skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> no one in the past could have anticipated recording data on that scale themselves.

I don't think that's true. Anyone who kept a personal diary back in 1776 probably recorded more information about their activities and thoughts than an ordinary smartphone user today. And the detailed letters many people wrote each other back then probably reveal a lot more in the way of private thoughts than peoples' text messages today.

Undoubtedly the average person records more today than the average person in 1789. But that does not mean that more detailed record-keeping would have been beyond what people back then could have anticipated. Given the phenomenally detailed records we have from some people at that time, I think it was well within the contemplation of the framers that getting a warrant for someone's desk drawer could reveal extensive personal information.
This technique is also used to render W^X useless.
I used that! The best thing was that it was free IIRC. Also, does anyone else find it weird that all these personal assistants are created with a female persona? Just wondering if there is a broader thing here.
I so would hope you could configure it so that you can keep certain apps loaded, iow locked. I understand what they are after but with this much storage the limit is a bit low.
> [goto] is the primitive from which all higher level control flow is ultimately derived

I'm pretty sure you cannot implement conditional branches using unconditional branches as a building block. Unless you count indirect branches, which goto usually doesn't support.
is GOLEM available publicly and under an open source license?
No, not at all, but it's often most convenient to be able to sit down in the office and explain your situation, look over documents together, etc. (I can give you his contact info anyway; it's just easier if you were local.)

The ability to practice as an EA in front of the IRS is nationwide, I'm pretty sure.
It is tough to decide whether or not to call out someone when they blatantly steal your code.

On one hand, you want to take the high road and not have to squeal. But on the other hand, if you don't speak up, that person will just keep on stealing from others, in theory.

Personally, I think the best thing to do is to call them out in a public but quiet way that doesn't make it sound like you are offended, e.g. posting a link to your work in the comments with a "Glad you could use my code: (link)". That way they know that you know that they did it, and that anyone who looks at the comments will see but maybe not make the connection that they stole it. This way you get the point across without having to publicly beat them over the head with it.
I would recommend trying it yourself. I always had problems with my knees, wrists and elbows to the point where pretty much any kind of exercise caused lot of pain. Then I spent a month at a yoga ashram where all food was made fresh without any sugar. After two weeks the joint pain was almost completely gone.

I am now on a low-sugar diet and my joints are still doing well. When I eat some sugar after half an hour my wrist and elbow start to hurt again.

I have tried this a few times and the effect is totally reproducible. This experience makes me wonder how many people who have arthritis and other inflammatory diseases could reduce their symptoms with a low/no sugar diet.

Keeping weight off is also much easier with low sugar.

My advice is: Keep it a try. Stay off sugar for a month and see if you notice any changes. There is nothing to lose (besides a few pounds).
"It would be quite hard to fool someone into thinking they are eating cupcakes when they are really eating a bowl of unsweetened oatmeal."

I would be willing to be fed slurry through a tube, if it provided good information.
The good thing about these limits is that they are all arbitrary and enforced on the server-side in the app store and related infrastructure. If it turns out that the limits are too stringent, then lifting them is simple.

However, if it turns out that this works out in Apple's favor, then this provides a huge benefit for users as their devices will last much longer than they do now.

I can see how the initial reaction of game developers is to think "this can't work. I can't do this", but I also have a feeling that with time solutions will present themselves and apple might also weaken the limits a bit where needed.

The article is quoting Binding of Isaac: Rebirth as something that can't possibly happen on AppleTV due to this and I honestly doubt that. At no point in time are all assets visible on screen (heck - novice players will require a long time before they see anything but the first two levels - the game is hard)

I'm convinced that the assets could be split into multiple chunks and delivered as needed.

Then over time, as so far iOS does never expunge downloaded assets until the system is under memory pressure, the game would remain installed in full as long as people actually use it (BoI:R is way smaller than the 20GB total limit right now).

Is all of this different from what we're used to? Sure. Does it make some classes of games completely impossible? I don't think so. It'll just take some getting used to, but the limitations actually enforce better architecture design, so they might even be a very good thing overall.
Actually ILO is pretty useful :-)

I have an APM (ARM64) Mustang, and this takes a rather different approach, but probably not one you'll think is better. The chip advertises 8 x 64 bit cores, but there's a 9th 32 bit core which runs all the time, even when the machine is powered down (although obviously still connected to mains power). It runs a separate firmware, in its own RAM, but can access the main memory at will and invisibly to the main OS.

