skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This. I'm fully aware that I should improve my health for many reasons. But my every experience with physical activity tells me I will feel pain, discomfort, and personal embarrassment in large degrees. (Every experience I can actually recall. I know as a child I was perfectly happy running around - but that is not what it feels like now and I can't recall the feeling then. I know PE classes created negative associations, and those I CAN recall. In horrifying detail.

Everyone that talks about the good feeling you get afterwards either has different physiology, feels pain to a lower degree, or just has a better willpower + long term view. Regardless, such advice just feels like a dodge or an attack. Meanwhile, while my brain KNOWS healthy is better, the consequences just don't FEEL real, so it is far easier to procrastinate. All of which makes activity MORE painful, MORE uncomfortable, and MORE embarrassing (because I'm more out of shape), so it's the opposite of a virtuous cycle.

My issues today are a combination of time (in addition to disliking the activity, I'm disliking the opportunity cost), discomfort, fear, and boredom (if I have nothing to focus on all I end up focusing on is my discomfort. If I have something to focus on, I'll instinctively stop doing things that make it harder to focus, such as movement, which means I have to start focusing on the bad parts again). I know (again, from experience) that I can feel better with more exercise eventually - but it takes weeks at a minimum, involves a lot of discomfort, is easily lost, and has not yet been a strong feeling (though I've never had any activity I maintained for more than 3 months, and that rarely).

All of which sounds like excuses...and are. But they are also real obstacles I need to find a work around for, because willpower and logic alone have clearly not sufficed.
"In time of actual war, great discretionary powers are constantly given to the Executive Magistrate. Constant apprehension of War, has the same tendency to render the head too large for the body. A standing military force, with an overgrown Executive will not long be safe companions to liberty. The means of defence against foreign danger have been always the instruments of tyranny at home. Among the Romans it was a standing maxim to excite a war, whenever a revolt was apprehended. Throughout all Europe, the armies kept up under the pretext of defending, have enslaved the people."

James Madison, Constitutional Convention of 1787

http://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/debates_629.asp
> I can't tell my grandmother that any site that tells her to install software is a scam

I mean, you still can :)
My local Walmart isn't my favorite store in the world to go to for fresh produce and meat. The selection and quality are generally inferior to a couple of local regular supermarkets. But I could absolutely shop for food there that isn't all highly processed.

The thing is that, as you suggest, the pre-packaged deli section is bigger than the unprocessed meat section. And then there's the soda aisle, the chip aisle, etc. Shelf space is hugely tilted toward "junk" and other highly processed food.

My regular supermarkets have lots of processed food too of course. (And nothing wrong with a lot of that in moderation.) But it's far less skewed than in the case of Walmart.
It's kind of funny how GNU/Linux used to intentionally have everything statically-linked that was involved in bringing up the system and needed for a rescue recovery session, so you could still administer a system even if your dynamic shared libraries were hosed.

Now I see people tout statically-linked binaries as if it's some kind of new thing brought by Golang and Rust. Though this may be a result of modern glibc being somewhat hostile towards and incompatible with static linking, so maybe the blame should fall on GNU for that one.

Netscape used to distribute statically-linked binaries for a number of *nix platforms as a way to avoid this problem all the way back in the 90s. All it needed was an X display server and stable kernel interfaces.

Eventually GNU/Linux changed to the point that everything was dynamically linked to the point that only `sln`, a statically linked `ln` was all you had to work with in lieu of a working dynamic linker to fix the system.
One of that article's sources is cracked.com. They're not really known for the strictest journalistic standards. Here's a USDA website describing conditions of meat in stores: https://www.fsis.usda.gov/wps/portal/fsis/topics/food-safety...
> my main life takeaway from PE class was to wear deodorant

You speak truth for many of us.
Intelligence (g) is highly hereditable on the right hand side of the bell curve. Where non-shared environment (there is no measurable shared environmental component to g) is on the left hand side where people can end up with a g below their genetic potential.

