skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well if you were to drink the daily recommended amount which I break up to 4 160z drinks, you will have the recommended daily nutritional goals set by the FDA (I believe). Drinking 4 16oz smoothies won't give you the same nutritional value. I think the biggest misconception is that it needs to be a total food replacement. I think its easier to track what I'm putting in my body and count calories. The formula is essentially open source and can be tweaked for your dietary needs.
Related question -- does anyone run a site which is hosted in multiple locations?

Say you have a read-only site, and you have one copy in the Fremont CA data center, one in Frankfurt, and one in Asia. How do you direct users to the closest one network-wise?

(For static content, you can offload this problem to a CDN, but I'm wondering if you can do it just on Linode)

An old way to do it would be to have the users choose and set a cookie that redirects. But I wonder if you can do it transparently, like Google or Yahoo. Is there a DNS trick which implements this, or something else?
What's the alternative? The article reads like the majority of employees are men, making 70 degrees optimal for maximum employee happiness, but "just leave things as they are" doesn't seem to be the solution the article is driving at, either.
if you get a Programmer Union, you're going to need several locals:

PHP local

Haskell local

C local

etc
I drink a syntha-6 protein shake every morning after working out or as a quick meal replacement and it works great. Costs about a buck a serving.
Based on the last time I looked at a label on a 12-20ish (I don't know the size offhand) Odwalla bottle, it's probably about 2-300 calories, mostly from sugars, with 0 fat, little protein (unless it's a supplemented flavor which I'm not sure Odwalla makes), maybe some vitamins but not fortified either.

A meal of Soylent is 679 calories with exactly a third of all your daily requirements. It is literally a battery for humans.

If you eat anything but Soylent it is a literal certainty you are slowly starving yourself of nutrients you just happen to not get in your preferred diet. This makes sense, because, like many things, humans aren't automatically optimal at engineering diets. This is why we have startups, because they can take this crazy idea (what if we made the optimal utility food), take VC funding, and create something special. Never before in human history have we been so privileged and lucky to be alive.
Perhaps this depends on the definition of "legitimate"? Many reasonable definitions will change the quantity from "thousands" to "several".
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Why are third party scripts allowed at all if a site is honoring 'do not track'?

For instance, the EFF page about DNT - https://www.eff.org/pages/understanding-effs-do-not-track-po... has an analytics link embedded in it. This fetches a pixel gif from https://anon-stats.eff.org/piwik.php?idsite=1&rec=1&url=http...

Why is this still allowed? What analytics are even useful when DNT is being honored? Could there be a google analytics style service that could honor DNT then?
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"I don't think the web is under real threat from mobile native platforms."

The main argument against this statement is home screen icons. iOS and Android home screens, among others, do not feature, have not featured, and will not for months or possibly years, feature mobile web icons to launch websites in the browser of choice. Most or every icon on these home screens are native apps because mobile websites do not easily allow or make obvious that it's possible to have an app icon on the home screen. Thus, native will always win this battle.

When the day comes that it might be easier to see a mixture of native and web apps on the home screen, unless mobile web is faster than it currently is (meaning updating changing best practices, using excellent APIs like SW and designing for offline first access), users will STILL choose native over web when half or more than half the time they do exactly the same thing.

Native is here to stay for years to come unless the mobile web can offer a compelling reason to switch to browser based layouts. I'm cheering for the web to provide a better content experience but we're still a long way off and can expect web based layouts to be wrapped with native code and wrappers. Maybe web isn't the place for everything but a universal bytecode for everything is a dream that could be reality as long as progress is made.
Tangentially, what is the rationale behind Mellanox pushing a 56Gb ethernet solution? That one doesn't seem to make a bit of sense.
Unions aren't 'fun'. They're serious business.

"Seems like a no brainer for skilled programmers."

Why? As a skilled developer, I can freely move from one job to another as employers are begging to get me to work for them. Why would I want to be limited by my co-workers?

Unions are generally for people that

1) Can easily be replaced.
2) Don't have good negotiating skills

On top of this, it just makes it more difficult for anyone in their dorm room to start a business. It's not a coincidence that the startup scene is nearly non-existent where unions have a strong presence (France, Sweden, Denmark, Norway).
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I'm using Postgres for a new project. After playing around with various NoSql stores, I've come to the following conclusion:

If you want a super scalable eventually consistent database, use one of the more minimally structured global key value store type DBs like Cassandra. In this case you do not want SQL's guarantees or structure, so don't go there.

If you want a structured database with ACID guarantees, just use XXXXing SQL.

NoSql databases that have attempted to implement structured data, consistency guarantees, rules, ACID or near-ACID semantics, etc., have all started to basically just converge with SQL. They end up re-implementing SQL but with a less consistent, hackier query language and they miss spots. They've gone around the circle and re-invented the wheel and in many cases ended up with an inferior one to boot.

