skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10457474
Oxford Study shows touch and social relationships are tightly linked
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I have bad news for you, Ghosterys privacy policy and T&C allows them to sell data about your browsing activity to third parties.

I'll link them here once I get home and off my throttled connection.
Nice. You can even set the default MD handler as Typora and use it like a wiki editor with relative links.
But a diary will have mental impressions and context that is missing from smartphone GPS records. E.g. a smartphone might tell you that someone attended a radical anarchists' meeting, but a diary will likely reveal what was said in that meeting and the author's mental impressions.

Remember the question we are discussing: could people in 1789 have anticipated the kind of invasions of privacy searches of smartphones enable today? Given the kind of detailed records some people back then kept, not just bland metadata but detailed accountings of their thoughts, I think the answer is "yes."

We are still a long way from smartphones automatically capturing the kind of private thoughts people choose to write down (back then as now).
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He said "probably better served"..
Chris Sacca's Twitter AMA
> The idea is not that 'sugar is bad' or 'sugar is unhealthy', but that sugar is bad and unhealthy as it is being used in our current society.

that's just as vague as 'sugar is bad'. Sugar consumption, I would think, varies pretty widely.

This is the first I've heard that controlling for total calories would be misleading and your rationale doesn't make any sense. The inverse is misleading, if you don't control total calories then the conclusions drawn from the study don't represent the variables that were altered.

Hunger is a separate topic, you don't design diets so that people have 'the same level of hunger' between control groups because that's not easily quantifiable and irrelevant.
I'm reminded of the fly-bat-worm example from Anathem [0]. It seems to me that the way things appear to our consciousness reflect a computationally easy (relatively easy, for our nervous systems) way to integrate different sense perceptions; say, sight, sound, and touch.

[0] excerpts from an interview with Neal Stephenson, http://www.edrants.com/segundo/neal-stephenson-bss-245/
> > Why is it added?
> Because it's delicious.

You can't possibly be this ignorant of nutrition. Do you really think sugar is somehow objectively and universally delicious (excluding the trivial definition in which almost every taste is "delicious" in that it contributes to the overall palette of flavor)?

I didn't quite cut sugar out of my diet but around college I stopped eating as much, and I now found most of the desserts or candy one would find in the supermarket to be too sweet for my tastes, as well as most "normal" sweetened drinks (by contrast to e.g. many fruits). How does that mesh with your claim that sugar is added because it's simply "delicious", as opposed to other's model of a feedback loop between amt of sugar consumed and amt of sugar desired?
I did the same long ago, and I do love Ubiquiti's devices...but this is a pretty brash vendor puff piece.
I HATED homework. I can honestly say that it's one of the main reasons I didn't have a fun time at school, since these things tend to snowball out of control.

Don't do your homework -> get into trouble -> teachers thing you're * -> etc.

When universities started to doing the same (in my country) I just quit. Now I work in tech, I love my job. And the best part is that I thought all the skills I needed to myself without the huge (wasteful) drains on free time.
School starts at 8AM around here and ends at 3:30PM with a 30 minute lunch break. 4 classes in the morning and 3 in the afternoon of 55 minutes each with 5 minutes between classes to get to the locker and to a different classroom. Around 32 hours of instruction and work per week. That's close to a full time job, and some people want the students to do 2-3 hours of homework a night?

If schools must, increase the school day by 30 minutes or an hour, but that's enough. Other things are just as important as school.
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Licenses are a way of codifying rights and responsibilities.

Ass-hattery is often completely orthogonal to this concern. Just because I have the right to do something doesn't mean I should, and it doesn't mean I am not being a jerk by exercising that right it certain contexts.
>PHP has no intrinsic properties which stop a good programmer from writing elegant code for web applications.

Nor does x86 assembly. What is your point?
> kids who need longer to accomplish the same task will have that time because they are at home.

But they only have that time if they sacrifice other activities such as clubs, sports and hobbies... or sleep.

School already absorbs seven hours of a child's day. In my opinion that is already excessive without the additional burden of homework.
this reminds me of this study that shows how easy it is to fudge the results if you use flawed methods:

http://io9.com/i-fooled-millions-into-thinking-chocolate-hel...
> There is way too much focus on the mechanics of grinding out arithmetic and way too little in teaching kids how to think about numbers and mathematical operations.

As I posted to a friend on Facebook:

arithmetic : Math :: spelling : English

It's a critical component, but it's not the entirety of the subject. But we drill, drill, drill it, and when people have trouble with it they say they're "bad at math". I know plenty of mathematicians (also have a math degree) that were horrible at arithmetic, but mathematics (whether for the particular person this meant some field of algebra or geometry or topology or whatever) itself was easy for them.

