skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pro tip: you need a balanced diet. Despite all the recent conspiracy theories, getting rid of sugar while e.g. eating loads of fat is not going to do you good.

Downvoters: show me academic papers. Not some tabloid mis-quoting some paper, but the actual paper or at least an abstract.

Otherwise you're just being dietary fanboys

"SV kids getting healthy thanks to one weird trick"
The full list of partners can be found here: http://www.b-t.energy/coalition/who-we-are/

Most of these individuals have already been outspoken on environmental reform so it's welcome though not especially surprising to see them here.
You're right, there should be a balance, overwork is harmful even when you are doing something you are passionate about. But passion, appreciation, and the feeling that your work is benefiting humanity seems to ward off burnout. That seemed to be the case for the people in this podcast, and it also seems to be the case for people like Elron Musk who work outrageous hours but don't seem to get burned out.
The opposite view: http://raypeat.com/articles/articles/sugar-issues.shtml . Ray Peat's argument is that polyunsaturated fats are the real culprit, and if you look at most sugar laden foods these days, it's difficult to find any that don't also contain a decent amount of PUFA.
Everyone gets it wrong much of the time, seems like the question may be more about who gets it wrong a little less often.
Try cycling in SF again. Things have changed a lot in the last year or so.

I've been bike commuting in SF for 10 years, and the last year has been by far the worst. And most bad actors are uber and lyft cars.
Increase fats?

No biggie, you'll get satiated too fast to overconsume.

Increase proteins?

You satiate even faster.

Increase sugar?

You will eat a lot more and your leptin signal gets all sorts of messed up.
The subway in DC is a diaster, with antiquated cabling causing a constant risk of fires. The agency is prevented from running all-eight-car trains because the power system wouldn't be able to handle it.

http://www.ntsb.gov/news/press-releases/Pages/PR20150608.asp...
I think you're talking about the BART that's much more than SF. The Muni underground tram is rather quiet.
It may actually be easier for Gates to pledge $1B to fix the earth than for a single mom to vote "Yes, make my gas $12/gallon" to do the same.

It may not be "big minds" or "short sight" but the fact that the majority of the populace is expending so much thought and effort to just get by that they don't really have the extra cycles to worry about future calamities. We kind of used up all of our populaces' reserves for that sort of thing on income inequality. The people at the top are the only ones with any "propellant" left to maneuver.
This is great advice, thanks for sharing.
We should at least start by taking this with a grain of salt, because according to the article:

> Notably, no study has been completed to study Uber or Lyft’s effects on San Francisco traffic

However, similar to what others have said, anecdotally I definitely agree. In the last four years, particularly Gough and Franklin have gone from a viable alternative to Van Ness to completely unusable -- particularly because Google Maps and Waze (what 99% of drivers use) route them down there instead of other streets. I have a habit of asking where drivers are from, and the vast majority of them are from out of town and commute to SF to drive for Uber / Lyft. Again, it's still anecdotal, but ask drivers next time you get in a ride and I think it'll become pretty clear where all the traffic is coming from.

But you know what? I blame the SFMTA. This isn't User's fault, this is SF's fault for not building a functional transit system (and the voters for not funding it) 30 years ago. Uber began because Travis couldn't catch a cab. If Travis lived in Madrid, he would have taken the subway, he would have got there on time, and Uber never would have existed. SF's transit mismanagement created an environment that could only be solved by something like Uber (or Scoot, which I now almost use exclusively).

If San Francisco wants to fix its traffic problems, it needs to stop prioritizing private cars driving faster, and needs to focus on more subways, more bus only lanes, more cycling lanes, and more pedestrian-only streets. Private automobiles are not the way most of the developed world (outside of America) gets around, and if Tokyo, a city of 31 million people can get around efficiency without traffic, so can paltry San Francisco.

We should be building 10 subway lines at a time, and if that means tripling our taxes to pay for it, count me in. But so far all the willpower I've seen is to run busses faster down Van Ness and one new subway that goes a bit over a mile. I'm pretty sure the folks in the Richmond have been saying this ever since BART pulled out in the 70s.

