skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Caloric deficit does not result in weight loss. It results in a smaller energy input. That smaller input can be balanced two ways:

1. Utilizing stored calories (which will result in weight loss).

2. Expending less energy (which would not result in weight loss).

Realistically, reducing calories probably results in some combination of the two, with things tilting toward expending less energy as your body gets below a body fat percentage that it "wants" to be at.
> Please stop pretending this isn't a big deal just because of a hard-on for Google.

Please don't project strawmen onto other users, it's intellectually weak and rude besides.
Lee... You are straw-manning my statements again. You are reading a bias into my statements and put extrapolated argument, that I didn't write, into my virtual internet mouth. I don't like it.

Yes I did write of myself as a historically privileged class... which definitely falls along racial/gender divides. Hopefully the manner of that frank discussion indicates that this privilege really sucks for most everyone (we really all lose) and is short sited. Then I started a new paragraph which signifies a though break --> moving on to a different but related thought.

Nowhere in my post did I the use word "race" or the phrase "intellectual strengths", and I did't use those phrases because I don't believe in them... I used "thinking patterns, backgrounds, and interests."

To address this: "You added the idea that this type of diversity was beneficial because it's an advantage to have a diversity of interests and intellectual strengths in different areas. So you are equating a racial and sexual diversity with the latter."
I wrote none of that... I believe none of that. It requires multiple logical fallacies to get from what I expressed to what you wrote above. Rather than jumping to conclusions, why don't you ask me to clarify what I meant?

So what do I think about diversity and inclusion, in brief:
Diversity is highly multivariate... what team diversity means can vary from situation to situation. Hiring for a Mechanical engineering team vs. women's fashion design team would probably have very different diversity hiring goals but the desired benefit and improvement for the team is similar.

If people only look at diversity as race and gender, they are missing the boat entirely... how about personality, age, ethnicity, religion, educational background, work experience, world/life experience, family responsibilities, life aspirations, out of work interests, health concerns and disabilities, sexual preference, ...all factors which make us different/unique and interesting.

The flip side of diversity, which is inclusion and appreciation, is pretty simple: it is really important to try to understand people, appreciate them for who they are, do your best to allow them to be who they are in the workplace, and not pigeon hole them into a box.

Regardless of what I'm called next, I'm done replying to this thread. If you figure out how to construe this as "I must be the second coming of Hitler", more power to you.
I configured ThinkPad using Employee Perks website at work (many places have something like this), and got a 27% discount from the list price, which is only 2% higher discount vs. the promotion they have been running recently (thinkx25 discount code).

I configured a machine with i7-8550U cpu (8th gen, 1.80Ghz, 8MB cache, up to 4Ghz Turbo boost), 14" WQHD (2560x1440) IPS anti-glare panel @ 300 nits, 16gb LPDDR3 2133mhz, 720p HD camera, integrated UHD graphics 620, and 256 GB PCIe-nvme hard drive for $1,396.47 before tax. I'm comparing it to a 15" macbook pro at $2,400 before tax (and it has DDR4 - so hungrier - memory).
> I've reinstalled a backup I kept of FF 36

Enjoy all those security vulnerabilities you've just exposed yourself to.
Yeah, that's just Mozilla attempting to save a stupid sunk-cost.

Pocket:RSS::allowance:salary.

I feel like we're entering a period when a browser shakeup is in order.

Chrome is spyware.
Safari is usually an implementation laggard.
Firefox makes a seemingly endless stream of stupid, annoying choices.
(Never used whatever MS calls nextgen-IE now.)

Seems like it is time, again, for something that sucks less.
Oh dear, it's not entirely clear where to even start with this.

Let's begin with the fact that we're not lions. We're not even carnivores. And there's some research evidence that in omnivores, short-term fasting leads to increased acidification in the stomach, while it doesn't for carnivores - that's a rather substantial difference.

