skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The reason that it isn't helpful, despite you're peer reviewed, laboratory evidence cited on MyFitnessPal postings, is that the causal mechanism that common sense derives from this is completely incorrect.

People aren't fat because they eat too much. People (and mammals) eat too much because their fat cells are being metabolically triggered by environmental and/or genetic factors to store fat at a higher than normal rate, diverting calories from operational needs, thus stimulating hunger.

Bears don't go into hibernation because they've gotten fat. They get fat because their endocrine system begins gearing up for hibernation, and telling their fat cells to kick into overdrive growing. They will literally burn muscle while simultaneously gaining fat in this stage, like all hibernating mammals. The other side effect of growing fat cells is massive hunger, obviously.

In humans, simple things like not eating sugar can help correct the endocrine factors which, for a lot of people, cause the fat cells to do this. However, genetic factors are going to be a different story.

I say this as somebody who is fit and active, but have had running buddies who are fat. Pitting will-power against metabotically driven hunger ends, in the long-term, with biology winning every time.

Without endocrine/genetic factors taken into account, reduction in calories in simply causes a mammalian body's system to reduce calories out by making the subject less energetic.
> I don't know how well it works

I've used H&R Block's online service for filing federal and state taxes for the past few years with no issues.
I wasn't, but I've gotta be honest, it doesn't appear to matter in the context of this specific topic. With the amount of information and disinformation out there regarding food and nationwide obesity levels, it's tough to tell what is and isn't true or to what degree. It's somewhat akin to the propaganda campaigns run by tobacco companies in the 50's, 60's and 70's.
I had some warning. Mine had shown up in an x-ray and CT scan for an unrelated issue.

Every nurse I talked to seemed to take sadistic pleasure in describing how painful it would be when it came out.

Still nothing could have prepared me for that amount of pain. It was truly horrifying.

This is why when given the opportunity to tell people to drink more water, I do it. I wouldn't wish that experience on anyone.
See my previous comment regarding sugar. It's not the calorie density, but the metabolic effects of sugar that are the issue.
At the moment, there's nothing that they need to do. A one-week drop of 15% in the stock market is not actually something that the Fed needs to fix.
Yes. I should have considered the crowd I was writing. I'm here. 35+ years of systems work starting with a 4004. I was inditing the new culture of "released and poor is better than not release and good" and "if it runs slow just scale it over more processors". In 1988 I did more in 48k of memory with 500k of disk then can be done in 4G mem and 500M of disk today.
Unless you need to take your money out in the next couple of months (or unless you are facing a margin call) why not consider this as a fire sale? Your favourite stocks and mutual funds, ON SALE!
I didn't make that distinction. Good that you brought it up. Any more information on that distinction in form of articles or salary surveys?
it's still slower mostly. Mostly since they don't have any specification at all.
I also use it a lot and find it very useful. Most of the time it's spot on, however one time I was searching for a compiler error code at work and the next day Now had started tracking flight information for some flight that happened to have the same flight code as the compiler error. :)
No matter what you are responsible for your body. Period. Full stop. I am not responsible for your body. As an adult your parents are not responsible for your body. The government is not responsible for your body. You and you alone are responsible.

Your body may be more susceptible to holding onto fat than the average person. You may have genetic markers that makes you more likely to over indulge. There are one of a million factors that may make you more likely to be overweight. But literally none of them change the fact that you and you alone are responsible for your body.
One way of thinking about this is as the T-shaped skillset. You have familiarity and experience with a breadth of tools (in this case I would think web technologies) but go deep in one or two. Sorry, but I can't help you choose which one.

On that list of books you mentioned, you might want to skip to The Passionate Programmer. It discusses some of the questions you're raising here.

And FYI your English is excellent. No need to feel self conscious about that.
People ARE buying federal bonds at that rate, right? You can find a figure for the sales, look at the yield curve, and quantify exactly how many people are acting that way with their own money (or how much money, at least).

