skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nutrition is such a vast science, one where new theories and ideas are coming almost every month and one where the general public is either completely uneducated or working off of decades-old assumptions (such as following the surgeon general's dietary guidelines from the 70s or 90s). It's no wonder to me at all that a vast majority of people regardless of their current size have zero idea what to do to eat healthily.

I became interested in the Health At Every Size movement during its inception as part of recovering from an eating disorder and, at its core when it was first started, it had a very positive message- essentially "Hey, everyone, let's promote the idea that we all should eat healthy food and get exercise and do fun active stuff regardless of if we're fat or thin or old or young or tall or short." It was a direct challenge to the idea that you had to be a particular size to be active or to go to the gym or to do active hobbies. However very soon after inception it was perverted into a message of "It is entirely possible to be healthy regardless of how fat you get and if you are fat and your doctor says that you are not healthy because you are fat then it is your doctor who is wrong because it's never, ever wrong to be fat, ever."

Message #1 was great as it was all about promoting eating healthier regardless of your size, getting regular exercise that was fun and that you enjoyed doing regardless of your size, and about being gentle with yourself during that process- so stepping away from hating yourself because you were fat and instead doing something productive with that brainpower. Message #2 corrupted that into "You are perfect because you are fat and if anyone tells you that you should be less fat then they're trying to abuse you and make you change to suit them."

I'm extremely excited about the nutritional research that's coming out regarding gut microbes and their potential impact on our health and weight because I imagine how awesome it'd be to go to your doctor, spit in a cup, and have it tell you what all you should and shouldn't be eating (due to genetics, microbes, etc) as well as recommend which probiotic you should be taking to get your gut bacteria in line.
This is long, but you will be damn glad you worked your way through it if you do.
> The first American into space is not going to be a chimpanzee. I want test pilots!
> "Universal condemnation" is precisely what they're seeking.

I think they are seeking both selective (that is, among non-Muslims) and poorly focused (at Muslims in general, rather than focused on Daesh in particular) condemnation, rather than "universal condemnation". And they seek that specifically so that the Muslims, who are the population they target to establish dominion over in the form of a Caliphate, will see non-Muslims as a threat (because Muslims become seen by non-Muslims as a threat) against whom Daesh is the only defense, and that the cost of accepting the dominion that Daesh offers is lower than the cost of being outside of it (they also want Muslims to be afraid of defying Daesh, which also makes the cost of accepting dominion less than the cost of rejecting it.)
What about Excalibur/XYZ? That was a home-grown chat running on Dartmouth mainframe computers in the 80's/early 90's. We users of XYZ were considered degenerates by the campus community at large, until a MacOS GUI chat app gained widespread popularity. Does anyone remember what that was called? I think it came with Blitzmail, which was the home grown email GUI on MacOS.
Their definition of an apostate Muslim is basically identical to our definition of an assimilated Muslim. Simply being more tolerant may avoid one horn, but gets you gored by the other. They are not dumb, their strategy is more complex than what they lay out in their official publication. Their goal is to put the West into an unwinnable situation no matter what we do. When you say "erase identity politics" well this applies to a massive chunk of non-radical Western Muslims as well, you are in effect talking about eliminating the gray zone also. That is why their strategy is so threatening, there is no winning move for the West as long as the West holds on to its ideological contradictions.
This is hilarious. I dislike how the word cyber has been used for things far from its original meaning. But I'm not sure I like "computer attack" any better than "cyber attack". Information ware fare? Offensive data war?

But this also makes me want to name some cyber security app "Shelob".
Didn't know about it - thanks! Will add.
> The problem isn't that there are no talented people.

You're right, there are tons of talented people in the midwest. The problem I saw over & over was there's no incentive to learn something new when the majority of openings are Java and Drupal shops. I saw so much quiet desperation at the meetups I attended. These people would jump on any chance to break out of their bubbles and learn something new. But if startup founders want someone who can hack on their Scala codebase from day one like they'd find in the Valley, that's not going to happen. Everyone already optimized for the available work.

(And your other comments are spot-on too)
I'm not 100% certain, but when I setup 2FA for many services they give you ~10 single use emergency codes that you can use to get into the system in the event that your second factor is unavailable for whatever reason (phone stolen, you are out of the country, fido broke, etc.)
> Prisons are filled with poor black drug offenders

How is that an example of the justice system not functioning? 80-90% of people think drugs other than marijuana should be illegal. 32% see drug abuse as a "crisis" and another 55% as a "serious problem": http://www.people-press.org/2014/04/02/americas-new-drug-pol....

People thinking drug use is dangerous and making it illegal, and then putting people in jail for trafficking in drugs (which accounts for the vast majority of sentences), is not a failure of the justice system.