One way to look at this is it's brilliant that we can just put a tiny Cortex-M3 in a spare bit of silicon and have it do useful management stuff.
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> Sometimes it works out, some times it does not

Actually, it almost always works out, at least initially. The problem is, the benefits go away; that's how placebo works. I'm just wary of getting my hopes up these days so I'm very careful about what drastic lifestyle changes I make now. Beyond that, I'm also tired of people guilt-tripping everyone else every time they make one of these lifestyle changes. Everyone rushes from one fad to the next and along the way we all feel a little worse about ourselves.
Vaccines are a bad example.

Andrew Wakefield received money from lawyers preparing a MMR lawsuit without disclosing the fact. His research was shown to be false in multiple followup studies, he was shown to have falsified data, he lost his medical license, and The Lancet formally retracted Wakefield's 1998 paper. He also had a paper retracted by the The American Journal of Gastroenterology.

The other issue was the reporting on the study.
Yep, on our mind. Anyway footer doesn't have much.
Anyone have any idea what mainline/stable kernel version will include this patch?
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You should check out Dr. Lustig's youtube videos and his papers. He cites plenty of evidence. He also explains the mechanism by which fructose is processed by the liver, and why the fructose in fruits does not cause problems.
In the various combinations, I wonder if there's a place for a mini-autonomous van, too small for a person, but can carry a few packages.

The main truck stops regularly along a main road, and releases a few of these tiny vans. The last few feet to the door (tricky to navigate, usually require a "off-road" person) are by drone, as here.
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Did you, in addition to training for the triathlon change your diet? I tried it both ways (not for a triathlon, but general fitness)
1) Not changing my diet
2) Changing my diet (less meat, minimal processed food, no coffee, etc.).

There was a massive positive difference with 2). IMO, a person's diet is way, way more important than his/her exercise regime.
That's excellent! I'm digging the declarative approach.

Successively mutating a disk image and needlessly duplicating items that really could be shared in the first place is the moral equivalent of giving up on the problem rather than trying to solve it in a principled manner. I'm very glad we now have containers backed by the sound principles of functional package management.
We are experiencing speed problems to many servers. Our broadband is BT Fibre. While accessing some sites is very fast, sometimes others are slow.

For example downloading from Bitbucket from the UK is peaking on 600kB/s, then after a minute, it's dropping to 60kB/s, then stays there for the following 15 minutes.

The same content downloaded from one of our servers in a UK data centre stays on 600kB/s.

I think this is a clear evidence that the service provider is cutting the bandwidth after a minute, which is not what we paid for.
The folks doing the ripping off here probably don't even see it as such. While it's easy to attribute something like this to malice, it's saner to attribute it to staggering incompetence and lack of introspection. Pity the poor fools who are so unable to do something original that they must stoop to claiming someone else's originality as their own.

I've seen exactly this sort of thing before in all sorts of walks of life, from school work to academia, from corporate environments to international politics - a bunch of mediocre, confused, out of their depth but don't know it types take someone (singular or plural) else's idea, barely repackage it, claim it as their own, wholeheartedly convince themselves that it is their own, and run with it - far too often somehow winning the battle of hearts and minds, as when the original author comes along going "Oi!", their readership or allies go "sore loser".

I've learned by this point in life to take people using my work, even if they do so spitefully or in ignorance, as a compliment. Fabricators usually get shown up sooner or later.
You can often start a 40GB game pretty quickly while it's still downloading on Xbox One and PS4. Although it's usually not used very well - often it just means you can go to the game's main menu and you have to wait there anyway, heh.

But I'm sure we'll see this improve over time.
The study was on obese children. The paper says on day 0 they had a mean BMI of 35.6 ± 6.4.
It would be great if you could back up your statements with citations so the burden of proof wasn't on me doing research in Google Scholar.
That largely misses (Dijkstra's, originally) point. How control flow is implemented at a low level (e.g. jmp/lngjmp) is a completely separable from how it should be exposed in a language.

Wearing a c programmers' hat you may say "absolutely", a scheme programmers' hat, perhaps "no way". Horses for courses after all.
The arms distribution is an unusual example of a left skewed distribution. Mostly we are thinking of right skewed distributions, where there are lots of observations humped up towards zero, and then they spread out towards infinity, or symmetrical distributions. In the latter two cases the average would be above or equal to the median, so most people would be worse than or equal to the average.
I couldn't find the Jellyfish incident, I'm curious how that one went down.
See who posted this topic :)

Also scroll (fast) to bottom of NC page.
I also only contribute to open source to get fake internet points. How dare somebody take my fake internet points!
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Such trouble would not be so feasible if it weren't for the centralized nature of commercial ISPs and big tech (Facebook, Google, Apple) in general and their collaboration with the government.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM_(surveillance_program)
I agree completely. In my experience I'd say roughly 50% of patients we see in primary care have essentially no clue when it comes to nutrition, then maybe 40% or so have a decent understanding of the macros and percentages on US food labels, and the remaining 10% are actually well-versed on the subject.

