skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think "other factors" could well include the reluctance of the average human mind to undergo consistent discipline, and the reluctance of health food corporations to concede that it pays off if successful.
If the election were held tomorrow between a generic Democrat and a generic Republican, I'd write in Edward Snowden. Right now, I can't imagine either of the parties yielding a better candidate. If enough others did the same, I think the discussion might actually be elevated enough to make a difference--I won't be holding my breath, though.
I've been planning to replace my 2010 MacBook 13" for a few years. Each year it keeps doing everything I need it too, and the new systems don't seem like enough of a jump. I upgraded to 16gb of RAM and a 750gb hybrid drive. It hates doing anything computationally intensive, my IDEs take another few milliseconds to respond, but if I am patient it does everything I need.

I have no idea how long it will last at this point, I think it could be good enough for a few more years. If I put in an SSD it would give it another life.
I knew the idea of an iPad Mini 4 wouldn't hold water.
No, dignity is not being the same person regardless of the situation. An asshole who is always an asshole doesn't have dignity, he's just an asshole.
Recently retired my early 2008 mac pro; replaced by... a hackintosh! I used to use that machine as a linux workstation, but I've replaced /that/ by a bigger one still.

And yeah, if there was a pro machine that wasn't ridiculous like the ashtray, I'd buy one... Instead, it's the first time I don't own an apple machine since the SE/30 days...
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You can buy HD upgrade/replacement kits for the newer models from sites like iFixit and OWC. In that respect I think they tend to beat comparable PCs; I was recently looking into this question for an HP laptop I was considering buying and found that it had the drive soldered to the motherboard.

I believe the RAM is soldered onto the motherboard for all newer Mac models.
consistent and thought-out, feature-rich design is all we really need to make interacting with the phone efficient.

none of the business heads understand how to get it right so they shoot for pie in the skie [hm, that was an interesting spelling mistake to make] alternatives because they prematurely dismissed what a master of design can accomplish because they balk at the salary.
A "no true Scotsman" fallacy would be a response like "the people acting this way aren't true to the Amazon spirit".

Instead, the response is "I don't see that happening at Amazon". That's a direct refutation of what's being claimed. Whether you believe it or not is a separate story.
> get your desires under control

OK... got any specific tips for that part? Because you've done the diet equivalent of saying "just go really fast" when describing how to get into orbit.
This is a great example of how badly configured these systems are and how ultimately, they do more harm than good. It also brings up an interesting question. After a couple hundred years of recorded music, eventually everything will have some historical basis. If copyright law is to be enforced this harshly, then how do new works get created without hitting some automated censor firewall?

The elephant in the room, of course, is how strong copyright laws are. Unfortunately, Congress has shown little interest in reforming them.
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Apart from putting your wp-config on github, it's also a terrible idea to use short passwords like 'p@ss12' for a database password that will be sent from one machine/program to another most of the time - such passwords should at the very least look like 'jm0Y/ZGjxYZay2yraskQ5AbZ8Qe0r0pRVDdnEkaIvHU', computers can remember strings that long and developers can copy-paste if it's stored in a file already.
A better link, although I find it interesting that this is primarily an advertising play. Take information they have (Google maps) and turn it into a "qualified lead" system for Solar installers. Has to pay pretty decently on a conversion.

That said, it would be super helpful if they marked addresses as "already have solar" so I would stop getting robo-calls from solar companies trying to sell me solar panels.
I heard some of this already 30 years ago when I took classes in Nutritional Chemistry. It's a highly complex system which is hard to measure and often highly dependent on the individual. Today we know more about the gut organisms which helps explain some of the variability, but like the brain much of what we think we know is still speculation and often anecdotal.

Plus the yuck factor makes experimentation not much fun.
Try GNU social, or GNU MediaGoblin for the pics.
According to this page, it costs $35,000 - (http://www.technionmba.com/tuition-and-scholarship/).

I think it's a little unfortunate that the Technion needs to write:

Not included: Airfare, airport transfers, housing, computer hardware and peripherals, medical expenses (medical insurance can be purchased separately), laundry, linens, souvenirs, additional trips and excursions per catalog, and personal spending money.

I'd tend to argue that if you think your MBA tuition covers personal spending money, you're likely not qualified to do the MBA, but I am much less patient than the mean...:)
I still use my 1999 Powermac every week to drive my drum scanner, which requires a proprietary card and OS9 drivers. Works flawlessly, with original keyboard and mouse!

My other machines are a BTO 2010 Macbook Air and a 2011 Mac Mini with 16GB of RAM and two SSDs.
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So after they didn't exactly revolutionize the IDE with Light Table, and pivoted to revolutionizing programming, they seem to have kind of come around to revolutionizing... groupware? Which at least seems more plausible, as it ought to be possible to make a better groupware application than Lotus Notes.