Then, we come to the magic of "unnatural" food. We'll leave out the fact that such a thing doesn't exist and assume you mean processed food. What exactly is the proposed mechanism here where fasting is beneficial? And why can't that same mechanism be achieved via less processed food? And which processing are we even talking about?

Also:

> Why do all wild lions look the same?

Have you actually seen wild lions? They look roughly the same in the sense that "all white people look the same". I.e. not at all.
US Telecom and Banking industries are very primitive compared to many countries, so no you cannot do much. Sad but reality. You can either pay for unlimited text or pay for each SMS.
Hi, email me and we can discuss. Einar@vollset.com
Hi! I'm the guy behind RawGit.

I've actually never accepted donations. I paid the meager cost of the $10/month DigitalOcean droplet for the origin server, and StackPath (formerly MaxCDN) sponsored the CDN, which handled the majority of RawGit's traffic.

Once, I worked out how much the CDN bill would have been if StackPath hadn't sponsored me and my head nearly exploded. So yeah, I definitely couldn't have done it without them!
What.

I was asking for evidence that the main things people complain about can be changed with flags.

And your answer is "Flags exist."?
That page fills my browser history.
scikit-image contains Hough transforms and the other things you mention? Though it does depends on scipy and matplotlib, which are kinda big.
Unfortunately the human body is quite a bit more complicated than that and a single article on examine.com is woefully inadequate at capturing the complexities. While people's metabolism doesn't seem to vary too much from person to person, it does tend to vary a lot within the same individual based on lifestyle choices. Whether I choose to eat or not, or choose how much to eat, my metabolism can vary.

When you consider your glycogen reserves, carb vs fat metabolism, insulin, ghrelin and other hormones, you get a rather complex machine. And what's really frustrating is that you are technically correct, in a sense. Eat fewer calories than you burn and you will lose weight. But that simplification borders on the dangerous. What's missing is that your body is not some passive observer, but an active participant, trying its best to help you survive.

Your body is amazingly good at adjusting how much you burn. When you cut calories, say 500 a day, your body will tend to compensate by burning a little less by reducing its temperature, by reducing fidgeting, by reducing your mood even! You'd need to cut 500 calories ABOVE that difference. So you end up having to cut closer to 750-1000 calories per day to get the same effect. Whereas when you fast, your metabolism rather obnoxiously tends to rise.

It ends up being healthier (and much easier) to eat 3500 calories less in one go, rather than splitting the difference across 7 days.
Or perform frequency analysis on the simple substitution chiffre. Seriously though, we need a document format with easier to extract payloads. Like Office documents with stronger structure, an underlying schema, along the lines of react-json-schema-form for Word.
The 2015 macbooks and earlier were great. The switch to USB-C/removal of thunderbolt AND hdmi has made using the newer macs a real pain. The older macs had much better keyboards (and better placement of the touchpad). The only nice thing about the touchbars is that they have a fingerprint reader.
It's also a good idea to just not use Facebook, or at least scrub all profile details and any personal information including pictures.

On a more serious note, the unusual activity started Sept 14, took then 11 days before actually determining that it was an exploit, and took then 2 days after that to actually fix the issue. 2 days might not seem like a long time, but with automation, the hackers could have gone through a lot more accounts in that time frame.
My question in this article is: What were the properties of the participants in this study?

According to the paper these "eight overweight men
with prediabetes [...] had a mean BMI of 32.2 ± 4.4 kg/m2" (page 3).

The metabolism of these people is quite different compared to a healthy human. These were sick people. And they received a strictly controlled and monitored diet according to the paper.

Paper mentioned in article: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29754952
Agreed. About five years ago I decided to investigate the subject, watched the recent movie and her interviews on the disc. Turns out her more subtle early novels weren't understood, so she increasingly wrote them bonking the reader over the head with the point, ala A.S. The reputation of simplistic paper-thin characters emerges from that. Meh.

Her experience was of the communists taking and breaking everything, one should keep that in mind. She's basically warning about government overreach, something we should all be able to get behind. It's a valid argument until you take it too far and use it as an excuse, like all political arguments.
Username checks out.

