skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While I like and agree with a lot of your comments, I think it's a bit of an accurate-but-myopic look at the issue.

Most/all of these weight loss programs usually seem to target the byproduct of the problem (being overweight) rather than the actual problem (an unhealthy relationship with calories).

While I have not seen any studies on people who have made "lifestyle changes", my personal anecdata suggests that this type of weight loss is sustainable at a fairly decent yield (not 100%, but not 0.2% either).

I realize that well-done studies like this will be hard to execute, but I hope they get done. In the meantime, I hope that people suggest seeking a lifestyle change (likely including doctors, nutritionists, and psychologists) before they do something drastic like getting gastric bypass surgery.
Spotting things in the details: Haru is propping his phone up with bricks from a Jungian personality test. Apparently Haru brings people together and results oriented.

http://blog.mcchristie.com/wp-content/uploads/insights-brick...
I use a variation of bullet journaling for my work. I have to track a lot details, and I off-load them to paper.
And yet I'm here reading a comment against my high rated belief that the Internet makes information much easier to get.
Cool web design that is, realistically, unusable
Intel's Itanium, once destined to replace x86 processors, hits end of line
HN has tons of threads on contemporary politics. PG's essays are insightful and, though not perfect, usually go deeper than everyday left vs right talking points.

HN has also become increasingly hostile to PG's views over time (for example, his inequality essay), so it's hardly an echo chamber. Personally, I preferred this place when there were more people who agreed with his basic worldview. And, though many in SV share his politics, he has a distinct way of thinking when compared with other billionaire thought leaders like Peter Thiel and Marc Andreesen.
I think $2,000,000 was the initial Kickstarter target. I remember their finally tally from Kickstarter being higher than that.
Hydro's "US" entry in the table ties for top with US nuclear: 0.01.
Thats a good modal to shoot for haha.
Very much this. And, that they have very high-end technicians that are cleared for top secret/classified data centers.
Maybe there is something to learn in that he has been able to be effective without great slides.
Have you checked out Bokeh? It's a Python and R library, but it's exactly designed for the kind of "industrial / engineering data visualization", and it doesn't require you to do a whole pile of Javascript.

http://bokeh.pydata.org
I think they are trying to make the legacy desktop a professional and enterprise one, because there is no money selling operating systems to consumers.

If they can get the huge chunk of people who are using their computers without an enterprise domain, and without heavy workstation apps (basically just doing internet/docs/games) to use a cheap and safe iOS-style windows, then they can at least start getting 30% cut of the app sales from all those people.

I'm not too worried about that as long as there is a proper windows for professionals. In the above scenario they could start charging more of a premium than they do today for the legacy windows desktop because there would be no consumer version of it.
That's silly. It took me no more than 1,000 crashes to learn to fly my drone.
I think that in any comprehensible time scale, accelerationism is an inevitable outcome rather than a desirable outcome.

I can see a conscious set of lifeforms that would prefer to burn slowly and enjoy existence in a relatively sustainable manner.

It does however seem inevitable that life will -- if it does not fail completely -- spill out of our planet into the universe as you say in the form of machines or 'AI', rather than meatbags. Life is a game with winners and losers and winning is selecting for superior reproduction, technology, and colonisation.
US Glacier national park losing its glaciers with just 26 of 150 left
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perhaps the domain startupgraveyard.ai would better reflect these times
Did you really read the article? The Hanford site was used in the 80s to produce weapons-grade nuclear material. An accident there is related to nuclear energy in the same way that forest fires are related to fireplaces.
Surreptitious audio recording is a felony in Massachusetts (and possibly other states).
Y must it be fancy and shiny? Only functional matters to me.
But it's so _convenient_ and something something Taxi cartel!
> the lack of checks and balances on kickstarter is troubling

The check and balance you're looking for is traditional capital investment, I think?

Because if all things on Kickstarter clear a bar of "this is a sound business", then those projects probably wouldn't need Kickstarter.

edit: for clarity
I imagine being hunted and stalked by another animal is frightening regardless of the hardware.
You're not wrong that it could reflect an angry minority, but it's far more reliable than "I know a couple of people who liked that," which is the competing metric in this case.
Godzilla: Go running JavaScript
>Most of the firms trying to make this work are growing algae in the desert

They aren't currently producing biofuels. Current biofuels are primarily rapeseed, corn, and sugar cane based.
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Well, I definitely do have other applications for it. For example, I know that similar software has been used in labs to estimate people's reaction to videos and game features, in mobile applications to improve interaction with a user, etc.

