skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
30g of carbohydrates a day seems extremely low. The ketogenic diet is not a general-purpose diet, it's a therapeutic diet used to treat specific medical conditions. Also, sugars are only a specific type of carbs, so carbohydrate intake should not be compared directly to sugar intake.
I really hate how so many of my classes in college have mandatory assistance. In a lot of my classes the professor just poorly summarized the textbook.

I think some courses could take inspiration from my English classes. In them, we had to read (novel or literary criticism paper) by ourselves, but in class we only asked questions, discussed the works and got help with our writing. I don't know if this can be applied to Computer Science classes, but I liked it a lot.
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A law that bans licit behavior alongside illicit behavior to give law enforcement broad powers and discretion to target the illicit behavior is unjust. It gives the power to decide what is licit and illicit directly to law enforcement, rather than spelling it out through the democratic process.
Assuming a von Neumann or modified Harvard architecture where execution advances from an incremented program counter, I'd say derived from, though it may be that the former is more appropriate. It is certainly not universal, I do not make that claim.
String.prototype.blink()
That's definitely not the case... Journals provide news outlets with complimentary copies of papers specifically so that they can be written about. Often, but not always, they're even provided in advance of official publication.
And don't forget a lot of kids stay home late because of extracurricular activities. Some of my friends got home at 5pm!
A funny comment I saw on a talk by the author. He said metabolically normal kids get the sugar high and zoom around after you give them sweets. The ones with metabolic disease just want more sugar.
The Daily Startup: Sportradar Attracts Michael Jordan, Mark Cuban
In the telephonic interview the reporter paraphrased my words in his own understanding. I didn't say "poorly built products". Obviously there can be well engineered CRUD apps. What I had said that CRUD apps are simple and the platform is meant to showcase and highlight more complex projects.
'Body map' shows where men and women are comfortable being touched
The entire Guild Wars engine was massively impressive on a technical level. The levels were large for their time, less powerful systems could run the game well, well-populated cities didn't drag the system down very much, and the instanced environments performed spectacularly well.
I could even live with the title if the article discussed a certain _aspect_ of a programming language(like Optional in Java 8, etc) to signal a certain vibe of the argument.

But when used wrt a microprocessor/hardware platform, it feels really, really forced. Not the end of the world, but still...
I've always drank black coffee. Occasionally I will add a little skim milk, but that's more to cool it down if I'm in a hurry. Have never added sugar.
No need to go to court: DCMA is a thing and followed by Github, so at least getting his code embed in the medium post down shouldn't be too hard if he wants to do so, since removing the copyright info is pretty clear breach of license. If it's worth "it" is another question: probably not.

EDIT: and also IMHO a dick move without talking to him first. Just wanted to remind people that these tools also can work for "normal" people, not just against them.
College kids will also typically spend a grand total of 12 hours in class in college (assuming 4 classes, each of which has three hours of in-class time).

Expecting a college student to then put in another 12-20 hours of personal work makes a ton of sense. Expecting a high schooler who already puts in 30 hours at school, to then also put in 14 hours or more of homework time seriously doesn't make sense.
I think there's a place for an India, the location, specific well-maintained tech discussion forum. The original hacker news may not be "officially" specific to any place but in practice it's very clearly of and for silicon valley first and foremost.

The valley bias on this HN is natural and organic. Simply because of the location of most of it's audience. You can look at the trends of upvoting and frontpage activity and clearly see how the Pacific timezone affects the activity on this site. I expect an India focused forum to be most active during Indian waking hours and that alone should make it a worthwhile thing to exist.
Your conjecture isn't true though. In the US, the top 10% pay 68% of all federal taxes - the top 1%, 35%.

So how are they effectively paying the lowest band?
Robert Lustig, first author on this paper, has written a very accessible book on the same topic titled "Fat Chance" [0]. I enjoyed it, although I can't vouch for all of the science.

