skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Calories-in-calories-out without considering the hormones

Your argument here boils down to: CICO is easier with a balanced diet. I don't think a reasonable person is going to argue against that.

> after a few weeks of keto-adaptation? They'd be a tad little bit fatter than they'd like

Honestly, if they could stomach it, they'd balloon up just as much as its opposite. Keto-adaptation doesn't change how your body processes fat, it just does a better job of not making a person feel ill when eating more fat in their diet.
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The free 225-page book referenced in the blog post (https://www.oapen.org/search?identifier=606213) is, of course, well written and scrumptiously designed.
Maybe it's paid syndication?
Talk to people in person. Listen to what they say.
The current state of hiring reflects two facts:

1. A single bad hire can do immense damage to a team and organization. I never fully appreciated this until I saw the consequences of bad hires, and as a hiring manager it's one of my biggest fears.

2. Labor laws and HR exist. You can't just willy-nilly fire people, there's a process in any well-functioning company to protect employees from management and vise versa. As a hiring manager this will generally reflect poorly on you.

This has caused interviewers, who are in the position of power, to make the process thorough and straining to protect themselves.

In many ways my philosophy has been shifting to the article's, which is to grow much more slowly and carefully. I don't think this scales well, but it leads to a personal process I can feel good about. I've been networking to meet people within the community, and I hope my future hires either come through personal knowledge of them or vetted referrals.

Google is actually capable of this kind of interview, but it's rare. I was referred to a manager a few years ago by an ex-coworker, and the whole process was great. I met the whole team, I went to lunch with the manager, he told me I could contact him if I had any questions, etc. I didn't end up joining, but I left with a very positive opinion of the manager and team.
Nice to know, thanks!
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Fable developer Lionhead closes down today
Good god I would never want to work for a manager like the one who wrote the article.

What a lack of self-awareness.
Not so sure how FANATICAL SUPPORT applies to "satisfy the needs of WHOEVER happens to be your customer". I have a client with a $2k a month hosting bill with Rackspace. Which is small for big companies or startup tech companies, but a lot for a small non-tech business.

There have been occasions where we've received FANATICAL SUPPORT from individual techs, but mostly we're stonewalled by being on an infrastructure plan that doesn't allow for their FANATICAL SUPPORT it appears.
Absolutely true, but this presentation was about "front end"; maybe I misunderstand the usage of that term...
Per my parent comment, HDD technology is already starting to fall behind SSD technology in number of writes.
Yes and no. You need servers that guarantee availability (but they could hide themselves pretty well if necessary). Then the torrents provide accessibility.
Google is reportedly building an awesome all-in-one travel app called Trips
BLS numbers are routinely revised in retrospect to be worse a quarter or two later and with a friday release so that no one notices. As in, more than one in two BLS unemployment reports is retroactively revised, and I don't remember a single "it's actually better than we previously reported" revision.

tptacek (IIRC quoting someone else) described it well: ZeroHedge is the conspiracy theory site without the conspiracies. Ignore the tone, take the analysis with a lot of salt, but do look at the data - they bring to the front a lot of data that no mainstream publication will show.

There are two things wrong with the common view of conspiracies:

1. That it is impossible or at least, extremely unlikely, for a group of people to meet in private and make plans to further their own agenda at the expense of others -- that's all a "conspiracy" is. It happens thousands of times per day at any scale of operations.

2. That you actually need conspirators for a conspiracy-equivalent effect to take hold. Do you remember the option backdating scandal? Turns out tens of companies did the same thing. Hundreds involved was aware, no one talked, until an outsider forced the SEC to respond. This doesn't need to be centrally orchestrated. Whether or not you consider this "a conspiracy" or not, doesn't matter. It was effectively a conspiracy against shareholders. Similarly, there's the still unfolding emission scandal which is (effectively) yet another large scale conspiracy, whether or not Mitsubishi and Volkswagen engineers met in a shady bar to co-ordinate their cheating or not.
DeepMind moves to TensorFlow
All web marketing boils down to this.
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It's still deeply tacky empty euphemism. Do non-autistic people have ugly minds?
Woah.. like there are even easter eggs in there. That's not what I expect when I use that color code. Also, are you high?
If you folks are interested you can contact the author to build Healthcare related IOT along with QuestionPro. I believe the company sponsors these projects.
InfoSec: "There is a vulnerability."

me: "PR or GTFO."

