skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This headline could not be more uninformative if it tried unless it was totally off topic.

Like probably a lot of people here, I read the headline and said to myself "no shit, of course diet matters" but then I read the article and the conclusion is actually pretty interesting: CICO is of course still king and that's not at all what this is about; this group did a mouse study and found that when they increased the amount of exercise available to the mice (and they started to exercise more), something happened that was not fatigue related that cause them to be MORE sedentary when they were not exercising, and in fact the increase in sedentary behavior almost perfectly counteracted the increased energy consumption from the running (they still ended up slightly net negative but extremely minor).

It's a short article and worth the read. Still a garbage headline.
It's really useful if you don't change your diet, but eat less of the same stuff as before.
Getaround has a bunch of fake owner accounts with automated help lines which I think are actually owned-fleet vehicles.
> We understand that the key to weight loss is calories in, calories out.

That's not at all true.

CICO is a straightforward restatement of a law of thermodynamics, and I'm not disputing that at all.

But from a weight-loss perspective, understanding CICO isn't necessarily that helpful, and certainly not "the key". The difficult question is how any particular individual can make CO > CI. (Well, actually, the goal is to balance CO with CI at a healthy weight, but of course that's step 2 for a lot of people.)

There are many millions of people for whom the answer to that question is not known.

I suspect it's because Human metabolism is complicated, with numerous overlapping and interacting mechanisms and system, where the parameters for how they interact vary by individual... hormones, habits, social network, culture, taste, access to food options, physical health, your job, etc., can all be significant factors, depending on the individual. Meanwhile, food producers of various sorts are often acting at cross-purposes, since their goal is to make as much money as possible, not necessarily help people lose weight.
Isn't anyone who has Google Analytics installed on a page collecting information and creating "shadow" profiles?

I watched the entire hearing, it was pretty interesting. I was surprised how ignorant many of the senators were of the subject matter on hand. Some of them clearly didn't understand the difference between Facebook and the Internet. Or they thought that Facebook, Google, Twitter, were all the same thing, this mysterious "Internet" and somehow Zuckerberg was in charge of it all.

Some of the questions were impossible to answer because they made no sense and they kept hammering him for not answering it.

Then there were senators basically trying to guilt trip him into endorsing their bill when he already said he supports the principle behind it but it would depend on the details.
Can I also request all data related to my browser fingerprint?
I disagree. You have games like The Last of Us, The Uncharted Series, Yakuza 0, and even the latest Wolfenstein game having very well made and engaging stories which I think can translate well on film.
Yea HN seems to be one of the only sites that provides a way to post code verbatim and not a way to make quoting stand out.
Yes, even through getaround. Uber does provide this as a service for drivers.

But this announcement is about a rider side product.
If available it's better to use instantiateStreaming [0] for faster compilation, e.g. this:

fetch('../out/main.wasm').then(response =>
response.arrayBuffer()
).then(bytes => WebAssembly.instantiate(bytes))

could be expressed as this:

fetch('../out/main.wasm').then(response =>
WebAssembly.instantiateStreaming(response))

[0]: https://hacks.mozilla.org/2018/01/making-webassembly-even-fa...
No, there is a difference between what should do, what they can do and what they are doing. I would interpret the OP as saying they can know, if they wanted to. But that doesn’t really have much to do with Zuckerberg denying knowledge.
I think your ideas are valid, but there are many potential candidates who cannot do any of the above because they have full time jobs that prohibit open source contributions without prior approval.
Built on top of the great work of many : https://github.com/wasdk/WebAssemblyStudio#credits
I think it's great that the tech/startup industry as a whole has moved more towards a "let's ensure the unit economics work" mentality vs. the "we'll grow quickly and monetize through advertising later" mentality of ~5-7 years ago.

"Getting lots of users" is not a viable business model.
Can you source that? Because as far as I can tell, de novo lipogenesis is a relatively rare process, exactly because our body prefers to just store the fat in the blood as fat. Sugar is burned preferentially, and only when your carb intake exceeds your total daily energy expenditure, it will start converting it to fat: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10365981

I'm not sure what chemically needs to happen, fat is transported from the bowel to the bloodstream in a relatively complex process, but once it's in the blood, it's in the same form as in storage, as triglycerides.

In fact, the triglyceride content of a person's fat stores will reflect their diet, which is a strong indication it comes directly from the food without processing: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/4072956
Yes, I realize that. Not sure how it's relevant, but okay.
> You've clearly never tried to support more than one browser.

Sure I do, all the way back to when CGIs were still a thing, that is what Web development is all about.

It is no different than using any other programming language, graphical APIs, network API, or OS stacks backed up by standards.

Anything else is just being lazy at user's expenses.

