skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wrote a k5 screen scraper, and have 95% of k5 diaries, unfortunately I don't have any stories.
Date range for my archive is: 2001-1-4 to 2015-7-22
For a total of 161,942 diaries:
http://k5.semantic-db.org/diary-slurp/161942--archive-diarie...

Here is a summary of what I have in my archive:
http://kr5ddit.com/post/759

Here are some tables showing which kuron had the highest number of posts over the lifetime of k5:
http://kr5ddit.com/post/759
A Leica digital camera with no frills
Or Excel, even
Their future is Epic: The evolution of a gaming giant
I could recommend another, shorter trip, if you can spare a few days: get a Russian visa and drive to Haparanda - Kuhmo - Kostamuksha - Belomorsk. Nowadays, it's a one-day drive.

Look at Stalin's Canal there, and imagine that when it was built, the wasted humans were many enough to lay along the canal, buried there head to toe, to form a chain as long as the man-built parts of the canal itself.

The canal was never economically or militarily useful, it was just a project used to get rid of people.

Not quite as many people killed as in Hiroshima, but they were each one separately and individually starved, beaten or shot to death instead of being killed remotely by one big industrial bomb. The killing machinery was human and it worked slow and it worked eye to eye.

From Belomorsk you can take a boat trip to Solovetsk, which was the original development lab for how to starve people in concentration camps. Both Soviets and Nazis studied and developed their methods based on the findings there.

Notice also that you won't see memorials for those who were killed. The miserable swamps are their monument.
Not sure where you're from, but it's hard to imagine a rational basis for the European public to be an advocate of it.

My understanding of TTIP and TPP are that they're the US's last ditch attempt to standardise international trade along US lines before China overtakes and starts to set the tone.

On that basis they kinda make sense from a US perspective. From an EU perspective not so much.

(edit: not saying the US has a chance of staying ahead of China if TTIP/TPP are successful, just that standardised trade rules may soften China's negotiation position)
If Europe was a democracy then they could stop this.
But any politician that supported such a bill would be crucified if and when another terrorist attack occurs.
Just boring enterprise software. Yes, the new technology makes me more valuable in the job market but other than that, I think I'm just getting old as I see choice of technology as bikeshedding these days.
> "Craig signed a message that I chose ("Gavin's favorite number is eleven. CSW" if I recall correctly) using the private key from block number 1.

> That signature was copied on to a clean usb stick I brought with me to London, and then validated on a brand-new laptop with a freshly downloaded copy of electrum.

> I was not allowed to keep the message or laptop (fear it would leak before Official Announcement).

> I don't have an explanation for the funky OpenSSL procedure in his blog post."

https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/4hfyyo/gavin_can_you_p...
I encourage everyone to read the "physiology" chapter at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adipose_tissue

TLDR: Blood sugar spikes above certain level are toxic, so the body responds with an emergency action of stashing the sugar wherever possible, including muscle, liver, and fat tissue. The former two are rather limited in their capacity, while the latter is unlimited. Ongoing elevated levels of sugars in the bloodstream is an ongoing cleanup job for the fat cells, and they never get aground to release the accumulated energy back into circulation.

At the "hardware" level, that's all there is to obesity - overabundance of quick carbs (sugars, flour, starch).
Nobody said that it has any effect on throughput. It only solves the problem of missing your flight.
This is my first time hearing of Last Thursdayism. Thank you for making my head spin before 10am
No. It'd just kill his career in the bitcoin world.
If Trump is elected this trade agreement will not come into existence.
TSA Pre is the equivalent of "fuck you, got mine".

