skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Huh? The fact that the actor may or may not have negotiated for gross revenue versus profit wouldn't make a difference if the movie made neither.
Whoops! You're right. I had thought I read somewhere the brain requires another organ to convert ketone bodies to glucose, but it appears its the liver itself at cannot use ketone bodies:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ketone_bodies#Uses_in_the_heart...
> Thiel is just trying to get swole.

I think you've fallen for anti-drug propaganda.

Many people take it to maintain health into old age -- not to become giant meatheads.
Now I really want to see this movie.
NK agents could easily operate out of China, Thailand, or other surrounding countries.
I'd throw a bone, but you look like you'd need a herd of cows instead.
I enjoy Thiel's incredible optimism, but he does have a tendency to be a little too devout to a fixed set of controversial ideologies [1].

Jeff Bezos famously said that smart people often change their minds [2]. I would encourage Thiel to challenge many of his deeply held beliefs about the history and nature of scientific and technological progress, and empirically compare our current system with that of the past. Especially if he wants to see cancer cured (!!!!) in the next decade (!!!!).

Thiel and his colleagues have a unique opportunity to set mankind back on our path of scientific and technological discovery. But in order to do this, we have to thoroughly understand the environment and factors which nurture scientific progress. With NIH and NSF funding in freefall, and corporations cutting R&D spending across the board, I would argue we are moving in precisely the wrong direction. Crowdfunding won't cure Cancer, and neither will startups. These are very hard problems, that take a very long time to solve.

Round up some VCs and fund a dozen Janelia Farms for the next 20 years. Only then can we talk about human longevity as a long term goal.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8337837

2. https://signalvnoise.com/posts/3289-some-advice-from-jeff-be...
You realize how easy it is for a business the size of Sony to get the media's attention right?
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US Links North Korea to Sony Hacking
I would suggest having YAGNI and KISS tattooed on your knuckles instead, where you'll actually see them. Unless you have a little mirror on your desk. In that case, go ahead with the forehead tattoo. (Make sure they do it backwards.)
What I mean is that if you do not see permanent value in code reviews, at least the onboarding aspect should be considered undisputabe.
> I'm a biochemist who's studied cancer for years, and I can't even begin to imagine how a nanomachine could be of value for treating cancer.

Nanomachinery would possibly be able to identify and remove cancerous cells from the body more intelligently then the body's immune system (similar to how evolution has brought us far enough to where we can engineer biology faster than evolution could).

Problems are either software based, hardware based, or both. This would be both.
You may have the causality the wrong way around here here: with Venezuela's oil revenues cratering and what remains of their economy after a decade of Chavismo spiraling rapidly downwards, it's unlikely they can afford to be Cuba's sugar daddy for much longer.
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From my own experience I would say the brain fog comes from being too much used to carbs.

Recently I started doing 72h salt-water only fasting once a month and my experience is that I get somewhat dizzy after 24h in the evening, but after a sleep I can perform normally without any need to eat, even including interval training and extreme uphill biking (slightly salty water is important here). This holds also for the 3rd day, again, absolutely no need to eat. Motivation were recent articles suggesting rejuvenation of one's immunity after 72h and subsequent feeding - will see if it works.

However, I believe I can do that only after I went on low-carb/no-carb diet for the past 2 years - I remember feeling horrible the first month on this diet with what you could name as "brain fog" most of the days - I guess at that point my body was learning how to survive on low carbs.

Anyway, fast forward, I am now far stronger, calmer (also due to 5 minute cold showers every day) and have brain clarity I haven't had in the past 10 years, which brings relax to what would most other people take as very stressful work, as the mind can perform and focus better and faster.
Aww I post a little humor and I get downvoted. Sigh.
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Perhaps http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovereign_wealth_fund
>I'd rather not eval the script contents since we lose the ability to get stack traces.

Chrome supports a special "//# sourceURL=..." comment that lets you name eval'd code, and allows it to remember breakpoints in the code. (And it plays nicely with source maps still!) However, there is another issue where Chrome doesn't actually activate remembered breakpoints until after the eval() call returns, so the trick is to wrap the code you're going to eval() with "(function(){"..."})" and then call it after it's returned by eval(). (That does require that the script doesn't rely on its top level variables automatically being globals attached to window, since it will now be running inside a function.) Here's an example:
https://gist.github.com/AgentME/7369c93de844f8e785b0
What are you talking about? Last time I checked Apple was the corp with the deepest cash pockets from all the corps mentioned.
Nah, I just don't see a country that isolated and impoverished having the resources and talent necessary to do any major damage through hacking. They may very well claim to have l33t hax0rz but just like everything else their claimed superiority and reality don't quite line up.

