skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In a Casino, at some point you have the cold hard cash in your hands. This makes a big difference.

That's not what i've seen in modern US casinos. It's been a few years, but I remember people using cards for slot machines. The image I remember most was a man in a wheelchair with his card on a lanyard around his neck. The card was in the slot machine. He looked physically tied to the machine, never moving except for one finger on a button. It looked like something out of the matrix.
are you saying the Canadian government is promoting smoking?
I moved from OKC to SoCal, and noticed the weight difference immediately. When I traveled back to OKC a couple years later to visit some friends, I was actually disgusted by the people I saw there. It's easy to get accustomed to things...
Who's making excuses? Poor people often come from poor cultures -- ones that don't place value on things like jogging in the morning. That's just a fact, it isn't an excuse or a statement about personal control. And we, as a society, have the ability to influence both individual behavior and culture, so it doesn't even matter which one you want to assign blame to.
> Then it seems that MPs might need to start deploying and using crypto in their everyday work

They should probably do that, especially for anything sensitive, whether or not GCHQ monitoring them is legal, both because the GCHQ might do illegal things and because the GCHQ might not be the only entity surveilling them.

OTOH, given Parliamentary sovereignty, its fairly trivial for Parliament to deal with the problem that GCHQ monitoring of their communications is currently legal, and this doesn't seem to be something where just the opposition is unhappy (while the government has been positive on the ruling so far, at least some Conservative MPs have been quoted as concerned about the ruling in some of the published reports.)
TLDR: more exercise, dramatically less junk food consumption (fast food, soda, snacks, etc), dramatically increased nutritional education

More importantly I find the focus on low-fat fast food menu items highly suspect -- significantly reducing carbohydrate consumption has been shown, empirically and anecdotally the world over, to have a greater impact (if not the greatest impact) on weight and health management.

The low-fat diet craze has hurt more than helped the fight against obesity.

The problem with restricting carbohydrate intake is that it's everywhere and it hurts the bottom line of pretty much all of the prepared food and drink industry.

That said, I'm not at all advocating that we all start eating sticks of butter, but a balance must be maintained -- 30/30/25/10 with 30% protein, 30% fat, 25% carbohydrates, and 10% dietary fiber.

This is back of the hand math but I think it works out. Most people trade out protein for carbs (because protein is expensive) and fat for carbs (because fat is apparently bad for you), which results in weight gain and diabetes risk.

Generally it can be assumed that the most common form of carbohydrate substituted is a sugar or grain, which usually have very high-glycemic indexes. This spikes the blood-sugar and beta-endorphin levels, the latter encouraging addictive habits (feeling good after eating high-glycemic food, going into withdrawal when not consuming frequently enough, etc).
Bitcoin is permissionless. Whether you, or Gavin, or Nick Szabo, thinks it should be used for a particular application is not relevant, if it in fact works for that application. Maybe your use of bitcoin as a value transfer protocol is burdening me by driving up the costs of storing objects for multiplayer games! Altcoins are often not suitable because there is not a well-maintained software implementation of the protocol for a particular alt, or because there is insufficient mining on that chain to foster adequate security. As it becomes more expensive to send tx on bitcoin, of course, there are opportunities for alts to fill certain niches. Just as there are opportunities for people to find ways like sidechains, or other hacks, to get more out of bitcoin itself.
In Istanbul, this also holds true. But you would need to switch "friend chicken" to "tavuk döner" (chicken döner) or to kebab places.

Looking for places that's gonna be "elite"? Switch coffee shops with third wave coffee shops. At least in Istanbul.
No you make it racist. To the clearheaded its just reality.
That's also how I see it. There is nothing exponential about it. The cost for someone using a sockpuppet to vote for a post is exactly the same as for anyone else.

So either you have to make it really expensive to vote and that would make this a no-go or you end up with cheap advertisement that you can't even block easily.

There is one trait to this system that is interesting: the cost to promote your content goes up with the rate of popularity of other posts. Kinda like in the real world where advertising on a popular page costs more than on a random blog.

But because there is no limit as to how many people would try to advertise, the whole content would soon be pure ads.
Sarcastic, even.
Yes, and people who have broken legs should just start running marathons. Shame on them for not taking 'personal responsibility' for being unable to run a marathon.

Fuck off.
I used to hate recruiters and would delete their emails or even send them letters chastising them for their inability to even do a modicum of research into my skill set.

Then I read How to Win Friends and Influence People, as cheesy as that sounds, and now I'm extremely friendly with recruiters. I've realized that I am deeply privileged to be in a time and a place in society where my skills are so valuable that it feels like spam to be provided alternative job opportunities! Seriously, what kind of backwards world do we live in where we're angry at people for trying to keep us gainfully employed? How rude of me to have acted like a pompous rock star by not giving someone common decency and respect, even if their interests don't exactly align with mine.

