skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Whenever these `weight gain linked to soda` studies come up, I'm always confused.

I've been told I'm in fantastic shape (>90% in all http://strengthlevel.com/ measurements and under 10% body fat) at the moment, and I used to consume a lot of diet soda every day. At it's worst, I consumed >1 liter a day.

For me it was a caffeine source (since I dislike the taste of coffee and never saw the benefit in acquiring the taste) that helped me focus when I needed to get work done (I did a lot of tweaking around with amounts to make sure it was a marked difference and not just a placebo effect for me) and acted as an appetite suppressant so that I could manage my caloric intake without getting distracted by hunger frequently throughout the day.

I constantly looked at aspartame/stevia/etc research to see what damage I would be doing to myself. While I couldn't really find much in the way of negative health effects (excluding weight gain, which I never noticed a problem with), I ultimately cut off my consumption because of a semi-irrational fear that either information was hidden by soda-corp et al, or that just because of how these chemicals work that there might be bad effects that just haven't been put under rigorous study yet.

As a side note, my metabolism is actually slower than average and I need to eat on average ~10% calories less than any macronutrient calculator says to stay in the shape (low bf + strong) that I enjoy being in.
I mean, don't install it on anything with data you care about. This isn't exactly a hardened product.
> Anyway this is a site by actual guys that used to work at Reddit so you'd expect them to be pretty smart business orientated chaps right?

These aren't ex-reddit employees. The linked article calling them "former Redditors" is pretty misleading, I think it was just trying to say that they used to be users of the site.
Yes, $5. Not every thing needs to be the standard 224x224 AlexNet/VGG16/ResNet. My work horse is LeNet @ 1.6MB with 32bit float weights and no compression or other tricks.
450k/yr cash for senior software engineers. No bonus, no RSUs, I think maybe 5% of that is in stock. Nothing else though, which would be fine by me.
Netflix has a 3.4 rating on Glassdoor. Yikes. I wouldn't consider working at a company unless it had 4 or more.
You missed the part where elevators have automated squirt guns they spray you with if you only choose to go a single floor. Playful enough?
We're a Microsoft shop so we use Skype for Business, which seems to work well for talk/IM/screen sharing. Now we're getting "Teams" to be slacker.

I'd be curious to hear how the Slack video/screen sharing compares to Skype Business, after a rocky start it's working pretty smoothly for us now.
The MapReduce paper was released in 2004, and BigTable is still available.
I found it very appealing. I loved the bit that was something like: we're professionals working together, a sports team, not a family.
I think that what you're describing is some sort of variant of the "Won't somebody please think of the children" rhetorical tool (or the fallacy "Appeal to Emotion"). I don't know what to do about it, but I can recognize it.
ScreenHero is being mentioned because they were acquired by Slack a few years ago. So, this feature is literally just ScreenHero.
now i am not sure which of these two buildings it's more boring, box or circle?
It's also included with all Slack paid accounts, existing and new.
This paper still doesn't support that conclusion. It's widely agreed (thus far) that carbonation is harmless. Whether or not this study legitimately challenges that is impossible to say without seeing the actual study.
As Western wages collapse further, wouldn't this then become the kick in the pants developed countries need to motivate the rebuilding and reseeding of their decrepit and aging industrial bases?
A colleague already commented, but I too haven't personally experienced a high turn-over rate or a culture of fear. The culture is really great. On my team we're mostly the same as we were when I joined 3 years ago. We've added a few, and lost one. There is a turn-over rate, but what does one mean by high?
They spent the money and effort on making it functional so that employees can best enjoy their time there.