Sure SQL is old. So is math. SQL is rooted in set theory and other pieces of immortal mathematical truth. It's a great example of a software system designed around ageless mathematical concepts that will always be valid. It could use some syntactic modernization, but the core of it will be as useful in a million years as it is today. Learn how to properly structure a database (normalization, DRY, etc.) and how to use its more obscure abilities (esoteric joins) and you'll find that it's amazingly powerful.

PostgreSQL is fantastic because it's doing just that: a bit of modernization around a solid core. It gives you SQL when you want structured data, and it also give you JSON columns when you want to store blobs of unstructured data in the database. So it kind of gives you the best of both worlds: SQL plus a JSON document store. You can (to some extent) query your JSON columns too, though if you intend to do this a lot I'd recommend moving that data into SQL-land.

This facilitates a kind of iterated development where you throw temporary and less structured data into JSON columns, then if you discover later that this data wants to be more long-lived and structured you migrate it to real SQL columns. It's a very agile/YAGNI way of doing things -- do it quick at first, then optimize and clean up once you know what wants to live where and what's really important.
How about building an Einstein@Home lab with some of those credits? Help discover some neutron stars.
That would save electricity...but would probably waste more water. IIRC, a German study into handwashing of dishes found that <1% of people actually managed to use less water than a dishwasher. I'd bet it's a similar usage profile for clothes.
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You could spin up a large number of ArchiveTeam warrior images
"The 'Do not track' boolean contributes to your digital fingerprint."

I always thought that and that's why I didn't turn it on.
While I also recoil at the $, I much prefer a functional programming style based on immutable objects. Defaulting to in-place mutation would ruin the API.

I probably would have gone with shuffleInPlace(), but the more I think about it, the more I like the $. Especially since it will rarely get used.

This library is pretty neat largely because it changes some common (and annoying) java idioms.
So the first 2 years I was significantly underpaid with the digital agency we started really, where I was the only person doing front end and everyone else being a data scientist or strictly back-end person.

Front-end work was really undervalued as we priced our work, but the only thing that was less valued were my MBA and business operations skills, so I kept doing that until student loans kicked in.

I did a lot of community centered work for free and freelance stuff on the side after I left especially after my Senior UX job at a startup that was making money fell through, but it wasn't until I built my portfolio and assembled what I could that was all over the place and used it as my initial resume that I realized people would hire me as like an actual employee web developer.

It's a couple years out of date now, and really starting to show its age, but this is what I used when doing my initial job hunting early in 2013. http://www.startup-designs.com

So some of the trajectory is due to the foundation I had already, but most of it was talking to people I knew who were where I wanted to get to and blatantly copying what they told me I needed to do. It's not rocket science the stuff that actually works, but it's not intuitive either.
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> It's very natural to write, and easy to type. You start with super-short examples that are easily understood, using a bare-bones editor. Explaining blocks and iterators is a challenge of course.

Same can be said about Python, Swift, JavaScript, Lua, i.e. any high-level language polished and mature enough.

And an anecdote for you: my kids tried some of the above, they liked Lua most and Ruby least of all. Why? I guess the question is as complex as why some games are more popular than others, there is no clear explanation to these things really.
Absolutely. I have made a few attempts to break into the oil and gas industry there, since my wife is affiliated with the industry.
Always great to hear about another Cleveland-area company!
Far fewer. And it will make it more difficult for them to sell their analytics data on to legitimate companies when it is easily shown that they are breaking the law.

I don't get your objection. Are you really complaining that if a law/agreement isn't 100% effective then it is worthless?
Um, this isn't satirical. If you're not meditating, I really encourage you to take it up -- you feel really refreshed and rededicated afterwards in a way that makes development much more of a focused, mindful process and enables you to hack your metrics for more of a lean, competitive edge. It's much like static typing.
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Modern ClojureScript
I'm talking about this one (see Storage Management on p17):

http://repository.readscheme.org/ftp/papers/ai-lab-pubs/AIM-...

They had to leave it out of the first prototype due to space constraints but describe the approach. They build a second, state machine into storage interface that continuously looks for stuff it can reclaim. The idea was clearly to make it concurrent and use dedicated circuits. An enterprising reader of old wisdom would combine this with any number of parallel/concurrent algorithms in literature to achieve GC w/ predictable, performance impact.

That work was later referenced in a 1976 treatment of the subject that worked out foundational issues for concurrent collection:

http://repository.tudelft.nl/assets/uuid:8b7d64a2-e9a7-4b04-...

