skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What if you were a fat kid. Other kids made fun of you and adults told you to "lose weight", but never gave you actual tips just "eat healthy and move more".

How do you go about eating healthy as a 10 year old? You don't. You eat what your parents put on the table and if your parents are also fat there is going to be a lot of fatty foods and few healthy foods and the healthy foods will often taste horrible in comparison.

How do you go about moving more? You could play outside, but who plays outside these days? You just spend your time playing video games and even if other kids are into sports ball you are fat and slow, and most likely to complain, so no one wants to play with you.

Now imagine this goes on for ~20 years. You are now pushing 30, being overweight/obese your whole life. When people talk about weight they just tell you to "lose weight", but again without any solid steps just: "have self control and eat less and move more".

Running is out of the question because of your bad knees, under your weight. Walking is fine as long as you take it slow and don't walk too long. So your gains are very minimal, you don't even sweat (expect from the Sun) since you can't go fast or long before your legs start to hurt. So people tell you it's all about food, so you try to lower your food intake. It's hell for a week, but somehow you manage it. You starve yourself for two months which feels like 5 years.

You manage to lose weight, not that you know how much since no scale is big enough for you, but your pants start to sag. So you do what people around you want to do, you celebrate, because what's one night of having fun going to do, right? You got your new smaller pants and it's time to hit the town. Next thing you realize it's 6 weeks later, you are shoveling cake in your face at alarming rate and your pats are starting to look like skinny jeans. You feel like shit, and since you were a kid what have you been doing when you feel like shit? You grab a soda or a cupcake or something else that's bad for you.

It's not just about having self-control, because you have life time of nagging about your weight on your back. People have always told you that you weren't good enough, that you should lose weight, but no one has taken the time and guide you on the right path. Losing weight is simple in theory, but hard in practice and it takes a lot of time and effort, more than most people are willing to dedicate.
Google now seemed interesting when it was launched... but it doesn't seem to have gone anywhere. Never seems to display anything useful at all.
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In Europe socialism created limited working hours, affordable health care, free public education all the way to university level - and beyond - and was also responsible for massive investment in infrastructure and R&D.

Modern social democratic states wouldn't exist without it.

You might want to understand what the word means before running down a political system you seem to know nothing about.

As for abject poverty - there's more of that around than ever. Just because you choose to ignore it doesn't mean it's not there.

And after this week, there's more on the way, too.
This looks great. Can someone recommend more books / papers / blogs / tutorials on writing file systems? I want to deep dive into it during Thanksgiving and want to create toy filesystems to play around with.
Yea I was about to jump on this one.

Not enough salt is killing more people than too much salt iirc
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GA doesn't record all my keystrokes and voice like W10 (and now W7-8) have been accused of doing in this thread. And there was an uproar when iirc Chromium was doing something similar with voice a few months back, which was pulled later.
I think the difference is that Asians don't feel guilty about being racist. There was never widespread slavery based on race in Asia and a corresponding backlash against it.

People are naturally prejudiced and they are not guilty about thinking people are different based on things like race. I think it is all over Asia.
Just after reading this I went to get a coke from the vending machine down the hall. There's a bottle sitting on the robotic arm halfway down and stuck. Display reads OUT OF SERVICE.

I yanked the power cord, put it back in. The steppers re-homed themselves and the bottle made it to the bottom.

Free Coke.
Your argument is that this guy feels that women hold men at their mercy unless they meet a bunch of unrealistic criteria, and he's not bitter about it?

Oooooookay.

Sure. Maybe the guy is totally cool with his bleak, transactional view of male/female relationships.

Or maybe he's been hurt by past experiences that he views as unfair. Which is the literal definition of "bitter," by the way.
Curiously, the net effect is that now there is one reason less to skip upgrading to Windows 10!
Great news for Linux. Reading almost every comment (out of 270 atm), I see only good in this, windows will surely lose a small percentage of it's user base, and (hopefully) a lot more in the long run.
_Nobody_ is fat without overeating. Period.

Here's a NEJM study (PDF) where they use "doubly labeled" water to determine how much food people who claimed they were diet resistant were actually eating. (Based on their self-reporting, these people were on medication.)