The problem described is that ISOs are professional nags instead of software shippers.
We don't store any PII, so I don't see what the problem is here?
Ask HN: What are your thoughts on UnaOS/UnaPhone?
If the consequence is an effective remedy, what's bad about recognizing certain behavioral tendencies?

It doesn't have to be the case that population genetics are the thing driving the change.
Like many here, I've read ZeroHedge for a few years. I loosely agree with the analysis that the tone has become "conspiratorial," but this argument fails to disambiguate between a "conspiratorial" tone and the intentionally provocative rhetoric of the ZeroHedge authors. They KNOW their content falls under all those labels so derisively ascribed to it, because that is their intention.

My reading of the [conspiratorial|far-fetched|proto-facist] content on ZeroHedge is that it's not meant to be literal, but a veneer of SHOCK VALUE that serves two purposes. First, it gets readership due to classic clickbait psychology. Second, its mere existence demonstrably proves ZeroHedge is an "alternative" media site undiluted by editorial filters. This distinguishes it from every mainstream media publication, and that alone makes it worth reading (provided you can find some signal worth your time).

The shock value signals to astute readers that ZeroHedge is not a traditional site, and that yes, you SHOULD take everything they say with a grain of salt. But the logical jump from "you should take it with a grain of salt" to "you should ignore it" misses the simple fact that its writers INTEND for the content to be provocative. They WANT you to take it with a grain of salt.

Taking things "with a grain of salt" is GOOD for you. It means you are THINKING CRITICALLY. People should be taking everything with a grain of salt. What alarms me most about ZeroHedge is not its content, but the attempted ostracizing of that content by other publications, as if the shock value justifies ignoring it all together. Incidentally, this is the same smear tactic that mainstream media sites are applying to Donald Trump: he says <thing> we find offensive, therefore <every other thing> he says must be invalid. If we applied this logic to all information, there would be no difference of opinion in the world.

To paraphrase Christopher Hitchens, the person yelling "fire" might be the one worth listening to, and we should always question our own beliefs and fear consensus. To quote him directly, they [0] were "the ones shouting fire when there really was a fire in a very crowded theatre indeed... [W]ho’s going to decide?" [1] [2]

[0] "They" were the socialist party of philadelphia, who opposed the draft of WWI, "on the grounds that military conscription constituted involuntary servitude, which is prohibited by the Thirteenth Amendment.": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schenck_v._United_States

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3Hg-Y7MugU (thanks to HN commenter in another thread for linking to this today)

[2] http://documents.ariadacapo.net/borrowed/2006_11_christopher...
You shouldn't spout off about medical topics you are uninformed about.
The funny thing is, when people say things like "hiring is broken", they usually mean different things. Hiring is very different in different markets and parts of the world.

I'm desperately looking for competent developers right now. I don't ask HR for help, and I don't really filter by CV: anyone who considers himself a "senior" is going to get a skype call from me. But the first thing I give them is an assignment, 4-8 hours of work for a candidate of desired skill level. I tell candidates this estimate right away, and after sending it out several dozens times already I haven't met a single one who would say "sorry, I'm to busy to work on that for free". Before starting this process, I was sure this will going to be a problem, and I was sincerely surprised that it didn't happen once.
So somehow Apple is going to shed their entire cash hoard, bringing their market cap down to, say, 300 billion, and then Tim Cook is going to call up Wells Fargo and borrow 150 billion to buy 51%. Then he's going to offer to buy the whole company, vote yes, and finance it with another 150 billion from Bank of America.

