skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the problem of testing for randomness of these suicides is harder to solve than it seems. Randomness only occurs in the absence of suicide letters which state that the leak caused them to do it. At least two scenarios:

1. They leave suicide notes where they explicitly attribute it to the hack. Then, the probability that it is due to the Ashley Madison hack becomes = 1. The question then becomes, did the 'outing' push them over the edge. Especially so, if they attribute taking their life to multiple reasons.

2. If it is not attributed to the 'outing', then one has to carefully see what the probabilities of suicide are in their particular cross-section of population and also consider other risk factors. The numbers someone else quoted here, 16/100,000 is an average. It is fallacious to assume that this number uniformly applicable to the population as a whole. You have to consider prior probabilities for each individual. These priors can possibly be computed based on the individual's medical history, socio-economic background, geographical location, etc. with importance assigned in that order. I would imagine medical conditions would play a big role. For example, if an 'outed' person with no history of depression, etc. from a hyper-religious family commits suicide, it is quite likely that it was because of the 'outing' in the absence of explicit attribution in a suicide letter, etc. If a person has on his/her history previous suicide attempts, depression, etc. the marginal probability that it was solely due to the Ashley Madison outing would probably be lower.
I think this was due to a rogue market-maker with bad algos. Market data was all over the place this morning. Nobody had a clear view on what the market order book looked like. I'm pretty sure theres a market-making firm out there that may not be in business tomorrow.
Of course. But for some reason some people stop being hungry when they eat enough to maintain weight, and some people are hungry unto obesity.

Willpower is not an answer to obesity; it always breaks down when you starve. Finding out why it seems the hunger setpoint has recently moved up (and not only for humans!) is the real goal.
> They at least matched 100% up to 6% (of course, you forfeit all that if you aren't employed on December 15th of that year).

That seems like a really shortsighted policy. I expect that would seriously encourage people to leave in January. Having big blocks of people leave all at once seems far worse than having turnover spread more evenly.
> appears to be some correlation between this and the consumption of processed foods

http://www.slate.com/content/dam/slate/articles/news_and_pol...

There you go. We are eating more. As other nations adopt an American diet, they also eat more and get fatter.

There may be other things as well, but far too many people are looking for the magic pill that lets them eat all they want and not get fat.

Make sure you're eating a healthy diet and getting needed exercise, then you can move on. But god damn, act responsibly first.
Question: Who here uses Google Now?

I tried to use it while in the US. The information it pushed to me was right more than half of the time, useful about 5% of the time.

Here in Europe it's pretty useless. No cards or no relevant cards.
And the cycle starts over again. Single mothers with no idea about nutrition (it is not an easy subject!) do the best they can, but it is usually not very good at all, and pass that on to their children.
No, it isn't. We're not serfs. If they have shitty benefits, they should be called on it.
Andreesen talked about this. His specifically mentions that many many startups and tech companies are going to evaporate overnight if the capital stops and these are run by people who are basically burning cash and not knowing what they are doing. A major market correction.
I disagree. We have ample evidence that legitimate experts came to the wrong conclusion (for example, studies of the relationship of cholesterol to heart health).

What we need to systematic meta-studies that are analyzed and published by geniuses (see the Cochrane Collaboration).
Didn't 'studies' proclaim the benefits of polyunsaturated fats like margarine over butter in the 70s and 80s and then go and reverse position recently?

Considering the amount of 'bad' science about (poor quality studies or those with an agenda) I think there's a lot to be said for common sense. Good quality food, as close to its natural form as possible, eat it in moderation and exercise accordingly.
I think Navarr is fully aware of the Linux desktop meme. It's clearly tongue-in-cheek
interesting post, but I'm curious to where you got the data for this list?
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And don't some of the same companies store all their company documents, email etc. on Google Apps? Or on Dropbox?
Based on what we've got, it does look like we're looking at either an inside job or some really stupid internal IT policies.

Whoever did this had root. While it's obvious that internal information security is lax there, the reality is that it's a lot easier to get root by getting hired as the IT administrator and being given root as a part of your job. That's the ultimate social engineering stunt. There won't be any penetration logs, simply because the computer system wasn't hacked.
You might want to check with a tax professional before doing something like this.
What about the fact that our chemical laden foods feeds into addiction that perpetuates the cycle? We become addicted to the types of food we consume which causes us to want more than we should. This in combination with increasing portion sizes is exacerbating the problem.
>One factor is differing satiation for the same number of calories

>a handful of foods that seem to promote ongoing consumption

>people are observed consuming huge numbers of calories in kind of a chain-consumption binge

As I said: It has absolutely nothing to do with the foods or how they are processed; it has everything to do with how much people eat of these foods.

