skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
way to go! I try the same, but when I stop working and chill for a while, I start to feel guilty for not making more money despite I could.

Maybe a personal year-income-threshold would be a good idea. Once that's earned, just relax. Makes more sense in countries with progressive income tax rate.
I've tried to do some reading about all of this... the main argument that makes sense to me is that it has to do with increased consumption of sugar. To oversimplify, sugar triggers an increase in insulin, and something about insulin (I can't remember the precise details) changes the way the body processes food– it stores more of it as fat.

The bulk of these ideas come from Gary Taubes' Why We Get Fat. Here's a summary of the process: http://www.columnfivemedia.com/work-items/infographic-carbs-...

The scary part is that you start secreting insulin just by THINKING about carbs, sugar and so on. I haven't heard people discuss this... but if it's true that insulin is secreted, ADVERTISING could be contributing to obesity. Which is disturbing. I hope I'm wrong.

I'm not super well-informed on this subject, but I would like to be and welcome any thoughts and suggestions and corrections and so on.
Yes, and that can be useful. However, if you use the back button to return to a previous URL it doesn't appear to update the settings from the URL. This means you can't use the back button as an Undo button.
you have google cache...
I think SIP gives me more control over my machine, not less. I don't want programs installing junk into my system directories. Don't mess with what my distributor shipped me. I've had this same complaint on Linux and OS X for years: to install system wide, you are typically asked to become root, and then some random installer has free reign to wreak absolute havoc.

It turns out Haskell Platform was installing symlinks in /usr.[0] Why? There was no need for that and no easy way to get it out or even know it was doing that in the first place. So as a solution people had "uninstaller" programs that would look for gunk like this left by other programs? Ridiculous.

I'm glad Apple is locking this down. If you don't like it turn it off.

[0] https://mail.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-cafe/2015-October...
You are right, someone reading articles about scientists, or about startups might come up with "they're all a bunch of hipsters nowadays". IMHO that's pretty bad, because it renders the creative but eccentric or reclusive scientist as someone who doesnt even fit in the scientific circles anymore. Here's how Peter Thiel puts it:

"the political people who are nimble in the art of writing government grants have gradually displaced the eccentric and idiosyncratic people who typically make the best scientists. The eccentric university professor is a species that is going extinct fast"
> how much we eat is moderated by satiety mechanisms

No, it's moderated by our fork. It also means being hungry a lot and keeping exact track of your calories, just like poor people need to track their expenses.

(Been there done that with both money and weight)

The »subtleties of nutrition« don't matter if you are huge (BMI > 30) and want to get down to a healthy level. Once you are there you still can optimize and find out what works best for you.
nope. linkedin is a company/website I wouldn't touch with a stick.
I feel for anyone who can't pay their rent, but the rhetoric that tech employees are "pushing" anyone out misses the mark.

Tech employees aren't evicting people or raising their rent. They're finding vacant units, offered at a given price by landlords, and accepting the deal. Yes, those rents are often high -- but the problem emerges from a complex system, not from the deliberate behavior of a specific subgroup of actors.
Does FHS really say anything about the structure underneath /usr/local

If you want to be strict about it, yes: http://refspecs.linuxfoundation.org/FHS_3.0/fhs/ch04s09.html
Very weak. Briefly touched on something of substance here:

> Financial regulation in New York was far stricter than in London, where the relatively light-touch oversight regime proved attractive to investors.

The UK is playing regulatory arbitrage. They let banks come and do whatever they want because the UK is going down and they are desperate (and corrupt).

London is controlling the rest of the UK because the banks are there and it is the banks, not our government, who decide how much money is issued. They are drug pushers and The City is a cancer.
Does this study take into account the exponential growth of portion size? Food portions in the USA are out of control, four times larger than the 1950's. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/23/portion-sizes-infog...
> Does anybody know if there are plans to offer access to the screenshot library via a JS API somewhere soon in the future?

Like another user said, one could wrap the HTML DOM tree into a SVG element, and then render that to an image. So from within Javascript, this could be done in a few lines of code, I suppose. I haven't tried it though.
This is revisionist thinking, applying current knowledge to the motivations of those 75 years ago.

Nuclear weapons were developed because they could be. More specifically, it was feared that Germany was already researching them.

During the Manhattan Project and for the next several years after Hiroshima and Nagasaki they were thought of as just another weapon of war, different perhaps in scale but not in essential character (certainly by the US Army brass, anyway). It wasn't until later in the Cold War that the deterrent value of nuclear weapons was emphasised.
It's the new BBC: looks nice, almost no content.
I can't think of anything more standard than /usr/local/.
Can't believe this is down-voted. Clearly by people who are not in London having the life squeezed out of them as they toil for usurers who are in complete control of the money supply.
Making/assuming /usr/local is 0777 is definitely not though.
It helped for me that I have a designated day in a week for sweets, where I get a chocolate or some favorite candy and eat it guilt free. Don't even crave it for the rest of the week. When you get the habit going, it's much easier.

