcoming live TV, Comcast on-demand, Hulu Plus, Amazon Instant Video and Netflix. There may be more now, but those are the ones I use. You search for a title and it will tell you where it's available and you can watch it from any of them directly from the Tivo UI.
I remember that this idea was tried for music in 2007 and it took a few years for courts to wind up with a fairly nuanced legal landscape for doing this in the U.S. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitol_Records,_Inc._v._MP3Tun...]
Day 96 – Simplify the feature and keep moving
That simply means if you are extremely unlucky (e.g. luck being 0, like being hit by a bus), then all the other factors don't matter. On the other extreme, extreme luck can turn your company around even if you don't do so well on the other parts.
Bewildering. Netflix isn't broadcasting any programming at prearranged times. They should be completely outside CRTC jurisdiction. As a Canadian subscriber, I applaud their guts and hope they keep protecting my privacy.
We built this over the weekend at Hack the North. All of the code, along with an SD image for the Pi can be found on github: https://github.com/alisha/seed It was a really fun project and the hackathon was great - Sam Altman made a cameo! Feel free to ask any questions.
That is something to be careful about with our book. We largely use machine learning- not tinker with or develop it.
I am pretty sure you are right. Whether that value is intellectual or actionable is what I am not so sure about :)
I should say this is an iPhone 5s - I doubt the iPhone 5 has the features required to track steps.
The Century of the Self

Bernays Propaganda

Surely professionals in other industries haven't studied this for decades, or have they?
Online Off-Grid: leaving silos behind
They link to a post with details of the test in this post, which mentions it is sequential - http://techreport.com/review/24841/introducing-the-ssd-endur...
There is no money in discouraging. People would discourage themselves once they found out. The money would be in encouraging those with high potential. Just like now.
This is incredible. Can I please connect with you via email? Mine given above in the post, last line.
In general, I like to give new technologies/apps a chance. I have spent some time looking at the payment space and the concept of "treats" is at least interesting. I think the name "treats" undermines what it does.

If you swipe their debit card seven times you get one of these "treats". If this caught on, the network effect may arise where people start paying for friends coffees/small gifts. The question is, is the value of rewards that are giftable > credit card's value. Not sure that it is but I'm also not sure that it is not.

The comments have been brutal but I wouldn't completely dismiss the concept just yet.
> , but will take corrective actions taken in response to those stimuli.

Sometimes the hardest part is figuring out the correct response to make, the tech to do it is probably readily available.
It does not sound to me that Netflix is interested in protecting your privacy. If that happens, well, that is an incidental benefit.

"Wright said Netflix was concerned that private corporate information submitted to the commission might later find its way into the public sphere, which could make the service vulnerable to exploitation by its competitors."
Most have it with Venmo too.
Does it have a HTML5 player?
Speaking on behalf of the jQuery Foundation, we have currently not found evidence of a compromise. Read more info at our blog http://blog.jquery.com/2014/09/23/was-jquery-com-compromised...
So you've met one or two American Arab students, studying in nice universities, and that dictates the social norms that spread across the middle east?? Wow man, I want some of what you're smoking.

Please, go and visit Yemen, visit Afghanistan, even visit Jordan for heaven's sake, and you'll find that the reality of the Middle East can't be understood from within a college cafe in upstate California.

There are powerful cultural rules at play in Arab society that the west has no conception of, and I think that if you get a good look at them up close, it will completely change your perspective.
Perhaps it's not the most efficient use of an entrepreneur's time, and I agree that it definitely doesn't have to be the first step. Working on an idea helps you learn fast, but there was so much I didn't know at first (I still have a lot to learn). I am so grateful that resources like this exist, and I expect this one by YC to have a higher density of quality info in the time spent watching lectures.
iPhone 6 Prone to Warping
Does this make you change your mind if you were considering purchasing the iPhone 6?

A similar test of the Galaxy Note 3 is showing that the Note is much more resistant to warping.
I fear my comment will be lost in the weeds but here goes:

Why exactly does the CRTC need subscriber data? If it's Canadian content they're worried about then maybe they should look at the content not the subscriber?

And hey: I'm a subscriber. Don't I get a say in whether anyone but Netflix gets to have access to it?

I probably wouldn't be so bothered if the CRTC wasn't made up of people who used to work for Bell, Rogers etc… (conflict of interest?)
I use i3.

I don't think I'll ever go back to a floating window manager, tiling is just way too efficient.
+1 on being interested... I'm beginning the same journey here: https://github.com/natew/testreactor
> If you guys think it's a harsh reality that companies do the stuff in this article... I guess I am curious if you guys have worked at venture funded startups?

I've worked at three including one medium sized exit and never experienced what's in the article or your post.
On Sam's part -- am I the only one who got the "heard this before" feeling? Obviously he attributed everything pretty appropriately, but I thought I could've placed 50-75% of his sentences in the "Summary" sections of various PG essays, Peter Thiel writings, and other luminaries of the startup-sphere.