Full disclosure: I did stop eating sugary food after reading and watching some of Lustig's presentations, and I'm generally pleased with the results.

[0] http://amzn.to/1S7LmQY
"the notion that America can close the learning gap with China or India..."

Indian and Chinese students in America do as well or better than Indian and Chinese students in their home countries on any measure you'd like to name.

For that matter the same is true of Mexican students in the US vs. in Mexico, European students in the US vs. in Europe, etc.
Did I miss the part of this article where Mr. Woolf contacted Mr.Leybzon and asked him to properly attribute the original code?

Do we really need more public shaming without at least a civil discussion between the belligerents? Remember Adria Richards anyone?
I'm surprised that HN readers would find this surprising. It's well known that cellular providers track user locations, Internet usage, and probably other things. It's well known that a very widely used strategy is to collect as much information as possible about end users by businesses for targeted sales and marketing, and by governments for security/control (to varying degrees depending on where you live, but it's even spread to poor nations such as Sudan [1]).

Why is this story a surprise? I assumed it has been happening for a long time.

[1] http://www.defenseone.com/technology/2015/10/african-states-...
SpaceX Says There's 'Not a Lot of Effort' Going into Satellite Internet Plan
Tangram is currently exposed as a Leaflet plugin, but manages its own WebGL Canvas element (which is inserted into Leaflet's DOM hierarchy) and handles all rendering on its own. Leaflet is essentially just serving as the UI/input layer here (map position and viewport info is forwarded to Tangram), and can also be a convenient way to add SVG paths or markers on top, or raster tile layers underneath. It hasn't shown any noticeable performance impact in benchmarks though (this is the same arrangement Mapbox GL uses for its own Leaflet plugin). In the future we'll also expose the Tangram API more directly for use outside of Leaflet though, this was just the quickest way to let people use it via a library they might already be familiar with.
CMIIW but conversely, the users have not granted Apple a license for the user's data on the phone so while Apple may own my notes app and I'm merely licensing it, they don't own or have claim to the content within the app.
> It's easy to forget that the German re-unification wasn't simply two countries merging together.

It's not. The Bundesrepublik Deutschland took over what was once the GDR.

> While the US and its closer allies limited themselves to seizing high-tech and research after WW2, the Soviets transferred a large part of the industry and factories out of Germany as reparations.

The US and its allies transferred as much as the soviet union from Germany - though from a larger zone.

The US soon wanted their part of Germany as a future ally against the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union needed the German factories/etc., because they suffered large scale destruction in the western parts. Germany destroyed large parts of the USSR infrastructure where it could.
Not being a parent, I don't know what it's like now, but high school was by far the busiest and most stressful time in my life. I saw an average of 2-3 hours of homework per night, after 1.5 hours commuting, 8 hours at school, and 2-3 hours at sports practice. On an average day, that leaves an hour for breakfast/dinner and 8.5 hours for sleep; multiple nights in a row of 4-5 hours of sleep and no other breaks were not unusual.

College is completely different. You spend something like 15 hours in classes instead of 35-40; of course you get homework.
Oil is low op-ex compared to its cap-ex. I don't have numbers to back it up, but I'd argue software companies' op-ex is still far cheaper than oil's.

Oil production and infrastructure maintenance aren't cheap. It's not like we just turn on the taps after the wells are drilled. However, labor is cheap, even in the software industry.
How Marketers Stay Productive: Jacob Firuta of LiveChat
This right here is the core of a world of problems. Data contradicts gut feeling. Data must be wrong.
As a game dev, the not-great thing about this is that although there are instances where assets are used rarely, like tutorial levels, there's also a lot of good, meaningful cases where > 200 MB of assets are used constantly. If you have less than 200 MB of local cache to play with, then you will be constantly discarding and redownloading content.

This puts a hard limit on the top end of visual fidelity and good game experience, because the dreaded "level loading" screens that are already approaching difficult and punitive with assets uncompressing in streams directly off of local storage would now be impossible with those assets streaming over radically more limited network connections.