Zaha Hadid designs beautiful but dysfunctional buildings.
He certainly has a knack for talking about himself in positive terms. I suppose that's a marketable skill.
Hmmm, I can get behind the idea that oil isn't priced appropriately given it's externalities, but I would've focused on CO2, with a carbon tax being the solution, rather than looking at the rate at which oil is reformed.
Can't believe it took them 2.5 years integrate ScreenHero.
He's talking about public perception, not about NASA research.
That's all I want a homebot for. "Homebot, make me some Gordon Ramsey level Beef Wellington". Beep boop beep, "Ready in 40 minutes".
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I work on a GUI application written with PyQt. It's been very productive for my small team. The downside is that Python's permissiveness has bitten us over and over again. We've become focused on managing mutability --- it's the central problem we have to solve.
karpathy, I see you are at Stanford for Deep learning and NLP... I'm working on a project for audio/sound classification and have been sniffing around for some folks who may have encountered a similar set of feature points for audio data in deep learning. Would you be open to connecting? If so, let me know an email or other way to contact you and I'll reach out.
Using GPS as your time source is a fabulously good way to trash your entire database during a leap second. See this paper for a discussion on how essentially everybody but Google gets this wrong: http://crin.eng.uts.edu.au/~darryl/Publications/LeapSecond_c...
Frankly even cubicles would be more welcome than the open office tech companies seem to love. I'd kill for any noise and visual distraction reduction.
Also, Netflix's library is incredibly small compared to the amount of shows people actually watch. Netflix now blocks rooted Android devices. Netflix's originals are mostly terrible. So piracy vs $10/month for so much less is just painful. They don't allow anything more than 720p on chrome quite ironic considering the widevine deal.
So yes, it seems Netflix is much more inconvenient than piracy.
The SLS was never worth it. It is a program so absurdly expensive that its hard to even come to grips with the numbers.

However, in defense of the SLS 70000kg is the minimum requirement, the rocket will lift more like 80000kg.

Even now it would be cheaper to cancel it. For just the the SLS budget of the next 2 years SpaceX could easily build them the BFR. They could have three different super-heavy boosters from three different companies for the price of the SLS.

> To be fair, no one could have possibly foreseen the quantum leap in rocket technology SpaceX has made over the past 8 years since the SLS was designed.

It was foreseen. They wanted to gather proposals both from inside and outside of NASA because NASA had already realized that it might be much cheaper. They had evaluate how much SpaceX had spend on development and concluded that they would have spent about 10X more.

Non of these investigation were pushed and the SLS 'proposal' was selected. Interestingly another group inside NASA (the only other proposal) want to go back to the F-1 engine.

> But it's beginning to seem more and more like a government welfare program for Boeing rather than an effective launch system.

It was always that. Since its inception everybody called it the Senate Launch System. NASA actually did not want to build it, the Senate forced them and specifically required them to use specific tech. Its nothing but a 20+ Billion pork program.
Google disproves Google.

https://cloud.google.com/prediction/docs/end-of-life-faq

"As we've expanded our Cloud Machine Learning services, many of the use-cases supported by Cloud Prediction API can be better served by Cloud Machine Learning Engine."

In this case "invent something better" == "drop support".
We live in a world where we pay people to do things that they can do better, or faster, or things that we just don't have time to do. The reason I go to the grocery store to buy my food is because I don't have the space or time to grow the food myself.

The reason I host on AWS is because I don't have the space, power, or time to set up machines locally and scale them as needed. And I definitely don't have time to manage them. What doesn't make sense about paying for additional levels of tooling? In many cases, the economy of scale actually makes it cheaper, not just convenient.

I once watched a show about a man who was obsessed with saving money. He saw some spilled uncooked rice on the ground, and sat there picking up the individual grains for probably about 20 minutes. He was extremely self-satisfied, and thought less of people who weren't able to be so financially responsible as him, not passing up a chance to get some "free" rice. Meanwhile, the task valued his time at probably 20 cents an hour.
Humans are not mice.
Fair enough, although I do respect Quartz enough to not create controversy for the hell of it. I do agree that the last paragraph is a bit much and possibly unnecessary, and maybe only there to make it seem something more than it is, but I think the article overall brings a good question to think about, considering the magnitude of the building Apple made and the attention to detail they brought to the project.
I would never use Glassdoor for evaluating a company. It skews towards people who are upset, they don't verify that you actually worked there, and they combine hourly workers with salary workers, which could be two very different experiences.
This test is relative to the sound system and listening environment in use at the time of testing. It's not useful as support for absolute statements like "128kbps encoded with lame is barely detectable, and anything higher just isn't."