I tried to help my last girlfriend out with this. She is a teacher and a severe mathphobic person. It was incredibly frustrating, because she did get higher concepts when they were separate from numbers, but introduce numbers and her mind would shutdown. This attitude will be passed on to her (future) children and her students if she's not careful.
Sugar is a drug, the more you eat it the more you need to satisfy your "sweet tooth" craving. Honey nut cherrios sounds healthy but look at the sugar content, that stuff is not good for you. I've basically eliminated all unnatural sugars from my diet, and I feel great. I don't eat any sweets at all (natural sugars come from the fruits I eat) . Also caffeine is a drug, drinking coffee everyday isn't good for you. The fact that your drinking it every day means you are already addicted, try going 3 days without it. It builds up your tolerance for caffeine and you need more and more of it to get the effects. Also it's bad for your teeth (stains 'em). I am going to get downvoted for this but seriously, Starbucks has a great business model (get people addicted to coffee, and the profits will keep rolling in for a customer's entire lifetime..much like the tobacco industry back in the day.. luckily caffeine isn't nearly as bad as nicotine)
This works because of Germany's high electric rates, $0.30/kWh in 2014. The waste to energy plants get about 500kWh/ton of garbage, or $150 of electrical energy. They can pay $50/ton and make a profit work out.

I'm curious, what makes the German electrical rate so high? Is it taxes guiding the market toward renewables and ecologically friendly sources? Perhaps a regulatory induced shortfall of production? Maybe a happy oligopoly?
Which is a reason why you have to control total calories to know that sugar consumption is actually a detriment to health (and at what quantities) and not just a caloric surplus.

"fulfilment" is a vague term and you're veering off the topic into a strawman argument
Are you sure you want these photos online where squirrels could find them and plan their attacks?
Current discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10457474 (19 points, 6 hours ago, 4 comments)
I'd hardly call being forced under threat of imprisonment "collaboration".
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There's no such thing as true reality since even the idea of reality is part of our survival mechanism.
Oh don't worry Germany. You'll have all the trash and more than you bargained for soon enough. All kinds of trash and riff raff.
> Crowdfunding has failed to revolutionize video games.

How can he say that? A good 1/3 or so of the new games on Steam are crowdfunded nowadays. This shows a viable new way to go about funding your game. That's pretty "revolutionary".
I thought something was actually going to get done about this a few years ago when a high-profile controversy came up over Parliamentarians holding non-dom status. But instead the change ended up really narrow [1]. Members of Parliament can't have non-dom status anymore, presumably because that looks particularly bad, but the ~100,000 or so non-doms who aren't in Parliament were unaffected.

[1] http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2010/25/part/4
>The entire GamerGate movement is based on lies, misogyny, and anti-feminism.

Not true. Although an initial lie may have sparked it - a raging fire isn't started without a lot of fuel lying around to keep it burning.

>Find a different hashtag if you care about journalism ethics, and stop only blaming the women.

We already did that. A different hashtag would do what exactly? Nothing. Other than causing a splinter group, confusion, and easier co-opting of the tag. Or should we go back to #5GuysBurgersAndFries and #Quinnspiracy? Those were things. Those are things separate from #GamerGate (hence the different tag).

>The journalist, in this case, was a man, but he wasn't doxed, just Quinn

In that particular case - and while doxing is wrong - don't pretend "only anti-GG" get doxed. [0] [1] Their is also a stark contrast between how the two sides blame each other. Anti-GG has no problem blaming GG in a heartbeat while GG blames third party trolls and not the opposing side because more likely than not - it's third party trolls.

>No, GG is clearly not about journalistic ethics.

Which is why countless media publishers have adopted or updated their ethical standards and practices from Oct-Jan of last year? Must be some sort of non-pressured, weird, coincidental timing that they all felt the need to disclose their ethical standards. [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]

Complaints to the FTC even caused Kotaku and other publishers to add disclosure for affiliate linking. [7]

Unless you're saying 2-7 have nothing whatsoever to do with #GG? I find that a bit of a stretch to believe.

Their is also the donations and support from 4chan/GG towards TFYC [8] which Zoe Quinn tried to lambaste and media outlets refused to cover. How women-hating of #GG to support female devs when another female dev was shouting down at them.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAction/comments/2tbbkg/a_fi...

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOioaFpZ3tU

[2] http://www.ign.com/wikis/ign/Standards_and_Practices

[3] http://www.destructoid.com/a-word-on-ethics-280654.phtml

[4] http://www.gameranx.com/about/

[5] http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/video-games/ed...

[6] http://www.eurogamer.net/policies.php?view=how-we-work

[7] http://techraptor.net/content/ftc-forces-gawker-make-disclos...