Maybe self-driving cars will fix it all, but I'm still skeptical. So far I haven't seen a permanent solution to traffic past a proper heavy-rail, grade-separated train.
I wish they'd set up an ETF of some sort. I'd happily put in a share of my retirement savings in order to assist in that. I'm sure a sizeable portion of the coasts would too. Sure $1B from Gates will have an impact, but I could imagine a climate change fund growing pretty large.
Two reasons why the current Uber/Lyft situation causes more traffic than the old taxi situation:

1) The bar for driving a car in the city for pay has been lowered significantly from the old taxi medallion system. This makes for a much larger fleet of cars in the road. A great thing if you have memories of walking down the street at 1AM, looking over your shoulder for the taxi that never came, but a bad thing for 5 PM traffic downtown.

2) The city has a decent amount of taxi-specific traffic infrastructure, such as taxi parking / cab stands, which may not be used by Uber or Lyft drivers. Instead of parking in designated spots, we see them doing things like stopping in bike lanes or circling the block.
Putting a price on carbon isn't much of a market mechanism. I'm not saying I'm opposed to the idea but it seems like you're putting lipstick on what many see as a pig.
Lucky! I had dual 28.8kpbs dialup lines (the phone lines themselves were unable to support higher than that where I lived at the time) bonded together until 2001!
Yes, it is awful. I've spent significant time in Japan and can't believe how quiet the trains are - including the high-speed bullet trains - compared to the awful screeching of the train I grew up riding: BART.
Although the internet allows for hyper-polarization, it also makes it easier to manage group polarisation by allowing alternative views to be only 1 click away. It's just intellectually easier to select information from places that confirm your biases and polarize them rather than be challenged and consider alternatives.
You seem to be saying that if leaks benefit Russian policy, the bearer of those leaks is a pawn or a useful idiot.

If legit information benefits someone, it doesn't make that information tainted or the bearer of that information biased or a pawn. I don't care whose interests the truth benefits. We all deserve to know the truth regardless of whom it benefits.
This comment isn't substantive—it merely alludes to substance.
Remember that a function of at least the American Constitution is to smooth processes of change over many years for the purposes of stability.

Climate change is a particular challenge here: immediate action is required, but warning signs are too diffuse to work against political inertia.
>Why is it beneficial to learn about every instance of "humans behaving badly"?

Because it is your civic responsibility to care that such things are happening in your community, and to allocate your political activity, voting, and charitable giving in a way that you believe will mitigate that suffering.

Because if everyone said, "sometimes humans behave badly; why should I care?" we'd be living in a hellscape.
There's no reason you can't have a hot cloud site, and operate in lipo mode (or even scale it up temporarily) if you lose your DC. Best of both worlds.
That's a burden we all must bear, for the sake of not degrading the site. At least we all bear it equally.
Why Google Pixel lags 10x more than Moto Z
The population of SF has been growing, it makes sense that traffic is worse. Until there is evidence of a causal link between ride sharing and traffic I'd be hesitant to believe any of it.
A poor guy comes here to spill his guts about potentially losing his job and all the serious science that will be stalled, and you thought his desperation was for pointers on how to be more persuasive? Yeah, the HN advice culture has really jumped the shark with this one. This isn't a reality show.
Thanks for the recommendation. I really enjoyed "Good Calories, Bad Calories: Fats, Carbs, and the Controversial Science of Diet and Health" by Gary Taubes on this subject as well. Great historical overview of nutritional science and not afraid of getting into a lot of details. Taubes, with others, went on to start the Nutrition Science Initiative (http://nusi.org) with the aim of pursuing more conclusive evidence in understanding human nutrition.
I updated the neutered script from googletagservices.com, I found the site was throwing an error because of a missing method in uBO's neutered version of the script. Not sure whether it's a new method or whether I missed it when I created the neutered script.

