skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We're not doing enough to understand the environmental factors in a trend like this. As fashionable as it is for each generation to shit on the next, "will power" is clearly not explanatory for a shift of this magnitude.

I have to wonder if our sedentary lifestyle, processed foods (with additives examined under an ignorant lens), stress (income inequality, constant stimulation, glowing objects being the center of our lives), are wrecking our microbiomes and other broader systems from a VERY young age, or causing other systems-level changes that make it hard to correct with behavior changes in adulthood.

Because ultimately, even when people get educated, get active, eat better, etc -- the trends aren't reversing.
Yes because in European bakeries they might add butter to make it taste good, but in America no one would buy it because it wouldn't say "fat-free", so they add sugar.
You are spot on here -- I lost ten pounds in just the past few weeks simply by upping my step count.

Taking it one step further though... I think about my forebear farmers. When I would hear my grandmother talk about the huge meals they would eat daily, you'd think they were all 300 pounds and died of heart disease by 40. Instead, they were trim and lived into their 80s and 90s. The reason being that they were physically active all day long on the farm. In a modern services economy though, we have to go to a gym, go for a run, IE: build physical activity into our day. After a long work day, this is a mental challenge for many people just as much as a time challenge. So, in many ways it's an artifact of the transition away from the farming / industrial economy of the past that many segments of the population have simply not addressed.
Hehe, I haven't looked, so it may be apocryphal, but I believe there is a WAC (Washington (state) Administrative Code), that mandates that a business (possibly limited to furniture stores) may only have a "Going Out Of Business" sale once per calendar year.
Am I the only one who finds it hilarious that there are complaints about Lisp syntax, when the language itself is almost infinitely modifiable?

You can replace parens with reader macros. You can replace built in names with ordinary macros(in some dialects, even reassign the built-in functions altogether). Don't like the let syntax? Modify it yourself to something completely different.

You could modify Lisp to look like json if you were so inclined.

You have access to the compiler at compile time and runtime. Do whatever you want.

If anything, people should be complaining about other languages that don't allow for syntax modification. Want to not type semicolons in C? You are essentially out of luck, unless you want to make your own preprocessor (I don't think the standard one has enough expressive power to do so, but I'd love to be proved wrong).

Complaining about parentheses takes zero effort though. You don't have to spend a single second trying to understand why it looks weird like that...
1TB of storage:

- Google Drive: $9.99 (https://www.google.com/drive/pricing/

- Dropbox: $8.25 (https://www.dropbox.com/individual/plans-comparison)

There's one answer for you.
I have a very unpopular opinion on this: if someone is overweight, and isn't sick or malfunctioning in any way that negatively impacts themselves, their loved ones, or society, then who gives a shit?

The libertarian and contrarian in me doesn't care what someone weighs, or how they choose to life. So extrapolating to a larger population, or society, I still fail to see how being collectively overweight is a negative in and of itself if there were no damaging burdens created because of that.

In fact, I think we need to subset the 70.7% population to weed out the "innocously fat".
I suspect (but do not know) that the reference is "swearing like a pirate". BeetleB is (I think) saying that semicolons lead to swearing that even the pirates are offended/appalled. (It took me reading it a few times to get that, and I'm still not certain it's right.)
Mega.nz
Yes, applied to large populations it can be a useful measure. Applied to individuals, it's fairly useless.
I'd like to note that poor quality of food does not make one overweight (and lack of exercise does not either).

Exercise and good food are good for you (diabetes and heart disease are bad) but in terms of weight what matters is pure number of calories consumed.
This has been true from everything I've read on the subject and what I've seen from my own underweight failures and triumphs to gain weight.

Americans just eat too much, for a variety of reasons.
Sorry to hear that. I can sort of relate. Ran a blog once for a niche topic, and put in effort to promote it. Some of my things got read, but so much felt like I was talking to an empty room.

Same with HN. It's a ghost town. I commented here with another account for a few years. Never made a connection with anyone beyond someone replying to a comment. It's too big for users to encounter eachother on a regular basis, so you never get to know anyone. It's just a bunch of strangers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OODA_loop

For others: Observe, Orient, Decide, Act

It's a feedback loop, and everyone uses feedback loops. What most people don't do is analyze their feedback loops and work to improve them.

To take advantage of the concept of OODA you need to shorten the loop. That doesn't, strictly, mean acting faster (though it can). What you really want is to make smaller decisions, but make them more frequently. This is the same principle as Lean production and software development.

When you decide on an action it should be something that can be immediately carried out. You don't decide on an action like: I'll take the ball down the field, pass the 2 defenders, and kick it into the top left corner of the goal.

You decide to take the ball down the field. As you approach the defenders, you decide how you will pass them or who you will pass the ball to. If you pass them you decide how you will get past the goalkeeper, will you feint and misdirect? Will you use your strong and precise kick to get it in the corner he's not? You can't know that until you get there so the decision isn't made until you arrive there.

