skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is an important difference between the servers intentions and your intentions. The servers intentions are well inline with cultural norms and hence the default assumption in a restaurant. There's no need to bother restating them. This is what cultural norms are.

Your intentions, on the other hand, are very unusual and not standard. That's why it's important for you to tell people what is going on so that they are not caught by surprise.
First, you assume too much. I'm not a guy.

While I did read the article, I didn't read the underlying studies, mostly because they aren't freely available.

The way the studies are done though, each person has professional help monitoring diet, and a nurse. I've been through these kinds of programs before personally, and while the people are great, they are more checking in with you and making you accountable, which drives results. Obviously someone making a diet plan for you does no good if you don't follow it, just like how cardio doesn't do much for you if you aren't pushing your heart rate up.

In the article, the first study, called inconclusive, actually said that people with pedometers were more physically active.

Really, experimental method means everything. In the article, they say one group lost 14 pounds, and one on average lost 7. Over 2 years. That's honestly not a lot of weight lost (1 lb per month or less), and they didn't provide any statistics other than the average, which is typically misleading (some probably gained weight, some probably lost a lot of weight).

What you're saying is basically a study said when you measure something, you get worse at it. As if the Heisenberg uncertainty principal is at play. What I'm saying is that a tracker is a tool, and how and why you use that tool is incredibly important. Just like how you could say most people who buy a home gym don't use it, so therefore obviously buying a home gym makes you fat.

I believe I also said in my original comment, which you obviously read but missed the part where I said people could be treating this as an undeserved pat on the back.

In all of this, the experimental method is everything. Articles like this are written in a very fluffy style, making conclusions about causation that I find dubious.
Among the most expensive suburban places on earth.
At my last job, the EE manager wanted to improve the quality of firmware, so one of the things he did was to ask for a software guy to show them how we did code reviews.

As an EE working in software, I volunteered. One of the comments I made was that the many magic numbers in the code should be replaced by definitions that explained what they meant.

I got back code for re-review that contained the line:

#define ZERO 0

To this day I'm not sure if the author didn't understand or was just irritated at having me review his code. Probably both, come to think of it.
There's no reasoning there; there's just "Aren't I clever?"
I'd love to see travel modes take off. I was talking with some friends about how great it would be to be able to switch my login credentials to some sort of shared multiple person-required password for the duration of a flight. Like Shamir's Secret Sharing, but temporarily.
To be effective, this would need to become a kind of norm for overseas travelers, the same way traveler's checks used to be. The idea would be that just as you don't carry a bag with your birth certificate, stock certificates, property titles, and jewelry with you, you also don't carry a 10 year archive of every email you've ever sent or a detailed list of every person you've ever spoken to.

In particular, it needs to be normal enough that a significant fraction of all travelers do it. The feature can't be marketed as a protection for at-risk travelers, but as a common-sense safety mechanism useful to all travelers.

I think it's crazy that people walk around with phones that have access to years of email communications, and that even in the happiest timeline we could have ended up on after 2016, features like this are long overdue.
That might be possible. A lot of these "domain info" sites receive a daily feed from the registries (i.e. Verisign) that include all domain registrations, renewals, etc., so I would think they'd have it in their database even if that happened.
You sound a little unhinged to be honest. If you're really worried that climate change on Earth is going to cause big problems for humans (which is not an unreasonable concern; climate change threatens to cause significant sea level rise which will cause big problems for people living in sea-level coastal cities), building self-sufficient colonies offworld is a rather extreme answer to that. A simpler answer is to simply move inland, and make sure your structures can handle extreme weather. That's a lot easier than trying to build an offworld colony.

The real reason to build an offworld colony is because you're worried about a big asteroid strike. But here again, it's a lot easier to just build observation systems to spot these threats, and weapons systems to handle these threats, than to build an offworld colony that's truly self-sufficient.

Finally, offworld colonies have gigantic problems with them: 1) people don't handle radiation well, and no place in the Solar System protects us from radiation the way the Earth does, so we'd probably have to burrow underground to mitigate it, and 2) we really don't know how well the human body can handle low-gravity conditions, but we do know that the human body does not handle zero-g well and that it causes massive health problems. There's no place in the Solar System with close to Earth-normal gravity, except for Venus which is a hellhole hot enough to melt lead (on the surface). Mars is only 1/3g, and the Moon is only 1/6g, and pretty much everything else is even less except the gas giants which obviously aren't livable.

Now what climate change and offworld colonies (in this system at least) have to do with our lack of understanding of gravity, I have no idea.
A more recent Microsoft offering for trying F# (or Python, R) is:

https://notebooks.azure.com

Click on the Intro to F#. Or try the user contributed notebook:

https://notebooks.azure.com/library/HorsesForCourses

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Because he complains about government funding and distortion in markets, but became a billionaire with Palantir thanks to government funding.