One important thing though, I go and buy the sweets I'll eat on that particular day. If you have a habit of buying sweets and have it easily at hand, it's way harder (which goes for every addicting thing there is).
Could anyone contrast it with D3.js?
"We're ready to cut Chad out of this at any time." "What?"

I'm still not sure if this whole thing is a joke or not. Poe's Law in effect.
I'm not super-rich and I'm doing fine in London. So is everyone I know and that includes nurses, programmers, artists and carers perhaps ironically. None of them are moving away.

What is a big problem is hyperbole, media and vocal whiners.

Social mobility is bollocks as well. It's perfectly possible to do it and it is easier than it has ever been due to the sheer piles of education available for little to nothing and the thousands of opportunities. Motivation and time are the only constraints.

Edit: everyone I know has moved up the social ladder, if there is one. We all appear to be in the same shit at the end of the day.
/opt/local is more correct
Awesome replacement for stock photos and clip art in presentations.
I agree this is much more prudent, and China excels at playing a role more confined to the shadows. For now at least.

In some sense, the US and EU has already accepted China's new found dominance - and place - in the international community. Russia has a much bigger problem accepting their current role, and are almost defiantly demanding respect; putting their forces into situations that could (or probably will) escalate into a full scale war. Personal opinion and all, but Russian foreign politics is reminiscent of Lebensraum, and all that it entailed.
Never used Homebrew, but taking ownership of /user/local as I understand it does by default, certainly isn't a 'common unix standard'.
Same problems in SF. City booming, high cost of living, not enough houses for everyone.
That requires nvram manipulation... Would it work well on a Hackintosh?
Carer is a term defined in law as someone who provides care without being paid for it.

Did you mean carer, or did you mean care worker?
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If one is into this kind of thing, one should really read these books: [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principia_Mathematica
I love how they're touting their in-office kergerator to potential hires.

The "heigene" typo on their "Junior Caretaker" job offer is weird though.
Carer. My neighbor is one for her two disabled children. She sells art and things on ebay to make ends meet.
Opposing gears don't have the same form unless they have the same number of teeth. This isn't obvious when you look at the first gear pair, but look at the pair doing the 10:1 reduction. The teeth of the small gear are undercut quite a bit while the teeth on the big gear aren't undercut at all.

The only real constraint is that the teeth must roll into one another as you concluded.
They'll just be replaced by immigrants from the new entrant EU countries won't they? Problem solved.
that is pretty cool. Made for my ADD generation
Perhaps, but it's a big part of the problem.

http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/mortgageshome/article-234...

A slightly counter view with different numbers: http://pdf.euro.savills.co.uk/residential---other/spotlight-... : still points out that large amounts of UK assets are held overseas and that in 2013 there was $10bn of office property inward investment.
I'm an American entrepreneur who has started two companies in London. My most recent startup was recently accepted into an accelerator in Berlin. Like-for-like, the real estate in Berlin is cheaper by a factor of roughly 6. The overall quality-of-life multiplier is roughly similar. It is definitely making me reconsider my long-term commitment to the UK.
So print the message, and arrive holding a pigeon. No-one will know the difference.
Advertising could be contributing more directly, food companies are large enough that they serve the entire market, so one of the few ways they can grow is to get people to eat more.

You are describing prediabetes and insulin resistance. Excess sugar is probably a contributor, but also probably not the only one.
The laws of physics say you can't burn energy you don't have.

If you're restricting calories and your body isn't doing a good job of mobilizing energy from fat reserves, then one way or another you'll burn less energy. You'll fidget less, think poorly, turn up the thermostat, lack the motivation to exercise, and if you do get a little exercise you won't be very vigorous about it. No amount of willpower can overcome thermodynamics.
"They found a very surprising correlation: A given person, in 2006, eating the same amount of calories, taking in the same quantities of macronutrients like protein and fat, and exercising the same amount as a person of the same age did in 1988 would have a BMI that was about 2.3 points higher. In other words, people today are about 10 percent heavier than people were in the 1980s, even if they follow the exact same diet and exercise plans."

^ The 3rd paragraph of the article.
Can she really make enough on ebay to pay for London rents? Or is she heavily dependent on benefits that are vulnerable to being cut, such as housing benefit and disability benefit?
Maybe some one finally took Project Pigeon and applied it...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Pigeon
I just thought it's strange, becuase gmail usually detects email spoofing.
To those that downvote my post without reading it: You can downvote this post, but not the truth -- because one day it will stand behind your own neck!