Looking at http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/in..., the yield for 10 years is actually more like 2%. Less than a year is very close to 0, so there are apparently a ton of people out there who will lend you money for 1 year at 0.33% interest.
I'm the only developer in my ad agency of about 80 people. It's super cool to write all my own code, make all my own stack choices. To know that I wrote everything here is a really cool feeling.

At the same time, I really miss talking shop with other devs. And given my extremely young age (only a few years out of school) sometimes it can be hard to be sure I'm making the most efficient choices. There's a lot of times I ask myself...why is this stupid and what am I going to break?

It definitely has its ups and downs. I think the most valuable lesson has been self reliance. No one is fixing this, it's on me. No one is going to refactor this, except for me.

edit: spelling :(
I like http://codereview.stackexchange.com/ for this kind of thing. I get to see other people's way of thinking, and quite often people there are looking to keep their skills up to date with all of the language's features.
In the grand scheme (meaning, 5+ years), this is a small blip. Buy more.
You can remove updates via the control panel.
Partition your system: Linux for browsing, typing, etc. swindows for gaming and being raped...
I think the one I would most recommend for a newbie is Linux Mint. I don't feel strongly about this. If you don't like it, try something else. But expect some migrating pains regardless; you're used to Windows's warts, now you need to get used to another operating system's warts.
Good to see I was wrong.
> photographs of celebrities with milk mustaches shown on billboards and magazine ads and associated slogans like "milk does a body good!". (Those ads are promoted by the dairy industry and it's questionable whether it's healthy for adults to drink milk.)

I'm approximately 81% sure that such marketing is targeted at children and/or their parents.

> granola bars and "energy" bars. (The packaging has pictures of active hikers, bicycle riders, mountain climbers, etc. Some granola bars even prominently feature "fiber" as a benefit. The ignorant don't realize that these snacks are really glorified "candy bars" with clever marketing to lessen the guilt trip of eating a stick of sugar.)

This isn't universally true; there are quite a few brands (like Premier Protein) that specifically advertise low sugar and fat content.

> USDA food pyramid. (The uneducated don't realize that the USDA (and hence the chart) is influenced and manipulated by the meat & dairy industries.

And yet still prioritizes grains, fruits, and vegetables well before meat and dairy (at least until 2005, but my brain still refuses to comprehend the new "MyPyramid" as the One True Food Pyramid, seeing as it completely misses the fucking point of a food pyramid, but whatever). Not that it really matters that much, seeing as how the USDA has (as of 2011) migrated over to the whole "MyPlate" concept, which emphasizes "proteins" instead of meat specifically (and while it does emphasize dairy - with the implication that said dairy is meant to come from a glass of milk - I'd argue that the target audience has generally been children, not adults).

> lean cuisine "low-fat" microwave dinners with a "heart healthy" icon on the box. (Naive buyers see the "low fat" as a signal for "healthy" but don't realize that manufacturers have to amplify the taste by adding lots of salt. The heavy carbs in those meals are also controversial.)

Plenty of "diet" microwave dinners, including those from Lean Cuisine, prominently display low-carb advertising claims. Of course, they tend to swing back to high-fat, but so do most decisions involving the balance of carbohydrates, lipids, and protein.
>-If you type anywhere in Windows a name of some movie, Windows will start indexing all your media files after a while and will send it to MS after 30 minutes of your inactivity.

This one really hard to believe. All the others are kind of believable.

>-After 15 minutes of your inactivity or when screensaver is on, network activity ramps up and everything else is being sent to MS.

But what is everything else?
His point is that by modulating the throttle you can move the weight of the chassis around. Doing so affects how the vehicle steers. The statement is a bit exaggerated but nonetheless based on facts. It all depends on the car you are driving. Sometimes the brakes do more than the throttle during a turn.
Take a look at Gremlin 3 - it now supports both declarative and imperative queries. In fact, you can even mix and match the two.