My interest to offline applications comes from personal experience: recently we demonstrated our product (not emotion recognition, but also capturing user's face) on an exposition. People came to our stand, used the product (so they clearly opted-in), asked questions, etc. After 2 days, we asked a girl at the stand "What do people think about the product"? "Well, in general, they are interested" she answered. Not much info, right? Definitely less informative than "65% expressed mild interest, 20% had no reaction and 5% found it disgusting, especially this feature".

So I don't try to justify this use case - my life doesn't depend on it - but I find it stupid not to try to understand your clients better when it doesn't introduce a moral conflict.
Because communicating with the user is function. An unpleasant UI for the actual target audience is a functional failure.
You wiped, how would the OS remember?
How do you know that the finger data the scanner uses is present in oil prints?

If this true, someone would have created a working demonstration in the past 5 years.
A baseball error in fielding is when you drop a fly ball, or miss catching a pass. This happens very rarely, maybe 1-5 times per game (or succeeding ~98.5%).

This is because you're doing something easier, catching a ball. Hitting one though, is very difficult (~20-30% is where most professional players are).

He says the design task is much more difficult, and failure should be seen as overhead for part of the process (i.e. R&D process should be failing often, engineering & delivery process should be succeeding in making software ~98.5% of the time).
Of course you can reinstall your OS from clean state and you could do it with any Windows. AFAIK Windows 10 will send your hardware information to Microsoft servers and will be activated automatically when you reinstall it.

Installing clean Windows and activating it with fake KMS server should work too, if you want to steal it.
I suggested an improvement and got back an email.

https://blog.rthand.com/post/2017/05/02/good-bye-visual-stud...
> More people fall off roofs installing solar panels, then die in nuclear accidents.

I think the concern is that in addition to killing people, nuclear accidents cause gene mutations, etc as well?

Another concern I have with this sort of argument is the ratio of people getting killed to using it, etc.

Other than that I do agree that there is FUD around Nuclear energy. But this is not a great rebuttal IMO.
Previous discussion from 10 hours ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14314795
They've fairly recently published a schedule for the alpha 3.0 release (first public access to the procedural planet tech, among other things), along with a video about estimating timelines for the project. The folks who develop software for a living might not find it as interesting as I did, but it's a decent look at where the project is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOjXfNnhxf0

I've gotten some fun out of the alpha game itself, but also quite a lot of value out of these videos and other info they put out. It's a fascinating look into game development, which is something I'm interested in but not looking to pursue a career for myself.

Thursday is "Around the Verse" day, so they should be releasing one of their status update videos tonight. These are rotating through the four studios and covering what a particular studio has been working on over the last month, followed by a deeper dive into some particular subject.

Last week was the Austin studio update and touched on growing the studio's build systems. Previously they've covered subjects like QA testing, ship designs, procedural planets, procedural space stations, and a lot more. It's usually really interesting to watch.

I think this week is the UK studio. They're the ones working on a lot of the bigger ships, so I've got my fingers crossed for a look at the Aegis Reclaimer. But they were late in getting the video up last month, so we might be waiting until tomorrow. It's already 11 PM over there.
They are doing this because they want the benefits of great ARM battery life. But they are emulating x86 on ARM. So they believe that emulated x86 on ARM will have a better battery life than native x86. The only way I think this could be possible is if they measure battery life of an idle device. Maybe someone can disabuse me of this belief.
Actually the Hanford site goes back to the manhatten project where it was used to produce plutonium and since that time continued to produce the fuel for our nuclear arsenal during the Cold War. One of the original reactors from the manhatten project is now open for tours and its fascinating to visit. Highly recommend for anyone nearby in the PNW to check it out. (Google "manhatten project b reactor".)
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When I lived in Idaho, my neighbor found his dead dog draped over his mailbox because it wondered onto another neighbors land that had cattle. The law is on their side, and this issue goes back over 100 years, though the details differ.
Yeah, do we really want to run an open garbage fire of an OS that is known as Windows 10 for a daily driver? I know I'd get murdery if I lost all my hot corners, multi-desktop, etc cause that is what makes me productive. Other people who don't like Gnome 3 take pleasure in using i3 or AwesomeWM, which both are major steps up over Win10's UI.

At this point, the Windows platform is a rotting cesspool, the devs focused on it know its growth has stopped (but often are clueless about how to move forward), package management is not a thing, and Microsoft has added so many anti-features that it is a pain in the ass to live with.
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You can already target Linux directly from Visual Studio using either WSL or a Linux machine as the target. It uses the compiler on the Linux machine. Details here: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/vcblog/2017/04/11/linux-dev...