--

The problem, IMHO is, that many educated people still don't see what is happening in real life. They dream the capitalistic dream of never ending wealth -- but capitalism never was crafted to make all people happy and it was even not crafted to make the diligent people happy, but it was crafted to make a few random people happy by taking from the rest.

Capitalism might be the best system crafted by humankind, but it is still a system, that is not sustainable and in today's form it brings us sooner or later back to the dark ages of industrialization.

You can see it first in the developing countries, where communities exist, where big corporations come, take the water sources away from the people and sell the water with big profits to the better of people in the big cities.

Days will come and have already come, that also in the western countries, many people (will) see, how capitalism is destroying those which created the wealth to give even more to those which own the wealth.
The insurance companies are relying on an outside network of vendors. They are currently exchanging data using FTP/email and .CSV files. The usual controls for compliance, data-integrity, and fraud prevention are not in place. Our solution gave them an easy way to build an immutable audit trail and maintain data-integrity without having to incur the expense of integrating their external vendors.

In a perfect world, the insurance company would maintain a central database of claims data and everyone would work off that data. In the real world, data is being shared in an inefficient manner.

Insurance companies spend $2billion annual on fraud and compliance. Our solution helped them reduce their costs.
>"Using a Nasa instrument called Crism, Lujendra and his team were able to tell that these 'streaks' are covered with salts."

Hard to believe that an undergraduate at the time would have "his team". He was probably the part of a larger team that gave the undergrads the opportunity to look at the images generated by the equipment, and he was the student who found the evidence. Not saying that he shouldn't be given credit.
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"For the first time ever we have something we need to protect"

Humanity has always been worth protecting.
Me three
If you read the blog posts and YC app it's pretty obviously a parody.
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But his comment refers to the new OS changes I believe thus it's going to be a pain going forward.
You can do it locally with dnsmasq or using xip.io, without an extra server.
> Know the rules before you break them.

Yeah, well, none of his "calculations" made sense to me. Actually, there is no calculation, just random figures dropped randomly.

There is ABSOLUTELY NO WAY he gets 4V at the end of a 4m strip of 240 LEDs when they are at full intensity if the strip has a resistance of 2 Ohm.

Without even doing the full calculation, let's just calculate the drop caused by the single last diode group at the end of the strip:
dV = R * I = 2 Ohm * 60 mA = 0,12 V

The others diodes groups will face less and less resistance as they get closer to the power source, but still, with that one single group, we ate 0,12V out of a 0,50V budget. Just imagine adding the voltage drops caused by the... 239 remaining diode groups.

(The total voltage drop supposing all groups pull 60mA is actually over 14V, so it just does not work. It only _seems_ to work because LEDs emit light with less than 4V and much less than 20mA each.)

He also writes: "Lessons learned and improvements to make: Really, what I should do is construct better power supplies, with sense lines running down from the top of the wires, since even now there is a significant voltage drop over the wires that run the height of the room. With sense lines, a supply could at least compensate for that drop."

Yeah, sure, and how do you compensate the voltage drop at the end of the line? By rising the source voltage. Which means you fry the LEDs which are closest to the source...

No, just add a pair of wires behind the strip and connect it to the power bus of the strip from place to place. Its resistance will be much lower than the 2 Ohms of the strip (supposing he did not screw this measurement too).

> Dmitry has designed at least two of the consumer electronics products you have at your place.

One must be the new satellite receiver that takes 2 minutes to boot and crashes every other day. As for the second one, I wonder.
In case it wasn't clear, specific impulse is more or less equal to fuel efficiency for spacecrafts (higher is better).

My experience playing Kerbal Space Program, if accurate, suggests that such an engine is more effective for longer term missions, because the increased SI comes at a cost of lower max thrust (I.e. it takes longer to accelerate); I suspect this is not very accurate IRL as all our missions take a very long time so this problem may be irrelevant. Also looking below it seems such an engine is limited by electric power (solar panel/battery).

Hence this leads me to believe this type of engine allows us to extend the range of our missions but at the cost of longer mission durations.
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Just because you and everyone in your social group is doing fine, doesn't mean there isn't a problem. See, for example, the massive increase in food bank reliance.
They're moving to Ubuntu for some reason I don't know.
Same here. My clients are in the US and I work from home. So it's only logical I rent my flat for a ridiculous price and live elsewhere.
The whole point of this study was that the difference exists even after controlling for micronutrients. Your low-fat high-sugar theory is incompatible or at least insufficient.
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facebook = AOL-2.0.1

myspace = Friendster-2.0

and the list goes on...
Where is the video for this?
The project lead cut his teeth on Damn Small Linux I believe.
She has a mortgage that the benefits are paying interest only on and disability benefit as well for her children. She bought the house in 2002 so the mortgage isn't terrible. I think she breaks even every month on a good month.

