skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I didn't say you were implying anything, what I said was I find it astounding how little actual data you seem to have collected, compared to the sweeping conclusions you're drawing.

I take issue with your condescending tone, because it doesn't fit whatsoever with your clear ignorance on the topic. I'm particularly sensitive to the topic of food, because people in your situation (who have found success but have no idea why) are immensely harmful to nutrition education.

Comments like yours are precisely why there are so many misconceptions out there.
Jobs like retail, laundry, hotel service... The jobs at the lower end of the spectrum, in general (ignoring call-center type work), can't be done remotely.
It's a shady and powerful system.

The logic goes something like this: the credit reporting agencies simply provided facts (reported to them by others) to the mortgage company, who made their own decision about your creditworthiness.

Who is at fault in your situation? The mortgage company? No, they took your report at face value and then made their own decision. The reporting agencies? No, they just barf back data fed to them by individual creditors and run it through their arbitrary algorithm. The individual creditors? Perhaps, or maybe they sent an accurate report but somewhere along the line two numbers in an SS# got flipped (innocent mistake) and now you're carrying someone else's bad credit.

Scores of companies each have these tiny slices of responsibility, making it really hard to pin one actor with all of it (ie, to name a defendant).

The incentives are perverse. The worse your score the more expensive to borrow. Best case for a lender is to have a customer who should have a high credit score but doesn't because of mistakes like these -- you get the credit risk of a AAA borrower, but can charge subprime rates. Best of both worlds.
Google has a ton of results for this question.
Got a link to an article by anyone who doesn't think the moon landings are fake or that the US government was behind 9/11 and the Oklahoma City bombing?

I've no idea if that article is factual or not but let's not uncritically link to infowars.net, eh?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Jones_(radio_host)#Religi...
I presume their defense would be that they were simply diligently passing along information which others had told them and had no reason to doubt. You wouldn't sue Google for listing a libelous search result, so they shouldn't be held accountable. You'd then be forced to track down each libelous reporter and sue them directly.
For me, it's the opportunity to create something that I have a vision for, but that also is of use to others. The worst thing in the world would be to create something that nobody cares about. I view coding as art, and what artist would want his art to be unappreciated?

Secondly, the projects are a tool, but often they are of a complexity that makes it difficult for just one single person to complete. By making it open source, it invites others to partake in the beauty of project, and together, to be able to accomplish more than you could on your own.

Lastly, by many people collaborating on a useful tool, it will often eventually pay for itself as the contributors find ways to monetize their knowledge and experience by loosely-related, tangential projects.

If you want to join in on a Node.js based project: https://github.com/coreyp1/defiant
Under-The-Hood Performance- and OS X Sandbox Improvements in Yoink 3.2
> “is much more rewarding and probably more addictive than intravenous cocaine.”

Sugar is bad alright but more addictive than IV cocaine?
Thank you for the pointer. Problems such as CSV/Excel handling are non-trivial, but, thankfully, there are many OSS options out there to help with some of the edge cases.
I wouldn't know how to utilize this yet, but if I write a C program that utilizes SIMD similar to the way you can in the Dart programmng language with its Float32x4 and Int32x4 types [1], that same program can be expanded to use the 4 cores with SPMD to do 4 (SIMD) vectors x 4 (SPDM) parallel tasks on my quad-core 2013 i7-4700MQ by using the Intel compiler and specially-written C code for a maximum 1600% speedup of 4x4 matrix operations? I am guessing it would be more like 800% to 1200% in reality if lucky, but still promising.

[1] https://www.dartlang.org/articles/simd/
HN is, barely, a step above twitter. If one were to pick the bottom 20% of comments from HN, it would be ignorant, biased, group think, poor logic, borderline bigoted (but mainly ignorant).

I don't expect that you'd be nodding agreeably. But I do think one with a bit more perspective might engage in a more productive manner.
Sorry, only kidding.
> Second, this is a batch of documents extracted from one place. It's safe to assume that all they reflect is the views of whoever gathered them. It's the confirmation bias, you know?