It makes it personally more convenient for you, while simultaneously ignoring or condoning the waste of millions of person-hours without consent, which basically equates to mass murder if you squnt hard enough at the math.
Terrible reporting. Improving health outcomes by AI analysis of patient data is a much bigger prize - morally and commercially - than anything which could be achieved through ad targeting. Google is far too smart to squander such an opportunity by abusing patients' trust.
> unbiased information

I agree with you, but just to be pedantic: kinda by definition they are biased; in a way that's what makes them great!
Why has Congress not shut it down? I don't think anybody really likes the TSA, so I can't imagine there'd be too much opposition to a bill abolishing them

Good luck finding someone who wants to be the anti-airport-security candidate.
Dolphin Progress Report: April 2016
It's not generational. I don't think developers these days are any lazier or less gifted than developers at any other times. We're at a point in history where it's much, much cheaper at a certain point to double the number of computers you have than it is to make all of your computers twice as fast. SQL databases, especially the ones we have right now, were built with the idea that you'd have one large database server -- replication and such exists but it's an extension of the single-server model. Things like NoSQL databases and Hadoop are meant to provide a model that supports horizontal scaling better than existing relational databases do. As they mature, they are starting to take on more and more features from relational databases. And SQL databases are taking on more and more features that let them scale horizontally. I suspect at some point in the future we'll see a lot more convergence.
I have a regular scheduled buy on coinbase. I just use it as a second savings account that has waaaaay better returns than my actual savings account over the past year.
The article is about https://www.leapin.eu/ and https://e-estonia.com/

Those two sites don't seem like an april fools jokes.
No... I said no such thing. However, if you lose weight you will generally feel hungry until you start eating at levels that would restore your weight, as detailed in the linked article and also this one: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/30/opinion/diet-advice-that-i...
Hacker koan
Isn't that exactly what happened in Belgium.
This makes me sound jaded, but its a jobs program at its core. Every person in congress with a major airport in their district will try to prevent it from being privatized / disbanded. There are two types of people that go work for the TSA: 1) Those who can't get a job anywhere else, and 2) People trying to break in to the federal security market by going to TSA and transferring in. Yes, in gvt it is easier to get a new job if you already work in gvt vs applying from the outside.
Not really, no. This story is a dupe:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11609909
It was from League of Leagends (Sivir). It's not sharp or aerodynamic, just a "spinner" toy.

One of the vendors from the League convention I put on gave it to me as a token of thanks just before the event ended. I dropped it in my bag and forgot it until flying a few weeks later.

Bonus: My business partner was given the same one and the same thing happened at BUR. TSA asked if she wanted to mail it home, she said "toss it" and never heard another word!

Bonus 2: Cop asks me "who do you main?" (as in, what champion do you mainly play in LoL)
That password is potentially ten lines down in the keylogger report. Depth isn't as deep as you think.
I think it depends on which TSA agents you get, and what kind of mood they are in
True, but that doesn't change what identity is. It is only a key into a table, it is up to the table to contain values indexed by time if that is what is required.
There is no more ambiguity over the term "minority group" than there is over the term "Christian". Has the term "Christianity" lost all its meaning? Shall we stop talking about it until there's a well-defined term?

The current interpretations of "minority" and "minority group" has been the primary definition for longer than you've likely been alive.

You might as well complain about "calculus" because not only is it not dealing with pebbles, but it's really a short-hand for "calculus of infinitesimals", and not meant to include the calculus of variations or lambda calculus.
Why hasn't the TSA reacted to the Brussels Airport bombing and stopped herding passengers together so that they present a big target to terrorists ?
> That one guy in the article has to consume 800 calories a day fewer than a normal person his size to maintain his weight which likely means dealing with constant hunger.

And the recovering alcoholic has to consume more alcohol than the average person, at first, to make it through their days. Same effects, different substance.
A standard-issue toy throwing star that every adult has on them when trying to get through security checkpoints.
The airport can't hold that many people.
Everybody eats food. They die if they don't.

