skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sugar seems to pretty obviously make people overweight. Especially in liquid form. And if this is not a consensus, well, see the title of this post. This isn't a hard thing to test.
Query-Intent/NLP Understanding for ecommerce companies
Having a market catering to an older, richer, and more data driven niche has it's advantages. They are subject to some the same pressures as newspapers, but likely will gain effect at a later time frame then more general newspapers. They also deliver data that is more niche, and less likely to be delivered by alternate channels.
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You know what would be awesome? If tech was used to not just "revolutionize" how consumers get their products but also how employees were treated at these companies. So often it seems lately that tech giants are built in a super old fashioned way: on the backs of cheap labor.
I gave a brief overview of that in a parallel comment on this thread :)
Instead of fixing Elastic Transcoder, there's yet another and better way of doing the old thing. Much similar to what happened with SimpleDB, OpsWorks, etc.
some explanation would definitely help.. Does anything with Blockchain or ETH go to top of HN nowadays?
While this is true, it's something you can work with in the future, and it defined a secrets process earlier rather than later

If you do nothing you end up stuck with secrets in git history and you essentially have to roll them all.

So, my advice is generally SSM with no security is better than no secrets Management solution.
Thanks for the additional explanation, and for clarifying RE: $1/service; that makes sense.
Wow!!! one of the best explanations Type 1 Civilization (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kardashev_scale ) where technological advances results in "The post-scarcity society is where all basic needs are met"

and UBI is one form of Manifestation of 'Type 1 Civilization

> The post-scarcity society is where all basic needs are met.

> The point of UBI is that it's built on a realization that technology itself is feeding you.

> If each person has their own machine you are kind of back to the same problem you have now. Who gets to use what resources?
> Optimizing based on taxes seems cheap

Depends on the total amount of taxes paid. Some people dodge a couple billion every year by doing some clever tricks with their residence, citizenship and tax domicile.
I just opened an Etsy a week ago. I was so broke I had to borrow $1 from a friend to finish paying for my listings. (I am no longer that broke, thanks Etsy.)

Pretty sure that's a fantastic way to keep out the actual artisans/starving artists/craftspeople and only allow in the kind of people who can gather up the cash to stock up on tons of Alibaba garbage.
Try loading trucks at UPS and you'll think this is nothing.
Interesting, I have never heard of this, and definitely none of my professors instructed me to familiarize with the material before a lecture. So I never did. I suppose this could've been a useful technique.
37Signals said the same thing about applications. Better to have 10,000 users at $30 per month than 100 at $3,000 per month.

If a single customer is paying a lot, then you are tempted to make whatever changes they ask for to your application, and it's harder to stand up against featuritis or illogical design.
It is "burned" basically the same as if you lit it on fire, it converts to CO2 and H2O.
An interesting corollary to this is "Where do trees get their mass?"

Veritasium has a fun video demonstrating how unintuitive this is:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KZb2_vcNTg
I wonder if they have the TCP inside TCP problem?
> I should add that you also don't gain Academic cred that puts you on a kind of adjacent track on the whole class system

Not just class system, but also career track.

If a DotCom 2.0 bust happens tomorrow, I can bail on tech of a half dozen other fields -- I have the network and the knowledge base to find high five/low six salaries outside of software. That's probably less true for me-N-years-ago, who could program certain things real good but that was about it.
It doesn't need to be Bitcoin (BTC) that takes this mantle.

In the case of a correction your cases 1 and 2 could end up very poorly off indeed.

BTC as a store of value has some brittle pieces. I'm not as confident in the current direction.
If you ever need a counterpoint for your capitalist loving friends, this is it. It’s also why regulation is so necessary.
So as a girl working in tech, all I remember about facebook back when I had one was everytime a new girl started working at our company, all the guys flocked to one guys computer and they stalked the crap out of her one Facebook, and by the time she walked through the door they knew who she was dating, had already decided he wasn't good enough for her and were already in competition to date her and trying to woo her by pretending to have all the same interest and the poor girl is like first day on the job and she thinks shes going to have a normal life.

