skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm genuinely a little worried for Microsoft's future at this point. I've said before that I thought they would recover from Vista and 8 because XP and 7 were solid, but I wasn't sure they'd be able to recover from two turkeys in a row. If 10 turns out to be that second turkey, commercially speaking, I don't see how they come back unless the board have the stones to replace Nadella, the top man they themselves appointed surely expecting just this sort of corporate strategy.

I haven't seen enough to make a firm prediction yet, but I do think if MS can't get a handle on these update and privacy issues very soon and they increasingly become the story instead of any of the new features, the writing may be on the wall. Microsoft seem to have attracted some overall positive reviews at launch for Win10 in the general press and non-geek PC sites/magazines, but a lot of that positive early coverage is getting drowned out by concerns about reliability, privacy, and whether the relatively few big new features (Cortana, Edge, DirectX 12) are actually worth much anyway (with, respectively, questionable effectiveness, lack of plug-ins, and few if any games available that take advantage of it any time soon, among other challenges). "It's not as bad as Win8" is not a pitch that is going to support sales for the next several years, particularly when so many of their business customers are still on 7 anyway and have nearly 5 more years before they're going to run into end-of-support issues and be forced to act one way or another.

Microsoft seem to be throwing everything into cloud and services and mobile-friendly software and new devices, at the expense of solid server/desktop/laptop software that until recently has generally just worked and aside from the occasional blip stayed just working for a long time. Which of these areas has historically yielded Microsoft's more successful offerings, and which has had a string of disappointing results? Exactly.
I wonder how any IT corporation of decent size, with internal data policies will be able to live with something this.
Wait, what if you have really really long comments? Or do they get stripped out beforehand?
I think you are wrong still, but good lord am i glad to have an honest discussion about it. I see you points and agree with a lot of them, but I think that for most folk, the only way to get them to fight for the schools is to have their kids in them, to have skin in the game. Still, thanks.
I wouldn't really call Rust isn't successful yet, though it showing signs that it may become that way. Go, maybe, its at least farther along the path.
Howdy! Author here. I can totally agree that there are definitely more simple methods to logging these sorts of things on a Raspberry Pi, most of all `your_basic_data_in_csv_format.log`.

What I think RethinkDB adds here is the WebUI interface and an easy to way to come to grips with what information is being stored on the machine versus digging around in the home directory, or project folder, or /var/log/ for the right log file (I've come to a consensus with myself many times on where I should put it and definitely forget where). Also, spinning up and replicating the data over to another machine is click-easy and convenient.

As for having the entire functionality in one Python script, it was more of wanting to have à la carte functionality since I know projects like this coming in all shapes and sizes. I definitely agree that from a simplicity point of view, one Python script would be much easier. But, I wanted people to be able to just copypasta what they wanted and go from there with multiple sensors or multiple notification messages.

I also did not like the Node dependencies (why is installing Node on RBPi still so hard?). I felt though that I couldn't get behind doing the un-Pythonic `while True:` pattern necessary for RethinkDB changefeeds. In the near future we'll have better patterns with asyncio but Node felt like a better fit from an elegance/grok-ability standpoint in this case.
> The equilibrium interest rate is somewhere close to zero

Really? Who are all these people who -- with their own money -- are willing to lend $100mm today for $100.05mm in a decade?

If there are people willing to lend OTHER PEOPLE's money for near-zero rates, that doesn't count. Because ostensibly all money has to be someone's money. And if it's not -- like say if it's the Fed's money -- then that's clearly some kind of forcing function that can totally disturb the natural equilibrium.

The only way that interest rates accurately reflect people's true time preference for money (which is what it's supposed to be, really) is if all money loaned is money owned by a real human being, somehow, somewhere, who has actual influence over what is being done with it. If there's money in the system that doesn't fit that criteria, you're screwing with the interest rate in a non-natural way and suggesting that this artifice is reflective of the aggregate time-preference for money is totally bonkers.
Because every small business uses Win10 enterprise?
Ah, fair point.
>Those are objective facts, backed by statistics. Completely different than

Not really, considering that the gender wage gap often pointed out (the 70-something cents to the dollar) is not standardized for time worked, experience, career choice, or a number of other factors. I would say Clinton is wrong to bring up the 70-something cents to a dollar, but I wouldn't call her bitter.

>If that doesn't sound bitter to you, see a therapist.

Even if they meant actual perfection and weren't using hyperbole, that would still just make them wrong, not bitter.

If I were to say that the average worker's pay is at the mercy of their boss, that doesn't make me bitter, even when you consider it is often wrong (direct manager often has limited input on overall salary).
Thanks! You understand UI design!

