skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Android is very different from the GNU/Linux operating system because it contains very little of GNU. Indeed, just about the only component in common between Android and GNU/Linux is Linux, the kernel. People who erroneously think “Linux” refers to the entire GNU/Linux combination get tied in knots by these facts, and make paradoxical statements such as “Android contains Linux, but it isn't Linux.” Absent this confusion, the situation is simple: Android contains Linux, but not GNU; thus, Android and GNU/Linux are mostly different, because all they have in common is Linux."

-- rms (https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/android-and-users-freedom.en....)
Sure. My diet looks like this for example:

- Breakfast: oatmeal with fruit

- Lunch: rice and beans with vegetables (cooked or raw)

- Dinner: mashed potatoes with carrots and onions or whole wheat pasta with tomatoes and spinach, etc.

Snacks: fruits (usually bananas and tangerines because they are so portable), dried fruits, unsalted/unroasted nuts

Condiments: all herbs, spices, salt (limited), nuts, seeds. No oil.

I'm aware of the risk of an all plant based diet. The main risks is B12 deficiency which is easily solved by taking a little pill one or few times a week.

Excellent explanation of why both approaches (high fat or high carb) may work: https://www.facebook.com/drgarth/posts/1213478802006359

Lecture about high carb vs high fat: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFfK27B_qZY

http://www.forksoverknives.com is an excellent resource to get started on this plan, including a documentary and recipes.
He lost the 50lbs over 8 months, not two.
Just to make sure I don't confound the term ROI, I'm referring to hiring costs. Long term employee costs of 1/10x # of desks also incentivize the pattern.
I would rephrase be a cog in the machine to "contributing to society". If someone wants to live a hedonistic carefree life, more power to them. But this is often coupled with abusing the social safety net designed for people who are down on their luck and can't contribute enough to society due to no fault of their own.
Yes, thank you :)
To hire H1B you have to go through a legally defined process which is a proxy for 'proving' that there are not local candidates available at the rate. There are ways to manipulate that process by adjusting the scope of the specialty skill set such that the protection of the 'proof' process does not fulfill it's stated purpose.
Alcohol's effects are similar and often worse.
Prohibition is still widely regarded as a mistake, and literally tens of millions people in the US consume small doses of alcohol without becoming adficts.
It is funny but I had pretty much the exact weight loss as the OP had doing intermittent fasting. Sadly I wasn't as rigorous on the recording of weight loss but I went from 195 to 175 over roughly the same time period as the OP.

One thing I found is writing down a plan seems to really help you stick with it.

I finally wrote down my workout routine after decade of on and off training. I always logged my workouts but I never wrote the overall plan down. If you are interested in my routine it is here (it has very little to do with diet as I was going to write a follow up some day): https://gist.github.com/agentgt/f93b78dbe13870a6d0a1

I have never publicly posted the routine so if you feel the need to trash it I suppose you can do so in the comment area of the gist but routines are pretty personal anyway (to the OPs point).
> Performance hardly should be a problem.

Now.

Try to open any exe file and first thing you will see is MZ and "This program cannot be run in DOS mode"

executable formats are as old as PCs
>A "better" ratio of THC:CBD

Here in Florida I think CBD oils were recently legalized and I think a single strain of marijuana (with negligible THC and high CBD) had been permitted for epilepsy patients. To be honest I haven't followed to closely after the last medical marijuana bill didn't pass.

Anyway, is the CBD/THC ratios interdependent? Meaning as one goes up, the others go down? Or are there some strains with significant amounts of each and others with low amounts of each?
I'm guessing "broadly targeted spearphishing" means that you're targeting a lot of people, but you know who they are and you're sending them something that's crafted to their interests and social network.
digiKam 5.1.0 is published
do you know the long term success rate though? I've lost over 50 pounds and kept it off for a couple of years, but my body eventually went back to it's normal weight.
Given how little obfuscation surrounds the click button, what if scripting it was what the developer intended?
There are top earners on opiates, too.
I've also known three people who smoked marijuana regularly and developed serious life problems as a result, along with a larger number who didn't develop major problems but who definitely "stalled".