That said, it looks like Apple is aiming for the very casual, phone-like market for their device, especially considering the hard requirement that the remote must be usable to game with; so that's a cap too.

It'll be interesting to see if their apparent belief -- that there is an untapped market of people who want to play games on their TVs that is nonintersectional with the set of people who already play games on their TVs -- is true.
s/AirBnb/Airbnb/
The truth about which traits do/don't correlate with programming skills
I transitioned to running in college when I got too old for most basketball leagues so I was in pretty good at the time.

I started running again a few years ago after a 5 year hiatus from any regular physical activity. I logged my Time, Avg/Max HR, and Calories burned for each run and there really wasn't much of a change in metrics over the 3 year period I tracked them. My heart rate was surprisingly stable and run times reduced gradually but only about a minute a year.

Maybe if I was incredibly unhealthy but I generally eat well and at my worst I've only been 20-30lbs over weight. I know that sounds like a lot but I'm 6'5" and my "ideal" body weight is 190lbs which is kind of ridiculous.
Essentially tracking stock is a claim on the results of the income statement (revenues & expenses) for VMWare, whereas normal common stock is a claim on the income statement as well as the balance sheet (assets & liabilities).

Another way to think about it is that ETFs are tracking stocks. You do not have claim on the underlying stocks that the EFT holds, you only have claim to the return that holding those stocks would produce.
The GitHub kernel mirror indicates it has gone into the 4.3rc series, so presumably it will go into 4.3.

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/30927520dbae2971829...
It's basically a fundamental part of the SoC, so I doubt it could be disabled.
What personality makes a programmer?
$BROWSER_NAME is the new IE6.
Cakers’ Review: Development Challenges and Expectations for Android M
Fabricators will get shown up later rather than sooner by someone else if one insists upon making excuses for them.
Even more amazing to me is Surveymonkey's Contribute Plugin [1] - where you voluntarily run all your mobile device's traffic through their VPN and they analyze your browsing and app use... (and I tend to like SM as a company, but I can't even imagine agreeing to that).

"The Contribute Plug-in enables your iOS device to use our free VPN service that helps to secure your mobile data. In exchange for providing you with this free service, we collect and analyze some of your mobile data that passes through our VPN to gain insights and understand how consumers like you use mobile apps and mobile devices. We may also combine profile data from your Contribute account with your mobile data."

1: http://help.surveymonkey.com/articles/en_US/kb/SurveyMonkey-...
The preponderance of homework in primary and secondary school is striking compared to college, where there are plenty of classes where the entire load of work to be turned in is two or three moderate-length papers.
Why Amazon Has No Profits (And Why It Works)
What key exchange? Are you talking about SSL or software signing keys? These wouldn't give the DoJ access to the data on the device in this case. It would only help while the user is still using it, unsuspectingly entering the password.
Link for the lazy: https://www.qubes-os.org/
If you want to get good at something you have to put in the work. I wonder what would have happened if MJ didn't put in time into practice.
Yeah, Batman Arkham Knight did it to where you could go into the menu and just stare forlornly at it while the rest of the game loaded. Many other games let you actually play while it downloads the rest, though, which is quite nice.
It comes off as unpalatable, to say the least. You were assuming malice in the other poster and then went on a minor tirade without sufficient prompting.
I don't find the quoted claim to have an "insulting tone". It is perhaps insensitive - being told in plain language that you made a mistake often hurts, even if true - but not outright insulting.
Yes, while the utterance itself is general in nature, I object to (ab)using it outside of discussing software language features (as it was originally used).
> That won't stop people from copying your work without attribution. No license can do that.

I'm not sure what the point of your comment is. Of course you can't prevent someone from copying your own without attribution especially if you're publishing it openly.