Not sure if I should be glad I'm not at risk or sad that I don't have that excuse.
It is better to think of this as a target of intervention with drugs and other therapies than as a "gene therapy" product.

The article says that the key process is enabling thermogenesis:

"Follow-up experiments showed that IRX3 and IRX5 act as master controllers of a process known as thermogenesis, whereby adipocytes dissipate energy as heat, instead of storing it as fat. Thermogenesis can be triggered by exercise, diet, or exposure to cold, and occurs both in mitochondria-rich brown adipocytes that are developmentally related to muscle, and in beige adipocytes that are instead related to energy-storing white adipocytes."

If you apply all the methods in terms of exercise, diet, and exposure to cold, you are pushing this switch the right way -- some people might need harder pushing than others.
Or just as common but perhaps more misleading: results in isolation. Even with solid protocols and methods plenty studies, say with rat models, have a very limited factor they are testing, and identifying if there is an impact compared to a control. Unfortunately the baseline model parameters might have a huge impact on any difference observed. Like say diet prior to the study. Or genetics other than what was modified for the study. Or any number of similar things. Changing a single variable in a complex, non-linear, non-closed system with doesn't necessarily generalize to other conditions. So even good studies can mislead until they've been replicated and many variants attempted and some underlying mechanism identified.
Also quite often documentaries shows (or at least claim-suggest) how much the """"food"""" industry loves to put sugar on top of the remains the sell as meals so it doesn't taste like sand.
I was asked a really crazy question from their AWS SRE team!

Basically, PHD-level question. They knew I was a junior, but they asked me a very high level math problem.
I updated to Windows 10 and found it to be so painfully slow that I switched to Ubuntu 14.04 for gaming. I've honestly had a pretty good experience playing everything from low-fi indie titles (like Terraria) to AAA releases (like Shadow of Mordor). Try it out!
"Over"... i see no fat lady on stage
Yeah, well I would say that when one is single and poly, the world is pretty wide open. When one is dating, certainly is makes it harder when you either have to find monogamous people who are ok with you dating other people (unlikely), or other poly people who are far less common than mono people.
Agreed. I think it can be hard to understand that introverts can be very skilled in social situations without being energized by it. The 'centre of the room' personality is very often an introvert, especially if they're good at it.
I agree with this. I prep when I go to social gatherings and focus on having interactions and having a good time.

But after that I need solitude to recharge which I believe is opposite to an extrovert who feel energized with these interactions.
Not correct. Source: work for a non-profit with a matching 401(k) program.
By unhealthy credit expansion you mean unhealthy Fed balance sheet expansion?

Very little of the credit created on the balance sheet has actually entered the market.
It's since 2006 that every year is gonna be the year of linux on the desktop. Except it never happens.
> There is also something specifically weird going on with a handful of foods

The food industry specifically targets the "bliss point"[1] when figuring out the formula for snack foods.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bliss_point_(food)
Archived version until the site is up:
https://web.archive.org/web/20150824023803/http://www.hakspe...
I will never understand the hatred towards Flash, especially considering a good browser can just block flash elements (please let's not call them "apps") in a click-to-play fashion...
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Well, I guess I should apologize to the folks at bob.com. It's example.com for me from now on.
Okay stop reading. Your response smells of fanboyism, blind faith, and ad-hominem attacks which are rather childish in themselves. I got my point across and it seems the vast readership is behind me.
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Why anyone would invest in a 401k now is beyond me.
> Warren Buffett is certainly not an introvert if you've ever seen him speak, and his history also suggests he's not an introvert. He was a door-to-door salesman as a young man.

Buffett was most definitely an introvert. He constantly talks about how extremely shy he was growing up. He was so shy he was unable to do public speaking effectively. He famously took a Dale Carnegie course on public speaking and forced himself to become less introverted.

"Warren Buffett Used To Throw Up Before Public Speaking"

http://www.businessinsider.com/how-warren-buffett-learned-pu...
I care about cheating because it tells me that the person is OK with lying to people close to them.

Then you should care about marijuana users and people in repressive regimes who import contraband media and news for in the same way for the same reasons.
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It's easy to get out, hard to get back in. I moved 401k money out June 30th. Planned to get back in at SP 1900. If we close down < 2% I'll call bottom and get back in at close prices today. > 2% loss and it signals real fear that is probably not over yet. Either way we'll get a bounce tomorrow.
And how do you know which is which? If you see a name that you recognize that used AM, do you ask them to clarify which bucket they belong in, or do you just assign them one yourself?
That's not quite right. Assuming RSUs ...

