skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This doesn't always work. Many people, myself included can fail to lose weight on a restricted calorie diet.

I spent 12 months eating below 1200 while working out religiously (4-6 days a week with 30sh mins of cardio followed by 45sh mins of weight lifting). In the beginning I lost weight and fast. At 5'9 I went from 240 down to 148 lbs in 7 months.

You just described an example showing that a restricted calorie diet can be wildly successful. The former quote seems provably false using the latter.

Honestly, this is what I just read from your post.

I can't lose weight on a restricted calorie diet. Here is an example of how I lost a huge amount of weight on a restricted calorie diet.
There is so much more to college than learning vocational skills and a certification. Those skills are only a tiny part of it and self-development, especially of your intellect and knowledge, is most of it.
There is more money if the 98% monopoly cut is removed.

I cite Drummond & Cauty's The Manual, how to have a number one and make a million quid * as the KLF they did just this, repeatedly & using pseudonyms. That was in the 'bad old days', Cauty & Drummond proved that without a record company bleeding them dry artists could make a lifetime's cash with a single hit.

Todays 'problem' is everyone wants to create, sample, share, remix, transcode, &c but copyright maximalism largely prevents this.

I believe that a distribution scheme could pay creatives directly, just as a little extra, they can still sell stuff - my thesis is without the 98% loss due to the cartels this is workable and everyone can play & innovate. Ireland does this in reverse, artists don't pay tax there & get tax credits (~£50 per week).

Also restore copyright back to 20-40 years putting the 20th century in the public domain where it belongs and destroying the back-catalogue leverage the monopolists abuse.

* http://freshonthenet.co.uk/the-manual-by-the-klf/

Nearly anything would be better than suing fans & killing innovation.
How will Forum address the chicken/egg problem commonly faced by new social networks?

What painpoints of Twitter, Facebook, etc, does it address?
The wikipedia article says that, when designing Google's language, all three of them had to agree on every single feature so no "extraneous garbage" crept in. The C developers dream language was basically an updated Oberon. That's them dropping the QED on C supporters for me. :)

Funny thing is, Oberon family was used to build both apps and whole operating systems. Whereas, Thompson et al's version is merely an application language lambasted for comparisons with system languages. I don't know if they built Oberon up thanks to tooling and such or if they've dropped back down a notch from Component Pascal since it's less versatile. Just can't decide.

Note: Imagine where we'd be if they figured that shit out early on like the others did. We'd be arguing why an ALGOL68 language wasn't good enough vs ML, Eiffel DbC, LISP's macros, and so on. The eventual compromise would've been better than C, Go, or ALGOL68. Maybe.
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@kbenson Your explanation makes a lot more sense. Increasing the hash table size probably didn't affect the perf. significantly, but binding to the ANY ip did.
Absolutely. Definitely not excess skin.
Please don't engage in programming language flamewars here. They're shallow, tedious, and silly, and never teach anybody anything (except maybe flamewar tactics).
When CFL bulbs were new (and pricey) there were a number of programs to sell those at discounted prices to consumers through the power companies. I've never heard of anything comparable wrt insulation although that doesn't mean there hasn't been such.

I've actually done a lot with my house when I've been having construction done anyway but there's no easy way to retrofit insulation into the existing walls. (Plaster lath etc.)
"Plugins" can mean many things, ranging from dynamically loading parts of the app to having an embedded scripting language.

I'm fine with a text editor without plugins as long as the editor can neatly interface with external applications. I used to use some Vim plugins but I found them to be more trouble than they're worth. Now I have vanilla Vim with only some syntax highlighting additions.

Rather than embedding my workflows into the editor, I'd like to embed the editor in my workflows. I don't want to run terminal apps from inside the editor, but I do want to run external apps and get the results in the editor. E.g. Vim has :make and :grep that work with the quickfix list, but this can also be done by invoking make or grep in the shell and piping the output to vim (+ some command line options to read the quickfix from stdin).

