skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
H&R Block does: http://www.hrblock.com/online-tax-filing/

Disclaimer: I have not used their online version so I don't know how well it works. I have been running their Windows version in a VM the last few years because I'm not wild about putting any more of my tax information "in the cloud" than I have to.

I would expect TurboTax to support online filing too, but did not see it on a quick search.
Yep, people vastly oversimplify the issue. There's a meme that people are fat because they inhale 14 candy bars each day, but in reality, some (many) people are fat without doing that. I won't deny that that's sometimes the problem, but it's probably rarer than you think.

Weight gain induced by medical regimens can be really hard to put off, and YES, this is something that happens (it's not ultra-rare as fitness extremists want you to believe). People's bodies react differently to the heavily-processed, specifically-engineered food we have. It is true that most people can regulate their weight with enough effort, but the amount of effort required seems to fluctuate greatly based on hereditary factors.

This doesn't even mention that in America, it's almost impossible to find food that isn't packed with junky addictive substances. It's pretty likely that normal people who are consciously forgoing the "candy" in attempt to stay healthier are getting practically the same amount of junk calories from bastardizations of "healthy" foods, like "natural whole wheat" bread that contains brown sugar or "maple syrup" that is actually just HFCS, water, and dye.

The issue of obesity is much more complicated than a lot of people want the populace to believe. Identifying the motives behind the perpetuation of this confusion is left as an exercise for the reader.

I believe the issue is caused by the technology we have (along several fronts, including but not limited to the sedentary lifestyles promoted by office work, and the way we manufacture foods today, which does not agree with the biological makeup of many in the population) and I believe there is a technological solution to it out there somewhere. Cheers to the MIT team for looking into this and not just sticking their head in the sand.
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Which does nothing to explain the similar ratio in say England where access to guns is very restricted.

"Jumping off things" would be "falls and fracture", and it's not a common method for completed suicide. About 4% of registered deaths are "jumping off things". Drowning is a bit more, about 4%. Poisoning is about 20% and hanging, strangulation and suffocation is about 56%. (The rest has the unhelpful title of "other". I'm not sure what that means.)
I've worked at a bunch of SF tech companies, from small to big, and they all had shitty 401k plans with little or no matching. More common now are big end of year bonuses in cash or RSUs.
MongoDB, the carrot top of data stores.
Populations change over time - its called culture. We eat out more; we have better access to sweets and soda, we indulge in exotic fruits and meats. Not possible in the past.

Its all tangles up of course. But fixing people was actually the topic of this thread - with gene therapy. That indeed seems to be possible!
And, at the end of childbirth you get the joy of having a baby... no one has cake every year to celebrate the birth of their kidney stones.
... and people wonder why we want a web bytecode so, so badly.
and corn syrup, monosodium glutamate, BHT, Red dye number whatever it is (Tartrazine) and other chemicals that by all accounts do everything from feed addiction and provoke ADHD and cause cancer, all in the name of profit.
The Tunnel Vision Fallacy
Wine is always a viable option, especially for older games. With DirectX 11 support coming later this year, almost every Windoze only game should hopefully work.
That "debunking" is mostly one study by one (somewhat vengeful) researcher, and it keeps being referenced in an attempt to relegate MBTI into the same realm as astrology. Neither the MBTI nor the Big 5 has particularly high predictive capacity (not unlike most metrics in the field of psychology), although I would say both are very statistically significant with regard to certain types of predictions. For instance, I would guess that the vast majority of HN users are INTJ or INTP. If MBTI had no predictive capacity, the distribution of types would instead be uniform.

(P.S. please express your disagreement using evidence and reason, not downvotes. Thanks.)
I think in some form it's "the future". I'm not sure they've found the best way to expose it yet but the underlying functionality can be pretty amazing and useful.
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2015/08/19/ashley-madison-hack-... mentions an estimate of 273,000.

That's about 1% of 30 million, or about 0.1/day, or 3 weeks for those 2 suicides. I bet any deviation from the average isn't statistically significant (in fact, for 2 suicides, ¿almost? no 'background' suicide level will be statistically significant)

On the other hand, I do expect that Canadian police didn't base their claim on nothing. Chances are they found suicide notes, or something similar.
Such an update could also add new data harvesting hosts, which would bypass your router's blacklist.
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The phrase that being overweight is "simply calories in vs calories out" is both trivially true and completely unhelpful.

It's similar to thinking we have solved poverty. People living in poverty should spend less and make more. Problem solved.

The much more interesting questions are

1. Why does it take some people more food to reach the same level of satiety as others?

2. Why do some people's bodies burn off excess calories through things like non-exercise activity thermogenesis and other store it as fat?

