skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very similar experience here! 4K+ calorie daily average mostly of junk food from ages ~15-21, maybe 30 minutes/day average of weightlifting, rarely some cardio, visible upper ab muscles, call it a "4 pack", full on six-pack abs if I happened to be slightly more active in a week (a few hours of casual swimming, for instance).

Then I decided I wanted to cut down to the six-pack bodyfat level and stay there, so for the initial "cut" phase of that plan I dieted at ~1400 calories a day, every single day (no cheating) for ~2-3 months, and started doing way more cardio. Only lost a couple pounds, little or no visible difference, so, confused and frustrated, I gave up. Makes no damn sense according to any "weight loss calculator" I've ever seen (which all claim that my BMR should sit in the low 2000s), but that's what happened.

Packed on fat immediately when I went back to my usual eating patterns, took me years to get that under control. To this day I seem to easily hit a plateau a bit over what I'd call my healthy range when dieting at any reasonable (not near or under starvation level) caloric intake.

OTOH I've found that strength training's more effective for me than it "ought" to be but requires time, which sucks. I'd love to be able to diet my way to a trim waist, since maintaining an intake under what weight loss tables/calculators say should work for me is something I find easy to do. Too bad it doesn't.

Don't know what the explanation is, but something weirder than the "calories in/calories out, and calories out is fairly easy to guesstimate with useful accurately" orthodoxy is going on.
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People used to use Sheevaplugs for this, e.g. https://www.pwnieexpress.com/product/pwn-plug-elite/
Looks good! Update the screenshot (still references @brobot)
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> This is a great analogy. "It's your fault" is not a public health policy, it's a cop-out.

A cop-out from what, exactly? Does society have a responsibility to make everyone thin?

Even if you say it does, how would you propose it goes about doing that? There's no scalable, organizable effort you can take that will make fat people thin.

If you say we have to throw more money at research, I say, sure, we should! Along with every other worthy cause. Where we're going to get the money, I've no idea. If you do, that's a completely different kind of argument.
You're arguing over the usage of dangerous, which was perfectly valid, as if it were a binary term? I don't get it. It was never used as such. I gave you a sampling of data and you want to continue off an example left off the sampling. So just add it? Who cares?

> It seems you're upset about something I said that you disagree with and are using hostility instead of reason.

You made a statement that was extreme and never supplied a source. At this point you're just trying to troll and branch the argument down paths that are unrelated. Just go back to reddit.

If you want to have a real, intellectual discussion about topics you yourself brought up then you need to provide source. Trying to find irrelevant faults just make you look like a troll.

Have fun arguing with yourself.
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> At least a drug addict doesn't have to take just the /right/ amount of the drug every day to stay healthy!

spoken like someone with no experience with drug addiction. ever heard of a maintenance program?
Also worth noting it's an open source project so if you're interested in contributing in this area, we'd love to have you on board.
I don't think this is entirely fair. The full encoding of FLIF is lossless, yes, but it has VERY strong progressive decoding.

You could just truncate the file at x% and get lossy encoding that way.
While that's half-true, compare ES3 to ES2015, or DHTML to HTML5.
Noooo.. How can I run it on my old SUN SPARC server if it's not in Java?
... not quite elder enough just yet, but I would also add:

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Judging Minecraft by its blocky world is very unfair and shortsighted.

Game world is not only de-facto voxels. Its transparent, masked and oblique voxels that interact with each other or other entities, like farm blocks by water blocks, lava blocks with burnable blocks nearby, plants growing up, hostile mobs spawns and lines of sights, mobs pathing as they follow player, fellow mobs or random points of interest for wandering, etc ect.
Honestly, I view the need to hit the play button as the right user-experience. Sure, a user-defined option to turn that off would be cool, but I'd never use it. I wish GIFs had that option as well, actually
Plus $20k with remote allowed can go waaaaaaay further than $20k and must be in SV.
I only quoted the sentence I was replying to. To assume I didn't read the rest of your message is, frankly, insulting. The exception you were talking about ("short looping video with horrible compression") is precisely the thing that both GIF and APNG aren't supposed to do well.

Both GIF and APNG support:

- palettes

- transparency

- different delay per frame

- combine/replace disposal mode per frame

Generic video formats don't generally support these.
In order to not become abandoned, open source software needs to be not only open source, but also to have easily accessible source control, issue tracker and other community-required tools.

In case of Unison – it's a program done by a brilliant Computer Scientist and author of one of the best books I've read (well, reading) "Types and Programming Languages" Benjamin Pierce. I know he had put quite some research effort into that tool, but I don't see community-related infrastructure around it being in place, that's why it looks (or maybe is) rather abandoned.