For my use, the feature that Vis needs the most is the client-server model, so I can use tmux to manage windows and open editor windows in any terminal session. That, coupled with some helpers to run external apps should do more than 80% of what I'd use editor plugins for.
Wow! Do you know of any specific labels made using fish guts? This sounds interesting.
We currently do not have a prototype, the design is in it's conceptual stage.
We've banned this account for repeatedly breaking the site guidelines.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11446242 and marked it off-topic.
Kinda misleading title. Doesn't really have anything to do with database design. It has to do with sharing Entity-Relationship diagrams. Maybe "Design better relational models".
> Is it a secret though?

It's a secret to the majority of the people that are the market for a book like that. As opposed to those of us who are on top of startups who found out that information many many years ago.
This looks great, any other recommendations for enjoyable reads on ml/stat learning?

ESL
ISLR
doing Bayesian data analysis w/ jags/Stan
bda3 - gelman
prob graphical models
Convex analysis - Boyd
adv data analysis from elem pov - shalizi

Trying to build out my library. I have a background in prob/stats/analysis and measure theory/linear algebra and also knowledge of algorithms and data structures at the advanced undergrad level, So I'm not too concerned about technical depth just want to enjoy a good technical expository and gain intuition.
Austin Startup Sees a Big Future for Little Homes
Getting news coverage for the lulz.
Non-expert DL practitioner here. The coverage is very good - if I were running some kind of "Deep Learning onboarding class" for a university or tech company, this is what I would present.

My favorite aspect of this book is that it provides a graphical models interpretation of DL methods, which is the most powerful perspective we have right now to reason about model design (instead of some large black box function that we train end-to-end without knowing what's in between).

It also explains some fairly recent models and techniques well (VAE, DCGAN, regularization) that form the basis of more complex architectures. If you understand the models here, you should be able to understand the design choices made in more complex architectures.

Thanks to Goodfellow, Bengio, and Courville for this excellent work.
>Which people?

Currently, high schools students taking the PARCC, SmarterBalanced, and other web-based standardized tests.

And whoa man is it terrible to watch them struggle with it.
I've submitted my stuff

digital teleportation = socialAR/VR https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11447923

No comments, no upvotes.

Following the link with all "Apply HN" I can see almost all applications have the same fate.

Too many ? Too boring ?

Is this experiment a failure ?

Too soon to tell ?
Unfortunately this is flawed in a very fundamental way. The NYC subways have different schedules for the morning rush, afternoon, afternoon rush, evening, and night. There should be at least three different distributions in the delay/wait data. Without teasing apart these distributions, I'm not convinced that anything meaningful can be said.
I've always thought that level caps in MMOs, particularly the WoW variety slash-and-burn where you basically make a new theme park every two years and throw the last one in the dumpster in terms of player viability, is a destructive cycle not conductive to building real living worlds.

Theme Park/Resort Casino. Basically dazzle your senses while getting you to play a rigged game to massage you with variable schedule of reward. A real, living world is spoiler-proof.
Pointing at popular products with crappy Ux and implying that their popularity vindicates their interfaces is totally specious. Does the author honestly believe that that is how markets work?

Those products all have years of growth and hefty network effects backing them up. You can infer exactly nothing about the importance of ux based on the difficulty of unseating them.
I have ran connect side by side with rapportive during the beta and have not noticed any data gaps. There are other sources of data beyond linkedin.
I thought the same thing when it was done (or was it 10k?) for _Things Explained_ by 'the XKCD guy'.

Great idea, needs more words. It's too extreme.

In the case of this editor, it may actually be useful to some if `N` were configurable, and maybe exceptions could be added. (If you're writing an OS X user guide say, you want to be able to write 'OS X'!)
I like how you show an mixing board for your example because that industry is actually getting a small upgrade.

