skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've seen dozens of articles with similar headlines. I don't think anyone should be concerned with how much Spotify pays, for 2 reasons:

1. The people who made the music sold the rights to the music to the people who own the music, who then licensed the music to Spotify for an agreed-upon amount. Everyone agreed, presumably because this deal was beneficial for every party involved, which it most likely is otherwise Spotify wouldn't have been able to obtain licenses to almost every artist's music.

2. There will never be a shortage of art in this world, whether it's compensated monetarily or not. This is probably an unpopular opinion, but I don't see a big need for artists to be compensated. If they stopped being compensated, we'd just be left with a few million artists of every medium producing art for free because that's what most artists do, whether it pays or not. If they weren't compensated, there would be less mass-market art, but since the quality of art is both subjective and relative, we'd probably all be just as satisfied with it.

If you stop compensating most professions, their output drops to zero. If you stop compensating artists, they just keep producing art. One could argue that we'd get even better art if we stopped compensating artists. We'd be left with nothing but the passionate ones.
Not all collaboration is equal, or even comparable. If your part of the collaboration is sinking huge amount of resources into inventing the technology, and somebody else's is turning it into marketable products, shouldn't both enjoy the rewards? There are straightforward mechanisms for the latter party. What mechanism would you propose for adequate compensation to the former?
When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. E.g. "That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3."

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I agree, the macros look sort of the same, but the source of those calories is much different.

Just the types of cooking oil we use has changed a lot.

Look at what goes into cookies now. It used to be butter, now I've seen recipes with canola oil. (if anyone tells you to use canola oil in your baked goods, ignore them and use butter!)

There is evidence that gut bacteria is passed down from generation to generation, we could very well be seeing a delayed effect from public policy and health decisions made around the time the previous generation was growing up. oops.

I am sort of on the fence about processed foods. A lot of canned food was eaten previously, fresh vegetables were not available year round, but a lot of the canning was done at home in glass jars. I am not one to be paranoid, but now all our canned food comes in coated aluminum cans.

We have a few decades of aluminum cans being coated on the inside with BPA. It is know known that BPA can have harmful effects that take a long time to manifest.

The point is, there are a lot of potential culprits, and it is going to take a long time to figure out what state unbridled capitalism has left public health in.
That's criminal, and something afforded to defendants.

In the civil system, which is where copyright resides, you can simply be represented by counsel and never appear at all :)

This happens all the time.
This simple thermodynamic model intake minus expenditure leaves out (at least) one dynamic metabolic feature: this engine can change its tendency for storage (weight gain) in a single organism or in a community of organisms given time. A change in the community storage tendency is what is alluded to in the linked article. That is, the organism can allow the excess calories to pass on by, or it can store it as fat (or glycogen). This, for instance, is the holy grail of weigh managing pharmaceuticals: to discover those effectors of "now store every un-expended calorie (as fat)". So finally it's something like: intake - expenditure = available for storage, but might not be stored.
Ignoring the advice of the app, I inputted a bunch of startup/company names, and it was surprisingly accurate. In fact, it was a bit more concise than http://www.colorfyit.com/

I tried apple, it was red, then I tried apple computers, and it was more cobalt/grey, very cool.

Facebook was solid, Hacker News and Y combinator were a bit off, but close enough, and slashdot was spot on, so was VLC.

edit: given the description here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10309209 it makes a lot of sense :)
The article mentions prescription drugs but doesn't mention a widely used over the counter one: nicotine.

US smoking rates are down about 50% over the last 20 years. (That's overall, I couldn't find any details by cohort.)
Studios Warner Bros: les enfants immergent dans l’univers d’Harry Potter
If a picture contains comic sans, I don't need to view it that badly. I smell an opportunity for a new browser extension ;)
I believe aianus used "free market" here to mean free access to labour.

I'm more interested in your views on "to maintain its lead over poor foreigners"
Interesting how this company does not explain on their site "how it works" and along with not providing a direct global and standard way to contact them.
No, I've never had researchers contact me, but it's a fairly well known (as far as I know) result of chronic, severe sleep apnea:

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2015/05/0...
http://www.webmd.com/sleep-disorders/sleep-deprivation-effec...

Those are just some articles from this past year but the specialist that I saw for sleep problems when this was all diagnosed wasn't surprised at some of the memory issues I had been having given how severe it was; O2 saturation was dropping down to around 80% for a large portion of the night, and never above 90%. I was also having 0-30 seconds of REM sleep a night from what I was told in the sleep study. Both the terrible O2 and lack of REM sleep account for what was likely happening to my memory. Sleep is definitely a huge deal when it comes to memory.
> I find it commendable that you have said otherwise

Please, google "starting salaries for majors".

It's not any harder than that.

