skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For what it's worth, I've tried several approaches to lose weight and the one that works for me is intermittent fasting.

I was never obese or anything, just a bit overweight.

I usually only eat dinner. Between about 20 and midnight I allow myself to eat whatever I want. This just fits my personality, I find it easier to skip meals knowing that later I'll be free to have whatever I want than constantly watching what I eat. I suspect most diets work, the trick is to find one that you can live with in the long run. This probably has to do more with personality than biochemistry.
Creative work requires continuous experimentation and refinement. If a tool lets you do this easily and without getting in the way, your brain is free to focus on the piece that you are creating. So, while it is true that one can do the same things using another tool like Gimp, the fact that it takes significantly more time and effort means that it will be much harder to end up creating the same art.

The funny thing is, engineers actually understand this perfectly when talking about text processors, but for some reason they (we) often fail to generalise it to other fields.
The tears may have been predictable (and maybe even planned), but they most certainly aren't crocodile tears.

These are issues the EFF and its membership deeply and sincerely care about. The whole point of the organization is to call attention to these issues and push for change. Complaining that they're working on their mission is pretty silly.
Kids have had TV for 60 years.
Skipping or eating light for breakfast has worked miracles for me. While agreed that it is definitely not a license to eat however much you want, there are some convincing arguments that eating in this pattern (particularly delaying carbohydrate intake until the evening hours) creates metabolic inefficiencies that cause more of the consumed energy from the diet to be "wasted", perhaps giving a person a couple hundred calories of leeway in their diet and still see effective weight control. Check out some the work of John Keifer, his opinion on this is fascinating, particularly his rants on his podcast: http://body.io/category/podcast/
You would have to suffer from multiple personality disorder to pull that off, I'm sure :)
It is a mistake to view the settlement through the lens of "$X paid per person."

These companies colluded to depress the wages of an entire industry. "50,000" people were not effected. "64,000" people were not effected. Those numbers are just the work forces of the companies involved in the lawsuit.

The entire greater Bay area technology job sector, one of the highest paid jobs in America, in the region of its highest concentration, was artificially depressed. These companies put a ceiling on what a given job was worth. If you work in Silicon valley in technology, you were effected. The ability to moved to another company and get paid what you are worth was effected.

The shear scope and damage these companies did is almost beyond belief. We are not talking hundreds of millions of dollars. We are talking Billions and Billions.

The ripple effects are even crazier. How many new technology companies did not get created because people's depressed salaries reduced how much they could save to bootstrap something new? How much did technology workers not spend into the service industry or the larger economy, because they were underpaid?

This is a staggeringly insidious act with wide reaching repercussions beyond Adobe poaching some PhDs from Google, or vice versa.
My wife has an N4 running 5.0.1 with no issues re calling, so if there is an issue for these users it's an isolated one and not a systemic problem with all N4s.

Most of the Android phones on the page you linked are not Google phones. Whether or not they get updated is up to the manufacturers and carriers, not Google. You'll note that the Nexus phones have more update support in general.

Whether providing major updates to a phone is a good thing is debatable. My wife hated getting the 5.0 update. She saw it as a major inconvience that changed how her phone worked for no good reason. She would prefer to have the phone work the same way for the entire time she owns it.

PS: 'Sup, fury?
> It's ok to have super sexed-up comics in the store, but it's really sad that's all they have.

I've never been to a comics store where that's all they have. Heck, even the comics selection in non-comics stores that carry some comics usually isn't limited to just that.

Its probably the majority of what they have, because the people that buy it are the ones who will by more comics if more of what they want to buy is available, so its the most profitable segment of the market to serve with comics.

> Japanese manga is fully of sexy, weird, objectifying stuff that most people really wouldn't want their kids to see, but go to a bookstore in Japan and you'll also see bookcase after bookcase of manga totally appropriate for all ages with young girls pressing their nose into them. Stories about teenage girls getting picked on at school or trying to meet the right guy or saying stupid things in class. Stories about girls who are in bands and office workers and every possible thing.

I think the big difference here is that the US cultures differs in that it has a very big "picture books are for children who are still learning to read or male adolescents" thing which skews the market for comic books, Japanese culture is different.

> I think the comic industry, video games, tech, and geek culture in general are all going through growing pains as they find adoption in a larger market.

In some cases, I think that's true. In some cases, though, I don't think its so much that the industries are really finding adoption in a larger market, its that people with ideological axes to grind who aren't part of the market are coming to those industries and beating on them for not even trying to find a broader market but instead doing what they've done for a long time to focus on a market that is well-proven.
This is good. I'd like to give this a try and see what I will find out.
The design team that built Medium leaves to join Facebook
The "card" metaphor added an artificial constraint to programming that helped a lot of people figure out what they wanted to do and get it done quickly.

