skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Will it actually have an effect on weight gain and health? They've been showing for instance that things like Diet Coke actually don't help people lose weight, b/c of many other factors in the way the body responds to fake sugars.

Will this be similar?
> Southron

> acrolect

I just learned two new words, and I like words. Thanks!
AVs have been obsolete in every way imaginable when it comes to offense. As another comment said, they're less effective than band-aids - not only they can be bypassed almost trivially, they increase attack surface.
He's not a businessman, he's a salesman.

On green energy, I'm getting the impression that some threshold is finally being passed where clean energy is picking up momentum, and won't be so easily stopped anymore. Trump may have promised coal to the former coal miners, but coal is getting too expensive, so that's unlikely to happen. On oil, with some luck, he may want to make the US less dependent on Saudi oil.

So despite his denialism, he might turn out to be okay here. Of course you can never be sure with him.
Comedy Central's business is actually in deep doo-doo, as they've been losing viewers and talent at a high rate for the last year or so.
You're making the mistake a lot of people make where you assume if one side is a thing a competing thing must be equally valid. These aren't two people that are equally well respected or with equal track records. One of them has years of experience developing secure software, the other has years of experience hacking on bullshit snake oil for the purpose of selling it to users.

This is not a "the truth must be somewhere in the middle both sides are super great" narrative.
So the thing surprising about this is that Fitbit's stock just took a nosedive, their financials are questionable (but maybe the holidays will be good to them again) and they're acquiring a company in a market where there is a clear leader (Apple) but as whole, the market itself appears to have hit a peak or is in decline.

Even if they got a steal the whole things seems like a bizarre move. At best they integrate Pebble into their lineup, get some good brain power in SV (they are HQed in MA I believe) and build out their future products with Pebble's finely tuned developer ecosystem (their opensource SDK is amazing). At worst, they go down in flames and in the fire sale they fetch a little more for owning Pebble IP.
Do you know of a way for a non-Chinese to test a website from your end? Is there a VPN or Bowser testing site that we can use?
There isn't any technical information in the article, but what does "a way to structure sugar differently" mean? Do they mean change it from being sucrose to some other compound?
... and on top of it, most software doesn't claim to make things safer while demonstrably making them worse
Nice!
A feature request: I'd like to be able to filter by graphics card. Specifically when I'm looking for a gaming notebook I will probably want a GTX 970, GTX 980, GTX 1070 or GTX 1080.
Unless they've recently made changes, their OS firmware is actually built on top of FreeRTOS, with a bunch of backported features and memory optimizations for the lower-end and first-generation devices.

I think the most impressive engineering feat is what they're able to accomplish in their software, given their hardware limitations.
NSF Evacuates Patient from Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station
The statistical approach is painfully naive and doesn't work - as is obvious from the example.

It's like feeding a net with the complete works of Shakespeare and expecting it to produce a genius-level original play. It's simply not going to happen.
A Curated List of Providers, Projects IaaS, PaaS, BaaS, VPS (VDS)
I believe so. I suppose I'm asking for an abstraction that makes maintaining the sequence number simple and fails safely in the presence of errors.

I'd basically like to be able to map messages from one topic to another with a guarantee that none of those messages will be lost; even when some error occurs (either a programming error, system downtime, or network partitions). I'd prefer the application to stop producing messages than lose any of them.

It sounds like that is possible with Tank so I may end up giving it a try.
Mapping with action cams, Mapillary, and OpenStreetMap
Perhaps you may want to clarify that a strong dollar is bad for US businesses and good for the US consumer. It would be the reverse for non-US entities. i.e. it would be bad for non-US consumers and good for non-US businesses.
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> not a government body and not "rechtsfähig" (meaning they can't be sued)

This meme has to die as quick as possible. The public broadcasters themselves are "rechtsfähig" and can be sued. Every letter you get clearly says which public broadcaster is responsible for it and that name is written in large font in its header.

They make use of a central office (the Beitragsservice) to collect the fees for effiency reasons so that they don't need to have employees for that in every of the nine local broadcasters. Everything they do is done in the name of one public broadcaster. They just happen to use a common brand name for that work.

Google found me this example letter: http://www.nickles.de/user/images/14/fa13e73ef7b155fc4455777... Note how it says "Bayerischer Rundfunk" all over and tells you how to file a lawsuit – just as every official letter of a public institution does.

This can be seen all over public administration. Your local tax office is also not "rechtsfähig" and you can't sue it (but you can sue the state in which name it operates). You still wouldn't come to the conclusion that you shouldn't pay

The broadcasters are a public body (and not a private firm) but not part of the government. This is similar to the position of the pension insurers, health funds, most Sparkasse banks, the IHK and many more institutions.
First Redox OS ISO Release
I have a solution for that, too, and verified it kinda works (just needs some improvements).