I think the larger implication is: Programming tools are actually pretty good, and the larger process of programming is fairly solid, and while improvements are possible, they're probably going to be evolutionary improvements that build on what we have, rather than throwing everything away in favor of a brand-new approach.
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Isn't this sorta obvious? I always assumed the calorie counts in foods were old data, calculated a century ago, and the foods labeled with those counts have been so modified since then that they are little more than relative guesses useful for moderate comparison only. Add in the variances of how different people digest, as well as how food combining impacts digestion, and those counts are marginally useful at best. "Calorie" in foods have little to nothing to do with "calorie" in chemistry and physics, other than they were originally intended to be the same, but any thinking individual directing attention to them sees they are not.
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It's a 404.
What is the advantage to this over building a simple website? Unless I am misunderstanding it, it sounds like the author wants us to reinvent the wheel.
Exercise is good for you and it seems to be pretty damn simple, but we are way too sedentary. Would you similarly suggest that exercise therefore must in fact be a lot more complicate than it appears?

I would suggest people are overweight because the steps to lose weight are unpleasant, or require willpower, rather than being too complicated and mysterious.
This partially expresses what I wanted to reply.

The other part is that food calories are the amount of energy needed to raise the temperature of one kilogram of water by one degree celsius. By that definition, calories in vs calories out seems pretty darn close to reality, and if it's not perfect, it's likely so close you're not going to notice a significant difference.
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Doesn't Bezos own Washington Post?
You're asking for a individually customized newspaper with no ads or classifieds to support it, that probably needs custom editing every "issue" since no automatic formatter will work 100% of the time. I don't think 5 quid is so unreasonable.

Although the service did fold so maybe it was too much.
What is a light ray made of?
It's raining JavaScript
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I still have no idea what this is after reading the blog.
I get a 404 error on this link (from France).
I got 8.5k in the first day of a post here, which was less popular than this post (I saw something like 150 sessions/minute when I peaked at #6)
Dietary fat contributes to visceral fat as well, and at a greater degree than fructose. There's always some energy lost during DNL.
> That's not quite true. Protein has 5 calories per gram, but labels only count 4 because of this fact.

Can you give me more information about this? I've always wondered whether or not calories listed are "net" calories (as in the number of calories you get after you extract calories from the food) or "total" (as in this amount minus the amount it takes to extract these calories). I'm just not sure what to google to read more :)
If I tar myself with the same brush -- what of it ? If what I say is correct, even if I express the same dysfunctional pattern, what of it? The fact that I may or may not see it in myself doesn't affect my ability to see it in other people.

I don't require your pity, I accept it tho, if that's what you want to give. It just makes you feel better. Feeling sorry for someone is a way to make yourself feel better than them, revealing your own insecurity.

I'm always looking to learn and for opportunities to improve. Could what I describe of others be something I do ? Of course.

At least I have the courage to say it, perhaps knowing that I exhibit it still. Willing to learn. I am. Are you?

Start where you are. Or you'll never get where you want to be.

Struggling against blaming others, instead of taking responsibility, struggling against doing, instead of hating, is something anyone can encounter. The point is, to see you have a choice, and choose something that works.

If you want to pretend you're already above that, and look down on me, the very need to look down on me shows me you aren't. If you were past this, and I wasn't, you'd help me with it. That's what you do when you've been through something.

When you haven't been through it, you can be afraid of it, and you accuse others of it to deny it of yourself. Because you haven't yet owned up to dealing with it yet.

That's the mechanism. That's what going on here.

So maybe your statement was just a damning accusation of you.

If you're gonna get personal you got to be prepared for how that reflects on you.
> That's a contradiction.

No, its not.

> The entire idea of "calories in, calories out" is precisely that there is no difference and all calories are exactly the same.

The idea is that they are the same to the extent that net calorie consumption, irrespective of source, determines weight loss. Effects on satiety and other effects which influence the ability of the dieter to adhere that come with different calorie sources are not ruled out by "calories in vs. calories out" approach, which doesn't hold that all calories are equal in there influence on your ability to maintain a diet regime, but only that they are equivalent in their effect on your weight when you consume them.

This is not to say that "calories in vs. calories out" is right or useful, just that this particular effect isn't inconsistent with it (though it is one of the less important reasons its of limited utility.)
I don't see the value of saving 'code'.
Some algorithms maybe but I do believe the library of Alexandria is about ideas not tools.
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Full email content previously here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10071600

Also note that the redacted email is not anything special. It's just jeff@, making it a highly dangerous proposition for amazon employes to attempt to send anything there.
with all these fancy 80/20 implementations there's still an inevitable tacit knowledge aquisition phase where you stop giving it what it tells you it wants and start giving it what you know works for getting the information that you want.

it is for this reason that consistency of, and thorough/feature rich design are all that's needed.

treat it like an API. You can add in the fluff later but stop trying to fluff over the rough bits. Fix the rough bits, and you might find you don't even need the fluff.