Btw, here's another fun video of B. Pierce making some intriguing statements regarding a popular file-sync program called Dropbox https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2jQe8DFzUM
You don't know - which is why javascript needs to be whitelist-only, no exceptions.

> performance-related reasons

Security is always more important than performance. It's irresponsible to sacrifice security simply to make page loads faster.

Some of these problems can be worked around in the future with authenticated hrefs (such as with a hash-check aka subresource integrity).
Good point. Still, a drastic revolution in devices isn't something that happens often.
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How does it compare to syncthing?
> If you're gaining weight, it means you're eating more than your body can burn, so you need to eat less.

This is spot on. So you have a slow metabolism/bad genetics/conditions/etc? Sucks to be you. Sorry. It's like that saying by Schneier about copy protection and the speed of light. If you want to lose weight, adjust your intake downwards. That's all it takes. Hungry/craving something? Try substituting something more filling (less calorie dense), or eating a little bit to see if that makes the craving go away.
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That's exactly how I use ClojureScript and one of the main reasons why I'll never go back to JavaScript. :)
Right. I was aiming for the 'simple' answer but should have said DOM instead of HTML.

I'm also thinking in more of an Angular2 context as that's what I'm most familiar with.
The described issues that prompted the switch don't really have much to do with Python. The issues map back to running on whatever installation of Python the customer might already have.

Lua, in and of itself, didn't solve the problems. Shipping their own, known, Lua interpreter + extensions solved them. (which they could have done with Python)
That's right, but only if what was stolen was insured and worth doing the paperwork. So cars burnt are usually fairly reliable (but the gvt often tries to publish the statistics with long delays to hide the extent of a violent episode). Burglaries a bit less, depending on the damage to the property and what was stolen. But someone stealing your mobile phone or punching you in the face because you looked at them the wrong way, not so much. In fact most of the time the police tries to discourage people from filling a complaint, as it creeps up their crime statistics, and worse than that, their unsolved crime statistics.
Incidentally, this is now explicitly taught in elementary school math classes. They call it 'number bonds' and it often drives parents crazy because "OMG IT ISN'T HOW I LEARNED IT!", but it is clearly a better strategy than 'just memorize this multiplication table'
Yes but they could easily add the ability to do this over HTTPS too by using SNI or knowing the CDN IPs.
A test that would use 100 lambda functions in parallel from each of the 4 regions and run for 5 minutes would cost about 3 USD. That should achieve a concurrency level of 100,000. That would be the most expensive test possible at the moment. Smaller tests are basically free.
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I like tools like this, but I had a few suggestions:

"Statsbot does store basic analytics profile information for configuration and authentication information for querying your data. It never stores metrics."

Would really need to know more about this before I connected you to my company's analytics account. There's a ton of highly-confidential data in there that I could result in me being fired or worse if I gave that data to someone who misused it without doing proper due diligence.

I realize this is likely in the MVP stage, but what I'd need to see would be some sort of legal terms governing your usage of that data, something indicating you are in my legal jurisdiction so I could have recourse if the data was handled poorly (for example, if you left the data wide open for the taking during a hack, etc.). That might sound heavy-handed and extreme, and I know the HN crowd doesn't like litigiousness, but if it comes down to the security/protection of our company data vs. trying some cool new non-essential tool, I'm always going to pick the former which means I wouldn't even try the tool.

Again, not being a jerk here--would love to try this out, but currently I cannot because the information provided about it is insufficient. If I could review the source that would be even better.

Other things to include would be details about who you are and where you are located (ie. why should I trust you with my data), and some examples of what the output looks like beyond the one screenshot. You have several great examples of the input options, but those should each have screenshots of sample output as well.

Happy to discuss further if you're interested.
> The factory you worked at shutdown; you need to move on, and if that means moving to another town to find work, then do that.

Therein lies a big part of the problem. You're asking families who've lived somewhere to abandon the place they've called home and established for decades when the only big employer in their small town closes. This is a big problem when you have an entire region of a country that is nothing but small towns with only one (now no) big factory in them. Michigan says hi.
Is there any specific reason that there're not much YC companies working on gaming? I can only assume that the gaming startups maybe seen as less predictable than the tech ones, but seeing all entreprenourship and indie gaming booming and they're not meeting, makes me wonder.

My opinion is that nobody yet able to crack the gaming funding as YC did for tech startups.
If it were an antiquated view it wouldn't be so popular!