3. Do different types of food effect long term satiety? By changing what we eat can we effect our weight in the long term?

4. How does the body increase hunger and turn off self-control when there is reduced food intake?

The only known "solutions" we currently have to obesity are dieting and exercise. The problem is the long term efficacy rate of dieting is around 5%. If dieting were a drug it would never pass FDA approval for effectiveness. Exercise has only modest effects and is probably more effective as preventing weight gain than causing weight loss.

We still have so much more to learn. We are just at the beginning of figuring out the causes and solutions to this issue.
Installing spyware via a software update is a huge moral hazard for Microsoft. It incentivizes people to maintain an unpatched operating system.
New graduates are a relatively small slice off the overall workforce and they have a long time to pay of their loans. I don't see any mechanism there which would cause a crash. We've seen quite clearly that over-subsidising their debt burden simply causes them to take on larger loans - it doesn't help.

The problem for those younger people entering the market is not that they don't consume - in fact, they consume readily - but that they can't afford property and don't receive adequate pensions or other benefits.
They're still collecting the user data. And they're building a familiarity and user reliance on cloud "apps".
He is a manager by trade. What is his vision? Why would he inspire developers?
> A smartphone is for checking the weather, reading, looking up places to eat ...

I'd like to be able to use it for more. It is, after all, a computer.
PhD APIs (Or, How to Get the Benefit of a Data Scientist Without Hiring One)
Disingenuous to plot gun ownership vs gun deaths, instead of vs all violent deaths. Turns out, no correlation there - without guns, violent folks use something else. But that's not clickbait, so they put up this nonsense instead.
Better: make a core position in Vanguard LifeStrategy.
Every thin person in the country? That's a little broad don't you think? We're not talking in absolutes here, but if every obese person in the country ate and worked like their thin counterparts people do we'd have much less of a weight problem. Plus, then we'd find out who the people are with real problems.
The visuals are definitely valuable in explaining this.

It used to be popular, and still is in some circles, to debate whether programming languages ought start array indexing at 0 or 1.

When talking about this with other programmers, I've discovered that a lot of the issues/confusion could be avoided by consistent use of terminology: Offsets/offsetting always being zero-based and indexes/indexing always being one-based.

Using rulers and birthdays also helps to explain differences. You're in the first year before your first birthday, being zero (whole) years old.

To make matters potentially more confusing, culturally, I remember something about the ground floor in the UK buildings not being "Floor 1" like it is in the United States.

http://www.hacker-dictionary.com/terms/fencepost-error
It's just SSL; you can get more information at http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sys/doc/auth.html. There is also factotum, which serves a purpose somewhere between ssh-agent and an OS X-style Keychain.
The biggest issue is economics; it's a UK based study, but similar studies and findings have been reported elsewhere as well - http://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/price-gap-between-more-an...

It's hard to make healthy food choices when your food budget allows for 1 day of nutritionally complete meals or 1 week of macaroni and cheese.
kb3075249 - "...adds telemetry points..." (https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3075249)

kb3080149 - "...Telemetry tracking service..." (https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3080149)

kb3068708 - "...Telemetry tracking service..." (https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3068708)

kb2976978 - "...performs diagnostics on the Windows systems that participate in the Windows Customer Experience Improvement Program..." (https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/2976978)

kb3021917 - "...Telemetry is sent back to Microsoft..." (https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3021917)

kb3035583 - "...installs the Get Windows 10 app..." (https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3035583)

kb2952664 - "...ease the upgrade experience to the latest version of Windows..." (https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/2952664)
> Last I checked, two letter .com domains were pretty rare and valuable.

That was last time you checked. Now they're extremely rare and astoundingly valuable.
Australia here: I use it frequently (maybe twice daily) for commute updates and news stories.

When I've travelling I live by it.
Autostop (Ivan Illich describing Uber-like system in 1992)
and now this headline isn't relevant. stocks are UNCH or ^. white knuckling it
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You forgot your signature: Mark Zuckerberg

:-)
If you happen to have a computer with both WiFi and ethernet (many/most laptops these days), set it up as a bridge, connect the Windows machine to one of those interfaces and use the other one to connect to the internet.
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Qualcomm Details Hexagon 680 DSP in Snapdragon 820: Accelerated Imaging
Why is she interviewing Tim Ferris? Is this good science or popular fad science?

