skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In fact, you can't target fat loss. http://www.yalescientific.org/2011/04/targeted-fat-loss-myth...
Last time I asked, cross compilation is not easy feat.

No problem compiling the same source for different targets, but from the same machine? There's no easy way, specially for Macs. Mind you it's not impossible, but it's not the recommended path.

Assembly you can insert it directly in code. To reconcile that with the prior question, use ifdefs.

Edit: the reason they gave me is that the linker (IIRC, GNU tools) needs the target DLLs to work properly. A good solution would be using a Mac as development machine with VMs for the rest of targets.
They are not required by law per se, but this is what evolutionary pressures (i.e. competition) demand of them. We won't have companies acting morally until we start expecting it from them - seriously enough that it starts to affect the profit calculation.
> "Agera (Swedish for “to act”) is a super lightweight Android library that helps prepare data for consumption by the Android application components (such as Activities), or objects therein (such as Views), that have life-cycles in one form or another. It introduces a flavor of functional reactive programming, facilitates clear separation of the when, where and what factors of a data processing flow, and enables describing such a complex and asynchronous flow with a single expression, in near natural language.
"
https://github.com/google/agera/wiki
The big trend now seems to be state governments blocking public policy innovation from cities. The first time this came to my attention was with states blocking cities from deploying municipal WiFi a few years ago, in order to protect incumbent broadband providers. The current example is the "bathroom laws" in NC, MS, and SC, which block municipal ordinances extending legal protections to LGBT individuals, and furthermore block cities from guaranteeing any civil rights that are not guaranteed by the state.

In the first case, the cause is probably just that it's more cost-effective to lobby at the state level than to lobby every city council. In the second, it seems to be that the state legislatures are controlled by their rural counties. Both of these are probably problems with state constitutions, and so, very hard but not necessarily impossible to fix.
Not sure they are special features as other languages have them but Free Pascal does have excellent cross-platform support and yes using assembly inline is pretty nice.

Also the LCL is great in that they implement it for a lot of the platforms they support so you can do RAD on Windows and (fairly) easily get the same program running on Linux and vice versa.
Related analysis: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11563690
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I'll copy a comment of dang in a similar case: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11273580

> HN doesn't treat posts as dupes when a story hasn't had significant attention yet. See https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html .

> This is because we want good stories to have multiple chances at making the front page. The current story is a great example. In fact, we invited tdurden to repost it, as we sometimes do when we notice an article that we think the community might find interesting, but which fell through the cracks.

> We're working on a better duplicate handling system that will reduce the number of reposts in the story stream, but getting it right is surprisingly subtle, and we'd rather take longer than get it wrong.
26 features of functional programming languages
You were not sleep walking. You were fully awake. At the time you were fully conscious but as soon as you went to sleep you forgot about it. It has happened to me many times. Usually when I'm not getting enough sleep.
Apparently means 'as far as can be seen'.
Yep, though the last time I used it was VS2010, it was very very good and you could see a lot of the Delphi lineage in the way it did things, I love C# as a language but these days I'm a linux based web dev.

Really looking forwards to first tier C# on linux though!
It's a structured learning view of the world rather than professor- or student-centric.

The issue is that, if you take away all structure, you also tend to take away most real-time interactions (which admittedly are a serious weakness of MOOCs anyway) and you end up with an experience that's not much different from reading a book and/or watching online video talks/lectures/documentaries/etc. or, indeed, just doing some project. Of course, there's nothing wrong with learning that way. But, at some point, you then go--why bother with this MOOC thing anyway if I just want to learn something?
eBay is not forwarding you to third-party websites in order to purchase products. They are listing products directly. The company the author was creating forwarded you to someone else. In return the store paid a monthly fee. Essentially this company was targeted lead-gen, and stores paid a fee for them to do the work and drive traffic.
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That has more to do with what happened after the war: America was doing quite well and had piles of money to spend on roads and cars and suburban houses, while most of Europe was pretty devastated and had to spend everything just on rebuilding, without much left over for things like cars and highways, and so focused their investments on public transport. Even so, a huge number of European cities did end up abandoning their streetcar systems, either because the city was small enough that buses were deemed adequate or because it was big enough to have a metro system. The other big exception to the general trend was the Communist countries where public transport was encouraged over private automobiles for a range of reasons. But even in many of the ex-USSR countries, there has been a similar trend of streetcar infrastructure wearing out and getting abandoned rather than replaced.
Some NSA job listings have mentioned Coursera's (and others) Data Science specializations.