I also knew many who smoked it regularly without major issues, so I'm not saying it inevitably causes problems, but I am 99.99% certain that if you already suffer problems with motivation or life direction, marijuana can majorly f... you up.

I used to smoke it occasionally myself and I definitely saw its positive effects - for computer scientists, it's a fascinating springboard into understanding consciousness and meta-cognition. It makes good music and art even more enjoyable.

It's also one of the most seductive drugs out there. Alcohol leads to very painful hangovers, which is a clear signal for people to slow down. Psychedelics are too mind-blowing and the trips last too long to be used regularly. Heroin, crack, meth etc are widely seen as dangerous. Cocaine is expensive.

Cannabis is affordable, and can be enjoyed on a weekday evening without strong next-morning effects. So some people end up integrating it into their routine: surfing the internet stoned, listening to music stoned, playing video games stoned, chatting to friends stoned.

If you have your s... more or less together, you can probably use weed semi-regularly without too much damage. But if there are one or more real problems in your life, things which would take real effort and motivation to fix (poor social life / grades slipping / lack career direction / etc), weed will tempt you to chill out and ignore said problems. You concoct wild rationalisations about why you don't really want X, why people who chase X are manipulated by the system, etc, etc.

Long-term, you run the risk of becoming paranoid and demotivated, struggling to make everyday decisions or to get a grip on your own thinking. Given that this isn't a universal consequence of weed usage, it might not be solely due to the weed but also certain personality traits which weed amplifies.

I rarely smoke it at all any more - personally, I found training myself to enjoy good art, and reading deep philosophy/literature gave me access to much more profound pleasures and insights than weed ever did.
I hadn't heard of Krita -- it's open source, seems good HN material to me.
Note that because distros build Ardour using their stock GTK+ stack, there are a few issues with their builds that are not present in the bundles from ardour.org.

We (ardour.org) do not (and cannot) support distro-built versions of Ardour.
Well, technology has changed the status quo in two ways.

The first is, as you say, previously you could intercept a suspect's mail and search their papers; with proper encryption that isn't possible.

The second is in the past the search process wouldn't scale to searching every citizen all the time. With e-mail, web traffic and smartphones, it becomes possible.

We can restore the status quo from 30 years ago for either one of those changes, but not for both.
Thanks for digging up that link. I had forgotten I wrote that. Things have been better since it was written, but the project could still really use at least another 1/2 full time developer (it could use 50 more, but hey ...) let alone someone to do web stuff rather than me.
Slight modification so it doesn't automatically buys the item but just highlights the best one

https://gist.github.com/thexa4/2da63028a1d8007dedbd0ba9432c8...
Country singer Willie Nelson?
It's quite lax here in India.
The best and worst Olympic logo designs through the ages
Anything in regard to using less locals and more nesting, like previously:

a(b(c))
became
int val = b(c)
a(val)

even though val never was used anymore after this

Either way pretty cool!
Econs Agree: Democratic Presidents Are Better at Making Us Rich. 8 Reasons Why
tls is "state of the art" for a public server to talk to unknown users.

but basically totally broken by design.

http://www.interworx.com/community/is-ssl-tls-broken/

further
tls:sender,recipient and server can read the message

end to end:only sender and reciever can read the messages even though a sever facilitates connecting them to each other.
I do not understand from where comes all this constant Unity bashing. I think that this is actually what creates the real damage.

It's not just Unity; anything even remotely disliked gets bashed (Gnome Shell has a history of getting criticised at every bit of news about it). I agree that it is poisonous behaviour that benefits no one, but I wonder what causes it.
Also worth noting that Earley parsers also support left-recursion without any fancy additions.

http://reports-archive.adm.cs.cmu.edu/anon/anon/usr/ftp/scan...
Every day, there are NEW DAW users who have no plugins.

