skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Its interesting. The article talks about the energy expended to do work (moving from place to place) and compares different types of human powered movement (running, biking, swimming). Then it dives into efficiency comparing one person racing a commuter train.

Side note: It would be cool to see efficiency of source of energy as well. Bananas eaten through a human digestive system vs diesel locomotives.

This could turn into a new metric for athletes - power output during certain types of physical activity. Ex, did you improve from 4.1W/kg to 4.3W/kg for a certain activity? What did you do to get there?

The answer might not just be about lost fat weight and increased muscle weight but more along the lines of improved form efficiency. Ex, for cycling, I improved by form so my knees don't move out so wide (kept in by 1cm) during the stroke do my drag coefficient from 0.88 to 0.84 and I become more efficient. https://www.cyclingpowerlab.com/CyclingAerodynamics.aspx
You could really dive into this as a pro athlete. Just like IQ can be broken into sub-measures (overall IQ broken into spacial reasoning, puzzling ability, etc).
Start with EQ (Energy Quotient) for a given activity then break it down into specifics.

Example 1) Michael Phelps has a swimming style that is more efficient than other swimmers. So his swimming EQ would be very high. And you could break it down into specific moves that make it high (ex his flipturn is fast, he breathes fewer times and that is fast, his butterfly kicks are better than usual) https://www.yourswimlog.com/michael-phelps-numbers/. Then train the specifics to get your EQ higher.

Example 2) Bode Miller skier with his upper body and arms all over the place but his lower body locked into the fastest way down the hill. His VMG, velocity made good, towards his goal is super high. So if we measured his energy expenditure and change in kinetic and potential energy coming down a hill, we could come up with a EQ number based on a Lagrangian. If other skiers wanted to match his lower body style, we could study their own Lagrangians and optimize for better EQ. Then those skiers could train with exercises to keep their EQs high by focusing on specific moves to perfect, better reading of the hill terrain, strengthening specific muscles, etc. That's the breakdown.
Thalidomide, asbestos, DDT, commercial fishing, logging, industrial agriculture’s dependence on phosphate, western nations entirely addicted to oil … there are plenty of examples.

The overall positive trend is slowing down, with life expectancy in the USA dropping, mostly due to the opioid epidemic.

Overall the picture is pretty grim. Long term stability of civilisation is under threat due to fertility rates not falling fast enough to offset longevity. Food production is consuming limited non-renewable resources.
> Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.

FYI, want to start off with that to help indicate the likely reason for any downvotes you got on this post.

> One thing for sure is that a lot of people downvote based on disagreement rather than a comment's quality - which in my opinion is not right

Everyone is entitled to their opinion, but it doesn’t make it any more valid than other’s and doesn’t make it a fact either.

> (and I think against the intent of a downvote)

@Dang has said on multiple occasions that the intent wasn’t as you are assuming. Apologies I don’t have a link handy at the moment.
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Maybe I was a bit obtuse but the transfer comes not from poor diversification (although that can be a problem) but market timing. When a person in control of their retirement fund and has a diversified retirement account, just like the experts say, they eventually build it up to a decent amount. Now they start to pay attention to the losses and gains. If stocks now go crazy for a few years, all the hype and past missed gains are so great they sell their bonds and buy stocks near the peak. Then the market crashes and they sell near the bottom for a 50% loss. Then they have been so burned they just keep it in cash and miss out on making it all back and then some in the next bull market. The really unfortunate (stupid?, greedy?, gullible?) people cycle through this more than once. I know I'm not immune.

Not sure how one would set up a system where people can control their own retirement funds and yet not control them. Some system where you can only trade with a one month lead time? Or only allow people to buy those timed funds that mix and match highly diversified stock and bond funds depending on your age. Seems like a hard problem.
Tutorial on refining 2d gameart houses quick and easy way with vectors
The sidekick was so ahead of its time. Push AIM, email(including pop3!), an appstore. I still have fond memories of mine.

Not a surprise that Andy Rubin went on to build Android.
I think it's the highest compliment I've ever seen Linus express to somebody. And he's not wrong, the hack is adorable. It would never have occurred to me that doing this was even possible in C.
A new post on 2dgameartguru.com refining the buildings from the previous step-by-step tutorial.

Taking most of the existing elements and adding simple shapes like rectangles, circles and a few lines to add interest to the buildings in a quick and reusable way. Building your library of elements will make this a very modular approach to creating repeating, yet different 2D game assets.
Bull. I've been using Python since high school, but very few employers I've ever spoken to were willing to actually label me as having any years of experience in Python.
If you're applying to that many jobs, you're not being deliberate in the search. I've found all of my post-highschool jobs either from people in my network advertising something, or recruiters reaching out to me.