Fatty/Salty foods can promote overconsumption, but blaming the foods for a person's lack of self-control is, as I said previously, incredibly foolish.

Sure, food trends may have increased the amount of fatty/salty foods on the market in the past 30 years, and this certainly would contribute to the obesity epidemic. However, the burden ultimately rests on the consumer to ensure that they are not only consuming healthy foods, but that they are consuming healthy portions of these foods compared to the amount of exercise they get daily.

I could easily eat 3 Big Macs for lunch, but I am aware that that would be 1600+ calories, so I don't.
I think the bigger danger is people accusing others of laziness. Making people miserable over a thing they probably have very little explicit control of may not be the best way to go.

Yvain has a great post on the topic, I highly recommend it: http://lesswrong.com/lw/2as/diseased_thinking_dissolving_que....
I think very few people would consider cheating on one's spouse or partner to be a form of white lying.

I also do business with a lot more people where I'm doing business with the owner themselves. If I'm looking someone in the eye and shaking their hand to do a deal, and then they turn around and lie to their spouse (someone they ostensibly owe a lot more to than me), that's hard for me to reconcile.

Maybe you don't care, and that's fine. I do. I find it hard to trust people who cheat. Why would I be treated differently or better than a spouse? (Again, open marriage/polyamory/whatever is a different story.)
If I got a call from a church, bearing gossip for the purposes of sowing discord in my family, I would have an important conversation with my spouse about immediately ending our relationship... with that church.

If you value families, you should not go around hammering wedges into every crack you find in them.
There are definite gender imbalances in our society. Is someone
bitter when they point out that women make less or that men die
more at work? [...] I wouldn't call Clinton pointing out the wage
gap as her being bitter.

Those are objective facts, backed by statistics. Completely different than:

For a man, unless they are handsome, wealthy and well endowed (i.e.
perfect) then they are at the mercy of women

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

Myself and plenty of other men I know, who are far from this definition of "perfect," manage to have perfectly healthy relationships with women in which nobody is at anybody else's mercy.
I found the master switch. It's called self-responsibility.
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"The consent.exe is a part of Windows operating system. It is part of the User Account Control feature which allows or disallows access to administrative functions based on your preference."

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_vis...
> Donald Sterling is a good example of this. So is the ex-Mozilla CEO. Their lives were both destroyed.

Brendan Eich's activities after his time as Mozilla CEO doesn't really make it seem like his life was destroyed.

> This is actually why Trump is winning in the majority of the polls.

Trump is gaining the largest minority of Republican voters among the large number of aspirants to the Republican nominee. In the head-to-head polls against Clinton, Biden, and Sanders I've seen he loses (and does so worse than a number of other Republicans, some of whom beat at least one of the Democrats in head-to-head polls.)
The thing about food deserts is that it is a purely economic phenomenon. All of the fast food places and bodegas are getting money. If there were are push with dollars and food stamps for nutritious food, I assure you someone would find a way to take that money.
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Howdy! Author here.

I definitely wanted to do all parts in Python but am somewhat allergic to the `while True:` pattern necessary in Python for changfeeds. I haven't brought myself up-to-date on the more recent asyncio library to write the more Pythonic `yield from` for a changefeeds example.

Would you know how to do this in Python elegantly? Because I would love to rip out the Node/Javascript parts.
His choice not to network was not because of being an introvert, it was because he didn't understand what was required to run a startup.

An introvert can still network all day and talk with people; but if you go home and watch Netflix you might be an introvert, if you go out to a bar with some buddies, you're probably an extrovert.
The 401k is a feature not a bug.

Amazon managers abusing the workers in the warehouse is a feature not a bug.

Women not being promoted within Amazon is a feature not a bug.

For Jeff Bezos to claim he didn't know about this is a feature not a bug.

At this point, anyone who thinks that this behavior was all a big mistake really is in denial, or intentionally ignorant (looking at you, Jeff)

Update: Ah, the hate downvotes: I wonder exactly why people wish to downvote?

* Is it because they don't want to believe that Amazon is behaving badly?

* Is it because they think that I am some sort of Amazon hater and they want to punish me?

* Am I inaccurate in some way?

Full disclosure: I am buying Amazon stock, because any company that is this tight with the dollar is figuring out how to extract blood from a turnip. I also use Amazon AWS all the time.