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A distinction has to be made, and many do not, between the goal and the action. You can decide on a goal, but it is not an action itself. Instead you have to start making a series of decisions that lead to that goal. As you make each of those decisions you'll have more information, you'll see shortcuts or delays that have to be worked around. You decide on a next action, and you execute. And you repeat. This is the OODA loop.

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I do use this, in sports (soccer and BJJ for me), in driving (particularly the aspect of deliberate action, once I've decided I do not slowly drift into a new lane, I make the action deliberate and clear so no one else is confused). I try to use it at work but I'm surrounded by Waterfall Worshippers so that's a frustration. I do use it with my own work assignments and projects, but I cannot get my organization to make use of it themselves.

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Edit: To add, like brd, I don't actually think in terms of OODA, but it is something I learned a long time ago. My dad was a pilot, and he drilled the concepts (though not the term) into my sister and I just in daily life. I use the concepts of it, but actively only think of it when trying to convey it to others or to integrate it into something beyond my own efforts.
> generous enough to teach what makes him tick

Or opportunistic enough to cash in on his privilege by both obtaining a fruitful career and then writing aspirational self-help books about it.
The one part that struck me as genuinely evil is refusing to offer a guarantee about the data use.

I realize internet companies all always hate offering info about data use, much less binding agreements. But "let us and a third party touch and modify every single byte on your machine to use our product" is a gigantic ask, and deserves at least some good-faith effort to keep the results walled off from everything except security initiatives.

Beyond that, the intent seems fine. I still think it's hubris, though - Facebook is ostensibly just a website, and attempting to remotely diagnose and treat malware is something they ought to acknowledge they're not going to do well.
Seems like the move away from AWS to it's own infrastrucutre is starting to pay dividends. 33% GM to 67% in two years is certainly impressive!
I think portion size is the main issue with food quality being a very close second. Even if you "eat healthfully", if you eat too much food, you're still fat.

I went to a restaurant the other night. I ordered chicken marsala. I ate my meal, and when I felt I was getting full I stopped eating. I had two meals worth of food left.

Fat people want more food, so more restaurants put out bigger portions than is healthy. The same is true of prepared and pre-packaged foods. And with high-calorie, salt, fat and carb laden snack foods everywhere you look, you can keep eating all the time, everywhere you go. Find yourself in a place where they don't sell food? Don't worry, here's food made to take everywhere you go, so you can be constantly eating.
I believe this is the first ever YC company to go public? If so congrats to YC as well as the team at Dropbox.
Getting a clean conversion from PDF to some editable format is hard, at least without Microsoft tools. I've been trying to convert a PDF manual to something I can edit using Ubuntu. LibreOffice produces a Draw document where the text is too big for its text boxes. Abiword extracts the text and loses the images and most of the formatting. An online service at least produced a usable document.
"Didn't grow up with computers" (have contact with computers during compulsory education) in the West is likely people over 50.

Can probably go to 55-58 for people who have degrees; ie people who used computers during Uni education.

If you're older you've probably had 20 years with computers in the workplace save for some niches, seems long enough to learn to use a simple point-click menu.
Totally agree. I hated school PE. As a smaller and rather introverted kid, I didn't fit in the team sports that were imposed to us most of the time. But I loved sports outside school (started Judo when I was seven).
I don't. Google provides way more for a lot less money. You can encrypt your own content on either providers. For GSuite you get literally almost every service you can imagine, include a phone number that you can make unlimited calls to/from landlines with using your computer.
You will be the one spinning VMs to unlock facebook for your whole family.
Disclaimer: I'm learning deep learning mainly from HN comments and just want to provoke more insights. I have no idea what weight sharing is or how kernels are represented in networks, but I do know that e.g. a blur filter or edge filter is represented as convolution matrix.

It is dangerously confusing to reapply the neural-net-terminology to neuronal-nets isn't it? The weight of a kernel of biological neurons, what is that supposed to mean?

If you haven't stopped reading yet, please consider: in case, as I have to assume, you mean there is a specific ensemble of neurons that represents a kernel of given weights corresponding to exactly one area of retina, then isn't sharing between "pixels" achieved simply by the eye's jittering?

For better or worse, assume I'm the adversary in a GAN and ignore me if it doesn't make sense.
It also sucks to frequently throw out spoiled produce. If you live alone or with roommates, go to restaurants, etc chances are nearly half the produce will go bad. It's not expensive so much as disheartening.
My point is that I don't think he's given any advice that isn't painfully common sense. "Choose the path you think will be best for you." I read more intellectually stimulating bullsh*t on the back of a kumbucha bottle at lunch.

