skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you eat a lot of sugar? I used to have pastries or cereal and sugar with my coffee at breakfast and sometimes throughout the day. Like for you, a skipped meal or snack meant headaches. I've since weaned off sugar and I can easily go many hours without eating or snacking. I no longer eat breakfast.

I suspect that the blood sugar spikes were addictive, i.e. my body desensitized and needed me to frequently consume sugar to keep my blood sugar level high.

Try gradually reducing the amount of sugar that you consume, and/or the total amount that you eat at breakfast, as well as the frequency of your snacks throughout the day. Eventually you should be able to do fine on two good meals a day and nothing else.
I tried the "breakfast as the largest meal" before, but I couldn't get by not eating much for dinner. A large breakfast made me hungry by mid-day, and so I'd eat more, by the time dinner came around, it was a light salad or some other low calorie food, which affected my insomnia. I can't sleep hungry, I'll stay awake, and miserable all night.

On the other hand, I found being hungry in the morning is short term, and once I got into a project at work or something, I just forgot about it. A light, later lunch (up at 4am, lunch at noon), and a big dinner, and It's not hard at all.

I think this just illustrates that there are actual differences between people. Maybe the primary difference for me is my insomnia. Some people don't have crashes several hours after eating a big breakfast, and they stay satiated longer.
To add: You can pretty much create re-usable templates of robust logging, monitoring, testing, etc. It makes things way simpler and cuts down development time. For example, I follow the same principles and "finished" a Django-based application in about twelve days (with a good amount of tests included). No corners cut. Just leveraged previous code/experience.
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While I love me some PG, SQL Server is nothing to sneeze at. Was fairly impressed with it, never had any serious issues on an under-specced server once occupied by terrible programmers
Hey Fabio- we are built on top of lob. They've been great to work with, and are very supportive of Developers like us.

Mailform is focused on consumers and businesses who want an easy way to print and mail (for sending tax documents, invoices, estimates, brochures etc). Email us at team@mailform.io with questions.
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What is C associated with if it isn't "server side". It must be be server side, you can't exactly compile and run C code "client side".
There are a lot of people that will change their haircut, color and style a few times a year... why not tattoos as well.. though I'm not sure how much I'd be into that, but can see a market.
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> Lisa 2/5

Love the design of this model. Reminds me of the VT-100 [0] I used and loved at Uni. For some reason, machine design (desktop) has got flimsier and moved away this style.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VT100
Why would you have multiple words for the same thing, that don't carry different shades of meaning or uses? What do you imagine these 59 words are used for? Cute little nicknames?
Hi Andrew,

This sounds interesting. Can you please provide your contact details, or drop me an email at hi[at]pcx[dot]io.

You can find my posting here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11659747

Thanks

/pcx
My friend's grandfather was an economist. When he was a little boy he saw a $20 bill on the sidewalk on a walk with with his grandfather. He pointed to it and said "Grandpa look someone dropped a twenty dollar bill! We will be rich!" His grandfather dismissed his enthusiasm and explained that if there was free money on the ground somebody would have picked it up by now.
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How good are heuristics methods compared to exact solvers? Which kind of metric is it used to compare these algorithms?
Oh man! I think my two year old boy is set to be a genius manager! He's asking more than five why's about pretty much everything!
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I haven't seen a paper that shows this "tricking" can be used as a real world attack or happen randomly. Just because you can compute an input that has this unusual behavior doesn't mean there is a demonstrably nonzero probability of it happening.
I've dropped breakfast for about a month now and I feel so much better. I'm eating a heavy lunch and then dinner. Lost weight and it wasn't on purpose. As a result I've been questioning a lot of our norms. Not only when we eat, but what we eat and why. Loved the article.
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I'm skeptical that there is enough data to be so sure.

Some say it's better for drivers avoiding pedestrians: http://www.osram.com/osram_com/news-and-knowledge/led-home/l...

While others say it makes them feel safer:
http://www.treehugger.com/urban-design/friendly-streets-stud...

Does feeling safer matter? Increasing comfort is good, but it could also encourage more pedestrian activity and "eyes on the street" to dissuade crime as well.
He is also on this site - https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=hermitcrab
The frontend is all HTML inside of the webview.

We do have a tray icon too, though.
Apparently Secretary of State John Kerry and his wife Teresa Heinz also like offshore investments.

http://dailycaller.com/2016/04/25/exclusive-kerry-heinz-fami...
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I think the key distinction is that for AirBnB and Uber, their law-breaking activities were a key part of their strategy, and from the get-go they strategized and positioned the company to spin a narrative that their circumvention was actually a way to enhance customer well-being.

