skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Congrats!

Yes that’s also true. But cutting grains also fixes your sense of satiety. Ever had a piece of bread and then next thing you knew the whole bread basket was gone? Many people feel like they can’t control themselves when eating bread. No one does that with steak. And even other high-carb foods like potatoes present less of a problem for people (in terms of whether they feel full and stop eating vs continuing to eat past the point of satiety).

IIFYM is very effective at fat loss BUT (and I know I’m going to get shit for saying this) it requires a very specific personality type that can be very mechanical about eating. Most people don’t have the time or interest to count their macros, and even if they did they still have difficulty overcoming the urges that come with consuming junk food such as modern grains in the U.S.
There also seems to be https://github.com/LivelyKernel/lively4-core
I have not used niffy so this is based on their github description, so might be wrong

1) niffy seems to be designed to use UI interactions to lead you to the result, appraise works like fitnesse, separating what is being tested from how it's being tested, so you could go several levels deeper than UI interactions and eg test how your models and views produce outcomes, without the http serving and web pages in between. this makes tests faster and easier to maintain. appraise is more for visual unit testing.

2) niffy seems to be optimised for developers, appraise is intended for cross-functional collaboration between developers, testers and designers. with appraise, the test is a markdown page that renders nicely in github and shows expected results and the conditions under which they should happen.
Screen Savers
Why not?

I've developed some very large globe-spanning systems that are probably a single-digit % complexity as the Apple ecosystem and we touch hundreds of endpoints. Doesn't seem suspicious to me at all.
Second this. I've been doing this for the last few months and it's a great place to focus.
But don’t forget you still have css and html in your frontend stack. Javascript libraries need to be written in Rust so we can mainpluate the DOM (which needs support with browser API).
Ha! A long-term mystery has been solved for me. When I was a kid I encountered a tool called a "sloyd knife", which seemed like a really weird name. Now I know -- it's not weird, just Swedish. :-)
It will never be, and indeed nobody has bothered to make a bitcoin minibg js.

Why? Because each desktop CPU would only yield 20-30 megahashes per second, less if you don't want to slow the user's computer to a crawl. A server would need to manage millions of clients just to match a single ASIC miner which has efficiency rated in terahashes. And that amount of hash power would only return about 30 dollars in bitcoin on a good day.

This is why all javascript miners target Monero and the latter was often criticised for having a CPU-friendly PoW because this is just asking for botnets to form.
I agree with your sentiment and therefore I use Calibre and strip the DRM.
This has made my pixel c still very useful although its going to make the linux development story on chromebooks far more secure, before android apps you had to put your system into insecure developer mode. If you need GUI based linux apps then you still will need to either convert a windows machine to linux or run in insecure mode. While running a terminal on your phone might have limited usefulness running a terminal on an android tablet or chromebook with android support is very useful for development.
> how many more people die of heart disease when pollution is present

Exactly. And I'm saying that question is much more difficult to answer than some people probably think. Heart disease is so extremely prevalent, and there are so many variables at play that I find it hard to believe anyone can confidently answer that question definitively, at least so far as to claim that pollution is "responsible for" the deaths of X number of people.

It's especially hard to isolate because the dependent variable (pollution) and the independent variable (number of heart disease-related deaths) have both been increasing, and pollution levels are positively correlated with a lot of other risk factors for heart disease.
Coincidentally I just bumped into this... "The Value of Smalltalk: valuing and risk management in VisualWorks and GemStone"
http://www.esug.org/data/ESUG2004/ValueOfSmalltalk.pdf
If anyone here has an experience report from attempting to use Rust with WebAssembly, the Rust team is currently seeking active feedback from users!

https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/state-of-webassembly-and-r...

In particular:

1. If you’re using wasm/asmjs and Rust today, how’s it going? Do things generally work well? Are there weird pain points? Is crates.io missing support for key functionality? Is key functionality missing from rustc?

2. If you looked at using wasm/asmjs and Rust historically, but decided not to do so, why not? What are the blockers for enabling your use case with wasm/asmjs and Rust?

