skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why?

Why do you believe that and what evidence do you have to back up this assertion?

Why can't a semiaquatic species that takes to the waters for shelter during a flare event develop technology?

We have aquatic creatures that can generate electricity on our planet. That's pretty crazy for us. What if it was the norm on another planet? What would the implications for the development of a technological society be in that envolutionary environment?

The assertion that technological society can't develop under water or that fire is a prerequisite for a techological society is too anthropocentric for my liking.
There are also dozens of studies showing exactly the opposite (I've googled up just two): http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa022207, http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa022637. It's pretty safe to assume that currently science is not overly conclusive about this subject.

From the point of biochemistry that claim doesn't make much sense either, as calories measured in the food (which is done by measuring the heat when you burn it) are not the same calories that you end up having as ATPs in your blood stream. No digestion is 100% efficient and it's much more complex process than just the simple oxidation. Different foods and food combinations and different gut bacterias in each human create hundreds of variables in how efficient the conversion process is. We have variable food quality, variable food combinations interacting chemically, variable gut bacteria and digestion chemistry, variable metabolism for each person. Our body is a chemistry lab and making stuff repeatable and simple in the lab is usually very hard. Digestion itself also uses energy itself and how much depends on the type of the food. It also matters how often do you eat, eating all your calories all at once and than starving for the rest of the week is definitely not the same as having a balanced calorie intake. Presuming that it's all simple "just sum it all up from standardized tables" is overly simplistic look on a highly complicated chemical process that has many bio-feedbacks involved and is far from being a constant. Which of course doesn't mean that it's not a good enough simplification for the purpose of keeping the dieting simple enough for people who are not interested in the biochemistry, but that is just the same kind of approximation that all other technics do: "Follow these rules and you'll probably lose some weight".
At the same time their movie are starting to wear on me, being that the arc is always so similar. If star wars 8 fails to be a novel movie, I think things will not go well for ep 9. Same goes for althe marvel movies.
My experience made me identify with this letter very closely-- in broad generalized terms, you often have "management" which is a bunch of "business" people who are directing "creatives" (whether software engineers or movie artists) based on the management's perception of the state of the market.

Unfortunately, there is always a tendency to believe your own PR, believe you know more about things than you do, and to believe that, because you're on top and they are on bottom, you know better.

You see this in startups also when the "management" is a 20 year old CEO who just graduated business school, as much as when he is a 60 year old who has worked in the industry (but whose background is not in actually making things).

This is the big gulf between the makers and the managers.

And I think the correct response is, as makers, to make sure we are managed by other makers.

An engineer in the CEO role can manage a VP of marketing, or a VP of sales or a VP of engineering fine. Find a VP of marketing who wants to do customer discovery, find a VP of sales who can close (and incentivize him to do so, if he's not hungry don't hire him) and you'll do better, in my experience, than a CEO who doesn't understand how software is made (and subsequently keeps inadvertently undermining his own products as a result.)

Apologies if this seems like a bit of a rant- this is a comment on a letter that is a rant, though-- but I've seen this over and over and over in the past 30 years working for technology startups.

I would say having a technical CEO has a positive order of magnitude improvement on the outcome, and liklihood of a liquidity event and the size of that liquidity event, in my experience.

It lowers risks many ways, including increasing retention of your most valuable employees. (One of the key things that business people can't seem to get over is the idea that commoditizing employees leads to hiring what Paul Graham calls "blub" programmers, but that if you hire great programmers you can't treat them like cogs or they will leave.)
The biggest problem I had. Is that shopify advertises payments with stripe. Shopify who does drop shipping and wholesale intermediary shipping.

But when looking at the terms of prohibited items in Stripe. Drop shipping is not allowed.

So what is the actual deal here? Shopify being a large entity can get away with it? But someone who has a business can't do it?

That's where the problem lies and good luck getting past the firewall of support.

Sorry, but I would have loved to have done business with Stripe. But until they actually actively start working with new clients. Good luck with that.
Laravel, nice. :)
I took over a project 8 months ago which had been running for 2.5 years.

It was far from perfect when it launched, was still far from perfect when I took over, and I'm going to guess it is going to take a year or so before it gets to a point that I'm even happy with it.

The issues are plenty.

It looked horrible when I took over, and though we've done a redesign, it is still not a beautiful app.

Bottlenecks galore! Very slow page load times, parts of the app where we wanted to improve the UX are so duct-taped together we can barely touch it and are biding our time to do a re-write.

Dead code, confusing code, poorly thought out code. This has all of it. I even lost a developer because he was so frustrated with the code structure.

So, how bad can this all be?

We've got a large base of dedicated users that love the product, we're growing nicely (though growth is somewhat held back as we can't release features and improvements as quickly as we'd like).