Most work in GC from them on focused on software implementations. Did find a hardware implementation in embedded space with some interesting choices:

http://www.ece.iastate.edu/~morris/papers/IEEE_TMC_03.pdf

So, the original LISP machines and many later used mark-and-sweep often around or during a heap exhaustion. There were concurrent ones, with most using software. The Steele chip describes a concurrent design w/ straightforward implementation in hardware. That combined with literature gave people more than enough to acceptably solve this problem.
I'm not sure that would gain much, what with the compression that's ordinarily done anyways.
>I’m feeling really sorry with the for the codingstyleguide community for putting Ads on this project but it seems to be the only way to keep it affordable. I hope you can understand.

Have you tried asking for donations? If people value your site enough, users are usually willing to lend a hand. I've seen plenty of donation-driven sites and they often meet their targets, if the content the site produces is valuable enough. Especially for smaller or community-driven sites. I'm not sure if you have enough loyal users to make this a feasible option though.

With your current numbers you're looking to make maybe $10/month from advertisements? If that. While that is certainly a good chunk of that $80/mo, the size of your site might be better suited for a free host [0] than AWS.

ps: Getting rid of the height from .info-banner seems to fix this issue ; tested in FF and Chrome: http://i.imgur.com/yrFtN7P.png

[0] I've yet to find a free host that beats http://www.heliohost.org/home/
I think this network might be to shuttle data between remote databases and computing farms. For instance, if you have 20 petabytes of data in Tulsa and an agreement with CalPoly to crunch the data for you.
After using vim for a while, you don't think about text operations consciously, it's all subconscious / muscle memory. It's possible to do something like "shift+press the down arrow 4 times, backspace" in Vim by the way: "Vjjjd" or "dd...". In fact, as I was typing this comment I couldn't even remember what the right key strokes were and had to open Vim, delete 4 lines and try to consciously pay attention to which keys my fingers were hitting! So even if you have to think consciously about text operations in the beginning, don't let that scare you off as it will almost certainly become muscle memory after some practice.
Interesting. I've already given it a short try and I can see some differences. Do you use it as your main editor when you need to use an editor?
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Is this just like P3P? Because that was a failure of a standard if I ever saw one. Web devs blindly copypasting random P3P headers just to get third party widgets to load properly. Or even setting headers like "not a P3P policy" with less than honest side effects. Like Google does: https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/151657?hl=en
Thanks but no thanks Autodesk. Why do I feel like Autodesk is starting to take it's cues from Oracle?

I've been working on a side project in Unreal Engine 4, which is amazing, but you'll notice that the majority of Epic devs work in Maya. Autodesk realized there was opportunity to make some money, and finally released Maya LT subscription for devs, but there are still a ton of import/export and other pipeline issues. I mean Autodesk owns the FBX format but can't get a good pipeline mechanism going for it? Now that I see this, it totally makes sense. They saw what the Epic guys were doing, probably even trolled their codebase for ideas, said "Hey, we can do the same thing but make it proprietary and cost a shit ton, just like all our other stuff, and make tons of bank! All we have to do is make sure our tools work with our tools best and everything else is subpar, and it will force devs who want those features into our camp!" Look at the damn interface, it looks almost identical in layout to UE4!

On a similar note, as a sysadmin with Autocad users, and the most recent quote I got for a single new sub license was $4k+, I am now investigating migrating to open source solutions that can perform everything we need without being licensed into the ground. Not every company has $20k just sitting around for license upgrades...

Edit: I understand my tone is negative, but in this case I think it's warranted. I would appreciate discussion instead of just a downvote please. I also took out the needlessly negative last paragraph.
Yeah...anyone remember 100baseVG? The HP backed switched ethernet "alternative"? Neither does anyone else...it was a total lock-in play.
Unfortunately, there's probably enough data to identify you anyway, regardless of DNT setting: https://panopticlick.eff.org/
> 2000 calories in Big Macs: $17.87 at a US McDonalds

How did you get that?

According to McDonald's own nutritional information [1], you'd consume 1,070 calories per medium meal. Via:

Big Mac: 530 calories

Medium Fries: 340 calories

Medium Drink: 200 Calories

In order for your maths to work each meal has to cost $8.94. The most expensive medium big mac meal I can find is $8.03 in DC, or $16 for your 2K calories.

[0] http://www.fastfoodmenuprices.com/mcdonalds-prices/

[1] http://www.mcdonalds.com/us/en/food/full_menu/full_menu_expl...
anon-stats.eff.org is a subdomain of eff.org. It's not a third party.
> It's not extortion because I have the ability to (1) leave the country for one where the taxes are more to my liking

So I guess a mafia's extortion is not actually extortion either, because you can leave one mafia and go get extorted by another whose extortion is more to your liking?

> (2) I can lower and raise them as much as I want to by working more or less.

I don't even need to tell you that this is disingenuous.

> that's definitely a possibility but to date we have not seen that so it should not cloud your judgment about the present day situation

How exactly is the possibility clouding my judgment?