The day a block of stock becomes vested the value as of that date is ordinary income to you. If you sell immediately you will have no capital gains and therefore pay no capital gains tax. If you hold on to the stock for six months before selling and the stock went up, you will pay short term capital gains tax on the difference between the value on the day the stock vested and the day you sold it. However, because short term capital gains taxes are less (much less) than 100% you will still come out ahead versus having sold the stock on the day they vested.

The problem isn't short term capital gains taxes, it's the risk that the stock will go down. If that happens you will have both lost money on the stock, and have to pay ordinary income tax on the value of the stock before it went down.

I'd say the biggest problem with stock as a form of compensation has nothing to do with taxes, it has to do with the fact that it isn't paid out every two weeks, it's basically a promise to pay a bonus in two or three years if you are still with the company and in an uncertain amount. It's certainly better than nothing, but I'd discount it pretty heavily as compared to salary.
That's a copout. Just because Bezos buys one large newspaper now means that any other newspaper presenting a well-documented expose of the company with hundreds of their own employees talking about systemic issues is invalid?
It all depends..

I was a landscaper in Phoenix AZ for a few years. Over the summer. We usually got to work ~5:00 AM and went home about 1:30-2 but it was still extremely hot (regularly 113F or 45C) . I regularly drank over a gallon and half of liquid a day. And was still somewhat dehydrated. Drinking that much fluid a regular basis really starts washing salts out of your body... along with the sweat. You become very sensitive to amount of dissolved solids in liquid. Water starts being extremely unsatisfying at the days end but drinking salty stuff (Gatorade etc) at the wrong time (early morning before you really have drunk much) will really lay you out as it heats up.
Holy cow, that graph interface. I've never seen something that slick and well-animated without flash. What's the trick behind this?
A vanishing middle-class is not healthy.

Everyone's been picking at all your claims except this one, so let me jump in on this part.

You've been drinking too much of the kool-aid. It's certainly fashionable for talking heads to spout platitudes about the middle class, but it doesn't match the real world. The picture that's being painted is that the vast majority of us will be living lives as serfs, while a group of oligarchs (the arbitrarily mythical 1%) determine our fates while eating grapes and being fanned. That's not what's happening.

In fact, the VAST majority of Americans are better off than they ever have been. Check out this [1], for example, based on US census data.

Yes, the middle class has been disappearing, but they haven’t fallen into the lower class, they’ve risen into the upper class

Further, in the demographics where we have seen increases in inequality, the lion's share of the change has been the result of lifestyle choices made by the individual. Imagine a social order - call it "A" - in which most people are paired off and raising a family. In that world, a large portion of the families have two incomes, which are going to pay for a single rent or mortgage bill, a single set of utility expenses, etc. Imagine another society, "B", in which many of the folks corresponding to those paired adults have instead decided to go it alone, either by way of divorce, or even deciding to have a family with no mate.

Isn't it obvious that in society "B", the un-paired "families" are going to have far less aggregate income ('cause there's not a second breadwinner earning that income), and are going to have much greater expenses at the same time ('cause there's not a mate to share housing and utilities, and in fact other things like dining may need to be outsourced, that being the result of not having a mate to cooperate with)? And compared to those families that are following the "A" model, it'll appear that the "B"s have a disadvantage?

It doesn't apply for every case, but for most "B"s, a decline in purchasing power for the family is directly explainable by their own choices. We might wish that our choices had fewer side effects, but we can't blame it on others who made different choices.

[1] http://www.aei.org/publication/yes-the-middle-class-has-been...
It's a 401k, there are no taxes upon sale.
>chemical laden foods feeds into addiction

Care to explain what you mean by this?
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> I see a lack of willingness to do remote work as a sign that the institution knows they suck at project management.

That seems a bit anecdotal to me. I'm not sure I would infer poor project management practices solely based on the fact that they wouldn't let you work remote.

> You will pay a premium for the illusion of stability that working for a megacorp provides.
Don't get lured into thinking that Amazon or IBM or whomever won't lay you off the second it works better for their shareholders. At least as a consultant I have a contract.

I suppose that would depend on how iron-clad of a contract you were able to have them sign? But I wouldn't hesitate for a moments notice to think that mega-corp couldn't easily find a way around an individual consultant's contract if necessary. Consultants are much more easily expendable than FTEs.
That's a future just crazy enough to happen: forget about AI singularities. Just augment the other intelligent beings that inhabit the Earth. The aliens were here all along.

Of course they might be a bit peeved when they find recipes for themselves on the Internet.
> “Obesity has traditionally been seen as the result of an imbalance between the amount of food we eat and how much we exercise, but this view ignores the contribution of genetics to each individual’s metabolism”

People might misunderstand this to justify laziness. I have an obese co-worker, who likes to eat several hundred grams of chocolate along with soft-drinks daily. He always quotes genetics to counterargument my elaborations on the first law of thermodynamics.
Most enterprises that care probably is. And it is possible for small businesses to get, just costs a bit more (including Software Assurance renewal) and it also gets you access to things like LTSB.
Yes, thank you. Though honestly the people who really do care about this will see the coming year as year of the Linux desktop.