3. In general do you have an idea for a use case with wasm/asmjs and Rust on the web? We’re wondering if there’s some sweet uses of wasm/asmjs which really showcase how Rust can shine on the web.

(I'm not the author of that thread, please leave feedback there to keep it all collected in one place.)
Show HN: Planify.cc Put your publications on orbit
I can't find any OECD data that says Germany is the second highest taxed country in the world. The closest I can find is the tax as a percentage of GDP and, in that listing, they are 13th.

I'm interested in reading more/a list of the highest taxed nations as a way to easily counter the claim that the US is the highest taxed. Do you have a link/citation, so that I can verify that?
Yep, I did that at the time, for the important videos. Still haven't found a good playlist backup, aside from using the API, not wanting to store all those videos (something like 2000 videos at this point across 30 lists, not including my watchlist or likes which is ~2500 videos).

I think they're safe from going under, but do worry about them shutting my account down again by accident.
Culturally? Finland, Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia are culturally distinct from Russia, i.e. non-slavic. E.g. they all have their own archaic languages and so on.

One can look at the populations in circa 1300 and extrapolate from that. Without going into details - the baltic coast had it's own catholic/pagan populations with trade ties to hanseatic cities, and those populations are the basis for current nation states.

Russia, with it's slavic culture strongly tied to the greek orthodox church was a bit further to east.

See for example

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Territorial_changes_of_Russi...

and other wikipedia pages on the baltic states.

None of this have much to do with the current tech scene, though :)
I assume this hosed your main Google account, right? Not just your access to YouTube?

That's the part that really rubs me the wrong way. That, for example, your nest thermostat (or email, or phone, etc) might not work right because you uploaded the wrong video one day.
General "Buck" Turgidson: Doctor, you mentioned the ratio of ten women to each man. Now, wouldn't that necessitate the abandonment of the so-called monogamous sexual relationship, I mean, as far as men were concerned?

Dr. Strangelove: Regrettably, yes. But it is, you know, a sacrifice required for the future of the human race. I hasten to add that since each man will be required to do prodigious... service along these lines, the women will have to be selected for their sexual characteristics which will have to be of a highly stimulating nature.

Ambassador de Sadesky: I must confess, you have an astonishingly good idea there, Doctor.

Of course, what a waste of money (eg ICBMs and SLBMs are superior in every respect) and unnecessary escalation of risk.
It says premature deaths. I'm not sure it makes no sense at all, but it is an unfortunate thing to focus on. DALYs seem better, and are discussed throughout the article (which I've only skimmed so far), eg:

> The GBD study also estimates that disease caused by all forms of pollution was responsible for 268 million DALYs—254 million years of life lost and 14 million years lived with disability. This information is available by country and region and is presented in the appendix.
If that's the case, why haven't we been hit by any in recorded history that gave us more water?

How many comets have hit us that were rife with water supplies to provide the amount of water earth has given that water isn't also abundant on planets that are much larger, like Jupiter?

Why do we see planets with atmospheres of say sulfer, and earth doesn't have an issue with sulfer in the atmosphere?
I would love to know the rough cost to send a probe to the moon.
I buy them (generally from Amazon) and then strip the DRM so that I do actually own them. Just as illegal as what he's doing but more ethical. I wish there was a better way for me to just pay the authors a fair price without giving Amazon and the publishers such a large cut, but, it is what it is.
That is a beautifully succinct and funny capture. The French numbers confused me when I was learning (was it 420107, 42017, 8017, or 97?).

