skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> People have no idea how much they consume and frequently underestimate how much they eat. Inaccurate measurement and non-existent tracking systems sabbotage people's attempts at modifying their weight.

I agree, and believe this is part of it. People aren't paying attention to what they eat. This is specifically why understanding human behavior is important and that only repeating CICO is not useful.

If people are interested in understanding how metabolism regulation works and finds that it's useful in modifying their diet to help them be healthier, that should be encouraged, shouldn't it? If understanding how different foods affect hunger, insulin levels, diabetes, muscle gain, fat loss, I think that should be a good thing. If someone focuses purely on calories, they can easily deprive themselves of nutrients and hungry, making it hard to keep themselves on the diet and failing to get or keep themselves healthy.
I have bad news for you; Mono 5.0 launched with Roslyn which I believe is what brings C#7 support. Roslyn is of course a MS project. Ditto for MSBUILD.
Her background is pretty non-traditional. Such people tend to be independent and consequently have a lot of integrity -- they do the career destroying things that almost nobody does.

The only woman on the board then,
Arianna Huffington, who had vowed
that the culture of “brilliant
jerks” must end, had been trying
to help Mr. Kalanick by advising
him to sleep more and meditate.
But he caused another kerfuffle
when he chose to meditate in the
lactation room.

This sounds like an environment where people were really banking on no one ever saying anything about anything -- which is just not a prudent thing to do.
I'm not surprised at the cost, given the nature of the project. Filling in the massive canyons that were cut when the spillway failed has taken an incredible amount of RCC (roller compacted concrete) and man-hours of difficult,dangerous labor. Last I heard the project is still zero injuries, which is really impressive.

The blancolirio channel that nraynaud mentioned has a lot of very impressive reporting and flyover footage, and the CA DWR itself has also been posting regular drone footage[1], which I highly recommend for a sense of scale. The spillway is a lot larger than it looks like from most of the overview photos. The closeup drone footage that includes the repair crew shows how massive the structure really is. It's supposed to be able to handle 270,000 cfs outflow (the outflow that damaged the old spillway was "only" ~100,000 cfs).

I'd also like to point out this[2] video from blancolirio, which shows just how close the emergency spillway was to being undercut. Yah, this repair is going to be expensive, but it's good to see that proper repairs are being done. Some things are worth the money; the central valley flooding would be a lot worse.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/user/calwater/videos

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oU4AGuQ5gMo
I'm not at all confident in the ability of the US to "clean up this mess". Similar arguments were made before the war in Iraq. I won't defend Saddam but I don't think you can argue that the average Iraqi ended up better off.
That is surprising, so surprising that I have to assume the computer in question was running some kind of misbehaving ntpd that was skewing the clock.

A good quality quartz crystal is accurate to about 15 seconds a month. Even the cheap ones can manage 30 seconds a month.
Nuget support would be amazing..
Her writing exposing [the misogynist culture that he helped create] was a major catalyst, so the phrasing "she brought down the CEO" is fair. Maybe be better at picking semantic nits?
Microwaves aren’t RF. The frequency has a very specific interaction with water.
But you have to run a lot more buses to move the same number of people. What is the cost per passenger mile on a bus vs a train?
> If you're in STEM you'll have to take some LA classes for breadth. Make these count. These aren't classes you have to take. These are classes you get to take.

For those who disagree with the above advice, there are a couple of options that will make the obligatory humanities requirements beneficial to your professional career:

1) Technical writing courses, if available, or any course that requires you to analyze text and write essays that require logical structure and argumentation (which covers a lot of options). A key aspect of success in any technical field is the ability to quickly and clearly communicate ideas to others in writing.

2) Foreign language courses. Getting a bit of fluency in a foreign language that interests you can bring surprising opportunities.
Why is it suspicious? I don't see your reasoning here. Having a diverse range of DNS names requested doesn't seem to me to be an indicator of suspiciousness.

On earlier releases of iOS that had a public jailbreak released, I spent quite some time using HttPeek (https://github.com/Yonsm/HttPeek) to examine what various OS processes were sending, and found nothing untoward.

I'd be surprised if this had changed for the worse in more recent iOS releases.
Generally speaking, warm/hot objects radiate in the infrared range. In my understanding, all objects radiate something, unless at absolute zero.
Some stores offer coupons and price matching guarantees to attract price sensitive customers. Some stores tout that every customer gets "the same low price."

A new facet on the old games.
Because not everyone wants to be some super nerd who reads studies 24/7.
> Too many loans, they'll probably fail big and it will be a bang...

