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"Sounds great, but is this compatible with"

Yes. I guess I can't speak to "bodybuilding" but I have maintained a high level of powerlifting output for years on a schedule of IF (two 16 and one 24 hour fast per week).

In fact, I would go so far as to say that many activities are enhanced while in the fasted state - my distance running (admittedly short, 4-5 mile runs) feels easier and I feel lighter on my feet and I also feel lighter and quicker in my BJJ practice (even though my weight is the same).

I usually do my heavy weight training while in a (16 hour) fasted state, immediately followed by a high protein, 1000+ calorie meal.

The only adjustment I have had to make is that the meal immediately following my 24 hour fast needs to be contain a lot of fiber. If you shut down your digestion for 24 hours, you don't want to fill yourself back up with cheese pizza or a huge steak.

YMMV.
Previous MacBook 12” user here. Either power, or peripherals. Just not at the same time.
Autonomy with Frank Chen
isnt 1+1=2 true in the same way that 0=0 is true, namely by definition? its proven analytically, 2 is defined as 1 greater than 1, 1 less than 3, 1/2 of 4, etc, all of which derive from 0=0, which is a tautology. I really don't understand the difficulty in proving something that is true by definition, it's like saying "prove all white swans are white." To me, it seems a harder thing to prove would be something empirical such as "prove the moon and stars exist during the daytime"
Why do you want your code formatter tied explicitly to an IDE?
Why would you want to force everyone on your team to use the same editor?

Use independent components, and let people use what they work best in.
There is always an emotional motivation behind what people say and write.

The whole article sounds like humblebrag. OP is fishing for attention and trying to make himself famous for being famous... To top it off, he uses his position as a prominent Facebook employee to get extra leverage. It doesn't get any more self-indulgent than that. Not to mention the part where OP essentially brags about how humble he is (quoting other people of course; very subtle).

It's as though having everyone know how awesome you are at everything isn't enough... You also need everyone to know that you are also awesome at being humble about how awesome you are.

However, if the whole article is meant to be social satire then I think it's really clever...
Show HN: The BackPack – Automatic File Organizer
Hey Everyone!
A couple days ago I was showing a colleague a project that I built for a software engineer class back in 2011. The premise was simple - an automatic file organizer that would, based on your schema, organize and categorize any file that you dragged & dropped into it. I called it: The BackPack.

It had a simple interface and it was super customizable. At the time, I actually thought it would be a great addon to Dropbox in terms of having a GUI and the organizing features but I didn't pursue it beyond that semester. That was mainly due to the fact that I didn't know how to implement my ideas into action without the help of more knowledgeable programmers - ie I thought my programming skills sucked.

Here is a video of it in action:

https://vimeo.com/23510168

(My voice is kinda muffled because I was recording on a laptop where the mic wasn't the best)

-My Question to you all-

- Is this something that you would use?

- I was told that this would be a great use-case for machine learning. How would you improve this?

Love to hear your feedback
-Anthony
Tesla settles class action suit over Autopilot claims for $5M
Philosophy was incredibly relevant in past eras, for some time it was all of science itself. As the different disciplines gained their own identity and took their toys, philosophy decreased.

I'd argue applied philosophy, as compared to purist philosophy, is very relevant today. Just like mathematics.
It’s foolish to comply when there isn’t even one example yet of a small non-EU company successfully being hit with fines.
Definitely not. We turn all line-wrapping off. Everybody has wide-screens.
Agreed. It could be as simple as checking if there is a tty and whether or not we're inside a pipe.
Lisbon Is Thriving. But at What Price for Those Who Live There?
Your bio says you're a Microsoft employee. Hopefully you're talking about a side project?
Again, I didn't specify dust. My point was that keyboards are susceptible to getting sticky from different ways. It's an accepted potential issue.
Do you have a source for this? Would love for this to be true but there's so much disinformation out there.
Please read about FATCA
Except they're not taking freedom away from users, they're taking freedom away from corporations. Freedom that many corporations have been abusing. This is a key difference in perspective.