There is no filter in EasyList or EasyPrivacy for googletagservices.com (hence it worked fine with ABP), it's something I added to "uBlock filters - Privacy" a long while ago, and created a neutered script to replace the real one to minimize web page breakage.

If you want uBO to behave just like ABP blocking-wise, just select the same exact filter lists -- though I strongly advise you at least keep "uBlock filters" for best results.

For reference, ABP comes with only EasyList enabled by default + a regional list if applicable. Privacy-wise though, you lose a lot by not using EasyPrivacy, Peter Lowe's and other uBO's own filter lists. See this graph[1]: second bar is when only using EasyList + "uBlock filters". Third bar is uBO's default list/settings.

[1] https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Blocking-mode
Numerous libraries support parsing .dwg files. Autodesk provides a JavaScript library, though under fairly restrictive terms.
That's not actually true, depending on your definition of "doing good". If you eliminate carbohydrates and eat a high protein/fat diet you are more than likely to lose weight.
The verbiage "balanced diet" is begging the question. What is a balanced diet? If it is just "one that works" than this is akin to knowing how to efficiently sort a large array from the definition of "elements are in in increasing order." Well, yes, but how do we get there?

That is, at best, claims of a balanced diet resort to existence statements, but never evidence ones. I am not going to claim I eat healthy, or that everyone should follow my diet (not many like whiskey nearly as much as I do), however, it is baffling to me the amount of stock people have placed on such things as "square meals", "food pyramids", and finally "balanced diets."

So, by all means, build strawmen to knock down against people asking questions. But realize you are likely not helping advance any actual knowledge unless you are presenting evidence.
Bugger using high-sulfur fuel in aircraft, how about we just pop some nukes into a couple of dormant volcanoes and blow their tops off?
Tech Awards Pick Biggest Hits from 15 Years of Anti-Poverty Honorees
Prison guard unions lobby for what is essentially more jobs for their members.

http://reason.com/blog/2015/06/02/are-for-profit-prisons-or-...
if you were a petroleum producer, wouldn't you want to get in on the ground floor of the thing that makes you obsolete?
I would recommend this website as cheatsheets: http://ss.fitness/#nutrition
We need more articles like that. Thank you.

It makes me sad when people turn down Clojurescript because of prejudice against parentheses. This wonderful language amazes me every single day. I don't even think anymore (like I used to) how painful it would've been have I had to use a different language.
I am so happy I bet my career on it and quit my very well paid job for the sake of writing Clojure. BTW, that decision came right after ClojureRemote 2016. Right after the conference, the next day I walked into the office and told my boss that I'm leaving.

> and you don’t need types

This is quite inflammatory statement. Types and type systems are important. However Clojure now offers something that no type system can do - Clojure.spec. Too bad - there's no mentioning of Spec in the article.
oh absolutely the representatives should be held accountable for their opinions. I would like to see in the upcoming senate, how climate change is going to be taken, and how the votes are run.

As far as the will of the public, i don't think that "saving the environment" will force a shift of peoples votes, i think that natural disaster / destruction will gather peoples attention enough to make a push.

It's extremely difficult to look at long term, esp when you're living paycheck to mouth... I wonder if the majority of people in these old industry are within that space.
This quote has always bugged me a little bit. It does seem reasonable to expect that reporters and editors know more about the major world events that are the paper's bread and butter and less about other things.

The structure of a typical science section doesn't help. There are typically only a few reporters--often only one-- and they tend to cover whatever's timely (e.g., has recently been announced/opened/published), which doesn't let them build up much expertise. I think this also explains why pop-science articles tend to conflate background (here's what was known before this paper was published) and whatever actual result was: it's all new to the reporter.

That said, I was recently interviewed by CBC about my research and I thought they did a very good job. Everyone seemed prepared, asked reasonable questions, and the final product matched what I said!
Yes, I think it is, thanks everyone!
>and more pedestrian-only streets.

