skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because we do it every time we exhale. Criminalizing breathing (or any policy that could be interpreted as such in the future) is way beyond "out of hand", it's the lowest form of fascist garbage I've ever seen during my time in America.
I agree with the sentiment of your comment. But I also think some people crossed the line even though legal and playing by the rules.

For example, when law makers do things that would be considered to be a conflict of interest or due to them having insider info on what laws are coming to effect.

Or when people like Marianna Olszewski hiring a stranger to conceal her ownership of offshore accounts.

Somewhere there's a line crossed that isn't just reducing the tax a person has to pay. It went from tax reduction as an incentive to do something to being malicious.

When you deduct education expenses to reduce your tax, it's a reduction meant to encourage you to do something.
I am most likely wrong or oversimplifying, but my understanding was that ultimately whatever macromolecules you are consuming, lipids, proteins, or carbohydrates all only get absorbed into the blood stream as glucose (putting on hold random nutrients like iron, vitamin XYZ etc etc).

If that's the case, doesn't it not matter what the originating molecules are as long as you avoid fast highs and lows in blood glucose levels since that is the main danger presented by sugars (fastest to be broken down)?
That doesn't make it coercion. That is just enforcing the agreement that was entered into voluntarily. Or do you think the poor should be exempt from rent?
Is this satire lol
Yea, that is a lot of cereal. I definitely didn't need that much food but for some reason I wanted that much food. Oh, and I wouldn't have had the OJ on top of that personally.

Today I still eat cereal but usually a cup at most, and either without milk or with almond milk. I started on a diet (the south beach diet) about 5 years ago and I lost over 100 pounds. I don't consider myself to be following any specific diet nowadays, I'm just more healthy and smart about what I eat, and I eat much smaller portions. I also exercise 3 times weekly, and need to find time to increase that even more.

I will say when I first started my diet I dropped cereal and just ate scrambled eggs almost every morning. My morning energy levels skyrocketed.
When organic foods got super popular, I knew more than one person that thought organic cookies were healthy.

> whatever they thought is acceptable to print on the nutritional label

I'm not certain, but I think that's regulated.
The shareholders are paying out of their personal wealth. This was expected and already priced into the stock.
It is not envy to note that monetary velocity is down.
GS is a corporation, an entity that exists at society's pleasure. When society grows displeased at the antics of habitual corporate offenders, society should impose a form of bankruptcy, in which the corporation ceases existence and its assets are divided among lenders and victims.

The norms of corporate governance would change, swiftly.
Here's [1] what appears to be a good one (or, at least, it has some citations to other papers which might be better) -- the first section after the abstract is an intro to circadian rhythms, including references to food zeitgebers in rats, rabbits and adorable hamsters. IIRC there doesn't appear to be a strong effect in humans, but I'm slacking off as is and won't be digging up a reference for that XD

[1]: http://ajpregu.physiology.org/content/274/6/R1751.short
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No, they were trying to make a plausible scene. Many people do give up information when threatened with torture. You probably even remember just such an instance from your grammar school days!

However, because most people, even on HN, have a cognitive bias that forces them to prefer believing that their favored course of action has no downsides ("halo" bias), it has been popular to repeat the high-status meme that Torture Doesn't Work.

Which is true -- it often doesn't "work" for many of the reasons given. But sometimes it does.

Any position against torture that actually plugs into a consistent worldmodel will also accept that it does, in fact, sometimes work, and also have a way of appropriately weighing the ups and downs of any course of action without being tripped into rebranding every down as an up for the CoA you like, and up as a down for every CoA you don't like.
The protagonist also blackmails another character into helping her.

Not really the message I'd expect from a Disney movie.
I like a big breakfast of pancakes (with butter and syrup), bacon and eggs, coffee with cream and sugar. That is usually around ~900 calories. I count macros and weigh everything daily. Sugary cereal is my weakness and I can easily eat 3 servings. I could eat my TDEE calories just in Cocoa Puffs...
Yes, I'm aware it uses Jinja2. I'm talking about templates like jekyll has to change how the blog looks.
Thinking about this some more no way would the latency of PCIe ever be as big as that of paging in some memory from disk. So page faults can't really make this more important in Pascal.
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That's what disturbs me about these settlements. Shouldn't the settlements be used exclusively toward helping those that were negatively impacted by the bad behavior?
Credit is, at its core, trust. Trust, well-placed, makes everything about humanity better. Seen that way it feels warm and fuzzy.

But, "credit," meaning the business of telling you whom you can trust (like a bureau), is very very weird indeed.