EDIT: Since people seem confused by certain FUD on this subject. The vast majority of "drug offenders" filling prisons are there for trafficking not possession: http://www.drugwarfacts.org/cms/Prisons_and_Drugs (only 5.3% of federal drug prisoners are serving time for possession; 91.4% are serving time for trafficking). And 80-90% of people support keeping cocaine and heroin illegal: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/04/17/drug-legalization-p....

Also account for the time lag between changing public opinion and changes in policy. As recently as 2001, 45% of people polled (and probably a much higher percentage of actual voters, who skew older and more conservative), opposed getting rid of mandatory minimum sentences for non-violent drug crimes.
I didn't ask about the performance claims.
What Americans Thought of Jewish Refugees on the Eve of World War II
Your bar is too high; getting clean water consistently for almost a century straight, without any major interruptions, for 99% of the population is damn good proof that rule of law works.
Nice. Will add.
Does paperwork give you a nice interface for training? The models that tesseract ship with are fairly terrible on everything I've tried them with, but add in 5 pages of training data and it becomes great.
Contacting your domain admin, using your backup codes, if none of those work you'll need to fill an account recovery form with the service provider, ie: https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/185834?hl=en#phon...
Gawker Is Said to Retool as Politics Site
Still have to trust the lottery operator not to exit scam when the pot gets big enough.
This is awesome, however I don't understand their motivation to opensource or their business model following this. Any speculation or comments are welcomed.
Is there anything you are really passionate about? Politics, religion, a TV show, genre of literature, charity, etc.?

I've found that it's easier to form faster relationships by being in a select "in-group" of people who are united around a cause. The downside to that is that if you change your views or become less passionate, the people may tend to isolate from you. Same thing for when you have friends from work. However, you can try to turn these more superficial friendships into more meaningful ones by talking about people's kids, dating life, childhood, etc. Once you talk about things that are more intimate, people will view you as a more intimate friend than you actually are. And remember you have to "give to get" - so talk about yourself and share details that push the boundary of your intimacy level (not in a creepy way). That will also make people feel that you have a closer relationship than you do and they will view you as a closer friend.

And read "How to Win Friends and Influence People" for tips on talking to people more when you are with them.
What you're saying makes sense, but I think joining a radical group known for brutality and joining a company promising to make you rich are two very different things. I think the chances of youth wanting to be successful in their lifetime is far greater than that of a youth joining a group with a promise of a fantastic afterlife.
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I think you're touching on the heart of the tension behind the "health at every size" movement.

I know a couple of people who are big advocates of it, and surprise surprise, they're all pretty fat. They're still wonderful people, and I of course don't respect them less because they're fat. You know, for me, it's like..who cares? It's not my body. I'm even pretty sympathetic to how much difficulty they have doing basic stuff, just for having their joints and muscles carrying around an extra hundred pounds.

But it really seems to me that what's going on is that they're reacting to the constant onslaught of fat-shaming and moral judgments with this ideology of "health at every size". There is a constant moralizing about fat people in our culture, like if you're fat you're lazy or bad or whatever, none of which is warranted.

But I think that's where things get muddled--culture turns fatness into a moral failing, wrapped under a sheath of health concern trolling. Reaction to the moral judging is to try and take away the health claims, when that's really kind of missing the point.

What would be appropriate, I think, is to push for "human dignity at every size," you know, and leave the moralizing to stuff that matters. But that's not so catchy or easy to distinguish, I guess...

As for the actual health claims, I, for one, don't buy it at all, it seems obvious to me that carrying around excess weight is going to cause a number of immediate problems (joint strain, etc), to say nothing of the strain on your organs for being encased in excess fat. But the health stuff is separate from the moralizing, and I don't know how you'd get the larger culture to separate out "you're fat and it's hurting your body" from "you're fat and you're lazy/stupid/etc".
000Webhost email search tool
For anyone interested, the haveibeenpwned.org site (not to be confused with Troy Hunts .com site) now has a cool email search tool for anyone wanting to find out if their email address was compromised in the 000Webhost hack. You can find it at http://www.haveibeenpwned.org/search/index.html - quick note, when I typed in with just /search/ on the end for some reason it redirects back to the main page which is a tad odd but nevermind there you go, enjoy!
Good point, I hadn't considered the exploitation of sites I don't log into.

Sadly, the sites which I would most like to secure in this way (ie. important but I don't use often) invariably are stuck with ancient authentication technology.
There's an obvious difference here.

If the addict can't find drugs anymore, he can't use them.

If the alcoholic can't find alcohol anymore, he can't drink it.

If the gambler can't find slot machines, he can't gamble.

If the overeater can't find food, he can't eat.

The same can't be said for depressed and unmotivated people - there's nothing you can take away from them in order to keep them from suffering depression or demotivation.

Since they themselves can't take those things away from themselves for their own good, the addic, the alcoholic, the gambler and the overeater really suffer from the same problem, lack of self-control.