The thing is, unless advice I give says what people want to hear, they don't want to hear it. The most unwanted advice I give is to stop blaming others for ones' own decisions. Take responsibility for them. It's actually quite empowering.

When I went to college in the 70's, it was the custom for seniors to tape their job offer and rejection letters on their dorm door for all to see. You bet we talked about jobs after college. I specifically chose classes based on how valuable I thought they'd be to my future career choice, and so did plenty of others.

For example, lots of students quite deliberately did double majors, such as: "AY for fun, and EE for money." This was decades before google. Everyone knew that there were no jobs in AY.
The Spider of Silicon Valley:Inside 'Zuck and Friends' Secret Billionaire Fund
Has it gotten that bad that we care about what coffee dispensers and drinkers believe to be a true cappuccino or not? Not for nothing, but this frothy fluff. Who cares, serve what you like and drink what you like, but please don't make it out to be anything more than superficial preference.
Thanks for sharing this, I got online guitar lessons coaching by http://www.zotzinguitarlessons.com and had a blast learning lessons!
Its not a lot of data, but the biggest constraints to me were cost time to implementation. You could actually get an amazon memory intensive server and do it all in memory, but I didn't have those resources. ETL + a Redshift server in the end cost me around $5000 a year, which is TINY compared to the value we got out of it and the cost that most companies pay.
Uh, so you think an appreciable amount of carbon is going out another way? Like carbon monoxide? Or unburned hydrocarbons?

Neither compares to CO2, as a fraction. You are simply wrong. CO2 emission is proportional fuel consumed.
I've thought for a long time - it doesn't matter if these banks broke the law - they tried to fly to high and broke a lot of citizens. I'm not a fan of government bailouts. But if it happens, they should split the bank up into smaller pieces; ban the management from working in the industry as management again, and give the new remaining company a bit of support to get going again.

Bailouts shouldn't come without a price to pay to the people involved.
This is an interesting presentation of a non-trivial problem. Does anyone know of any good resources for learning more about color spaces?
Sure, most things in software can be implemented by anyone skilled in the craft, but how many can invent it? And furthermore, when speaking of "skilled in the art", let's keep in mind the perennial HN threads about hiring and how 99% of developers can't do FizzBuzz.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1256757...

Actual suspected caloric difference is minimal, after all, well, it is seaweed, not a very dense food stuff. :)

I'm not going to link to antibiotics causing gut flora problems, it is well known and responsible doctors actually can prescribe a nice little compact pill full of gut bacteria that replaces the ones wiped out as a side effect of antibiotics.

The stuff about a biased diet messing up gut bacteria is also hard to find research on (I've read it, but it is a PITA to find again). Basically different bacteria specialize in breaking down different types of food. If you have a diet lacking in some major food group, that stock of bacteria runs low.

Vegans can have this issue if they go back to eating meat. There is typically some tiny supply of the needed bacteria left and the population is restored after awhile, but the initial few hamburgers can be somewhat uncomfortable.
Netflix Ice (https://github.com/Netflix/ice) looks amazing. Going to setup tomorrow using the docker image (https://github.com/jonbrouse/docker-ice) and Amazon EC2 Container Service.
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Not really, we don't know what the profit margin is. A quick search says from 10-20%, though another site says 40%. So it may have wiped out a significant chunk of profit.
How carefully were you tracking calorie intake? It's notoriously difficult and I simply don't believe you ate 1500-2000 calories at 340lbs and didn't lose weight (not that you need to convince me).

In any case, congrats on the achievement!
More accurately its that the value is set by the labor required.

Beyond that for most people in a capitalist system, the basic process was one of commodity > money > commodity. Meaning that people made stuff to earn money, to buy more stuff.

But for the capitalists instead it was money > commodity > money+. Putting money into the production of stuff so as to earn even more money on sales.

Now where Marx went off the rails was with factory machines. He was sadly working under the preconception that workers were being exploited, and so ended up badly muddling the impact machinery has on the value definition.
I don't understand why they would want to. Cell phone carriers aren't high profit business and has a ton of employees. Verizon has 180k employees and has net income of I see around 5billion profit on around 100 billion in income last year. Verizon FiOS pretty much got last Verizon CEO fired.

Google margins are way higher and Verizon employees more call center reps then all of Google in total.

From my understanding Google fiber is basically cheap dark fiber they got with some great regulatory concessions.

My view of it is Google spends enough just to prompt others to take actions (see their involvement in specturm bidding). Though my post might come off as judgemental, I'm not judging Google - that's merely good business for them to do. Wireless companies themselves are hardly examples of efficiency.
Everyone you know will be able to rate you on 'Yelp for People'
Many would say that iFixit also wanted the devices for good. They put out informative information about the devices.
> There is evidence that gut bacteria is passed down from generation to generation, we could very well be seeing a delayed effect from public policy and health decisions made around the time the previous generation was growing up. oops.