Least I heard Yamaha hired a bunch of people to redo the interface on some of their higher end equipment. Trust me, they need it. When you need to go to 3 different menus to configure one setting properly then there is a problem.
> "the best ideas look initially like bad ideas"

And they look even worse to those of us in the peanut gallery (and the pundits) who don't have access to all of the facts that someone who is actually investing has. They at least have answer to questions. A bit like investing at a higher level in the stock market (and taking major positions which often allows you to glean info from people that work at the company).
I've been using the beta in my gmail for a while and the attention to detail is so amazing.
Well? When is it coming to MVS? :)
$300-Focus Group Re: Mobile App Marketing in San Francisco
>A million times this. People think that the second law of thermodynamics doesn't apply to them because "biology is complex!", which sounds an awful lot like the creationists.

Well there are ways that make hitting a calorie deficit easier for some people. For me that tends to come from low carbs and lots of fat. I'm still losing weight because I'm at a deficit but I'm able to maintain that because I don't feel hungry like I do when I eat carbs.
The bigger question though is who is this a badge of honor for and why?

For startups, it's sexy for founders to say they cranked 16 hour days and they had a great exit. They won! Sure, they may have won, but on the other side of that is that they've ground their employees into the ground. Families and friends be damned. Seriously. There's nothing worse having a family that's second to an unsustainable and poisonous work ethic. Talk about breaking down the American family, this is one perfect example; a society that values monetary success over raising the next generation...

I went through one of these and I'll never do it again. I've worked for a lot of startups too and it's only good for investors and founders that get a good exit. It's never good for the employee, even if there is a good exit. For them, the damage is done because they see "wow, we succeeded, this must be the way to do it".

I was close to leaving tech - something I've done for decades - because of this attitude that is really ingrained in tech now. It's a cancer, really. I couldn't agree with the article more and hope people really take it to heart.
True true. Thanks for the reply and explanation of your thought process.
Portland has pretty much the same weather and is at least no less hilly than Seattle. But Portland seems to have a nicer system of bicycle trails and dedicated bike lanes.
The author did limit his "sunk cost" analysis to 7am-7pm due to this exact reason. I think that part at least is quite sound, and is probably the most enlightening takeaway.
I am currently in my first year studying B.Architecture.
But I want my lifes work(my core passion) to be around Software/Tech.

I enrolled to Arch school simply because I thought it was cool and did not do Computer Science cause the syllabus here is kind of out dated (they lack, an Artificial Intelligence module, something i want to get deeply into)
FPGA Video Tutorials (VHDL and Verilog)
Agreed, it's still a multiple more expressive than the other languages I use daily
Why not look into changing the hash keys such that they are not bound to listening port or alternatively put a new lookup and hash in place for this specific purpose?

While bind to star works, it feels like you answered an operational concern but left the design consideration on the table.
Thanks, I will
These kinds of things are cool but they usually last maybe 4-6 months then fall fallow as no one bothers to update them. The feeds are the worst since there's no UI interaction point - the feed just becomes quieter until people forget about it.
Perfect solution!

$ git log -p -S "SECRET_DOM_DO_NOT_USE_OR_YOU_WILL_BE_FIRED"
Identifying technical debt is certainly part of a good code review process, but it's hardly the "whole point".
With all due respect, I don't see ANYONE paying more taxes than they 'have to'... feel free to blame the bought & paid-for politicians. Laws re: taxation effectively nullify any "moral" arguments - aside from the fact that "morals" are subjective...
Why would Chipotle know those things? Chipotle should know its real-time receipts (as should every business) and if others get those before Chipotle makes them public and trade based on those receipts, it would be insider trading.

If banks sell exclusive transaction dumps of non-public receipts and someone trades based on that information, it would be insider trading.
In AsciiMath[1], x = (-b +- sqrt(b^2 - 4ac)) / (2a)

[1]: http://asciimath.org/
Totally off topic, but: I grew up next to the VDNKh metro station in Moscow & therefore appreciate your user name.
Meat is usually wrapped. Some places wrap fruit and vegetables.