Where in SF is this an actual problem? The only inadequate sidewalks I've ever encountered were due to construction encroachments, not actual design.
Seems to be a rare instance that violates Betteridge's Law.
"make localmodconfig" in case you're compiling the kernel
I think democracy would be in much better shape if there weren’t such massive campaign contributions from the fossil fuel industry to a wide range of politicians.
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My favourite example of this is the Economist news magazine. The Economist reports on a much larger range of country and topics than the typical magazine or newspaper. Many of its readers like it for that exact reason: it gives them information on stories they won't normally find in their local or national news sources and they want to be informed about, say, hydroelectric developments in the Congo.

The problem is that writing about 25 different countries in a single issue doesn't mean they actually have experts on most of those places or people on the ground to do original reporting. Often, it devolves into British or American writers regurgitating inaccurate information from the Internet. But if it's the only thing you read about, say, forest exports from Myanmar, you have no reason to question it.

The easiest way to see this is to be a non-US/UK/EU person and read an article in the Economist about your own country. Then you realize that all the other articles are just as simplistic and uninformed.
Shifting from one culprit to the next would merely further a witch hunt. I in no way want to suppress the search for evidence in this.

However, evidence is pretty high that we could cut sugar and have zero negative effects. The largest cut would be in what people are drinking nowdays. (It is truly baffling to see how much sugar the average person consumes from soda.)

Consider, unless you are drinking multiple glasses a day of coke, you are probably actually quite low in your weekly intake of sugar compared to the average.
> I eat plenty of sugar, and I'm in decent shape:

You can't tell the damage of a poor diet (or other maladies), simply by looking at videos.

You're also fairly young. A poor diet wrecks your health in a cumulative way.

I'm not saying your diet is poor (I have little data about your diet), I'm just saying it's up in the air with knowing that you eat, "plenty of sugar", and you IG yourself doing calisthenics. Would you agree?
I'll be writing up my own experience building auth for askinline.com. I don't know how to keep you in the loop other than saying to follow me on Medium or Twitter.

It's a React + Redux front end with Hapi + Sequelize backend. It uses JWTs in local storage for authentication (that decision will take some defending since it most applications should store it in a cookie) and sometimes uses single uses JWTs for things like email verification. I'm planning to write up how we do Google Login, password based signup and login including email verification and initial load decisions tree for dashboard or login page.
Ransomware Gives Free Decryption Keys to Victims Who Infect Others
The headline is overblown. The article claims prices in London are flat over the past year, and that prices in the UK has a whole rose 3.1%.

"average prices in inner London are down 2.6 percent over the past year, whereas outer areas are up 2.7 percent. That left average prices across the capital little changed."
As soon as you are a group of two people or more, taking Uber is often cheaper than taking the bus.
I wouldn't necessarily blame the "WLAN, sound, or sleep" thing on linux. I'd blame that on cheap parts manufacturers that refuse to distribute open source drivers for fear of releasing company secrets and lack of profit margins to operate on.
Did you read the article? They've been working towards this for a while, and likely would have started regardless:

"Gates had last year announced his intention to personally invest an additional $1 billion in clean energy technology. He was also among the 28 wealthy individuals and families signed on to the Breakthrough Energy Coalition, a group broadly committed to investing in this area. The new fund, which includes many of them, is a next, concrete step toward actually deploying their capital."
And by worst they really mean best. Lower housing cost means better life for more people.
I plan on writing something up soon, getting my code bases in order right now. See my other comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13155919
It has been quite some time since I started writing front end code, tried understanding angular, left it. I was lucky that I came across Vue.JS via HN, it was gitlab's post. I haven't ever tried React, because Vue is amazing. With nearly no knowledge of JS, I was able to write an app in Vue reading just the official docs, they are downright amazing. I faced the issue of webpack et al, thus I started writing a guide to write vue apps in vanilla JS,

https://github.com/thewhitetulip/intro-to-vuejs

This is a work in progress.

