skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And 95% of the 'food' people eat is junk food. It might be out right junk food, or junk food masquerading as healthy food. One you start digging and try to find stuff that isn't chock full of over processed carbs and added sugar one finds the pickings to be slim indeed.

I read the study as saying, the outliers on bottom end scrupulously avoid junk and they are not fat (full stop) The ones the seek the stuff out are fat indeed and then everyone else is essentially eating all the same stuff and there is no way to suss out the various reasons why peoples BMI varies.

The problem is BMI is a worthless metric. Because weight in humans is comprised for four things.

1. Bone, more is better.
2. Muscle, more is better.
3. Subcutaneous fat, more is better
4. Organ fat, more is bad.

Number 4 is the big problem. BMI tells us nothing about that.
Here is the document on the proposal : http://www.unicode.org/L2/L2015/15229-bitcoin-sign.pdf
> And unlike the outcomes in civil court, arbitrators’ rulings are nearly impossible to appeal.

> When plaintiffs have asked the courts to intervene, court records show, they have almost always lost. Saying its hands were tied, one court in California said it could not overturn arbitrators’ decisions even if they caused “substantial injustice.”

This seems like a really serious problem. If arbitrations are, as they are claimed to be, generally better on the average (cheaper, faster, better compromises, etc), one could tolerate even "forced" arbitrations (by way of fine print that few people read). But the lack of avenues to appeal (if true) seems to me a fatal flaw.

Is this generally true of all arbitrations? Or is this only a few unusual cases?
I've always been mystified by the modern definition of the word 'nature'. The word itself seems to describe a category without definite bounds. No uniform definition of the word seems capable of capturing all the outlying possibilities that the word seems to embody, yet used in context we all seem to be able to agree well enough on how it should be used. When I discovered C.S. Lewis had composed an extensive essay on the Etymology of nature (or kind) in a collection called "Studies in words" - I had to read it. I've read it several times since. It's absolutely fascinating.

In one vein, nature in it's modern form can simply be rationalized simply as 'uncontrived'. In this respect the article is certainly insightful in that even contrived systems can have emergent properties that cannot be contrived, that must be something other than 'man made'. However nature has always had a noble connotation, and emergent complications that are inarguably [poorly controlled / anticipated / understood] that only stand to ultimately reenforce the futility of our ambition will ever be deemed noble.

Nature is saturated with self organized critical systems (much akin to traffic) but I don't know know that we can see ourselves as pebbles in an avalanche, to do so is unkindly.
It's explained in the book I mentioned. You would also need to educate yourself on personal finance by reading some other books to get a more holistic picture (The Millionaire Next Door is a good place to start).

There's three things you need to understand about personal finance:

1. The first is that shit happens and most people don't plan for it (because they haven't been educated on personal finance). Most resources suggest that you keep an emergency fund of 6-12 months of living expenses saved up for when shit happens. We know that most people do not have this. I'm not even going to bother providing a source because there are so many sources on how Americans don't save.

2. The number one expense for any given household is going to be housing (whether owned or rented).

3. While you can cutback on many things, you cannot cutback on a mortgage. So if there are permanent setbacks to your finances: someone loses their job and gets another one that pays less, someone gets hurt and can't work for a while or ends up on disability, someone has to stay home to take care of an unhealthy relative, etc, then you can be pretty much shit out of luck unless you're house has equity on it and you can sell and downsize (although most people will just take a loan out against their equity lol).

So these are the characters of our stage. If you get a mortgage based on 1 person's income and something happens, there is another person there to step up. This provides a powerful safety net for the family. If you get a mortgage based on both people's incomes, you are putting yourself at greater risk because if something were to happen to either person you would not be able to afford to keep your 15-30 year agreement. And the cost of getting out of that agreement is enormous (as we saw with the recent housing crash).

I encourage you to read more on personal finance. It's incredibly fascinating.
That is why I said "environmental literacy" rather than just climate change. Take fossil fuel as an example. Burning oil and coal creates emissions that are toxic or carcinogenic to humans. Thousands of people die every year or endure suffering as a result. As if that wasn't enough gas is quite expensive for many. We should all want clean cars and power stations because they could actually be better.

But I agree that dry self interest is not enough, it needs to be backed up by some emotion. People need to feel ashamed of dirty technology and link it to the damage it causes. That is surely much easier when you focus on things less existential than climate change. Everyone knows someone who died of cancer, and fundraising for treatment is an ever present part of life. Completely destroying dirty fuel sources should just be an extension of that.
Africa was not blessed with the greatest geography for capital formation. The most interesting question is why Africa did not develop prior to the period of colonization, in the time period from say 1000-1500 CE when Europe when from a position of relatively inferior capital, to relatively superior capital: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_regions_by_past_GDP_(P....