Seriously, this is the kind of thread that makes this place wonderful.
The original intention was the full content. The problem is that sites don't want to put the full content in because they lose ads...
Intermittent fasting is probably fine as long as you only have an hour or less of exertion on that day. Do 2+ hours though and I think it's a pretty bad idea.

And in my experience even just doing an hour of exercise in a fasted state can dramatically impair my immune system as well as higher brain function.
Hi Andy, this is not finalized yet, but we're imagining some combination of cash dividends and convertible equity if someone sells.
This is correct. Taiwan was part of Japan before the war.
And yet... when I went to Japan, McDonald's had block busting lines.
FCC tells court it has no “legal authority” to impose net neutrality rules
Hijacking this as it’s getting intelligent responses: what’s the greatest resolution we could measure today, and what’s physically possible?
Yes, you are right. And humans commonly engaged in a feasting/fasting cycle of having too much/too little food. But we've pretty much stopped doing the fasting stage. Look up "autophagy". It's a beneficial bodily process that only seems to happen within a long-enough fast.
Can the telemetry data be rigged? Are there anti-rigging measures in place?
Or were they asked by FBI to keep the thing going’s so they could catch the attacker?

Lots of reasons to delay.
The fingerprint reader doesn't work most of the time. Either it doesn't appear at all, or it's completely unresponsive.
Rape culture and sexual abuse within Muslim communities
>If you stop for a minute to think about it, it's a very sad state of affairs that you need to buy a closed-source app for the most secure consumer operating system, and pay constant attention to its status, in hope to avoid (or detect) spying.

Emphasis added, because of course you don't need to, and most people don't. Apple themselves have been working at it and Mojave contains a bunch of new restrictions and brings more visibility to what software wants what. It's much more feasible now for users to simply prevent most (or all) standard software from accessing the camera or mic entirely. Someone could be very cautious about what they install and stick to more heavily controlled and sandboxed major name stuff from the MAS (even though I personally think the MAS is a huge disappointment and waste of potential still). Running software in a VM is another option for power users. And for that matter if you don't actually use the camera much/ever (likely true for many on HN) you could simply physically block it with an opaque black sticker, or even drill it out and stick some black epoxy in there or similar.

Ultimately this is just another possible layer and UX. If anything it is probably of most value to power users who want to run software from anywhere and in turn would like to have additional tools to handle some of the vetting and watching that Apple might do for general users with light needs. That's like Little Snitch too, I find it absolutely invaluable, but I also have the basic systems and networking knowledge for it to mean something to me. For end users I help it's of no direct use because it all might as well be in another language, they don't have the knowledge or metaknowledge, it's only any good in terms of providing an administrator willing to take an active hand in things occasionally another way to help lock systems down.

I do hope for Apple to continue their trend of privacy focus, for example they could make camera access more nuanced (like only if it has user focus). But I have more faith in their ability to make that functional for general end user contexts then in many server secure focused OS. To your point:

>(works flawlessly with Thinkpad's hardware (minus bluetooth and -finger scanner-) and...

But biometrics are incredibly value for general mobile usage security. Shoulder surfing these days should probably be considered the rule not the exception given the growing ubiquity of networked cameras everywhere and the data storage capacity and ML to handle their data. It's much easier to passively mass vacuum PINs or passwords then good biometrics right now where you can't ensure any physical security. OpenBSD does support HSMs which would help, though it's another thing to keep on hand as well. And of course there is the time factor of a good password vs biometric entry which discourages many people from using good passwords.
Now if they'd just remove core support for Pocket.
> Never used whatever MS calls nextgen-IE now.

Edge. It somehow manages to be worse than IE in many circumstances (including being used to view Microsoft's own websites).
I've found my body feels hungry simply based on when its used to eating, not what I've eaten earlier in the day. So if I eat breakfast every day, I start feeling hungry at breakfast time, if I eat lunch every day I start feeling hungry at lunch time. Prior food consumption doesn't matter, at least in my case.