The problem with this scenario is not that Tim Cook and a small circle of insiders can't get 300 billion in loans (though they can't). The problem is that this scenario has nothing to do with the stock buyback. If Tim Cook can get a loan for 300 billion to buy Apple stripped of its cash, he can certainly get a 500 billion loan to buy Apple before the cash is gone. The 200 billion loan will be paid with the 200 billion cash, so that's the easiest part to finance.

Even the need to pay a premium over the current price isn't gone in the 51% scenario. If Took Cook holds 51%, he can vote to sell. But if he votes to sell to himself at a price less than the other 49% would agree to, he will absolutely be facing a 100+ billion class action lawsuit. You cannot use majority ownership in a company to take further ownership from others at a price less than they would otherwise accept. To do otherwise is to steal from the other stockholders and no different functionally than voting for a sale to yourself at a discount. If this strategy were legal, you could indeed buy 51% and then force a sale for pennies per share.

Besides all this, the 150 billion to hypothetically buy 51% of Apple stripped of its cash is not meaningfully different than 250 billion to buy 51% of Apple with 200 billion in cash intact. The additional loan amount for the cash seems like the easiest part to finance. If "buy 51% and force the rest to sell" were a legal strategy, you could pursue this strategy as easily before the cash is gone as afterward.

So again, the viability of Apple going private has nothing to do with the stock buyback.
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I'm just engineering side so I don't have any word on that. All we agree to do is zip code as the most granular level of geo targeting.
Not a new thing that everybody wants to create their own little walled garden. It's beautiful inside, but it also strips users of their freedom.

Not sure if it's best for us end users when we are mandated to give up our freedom in the name of 'security' and 'user experience'.
> If you use a relatively mainstream word from the language in which you do business

What about "Windows"? Or "Word"? Or "Office"? It's difficult to find words that are more "mainstream" than that. Yet, Microsoft does just fine.
Carl Icahn’s worries about Apple in China are missing the big picture
You can somewhat do it with GCC, but it requires a linker script:

http://mainisusuallyafunction.blogspot.ca/2011/11/self-modif...
Base on FuseFS
Step 2 is key, but does not come naturally to me. In fact, I usually don't notice that a task is big and undefined until I've spent some time stuck, not getting anything done.

I also find it hard to ask for help, so I often get stuck when the next logical step is "admit that you don't know what to do next, and find someone to help."
The Full Story Behind Bloomberg's Attempt to “Unmask” Zero Hedge
So. You want to get rid of this piece of lucrative property. Now what about the others? I like this idea of killing off the exploitation of creative labour. Now what about menial and manual work?

We're talking about abolishing (a piece of) corporate capitalism. Expect some resistance.
Yeah, modern aimbots are a lot more advanced than that. Mostly in that they'll know when someone's anywhere visible to you and they'll aim straight at their head.

This sort of behavior becomes impossible. If they have to aim in a fairly human manner, they can still be killed by anyone walking up behind them for example. It may provide some bit of unfair advantage. But not nearly as much as is possible in many games today.
I don't understand the response. Why would they need to bump capistrano's version every time they update capistrano-harrow?
Let me introduce you to the market, where self interested parties exchange goods and services for mutual benefit, increasing society's wealth.
Humans are about 25% efficient, so feel free to multiply any number with 4 to get actual expended energy.

That doesn't change the calculus, obviously. I can easily sustain 150W for an hour on a bike, I can't lift 225kg half a metre against gravity 500 times (the equivalent).

(The idea here is that you try to back up lofty claims with some science numbers.)
Would you also notify/email incase of an advanced threat?

Right now it feels as if I have to keep looking at yet another dashboard for something to blip across the feed.
That's already mostly possible with geoip lookups.
Enjoying water and electricity that worked. Where were you?
I don't think that's a meaningful question. One could go back a couple of centuries, before germ and virus theory was developed, and ask the same thing about physical illnesses.