Basically it is relatively easy for the environment to push an individual below their potential, but near impossible to pull them above once a basic minimum is met.
Why would "fresh" and "high quality" make you lose weight?
This isn't really a fair comparison: not a lot of people in the states buy food at 7/11, while it is much more common in Japan. With the volume that 7/11's do in the states, they can't really support bento boxes or whatever you'd find at the grocery store lunch counters (which, actually, are very comparable to Japan 7/11, but not as widespread).
I wonder who's funding Mozilla in this proxy fight? They seem to be struggling just to stay alive with their core product, Firefox. I can't see how they can justify fighting expensive legal battles on a whim to shareholders.
Just noticed I could see other responses when I submitted, so that was a nice preview.
Warren Ellis, as usual, is ahead of the curve.

One of the most interesting characters in Normal is a (seriously mentally ill) futurist who conceives of her microbiome as a separate entity and talks to it like she suffers from DID. It's a whole book about how a sufficiently-obsessive focus on the future can break your identity, so this is a nice fit.
Instead understand that a teen has spent their life as a child and has only been asked to be a child. Trying to be an adult is something totally new.

Supposedly, childhood was invented quite recently in our evolutionary history by our culture: http://a.co/34eSXPC I have read that children were once treated more like little adults who didn't know anything.

Kids aren't dumb, they're actually smarter (in the sense of capability to learn) than most of us. Blaming them for their lack of experience is not our best move.

Kids aren't dumb, they're actually smarter? I would agree. This is why kids should use their superior brain plasticity to get their heads around the implications of their lack of experience, and try to benefit from indirect experience and the store of human knowledge. Some kids are smart enough to do this. Some kids instead convince themselves of a narrative of superiority, as if they're the first truly "real" humans on the planet.

It's precisely because kids are so smart and imbued with so much potential, that I have to call them out. With great power, comes great responsibility.
Does a word-vector dataset that "looks clean" perform better on real applications, justifying the extra attention required for more preprocessing/cleanup?
I don't think you are reading my comments.

You say that without regulation you wouldn't have a recourse to get your money back on bad behavior from private companies, but if a regulation harms you economically, you will never get your money back anyway. Regulation does not give you a recourse to get your money back. In fact, even worse. The state can never make amends on its mistakes.
I mean, you don't even need a proof of that. The latter is impossible since the range of input/output values is untruncated by construction?
> and it gets to the point rather quickly

In a mere 160 pages. Unless you know what to look for it most certainly does not get to the point rather quickly.
Curious why going public deserves an applause. Is being private a bad thing?
As someone who has to figure out what rates to pay people doing the same jobs across Europe and the USA I can say you're probably right. Our European employees make considerably less base salaries in general except for the Swiss employees who make on average typical base salaries as our USA employees.
I think that's true. I always thought AirBnb was going to be the first one to go public.
If you're waiting for a sign, here's one:

just get it overwith, you'll be better off.
CRDB and Cassandra are to totally different databases.

CockroachDB is full SQL ACID database. With transactions, consistent indexes, joins. It's also strongly consistent overall.

Cassandra is really just a key-value store, with a hierarchy of sorting keys as part of the key, so that you can do range scans with good performance (and various access patterns). Indexes are asynchronously updated (as far as I know). No transactions nor joins. Its consistency is varying (configurable).
Commentary on valuation:

1. Box, a public company, is currently valued at $3.17B. It had revenues of ~$480M with a net loss of $150M in 2017 [1]

2. In contrast, Dropbox had revenues of $1.11B with a net loss of $111M in 2017.

The higher revenues, and lower losses bode well for Dropbox. Objectively, that would value Dropbox in the $8B-$9B range, $1B-$2B short of it's previous $10B private valuation

[1]: https://goo.gl/Agf5Xt
It's more of a "congrats on the money" applause.
then i guess i know what to look for to satisfy myself, I'm not speaking for everyone here, just responding to OP's question
Back in 2009, when I first learned Common Lisp, I had the hope Lisp would one day become mainstream. Then in 2012 I had the same hope for Scala.