I see this attitude among the elitist CS majors who can talk to you about how great the CLR is but are completely divorced from reality evidenced by their use of per-byte event-driven serialization routines instead of, you know, just copying the whole buffer contents at once to their processing buffer. The attitude then manifests as 'well it's only a few thousand bytes a second during communications'.

So I guess I need to come up with a way to market my no-nonsense design principles.
That is why a last alternative is to suggest you might go public, it forces their hand because now "cost of incident" can be rather high. As it is PR damage all across the board for the company. Of course, it might fix things in the short term but it won't be forgotten in the long term.
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How does the "eat less is simple" crowd rectify with the information seen in this same space that gut flora can be the true difference between obesity and airbrush candidacy?
> You can still eat more of those than your body needs to fuel itself for the day

Have you ever tried that? Protein and Fat trigger the release of leptin[0]. Unless you're also eating a lot of fructose[1] with your meat, most people feel like they just can't eat anymore long before they get to the point where they would be eating considerably more energy than their body needs.

I know this from experience. Common wisdom in bodybuilding circles is to get 1g of protein per lean pound of muscle. For me, that's about 140g of protein a day. I find that number almost impossible to hit without the aid of protein powders, from an appetite perspective alone.

[0]: the hormone that tells your brain you're full.
[1]: a side effect of processing fructose is the suppression of leptin production.
Hey all --

David Ascher here, from Mozilla.

Thanks for the interest. We'll put up a technical write-up of Webmaker soon, we've been busy getting the app ready.

As to some of the questions already asked:

This is an open source project (both the Android wrapper, the web app and the backends powering the APIs). Repos are here:

* https://github.com/mozilla/webmaker-android

* https://github.com/mozilla/webmaker-core

* https://github.com/mozilla/api.webmaker.org

When it comes to data privacy, remember that Webmaker is not a social network. It is an easy-to-use publishing platform for people whose only internet access may be from a low-end Android phone. We don't ask for or store real names to create user accounts.

All projects on the platform are publicly accessible/remixable under a CC-license (it's a free, no-ad app -- all we ask from our users is that they contribute to the commons). We currently store all user data on Amazon RDS.

You may be interested in some of the user research we did as part of this project as well:

* http://mzl.la/india

* http://mzl.la/bangladesh

* http://mzl.la/kenya

* http://mzl.la/research
Good for you, good for me, good for America

In some ways this is good, but in others—a la Peter Thiel in Zero to One[1]—it isn't: if so many computers are "good enough," that indicates that innovation in the sector has slowed and that many people don't find the newer models compelling.

Another reading could be, "No killer apps take advantage of much faster processors and interconnects."

[1] My thoughts: http://jakeseliger.com/2014/09/24/zero-to-one-peter-thiel-an....
> Politely but firmly told her ... Fuck off

Your story makes you sound abrasive and unpleasant. If the story played out the way you tell it, she obviously was a bad actor and did something terrible. (And yes, there are definitely some people who will play control games with any little bit of power they gain.) It's difficult to sympathize with you, though, when even your telling of the story makes you sound difficult to work with.

If you're presenting yourself this way in a work environment (or anywhere, really), you will create negative interactions.
Same here. My 2011 15" MBP is actually my fastest Mac by many regards. 2.4GHz quad-core Intel Core i7 + pretty nice GPU. I think I put it at 16GB ram, and installed an SSD. I still use it for all of my music stuff, and it doesn't feel slower at all than my 2014 MBP 13" Retina. For what I do with it, I don't see needing to change it at all.
Additionally, as far as I know they typically overestimate the caloric value. Which means the error will almost always work IN FAVOR of someone calorie counting to lose weight.
This has of course hit the mainstream press in turn. Amazon Chief Says Employees Lacking Empathy Will Be Instantly Purged http://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/amazon-chief-...
Agree with all the other folks on the importance not to seek help from HR. Am working in an MNC in Singapore. HR's chief objective is to protect the company. The only time it helps the employees is when something will hinder productivity or/and morale. Period. Whether you are happy, achieving work-life balance, fulfilled, etc. It doesn't give a fuck on all those. If an Amazonian approaches HR now to report an issue covered by NYT, that person very likely will be grilled and interrogated to see if he/she spoke to NYT.

