skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> A calorie surplus is pretty necessary for a substantial weight gain.

Sure, but that still doesn't justify the upthread claim "When your calories in is greater than your calories out, you gain fat."

You can maintain a calorie surplus and not gain fat, and if you are intending to gain a substantial quantity of lean body mass, you will need to. (That you can gain fat, within a certain range, while losing lean body mass on a calorie deficit was a less important aspect of my response; the key part was that the claim "moar calories => moar fat" is significantly wrong.

> You seem to do this a lot, writing some pedantic elaboration on the wording of a comment while carefully ignoring the thrust of the meaning.

The thrust of the meaning was that calorie surplus/deficit alone controls body fat. This is fundamentally and critically wrong, because it ignores the fact that activity patterns and other factors will control whether a calories surplus (for example) manifests in fat gain (with constant or decreasing muscle) or muscle gain (with constant or decreasing fat) or both muscle and fat gain in some ratio.
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Well, in practice if more files had resource forks more tools would be smarter in how they operated on them, including making sure not to lose important forks.

> HTML upload form

The idea of a file doesn't change with resource forks: you upload the file as a whole and the thing uploads. Just as humble and simple. The onus is on the browser on the one side and server on the other not to drop the metadata.

The only other change might be in rare cases you might want to upload only a single fork in the file instead of the whole file. The old Mac Classic file picker had a way to this for advanced users, and there would be nothing stopping you from adding such an advanced option to any other file picker.

> or Git

Actually, something like git could probably make good use of something like resource forks if given the chance. For instance, the git pack format is essentially a relative to the resource fork format (a collection of a bunch of smaller objects wrapped into a single file). In a world of practical resource forks everywhere, you could presumably attach something like git packs of files to themselves, which could give you the benefit of a file being its own source control history without having to truck that information along as its own files/directories. (In which case you get the benefit of using that humble HTML upload form to much more easily upload a file and its entire source control history, rather than needing a dedicated git server... admittedly there would be performance trade-offs there though.)
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Uh, while I think it's perfectly reasonable to like using a Gameboy for music tinkering, that whole "immediacy" thing you cite about composition process is essentially what got solved with Propellerhead's Figure. I've had it since the first version and it's grown into my personal, portable drum/bass/synth sketchpad and recommend it to anybody serious about composing on the go. Just because you don't know what's out there doesn't mean it's not out there, for what it's worth.
This is basically correct. Android replacing the Linux graphics and UI stack turned out to be the right thing. Multimedia, not so much.
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> The goods and services consumed have to come from someone working somewhere.

Like your former self? Retirement fund contribution is compulsory in Australia (as a %age of income), and probably elsewhere.
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That seems to be the suggestion, but I wonder if it's the the wrong hypothesis.

What if some bacteria have evolved to "hack" the metabolic signals from our guts (and possibly other mammals)?

They could stimulate ghrelin to make us want more food to feed them. Or slow down food progress through the gut to give them more time to reproduce.
The Federal government, at least, often distinguishes between minority/majority and underrepresented/overrepresented. Women, for example, are a majority in the overall the United States' population, but are underrepresented in technology. 'Asians' are a minority in the overall United States' population, but overrepresented in technology.
By that argument gradient descent should work for any classifier with a sufficiently high number of independent parameters.
Also, this is awesome. https://twitter.com/kevinSuttle/status/672872967538364416
Hardly. Perl gets far more use than you might imagine and in some very interesting places. Anyone who thinks that Perl is dead or dying is a bandwagon fan of the language(s) du jour.

I've been in IT across three decades. Perl is just as useful to me today as it was whilst in college. Just because it isn't in use by all the sock-headed millennial hipsters doesn't mean a thing. I can do more with Perl in fewer lines and with less thought than with Python or Ruby. I like Perl's syntax and I like that it allows me to work with it in a way that works for me. Other languages are not so forgiving in this regard.

Look at the usefulness of CPAN. Perl 6 is analagous to Python 3. It's a different language more or less, but given a bit of time, Perl 6 will be used more and more. I already know people using it. I plan to use it more and more. There are huge swaths of the Internet still built on Perl.
Swift has a passable type system, support for generics, and doesn't use a VM.

Tooling support isn't there for Linux currently, so the act of writing code isn't much better than Python (no Xcode-type autocompletion), but once you want to run it, the compiler will scream at you if you pass ducks where penguins are expected - while still allowing you to reason about swimming birds in general.
The vast majority of people are not obese, yet they have 24/7 access to food. Seems like there's a disconnect in your reasoning there.
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Okay, I can see the "it's not that he did it; it's that he did it in such a self-aggrandizing manner" argument. That's a fair argument. Thanks for the response.
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Some AI pioneers seem to feel that rule-based symbolic solutions still have a place, e.g.

http://dustycloud.org/blog/sussman-on-ai/

If we are depending on AI systems to make important decisions, possibly life-or-death decisions, shouldn't we understand how they come to the conclusions that they do?