I think people trying to give nutritional advice should just list the actual categories of food they're referring to, rather than trying to get cute. If you want to say "eat unprocessed fruit, vegetables, and meat, and avoid the rest" then just say that. To me, whenever I see somebody trying to get clever with their wording, it just comes off as moralizing. It feels like either "you should know this man-made stuff is bad for you, you idiot" or "I'm better than you because my food is 'natural.'"
I have 3 friends who did it. Of that, 2 eventually went back and got their degrees. They also commented that their parents were a bit upset about the whole thing. It seems like the Thiel Fellowship doesn't have the same kind of formal, large investor network that a program like YC offers, which is important for success. You should apply to YC and Thiel and then make your decision once you get accepted to both!
Your Google search has such a photo[1], and I actually really like it.

Actually on closer inspection she might just be taking a selfie. Which would also be ironic in a different way, as neither the Mona Lisa itself nor the crowd would be in shot.

[1]https://static01.nyt.com/images/2014/07/29/arts/SUBMUSEUMS/S...
Fish fingers are nutritionally pretty good - low calorie, high protein, and freezing is a good way to preserve food without adding things you have to ask questions about. The cheaper ones also tend to use more sustainable fish, and mechanical recovery maximises yield from a scarce resource.
The fact that start and endpoints of calculated routes are uploaded to a server (and until recently unencrypted[1]) doesn't inspire confidence. The app also collects analytic statistics and serves ads by default. If you're interested in a maps application that is not "trying to track you everywhere", OsmAnd[2] is a better choice.

Also, Maps.me is owned by mail.ru which has a similar business model to Google with arguably more lax security practices.

[1]https://github.com/mapsme/omim/issues/1073
[2]http://osmand.net
Searching algorithms were completely redone in this release. Give it a try.
I found troff syntax to be very hard to debug for parse errors, while you can easily fit the tex tokenizer into your head. There is also much less control in eg alignment of complex tables.
> A hundred years ago, they'd be running a milling company, or figuring the best way to get rails installed, etc.

Programmers today are also figuring out the best way to get Rails installed! :)
How we gave our SaaS product a personality
I don't think that anyone would suggest that someone motivated could get by with building their own dreams without subjecting themselves to academic torture.
git-annex uses aria2 for torrent downloads
They are the utility scripts to start an editor window in Acme. B is async whereas E is sync (so that it can be used for the EDITOR env variable for software like git).

Not sure what they stand for for sure. E is probably editor. B might be buffer?
Show HN: Happening – a platform for group apps
this pacman + aria2 is awesome. had no idea that was even possible.
It's only that easy if you work somewhere with zero network security. Given how mismanaged government IT departments seem to be, that's not unlikely though :)
TSA paid IBM $47,400 for an app that only pointed right or left
Getclump/clump: A library for expressive and efficient service composition
Yes the lack of binary packages is a known problem.

The whole project is still somewhat in flux, feel free to contribute by filling a packaging request to your favorite distribution ...

Historically it originates from a community which is comfortable building from source.
We recently encountered a situation where (brought to mind by recent political events) my wife wanted to watch Bob Roberts[0], an obscure "mockumentary" about an outrageous wealthy political candidate.

I'd never heard of it. She asked around, and almost none of her friends had either. She was so insistent regarding its relevance that we set up a viewing party to see it.

Being naive, we both assumed it could be streamed... somewhere. We haven't used those plastic discs in a while either, but we figured we would not need them. We didn't know whether Netflix would have it, but we figured somebody would take our money so we could see it.

Nobody. Nowhere. It was completely unavailable.

I figured that the rights were tied up to keep those physical discs moving from shelves. I thought I'd run to the nearest big box store and pick it up. I went to their web site to see if they had it.

Nope. Not there.

I mean, I suppose you can imagine how my story ends: I go to a shady looking site where I can find this particular movie for free and have it saved on my hard drive with no restrictions. Just as I was becoming annoyed with the future, I was reminded of how senseless this problem is.