Heroin is not a required nutrient.
Yes, I didn't get why Annalee Newitz (Ars Technica) wrote: "the stele contains 70 legible letters and punctuation marks" and on the other hand writes:
"Scientists believe it will be full of words and concepts they've never encountered before"
It makes it out to be some kind of revolutionary Rosetta's Stone, but with 70 characters this is even less then the Faistos Disk of that other enigmatic civilization, the Minoans. I think 'full of words' is a bit overstated - in the Italian reporting it's said that because of the different genre compared to the regular finds we have the scholars will probably encounter some new words (which would be around < 10) probably including the deity of the temple.
> To me that's just bizarre. It's like Trump saying he'd be a great president and Obama meeting with him and saying he's the real deal, it'd just wouldn't happen.

It would happen if Gavin was Satoshi. Gavin attempts to permanently deflect things on to a smooth talking conman with liquidity problems to maintain his privacy.

Hell, he could even give Wright some of the bitcoins as payment for the cover.
I mean, I know exactly why it's there. :-) GRUB's os-prober is trying to mount all filesystems as all possible types, which autoloads xfs.ko.

My point isn't so much what my three kernel threads are doing as why nobody asks these questions, in general, about the kernel. Just about every criticism of systemd applies double to the kernel, but nobody is forking Debian to replace the kernel. (And very few people are contributing to the existing efforts already in Debian to officially support alternative kernels.)
Ubuntu became the most popular Linux distribution for web servers
Aren't those already sandboxed browser-local filesystems?
I signed up for PreCheck and most of the times I've tried to use it they haven't even had it set up. Seems like more and more of a shameless money/personal info grab every day.
In Denmark, everyone uses chip, it is only if the chip is damaged by a broken card, that people use the mag-stripe
BTW, rusty was certainly aware of my screen scraping project, and did not tell me to stop. And it would have been very obvious in the log files.
Show HN: Real people become fictional charaters in movies and books
Just as I explained, also I forgot to mention ACM.
Ask your friend if they have a patent.If they do not - tell them to get it first. Then try to do something with it, they can always sell it if that does not work.
> how much you weight and how happy you are with it should influence how you eat.

I'm pretty sure constant hunger would trump those considerations for you and most people.
...and regardless, it's quite easy to simply switch to a different target for future plots.
I just flew out of Newark, and other family members flew out of LaGuardia, we didn't experience this at all.

In fact, on the way back I had Precheck for reason, and I'm waiting in that line, looking at the completely regular security line wondering if the regular one would have been faster. (and even in precheck I get "randomly selected" to go through the body scanner...)
The list of stuff to check for just keeps getting longer. First were the belt and shoes, then the laptop, then liquids. The latest seems to be portable batteries. Every time a crazy guy hatches a new plot with plans to hide dangerous stuff in everyday items, the list will get longer. Someone needs to work on prioritizing that list or reducing it.

In Asia, where there are more bullet trains, I often pick the trains over flight if it is within 3 hours time difference. (Factor in the wait time and the distance to airport) Bigger seats, leg room and you don't need to off your electronics during "takeoff"!
Ok, the TSA sucks big time and should be abolished. I get that.

But what about the alternatives? In this day and age it's just not thinkable to let people enter a plane without a security check. So you need some entity performing it.

I think one factor on providing successful and to the passenger acceptable (they will never be pleasant) security checks is adequate funding and employing adequately compensated professionals.

It's weird that my wait time on any European airport I ever use is literally always below 10 minutes and usually much less than that. And it's not that checks are less thorough around here.

It really just seems to be a funding issue.
You'd probably be surprised how much time I've spent learning about those subjects, from many different sources.

I'm an engineer. I want to understand stuff. Obesity is a perspective that I thin can give a ton of insight about human nature, society, evolution, progress, globalization, advertisement, medias, etc.

As for the definition, feel free to pull the definition from anywhere and see if there are any contradictions when applied to obese people.

http://www.asam.org/quality-practice/definition-of-addiction
> Either this is simply a lie, or you do not have as much access as you think you do.