I never ate breakfast as a kid, so I carried that habit into adulthood. I started eating breakfast once in a while at some point and that caused me to start feeling hungry in the morning. I shut that shit down right away, I don't need to add more food to my diet. Years later I gave up lunch, which I thought would be really difficult, since I always felt hungry at lunch time, but now I don't feel hungry at all during lunch time, because I'm used to not eating lunch.

YMMV, of course, that just has been my experience.
If time-restricted eating is having that big of an impact on your life, adapt to it. Eat lunch later on the following days after going out, or - and stop me if this is crazy - don't be so strict about it if your friends want to meet up.

I am a time-restricted eater. I use Zero to track my eating windows and make sure I'm not trending in the wrong direction, and that gives me the peace of mind to let up every once in a while.

Just this morning I broke my fast early because I didn't eat enough last night and I was pretty zonked before my workout (beyond the point I thought would be productive). I ate a few dates, recorded it in Zero, and will live to fast another day.
This is correct but multiport interfaces don't add up those latencies: it is very rare that although a midi data line can drive 16 channels and corresponding instruments, all of them are chained or paralleled via MIDI thru boxes over a single data line (ie, a single MIDI OUT). Data is a lot faster inside the PC and the DAW, so that if you have a multiport MIDI interface, connecting your expanders on different outputs - although not necessary if they use 16 channels or less - will indeed reduce the total latency.

Totally agree about the limitations of MIDI, but it was conceived when I think the only alternative was the Roland DCB which would was even more limited and would cost a fortune in connectors. Today I would use "something" over Ethernet phy: open, very cheap, very fast and near realtime.
Hi there - co-horts of teams for sure (hello friendly competition and emotional support).

Finalizing terms, most likely a combo of equity and cash dividends.
I understand that Angular as we know it today is basically a total re-do of AngularJS (v1), but I'm curious, how is it misleading to group them together when comparing to other frameworks?
> I figure I can use this approach to send files too.

Or, you could send the files over WebRTC datachannels after establishing the connection!
What are some cool projects equivalent to “Hello World” in machine learning?
I think the acquisition of flipkart was not for tech, rather it was for the User acquisition, the real and loyal buyers who are proved value users.
aside of it, It was also beneficial as flipkart has its own logistic and order tracking system good enough for indian rural areas.
You can argue it's not a fair comparison, 15" Macbook Pros have a 6-core CPUs and a standalone GPU, and a 13-inch Macbook Pro with 8th-gen Intel core i5 and 16GB (which can be configured at $1,999 before tax) is a better one - either way Thinkpad is a better deal, and it's a very light laptop (only ~2 lbs).
Doesn't the FB deploy process take a day in itself?

Edit: This hasn't been the case for years.
I remember once, when I had an unpatched computer overrun by hostile viruses that rendered it unusable, wondering if one of the botnet-type viruses that want to take over your computer and use it without being undetected would someday get smart enough to recognize other viruses and automatically remove their competition so that they could continue to silently infect you. Like a biological virus, one that kills the host is an ineffective one - they want to use the hosts resources while not being noticed. I wonder if this is something like that - virus writers starting to get smarter about cleaning up behind them and keeping out competing malware.
Hopefully RSS users will move to readers with better UIs, increasing their visibility and attracting more people to using RSS.
More detail: Yes, WebRTC contains several methods for routing through NATs -- ICE, STUN by default (using your browser's default STUN server), optionally TURN.
Love this idea. Quick question - do you have any thoughts on how far along you're looking for the companies to be?

Eg pre revenue, $100/month, $1000, $10k?
> We saw an unusual spike of activity that began on September 14, 2018, and we started an investigation. On September 25, we determined this was actually an attack and identified the vulnerability.

