skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very one-sided view of the world. Apparently developers are the only people who are capable of learning new things and Ops people can't possibly be able to understand the magic of code. (Not saying that there aren't places that expect "devs" to everything and call that "DevOps", but a lot of things are called "DevOps")
Uuuuh, depends on the flavor you want to impart?
> with a large grain of salt

This made me stumble, as in this context I wasn't sure if you were being literal or figurative.
Although NYT shouldn't get off scott-free, I think it's worth pointing out that they probably had very little to do with this and more than likely had no idea about it. The WebRTC 'tracking' was from a script from an ad network[1] used by at least Ars Technica and The Washington Post.

As someone who works on sites implementing display advertising using these sorts of networks, I have nothing but contempt for the developers that are writing these JS. I've lost count of all the JS errors they cause (currently I see a lot of `Can't find variable: _body`), or just errant console.log messages (one on every browser scroll or resize was fun).

[1]: Edit: Amusingly I found a developer arguing for this WebRTC-punching, who says he's from White Ops (whiteops.com) working on anti-bot tools https://github.com/EFForg/privacybadgerchrome/issues/431#iss...
For most people not eating fried food is not an option. Fried food tastes great and we love it. Yes it is not as healthy as a salad but it is much more fun. Being healthy is only one part of the equation. Eating is a complex process and very important part of our lives which can be adversely affected by any type of limitations. Probably moderation is the key to a healthy and satisfying diet.
Yes. I think there might be a business in there somewhere, as I wrote on my blog a year ago: http://www.mooreds.com/wordpress/archives/1502
Depends who's lobbying I guess, butter vs margarine, coffee vs tea, lard vs sunflower oil. Joking aside traditional western Europe cuisine was based on lard frying (people also ate large amount of eggs which is also supposed to be bad for you) and many of them reached 100 years and more. Of course env pollution was not that big, but limited calories intake plus animal fats and physical activity contributed to their longevity greatly.
Although I'm very hesitant to put too much faith into anything in the area of nutrition and health based on a single study, I do recall reading a longitudinal study a few months ago where they looked as various carb/fat/protein ratios in diets and basically found that both high carb/low fat/high protein and low carb/hight fat/high protein diets promoted weight loss and increased overall health, and that high carb/high fat/low protein diets tended to cause a lot of health problems and participants either gained weight or lost weight at a much lower than expected rate based on their calorie deficit.

Anecdotally, as a person who has struggled to control my weight (420lbs -> 100lbs -> 200lbs -> current back down to around 190lbs), I found that a low carb/high fat/high protein diet did help me lose weight and my vitals (based on blood pressure, resting heart rate, and CBC with metabolic panel) were extremely good during that time (although I suffered from bradycardia and low blood pressure for a time), but the high caloric density of fat made it very difficult to feel satisfied with the amount of food I was eating to maintain a consistent calorie deficit. I'm losing weight a little more slowly on a high carb/low fat/high protein diet, but my vitals are still good (bp and heart rate are more normal than the high fat diet, but I'm struggling with anemia now) and it seems more sustainable for me in the long run.
Discussion from previous posting in 2013: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5451050
What part of

"The agency, however, has reassessed some other water permits in the national forest. In the mid-2000s, for instance, the Forest Service went through the permits of hundreds of cabins and reexamined their use of water from creeks. In Barton Flats, dozens of cabin owners were told they could no longer draw water from a creek and instead would have to use wells or install tanks and truck in water. Cabin owners spent thousands of dollars putting in tanks."

doesn't look like different treatment?
And when it comes to browning, or making a crust around the edges of what's being pan-fried, butter is the best.

Also, I'm not sure why but I've found that adding sesame oil to butter helps keep its properties a bit longer under heat.
The subject of the research was quite narrow. The BBC article expanded it into something much more broad, as always seems to happen.