I've seen this happen at three tech companies multiple times at each so I'm not willing to entertain the group of guys who I KNOW are going to comment on this and say "well not every guy is like that". True, but it only takes a few at every company to make a girl feel like a targeted object more than an employee.

Once the facebook search came out (way after I got rid of it) I was a manager managing about 25 guys in my tech firm and they used to use the facebook search to search by age, relationship status of all the females in the company constantly on the prowl.

Was so gross and terrifying and made me happy I didnt have one.

Another time about three years after college a guy I had never seen or met before came up to me at a restaurant and started blabbing on about my life, asking me if I was still dating that deuschbag from college and openly admitted who knew all of this from my facebook back in college and asked me what I was up to now. I mean wow, couldn't possible be more happy that people DON't know what I'm up to.

Not to mention old guys are creepy and use it to stare at all the bikini pics of their friends daughters.

I wish I could be ignorant and dumb enough to not know all this but unfortunately I work with a bunch of creepy men twice my age in tech for years now and they assume I don't notice these things.

If you are a girl in tech, youre better off not having a facebook, you honestly cannot even begin to fathom how many men are keeping tabs on you.

and here come the downvotes....
Exercise makes more sense! Breathing hard == losing weight!
> In a sense basic income would be an improvement over this in that the money would be going to everyone instead of primarily to the rich.

Quite the opposite.

The people who benefit the most from quantitative easing and inflation are people who are in debt. The rich tend to be net debtholders, not net debtors, so they're the ones primarily harmed by quantitative easing and an increase in the money supply.

EDIT: Fixed typo
The impossibility of intelligence explosion
Any "smart gun" component is an additional point of failure in an application where failure to function can easily mean death or serious bodily harm for the user.

I wouldn't be surprised if most proponents of this tech have no real-world firearms training or experience.
>>Colour would be nice too, but I guess that's impossible.

Well, not possible yet[0].
In a few years the technology might be refined enough though.
I also heard that the refresh rate is in the range of minutes for now, but let's hope that'll change soon :)

[0]http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20160524006209/en/Ink-...

Edit: added quote I was responding to
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HLS, Smooth streaming, MPEG-Dash are all designed for streaming and that's what we use with Elastic Transcoder today.
Used in conjunction with Amazon Cloudfront, I thought it was perfect for streaming content.

Does that mean we'll need to manually transition to the new services ? Are you planning a bridge or something ?

What about the cost of transcoding everything a second time ?
What utter rubbish. Just when you think it's already reached "Peak Guardian", they come out with that.
For me, their innovation was that they were the first online retailer that inspired rock solid confidence in their delivery. If I order something on Amazon, it’s at my door in two days. Every time. I don’t need to check my shipping status, and with their pricing model obscuring shipping costs, I don’t need to think about the practicalities of shipping at all.

As the article demonstrates, this luxury comes with a high social cost.
A lot of us never did higher education, work in the industry, and still aren't fat.
I agree that partial observation and imperfect information present computational difficulties to generalization. Do you know of any interesting research offhand for reading about optimizations for this problem?
Which country, which ISP, please?
Why is CO2 the correct answer, the answer should be energy/heat + CO2 + H2O? The "burning" of fat in oxygen to CO2 and H2O is exothermic.
Why does he need to be notable? Maybe he's just some guy on the internet with an opinion like you and me.
A 'moral crisis' for the Guardian's editorial board is not a moral crisis for a 20-something popstar.
It's tricky. Targeted assassination has replaced carpet bombing.
I expect that a good question to ask as a founder of a new business these days is, "How might this be used to launder funds?" and if you're the bad kind of entrepreneur make that really easy to boost early growth, and if you're the good kind put controls in place to prevent it from happening.