... I got older and I'm not anymore a dreamer

Legacy code and imperative thinking is heavy.
I am reminded of writing Java "Midlets", (J2ME - Java 2 Micro Edition) back in the early 2000's. These ran on the then-common flip-phones and candy bar phones. Predating smart phones and esp. iPhone.

I made my own "asteroids" game. Real Java code, written using Eclipse. The Java had some limitations. No floating point was the most notable. So there were some widely circulated Java libraries that did Trig and related functions using integers, offset by some decimal fraction so that about half the bits were right of decimal point. I simply drew vector graphics on each update frame of the game. An asteroid, for example, was a center point with a number of random points around it, connected by lines. Thinking of these points as r-theta instead of x,y made it simple for the asteroids (and the ship!) to rotate using simple sin/cos to convert the r-theta points into x,y for rendering the frame.

The whole thing compiled to a midlet of 21 K bytes. It ran pretty universally on flip phones of the time. The 1 and 4 keys on keypad controlled ship rotation. The 3 key was to fire.

No sound.

Now, how unrealistic is it that today's micro controllers could run a version of Java. Especially if a few J2ME type limitations were imposed.
That’s a common myth. In fact the reaction tends to be highly negative, but subsequent charming behavior leads people to ignore their initial reaction.

http://drreidmeloy.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/2002_Auton...

https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/criminal-minds/201301/d...

In other words, a gut reaction isn’t proof of anything, and neither is a lack of a gut reaction, BUT... when it happens, and when it’s a high risk situation, listen to your gut.
Looking at data from the last couple of years, it appears that filling on Friday is pretty common. (see ipomonitor.com for data).

pbpaste |sort|uniq -c|sort -k1nr
614 Friday
436 Monday
339 Thursday
326 Tuesday
283 Wednesday
2 Sunday
It signifies a milestone. Being single isn't bad but there's no problem celebrating a wedding
you're suggesting that humanity has historically had easier access to healthy (fresh) food as they went shopping multiple times a week? I doubt this. What makes you think there was improved transportation options or significant amount of free time ?
I always find juicy information in the S1 that doesn't get reported on right away. Off the top of my head:

* Reliance and risks of Zynga in the Facebook S-1

* Customer acquisition costs in the Blue Apron S-1

* Growth specifics and positioning of algorithms in the StitchFix S-1

* Infrastructure costs in the Snapchat S-1

Besides, an S-1 filing is not written in legalease, it's written in plain language. One of the target audiences is street investors so it's meant to be accessible. I'm looking forward to digging into this one.
In rich countries the selection pressure is greater than at anytime in human history. In the past no factor (other than luck) could strongly influence the number of children you had survive to adulthood as much as birth control does.
Mozilla is a non-profit, there are no shareholders. Firefox isn't struggling either. Both of these points lead me to believe you have no idea what you're talking about.
>The global economy already produces enough for every man, woman and child.

But does it produce enough for every man, woman and child in a sustainable manner, and will it be able to keep up with the Malthusian population growth that would continue unabated if every person on earth was perpetually guaranteed to get "enough"?

The answer to both of those is no. While there is certainly a lot of inefficient busy work amongst the workforce of developed nations, to say that most people on earth waste their lives doing unnecessary work is an extraordinarily myopic claim that's been bandied about since that one guy wrote an article about BS jobs. Everyone latches onto that meme and assumes the majority of work being done is absolutely worthless, but they really have nothing to back that up except their own personal experience as a middle class corporate drone.
> Hmm, if I had to guess, I'd say you were in the camp of people who already "got" Monads...

On the level the article seeks to explain? Yes, sure.

On the abstract level lots of other monad resources try to convey? Not particularly.
Will make a few billionaires.
What's the best way to leave facebook while still retaining access to their advertising tools?