You weren't handed a command line and told "okay, now make a program out of this and, oh yeah, you'll need a UI". The UI stuff was pretty much baked into the system. Cards were your screens, and elements could be quickly dropped into place.

Things done to cards stayed put when you traveled back and forth through the stack. That's an important nuance. Also, most of the UI elements were already set up to do some simple things and make the stack work, but later they could be scripted into doing more advanced stuff.

WIMP UIs were still a really really new thing in 1986, but HyperCard was the first construction kit that let you play with that system without learning all the underlying toolkit code.
The difference between android and iOS and windows phone is that android has an open bug tracker, making issues like this a lot more visible. Maybe this issue doesn't affect many people, or google determined that it only happens for phones on a certain carrier and can't disclose that publicly. Sure, the bug could have been closed with a friendlier message, but an open bug tracker seems like a good thing to me
The new (and simple) admin generator for Symfony applications
Gmail, IHeartRadio, Instagram, White Noise
Your data. But who is using it?
Asterix isn't a superhero - he's just a normal guy till he has his potion. I guess you could argue Obelix is, since it had a permanent effect on him. Neither of them dress up (any more that the rest of the characters).
Whoever told you about that direct map "issue" didn't do their homework, and is talking out of their ass.

http://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/sys/arch/amd64/...
My understanding is that it's only people who were employees of these companies at the time, though it's easy to argue that anybody in the tech industry was indirectly affected.

I.e. the salary paid to these employees influences the salary expected to be paid to people doing the same at a different company. Especially considering the size and importance of the companies involved. Strangely, I haven't seen this discussed much in articles about this scandal. (of course I say that as someone who did not work at any of the involved companies)
Do you happen to know of an updated version, or one with Windows Phone present?
Kinda new to VM ware and so far, I am not very satisfied. Maybe, I'd have my team try this one.
This is a good attitude.

My philosophy on failure is a little different. I re-frame my actions as experiments. I come up with a hypothesis, and record the conditions and outcome of my experiments, then do a little mini-analysis on the results to try and understand it. Rather than view getting the outcome I wanted as success, I view learning from the experiment as a success, which is great, because you typically aren't in control of the outcome of events, but you absolutely are in control of how methodical you are. This also causes you to learn a lot faster than you otherwise would, which is great too.
What other response did you expect from Google employee? Google doesnt hire low level customer support people, google hires top of the line, few hours in front of white board interview coders, people with multiple phd's and industry veterans. I bet they dont even have dedicated support staff, just 200K a year programmers assigned to bugtracker having to divide their time between actual work and asking 'have you tried turning it off and on again'. Its BENEATH those people to interact with rabble.

and here we have a result of this broken system.
Infinite loops. Or: anything that can possibly go wrong, does
> Kids have had TV for 60 years.

Most haven't had TV with on-demand 24-hour access to child-targetted programming for nearly that long, however.

And even less time have they had portable, go-anywhere screens with the same thing.
“Citizenfour” Nominated for Best Documentary Oscar
AutoCad began with the architectural premise that user interaction would be primarily via a terminal. It was built with the ability to run headless. It was built with the ability to run in batch mode. Like Unix, it was built on a set of single purpose tools. These tools formed the API and the user interacted directly with it in the form of commands.

The graphic display was a side-effect. Events on the graphic display were mapped back to the API, i.e. mapped back to commands. The reason, most likely, is that in the days of MSDOS AutoDesk had to write hardware drivers themselves or convince third party hardware vendors write them. Having a developer friendly architecture helped in both cases.

Post-Macintosh programs such as PhotoShop went down a different architectural path. There was a pre-existing graphics subsystem and no obvious interest in developing up from the terminal. So these applications were developed down from the GUI. In the days of 256k RAM and 10meg disks, there was a lot of need for expediency and GUI code and application code often mixed. The result was a lack of an AutoCad style API.

If a procedure looks at screen layout directly, how do you turn it into a command from the keyboard with sensible parameters? Such a refactoring is hard, messy, and not at on the feature list marketing has developed. Lets face it, the PhotoShop user community would not just reject a command based interface, it might express outrage.

Going one step further, in the early 1990's AutoDesk massively refactored AutoCad's code. They took the hit in the form of R13. Then they started adding incredible features with each version again for the next twenty years.
Strange it's news now, as BBC has been already pretty openly abusing the spirit of the RIPA legislation to hunt down petty fee dodgers. Here's a word from the BBC from 2012: http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/aboutthebbc/posts/how-does-the-bb...
They should make single-window the default. Many new people do not know about it and quit Gimp before finding out about it.