You want to match a complex pattern? Use declarative Gremlin so the query optimizer can figure out the best execution strategy for you.
You have a highly custom path traversal? Use imperative Gremlin which gives you full control over the execution and provides you with everything you'd expect from a pipeline language.
You have both? Combine them in a single traversal.

While Gremlin2 was an imperative query language, Gremlin 3 is a new type of query language that aims to combine the best of both worlds.
When you talking about where zero-width regexes match, this mental model certainly helps, and I find it consistent otherwise too.
I personally see thin people buying the same stuff obese people buy all the time. I see thin people at fast food places and sit-down restaurants (which are usually not substantially healthier). I've seen families that live off the same food supply and one person is obese while others are thin. You can argue "the thin people must only buy those foods or go to those places sparingly", but we all know that's not really generally true either.

There is so much variation that it's hard to generalize this, but the sentiment you've expressed is a big part of the reason we can't get anywhere. People's bodies react to food differently. Obesity is not always caused by a lack of inhibition. We need to stop detesting obese people before there can be a serious solution that curbs the growing obesity trend. If "diet and exercise" were tenable solutions, we'd be seeing steadily declining obesity rates; instead, the rates continue to skyrocket worldwide (in conjunction with modernization of country's food supply, suggesting that modern processing "contaminates" food with substances that promote obesity). We need a better answer.
I'd hardly call Europe socialist. Socialism is the social ownership (state ownership) of the means of production. A welfare state is a state with large programs to ensure the welfare of the people, which better describes much of Europe.

As for extreme poverty, China has seen a 90% reduction in extreme poverty since 1981, and India has seen a 60% reduction since 1981, and Sub-Saharan Africa has seen a 12%. The Indian and Chinese reductions coincided with a relaxation on state owned industry and introduction of free market economic policies.

Hate the corruption, hate the corporatism, but according to the world bank (and nearly every other NGO), capitalism has reduced human misery on this planet like no other force.
7+Toxic+Relationships+And+How+To+Remove+Them+From+Your+Life
> It's just so hard to discount the functionality of a real keyboard in any school where typing (and consequently writing) matters.

Kids at that age should spend less time on a computer of any sort and more time learning penmanship so they can actually write.

When global warming/peak oil/the zombie apocalypse/other finally hits and your technology doesn't work, civilization will belong to those who learned penmanship. And like language acquisition, there is a small window of time during which a child can develop a competent hand.
I used it a lot when I carried an Android phone. It was useful for summarizing important emails, delivery notifications, reminders to leave for appointments, and things like that. The deep OS integration and Android's notification system made it possible.

On iOS, I almost never use it. Its value-add is not strong enough without the OS-level integration. The only thing I'll open it for on iOS is flight status updates, but Inbox provides that value too now.
One of those terms was that they can change the terms at any time without notice.
> Using steam will not change anything since it is the US laws allowing/requiring companies to comply with the NSA.

There's a big difference between 'allowing' and 'requiring'.
> I'd rather complain about the fact that the default filesystem is case insensitive, for instance.

i see that as a positive thing.
This is my reaction. I don't want cloud connections and MS/NSA surveillance and key loggers in my OS, so I won't be going to Win10. Hopefully there is enough backlash that MS is forced to allow user to opt out of this garbage on Win7, at least.
There is absolutely zero political will for the voluntary abandonment of credit expansion. So, only the final catastrophe, the collapse of the dollar as the world's reserve currency, is the final outcome. It could be decades away however; there is just too much invested (literally and figuratively) in keeping the dollar afloat.
This may sound entirely wacky, but I have seen it make a major performance impact on nodejs.

