skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you are conflating two things. Losing weight you do outside of races. Eat less, exercise more - you lose weight.

Now during an actual race - do you want to burn sugar or fat? Your body has a TON more fat, even a skinny guy has 50k calories of fat he can burn.. whereas the same guy only has 2k calories of sugar to burn. However burning fat is less efficient, so you are unlikely to set a speed record doing it. An ironman is a 8-16 hour race that burns 5,6,10k calories, and all the successful people I know do it via eating a lot of sugar during the race. In theory you COULD do it off fat, but no one has won a race (that I am aware) doing that, so it seems to not work as well in practice.
How do people already know that? Is there a link you could provide?
Unfortunately no major distributions ship those patches by default.
> the author's family probably doesn't see themselves as poor

I suspect a single mother making minimum wage would most definitely recognize that she's poor.

> and would balk at characterizing the author as only middle class.

This is probably true. Middle class is so inconsistently defined, though, that it's hard to have a meaningful conversation about what constitutes middle class.

> Meanwhile, the author can't even afford a house where s/he lives which calls into my question my characterization of that salary as even qualifying as a middle class salary.

Home ownership is a terrible way to categorize middle class, mostly because as salaries rise, so do expectations of what constitutes an acceptable home. Someone making six figures in the bay area absolutely can own a home. They just can't buy the one they "feel" they should be able to afford. I see a number of homes and condos on sale in Mountain View for <500K, and a whole bunch in Sunnyvale and San Jose in that range. I'm sure if I looked across the bay I'd find a ton.

When your salary is double the median household income, you're at least middle class and realistically probably upper middle class. The fact that your salary won't buy you a 1.5 million dollar home in the heart of Palo Alto is kind of irrelevant. Moving from Palo Alto to Fremont does not change your social class, even if it does make you hate the commute.

edit: Median family income in San Francisco in 2010 was $71,745. Six figure individual salary is most definitely middle or upper middle class, even in the bay.

http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Bay-Area-income-beats-...
Yikes. They should give him a better car at the agreed upon price.
Reusable components is a mantra within software engineering. People deciding on product direction want to reuse what's available and has been tested: known quantities increase confidence levels. Unfortunately, the reuse in the large vs. reuse in the small dilemma gets lost in the decision-making. At a certain job level, applications become components represented by geometric shapes on a whiteboard or electronic diagram. At that level, components look like good candidates for reuse.

Unfortunately "the devil is in the details". Reuse, in this case, hurt the messaging app because of a fundamental difference between connection and connection-less communication. I'm sure the engineers working on the messaging app understood the problems. But, they were most likely not a key part of the decision chain.
Looks like you just communicated it in 16 bytes though.
Samsung Begins Mass Producing World's Fastest 4GB HBM DRAM
Great app. Tons of fun! Can't stop playing it!
Given the variance in intelligence I think there probably is an upper limit to how you can "raise" someone.

I also suspect that we are a long way off that, hell who knows what the future looks like, we could end up with neural implants that allow everyone to boost their intelligence/recall.

I'm not stupid but I know there is an upper bound on my intelligence that is lower than many other peoples, not everyone can be Einstein or Hawking.

The more interesting problem is how do we optimise for people reaching their maximum potential or if that is even necessary.
> If documentation does not yet exist there is as yet no design, only people thinking and talking about the design which is of some value, but not much.

I'm having a hard time remembering how we do things better in modern times without writing documentation.
Maybe this can help with the 2045 initiative?

http://youtu.be/01hbkh4hXEk
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Rspamd 1.1 release: added redis back end, autolearning and hyperscan support
It likely that this article put whoever told him Elon was driving the car around in some hot water. I would not want to be that guy when Elon reads the headlines. I am not saying Elon is vindictive or anything just that it would be a uncomfortable position to be in. It's likely he thought the buyer would think it was neat that Elon was driving around in the same car he was going to get... if so he was wrong.
Just Part of the Stack
I agree. This guy seems like the type to latch onto weird fitness ideas, the weirder the better, without really understanding what he's doing. His last experiment on his blog was with some system to only sleep 2 hours a day split up into a bunch of naps.

> Also why conflate fasting and ketogenics?

Isn't fasting basically a ketogenic diet where you are your own food?
On the Proposed PHP Code of Conduct
I'm sure the NRO can source some really accurate satellite and drone based terrain imagery if needed.
The better solution would be to acquire Epic.

Steam is a juggernaut sales and income producer for Valve, they can easily afford to buy Epic now. That would bring the engine tech, talent and community in-house, and eliminate licensing fees for Valve. There would also be a lot Valve could then do with the UE4 market in tandem with steam.
I just tried the app. It's awesome!
You can take a simple approach and use a to do list. Split the list into to-do, doing and done. Each project you are doing should have a header in each section as long as it is not complete. When complete remove it from the to-do and doing section.
E.g.