It turned out that EVERY person in the study was lying to the doctors. Underreporting their caloric intake and overexerting their exercise.

http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJM199212313272701#t=a...
I wonder if Core Image is doing a lot of the work for Acorn, I'm not an Apple developer but I remember when it was announced thinking that it would make Photoshop type applications easier to develop.
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IBM is all about short-sighted policies. But yes, people did their best to leave early in the year.
Was about to ask for an alternate source too. Last time this was posted, people pointed out this website was not reliable at all. A nice analysis by a well-known security researcher should exist to confirm that.
Don't tell Roko's Basilisk.
It's just been pointed out to me that in the US, McDonalds sells Chicken McNuggets(TM) in denominations: 6, 10, 20 nuggets, and not 6, 9, 20 (which is how they do in the UK, where I am from).

Even though I now live in the USA, it appears I've never been into McDonalds and had need to note the sizes these items are sold in. I will not comment further on this :)
Broadcom and nVidia?
Cancer: Diet ‘cures’ are killing young people, say top oncologist
Your question is a bit all over the map - are you interested in reducing CPU usage, reducing time spent in locks, or do you want to talk to the kernel more efficiently? Are you targeting, throughput, latency?

That said, http://www.brendangregg.com/flamegraphs.html is a nice introduction to a site that has lots of material.
I don't think this is a bad time to revisit an old chinese proverb :

https://sivers.org/horses
Trust me I've tried them all, and I still felt that I needed to develop my own out of necessity. I'm studying interaction design, so something which is usable is really important to me.

I would argue that every app I used had minor issues which evolved into major issues over time. Poor visual design, visibility and readabilty, too cluttered or unintuitive, etc. I set out for the app to do one thing, and excel at it without issues.
It's perfectly valid for a CS grad working in industry to keep their work at work. You don't need to be spending 40 hrs a week at work + your free time at home on CS and programming to be worth hiring.
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Thought exercise:

Extend a finding like this out to the (il)logical conclusion 5, 10, 15 years out -- we figure out what causes the body to store fat, we develop the wonder drug that everyone's been waiting for that 'flips the switch' (even in otherwise healthy people), and suddenly everyone has 7.5% bodyfat and weighs exactly as much as they want to.

And then....what? Well from a macro scale, I think some things get better -- overall population health goes up, obesity/fat-related diseases go down. But does heart disease? I wonder if it goes up -- if everyone looks like they've wanted by shutting off the body's fat stores, does the motivation to do cardio go down for some people? (Cardio has huge benefits for things way beyond your bodyfat, but that won't stop a big chunk of the population from giving up on it.)

And from a purely superficial angle -- now everyone who wants one has a "ripped" body. But some guys are still bald, or have back hair, or or or. We'll still find a way to feel bad about ourselves, even with six-packs.

Thoughts?
If you're a serial widower without being the cause of your spouses' deaths, then you're monogamous indeed. Monogamy does exist, and you can live morally monogamous lives although having several partners over your life.

But I don't think that's the topic. The original question was, will it become morally acceptable to be polygamous? And my answer was, you don't have to, of course, but you already can, in a contrieved way.

You can live the hookup culture without much stygma. You can dump your partners every 2-3 years, when novelty wears off, possibly having children with each of them. You can temporarily put up with a partner who doesn't satisfy you on some subjects, because you know there will be a next one who will fulfill those currently unmet needs.

TL;DR: polygamy isn't the only acceptable way, will probably never be, but some form of it already is a viable and non-stygmatized possibility.
Nice. I will be keeping a close eye on this fs for future use.
> I see a lack of willingness to do remote work as a sign that the institution knows they suck at project management.

I agree that willingness for remote work is a good sign for a company, but the lack thereof isn't a red flag. Plenty of the big tech companies who are substantially better employers than Amazon also forbid remote work.
This is a question to which there is a Right Answer. That answer is low-cost index funds.

Your options:

1) Invest in a Vanguard target retirement date fund. They will manage a portfolio comprised of ETFs for you, and also change the mix over time, in return for a fee.

2) Invest in Wealthfront or a similar "robo advisor" (Charles Schwab also has one), who will manage a portfolio of low-cost ETFs for you, in return for a fee.

3) Self-manage a portfolio of low-cost ETFs. You should probably not do this. Your decisionmaking for it will be strictly worse than a machine's.

If you feel the need to know why index funds are the Right Answer, read A Random Walk Down Wall Street. This is the canonical answer among Bogleheads, a group of devotees of the guy who invented low-cost index funds. (He made Vanguard from the ground up.) If you want other book recommendations, they have several: http://www.bogleheads.org/wiki/Books:_recommendations_and_re...