> "Completion of a data science certificate program (online or other) may replace 1 year of relevant experience. Some examples of data science certificate programs include those offered by Cloudera, Coursera, Indiana University-Bloomington, and University of California-Irvine."

Data Scientist - Entry Level:
https://www.nsa.gov/psp/applyonline/EMPLOYEE/HRMS/c/HRS_HRAM...

Data Scientist:
https://www.nsa.gov/psp/applyonline/EMPLOYEE/HRMS/c/HRS_HRAM...

Might just be an indication of how desperate they are for those positions, but it could also indicate they're doing a pretty good job educating people.
Could you clarify what you mean by "scheduling demands"? As I understand it, Uber is strictly work-when-you-want.
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Ubuntu has done a really great job of getting its distributions into as many hands as possible. Consider these stats:

- http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/debian - 5K questions

- http://stackexchange.com/sites?view=list#traffic - 224K questions
Given that Type 2 diabetes is generally believed to be caused by diet, it makes sense that diet could fix it as well.

My personal hypothesis is that some people have intestinal bacteria that are really, really good at breaking down sugar very quickly. So when you eat high GI foods, your gut turns them into glucose very quickly releases them into your blood, and your body has to deal accordingly. IMO that would help explain why people who are very obese get type 2 with some regularity, but how otherwise healthy adults who are simply moderately overweight can also develop it.

A corollary to this hypothesis is that the ability of your (personal) intestinal bacteria to break down different types of foods at different rates means that there is no such thing as a "universal diet". Some people will be healthiest eating large amounts of red meat, some will be healthiest on a high-carb diet, while others may need something more fiber-rich (assuming appropriate calorie control, of course). This appears to be borne out anecdotally, with diet plans having different efficacy on different people.

Intestinal flora is something the medical community is just now beginning to research and understand. There's something unique that happens in our intestines, and while there's obviously a genetic component to it, the genes your intestinal flora carry may be just as important. We don't understand the system or the feedback loops (maybe eating too much sugar causes these bacteria to over-populate the intestines in some people and crowd out other bacteria?) The point is, there's a whole lot we don't know about how our bodies process the nutrients we take in. There are a lot of studies underway, but holistic medicine is pretty obviously a real thing -- we just don't understand the science behind it yet.
Depends how complete the corpus is, it would be interesting to compare language across laws in different countries to see if how similar they are and possibly detect the influence of lobbyists working on an international level.
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A big reason for me buying my Pebble was the high hopes I had in the vibration alarm. But of course, it's not strong enough to wake me up at home. Even a combination of this and annoying songs set up as alarm clocks on the phone are not enough.
> prices fall down to minimal sustainable level unless someone is able to erect some artificial structure

In education, the artificial structure is often exclusivity in admissions. This also works for nightclubs.
> what constitutes adequate notice of cancellation

While that's one aspect of the situation - and yes, a matching notification requirement is sensible - this discussion of "cancellation" is missing the important question: were goods delivered or services used?

Using a newspaper publisher as an example, if we're talking about a simple contract (for either a predefined period or specific termination criteria) where some amount of money is regularly exchanged for the regular delivery on dead trees or electronic means (email) of their publication, then there is a debt that needs to be repaid. The publisher fulfilled their obligations created by the contract.

However, this is a very different situation if no debt has been created. If the contract was a regular payment to gain access to their back archives, if you haven't used their services, then there isn't a debt[1]. Also, I suspect most businesses using contracts of this type will include some sort of clause that terminates all of their obligations if the payments stop.

The point being that there is going to depend heavily on the specifics of the situation, so it's dangerous to generalize.

[1] Some jurisdictions might treat use of the service separately than a "retainer" for access. This doesn't really change anything, though it might make the situation much more complicated.
Given the rarity of that machine I'd guess it's actually worth a fair bit to the right collector or Amiga enthusiast. (It sounds like quite a find, to me, and I wish I could justify the purchase... >smile<)
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I did not downvote you but I found your post was reasonable (although I don't completely agree with it) until your last sentence and the "lower comparable standard of living".

My guess is where the downvoting come from :)
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Yes I understand the thought process, but as you wrote in detail, it was a failed model. The benefits to being an aggregator (lack of stock and shipping headaches) is far outweighed by the negatives (lack of control, competition, lack of loyalty, little money).