The reason is that V8 uses heuristics to decide which functions get inlined, and the raw source code length is one of the heuristics. Making the source for a function shorter may cause V8 to inline it more aggressively.
I guess I am not a linux newbi. I know my way around a unix box I just haven't used it as my primary work station ever. So things like compatibility with all the popular stuff comes into play.
What is it? Where is it? Sounds super cool
That's not to say that it's impossible to do anything on your own nowadays. I hear that it only took one guy to make Evochron Mercenary (http://www.starwraith.com/evochronmercenary/faq.htm#2) and the game takes roughly 1gb. Now, Star Citizen is supposedly the next big space sim; a big team that has raised over $50 million and creating a game that will probably take over a 100gb to install. Heck it took 20gb just for me to demo the dog-fighting module.

One developer vs a team backed with millions of dollars.

1gb vs 100gb.

It can still happen.
> Excel as a business analyst's tool is far beyond any competitors.

Honestly, Excel (or any spreadsheet really) is quite clunky for a lot of these tasks.

In most of my University classes (economics/finance stream) that require me to analyse data and present it, I use R (w/ R Studio), and it's far superior - both for parsing the data, and for presenting it (and of course R is standard for any statistics course beyond the intro courses). R can even create 'pivot tables' and many other interactive HTML widgets.

And while we still learn Excel, we were also forced to learn Python and SQL.
Although in your world that might feel like an app that everyone would use ... most of us go to a job in the same city in the same location day after day.

The problem may be that those apps are actually aimed at such a small portion of the earth's population (read: frequent business travelers) that maybe it is not sustainable.
And the HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9761355
I found it extremely useful when using public transport in Japan, and telling me the last bus time in Dublin is useful too.
If we try to apply the principle of charity - could there be seen any advantages that this telemetry data would provide to the end user?

I can't come up with any at least.
Ha, that is funny. Yea, I was researching flights that day (to find alternate routes from NYC to SFO) and by the end of the day I had like 5 flight alert cards on my Google Now. They're easy enough to swipe away, but it is amusing in a mildly-embarrassing kind of way.
The most you need to get turbotax to work online is a user agent spoof.
Plan 9: Mouse vs. Keyboard
Moravec's paradox
No one has verified this. Sorry, but this list is just fearmongering. It would be good if we could focus on the facts here. There's a real issue here and it helps to be honest.
:) .Is that even legal ?
Ask and ye shall receive: http://imgur.com/eeBtcIw

Bear in mind that it's nearly empty because we'd only just recently upgraded to Windows 10, but note that it has an entry for "Latest searches". Wouldn't that be one hell of a way for a kid to come out of the closet to his parents, or for someone to find out their daughter's pregnant?

Consider that this data is linked to each kid's email address. When this database is hacked, won't that be an interesting week in all the local schools as everyone learns what their peers are really doing?
From personal experience -- if FB and Google are the big leagues, Amazon is triple-A ball[1]. The caliber of people there is quite high, but it's still easier to get in than at the truly elite places. I don't think there are a lot of people with offers from Google working at Amazon, but Amazon can be a good stepping stone.

[1]: (Non-Americans, substitute something like "Premier League" and "whatever league the Premier League relegates to")
You are absolutely correct, complete brain fart on my part. If their pricing in RMB they take the currency hit.
Benchmarking Apache Samza: 1.2M messages per second on a single node
It's not what you said, but note that some of the phone-home behaviour is very deep rooted, ignoring proxy settings (http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/08/even-w...):

> We configured our test virtual machine to use an HTTP and HTTPS proxy (both as a user-level proxy and a system-wide proxy) so that we could more easily monitor its traffic, but Windows 10 seems to make requests to a content delivery network that bypass the proxy.
That's brutal. My place of work started matching after 90 days (after the introductory probation period), and I was immediately vested.
Or the death knell for windows. Take your pick. I like privacy. I hate windows.
True, but Amazon supposedly rewards their employees well to compensate for the high productivity expectations. The Amazon 401k isn't terrible, but it definitely isn't great. (It's ranked the lowest in the top 50 on the S&P.)
Yes, there was a bubble so if you invested all in one hit, all in equities, your timing was unlucky and you ignored the return from dividends then it doesn't look good.
how much are you making? ;-)
People have taken different approaches to this in bioinformatics for numbering intervals of dna bases in chromosomes. I think this approach is catching on, though. In that realm, it's important to speak unambiguously about insertions and deletions, and the "interbase" mental model makes it a lot clearer.