I'm not a snake oil audiophile, but it's obvious that conducting the test on a train with crappy $1 earbuds and an old Realtek DAC will yield results that are considerably different from e.g. http://www.jeremykipnis.com/Jeremy_Kipnis_-_Home_Page.html
Growing up this is how we had apple sauce. It is so delicious and makes store bought totally unappealing. My mom made hers quite chunky making it ideally as a topping for homemade vanilla ice cream.
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I was thinking the same thing. Apple mirrors... err.. I mean displays only have a thunderbolt connection, you couldn't connect your phone to it.

Yes, you could use some HDMI to DisplayPort adapter and in theory the thunderbolt display should support that, but you'd lose the webcam, ethernet, firewire, USB, microphone, speakers and daisy chaining support as DP does not support the data pipeline.
This reminds me of hearing Reed Hastings of netflix talking about starting the DVD mail-rental business as preparation for when streaming became technologically viable. They knew that internet delivery would eventually work, but to be the big first mover they needed to establish a customer base. As soon as broadband reached a level where streaming video is viable, they convert the customer base over to it.

Likewise, robot street delivery is going to be huge. The marginal cost of delivery will tend towards zero, and its really useful. If a company spends years and zillions of dollars messing around with AI and machine learning bullshit to power these, they will miss the boat. The goal of a successful company should be:

- Get as much VC as possible

- Spend it on low cost chinese built bareboned GSM controlled bots

- Hire warehouses full of vietnamese computer gamers to control them

- Get more VC

Once you have a market cap of billions, THEN you get a lab of engineers together to make them increasingly autonomous
You are probably paying that price no matter what - if you want apples out of season, you either have to keep them in a coolstore for months, or ship them from another part of the world where they are in season. It could be that buying local apples that are 6 months old has a higher impact than shipping them.
As a distribution format for mixed-down music that will be consumed from a portable device's internal storage, 320kb/s VBR is great.

There's some unfortunate irony in that we just got out from under the MP3 patents, which mean that MP3 encoders can finally get mainlined and won't require screwing around like we're all gotten used to for a decade+ (having to add some extra repo to your apt.sources or equivalent file, etc.), but at the same time the consumption patterns of music have shifted again, away from portable devices with high-density storage like iPods, and towards streaming particularly over cell-data networks.

There is an argument, although I do not like some of its conclusions, that some of the newer codecs are preferable to MP3 if you are working within <96kb/s for a stereo signal so that you can put it over a 3G connection or something. MP3 starts to sound audibly bad at lower bitrates, depending on what you're listening to.

My cellphone today is a much more powerful device than my 2007 iPod, but doesn't have nearly the same amount of available onboard storage (and what storage it does have is split between music and photos and software and other stuff). So the tradeoffs that make for an ideal codec choice on the iPod aren't clearly great on the phone.

IMO, this is an argument for keeping your personal music collection in an uncompressed/losslessly-compressed format, so that you can recompress it easily based on how it's actually going to be used.
This is key to my use of the term serverless.

With traditional infrastructure you have to think about capacity in discrete units of hardware. Should I provision one or two servers? Even if you can start and stop servers with an api call, you always have to keep these servers running, because rampup time is in the order of minutes.

At Graphcool we have thousands of serverless functions. Most of the time they are not running, but they are all ready-to-go wit delay measured in milliseconds, and they scale individually unbounded of the number of servers you have provisioned up front.

It's quite remarkable to think about the flexibility this characteristic afford you when architecting your applications.
I know realm has a React Native library which I imagine you could use to access the db directly. Can you do something like that with SQLite? I.e access it without going through java/the bridge?
We're doing the same thing. I want to use Slack but we're going with Teams for cost reasons (included in o365). I've never had any problems with screen sharing with skype for business.
FYI, the paper says:

> Rats of each group were supplemented with different beverages: (i) tap water, (ii) regular degassed CB (DgCB), (iii) regular CB (RCB) and (iv) diet CB (DCB)

Where CB is carbonated beverages.
I'm not an apple snob but if you have a chance (and live in the right temperature zone) visit a local orchard and pick some random varieties to try.