Just like IMF "loans" many of these are given with the understanding that the receiving country will never be able to pay it back. The goal is to gain control. So they might go and agree to "restructure" the loans if the country agrees to number of conditions, like say opening the market for more Chinese companies "hey my cousin such and such owns a recycling plant, how about your country lets him dump some of the byproducts in your landfills, and we'll forgive some of these loans" kind of stuff.
Define professionally.

I have friends who teach it in an academic setting.
we won't obey what comes from Madrid

The Constitution, you mean?

Good luck when, in your newly forged Republic, some citizens don't want to obey the Rule of Law, because

we won't obey what comes from Barcelona
Well, I finally got tired of this place and went and got an offer from a local aerospace company, I suppose I ought to see how that goes :)
You are overssimplifying the situation. Iraq and NK are/were both dictatorships but the similarity ends there. Cultural differences go very far.
Knowing why and how this happens should be a basic course in computer science classes.
Sounds like you're talking about general game playing[0], where a computer is programmed to take, as input, the rules to the game, and then compete. Looks like competitions are against other computers, but this isn't an area I'd expect humans to dominate in, long-term.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_game_playing
Yet all the candidates for Kirkland City Council talk about their dedication to transit.

They never specify what type of transit. Amazing that.
"Her background is pretty non-traditional. Such people tend to be independent and consequently have a lot of integrity"

Uh is that something you can support with facts? She's just an independent person with integrity. I don't see how it has to be a consequence of what you qualify as a "non-traditional background."
Revelan la causa y la fecha de la extinción de la humanidad
Sounds like the Chinese room thought experiment [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_room#Chinese_room_thou...
She didn't bring him down... HE brought HIMSELF down. Kinda clickbait-y, if you ask me. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Or borrow against it.
Why would it be surprising? Manufacturers optimize for cost. The clock in your computer is the cheapest one they can find.
Humans mostly don't eat sweet stuff for calorific or nutritional purposes. Rather I think they enjoy puddings, cakes, chocolate, and so on, for psychological reasons (comfort, pleasure) as well as for cultural reasons. So my question remains. What should they substitute to maintain an even mental keel? What should should be served or otherwise laid on at social gatherings that yields equivalent cheer and can be passed down from grandmother to grandaughter?
That just wouldn't work for large civil projects for so many reasons.

It also seems like you are only trying to address the problem of people introducing needless variances as a way increasing profit.

Which is not the case being discussed here and I don't think it is major reason for cost overruns. They haven't requested an increase, they have found out that to satisfy the engineering requirements of the project that more work has to be done.
It is a valid bragging point for Godot that probably doesn't have much to do with Unity which had been trapped in an old version of mono for licensing reasons (not because of the toolchain - it was the other way around). Unity has been able to start updating now that Microsoft opened up and bought Xamarin), and is now offering Mono/.Net 4.6 and C#6 and I assume will continue to modernize.
I don't think you cited the portion of the article you intended to. Your whole comment is confusing.
Can they?
Linking to the HN front page as a reference won't be of much use, even only a few hours from now.
This demonstrates a total and complete lack of understanding of how large scale construction projects like this work.

You really believe the main issue is "getting the old equipment out" and "the new equipment in"?

Your plan sounds like an amazing way to create a tremendous amount of safety risk, shoddy work, or a project that runs forever.
Stalin and Mao supplied Kim Il Sung in the Korean War because they didn't want democracy to spread to Asia. China and Russia are still obstructing the US with the same goal of preventing democracy. If we don't do it no one will. The Kims have proven their ability to retain power.

Some people think death is better than having to live in North Korea:

http://www.worldtribune.com/senior-north-korea-official-and-...
> Do you really think doctors alone should decide your treatment?

Yes. Not necessarily one doctor, or even two doctors. Get a second opinion, or just switch your doctor if you don't like them.

The alternative of letting profiteers peddling medicine influence a poorly educated populace is most unfortunate.
How? It's not their money in the first place so collecting deducting it just goes back to zero.
Do you know this, or are you assuming this? It is certainly possible that, at the margin, someone is willing to spend money on a charity but not spend that same money on the product. Although I suppose there's probably a correlation between donating and willingness to pay more.
The line extends from Renton to Bothell. Kirkland is only part of it.

In all the articles in the Seattle Times about light rail, the Sound Transit public relations materials, etc., the Eastside Rail Corridor is never, ever, mentioned. How is it that Kirkland has managed a conspiracy of silence about it?
I don't even know if it was that, honestly. I think the whole Waymo thing had more to do with it, or it would have happened sooner.
You can't claim that understanding how metabolism works is useful and suggest that understanding how CICO works isn't useful in the same breadth.

Understanding CICO is sufficient to derive all useful, actionable advice for healthy weight management (e.g., maybe you're measuring wrong, stop eating calorically dense foods, eat foods that are more satiating, etc.).