I have no desire to personally be on FB anymore, but I would like to maintain the pages + ads for business purposes.
Well. For Y-Combinator is a win. It's an opportunity to convert their equity to cash and get a return on their investment.
The grandparent to your post here, the one referring to "author of ZeroMQ", links to an interesting article by that "author of ZeroMQ" ... and that article is a "layman's rejection" of the notion that you lay out, that "psychopathy, physiologically, refers to part of the brain being underdeveloped leading to these characteristics [of non-empathy, etc.] being formed as an individual progresses through life".

I was playing along with that contention, seems to make sense to me, that perhaps some people just inherit traits or predispositions to lack-of-empathy. I also don't know the psychology or neuroscience, and I imagine there's still some debate -- "is it a neurological disorder, or is it an adaptation?"
Social stratification factor also needs to be factored into that equation.

Intelligence might correlate with wealth in societies with free markets... but lower classes in a stratified society won't have access to resources that translate intelligence into success.
Brick shattering through window hypothesis finally has evidence

No seriously - am I missing something?

"Recent research has revealed that the output of Deep Neural Networks (DNN) can be easily altered by adding relatively small perturbations to the input vector."

"Submitted on 24 Oct 2017 "
Sure, but if you literally just want somewhere to store files, then Dropbox is cheaper. That's one reason why someone might prefer it.
It's simply a major milestone and (theoretically) a sign that the company has reached a point of stability and market size that it can weather public markets.

It's also an important liquidation event for employees and investors.
The issue is these days everytime I hear optional I think of semicolons in JavaScript where they are optional except for one or two edge cases I can't remember off the top of my head. Optional is good as long as its a complete you can do it this way or that way like gradual typing in some languages.
I don't disagree with what you've written, but regarding your brief point on exercise... On my journey to lose 100 pounds I came across a meta-analysis of studies on weight loss* which indicated that, while exercise wasn't a significant contributor to short-term weight loss, exercise was correlated to successful long-term weight loss (a much less likely occurrence, since the vast majority of people who lose weight regain it within a decade).

*I read this analysis a decade ago, so I can't really find it to share.
Are you joking?

"-- Mozilla booked $323 million in royalties in 2014, up about 7% from the year earlier."
Remember that he also wrote Instapaper, the key feature of which was copied by Apple: https://marco.org/2011/04/30/lion-safari-reading-list
We have some bizarre cultural hangups around food in our country, that's for sure.

I was made fun of at lunch in my youth for bringing things like whole carrots and canned garbanzo beans and turnips/radishes.
Would they? The few times I've had a conversation with people in software on the topic, the conclusion has been they shouldn't exist. At all.

I'd venture to suggest that most software patents are the obvious way of doing something. Even having read some attempts to justify them I see no merits in patents for XOR cursors, online auctions or shopping carts.
Fair point, though I'm surprised Google doesn't promote that more, on the pricing page I can't see yearly pricing mentioned anywhere.
Self-driving cars with 'remote' drivers could test on CA roads in April: DMV
Do some of the older ones just completely omit reserving them?
Isn't rain distilled water? My understanding is that it has a single dust like particle that turns it into a rain drop. (generally speaking, grade school weather knowledge here)

Doesn't it seem reasonable that distilled water's lack of electrolytes can be balanced quite easily from other sources? (a quick google search seems to indicate 'yes')

Scientific questions:

1. How much electrolytes are there in a single bite of any particular food, compared to a gallon of water? (anyone have a real number?)

2. How long do electrolytes stay in the body (being usable) after being ingested?

3. How much water will a certain amount use after being ingested. (ie, the difference in electrolytes in distilled vs other sources. Do they even get "used up"?)

4. What is the effects of low electrolytes? (is it pain, body deterioration, something we can feel and detect?)

I am sure I could google this, but I suspect the answers are really hard to find with any true accuracy because they would vary greatly by diet, body size, composition, health, age and many other factors. And I'd argue that it's possible we can tell our electrolyte levels by how we feel? (this seems reasonable)

Edit: Did some research on distilled water, in a previous comment, some interesting finds.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16432024#16449986
> In a lot of ways making the world a better place is about cost-effectiveness

I think we just have different worldviews. Certainly economics are important, but I try not to boil everything down to dollars and cents.