And, of course, VS offers Android and iOS targeting in both C++ and .NET. The C++ info is here: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/vcblog/2017/04/18/android-a...
It'd make sense if Hyper-V wasn't monopolistic. You can't run both at the same time, or better, no other virtualization host is allowed when Hyper-V is on. Which sucks.
I have been working on a huge Xamarin app for weeks now and both Xamarin Studio and Visual Studio for Mac are horrendous. There are so many bugs and quirks in those things. Almost always when I think I found an issue with the underlying libraries (we use the native Android & iOS libs as well as Forms and a mix of both), it is an issue with either of the IDEs. I have a solid Macbook Pro and yet it comes to a halt and requires reboots after a bit. I even currently do parts with Vim and only compile/run with the IDE. I tried Rider but that's even worse. VS for Windows with this release might be worth a try. Did anyone try?
Roughneck walk down database alley
The Wikipedia entry is silent on non-rooftop solar installations, and I'm struggling to find good numbers. Can anyone with more experience in this sector point me in the right direction?

I would hazard a guess that non-rooftop installation is substantially safer than getting on a roof. I would also guess that nuclear would be more hazardous if reactors were installed on roofs.
And annotate them. A pencil is still the most flexible tool for that.
Paying above the final sale price will definitely create some perverse incentives.
But you could use such a model to pre-train your NN before you continues training it in the real world.
At the occasion of the launch of our startup Plato, we organize an event with great engineering leaders sharing their experience.

We are honored to have great leaders among our speakers:
- Tido Carriero- VPE @Segment
- Luc Vincent- VPE @Lyft
- Christian McCarrick- VPE @Telmate
- Shivani Sharma- SEM @ Slack
- Yi Huang -EM @ Facebook
- Brett Huff- EM @Trello/Atlassian
- Nikhil Pandit- EM @Clever
- Tasneem Minakadis- EL @Uber
- Richard Sun - SDE @Kabam
- Benjamin de Point - SDE @Datto

These talks will be followed by a networking event with mainly CTOs and engineering managers.

Where? San Francisco, 350 Rhode Island Street
When? on the 15th of May, between 5:30pm and 9pm
Oh damn, I've been on HN a long time.
It wouldn't really be a Cobra Effect. In the Cobra Effect, the net number of Cobras (which were trying to be eliminated) was increased instead of decreased. If farmers start breeding livestock intentionally to be eaten by wolves, it's hard to see how this would have a net negative effect on the wolf population.

Maybe you're suggesting the wolves would forget how to hunt because they are constantly being fed by ranchers? This might be possible.

Either way, the key to implementing a policy like this would be testing it out with a small subset of Wyoming and measuring it's effects. Also, one should be careful not to over incentivize ranchers towards feeding wolves, but compensate them justly.
My friend and I periodically just screen cap steam reviews to each other because of how ridiculous they are.

Games are consistently dog piled on by various communities and enraged fans who are upset by a game update.

It's a shame because the review system has a lot of near features, but the community is completely untrustworthy.
Those drones are perfectly able to lift a couple of pounds according to their specs. The other reason you mentioned about not wanting to customize it is more likely.
His visual style is very much on trend: http://www.brutalistwebsites.com

I find his slides to be great and wacky - the opposite of boring.
> so people expecting the moon were just being unreasonable

To be fair, the devs demo'd some supposedly in-game footage which was much better and more compelling than what shipped in the end.

Peoples expectations were set high, because the devs actually promised a lot of cool stuff on record.
Can you run things like nano & stop and navigate around with arrow keys?
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Note that I'm into frugal/minimal self sufficiency quite a bit too. My brain enjoys having a clear and generic view on things, oherwise I often feel distressed by relying on trust and obscurity.
Any chance to be able to prove also my own Google+ profile?
My theory is scope creep. These guys have done a good job of convincing people that they can live the ultimate space exploration fantasy that's been talked about since the 80s.

It's the ultimate simulation. We know very little about space and even fiction (ex. star wars) seems to generate even more demand.

As people got excited and started throwing money at them, so did the scope obviously. I love Star Citizen's attention to detail but it's suffice to say that they've hit people's patience.
> by a quick back of the envelope calculation a positive test result is still 5× more likely to be a false positive than a true positive. With those odds, I don't think many cardiologists are going to answer the phone. You'd still need an EKG to diagnose AFib.

This is a good point, and certainly nobody should go directly to a cardiologist based on these results. It seems that this would be a good system to recommend that people get an EKG done, though.
For me it's way shittier to have an insecure phone. I would even install a Clippy launcher on Android if I could have the latest security and feature updates the same day that they are released (without changing phones every year or using custom ROMs).
Conexant audio driver works as Built-in #Keylogger feature in dozens #HP devices
We have done several high profile cross-platform applications with Xamarin. As a user you can't really see the difference while using it. The most noticeable difference is that the app startup time is couple of seconds slower and the application bundle steals at least 10MB of app size. As a programmer the Developer Experience™ is a little rough around the edges with casual bugs. But hey you get to write your core business logic only once and in C#.