Just imagine game developers shipping a GPU with their game just to be sure it is the same OpenGL version.
I'm not sure if she's technically savvy enough to have known that or researched it on her own but if not I'm really glad her interns or subordinates were focused on important talking points that will really help define the problems at hand.
There are ~~absolutely~~ fantastic stories in video games. There are plenty of games that you play for the story and the gameplay is just meh.
>The difficulty I find is, identifying the moment to leave the hammock again in a startup enviroment. To what degree do you need to understand a problem before you take action. If you try to understand it 100%, you'll never get anything out there.

Agreed. The problem, though, (and I'm painting with a broad brush here) is that the erring tends to be much more on the side of not trying to understand much or at all, of the problem, before jumping into action. I think a lot of it is due to peer pressure and wanting to be "seen" by peers and bosses (and VCs) to be doing stuff, as opposed to really getting things done better in the medium term, even if in the short term it looks like you are not acting but "only" thinking or analyzing or designing stuff. Hence my comment in that post I linked to, about "we have to ship next week". All too common - been there, seen a good amount of that. In fact, this subthread between HN user jacquesm and me just recently, is basically about the same point, although described in different words:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16774234

>But I'm already very happy that I was able to convince the business side of the company of the approach in a brief talk about it and they now referrer to "the hammock" themselves :)

Cool :)
I don't think the article is arguing against regulation--it is arguing for competition.

Thompson's point is that the real issue is not privacy, but that Facebook is incentivized to disregard privacy because that have zero competition. That is, they have the luxury of disregarding user privacy because they have a monopoly on the social network (and have been allowed to strengthen it through acquisitions).

I'd argue that both regulation and competition are necessary. Regulation to make data protected and portable, while punishing breach of data, and competition to allow the market to create alternatives.

Right now people don't leave Facebook because there is nowhere else to go, and no way to take their graph with them.
Yeah - I came across two senators in my "people who submitted your details" list.

Seriously what? How do they have my details and how is it verified that they got them legitimately?

I'm in the UK, a UK citizen, have no contact with the US political system, and have only briefly passed through the US. So how have two senators got my details?

The email address used is not my spam email, it is, as far as I know not used on sign up does etc. - so how was it found (though I am aware of the extreme irony of calling an email address used on Facebook as a not for spam one)?

Facebook and all those who are on that list are going to get a GDPR request come the end of May.
These kinds of deals don't materialize in 2 weeks. It's more likely that this has been in the works for months and is now finalized/announced.

I don't work at Uber or anything, so this is a guess based on past experience elsewhere, but I'm pretty confident that this didn't get cooked up in the wake of their most recent incident.
About a quarter of Internet traffic now originates from Google
5k kcal / day is professional athlete levels of activity.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/23/sports/olympics/cross-cou...

Burning 15kcal per minute is a stretch for most people, and with family life and economic constraints, I doubt most people can spare more than 30 to 45 min per day for HIIT exercise. My point is its only realistic to budget burning 400 to 600 kcal due to exercise.

It's far easier to eat more than what any normal person can burn even with excercise, so without a naturally high metabolism, a proper, restricted diet is a necessity.
Learning and Teaching are hard. Maybe learning styles are a "myth", maybe there just infinitely more complex things going on in a classroom/school than can be controlled for.

Also, some people are smart (read: have preexisting understanding of the concepts that precede the material being taught, typically combined with a desire to learn the material) and some people are stupid (read: the opposite of smart) and that can create its own set of hurdles.
This is a great point. The real question is "Why is Hollywood trying to make video game movies?"
Per month. I generally charge my tenants (outside the Area) pretty close to 1% per month, for reference. If I can't get 0.9% per month or more, the property isn't worth the effort at renting it out.
It’s really the lot that’s selling for 800k. Clickbait headline.
Are those problems still unresolved in MySQL today? How do you know that similar or worse problems did not exist in alternative solutions at the time it was implemented?
I've seen MediaWikia and Confluence used successfully. It does require culture . . . but I've noticed that more people use the friendlier tool and that we have a lot more documentation with Confluence. The MediaWiki stuff was okay, but clumsy.

Other tools I've seen used with success generally have the characteristics of being lightweight, not too complicated, and having a relatively frictionless interface for making small changes (e.g., "press an Edit button and start typing").

I've been in a culture that desperately wanted to do documentation, but the tool that management forced people to use was SharePoint, and it was horrible (search functionality that never worked, very bad response time, very difficult to link or move documents, and worst of all a policy to delete "unused" SharePoint sites after a while . . . the result being that important engineering documentation was irretrievably destroyed). PMs loved the busywork that SharePoint created for them. I wound up putting all of our documentation into source control and snapshotting it to SharePoint periodically. This made me unpopular with the PMs, but I'm pretty sure the documents are still there, a decade later.