One of the things I dealt with at Blekko was people clearly trying to use the search engine to find sites with vulnerable (unpatched) Wordpress or Joomla or other storefront frameworks. We spent a lot of time banning IP addresses which were doing that rather than treat them as higher traffic numbers.
> when you're paying per byte its in the ISPs' best interest to get you as many bytes as possible

Yes, all other things being equal. But if the ISP owns a video streaming service, all other things aren't equal. Bytes from their own service bring them more revenue.

> I firmly believe that the reason most ISPs want to be able to throttle isn't some nefarious plan to prioritise friendly providers, but simply to advertise more bandwidth than they have

This would also be nefarious.

"We said we can deliver X but we can't, so let's selectively degrade our service to make it seem like we can" is a nefarious plan.

An honest plan would be to advertise "up to X Mbps, minimum of Y Mbps, charges prorated by available speed" and deliver on it.
Not only was the disaster entirely predictable, they themselves predicted it. For Gulf War I, Cheney (then Secretary of Defense) explained why they left Saddam in power - that removing him would create a power vacuum and a civil war leading to regional instability. Gulf War II - with Cheney as VP - has exactly this outcome, leading us to dump blood and money (ours and others) in the desert sands.
The traditional way to avoid overfitting is to reduce the number of independent variables, shrink coefficients towards zero, or otherwise limit the complexity of the model.

With deep neural networks the approach is different. Instead of trying to find global maximum (which is too hard, and will also cause the model to be grossly overfit), the algorithm stops much earlier. Such "underfit" models seem to generalize much better.
There's also https://www.envkey.com/
Neither is crouton.net
For the most part the poor in the USA already can get access to food stamps, medicaid, section 8 and a number of other programs that provide a safety net - especially if there are dependents in the household. For the middle class a reduced income tax rate would be much more effective than a UBI when it comes to saving money and having more for personal spending. The idea of giving a UBI to the rich strikes me as a bit of a stretch. Again paying people not to work while the rich continue to amass more wealth due to technology and capitalization seems to me a great way to create a permanent under class. The idea that government printing money to "take care of its people" strikes me as a naive experiment in socialism that is bound to fail.
What they (the finance department) do (minimization of their tax bill) is legal and sensible and necessary for the paper's survival. If it were not and this was known to the staff, it would be no excuse morally or legally to say that the staff 'don't make these decisions'.
Not all blue collar work is back-breaking manual labor, although most blue collar work that's soft on the body also pays poorly. And not all white collar work is higher paying than blue collar work.

A lot of this is more about social standing/perception than earning potential or type of labor.
Observations from Figure 1, "Responses of a sample of doctors, dieticians, and personal trainers to the question “When somebody loses weight, where does it go?”"

0 doctors were willing to admit they didn't know.

0 dieticians thought sweat was involved.

Those results seem unsurprising.

Only dieticians correctly answered CO2.
They should provide adult diapers to the workers.
I think it would be doable for most current MMORPGS which aren't very timing sensitive so even if you have a couple hundred ms of lag it could still be playable (especially if the game is designed around this limitation).

VR however is one application where network lag would clearly be totally unacceptable. Can you imagine having even 50ms of lag while turning your head in a game? It seems like out of all the applications of "cloud gaming" this would be the least suitable one. It's not even about the game feeling laggy and floaty, it's about not getting sick while playing it.

I guess they could render a huge FoV for every eye and let the client do the actual tracking to mask some of the latency, but I'm not sure how you can make any translation work that way.