Ignore the 'perfect', it's never perfect (but definitely aim for 'good enough'). Having users that love the product is much more important than it being perfect.

Also, what app do you think is or was perfect when it launched? Facebook sure as hell wasn't perfect. Twitter? Clearly not.

Nobody is perfect, give that up. The perfect time to launch an app is when it is perfect enough to get feedback.
Surprisingly, the volume of Ethereum Classic trades has been much higher than the volume on the fork side since the fork.
Could I have confused those with, oh the irony, some SGI machine? I remember someone had single-image boxes with up to a thousand CPUs. I assumed it was something derived from Cray's T3E.
Your taste is terrible though.
Wouldn't these criteria apply to Shopify? If Shopify is a legitimate business, how can other legitimate businesses overcome the same hurdle?
I'd like to also contribute with my data from fitbit: heart rate and resting hr evolution, sleep time, exercises, a few months of tracked food eaten and water drank, weight and body fat percentage, daily burned calories, etc.
Where do I sign up?
The same "private property" where I can run a segregated lunch counter or refuse to bake a gay wedding cake?

Sorry, truly private property and the previous principles of negative freedom of association died a hard death in the 1960s, and it's only a matter of time until Facebook et. al. are brought to heel (or worse).
It was a fun movie, but it was weak in a lot of the same ways that Batman vs Superman were weak. So, I see the criticism.

Well and poorly executed movies both can connect with the audience, but the author of the letter presumably believes that well executed movies are more likely to do so.
That he is ethical is part of the problem. He is the perpetual rescuer. He doesn't initiate action, only reacts to situations forced upon him. IronMan does things because he wants to. He has an internal personality. Thor has an internal life. Even Hulk makes decisions on his own occasionally. Superman's role, like Captain America, is to apply ethics to a situation created by someone else. They are perpetually innocent, perpetually perfect, and therefore perpetually boring.

My favorite characters are probably Colson and Fury, both dynamic people who take action on their own. The make mistakes because they make mistakes, not because they are forced or tricked into doing so by evil guy. We don't always know what they are thinking, or by which ethical rules they operate. That's interesting. That's worth watching. Batman and Superman are empty shells in comparison.
> No one said that all drop shippers, or even the majority of drop shippers, are doing anything illegitimate.

Yes, but STRIPE are saying this. Because it's in their prohibitive items list and if you do it as part of your business, they will not do business with you. This is my whole point.

Other merchants will happily do business, so why not stripe? They have yet explained why...
I think that's what Ethereum Classic addresses.
Maybe your weight loss rate accelerated because you started watching what you eat more carefully, knowing that you want to provide the most sanitary input to your program. Anyway this is impressive for a n=1 study. Glad it worked for you.

Also, OP, what materials would you recommend for a machine learning newbie?
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No, he means the one that conforms to the specification?
>That's technically true but not actually so

Not sure what you mean by this. In case you need a refresher, this is how hardforking works: http://ethereum.stackexchange.com/questions/1952/what-is-a-h...
Too many to count. I like allrecipes or some website like that.

Dal Bhat is one of my favorites after living in Colorado.
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Posted about this yesterday, why did this one gain traction instead of the one I posted? Is there something I'm missing?
Not much because none of them are profitable separated from Google.
Hey, all you makers of chart libraries!

First a big thank you for your fantastic efforts and for letting the world participate by open sourcing all that stuff!

But one thing: Please make it easy to generate VIDEO OUTPUT with your libraries!

This is an artificial limitation that I hit with many charting libraries - output generation is html (js) only and people who would like to create moving images have unnecessary problems shoehorning that nice chart library into outputting to a high resolution video.

Please do not limit your designs to one output medium.

Think video, too, THANKS!
Does TWC have different prices in different places?!! This seems so wrong. I'm paying $45 for 50/5 TWC connection in Raleigh, NC.
"Bulletproof Coffee"(TM) is snake oil stuff. It's based on the assumption that all other coffee on the market has mycotoxins, yet literally none of the brands in first world countries have them anyway. This was confirmed by tests.
I don't know about not expecting it, I think as a general rule all expensive technology will likely be cheaper in the future, or simplified so that it's accessible to the masses. It's difficult to think of a counter example?
Nope. Luck is just a part of life.
Is there a corporatism that is hidden?

For IT, a master CS degrees (+5 years after highschool) have still not proven to be better than 2 years of apprenticeship. (Sackman/grant 197x)

The global cost of not working (wasted potential outcome hence taxe) is ~ 10% of the potential cumulated income a nation could have.

Then, STEM is also used as a regulative barrier to some jobs hence a de facto limitation on competition of workforce to access a market, thus diminishing the competition.