So tooling doesn't matter, unless the tooling stinks badly enough.
Looking for Australia's Silicon Valley
Same here. I checked the "Ad Preferences" screen and have hundreds of advertisers who I've never even interacted with and who probably bought a 3rd party spam list.

Realistically, how can I be simultaneously a member of the "Florida Anti-Gambling Association" the "Concerned Veterans for Ohio" the "Democratic Legislative Campaign" and the "Republican Governors Association" and XXX for Georgia Senate and YYY for Nevada Senate and dozens of other political causes in states I've never even been to.
When did Electron even enter the conversation from Mozilla's side? It seems like people are inserting that detail entirely on their own.
Then you need to improve your Google-fu.

Burroughs, Xerox PARC systems, ETHZ Lilith, Pascal UCSD, IBM TIMI, IBM Language Environment, ...
They think it's easy money.
Mortal Kombat is very, very fun. I'm not sure I'd call it a good film, but I enjoyed it a lot.

Another good example is the Phoenix Wright movie (in Japan). Both are excellent love letters to their fans.
Contributor here. We put together a quick intro article here if you'd like a bit more info: https://medium.com/@hapipal/introducing-hapi-pal-550c13f30c5...
Uber already has rental programs for its drivers (see upthread). But how would this allow a driver to avoid commissions to uber?
If you're talking about gaining strength you need to continually lift more weight before you reach your natural limit every session. It shouldn't be too hard for the average man to reach a 180/bench 200/deadlift 240/squat after a years worth of training.

It's also hard to gain muscular physiques in general. You have to cut an enormous amount of body fat to obtain things like an Adonis belt but if your goal is strength it shouldn't be too hard to hit novice benchmarks.

I also doubt you were seriously burning the amount of calories you think you were working out. Unless you're a professional or Olympic athlete, someone who is training for over 6 hours a day, you will likely never burn more than 400 calories from a "moderate" gym session.

People dramatically over estimate how much they burn working out. There's a reason why people say "You can't outrun a bad diet."
How’s that different than Jack Welch’s famous “fire the bottom 10% of your workforce” that he implemented in GE in the 80s? Honestly, it was close to textbook management strategy when originally implemented at Microsoft.

Now, sure management science has advanced since then, and a lot of the ways that Microsoft implemented stack ranking at the beginning we’ve realized are counterproductive.

But that doesn’t really change the core principle that they end up ranking employees at some point in time
It's an important concern but anyone who has Google Analytics, or any other analytics tool, installed on their website is collecting non-user data. This happens pretty much across the board.

There's also the concern about derived data, like some kind of user embedding vector from clustering, that provides a lot of information about the user that is not available in the raw source data.
Hi HN!

I always thought there's no good place to share interesting bits from podcasts. I was searching for a place where I could discover new podcasts because itunes charts turned out not to be the best place to go (for me at least).

The idea is to post new bits, preferably couple of minutes long, that can then be shared with a link, like: https://triflet.com/view/33-bill-burr-on-sunglasses

An extra benefit would be that the audio content can be discoverable through search engines.

Triflet began as a pet project to learn angular (back then it was in beta) and it kinda dragged out. I might work on it more if it turns out that it can be an interesting idea to other people too.

Let me know what you think!
I disagree with the "mostly", without some quantified support. Unless you mean that most of the games selected are substandard stories, but I didn't see a list of the 35 mentioned.

I would posit that perhaps the filtration system of making a wide audience film has more impact on how the screenplay is adapted and I haven't noticed that being discussed.
They had to be in the works previously - These sorts of deals require more time to negotiate than has passed since the pedestrian incident.
Because the liability is not worth it.
I don't think the vendor is deflecting too much. The extended quote from the article is a lot less one-sided:

> ATI wrote that Bastille's findings are "likely true" and that it's testing a software update it plans to roll out soon. "Before customers panic too much, please understand that this is not a trivially easy thing that just anyone can do," that earlier statement notes. "At the same time, a certain level of concern is justified. As technology evolves, the level of threat evolves."
I was pretty young when I saw that movie for the first time, but I still re-watch it from time to time and enjoy it. There is something charming about how hyper serious it is, while being absolutely ridiculous.
Just one question, following Zuckeberg's congress show-and-dance: are the next CEOs to be called in front of the committee the ones from Equifax, Experian and TransUnion?

Because the way I see it, they're collecting millions of "shadow profiles", with no consent, no remedy, no removal procedures. Furthermore, they sell that data to 3rd parties at will.

I'd also look into a possible connection between one of these and Facebook. I imagine if someone crosses your social profile with actual credit records, real name, address, car, etc. then you have nothing private left to protect save the thoughts in your head.
Being old enough to remember the special hell that was CGI, that particular mechanism showing up in 12 Factor Apps doesn't sit entirely well with me.

