skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I actually lost 79 lbs (25 kgs) from 220 lbs to 165 lbs in 6 months with an ebook (Burn The Fat, Feed The Muscle), together with a lot of exercise (1-2 hours a day)... Remember that my genes aren't easy and i did a lot for it. (None of my family is actually slim). I did that 3 years ago at the end of college.

This is what helped for me (if you don't agree, no problem, but it helped me a lot and there is so much research out there that it is difficult to get a decent perspective):

- Get your metabolism as high as possible, eat every 3-4 hours except when you are a sleep. In the evening, eat less carbs. Last (very light) meal = 2 hours before you go to sleep. The higher your metabolism, the more your body will become a energy burning machine.

- Losing weight = eating less then your daily requirement (intake of calories) or training more. Do this max. for 3 days in a row.. (so your body doesn't realize you are losing weight -> remember people surviving without eating in a month? it's a hormono called Leptine, it can severely destroy your metabolism :) )

- 60% is food, 40% is exercise (don't eat to little, it will hurt your metabolism. I don't advice a protein diet for too long.. Most people get much fatter afterwards because they destroyed their metabolism)

- Sleep enough (this is a hard one for me)

- No alcohol - it slows down your metabolism and contains empty calories.

- If you want to exercise as less as possible, here are some pointers:

- Running (= cardio), in the morning after a protein shake. Maximal effect + positive effect during the day, untill you go to sleep.

- Reduce sugar intake as much as possible (don't worry about fructose and dextrose though)

- Adding muscle (this is harder for women), in the evening after eating. If you want to do cardio combined with this, do it after your weight exercises. Muscle needs 48 hours to recover, so that's two days of extra fat burn.

One way of eating would be Paleo diet (popular with Crossfit). I call it : "eating like a caveman" and starting with it in 2 months.

PS. Changing the way you eat shouldn't be a diet (=temporarily), you should be changing your lifestyle or eating routine.

PS 2. I seriously advice Tom Venuto - Burn The Fat, Feed the Muscle... If you want to know more about how your body works,i also liked the stuff Lyle McDonald wrote.. (but that's more extreme)
Ember Data is opinionated about the backend, Ember itself isn't. You can use Ember without Ember Data, as is the case with Discourse, one of the largest Ember apps out there.

http://eviltrout.com/2013/03/23/ember-without-data.html
Ordering by ID can be used in keyset pagination as well as limit/offset: http://use-the-index-luke.com/no-offset
That's the first "toy architecture" I've seen that attempts to define a PCI-like plug-and-play scheme... and a set of device classes that are suspiciously reminiscent of USB. :-)

What's really unique is the option to use Notch's DCPU-16 or a MIPS-like TR3200 as the main processor. The whole system has a good "real computer" feeling to it, which I think is especially important for educational use.
Orchestras are pretty expensive.
To say FlightFox 'copied [the] entire site' is a bit of a reach, to put it mildly. The idea, perhaps, but I wouldn't hold my breath hoping for attribution for that.
I don't think it was a comparison of quality, just an observation of spending clout. Things are being bought at billion dollar valuations that would have failed, just because the top players don't want to even think of risking their dominance, and that isn't going to stop unless they run out of money. This means that some of the easiest exits available are in making things like snapchat, where you will get bought just because you have users communicating over it.
On the topic of experimental OSes:

https://github.com/ayourtch/ayos

a little experiment of my own to see what happens if I put Lua on bare metal (currently KVM-only) in x86_64 mode.

Lots of fun to toy with, though it does not do much yet.
Wouldn't that mean that you are incapable of reading text out loud at a normal pace? That seems unlikely for a hackernews visitor, unless there is something impeding you like dyslexia or poor vision.
I think this is a common issue when reading materials not in your native language. I can read a book written in French at least twice faster than the same book written in English, even though I use English daily and consider myself fluent.
They used to be a lot smaller and cheaper - they have become massive because they need to be able to fill enormous halls. If the money goes then we will lose the huge performances, but live classical music won’t die.
The article itself does not seem to support the headline. It is about lots of individual geniuses, but not about whether they are overrated or not. In fact, the words "overrated" and "lone" do not even appear in the whole article, except for the title. "Genius" appears once.
Okay, it makes sense that you would have to register with every country to get an exemption.