[8] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fine_Young_Capitalists
I used to regret not putting cat5 in, but now that it would have been considered old, and I'm pretty sure messing with conduits to replace those cables would have been a pain and I would use wifi anyway, I think the main things are:

1. Plan on a spot for wifi and cable modem.

2. Assume that single wire to your cable modem will need to be replaced, so don't make it too hard to get to, but I'm not sure if I'd bother with a conduit. It's possible that even the main net connection will be wireless one day, but for now it's cable, satellite, DSL, or Google Fiber, typically.

3. Large conduit for what they call "low voltage wiring" (HDMI, etc.) to where you always want your T.V. may be a good idea, but wireless video being normal is not far off.

4. Wireless power is not happening anytime soon, so be sure that you have outlets everywhere you'd need them, including in the ceiling if you think you'll need a bridge or repeater. Note that repeaters kind of suck, so hopefully you can just get by with one or more wifi routers instead. If you can't then that is the one (or so) cat6e cables you'd need to run, because POE isn't a great fallback.

The non-networking stuff to think about:

* Putting holes in a countertop for wires if you want to hide outlets. Only recommend that for places where the outlet is easily accessible, otherwise the wire going into the outlet would get in the way of storage space or cause fires.

* Insulation! Get the best you can, imo. Most builders skimp, but you'll regret it. Insulate all doors, etc. to storage space. Might not want to fill electrical boxes with foam unless you really need it, since that can be a mess.

* Get a nice garage door opener and consider insulating garage door.

* Go ahead and get a recommended gutter helmet for your gutters and put in nice siding and roofing.

* Be careful with ceiling fans. If the blades have a weak point in the connection with the blade like a centimeter of brass or similar, that will shear eventually.

* Don't skimp on ventilation, HVAC/furnace.

* Go ahead and put decent windows in if you can afford it. Otherwise they'll get stuck and you'll not use them.

* Plan on cheap carpet rolling up and needing to be retightened, or buy good stuff.

* Go ahead and put in decent countertops and tile backsplash in kitchen. You will eventually if you don't do it now. Put in undercabinet lighting and dimmers for those and most other lighting in kitchen and common areas.

* Plan a "mud area" in some area of the home and place for kids or you to put stuff and hang it as you come in.

* Even if you like natural wood, consider getting the hardier stuff for decks, etc. or stain and treat. Same with hardwoods- use more gloss than you might want.

* Dark hardwoods and counters hide dirt. With dark you get more cockroaches, with light you get more work.

Plenty of other things, but those are just the main ones.
"Write how you WISHED you talked."
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> Subjects used a palm pilot to record exactly what they were doing at the moment the blood pressure was taken — eating, working, resting, interacting with their spouse.

A palm pilot?

Edit: What? That isn't interesting? It would be funny if business people were modding me down.
I'm not so certain. I've been in many educational environments ranging from home school to private college prep high school, to suburban high school, to inner city high school, to the ghetto school in the area.

There were good and bad teachers in all of those. However, the good teachers may as well have not had existed in the inner city/ghetto schools. Their talents were 100% wasted, and those classrooms would have been far better served with a police officer in front of the classroom who was enabled to boot the dysfunctional future criminals from the classroom. With those students in class, there was no point in even calling it school. Call it daycare, or juvie, or whatever you like - learning wasn't much of the process though.

I find it hard to blame teachers when their job is primarily daycare, and they have zero tools available to them to deal with poorly performing and disruptive students who have no business being in the classroom.

tldr; Almost all the US education problems can directly be tied back to the parents. Full stop.

This goes for my private schooling as well. The college prep school I went to was probably more diverse than the inner city school - the only difference was the self-selection of the students and parents who attended. They also taught with about half the funds.

That said, there are tons of horrible teachers too. The problems go far deeper though, and until you solve the parenting problem you may as well shut the public school system down in many areas. No amount of epic-level teachers will be able to get anything done in those environments.
The problem with all of this is that you would need to swap SIM cards on the cellular-wifi router almost every time you change locations -- and that's if you can even find a data vendor willing to sell you a prepaid data plan without a credit card on file.

Practically, this solution you've come up with is too fragile to be relied upon. It's only secure if you can maintain this level of care with every operation you perform on the phone. This is why the NSA's data collection is so insidious -- it only takes one slip-up to connect everything you ever did anonymously to your "profile".

With the type of data collection that is done today, it's nearly impossible to avoid unless you use the Internet in a very different way than the average person. Avoiding data collection through technical means is a futile exercise at this point -- if you object to the data collection, public policy is the best avenue to prevent it at this point.
Is Your Wallet Sending the Wrong Message?
Scientology's battle for tax exemption, 1952-80 (1997)
> I'm seeing a lot of reactions that seem to imply the current situation with added sugar is okay, and that this research can be dismissed as being too specific in terms of sample subjects.

It's the kind of topic where it's very hard to prove your point because you need to rely on external references that can always be discredited. Also, people are very passionate because it involves strong political opinions (remember when Mayor Bloomberg tried to ban big gulps of soda in NYC), and also personal feelings (overweight people addicted to sugar).