This study should be an eye opener for that 40% who largely believe "all carbs are created equal".

But on the flip side, you have people that believe only "processed" carbs/sugars are bad. You wouldn't believe how many diabetics think they're doing themselves a huge favor by switching from Coke to apple juice, or from pasta to mashed potatoes.

I'm tempted to start a tangential rant here but I'll just say that I generally try to avoid fructose. Yes, fruits contain fructose in addition to other nutrients, but my personal opinion is that high-sugar foods (including certain fruits like cherries, grapes, and bananas as well as cookies and chocolate bars) should be considered a treat and used sparingly.
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That's not entirely correct.

In this case, it has come up that Apple owns the software on your phone, and grants you a temporary license to use it. You do not have ownership of the copy of iOS, Apple does. The government has been attempting to use that to their advantage.
iOS so far doesn't start to remove content until the System needs to provide more space than what is available.

When that point is reached, in the past the user would have been required to go in an delete apps they don't need (or opt to not install the new app because they think they need all of their existing ones).

Now, the system can start to remove some of the mostly unused data in other apps to make room.

I really believe this to be an improvement compared to the past.
Sure, but the debate is about software as critical value generator versus software as a cost center.

It's like starting with observation that no business nowadays can run without email, and therefore building an email client and a server for business is the way to make it big in the software industry.
Hello everyone, Paras from notCRUD here. We're Wingify, the company behind VWO.com. Created this forum to aggregate all interesting tech and product thought and projects to emerge from India.

Being bootstrapped, we were sick of all the startup news in India being dominated with funding and eCommerce. The real innovative stuff was being drowned and not given enough attention. So our motive is to highlight all of that. We'll also be producing original content. The first original post is about Postman (a popular product from India). Take a look: http://originals.notcrud.com/2015/10/21/postman-fixing-the-a...
I think that's his point - he doesn't want a license to protect this, at the end he even explicitly states in spite of this he won't change his process - he just wishes people wouldn't be jerks about this kind of thing. It felt, to me, like he doesn't think he should need a license to enforce this kind of behavior, and instead is going to just call out that the guy is being a jerk.

It's also kind of stupid to rip someone off. Assuming all the information here is accurate, this could really come back to bite the guy who ripped him off - someone is going to google what you've done and will end up with this blog post slamming you. If it was an honest mistake, the author should probably take the time to fix the posts and apologize.
"a successful software bootstrap, right up until we took $60m funding"

I thought they talk about $60m revenue...
Why not use a BSD license? IIRC, that legally requires attribution.

Also, I think OP would have some legal recourse in that the MIT license didn't accompany the code in the copycat Medium post -- doesn't MIT require that you at least include the license in any modified or redistributed code?
Do you happen to know the thresholds at which added sugar become detrimental?

I wonder if a tsp a day in my coffee is too much, how about a bubble tea, how about honey nut cheerios once a week etc etc. Without some framework to judge how much is ok we're also left with FUD about any sugar at all.
I admire that kind of passion for doing something. Not sure burning through savings belongs next to a smiley though :p
You'll find it in southern Sweden - "Jellyfish Invasion Forces EON to Shut Down Swedish Nuclear Plant" :-)
There are marketers out there who do ping your cell location so that they can use that to market items to you.
>for example he published papers previously where the evidence led to a different conclusion

I did not know this. Could you share the papers you're talking about?
Isn't it more like the new "Movies"?
It may well be true that pitching universal preK as universal child-care would be more honest. I suspect the problem is that it would also be significantly more controversial as it wouldn't really be "for the children and the future" any longer but rather, for better or worse, a straight income transfer to parents of young children.
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If anyone else is confused by this (as I was), click any pin on the map and you'll get it.
Totally, I agree, I think someone1234 is describing a UK law that provides these basic bank accounts to everyone. I think the underbanked will be helped more through laws and regulations like that than by a new company or something.
My advice: drop Flux, and use Redux instead. There is less boilerplate, and it improves on Flux's original ideas.

http://redux.js.org/
Its a hell of a drug.
Hey man: That's some sexy looking salmon. Nice!
Wait. I didn't say any of that.

I am simply pointing out that when writing is part of the way to communicate then that takes on a refinement process of it's own.

Just like simple notes become complex 12 tone music or bebob over time.

