skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
exercise has always felt like work to me. all types of exercise, too -- you name it, i've tried it, often for months at a time on a rigorous schedule. i simply do not like doing it. i don't like the time it takes, i don't like dealing with the laundry, i don't like the equipment, i don't like the monotony of cardio, i don't like the sound of weights slamming, i don't like dealing with the other people at the gym/courts/whatever, i don't like any of it (i'm not lucky enough to have have my own gym, that would probably help quite a bit). high intensity interval sprinting is the only thing i don't massively despise, but it's still a pain in the ass and can produce injuries, which i also don't like.

don't even get me started on swimming...

so as you can see, i've done plenty of exercise in my life, and at this point i'm 100% comfortable saying that i just don't like doing it. i admit it is a major personality shortcoming of mine. i'm not a negative person, this kind of stuff doesn't leak into areas of my life -- i just wasn't born with that selection of genetics that drives me to love this stuff. to me it's basically like a second job, a manual labor job, i have to do.

yes, i feel good afterwards, but to me sitting my ass down on the couch also feels good. as i understand it, to some people, sitting down for an hour feels disgusting, like a physical revulsion in their body. they're very lucky. i could sit on my couch for days on end and it takes effort to not actually do that.

my desire to make money, be presentable, and contribute to society override my natural laziness, but i totally understand how those people get to 800 pounds and are couch-locked. they simply do not have any kind of social drive, which is the built-in mechanism that is supposed to balance your built-in human condition of laziness (in my case).

be thankful that you take to running/exercise like we take to computers/technology -- it's definitely an asset in life. it's something i have to constantly overcome, i'm envious of people who get the urge to get up and move around without any kind of outside motivation. i've spent a lot of money on extrinsic motivation and it's clearly the inferior choice!
HN has always worked informally. We don't have 'processes'; it isn't clear that we need them, and the thought of having to set them up makes my soul cry. But anyone who has concerns about fakes, abuses, and the like can always get an answer by emailing hn@ycombinator.com. We appreciate such emails because occasionally they point out actual abuses that we need to take care of!
How would you know how easy or hard it is to learn a different language if you haven't done it yet?
I'm guessing safe meta-definition means type-safe meta-programming.

For example in Lisp, code is data and data is code (aka homoiconicity). This makes it very convenient to write macros (i.e. functions that accept and return executable code).

Unsafe meta-programming would be like the C pre-processor whose aptness for abuse make it a leading feature of IOCCC entries.
Hours in a weekday: 24
- Sleep: 7
- Work: 8
- Commute: 1
- Personal maintenance (grooming/eating/etc): 2
- Be a good dad: 2
- Put kids to bed: 1
- Household maintenance (dishes/laundry/etc): 1

What's left: 2 hours. If I spend 30 minutes exercising, that's 25% of my discretionary time every day. That feels pretty time-consuming, even though I do think it's worth it.
Banks get money either way. They get most of the money from a credit card transaction.
Hi Alan. A lot has been made of the visions that your colleagues and you had that ultimately became the fabric of our industry.

Did you have any ideas, predictions or visions which ultimately didn't play out? (And any ideas on why?)

Thank you very much to your contributions to our industry. Anyone blessed to be working in this field today owes you an enormous debt of gratitude. You have made a dent in the universe.
Setting up a new system is where NixOS really shines. Once you have one system working it is trivial to duplicate it on new metal.

1. Install NixOS

2. Copy configuration.nix*

3. Copy dotfiles

4. # nixos-rebuild switch

5. Enjoy your old setup on new hardware--no secret sauce needed!

*A hardware-configuration.nix should have been generated by the installer. By default this is sourced by configuration.nix, in which case configuration.nix shouldn't need editing.
Indeed. It's an interesting question to figure out how to turn a sustainable fusion reaction into electricity, but it's totally pointless until the main problem is solved. In context I thought it was worth mentioning, since fusion does allow some interesting possibilities in this area, but there's no practical use for it at the moment.
You are identifying eBay with Paypal. If you accept, say, only bank transfer, the worst thing that can happen (in "regular" conditions; of course there are exceptional cases) is a negative feedback.