It would be more accurate IMO to say that we're getting a better understanding of traits and characteristics of the human mind, some of which we currently have reason to believe are disorders, and are getting better at detecting those traits/characteristics.
Full disclosure: I'm an engineer at AWS and I work on NAT Gateway :)

Thanks for the pointer to urllib3 - we'll take a look at it and see if there's anything we can do about the behavior. One of the challenges with sending "FIN" on timeout is, as you write ... it closes the connections cleanly.

Some TCP based protocols (Including even HTTP in some modes) use a successful connection close to indicate that an object has been transferred fully; so what we've seen is that a network connection may stall (internet packet loss for example) ... then the connection eventually times out ... and the "FIN" falsely conveys that the entire object has been transferred. The end result is a truncated object, which is no good either.
Admittedly I've never tried it, but from the description, the pomodoro technique would drive me mad. It often takes me more than 20 minutes (sometimes an hour or two!) to get "in the zone" but once I've got my head in the game I can smash through work for hours. The idea of just getting some flow going and then being interrupted seems awful. The only thing I can think of which it really sounds good for is boring, easy tasks that I have to do but really don't want to.

What makes it so good? Obviously it works for a lot of people.
Someone I know is getting one of those 'cyber security' Masters degrees at Mercyhurst in Erie. I respect the guy, he's really smart, he has an intuitive and pragmatic view of politics... but he hasn't written a line of code ever. He uses a Mac, but he's never opened Terminal.

And apparently the average graduation salary for these people at companies like Disney is around 120K. I want my friend to do well, but I also don't want the security industry to consist of people who have never used Linux.
Listening and being willing to learn. Most developers are smart people, but tend to have a hard time communicating our ideas to non-technical people.

It's definitely important to have us feel like you understand where we are coming from.

And don't blow us off because it sounds too technical.
Why "start" at either end? Different problems call for different solutions.
I can't believe people are defending Instagram here... They haven't got a case but are bullying with their lawyers as all big companies do. How pathetic! Queue the armchair lawyers saying Instagram has to because trademarks require enforcement and other nonsense.
"1e6" means "1 x 10^6", not "1^6". (And it always has done, at least for as long as it's meant anything at all.)
> How do you keep a ratings system from being a proxy for popularity, rather than a measure of novelty or utility? How do you keep it from being easily gamed?

To respond to this particular point, I'm not familiar with any characteristics of the academic journal system which prevent these problems either. Name recognition is often key to getting into competitive journals, which is just another way of calling it an easily gamed popularity contest.
This is a common trend among more ardent libertarians. I think it's due to a lot of libertarian predictions about the post-recession stimulus not coming true.

I know, I was one of those libertarians who though Obama was going to usher in a period of high inflation-driven growth. I was completely, absolutely, and astoundingly wrong.

My response was to update my beliefs, but some people's response to their theories being proven incorrect by reality is to become rigidly authoritarian.

"If reality doesn't conform to my worldview, I will make it conform!"

Remember the Communists, like modern libertarians, originally had a stateless society as their goal.

I think this is what happened with ZH and many other libertarian leaning sites.
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11326097
My experience has been the exact opposite. We host many of our clients' systems on Rackspace, and Rackspace support is not only on top of things (we usually get a response to support tickets in ~30 minutes), but they're also extremely proactive and let us know of potential problems before they occur. I personally have never spoken to a technical person there who didn't know their stuff inside out (speaking as a technical person myself).
Describing high-functioning autism as a "fad" which excuses those with it from having to "improve themselves" is both unpleasant and ignorant. Some autistic people have perfectly normal intelligence and language skills, yet may suffer from some or all of:

- incomprehension of and bafflement by social cues and conventions that the rest of us take for granted; this is far more than just being "socially awkward", and was famously described by Temple Grandin as like being "an anthropologist on Mars"

- a heavy reliance on routine, and discomfort or distress when that routine is disrupted

- over-sensitivity to sensory stimulation, which can make things like a trip to the supermarket (strip lighting, PA announcements, crowds, the smell of produce and other people's bodies) hellish.
I would say "secretly theist" rather than "secretly authoritarian". I can see a strong parallel between conspiracist and theist beliefs, in that the mundane world is an illusion, lie or trap beyond which a metaphysical world exists full of hidden truths and malevolent beings who conspire to control everything behind the scenes, of which most people are completely unaware. Conspiracy theorists merely replace a supernatural demiurge with a political one.