But mix in the letters M, I and T and people suddenly think he's tall engineer Confucious.
People need to think about who they idolize and what it says about them.
Sure, you can flatten that example, but I'd still be interested in losing the explicit and repetitive null checks.
As far as I could tell from the article, FB pops up this block each time it detects signs of an account being opened on a compromised device.

So this would probably work, but if you go back to your main machine then whatever config was mistaken for malware will trip the alert again.
Look into GSuite and see what else you get, in addition to archiving support for Google Drive... and actually, GSuite is unlimited storage... sorry Dropbox, but you lose in terms of price and features.
I thought the same thing. That's really bad. It's going to train users to be more susceptible to phishing attacks. I can't tell my grandmother that any site that tells her to install software is a scam, because Facebook just made this a legitimate user workflow
It's too bad they let that original URL die.
I find Dropbox’s sync client to be way more stable and has better operating system integration. Also better API documentation =)
I get that this ruling is focused on the piece of paper before it's redeemed and it's really good that a sticker isn't enough to limit your ability to resell something.

I'm wondering about after someone has redeemed the code. Once someone redeems the code, they presumably have to sign up for an account and agree to a long terms of service, which is (to my understanding) more accepted as a contract. It seems like this ruling doesn't significantly advance the issue of digital ownership.
That has varied. The speed limit commonly got set to 50/55 mph due to the National Maximum Speed Law in 1974 [1]. It ended up being a giant government shit show that resulted in an estimated < 1% gasoline savings. There was a lot of push to repeal that over time, which worked.

Typically you'll see 70 or 75 on US highways now. To go much higher, the US is going to have to up its road construction & maintenance game, as the German autobahn is maintained at considerably higher quality.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Maximum_Speed_Law
Failure is an option
Rough numbers here because BOX hasn't reported full 2017 yet but:

Dropbox 2017: $1107M Revenue
Dropbox 2017 Paying Users: 11M
ARPU: $100 [1]

Box.com (Q4-16 to Q3-17): $479M Revenue
Box.com (Q3-17) Paying Users: 9.7M - 10.2M [2]
ARPU: $47 - $49 [3]

[1] $1107/11
[2] "over 17% of our registered users [57M] were paying users"
[3] 479/10.2 to 479/9.7
Decent by Italian standards is pretty decent. But if we're talking about fresh fruit and vegetables, go to any Asian market. Or Walmart. It's not that expensive.

There's few good reasons to be eating tripe if you live in a city or live in a 'food desert' (spare me) and have a car.

The real problem is the overabundance of crap choices crowding out the sensible ones.

For example, here's Walmart's online store: https://www.walmart.com/all-departments#food--household---pe.... Now look at the categories: Beverages, Snacks & Cookies (listed before meals), Candy & gum.

Ctrl + F for 'fresh', and all I get is flowers. Madness.

By contract, here's Tesco in the UK: https://www.tesco.com/groceries/?icid=dchp_groceriesshopgroc...

Fresh food is top of the list. And three sub-sections are all 'fresh' something.

There's zero reason Walmart can't do the same. Except for the fact that Americans demand soda and 800 different types of cookies, so that's what they're supplied with.

Edit: this submission was bumped from first to the third page within minutes...for whatever reason. Comment to upvote ratio perhaps?
Cost advantage.
Didn't they find a "how to get away with murder" book in Reiser's car?

They did and the bananas thing is he also very nearly did get away with it anyway - a plea deal under which he could have walked away with time served + a few months was available to him. Fortunately, his own hubris got him 15 to life.
Dropbox never worked on Linux for me. It was buggy and maxed out my CPU. They didn't even provide proper changelogs at the time.. not sure if they do now? Is their application open source? Rclone works with Google Drive just fine, and it is unlimited storage.
Just curious - how's a raw SEC filing preferable to a reliable article summarizing it in non-legalese, providing context with the competition, etc.

Other than lawyers and economists, does anyone ACTUALLY prefer this raw filing?

EDIT: Adding my preferred link: https://www.cnbc.com/2018/02/23/dropbox-ipo-form-s-1-prospec...
> but please, advocates and enemies of Lisp, just give up on picking on the parens

Each non-lisper will reinvent the argument from scratch, so advocates can't profitably ignore it. It's a shame. You get past that so quickly after using lisp.
Maybe! Or maybe it creates an enormous, permanent underclass living hand to mouth on what are effectively ration cards, lacking even the power to deny the machine their labor. Then, is that actually as bad as it sounds? A walk around LA's skid row is a strong case it's not. For me, it's eyebrow raising that a lot of the momentum behind UBI seems (anecdotally) to come from people who don't expect to have to rely on it.