Least but not last, the access to the data of employability per diploma is not accessible to future graduated creating an opaque market which access is based on your capacity to either be born rich or to have a crippling loan. It is then creating a market where some workers because of their vulnerability are in poor position for negociating their earnings (thus diminishing the overall potential wages of all workers).

And, least, the non reproducibility of scientific experiments yielded by STEM education is growing up, being a clear signal of a «cheating» that arise when stakes are too high in a competition.

I would say there is neither a STEM crisis or surplus, but bank and university are clearly fueling a «diploma bubble».
No, we couldn't - the point is shifting demand to legitimate sources and pricing poachers out, not playing whack-a-mole with them.
They develop their software in a waterfall like method because they develop their hardware the same. These are still core engineering companies that don't fully value software.

I asked one of these companies about security, apparently the major governments insist by law on weak encryption and they only have to stand up to 15 minutes of hacking... Pretty terrible right?
True hive-mind intelligences may not face that problem, though.
One of the arguments OP used was that fatty foods satisfied his hunger faster. That still means the diet would be more effective, even if in theory all tha matters are calories.

Another big point was that fasting, particularly during sleep, was very effective. Is there any studies on if this is true or a real effect? Or perhaps it also just has a indirect effect by reducing calories consumed, but he argued it was more than that.
A gopher-take on wikipedia:

gopher://gopherpedia.com/

As even Firefox finally removed its support for the gopher protocol several years ago, "OverbiteFF" or the equivalent may need to be installed in Firefox or Chrome to view the above without issue.
Cheers for the clarification :D
Time of the day maybe?
and any body in the industry is constantly afraid of being shut off at a whim for even tangentially related services

Only by processors like Stripe and of course merchant banks (but the latter is easily dealt with nowadays), politically right now we're very strong in most of the nation, and at the Federal legislative level, and by and large the only companies with political risk are those in our modern slave states ("A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure, permanently, half slave and half free." (Lincoln) and I believe there will be a resolution to this sooner or later, but that's not something companies like Stripe can make any plans or current polices about.)

Perhaps.... Team Obama are currently trying to land the first major blow they've come up with/dared to try, to shut down most of the nation's gun smiths (http://www.nssfblog.com/ddtc-says-guidance-is-not-new-but-cl...), so there's still clearly nationwide political risk.

But Stripe would be viewed very differently by, say, half the nation's population if they were willing to do business with those that do firearms and related stuff, as so many merchant banks are still quite willing to do, in states where that's politically safe, which is on the order of 40 with more than half the nation's population (which is not the same slice as the half I mentioned previously).

(And with regards to that above resolution, if it's in our favor, companies like Stripe that boycotted us will not be gently dealt with. So there's political risk in every direction, but I can't see how picking one side of a cultural currently cold civil war is a good long term strategy, and I seriously doubt its helping them in the short term, vs. staying out of the fray.)
Love potatoes. And saved the world in 2 hours. (without cheating)
The ETC fork has %16 of the mining power of ETH, and the price of ETC is at this moment about %15 the price of ETH. This implies its price is following mining power, roughly. That's not a "scam" that's just a smaller alt.

It's worth noting that before the fork there was no ETC "movement", there was just people who were unhappy with the fork. Everyone expected the fork to go to ETH.

However, when sufficient mining power refused to fork, a movement coalesced from the people who opposed the fork.

ETC is still up %300 from its stable post-fork price. The current mining power is up 2x-4x what it was post fork as well. Most of the rise of its price was preceded by increases in its mining power.

This implies that people are putting money into mining it.

When a fork happens you end up with a lot of people who have duplicated coins, so you would expect the "losing" fork to have some significant price dynamics.

But the growth in hash rate and the sustained price implies this is not a "scam".

That said I don't know what its future is- it needs a roadmap and a reason to exist to become viable long term. But at this point you can't say that won't happen.

I hold neither ETC nor ETH.
Sometimes it's hard to tell a manifesto from a pump-and-dump. A good heuristic might be: "does it contain a stock ticker symbol?"
Nothing.

When I was a coder I was riding my cheap bike to move in the city everyday in Montréal (even by -35°C). And bike is very good for cardio which is a main way of staying in shape. I was taking 30 min to skate from time to time in winter near jobs, and running in summer on the mont royal.

Thanks to this I have free gym 12hr/day in my new work as a mover that I got by looking in shape.

Your body is as much an asset as your mind. Invest in it because else you will have debilitating pain sitting on your chair when you will be ~40 yo.
Is there some reason that Zack Snyder is allowed to keep directing and producing these mediocre films?