I agree, though, that it seems irresponsible for Prof Grootveld to ignore the issues of smoking/burning your cooking medium.
I have the Sony Digital Paper and I can't say enough good things about it. It has been a gamechanger. I have thousands of papers/books on it, and I find myself reading more papers and making notes on them where ever I am.

Pros:
1. Native pdf reader. It is not an epub reader, but epubs can be converted to pdfs easily (the difference between epub and pdf is that the latter is formatted to a particular page size)

2. A-4/Letter sized documents can be read as is. I don't want to scroll.

3. The advantages of an e-ink display. (i) Good contrast. My eyes don't hurt the way they do when I stare at a lit screen.
(ii) I don't use the built-in wifi, and I think I charge it once a month.

4. Supports handwritten annotations. The stylus is responsive, the resolution is high, the lag is small, and the friction is just right ... it feels like writing on paper. I use the device to write lengthy notes (tens of pages).

5. Multiple tabs openable on the same document. I keep separate tabs open on the bibliography and on important figures to be referenced.

6. Touch screen - standard gestures for zooming, scrolling and panning.

7. Extensible memory (SDCard) - I have tons of documents, but haven't come anywhere close to filling up the internal 4G mem.

Cons:

1. Price. $850 could buy a whole lotta other things.

2. The disadvantages of an e-ink display: While it is snappier than the kindle, there's plenty of room for improvement. I was beside myself with excitement when I had first heard of Mirasol. where are they now?

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And if anyone from Sony's reading this, I'd like to be able to select pieces of a drawing and drag them around. I'd like to be able to reorganize my notes. It would be so trivial for you to add this feature.
It would be, except that the proposal wasn't that the editorial would say the Google stock price is slumping.

The proposal was actually for an editorial in the WSJ emphasizing that Google’s stock will lose value in the face of a sustained attack by AGs

Since it is an editorial, one can pretty easily make the case that a sustained attack on a company by the AGs will have a negative effect on that companies stock price.

I don't like it, but if there is a legal challenge here it won't be on those grounds.
What the fuck, this leaked your real IP behind VPN since January 2014 and this isn't fixed yet? This sure looks like a Heartbleed-tier high-priority security hole to me. How is this not bigger news?
Which the article mentions:

>> When it comes to cooking it doesn't seem to matter whether the olive oil is "extra virgin" or not.

It's pretty obvious the people doing the article or the people who are doing the experiments have never actually cooked.
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i want to purchase kurtis in online ,what is the best shop in online shopping?
Has this been tested in court? Clever engineering solutions seem not to always win the day in front of a Judge.
> should I risk being labelled incompetent

That depends on if you are incompetent or not.

No, seriously - it's very hard to judge the level of your own skills, both technical and others. Try to find a senior dev who is not a total asshole and go ask them. If they worked with you earlier, it's all the better, but probably any experienced dev (who's not an asshole) will do. Just tell them honestly what you're doing, what you're struggling with, what you did in your previous work, things like this. This should be enough for any decent senior to tell you how skilled - relatively to others - you are. Would it be easy to change the job? Which kind of development (embedded, mobile, ...?) would be the most natural for you to pick up? What would you need to learn to change your domain to something else than your current one? Just have a little chat and you'll at least know your options much better.

And also, if you're unable to find a well-meaning, non-asshole senior dev in your company you should be out of there already!
http://www.producthunt.com/tech/lrn

Wanted to share the PH link also, we just launched this morning!
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Show HN: Syntle – memorize Objective-C and Swift syntax with flashcards
I think they were referencing diets that are generally higher in fat and carbs rather than meaning that they are worse eaten together at a specific meal. I have seen a study that supported that, but in all of science and nutritional science specifically a single study (that I can't find a reference too right now unfortunately) is about as reliable as "my cousin's brother in law's dog told him that..."
A series of short videos on functional programming in JavaScript
My favorite frying oil is peanut oil. Not even mentioned in the article although it's very common in restaurants.
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Human is the new Hipster
there's no way this is in the same tier
Wrong question, how does a bad manager getting in your way tie in with building well-designed quality CRUD applications?