So now I write back to all recruiters. I graciously thank them for even considering me for the role (no matter how off-base it was), and then simply explain to them how, for example, if you're recruiting me for a Java position, a simple look at my LinkedIn profile (which I actually link to and invite them to join my network) will show I've never held a professional job writing Java. Finally, I ask that since their time is valuable (because the higher their conversion rate, the more money they make), if they could give me the same courtesy and only send me extremely relevant leads, then I will be more likely to respond.

You know what happened?

I get thoughtful, sincere responses and apologies. They appreciate that I'm not like 99% of techies who deletes or scolds them. And then they magically disappear! I receive the least recruiter emails I ever have in my career. And the ones I do get now, they actually are worth checking out. Imagine that! Being decent and taking the high road can lead to a better outcome.
An interesting piece and definitely has some merit depending on the audience. False sense of security. Bad habits. This is kind of an exaggerated approach to teaching.

For anybody who doubts that "gaining physical access" automatically disqualifies the results, let me share a recent uptick in a specific con in my area that could very well be adapted as a template to other unsuspecting areas:

Two men in hard-hats and workman clothes approach a home, clipboard in hand, and claim to be with the "power company" and want to have a moment of time to talk about some trees close to the power lines. It's a right of way issue. They ask for the resident to come out and take a look with them. All seems pretty normal.

The talker gets the person or couple's attention while the other makes a quick excuse to go back to the truck out in front of the house. The talker carries on about how they're going to take care of the trees at no cost to the residents, and they act very cordial overall. Meanwhile, the partner has gone into the home via the front door which was left unlocked, goes for the most likely targets of value (ex: jewelry). The partner goes to the truck while talker wraps up and leaves. By the time the residents notice anything is amiss, the duo are long gone.

Trust-cons are a huge issue for a large portion of the population, in my opinion. Being prepared to be charmed while being fleeced is not how normal people go about their day.
Hacking for Security, and Getting Paid for It
There is always so much disinformation in threads about blockchain tech. Do you have any idea how it works yourself? Mining is a means to an end, which is an incorruptible ledger. Voting is a social convention, not a coin. You wouldn't mine for votes. The way a voting system would work is that each voter would be given a single coin that is marked for eligibility to vote. Then they can send the coin to whatever address correlates with what they want to vote for. Since the coins are marked, you can't just mine for more coins to submit for more votes. Yes, there are problems with this system as well, but mining for votes is not one of them.
There is an inherent overhead to free speech and democracy. One could argue this is part of it.

Spending billions to make a whole country stop working and cast a vote is another one. Should we take all those billions and put them in more pressing issues in exchange for despotism?

Maybe our society tolerates it because it is the only way to play the game with the current rules.
OS X will alert you when your battery is getting low.
Tesla Maps and the exploding future of map data
Fragmenta – A Golang CMS
Mushroom Networks expands VoIP Armor technology to include VoLTE [pdf]
They are the structure of of decentralized systems. A comment system can be seen as (and is possibly already implemented as) an immutable ledger of transactions - adding comments, voting, edits etc.

So decentralizing those things that can be represented at their core as a ledger of transactions is very much a problem which blockchains solve.
They might spike while gentrification is ongoing, especially in the early stages. My hypothesis for this statement is that more affluent people are: 1. More likely to be robbed (ie: they have items that others want), and 2. More likely to report crimes against them to the police. (ie: They trust the authorities, and they might need police reports to file insurance claims (affluent people are more likely to insure their property))
>I was offered desert and chose a “roasted pecan ice cream ball... smothered in chocolate sauce”. The waiter said that was a good choice, then asked if I wanted it “volleyball, softball or baseball sized”

A volleyball is about 20cm in diameter. Not even as a child could I have eaten that much ice cream. At least not without doing like the Ancient Romans.
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I googled part of the article because phys.org didn't link to it and I knew there was no way they wrote it.

It's a press release, so I doubt Emory University minds much, but still, HN prefers original sources ("Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter." [1]), and phys.org and the other science blog-mills are problematic.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
That's it. HN is dead. I am glad to see most of those went away without comment, but am shocked to see so many be picked up.
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You need a Sybil prevention mechanism to avoid stuffing the ballot box, and that can be a small proof of work stamp, but that doesn't mean you need to use a blockchain and incur the scalability hit.