But if you downvote: do the favor and add a comment, and attack me. Personally if you like. Get a little ad hominem rage venting. I don't mind. Just own the downvote.
Not a regular on re/code but is it a google-hostile territory? It looked like the author tried too hard to prove a point on Pichais' leadership, Now on Taps' future sooner than it is possible. And that drawing contrast to Bings' feature is uncanny too.
> Is it possible to privately donate to political causes?

Its possible to privarely donate to all kinds of organizations which amount to political causes, its not possible (legally) to do so to political campaign committees, however.
As the GP you're referring to: I'm a PhD scientist with deep knowledge in biology. I still wouldn't try to decide for myself on how to treat my own cancer; I can use my knowledge to evaluate what the experts tell me, but there are limits that even a knowledgeable scientist is susceptible to.

Many people think otherwise: they second guess medical experts using their own engineering or scientific knowledge. Sometimes this "seems to work" but it's not clear that it does so in anything but an anecdotal way. Carefully controlled trials and meta-studies are much more effective.
The only way quants can make money is from active traders on the other side. It's impossible for quants to make money off buy and hold index investors. If everyone took your advice (and I do), there'd be no such thing as quants
I find that many programmers find Inkscape or Gimp more than enough for their graphic needs, but it's really hard to come across a designer that would agree. Nobody likes to pay and pirate software; if designers found Gimp really up to the task, they would be rushing to use it and drop the Adobe monthly fee. The fact that this mass migration is not happening and has never happened in the past 10 years should tell us more than our own understanding of graphic tools would let us deduce.
Yes, of course, that is a major goal of Google's DLF.

http://googlepublicpolicy.blogspot.com/2009/09/introducing-d...
http://dataliberation.blogspot.com/
The valentine's day part of the analysis may have some merit, other than that, its one man's speculation (informed or otherwise).
Yeah, options typically cost the company very little. Nothing, in fact, if the stock doesn't go up, and only the difference between the strike and market prices if the stock does go up. But companies can hand you a piece of paper promising thousands of options and it sounds really impressive if you don't understand how options work.
What I don't like is how the press and often scientists make every paper seem like something was newly identified. With no disrespect to the authors of this particular study, they didn't "unveil a new pathway". Several previous works over the past decade have honed in on this exact "master switch".

E.g.,

Identification of FTO as relevant to obesity (2007):
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17434869

Connection of FTO and IRX3 (2014):
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=24646999
> but it's downright foolish to pretend that we are gaining weight for any other reason than that we are eating too much and exercising too little.

Right, but the question here is why are we eating too much? (why we're exercising too little is easier to answer: it's harder to exercise when you're overweight, and our lifestyles have changed). It seems that the hunger mechanism is out of whack; either because the types of food have changed, or something changed in our internal reactions to calories/fat/etc
> After pumping QE full throttle at $80B/mo?

They did for a while. That part's over, though.
The two examples you mention is in regard to bigotry. If they have those views then those views are going to drive their actions.

There is no such thing as being a bigot in private.
There's another UI kit for React called Belle, I posted here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10110956
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You could always just do that in Windows' hosts file, too.
> "good enough for a good chunk of people" completely describes Gimp, Inkscape, and Blender

I said that keeping in mind professional use. There are some people who can effectly replace Office with LibreOffice at work and the number is significant.

However, when you try to do the same with a designer then Gimp, Inkscape and Blender falls behind, so yeah... A dev could do a minor manipulation on an image using Gimp, but don't ask a designer to produce a print-ready poster using it.
If you aren't already aware, the recent versions of awscli have started accepting the full JSON payloads, which I realize seems like it's worse but in my experience one usually interacts with a few common cases and leaving the JSON around for editing is both a great reminder and saves a bunch of keystrokes.

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/generate-cli...
The list of files modified (to add telemetry hooks?) in kb 3080149 is crazy. NTOSKrnl, NtDll, Lsass, winload.exe etc... Are they really adding spyware/telemetry hooks all the way down to the kernel? What happens next time there's a security patch for the kernel, do we get an ntoskrnl with all these "optional updates" included as well?
Maybe this doesn't matter, but how did you leave out the long history of market crashes prior to 1929 [1], and how did you leave out the S&L crisis [2]? That is some really selective reading of history.