Take Uber, for instance: In most markets where it operates, it clearly violates regulations in place for Taxi drivers. However, they were clever enough and raised sufficient money that their strategy is to grow so quickly in markets that they can establish a significant coalition of riders that can create a political force sufficient to take on the taxi lobby. They (for the most part successfully) show that the policies they are allegedly infringing really aren't there for the safety of customers, but rather are policies preventing innovation and better services to sprout up.

In the Zenefits case, however, these claims are much harder to substantiate -- or at the very least, they did a terrible job in dealing with them head-on. The perception is that the policies that existed where there to protect consumers, and by circumventing them they not only harm their own customers but create a marketplace of unfair competition.
Absolutely a bit over the top (I have friends that are oracle consultants). But I still don't trust Oracle from a business practices level.
I've found that sticking to a regular schedule causes your body to adapt. You get hungry when you expect food.

Personally, if I don't eat in the evening, I get tired and want to go to sleep, so I'll turn in at 9pm or so and then I'll get up at 2am and won't be able to sleep until 5am. Whereas if I eat, I'll stay up to 1am or so, and then sleep until 8am. Food primarily affects how much energy I have. More food, more energy.
Quantity of sugar in food supply linked to diabetes rates, researcher says(2013)
I like this particular example of how easy it can be to make Swift act like it has language-level concurrency features: https://github.com/beeth0ven/BNQueue/blob/master/BNQueue/BNQ...

Some enum and extension magic easily lets you write things like:

Queue.UserInitiated.execute {
let url = NSURL(string: "http://image.jpg")!
let data = NSData(contentsOfURL: url)!
let image = UIImage(data: data)

Queue.Main.execute {
imageView.image = image
}
}
And _that_ is the real value of media. Advertising always was a side business.
It works quite well in the 1.5 million code line application written in groovy that I work on. I am sure Scala and Kotlin are nice languages, but groovy static compilation seems to work great in my experience.
I have to ask, how are they non-unix?
I would be shocked if most people in our obese country don't eat after dinner.
It does address the question of when and why people started eating breakfast. It just concentrates mostly on the foods eaten by Americans for breakfast.
Wait? That's exactly what it means. Since the networks are not "continuous" you can't reason about how the system will behave in actual real world conditions because any random fluctuations can cause the whole thing to malfunction. I put continuous in quotes because it's not the real definition of continuous like in real analysis but a good enough analogy as in small variations in input should not lead to wildly different outputs.

This is why any model that lacks explanatory power can't be used in mission and safety critical systems. If it can't reason about things the same way people can reason about things then the system overall can't really be trusted. It's one thing when a translation from english to spanish is wrong, it's a completely another thing when the control software of a self-driving car decides to accelerate instead of break and the root cause analysis is people throwing their hands up and saying neural networks are inherently susceptible to these kinds of problems.
How common is cancer in Australia?

In 2016, it is estimated that the risk of an individual being diagnosed with cancer by their 85th birthday will be 1 in 2 (1 in 2 males and 1 in 3 females).[1]

According to at least one source[2] 14.5% of Australians have a tattoo.

I'm going to go with tattoo ink not being a major cause of cancer. If it were you would expect to see more skin cancers local to the tattoo, or some other particular type of cancer more common among those with tattoos.

I think we've got bigger problems than any potential cancer risk form tattoos. Bigger problems like alcohol, cigarettes, benzene in petrol, vehicle exhaust, combustion of coal for electricity, consumption of processed meats - these are all known carcinogens[3].

1. https://canceraustralia.gov.au/affected-cancer/what-cancer/c...

2. http://www.disappearink.com.au/post/tattoo-statistics-austra...

3. http://www.cancer.org/cancer/cancercauses/othercarcinogens/g...
I had the exact same experience. I was totally outmatched. Interestingly though, in my typical life as a guy with an office job, I average about 1 breakfast per month and have no problems with energy in the morning.
This was my conscious weight loss strategy. Stop eating at 7-8pm in the evening and hold off eating any food until noon or so, which gets a 16+ hour fast. I ate whatever I wanted (not crazy, but not spartan) and lost about 70g per day over a long period (110kg -> 95kg). This was in conjunction with exercising but I was exercising before without losing much weight. Not a very original idea but I was amazed at how easy it was (relative to 5:2, which gave me two workdays a week of 'thinking about food way too much').
I thought that at first too about infixes being better (I've only been using Clojure for a few months), but I'm beginning to find the opposite. The only times when I miss an infix syntax is when doing math

1 + (2 * 10) - (12 / 3)

is so much easier for me to read to read than

(- (+ 1 (* 2 10) (/ 12 3)))

But when working with functions, I much prefer the standard Clojure syntax.
For me it's scrambled eggs, a bit of cheese, and coffee. Takes less than 15 minutes to make and clean up after.
You're forgetting that if I have been storing all of the encrypted traffic all along and then get access to the keys I can unlock all of the history too. Once a secret is out of use it should be purged completely. This is why secrets should be stored on ephemeral storage if at all possible. This is however pretty advance for many people.
It would be interesting to see all the failed non-disappearing tattoo prototypes.
> Good points but the same can be said about the stock market. How can you ascertain what news, speculation or any other factor will do (or did) to an equity at any given time?