Votes belong to each user and are spent exactly once. You could try to vote twice but it would be detected and would not lead a double spending problem.
Cool new survey on IoT, Cloud, and what not. Prizes too – not bad at all
It's tiresome enough to read ignorant people alleging that Apple's success is due to "hype" rather than superior product when Apple is actually the topic at hand. Do we have to read it at other times, too, now? I hope not.
This rings so incredibly true. It takes a lot of curating on my part (and a gigantic mute and blocklist) to avoid the stresses of Twitter. Most people aren't going to put in that degree of effort, or even want to.
Is life special?
Nope, population density is only important outside of cities. Circa 2000 the US had a lot of unused backhaul capacity between cities. So, the real reason why most people in the US don't have cheap high speed internet is simply corruption at the local, state, and federal levels.

PS: This is also why for example Florida lags in solar adoption. When you dig a little into politics you find US politicians are horribly corrupt at all levels which has deeply infected US law.
>That said, I'm not at all advocating that we all start eating sticks of butter

Iowa is way ahead of you: http://www.eater.com/2011/8/10/6663841/a-deep-fried-stick-of...
Maybe it's just me ... or does the demo seem to be sped up? Like soundhound's demo...
Microsoft Now Uses Windows 10's Start Menu to Display Ads
I think this is one of the biggest challenges I see in terms of "fat shaming" It would appear there is a direct correlation between how much additional weight people carry and the general tolerance level for obesity in that community. If we remove fat shaming altogether it's likely more people will become sicker and die faster.

It's worth noting that my cousin also moved to SoCal. She's now in her 40's and snorts cocaine 2 or 3 times a week in the evening to skip eating to keep herself slim. Apparently it's a very common practise amongst her and her friends.
Yeah, confusingly, I live in a currently gentrifying hipster neighborhood of Minneapolis, of all places, and there is a hot new fried chicken restaurant that is always so full you have to wait 2 hours to get a table.
I daresay there are aspects of both income distribution and other factors that favor or disfavor big box stores generally. No, a Walmarts footprint probably doesn't work for San Francisco proper but that doesn't really explain the relative lack of Walmarts in the Silicon Valley sprawl compared to the East Bay.
Niantic Raises $20M from Google, Pokémon Company, and Nintendo
Using only tweets, scientists can now detect earthquakes in 29 seconds flat
Do people in your area skew towards a younger demographic?

Here, widespread cable tv became dominant in the early 80s. A lot of us had to use antennas to watch local tv on the main or secondary television sets in our homes.

I haven't polled anyone but I can't imagine that most people aren't aware that network tv can still be watched over the air.
The fantasy sports competitions are all based upon the real-world performance of players in actual matches. What you're thinking of is something called virtual betting, popular (for some damn reason) in legal betting jurisdictions where bookies offer odds on entirely computer-generated horse races, motor races, football matches and so on.

The vague (non-existant?) boundary between fantasy sports and 'real' betting is that fantasy sports are never directly based on one match, so you can't directly bet on one team beating another. The competitions (i.e. betting) is on the performance of player-selected team members across a range of teams.

It is basically betting under a different name, but because the events are more abstract, they have succeeded for now from being categorised as betting.
Theranos dodges report questioning how revolutionary blood test actually works
Not yet. Let's see how they handle e-cigs.

But I would definitely say the Canadian government promotes drinking. They have a practical monopoly on many forms of alcohol. Whether they turn a net profit re medical costs is complicated, but they certainly do earn lots of money from sales.

(fyi Canadian government control of alcohol sales is a holdover from prohibition days in the US. The provinces actually sell the alcohol to the public. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcoholic_beverages_in_Canada#...)
Good to know. Maybe the patented is warranted. Can you also argue that the $862 million is appropriate?
Virtus.pro gets $100m+ investment
Live Q+A with author on failures of digital archiving
> The Journal even declined an opportunity to experience the technology themselves by turning down our offer to send proprietary Theranos devices to their offices so they could have a demonstration of tests conducted themselves, and compare the results to those of other testing providers.

I can't believe the reporter didn't take Theranos up on its free offer to collect his blood and analyze it for personal health information that might be useful to Theranos...er, I mean, to the reporter.
Scientists can’t explain what object is blocking light from this distant star
Is it true that you have to remember to proactively put it into a special mode to pause live TV?

I might tolerate that shortcoming at that price, though.
> The sources relied on in the article today were never in a position to understand Theranos’ technology and know nothing about the processes currently employed by the company.

Note the use of the word "current". Implicitly, they're admitting that the process has changed since the time of the former employees, and they're not disputing the process described by those former employees. Which means, that at some point they indulged in rigging proficiency testing.
> The easiest way will probably be to define a new "class" of citizen, who is above all of the Surveillance, which is for the cattle.

Various parliamentary immunities and exemptions already exist; extending these to include enhanced protection against surveillance would not be defining a new class of citizen. To the extent such immunities create a new class of citizen, those existing immunities and exemptions have already created it.