It's clear that if automation continues apace something will have to give. UBI might be the answer, but I suspect it's actually not radical enough: that trying to bring money with us into a post scarcity economy is not going to go the way we want, no matter how good our intentions.
https://youtu.be/_fQo6ouULBs
All the educated people in here are conflating health and being thin - while they are very different things. Part of difference might be that poor people simply value "looking fit" less. That is not the same as valuing health less, but there is strong component of competitiveness about looking fit and thin among more educated people that has zero to do with health.
I use Dropbox. There are various reasons. First, Dropbox does block-level sync. If you change a large file, only changed blocks are synced. Secondly, LAN sync, which does peer to peer sync over a local network. Another nice feature is that you can set up file requests, where people can upload files without sharing a folder (which I often use for classes).

Besides lacking these features, Google Drive had some serious deficiencies the last time I tried it. E.g., it was not possible to get a list of shared folders (besides running a Google apps script, which takes a long time to run). The Google Drive client would regularly bail out when syncing a large number of files. And they were permitted to mine user files for ads when you don’t have Google Apps for Work (and it is not clear if your files are indexed for ads if you share a folder with a non-Apps for Work user).
> LIDAR is really overrated

Fair enough, although it does have better range than ultrasonic and it can see through rain/fog/snow better than cameras.
Food prices here in Germany indeed are very low. In my experience this has another bad side effect. Many people expect food to be that cheap and don't even consider buying 'good' food for higher prices (even if they can afford it).

E.g. I buy ecological eggs (not the 'supermarket-ecological' ones) and they cost about 45 cents a piece. That's at least 3 times the usual price.
Descent client yes, but honestly pretty terrible once you compare features. Versioning counts against storage, speed can be slow, questionable company...
Real question here (US specific) -- how do the subsidies work, that they make corn cheaper, and milk more expensive? Are they truly both subsidies or is one another form of intervention that causes a different market result?
German living in Germany here: er, no. Typical is slighly more than +10%. If you keep to the speed limit, people behind you will get upset.

My one trip to Germany was in Stuttgart in the early 2000's, and it was my German coworkers who made that observation. The car ride I took seemed to corroborate it.

Has it always been that way, or has it changed over time?
It's not just about cost-effectiveness, it's about which company is making the Web a better place — and I see a lot of Google's activities actively moving in the wrong direction.

For me, it's more about the companies than the product (which, like I said, is probably an unsatisfactory criteria for most people).

Glad you're enjoying Google's services though :)
Definitely seems odd on its face, but if you dig into it, you'll see that it's SO much more complex than simple access. Other factors include, but are certainly not limited to:

Time to prepare: fresh foods generally take a lot longer, and a lot more effort to prepare than processed foods. When you've got each available parent working two jobs then this is a huge barrier.

Knowledge of preparation: especially in immigrant populations, not everybody has access to the ingredients they're used to.

Knowledge of nutrition: it's not like life comes with an instruction manual, and if you got little to no nutrition education, you probably don't realize the impact of those empty calories.

Fussy Kids: people who appeasing fussy kids (yeah yeah yeah... the hardos without kids will say you should just force them to eat it. Life isn't so straightforward.)

Waste: this is a huge factor. If you've got a tiny amount of cash and you need to spend it on things that will ensure you wont starve, something that will potentially go bad in a few days is a risky proposition, so you tend to stock up on heavily processed shelf stable items.

Price: Cheap is in the eye of the beholder. You can get a whole bag of chips for the same price as 2 apples. When you have a REALLY borderline income, your "cheap" is a lot different than someone else's.

There's plenty of other factors. Check out the research on it for more info. Really interesting stuff to dig into.
source?

If that's actually true, we should all be using CoffeeScript:

http://redmonk.com/dberkholz/2013/03/25/programming-language...

According to that analysis, it's more expressive than Haskell, Scala or Clojure (all of which otherwise rate quite well).

Regardless, the "ad-hoc" solutions are all about the same LOC as the do-notation syntax, so I'm not sure the LOC argument is relevant here.

I would assert that bugginess and readability vary across coding styles, which is ultimately the question at hand, not language (ie; you can write comprehensions in Haskell too).
There's always that one guy asking why a product exists when it's "trivial" to spin up and manage yourself.
You are comparing a monthly plan against an annual plan. Google's annual plan costs $100. Only very slightly more expensive. In addition they have a 200gb plan which is enough for people like me
You are not wrong, but I will say that overweight is a really low threshold. For me at 6'5", it's about 200lbs at the top. Factor in that tall people generally have more variance in torso to leg ratio, and it makes it difficult to get down to that weight. I was 235 lbs when I left the Army and was incredibly trim. At 200 lbs, I would have been very skinny. At the middle of the healthy range, 175 lbs, I would look incredibly skinny.

My goal weight is 200. I've got 100 to go and I've lost 40 so far. I got there because of the sugar and depression, but I thought it was important to note that 200 for me is going to be incredibly skinny. I don't think it is practical for most people to maintain that.