At this stage in human development capital generation is pretty much completely agricultural, and thus the productivity of the land is the chief determinant of societal outcomes.
>I'd certainly prefer people taking multiple seed rounds to them taking a ton of money up front. Too much money is startup poison.

Is there any reason that a large seed round could not be drip fed to the company? As an investor I would rather the company get on with building and stop worry about fund raising, but I would not just want to give then a huge amount of money that they blow on a hiring craze trying to hit some ludicrous growth number. Something like "here is $3 million, but we aren’t going to give it to you at more than $100K a month - now get on with building and stop worrying about fund raising. If you hit all your targets early come back and we will talk more."
Done, thanks for the feedback.
good point. http://www.theonion.com/article/disgruntled-ninja-silently-k...
Sounds like you want IPFS: https://ipfs.io/
How to Install Linux in 60 Seconds
"It undermines a long tradition of designing and building infrastructure in the public interest."

"The traditional disciplines of engineering—civil, mechanical, aerospace, chemical, electrical, environmental—are civic professions as much as technical ones."

I would like to introduce the author to something called "Open" "Source":

https://github.com/explore

The server that his article is reaching the world via is almost certainly running multiple pieces of infrastructure designed and built in the public interest, and given away for free.

Software suffers from being universal, inexpensive and omnipresent, so people notice all the crap (I certainly bitch about software quality myself) while ignoring the thousand miracles per minute that it provides for us.
Implicit Preferences Inferred from Choice (Preliminary Draft) [pdf]
I do not believe. I rely on data. And there is a wealth of data on an importance of willpower, for example. As well as on perils of specialisation.
Even a 5-Year Age Difference Increases Divorce Chances
Interestingly, I've asked many of my female friends, including my last few girlfriends, given the hypothetical choice of saving their husband or their child, who would they save? Almost all of them said their children.

Ask the men, however, and it is almost always the wife.

And none of these folks were married or had kids yet. It is something ingrained from before that occurs.
So, what stops someone from getting a malicious app signed by the CA and then MITM your putty download with that? (based on a quick websearch, a code signing certificate is about $70)
Oops, I remembered wrong.
Yes, that remark might have been a bit redundant.
There's more to Europe than England, and if England's rate was 60% at the beginning of it, I'd suspect the more feudal parts of Europe were a lot lower.
Reminds me of the swirl society of Netscape: http://totic.org/nscp/swirl/swirl.html
There's plenty of interest in replacing transfer and naming, but I don't see a lot in developing a post-WWW hypertext system. Are there any projects or did the WWW and HTTP kill off research in that area?
oops. Forgot about that one, even though it's my favorite
This is the same as Pascal strings, popular among Windows programmers in the form of the BSTR type. BSTR also uses the same trick of putting the length before the string data so that the BSTR pointer can be treated as a char pointer.
> “That one can survey the length and breadth of sub-Sahara Africa and find not even one work of visual or written art worthy of the name” - David Hume, 18th century historian

Somehow, I suspect you'd find a lot of inaccuracies in the writings of 1700s historians.

This particular one is demonstrably false. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_art https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_literature#Precolonial...

> African masks were an influence on European Modernist art, which was inspired by their lack of concern for naturalistic depiction. Since the late 19th century there has been an increasing amount of African art in Western collections, the finest pieces of which are now prominently displayed.
Facebook isn't setting any laws. They're just refusing to host spam generated by their competitor.
I find this viewpoint surprising, given the problems with arbitration pointed out in the article.

What are your reasons for preferring arbitration? Are the courts in Brazil that corrupt? If so, how would arbitration be better?
Yes. The binary/cereal libraries are perfectly safe unless there's a bug in the compiler/RTS somewhere.
I self-identify as an engineer. I have not had the operation yet but, you should not discriminate against me.
one parent does shift work and the other doesn't, i.e. medical residency / EMT or something in network operations that does a swing shift.
Using Devise current_user in JavaScript
Add on top of it the "for males" tidbit and things looked even bleaker overall.
Two income households are usually households that depend on two incomes. In other words instead of basing your standard of living on one income you base your standard of living on two. So both incomes are required to pay your rent/mortgage/water bill/insurance/car payments/etc.

It is more fragile because 1) it encourages living well beyond your means and 2) the odds of job loss/income reduction is now doubled and the stakes are higher as the second partner can't get a job to pick of the slack in the event of job loss.

It goes back to the old observation that people living paycheck to paycheck on $30,000 tend to also live paycheck to paycheck if their income increases to $60,000.

So if there is a hypothetical one income family making $40,000/year is unable to pay bills instead of reducing spending (who wants to do that?) the other partner starts working. Their lifestyle tends to rise with income and now they are just getting by with $60,000/year and put themselves in a more fragile place. This is how people tend to behave.