I'm not saying it's impossible and it'll never happen but if that's really the objective it seems they're doing it the wrong way around. Shouldn't they first develop "cloud gaming" infrastructure and then move on to the particular niche of VR?
Did you know grocery delivery is available?
Asking members to support journalism, The Guardian - I'm sorry, is this a joke? Buzzfeed (yes, that Buzzfeed... well when they're not making one of their retarded videos and actually do some investigative journalism) has higher journalistic value than The Guardian.
I only read your first link, but seeing how all it is is a contingency plan, so that the US would know how to proceed in a hypothetical war against Britain, I don't think I really have to look any further. The US likely has one for the EU, Russia, and China as well. And China and Russia definitely do, and the EU would if they had a true central military. It's just good planning.
Can you elaborate as to what you mean by Chrome having better "runtime hardening"?

For what it's worth, I tend to think the biggest issues are the weaker sandbox (the GPU driver is exposed in Firefox, which WebRender is taking a big step toward fixing) and, in the future, Site Isolation (which I think is oversold, but it would help sites like Gmail).
White-to-black can be done quickly and without artifacts. Black-to-white and grey-to-grey can be done quickly, but produces artifacts.
The way I like to think about it is this:

Kansas has low taxes, but no one's dying to move there.
Argonne to Install Comanche System to Explore ARM Technology for HPC – InsideHPC
Great, diversity and inclusion for everyone! (except anyone who doesn't agree with you, or anyone with poor social skills - fuck em). Business as usual. You know there are plenty of people, women included, who AREN'T offended at all by the term "guys" to refer to people.

And tomorrow when inclusion for neurodiversity/autism becomes the next social cause, you can talk about how you value diversity SO MUCH, all the while telling them to "get a clue" when their "diversity" manifests itself.
If you do nothing, you end up with secrets manually provisioned by logging into a machine and splatting out a configuration file. Which is a more secure solution than a turtles-problem parameter store.
'Textualism' could muzzle employees
So then essentially everyone would make the same they are now; thus resulting in little to no-change.

When it's all said and done, having a $1000/m basic income would be little different than increasing the minimum wage by the same amount.
You ask an ill-specified question and get an ill-specified answer. Of course that fat "goes into" energy/heat, it says so right in the oxidation process.

It's an interesting reiteration of HS chemics, but of no practical concern.
TFA does say "energy/heat + CO2 + H2O", but most of the output in terms of mass -- which is what one is interested in when it comes to losing weight -- is carbon dioxide.
Ask HN: Where to contact bloggers/editors to create awareness?
I wanted to see if anyone is aware of any sites that put you in touch with bloggers or editors to help generate awareness.
Automation means fewer total employee s, so fewer abused employees
There are plenty of people on HN who know what the parent is referring to, but simply can't comment with sentiments that belong to the class of "things you're not allowed to say".

Dogwhistling is often less dangerous in terms of karma annihilation than actually expressing the thought.
The problem is you have to put in the effort to maintain/repair/rent out the property you have. If an effort is needed to maintain profits then I could as well do many other things that bring better returns than properties.

The idea of an index fund is that you don't have to do anything for it to bring relatively reliable profits.
From the paper "Replacing one hour of rest with exercise that raises the metabolic rate to seven times that of resting by, for example, jogging, removes an additional 39 g of carbon from the body, raising the total by about 20% to 240 g. For comparison, a single 100 g muffin represents about 20% of an average person’s total daily energy requirement. Physical activity as a weight loss strategy is, therefore, easily foiled by relatively small quantities of excess food."
The take I get is that both their foreign policies were pretty hawkish neocon. Hillary was of the same quilt. Only Sanders and Trump bucked the hawkish trend.

Domestically their policies differed a little bit and also Obama was more charismatic, more like B Clinton, in that respect. GW was seen as a buffoon and tool of industry.
I just spent a few months parked in West, TX, very near the site of this happening. I didn't know about it, or I would have gone to visit the site! But, there's a more recent somewhat famous explosion at a fertilizer plant in West, as well, that killed 15 people and injured 200 others. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West%2C_Texas#2013_explosion)