But more importantly, the worst thing I have to face in GIMP is layer/selection management. I understand how it works, I worked with it for years, but it's annoying as fu... very annoying.
i honestly think he believes his stance is the only correct one. you can see it in the way he answered the questions.

the bit where he picks apart upstart, gentoo, etc., are nothing more than callous, myopic opinions yet he answers them with cheerful conviction.

technical arguments can be made for or against any piece of code. but, he dismisses other projects with a wave of his hand firmly stating that systemd is the "only" correct evolution.

i'm am neutral on systemd. do i think the old init system(s) are the right way? not really. do i think systemd is the right way? not really. would i be fine with systemd in the future? perhaps. would i be fine with another bit of code? perhaps.

but to dismiss the concerns of a large number of community members, to neglect or downright deny bugs and issues, to shoehorn a project into _everything_ while closing your ears to everyone else, these are my issues with the project.

if it works, great. but at least open your eyes and ears and work with everyone.

i migrated my home kit to freebsd from debian because i was having errors. failed boots. crashes. config problems. and i didn't have a decade of old crusty init scripts to begin with.

what used to be rock solid on my hardware became annoying to deal with.

i'm all for change and evolution in software/systems and i don't personally have a problem with poettering or what he is trying to do, but he's doing it in a piss poor way.
Same model and I don't have this issue.
This might be a driver or hardware issue. Phone is manufactured by LG, so it is possible that Google can't really fix it.

One comment claims same problem happened in 4.2.2, 4.4.4 and 5.0 too, so it might be some changes in 5.0 just make it happen much more often (NuPlayer?)
High speed video: Rainfall can release aerosols
I think a condensed work-week is better than spending 8 hours 5 days a week. I mean, this is a good way to cut down on obligatory but unnecessary office chit-chats, break time and all that crap that makes employees less productive.
> My wife has an N4 running 5.0.1 with no issues re calling, so if there is an issue for these users it's an isolated one and not a systemic problem with all N4s.

That's a bit of a leap to declare that the issue is an isolated one because your wife is not having the problem. As it turns out, my wife had that exact problem with her Nexus 4 on 5.0.1.

How widespread is the problem? Who knows. From my perspective it seems like the 5.0 release has been a bit more problematic than previous major Android upgrades.
I feel like Android 5 is a step back, UI-wise. One of those "change for the sake of change" things. I don't see how a triangle, square, and circle are more user friendly than a back button, a home button, and a tab button.

Chrome is also crashing constantly on 5.03 and the new keyboard is very very bright at night.

Not a telephony issue, but I feel like 5.03 was a step back and I've actually contemplated downgrading back to 4.* Is that an option for phone users, or does the carrier push the updates?

Edit: It seems like every time I make a comment that might be slightly anti-Google these days, it receives downvotes. That's concerning.
I agree, and I'll probably revert mine back to 4.4 as I said above, though I'll miss out on the better battery life. That's the clear advantage of a Nexus device: If Google does break something in a newer version, it's trivial to revert as they provide ROM images even after the device is out of support. The same can't be said for most of the other main vendors, who sometimes don't even make official ROM images available for restoring their devices.
UK man arrested in connection with Sony and Xbox hack
There is nothing a pundit likes more than a false dichotomy. By pushing your opponent to the edge, you makes your counter argument much easier.
I've only had a brief look at Neo4J, but I really like what I see. Graph databases seem to be marketed as an ideal way to represent a social network or similar where you want to represent the connections with other entities.

I see them as much more than this. I love using document databases because I don't have to worry about strict schemas. However, I lose a lot when I have multiple entities that are related in some way. Say I have a list of books and a list of authors. In MongoDB the book object would just have an id of the author and would then need to do a separate query to get the authors details.

Before graph databases, this sort of data would be best represented in a relational database as they have a really efficient way to join related data together.

However, with graph databases I get the best - and even better - of both of these worlds. My book entity contains a pointer to the author(s), so to query the book and their authors is even faster than a relational database.

In addition there is no fixed schema, so I am not tied down to a strict schema, thus allowing me to iterate faster. This could of course also be seen as a disadvantage - however I see no reason why a graph database couldn't build in the facility to have strong validation on the schema for specific entity types..

What is there not to like about Neo4J?
> actually quite common within contracts generally

Really?

> What's wrong with Apple insisting that developers not jailbreak their devices?

It's my device and I have the freedom to do with it as I wish. EFF goes into a lot more detail if you want to read it.

> What's wrong with Apple approving their own security updates?

It's not their own security updates, it's security updates to other people's apps.

> we can debate about the morality of DRM

This is about the fact that developers are forced into shipping it even if they don't want it.

> If you don't agree with it, don't bang free speech drums and shout yourself hoarse about "rights." Just don't sign it.