I'm unclear why it took 11-12 days to uncover this?
We've banned this and the other accounts you've been using to abuse the site.
add in the time wasted to rant about his own misunderstanding of basic reading comprehension.
I have been experimenting with weight loss for the past year. My goal it total weight "control" _not_ loss. Anyone can lose weight, I want to never ever worry or think about it again.

Today I am at a low of 181.2lbs. I haven't been this weight for probably over 12 years.

Last summer I did a month of running 6 days a week (increased distance as I went) + 1 meal a day (strict). And lost .5-.6lbs a day in 30 days. I went from 202 to 187. I gained some of it back by December. I was fluxuating between 192-195.

Then I changed my tactic, did strength exercising for one month, got up to 198, didn't lose weight at all.

Current experiment: I changed two things -

1. I said "it's ok/fine/good to be hungry". I now naturally eat one meal a day, I eat when I want, but I don't fool myself. Sometime I eat only a couple bites of something to ease my stomach.

2. No exercise during this time at all. No running, lifting, pushups, nothing.

I have gone from 198 to 181 from last January to Oct, 2018. (17lbs) Not eating is what makes you lose weight. Being hungry is your body telling you it's eating fat. I even went to a wedding, gained 3 lbs in 3 days, and shed them again 3 days later. (obviously not all of it stuck on me in the first place)

After awhile you get used to being hungry, your diet matches your need and intake. Be hungry, control your weight, it's liberating. I never have to worry again the rest of my life how to manage my weight.
I don't know of one, but it's such a natural idea that I'd guess it's been studied. There are standard implementations of LRU caches that use e.g. a hash map and a linked list to get both fast lookup and ordering, but for real performance I think you'd want to try and minimise the number of data structures to avoid having competing cache behaviours.
Using Javascript is getting a bit better thanks to the latest ECMA spec. We finally have a universal module system which is designed to work both on the server and on the client.A package manager that takes advantage of ES modules is needed though, so not NPM.

Second, static analysis tools like Typescript compiler or Flow can help greatly with typing with little setup or configuration needed. For instance I use Typescript compiler with js files directly in VSCode. Finally linters can help avoid common mistakes. The experience is certainly better than 10 years ago thanks to all the new tools and specs at the developer's disposal.
> Exactly.

So, the bottle wasn't half full at 11:59. What was the guy's point again?

> Is that sustainable?

I don't know. I can't predict the future any more than you can. But I can tell you one thing: this is not exponential growth. Exponential curves don't have bumps. I would guess this is the superposition of multiple logistic functions.

There is one thing, though, that is sustainable for at least 4 billion years: 15 billion people who consume as much energy as Americans do today. (compare http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/progress/) It doesn't look as if we'll ever reach 10 billion.

> “permanent growth” on which our politicians and economists depend on

Politicians don't, they just argue with it. Because if people demand more free stuff and lower taxes, the only way to get reelected is to argue that a much better future is just around the corner and borrow the money. That never happens, of course, but thanks to inflation, anything expressed in money looks as if did indeed grow exponentially, and everybody got their free lunch, and taxes didn't get raised, but everybody is poorer for it somehow anyway.

But Economists... I don't know why anyone ever listens to them. Nobody else can be so consistently wrong and still have such a devoted audience. When Physicists are in an argument, they run an experiment and settle it. Economists don't, they split into different schools who are all somehow right. (There's a reason why there is no Nobel Prize for Economics.)

> when will the single “bacteria” stop thinking... At 11:58 when there’s 3/4ths of the bottle still empty?

Bacteria don't think, they grow as long as they have nutrients. The exponential growth phase ends minutes into the experiment, as soon as the bacteria form a clump through which nutrients can't diffuse during one generation anymore. Minutes from the beginning of the experiment, not from the end! That's why the beginning, and only the beginning, of a logistic curve looks exponential.

Which means the bottle wasn't 1/4 filled at 11:58, it was 1/4 filled after about 1/4 of the total time. Yes, the thought experiment is this misleading, and that's exactly why Bartlett talks about it but never runs it.
I could either figure out how Judy works, or review another three papers :)