Understanding the difference in how fructose is metabolised compared to glucose is majoring in the minors and is far less likely to help someone achieve their goals.

CICO is the most important factor and the simplest to understand. Suggesting people teach themselves biochemistry and physiology without understanding the basics is silly and far less realistic. Ignoring CICO is setting people up for failure which will discourage compliance and further improvements.
I'm not so sure about that. Citation? I believe in general (at least in the US), it would be really unusual for a corporation to get a tax break for money that was never theirs. The chief factor in how corporations are taxed in the US is their domestic profit. Whether you donate to charity or light it on fire, it shouldn't matter at all to the corporation's profit, and therefore it shouldn't matter to their taxes.

I'm happy to be convinced otherwise, though. Let me know.
Susan Fowler's narrative is sort of the "dual" of the myth of the "little dutch boy" who stuck his finger in a dyke, preventing disaster through a very small act.

[0] http://www.pantheon.org/articles/l/little_dutch_boy.html
Are you kidding me? She took career-risking action to bring a problem to light, and you just want to point to an abstract non-entity as having responsibility for an outcome? Give credit where credit is due FFS, sheesh.
That might be the understanding, but Chinese banks haven't written off the loans yet. Some of those loans are with private or SOE Chinese capital, is the government just going to bail them out? It gets messy.
That seems like a very weak and noisy signal compared to, you know, directly changing prices, which they do all the time.
No, you're over-simplifying this by assuming we can resolve a humanitarian issue with a war. We can't. Even conservatives like Steve Bannon know this. The Iraq War plus its aftermath has a death toll approaching 1 million, 1/6th the size of the Holocaust.

Conflict with North Korea will be even worse.
> You really believe the main issue is "getting the old equipment out" and "the new equipment in"?

No, I was responding to a specific complaint made upthread.

> Your plan sounds like an amazing way to create a tremendous amount of safety risk, shoddy work, or a project that runs forever

Do you have any basis for this? The change-over requirement for midstream cost adjustments (above a threshold) works well enough for e.g. aerospace subcontractors. It adds delays in the short-term but promotes better behavior in the long.
> “Did you read that interview with the C.E.O., Travis, where he talked about how Uber helps him get girls? He’s a misogynist. I could never use his product.”

I know nothing of the interview he’s referring to here, but how is it misogynistic to use your company to get girls? Was he picking up Uber employees or potential hires?
So true. Karma!
That animated banner at the top of https://databuster.net is a perfect example of what not to do on a website
Mono is still supported. .NET core and Mono solve different problems - for example (this surprised me), unlike Mono and the windows .NET Framework, .NET core can't just run random .NET executables you download off the internet. You have to build a core-targeted project from source. Mono also handles cross-platform scenarios like mobile & mac frontend apps right now that .NET core won't be a good fit for in the near future.
Russia and China govert have no problem with foreign "democracy", just like USA has no problem with communism, per se. They are all just opposed to small nation's allying with their enemies.

The history of USA and Latin America makes this clear.
> Which...I don't think it is major reason for cost overruns

It's commonly called out as one of the driving reasons behind the horrible economics of American civil engineering [1].

> They haven't requested an increase, they have found out that to satisfy the engineering requirements of the project that more work has to be done

It's both. The change may be merited. If so, it should win--again--in a temporary re-auction. But refusing to market test an 82% cost increase is game theoretically begging to get screwed on pricing. Given American taxpayers get screwed on pricing for public-sector civil engineering (after accounting for land, labour and materials cost differences), I think it's a fair discussion to have.

[1] http://marroninstitute.nyu.edu/content/blog/is-u.s.-infrastr...
> You can't claim that understanding how metabolism works is useful and suggest that understanding how CICO works isn't useful in the same breadth.

I believe you're misreading what I'm saying: I'm saying that only repeating CICO is not helpful. That itself does not give people the tools they need to be able to maintain health. You yourself point this out in saying it's "sufficient to derive all useful, actionable advice for healthy weight management": Not everyone is able to derive things from first principles.

Perhaps we're talking past each other. I'm more satisfied understanding human behavior and metabolism regulation than only repeating CICO and expecting people to derive everything else from there.
100-500mW/Kg might still be appropriate, though, if you are dissipating a significant fraction of that 1-2W in your body. I have to imagine that most meat-power-dissipation would be pretty well concentrated near the transmitter.
He called it Boober IIRC.
Columbia City is a perfect example of this
> Languages seem to need exceptions. Both Go and Rust started with an always-aborts panic mechanism. That was too drastic in practice, and in both languages, panicking was made recoverable and provided with unwinding machinery. So both languages now have the heavy machinery for exceptions, without the language support for them. This results in kludges to simulate exceptions.