This is something that doesn't get mentioned enough. Your gut bacteria play a large role in your health, and we're going so far as to do fecal transplants to resolve GI tract disorders. I wonder if anyone has done genome sequencing of gut bacteria to determine if its one of the primary causes of America's obesity problems.

"One woman suffering recurrent C. difficile infection was recently successfully treated with this procedure, but interestingly, she also rapidly went from normal weight to becoming obese after receiving the transplant. While the weight gain could be due to a variety of factors, the donor was also overweight, and the recipient had never struggled with her weight before. Researchers are therefore speculating whether something in the transplant could have played a role in her weight gain, and have described the intriguing case in Open Forum Infectious Diseases."

http://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/woman-becomes-...

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v457/n7228/full/nature0...

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1176910/
Wow. Check out my80stv.com Specials. It has KCSM's Computer Chronicles. Lots of old school tech is demonstrated, current events are discussed, people wrongly predict the future... It's amazing.
Author here

I'll follow up and say that my first three months in SF/Bay area have been amazing. This is truly the capital of technology here. The level of talent and the one-ness of the community goes beyond anything that exists in Canada. I'm excited to take what I lear back one day.

Send me questions via email shanzhen.hu at gmail.com if you have any questions about the process. I'm happy to help.
Gut flora is a big possibility as to the discrepancy. I imagine there are some gut flora that are more adapt at breaking down carbohydrates than others, saturating the body in unnecessary energy to absorb.
From the bottom of the page:

| Our goal is the creation of a nomadic ultra small graphical desktop operating system capable of booting from cdrom, pendrive, or frugally from a hard drive. The desktop boots extremely fast and is able to support additional applications and hardware of the users choice. While Tiny Core always resides in ram, additional applications extensions can either reside in ram, mounted from a persistent storage device, or installed into a persistent storage device.

A few real-world applications:

* Embedded systems, with storage constraints

* Docker; specifically, minimalistic images: pre-compile your (eg. node.js) app, drop it on top of a Tiny Core kernel, results in ~50-80mb image sizes

* At scale, this might be useful for larger clusters; saving a couple of 100s mbs of RAM might be negligible for single servers, but can add up as cluster scales
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I bought this book at a garage sale when I was in 3rd grade and I became obsessed with building and flying them. My neighbor made a paper plane years before and out of curiosity I unfolded it and couldn't put it back. I was devastated but was too shy to ask him to show me how or make another. It was in this book that I found the plane he made me and I learned how to fold it and happiness ensued for years.
Magicpoint is located here:

http://member.wide.ad.jp/wg/mgp/

I've no idea how one would submit a patch though.
Taubes' end-of-the-book hypothesis about Atkins diets and the like isn't that great, but the whole initial portion of the book trashing the fat hypothesis is great. If you enjoy scientific writing, I promise that you will get a lot out of it, whether you agree with him or not. He's a fantastic writer, and an exhaustive researcher.
Health studies, especially when reported by some article in som publication without an original source are a mess.

I personally am extremely skeptical of what the Atlantis says the findings of the paper are. I lost 50 lbs while eating a box of pop tarts per day while counting macros. It's anecdotal but that's the basis for my beliefs, and a lot of science supports it.

One issue with health studies is how data is collected. Numerous studies have shown that a huge number of people are incapable of accurately tracking the number of calories they consume per day, and consistently under report their numbers. I believe it, it's hard in today's eat out culture. So...how sure are we that people were consuming the same number of calories?

This is just one issue. There are tons more. If you happen to be in this thread and you are looking for health advice, my recommendation is to head to /r/fitness and read the FAQ.
Redeploying two old drugs may yield a new treatment for brain cancer
This sounds incredibly interesting, and I would like to know more about this. You wouldn't happen to know the name of the seaweed or have a link to a study, would you?
"But many in software these days earn outsized incomes while carefully monitoring the boundaries of a standard-sized workload, in an environment that satisfies every mundane need. The result isn’t just lavish perks at startups of all stripes, but a challenge to the country’s social fabric."

What a dirt-bag. Now lets change the wording to, "Many in X these days...." where X is some other profession that is subject to demand by market forces. Is "X" profession tearing the fabric of society apart because they are paid too much and don't work hard enough?
Why can't I create a file equal to the available disk space?
Psychology and sexual equality
Classic bug reports
Why I Don't Give Personal Tech Support
> Rust (which doesn't even have a garbage collector!)