And, in any case, this is the United Kingdom we're talking about, a country whose government acts in the name of a monarch and whose parliament consists, in addition to a house of elected members, a house consisting of "Lords Spiritual and Temporal". Its hardly as if differing classes of citizens is a novel concept -- its already a rather overt feature of the British system.
...or the fact that there are cars parked on the street vs not.

I've lived in poor suburban neighborhoods and generally, the poorer the neighborhood, the more cars were parked on the street. I've lived in neighborhoods that looked like used car lots! Poorer neighborhoods tend to have more houses without garages. And in neighborhoods that have garages, the poorer families tend to use their garages as extra bedrooms, workshops, meth labs, basically anything BUT storing cars.

Note, this stereotype probably only works in the suburbs, because in urban areas, every potential parking spot is filled with a car by default.
Volkswagen Told to Recall 2.4M Vehicles in Germany
You can take your hands off of it for short periods of time, but it quickly starts whining to tell you to keep your hands on the wheel, and if you don't the system disengages.

It's usually ok to just nudge the wheel a bit to let it know you're still there.

Note that this is for obvious liability reasons, not technical reasons.
Electric Cloud’s New ElectricFlow Release Provides Shared Visibility and Control
What does "likely not a good area" mean? In NYC there are plenty of "nice areas" that don't have major chain stores. In many cities this is the case.

I grow tired of the underlying racism people exhibit (such as yours) without even being aware of it. You're probably not a blatant racist but I think a lot of people from mainstream white culture need to start inspecting and criticizing their view of the world a bit more.

There are a lot of good people living in what you call "not a good area".
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I would say there are much more complex phenomena than a few bajillion atoms and electricity bouncing flailing about on the surface of a mostly-water planet.
"Or he/she was a pro and left the casings and a chunk of the gun on purpose to cast doubt on the idea that he/she was a pro."

I think a more likely explanation would be that the killer was a pro, and didn't care about the brass since they planned on dumping the weapon, which couldn't be traced to them anyway.
Windows 10 upgrades getting aggressive
How many of these stories get written this way? Treasure at Oak Island... The reporter's father killed The Black Dahlia... D.B. Cooper is alive etc... They're written mainly to sell papers. Until the men are uncovered, the answer is most probably: No.
Six Degrees of Francis Bacon
Thanks. Url changed to that from http://thenextweb.com/us/2015/09/08/surge-pricing-insanity/.
You can't really prescribe one macronutrient ratio for everyone. Someone who is morbidly obese might do best on a diet almost completely absent in carbohydrates, while someone who is lean will do better on a diet that is relatively high in carbohydrates. Additionally, activity level makes a big difference in optimal carbohydrate intake.

For instance, I'm _very_ lean and active, and I thrive on a diet that is almost fat free (I get my essential fats from eggs and fish oil).
That's very interesting and surprising (I would have guessed much less than 2.5%), but I don't see how it refutes my point that any currency's value is related to how easily it can be counterfeited. There's probably a threshold or two involved, where the convenience of having simple exchange rates between forms of the same currency compensates for losses to counterfeiting as long as the counterfeit rate is low enough.

I don't think you're actually arguing that I could build a currency that scales beyond a tribal scope out of something that's trivial to copy, but that's the point I'm trying to make. If it's too easy to cheat, people will stop trusting the currency and will use something else; therefore the technology behind the currency does affect its value.
USB Killer is now real
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(Restaurant) Food in China is terrible! The bigger the city you are in, the more so. You probably like it because you're not used to the taste of MSG which is used freely and generously in China to cover up stale ingredients. Having eaten out daily in Shanghai and Guangzhou for a few years, I got pretty sick of it.
Not sure MGM Grand and Caesars would swoop in so easily to replace them, as both have filed for bankruptcy recently.
> Military Aged Males are considered enemy combatants. Effectively that means all males ages 18-49 are considered enemy combatants. Since you're guilty by association, your age makes you a target.

As an American citizen I'm so ashamed that we do this.
I mean we literally create something from nothing.

Uh... no, you do not. You might want to consider taking your own advice.

i always divide it into 3 big categories Software development, Web development and mobile development

I'm going to stress my latter statement even more.
Utterly disgusting, America conducts clear war crimes, tortures, bombs afghan hospitals, assisinates, all without consequence.

I'm sure some idiot will tell me to vote, because that'll change the systemic corruption and nightmare that has taken hold of US power.

Did voting in nazi Germany help? No because they were voted in, voting only legitimizes a political system completely captured by insiders and corporate juggernauts. These people only response to power and will not hesitate to kill you, imprison you, or otherwise destroy your life.

But go on, tell us how voting matters. Lol.