If you were building a shopping platform, and getting loyalty, perhaps you should have just sold the items yourself. The experience would have been much better, for sure.
I think its more hostile than when I started. I'm pretty sure some of the comments about other people's religion wouldn't have stood in 2009[1].

The biggest difference to me is a tactical change of not refuting the other side or even acknowledging their argument, but just bury people you disagree with and take their voice.

1) yeah, I'm still a bit peeved https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10574861 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11071013
We did raise funding it was around $100k-$500k (not going to disclose the real amount). We realized that we needed some boost to test the market overall, but after 1.5 year of using that money and got to 30-40k UV per day, the path of profitability from that point seems far away, numbers just don't add up.

It gets worse as I stated in the article that new startups in the same area are raising behemoth amount of funding. The funds were used to attract and subsidized sellers and buyers.
Actors seems like an interesting model to increase reuse in embedded systems by sharing concurrent components between users, So i wonder why there isn't a collaborative community doing exactly this ?
Everyone always gets so excited over this. "Holy cow guys, be careful! The FCC will pwn you forever if you even think about running this code!"

A cell tower is elevated, outdoors, transmits +10 W, and runs 24/7.

Your BladeRF is likely to be indoors at ground level, has an output power of about 10 mW. You aren't going to get very far with that. You'll likely have problems detecting the signal over 100 meters, much less connecting and using it.

It may be illegal, but if you aren't causing interference you'll have a hard time getting caught. That being said, yes. Check your local laws. If you do cause a problem and it's tracked down to you, expect to have some serious legal issues.
If you want some bad experiences, then I can offer you some. I live in UK, Newcastle to be specific. I've had several Uber rides and not going to use them again. All the drivers I had spoke barely any English, they had no idea where they were going(road to the airport was closed, the driver had no idea how to get there without looking it up on google maps), and the worst thing is that you can't pre-book a ride. I'm just going to stick with local taxi companies, thank you.
For one, CommonJS doesn't work well in the browser.
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Indeed. I think you can see this in some of the history in this article: Interix was "POSIX compatible", but essentially its own OS, like compiling for Linux versus BSD. So someone had to maintain binary builds of GNU tools for Interix and thus you ended up with the large "Tools" distribution of user space binaries. Ultimately, "Tools" was its own Unix distribution that was subtly incompatible with any other Unix distribution. Even today on Linux you still see a lot of the headaches in the subtle binary incompatibilities across Linux distributions.

The amazing thing with Ubuntu on Windows is that user space is the same Ubuntu distribution of user space tools as on Linux. That lessens the maintenance burden of the User Space considerably as Canonical is already actively maintaining that distribution, and will continue to actively maintain that distribution, and that there are a considerable number of users of that distribution on Linux already and a considerable ecosystem of third parties building for that distribution. Those are definitely the missing pieces that Interix never had and makes this "Son of Interix" that is Ubuntu on Windows much more interesting.
You are correct that the ownership of the air above and around your property is severely limited when compared to the ownership of say land, water or minerals. 19th century courts abandoned the concept that factory smoke was a trespass on someone's air and weakened the concept of property rights in regards to ownership of air, ushering in this modern day tragedy of the commons. Obviously had the courts made the opposite rule, the amount of air pollution we face today would be much smaller.
No we can't but HN tends to be civil. Yes some day after alpha we'll have nice things hopefully that but for now we're just relying on version history and database backups
The curious thing is that he chairs the IETF HTTP Working Group and is a member of the W3C TAG.

Seeing this and how that blog loads make me afraid of the future of the web.
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I was hoping the cdc.gov links would make it given the number of discussions of mortality in the USA.
> Starvation studies from the University of Minnesota have been described this way: "During the semi-starvation phase the changes were dramatic. Beyond the gaunt appearance of the men, there were significant decreases in their strength and stamina, body temperature, heart rate and sex drive. The psychological effects were significant as well. Hunger made the men obsessed with food. They would dream and fantasize about food, read and talk about food and savor the two meals a day they were given. They reported fatigue, irritability, depression and apathy. Interestingly, the men also reported decreases in mental ability, although mental testing of the men did not support this belief."