The point though is that some of these documents went a very long way to find their burial in the south. Yeah, a sample size of 1 isn't very much to go on (maybe these documents were kept because they were prized possessions of 'foreign' lands?), but it does show in the very least a deep cultural contact between disparate kingdoms in the pre-China age.
I upvoted you on both your comments because of the unfairness of downvotes without explanation. I can find nothing wrong with your comment.
I think close to 1000 is pretty common for breakfast. I used to eat Dunkin Donuts a lot and I would see people order a Bagel with Bacon, Egg and Cheese on it. That is 470 calories. A side of hash browns is another 140. And then top of it off with a donut (350~) and an a large ice coffee (170) and you are over 1000 (I took the calorie # from DD website).

Also a single serving of cereal is really small. Until I started using a food scale, I was routinely eating 2 servings of cereal (Multi-grain cheerios) which was about 250 calories.
The not-completely-crazy theory that Russia leaked the Panama Papers
Its interesting you mention this, because the same trains that the run through some of the poorest areas of the city, also run through the wealthiest area of the city. (D train, Norwood and UWS. 2/3 trains, Tribeca and East New York.)

The ability for any New Yorker to be just about anywhere regardless of income is unparalleled.
We absolutely do know that. Even without any aggressive tax avoidance schemes, if you have a significant investment income, you probably pay an effective ~15% tax rate [1] [2]. I can pretty much guarantee you that most of the people named are in this bucket.

If you earn a salary that puts you in the literal 1%, you probably pay an effective tax rate of 30-50%. I don't know how low your income needs to get to reach a 15% tax rate on income, but it's really low.

1. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/15/opinion/stop-coddling-the-...

2. http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Elections/President/2012/0119/U...
Bargain.
Just used this in a major project at the BBC. It's great if you have a situation where you need a seriously small and lightweight footprint.
The thing I've loved about ketogenic diets when I've been on them is that I simply never get hungry. A couple eggs and a few strips of bacon for breakfast, and then I'll look up at sundown and realize I haven't eaten anything all day, and don't particularly feel the need to.
This is what happens with a short focal length:

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/6e/77/52/6e7752ec3...

Technically the focal length doesn't do anything- what's really happening is a short focal length results in placing the camera very close to the subject (which gives distorted perspectives) while a long focal length results in the camera far from the subject (which minimizes perspective distortion)
They probably just think it is fair that the joy of furniture assembly is shared with Americans. :)
It also means your documents are locked to a proprietary standard that isn't that widely used (compared to say MS Word) and as such, may not be totally recoverable 10,20 or 30 years from now. You want to keep that in mind when you choose which typesetting system to use - for the record, I keep a digital diary that I intend should still exist 50 years from now. I use only markdown, and the occasional entry that mention really private stuff is ascii encrypted with GPG.
LaTeX's selling point is, it allows someone(publisher, conference committee, school, professor) to set what is acceptable typesetting and rest of us can focus on the content.

ConTeXt is excellent if you care about design -- visual, layout, use of non-traditional typeface families, non-traditional print medium, create magazines, glossies, etc.,.

Writing a new style, class etc., for LaTeX feels like it's for "experts only". On the other hand, extending and creating new styles etc., for ConTeXt is much more natural part of creating the document.

ConTeXt is also highly programmable and extensible using Lua, XML(think machine generated catalogue).

With Metapost (graphics language), you can create highly sophistical vector diagrams. I have found pgf/tikz to be highly opinionated and it take much more upfront learning compared to metapost.

ConTeXt is also more intuitive, IMHO.
The company I interned for last year year ran a background check on me. I kept getting emails from them requesting 10 years of work history. In 2005 I was 8 years old. I think they put me down as unemployed.
It might be evil (or better, ethically unjustifiable) in some in ethical frameworks, but it's certainly not in mine. There is not a universally correct ethical framework.