It's clear that storytelling is not his strength. So what is it exactly that's keeping him in the directors chair?
See, studies like these are the problem. They aren't calorie matched making them fully, completely invalid for debunking the point I'm trying to make.

The first study says "[the low carb diet] involves limiting carbohydrate intake without restricting consumption of fat and protein", which means calories aren't controlled for at all. Only carbs are counted.
The second study has the same problem, read the methodology section.

Please, link me to "dozens of studies" that refute the link I provided above that: 1) have calories controlled in both groups 2) account for the non-permanent water weight in low carb diets and 3) find statistically significant differences in weight loss vs a regular calorie-restricted diet. You won't find a significant amount, if any.

Your second argument is a really common one and I have never understood it. Agreeing that calorie management is all that is needed for weightloss DOES NOT imply that calories are equal. Calories being equal is not a requirement for counting calories. I understand the concept of TEF and that there are several other factors that can impact what the "effective" calorie amount of foods are. I understand that the human body is incredibly complex and there is no formula for accurately determining an individual's calories.'

But none of these things realistically matter for counting calories as a tool of weight loss. You estimate your calorie intake using one of several googlable methods, then you adjust your intake over time to hit your desired weight loss rate. Any personal variances your body has or any dietary habits you have just get accounted for in the amount as you adjust it.
I suppose that's fair.

However; it doesn't really feel like discipline -- it's just how I eat at this point. I can report back in a few months, I imagine I'll have to start working my way back to eating enough to gain strength again around then. I experienced an event to the scale of my dog dying last month, but I imagine a divorce could be somewhat more taxing.
I'd like to reflect a bit on your notice how stress relates to weight gain. In my personal case I noticed a while ago that "usual" day-to-day stress in the office or at home indeed increases my willingness to eat more. But! The extreme stress, like falling in love or really deep shit at work make my feeling of hunger disappear. Last two month I have one of these situations and I lost almost 30 pounds (I'm obese person, my "normal" weight is 230 pounds). My food preference have changed - instead of high-carb I switched to carbs only at breakfast, low fat at lunch and dinner food, almost unconciosly. Though as my life gets back to normal now, I feel that the hunger creeps back and maybe adding some fat to my meals would help to keep from the spiralling downward into usual high-carb diet.
This paper gives a good way of looking at it with taxi/passenger. To extend the metaphor, there are lots of people queuing for a taxi, and the driver decides to not pick them up because they don't have enough money to pay for the ride:

Companies are not hiring lots of people because they perform poorly in the interview. From what I can tell, a large fraction, if not the majority of those people actually lack the skills the employer is looking for, despite a 4 year degree in a related field.

This large pool of people who apply for jobs makes hiring more expensive, and also causes companies to apply low-sensitivity, high specificity tests to the pool of applicants (e.g. I'll interview only people who graduated from these 10 schools).
I don't remember the hash power on classic, but it is definitely up since the fork.
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That logic is fine normally, that's awake and working hours. But sleeping brings in melatonin hormonal effects and the sleep jerk mechanisms into play. So it might be true that his hypnic jerk mechanism triggers on body-env temperature differential and if he lives a warm/hot place.
I'm genuinely curious as to why the kids aren't availing the FCC lifeline program. Can someone explain how and why a mechanism built to solve this exact problem isn't working, given that $7B was attributed to 3 communications related welfare programs by the FCC.
Simple, minimal and easy note-taking
He himself explicitly says that his methodology was NOT scientific because of sample size of 1.

It's all wild speculation on his part wrapped up in speculative scientific language.

Maybe he is right, but your reaction is precisely what we need to stop doing.
Would just like to add that some of the security issues are to do with limitations set by governments. I think China and the US in particular insist on crappy security and it's cost effective to simply apply that everywhere else. Forbid anyone have something a government can't pry into...

I think for car manufacturers, they are limited to 128 bit encryption and cars only have to stand up to about 15 minutes of hacking - that last one isn't particularly well defined either.
The satiation thing is a valid point (as others have pointed out). I just don't like the super high level view he took of it. I'd prefer something more controlled like eating calorically equal foods and then ranking them by how long they satisfied his hunger.

Fasting is a very effective tool for losing weight. By itself it doesn't really cause any magic (meaning, it doesn't increase the rate of fat loss on its own or anything like that). It's a great tool for diet adherence because your body eventually gets used to its eating hours. If you only eat in an 8 hour window each day, you're fuller during that 8 hour window and generally less hungry in the 16 hour foodless window. You can read more here - http://www.leangains.com/2010/10/top-ten-fasting-myths-debun....

The whole site is dedicating to intermittent fasting and is a good resource.
Why did I get a down vote for a genuine question? I'm interested in knowing what I can improve in the future to better get the traction the article deserves.