Dr. Michael Greger does this at http://nutritionfacts.org/.
The naive thermodynamics argument doesn't say much, because:

When you eat "too much" high-energy food such as your co-worker, the excess energy can be excreted rather than digested and stored. The energy that is digested may be burned off in the form of maintaining a higher core temperature (as mentioned in TFA) or making the body more active.

To sum up, thermodynamics alone doesn't tell us where the "excess" energy will go -- storing it as fat is only one of several options.
Perhaps those are not the same people?

Bear in mind that printing currency is not without consequences either. It's not like each printed (and used) dollar is worth exactly as much as the previous one - otherwise hyperinflations could not happen.
It's not the tax that is the problem but the risk that an employee is taking with single company stock in their retirement portfolio.
What if your co-worker requires 2x the willpower to overcome their genetic predispositions to consuming sweet food, but they only come up with 1.5x your willpower (and therefore fail)?

Are they still "lazy" even though they are trying way harder than you are?

While the human body is still ultimately governed by the laws of thermodynamics, it is an overly simplistic viewpoint by which to manage such a complex system.

Even speaking of only thermodynamics, don't forget that there is a second law: http://www.nutritionj.com/content/3/1/9 ... i.e. someone who prefers sugary things can store more energy than someone who prefers protein. Not all thermodynamic processes are created equal when it comes to the 2nd law.
I can't live without it.

Day to day, I get all my weather (current location and upcoming locations based on travel itinerary), my financial interests' status (based on google finance portfolio), traffic (based on calendar event locations).

Occasionally, it really saves my bacon. I was about to head over to JFK in a few hours to board a flight to the west coast when Washington DC suddenly became a massive no-fly zone and dozens of flights got cancelled on the spot[0]. I had no idea, and probably wouldn't have known until I got to the airport a few hours later and reached the gate. Except—Google Now alerted me that my flight was cancelled the moment it happened (even before news broke about what caused it). Immediately we hopped on the phone and got another flight booked, before the airline itself even started rebooking flights. In fact, the airline never even bothered to alert us that the flight was cancelled.

Similar situations have happened with traffic through construction, presumably pulled from Waze alerts ("hey your next appointment is at X, and normally it would take 25min to get there but today it'll take 40min because this freeway is completely closed").

Google Now is basically a collection of a dozen services that I rather not bother manage independently, all without any interaction or signup. Yes, it "reads my email" and my calendar and the queries I make through it.

Another fun example: I was researching which phone I wanted to buy next, so I was googling a bunch of phones that haven't been released yet. Few weeks later, it pops up on Google Now "hey, you searched for this and there's news about it today."

Lots of cute little surprises when you travel, too. Entering a new country? It'll show you the local currency exchange and the timezone difference (and nearby attractions that I often ignore).

Anyways, it's a great integrated experience and just keeps getting better over time.

[0]. http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/aug/15/dc-new-york-...
> Why is it a big uproar when it happens at the OS level?

Because you paid for it and because it's a tradition and because it's the way it should be™. Chrome is bad enough with url bar suggestions, sign in for syncing is equally bad, but at least you are aware of it and you didn't pay for it. But Chrome being bad isn't a reason Windows should become bad as well.
The 5% matching contributions for the Thrift Savings Plan (gov't 401k equivalent) is one nice part about being in the fed. Not sure if it balances out the crappy GS payscale (especially for colleagues of mine in high-cost areas like SF Bay), but it's something.
How about a program where foreign artists and craftsmen are allowed to sped a summer (or a quarter) in a suburban Japanese house in exchange for fixing it up?

Perhaps airfares could be subsidized or discounted through government or corporate programs?

Or, how about something akin to AirBNB for municipalities around the world to offer quarterly or half-year leases in exchange for maintenance and light renovation?
Crude Continues to Crash with Implications Spreading
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Somewhat disagree. I use GNU/Linux-based OSes as my primary systems (because alternatives are less usable for my purposes), and I perceive them all being an ugly mess of barely cooperating pieces of software with piles of hacks to force those to work together.

Seriously, I don't have enough fingers on my hands to count different UI toolkits (every other one having its own font rendering, duh), service/daemon management subsystems, audio subsystems and VFS implementations, each having incompatible API and behaving differently. Every other program has its own standards - what would happen upon just clicking a link heavily depends on where you do this. Most software "somewhat works", not "works just fine". Besides, maybe, the very core GNU userland, which is, indeed, rock solid and quite consistent.

I'm unaware of alternatives, though. Fear, there aren't any.
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Co-incidentally I got this in E-Mail as newsletter

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/7-security-...
The issue isn't whether the functionality is currently built-in (it'd be trivial to add later). The issue is that Microsoft states its intent to do so (relevant section underlined):

>we may access, disclose and preserve your personal information, including your private content (such as the content of your emails, other private communications or ______files in private folders______), when we have a good faith belief that doing so is necessary...