Even within the utilitarian framework (where "the ends might justify the means"), which you seem to be representing, you have to consider all of the "ends". Protecting innocent lives is only one of the considerations.
This is a good point.

Two counterpoints though:

1. I posit (without evidence, because I'm lazy) that most people who buy "fast" new cars are more concerned about image than the actual performance specifications. For example, I suspect that the vast majority of original owners of Corvettes never take their cars to the racetrack. And in terms of image, number of cylinders and liters of engine displacement are much higher priority than dyno readouts.

2. More combustion chambers in an engine = higher power, higher manufacturing cost, and lower fuel economy. If you have less than $2000 to spend on a car, and you spend it on a 1980's V8, it's probably going to be slower than a three-cylinder 1.0L 2016 Ford Focus. But it's still probably the fastest option in your price range, so it's a good representation of how much you value performance in the car you choose to buy.
Michael Dell’s compensation package cut by $11m ahead of EMC acquisition
If this happens to anyone else, just quote Facebook's Statement of Rights and Responsibilities.
https://www.facebook.com/terms

4. You will not share your password (or in the case of developers, your secret key), let anyone else access your account, or do anything else that might jeopardize the security of your account.

It's not iron-clad, but it may dissuade the nosy.
there is a $35 knockoff watch that is the perfect testing platform for whether the smartwatch like the apple watch is going to be a useful item. It doesn't have the app ecosystem but it has a decent UI, decent battery, decent connectivity. You can even make a call through it apparently, which is nuts for the price IMO. And if you find you don't like it, you can likely find someone who will very easily to just give it to. I'm not sure about the fitness functionality but it delivers the goods in terms of what it's like having one on your wrist and being able to noodle around with it.
Carl from Sweden who actually received calls, recollects his experience here - https://medium.com/@carlheath/stories-from-the-swedish-numbe...
Slowly but surely, I'm coming to the position that "hacking and leaking" is never "wrong". It's a form of speech, and I'm a free speech absolutist. Let's stipulate that some things are illegal and not "wrong", just as others are legal and "wrong".

It's not clear to me, however, that this case actually is a hack, in the sense that whoever released this material might have had legitimate access to it as a part of doing business. In that case this is certainly an unethical failure to uphold terms of contract. Who's going to enforce that contract, however? Certainly not IRS or any other USA agency.

[EDIT:] In case it's not clear, I don't think that society in general is ethically limited by any "poison tree" doctrine in situations like this. Once this information is public, however it came to be so, we are free to use it as we see fit.
Oh, a freshly made troll account accompanied by his "friends".
Easy to judge when you're doing well, eh?
Wouldn't adopting a balanced diet that's reasonably low in carbs plus some exercise achieve the desired effect but without fucking shit up in the process?

I can't imagine going from a sedentary, high-carb, overweight lifestyle to a radical diet(be it keto or whatever else the person chooses) is easy on the body.

Did you get any lab tests done before and after starting the diet?
If you did, how did the results compare?
awfully cheap.
Agreed on the appropriateness of using Betteridge's law. MR's headline could have instead been 'Was it RIGHT to hack and leak the Panama Papers?'
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many scientific and tech publishing houses have their own LaTeX styles (eg: MIT, nostarch).
Indeed. And it's odd no one's mentioned Pandoc yet.
We’re Making the Wrong Case for Diversity in Silicon Valley
>Yet somehow many of us approve when the victims are wealthy and higher status, as is the case with the Panama Papers. Furthermore most of those individuals probably did nothing illegal, but rather they were trying to minimize their tax burden through (mostly) legal shell corporations.