EDIT: atwebb:

Since having self-control would suffice to stop using drugs, drinking alcohol, gambling, and overeating, therefore one who can't stop doing any of those has to be lacking self-control.

Tell me where you got lost in that argument.
> and maintain this progress indefinitely without medical intervention

And bariatric surgery comes with significantly increased risk of suicide.

http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/852616?nlid=89075_2052&s...
>how does that in any way excuse or lessen any atrocities it commits?

Rule of law does not excuse or lessen atrocities, it defines them. Moreover, the laws of war are specifically designed to lessen/avoid atrocities by limiting: 1. When a nation-state may engage in the use of armed force, and 2. How a nation-state may actually use armed force.

Having an open mind, I ask you to look within and ask whether the US is specifically targeting civilians, or has simply targeted military actors hiding among civilian populations? No matter what you answer, you must acknowledge IS is responsible for planning/executing military style attacks against civilians specifically.

We can agree to disagree, certainly there is nothing wrong with an all life is sacred approach, but you should not feel deeply disturbed that the law distinguishes between responding to a military attack with the use of force targeted at those most responsible and a non-state actor engaging in terrorist/quasi-military attacks against civilian populations?
Litmus test: does it make any supernatural claims? Yes? Silly, ridiculous relic.

Buddhism? Yes. Silly, ridiculous relic.

Please don't bore us with the usual equivocating about how Buddhism is different, and complex, highly personal, etc.

Are there helpful aspects to Buddhist beliefs? Maybe. But it's still Bronze Age philosophy with plenty of supernatural claptrap mixed in. I'm not aware of any useful aspects of Buddhism that don't have a purely secular equivalent.
> Their goal is to put the West into an unwinnable situation no matter what we do.

No, their goal is to place Muslims in a situation where the fear of hatred from the West against Muslims (which Daesh kindles by provocative attacks on the West designed to get the West to blame, and retaliate against, Muslims generally) and fear of the consequences of defying Daesh (which Daesh creates by violent attacks on those Muslims who defy them) leave Muslims to perceive accepting the dominion of Daesh as the least bad option open to them. That's how the Caliphate is formed and grows.
Speculation: They get their revenue from on-premise installations and support plans. Big businesses don't buy software from lack of open-source options, they buy it because they don't want to deal with it themselves.
Chinese (and Asians in general) have higher rates of lactose intolerance, which could explain the higher meat consumption. This is likely not the whole story, but it may contribute.
While I agree with the point you're making, how many civilians are left in ISIS controlled territory though? I don't have any numbers, but I wouldn't be surprised if 50% has fled and another 40% has been killed by ISIS. So how many people are there, not including the people that chose to join ISIS?

I've seen some footage from Sinjar after it was retaken by the Kurds: not a single building was left standing. It's hard to imagine anyone still living there.
>Unmotivated? Just try harder

Or my personal favorite, "Work harder."
Here's the link to a Quora discussion. It is beyond my understanding.

https://www.quora.com/Is-it-true-that-14-African-countries-a...
Anonymous takes down 5,500 ISIS Twitter accounts
Yeah, but that way it's displayed out in the open and you can make a mistake copying it. I think just exchanging usb flash storage sticks is preferable unless you sufficiently distrust the system you're on.
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I see the difference here now. Thanks!
I don't think I agree with the extreme nature of the premise a number of comments up the thread, that said my favorite example of this:

http://www.vaildaily.com/article/20101104/NEWS/101109939 A hedge fund manager had his criminal charges substantially reduced over the victim's objections because having a felony would mean the hedge fund manager would have to admit what he did to his clients. The defendant in question struck a bicyclist in a hit and run, drove far away and called for roadside assistance for his car never mentioning anything about the bicyclist he left with lifelong injuries. Of course the excuse is that after he was caught he agree to pay some restitution to the victim...

Anyway, just a crazy story that I figured I'd share so not really a study of real national trends or anything.
Pretty much anything can come back to bite you. You could use your exact same argument with s/public places/private places/.

Also, is evidence gathered illegally by a non-government entity inadmissible? I thought that they would use it anyway, and also prosecute the recording party for breaking that law.
If you work for Apple (and I think the same for Google, Facebook or Microsoft), don't they own your output even if it's on your own machine in your own time? I seem to remember part of their contract is that they own all your intellectual output. Some other discussion of this here:

http://iphonedevsdk.com/forum/business-legal-app-store/47704...
https://www.reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/1phmkr/current_emp...

On the other hand, in Queensland at least, it depends on the definition of your work role. If it's specific enough, you could even create a game using your employers equipment & keep ownership & copyright yourself (the Queensland government provides that as a specific software example here):

https://www.business.qld.gov.au/business/support-tools-grant...
I used to think the healthy at any weight movement was a gateway to actually being healthy. Start acting healthy and forming healthy habits and eventually you'll be healthy. Kinda like magic thinking except it would actually work.