Without pre-aggregated or nearly-instantly-compiled predictions about trust, it can only spread out in a personal way. But impersonal relations are crucial to trade, to fairness, to the open society (that is, you shouldn't be constrained to trade only with your family/tribe/neighbors).

Hence, a credit bureau, in the ideal, is a trust-promoting mechanism -- something meant to facilitate the best in mankind. And it rewards faithfulness to promises.

Furthermore, in most commerce we can use a default assumption of "trust." Most people will return the rental car, will repay the loan, will queue up to pay for the groceries, etc.

Here's the rub: with the assumption of trust, then the target outcome to model (the labels you're looking for in ML terms) are the defaults or "don't trust" outcomes.

Which means that the best credit bureaus will hungrily look for all labels of, and all features which can be predictive of, defaults. And it must do so opaquely so as to avoid being gamed by adversaries.

So now the institution which is meant to facilitate trust and reward cooperation ... is a secretive digger for dirty laundry.

Just a reflection. It's weird.

(Background: I spent the last five years starting a fairly successful alternative lender, and a less successful alternative credit bureau.)
"Here you go, the password is bfGeAgwRHU5bwMNd."

Some technical problems don't need technical solutions.
I'm sorry for being the one breaking it to you, but I think you may, unfortunately, be wrong. :)
Ok, you may be technically correct. Experian, for example, says "Higher scores represent a greater likelihood that you'll pay back your debts so you are viewed as being a lower credit risk to lenders."

Even so, lenders still decide what to do with that information. Some credit cards may approve you at a 500 score. Others may not. Many lenders will tier your rate based on score. Ultimately the decision of whether or not to extend credit and what rate you get is up to the lender.
"You wouldn't sue Google for listing a libelous search result"

Google functions as an index that points you to another source. They don't actually have control over the source.

The credit bureaus are the source.
How's his water purifier doing? Lots of press coverage up to 2012, then silence. It worked, but the cost of the prototypes was insanely high. It was supposed to become cheap.
It's more a matter of principle than anything. This is a serious business transaction, and you should always have a contract for such things. Even if 95% of collection agencies are perfectly reasonable, there's a good chance you'll get one that isn't at some point.
In alignment with what you've put forward, I'd also consider that a lot of studies point to the US prison system as not helpful for skills or emotional state when returning to society. Holding the repaid debt of punishment over the person when seeking employment is a stigma unfortunately. This difficulty re-entering can lead to frustrations and poor choices, increasing the potential for another offense.
EDIT: Really? Already at -2 after 15 minutes? This is directly on-topic (it directly criticizes the quality of the process that was praised before), it is directly relevant (it provides examples for a counterargument), it is not a personal attack or anything, and it provides sources.

Before you downvote, please comment – that’s a lot more helpful to discussion

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> In the early days of Earth you could easily see the seams where different types of images had been stitched together. And if you zoomed you could clearly see the thin strips from the satellite passes. These days you still can see them if you look around, but there is a lot of very clever colour balancing and reblending being done to make the whole thing a lot more seamless and beautiful.

Well, I don’t really have to look around: http://i.imgur.com/fhMPHVm.png

Wherever I look around my home town, it’s blurry, stitched together, with bad color balancing.

Try taking a look at the areas where it touches the open sea, it’s even worse.

In addition to the imagery taking half an hour to load even anything that’s not totally blurry (which can’t be my connection as all competitors are instant), and the missing 3D in a city of 300k, the imagery is (a) not updated since 2005, (b) has constant edges and stripes everywhere, (c) is – due to not being updated – missing several districts already.

I’ve complained about this on several occasions before to Google employees who promised to fix it, for example here [1].

I have to be honest, I’m more than disappointed with Google Maps and Earth.

Even here maps imagery (linked below in comparison) is more up to date, has higher resolution, and is blended a lot better.

Google, as always, seems to only (or mostly) care about the US. There, even most small towns have perfectly clear 3D imagery from the current year.

It’s just another punch in the face in a long row of "US-only!". The Internet. Connecting the ~~world~~ US.

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[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/legaladvice/comments/3rer0e/google_...
That's not the topic we're discussing.
When VW lies about its emissions it's a big deal, the stock drops, the public is appalled, the media can't stop talking about it. When GS gets fined $5B it's just business as usual.
I explain in greater detail the problems with the original comment in another comment, if you're interested in something more than verbal sniping.