It's hypocritical for "libertarians" to rail against government spending, crony capitalism, and the government picking winners, and then turn around and benefit from exactly that.
One thing I wonder about is how quickly a travel mode would become grounds for denial of entry.
You can turn on "showdead" in your profile and check which one it is.
I can see why it might be a burden when you're dealing with hundreds of servers, but on a personal machine, where the occasional disruption won't get you sacked, it's pretty straightforward (though I say this as someone who follows kernel development as a hobby and has the time to track down bugs).
What are you doing now, and if I can ask, how old are you?

> marrying my 4-year girlfriend.

I highly recommend eloping! My wife and I did that, and hoo-boy it took so much pressure off of us(not to mention saved us a lot of money).
Mexico's sugar tax leads to fall in consumption for second year running
No, it's 39 light-years away.

Meaning that anything there that we can observe happened 39 years ago. Not 39 billion or billion.
I don't think that's true - \t happens at the beginning of every line in a block, often more than once, whereas BLOCK_STARTS and BLOCK_ENDS tokens are pretty easy to track with a stack or whathaveyou.
I'm pretty sure he meant a probe. Not a good idea to send a bunch of people to a planet we don't know is habitable (and probably isn't).
My guess is they had a localised DNS resolution failure for the domain and some how hit a web server, or something else, that ticked all the boxes and granted the certificate. A long shot, though.
This is an interesting experiment. The one thing that people keep talking about is that with BI, people will have the freedom to do more things. Some might start a business (but that still usually requires additional extra money) or they might do things like volunteer or teach a class or help others.

I just had the thought that what if there was a currency that flipped it around. Doing good things for others is the only way to earn the currency. It obviously requires controls but then you could exchange it for food at a restaurant that accepts "good". I'm still thinking through a lot of implementation details but it feels like there is something here.
The author addresses that. He suggests using this time to gain financial literacy. From the booklet:

"[Doing all the reading] may take you up to a year, but you’re in no hurry, since you are just beginning to think about your
retirement and you likely have little in the way of assets; you may even be in hock up to your ears with
debts from school and car loans. So there’s plenty of time, and the months you take to complete the
course laid out in the booklet will be the most profitable reading you will ever do; it may not be too
much of an exaggeration to suggest, in fact, that your financial life depends on it. "

and

"eliminate your credit card debt, followed by your car loan. What about your educational loans?
Since your long-term investment return on your retirement savings will be around 5%, which is likely
lower than your loan interest rate, you should make paying off those your next priority. When, and only
when, you’ve gotten rid of all your debt are you truly saving for retirement. "
MLB, union agree to use dugout signal for intentional walk
That's an interesting statement. I guess it's tempting to assume that wanting for nothing or a lack of anxiety leaves only contentment behind, but what if it doesn't?
> Do your Erlang processes never execute an asynchronous (await-like) operation? If they did, any shared data would need to be protected by a mutex just as like as with multiple OS threads.

I think perhaps what you are getting at is that there is still need for coordination for parallel processes, and that is totally correct. But each BEAM(!) process has its own non-shared memory and runs on a single thread. This is my point in that it doesn't need the mutex because the process' execution is its own critical section. I've structured my ibGib engine to be more functional and the need for the mutex/critical sections has disappeared for me.

For example, check out this SO post that I just googled: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/28554114/applying-a-mutex...

In the answer, he tells the OP (who thinks he needs a mutex) that what he can actually do is just do the work in the process. This kind of understanding of single-threaded "bounded context"-like execution, combined with ubiquitous immutability has been massively helpful for me with ibGib.

In C# for example, I was trying to apply `Task<ib>` all over the place (yes it is non-idiomatic lowercasing of the interface...totally aware of this sin in C#). And so even with async/await awesomeness, the code is just riddled with async/await, blah blah blah. The same goes for using Rx in C# for a "microservices" engine (I started it before that was a fad and I called them autonomous services lol) and my more recent POC with Rxjs in TypeScript/JavaScript. The point is the whole approach of concurrency and whatnot are "addons" in the form of mutexes, semaphores, critical sections, locks, barriers (I've used quite a few over the years). But with programming on the BEAM(!) with Elixir and Erlang, parallel coding is just a more natural experience, because it's just how it's done.

In my view, this largely stems from the aspect I mentioned: that they have parallel processes, each running its own memory and on a single thread, communicating with message passing (now called the Actor Model but they didn't know that at the time). On top of this fundamental design decision, they built up an awesome infrastructure with OTP, Supervision trees, and more. But anyway, I didn't mean to write that much - but it's just been a delightful experience, since my very first application in Delphi was a transcription app with a from-scratch multi-threaded realtime document checker (like a spell checker, but more pluggable and geared towards transcription with text expansion which is a totally different use case than existing off-the-shelf spell checkers).
Could you do a short comparison to what CircleCI is offering for iOS and what is Bitrise's advantage?
HN hates everything, cats included. It's bewildering.
"I don't want to be too negative, but this seems very meaningless."