The only hope is that this causes so much work to tax offices that they add a procedure to get the exemption in every country.

I'm not holding my breath as it seems VAT has only been increasing in its rate and span of subjected products :(
If you're looking for a more opinionated and structured way of doing controllers then take a look at my project. It also means that you don't need to use build tools like ng-annotate.

http://davej.github.io/angular-classy/
Especially since the influence of Beethoven probably dominates classical music much less now, after the enthronement of Bach, the rediscovery of Vivaldi and the whole Baroque and early-music revival, than it did in the nineteenth century when classical music was still (and maybe increasingly?) a popular and commercial hit.
Comment on drug discovery:

Drug industry have been criticized for exaggerating their R&D numbers. Critics also claim that private funding is directed towards drugs that contain active moieties that are same or closely related to active moieties in products that have been previously approved by FDA and that wast majority of important breakthrough drugs are the result of publicly funded research. If someone discovers drug that already works and makes billions, it justifies pushing new molecule that has same functionality but is covered with different patents.

FDA approves typically less than new 30 NCE:s per year. Some are classified as NCE:s just for administrative purposes.
Lightweight X Desktop 0.8.0 with full Qt5 compatibility released
Show HN: Dizzlike Dislike everything you want and share it with your friends
It's possible to share memory between processes that weren't originally forks - consider e.g. X clients using XShm to communicate with the server, or jk for fast communication between apache and tomcat. I guess forking lets you do "share everything, COW", which is kind of handy, but it's also a very lazy way of programming; you get access to the whole address space, so it relies on the other processes to not reuse data that doesn't make sense when shared. Better to only share memory that processes explicitly want to share, and make it clear which one owns any given region of memory.
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Looking back we'll find it was this very comment of yours. How do you feel about that ;)
For the vast majority of people, a car functions as a horse used to before there were cars -- it functions better, in fact. Yet car designers are not required to be intimately familiar with horse care.

You are pointing out marketing issues. I agree that if you don't actually have a better C++ than C++, then you will have difficulty convincing most C++ users that they should switch.

By the same token, if you actually do have a better C++ than C++, it will be evident in the adoption of the technology.

Also at this point, if Java, Go, Objective-C, D, and C# have not convinced the current user base of C++ to use other things, then perhaps it is no more possible or necessary to convince these remaining users to switch than it is to convince modern horse riders that they shouldn't bother to ride, own, or breed horses. For them there cannot be a "better C++ than C++."
Only because you didn't mention it: Vimperator [1]. It's what I used to use.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vimperator
Yet another reason why you never talk to the police, and never consent to a search.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wXkI4t7nuc
Thank HN: Data Science at the Command Line Just Got Real
I'd say more. 90% of mobile browsers are WebKit/Blink-based.
Used both a lot. I agree the above statement.
New SSL 3.0 vulnerability to be revealed soon
I liked it up until the "diamond triangle" - diamonds have a cubic crystal lattice!
In answer to, "Is it possible that the U.S. could cease being the world leader in digital innovation?" Isaacson is optimistic and I think rightly so.

But the important question is, "Could the U.S. cease being the world leader in digital invention?"

All these people, save Jobs, were about invention, not innovation. And they're not being replaced -- at least not in the US, not in Silicon Valley.
EBay Reflected XSS
It sounds like your issue was a slow phone. Facebook's Messenger app works great for me. I also use Whatsapp daily but prefer the Facebook app. It's a much nicer experience.
Currently you cannot chain proxies to Tamper. I will add this to my to do list.