I think you're also not fully informed on the scale of existing plugin development on Linux. Several commercial developers now produce plugins for Linux, and there are some open source ones for many tasks that are actually outstanding. Noise removal/restoration is one particularly weak spot.

Finally, Ardour doesn't run on just Linux. Anyone on OS X or Windows can use the program, along with their full set of VST (Windows) or AU (OS X) plugins on those platforms.
In males, over time testosterone decreases which causes muscle mass to decrease. Building up the large muscles through resistant exercise or any exercise (eg, gluteus maximus -- thigh) increases the muscle mass. Increased muscle mass increases the basic metabolic rate (BMR) which is the number of calories consumed even while at rest, even while sleeping.
I would counter with: why do employees leave so frequently? Perhaps it's because of the lack of investment in their growth, and that they are treated like cogs.

I've personally seen two bootstrapped companies locally who invest in college graduates and pay them slightly below competitive wages; they have some of the most loyal employees, and more competition for job openings than they could ever hire.

It's not ideal for every company, for sure, but it does work.
> I try and hire engineers and we have to go through dozens of candidates to find someone who just seems motivated and competent

This statement is dependent on one's definition of motivated and competent. Additionally, I think in general a company gets the candidate stream that its job description/offered salary deserves. Pay peanuts, expect a line of monkeys applying.
I believe only in the sense that it doesn't chain entirely back to the TLS X.509 CA PKI.
>travelling broadens/opens the mind

This is bullshit. Most travel is leisure, just like cannabis, and not at all mind expanding.

This is just a game of "my hobby is better than yours".
Successfully collaborating with computational biologists
Obviously getting way offtopic here, but I want to point out that from scanning that page it looks like that's a $5000 stipend for three months of 40-hour weeks. Not exactly the big bucks.
Right, and unsurprisingly someone called it out in the comments. Not sure why it wasn't edited.

I found the use of 2000s-era "RadioShack" branding distracting. It was "Radio Shack" when it mattered.

Also surprised that Woz points to RS at all. I wasn't there, but I had the impression that there were better options in SV even back then.
> wonder if there is a genetics issue

I believe it is fairly well established that addictive behavior runs in families.
The comment in question violates the guidelines by introducing a classic flamewar topic without anything new to say, by your own admission. It also does so uncivilly and without substantive contribution to the discussion: the poster's question was not about the abilities of law enforcement, but about the inherent inaccuracy of IP-based geolocation.

Please re-read the guidelines if you haven't recently:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Having known both drop-out monks and drop-out stoners, they're very different. Long-term meditators seemed to be very psychologically healthy, self-aware, cheerful, disciplined, etc whereas long-term stoners tended to be delusional, paranoid and irritable.

(Many people into meditation had at some point used drugs, but eventually decided they were at best a distraction and at worst actively harmful).
I just see a donut.
Over sensitivity to a non-issue.
And here I am thinking TLS is pretty good...
"even if there are people of color working there, they’re clearly not (a) in positions where they feel comfortable speaking up or (b) their input isn’t valued" O Rly?

To rephrase: you're not a proper, well behaving minority unless you hold the same opinions as the author.

I'm sure we'll achieve true diversity in 1..2..3...
Ardour has builtin support for many hardware controllers. Our support for Mackie Control is as good as anything in the proprietary world, ditto for things like the FaderPort. Generic MIDI controllers can have MIDI maps, and we have at least a dozen predefined ones already.

Ardour 5.1 will also see support for the Ableton Push 2 device.

Popularity: right now, someone starts a bundle of Ardour obtained from ardour.org roughly once every 4 minutes. There were 10,000 downloads of Ardour 4.7 from ardour.org. We're more like the members of the Fight Club network than we are like the ProTools club: we're everywhere, but you can't see us. Every laptop distributed to the favelas by the Brazilan government comes with Ardour. There are at least 10,000 users of Ardour in each of the USA and Germany alone.