Now, I would not be surprised if they had help from China, but I really doubt NK did this themselves.
Totally agree, this is going to do wonders for movie sales.

This is almost legendary PR to have for a film, despite the big cost of the hack (for which it will still no doubt be net negative).
There are already very promising treatments for certain types of cancer like leukemia:

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/16/health/leukemia-patients-c...

A number of companies are working on commercializing these treatments today. I'm particularly excited that these treatments seem to be quite effective in putting childhood leukemia into near complete remission. The future looks bright for the human battle against cancer.
>The one time I tried Kerrygold in coffee, I didn't like the taste.

man! Kerrygold goes on the bagel and gets mixed with coffee inside your mouth :)

If you really want butter into your drink, it is done with tea (green) and salt

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butter_tea
"North Korea is not that technologically sophisticated"
NK has access to the same tech as any other country. They have an intelligence service called room 39. They got enough funds to do some pretty sophisticated stuff. Internet access is no problem.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_39
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Thank you for posting some sanity in here. There's simply no evidence to suggest that any of this is reasonable and really seems like a weird sort of confirmation bias. That is, he has enough money to surround himself with a certain type of person, and that type of person tells him a certain type of thing that is assumed to be "privileged" or "cutting edge" in some way and thus circumvents the requirement of peer review or consensus a critical person would normally require before eating a bunch of pills.

Tl;dr: There's no such thing as "ahead" of consensus.
What is the frequency of those fasts? Every week?
Does this require a logged in user? how does it handle multiple users per mac (if I have multiple silos using different credentials)
Anyone can sue anyone over anything. I can sue Cinemark over the sky not being green, but it doesn't mean I'll win.

The lawsuit you're referring to was dismissed[0]. So bring it up proves nothing.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Aurora_shooting#Civil_liti...
EC2: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/UserProvi...

DO: http://0wned.it/2014/08/27/custom-kernel-on-a-digitalocean-d...

Rackspace: http://www.rackspace.com/knowledge_center/article/linux-kern...
Ask HN: How long to wait after an interview with YC, TechStars and 500 Startups?
How long does it take to hear back after an interview with each of these programs? Do all of them send an email explaining their reasons in case of rejection?
There is a support link (email address) in the footer. I guess not enough users ask the admins for it to make it worth implementing it.

Also it would be sad if all submissions and comments you made would suddenly disappear.

"Never seen a discussion on HN about deleting an account" I used the search feature and found multiple discussions.
https://hn.algolia.com/?q=delete+HN+account#!/story/sort_by_...
Perhaps good idea for startup, medical turism..
What would China have to fear from North Korea? China dictates things to NK not the other way around.
So for creating the DB you are correct though you should be able to size the DB such that you aren't splitting and copying all the time if you have an idea of how much data you are going to put in.

The "2 seeks per access" absolutely does NOT go out the window. The whole point was that this works for any size DB. It's a function of the size of the pages, the keys, and the values, for a run with key+val @ 20 bytes and 8K pages, 25 million entries had a directory of 16KB. You hash the key, walk however much of the 16KB you need to find the page, and then you go to that page and only that page.

2 seeks for any lookup for any sized DB. The directory could be better but you walk sequentially (hell, map that and lock it in, then it is 1 seek for any lookup).

The reason you are thrashing XFS so much is we're growing the directory and the number of pages. Each time you split a page you have to copy to the new pages.
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In Apple's case - about $200BN or more. Anyone could build an iPhone. The proliferation of other platforms (Android, Windows, Ubuntu, ...) proves it. However, nobody but Steve was thinking out of the box at that time. It was just an idea (with a brilliant execution, admittedly).
Drink water with electrolytes during fasting, e.g. a little bit of salt. If you drink just normal water, it's hypotonic and you'll lose electrolytes, bringing you to a hangover-like state - that might be brutal then.
Inadequate overall wealth to supply basic needs leads to lines and rationing in socialist systems, and just pricing goods out of the reach of non-elites in basically capitalist systems, so the symptoms look a bit difference but the substance is much the same.
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Airships are fairly robust. It took the British a couple years in WWI before they managed to get enough firepower on a Zeppelin to kill it. Which is to say: they handily survive light machine gun fire. Which would give me a little bit of comfort were I strolling about inside one on Venus.
This is after a cut, and it sounds like he thought he was speaking off the record. They're speaking softly, there are sounds from the production crew or something, etc.
You are correct. Orals are not as effective as injected and most orals are snake oil.
Since I left the Democratic party 5 years ago, and ceased considering myself a "liberal" about 3-4 years ago, I've become increasingly aware at how exclusionist and provincial most liberals -- particularly liberal Democrats -- are about other political ideologies. I find it very interesting that even though many libertarians have more in common with civil libertarian liberals than they do with big government conservatives, only the former treat libertarians as an anathama to humanity, and stereotype every libertarian as some kind of Ayn Rand acolyte (few of the libertarians I know care much for Ayn Rand).