Instead they could have reigned in on their expenses a bit and perhaps taken on a second income to save for a rainy day.

The way to do two incomes (if at all possible) is to base your standard of living on just one. Use the other income to invest, save, or fuck around (travel, dinner, etc.). This type of two income house is much less fragile as savings and investments can accumulate, emergencies are easily taken care of, and spending can be reeled in in case of financial heartship. Either way with two incomes savings should be a very high priority to reduce fragility.

So two income households certainly can be less fragile but often aren't in practice.
It is delayed onset of buyers remorse. When you have a baby you are still shopping, you don't know what type of adult you have created yet. Sometimes you'll end up producing the person that cures cancer and have no remorse. When you're looking at the college tuition bills for your offspring that has switched their major from Psychology to Philosophy to Art History to Archaeology you start to wonder if you could have made different choices.
>Long before we reach strong AI will it be affecting what we are talking about here.

I see absolutely no reason for this. Evolution does not mean development, just adaptation. It doesn't really predict anything alone. Everything imaginable about hard AI suggests revolution rather than evolution.

>There are plenty of alternatives to unanbomber

What alternatives? You probably cannot control strong AI in any meaningful way if it can access internet. Going back to 80's isn't really full unabomber, but anyhow drastic measure.
Attributing Wordpress as the core CMS for a domain based on simply checking for a wordpress installation on the domain seems like a flawed approach. Lots of domains have blogs hosted on Wordpress but might not be using Wordpress as a CMS to manage the entire online presence.
Topology of Venn Diagrams
I smell intent. Stupid guy with no expertise whatsoever will be much easier to manipulate into stupid bullshit like this over lobsters and a glass of wine. He might even fool himself into thinking he's doing good! And will probably not get why we can't decide if we want to get upset, or laugh him out of the room...
> We are so unprepared to deal with all this shit.

We have always been unprepared to deal with this shit. The social stuff making it exponential means we just can't ignore it anymore.

Very few people have excellent memories of high school even before ubiquitous social apps.

I also love the investigating "whether children were bullied into participating". Um, duh. But most of it was social coercion with a side of physical threat rather than actual violence, so nobody will be prosecuted.

High school is prison, but without its benefits.
> Do you think Africans would learn how to read and write if the Europeans didn't alter things?

Uh...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Writing_systems_of_Africa#Indi...
Meh... I don't think there is really much difference from your average fresh college grad and your average non-college educated 22 year old.

I guess from an economical sense college is expensive but... I don't know... how many college grads actually use their degree?
They are a bit late to the game on this one, and are leaving millions of customers at risk. Thankfully they use TLS for their checkout, but their store is quite well known for being cleartexted. See: http://smerity.com/articles/2015/amazon_information_leakage....
No, but it certainly is limited by economics.
Czechoslovak National bank had about 90 tons before war.
Is there any way to get just the static html pages post 2008 when they just stopped doing them? That's 6 years out of date.

The Wikipedia on DVD link doesn't seem to work http://www.wikipediaondvd.com/.

And I am not sure what to do with the Database backup dumps if the only thing I want is some static HTML pages, how could I get some readable HTML out of them?
After reading your "Fuck Glory" link, I recalled something I'd read about prestige:

> "You shouldn't worry about prestige.... It might be a good rule simply to avoid any prestigious task. If it didn't suck, they wouldn't have had to make it prestigious."

The irony, of course, is that none other than Paul Graham wrote that in How to Do What You Love: http://www.paulgraham.com/love.html
Haha, I'll vouch that it is him. He's a cofounder of a YC company with me (Ginkgo Bioworks) and I emailed him about this thread a couple hours ago. But I would like to see him take the quiz someone posted below :)
I lived for 5 years or so in China and some years in Korea and Japan (and US). I am European.

I believe this piece is total non sense.

Japan is not what it used to be because they are getting older and older and because they have accumulated so much debt, but their products are as good as ever.

The country is extremely depressed if you talk with the people living there. With Abenomics and all the financial repression people get poorer every day. Their savings evaporate, future is dark.

On the other side, China economic boom made poor people feel great about the future. You could sense optimism whenever you were.

But in my opinion, China was(and is) a big bubble. Smart money wants to get out of China as soon as they can and need a greater fool to buy their investments. Smart money controls Bloomberg like a Puppeteer a puppet.
Argh, wrote "peak" when I meant "peek" and Wordpress admin panel is now acting flakey and preventing me from fixing it.
PG: “Any industry that still has unions has potential energy”
Also negative if it prompts them to fire you before the stock becomes worth something for real, e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Reid_(computer_scientist...
You're right that we don't want the world running around full of fresh college grads however since they are college grads we can say with much greater certainty that they'll be successful as opposed to having no idea with a baby or toddler.
Wordpress has improved a lot since version 3, and most of the vulnerabilities you see for it now require some kind of privilege escalation or don't really give the attacker a whole lot to work with (http://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list/vendor_id-2337/...). And Wordpress handles updates remarkably well, including automatically installing security updates in the background.