If this helps, know that Tamper sets Chrome proxy settings to go through its proxy using a PAC file. You can modify that PAC file by clicking the little cog icon in Tamper.
The headline is Jeffrey Goldberg's (provocative) restatement of Walter Isaacson's themes in the book (and also Walter's answers from the interview at the end of the article). I assume the journalist took liberties to write "lone geniuses are overrated" because Isaacson highlighted:

1) teams

2) lesser known individuals who didn't have celebrity status of Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, etc

I guess one would have to read the entire book instead of an excerpt to judge if the journalist's "lone geniuses overrated" is a fair TLDR of Isaacson's book.
[pdf][1991] Paper on Self Programming Language: Prototypes and Accessors
I bought a piece of hardware from Kickstarter which ended up being faulty. They asked me to return it so they could fix it and then send it back.

Theres a few problems with this.

1. Time - Its not my fault you sent me a broken product. Send me a new one and i'll send you back the broken one.

2. Its a terrible customer experience.
Time by Hans Zimmer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxabLA7UQ9k

Powerful stuff. Maybe Beethoven would've been a movie composer if he was alive in the modern era.
World Standards Day - today
Video can be by-product of internal training, I often suggest we record such meetings for people that were sick/fture workers. It's better than nothing.

If only someone did ctrl+F for video.
> Dynamic module support

Wait, I thought RMS is very strongly opposed to this?
PBRT's an excellent book if you want to play with / build / understand raytracing renderers.

Some of the knowledge is not-quite state of the art any more, but everything's still relevant. And there's a third edition coming soon.
iSIGHT discovers vulnerability used in Russian cyber-espionage campaign
How are you handling libc? you have your own (or is this even an issue with Lua)? I've been thinking of putting a Common Lisp implementation on bare metal (initially thinking of SBCL, but I think MKCL may be a easier challenge), but haven't found the time to start yet.
Meet the artist who paints for Wall Street’s elite
16-17 years ago when I lived in Menlo Park we were taught (in middle school at the time) to get under our desks - and obviously (if London suffered from earthquakes) I'd do pretty much the same at work now.

But what's the general advice if you're out and about? Say at a museum, restaurant or stadium (or even walking down the street)?
Hackers hold 7M Dropbox passwords ransom
Bandwidth allowing of course - that's often the bottleneck when you're rendering production scenes with +300GB of textures :)
The vast information in DNA is also represented in "text", sort of.
Now this would be very interesting! Been trying to find good resources on this for a while, but found none ...
Google makes us all dumber: The neuroscience of search engines
So, skimming http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singular_they#Older_usage_by_re... and http://www.crossmyt.com/hc/linghebr/austhlis.html reveals nothing that feels like a counterexample to me. Nor does the first page of that LL link (specifically talking about historical usage of singular they). But it does contain http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=2600 :

> My claim has always been that you just can't get singular they with a proper name of a person as antecedent.

Which is precisely the situation where I'd be even more inclined than normal to use 've' over 'they'.

But on a meta-level... my prediction was actually somewhat irrelevant: "most-if-not-all of those historical instances are referring to a person in abstract, rather than a known person of unknown gender" would be true not because of historical author's choices of pronouns, but because of the things they were trying to say. It just isn't especially common to refer to a specific person when you don't know their gender. If historical authors did find themselves in that situation, I wouldn't be surprised to find them using singular 'they'.

And it's irrelevant beyond that, because even if historical authors turned out to do this all the time, it's not likely to change my own usage. I like gender-neutral pronouns, I think they fill a gap that 'they' doesn't, and I'm willing to take the hit (in occasional downvotes and in clarity to people not used to them) to use them.

(I've now spent way too much time on this relative to the amount I actually care...)
Payment Card Integrating Dynamic Security Codes
dial tcp 128.199.252.50:443: connection refused
It will be different this time. Last time it felt like the whole internet thing was just a fad, so advertisers went back to their normal channels. But this time they have metrics and probably find that no other advertising channel can compete against online advertising as far as ROI is concerned (well, for many companies).
How in the world would Uber threaten the United States Postal Service or Deutsche Post?