Your example where you "want to give your data away to a sketchy website" is not in any way representative of reality when a) the website is as ubiquitous as for instance FB, and thus in no way perceived as sketchy, and b) the user makes no conscious decision to consent (let alone "wants it").
I wish there was something like this for C#/.NET

.editorconfig is a start but the amount of time saved through automation and removing customization is significant.
One idea you might want to consider is to create a global function, let’s call it h() and pass all your human readable strings through it, like so h(“hello world”). This function, simply returns the same string. This is more explicit than relying on quote types. It also allows you to do interesting things such as logging everything to a text file and running a spell checker on it, or checking for wrongly encoded string, ...etc.
When I read that line in the documentation, it hurt a little. I'm going to be honest here. I did not feel good with someone saying that an 80-column limit is just there to pad my paycheck, rather than an informed decision I made. I realize that it was tongue in cheek, but it still felt bad.
Generally those are privately owned, ostensibly by those paying taxes. A better analogy would be if Enterprise left rental cars parked on public streets for customers to pick up as part of the transaction.
Also adding new APIs quickly means people end up using the browser just to play with them.
The answer, as with many things, is "it depends." All other things being equal, air conditioning is a little cooler on a degree-by-degree basis than some forms of heating...but it never is that simple. Heat pumps have a higher cost to entry but lower operating costs, air conditioners have a lower cost of entry but nontrivially higher operating costs. A common pattern is to use heat pumps, ducted or no, for high-efficiency cooling and heating, with a backup solution like a gas furnace for heating below the point where a heat pump can function.
I assume the text only version doesn’t have any targeted advertising or tracking embedded in it, which means there’s nothing to consent to being recorded and retained about you.
The amount of woo that usually follows that line of reasoning though is probably why the prejudice exists.

It's kinda like this: "Sure, blockchain has potential but 98% of the space is blatant scams at the moment".
The Death and Life  of Jacob Cockle
I'm not sure anything has angered me as a long-time Apple fan (seriously, since 1984) this much (because I've also been a gamer at least that long).

This is some creepy-[girl/boy]friend level of control.

Congratulations, you've succeeded in pissing off any Apple fan who enjoys gaming while thinking that a PC app running on the phone with some amount of latency and resolution loss (not to mention likely illegible onscreen UI elements depending on how things are rendered) is somehow going to compete with a native iOS app.
Jacques - I love the effort you've put into explaining the GDPR to clueless and needlessly exasperated (mostly) americans here on HN.

To be honest I used to think you were just a shameless self-promoter like almost everyone else, but in this case you've risen to the occasion. Bravo. I think you're now rating quite high in most people's "mental books of good people". Or at the very least, in the minds of people who actually have a strong impact.
Yes but when something is obviously off topic, that should be explanation enough. On HN we try to respect readers' intelligence and make no attempt to spell everything out, which would be tedious.
> To even read this article, I had to sign into facebook, deny a prompt to provide alerts, close 4 messenger windows, etc. etc. Not a good way to read.

Is it on mobile? I opened on Chrome browser it doesn't require you to sign in at all to see the article. There was a "Join or log into facebook" in the top right, but you don't have to do it to read the article. I was actually surprised to see something looking like a Medium article, as I was expecting some regular of public FB post.

The only negative experience is I wish the font was fully #000000 black color. It's pretty dark already but I don't like it on my monitor.
The loudest GDPR advocates don’t care about you. 90 years ago they would have been the ones helping collectivize the farms, unintended consequences be damned.

And this law’s effects are all about the unintended consequences. Anyone thinking government regulators are reasonable and benevolent has never dealt with said regulators beyond any trivial level. To make it more fun each member country handles enforcement, so now you have a risk of 28 different interpretations of the law. It’s madness. Even if you do everything right there is still a compliance risk. It’s like HIPAA in the US — HIPAA is pretty “easy” to comply with, but the consequences are so severe that it necessarily drives up operational costs significantly. Unless Europe is a significant part of your revenue, better to block Europe and decrease your risk to near zero rather than have a potential risk of catastrophic, company-ending fines. Because the fine isn’t against profit, it’s against total, worldwide revenue. So unless your European profit exceeds 5% of your worldwide revenue, no sane person would take that risk. Even without the enforcement risk, you still have to deal with potentially hundreds or thousands of information requests — even if you are doing everything by the book.
Just a deadline.

Two years ago (14 April 2016) the regulation was adopted, and a 2 year notice period was put in place so businesses could prepare

That notice period ended today
> The VP and director love my product and want to start using it right away for their department. But their legal team is scared shitless with 4% fines in GDPR. (snip) That's their interpretation of GDPR. It doesn't matter whether it's right or wrong. This is the side-effect of GDPR.

I understand it's frustrating on your side, because you have no control over the response of your customers. But understanding what GDPR is (and not falling for FUD) is why the VPs and Directors get paid the big bucks and get the fancy titles. If they can't or won't work with legal to become compliant, they should resign and let someone else do the job properly.

I'm not saying, "oh it's easy" -- it's not easy. But that doesn't make the law wrong either. And it's not OK to blame GDPR as being "bad", when those rules are mostly just putting some real enforcement around stuff all moral and ethical organizations should have already been doing anyway.
This was way cooler when I read it as “worf-like”
I heard one person say that they were worried about traveling to Europe to visit if they had any GDPR violations. Do you that's a valid concern?
The problem here is that toxicity and depth are tangential at best and probably completely unrelated in reality.