ACM, Google, Yahoo, Bing.
Excellent point. I forgot that private aircraft travelers get to skip it.
I use:
Omnifocus for my own flavor of GTD
Initially used RescueTime and toggl to profile activities and find out time sinks.
Use the productive app to keep track of habits
Can you explain what is a "programmer lifestyle"? I'm a programmer, I work out 1:30 every day after work and that's it, there's nothing special in my schedule: wake up, take a shower, go to work, get off work, go to the gym, go home and do whatever I please.
True, most corporations are under 1TB of data (per project) so not a big deal.

However scalability is about more than just a big box though. Scale up has always been easy, and should be the first thing to do, but there's still a new class of companies/projects that need HA for 100% uptime and scale-out so they can have relational access across PBs of data.

This is usually done with Hadoop or other "big data" tech but there's no reason regular relational databases can't scale up to this and offer all the benefits and tooling they come with. Closing that gap is still very tough these days without 3rd party vendors or custom extensions.
>There is a workaholic mania among educated wealth-seeking American men, who seem uniquely devoted to working any number of hours to get rich

This mindset cannot be unique to just the Americans, can it? Doesn't everybody want to work hard and get rich?

Any non-Americans care to explain this?
What happens when an RNN makes your startup commercial for you?
Chinese Watchdogs Probe Baidu After College Student's Death
So did trhurler:

https://web.archive.org/web/20080113234818/http://www.swtime...
I own and use guns for self-protection. Your "proposal" is that I not have access to guns. That's the very definition of "all or nothing".
Agree. Mods can this happen?
Inside the Secret Meeting Where Wall Street Tested Digital Cash
Well, at least some of my more embarrassing submissions are now gone forever.
Well, if you can find a job where you're working ~40 hours per week, this can be achieved. I know this is not the case for many people.
It's not just a jobs program, it's a federal public union jobs program. Which means lots of money spent on politicians.
You can have a quantifiable increase in quality of life without it being a meaningful increase in quality of life.
I am enjoying the spectacle and irony of the crypto-currency media being "hacked" by someone who barely understands the basics of the very thing that underpins the system itself.

One of the very few things that Bitcoin meaningfully has accomplished as an ecosystem is a world-readable repository of reasonably-well-attested-to-keys.

Yeah no shit.
Why laugh at someone's failure? They're trying to pull off a very different power structure. It has political issues they clearly haven't worked out, but how much time in the grand scheme have they had to do so compared to the standard ones?
Pay billions in your tax dollars to create a huge interference to free movement around the country, then pay hundreds more individually to get around some facets of the interference you already paid for. Also, let's throw in submission of your fingerprints and a background check into a database secured by hugely-ineffectual government organization.

I can't imagine why everyone isn't leaping at the opportunity...
I think it's highly dependent on which airport you're at and the current mood of the people working there.

Last year I was flying home, and there was a sign in the security line saying they we don't need to remove our shoes or belt, I cannot remember which. When I got up to the front of line, I was told, yes, I need to remove both.
Given the long history of flags of convenience and purchasable citizenship in tax havens, something like this seems bound to be attempted eventually. If it takes off, it'll be curious to see how hard the pushback is.
Practicing weight maintenance before going on a diet helps to keep the weight off after a diet. Many people who struggle with their weight "yo-yo" as they go on various short-term diets, losing and regaining weight and never learning how to maintain a specific level.
Yes; prolixity yields clarity in programming about as much as in prose. The old quip needs an update: a modern programmer can write COBOL in any language.
Study after study has repeatedly shown this to be untrue. People who think they "eat as much as they want" really don't eat as much as people who think they "eat almost nothing"

Try actually counting your calories over the course of a week.
I don't think anyone in the 'crypto-currency media' believes that this guy is Satoshi. The mainstream media that covers bitcoin seems to have been conned, though.
Yea i was stopped, and had my computer etc wiped down. Line was long, but moved along quickly, and stopping and searching my stuff did not stop any other passengers from moving. Done in about 15 min from start to end.
"That doesn't explain how someone can just let it happen to the point of suffering of it every day"

Abstract out the obesity, and you've described every chronic health condition, ever. A huge number of emergency room admissions read something like: I thought it was normal that road signs were getting a little blurry after 40. Sure my heart screams in agony when I climb stairs, but who's doesn't? My knees are in crippling pain for days if I hike more than two miles. Every time I drink, I drink till I pass out or are arrested, but doesn't everyone? After I eat sugary food (aka modern american diet) I feel faint and fuzzy, that's normal, right? I hear voices in my head more often as time goes on. Why how odd that pain pill has smoothly and gradually gone from something to make life bearable after surgery, to life is unbearable without it, to life is unbearable even with it.