Are we "as popular" as Reaper, Logic or Cubase? Almost certainly not. Are we popular enough? Sure.
You don't quite answer your own question, but I enjoyed the article. As someone who is trying to push forward his single-man business, I appreciate this kind of articles which do propose some opportunities that we can choose to pursuit.

I'm curious about pay once web apps, though. I've thought about that myself, as I'm basically building consumer software and consumers are more reluctant to use subscription based software, but I'm curious how companies can guarantee their long term existance? For instance, if said company stops being profitable, it will eventually have to close doors and shut down their servers. What will happen to their users? For desktop apps, this is much less relevant.. Any thoughts?
And a really interesting explanation about why roots inside the unit circle seems to land on the dragon curve!
I am in the UK and have been smoking cannabis daily now for 12 years. Legal or not.... does it look like I care?? At the end of the day, I am a nice guy, I help people out, I have held down a 10 year happy relationship and do pretty well at my job. I also keep fit and "healthy".

I don't care if I die, so take that away from me, and literally there is no valid argument to stop me enjoying a smoke.

Fuck the Police.
Yeah, and the samples don't seem like they come from the same population.

You have to go to the Appendix, but it appears that 71 of the sample were depressed (which presumably means that they have answered yes to the depression question). It's not clear if they used the CES to identify depression.

The remaining participants were classified as healthy (N=95). These do not seem like balanced samples to me, at least (it would be nice if we knew what proportion of depressed vs not depressed agreed to share IG data).

Additionally, the appendices also mention that gender was not available for the depressed sample, which leads me to believe that they collected one sample of depressed participants and then another from the general population. This is a little shady (at least to me).

All that being said, I really like this paper. I think that the approach is novel, they use pretty good methods and it actually represents a contribution (if small) to human knowledge.

And I definitely went in with a prior against it.
The sample size is far too small to support their inferences, but that's a less hard problem to fix :)
Streaming service Blab.im shutting down to reinvent itself
If you malnourish your body so much so that it loses the ability to store any fat, it is possible to lose weight. However, it is the unhealthiest option there is.
Dead on! According to his own description, he was eating "salmon, peanut butter, pork chops, apples, tomatoes, chicken with the skin, tofu, eggs", which looks to me like a regular low-carb, high-fat (LCHF) diet as described, for example, here: http://www.dietdoctor.com/low-carb

By the way, high-fat doesn't mean you have to "snack on entire sticks of butter" as the author suggests. Just eating the naturally-occurring fat in foods such as meat and dairy will usually do, and that's what most experts recommend.
So does microsoft, if what they did to my parent's pc last month is any sign.
I was going to say something about orbitals, but donuts are obviously awesomer. :-p
That's him. I don't generally mention him by name, but as you can tell he is an outspoken and public figure as it relates to both his disease and unique treatment. For example, I represented him in a corporate capacity totally unrelated to that aspect of his life, yet he took every opportunity to inform and educate me about his story.
I started learning programming since 2012. I don't like IRC. IRC is not friendly to people like us. Hard to connect, hard to find a free and neat client, hard to talk to the people, hard to start a new thread(also hard since it's in English, but this is somehow good for others). That's why I like talking with people on Twitter and WeChat.
Don't think that particular optimization was ever implemented. It looks straightforward, but one does have to be careful about re-ordering, so the legality check is slightly more complicated. We briefly considered writing a clang-based source-to-source transformation as a post processing pass to clean up, but it wasn't worth it for our use case.
Open source React projects
> But I don't think it's despicable. Our field needs diversity, and in a dominated ecosystem you don't get diversity by just letting natural forces do their job, because the ecosystem is already dominated/biased.

Serious question: was this kind of stuff necessary for the huge increases over the decades in the percentage of lawyers and doctors who are women? If not, then it seems it's possible (if not necessarily desirable) to let "natural" forces do their work for achieving gender balance, and least for careers requiring well-educated individuals that provide high compensation and confer high status (those are both higher status than developers in most circles, by far). But maybe there were lots of women-only medical conferences or something at some point. Maybe there still are, I really don't know.