Even in their demo, you don't really see any particularly deep comments that touch at the root of the issue, rather than just graze the surface.

So instead of a bunch of shallow toxic & benign comments you just end up with a bunch of shallow benign comments, with no tangible benefit going towards solving the issue.

We shouldn't particularly care about keeping as many people in the discussion as possible. Instead, we need to incentivize as many people as possible to write deep, thoughtful comments, and then, and only then, perhaps filter the top comments by toxicity.
The fact that the regulation is so vague around it in the first place is the whole problem. There are dozens of conflicting statements (from law firms, no less) about what exactly exposes you to GDPR.
Consent is one basis for gathering personal information. It's only one, there are five others. Consent isn't always needed.

The fine for this would not be €20m either.
At least it was an honorable death.
Yes. It’s always a bit surprising when you see how little water an average person uses compared to how much industry uses. I live in Auckland and a flick through our water usage stats shows that only about half the water usage is directly for residents, and we have very little heavy industry.
Despite having masses of fresh water in the country New Zealand is doing pretty badly, between selling it for next to nothing to bottling companies and trashing the rest with dairy farming runoff.
https://www.watercare.co.nz/CMSPages/GetAzureFile.aspx?path=...

https://i.stuff.co.nz/business/78652406/The-bottled-water-gi...

https://www.economist.com/asia/2017/11/16/dairy-farming-is-p...
It's a... man bear pig.
This is true. You should limit protein intake to 20 grams in 2hr period to avoid glyconeogenesis, which is the process your body uses to convert protein into glucose. This plus reducing net carbs to 20g or less per day should put you into nutritional ketosis within a week or two. Going keto makes fasting a lot easier. I typically fast between 8pm and noon and find it much much harder when I slip out of keto. If you keep up the program and lift weights (find a good strength program at a gym) your body composition will improve. I managed to get to 8% body fat this way.
Take transcripts of what happens with young children in classrooms and other settings, and code them for instances of curiosity, whether spontaneous or encouraged. You find a dramatic change in the classroom -- even greater than I expected; I seem to have lucked out in my own schooling. https://www.amazon.com/Hungry-Mind-Origins-Curiosity-Childho...

(Where "lucked out" doesn't mean it was worth it. It's relative.)
I know case law disagrees with me on shrink wrap licenses, but I'm going to state my argument that T&C aren't really a contract. If the language is inaccessible to one party who also doesn't have representation, and they plainly aren't reading it, and they're clicking "I agree" mindlessly rather than signing, then I don't see how you can claim there's any sort of meeting of the minds.

When prenuptial agreements are signed for example, if one party has an attorney, the other party should have an attorney if they expect the agreement to hold up later.

I believe the case law around shrink wrap licenses is nothing more than a pragmatic recognition of a business "need" (desire) to have complex legal terms to defend themselves against claims. I believe it falls short of what we should recognize as a valid contractual agreement as a society.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meeting_of_the_minds

I also don't think "the right to pay me money and use my service" is really valid consideration.

But I'm not a lawyer and that's just my opinion about the way things should be, not how they actually are in today's varying jurisdictions.
You can still type single quotes. You have a tool to convert that for you.

The visual noise complaint is interesting. Do you also consider the letter W to be more noisy than the letter V? Should we discourage the use of noisy letters in the alphabet?
Core difference is /pixel resolution. Drones can easily produce 2-3cm/pixel. Airplanes don't do that well because they can't get that close to the ground and move too fast. For larger areas, though, airplanes are MUCH faster. Realistically, at those larger areas, though, you run against satellites, too.
Having worked at a company where we did all pairing, all the time, I think it's absolutely "the right way" to do software development. After doing it enough, I think that most people will get over their dislike of it.

But you're right that it isn't for everyone. You kinda need to build your team around it and have your interview process select the kind of people that will enjoy it.

I really like the idea of pairing with someone for two hours after you finish up a ticket. I think that would be a great way to introduce the team I'm currently on to pairing.
Yes. Let's get rid of the messy, inconvenient, disease ridden humans. All hail the robots; rightful inheritors of San Francisco.

/s
ASK HN: Is concept clear on my video?
Wait a minute… You provide a service, and your users are afraid the GDPR could come to them?!?