Here are some of the more visually appealing apps we've made with Xamarin:

[1] http://valopilkkutaksi.fi/briefly-in-english/

[2] http://www.upmmetsani.fi/

[3] http://fair.online/
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The Star Citizen tech is really impressive looking. I love watching their demo videos because they just look amazing.

Their development process seems inefficient from afar. They've switched engines at least once, maybe twice? They've announced titles that then kind of fade into the background. They build really detailed systems for simulating light / gravity / thrust in ways that seem impressive & unrelated to gameplay.

It kind of reminds me of Overgrowth, though with a whole lot more money (and charging users a whole lot more as well). I'd be interested to see, in 5 years or so, what the final-ish product looks like (I don't mean they're 5 years from release, I mean in 5 years they'll be past release).
I think this is how babies learn to walk.
I'm just a runner, not a hunter. A couple years ago, I was out on a run when I was quickly set upon by two adolescent German Shepherds. I was on the opposite side of the street, but they left their property (they were out playing fetch with their owner). Before I knew it, they were circling me and then one took a bite of my thigh.

To this day, I'm astonished by how quickly it happened. I'm virtually certain that even if I'd had a weapon, I would not have been able to use it in time.

These dogs were not attacking me either. The bite was playful, from a poorly trained adolescent dog.

I'm pretty sure that even with a gun, I'd be scared of a pack of wolves. A canine can move very quickly and violently.
Crew is expensive today, especially when compared to the 19th century when conditions were horrid and you could impress people into your crew.
That sounds like a generalization. There are probably lots of sound businesses that do not have access to traditional capital investment, and would benefit from being on Kickstarter. Additionally, there are businesses that do not clear a bar of "this is a sound business" that have had heaps of traditional capital investment. We are talking about sets with only some overlap.
How many fewer clicks would Ars Technica get if their headline writer had instead given, "PCs with Conexant audio driver covertly log users’ every keystroke"?

How many fewer bloggers, Tweeters and Facebookers would link to it?
I cant speak for XFCE, but LDXE installed flawlessly on a normal Ubuntu installation.
The Nvidia Tesla V100 is out now, and it's 12x faster for inferencing than the Tesla P100 cards in this.

If the Tesla V100 is priced at all similarly to the P100, you would have to be very incompetent and far abstracted from actual devops to consider purchasing one of these computers for your company's AI and deep learning needs.
"Too soon" is usually another way of saying "A critical piece of infrastructure that my business plan requires doesn't exist yet."

Instacart's founder is fond of saying that Instacart couldn't have existed before 2012. I suspect what he means is that there were a collection of technical & social changes that happened in the early 2010s that let him recast the problem Webvan was solving in an economical way. These were: 1) smartphones allow real-time coordination across thousands of workers, without hiring lots of managers 2) cloud-computing lets you run big-data algorithms to feed those instructions to thousands of workers, without building data centers 3) because of the Great Recession, thousands of workers were unemployed and desperate for some way to earn money 4) increasing urbanization has clustered people together in a city and made them disinclined to drive, which increases the demand for a grocery-shopping service and decreases the cost of servicing them and 5) everybody had Internet access and cellphones.

By contrast, WebVan spent a billion dollars building warehouses, at a time when the total number of Internet users was < 150 million. They bought their own fleet of delivery vans and hired their own drivers, at a time when employment was full and labor costs were high. They had to invest much more capital for a much smaller market, and then had much higher variable costs.

Being a "startup" doesn't repeal the laws of business - you still have to pay for labor, generate returns on capital, generate more value than you charge, and charge more than you spend. But because computers operate millions of times faster than humans and don't require wages, if you setup the business model right you can realize huge efficiencies of scale. "Setup the business model right" is the tricky part - WebVan thought that "Internet ordering" was a crucial part of the business model for online grocery delivery, but it turned out that "use existing supermarket infrastructure" and "coordinate lots of shoppers so they can work very efficiently" were the real keys, and the technology to do that hadn't been invented yet.
They're getting rid on the ribbon in Explorer, you can launch it with an in-beta modern UI since last month's Windows update. They'll probably complete it and make it official in the next big one.
Slightly ugly doesn't interfere with communications does it?
Keylogger Found in Audio Driver of HP Laptops
Why not an autonomous sailboat?
You think that this actual shipping product that Microsoft developed might have been influenced by these "rumors" that are never actually sourced to anyone in Apple?
If we're living in a simulation, this UK startup probably built it
You can get an Professional OEM license from Kinguin[1] for ~$30.

One limitation I am aware of is that you can only license / activate one system at a time and I had to call MS to get the key unlocked after upgrading my gaming system.

[1] https://www.kinguin.net/category/19429/windows-10-profession...