> a crash could only come about from a set of new circumstances we couldn't have predicted before (or else it wouldn't have crashed)

This claim isn't actually correct. Economic history is full of crashes and recessions where nothing new happened.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_recessions_in_the_Unit... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_stock_market_crashes_a...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savings_and_loan_crisis
Produced goods are always getting cheaper. All trends point towards moving towards a zero marginal cost society. Economic pressures and the need to compete are forever pushing prices down. We are also getting more efficient at producing goods in parallel to this trend (another side effect of capitalism). The only way this will stop is through organized price fixing cartels.
Introvert here, who has also frequently been called a social butterfly. I think the hardest thing for folks to understand is that introverted does not mean socially inept or shy. I love being outgoing, but it also takes a toll on me. I need some quiet (usually alone) time to recharge in between outgoing sessions or I start becoming shy.
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I'm a bit new to the whole lingo of The Valley. Could you explain a little more verbosely what you meant by that sentence? What is beta capital and beta investments? What is considered high? What denotes a boom and what is an unwind? How bad is a killer unwind, what does that mean really? Again, sorry, trying to learn the fast lingo here.
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On one hand, I do think that graduates entering long term employment as bartenders have good reason to feel cheated. But, I'm not entirely sure how to think about this on the macro level.

One way is that in the 90s most bartenders were high school educated. We as a society and they spent a lot of time and money educating them to University level for no reason. Bartending demands haven't change much. Taking that further though, a generation prior most bartenders were primary educated and that worked too. If we keep rolling back to illiterate bartenders we probably hit a point where the education is actually useful. You're better off to a literate bartender, but it seems like the 0-marginal-return-on-education for a bartender line was crossed before University.

If everyone is to be University educated (the trend leads here), then we'll either have no bartenders or university educated bartenders.

^Obviously, there was always a mix of education levels among bartenders. I'm talking about trends and volume.
Yes, this is exactly it. You can use whatever technical indicators or statistics you want to create your alternative narrative, but if it isn't the MSM's narrative (which is frequently very poorly researched and extremely corrupted by outside interests) you won't be listened to because you're not "the authority" on the issue.

The media has been on the bullhorn about "the recovery" for years now, trying to make it happen by repeating that it's already happening. It's no surprise that this language rings hollow for many people; the GDP of a country and the stock valuations on an index do not necessarily mean that there is a genuinely healthy economy. These kinds of discussions never take into account labor force participation, only rarely QE, geopolitics, actual volume of consumer goods moved, actual market liquidity, etc.
Or the officers are preparing an early excuse for not being able to apprehend the criminals later on. Which is a likely outcome considering the track record of these types of non-financially motivated attacks recently.
beliefs that their weight problems have nothing to do with their personal habits

Eating garbage food is a personal habit, but the food is also engineered to be not very filling, high in calories, and mildly to strongly addictive (more profit!), so how do we balance personal responsibility in the face of adversaries engineering addiction?

instead placing the blame on the quality of the foods they've been eating.

Except, the food quality/provenance is the problem.

Go to middle america and watch obese people at restaurants. Most of them are ordering more obese-enabling foods. Giant sandwiches, giant cheese fries, giant cokes refilled three times per meal. A lot of people just don't have the training or education to connect what they eat to their physical body—bodies are magical things that "just exist" and "just happen" with no responsibility in any direction.

You can't get an obese person (100+ pounds overweight) down to "normal" just by exercising more and eating less of already addictive bad-for-you foods. You've got to remove all the crap from their diet and essentially de-program them from a lifetime of bad habits. Oh, and we need to do this on a national (even global) scale on the order of hundreds of millions of people.
There's a tremendous difference between using Windows to run the GUI and using Windows to do the real-time control of the servos and various other hardware.

Most of the time these machines run a small microprocessor which receives commands over some port and interprets them as it is instructed to. This is what's called a "hard realtime" system as it always responds within a certain amount of time, guaranteed, provably as per the design.

What Tormach is doing is eliminating the dedicated gcode interpreter hardware/controller and performing those operations strictly in software, on a program running on a PC. There's some utility to that, but pretending that it's as good as having a dedicated, realtime gcode interpreter is not honest.
The good thing is that those 95% are often willing to pay for services like virus removal and the like, so maybe Microsoft has created a new industry for surveillance removal!
It's also a process run whenever you install a new program!

It's the updates to consent.exe (adding telemetry points) which are cited in this thread that are the issue.
Agreed: per the article:

"There's evidence that lower-paid workers aren't widely participating in Amazon's 401(k) plan—and that creates a problem for high earners at the online retailer. For a plan to maintain its tax status, it can't disproportionately benefit what the IRS calls "highly compensated employees." A lack of participation by the rank and file means higher-paid employees can't max out their contributions to the IRS limit and may even get some of their planned savings back. Every year since at least 2011, Amazon has had to repay amounts "withheld and contributed to the Plan that exceeded the amounts allowed under the Code," according to the company's 2013 regulatory filing for its 401(k) plan. This year, it repaid more than $5 million in excess contributions made in 2014. For employees, that can mean paying more income tax and filing an amended tax return."
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