Even as open source .NET is still a huge pain to get running under Linux and development of .NET anything is extremely difficult without Visual Studio (which doesn't run on Linux). Not only that but most of the .NET libraries one would use for any given purpose only work on Windows. So even if the core of .NET is open source and cross platform any software written using that platform can only effectively run on Windows.

When Microsoft puts out a version of Visual Studio for Linux desktops ("Minecraft modding edition"!) then I might start believing that they're serious about cross-platform software. It'll also signify their complete lack of relevance because to have gotten to that point would mean a level of desperation that would indicate a sinking ship.

It's just not in Microsoft's nature to make a product that's truly independent of its operating system and/or office software.
If I were to look at this from the outside in, I see potential for use in physical intrusion where one could do the same with molecular structures as done with the cells here. On a larger scale a framework could be devised that simply "moves aside" the components of a door or a wall, allowing you to walk through the remaining hole; then, the components are "moved back" in place, leaving no trace of the intrusion.
I understand your point of view, but the Minecraft deal with Oculus wasn't even particularly public or well-known at the time (they had only been in discussions for two weeks before the acquisition, and it wasn't official yet). Notch "announced" it very dramatically by announcing that it was cancelled.

To me, this feels like an action that was intended to stir controversy, but I will admit I could be wrong. You may see it differently.

As for Jonathan Blow, I'll refrain from commenting because I don't know anything about that situation.
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Yeahhhh downvote me. do it.
He found it through a computer search that not only proved that axiom worked, but also proved that no smaller axiom could.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfram_axiom for more.
Wait. So, on your view, it's fair -- "Treating people equally without favouritism or discrimination" or "Just or appropriate in the circumstances", according to oxforddictionaries.com's top two definitions -- for a rapist-murderer to be able to get on with his life (maybe after 20 extremely frustrating but possibly also fruitful years for him) while an innocent young lady's is tragically cut short?

And you think it's an indictment on Biblical (and, apparently, also Oxonion) definitions of "fair" that they'd disagree with you on that?
NASA is currently trying to do something like that:
http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/space-robots/haw...
Not trying to not give them a break, but I'm pointing out they said clearly there's no difference in quality. There surely is.

To your excellent point about MP4 to BPG conversion, I'd say that OP should have used (did they? I don't know) the source material to avoid a "copy of a copy."
Mp4 requiring you to hit play is a /feature/ in my book. The fact that animated gifs automatically play has caused more problems, like annoying banner ads, than it's created.

Were this fifteen years ago, I'd recommend that the makers of this format create a proper plugin to handle this format in the interim, but because browser makers are terrified of extra functionality, especially on mobiles, we can't do that anymore.
I don't think very many practitioners share your view that regressions are meant to be simplistic first steps on the path to more sophisticated analyses or experiments. If that were true, then I would definitely agree with you that we can forgive most of the shortcommings of frequentist regressions.

In practice and in academia, though, I've only ever experienced researchers who see regressions as the main result, and they intend on exclusively using regression models even before they have any sense of what the data is or what the challenges will be.

In a lot of cases, they even go out of their way to build frameworks that hard-code in the assumption that whatever model is used must be representable as a set of coefficients and their standard errors. It's painful to see it happen: people have been using regression models for so long (due to the easy manipulation of what the results "mean") that they can't even imagine any other way of doing things.

Even in cases where someone might want to earnestly prioritize a move to a more accurate or more flexible modeling framework, they often can't because decades of legacy code has been tailored to work solely with coefficient-based regression models. The software development cost of switching would be so high that they would rather just find excuses to hide the model's inaccuracy and "sell" the results than to bite the bullet and invest in systems where the results are actually statistically rigorous.
Definitely! Not something we could have done properly in 48 hours though :)
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Strange... Reach out to the maintainers, they act pretty quickly on issues.

On my MBP and the ones of my colleagues, plus my windows machines, spacemacs works great and without issues the last couple of months.

It even convinced 10y+ vim and IDE users to jump ship after testing it for a week.

From my own experience: developing in go, elixir, javascript + react ... It feels exceptionally great with the correct "layers" installed. And being a top notch crosslanguage IDE is just the tip of the iceberg of what spacemacs/emacs actually is capable of...
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Yes. One could attain illegally via the torrent route the other is snail mailing RTE and asking how to get a copy. It's narrated by Jeremy Irons.