Even if that's a typo and you meant United Parcel Service (UPS), even if we examine DHL independent of its parent company, they are heavily invested in international freight and supply chain management.
I see no great benefits there from the ability to summon a cargo plane on a whim with your phone, nor from handing it off to someone with no formal training/license/qualifications.
Might be related (http://www.eweek.com/mobile/german-chancellors-blackberry-li...):

<...> it's highly unlikely that even the NSA would be able to crack the encryption built into Merkel's government-issued smartphone, according to the phone's vendor, Secusmart, a German company that turns the BlackBerry Z10 into a secure communications device.
OK, there are so many advantages of text. I wholeheartedly agree and prefer plain text over most "smart" formats.

BUT.

I have this pet idea about source code. Text isn't the optimal format because a program is not a lineal thing, but closer to a tree structure.

Why have we settled on programs written in text? Pretty much for all the reasons you wrote and the fact that we've had bad experiences with other kind of formats in the past. Being able to fall back to plain text when things go wrong is very nice.

But it has its own sort of usability problems. There's an impedance mismatch between text and programs and sometimes it shows. Actually we don't see it more often because we tend to think that text is the way it is done, always was done and always will be done.
Which is still a big risk: at some point, the market can crash simply because the dominant players get low on cash to keep making acquisitions like that. Suddenly all the assumptions and valuations people are relying on turn out not match up to reality, and everyone stops investing while they take a long hard look at their books.
Stop ROBOT exploitation, cry striking Foxconn workers
”Hand someone who’s no knowledge of ASCII some ASCII bytes, and no compliant editors, and see how hard it is to figure out they're dealing with the English alphabet.”

It would not be impossible for them to determine that the bit patterns 01100101 and 01110100 are a lot more common than, say, 01111010. But probably harder if they didn’t know that the bits are supposed to be divided into groups of 8.
In 1999 boom, Nasdaq P/E reached 200, while general stock market P/E was 'only' 34. 6 times the difference. This time it is around 24 and general market is at about 19. Just 25% the difference. So i think there is really nothing to be worried about. There are few extreme valuations, and when those correct (Zynga, Groupon, ...) it doesn't create a domino effect.

Even Snapchat doesn't sound so stupid - it may never make any revenue, but having such a crowd of loyal users can bring a lot of cash to many companies who have already figured out their monetisation (Apple, Google, etc.) so they will be just buying a huge market. And they have a lot of cash to pay for what they buy, and sometimes they do actually buy. So people investing in Snapchat on these seemingly extreme valuations are likely not that stupid, or subversive.
> if you can get 100,000,000 users you can sell for $1,000,000,000.

30 USD per user is/was published sometimes.
Cyber-Espionage Group Sednit Attacks Again
I've always wondered what pure software startups are doing with millions of dollars.

I mean come on you can develop awesome software without having a fancy office, nice furniture and a super high salary.

Take me and my friends for example. We love building stuff and work for all our products in university or at home.
Also we're doing it for, what, like 400$ a month working 20-30h...
Why Are Americans So Fascinated with Extreme Fitness?
I'm indifferent. But when WhatsApp asks me for money, I suspect I'll just start using Facebook Messenger or Google Hangouts instead.
Show HN: Ipsum-As-A-Service
Yeah, it's slow because it's "old" (3-year old). The thing is that it is slow only when trying to use the FB app, the browser, WhatsApp and GMaps all work pretty well.
Web-Era Trade Schools, Feeding a Need for Code
Totes refused:

[root@www1 sha1affected]# telnet 128.199.252.50 443
Trying 128.199.252.50...
telnet: connect to address 128.199.252.50: Connection refused
Suspected Russian “Sandworm” Cyber Spies Targeted NATO, Ukraine
A sort of "fly's eye" in reverse? - That would be incredibly expensive to render I would have thought, but maybe I'm missing something.
Depends how you use foreign language. I mostly read and write English, I can read it almost as fast as Polish, on the other hand my pronounciation is still bad.
Ask HN: Brainstorm algorithms for slow news
Alright,

I think that our news consumption today is way too demanding and stressful. I'm attempting to create a scraper for automating the most important events, as well as the most high profile posts, analysis, debates etc. on a these events from the most trustworthy sources.

Much of the workload and responsibility to create an awareness of the world around you lies with YOU. YOU have to be responsible enough to nuance your newsfeed. What if, somebody would create executive summaries for the news around you, freeing up your time to live your life without worrying about missing out on the most important stuff?