I think one of the compelling aspects of conspiracy theory as an expression of faith, is that it's comforting to realize that even if the world is run by a dark and malevolent agenda, at least it has an agenda, and someone or something is in control.

One can see this expression of conspiracy as religion here on Hacker News. Whenever a skeptical statement is made about some conspiracy theory, someone will inevitably state that because Edward Snowden was proven right, conspiracy X should be considered true. Or, because people considered the things Edward Snowden described were once considered "conspiracy theory", one should accept that conspiracy theorists are enlightened about the true nature of the world.

Rationally, this argument makes little sense as one conspiracy theory being true doesn't validate the truth of another, but such statements are made in the context of religion all the time, as expressions of faith.
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Hiring is broken because people follow what google does.

Once google stops asking whiteboard, big o questions hiring will be "fixed". As simple as that. This is the only to fix it, we don't need endless discussions every week about this.
> Because the kook that refuses to explain merge sort might be better at the job than the guy who desperatly jumps through hoops.

Who cares if the kook is better if the other one is good enough? At some point, "better" hits diminishing returns and is no longer worth it. It's the reason "we only hire the top X%" attitude is wasteful bullshit for most companies.
I feel like I can attribute my procrastination to a few things

1. choice paralysis
I'm fairly certain I have a cavity in one of my teeth, I can basically see it when I look in the mirror, in addition to sensitivity to temperature. So I need to find a dentist a) in my area b) that accepts my insurance. There are multiple options. I want to know who the optimal dentist is; I want the one who can pull off a painless root canal if need be, but I definitely don't want the one who will cause agony or perform a procedure incorrectly. I think, maybe I'll Google them and see if I can find any reviews or other indications that one dentist is better than the next. Confronted by 20 options, I spend more time on the whole thing than I need to, optimizing the odds that I get distracted along the way.

2. various forms of anxiety, mostly social anxiety
I really don't want to call and talk to a stranger on the phone to schedule that appointment. I'm not even that bad at talking to people, and yet it makes my heart race. I'm afraid to drive to places that I've never been, to awkwardly enter an unfamiliar building trying to figure out where to go. I'm afraid of not being able to find a parking space. I'm afraid of a lot of stupid things that don't matter.

3. extreme lethargy
Is something I've been trying to overcome for literally years. Inadequate nutrition is the main factor in this. I am mentally and physically tired almost all of the time, to varying degrees, which slows me down, and makes it harder to focus on something. I don't eat right, sometimes eating but a single meal in a day. Sometimes I will eat nothing substantial for an entire day. I recently tried "Mealsquares" (basically Soylent in solid form) as means to ensure I get all the nutrients I need. I've yet to be able to eat more than 2 in a day (usually just 1), which would equate to 400-800 calories at most. At 6' height, a target weight of a 170lbs requires me to consume an excess of 2000 calories per day, so imagine getting 1/4-1/2 of that on average per day. I don't even know how I get through the days as well as I do, what is my body running on? I actually know how to prepare multiple meals, I just don't. Instead of hunger making me voracious, it makes me feel lazy and depressed. If hiring a full-time cook were affordable, I would do it.

At the end of the day, nothing is getting done if I simply don't have the fuel to power my body to do it.

Procrastination feels like a pattern, a vicious cycle that feeds on itself, a loop from which I'm trying to break free. I'm trying to reverse it and emerge on top, and it sounds like something that can be turned around in a week, but I feel like it's been an upward battle for most of my adulthood.