It's not unlike the discussions on climate change.
American bread and European breads (including British) are a bit different -- Americans like a sweeter loaf. A traditional American sandwich bread often has milk and/or sugar. The milk increases sweetness.

King Arthur flour recipe: http://www.kingarthurflour.com/recipes/classic-sandwich-brea...

random blog: http://chefinyou.com/2012/08/27/white-bread/

Wonder bread etc just use high fructose corn syrup and honey. Cheaper than milk, can say lactose-free.
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Url changed from http://www.sciencealert.com/mining-company-rio-tinto-now-has..., which points to this.
Nonsense. The author still has a right to call him out in public and say "this jerk lied and claimed my work as his own". He did not give that right away when he used a permissive license.
How did you find Deepika?
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That was my thought as well. It's a very typical calendar chart. I'm sure there are many implementation in d3 and ggplot. The author is being a bit too dramatic about it.
It likely uses QoS to prioritize traffic to the device.
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Or the causation goes the other way, and they get rich because they're smart.
Cool, thanks for elaborating on your stance
Sure, commuting, but it's not always practical to move closer to school.
What, you get two large, amoral, incompetent, slow-moving and anti-competitive firms to merge? They'd destroy each other - can you imagine Joe Tucci and Larry Ellison trying to duke it out for supremacy?

Actually, on second thoughts that would destroy both EMC and Oracle. I say let it happen.
Yeah, time to run for that old school board seat or find someone who can. Three days a week means that family time with you and your wife is being substituted for homework because your child spends time with a D.A.R.E. officer.

I went to school in, shall we say, a less than good-rated school, and we didn't even have that level of foolishness during the "Just Say No" era.
Let's not forget that the inhabitants of this website are almost certainly the kind of people who saw through the noise and got their education on their own terms. As we raise our kids we help them tip-toe around all this garbage, but most parents have no tools at their disposal to review and revise and push back against bad practices in their child's education. The issue of education in this country needs to be addressed, but the system has to serve all types, including children who's parents are unable to provide alternative structures and insights and 'hacks' to get by.

That didn't add much (I wasn't trying), but these threads always seem to turn into an echo chamber of "I got by without doing any homework!" because, let's face it, here we are. What is the 98% solution, I wonder, versus the 2% version? Of all that I've seen, it starts with better, smarter, well-paid, un-stressed, empathetic teachers. Students too afraid to think? Too pinned down to discover how best to learn for themselves? I just want to give all these poor kids a hug and tell them how smart they really are--it makes me so sad.
No, art and creative designs are not invalidated by economic motivations. However, art and creative design cannot always be fully and properly understood without considering economic motivations.

The experience of the creation might be the same, but how the creation came to be and how it is best understood are very different.
You might want to look into credit unions around your area. Capital One acquired and ruined the small bank that I had been using for over a decade and I decided I was never going to let that happen again.
After refusing them to get proper vaccination, let's prevent them from getting proper education. Evolution baby!
Overton Window
Looks like the PPE and S&D didn't disappoint and voted en masse against it. Sigh.
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Me too. I feel like it's a rite of passage as an American teenager. I guess the people who have families of their own are the most affected, but Black Friday was at least exciting compared to every other day of the year.
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Asking about their assumptions on simple examples is a good start. And then asking about situation that break these assumptions.

It's a little evil but that makes it fun:) Example from the time I helped sister clear confusion between accelration and velocity:

- what's acc and vel of a rock lying on a ground (not 0 - a vector 0)

- ... of a car slowing down (vectors that poin in opposite directions)

- ... of a rock swinging on a rope (non-parallel vectors, one of them changing in direction)

I'm feeling for the teachers that have to teach something to 30+ kids without having the time to ask them about their wrong assumptions. Must be frustrating as hell when you see they don't understand, but can't help them with the time you have.
Could add the Stack Exchange public API?

https://api.stackexchange.com/
This isn't really that uncommon, in the US at least.

I know Minneapolis has an incinerator that generates electricity. And you certainly pay to have your garbage picked up.

It's a win/win for everyone really. In theory. Energy generated should offset some of the costs involved in picking up the waste to begin with. Certainly not all though.
What things do you do to stay healthy and happy?
Writing this because I'm currently feeling down in the dumps (not sadness, just generally no energy and no desire to do anything other than sit in a couch and browse the net).

I am starting to realize that I am growing older, I am almost 22 years old and I just feel bloated and tired throughout the day, and I'm developing a fat belly. I also feel constantly grumpy because there are so many worries in adult life.

Would like to know what things you do to stay healthy and happy and have a clean mental state for coding.
Yes, I've worked on a few sites where the employees were let go before the contractors.
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It's dying out, but still around.
Did you happen to have a job during high school?