Most of the consequential decisions for you are not going to be in what to invest in (because you will, being rational and aware that you cannot out-compete the market with any degree of predictability, choose low-cost index funds) but rather a) saving a generous amount every year, b) making especially sure to max out tax-beneficial retirement contributions, and c) not panicking and selling your low-cost index funds on a day like today.

If you enjoy playing the stock market not because you want to maximize your return (again, low-cost index funds) but because that sounds like a source of fun, ask me again in, oh, 2 weeks.
Yes, they recruit heavily on LinkedIn regardless of your location, but the jobs are always in Seattle. Mentioning that you won't relocate stops the conversation cold.
Comments affect this heuristic, so yeah, commented code can be slower.
It's nearly unknowable what the optimum debt/GDP ratio is. This being said, GDP isn't growing fast enough.

And what inflation? Outside VC money and the stock market ( and the peripheral real estate markets to those ) there isn't any.
What's a PhD-level question?
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There is at least one fundamental truth: obesity is on the rise. Why?

I think it is safe to assume that a rapid change in the human genome is not responsible for skyrocketing obesity rates around the world. From what I have read it seems that dietary shifts towards more processed and simple-carbohydrate rich food are the main culprit. Increasingly sedentary lifestyles are accomplices.

These effects are on a statistical and societal level. Also, they don't imply that and individual can just change their diet and easily loose weight. It is possible once someone gains weight their body irreversibly changes so that losing weight becomes much more difficult (I mean irreversible to imply hysteresis, not impossibility).
Only if you use nmap as-is. Also majority of torrent software uses UPnP IGD to open TCP port (which is then advertised to the tracker).

I’m not sure but I think µTorrent on Windows also listens on the Toredo provided IPv6 address.
>The phrase that being overweight is "simply calories in vs calories out" is both trivially true and completely unhelpful.

For the issues most obese Americans face, which is a poor diet high in sugar, it is absolutely helpful. As I understand it, the bulk of the problem of our obesity epidemic is that people eat calorically dense foods with little nutrition, not that 40% of the population suddenly stopped being able to be sated by their food.

Of course people don't respond the same way to food and exercise. But your post is about fixing edge cases before the actual problem is solved. The low hanging fruit is in fact, calories in vs calories out. Once people's diets get back in line, then we can worry about why some people have a harder time losing weight than others.
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To play a devil's advocate, it's not like you get better at math while working as a SWE.
Anything @test.com would have gotten sample stuff from at least one dev as well, so sorry about that!
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What he's relating shows a lack of competence in the interviewing process from toptal.

This indicates that the people running the company are junior engineers who think brain teasers and algorithm challenges are how you test for a good engineer. This is based on the common excitement that young people get in completing these kinds of tests.

When you get sufficient experience, you come to realize that this is not what makes a good engineer. Very few companies and very few projects are cutting new grown algorithmically. But building a system that can be maintained and extended without being brittle, this is much more important.

Very hard to find white board questions for that.

Also, while many companies to white board questions, any well run company with a good engineering culture will make that less than %10 of the interview process. On toptal this seems to be the extent of them actually learning about you as an engineer.

For that reason, his comments are very good... and your smear that he "failed to get in" and the implication that he's somehow biased is, in my view, a punch below the belt.
I take your point, but I get enough pleasure from Kerbal Space Program that wouldn't blame others for needing their occasional gaming fix. But sure, being a productive and active person should come first.
What helped me was a a low-carb diet. After two weeks, cravings for sweets were gone and I felt great.
I love boto, but when I filed the issue and received the answer from a committer, I decided to move to boto3. I can understand the situation but, boto seems to be be strictly backward compatible. So let's move on to boto3 and have nice Resource API with all AWS services.

https://github.com/boto/boto/pull/3186
Jane Street Capital making a killing today.
The drop doesn't look so bad.. But (And I don't think it is) if this is 2008 redux then it has only started dropping .. :)
If that's true - doesn't this expose microsoft legally ? I mean we paid for win 7 under certain terms, and now they're changing them.
I've never worked with the twitter api, but now that you mention that, I see where you're going with it. Does seem pretty straight forward now.
This is the mental model I use.
> if you 'opt in' to the Google ecosystem, why is this a bad thing?

In the same way, you 'opt in' to the Microsoft ecosystem by using Windows. The problem is everyone seems to give Google a free pass because of free stuff. What's crazy to me is that whenever Google expands the amount of information they collect, they're praised for being so innovate. I mean, one of the "best" new features of the next version of Android literally walks the entire view hierarchy on your phone and sends it all too Google's servers, but god forbid Microsoft collects some usage information and crash reports.
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> But sure, being a productive and active person should come first.