It was a good movie, and it was good that our friends could enjoy it. But it's easy to imagine a future where it disappears forever, for everybody.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Roberts
I want to build a company, my course is 5 years, am already 20 and the age limit for application is 22.

in case i wait,
I do not think i have another chance of getting 100K like that again.
I hope AWS addresses the pervasive concern in the comments: 3 months to deliver 9.5 in the cloud hurt.
I thinks its important whether they are taking pictures of people in those situations. Tourist locations get plenty of photographs, but the people doing the visiting are properly the object of photography. I don't care about yet another picture of the Eiffel tower; a picture of someone standing before the Eiffel tower is much more interesting.
Pretty big difference from the $330k / $1.4 million other outlets reported simply because the contract was comprised of multiple pieces of work most of which was unrelated to this app.
I think I understand the confusion. The packets are hashed based on DESTINATION PORT.

Now, from a server point of view there are two types of connections: inbound and outbound. Our servers accept connections but they also establish connections, for example to your http origin hosts.

So from the point of view of our server the "colliding" packets will fit two categories:
A) incoming packets to port 53
B) incoming packets to outbound connections which source port % 32 == 21.

For A) this is not that a big deal. DNS usually works over UDP, there are not _that_ many DNS queries done using TCP.

For B), since Linux choses source port incrementally, that means every 32'nd connection will possibly have some packets hitting the unhappy bucket.

Therefore increasing the hash size twice, reduces the chance of collision twice: now every 64th outbound connection will have some packets hitting the unhappy bucket.
Windows 10 console (not just for Bash, but cmd/powershell too) added a bunch of options like normal line wrap, highlighting and copy/paste that do improve a lot. The annoying thing is that these options aren't the default (for compatibility I guess?) and your settings in one don't seem to carry over to other console windows, I feel like I've set them like six times now.
It was not sarcasm. We are not supposed to do things ourselves. We are supposed to lean on experts, face our shortcomings and be brave enough to admit when we need help.

This quality of willing to ask for help is way more important than any specific experience.

They do need to know what they dont know. So they need a vision and picture of how to deliver...but that vision can and should include leaning on others IMO.
But unaligned load is very important to a lot of code like LZ compression.
Great, that's very helpful to know. Thanks!
Official website: https://sandbox.mit.edu/

Apparently Sam Altman is holding a talk/Q&A there on the 13th. It's an intriguing concept - I'm not aware of any similar programs at other colleges.
> Apple dominated the microcomputer market with the Apple ][ before IBM joined in with the IBM PC in 1981.

In 1981, the Commodore VIC-20 (announced in Jan) dominated the market being the first computer to sell over 1 million units. It picked up from the Commodore PET and was succeeded in 1982 by the Commodore 64 which sold 17 million systems. Atari sold more computers in 1981 than Apple. Apple did profit not market domination.
Our biggest difference is that our platform is general-purpose and can power any kind of collaboration. It provides the underlying layer which apps built on top take advantage of. Each community controls its own domain. Each individual person controls their accounts on across many domains.
Do you seek out pre-domestication forms of fruits and vegetables, or do millennia of genetic engineering through selective breeding not count as "tinkering with it"?
Do you know if anybody in CompSci or industry has put together a paper that has guidelines on this topic? Specifically, what elements of language design make it easier or more difficult to apply various optimization strategies. Just a whole collection of these for language designers to factor into their design to make compiler writers' job easy as possible.
http://avc.com/2012/09/indeed/

> Indeed has always been the quiet one. Nobody really talks about them. But as I have said a number of times on this blog, they are the most complete company in our portfolio. They have it all. Two world class entrepreneurs as founders. A solid management team all up and down the company. A product that is beloved and services more than 80mm people worldwide every month. An engineering team that has kept the service up with literally no down time that I can ever remember. A business model that, like Google's, is the best on the Internet. Revenues, profits, customer satisfaction, shareholder value. They built a fortress and I am just so happy to have had a front row seat watching them build it.
Then you probably want to alias it.