I won't sign it, and and I will sign a petition, and I will warn other developers about it. It's my right to point out bad behaviour and to complain. You presumably accept this since you just posted a comment complaining about something.
The only other option is the Google Product Support forums[1], which are mostly "staffed" by non-googler community moderators that offer no real support. Googlers who are on the forums do their best to ignore actual problem posts.

Regarding this particular issue on AOSP issue tracker, it is a software bug in AOSP that kills voice calls. Filling an issue report would seem prudent.

[1] https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!forum/nexus
Heh. I've just been hunting for clues to fix my "Nexus 6 randomly reboots" problem. Also quite common problem, and also radio silence from Google. Missed several phone calls due to phone having secretly rebooted.
Nice synchronicity.
Care to point out which remarks were clueless or trollish?
Not everyone is so lucky.
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Think of the trees. (of course manufacturing this extra piece of electronics is probably not "good" for the environment, but assuming that many people already have a smartphone, it makes sense to have a boarding pass QR code as opposed to getting everyone to print an A4 each time. Just think how many pages would be saved per year!)
The article is actually incorrect about PF. FreeBSD forked OpenBSD's 4.5 version but has provided its own set of enhancements including SMP it has fallen behind in other respects. PF in OpenBSD has had some large architectural changes that break SMP and the biggest change (new syntax) wasn't deemed worthwhile to port back to the SMP version. The blog links to an email chain about it https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-pf/2014-July/007...
I really like Android and have no desire to switch to iOS.

However that being said: That graph really makes the entire ecosystem look dysfunctional. All smartphones should have full support for at least two years regardless of manufacturer and the fact most don't is a poor reflection of everyone involved.

Android needs a Linux style package system. They bundle too much stuff together into singular giant update packages, when in reality you should be able to update e.g. Dialer, Browser, and so on without touching the Linux kernel or Android services.
To Live and Die in Gitmo
Agreed, the best diet is the one you can adhere to over the long term. Here is a great series comparing dieting approaches:
http://www.bodyrecomposition.com/fat-loss/comparing-the-diet...
For those of us outside the UK, they are required to pay for a license when they own a TV and watch live television. It's about $215 a year.

http://www.tvlicensing.co.uk/check-if-you-need-one/topics/te...
exactly. not to mention, the UI is full of elements that overlay other elements ... like the loading circle on top of emails, compose button on top of email (in gmail app), lots of blank space ... its just horrible (for me).
Or you can vote with your feet, wallet and mouth.
Cost of a chat service company with 55 employees:.......................... $19,000,000,000

Cost of systematically colluding to depress the wages of employees:....... $415,000,000
Eh, I suppose you're right. But this entire thread has me pretty concerned, as the Nexus 5 is already "old" in Google's eyes.
Bizarrely, some apps seem to need NuPlayer as a workarounds (particularly for the new imgur gifv in Reddit if Fun, black screen problems in Words With Friends, etc).

I found NuPlayer was disabled on my Nexus 4 after upgrade from KitKat and I had to turn it on. Not sure about what it defaults to after a factory wipe.
Why You Should Not Implement Layered Architectures
Single datum: I barely got the words "I quit my job the day before yesterday and am hence..." out before the friendly clerks at city hall put an application for (Japanese) national insurance in my hand. Had a card 20 minutes later.
Assuming the jury is allowed to hear most of the relevant facts that have been released to the public, he will be found guilty of (at least) the narcotics conspiracy charges. Could there be a mistrial? Sure - those happen for any number of reasons. But he would still be found guilty at a retrial. The facts won't change. While I am no fan of the FBI (or the harsh prosecution and sentencing of non-violent offenders in general), in this case they appear to have done their job quite well and are going to get their pound of flesh. They methodically built a slam-dunk case - largely with the help of Ross Ulbricht himself.
That's not what I am saying at all.

I am saying "almost every registrar [in .cz] have DNSSEC in one click (without changing price)" is nothing like "letting GoDaddy manage your keys for you".

The first is a matter of cost. The second a matter of convenience.

It's not at all like letting a third party manage your keys in any reasonable way to interpret it.
This is going to bite them.

Android has deteriorated so much I'm working out how to move to Windows phone which really means leaving the Google ecosystem completely. And my career has been Android based for many years now.
The perversion of science that believes an observation must be accompanied by a theory (preferably acceptable to the current mainstream) is still alive and well, even in medicine, positivist epistemology or no. Once you start looking for it you'll see it at least once a month even in popular press articles.

But a perversion it still is. It is eminently scientific to simply document and even publish an inexplicable observation, and only later hope that somebody can incorporate it into a testable theory.

To watch a putative scientist discard evidence because it has no theory with it boggles my mind, but even here on HN I've seen articles about papers getting rejected for this reason in the last year, so it's a real problem even today.