I will add that her husband died from bowel cancer in 2006. If ever you think your life is a bitch, it's a good comparison point.
Ad-blocking? Noscript?
So I don't blame anyone for taking this seriously (it took me 5 minutes of reading their blog before I finally convinced myself it was a joke), but this is definitely a parody. I mean, just look at this from their YC application:

> Our initial market research suggests Pigeon can become a major player in the pigeon-as-a-service (PaaS) space.

> It's difficult to explain to non-pigeon users (NPUs), but the excitement is real...

EDIT: When I posted this most of the comments in this thread seemed to take the company at face value. The multiple references to RFC 1149 and the "fleet" page since then have rather changed the tone. :)
finally.
i like the idea someone can remove my last purchase and manipulate my account.
I don't think you understand how finance work, the UK has one of the best financial regulatory regimes in the world, market participants want to be in London not because it's unregulated but because it's well regulated.

If you have too much regulation you stiffle innovation and development, but too little means that investors don't trust institutions with their money. So it's a trade-off between the two factors.
Indeed, if we also cut out the browser and the cloud, then NSA and colleagues will just have to train their own under-cover stool pigeons. This should be fun to watch.
> certainly isn't a 'common unix standard'

Here I google.com it for you.

http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#THEUSRHIERARCHY

EDIT: Why is it okay to NOT look up a Standard and be uncertain in your comments when it can be found in 20 seconds tops on the Internet?
There are plenty of C++ programmers to hire from. I know because we are hiring both at experienced and junior levels. Furthermore, a C++ programmer is not significantly more expensive than other programmers according to SO salary surveys. An experienced programmer will demand a good salary no matter which language he uses.

I gather from this post that you seem to use a risky strategy for your development - let juniors loose on a problem and hope that Rust/Java will save them. Or is that just a straw man? In any case, all juniors should get coaching, CI with static analysis and code reviews are likewise highly recommended.

Finally, I can't understand how someone can recommend Rust over C++ for long-term maintainability with a straight face.

The first stable version of Rust was announced four months ago, let's talk again in 10 years and see how your code from 2015 is doing.
Yes I had the same problems when I started counting calories. It's very hard of course, and if I stop keeping track there is also the danger of eating again like I always did, thus gaining back all the 20 kilos.

The thinking poorly/lack of motivation part was over two weeks after starting, thankfully.

Restricting your diet is no fun at all, that's why you need to know what your motivation is. (mine is Dad's/Granddad's Diabetes)
/usr should be Read Only http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#THEUSRHIERARCHY
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You'd run into exactly the same problem. Apple doesn't provide /brew in the default image, so something would have to create a new inode in /, and that something presumably requires SIP be disabled (assuming / is protected in SIP at least).

Even if it worked, you'd be no better off than just using ~/.homebrew or something like it. Their whole reason for wanting /usr/local is that (a) /usr/local/bin is in the default $PATH, and (b) it can be written to by a normal user. Using /brew gives up (a) anyway, so you may as well just put it in a user's home directory somewhere.
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What do these 8.5 million super-rich londoners do, if doctors can't afford to rub shoulders with them!?
Berlin has the culture and the cheaper prices and def some interesting companies but it still doesn't have the capital and proper access to the things that make London (and SV and New York) great cities for startups.

So I think it really depends on what kind of startup your are trying to build. Europe doesn't have much going for it with London ,Berlin and Stockholm as the exceptions.

But just like you can go to LA and pay a third in rent of what they pay in SF doesn't mean that it's advisable.

Again depending on what kind of business you are running.
The tool for highlighting EXPLAIN output is provided on http://explain.depesz.com/ (as mentioned in a later slide). It's commonly used when asking for help and discussing queries on #postgresql on Freenode.
Granted, it's anecdotal, but I've personally seen university graduates that seemingly aren't capable of reading basic instructions or submitting a useful CV. Conversely, I've seen applicants with zero university who wowed during the interview, and went on to wow everyone as a very skilled employee.

I think the 'filtering mechanism' you speak of is vastly overrated, and I'm excited to see things like this happening. People should be hired based on ability and skill, not a piece of paper that they somehow acquired.
Which is exceedingly reasonble to think, since XSLT actually mandates XPath expressions for all select attributes. However

The major conceptual difference I can see is the ability for (apparent) in-place editing/updating, the lack of which was/is a major pain point in XSLT.

As XSLT is a functional language for traversing and manipulating heterogenous trees, one can expect quite a lot similarities beneath the surface syntax for most solutions targeting the same problem. At least in part because the limitations of the users (us) and the problem to be solved tends to constrain the solution space for generic (library like) solutions rather strongly.
I'm pretty sure it is, but it's still fun to play along with it :)