I've sold hundreds of items on eBay, almost all payable only via bank transfer/cash, and never had serious problems. If I get a smaller audience, well, that's an acceptable compromise in the long term.
I like to post this as a PSA in HN weight loss threads. Every legitimate long term study of non surgical weight loss shows that it doesn't happen for the vast, vast majority of people.

1) ["In controlled settings, participants who remain in weight loss programs usually lose approximately 10% of their weight. However, one third to two thirds of the weight is regained within 1 year, and almost all is regained within 5 years. "](http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1580453)

2) Giant meta study of long term weight loss: ["Five years after completing structured weight-loss programs, the average individual maintained a weight loss of >3% of initial body weight."](http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/74/5/579.full)

3) Less Scientific: [Weight Watcher's Failure - "about two out of a thousand Weight Watchers participants who reached goal weight stayed there for more than five years."](https://fatfu.wordpress.com/2008/01/24/weight-watchers/)

4) [The reason why it's impossible seems to be that although calories in < calories out works, the body of a fat person makes it extremely difficult psychologically to eat less.](http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/01/magazine/tara-parker-pope-...) This is borne out by the above data.

5) [The only thing that does seem to work in the long term is gastric surgery.](http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1421028/)

Moreover, you won't find any reputable study on the web where the average person lost 10%+ of their body weight and kept it off for five years. Not even one.
Would you recommend that path?
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Reads like a typical Thorium article.

They always seem to imply that there is some worldwide government conspiracy against Thorium based energy.

And they always gloss over the fact that this is an old idea that to this day still hasn't managed to prove any of its claims even as a proof of concept.

Throw in the fact that renewable energy is picking up steam and you have a recipe for some very unhappy Thorium proponents indeed.
Funny. Phoenix is on that list from 2012 and I was reading yet another article about it just yesterday...

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/19/us/phoenix-focuses-on-rebu...
1. I actually don't think this way -- my actual interior is a kind of "hair-ball" and so questions are very helpful.

2. Let's do a dialog about this. Note that taking the process far enough starts resembling prayer to a deity and gives rise to many kinds of hedging. Math is completely expressible in ordinary language, but instead, the attempt to make it less ambiguous leads to conventions that have to be learned.

That said, have you thought about (say) objects needing to negotiate meaning with each other?
I hope you can get past your aversion to nicer type systems. As someone who has watched things break in production too many times, the math is very clear to me that a little time spent pleasing the type system saves MUCH more time that would have been spent debugging something in production that a simple compilation pass would have caught.
This reminded me of an interesting dream I had. I dreamt I created a nice language with a meta protocol. In working with the language and using this protocol I changed the language into a different language which gave me insights on changing that language -- all through meta protocols. I woke up having a distinct feeling of what is means to not be plodding around in a Turing tarpit.
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That has been my experience as well, going hike when sick usually makes me feel much better during and after. I also recently broke a toe but continued to hike on it and found its level of pain much reduced after each hike compared to a day spent not moving around much. Assuming it wasn't my imagination (I could theorize that it felt better after because it felt worse while hiking on it) I imagine walking increases the bloodflow to the area and may assist with healing faster.
Electricity moves energy by driving quasi-static fields with non-zero Poynting vector in a neighborhood of the wire.

Heavy 2-MeV charged particles don't want to couple to that kind of mode at all; they're going to deposit their energy into MeV-ish radiation modes (e.g. Bremmstralung).
Apologies if this comes off as harsh, but I don't understand how this comments adds value to anyone but yourself. And to me, it seems like you're feeling rather inadequate about the possibility of missing out on experiences many tend to sensationalize.
Because a lot of companies, at least those that develop their own internal software (on Linux for example) often stick to the compiler the system ships with, e.g. CentOS, say.