I would use this logic to also argue against investing in individual stocks.

> Nobody knows interest rate trajectory.

Agreed

> The value doesn't drop as much as you would think.

If the interest rate the market is willing to pay for a particular muni bond rises, that bond will be worth less and that difference is extremely easy to calculate.

> If interest rates rise and the bond price drops, the yield increases and you or others will buy more.

The fact that rate is rising means that investors are not giving as high of a value. The better way to think about this is that investors decide the Muni bond and other fixed income assets are worth less so they pay less so the yield rises. It is kind of opposite of how you are thinking about it.

> There aren't a lot of safe options right now and people are nervous with the election and the market.

Muni bonds are no more 'safe' than other investments.

> I agree on doing bond funds and diversification.

Bond funds can also be highly risky and have large durations which can also mean high interest rate risks.

> I put a good chunk in muni bonds and cash. I max out a 401k but that's it for the market because I think it's highly overvalued and I don't like putting most of my money where I have no control. The rest goes into my own companies and real estate.

It sounds like you are highly exposed to interest rate risk in your portfolio and you should work really hard to understand it more clearly.
Yeah, those photos seem to be a bit colorized with brighter than reality stars, but I'm willing to be overall density of visible stars would be the same.
To expand on my offhanded comment: If you are well versed in OOP design principles/database design - I don't see why you would choose rails. I suppose if I didn't have so much experience with java I might want to try something like ruby. Java just gives you so much freedom to design things how you want and use whatever framework you feel like.

I don't feel comfortable with all these behind the scenes scaffolding things happening. I prefer to design back-ends as data endpoints that feed a separate business logic layer. I feel like I have the most control of these things using java.
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If you haven't read "A Random Walk Down Wall St" you definitely should. Few books actually put money in your retirement pocket. This one really does. Believe it or not...

Really sensible, conservative, well researched and argued stuff. If you disagree, you really want to know why as a sanity check on your idea.
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If you want my opinion, Trump is telling people what they want to hear, playing on their fears, and claiming he can solve those fears for them by cracking down on scapegoat groups like immigrants, etc.

It is scary that Hitler basically did the same things and wanted to Make Germany Great Again.

You have to remember that Trump was in a Reality TV series and was in the WWE and attacked Vince McMahon and shaved his head bald. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMKFIHRpe7I

So Trump has some acting abilities and can persuade people with them. We haven't had a President like that since Reagan.
3x meals a day feels absolutely preposterous for any sedentary profession. There's just no need to eat that much (or that often) unless you have an actually physically demanding job.
>You should observe that this didn't happen here.

I bet it now happens.
Internal politics? Budget constraints? Bad management? Idk
> invariably all of those startups moved from MongoDB

Why? Especially after point #1 and assuming the document-store was a good fit for the data model.
This is a superb tick-tock [0] into some of the efforts to combat Zika. Or, at least it seems excellent to me, although I don't know anything about fighting viruses, and the Times is always a little off writing about anything I know well.

Highlights for me were how email, FedEx, and a shared urgency accelerated their collaboration. I also liked the appearance of 3D printing, and was curious that so many of the experts involved are first generation Chinese immigrants. Plus the idea of NCATS using a robot arm to automatically test thousands of approved compounds seems like something out of a science fiction novel. I hope the compound they identified proves to be safe and effective!

[0] http://nancyfriedman.typepad.com/away_with_words/2013/05/wor...
Please would you elaborate on this? Or provide some sort of reference?
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The back-story: Kentons LAN-party house (2011)
watching the video the pigs seem pretty comfy for the most part. i would have thought they'd be squealing and writhing
Great quote:
It’s actually much harder to make a chess piece move correctly—to pick up the piece and move it across the board and put it down properly—than it is to make the right chess move.” She adds, slyly, “When I took A.I. as a student, I was so dismayed to find that most A.I. is just stupid brute force, just running through the possibilities a machine can look at quickly. Computer chess looks intelligent, but it’s under-the-hood stupid. Reaching and elegantly picking up the right chess piece fluidly and having it land in the right place in an uncontrolled environment—that’s hard. Haptic intelligence is an almost irreproducible miracle! Because people are so good at that, they don’t appreciate it. Machines are good at finding the next move, but moving in the world still baffles them.”
> If two beliefs are mutually conflicting then at least one is wrong.