edit: Probably the most popular genome browser, based at UC Santa Cruz, uses this zero-based, half-open numbering internally. But, at some point in the past, biologists developed an expectation that numbering would be 1-based. So the Santa Cruz genome browser actually adds 1 to the start position of everything for display purposes.
Paul's cousin was my colleague a few years ago. He had so many stories to tell about him. He has a personal web site at
http://arachnoid.com/

I hear he spends most of his time now sailing.
I enjoy the domain I'm in, for one thing.

I develop software for within the Amazon fulfillment centers (FCs). I get a lot of opportunities to fly around to various FCs, meet people, improve tools, reduce complexity. I try to make life a bit easier for the folks putting in four 10-hour shifts per week doing actual hard jobs. It's a really interesting environment, and it's the kind of place where 1% improvements are worth millions.

That kind of stuff motivates me.

They've also treated me really well. I started in Seattle, but really wanted to be in Toronto where my then-girlfriend (now wife) was living. A few months later, I'd transferred to a team in the Toronto office. I rarely work more than 45 hours/week, sometimes 50 if it's really bad. Hours are flexible. Good opportunities to learn and grow as well.

It's not a perfect company, but I'm enjoying being here.
Peering Inside a Criminal’s Mind Using IBM Watson
HN always reminds me of this comic: http://i.imgur.com/NIWnZgu.jpg
"You’ve got all these conspiracy theories that think we’re in cahoots with the drug companies and that’s why we advocate medicine."

Yeah. Just a conspiracy theory. Nothing to it. Nothing at all. The pharmaceutical industry has no influence whatsoever.

Some people might say that doctors make far more money from doing traditional medicine, than they would from offering dietary advice, but this too has absolutely nothing to do with it. Just another conspiracy theory.
No, people give Google a free pass because, even though they collect data, they haven't visibly abused that trust.

MS has (as shown in other articles). Their EULA states it. But then they claim they don't, and that Google are the bad guys.
Not just young people. There have been many reports of Steve Jobs not taking the best action for his cancer, preferring to try diet based alternatives first.
Is the delayed vesting for 401k a common thing? All the companies I've worked for either had no match, or the match was immediately vested.
I agree with the understanding that each segment of 24/7/365 addresses a different possible shutdown condition.

And I'll add that "I could care less" derives from the earlier "I couldn't care less", which makes a lot more sense. See http://blog.dictionary.com/could-care-less/
Just start monthly investments into index funds / ETFs. Start with small sums if that makes it better, but do start with monthly (automated?) investments. I kind of hope someone would have pointed me to the right direction years earlier.

In case you're worrying of buying at the top: it's still a good idea. There's a very nice article [0] of what would have happened to an imaginary investor if he always bought at market peaks only, and held between the peaks.

[0] http://awealthofcommonsense.com/worlds-worst-market-timer/
You don't have to update if you don't want to. That is how they get you.
Perhaps replace the ability to delete tweets with the ability for the tweeter to add notes the tweet. That way you cannot get rid of your twitter past, but you can attach context or a defense to it.
The FTSE 100 total return index is at 5,898.87 i.e. the levels of November 2012: https://www.google.com/finance?cid=15424700
This is in contrast with Catholicism, where pretty much everything was conducted in Latin rather than local languages; the emphasis on layperson understanding of theology was a direct response to the trend of most followers having zero understanding or ability to understand the scriptures and sermons they were expected to follow.

Of course, this also resulted in the more decentralized power structure relative to Catholicism's. Quite a bit of Protestant philosophy and tendency stems from immediate responses to a perceived-to-be corrupt and exclusive Catholic Church.