Please tell me I've read something wrong. Otherwise, this is just panic induced stupidity. I expect they will grow out of it (though maybe not before you go bankrupt, which obviously sucks big time).
Interesting that kids could still understand baby gesturing/talk.
Id argue the web workers are better (although they are paid for), only because you have full control over what to do with them (like showing them a message that you're not GDPR compliant in their area yet, etc)
The really terrible part is the de-correlation of management quality with rewards for management. Supposedly management is better compensated than individuals due to their impact upon organizations being greater than individual contributors, but this flies in the face of the modern trend of the "subservient manager" philosophy of management as well as management sometimes just carrying out orders from above that don't require skill (the most common one that we all recognize requiring little insight or talent is "reduce costs"). Managers are sometimes given truly terrible situations that nobody can manage their way out (no budget, bad morale, bad organizational reputation of the group, and no authority to create change to reverse the situation)

If you have a poor individual contributor, they are almost always fired. If you have a poor manager, oftentimes they have worked a relationship with someone that has power that makes it very difficult to fire them, so they're oftentimes "promoted." This kind of nepotism and cronyism exists to some extent among individual contributors but ICs usually disperse more across business verticals throughout their careers while managers and others in primarily soft skill roles tend to be extremely connected (whether through intrinsic personality or due to the nature of their jobs is another question) and seem to act more as cohorts rather than as individuals.
The scale of large historical projects
> No fines are going to hit these companies that have no EU presence.

Oh they will be fined. The question is whether those fines will ever be collected. But the collection of fines is a different part of the government than the part that sets and applies the fines.

> That's just scaremongering.

No, it's a fact of life: if you ignore the law you will be fined.

> And for the ones that do, I guess we'll see.

Oh ok, so they will be fined. At least we agree on something.

Note that the EU at this point in time couldn't care less about those companies that have no POP in the EU, and if that causes companies to pack up and leave then so be it. But those companies that do have a POP and that knowingly and persistently violate the law, whether they are European in origin, American or Chinese deserve to have the book thrown at them if they ignore the law.

> Blocking the EU market seems pretty damn fair to me.

That's just fine, I take it your business is not affected or you plan to ignore the law because they can't collect. I'm perfectly ok with you doing that, don't get me wrong. It's your right to do this but I do think you should be transparent about this.

> I don't understand why the EU thinks it can force a business outside of the EU to deal with their citizens if it doesn't want to?

The EU can't force that, and that's not the intent of the law.

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It's not about privacy, its about poorly written regulation that leaves too much vagueness because its based on principles rather than hard rules. Good intentions are not enough, there must be clear paths to implementation and verification. Perhaps that should've been fixed instead of wondering why so many companies don't really want to deal with it.

It will also do just about nothing in regards to the major companies that everyone had such a big privacy issue with in the first place, so not only is the regulation vague but it's also ultimately very ineffective.
I'm a native English speaker and I picked up on your sarcasm. You did great :-)

That said, a constant source of miscommunication from native english to native english that is written, is missing sarcasm. Just a side effect of not having non-verbal communication cues.
Can my web browser play FLAC or Opus out of the box? Mind, I'm not going to tell you what my web browser is. Because that's why they picked MP3: if you're using MP3 you can confidently say "yes" because it's a computer in 2018.
> If you remain unconvinced, try meditating for like 5 minutes. That is, focus on nothing but your breath for as long as possible. You could not avoid having other thoughts pop into your head even if your life depended on it.

The secret is not avoiding thoughts, but having the same thought (a blank canvas, a black void, your breathing, etc.) for five minutes.
Interesting. Anybody competent with the matter who could pitch in and discuss whether this is a viable / advisable solution for a service with lack of business / information ambitions involving EU users?
Trees, telephone poles, on the sides of cliffs. No trees or telephone poles? It would limit their range, but not ruin them.
> 90 years ago they would have been the ones helping collectivize the farms

This is possibly the strangest comment I've seen about this whole ordeal.
Have you seen the size of a transponder? You're not going to put that in a drone doing 1h flights. They're about 1/2kg. 4G is more likely, but coverage can be an issue.
The bigger drones that could carry one are much bigger, and they fly for several hours, but they do not have the same ease of use as the smaller ones.

Flarm and Adsb (mostly in for now, out is more difficult/heavy but there are a few prototypes) are seeing some use. Companies are also trying to standardise around existing aeronautical standards, or to create new ones where needed.
But it's a free market and it's not clear which solution will win in the end. The regulators are also closely following.
This is only your opinion. It doesn't say that on the page you pasted. To be complaint you probably must clearly state that the service is not for EU resident and ask them to leave. Even that could be too little.
I don't have a formal study, just conversations with several legally blind engineers I work with.
Why do you keep trying so hard to demonstrate how ignorant you are?
This is a great point
The relevant area is probably the watershed. In general, moving water between watersheds is hard, but within a watershed redistribution is possible. So total rainfall within a given watershed basically defines the water supply. http://digg.com/2016/river-basin-map-us
Power I'd guess, since he didn't specify a battery. The display would be wirelessly beamed directly into your brain.
>> You know this is not what would happen

You don't know this.