This viewpoint is garbage. Outside of work hours, a person has no obligation to be career-focused. Tech shouldn't require someone to be about their career in their free time as well.

Maybe I'm misunderstanding you. I sure hope I am because this expectation to make CS your hobby to be a valid CS grad in the workplace is awful.
Thank you for your comment! It really helps me to keep moving on! If you find any issue or space for improvement, please let me know, since the software is just borned a couple days ago!
The FTSE is where it was 17 years ago. Since this time everything has gotten way more expensive.

Anyone in the UK following this advice from age 20 to 35 is staring down the barrel of working forever.

The problem is they have a share in growth in the UK over the past 15 years and that growth is next to nothing.

IMHO the old advice needs to be taken with caution. This is not your dad's market.
Shit, that may just have changed my opinion on this. Is the first one really correct? Anything we type on a PC anywhere? So if I open up tor and load a site it's basically useless because any url I type in tor will go to ms anyways? WTF? Each and every one of those is completely unacceptable.

Anyone know about any good unix distros that wont be too much of a culture shock to someone who has used windows his entire life?
The correct question is :
Which company belongs to him?
Further notes about half open intervals and why starting at zero is a good idea: http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/ewd08xx/EWD831.PDF
Sounds too crazy to believe. If true, I think I would be forced to stop using windows all together.
There's job adds all over the country plus people retiring. Personally, I think it varies area by area. Places with a lot of big companies with legacy systems need employees. Others... not so much.

The offshoring issue is real. It's why most of America's brightest in CompSci and Math are going to financial sector instead of IT. Any time I meet someone trying to get into IT I recommend against it. Only exception, which is risky, is embedded where the need to physically be there reduces offshoring risk. ASIC's, too, so long as you get out of RTL work as quickly as possible: it's all going to Asia.
That direction of thought has produced quite a few useful insights, and continues to drive significant research. I'd never call it a 'fundamental truth' though - it's a question, and a type of question which allows for many interacting answers, none of which may be fundamental. In particular, it can be extremely difficult to trace the links between societal (non-physical) changes and the mechanisms by which they affect the physical.

We are eating more sugars - is that because more sugars are supplied, because we can afford more sugars, because sugars are snuck into all our foods, or because we like sugars more than we used to?

We are moving around less - is that because we have more sedentary jobs, because we have less physical labor to do at home, because the interesting hobbies that don't involve moving around are expanding, or because some quirk of the childrearing techniques in the 70s had significant impact on our interest in athletics?

You see how complicated these things get when you start talking about 'fundamental' causes and reasons.
From what I've heard from locals.. the recent chemical explosion triggered general fear of wide-spread corruption and an impending economic coup d'état from nationalists who want to disrupt the current power.
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Better check your math. Assuming you work 2000 hours per year, if you start in June, you vest after 2.5 years. If you start in July, you vest after 3.5 years. 3 years would be the average, and 2 years would be impossible.
I think there might be some mixing up of the morality of the situation and the legality of the situation. Were the Snowden leaks against the law? Yes. Were the Snowden leaks immoral? I'd say no, they were an incredibly brave thing to do.

Now a situation like that where the moral thing is against the law would require us reexamining and changing the law. Whether it's whistleblower laws, minimum sentences or sentences for minor drug offences, these things all require a good hard look, and most likely, a degree of retroactive pardoning. But believing one's cause to supercede the law is a dangerous road to be on.

Now ToS are completely different. ToS are set by private entities, and as a single user you have little power over their content, only whether you accept them or not. They're an offer, not a democracy. I personally think that if you choose to knowingly violate the ToS of a service, then you should face the consequences of that regardless of the moral standing you may have. If you were using the Twitter API to defeat african warlords and Twitter decides that you're violating their ToS doing that and bans your account for it, well...you're SoL.
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See also https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD08xx/E... ("Why numbering should start at zero")
Ouch...
My body's response to caloric restriction defies the math behind all the weight loss calculators I've seen. I don't even know how it's physically possible. Which sucks, because I find it fairly easy to limit my calorie intake, but have to eat at nearly concentration-camp levels to drop weight, which isn't fun.

However, my body responds very well to exercise, especially strength training. Less convenient (takes time, space, maybe some equipment) but, conversely, works way better for me than any tables/calculators I've seen say it should. You might try that, if you haven't.