I understand that you'd have to do a full code audit of every application that has permissions to read files off your local disks to ensure this wasn't already being done by someone, but at least as a Linux user, I'm not used to software openly expressing its intent to feed private files off to any like-minded entity that asks for them. Definitely a red flag for me.
Reminds me of http://i.imgur.com/8gwNV.jpg

Of course some people will use this as an excuse to do nothing to change their lifestyle and expect everyone else to adjust for them, but those people would find some other reason anyway so there is no point worrying about them.

And the best be to counter this, if it is actually possible, is to point out that while he might be genetically predisposed to a slow metabolism that burns less that means he needs less calories not that he has an excuse to be fat. It means he needs to either burn more through exercise or eat less. Genetics is the reason he needs to do that to stay in shape not an excuse not not bother about his health. Not that he'll listen. If he is someone you like enough to make the effort (or you want to win the intellectual discussion) try use other conditions as a comparison to see if you can get through that way. Anaemia, a genetic condition, is the reason some people have trouble with wounds not clotting and healing properly, it isn't something they use as an excuse to bleed everywhere, get infected wounds, and so forth.

I've recently turned my health around (down from more than 17 stone 18-to-24 months ago to just under 10 stone now, and running 5K at least twice a week (sometimes 10+) where I couldn't run 2K in one go in January). It is slightly irritating that some people can eat a shed load more than I can while not putting on weight, but that didn't mean it was impossible for me to get into a reasonable shape and maintain it. The reason I didn't before was just that I didn't care enough to.
Pretty much, yes. As I mentioned elsewhere, they enable spying on kids by default if they're logged in through a Microsoft account. If they're going to spy on kids, adults get the same mechanisms installed.
I was under the impression that BC and Alberta were natural resource economies which don't deal well with a high US dollar, but Ontario actually does well with a high US dollar. Also, a high US dollar makes US out-sourcing to Canada (as well as film industry on-location shooting) a great value.
Amazon is widely recognized to have a horrible work culture. Microsoft, for all its evils, does not (or at least didn't, before stack ranking). I know a bunch of people from both places, and the latter group was much happier. Tellingly, when the Microsofties got sick of their work, none of them left for Amazon. None of them.
Probably as measured with fiat currency, which can be created out of thin air, yes, stock prices will "increase" infinitely.

Measured against an actual real-world asset such as gold, oil etc., probably not. http://www.macrotrends.net/1378/dow-to-gold-ratio-100-year-h...
Done using sorting and stream processing, without loading all the 128B nodes simultaneously, of course.

The beginning of the story: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10085121
It's an interesting sentence indeed.

> there are still many Flash-powered multimedia items on the web, including graphics, videos, games and animations, like GIFs, a preferred method of expression for millennials and adults alike.

The author could have used GIFs just as a comparsion though, to help readers understand what kind of animation is being talked about, i.e. "like GIFs", not Toy Story.
That's a given. The rabbit hole goes as deep as Microsoft is willing to dig it. Like any other vulnerability, there will always be security researchers out there who find and report on new ones.
> running a packet sniffer on your outgoing connections usually means you suspect you have a virus

Windows 10 isn't the first software product to phone home, and that's what packet sniffers are used for the most.
Last time I checked, you were no longer allowed to register 2-letter domains at .com, .org, or .net.
strange, nothing is showing for me on either firefox or chrome :/
stay away from ufw and stick with iptables. I had some ufw stuff fail on me and I discovered when I logged in that everything was open again.
Replicate Amazon Aurora to Amazon Redshift
Happily using OSX, Linux, and Chrome (with crouton).

I only need Windows now if I want to play a game, but the consoles at home, and steam under crouton/linux/osx solves that for some of the games I play.

Nothing else really!
> Today, such singular achievements appear to be no longer possible.

More people than ever are making their own things today.
A non-public company that is so much nicer to more senior people might be one that takes care of execs and high-level managers, and doesn't care about lower-levels for which turnover is high? That is, the 401(k) is designed not to be useful for most of the people working there.
And if you are signed into Google (from any browser) they collect your information. Or if you use Gmail.

It's what they use for many of their services. I guess the question I'm asking is more philosophical - if you 'opt in' to the Google ecosystem, why is this a bad thing?

Up to now, there's been no indication Google abuses your data (unless you consider algos to show you ads as 'abuse'), or that it ever leaves Google's servers, or is ever even human-readable...
Escaping Solution-First Development
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