When I was in highschool I did not understand that it was really about who you know (I was homeschooled, so I didn't have a school network to reach out to for jobs), and went applying for typical highschool retail/fast food jobs willy nilly and never got an offer. It's because I was lacking someone who could "intro" me in to the organization. Now I can't really imagine trying to apply for a job cold.
But that's the thing..the 5Gb data is mostly made of stuff you "uploaded" to Google, not stuff that was "collected"
Well, you know when you think everyone else is wrong and you're right - that's the definition of crazy. I'm not insulting you, as text doesn't convey that I say that with a smile, but you should consider that it's far more likely that you are actually the one who's wrong.
There is a system for dispute resolution.

Both parties agree to use a third party, called a moderator, who will settle the dispute if either party is dissatisfied.

The cryptocurrency isn't sent directly to the seller, but it goes into a 2-of-3 multisig account. That requires any two of the parties to release the funds.

Most of the time the buyer and seller are happy and release the funds when the transaction is completed, but if either party is unhappy then they open a dispute and the moderator gets involved. He / she then joins with the winning party to move the funds.

Moderators are very important in the system and it's important that people choose trustworthy ones, so my company OB1 offers a service where we vet moderators so people know who to choose.

https://ob1.io/verified-moderators.html
Thanks for the kind words! I hope you enjoy using it.
Interesting...

http://www.ptep-online.com/2018/PP-53-01.PDF
I'm no cosmologist, but hasn't the effort to build detectors for these "heavy neutrino's" failed thus far? How much low hanging fruit is actually left?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_Underground_Xenon_experi...
To be honest, that's exactly what I quote in my brain when I want to shame myself out of responding to people :D
> Qubes is more for people looking to have their internet connection completely private

It was my impression that part of the point was also to isolate programs from one-another in case one of them is compromised. I may be mistaken in my understanding, but if Qubes OS did that then that is a good reason for me if I could for example isolate Steam and all of the proprietary games from the rest of my computer. Likewise with the isolating the environments that I visit different sites from.

> Steam is best kept on Windows because it would be pretty obvious since *you're connecting to your Steam account and you would lose the privacy from it.

I don't run Windows.

> Linux is also not the best environment for your video card, either, because nVidia doesn't have open-source drivers available. Now, yes, there are drivers available for some version of Linux, but they are generally close-source and very likely not the best for privacy reasons.

Proprietary drivers on Linux are still better than proprietary drivers on an OS that is also proprietary. Besides I plain don't like the Windows experience. I use Windows on my work computer because I have to but I will not use in on my private computers (aside from occasionally in a VM for some purpose or other).

Anyway, a sibling to your comment told me that Qubes OS does not have official GPU support so I guess it's not for me sadly.
Maybe the browser should not have access to your real IP when you are using a VPN? so it's the OS's fault?
This is a hard problem... I also wanted to do something similar for years, but EatThisMuch beat me to it and did a fairly good job.

It's challenging because you can't optimize using continuous variables, since you aren't going to eat 0.001283834 of a pizza for example, or 4.910 cans of tuna because your below your protein target. You have to deal with whole numbers, and moreover the results need to make sense and not taste like garbage.

I remember reading something from the creator of EatThisMuch that stated in the early days he would actually get silly things like that... here: eat this 28 cups of cottage cheese and you've hit your targets!
“Apple doesn't have a social network.”

What about iMessage?
They're detectable and already taken into account.
The page is definitely poorly engineered, but the font looks nothing like Arial or Helvetica.
That's too bad. Oh well.
The data was used in aggregate to produce detailed profiles (upwards of 40k of them), as reported by the original whistleblower and every reputable news source who's reported on it, and in far more detail than "go campaign in X".

More like "This specific group of people in X who like guns, willie nelson and dislike bananas would be receptive to a picture of willie nelson squashing a banana with Hillary Clinton's face on it with a caption about 2A". Then, spread this picture organically through facebook groups for people who hate bananas, love willie nelson and guns.

To be clear: the story is not at all "oh no they brought targeted facebook adverts", and it should be evident that perhaps your logic or understanding is faulty rather than a worldwide media conspiracy to short Facebook stock.
Russia has very little to gain and lots to lose from this shit move. This is not a move that you make on the international checkerboard. Stop taking us for idiots.
Any recommendations for Android?
Sure, but comparing the virtual slave state of North Korea with the prosperity of South Korea is a pretty good argument for freedom and against slavery.

Do you have some examples of societies that radically increased their overall health and safety without adopting liberal economic policies? Cuba, maybe?
A really good analogy. And it is worth noting that in the UK British Army, junior officer training is nearly a year long course, and then promising Colonels go through a Higher command training course to prepare for Generalship.