This is a scary thing that has been building over the last 10 years. Wealthy people are vilified for being wealthy even when they play by the rules. You saw this a lot with Occupy Wall Street and you hear similar rhetoric from Bernie Sanders supporters condemning the "donor class" and being angry at banks for being big regardless of anything else. But these people do exactly the same thing you and I do. I take advantage of the tax system when I deduct education expenses. I lobby the government when I contribute to the EFF. I want the companies I invest in to be as big and as profitable as possible. If I had more money, those things would simply be in higher quantities. That is the only thing most of these people are guilty of, doing the same thing we all do but at a much higher magnitude. We can recognize that magnitude difference is a problem and want to shrink it without resorting to vilifying people who simply play the hand they are dealt.
Why worse if it's the same %?
Thank you sincerely for sharing, this is really great information.
Nice to see that the law firm of Oracle still has a few engineers on staff.
There are a few other efforts towards this goal as well, and Apple ResearchKit is one of them, Funf is another one.

Two difference between Ethica and ResearchKit:
1. ResearchKit being from Apple, only works on iOS, while we are trying to have a tool for data collection from any platform, Android, iOS, smartwatch, etc.
2. ResearchKit is more of an API which can simplify coding of a research app, but still requires knowledge on iOS programming to get the app done, and then you need to deal with all other pieces you need to have an end-to-end product, the server, the back-end, data storage, etc. For many, this is way too much technical work to be able to use ResearchKit.

Overall, it's nice to see there are other groups working on this idea as well. It can attract more attention to this need.
> There are also vectors for the roads, with a link between that data and streetview. You can click on the map and google will tell you that you're at 24 Burgess Street, and show you a photo, so it has a link between all that information.

I mean, you can now download your local area's data to your phone from google maps. I suspect this size is negligible compared to the raw 2d/3d/historical data. It would have been nice to include it in their analysis, though.
> Who is at fault in your situation?

The credit agency. If they're reporting inaccurate information, that they haven't verified, that's libel.

This is something the CFPB [+] needs to clamp down on hard.

[+] http://www.consumerfinance.gov/
Overall bodyweight is controlled by calories in vs. calories out. The different types of calories that you consume (fats vs. carbs vs. proteins) control things like how the extra bodyweight is stored or burned off and the signals your body gives as to whether or not you're hungry.

There are a few biological pathways that you can use to your advantage but they're difficult and short-term. Your body has a very hard time storing protein as fat but that just means it will store the extra calories from carbs and fat as body fat.

These discussions about "CICO only" vs. "Obviously macros matter" are always caused by people arguing two different things with each other.
>it's completely normal to send a random person a message on Facebook telling them that they're beautiful.

No, it's not. Please don't do this.
This being the internet you may believe or ignore the following:

I am a funny guy. I have been told multiple times by different people that I am the funniest person they have ever met. I have been told several times by different people in different contexts that I should be a stand-up comedian. All these were spontaneous and not said by anyone who wanted or needed anything from me.

I also used to be morbidly obese. Now I am in good shape.

The idea that funny is attractive in isolation (in the same way that a pretty face is on a woman) is, based on my experience, entirely, hilariously untrue.

Just one man's life :)
Yeah, he probably should have said "complicated" instead. The journalist either for some reason lacks knowledge about complex numbers or studied math in other language and missed the other meanings that he inadvertently touched.
I wonder if it's because you've been consuming too much protein, and not enough fat.
Wow, this is incredible. How has it changed since 2015?
I get the feeling that this narrative is being told on purpose. The "1%" gets penalized for this stuff and the ".1%" just works around it.
What would be a fair price in your view?
I'll give you an argument that PG's theory (at least as stated) cannot be correct.

PG says that Lisp is at the top of the power curve, looking down at all other languages. And Lisp practitioners are sure they're looking down, and they'll tell you why. "How can you get anything done in Haskell? It doesn't even have macros."

But Haskell programmers are sure that they're at the top of the power curve, and that when they look at other languages (including Lisp!) that they're looking down. And they know why they're looking down. "How can you get anything done in Lisp? It doesn't even have a decent type system!"

I have in fact heard almost the exact argument of PG's essay before, from proponents of a heavyweight CASE tool.

This fact - that proponents of two languages are both sure that they're looking down when they look at the other language - tells us that something is very wrong with PG's idea. The problem is the idea that all languages can be ranked on a one-dimensional axis labeled "power".