Ultimately, that kind of failure to find common bonds holds back political progress for us all. But it's become pretty clear to me that liberals are more interested in supporting their "team" than in making political progress for the average struggling American.

And yes, I know this rant doesn't belong on HN. I'll take my lumps without complaint.
I suspect few would be as cool with this reasoning if a comedy came out of Asia featuring a climax where Obama is lynched.
Whether or not NK can attack an American theater isn't really the issue (they can't). What was accomplished was planting the seed that something could happen at a theater if the movie was released. I could easily see some nutcase acting on his own behalf attacking a screening of the movie, and then the fallout from "Sony was warned and they showed the movie anyway!!!" would be massive.

Honestly, I would've made the same call.
I think the solution would be to request to modify NDA to be very specific to exact project (include project name + exact precise description + server stack + anything, etc. - as as whole), so that it would be literally impossible to violate NDA working on a very similar project with minor differences.

If potential client will continue insisting on vague language - scrap him.
Econ and Finance major turned software engineer !!! I think it is an advantage, esp if you are working in Analytics
This makes me so ing angry it's unreal.

Sony needs to grow some balls, this is growing into a complete and utter joke. This is the entire problem with the world right now complete and utter risk aversion, red tape and politics.

If i was the CEO of sony, I would not dumb down the death scene, I would make it more extreme, I would edit the film and add recent events into it along with some dialogue that says "Screw North Korea, screw The guardians of peace", as the credits roll up there would be a scene with some computer geeks, a "guardians of peace banner" and something amusingly horrible happening to them all, like being annally rapped to death by a pack of gorillas while trying to hack into the sony website from there underground hacking bunker.

After the credits, maybe a crying Seth Rogen after he discovers the true damage that the guardians of peace have done... they have deleted is midget porn collection!!!

I would do my upmost to get it in every theatre in the world that could and any chain that refused to show it, I would withdraw rights for them to show future big Sony releases, because basically screw them. If they're not willing to have the balls to be awesome, then they aren't important enough to have anything else.

This is a joke, oh no... someone read some emails and leaked them on the internet... on no there is a movie script or two and some unrealised movies. Oh noes they hacked our network, BIG ing deal.. nobody cares, it makes no difference to anyone. Sony just got frapped and went crying to mommy. Sony come out of this looking pathetic, I will avoid this brand in the future unless they do something more awesome soon.
Relevant landing page: https://ting.com/internet
I was a WebObjects Developer for 2 years from 2007-2009, the company I worked for still uses it for their massive health-care-related web apps. It's a really cool framwork to use, as it incorporates so many aspects that are usually provided by different libraries.

The developer community is small, but very active. Every year they hold a "World of Web Objects (WOWO)" conference right around WWDC in San Fran.

Project Wonder has done amazing work to bring Ajax and many other "Web 2.0" features to WO.

It does still power the iTunes store, and the Apple Store. A friend of mine that worked at our sister company landed a job with Apple working on the iTunes store, and AFAIK, he's still there doing that today.
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Hype-free hardware podcast? Are you kidding me? There was no Anandtech podcast where Anand wouldn't hype up Intel's chips. Been hearing him for a year and half how "Haswell chips will own tablets" or something - before Haswell was out that is.
The QA is really interesting. Most of the questions I felt he handled well and showed that he has knowledge of the domain. Two questions in particular stood out:

Q: How can I, as a developer, get my hands on the expensive software suite?

A: Come talk to us. We can accommodate developers who are willing.

This may have been some early input for him to think about sdks and the philosophy of providing developers with tools early on.

Q: What is your view of transactions on the web?

A: We don't think it's a technology problem. It's more of a social/business problem