(I did a quick DDG search for this issue in law and medicine, but turned up nothing relevant aside from graphs demonstrating the shift)
Are you sure they are ants? Fig wasps apparently look quite a bit like ants! http://www.figweb.org/Ficus/images/sur_wasps_emerging_400.JP...
Ubuntu is the standard bearer for "just works" for ordinary people on laptops, and it doesn't achieve that.

Can you point to an option that reliably does?
Isn't this almost what !# syntax is? It gets pretty close to it.
I'd say burn the cash.The beauty of the diamond scam is that the resale value of diamonds is practically zero. Just as the peacock tail is costly to have and has zero practical value other than showing that its owner can bear the cost.
Bill Gates deserves more credit than just being a nerd. He was a good businessman too. He focused on building a business from the beginning:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Letter_to_Hobbyists

He had a business goal and effectively followed though getting the job done:

http://money.cnn.com/2015/04/05/technology/bill-gates-email-...
I just did a little research. It would seem the high THC/low CBD is caused by the farming technique:

"However, modern growing techniques have also affected these chemical levels. For example, illegal growers have turned to indoor marijuana farms to avoid detection. Growing cannabis locally in such farms also circumvents the need to import the drug, and guarantees a more reliable harvest. However, the 24-hour lighting used in these farms inadvertently reduces CBD levels in the plant."[0]

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/science/blog/2014/jan/17/cannabi...
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Your comment is poetic.
Most olive oils sold in the United States are adulterated or deceptively labeled
To add to the antidotal evidence... Ive smoked a lot of weed for a long time, I finished college, have a job paying well above average, I work on projects / my startup, I have a wife, and am looking to start a family (at which point I'll stop smoking for a bit). Further, my startup is starting to make money and I'm up for promotion at work.

Then to tie this in nicely which the argument that people with issues will ignore them - I went through court during school for restraining orders, I worked a full-time job while in school, and started a small profitable business. All of that is insanely stressful and I would argue if weed would have caused issues, I would have had larger problems.

All that being said, I think people who smoke weed (or tobacco for that matter) are more likely to get into the "drug culture" of partying, carnivals / festival, climbing, etc. It's really no different than people who become alcoholics. It's probably a symptom of a larger issue when people abuse drugs and attempt to "opt-out" of society. That being said, perhaps some people want this, and it should be an option. I don't care one bit if people want to waste their life on drugs. I only care that I have to pay for them via tax dollars, so remove social welfare for them and I'm all for it!

I'd even expand my argument, and say any vice including videogames, cars, etc. Anything can get out of hand if people are trying to avoid a problem. Just like you can't blame a gun for murder, you can't blame a vice for a wasted life. At some point, if a person had choice, and knew what they were getting into it's their fault.
make sure they are willing to do their part in your value proposition

What an incredibly self-centered way to think about your failure.

Sounds like you not only misread your customers but are hostile towards them as well. Never a recipe for success.
Is this a Latvian game studio?
Yet another example of the difficult decisions teams make.

It does seem like the gap between shutting down and re-launch will hurt their user base, who will invariably seek other services. Many streamers had regular schedules and won't be able to indefinitely wait for the service to return.

And when they return, even with a different format it might address some of their problems but others will remain. Most livestreams suck because most people are not media and/or technology experts. A controversial figure broadcasting? DDOS will still happen. A massive media event using your platform? It could still lack capacity.

From an outside perspective it looks like this decision will be regrettable but it'll be interesting to see how everything plays out.
What is the most impactful way one can contribute to the biological research effort from distance as a programmer with some basic university-level biological education? What open source project used in the area is both used frequently and lacking in some important aspects?

I noted there were some bioinformatics project in the latest Summer of Code, but they seemed to me more like "let's think how to teach our undergrads work ethics" than "please, we really need this".