Here is Western Massachusetts you can get Cortland, Macoun, Empire, Mutsu, Spy, Spencer, Ida Reds, Paula Reds, Jersey Mac, Gravenstein, Redfree, Gingergold, Suncrisp, Rom Beauty, Jonagold and (probably) hundreds of other varieties. Some might be better for baking or cider but hey, maybe you'll like them to eat in-hand.

Life is too short to eat crappy apples.
Reuters is still pretty good.
Refueling on Titan might make a lot of sense. Getting methane is pretty much just a matter of piping it or freezing it out of the atmosphere. Getting oxygen from the CO2 in the atmosphere would be an industrial process and require considerable energy but it beats having to carry the oxygen with you.
Is that a C64 boot screen mousemat? Cool.
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Everything by tal kol from wix re performance optimization is a must read. I also recommend checking out infinite reds GitHub.

The Facebook React Native group is also a great resource.
When you factor in stocks, bonuses, healthcare and benefits the pay is same as in any other big N companies. Add family-friendliness, job stability to the list and you have much more than Netflix offers.
Well then the next door business can either charge for parking and offer free parking validation after you buy something, or just have a tow truck waiting to tow people who park and don't enter the premises.
How do the Tor project developers continue the development of Tor without the interference and corruption efforts of state level actors?
Appreciate it as I am wanting timing-focused ones.
Author here, happy to answer any questions you might have.
I'm more surprised about the fact that the masses didn't switch to a more capable chat service in the meantime.
The biggest reason I use Python? Honestly, because it's great for interview-type problems, comfortable for writing on a whiteboard, and suits one-man projects where I don't find myself wishing for static typing or interfaces as a way to coordinate code.

P.S.: I'm sure you can make big multi-team projects in Python with the right discipline and tooling, but that's just not the spot it occupies in my language-toolkit.
It has literally been built and tested. The hardware is ready and just waiting for the launch pads.

The major reason why Falcon Heavy was delayed for so long is that they were able to make major improvements on the F9. It would not have made much sense to work on a more complicated rocket when there was so much potential in F9.

Falcon Heavy was developed for a pittance compared to the SLS. Even if its delayed another 3 years the SLS would not make a lick of sense.
As I sit here, wearing 3M landscaping crew earmuffs over Bluetooth AirPod earphones, trying to concentrate in my "modern collaborative" workplace full of Tupperware percussionists, permanently hacking coughers, and endless mindless sports conversations, I kind of want to meet this "urban design professor" who thinks this was all a good idea and find out what kind of office she sits in.
Similarly, Loglan is superior to English in every way.
There is already a group like that within the US military: Special Forces. And to a certain degree, the Operations division of the CIA. Neither of these approach what you're describing here (if I'm reading your words right) -- and so I think there's room for improvement -- but the seeds for that are already a high priority for our (US) military.
Nexus 5, sadly not 5X
They aren't working on Screenhero anymore.
I'm glad someone can relate. I feel like how much coffee I drink is making my panic attacks worse. Cigarettes surely don't help.
You can sum up this whole article with this quote:

...which is more likely? That Asian manufacturing powerhouses will learn to market their own products, or that Western P.R. spivs and window-treatment consultants and professional espresso-tasters will learn to rebuild an industrial base from scratch?

A lot of emotional invective around a fundamentally faulty premise. Which is harder, building a successful brand or building a clothing factory? The brand, unquestionably.

EDIT: /s/easier/harder. Somehow my fingers typed the exact opposite of what my brain instructed. Sorry!
> In special relativity, the time directions are structurally different from the space directions. In the timelike directions, you have a further distinction into the future and the past, whereas any spacelike direction I can continuously rotate into any other spacelike direction.