To-do
Project 1
- task 2

Doing
Project 1
-task 1

Done
Project 1
Project 2
- task 1
- task 2

The work you want to do for a given day should be moved to the doing section. At the end of the day if the work is completed move it to the done list. If it was not completed move it to the to do section. You could add comments to tell you were you stopped or any issues you came across
I think this could be turned into a book collating detailed case study in each of those cases where they failed with perhaps cases where companies have made it work like Google Fiber, Amazon's PAAS etc.
What annoys the hell out of me is this constant insistence on creating accounts or even connecting your social media account.

How about just making your damn service/product good to where once people are hooked in they will actually want to create the account when they are damn well ready.
Thus, it's not snake oil, but a lottery with really lousy odds.
>"[The Tesla Owner Advisor] called me to explain he had a call in with the Office of the CEO at Tesla and was working with his team in Tesla to resolve a problem that had come up — their CEO, Elon Musk, had taken my car and was using it as his personal vehicle to test a new version of autopilot. Even worse, he said he could see all the calls I had made into the Orlando delivery center this past week, and no one was taking my calls because no one knew what to do."

The fact that a customer-facing resource is airing information about internal process screwups directly to a customer is indicative that something is very wrong with service management at Tesla; this is a bush-league customer service mistake. Not only is the customer being informed that there is a apparently a massive issue with the pipeline for delivering product to customer, but they're also indicating that there's clearly nobody enforcing ownership or accountability for reported issues.
This is a blog post on the author's personal blog. It doesn't even have ads on it. I really don't see a legitimate objection here. Just take the data for what it is - a report of something one specific person was able to do, which other peoples' physiology might or might not be able to handle, plus some speculation about our distant evolutionary history.
If you take $1.76 trillion and distribute it to 3.6 billion people, each gets about $500.
> we can't entirely anticipate the headaches of future cryptarchs

First off, I love the term "cryptarch". :) That's basically the user we're talking about here.

My concern is that archival media may become skewed from the media reader such that the media cannot be rendered with high fidelity (i.e. lossless).

> so long as you have an adequate specification snapshot

If the reader implementation itself has been lost to the ages, or perhaps the implementation is not runnable on contemporary hardware, then I worry that the specs alone may not be sufficient to reimplement the reader.

> a standard that maintains a heavy bias towards backwards compatibility

On the topic of archival, I'm concerned that ASCII will be a readable data format in 50 years. With that perspective, I am pretty skeptical that a spec as complex as the OneNote spec will maintain backward-compatible coherence across the same time span.
Well, that too, but the most important thing is the cost to carry a particular adaptation/mutation. If it's low enough, then it won't get thrown out by the pressure of natural selection. If it's beneficial, then it'll get selected for (so it'll spread in the population). That's one way how seemingly uninteresting adaptations have spread, they got lucky and coincided with a useful mutation.

So evolution is an optimization process. On a constantly changing landscape.
Why don't they? There are not that much performance downsides to PaX/grsecurity AFAIK. And it doesn't break the ABI monthly like OpenBSD does. (Don't get me wrong, I like OpenBSD personally, but this is not suitable for enterprises)

I don't agree with Torvalds, but at least I can understand him. I don't understand why distros don't implement it.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/business/2015/11/05/net-of-...
Ask HN: For Any HN Googlers That Work on Chromecast
I figured this might be a positive channel where I might be able to reach some Googlers that read HN, rather than simply submitting this to a Chromecast Google Group or other support channel that's out there.

The Chromecast is a really nice piece of inexpensive hardware and it has some built-in functionality that is almost perfect for the needs of a basic digital signage solution, but it is missing a few features that would make it VERY useful in this regard. Recently, the Chromecast has added some extra options that allow us to pull from Google Photos, Flickr, Facebook, etc.

This works well at home but it doesn't work as well in a business setting.

What I'm proposing is rather simple, but I believe coupled with the Chromecast ethernet adapter, it would make for a pretty powerful single-screen digital signage option for campuses.

This is all I'd want: the ability to specify in our Chromecast settings a URL to a JSON document which would describe the files we'd want to appear.

At a basic level this file would allow for specifying URLs to photos an organization might have on a web server, but additionally it would allow URLs to MP4 files too to allow for more complex displays. Optionally a text caption or .srt file could be specified for each file.

The Chromecast would be able to read this format and simply use that to start showing images/video on the screen it's connected to without any additional user intervention (every so often it should recheck the URL and scan for any changes so it can automatically pick those up to start showing updated content).