People tend to be pretty good at getting medical care for acute things like bleeding out more than a quart or so, or broken bones, but not so good at getting help for chronic things. Gettin fat is obviously not an acute problem.
Alcoholics don't have to keep drinking a beer or two a day to live; the analogy is obviously flawed. Also, this study, it says, took place years after the weight loss.
There's a difference.

A bespoke suit is made from scratch to specification or set of measurements. A custom guitar will be a variation on a production model.

"Bespoke" is more custom than custom.
You have in this thread defined "violent crime" as "self defense".
Most people do not realize, but Denver is a very busy airport. It has dropped from it's #10 worldwide ranking in 2010 to #19, but it's still #6 in the US and was just last year overtaken by JFK.

Short lines are nice, but it's also not bad the have direct flights to Europe and many US cities, and pretty low ticket prices.
Ask HN: How would you make america great again?
I have followed "The Perfect Ten Diet" and began swimming. Within a year, I went from a size 40 jeans to a size 33. I think I'm now a size 32. I haven't weighed myself yet. I'm a lacto vegetarian (butter, cheese and curd, no milk).

I think that barring health reasons (e.g. Thyroid issues), it should be possible for an individual to eat healthier and shed excess weight. But it also comes down to "How badly do you want it?"
I managed to lose 40 pounds last year, using intermittent fasting. That impressed people, but what's impressed me is how easy it was to keep it off. I expected to have to do a lot more work than I have, I really seemed to have found a new 'set point', where I can simply let my body self-regulate eating and I won't gain weight. Sometimes it even goes down.

I think a person's state of mind plays a huge role. I used IF because it seemed the easiest way to incorporate a sustained caloric deficit into my lifestyle. The knob of "how many times a day I'm eating" was far easier to tweak than "what I'm eating" or "how much I eat when I'm eating." I'm just really fucking lazy and found that over time, skipping meals works with my laziness.

With IF, I can eat what I want, as much as I want, just only once a day. I used to be really strict about once a day, now I'll have a snack here and there, sometimes I'll even have what amounts to a light meal outside of my main one. Getting adjusted was a pain, but I'd alleviate it by eating small amounts outside of the 'window' and trust that I'd cheat less over time. Which I more or less did.

Ultimately I feel it's not really worth it to try to fight your body too hard. If your system perceives a shock, it will defend itself. But humans seem hard-wired for big, dramatic gestures, and so they'll do grievous damage to their metabolic systems like crash dieting simply because they can't trust themselves to maintain a safer, more sustainable course of action like simply "eating less and exercising more." I think a lot of people think of the idea of "sustained lifestyle change" and balk. Like they can never eat ice cream again or something.
Any Python code from Armin Ronacher (https://github.com/mitsuhiko) or Kenneth Reitz (https://github.com/kennethreitz).

They have really clean code, popular packages and are open about their decisions. It is interesting to understand their design thinking.
Exercise has nothing to do with weight loss. Caloric restriction also doesn't work without consuming the correct fats to satiate your appetite. As you age there is no amount of exercise that will allow you to maintain the amount you weigh in you 20's or 30's. It will all depend on your diet of the correct foods.

I would suggest probably the best book ever written about why people get fat.

Why We Get Fat: And What to Do About It -Gary Taubes

Fantastic book that looks at the science of Obesity and weight loss among other things like Insulin resistance and genetics.