I feel Vue is gaining ground because of it's simple syntax, there isn't much magic to it, just enough magic.
I have to say not every girl have so many selfie-videos, so it was surprising to see so many from men.
> It's been a long time since I've read it, but I'm guessing the saving lives part of dropping the bomb.

I wasn't baiting an argument about the bombs, but I just don't want to let it slide by. That is with almost certainty a false claim. I know we don't admit in America that we are capable of producing and consuming propaganda, so it's exceptionally difficult to communicate that idea despite what facts & what leadership at the time said that is in the historical record. Something swept under the rug was that there were many senior military leaders who pleaded to not use the bombs on urban, civilian population centers, at the very least. Also contrary to popular belief, the Japanese leadership was actually desperately looking to find a way out of the war. It was over by that point. Hirohito had no way for his empire to survive, and he selfishly did not want to relinquish his role as emperor (he otherwise offered to surrender if he could).

Feynman wasn't a military general at the time and he likely had no way or time available of knowing the full consequences of use of the bomb.

My high school history textbook told me that the bombs saved lives. President Eisenhower said there was no reason to drop them. There are two sides to that story.
Moving Forth is pretty good: http://www.bradrodriguez.com/papers/moving1.htm

There are 8 parts to the series, you can look at all of them and other Forth writings by the author on his website: http://www.bradrodriguez.com/papers/
> approximately 200,000 people inhabited the British colonies in North America

Step back and notice the subtle institutionalized marginalization of that statement. That the native population is not counted as "people". No footnote that the figure only counts immigrants, nothing. In author's view it is not even worth mentioning, native americans existing (or more like had existed) being such an unimportant fact. They are not part of the colonies, not part of what will become the America.

That view is pervasive throughout our society and its history. It is never/rarely stated, it's just "assumed". Making it insidious unless you notice it. Which is my point/hope in writing this. That you will look.
Ah, my apologies. We used to have an RA in my old lab who was a little too obsessed with binaural beats. He claimed he could use mp3's like drugs...

My primary area of study was perceptual consciousness in the visual domain, so I had to look a little more in-depth into binaural beats to answer your question. So, it appears that frequency coding is the norm for higher frequencies, but not for lower frequencies, which are the only ones we can hear binaural beats from. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to find much relevant neuroimaging literature, so I don't really know.

Binaural beats are an auditory illusion, but I'm not sure of what process. The lower frequencies do record phase information, and use that for localization information (comparing phase differences at each ear for a frequency tell you the angle it came in from), so It could be related. Sorry again!
Fuck Sugar!
Finding Wisdom in the Letters of Aging Writers
Most large scale operations are (or soon will be) deploying 25GE and/or 50GE in place of 10Gbps Ethernet. 100GE to each node is unnecessary for most workloads & more importantly it's obscenely expensive and likely to remain so for at least 3 more years.
Winning one game against someone is different than being able to beat someone consistently.
Powell Street. Sweet lord. Private automobiles should /never/ be allowed to drive on Powell south of at minimum Post. All vehicles other than cable cars should be banned from driving down Powell, and the sidewalk should be doubled in size to take over the current automobile lanes. Nearly every major city in Europe has pedestrianized its central shopping backbone, and the fact that SF hasn't yet (with the amount of pedestrian traffic down there) is encroaching on dangerous.

EDIT: And to add, to see what a pedestrian downtown San Fransisco could look like, check out the Winter Walk on Stockton over the Central Subway construction. It's amazing, and I'm so terrified that when the construction is finished they're going to let automobiles drive down there again. It's ridiculous that people are second-class citizens to cars in the downtown of a major world city.
Another essay answering the same question: https://hackernoon.com/senior-engineers-reduce-risk-5ab2adc1...
I think it's a almost impossible to launch an ETF for this kind of effort. An ETF has to track publicly trackable entities such as commodities, currencies or public stocks. Even the Private Equity ETFs track publicly listed Private Equity companies, not their holdings. From what I understand this fund will primarily invest in very early stage private entities.