I cannot deny the tremendous advances in neural networks recently, but I find Sussman's point compelling.
I think another interesting analogy (in terms of field-development trajectory) to deep learning is the whole idea of l1-regularized regression or LASSO or sparsity priors or sparse signal processing ([1] goes by many names depending on which field you work in). The whole idea is that by penalizing 'dense' solutions to a regression problem, you can 'promote' 'sparse' solutions like the ones that occur in many many applications. This had been used by various communities with some theoretical justification for years, at least since the 1970s. However, the real theoretical breakthroughs framing this problem in something close to the rigor and usefulness of Shannon's sampling theorem, came in 2004 from two papers independently: David Donoho; and Emmanuel Candes, Justin Romberg, Terence Tao. Theoretical CS community also got close to the answer in their work in the late 1990s and early 2000s in many papers on random projections and sketching. There are many connections between deep learning and ideas in the broad area of sparse regression. But one epistemological point of intersection is how theoretical results pertain to asymptotically large cases, but in applications work very well even with much smaller systems.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compressed_sensing
No, the problem is that there were all kinds of interesting non-Unixy implementations of files out there and they were all incompatible with each other. For example, VMS supported file versioning and record-based files, neither of which Macs supported, but in turn had no way of supporting resource forks. Similarly, NTFS supports alternate data streams which can store a resource fork, but Mac Classic had no way of storing other alternate data streams. The Internet forced everyone to use Unix's idea of files because it's the only subset of functionality that actually worked between more than one platform.
This comment should be at the top. I love what this project is aiming to accomplish but also think that the task is gargantuan and the project's users would be better served if it was divided into independent modules.
> All that wealth - everybody's wealth - was created by the labor of people long dead, all the way down to the first humans to develop agriculture.

As long as you're making this sort of argument, why stop at agriculture? Or humans, for that matter?
I'm not seeing anything NSFW in that picture. The pig is wearing some clothing, and is ... well, a pig.

edit: ah, I see further down. At least the nsfw one is small...
Unrelated, but is this a common practice in Swift?

#if os(Linux)
import Glibc
#else
import Darwin.C
#endif

Feels a bit nasty.
Why do scientists/cryptographers have to judge ethics for themselves? Not sure what you're asking. Bertrand Russell judged the bomb to be a danger for humanity and chose to express his own views on it.
4G LTE isn't a valid choice for anyone who wants low-latency (online gamers, and it doesn't even have to be a "twitch" game), or anyone who balks at $205/month for 30gb (AT&T price)
One assumes there would be staff outside of the "zone" who could call for help.
> An authentic connection to LE is literally fundamental.

Unless you validate the certificate that you get using a pre-installed LE root certificate.
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I wanted to get a reproduction of "Hip hip hurra!" by Peder Severin Krøyer, few months ago. This is the original[1], and this is what China, in all seriousness, offfers[2]. Is it possible to get excellent quality reproductions, like the ones one sees in the caper movies, and how much would they cost?

[1] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/20/PS_Kr%C3...
[2] http://www.fineart-china.com/htmlimg/image-64517.html
I guess there really are more things under heaven and earth than dreamt of in the unix philosophy.
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Yeah I don't understand why "name your (short callback) functions" gets repeated as a truism so much. Do people have stacktraces that are missing line numbers?
http://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/03/22/stand-there/
I strongly believe that terrorism can't be combated by surveillance no matter how much of it you throw at the problem it is simply the wrong approach. So for me there is no 'event' that would sway me to the side of pro dragnet surveillance. In fact, I believe that dragnet surveillance actually makes matters worse.
> The vast majority of people are not obese,

Obesity rates in the US are pretty high.

http://www.niddk.nih.gov/health-information/health-statistic...

> More than 2 in 3 adults are considered to be overweight or obese.

> More than 1 in 3 adults are considered to be obese.

> More than 1 in 20 adults are considered to have extreme obesity.

> About one-third of children and adolescents ages 6 to 19 are considered to be overweight or obese.

> More than 1 in 6 children and adolescents ages 6 to 19 are considered to be obese.
For me is hard to understand how a language with a behavior/constraints like you describe get so much noise about "been easy to use/learn".