I'm not saying it was wrong or that his delivery was bad. But I remember reading the Class Notes from Thiel's class after Blake made them available and thinking "Wow, there's some original thoughts in here I haven't come across before."

Maybe it's because PG already put it all to paper, and some of these other figures just added post scripts. Maybe it was a solved problem by the time Sam got a seat at the table. Just some food for thought. Looking forward to the other lectures regardless.
When Google went public the valuation was ~$23 Billion (they raised just under $2 billion in the IPO) [1]. However to your point this was around 6 years after founding, whereas Facebook was valued at ~15 billion by Microsoft in 2007, 3 years after it was founded.

I had a friend who turned down a job at Facebook in late 2008 because he felt the 15 billion valuation was very high and it limited his upside. And before about July '13 when FB's stock started a huge rise, this was pretty correct thinking.

There is also still a problem with all of this revisionist valuation stuff for a company like Facebook. It only would be worth some obscene amount if:

a) you got a generous stock option package when you joined

b) you stayed with the company until the IPO (so you could actually both have a chance to sell your stock and pay the exercise costs)

c) you didn't sell until right now after the stock has massively appreciated in the past year.

And even still you are going to be paying regular income tax on all of that gain which is going to be around 50% if you live in California.

[1]: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14939-2004Aug...
Your post is really upsetting to me and filled with propoganda.

A> Online communities of 'hackers against women'?
Which communities? 4chan? A community that gets millions of page hits a day with thousands of posts and various topics?
Reddit? Narwhals?
There are no 'hackers against women' online communities.
Might as well say the entire internet is a 'hackers against women' online community.

B>"women being told that they don't deserve protection unless they stay pure and ladylike"

People in the public eye have a different set of standards to live by. People in power have a different set of standards to live by. Rich people have a different set of standards to live by.

BECAUSE THEY HAVE GREAT INFLUENCE ON PEOPLE.

Lets just assume attractive women of breeding age are desired by most every man on the planet. Obviously women have pretty strong INFLUENCE on people. So they have have a different set of BEHAVIORAL STANDARDS TO LIVE BY.

So with the privileges of being beautiful also come the negatives, just like the privileges of the rich or powerful or famous also have negatives.

A functioning society wants responsible people in positions of influence so when you see our daughters role model on the internet in a compromising position of course that person will lose protection. She will become socially sanctioned for in-acceptable behavior. It happens all the time to men as well, i.e. Mel Gibson, i.e., Michael Richards, i.e. Chris Brown....and on and on.

Modern Femininity is no longer about equality, it's now about women getting upset any time they're told they have any sort of social responsibility.
1. Because it gives me pleasure

2. Maybe. Sometimes. Sometimes I just cook up whatever

3. Here's my recipe archive, where I store recipes that I am proudest of: http://forkthecookbook.com/chewxy

4. Try to follow paleo, but damn, pastries are too good sometimes. Sometimes even the thought of white bread and butter makes me crave some

5. Mis en place is probably the most important thing when cooking. People call it a hack, but it's just being prepared.
Very frankly, I find the "schools and training centers" a bit much. I mean, the DHS has disseminated weird posters about how to spot a terrorist in hobby shops and stuff like that. Nobody is going to mind their own bidness if they get wind of a suicide bomber school and/or training center.

I'm going to need a couple cites from a reputable, mainstream media web site: you said "schools" not "school", and "centers" not "center". Not to belittle your viewpoint, I just haven't seen any such news reports.
EMC and HP in secret merger talks. Cisco, Dell and Oracle also interested
I'm using too broad a term there. I should have been saying lean startup principles, as popularized by Eric Ries.
Would be happy to share the data once we've completed the survey. Shoot me a note at matt@codejobs.io

So far, it looks like people are mostly taking junior developer or tech support roles.
Apologies for my naïveté but what you're saying is that you would either use Flux or some cursor based solution, but they wouldn't work together? I'm still getting into this but I'm very curious as I'd like to architect something robust and it seems this piece of React apps is very much in... flux. What are your thoughts on future-proof and ease of use for each solution?
While I sympathise, I will point out that you're just feeding the trolls.

The online anonymous forums are annoying and intrusive, yes, but ultimately they're a bunch of idiots throwing peanuts at each other. If you stop paying them any attention then magically they stop existing.

Yes, call out bad behaviour when we see it. Yes, push prosecutions for hacking phones. And yes, let women know that we support them and provide a counter-voice to the burbling shite from the trolls.

But every single time we get all enraged and call for 4chan to be banned, we make the trolls happy. It's impossible to stop them from talking to each other, because internet. So "banning" them will not achieve anything except give them outlaw status that they'll enjoy and that will attract more idiots.

If you need a positive way to look at it, then think of it as a sign of how far we've come. We've actually made people uncomfortable with how much we've managed to change society, so they're now trying to push back. The best thing to do is ignore them and keep going :)