Obviously the problem here is the manager, not the fact that you want to write and build quality work. Especially if they run on flawed assumptions such as "the mentality that $ revenue is proportional to # features".

You can't build quality under shitty management like that.

There's markets and jobs for both types: some desire cheap & shitty, others are willing to pay premium for solid, beautiful & well-designed.
Electric Planes Usher in the Second Great Age of Aviation
This should be published on npm
Dunno how bad burnt olive oil can be for you. But there certainly are many kinds of olive oils, and some of them (especially extra virgin) are very likely to get very bad taste when heated to high temperatures.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooking_oil#Types_of_oils_and_...
I don't understand what kind of AI/robotics we are talking about here:

- weak non-self-replicating;

- weak self-replicating;

- strong.

Besides, maybe it's an egoistic point of view. Many species have perished while humanity established itself. Does it really matter if we go extinct, if the result is going to be a superior species?
You are right of course - people have different perceptions; for me, diving is definitely the thing that comes to my mind from Thailand, even if I have never done any scuba diving myself. The next things are beaches, food and the tsunami.

But regarding what Google typeahead suggests to you, it depends on your location and perhaps your own search history. For me the options with "Thailand se" are september, seasons, sevärdheter ("sights" in Swedish). So if someone sees proposals with "Thailand sex", it could be because he or she has been doing previous searches for Thai sex tourism.
Rocket Internet's Stripe clone Paymill is available in Poland.
German Economic Council Backs Exit for “Uncooperative” Eurozone Members [pdf]
Seems to be nice. Was just about to start learning Swift
There is. I suggest Google search, for example "bring more men into nursing".
Yup it is crazy money ... maybe I shouldn't have paid it ... but i kinda needed some help learning how to program .
What an awesome app!
There is no mention of Internet, just a network server. You scenario is likely covered by the license.
Lowering the Server Load
There's quite a lot of case law that says that companies can be held responsible for their subcontractors. See e.g. Deepwater Horizon

I am not a lawer. This is not legal advice.
I've never been a heavy MS Excel or MS Access user but those kinds of tools still are - after many years - clearly democratising computing. The notion of pushing this a bit further by thinking "frameworks" is very much worthwhile and maybe the "correction" to an ever more "consumerist" internet.

I always admired IFTT - you could probably think of it as more of a framework.

Does anyone know of more projects like it or ones with an even less intuitive angle towards solving this problem?

The question is this: how can we essentially put ourselves "out of our jobs" by providing a generalised "framework" in a not-traditional sense (so that we can work on even more interesting stuff;) ?

"A change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points." -- Alan Kay
I've been planning to switch to Swift for so long, now it's time to start! I needed this app! Great job!
So, iow, Hollywood.

People forget or don't know that Hollywood is the Silicon Valley of films. You need a special effect? There's a guy down the street who can do that. You need a special lens or lighting? You can rent that, today, for a hundred bucks at the shop around the corner.

That's why films, and the people who make them, congregate in Hollywood.
I would use it if these guys added JavaScript and Python.
In many European countries they can. They set up honey pots, log everything and then send costly C&Ds to thousands of people. Courts usually believe their "proof", no matter how bad it is.

It's probably a billion dollar business by now.
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Did you read the article? Yep, real slavery in the U.S.

Sure, we can play which slavery is worse than other slavery.
a peer-to-peer Twitter would not be impossible

One of the key features of twitter, the global reach of hashtags, would be impossible. Twitter relies very heavily on being centralised. Anyone claiming to build a decentralised twitter needs a very careful numbers-based argument as to what the bandwidth consumption of being a popular user or hashtag might be.
>I still remember reading about olive oil being bad for frying because it was supposedly less resistant to high temperatures and decomposed into something not too healthy.