Not necessarily. Since you try bringing math in, then there are other possibilities—both could be consistent with your axioms. The continuum hypothesis is neither "true" nor "false", but rather independent of the axioms of ZFC. You are free to adopt it, or its negation, and proceed from there.
While I find your stance on privacy very refreshing for an analytics company, hiding your pricing info behind a sales rep is a huge turnoff for me. If you feel your pricing is reasonable for the service that you provide, I really don't see why you can't just display it proudly on your site.

If SpaceX can afford to not hide their pricing behind a sales rep, so can you: http://www.spacex.com/about/capabilities
I usually only encrypt var files that contain things like db passwords or something. In our case it made it harder to spot typos in the username for example.

I wouldn't encrypt a whole playbook for example.
Perhaps you could even call it a "hedge fund"
> I really want to believe that I'll win the lottery, but I just can't bring myself to accepting it.

Probably for the best. Your belief that you will win the lottery doesn't mean that you actually will win the lottery, but it might lead to you losing a lot of money.
seconded. I got one too. It seems unlikely we'd converge here if it was only a tiny fraction of users...
The excess funds Microsft and others are holding offshore needs to be repatriated. There is too much dollar liquidity offshore helping US competition, and too little at home where the liquidity is needed. The Fed is also needlessly maintaining a stimulative posture where repatriation of overseas dollars through tax policy could relieve a significant portion of this burden.
I need to eat around 3000 calories per day to support my powerlifting training, and if I don't eat something first thing in the morning with a shitload of carbs -- usually something like rolled oats, berries, and a few bananas -- then I'm usually gassed and feeling like crap by 10.

A few friends of mine fast intermittently and train in the morning before eating but it's beyond me how that is not just pure torture.
If you use their service more it is less likely that you will cancel it.
If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
I find more insight and less conspiracy in "History of breakfast" from Wikipedia[1]. The Wikipedia article talks about different perspectives before 1800 since it is not clear why the article is talking about the American breakfast instead of focusing on different cultural perspectives (e.g. "Before cereal, in the mid 1800s, the American breakfast was not all that different from other meals").

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_breakfast
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> Postgres, but that anyone uses Microsoft or Oracle at all. Not only do they cost a lot, but from a purely technical standpoint they are worse.

Based on what? Both commercial databases have incredible features, tooling and extensions that leave postgres behind. Postgres today doesn't even have a solid scale-up or scale-out strategy.

It does have nice SQL support and makes developer lives a little easier but this isnt anywhere close to making it the absolute winner technically.
I did write a remote kernel exploit for OpenBSD, it was not an easy task, and this was in a time when there were basically no exploit countermeasures in kernel (2007) (https://www.coresecurity.com/content/open-bsd-advisorie)

There are a bunch of local kernel exploits, all very practical and reliable. Kernel protections are something OpenBSD lacked until very recently.
When survival = nice job that's exactly what I'm talking about. Someone has to do the menial jobs. Overpriced education ensures that it won't be the people in the middle class.

Loans explain why it is possible for tuition fees to rise so much, but not why we have them, ie. why people accept them. The diploma mills are just a side-effect.
Yup.

MacOS does an OK job of helping the user find things with Spotlight, but it's not a full metadata system like BFS had.

Mail.app, for example, keeps each message in a separate file[0] (and probably has a cache or separate database of this to make displaying mailboxes quicker). This makes it easy for Spotlight to index, but all of the stuff that you'd think of as metadata is actually just regular data inside the .emlx file.

If Apple made a huge effort to start treating the metadata (assuming the infrastructure described in the Ars Technica article still exists) as a first class citizen and using it like BeOS did, maybe we can get there. This would be a drastic rethink though. It feels like files, in some ways, are becoming second-class citizens in the Mac world. Photos, for example, are managed in the Photos app - you do not go into the filesystem and organize your photos.

One big problem with filesystem metadata is how do you transfer it? The Ars article showed a sidecar file (._filename) being created when the file was copied to a non-HFS volume. Now the metadata is detached from the file and we're back to the same problem.

[0] http://mike.laiosa.org/2009/03/01/emlx.html
articles written like this (just like, as if a layer of snark was laid on top, and how they NEED to have a bad guy) really bother me

and also omg JIRA GOT HACKED! yeah, by who? a guy who wanted feedback on a kickstarter? no there was nothing to do with any "hacks"

And just so keen to blame JIRA etc, when it could be easily the fault of the single service desk that has this issue
> A few friends of mine fast intermittently and train in the morning before eating but it's beyond me how that is not just pure torture.

Practice. If you've never done it before, it takes a few days/weeks to get used to. Also willpower.
> Excluding people based on their beliefs is completely a judgement call about whether you think their beliefs are so far from your own that nothing productive can come from sharing a department with them.

Luckily people are very good at making judgement calls about who to include and who to exclude, right? "Culture fit" is a great way to end up with a diverse workforce, isn't it? And obviously "unconscious bias" isn't ever a thing.