And for sure, Google has done a ton of useful and interesting things that I'm grateful for. But they also contribute to undermining online privacy, and use their size to wield disproportionate power in politics, etc. etc.
>Other than lawyers and economists,

Investors. The prospectus filing is informative and you don't have to read it all to get good idea of the company.

The summary from CNBC omits all the details and you can't even trust it to have the numbers correctly because if they screw it up, it has no legal consequences for them.
My understanding is that Amazon tags similar products with the same SKU despite their source. This allows someone to ship fake inventory in, have amazon fulfill it, and then those products make their way to customers purchasing direct from Amazon. There are cases of this reported by authors and other products
I'm not saying you should not rename it instead. I'm just suggesting that there may be times when placing a helpful comment is easier than renaming it. So you might start by adding a comment, and then consider if you can rename the method to not need the comment. But you are right that if there is an immediately obvious way to rename the method to add clarity, you could just do that and be done.
Grew up in the countryside, population 3K. Very happy about it, it has given me deep friendships, safety and a deep love of all things nature.
Moved to a big city to attend a good University. Worked for global corporations 15+ years, got more airmiles than I imagined possible and loved every second of it.
Now I've got kids and live in a mid-size city, work is 30 minutes walk, and I'm starting to think that I should move to the countryside to give the same chances I had to learn to love nature.
Editing a PDF is relatively simple with the appropriate tools, and PDFs are not "flattened" by any of the typical definitions I am familiar with. Numerous PDF editors exist, and the standard is well documented (ISO 32000) and freely published online by Adobe. Signing a PDF is a more effective method to prevent tampering, as compared to relying on people only having PDF readers.
Right but all that means is that Epic were able to exploit a lack of understanding. Not really that noble or exceptional. There is a PR bias towards open source because it’s seen as a selfless act to provide free software. Conflating that with commercial software such as UE4 actually takes away from that since it dupes the unwary.
Ex-Lexar execs have launched a new memory card company
Venezuela’s own oil-backed cryptocurrency is available for presale today
"We’re also making the Assistant multilingual later this year, so families or individuals that speak more than one language can speak naturally to the Assistant."

As a French Canadian who changes languages multiple times a day and who refers to things in both languages constantly, this is really great.
…and which only ever applied to the low g fraction anyway.
Elon Musk’s Boring Company Gets Preliminary Permit for NYC-DC Hyperloop
As an aside, the cover illustration would serve as perfect art for a proper Cannon Fodder remake.
For those of us who don’t understand, I’d love to hear your explanation of the impossibiliy you’re claiming.
Ask HN: How do you manage your personal and professional knowledge base?
Explained by example: whenever I learn something new, say, a new machine learning model and its implementation in Python, I create or update a Jupyter Notebook, write my notes as text, add the relevant snippets and run them on locally stored dummy data. This proved useful for me with Python.

I need an effective system for other things, like SQL, or generally anything I learn or need to keep track of for future reference. I tried google docs, sheets, even slides, txt files (with my always open sublime text), etc. etc. I find my stuff is scattered all over the place and isn't very productive or efficient.

Any insights?
>if you are teen bored in a small town then getting into trouble there with less stuff around that will kill you is very appealing to a parent

I don't know what small towns you've been around, but at least where I grew up those things were:

A: Drinking and driving
B: Heroin/Meth

My friends from the countryside generally got into waayyy riskier stuff than the city kids, and it often seemed to be boredom / hopelessness related.
You're right, I tweaked the page. Thanks.
You could raise the price of Doritos to be higher than broccoli and overweight people will still choose the Doritos.

Source: Me
Are you? 2014 is the year they signed a big deal with Yahoo. Of course they did well that year.