You can see a trailer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEjzjLv-YjI
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The fact that it's not a Google product is what makes it more likely to be around longer.
Couldn't they have used virtualenv with Python? Also, Python packages have a way of declaring dependencies including specifying the Python version that your package requires. This should've guarded against any incompatibilities. I don't think any of this was specific to Lua.
Exactly my thought, that whole operation seems like it could have been done in Python. This has nothing to do with the Lua being a 'special' or 'faster' language.
Fair enough, it works a lot better as a gif. Out of curiosity, does this clear things up, or just as confusing?

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1a/Fourier_...
It's worth pointing out that Rattner ISN'T calling for brakes on globalization or free trade. He's calling for a stronger social safety net, in order to better help those who aren't benefiting from the economic wealth that globalization generates. This is a position that we can all get behind. Regardless of the precise causes of income inequality, whether it's due to globalization, labor automation, or industry cycles, there will always be people who find themselves left out in the cold due to unfortunate circumstances. As long as our society keeps getting richer, we should do more to help those who aren't benefiting from the same changes that have benefited the rest of us.
> There is also a quote of Gandhi I cannot find. So I'll paraphrase: If you are angry at someone, and he did not intend to hurt you, you should not be angry. If he did intend to hurt you, he is not as wise/it's in his nature, and you should not be angry.

What? Why shouldn't I be angry if a fool intentionally hurts me?
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People overestimate the size of the hobbyist/geek market. Sure, in the Valley everyone and their dog can configure a NAS using a terminal from their latest generation iPad, but that's not the case outside of the Bay Area. I'd suggest you go to Sacramento and ask people on the street if they even know what a NAS or home server is (I once was dumb enough to start a startup there... you are one hour out of SF, but when it came to adversity to technology you might as well be in rural Alabama. This is the capital of California we are talking about!)

Providing these "geek-to-geek" options (term isn't mine) looks like a great business idea when all your friends would use it. But again, the financial incentive is not there if it takes equivalent (or even less) effort to design something that can be used by millions of people instead of hundreds of thousands.
>you are unwilling to learn a new trait

I think you meant "trade." But your mistake is quite illustrative.

You can't go to school to acquire (in this example) supermodel looks.
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Exactly. The part about detecting video is specifically binge on/http, and the techdirt article completely misunderstands it and claims it's talking about encrypted video.
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I just get a blank frame on up to date FF. Chrome grinds to a halt.
I would assume education would cover differences in individual metabolism, so you'd know if you were gaining weight to consume less food.
Some interesting points about how manual the data-entry in SAP was:

"The investigative team estimated information in the system was accurate about 30% of the time. In the U.S., it’s between 98% and 99%....

Thus, “data week” was held in the fall of 2012. Merchandisers essentially had to confirm every data point for every product with their vendors. A buyer might have 1,500 products and 50 to 80 fields to check for each one. The more experienced employees had the foresight to keep records of verified information (dubbed “sources of truth”), which made the task a little easier. Others weren’t so lucky. Complicating matters was the dummy information entered into the system when SAP was set up. That dummy data was still there, confusing the system, and it had to be expunged. “We actually sat there and went through every line of data manually,” says a former employee...

There was an entirely different process to ensure the correct data actually made it into SAP. The employees in Mississauga couldn’t do so directly. Instead, the information was sent to a Target office in India, where staff would load it into SAP. Extra contractors had to be hired in India, too. “Sometimes even when we had the data correct, it got mixed up by the contractors in Target India,” says a former employee. (Another former employee disputes this: “Sometimes the quality of their work wasn’t so great, but for the most part they did a good job.”)"
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It's kind of an odd concept; you post an opinion piece, and then down vote anyone that doesn't agree with your personal opinion.

Why post it at opinion pieces at all? Just post your opinion and lock the thread.
We have a somewhat relevant announcement to this tomorrow...
Did you just compare holding your breath for 30m to not eating?

Fail.
Can't tell how serious you're being, but there's definitely something to that!

On the other hand, mp3 found its way into common parlance just fine, despite being decidedly unpronounceable as a word, so who knows.

Irony of course being the eternal debate over how to actually pronounce GIF: http://howtoreallypronouncegif.com/ ;-)
BPG is basically HVEC, so why not just use HVEC?

its a serious question, in 2 years HVEC decoders will be in all hardware. Which means fast, energy efficient decoders on virtually all platforms.

Having a seperate codec, which is basically a less capable version of an industry standard, whats the point? (ignoring the still images part for a second.)
Ah, that makes sense.

So, we could conceivably claim that if that is fixed, Java might be able to JIT compile run code a bit faster than C++ in a wider application that currently, but then again by the time that happens, C++ might have a plethora of other tricks up it's sleeve to make execution a little faster.
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