I previously hated Wordpress because it was a source of so much trouble on the web, but now I sort of grudgingly appreciate it. I still don't enjoy having to work with it on occasion for clients, but it doesn't make me grind my teeth anymore.
And what do you think the adult literacy rate was in Africa before the Europeans arrived? It most likely started with 0.00....%
We used to call this slashdotting.. and bots had to be made to mirror sits about to be linked.
The only reliable factoid mentioned is that good data on demographics of African are hard to come by. Thus, info like economic projections for the continent as released by various organizations are equally shifty.
You se no reason for what? That computers keep getting better? That technology keeps improving beyond were we are now? That AI will improve, that we have just seen the beginning of what AI allow us to do ex. trough deep learning.

Really?
And even if the rest of Europe was 10%, that was possibly 1000x higher than Africa at the time.
How is anyone surprised by this? Central banks have held interest rates so low for almost a decade now we have disincentives for holding money in savings, CDs, etc. The continued ease and availability of credit has essentially created this trap. We've created a system in which we incentivize risk taking by pushing every last cent of wealth into either 401k stock market holding or consuming the next toy from Apple. This is by design.
I consider programmers as people who have learned the syntax of a language.

They did a quick "Program in <Language> in <X> Days"

They don't understand too much about what's going on under the hood. Just press this and it happens.

Software Engineers on the other hand have a deeper understanding of software.
They have studied the field and learned how a computer actually works from the bottom up.
They understand assembly language, state machines, data structures, algorithms.

A programmer has trouble adjusting to the technological landscape as it evolves.
A software engineer sees the evolution and can see why solution y is better than previous or if it's just marketing hype.

A true software engineer understands software is more than code.
all those brands have official brand imports. they assemble the last bolts in Manaus and avoid paying taxes. it's mostly wrong according to the law but they know who to pay. Harley does the same.

try to import any not "made in Manaus"
Here's an entirely predictable outcome of allowing this kind of corruption to go on in America: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/03/business/dealbook/in-relig...

Highlights: "Customers who buy bamboo floors from Higuera Hardwoods in Washington State must take any dispute before a Christian arbitrator, according to the company’s website. Carolina Cabin Rentals, which rents high-end vacation properties in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina, tells its customers that disputes may be resolved according to biblical principles. The same goes for contestants in a fishing tournament in Hawaii."

TL;DR: Under forced arbitration, you may very well be judged by someone who literally believes that a man in the sky exists and affects things on Earth that pertain to your case.
I'm sorry, I didn't realize this was the case where you live. Like I said in my other post - I live in UK, where tipping waiters is completely normal(and no, not because they earn low wages), but an idea to tip a delivery driver has never occurred to me, nor does it make any sense. That's why I asked for an explanation, why does anyone tip delivery drivers. For the sake of avoiding future confusion - what are other professions that are tipped where you live?
Astronomer Update #13
Those fresh college graduates now are the very kids the article talks about, unable to make the adjustment to not being the center of someone's universe. When they were kids, kids were the most valuable. When they're fresh college graduates, fresh college graduates are the most valuable. I think we all know what tune they'll be playing when they hit 30.
>Yeah, but a baby hasn't chosen a major, developed any mental illnesses, experienced any crippling trauma, or really done anything at all yet.

Well, they will or they will die trying.
max_align_t is only defined in C11?

Edit. Yes this looks to be the case for those of us using C99. Paul Eggert put in a patch for gnulib to cover this [1].

typedef union {

char *__p;

double __d;

long double __ld;

long int __i;

} max_align_t;

One thing I did learn looking through this patch was the difference NULL has in C++ and C. This is certainly not something I had ever considered.

1. https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2014-12/msg001...
YC Interview for Foreigners
I believe in various tests no-one has been able to reliably discern lossless audio from 320kbps mp3, even though mp3 performs comparatively poorly at lower bitrates, compared to more modern lossy codecs.
> But, of course, no one questions the possibility of, like, you know, not letting kids use cell phones in school.

That probably wouldn't have helped. I doubt they were taking the pictures at school.

> Or maybe not letting kids use any form of digital camera, at all, ever? Is that actually impossible?

At this point, probably. You certainly would destroy your child's social life.

The bigger problem is parents not knowing what the hell their kids are doing. This is rather simple: "Yes, I'm going to have all of your passwords and occasionally I'm randomly going to take your phone to check every single app on your phone and computer. And you will unlock them, or you are grounded and won't have a phone. Ever. No, you don't get a choice in this. If you don't want me seeing it you probably shouldn't be doing it."