That specific part of Texas might have more than its fair share of crazy explosions, but I've noticed in my travels that even small obscure towns often have some kind of surprising history. Cults, infamous battles between indigenous peoples and settlers, racist enclaves, all sorts of bizarre events, crazy publicity stunts, etc. are so common in the US and most people are rarely aware of the history of the land they're on. Sometimes it feels like the United States is one long story of hucksters and crazies bamboozling and recklessly endangering their neighbors' lives.
Peter Thiel and the Stanford Review
Bad example, because we don't acknowledge the concept of animals owning things in the first place. The above argument is a moral one; arguing that closing the wealth gap is stealing (often) ignores that most "self-made" people depend on the labor of others and the recources we all use in society.
Treating their employees well is how Google/Microsoft/Facebook are built. It's easy for them, it's office workers who bring super high margins. The business is more valuable by treating people well.

Businesses based on grunt work, like Amazon, can't do that. Their existence is based on infinite cheap labor, to execute as much grunt work as cheap as possible.
It's easier to eat less calories than exercise.
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And children in Africa suffer from parasites that literally eat their eyes out. Somebody always has it worse (maybe except children in Africa), that in no way means we should refrain from trying to make things better locally.
Great point; a lot of the infrastructure we are so proud of on both sides of the aisle, was built back then. We generally agree we need to invest in infrastructure, too.
Yes, it's possible to crash trains and demolish things safely; no shit, Sherlock. The difficulty is doing it in front of 40,000 people close enough to get a great view of it, in the middle of no where.
I'm not installing a plugin to see your app, dude.
C# has unsafe blocks just like Rust does. Likewise, Java has sun.misc.Unsafe. Python has ctypes. How is that different from Rust?
Instead of a basic income, why not make the first $1,000 each month of taxes owed exempt.
It's possible that a basic income would help with the rest of these, by taking the edge off the (currently very high) opportunity cost of spending time on community improvement for working class Americans.

It would also move money back into these economies in a way that support some of the kinds of industrial district revitalization that you see in more urban areas nowadays.

All in all, the capitalist in me wants to say that you'll get better results if you just give people money and let them figure out how to dispose of it, rather than letting some government bureaucrat off in the state capital or wherever try to figure out how best to use the money. The latter option is worryingly similar to the root causes of the worst of the prosperity-destroying waste that went on in places like the Soviet Union. And I do think you'll see people (mostly) put the money they'd get from a basic income to good use. It's not like anyone enjoys living in a blighted town; it's just that they're living under economic conditions that leave them with little other choice, aside from maybe doing like I did and contributing to the blight by moving out of town.
And it would cost 3.6 Trillion (300M adults x 12k), so where does that come from? I'm all for basic income, but id love to see a way this to actually be funded. Ideally from the corporations that are gaming the tax laws. Or is it reducing social security / medicare / other welfare etc?
Dasung has been trying to solve these problems with their Paperlike Pro for a few years now. They have the latency low enough to be usable, but the artifacting continues to be a problem. An even bigger issue is that e-ink has a patent on the technology, which limits how much R&D companies can do with it. After the patent runs out (this year!) we might see more innovation.
If there's also a locked multiplier 6-core i7 part at a similar clock — what's the point of an unlocked multiplier in a laptop? You can't really improve the cooling. Maybe OEM overclocked with some complicated cooling setup?
So why can Costco afford to treat their employees humanely?
The question is whether the body spends any energy outside of that hour after exercising (e.g. by growing muscle, etc.) than it would otherwise. That would make exercise more effective when considering longer periods of time.
It's an opinion column. It contains opinions. Why should we be tolerant of Milo's opinions, but intolerant of someone who says we should speak out against his opinions?

Complaining about newspaper opinion sections being a platform for pushing political views... that's what they're there for, and why they've existed for hundreds of years before now. You haven't even read the article, so you've obviously arrived with an axe to grind and are just trying to find something that fits.

> Brexit happens despite the upper class talking down and ignoring the larger population

Yeah, no. Brexit is very popular with the upper class. They're going to make a lot of money from it.