It is meanigless but it wouldnt be hard to add some value to these "coins". For example, I can offer that one hour of my time as automation consultant is from today worth 100swifts. All you need is enough people to trust the system and it becomes real currency. after all money is just a way to allow people to trade their time or products without having to barter.
FTL etc is a conversation for the future, like a few related topics; but no, the important thing right now I'm saying is that global warming is the first step of a process that we believe has got to be mediated by gravity, and that academia in general doesn't realize what's going on. This needs to be investigated in depth, and this is probably not the venue. You're welcome to contact me.
>The launch cost of launching the mass of the pyramids of gaza into orbit would bankrupt the richest economies. No your hypothetical engine won't be 100% efficient. This is completely unfeasible.

Not necessarily. You don't need to launch the mass of the pyramids from Earth, you just need to find a source of fuel somewhere else in the Solar System that's in a shallower gravity well, like on the Moon. This is why a lot of people want to work on mining asteroids, and building mining/refining/manufacturing infrastructure offworld.
Instead of continuing Jobs's actions, Tim Cook has somehow decided that the best course of action for Apple is to transform into a luxuary brand, like LVMH (Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton).
I think handling worldwide shipping would be difficult for them, as they usually only sell downloadable content. They could of course provide a voucher, though it could be difficult finding a suitable vendor. Otherwise I agree.
Airplane mode: from the end of the microwave peril to the era of alternative inspection, in under 10 years.
An annual income of, say, $50k USD. I could live off of that -- comfortably, not extravagantly -- and devote all my time to continue learning, writing tech docs, teaching, contributing to F/OSS projects, etc., without having to work a normal job.
Tesla (TSLA) announces Q4 and 2016 results: Model 3 on track for July
I think that would be a fine alternative to the system we have.

I don't have a perfect history of events, but I suspect that our current design is basically the result of two things:

1. Idempotency keys as a concept were introduced quite a bit later than the API was originally conceived, so it made sense to make them an optional augmentation to existing integrations.

2. Our resource IDs have a fairly specific formats including a prefix (i.e. `acct_` for an account or a `ch_`). It would still be possible to generate this client-side, but it's a little extra trouble.
I assume you mean macOS, which does seem to work in a somewhat more sensible way.
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No unfortunately, I don't think they did. That would have been hilarious.
Has anyone tested Dat and also knows ZeroNet and IPFS? How do they compare? Dat seems very similar to ZeroNet.
So it possible to see Avatar like suspended rocks ? Somewhat orbiting some lagrangian point, which is very close to surface.
But who needs to access your web app from a dedicated special purpose lab equipment control workstation?
I don't think its just toxo papers, people use bad math in all kinds of scientific papers.
The problem is that if you say that, "the rich", who control more economic power than the bottom 80%, will expend considerable resources to discredit your ideas and you personally, and you won't get elected.

We have a democratic republic in theory, but very much a plutocratic one in practice.
Please read the entire post.
I agree that Swarm is easier. But will it work in production? And will they break the API again? Just from 1.12 to 1.13 there are pretty big changes..
It is a big deal in VR, at 90Hz, two eyes, you have 3x the draw calls of a game running at 60Hz.

There are some optimizations to reduce the per-eye overhead, but it is still a lot.

Sony's headset can run at native 120Hz, increasing things more, but not too many games are using that mode.
I'm just spit balling here so hopefully someone will correct me if I'm wrong but...

With SSL the key exchange happens because you are trying to connect to a specific IP address with an encrypted connection. The cert is issued for the domain you say you're trying to access, vouched for down the certificate chain by certificate authorities that your client can check and warn you about. You get to the IP by connecting to a DNS server to get the address. So even if somebody had the key, they've got to get you to visit their IP with it and the second it's discovered that they key has been stolen the CA can revoke it.

With DKIM you have a key without that entire chain of authentication and all it does it give a receiving email server a place to look to see if the message has been changed in transit, with the key. Anybody with that key can send messages claiming to be from your domain and instead of you having to seek them out, they get to send directly to you so the risk is much higher and the only equivalent of having a CA to void the key is key rotation.

That's why DKIM and SPF (with DMARC) work well together because SPF will at least let you specify authorized origin servers...with the downside being that it breaks forwarders when strictly enforced so a lot of people don't like it and opt to rely on DKIM only.
That's fine if you think it was misleading, my point was that the intended meaning was clear enough in context.
Aprils fool 2 years in advance.
"rare", not "non-existent". "goto fail", while well-known, is only one occurrence.
There may have to be some clever system where you don't take a lot of fuel with you.