German, being logical and little endian, wins by getting the most significant part last, about when you finally pay attention :)
Ok, that's quite convenient. What metric would you use? Because Germany has a higher GDP per capita than the UK or France. It would be a hard point to argue that any other country in the EU has a stronger economy than those three.
Well, when the enemy posts a target chart with your air base on it, you do that.[1]

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2017/world/north-kor...
Hi there, i'm launching this online tool to schedule publications on instagram (Image, Videos and stories). So any feedback is much appreciated. What do you think of my landing page ? thanks
Because the pitch on wires hasn’t decreased nearly as fast as effective feature size, there’s a strong bottleneck effect that limits single-socket devices in terms of their usable compute power. A good rule of thumb since ~2012, and for at least the next 5 years would be ~12 tera-single-channel ops/sec.
I have also transitioned to APSW because of the transaction point you mentioned. I was trying — and pulling my hair out for some time — to get the stdlib SQLite3 transactions to work how they’re documented, but no combination of magic words seemed to so the trick. A bit of Googling and I come across APSW, which explicitly mentions that the stdlib is broken in this regard because, as you say, it’s paying lip service to the DB-API. (However, that somewhat implies to me that the DB-API must be broken for all transactional RDBMSs. Why is SQLite different?)

Anyway, it’s a bit of extra work to install, because you have to compile it from source and there’s no, e.g., pip package. That’s not so difficult in the grand scheme of things. One thing I miss from the stdlib, however, is the adaptor and convertor interface for transparent type conversion between Python and SQLite; I ended up rolling my own for APSW.
Show HN: Certainty – Automated cacert.pem management for PHP projects
Yes, lots of things also use "virtual scrolling"
Yeah, cut down 2mb of CSS files and you're gonna get a speed up :|

I know, I know. LinkedIn is big and has a big team and this level of rigid formalism is what's required to manage a large team of developers and keep them from committing non-performant code. The joys of big teams. I really applaud them for being able to pull it off. The site is far, far more performant than it used to be.

For the most part though, for most of the rest of the world of web applications: just stop including so many fucking libraries in your js and don't do write-once ultra-scoped CSS.
''While this scenario obviously doesn’t apply to all kids, it does to plenty of them, and Wiseman wants parents who see themselves in this to take note''

I think the pressure kids and teenagers feel in modern society is worthy of discussion
If you've ever looked into a PHP project and seen these lines:

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, false);

...then you already know exactly what motivated this project to exist.
DeepMind's Combining Policy Gradient and Q-Learning provides good historical background:

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1611.01626.pdf

And archived videos from Berkeley's Deep RL Bootcamp is a crash course to get one up to speed:

https://sites.google.com/view/deep-rl-bootcamp/lectures

But consider the multi-model Q-distribution in Fig. 3. That graph, and the variance of its peaks, is the key to understanding why training Deep RL algorithms becomes so intractable in stochastic, real-world settings.

Max Entropy Estimation and approximate Bellmen Equations will do very well in Atari games for example. Or creating unbeatable MOBA competitors. But for robotics a breakthrough that allows for quick generalization from sparse input data is what is needed.

One-Shot Visual Imitation Learning via Meta-Learning

https://sites.google.com/view/one-shot-imitation
> If you're used to Java or C++, this object-oriented code may look strange, especially since Smalltalk uses some strange characters. <

It's Smalltalk-76 that uses some strange characters.

The version that made it out of the lab into the wide-world was Smalltalk-80.

edited With help from Paolo Bonzini, Smalltalk-80 syntax for that square root code would be something more qwerty-friendly like:

sqrt
| guess |
(self <= 0.0) ifTrue: [
(self = 0.0)
ifTrue: [^0.0]
ifFalse: [self error: 'sqrt invalid for x < 0.']
].
guess := self timesTwoPower: self exponent // -2.
5 timesRepeat: [guess := (self - (guess*guess)) / (guess*2.0) + guess].
^guess

"I Can Read C++ and Java But I Can’t Read Smalltalk" pdf

http://carfield.com.hk/document/languages/readingSmalltalk.p...
The language used in the letter seems to be written by an exceptionally gifted 8th grader. I'm from the UK, so I'm not sure what the standards are like in the US, but I would be surprised if many 14 year olds in the UK could write a letter of that quality - it makes me a little suspicious as to whether the letter is in fact genuine. Either way, pushy parents are creating unreasonable expectations and anxiety for their children. Kids in large developing countries seem to get the worst of it, where competition and expectations are both off the charts.
The letter from the kid is full of manipulations. "Seven straight houses of cognitive exercises"? Is that supposed to be code for SCHOOL?