The benefit of this approach is it would be setup at the system level, so no manual "casting" would be required and would only need to be setup once in an area.

Anyhow, just an idea...but I really do hope there are some Googlers on here that could take the thought to heart and help make it a reality (for me and others :-)!

Thank you!
Wealth inequality mostly due to bad things is not inconsistent with Graham's position. Historically, wealth inequality has been mostly due to the bad practices such as plunder, enslavement, colonial occupation, and other forms by which one group of humans exploits another...so I don't think there's any reason for starting the second statement with "but".
What percentage of people have a net worth of zero? If you've got $1000 to your name, are you richer than 48% of the worlds population, by the same metric? Anyone have the data for this?
The VR labs sound great, but maybe not enough to offer a material advantage.

The next stage of the game engine wars will be fought and won over how the developers extend the designer app with VR UI, enabling creating VR (or traditional) games/experiences from within VR.

I'm sure they're all already plotting this on the roadmap, even if they're not vocal about the specifics yet.
That sounds like a security-through-obscurity approach to me. (No doubt others would call it defense in depth).
The service I use is the CrashPlan "family" plan. If I would just gather all the data to one machine instead it would work too (could just keep it on a file server with a directory per machine or whatever). The only reason "machines" are useful is for having separate easy restores -- basically my parents or mother in law can restore their machines from the other side of the country.

As long as you just keep the external drives connected to the same machine during backup, the backup application doesn't care where the file set to backup is mounted. its just a directory list per machine.

I used to backup "data" too, by using a first step of backup of multiple machines to a NAS and then only backup that data to the cloud. However, I sacrificed that extra security for the added convenience of direct restore of individual files and machines. It also reduced the risk of me having done a mistake in the backup config of the first step (which I estimated to be a way higher risk than hardware failure, fire or a data breach at the cloud provider, since I have basically never configured anything right). Being able to easily fetch an individual file from 1 day or 1 week ago can really save time. Edit: also remember that the backup client on Linux uses ram proportional to the backup size so on my cheapo NAS I also outgrew its ram and would have had to get a faster one or a file server, that was also partly why I left it.

The good thing about the backup pricing is that it doesn't increase with aggregated backups like normal storage. It's 150/year so to be competitive you need a few TB, but you can very easily backup your parents machines too and save some time around Christmas... Note though that people sharing the same plan can see each others data (or so I presume)
Two seperate issues there, 1) I don't see a problem with a honest CSR 2) yeah there is no way that a car that had been allocated to a customer should be taken even by the CEO.

Honesty is rarely an issue, the lack of accountability is.
What systems have you considered so far?
Perhaps most notably, Haskell has the same behavior as LiveScript.

EDIT: Derp, that's not true. (- 2) == (-2)
He did it in 7:45. They don't stop the race timer because you stopped.

That's towards the back of the pack for a trail 50K with that kind of elevation profile.

It'd be better as an experiment if we measured the author's VO2Max, his 1 mile run time on a track, and then ran the 50K on a track. Measure ketone levels, etc.
> each night gthnk exports the database to the filesystem because, for future retrieval purposes, I think it will be easier to retrieve items from a filesystem than an obscure database format.

In 20 years, how do I know which binary blob goes with which text file, and also with what point in each text file?

I want add: It's so wonderful to hear a developer concerned with these issues. Almost always, future-proofed data is an accident or afterthought, which means I can't depend on it being implemented well or being supported in the long term. It puts gthnk on my shortlist.
You are definitely not alone. This comes up whenever someone demos an immersive 360 video player. But, you are being picky. Arguing for hard-edged semantic barriers is possibly the greatest time waster on the internet. It would be more productive to say that immersive, 3-DOF display of mono, 360 video is really crappy VR. Similarly, a good Google Cardboard experience can at least be stereo, but the 3-DOF tracking is probably terrible, so it is also really crappy VR.

Unfortunately, the infancy of consumer VR will not mature instantly into excellent hardware and software production value for all users on day one. Instead, it will follow a power law curve like everything else does. In the mean time, the best we can do is try to remind the millions of people watching mono 360 videos on their terrible-tracking Cardboards that what they are seeing is really, really crappy VR.

I liken it to watching a cellphone video of a live concert on a cellphone. You are just barely watching a concert... And, if you've never been to one, you shouldn't assume you now know what going to an excellent concert is like.
I wonder how much it would cost to generate that using EC2 spot instances.
And it really needs some degree of positional tracking as well for it to be true VR. Simple stereoscopic 360 video is far more immersive when your view responds realistically to small head movements.
I hope Elon personally takes responsibility for this. The person who told the author what was going on is the only person in the story who provided good customer service!
Same here.
A strange mixture of "Man in the Highcastle" cross "Better of Ted" vibe /scnr
This reminds me of space impact on the nokia 3310.
Thanks! A video is in the works, but it will be a few weeks due to schoolwork.