So Jeff is right. If you are not happy, dust off books and study on your own on skills needed for interviews, shut up and move out.
I like to keep notebooks, but usually for personal notes. For work, it can be useful for situations when it's important to establish rapport (meetings, interviews)
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From what I can gather, he reads anything sent from another internal (@amazon.com) address personally. Stuff from outside probably goes to assistants.
I think a lot people have had very different experience as to what HR does. It can range from the above, to "very little." Its this nebulousness that really accounts for the variety of opinions.
I gave my kids an ipad 2 and it's been through 3 years of hell, but it still works like a champ.
This is just a way to reduce calorie intake, indirectly.
I hear this a lot. I doubt it's sustainable. A lot of people who calorie count seem to regain eventually.

None of the long term fit people I know count calories. They tend to do a couple things:

1. Have well functioning hunger, which comes from
2. Eating whole foods and
3. Eating high satiety foods

I'm pretty steadily at my lean weight. But when I'm not, I just switch to higher satiety foods and the weight comes off.

This method is both easy and simple, but I rarely see it recommended. Are there people it doesn't work for?

(Of course, the hard part of this method is having a personal dietary culture that includes buying, cooking and eating whole foods.

Note that I'm not including cost, because in areas that aren't good deserts whole foods tend to cost less than processed foods)
That doesn't make any sense, unless you're consistently eating the same foods prepared the same way.
Funny: Fixed bid contracts in agile?
Half of the appeal of using a Mac for me is being able to sell and buy used and keep up to what was up to date a year ago for >100$ annually.
There's a fundamental difference between these approaches which is not highlighted enough in discussions about weight loss. There is a physiological factor: weight loss is attributable to calories in vs calories out (despite those figures being difficult to obtain). Then there's the psychological factor: some diets are easier to stick to than others, and some will naturally cause you to eat fewer calories than others.

Using reported calorie information is a physiological method, and appeals to those who prefer quantifying and tracking their everyday life. Carbohydrate reduction is (in this sense) a psychological method, and appeals to those who struggle with cravings and a lack of structure.
Agreed, but that's not the same set in the video the article refers to.
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Maybe it's the country-specific redirect? https://www.google.fr/get/sunroof 404's as well.

What if you go to https://www.google.us/get/sunroof ?
The game is famous enough to create real confusion. Especially in geek social circles I guess a very high percentage of people immediately think about the game when seeing "Eve".
The best news to come from all of this is that the scene is engaged in this kind of self-defining discussion. It makes me really feel good knowing it's growing as an art movement.
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Congratulations on getting this out there! Looks like the team has made a lot of progress. Looking forward to trying it out.
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You don't need to know the real numbers...the estimates on foods are "good enough". You don't have to eat the same thing everyday, just be consistent about logging every calorie you eat and stop worrying if the estimates on the package are 5-10% off or your body is 2% less efficient than mine...that all gets lost in the noise.
If you track your calories for a month and find your weight stays exactly the same while you are eating 2500 calories per day of whatever foods you normally eat, then reduce your calories to 2000 without changing your diet you will lose weight at roughly 1 pound a week. Simple, not easy.
I wonder if the KVM on zSeries thingy is actually open source and upstream. From what I can see they (IBM) say it's "based on open source" which is market droid speak for "actually it's not that open".
What is the responsibility of the ISP to its subscribers in that case? I.e. would I reasonably be able to take legal action against them if they deny me the service for what turns out to be a frivolous DMCA claim?
This makes me think of Weebly's new SMS-based support chat feature, SimpleChat (http://simple.chat). SMS is a nice medium for support chat, instead of having to deal with another chat application. Really neat idea!
One of the reasons I think is the magsafe connectors. I have recycled a stack of other laptops where the power port (and PCB underneath) were ground up from the inherit abuse and prybar leverage of a traditional connector.
How about doing the exact opposite? How about having very poor/small countries organise the Olympics but with the entire cost covered by the world's most wealthy ones?
I'd skip it. I worked there for 5 years and hitting that mark was a big deal. A vp used to give bronzed Nike shoes for the 5 year anniversary. Also he stopped before I got one.

The article picks some of the most egregious stories but look beyond the horror stories and try to see the culture there. I've heard they've been trying to fix it, but I'm pretty sure that wilke or bezos still yell in the weekly business review meetings on a regular basis. Do you want to work in a 5% margin environment that is a retailer and you get yelled at?
This is what the transition to AI is about: creating an intelligence without our inherent weaknesses.

As much as our biological software may evolve, we are held back by the hardware. There are deeply rooted instincts that cause humanity to make self-destructive choices again and again.

We are a part of the universe that has obtained limited sentience and intelligence. The ideas matter more than the (flawed) platform. I hope we succeed in making something greater than us before we are gone.
Off topic but the Google Sunroof logo is very similar to MyHealth program logo in my province (https://myhealth.alberta.ca/).
What does Jeremy Clarkson think of Amazon workplace culture?