Sorry, maybe the parents are putting too much stress on him for the test, but otherwise do your chores and homework before you play video games (which is what he really wants the hour for).
Psst. (whispers) It's maniacal not manical.
Places that are less competitive where you don't have move up or move out. Others are quite successful and have their pick. It's all around the spectrum I guess.
Boredom is probably a really good thing in many ways. A constant need for stimulation isn't healthy and makes it harder to do boring but otherwise necessary chores.

Plus there's the whole creativity thing when the mind is at rest.
> I assume this hosed your main Google account, right? Not just your access to YouTube?

Nope, it was just the Youtube account. When they did the Google+ transition, I generated a new Google account for my Youtube account, but linked it to my normal Google account.

I actually found out about the account removal because of message in Gmail that I had missed for 2-3 days.
youtube-dl handles playlist backup, annotation download, subtitles, thumbnails, etc. - no need to download the video or anything you don't want to (or you can download postage stamp previews, etc). shrug best archival solution I've found so far.
Even without exploitable resources, space observation (telescopes) and communications systems on the Moon would have to contend with less interference from terrestrial noise, I’d guess. Having a foothold on the Moon would definitely assist further space exploration.

Getaways to the moon would also become a great new tourism industry for the ultra-rich and wealthy, whose money would in turn spur advancements in off-world habitation and comfort that could trickle down to the general populace.

I also think all human political leadership should be relocated to the Moon, at least for a week or two every year, to help them appreciate Earth a little better [0].

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overview_effect
The boy really spends all day studying, so in the end he got good at writing.
Very interesting project idea. My own experience with creating audio essays using my software push-to-talk [1] tells me that being able to even just hear your own voice really changes how you perceive yourself. It would be really great if the first image we see was a video instead that would include nothing but a quick demo, 10 seconds or something.

[1] http://timothy.hobbs.cz/push-to-talk/index.html
This is an app i would use. Any chance Android will ever see it?
I am from Eastern Europe on an average Eastern European salary and if I actually bought as much media as I want to consume, then I basically wouldn’t have money left for any other necessities in life.

These days it is completely normal for people to preview music from YouTube or torrent communities before deciding to buy the physical artifact. I don’t see why books should be any different.
Did he upload the wrong video ?
The possibility is even worse than that, it's because of a server side bug.
I understand the word "dependency" to be synonymous with what you're calling discontinuation effects. So, I think I agree with you now. Thanks for the following up with your clarification.
If they're suitably motivated opportunities exist for early escape.
I'd love to read the article, but whenever I block notifications from that site, the website automatically closes itself.
In many areas, it won't stay at the door intact by the time you get home.
The part about English spoken in the Baltic is vastly untrue -- outside (center of) Tartu and Tallinn [the 2 biggest cities] English is not that well spoken when it comes to Estonia. Latvia is similar - mostly Riga (even though Russian is more profoundly spoken). Most of the younger generation could have an ok English but nothing remarkable, even doctors may not have good English. I don't have good enough impressions of Lithuania, although it's not uncommon to fall back to Russian in restaurants.

Compared to Denmark or Norway where virtually everyone (from kids to elderly people) actually speak decent English, none of the Baltic countries have 'exceptional English'.
As a kid I spend my weekends and my summers doing nothing.

"Nothing" was in the perspective of adults of course. Nothing they wanted me to do.

To me, doing nothing meant reading all the books I could find, exploring some random subject and if it was fun, experimenting with it, randomly.

One year I found a chemistry book. I started reading it and wondering what happens when I mix this and this chemicals? And I did, and oh what a pretty color! But why? Can I predict the outcome of mixing these chemicals? If I let the residue dry, does it burn? It doesn't, but then why is the flame blue when I use copper, red when I use iron?