Apache License 2.0 seems to require more inclusions in its usage over MIT hence my thinking of switching to it but that doesn't mean people still won't. It's just a license.
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It also causes teachers to have excessively long work days.
A tracking stock might pay a dividend. It's not a whole lot different than normal stock, it is just linked to a segment of the company.

I think there is not much difference when it comes to the voting rights, a minority stake in a company that has some majority stake (or institutional investors that follow the board) doesn't have much in the way of meaningful voting rights anyway.
It is another "DMA hacking" vector, one that is always on. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DMA_attack
What has America done to the squirrels?
I think OP's actions were proportional to the offense. You slag someone (or someone's work) off in public, and/or rip someone off publicly, you should expect to be publicly flogged.
I have what could be a newbie/clueless question: with Om and Clojurescript, is there a way to automatically add dependencies in parts of a project, like 'npm i -S package_name> does for package.json rather than having to add those manually in a file together with the version number?

I also have a deeper question: you were saying Falcor's reliance on strings for the query types isn't ideal and Om Next would do that differently. How? Will it be a type of binary mapping for greater efficiency?

Also, a suggestion for the cljs quick start: make it a step-by-step which works straight away for newbies (and move the deliberate trip-up with a missing inclusion to the end, perhaps in an appendix for 'troubleshooting').

Kudos for all the great work on Om, cljs and the great presentations that I usually look for on Youtube. Your demo of an old Apple with BASIC reminded me of how I started in the 80's too: Oric Atmos 48K and BASIC with immediate feedback (and line numbers, RUN and GOTO!). This made me understand why I like REPLs and the immediate feedback environments so much and I even found an Oric Atmos emulator for Mac OS X that I installed and re-coded my first program in - a white circle on a black background (and thought the web/ui thing was badly engineered until the React guys came along) :P

Fun years ahead.
To confirm, you literally spend time wondering if humans are being torn limb from limb by alien species?
> My plan was a free trial that would run $50/mo.

My first thought was "ow", but thinking about it more, that's not a bad price point to filter out people who think "oh, that's neat" rather than "oh, thank God, I really need something like that".
Maybe you can try PindropMusic app. This gives you most appropriate music suggestions according to your mood. and its FREE

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Tractor beam becomes a reality
It is pretty strange to me you see that as an insult. Maybe this is a language thing? Claiming someone make a key mistake is nowhere near an insult in my understanding of english.

I was also put off by that part of your article, even though I agree that he should've credited you. But I could not discover any insult in any of your citations.
In your opinion, would there be any advantage in using Brainstorm over Theano or even Torch?
A wiped phone is evidence that you obstructed an investigation. You can go to prison for clearing your browser cache.
how would this circumvent the issue? you'd still have to get a plan with a carrier. they can still track your location and your habits through the data that you're sending through their network.
I'd actually prefer my router didn't need updates. When I buy it I expect it to 'just work', like my microwave or toaster. If I wanted to upgrade from ADSL to Fiber or have the latest 802.11z standard I'm going to need different hardware, so I don't see an issue with replacing it then.
I have started with slight overweight, but I'm a regular in the gym so I'm in good (muscular) shape, I just need to drop some extra lbs.

Before cutting sugar and high GI foods, I had to do 4-5 days of intensive cardio in order to drop 2 lbs in one week. Now I'm losing them almost without exercising (only walking here and there)...

My goal is to adjust my diet to a minimum of sugar (complex carbs, fruits, raw honey, etc) that allows me to stay in my BMI and 6–13% BFP (I was at 5% in my early 20s!)
It's hard to take seriously a statement about an article, where even the referenced title is wrong.

It's not nit picking - it shows how one didn't even took them time to read and understand the article; it's "fractal" of bad design, and it's named so for a specific reason.
Wiping phone data isn't a crime unless it's done during part of an investigation where that specific data was already targeted. This is like saying if I delete a note from my notes app then I've destroyed evidence because at some unknown point in the future someone might subpoena that note for use against me in a crime I may never commit.
> many times do you really need that item the same day or is 1-2 days okay to wait?