I do not like it but at least be DRY as much as possible:

case 0: set.__fds_bits.0 |= mask
Yeah, I grabbed this lines from Apple document https://swift.org/package-manager/#example-usage
> We did not merge this because it gave miod@ a bad feeling.

Not even sure what the right reaction to that is. On one hand, good for you for skipping an insecure patch but on the other hand, only a bad feeling? You didn't realize it's a security hole?
> Given how big of an impact agriculture has on the planet, figuring out how to allow people to eat many times more food simply for the sake of eating it seems... irresponsible to say the least.

If this environmental concern justifies compelling people who are born with unusually efficient microbiomes to not have that condition treated and corrected, despite the health benefits, does it also compel people born with normally or under efficient gut microbiomes to have that "condition" treated and corrected so that they have more environmentally-sound, hyper-efficient gut microbiomes, notwithstanding the health and weight-management challenges that will pose for them.

Are their other health conditions that people ought to leave untreated to reduce environmental footprint? I mean, certainly if we just didn't treat life-threatening conditions and let people die, we'd save both their downstream food consumption and the resources (some of which are themselves, or have as inputs, agricultural products) used in the treatments, which, if "the impact agriculture has on the planet" is sufficient to deny treatments that might increase it, ought to be a compelling concern.

(Of course, on the other hand, since part of the point of treating extra-efficient gut microbiomes is to help people lose weight, which will [by reducing maintenance needs] mitigate the agriculture impact they have from its initial peak, and reduce the energy cost of transporting them, etc. -- often born through fossil fuels, which also have a tremendous impact on the plant -- I'm not convinced that even on its own terms your criticism is all that well thought out beyond the very short-term impacts.)
I agree - dynasties are a huge problem.
I always find it ironic too how much tax there is on capital gains, but how little there is when estate is transferred after someone passes away. One was earned and the was inherited. If we forced people to give back most of their money on passing it would it work in favor of better wealth distribution.
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Also, /proc/<pid>/environ. There are rules on who owns this file (root, or the executing user) based on the suid bit. Regardless, you are now depending on linux permissions to protect your secrets, which begs the question: Why not just trust the filesystem? Even if /proc/<pid>/environ didn't exist, you could go through /proc/<pid>/mem to find secrets.

It seems that this is designed to protect you from untrusted execution environments, which I don't see as feasible. What am I missing?
It's up to us to do our part and refuse to dance like puppets :)

There are plenty of great companies who are trying hard to improve the hiring process and move away from the whiteboard exercises and brain-teasers.

I systematically refuse to interview with people who ask me how many tennis balls would be required to fill up the empire state building.
Is that why sparsity terms have been introduced into objective functions?
How mature is Swift for writing backend applications in its current state when compared to Python or maybe Rust ?
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These side-letter deals and exits optimized for founders are probably not legal since they are often not in the best interests of shareholders, but I've never heard of them being investigated.
I certainly agree that notation is important. However, what I'm talking about is tweaks at the smallest scale—just the glyph or glyphs you use to represent a single symbol. I don't think there's that much value deviating from ASCII characters or character-pairs in order to use a more mathy glyph.

I'm a fan of most of the other math notation programming languages use: parentheses for grouping, infix operators, function call syntax, etc.

I think there is a lot of room to improve the visual display of code, but I don't think much of it is as the token level.
"I'm sure there's an Apple-y reason for the existence of this feature, but I can't imagine what it might be."

I know this feeling well but I don't really get how it causes some people to think "I'll write a blog post complaining about this" rather than "I'll do a quick search for this and find out the answer, which might be nuanced, historically contingent, and/or revelatory."
Maybe. Google doesn't specify how they are fitting their data in their training program. But to be clear, I didn't say they were just for development purpose. I was imagining that'd be their interpretation. They would see that as telemetry or diagnostic information.

But if they will provide an opt-out option, that will help resolve the issue. EFF isn't wrong, they are catching an implicit fineprint, and Google is interpreting that very differently (not being Google).
> Make Diamond at Room Temperature

then

> ... the temperature of the carbon is raised to 4,000 Kelvin
Seems like an indictment of poor porting of unix tools to work on OSX, rather than "all standard applications" being unaware of them.
The necessity of this law would suggest the imperfection of the free market.
It's potential :D
There are diffusion based methods for unsupervised learning based on the graph laplacian, or heat kernel [0]. Maybe this is what she was referring to? I would guess so, because Coifman (who is also closely tied to wavelets [1]) introduced the diffusion maps [2] method. On the other hand, I have not seen any unsupervised method based on say, Navier-Stokes, which is the only other thing that comes to mind for regarding ink drops diffusing.