This hasn't changed. Olive oil has one of the lowest smoke points of all cooking oils. Once it's burning, you're eating all kinds of things, some of which aren't good for you.

[http://www.seriouseats.com/2014/05/cooking-fats-101-whats-a-...]
When is Shell coming?
Start anyway. The rough draft will always be a rough draft.
People want to movies that everyone else is watching. Then you can have enjoyable discussions of them with your friends.
Sleep makes our memories more accessible, study shows
There is a subtle difference between hole in the ground in any place and a http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cdrh/cfdocs/cfcfr/CFRS...
Some practical lessons about cooking oils for amateur chefs:

- Learn to understand what's meant by "neutral oils". They are the most versatile, and best for amateurs.

- Extra-virgin olive oil has a strong, complex taste. It's difficult to use. Get normal olive oil instead for dishes that need it. (NEVER make mayonnaise or cook eggs with "EVOO". Try it once and you'll understand.)

- Different oils will combust at different temperatures. Get a neutral oil with the highest smoke point you can find for deep frying and pan searing.

- Toasted sesame seed oil is my most commonly used non-neutral oil because it has a strong but simple taste which works well in many dishes. Walnut & other oils can be nice but usually not worth the extra cost.
Why Is It Necessary to Have a Business VPN in Australia?
The best Games are already higher quality than toy story one (1995). Both in terms of graphics and plot ex Witcher III. Game studios already make more money than Hollywood so long term Hollywood is in a death spiral.
Agreed, but it's not something that we can easily change.

Cases like the one I described could actually help by giving users plausible deniability, but that would just end with browser developers being pressured into disabling the feature.
An interesting insight into (I assume) US culture in the comments that I've certainly never come across before. Do restaurants really have their own proprietary versions of the "happy birthday" song over there? I've only ever heard the "proper" version in restaurants and other social gatherings here in the UK.
What I Learned Writing a Haiku Every Day for 100 Days
Same here man, I've been coding in Objective-C for 1.5 years...
This should be read as "race for armed AI", not "an arms race toward the goal of AI". Very sneakily worded.
I get why retention is important but this article seems very light on details. A lot of products typically wont see a customer return in 90 days. Are these bad businesses...?

Let's say you're building a home remodeling marketplace. People aren't doing remodeling projects every month. Your 90 day retention numbers aren't going to be great.

Retention would suggest avoiding this business model...
Basically, a basic income would solve this since people are doing it because they need money to survive.

Sometimes I think that money is corrupting everything and in the future it will be seen as an aberration.

Hard to tell.

EDIT: It's not money directly than corrupts human to do not do the right things. It's forcing people the earn money to survive.
I administer 2 non-profit domains that use google services. When google started randomly merging all my email/youtube/blogger/appEngine/googledocs accounts together I got into a right gtempaccount.com pickle.

I thought I had it all sorted out, and started using separate browsers for each account. However, the company I work for have now decided to use gmail - so I'm back to having to clear my cookies all the time, and keep getting that "New sign-in from Chrome/Firefox on Window" spam.

Hmm - I wonder if this is also hurting their corporate customers?
That TC article is overly optimistic. Very few corporate customers will upload TED videos for compliance training. Instead, they'll upload the same terrible death-by-powerpoint presentations, because of, well, compliance requirements. Well done on joining YC though!
The creator of the app is here! Shell and git are coming with the second version of the app. In the next week second version will be available.
To an outsider like me, this looks very impressive. On looking through the paper giving a 3-page summary of the Denotic Cognitive Event Calculus (http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~govinn/dcec.pdf), I got the impression that this apparent self-awareness was in some way built into the language - for example, 'Self' appears to be a word declared in the syntax. I don't know if this is so, or if it really matters - perhaps someone who does could comment?
funny, of all the routers I used (all were provided by my ISP), their IP were 192.168.1.254
Pretty big experience, the transition must be painful
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Naives, warning against a far-fetched Californian fantasy.