If you stick a magnet to your tongue, and move it around, a modern phone can recognize that even from below the desk.

So if you had a tongue piercing, and magnetic jewelry for that, you could use that as a crude input device that’s invisible.
That other monkey is free to leave and go far away, and not reap the benefits afforded to the group of monkeys when they pool their assets.
The bigger problem is that Javascript disallows (or at least, browsers don't currently provide) efficient sharing of immutable values between threads/workers.

Because JS has no notion of immutability, sharing is done via copying - but what's worse, copying via full-blown serialization, not just in-memory blitting or COW. At least, that was the state of things when I last checked a year ago.
> Its scientists altered the structure of sugar so that it dissolves more quickly.

So... powdered sugar?
Science is finding that sleep, and sleep patterns are very important to mental health and well-being. If you have trouble regulating your sleep, there's a bit more to the concept than "completely useless" and "narcissistic".
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It's way easier to do both of those things on an Apple Watch.

Starbucks POS's accept Apple Pay; invoking it on the Watch is really easy (double tap the side button; hold near screen). Authy 2FA works well on the Watch as well; app-based 2FA like LastPass Authenticator and Okta work EXTREMELY well on it (better than the Pebble, at least on iOS). Google app 2FA sucks on iOS; I'm assuming it's better on Android.
In Norway there is definitely no hostility in any form towards entrepreneurship. In fact it is safer to start a private company here as after closing down the business one still can apply to some social support from the state.

Also there are lot of various free courses about how to do reporting and accounting for new businesses. And one can do the accounting oneself in a spreadsheet and/or free web sites when the business is small.
Why is the average able bodied citizen unable to protect himself the local and national level?

Why don't the concerned citizens pool their funds together to pay for their own defence?

If we must pay taxes for these things, why must their be so much corruption and fraud (think of the expensive fighter jets and missiles that government agents purchase at inflated prices, from companies that funnel profits to a very select few rich individuals, who funded the campaigns necessary to get the government agents in power?)
If you're on call you're on call and should expect to be paid for it. It's not remotely a technicality, and by no means something "nearly all" jobs do. I strongly advise having a conversation with your union rep.
> Most of the software you use is complete and utter shit full of shoddy, high-risk code. Do we need to bring that up every time when we are talking about something specific?

Most software doesn't run with full system privileges, go out of its way to interact with malicious content, and inject itself all over the system. The difference between AV and any other shitty software is that AV is massively more useful and abundant as attack surface.

The hooks into the browser are nothing. It isn't the hooking, though that's not great. Imagine Chrome provided an API. OK, so now the AV listens to the API. It sees you open some file in the browser that's XML - it parses the XML. It gets exploited, trivially, because many vendors explicitly disable security features like stack cookies. Now the attacker went from a sandboxed environment to a full system privileges process.
Ask HN: Dropbox, Twitch.tv or Cloudflare?
I have offers from all 3. The salary and compensation is comparable. Twitch is a "safe" option, but I've had the nicest interactions with Dropbox, while Cloudflare allows having an impact on a much larger percentage of the Internet. Any advice/data points to help me decide are appreciated.
Using Graphs to Group Educations
Intentional username? :)
The dollar is going up because people are buying it.
Although distributed programming is different than concurrency (albeit one I suppose could argue) I was hoping for some mentioning of Join Calculus. Particularly Polyphonic C# [1] (given Duffy's MS background).

I have been meaning to re-investigate Join Calculus (the last time I did was in OCaml a long time ago) and to why it never really took off.

Some programming patterns can be found here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Join-pattern

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyphonic_C_Sharp
Republicans will control the presidency and both houses of congress for at least two years. They can potentially push a lot through in that time, especially if democrats don't want to take on the mantle of "the party of no" and filibuster endlessly in the Senate.
The primary benefit is for people who do a lot of distance-based athletics. I bought one recently because in addition to all the usual smart-phone/fitbit features, it works so well as a stand-alone athletic device. Now I can go running with just the watch for GPS+HR and a lightweight iPod shuffle clipped to my waistband for music. No more gigantic phone bouncing around in an armband. Plus the battery life is insanely good so you can easily track hours-long activities with plenty of juice to spare. It also can be used to track swimming and other water sports that you'd normally avoid using your phone for at all. I do some hunting, so I like that I can set a waypoint when I park and use the track-back feature in case I get turned around in the woods.
Ultimately it comes down to who you want in your audience. If you don't care about reaching a Chinese audience then that's a perfectly reasonable stance.

The Berkman Center estimates that just 2-3% of users in censored markets use circumvention technologies. So you should be prepared to have your content pirated or your service cloned if it is of interest to a Chinese audience.

That's just the reality of the situation.