To see what's wrong with this idea, look at hardware. We know what "power" means there - it's MIPS. Until you think a bit more. Then you realize "Well, we've got that floating-point code, so we have think about FLOPS, too. And there's that one data set that won't fit into cache, so we need to worry about memory bandwidth... unless we can trade off some clock speed for cache size..." Suddenly "power" has at least four dimensions: MIPS, FLOPS, cache size, and memory bandwidth.

Then some joker comes along and says, "What I mean by "power" is the ability to run for eight hours without having to charge the battery"; that is, "power" is something like the reciprocal of watts consumed.

Back to software. It isn't just power of the language, it's power to do something - to write the program you're trying to write. What language is going to make that easiest, all things considered - the language itself, libraries, ecosystem, familiarity of team-members, ease of learning? Pick that language, because that language is "the most powerful" - for your situation.
This site is how I learned calculus & the only reason I never failed a math class.
But I wish he had some notes for linear algebra
Happy 40th birthday.
Fraud pays ... REALLY WELL. Good Job, Obama.
Yup, it was always fun to see the bankers on the UES forced to stand in the morning while Bronx commuters got to sit down.

Personally, I think the subway is a great force for egalitarianism.
My main problem with Bumble was the lack of women on it (small network). The "women start communication" part was interesting, but ultimately frustrating. I'd have a dozen matches, and one would talk to me, maybe. I think this is going to turn more men off the service in the long run.
So Goldman gets to sell these mortgages, short the mortgages they sold, and then are fined only 5.1B for the privilege of doing so? Pure insanity.
Yea, has nothing to do with the relative costs of each type of food.

I've also heard people bitch about seeing SNAP-card holders shop at Whole Foods, so I guess both choices are wrong.
I wish I could answer this.. but I'm a Mac and Linux user.

with the new "Bash for windows", it will hopefully get easier in future.
Same here, to help future mobile readers:

Hi, Ramakrishnan --

Thanks for the kind words on the typography. The core formatting
is just troff (groff, really) with the -ms macro package. We
tried Latex briefly but neither Alan or I care for its output, and
I personally find it impossible to control. Troff is the devil I
know -- it's ugly and irregular in many ways but it will put
characters where you want them.

The input was in XML, with a tag set of about 25 items for
headings, paragraphs, index terms, program insertion, simple
tables, and the like. A Go program converted this either into
HTML for rapid viewing on the screen and potentially for an e-book
version, or into troff for printing. Using XML was a mild
nuisance when writing but the error checking was very helpful.

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. There is also
some fiddling with the generated postscript to put on printer's
marks.

The fonts are Alan's choice, the result of a lot of work on his
part to find them and get the right sizes and appearances. The
handful of Asian characters were tough to get right; troff doesn't
do wide Unicode characters properly, and there are a few places
where we rewrote text to hide that fact.

The drawings are all Alan's work, using Google's drawing program.
We toyed briefly with using pic but it wasn't really up to the
job, and it would not have worked with HTML without a lot of work.
We avoided mathematics beyond superscripts, and the tables are
pretty limited; eqn and tbl would have been ok but again would not
have dealt with HTML.

We should probably write a more organized description of what we
did and make the tools available, though I think most readers are
less interested in the process than you (and I) are. The other
thing is that although one starts with grand ideas of being clean
and orderly, by the end the process is somewhat of a mess, with
a complicated makefile to keep it running.

Thanks again for writing.

Brian
Correlation vs causation
> You're not getting paid, you're giving your own time

Many if not most open source developers get paid and do it for a living. Ask yourself "why" is another, possibly better question.
> There's clearly some sort of selection bias going on, since I would hope it's obvious that simply moving NYC will not help you live longer.

If you live a sedentary, car-centered lifestyle and are a heavy smoker, then moving to NYC may indeed help you by forcing you to get more exercise and quit smoking due to the costs.