I say it like "G. Think". gthnk is shortened from "greenthink," which was a computer system in Vernor Vinge's "Marooned in Realtime" that acted like a personal archive/assistant.
This is also true of Standard ML, where unary minus is ~, and APL, where unary minus is ¯
Or work for an indie company. I imagine that's not nearly as rife with poor treatment.
can copwatch.org find a clever way to use this?
I would think that too, but it seemed that because of the testing, the vehicle was no longer available to the customer, and would retire as an R&D vehicle. From the write up, Tesla pre-sold a used vehicle, and then was unable to fulfill the sale. The customer's option seemed to be "find a different car".
I brought it up recently in the #nim irc channel, trying to get a good explanation. The creator still seemed to think it was a good idea, and I could not convince him otherwise.
Lol, guy angling for a free car.

Sorry your discount scheme didn't work out. Pay retail like the majority of the retail public.
The way macros and dot operators work in Nim is super neato. Lots of interesting possibilities for DSLs and the like.
Hawking: Threats to Human Survival Likely from New Science
Over 4 years with no ETA or announcements on this widely required feature satisfies the criteria of "no action."

That's fine if I'm just whining, but am hoping to get some attention to them on this, since apparently they don't give much weight to their own feature-request system.
Congrats on not dying I guess. As someone who has been around elite athletes my whole life an article like this doesn't phase me at all. A bad diet can throw the best athlete off her game. On the other hand, Michael Jordan can win the NBA finals on nothing but water and flu in his stomach. There are a lot of factors on what it takes to get through a 50K. I think a lot of us runners could do it starving ourselves, but we'd just feel very bad the whole race.
Urgent: use cache before hitting your DB all the time in your blog :P * website is down * (an easy way to do that is with cloudflare)
pneumatics corrects me and says his actual moving pace was 11:12 min/mi. This is a pretty good pace, given the terrain, and far beyond speed walking.

I've run everything from flat, paved marathons to alpine mountain ultras. The paces are totally different. I'm going to be running a technical ultra a good 3-4 minutes/min slower than I'd run a flat road marathon.
I don't think it's entirely wrong, at least for violin-family instruments.

If I put my hand near the f-holes on my cello while I play, I can feel a shocking amount of airflow in and out of the body.

The sound emitted by the holes is indeed unbalanced because that's dominated by the resonant frequency of the instrument, but that's a large part of what gives the instrument such acoustic power.

...

Additionally, it does make sense that the sound is more efficiently emitted by narrow holes with lots of edge area: it's like the skin effect in electrical conductors at high frequencies, where most of the current flows near the surface of wires, rather than in the bulk.
Paranoia as a design choice
Sounds sensible. Case sensitivity makes life harder for beginners and the advantages are minimal (would you really want to have two different variables called VariableName and variable_name in scope?). There are plenty of potential pitfalls (e.g. code that only compiles in Turkey), but the principle is a great idea.
Microsoft Keeps Backup of Your Encryption Key on Its Server – How to Delete
If they have any customer service savvy they'll get ahead of this, public statement apologising and a much better car at the original price.

It's easily fixed if they just get ahead of it and then figure out what the hell went wrong and how to prevent it in future.

It's like that thing about Doctors getting sued less if they just apologise for screwups, shit happens and most people are understanding if you are honest about it - mealy mouthed platitudes from the "Big Book of Covering Screwups" however annoy people.
(American readers may be more familiar with the similar "Sovereign Citizen movement": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovereign_citizen_movement)
demo: http://www.dash-player.com/demo/adaptive-vr-360-video-html5-...
That was with the materials back then.

Here are some of the current materials that we have that they didn't:

1. Concrete ( reinforced ) - much more durable than brick and mortar.

2. Mechanized vehicles like backhoes and the such to build walls

3. Better materials to trap and retain heat.

Probably others as well.

We also now have a global warming problem and other externalities that make greenhouses' energy inefficiency bad for society.

You know that "energy fetish"
I read this as: "I tried to save money and it backfired."

They have actual sales channels with real support, by sidestepping that and your stuck in weird internal processes.

IMO, paying full price and just buying fewer things massively simplifies most processes.

PS: That's not to say Tesla did a good job. Just that edge cases are often fragile and it's a good idea to weigh your time vs. the actual savings.
Lots of videos with fun puzzles. Great idea, excellently designed! You should try it.
The Polaroids of the Cowboy Poet
My email to my intern on how startup marketing works
What company? Curious, I also live in Jersey.