Another year I found an electronic book. Yet another, it was an old book about Basic. After that, many of my summers were spent learning about computers and programming languages, which lead me to where I am now.

I don't think I would have done any of this if I had been exhausted by exams, chores etc.
The way that 8th grader writes, I'd say his parents are giving him a gift he yet realizes the value of.
Maybe at first, but not once they're mass-produced on the kind of scale that would be needed to justify the cost of moon-based mining.
Roy Underhill covered this in an episode of the "Woodwright's Shop." It's a PBS program in the US.

http://www.pbs.org/woodwrightsshop/home/
I upvoted this comment because it was the first thing today ( a stressful day, I might add) that has made me laugh.
Five comments so far and the opinions are on both ends. Do keep in mind that there have been many articles touting how man X hours one can be productive. It is not only, what, 7 hours or so at school doing work, but the time before to wake up, get ready, commute, school, commute back. Then home, homework and chores. They are children. If we are "complaining" as adults about about workload.... you get the idea.
Yes, what do you think school is? It's not easy, nor is it a social holiday. Chores are fine, but, if your child can manage their time don't handicap them with micromanagement. If you want respect, you have to grant it where it is deserving.
Its all about a balancing act. My 14 year old son spends an inordinate amount of time gaming on his PC. We don't often chew him out for that, but when he ignores routine chores or homework assignments in preference for gaming, then we bring the hammer down.

The fact is, a lot of kids are terrible at time management and prioritisation. It is our job as parents to try and teach those skills. Quite often, that ends up with us having to excessively be the 'bad cop'.

As much as the kid in the OP's story eloquently described his pent up feelings, I can say that I experience the same sort of rage (complete with balled up fist) when I walk into the house to see an overflowing trash bin in the kitchen, dirty laundry scattered around the living room, front driveway still full of leaves (all my younger son's designated daily chores) and I hear the steady gunfire of CoD coming from his room.
Yosemite bolt replacement and Death Block removal (2012)
I've had Danes give me the wrong total in a shop in English since they're used to reading the numbers backwards. I've done the same with my phone number -- I practised saying it in Danish so much, I forgot whether it was 56 or 65. Now I only ever say it in English.

I was very pleased at a concert when the barman said "niti fem" -- was this the reform I'd heard about, from reading this page? No, said my friend, it's just my spoken Danish is so bad the barman thought I was Swedish, and tried to be nice.

I've lived here for two years, and I still can't reliably distinguish between "fem og tres" and "fem halv tres".
Macro use scenarios have to be weighed against the alternative: writing by hand the logic that the machine would have generated from macro invocations.
This is not the typical behavior of a teenager.
Yea, as uncertain as a lot of nutritional science can be, and as ill informed as even otherwise well informed people can be about it: "too much fructose can damage your liver" is not something I thought was remotely controversial or novel.
Yes, there really are some extremely articulate 8th graders. In my youth, I spent every week writing 3-4 essays (about 1000 words each) just for fun. I really did enjoy it. Needless to say, I had no problems with the "regular" English courses. Some people enjoy sports. Others... writing.
This is getting downvoted, but it’s a big piece of the puzzle. 60% of the Vision Fund is Saudi and Emirati money [1]. Political risk is real. The line between “Saudi backed” and “venture backed” can be night and day for some companies.

[1] http://money.cnn.com/2017/05/21/technology/saudi-softbank-te...
Yeah, it looks like you're right - though he may have a tombstone, or the images of it might be faked.

That makes more sense, as Carlin seemed (if nothing else) principled.
So smaller countries need to spend a higher % of GDP on IT

That... or just import IT that was already developed elsewhere.
> “I look at it more as not planning for any specific event, but more for the reality of the global situation we find ourselves in and how we ensure we’re prepared going forward.”

The global situation that 'we find ourselves in', or the global situation that we have actually created?
Eh, I'm really glad I ended up getting a job with a salary that didn't necessitate a roommate. Had those in college, didn't like it.