It's simply not true that I must be able to provide the correct answer in order to identify and critique an incorrect answer.
In what way is your concept different from meetup groups on meetup.com?
Our standards were higher in the past? [citation needed]

There's a trade off between development cost, performance, functionality, and correctness. Writing a filesystem with reasonable performance and that never crashes and never does the wrong thing is hard.
Luckily I have a "hit by a truck" exception I include in every project regardless of language.
Something I often wonder. It's quite common on HN to get insiders comments but less on this type of articles. How is it so? what do GS employees or people working in that field think about this?
And also due to the extra half mile or so of walking to your local stop and final destination.
Simply following that link shows that hundreds of Americans are in the documents, many of whom have already been convicted of financial crimes.
Not really. EFPs (in Iraq) were more or less IEDv2 in that they were simply much more lethal than the original IEDs:

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/us-sees-new-weapon-in-iraq-irani...
it really isn't scary. what difference does it make if they "play by the rules"? it isn't a game. the criticism is that the rules are damaging to many and beneficial to few. what's so scary about that? even if you think occupy wall street's and bernie sanders's criticism of the rich is off base, what about it is "really scary"?
One of the games that I've played and been involved with, DUST 514, started making their roadmap public over a year ago via a Trello board, and it had a huge impact with the players. The same company, CCP, has just announced that their roadmap for EVE: Valkyrie is public as well.

If you're committed to your customers, there's really no downside to doing this.
Well, if you take the view that everyone suffered (except a very tiny minority of shareholders and employees), then that money going into the general taxation pool is helping the victims. It pays off debt or buys bridges or whatever.
> We wrote a variety of small Go programs and scripts to fix things up, including one that rewrites troff output to do vertical justification so all pages are the same height.

That sounds weird, why would they want that, wouldn't that make the pages pretty irregular internally? Like varying line heights..?
True, but like the original comment suggested, a calorie is not a calorie. If you eat 850 calories worth of fat and protein in the morning instead of sugary carbs I am pretty certain your intake the rest of the day will be very different.
> Even so, lenders still decide what to do with that information. Some credit cards may approve you at a 500 score. Others may not. Many lenders will tier your rate based on score. Ultimately the decision of whether or not to extend credit and what rate you get is up to the lender.

If you're providing factually incorrect information on a person, that someone is then going to make a financial decision around, you should be held liable if your business is to provide factual information on someone regarding the credit worthiness.

Unless we're just going to say that credit agencies have no requirement to verify the data they collect. In that case, let's just rule them illegal through legislation and allow them to dissolve (most of the first world does not have credit agencies for consumers).
My thing's a bit like airbnb but where you can buy the place if you like it. Fairly confident I'm not getting an interview this time round - no views on my vid. I don't fit the YC pattern very well.
Sounds like a step backwards to me. From private offices to "open plan under a fancy name"? Thanks, but no thanks.
Yes, and so do you. Sweden actually does have a statistics bureau. And they do make statistics. They just wrap them up real discreet.

Native swedes are becoming a minority in Malmø, the third largest city in Sweden, and apparently home turf for one of the Brussels bombers.
Probably a Saab.
Hi! Doppins is free for open-source (and currently also private) projects, but I get your point.
What I like about using Doppins on my own projects is that I don't have to be actively developing a project for it to be useful - as long as a project has enough tests to make it safe to merge pull requests that pass continuous integration you can stay up to date on security updates and similar quite easily.
One issue with Formula E is that the city street courses are really boring race tracks.

If you look at the recordings from their pre-season "dress rehearsal" from Donington Park (available in YouTube), it was magnificent racing. Much better than any of the proper races they had.

There is work to be done to make Formula E interesting. I know I'll be watching RoboRace, but probably not the current season.
Probably along the lines of, 'Hopefully we can make an extra $5.1 billion in the next 8 months so this doesn't impact our commission cheques'
https://mobile.twitter.com/sweden/tweets

Primary source, but I haven't checked what it says.
As if there existed some impartial authority to make rules.
How is this not criminal fraud? The public wants blood. Why is the DOJ not similarly bloodthirsty? You'd think they would be. That'd be a career making case. Prosecutors would be famous for 40 years.

I don't get it.

Edit: I don't mind downvotes if someone can explain how the fraud wasn't criminal.
Wonderful idea. Now I can finally take my lessons on Islam cheaply by phone (calling Sweden is sure cheaper than Saudi Arabia).

Do they have any professional privilege checkers on the line? I might need one of those as well.
I rarely meet someone I am actually attracted to online. I don't know what's wrong with me. Guys tend to want to hook up all the time but I prefer to like someone and have some attraction to them before hooking up.
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Demo/prototype: tomorrowbook.com/trending

What is tomorrowbook?