Maybe, just maybe, Harvard Business School is the place for teaching better than 50% to do well and expand.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higher_Command_and_Staff_Cou...
The effectiveness of CA is a red herring.

All one has to do is watch Channel 4's Cambridge Analytica videos to see that the CEO is on video promising things which are both unethical and illegal, and a subversion of democracy. Sales pitch or not, the content itself is damning.

If I promise you I can provide you illegal drugs, weapons, child porn, etc. but don't actually have those things, does that make me a better person than if I actually did have those things? At the very best, I'm still a lying snake oil salesman. Except, I'm not promising a medical remedy. I'm promising you illegal and unethical things. This isn't a car that just happens to be a lemon.
I'd argue that most of the 'algorithms are evil' crowd don't even understand the problem to begin with since many of them do not come from a technical background.
It depends on the content of the emails.
I see a lot of people here saying something like "Not Tetris, but", BUT, what about "Not Tetris 2"? Its like tetris, but not. http://stabyourself.net/nottetris2/
I posit that its a beautiful piece of artwork designed as a honeypot. The sweetness that will draw certain people in is all of the conflicting, and therefore inherently controversial information that can be used to paint Facebook and Christopher Wylie as the true problem here, and the incredible Donald is just the poor guy caught up in the middle.

This is evidenced by the conservative media's discrediting of all of the people telling the story. I don't even contend that Buzzfeed is conservative or liberal, so I think Buzzfeed is either an unwitting accomplice in this honeypot, or perhaps it is their pot. Time will tell.

My thesis is that, just like actual honeypots, the sweetness is coverfire for the trap lying inside. That trap is to frame this whole story as if the most heinous part of the story is just Facebook losing control of the data. Once the key players admit to the microtargetting, but claim everybody does it, the jaws of the trap will spring shut.

Some of those players have already made their confessions, literally on Fox News, a week after the election, and they couldnt contain their joy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fFbVwuU8bM

It is obvious that Donald Trump intuitively understands the general concepts at play in microtargetting, but also just as obvious that he doesn't understand its mechanics.

Microtargetting is literally a deep learning algorithm, and Cambridge Analytica is a Robert Mercer affiliated outfit. You may remember Robert Mercer from such travesties as high frequency trading. After all, he invented it, and used it to become a billionaire. Microtargeting is to humans as high frequency trading is to investment markets.

The underlying principle is the same. If you can glean information about your target faster than your competitors, you can act upon that information to your own gain. Microtargeting is literally a computer evolving its algorithm to influence the targetted. It is A/B testing what will unite one half of an electorate with the reddest of red meat policies, which by definition induce panic in the other half of the electorate.

Cambridge Analytica has cracked the code on how to divide or unite people with an algorithm. I'll leave it as an exercise to the reader to figure out which one they are aiming for.
I think he sees himself more like a Snowden than an Assange. The former being a true whistleblower, the latter, well…
All you know is that it was an electric car. It definitely wasn't self-driving, and it may have have autopilot enabled.
The same with the presidency. It's even less democratic than the senate: the individual is not directly elected by voters. Once in office they have virtually unlimited power: executive orders, which require no approvals to enact. Only occasionaly do the courts step in to check them. No single person should have this much power.
> So don't get me wrong, I am completely pro research

If you are pro research, maybe you should understand what you are talking about before you make ignorant claims that are completely backward, disconnected, and unfavored by the majority of scientists. You ignorance in this comment is incredible. The large majority of scientists support GMO research and confirm it's safety, while ignorant civilians (like you) fail to understand, fail to listen, and fail to learn.
Going or not going with the crowd is a poor definition of craziness. Instead, consider the candidate thinking logically (e.g. do they believe P&&!P is true) or critically. Do they have reasonable arguments or do they go in circles, etc...
Glad to hear it, please let us know how it goes. There's a feedback button built right into the client so it's very easy to let us hear your feedback!
Entry level doesn't mean people with no experience, and it means something different for every company. Entry level for the NFL means having 8+ years of football experience for instance. Not every company hires people straight out of highschool or college. But there still are many that will hire people with 0-1 years of experience for entry level roles.
Knew the owner in real life. I liked the name and didn’t want to start off with an empty account with no karma. It’s mutual anonymization.
With this as a stated goal, The world needs a protocol and network for trade that no one company or government controls. That's OpenBazaar... going after the network as a whole doesn’t seem unreasonable. The FBI for example, probably isn’t still in their Atlas Shrugged phase.
Got any links for cosmology laymen? I'd be curious to see if my "theory" is negated.
I'm not a lawyer but I can confirm that there's no more that we can do to control content than Google can for the web or email. We (OB1) follow US law in our services but we have no control of the p2p network.
Yes, but you've said nothing about the cost-profit ratio about a hypothetical horrible racist. Even discounting the cost of the negative PR, do they still make more for you than otherwise? Is horrible racism something that your company cares about other than the money? Maybe having them work for you is a better thing than them not working at all?