Those people were actually starving. Their fat stores had dropped to 4% or less, which is very dangerous when not on a strictly controlled and supervised diet. People with normal or above normal stores of body fat can be hungry and malnourished, but will not be starving (in the medical sense of the word, which is what the Minnesota experiment was testing).

> In addition, there is evidence that the body begins to reduce energy output in response to reduced energy input, thus making the advice every overweight person hears from nearly every source to "eat less and move more" a load of nonsense. That can work short-term, but the combination of reduced energy output and constant hunger make that recipe very ineffective long-term.

I would like to see this in reputable studies, because everything I have read on the subject rejects the hypothesis that there is a physiological change in energy usage as a result of lowered intake. In fact, it a) doesn't make any sense since fat is supposed to be a store of energy for lean times and b) if the body could function at its current level on less energy, it would.
I assume that's why it's currently just an accusation and not a given. It is still possible to control pricing with an auction if you dump enough product with no reserve price...basic supply/demand.

A cynic might say they chose the auction route specifically to avoid the appearance of dumping, but ensured they would dump enough volume to get the effect they wanted.

Nobody seems to be debating that the sales price is currently lower than the actual cost to produce the product.
Every gasoline car is going to put out more pollution in "real world" driving scenarios as well. This isn't a problem with diesels, per se, it's a problem with all emissions standards.
You can take the derivative of a regular expression?
Amazon's Alexa is the new Vaudeville
Some things I like about ES6

1. Arrow functions are really handy:

["the", "red", "fox"].map(word => console.log(word))

is much cleaner than

["the", "red", "fox"].map(function(word) {
console.log(word)
})

2. Imports, while more ambiguous than `require`, look quite nice:

import React, { Component } from 'react';
import Block from './Block';

vs

var React = require('react');
var Block = require('./Block');

3. Exports are cleaner and streamlined

export default myFunction()

vs

module.exports = myFunction()

So while ES6 is more ambiguous than ES5 and has a higher learning curve, I think it's much cleaner and looks more like a proper programming language. ES5 feels like a homegrown hacky language in comparison.
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Only because they didn't deprecate 2 soon enough, they could have forced peoples hand, we would all have complained but it would be long forgotten by now.
So any successful aggregators out there? I think the closest one seemed to be pinterest
I was about to be charitable and say 'maybe those are LinkedIn pictures,' but all it takes is a Google image search to verify that, indeed, they're stock photos.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11523675

Better? ;)
I have a better idea, how about we just kill ChromeOS and call it an Android device.
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I don't know what the going rate for an A4000T is these days, but if you'd like to find a buyer I'd say Amibay is worth a try:

http://www.amibay.com/forum.php
https://github.com/clojure/clojurescript/wiki/Bootstrapping-...
The video is just someone using LibreOffice in a browser. It's got file versioning and sharing and local sync that looks a lot like Dropbox. They also bolted on email and calendar features which look familiar but I can't place them. Quite impressive for a tech demo but hardly riveting. There's no narration at all.
I rode the bus every day as a child, and I will always associate the smell of diesel exhaust with the inside of the school bus, because it always smelled like exhaust.
Microsoft Windows Kernel Team Details Windows Subsystem for Linux
I use this [1] HDMI Cable Extension which allows you to use and HDMI cable between them. Works perfectly.

[1] https://www.tindie.com/products/freto/pi-camera-hdmi-cable-e...
I guess parent is talking about the use of '365' which reminds of office 365. That would be trademark infringement though, not copyright.

Seems to me that open365 is different enough of office 365 that no confusion is possible anyway but I have no idea what the law says.
Which, in a lot of ways, really highlighted the failure of MOOCs promoting themselves as expanding the reach of top-level education to underserved audiences. (As did Open Courseware and its ilk previously.) The problem (well, one of them) is that MOOCs didn't really help students with weak groundings in the basics and, perhaps, middling to low motivation.

Instead, if you read the stats, they largely (though not exclusively) have ended up providing ongoing professional education to a range of motivated learners who already have undergrad and advanced degrees.
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There must be other ways to provide structure than one built around a fixed schedule oriented around when a professor is delivering lectures, no?

Simple ideas:
- Rolling start dates
- Weekly collaboration days/times where all students who happen to be at a shared point in the course, or a shared point in their understanding of the material, discuss

These have their own drawbacks, too, but they're possible. Especially if the network is big enough. Once you have a bunch of students doing this, you then go--why bother affiliating with one particular university if I can get the classes I need no matter where I sit?