Imagine a type of particle accumulator and aggregator - call it cosmic flypaper. If you're going say 100 km/s, things seemingly insignificant and rare you may be able to collect a lot of pretty quickly.
>Just running into cosmic dust at the speed of light would not be fun.

That's why you need a navigational deflector dish.
http://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/memoryalpha/images/b/b4/...
Or how quickly Facebook/Google/Twitter would comply with some classified FBI/NSA directive to provide the data anyway.

The first mistake is trusting these networks with your personal life in the first place. Nothing can erase that except your ability and willpower to keep your secrets to yourself.
Fitbit paid just $23M for Pebble’s assets
It's probably not that simple. They'd just get a new account, marked green of course, but still someone "completely different" as far as comment history is concerned. You banned the account, but not the person.

You could go further, by tracking the IP addresses that people post from, and banning new accounts from those IP addresses. But that's not foolproof, in an age of DHCP. It's also turning the hosting site into something that tracks you, which is a bit frightening.
Increasing tax on company profits is the more likely way of going about this instead of targeting the income tax specifically.

This whole theory hinges on automation taking a significant bite out of the workforce, which will raise profits in direct proportion to lower costs. If companies aren't paying their employees anymore, a portion of their proceeds should go to paying back society as a whole - after all, if there's nobody to buy their product then they are dead as a company.
Nice! I'm not near a C++ environment atm, but I promise an upvote to anyone who digs up one of these beasts for us to gawk at!
From their letter (link to below if you want to read)

> Later this year, we expect to finalize locations for Gigafactories 3, 4 and possibly 5 (Gigafactory 2 is the Tesla solar plant in New York).

Should be an exciting conference call. (5:30pm EST)

http://files.shareholder.com/downloads/ABEA-4CW8X0/394401180...
It's not like they couldn't make you turn travel mode off if they wanted to. How about pushing for a law closing this 4th amendment loophole at the borders, at least for citizens?

Not that it'd do much. If the border agents really want to see one's social media accounts, I have zero doubt they can get that data from other government agencies. In fact, they probably already have it. It sounds to me like they're just trying to assert their power and dominance over the people whose accounts they are demanding access to as a way to get off on intimidating others. Pretty typical behavior by law enforcement officers the world over.
There's a decent Go library for various backoff algorithms. Useful if you're creating services which call webhooks: https://github.com/cenkalti/backoff
How do you turn a travel mode off? Once border patrol knows this feature exists and how it works, the jig is up. Any expiration/timeout would just cause you to be detained for the duration the travel mode is enabled. A second password to turn it off would just cause that second password to be coerced out of you. Location-based deactivation can be spoofed.
F# can be a nice language even if you don't care for the functional paradigm.

Discriminated Unions and pattern mactching still come in handy, the syntax is still less verbose, there is less biolerplate/ceremony than in C# where everything has to be in a class.

it is easier to pass a function to a function than in C#

inlining functions is easier

the type inference can be useful in various ways.

if/then/else statements being expressions is extremely nice.

I tend to code in a mostly imperative style, even in F#. I understand it better, it usually performs better.
My understanding is that according to the IAU definition, a "planet" must orbit the sun and not any other star. Kind of reminds me of when people thought the solar system was the center of the universe.
This is by far the most simplest yet lucid explanation ive read about telomeres. Thank you for writing
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> The olympics as they exist today are there to enrich the members of the IOC.

There is no [citation needed] big enough for this claim.
>it's so different and you've added so much work to it

With web pages, it's standard and effortlessly handled by the browser. Given a form with inputs specified by the server, a client sends a request with media type application/x-www-form-urlencoded or multipart/form-data. There is a vast number of implementations for practically every language and platform. A machine client can send a form too, or JSON for that matter.

You have it backwards, Facebook is attempting to rewrite web standards by themselves. And that is undermining the open web.
POST /thingies/bulk_delete

Exactly. That's the approach we've taken. It has worked better for us than sending a delete action via PATCH.
It suspicious when number of victims grows every year without any new data. Yad Vashem collected personal information of millions of victims[0], so let stick to it. Don't inflate numbers, please.

[0]: http://yvng.yadvashem.org/index.html?language=en
It is off topic, sorry moderators.

It seems whenever someone wants to say something a little bit controversial or not as mainstream, they use throwaway account. And I think this is not fair. I noticed this in number of discussions. And people like to throw opinions but don't stand behind them.
> Mostly I try not to think about it too much because it's kinda horrifying :-/

I can definitely relate to that.
There was as a seminar at Inria yesterday about an extension of OCaml to handle units: http://gallium.inria.fr/seminaires/annonces/20170221.Jacques...