Academic writing is often a product of academic reading and so it ends up pushing the next generation into further obfuscation of meaning and towards even more clique writing. We are talking about fields like Psychology, social sciences, literature, biology, anthropology and so on.

I don't normally hear the problem being address in CS or in the Natural Sciences and I don't see the article points that out specifically. But writing is definitely one of the main forms of communication for those I mentioned and they are a large part of acedmia.
If you find ants interesting, I recommend The Superorganism. It is an in depth a look at ants, bees, and termites through social lens.

Link: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3426920-the-superorganism
This is what has really impressed me back in my WoW days when they added streaming support with - I think it was WotLK. Even after downloading only 1-2 gigs, you could start actually playing the game.

Yes, it would look crappy and some non-essential stuff would be drawn as something similar to wireframes, but you could actually play the game.

This was really impressive to me and also confirmation that what Apple is asking from the developers now must absolutely be possible.
Thanks for the feedback on design. We used NodeBB and threaded replies is something on our agenda. HN design works really well right now because the new content posted is much greater than the discussions that happen on home page.

On notCRUD, opposite is true. Right now we want to highlight each and every discussion that happens because building a vibrant community takes time.
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Are you crazy!?! That looks like a few days worth of salmon for me (if I could afford it) :-)
I think you are correct relative to each specific industry, i.e software projects require more developers and server space at scale so they cost more to run BUT, that opex is low relative to the energy industry.

Tools and automation get better while all computer resources become less. oil operating costs likely dwarf a comprable SASS conpany in operational expenses.

edit

to clarify, opex in software becomes more expensive in aggregate. i can't think of a good business that has dropping opex as it scales except maybe Enron or a chainmail referral company. Energy companies do have high barriers to entry with a much lower opex after infrastructure has been developed, but software isn't neccesarily the opposite. If we compare a built out production application, outside of beta, with a decent userbase and its core purpose/features implemented, with a nuclear plant or oil refinery, the costs to rub the app is almost certainly lower than the energy comps and could possibly have opex held fairly linear relative to growth.
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1) The Medium author fucked up and should of credited you. Even if not legally required, its the decent thing to do.

2) Complaining about your analysis being 'insulted' comes off as petty. Ideas/analysis aren't sacred and they should be insulted if someone disagrees with them.
I take issue with this because was it really the sugar or were you reducing and eliminating other bad elements from your diet? Cup cakes and ice cream, for example -- it's not the sugar -- it's the high fat combined with sugar causing you problems.
Meekan is the only one of these that's 100% AI with no human operators (and it's free)
http://meekan.com/slack
I didn't do it because of sugars, but I'm glad that none are added -- after a couple of months or so, I had enough of supermarket bread ;) There are easier ways to make your own bread though, soda bread is particularly quick and easy (although you'd typically use a bit of sugar for the yeast). It's literally 1h (ok, maybe 1h10m) from stepping into the kitchen to taking the loaf out of the oven.
I would guess the severe restrictions on building new homes which leads to a dramatic undersupply of new housing stock.
Which in turn pushes up the price of existing stock and feeds an asset bubble.
I've cut it out for the most part as well, and I (as anecdotal as it is of course) completely agree.

I've also lost 35 lbs since the beginning of summer as well, with few other specific changes than learning to pass up sweet stuff.

Naturally, it's calories in vs. calories out for weight loss, but there seems to be a dangerous feedback loop when it comes to me and sugar. Easiest way to exercise will power for me is to just say no altogether.
That's the point. USA "advertises" high corp tax so it sounds like government is big and evil and taking all poor corporations profits. But the tax law is so complex and full of holes. Corps actually pay very little. Rich people pay little. The brunt is borne by the masses who don't have the assets/wealth to take advantage of all the loopholes.

It's really rather ingenious.
This title would make a great Onion article, where 'drone' is a human being forced to run to each delivery point for 7 dollars an hour.
They're ants. I get where you're coming from, but they're ants. Your cellphone is smarter.
So if the idea here is to incentivize developers to create apps that can be functional after only a 200Mb download is this approach the most efficient way to achieve that?
> What do you need to apply for a bank account? Do you need to provide some form of govt. ID to get it or can you get it any piece of item in a retail store?

In order to stop money laundering and fraud they do require some things:

- Proof of address (2x of the following): Bills (e.g. utilities), council tax bill, benefits agencies, a UK driving license, tenancy agreement, or a letter from your employer.

- Proof of identification (1x of the following): Passport, driving license (even foreign), national identity card, letter from benefits agency or local authority, or a verification letter from an individual in an trusted position (these are verified, and only individuals in certain notable roles are trusted, like commanding officers in the military, parole officers, and your priest, etc).