How many people use Amazon Prime? Clearly a few days makes a big difference to a lot of people.
I think the core of it is exactly that - the hiccups and lack of standardization. (This reminds me of the classic tightly-knit Apple vs. open Android argument). Looking at podcasts for example, they are presented in a standardized format on whichever podcast app you use, but the data and enclosures behind that interface are inconsistent. It leads to some episodes downloading quickly, others failing entirely, and all kinds of error checking/validation if you want to provide a slick experience. Maybe text content is better?
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Working solo for http://elmalabarista.com (iOS, Web apps: obj-c, python, html+js+css, .net, sql backends (severals) all at the same time!) and providing consulting, for 9 years now!

My side project is build a kind of alternative to MS Acces + Excel + Terminal, or a resurrection of a data centric development environment like Visual FoxPro was. Yep, this sound brutally complex. That is way I'm doing this slowly, and think very hard in what to do, how and why.

Building a relational language first (ie: Exploring how better could be instead of stick to just use python or F#... also fun).

Most likely this will end as a custom DSL + also use python/f# just because reinvent everything is impossible with just me a few resources ;)
Two opportunities to plug PSYCHO-PASS in one day? We're on a roll, HN!

But seriously, if Google co-opted people's smart phone data to do covert psychological evaluations on a constant basis we'd literally be one step removed from the dystopic future PSYCHO-PASS depicted. Albeit a big step (sending out armed teams to apprehend at-risk subjects before they have a chance to hurt themselves or others).
Drastic simplification should be the answer. I like Colorados one-rate, five-line tax returns for all classes of income. Takes all of ten minutes to file most years.

Legislatures like complex tax codes for political and social reasons. Lawyers and computers can manage the complexity fairly OK so far at a cost.

I skimmed the Oct 27 new budget bill and it contains about 100 pages of mysterious tax code changes. The language is very opaque with referring to line changes in previous laws. I can gleen that farmers, drug makers, hospitals, and hedge funds are the recipients of these changes. But lack the time to figure them out.
As someone that is not a DBS expert, I like how easy it is to use PostgreSQL. Sure, you do need to conceptually know how a relational database works before you jump into it's interactive CLI. But, once you have that knowledge, you can learn a lot about a particular database by knowing just one command. That is '\?'.

That hasn't been my experience with MySQL and other SQL-flavors, nor with the NoSQL projects like MongoDB and CouchDB.
FWIW, the duration has nothing to do with it - you could be 'long APPL' etc. for only a few minutes (or even seconds, microseconds etc.) - see [0]
An alternative phrasing here might be "We are bearish on software" [1]
[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_(finance)
[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_sentiment
The images aren't part of the software, and shouldn't have been licensed with it.

Separate code/assets/associated content, and license them accordingly.
I said this upthread, but I honestly don't read "a key mistake" as insulting. It just means a mistake that materially changed the conclusion. I can easily imagine reading that in an academic paper about prior work.

(I'm not claiming wether or not there was a key mistake, just whether or not it is insulting.)
In some nations/states, you don't own any of the species that typically migrates on and off your land. So you don't own the deer in your forest, unless you have a deer-blocking fence running all the way around your property. You don't own migratory birds, ever. Fishing in a stream that flows across your borders? Better have a license.

That said, if you are inconspicuous in your harvest, and stay away from the rangers on public land, you are not likely to be caught poaching by landowners, especially if they are absentees that do not live on or visit the property.

So you aren't lawfully allowed to do it, but you could probably do it anyway without much consequence. Just like homelessness in the city, really, except much, much more difficult.
One thing I've noticed is that those who come out of the woodwork to mitigate the impact of thieving tend to be of the same mentality as the thief.

Yes, a person can normally defend many matters without being attacked as identifying with any one matter. Yet this is one of those subjects, like plagiarism, where you would have to be ignorant or a thug to justify it.
Is there a comparison with ROS somewhere online?