Weebly with a social media enabled text message web builder (get notifications when your favorite domains post new content to their website and upvote content distributed across the network of member domains).

Me: A practicing lawyer...don't hold it against me. Currently I provide services similar to Stripe Atlas, cherry pick criminal defense cases and some IP work. I have engaged in diverse side ventures including, V-Blood, a vampire themed energy drink, distributed through Hot Topic and more recently a liquidation event with tech startup I co-founded in the legal space. Current project raise the funds to hire Gigster to develop the tomorrowbook Beta.
Humans have evolved to process fructose into triglycerides in the liver. This is different than getting a glucose spike in the bloodstream.

From what I've heard, what happens to your liver when you process fructose isn't so great for you. It taxes your liver in many of the same way alcohol processing taxes your liver.
This probably has nothing to do with that :)

http://priceonomics.com/porsche-the-hedge-fund-that-also-mad...
Labelling really need to be better regulated in the US... They started using multiple kinds of sugars in the same product to make them appear lower in the ingredient list (I have no proof that it is truly the reason, but that is the only reason that makes sense to me).
I am a 30-year-old man, healthy, moderately attractive, athletic, intelligent, and this frightens the shit out of me.

I am very relationship-minded, but after having a couple of very long-term relationships that began online, I am seeking some damn serendipity for the next relationship. The thought of women swiping (either direction) in response to some fleeting half-glimpse mostly based on how well I could choose photos that overstate my attractiveness is seriously a distressing idea.

The shift in the way people perceive online dating stresses me out. In general it makes me feel that I would not be considered or evaluated in serendipitous real-life encounters, because everyone has filed away "dating" to be "that thing I screen for on Tinder." People you meet in random circumstances, and who might strike up a conversation about going on a date, are now universally panned, perhaps because there is a risk factor with meeting a stranger that way that feels mitigated on a platform like Tinder. But whatever it is, it means that non-empty, substantive, 3-D interactions out in the real world are heavily discounted compared to what I really feel are hollow, checkout-line-candy-bar low-substance representations of our selves (e.g. Tinder profile, OKCupid profile) ...

I'm very secure with being alone, so I think my only realistic hope is that later on, maybe when I am 35 or maybe when I am 40, some single women in the age range I am seeking will stop viewing it this way, and someone they happen to meet when they are out doing something will again be evaluated as a possible partner. I've more or less resigned myself to being alone and missing out on sexual opportunities between now and then. I don't consent to being evaluated the Tinder way ... and I'm just gonna go ahead and keep on not consenting to that.

I can only speak about the male perspective on this ... but I imagine the same would be true for females, except that it seems likely that a higher proportion of male Tinder users are seeking casual sex. As a result, something like Tinder is well-suited to women who either do want casual sex, or who want to screen against people seeking only that. It doesn't seem to offer reciprocal utility for a male in my situation.

I think I'd feel less stressed if everyone was just using Tinder for casual sex.

It's probably just torschlusspanik anyway O_o ...
You need to understand that you don't have to "need" a credit card in order for it to make sense to use one, so the fact that you have plenty of money is irrelevant.

In fact there's an older banker's maxim that says "never lend money to someone who needs it."

My recommendation: As long as you are disciplined then start using a credit card for your purchases. Google around and find one from a mainstream providers that provides lots of points and no annual fee. At least 1% back on all your purchases. My Citibank card gets me about 2% back on everything I purchase. So basically I get a little discount on all my purchases for having good credit.

Start using it immediately to build up credit. Like it or not, you're only going to encounter more situations like you did with the apartment. And the older you get, the more suspicious it looks.

If you don't feel you can be disciplined enough to pay it off every month, then just use it for handful of recurring purchases and nothing else, then at least you'll start building a credit history.
Yep. Same boat here. I voted for hope and change. Got Bush-lite.
I'm not well versed on developments in blockchain tech. Could someone here help explain whether this is good news and which specific problems, if any, would this technology help solve. For example, could this be applied to provide secure online voting systems? I like that proof of work protocols are inherently safe as long as majority computing power is 'good'. Could such decentralized security technologies replace the currently centralized ones completely, for example, certificate authorities? Please pardon my ignorance, I'm eager to learn.
This, but I'd also add that the closer your food is to fresh and unpreserved, the more likely it is to be healthy for you. If you eat primarily fresh foods (note: I do not advocate the "raw" diet, for other reasons), then by happy coincidence you also remove a lot of the stuff that eventually kills us.