This is something I've never understood about including time as just another dimension.
https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmWiFX7bmU365CJPAddsjho4vKVsexi3u8eBE7s...
Making something non-profit doesn't make it efficient. If your business is child-care, it's your job to know the cheapest/best way to comply with regs, build child-care locations to meet market demands, hire child-care staff, enforce appropriate rules and procedures, etc, etc, etc.

Running a software company doesn't give you any of those skills. Someone specializing in the business of child-care should be able to wipe the floor with anything your software company puts up in it's spare time.

Children are a distraction, I know. But having the management of the company involved in making decisions about how your kids are being cared for is a distraction from their core duties. By definition they are going to be slightly worse at sales, marketing, development, etc because they have to spend time on childcare.

Having childcare only benefits a few employees for a few years of their lives. There is nothing wrong with having company childcare, I'm playing the devils advocate a bit here, but there is also nothing wrong with saying the outside world will be better at serving this need and just offering a stipend to help parents with the cost.
How does typescript compare to flow? I'd love to see a comparison with pros n cons. I haven't tried either yet and I'm curious if you have any recommendations re resources to read.
I wouldn't say it's easy to get a job here. I've been working here for nearly 2 years now.

The interview process is as challenging as it needs to be to find the right people for the job. This varies from team to team. We don't follow a corporate set of rules to hire engineers.

This company is more adamant about letting folks go whom don't get the work done or aren't able to perform.

They want good engineers to solve challenging problems. The teams are fairly lean so you can't really float by doing the bare minimum.
No keyboard & mouse sharing. And to a lesser extent, not everyone wants a Google account.

My employer also blocks some Google services. For example, I can't access Gmail. Trying to use Hangouts without Gmail is swimming upstream a bit.
Were you able to expense the hot dogs?

In the early 90's, I had the honor of corresponding with "Uncle Frank" Webster [1], the curator of the Hot Dog Hall of Fame [2]! It boasts of more than 2,500 frankfurter items, including the Lamborweenie, a dog on wheels that "Uncle Frank" hopes some day to race against the Oscar Meyer Weinermobile [3]. Unfortunately the hot dog museum is currently closed and in (hopefully refrigerated) storage [4], otherwise the museum, gallery and gift shop would be a great place to train your app.

He asked for permission to publish in his newsletter a gif [5] of a photo I'd taken and put on my web site of the Doggie Diner head [6] on Sloat Boulevard in San Francisco [7]. (This was years before John Law acquired all the Doggie Diner heads he could find for his restoration project [8], so there weren't so many photos on them on the internet at the time.)

Of course I gave him permission because he asked so politely, and although at first he seemed a little creepy, I could tell he was authentic and sincere since he signed his correspondence: "With Relish, Uncle Frank." [9] And he even delivered on his promise to send me copies of his newsletter!

He enthusiastically informed me that the highest quality hot dogs he's ever found are from Top Dog in Berkeley [10]. He admitted that he went through their dumpster to find out where they sourced them from because they wouldn't tell him, and he vouches that they are made from the finest possible ingredients. I agree with Uncle Frank that Top Dog has really excellent hot dogs (ask for them cooked butterfly style), and I take him at his word that they come from a reputable source. You can now actually order them online [11] if you would prefer not to go through their dumpster.

[1] http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/hot-dogs-are-us-6...

[2] http://thehotdoghalloffame.blogspot.nl/

[3] https://www.questia.com/magazine/1G1-19007874/the-almost-all...

[4] http://www.roadsideamerica.com/tip/20747

[5] http://donhopkins.com/home/catalog/images/DoggieDiner.gif

[6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doggie_Diner

[7] http://www.roadsideamerica.com/story/14441

[8] https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2118888480/doggie-diner...

[9] http://www.downtownmakeover.com/comments.asp?CZID=17

[10] https://www.yelp.com/biz/top-dog-berkeley

[11] http://www.topdoghotdogs.com/mailorder.html