Example: Everyone should know about ISIS, but very few people need the day to day development. Although it seems urgent to know that ISIS are pushing on Kubane right now, most people don't really need this information package immediately. Instead, the advances on Kubane could be part of a holistic coverage. Who really knows what Kubane is anyway, and how it plays a role in the overall conflict wrapped in time and space since the first world war. The day to day notices does NOTHING to educate you, it only superficially satisfies your need for "updates".

The best algorithm I have been able to come up with is to plot the number of "mentions" of a news story/information package (like's tweets, different publications) against the duration of its presence in media. This would filter out Kardashian news and still list important events such as natural catastrophes, war conflicts and long-run intellectual debates on policy in government, enriching these events instead of sharing its spotlight with meaningless noise.

Any other ideas on algorithms? Conceptually primarily, but if you can implement it as well that is fucking fantastic. If there is interest in building this service, I will post it on Assembly.
I don't think you "should" use anything. There's plenty of x86/ARM/MIPS projets out there. I applaud the fact that they went with something different.

Isn't building what you consider fun what hacking is all about? I think it's healthy to completely ignore "usefulness" at times and doodle along :)
Barber, Copland, Rota and Herrman are more modern than the others, but still buried.

The Beethoven situation is a bit of an exception as they're doing a series with all 9 symphonies in a row. And I see a few more composers in http://www.operadeparis.fr/en/saison-2014-2015/concert--reci...

* Barber (1910-1981)

* Beethoven (1770-1827)

* Brahms (1833-1897)

* Chausson (1855-1899)

* Copland (1900-1990)

* Dvořák (1841-1904)

* Herrman (1911-1975)

* Lekeu (1870-1894)

* Mahler (1860-1911)

* Mozart (1756-1791)

* Praetorius (1571-1621)

* Prokofiev (1891-1953)

* Rachmaninov (1873-1943)

* Ravel (1875-1937)

* Rota (1911-1979)

* Schubert (1797-1828)

* Schönberg (1875-1951)

* Spohr (1784-1859)

* Strauss (1864-1949)

* Suk (1874-1935)

* Susato (1500-1561)

* Tarrega (1852-1909)

* Verdi (1813-1901)
How Big Data Enables Cities to Deal with Urbanization
Feature Comparison: LibreOffice – Microsoft Office
Please note that radix sort is easy to implement to work correctly with doubles, Table 1 is misleading.
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I've been attending orchestral concerts in the US for three decades now, and the entire time people have said that Beethoven et al were going to die out with the new generation.
Nice. Would love to have more features:

* Bitbucket integration (since it allows checklists for PRs)
* Review request for entire projects (not just PRs)
The person who wrote it I guess.

It's like they're trying to cargo cult the postmodern literary criticism they studied at university but they didn't have a big enough dictionary to hand to create the right effect.

Irascible, paen... where's the melioristic, where's the recherché. Must try harder.
Array notation is only required if you're not actually up to date on modern build tooling - ng-annotate [0] will automatically generate array notation DI statements in most of your application code.

[0] https://github.com/olov/ng-annotate
I feel as much enjoyment as I would with any other moderately interesting statement. I have no trouble parsing it, so I don't consciously notice anything about its structure. I think requiring writers to always use short sentences would make many articles worse, by forcing them to express the same ideas in a more verbose way.
No offence, but in my humble opinion using 1password, or any password manager, does not make you a better or more secure user.

Perhaps even lowers your security in ways.

Sharing the fact (with the internet) that you use a password manager, lowered your security already, technically speaking.

I find the idea to use one password (and a private key etc) to protect all my other accounts and passwords a bit strange, specially synced over 3rd party servers/services.

Not to mention when people use it on devices often discussed to have ways to eavesdrop on a user, android, iPhone. The security of the password vault is now equal to that of that particular device. (which could be as low as no security)
Minus the fact that AngularJS was developed as a Google internal project / by a Googler / for a Google service (their support / help pages iirc), after they struggled for months building it.