But, there's a backlash against people who actually loose weight in the movement. That's the part I just don't understand.
Right? Just like killing Saddam and Gadafi stabilized the region. I'm sure nothing bad would happen. It's not like something worse than Al Quaida can happen again.

Europe fully deserves the migrant crisis. It went into Middle East guns blazing, and expects to come out of it unscathed.
Yes, as stated: the reader is incredibly poor.

Also, yes, the banks suck.
Ask HN: Smart phone with GREAT reception
In the market for a mid/lower end smart phone for my mid 80's father. His current is a Windows phone by Samsung that needs to be replaced.

Though my father is in a major metro area, his town has restricted towers and he is in a very poor reception zone.His Samsung gets zero bars in and around his home. One bar if he is lucky out walking. My LG G2 gets one bar most of the time with the occasional zip or two.

What I need is user input/opinion on call reception quality, I can handle the rest of it. Unfortunately, nobody seems to mention weak signal reception in reviews anymore.
Reality is VC is herd mentality which relies on deal flow to be successful. Winning firms see the best startups, invest first and the cycle continues.
YC is a devilishy clever way of front-running[1] VC deal flow. They give you a peanuts amount of money, a lot of abstract culture/network spiel which does have some value (i.e.- "it's who you know, not what you know"), and they get to see all the deal flow first. At the end of the day, its a way to step in front of angels and VC firms. Like any investor, they only care about the investment. It seems a bit culty too, but that's the valley[2].

More entrepreneurs should follow the bootstrapping advice of Dr. Terman and shun "joining established firms".[3]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Front_running
[2] http://www.wired.com/2014/04/mike-judge-silicon-valley/
[3] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/94/HP_garag...
Amazon Echo/Alexa now supports custom IFTTT trigger phrases
I don't know if this already exists as a canonical rule of the Internet or not, but it seems like it ought to:

The more people involved in the creation of content, the more likely it is to have dicks somewhere in it.
> Chinese (and Asians in general) have higher rates of lactose intolerance, which could explain the higher meat consumption.

As I understand it, the mutation for lactose tolerance is rare outside of those of Northern European descent.
the solution is to work remote if you want a higher salary and to keep your lifestyle. our best employees and contractors are in places like texas and ohio and we're based in california and pay above-market salaries becausd we're small.

for what it's worth there are companies in large coastal cities that do not match the SV mold. you just have to be extremely upfront and non-yielding with your requirements when seeking them out/interviewing.

as far as the smarmy office bullshit, i can't stand any of that stuff either, although i do enjoy a lot of urban amenities like restaurants and the general feeling of anonymity.
Probably should add SMS from mid-80s to present. It's the biggest, after all.
Maybe like a phone running a TOTP application?
Really? I thought chocolate cake was sinful.... Health, and especially weight, are very moral issues to Americans.
I don't know about deep friendships, as I really don't have the time to maintain all my friendships anymore, but I've become friends with quite a few people by just picking a few groups on Meetup.com and keep showing up to meetups, do a little chit chat here and there, not a lot, but a little.

Eventually people started recognizing me as a regular and I got to know people well enough that they started being friendly to me and asking me to do things outside of meetups.

It also helped that I'm generally a friendly person, albeit somewhat quiet.

So I just made a consistent effort to keep going to these meetups for a period of two years, and I now know more people than I can keep track of, and made several pretty close friends out of it.
Making Big Data Projects Successful
Atom: Editor window startup is slow
If Uber is taking 40%, that leaves a tiny amount for the driver. The margins are hopefully much smaller.
Make Linux Less Painful with Standard Aliases
Y Combinator is hiring hackers
Elsewhere on this page someone linked to a talk Jessica herself gave on this subject[1]. It is remarkably similar to PG's essay. Jessica notes at the beginning that pretty nearly no one on the outside knows how large a role she has played at YC and then credits that to her preferred MO of working behind the scenes. She also does not mention her gender as a factor in being ignored.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEp9aaQuYp4
Ask HN: Open Source Dual Video Switching?
I have an open source project in mind, but I was looking for some input on how to get started and go about this, or if anybody knows if something like this exists.

What is the idea?

In the future I can definitely see media outlets transforming, but what I've been interested in is an intermediate step in that evolution. What I had in mind was a video play that can play 2 videos simultaneously and give the user the ability to switch back and forth.

Why would someone want this?

This would open up the possibilities for media creation. For instance, one could make videos where the watcher can switch between a first person view and third person view, or switch between first person forward view and first person rear view, or switch between multiple perspectives.

Questions...

Does something like this exist?
Do you have any input to develop on the idea?
Is this a stupid idea/waste of time?
Where's a good place to start with this?
What language/framework do you see as a good fit for this?
Is there anybody that would be interested in contributing to this project?