He was clearly wrong on this one, with the advent of cutting edge technology companies like PayPal and Stripe that followed.
Rights don't erode from the center, they erode from the edges. As such protecting the rights at the edges is where it's most important. If you find yourself defending the center, it's generally already too late.
I think that's memory-safety rather than type-safety: in Go (or Java or C#) the types may not be correct (so it's not type-safe) but it'll fault at runtime rather than possibly corrupt memory as C would.
I was thinking visas for Cuban doctors and nurses to come here too.
I can't believe they capitulated. I hope Sony gives the movie away for free, in the spirit of the last U2 Album. Make it the widest release ever.
First they came for the dumb comedy movies, and I did not speak out...
The images in the original link show that there will be a massive flare mounted on the bow.
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Upvoted to compensate (I probably would have ignored the comment otherwise).
They already made it available for downloading, as the hack demonstrated.
I guess that's individual, you have to find what works for you. Some pro athletes I know (triathlon) do intermittent fasting twice a week and do strength training right after. I guess in the beginning once 1-2 weeks should get you started.
It really annoyed me after the Michael Brown shooting. That got a huge amount of libertarian attention right from the start, and then a day or two later a whole bunch of left-wing liberals found out about it and immediately accused libertarians - who, remember, had been yelling their heads off about it - of not talking about the shooting, arguing that this proved libertarians were really just racists who didn't care about government violence at all. In some cases this was literally the first thing they said about it; they cared more about attacking libertarians for supposedly not caring about the shooting than they did the shooting itself.
Unless you know what the company was looking for in a developer how can you say their recruitment process doesn't work? They might have found a perfect candidate who fits the role ideally. The fact it wasn't the person you think is perfect is irrelevant.
Thanks for tracking that down! Very interesting.
The US system -- despite being the mist expensive per capita in the world -- has both of those features, too; sure, the rationing method in the USA is different (rather than a formal elite with special access, we have pay-to-recieve and an elite defined by the ability to pay -- but there's still limited supply and the best care going only to the elite.
"Privacy is not dead: Microsoft lawyer prepares to take on US government" http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/dec/14/privacy-is...

Related?

HN Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8750751
Revenue doesn't prove that though, profit does. Do they also have massive profits?
I've been told by the medical that fasting might get you stomach ulcers from the acidity.
Ask HN: Advice Re: Google Cloud Platform Startup Program?
My new startup just got accepted to the Google Cloud Platform Startup Program and I'm looking to hear from people that are already in the program. What resources have been the most helpful? How did you use them? How, if at all, did working with Google's support team change your system architecture? Did you move from AWS? What was that experience like? Anything else?

https://cloud.google.com/developers/startups/
The horrors of North Korea wouldn't suddenly stop just because the guy at the top got killed.
While I agree in principle, put yourself in the shoes of #1 at Sony.

This movie has unleashed a massive hack upon your company. Tons of damage has been done.

Now the hackers say releasing the movie is going to result in violence against movie theaters that show it. Logically you know this can't happen, but there is certainly a chance some psycho acting on his own behalf could attack a screening after all the publicity this has generated.

Do you take the chance of releasing a mid-budget stoner comedy knowing that you will ultimately be held responsible if some crazy dude attacks a theater?
Interesting that he dismissed interpreted languages for non-trivial code, as if it were obvious that the performance wouldn't be good enough. But wasn't Perl already being used for CGI scripts in 1996?
I'm writing this just to comment on your use of the word "meme"; it's not intended to be a criticism* but the expression of an observation.

In your fourth sentence, it seems that are using "meme" to specifically denote an idea or statement that is unsupported or unverified. This is not wrong, but I have not seen this particular usage of the word before. It does differ from Dick Dawkins' original meaning: he used "meme" to denote the component in cultural evolution whose role is analogous to that of genes in biological evolution. But I find your use to be an interesting development in the development of "meme" and the memes it signifies†.

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* However, I do believe the conversation has been framed improperly: e.g., the groups "baristas" and "analytical thinkers" do not have mutually exclusive membership, but instead intersect significantly. There exists many an analyst barista who brews Brazilian whilst brooding about Bruegel at Bruegger's Bagels, plenty espresso-synthesists with scholastic emphases on existentialists' expressions of Parisian café culture (dissertation: "Bean & Nothin'ess"), and please don't get me started on those poor doctoral students who must lecture on Melville in the morn then manage a late shift at the mall latte-mill aptly named after Ahab's first mate.

† Indeed, for me, I find to be the memetics of "meme" a remarkably meta matter, and that fact is itself alone the motivation to make my remarks (I must mention, if I may).
You're focusing too much on Japan. Japan was just an example. This number that Cuba excels on has little relation to health. So what is the point that Cuba has this great number? It's just a number.

Canada, which has even fewer physicians, has a life expectancy only 2 years less than Japan.
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Hardly the last time. Last Temptation Of Christ had theaters refusing to show it because of threats.
I presume you'd have to get to fit form first?
You may well be right about most people, but in my experience it's not that hard. My wife and I have been fasting for 3 consecutive days each week for over a year (we worked up to it over the previous year). It's become pretty easy now. I rarely feel hunger.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/18/world/asia/us-links-north-...
Agreed.

The online Google PageSpeed Insights tool is a decent place to start:

https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/?url=...