GCC is in that respect "enterprise ready" because it very likely was installed on the system already. And probably not the latest version either.
Thank you, that looks like an interesting writeup!

Isn't there usually some sort of "disclosure: I work for Google"? Your post-history seems very one-sided. :)
Good points. I guess I also looked at it as "penalize addiction" versus "treat addiction". Again, I'm not 100% up on the facts, so thank you for sharing. The issue is broader than just drugs - it's also warped incentives that encourage "tough on crime" initiatives to go haywire.
A lifetime ago, I used to hock printers for HP (one of those guys in big box stores who would approach you in the printer aisle to ask if you needed help).

It wasn't just me, there were also Canon and Epson reps there. Being that we were all basically coworkers (as we had the same jobs), we were very jovial toward each other, but customers would often remark that we should be more hostile toward each other, usually in jest -- still it made me realize how little they understood our day to day jobs, and how little people consider pragmatism in their observances.
Unfortunately with the way things are set up right now, a percentage fee is actually the only way it makes sense for processors, who are somewhat at the mercy of banks, who charge a percentage-based fee. So if they charge a flat fee, they run the risk of either losing money if the percentage fee is above their cost, or the business will overpay if the flat fee is a lot more than the percentage fee.

(Note, that applies even to flat percentage fee. That's what happens with companies like Square. They lost their shirt in their flat rate deal with Starbucks, because it cost them more to process the transactions than they made via the flat fee.)
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http://muller.lbl.gov/TRessays/22-ThePhysicsDiet.htm

http://muller.lbl.gov/TRessays/33_Gluttony.htm
When Bad UI Kills: Is Poor Shift Lever Design to Blame for Death of Actor?
What a douche.
> Because inertia is really good at keeping you on that couch

So true. It works the other way too. Once you get into the routine of exercising it becomes easier to work it into your schedule.
And in terms of larger names, Spotify's infrastructure was recently switched to Google.

https://news.spotify.com/us/2016/02/23/announcing-spotify-in...
They never emailed me from the last "private beta" before announcing this. And now deploying this on AWS or Azure requires me to sign up for yet another "we'll get back to you..." private beta.

Love the tech, hate all this marketing runaround.

EDIT to add: either your beta is ready or it ain't. I understand a gentle initial seed to verify it's not an utter catastrophe but no need to play nanny with my bits across 20+ beta releases. I'm a grown up. Make a disclaimer and let me assess the risk. Your corporate logo looks like a 1970s Carvel ice cream cake--I know what I'm getting myself into.
build your own multiwii based drone. you'll get a more complete understanding of the hardware and software this way: https://nathan.vertile.com/blog/2016/04/24/rctimer-u210-mini...

then for firmware, there are 3 modern forks of multiwii: cleanflight, betaflight and inav.

if you want gps navigation, put iNav on it: https://github.com/iNavFlight/inav/

if you want awesome flight performance, use betaflight

there is also a slightly more robust autopilot firmware, dronin (which is an openpilot continuation) which can run on the flight controller listed on that blog post: https://github.com/d-ronin/dronin/issues/9

full disclosure, that's my blog :)
Excellent point. I find that in a period when I exercise regularly I am more conscious of just how hard it is to burn 500 calories, while in more slothful periods it's really easy to take another piece of cake without thinking about it.
That's not necessarily true. The debit network fees have gone up a lot. In some cases, they get pretty close to credit card transaction costs.
Though Colorado Springs tends to mostly consist of defense contractors, there are a few startups. My buddy is CTO of Bombbomb (http://bombbomb.com), as an example of one successful firm that's completely local in origin.

In the Eighties, Colorado Springs (and perhaps the larger corridor) was named "Silicon Mountain" and handled a lot of chip fab. YT Cracker came up out of there, and some other interesting folks.
Fujitsu Picks 64-bit ARM for Japan's Monster 1,000-PFLOPS SC
The thing is, the Mobile Internet is rising, most people have phones, and old trends and concepts that are old to the Internet seem new and significant to the mobile platform. For example Flappy Bird was an ancient game on the web that existed and then it blew up, now you have many, many clones.