Social media can be very 'noisy' and should be one of a number of factors that are used in decisions.
> You need to be passionate in the sense of finding the work sufficiently non-loathsome that you can readily motivate yourself to do it.

That is a major abuse of "passion". While the original definitions are even stronger, something you are "passionate" about is something you actively seeking out to do. Something that is merely "sufficiently non-loathsome" is not a passion.
Everything, since the nutrition comes from things that are covered by IP law.
To do these kinds of tests reasonably, you need to do it from an incognito window or private browsing and clear all history between every search.

Even that might not be enough to get the original results, as there are also signals based on location.
If a $MAKE hasn't given you any problems, then you may well go back to it. If I were to buy a small car I'd buy a nissan micra -- I've owned two and both were really good.

However if $MAKE has given you problems, then you're likely to avoid it.
Network of fortified towns indicates Amazon was once heavily populated
The unexpected EDI quip when doing so in Mass Effect 2 was worth a chuckle.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-CDNLYZ0zA#t=15s
Facebook has long been losing its monopoly... to Instagram. They have enough money to keep buying the Next Big Thing.
There're plenty of certification exams in the tech field though they're never required by law, and most companies wouldn't use them as a primary criteria in making decision of new hires.
I'm glad to hear this, if you're using OpenBazaar in your project I'd love to hear more about it (you can join our developer calls we hold bi-weekly).
HN _is_ social media.
Harvey Mansfield – The Left on Campus (2010)
After the graphics driver moved out of it and into the kernel, it probably no longer needs the ability to turn off interrupts and read and write legacy IO ports.
in most fields it means exactly that - or it means "there is a well known educational syllabus that you have already followed and the next X years are the well
known practical side of that education. At the end you will be rewarded with membership of a profession"

it works for lawyers, civil engineers and accountants. not for software engineers it seems.
This is a very reasonable question, but I think this is too off topic from this article to comply with HN's guidelines as it verges on more general questions. The latest issue of Jacobin does compare the Cuban health system to the US health system and to the Dominican Republic if you're interested, but it's print/subscriber only. SK and NK are too complex to be analyzed under these textual constraints.
I would be surprised if a Pringles can can do it. This stuff is symmetrical. If signal can get in and out from one end, it can also get in/out from the other, meaning MI6 would be able to listen in on their diplomatic correspondence. So there’s probably a serious Faraday cage around the place.
Do you know what apostrophes are for? Do you follow any rules when using them, or do you just 'season to taste'?
They got it by using the same technique that Obama did in 2008 and 2012. They got one of your friends to authorize their app, and then they were allowed to access most of the data about your friends that you could access. The only difference between CA and Obama is that Obama’s app was given special permission to blow through data collection limits enforced on all other apps, such that even though less than 1 million people authorized Obama to have their data, they had information on ~200 million people - the entire US social graph. The researcher that created the app at issue in the CA scandal, who eventually sold that data to CA years after the fact, only had access to about ~50 million profiles.

Both of these things were wrong, but it should have been a huge deal back in 2008 and again in 2012, when 4x the number of profiles were accessed and used, about 99.5% of which never authorized Obama to have or use their information.
Because you can safely assume that if it has happened whoever did it did not leave a box and a card with a pointer saying 'smoking gun'. Have some patience, it will all come out in time, either way. For now there is a whole lot more evidence that at least some people didn't mind playing fast and loose with the truth and that alone should be cause enough for worry. And no, none of that is 'the topic of this thread', you made it that, the topic of this thread is Assange losing comms privileges.

And the media isn't pumping any 'fear' narrative, it is for the most part reporting that which is either leaked or found in court documents.

So, nobody is 'damn sure of the truth', and neither are you and no evidence or charges does not mean there won't be any. Or do you mean to say the investigation should be closed before it has run its course because you think there never will be any charges? And if that's true what does it matter? In that case you should want it to conclude because that is the only way this thing will go away in a way that it will stay away.
I collected some mentions of "Monsanto" from this very discussion:

...Monsanto lawsuits...

...created by Monsanto (which is Evil)...

...Monsanto patents...

...those of us who are suspicious of the Monsantos of this world...

I would be funny to be a software engineer if every discussion with friends and family about your work would involve suspicious mentions like "Facebook lawsuits..." , "...created by Facebook (which is Evil)...",
"Facebook patents...", "...those of us who are suspicious of the Facebooks of this world..."

Or the same for s/Facebook/Google/g.