This is completely incorrect with respect to Rust, both historically and practically. Rust started with unwinding, and then grew opt-in abort machinery for those use cases where it matters. And, for what seems like the millionth time, unwinding does not equal exceptions; this is like saying that C has exceptions because of setjmp/longjmp. Unwinding exists in Rust solely to give one the ability to fail gracefully, running destructors that might have valuable side effects and allowing Rust-written subsystems to avoid taking down the entire system. For an example of the latter, Skylight, who ships a Ruby gem written in Rust, "catches" any unwinding so that an errant failure in their gem does not bring down a client's entire Ruby process. I have been writing Rust for years and, without exaggeration or (heh) exception, have never once seen the ability to "catch" unwinding used as a basis for constructing ad-hoc recoverable exception-handling, especially since abort-on-panic is an entirely valid mode for Rust applications (this is how Dropbox's backend Rust is compiled, for example) and completely obviates any sane attempt to use panics for recoverable error handling.
You're responding to the wrong commenter.

No one knows how many people die in North Korean concentration camps every year. But you can be sure that the total number of deaths will increase every year that the Kims are in power. There is no solution but war.
That is kind of how I remember it happening. After the revelations in the blog, there was a lot of talk and discussion here and other sites. Some people were fired then.

But only after Waymo became involved, there were rumors of the board moving to push him out.

It would have been nice if her allegations brought him down, but sadly it doesn't seem that way. In other words until investors saw their money potentially going down the drain in a lawsuit with Google, they kind of looked the other way.
Running Dropbox affiliate ads cost me my Adwords account | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3575868 (Feb 2012, 112 comments)

One of the key points mentioned in the discussion there is that a ToS violation can be used to terminate the account years later.
You are catastrophically underestimating the size of the Holocaust. 6 million is only the Jews murdered by Nazi operations. Another 5+ million non Jews were murdered, plus, since we're comparing follow-on effects of war, many more millions of military fighters and civilians bombed.
They missed `withstanding` in this classic https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1994/07/25/how-i-met-my-w...
He keeps referencing a "plunge pool" half way down the new slipway. Does anyone happen to know what the purpose of the plunge pool is?
They bid on a job that was only 30% specified. The scope of work eventually doubled when the site was fully analyzed and the price tag almost doubled. Nothing to see here.

There is work that is 100% documented in the proposal and in those cases it’s reasonable to hold the winning bidder’s feet to the fire, but this isn’t one of those.

In the absence of time pressure they could have let a contract to fully specify the work, then one to do it. But if they’d done that there might not have been a dam by the time work started.
After Stalin died his letters were released and he was denounced. His letters confirm that China and Russia did have a problem with democracy and that it was the impetus for their support of Kim Il Sung during the Korean War.
At this point it has nothing to do with "preventing democracy" (if it ever did). All countries want to prevent the massive refugee crisis that would exist if North Korea suddenly falls. I think something should be done but I don't think anyone currently has a good answer to that situation.
There is this very nice talk on building a C++ rest framework using functional programming concepts. I like the analytical approach to design, and really hope it becomes an open source library soon.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nR2raX2-a0Q
Perhaps it's the recent iOS update? Right now iOS 11 is being rolled out, and it defaults to auto update overnight.
Facebook Password Hacker 2017
Without the Provider there would be no way for the `connect` decorator to give access to the current state. Given the design of this library though (global store) it seems like it would be fine to just pass the store along in the call to `connect`.

Note that the global store is a huge problem for this library. How would you use this when writing a component that wants to use redux-zero in a library, not directly in an application?
Denver. Lots of high density developments near the light rail and A line (technically commuter rail) stops.
How would you feel if your doctor gave you thalidomide to treat anxiety, and you ended up with a deformed baby as a result, because the raucous marketplace cared more about moving drugs than patient safety?
> How is it unhelpful?

Because it’s been tried and hasn’t helped.

CICO-based treatment has been popular for decades yet the problem has continued to get worse (much worse).

I know it works for some but it has not worked for many more. We can stick our heads in the sand about this or admit that we need to be looking for a better answer.
Cost plus percentage gives a very clear incentive to raise costs; that's the only way you can get more profit. If it's so widespread that might be one reason why all our infrastructure is so much more expensive.

Why not just have major contractors required to post a bond when they place a bid, and if they have cost overruns they pull those from the bond (ie, their own money)?
Ruby does this at the cost of having non-local returns from those blocks, which complicates semantics quite a bit (since now you need to distinguish closures that capture "return" and other control transfer from those that don't, and you need to handle the scenario where a control transfer happens when the target is already gone).