It doesn't stop me from supporting it as a deployment process, but there's a 22 year old inside of me that cries a little every time I talk about using environment variables for config.
Pro athletes, medical residents, and certain teachers seem OK with it. College professors can't exactly take their tenure with them.
Yep, exactly this! I already have flagging on my list of TODO's which is currently at the top of that list.
Til then I'm the filter.
I'm allowing it to be a little more free right now just to get my foot in the door with data.
Thanks!
Am I missing something or has the beacon functionality of the Like button not come up yet in the hearing? I think it's critical to note that the Like button can---and probably is---being used to build non-user profiles as well as user profiles. The critical technical thing is that the load of the Like button is the critical signal; whether the user actually liked something is secondary. It seems like Senator Gardner got close yesterday but had some technical misunderstandings about just how powerful the Like button is.
Yeah, the docs are definitely an area of Envoy that could be improved. All the information is there, somewhere, but finding what you're looking for can be quite challenging.
And clearly, Facebook would not use personal information for unethical purposes.
Would you please not post unsubstantive comments to Hacker News?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I was talking capitalism. In a market transaction between individuals, trustworthiness of the other party has some value.

You're talking corporations. "none of these places have any honor" I completely agree with you on corporations.
typos: memeory, "pulling the struct iovec abart."
>slight changes in the speed of light

what could this possibly mean? are you trying to say they're measuring the differences in refractive index of air as a function of humidity?
> But, if you put it on IPFS, what hosts the wallet, and wallet API?

Which wallet? You can use whatever wallet you want which supports the functionality the DApp requires. There are dozens of wallets, some are in-browser.

> Also, last I checked, IPFS is not censorship resistant: https://github.com/ipfs/faq/issues/36#issuecomment-140567411

While I didn't mention anything about censorship, I suggest reading that entire thread and its continuation. All it discusses is the ability to have curated blocklists. It's up to you whether you want to use them or not.

What I did mention is that you don't have to use any specific replication protocol. Don't like IPFS? Use something else.

If you did want to use IPFS and you're concerned about censorship, then consider that IPFS is a distributed hash table protocol with some default client rules. If you don't use their default bootstrapping nodes, you can create your own IPFS network. In fact, IPFS is totally usable in an isolated local network, or even over a sneaker net.
> > The Like Button is a classic example of bounding because it reduces your thoughts and feelings about a piece of content to a thumbs up

> We press the like button all the time in real life. Giving thumbs up, a quick nod of the head, or clapping.

Oh no, I don't think real life expressions can be summed or approximated into a binary thumbs up vs no thumbs up (there's no thumbs down). For example, we express a lot more by how eagerly we raise our hands while giving a thumbs up, or how our eyes approve (or disapprove) while giving the quick nod, or how hard (or sarcastically mild) we clap.

I think there is always an amount of uncertainty in real life expression that gets lost the moment we transform them into certain form.
Facebook CEO says his own data was shared by Cambridge Analytica
Not really, it is a coupler that broke away from the flex shalf. Flex shaft is made of some oily metal crap, can't weld or braze to it. It was a compression fit coupler and the coupler cracked.

Pictured here:
http://answerarmy.com/posts/494bc7a370

[edit] - fixing link
It's also just a way longer story than fits in a movie yeah?
There's an interesting argument[1] that the behavior of corporations can be very accurately modeled as artificial intelligences that use humans as computing resources. If you accept that argument, it is no longer accurate to say that morality comes only from the people that make up the company, a company has its own agency that isn't just the sum of all of the decisions made by the individuals who make up the corporation.

[1] http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2018/01/dude-you...
DNG is an open format: "Use of the file format is royalty-free; Adobe has published a license allowing anyone to exploit DNG, and has also stated that there are no known intellectual property encumbrances or license requirements for DNG. Adobe stated that if there were a consensus that DNG should be controlled by a standards body, they were open to the idea."

See also: http://www.barrypearson.co.uk/articles/dng/products_y7.htm
One issue with keto weight loss is that some of the lost weight is water weight—the keto diet reduces your body's ability to store water.

So keto may reduce your weight, but it's not actually reducing your fat stores, it's just reducing the amount of water in your body.
How We Evaluated and Chose a Blogging Platform (that Wasn't Wordpress)
Not sure why this is downvoted. If you don't have a videogame source material it's not going to have whatever problems a videogame movie has.
Exposing the deus ex machina as a mundane studio recording effort is an interesting idea, but detracts from the immersiveness and suspension-of-disbelief.

Great humor potential, though it'd get stale and instead become the story.
It seems that the value of Uber/Lyft is their names, and the setting up markets of drivers that have had some sort of verification, and providing a unified mobile hailing interface for customers to use.
I don't see the part of their businesses that couldn't be done as well by some decentralized or non-profit entity, except perhaps the identification and verification of drivers and their vehicles.