Meanwhile, few warn against widespread surveillance, the repurcursions from the use of drones, etc.
This timeline is a little skewed. Google+ started in 2011, way before Project Loom was announced. SOPA was introduced to the house in 2011 as well.

And none of this is new. Before SOPA and PIPA, the DMCA raised similar discussions. Ads have been degrading the experience at least since Tripod introduced popups. And the Tumblr arguments are almost the same as back when Geocities was bought - in fact, by the same company!
Tabs are way more transitory. Their lifetime is pretty limited in that I will usually close them after I read its content. Apps are slightly more permanent. Also, on a more practical side, it is currently way faster to switch tabs because of those useful touch gestures in Chrome.
Does this help with SEO at all? Can Google index the different languages?
Does this kill software defined radio?
Many years ago, worked as a line cook in a high-end restaurant. TL;DR version of what I learned there (and still my rules of thumb):

-EVOO is best for salad dressings, oily dipping sauces.

-Olive oil is best for raw emulsions (aioli, etc)

-Canola for high heat stovetop

-Vegetable for baking and deep frying

-Sesame for Asian

-Don't worry about flavored oils until a recipe calls for them or you're comfortable experimenting

One of my favorite books for cooking is by Harold McGee, 'On Food and Cooking'. He takes a wonderful look at the science (chemistry and physics) behind your food and cooking, and I learned quite a bit from it. If you get the chance, it's worth picking up.
They can choose to not deliver "enhanced" search results -- showtimes, links to buy tickets, links to IMDB/RT/etc., that appear outside of the "native" search results.

As long as they don't mess around with the native search results, they'll be safer from an anti-trust perspective.
Just tested img and iframe and they work quite happily from the web to the local network.
>For one, when they talk about frying, are they literally meaning deep frying / pan frying, or also including sauteeing and similar?

They're talking about any method in which the cooking oil is heated to temperatures where it can "burn". Sauteing would fall under this category, though generally you're using a lower cooking temperature.
it's risky to build the core of your business on someone else's platform. You could argue Quora is doing something similar and I'm just as confused by them...
I would be very surprised if a compiler on a modern high-performance processor actually did this optimization - as deep pipelines and speculative execution mean that the additional conditional branch per loop may hurt more than it helps.

That being said, on a simple architecture - namely a shallow pipeline - this sort of thing is an "obvious" optimization.

And w.r.t. "without optimizations" - there is no such thing at the C / C++ level. There are computer architectures where optimizations pretty much have to be done, for instance. (Many architectures with compile-time scheduling, for instance.)

For instance, if you have a dataflow machine it may end up running this in non-constant time. And I'll note that modern x86 processors are looking more and more like dataflow machines.
hey, nurdaulet, thanks for putting effort into this, but why are there so few flashcards? I want to learn more!
I don't think conversion is that important of a metric when it comes to determining product/market fit - high conversion indicates you are good at convincing your customers are good at solving their problem, which is more of an indicator of your marketing prowess than actual product quality or usefulness (though obviously these are not entirely independent variables).

Retention is the ultimate number - i.e., for people who we have convinced to use the product, do they actually find it valuable and worth the money.

As for how high your retention numbers should be? Ideally as high as possible, in reality the floor is going to be the lifetime value of the user (retention_time * revenue_per_time) vs. the cost of acquiring the user. As long as the user's lifetime value exceeds their acquisition cost, your economics at least (barely) work.
So, even though this is kind of fake (it’s more like a hand-drawn UPC barcode alternative), a real hand-drawn QR-code alternative is something I’ve been thinking about doing for a while. In particular, I was thinking that matrix parity codes like the ones schoen at the EFF discovered in printer dots https://w2.eff.org/Privacy/printers/docucolor/ would be an ECC that’s practical to compute by hand, and then you could draw ECC-correctable matrix barcodes with a pencil.

Has anybody done this?