And to me it seems like a lot of HNers care that Windows is sending all this telemetry. (Aren't we the same group that is obsessed with A/B tests and recording analytics on everything a user does on our website?)
pretty baseless conjecture I think is against HN rules
Exactly. This is why I don't follow the hypothesis that we're witnessing a crash due to unhealthy economic indicators/behaviors (debt ratios, QE, interest rates, etc). Of course those things matter, and they certainly suggest the economy is in bad shape (or at least on some pretty intense life support), but they don't seem to trigger crashes by themselves - the indicators and alarm signals have been painfully obvious for years now, and the market should have already taken them into consideration (at least to some degree).

As you say, we can't predict future crashes or the circumstances that trigger them, and I'm not entirely sure we've seen the trigger for a crash now. Perhaps we've set ourselves up for one, but it's doubtful that the indicators themselves will "pop the balloon".

In personal finance, you can use a variety of tricks to hide your bad finances for a while, but it's not usually your debt-to-income ratio (or any other technical indicator) that triggers bankruptcy; more often than not, people keep digging themselves deeper until the bank actually knocks on the door to repossess the house. Governments have historically shown that they can keep the game going far longer than any bank might allow (there are no real terms attached to their debt when they can literally print their own money).

We probably won't know the trigger this time (or any other time) until a collapse is already well underway, if it's indeed happening.
http://nutritionfacts.org/?s=cholesterol

A high fat diet increases HDL. If a person is overweight their HDL may drop if they experience weight loss, but it will not drop as much as someone who is on a plant-based diet. About 75% of the people who die from coronary artery disease have what is considered optimal cholesterol. Your cholesterol has to be much lower than what is considered optimal to lower your risk.

http://www.pcrm.org/health/health-topics/cholesterol-and-hea...

"On July 21, 1990, The Lancet published the findings of Dean Ornish, M.D., who demonstrated that heart disease can actually be reversed without medicines.13 Until then, most doctors were not even attempting to reverse heart disease, even though it was, as it is now, the most common cause of death. Most believed that the plaques of cholesterol and other substances that clog the arteries to the heart would not go away. The traditional way to remove them was to wait until they became severe enough to warrant a bypass or angioplasty.

At the University of California in San Francisco, Dr. Ornish tested the theory that a more potent diet, along with other lifestyle changes, might actually reverse heart disease. He selected patients who had plaques that were clearly visible on angiograms and split the patients into two groups. Half were referred to a control group in which they received the standard care that doctors prescribe for heart patients. The other half began a vegetarian diet in which less than 10 percent of calories were contributed by fat. They were also asked to begin a program of modest exercise and learned to manage stress through a variety of simple techniques. Of course, smoking was not permitted.

Dr. Ornish’s patients started to feel better almost immediately, and continued to improve over the course of the year. They had previously been struggling with the crushing chest pain of heart disease, but “most of them became essentially pain-free,” Dr. Ornish said, “even though they were doing more activities, going back to work, and doing things that they hadn’t been able to do, in some cases, for years.”"
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A potentially explosive finding from this week says that many other species are also getting obese along with humans.

Some environmental factor could be behind all of it

http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/278/1712/1626...
How do you know you're thirsty? For a start, there are a lot of medical and neurological issues that can stop you feeling thirsty (diabetes etc). A large percentage of the population don't have the correct hormone response that tells them to drink. Secondly, especially in Western societies, there are social conventions that mean we always have a drink with food. That creates a conditioned response that means many people literally mistake thirst for hunger, so when they feel thirsty they eat something. (That also contributes to obesity.)

'Drink X glasses of water a day' is a simple adage that mitigates all these problems with very little risk.
I can't find on either of those pages specific text relating to deletion?
Growing up in not-quite-communist-just-socialist India, we had 'ration shops' (they probably still exist in rural India). Similar principle, but most people used it for optimizing their budgets- buy certain things at ration shops and other things at privately owned grocery stores/farmers markets. For poorer people, ration stores were a very useful way of saving money. I think kerosene, which is a fuel used by low-income sections of the population is still rationed in this manner. It is not uncommon to find lines of people at parked trucks towing kerosene tanks with their ration cards and plastic containers for filling up with kerosene.

'Ration cards' were even the main form of government identification till they opened up the economy, streamlined tax, etc. in the 1990s. They still are, for older people and in rural areas.