\* http://cyber.harvard.edu/sites/cyber.harvard.edu/files/2010_...
The 3D Printing Revolution That Wasn't
Thanks. But what's the capacity of this particular FPGA? How much can it "do" ? Surely it can't emulate a dozen Xeons; so what's the upper bound on what can be done on this FPGA?
Same here. Interestingly the $799.99 non-incognito version stays the same price if you change the i5 to an i7. Possible bug?
It adds humor, and we like that sort of thing on HN
> The US doesn't actually do anything with natural resources anymore, we don't make things like steel or plastic etc anymore, or rather, we don't "add value" to natural resources. Instead, with a strong dollar, we let others add the value and (import) buy their finished goods. The few things that we do make become more expensive to others, so our exports decrease. Domestically, there are fewer "manufacturing" jobs.

US manufacturing still makes plenty of stuff: http://www.marketwatch.com/story/us-manufacturing-dead-outpu...
Well, some people fuzzed file intensively (I was one of them). I won't claim it's bug-free, but I'd say it's probably pretty hard to find a memory corruption vuln in file these days.
Nothing like that happened for most AV software (with probably the exception of clamav).

But yeah, the situation is similar: Whenever you have a C software that parses lots of complex binary formats you have lots of potential for memory corruption.
I've recently stumbled upon a very interesting paper about concurrency. Naming and Synchronization in a Decentralized Computer System:

http://publications.csail.mit.edu/lcs/pubs/pdf/MIT-LCS-TR-20...

It's written in 1978, but if I interpret it correctly, it's still conceptually ahead of everything mentioned in the article (the closest thing being STM). Anyone else here seen it?
Searching for Lost Knowledge in the Age of Intelligent Machines
I agree, but it's an OK start.
The Next Hills for Amazon Web Services: AI and the Internet of Things
That's actually a good point. I should probably find some 'party tricks' to reel in all the people around me who are vaguely interested in or curious about programming.

Edit: because 'hey look how I just told react to re-render the ENTIRE page and it only updated that one div' impresses nobody.
What will they replace the reduced mass with, to bulk up the product so it doesn't appear smaller?

My guess is it sure as hell won't be actual cocoa :/ [1]

[1] https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:9ihtAG...
If only Fitbit's products had a longer lasting battery. I bought the Charge HR and it lasts for maybe 3 days.
Any ideas if it would be expensive to produce batteries using this technology?
When I was 16 I fell into the Amyway trap. What the author is documenting is accurate. It's a trap.

I never really regretted it because there were so many other bad things I could be getting into at 16. Especially where I lived. It also instilled some values that I still hold today.

Not to mention that at 16 I had access to wealthy people who taught me how to manage my money.

So yea, Amyway is a trap - but a lot of people are happy in that trap. I think the most disappointing thing for me was when I realized that the guys at the top aren't getting rich from Amyway, they were getting rich from everyone buying tapes, books, and going to these conferences.

Edit: Typing is hard
I agree, but this isn't a problem with MDMA, but with illicit drugs in general. When you buy cannabis, LSD, cocaine, or anything else on the street, you have no way of knowing what's in it for sure unless you have a way to test it.

This is one of the big arguments for legalization / decriminalization. It won't be an issue with the MDMA these trial patients are receiving for example.
You are contradicting yourself and honestly I don't see the point of correcting these falsehoods but I will note that Sweden and other Scandinavian countries are doing pretty damn well internationally considering how small the populations are [1][2][3].

[1] http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/mediatechnol...

[2] http://smashdig.com/artikel/10-most-successful-swedish-start...

[3] https://sweden.se/business/10-world-shaping-swedish-companie...
PI-xel – an image filtering algorithm to make images more compressible
> There is the central difference between the American way of doing things, people have more freedom to choose what they spend their money on.

And people which don't have money have less freedom and no choice about it. Maybe the problem is that you decided that freedom is dead presidents printed using green ink.
Bingo. No affiliate income. This site is biased not to mention inaccurate. More mentions does not equal better.
The rhetoric back and forth seems a bit strong when both sides are arguably representing their companies.

I can't imagine saying something like "You misunderstand your own ignorance" to someone at say, an industry conference.
Psilocybin: A Journey Beyond the Fear of Death?
Going back to the HN archives, was a good discussion 5 years ago on how to give an apology. (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3733825)

> So what are the elements of a good apology?

> I hear you.

> I am truly sorry.

> (semi-optional, depending on what happened) This is what went wrong.

> I am doing x to make sure this doesn't happen again and y to make it right with you.

> Thank you. I appreciate the feedback.

Reddit is such a shit show right now, they clearly want to just flat out ban some users but they have no grounds to do so. It irks this CEO so much he resorts to childish acts of (what he called) trolling. So his "apology" is really just a, "I messed up, now here's I will further censor these people I wronged..."

I don't support the people he censored, but the leadership and moderation of Reddit seems pretty toxic right now. /u/Spez needs to go. Even /u/ekjp said so.

https://np.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/5frg1n/tifu_b...