Edit:

Also consider how much information is on your phone, and how easy it is to access it than with a browser on your laptop. With the click of a button you give an app access to your contacts and other information. A chat bot you install wont really have this access, even if you gave it access, you wont normally keep your contacts on your system, not unless you use a Windows phone and it syncs to your Windows account (assuming this is a "thing" they do).
Talked to a lawyer recently?

One of the most interesting processes -- especially in engineering -- is to make a model to find out what it is that you are trying to make. Sounds a little weird, but the model winds up being a great focuser of "attempts at intent".

Now let's contemplate just how bad most languages are at allowing model building and having optimizations being orthogonal rather than intertwined ...
I really dislike the habit of the culture in the US trying to make exercise a competition, so you get high intensity "brag-worthy" workouts like P90X or cross-fit or what-have-you. The best exercise regime is one you can maintain, which can be as simple as just taking a walk for a bit every few days or some low intensity yoga at home. And those sorts of things have major long-term health benefits, they're vastly better than trying to go hard and injuring yourself or failing to maintain exercise as a regular habit.
You Won’t Be Able to Sue the Next Gawker
> It's also related to what Scott Adams urges. It's pretty hard to get to be in the top best 10% at a single field. It's much easier to be in the top 25% of two different fields, which would make you one of the top 10% of that interdisciplinary combination.

This is really great, I've been thinking about that for years. Which Scott Adams said this, and where is it from?

The best tech founders often seem to have this quality. They're by no means top 10% in any individual category, but they're strong in technology and in some specific non-tech-related domain. In the right setting, dividing your attention between tech and a non-tech-related domain can actually make you more specialized in a way, not less.
You say this like its a perfectly fine way of behaving?
I started to use Vagrant together with https://puphpet.com/ to create a dev machine. I have a MacBook Air and won't pollute it anymore with a dev environment. With a virtual machine, everything stays separated in a nice and tidy way.

Installing dev tools on OS X are a matter of minutes then, because everything else comes with the Vagrant box.

Edit: I'm a web dev guy.
Semi-offtopic: I've always been fascinated by the origins of religions, their evolution, potential re-definitions and conflicts with other ideas. Specifically, I like thinking about how the founding members of a set of ideas, might retrospectively analyze the entire history of their ideas, and the "idea set"'s metamorphosis into a religion whose followers now treat it as dogma.

I have this, entirely unprovable, theory that most founders of these types of "idea sets" are actually poly-ideological, i.e. giving weight to all possible ideas, and just happened to be exploring ideas which made the most sense at the time.

While I enjoy your thoughts on "object oriented", "functional", etc, I'd love to hear your thoughts about philosophy of religion and its origins (i.e. a slightly meta version of the conversation around "object oriented", "functional", etc). You may be one of a handful of humans able to provide me more data. Is this a topic that interests you, and is it something you think about? If it is something you think about, regarding the dogma you potentially accidentally helped instigate,

Did you and your peers intend for it to become dogma? The rest of my questions sorta assume you did not.

Retroactively, do you feel it was inevitable that these ideas, i.e. popular / powerful / effective ideas, which were espeically extremely effective at the time, became dogma for certain people, and potentially the community as a whole?

Either retroactively or at the time, did you ever identify moments when the dogma/re-definitions were forming/sticking? If so, did you ever want to intervene? Did you feel you were unable to?

Do you have any lessons learned about idea creation/popularization without allowing for re-definitions / accidentally causing their eventual turn into dogma?

Again, if this type of conversation doesn't interest you, or because it cloud potentially be delicate, you'd rather not have it in public, I'd understand.

Thanks regardless
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Most such studies are done with pathologically obese patients and aren't representative of the general population.