I think you need to take an actual look at Rust if you think that the lack of garbage collection is somehow a design flaw. :P You're free to deride the language as "just" an improvement on the state of the art of systems programming instead of attacking the fundamental underlying problem (which is that the underlying systems themselves are tremendous clusterfucks), but not only is that outside of the domain of a programming language, it is also the case that merely ignoring the status quo out of personal dissatisfaction does not succeed in moving the world forward.
The original article is behind a paywall: http://www.obesityresearchclinicalpractice.com/article/S1871.... Summary:

Background

To determine whether the relationship between caloric intake, macronutrient intake, and physical activity with obesity has changed over time.

Methods

Dietary data from 36,377 U.S. adults from the National Health and Nutrition Survey (NHANES) between 1971 and 2008 was used. Physical activity frequency data was only available in 14,419 adults between 1988 and 2006. Generalised linear models were used to examine if the association between total caloric intake, percent dietary macronutrient intake and physical activity with body mass index (BMI) was different over time.

Results

Between 1971 and 2008, BMI, total caloric intake and carbohydrate intake increased 10–14%, and fat and protein intake decreased 5–9%. Between 1988 and 2006, frequency of leisure time physical activity increased 47–120%. However, for a given amount of caloric intake, macronutrient intake or leisure time physical activity, the predicted BMI was up to 2.3 kg/m2 higher in 2006 that in 1988 in the mutually adjusted model (P < 0.05).

Conclusions

Factors other than diet and physical activity may be contributing to the increase in BMI over time. Further research is necessary to identify these factors and to determine the mechanisms through which they affect body weight.
Would love to see some sources referenced here. The claim that he "planned to help the murderer cut the body up and dissolve it in acid" is, as far as I know, based purely on Sneed's testimony and has been denied by Glossip.

Glossip definitely made mistakes the day after the murder. But there's no physical evidence connecting him to the crime scene. To say that he admitted to being "involved in the crime" seems like a stretch. He's maintained his innoncence since the start.

A better story with details on the case is here: https://theintercept.com/2015/07/09/oklahoma-prepares-resume...
duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10303498
I often wonder - why do doctors fall for this? Why do they participate in what is clearly a manipulative scam? When they know that patients and the community and even their taxes go to paying for expensive marketing budgets?

Part of the problem is that there is an unfortunate climate of entitlement among doctors. This issue has probably been studied rigorously but I suspect that being treated as 'special' all your life combined with difficult and prolonged training in often less than friendly environments breeds the feeling that you are entitled to special treatment.

I think, honestly, the other problem is that Americans don't take any holidays (in general, compared to Europe, Australia, New Zealand). I know lots of doctors that just take Thanksgiving off. So when you offer a very busy person an educational conference that is actually a holiday in disguise, they are going to be quite susceptible. Not to say that doctors elsewhere don't willingly travel to pharma fantasy island at every opportunity.
Thanks for the correction!
Really? Are there shops that don't take cards? I can't remember the last time I saw a shop in Atlanta that was cash only. Even tiny convenience stores in the really bad parts of town take cards.
In Memory Computing, Hadoop and the Lambda Architecture
http://www.huevaluechroma.com/ is interesting
People don't pay that much money for caffeinated frothy fluff - they pay for the whole experience (consciously or not), and part of that is the belief that what you are drinking is authentic...
Thanks for that info! Did you ever experience symptoms similar to eye fatigue? I think I might be not consuming enough sodium and/or potassium; I'm going to up my doses of both to test my theory.
Reading this it looks like the brain has the ability to discover and integrate memories that exist within it but may not have been organized or indexed properly. The analog I draw is if you were to insert an SD card into a computer and it reads and indexes everything it finds on the card so that from that point on you can retrieve all the files on the card just like the rest of the computer.
Now all you need is a way to "inject" pre-formed memories into people, and you would be able to learn a language, or memorize an encyclopedia, or become a doctor instantaneously.
Take a look at NPR's "What you'll Actually Pay At 1,550 Colleges" [0]. To pay $40k at a good school you'd have to be pretty wealthy ($110k+ household income). At median income, good but not Ivy League private schools (UChicago, Columbia, CalTech, MIT) are running $8-12k.

[0] http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2015/09/30/444446022/what-...
It is very difficult to track calories if you don't eat exact portion sizes listed on boxes. I calculated what I used to eat, and what I eat now, based on things I regularly ate. I figured I'd have to be off somewhere around 1000+ calories in my calculations to have lost as much weight as I did during the start of that year.

I have had this conversation with people before, and the only thing that would have probably helped here is measuring calories being flushed down the toiled, something that is difficult, expensive, and not really worth it outside of actual scientific studies.

Also, I went from being habitually tired, not sleeping well, and also diagnosed with pre-diabetus, to being full of energy, having a much better mood, sleeping well, and having a sharper mind. Weight loss alone doesn't explain this, my change in diet alone doesn't explain this, but both together increasing and stabilizing my energy levels seems to explain this.