[0]: http://www.mit.edu/~9.520/spring11/slides/class20_misha.pdf

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coiflet

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffusion_map
Seems like the OpenBSD guys are a little bitter. And rightfully so. OpenSSL has a lot of improvement work to do - both with their code base and their collaboration efforts.
> the logical way to produce ≥ is to type >=

Says who? Going from the glyph, I would expect it to be ">" + "_" (underscore). On a typewriter, it would be ">", backspace, "_".
There's really not much of a dichotomy between power and money at the level we're discussing (the level where power is mostly influence). Money is liquid, tokenized power. If you have enough of money, you can get virtually anything you want. That sounds like the same thing as power to me.

There is a cruder form of power, which is physical might, but that usually doesn't come into play in jurisdictions with functioning legal and military systems.
AFAIK, at least for now it is.

Libraries on Linux and OS X just are different. Maybe when core libraries [0] will be fully finished we could just use `import Foundation` on both platforms.

[0] https://swift.org/core-libraries/
I'm on NextDoor here in Indiana. It's great. It enables me to find out what's going on (good or bad) since I'm deaf and frequently am the last to know (if ever) prior to this.
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That isn't saying much. Every supervised learning algorithm can be cast as a problem of advanced curve fitting, because at the end of the day, your 'curve' is the mapping that takes you from your 'x-axis' of data to the 'y-axis' of labels.
Promising but this looks too good to be true. Most of the articles I can find are regurgitations of the press release. Anyone find anything with an independent take?
David died in 1825. He fell out of favour for his part in the Terror but was kept on and even offered roles in the restored monarchy.
"Rather than embracing SVG as an alternative, Microsoft pursued a blatant copy of Flash in their too-late-to-the-table Silverlight effort."

The author seems to have missed, apart from an initial mention, VML out completely. VML was Microsoft's SVG alternative in IE 5 through 8, not Sliverlight. Sliverlight was a Flash alternative.

VML, although badly documented, can/could do much of what SVG can do, in a few cases it does it better. It was also pretty complete with IE 6 in 2001. SVG had the first very basic version in Firefox 1.5 at the end of 2005, and needed Firefox 3.0 in 2008 before you could say it was reasonably complete. MS thought they had a head-start and could win the vector battle.

The key thing, as well, with VML is that it was built into IE natively. Getting Adobe SVG or Sliverlight added onto IE into large corporate environments was near on impossible. We, fortunately, decided we didn't trust Adobe prior to them killing the IE SVG plugin and were running fully on VML at that point.

The last 10 years of my working life have been based around SVG and VML, my co-founder and I would tell you a similar story. Especially, regarding word-wrap in SVG, it's our top pain point as well. It forced us to use HTML as foreign objects in SVG to get word wrap. Of course, IE never supported FOs, Edge has only just added it.
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That sounds kind of awesome!

I never got to use BeOS, and Haiku seems to be stuck perpetually in the "almost there"-stage (Haven't been paying attention in the last couple of years, though). But this helps me understand why people worked and work so doggedly on reviving BeOS.
I'm suspicious that you can really describe the French Revolution as "generally horrific". Sure, there were quite a few executions (~40k or so), that were often arbitrary and spectacular. And the Vendée rebellion got massacred (~100k+ depending on the source) [1]. But what really contributed to the death toll were the Revolutionary wars [2] and the Napoleon campaigns [3].

By contrast, modern warfare with machine guns, artillery, bombers, and genocide regularly yielded much higher death tolls [4].

[1] http://necrometrics.com/wars18c.htm#FrRev1

[2] http://necrometrics.com/wars18c.htm#FrRev

[3] http://necrometrics.com/wars19c.htm#Napoleonic

[4] http://necrometrics.com/20c5m.htm
It is day #1! What the hell are you so upset about? He announced that he has some really big intentions for his massive fortune. Did you blast Bill Gates the day he announced he wanted to do the same thing? What about Warren Buffet? I am still not quite sure what you are so pissed about? Do you harbor some hatred for Zuck?
An article about rise of SVG with numerous images of SVG drawings, and not a single one of them is an actual SVG :)
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TVs are digital had come with all sorts of other features that require processing. This used to be handled by "secretly" leaving them on all the time. This would waste a decent amount of power, and as brands seek better power ratings they actually turn off now. It's the price you pay for HD. I also suspect that in general Bluetooth headsets always had a similar startup latency.
In my neighborhood (Silicon Valley) there are a few thousands members within a 5 mile radius of the allowable network that I can communicate with. Many, like myself, are apartment dwellers.

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