I do, however, agree that it's easy for people to drift. The key is emphasising lifelong change, rather than "diets" per se.
Difference between Minikanren and Prolog
Aside from the obvious careers that benefit from knowledge of Algebra, could someone please list for me the real world use cases that would apply to the general populous? Yes, I use it and I have no doubt quite a few folks on HN use it, but we are the anti-pattern IMHO.
People drop yoga once they realize that the supermodel at the front of the room doesn't look that way because of yoga. After yoga they hit the stairmaster for an hour. Then skip meals. And they are on estrogen supplements, which can increase flexibility in women. Being great at difficult yoga moves is the result, not the process.
How Maglev Works
If you've opted not to use the services of the finance industry, then you may not be able to use the services of the finance industry.
Not without a good business case.

Would you really want every developer installing their favourite tools/libs and having a complete free-for-all when you've got 200+ devs, each with their own opinions and preferences?

IT have to support this stuff, they don't want to be rebuilding the software stack every six months or so.
Visa and MasterCard have permitted surcharging for credit card use since 2013, as the result of a class action lawsuit.
Keeping data on the host is exactly the reason that it's an issue. Swarm offers not guarantees that containers will be rescheduled on the same host that it was initially scheduled on and assumes that it can reschedule containers as failures arise... this doesn't work when your database gets rescheduled and emptied along the way.
It's not going to be the world's 5th largest for long. Growth is anaemic, while a long list of fast growing countries is coming up behind it.

My expectation is that the UK government after a Brexit would rush to try to get an EEA style deal in place, and end up having to give up more to get that than to remain in the UK.
What other interests do you have that are not technology related. For example what kind of music do you like? Do you like art?
Your link to the NYTimes article at http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/01/magazine/tara-parker-pope-... is cut off.

I think it's because HN does auto-link shortening and you copy and pasted a previous comment?
Cabal.
DAO : ETH :: Y Combinator : US Dollar

A DAO is an organization that makes investments as proposed and voted on by its members. The crypto only comes in because a DAO's "fund manager" is a piece of code rather than a human.
Very confused that side by side diff editing is really a new feature in this world. I mean, ediff landed its first versions in the early 90's sometime I think, and vim certainly had it from very early verisons too...
can you point it at anywhere in the world and get a decent map?

How well does it render countryside?

There is new lidar data being released by various countries - can it load and use any of that?

I ask as i have been planning to make a browser based height map of the local countryside for my archeology hobby.
Thanks for the input
Merchants actually can charge more for credit card usage now. It's been permissible since a 2013 lawsuit, except in 9 states where it's prohibited by state law.
I skimmed the video and couldn't figure it out -- what is it please?
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I think the motivation behind the list is to point out how this subject seems to be in heavy rotation in the media. EVERY city and EVERY country in the world wants thriving and powerful economic development, and now they all have the means to disrupt with their own tech sector. This is going to be rinsed and repeated all over the world for the next 50 years, nanotech here, space travel there, machine learning, robotics, medicine, you name it.

Now it's not like we all weren't competing before, but now it seems the playing field is getting more and more level. Which can mean nothing but good for the average person. Right?
Ditto on that. I'm 25 and people think I'm 18 all the time. I'm not sure if it's just my genes or if it's because I don't partake in drugs/alcohol; probably both.
The pro-EU contingent would certainly push for that but then the UK would be basically in the same situation they're in now. It's one thing not to have a voice within the EU in your imagination, it's a different thing really not to have one.

I think that what's really going to happen is that this will goes the same way all these independence movements go, they'll vote to remain in the end. It's one thing to imagine yourself as independent and I can see how it might be appealing but taking a step over the edge into the realm of uncertainty is not a comfortable or very human thing to do.
Hard to stop with pre-paid debit cards and PO boxes or mail forwarding services. It'd be pretty easy to just open a new one PO/forwarding address and use a different pre paid debit/VISA gift card to keep scamming.
Worked great for Yahoo.
It still is! :)