/u/Spez isn't the only one... anyone who promotes targeted censorship should be shown the door. http://archive.is/ZmULb
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This is a great point. If the glycemic index has drastically increased, then this could actually be worse for your blood sugar levels than the original quantity of 'actual' sugar.
But it's not true, the actual factories are still producing, and more than never: http://blogs-images.forbes.com/jonbruner/files/2011/08/value...
No, you're wrong, and like Vess, you're deflecting the issue. Lack of hooks into anything in the system is completely orthogonal to:

- increasing code that runs with elevated privileges in a system

- running untested, buggy parsing code with elevated privileges in the system

- inject ROP gadgets in every process in the system

- isolating your code's components to contain the risk of vulnerabilities in your own code
> > "The US doesn't actually do anything with natural resources anymore" ... "we don't "add value" to natural resources"

US #3 oil producer in the world close to Russia and Saudi Arabia
It was baked into the cake with the creation of the Federal Reserve. The government act that created it was passed right at Christmas time when public attention was low. 1913.
But what if it's not enabled? We see traffic from newish IE browsers that have TLS 1.1 and 1.2 turned off. We actually got user complaints that one of our sites stopped working when we turned off TLS 1.0.

I have no idea why they would be set up that way, but it's clearly out there.
I wouldn't think so. There's a noticeable difference between granulated sugar and powdered sugar to the palate. This new method claims to not affect the taste, so I would think it's something at the molecular level.
In Kerala (state in South India), you get this variety called Nendran. It is larger than the common variety you get in India, (not sure if the common ones in India are Cavendish or not), and damned tasty. I specifically say tasty, not sweet, because a) it has a unique and good flavor, and b) it is not too sweet. People often boil it and eat it, which is not done with the common variety. I just googled a bit for it but cannot find its English or Latin name, but did find this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_banana_cultivars

which has Nendran as a cultivar under the Plantains category. But the Wikipedia link for it redirects to the main link for Banana. But that link does have a photo of it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana

Anyone visiting Kerala, consider asking for it and trying it out.

Edit: The cultivars list above has Nendran under the AAB Group - Triploid cultivars of Musa × paradisiaca and within that, under the plantain subgroup.

So that may be the Latin or scientific name, and I guess it is a plantain.

And Nendran is also mentioned here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/True_plantains
>> They don't want to be in very close quarters with randos.

Maybe for shared rides , UBER should only assign vehicles that, allow people to sit with enough personal space,wider, for example a minivan, but make sure the middle seat is empty. That, combined with a culture of phone staring may make the experience neutral ?

>> They don't want to wait while someone else gets picked up or dropped off.

Most of the complaints on twitter are on the first problem you mentioned. So maybe solving it would make the service "good enough" , for the more cost-consious custuomers, and that's a big market.
Ok the economist is a rag.
1) Interest rates are endogenous. If we don't want them to go up, the fed can decide not to raise them.

2) A strong dollar improves our real terms of trade meaning we can actually have more stuff for the same unit. We get a higher real standard of living.

Who is checking the fact checkers?
You can get them from the dollar store.
But why are people buying it? It's written in the article why.
If the monkey expects other poor bananaa-less monkeys to behave in same standards as his educated ass deserves , then he better his bit to help progress the society which allowed him to have all those said benefits .

The monkey may buy his "private banana peeling education" , but failing to remember his anscestor monkeys and community monkeys who kept improving art of banana peeling and publishing it freely lead to the said monkey to live in era of "modern banana peeling" is a crime.

There is no price for education than helping others receive it , paying your bit to improve the overall condition of monkey kind is the only way to repay the debt
this is awesome, really like the ui. as others mentioned, the only thing i'd suggest is to add a little "about" section or something on the front page to let people know what they are getting into :)
Cool! Let me know if you have any questions
> Emacs-Lisp is dynamically scoped. That's precisely the kind of mistake (yes, mistake), that hinders large scale anything.

Yup, default-dynamic scope is a mistake, although in the particular case of emacs it has made certain code very clean (and led to plenty of bugs, as well). Emacs has added lexical scoping, which is a start.

Common Lisp's lexical default and optional dynamic scoping provides the best of both worlds.

> And who cares Scheme is not Lisp? It's close, and it's reputedly cleaner.

Among other things, its continuations are semantically broken, preventing correct implementation of UNWIND-PROTECT.

It's a good language for its intended purpose (teaching & research), but the language as standarised is not well-suited for building large projects (individual implementations, of course, can be quite good — but then one enters the world of implementation-dependence).

Common Lisp is superior for large projects, in part because it's much more fully-specified, in part because that specification includes more features, in part culturally (because Lisp systems have more often tended to be large and long-lasting).
Ah, that explains it :)
Every blog post should have a Lego visualisation like this.