skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I work in construction, my weight is currently balanced at around 260lbs and I'm around 5'9". By body mass index I'm way beyond morbidly obese. By waist-to-hip ratio for a man I'm way past what's recommended for men - I'm way past on the healthy side.

Here's the funniest thing, and the prime reason why the BMI is totally useless for measuring obesity. I immigrated to Canada, and passed a full physical. My pulse is 60bpm (I actually hit full-blown bradycardic of <50bpm when I lived in the UK), my blood pressure was 125/80. But I'm allegedly morbidly obese.

I can lift 200+ lbs, I can climb a 20' ladder without getting out of breath when most skinny people I know get out of breath going up a flight of stairs (incidentally I live on the 11th floor of an apartment building and I started running out of breath at the 7th floor racing with my dog).

I can eat a double bigmac, large fries, large drink and two burgers off the dollar menu. I can do it regularly and it doesn't effect my weight. I've gone on diets eating mostly salad and calorie restricting myself, and it doesn't effect my weight. The only diet that genuinely works to make me lose weight has been the Atkins, and even coming off of the diet, my weight remains stable at that point like I reset my weight slider or something.

I get told by doctors who are flabbier than myself that I need to lose weight and all I can think is "I can Hulk-throw your fat ass out of your office window and you're struggling walking around the exam table with a coffee".

The obesity epidemic is a product of medical organizations adopting the BMI as a weight reference when it was deemed too inaccurate to study the weight changes in soldiers and was dropped. That was a height and age restricted group, and the BMI couldn't produce usable results to demonstrate fitness. So why medical organizations around the world have adopted it as a holy grail just clearly demonstrates their incompetence.

The other factor is increased sedation, but this isn't necessarily causing obesity. This is causing a general and whole shift in our society to being fat. I'm not talking obesity as a contagious disease, I'm talking that people are probably on average 30-40lbs heavier than what they should be.

Although, it should be noted that most western societies are facing a much more frightening anorexia and bulimia epidemic. Why is it more frightening? Because I'm 80lbs over the male long held 'average' of 180lbs, and likely 120+lbs past what my ideal is allegedly for my height. I can't go 80lbs below my ideal weight, and I certainly can't go 120lbs below my ideal. However I can quite easily go 200, 300, 400lbs above my ideal and have virtually no long term health complications for staying there for a decade and losing the weight. If I was at 60lbs, I would likely be dead or do serious permanent damage to my heart and organs even if I was only there for months and regained the weight.

We wholly don't understand weight in humans. We've got 7 year olds who are anorexic and 7 year olds who are morbidly obese, and no one is doing anything but blaming society when it's happening throughout dozens of cultures.
Ever heard Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody", unaltered, while driving a car? Unless you turn up the volume pretty loud, you won't hear about 2/3 of the song. This is why radio stations process all tracks they play.
It's opinion, so it's not bad reporting.

But, yeah.. he's just a hater. Whatever Page does there'll be some joker with an op-ed calling it a huge blunder, so who cares.
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I've live in South Africa my entire life, but have yet to encounter a "roving gang of looters". Citation?
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Although this is for South Africa, Google is really taking initiative in Africa in general. I was part of an MIT student group that Google funds every year to go to different African countries/universities to teach a mobile programming/entrepreneurship course. I went to Rwanda last year and the experience was fantastic. The end of the class culminates in a business plan competition using the technologies and business ideas they have learned with the winners receiving healthy cash prizes to jump start their businesses. It is a pretty amazing program that has seen the birth of lots of successful companies. It's no surprise to me that Google is investing more into Africa.

Edit: Nokia also funds the program.
WooThemes is from SA - http://mixergy.com/woothemes-adriaan-pienaar/
Im fresh out of Varsity(UJ) and i have done surveys (informal) at varsity ,all the people i have surveyed (black,coloured and indian) have never bought a single thing online.I ask them why and they tell me ''We dont have credit cards'',i then tell them ''but you can use bank deposits '' they still wont budge.Now if these groups of people who make up majority of the population and aslo the group with the largest buying power(Gen Y) are not buying online;this means that eCommerce in SA has a long way to go.

I personal don't even regard our eCommerce Market as having begun yet.But i do shop online now and then.
Im also working on a couple of projects and startups to address the confidence issues that the majority and youth have about the internet.

PS
Iam a black Attorney lol
I'd upvote you twice if I could. Much of management-ese seems to be thinly disguised attempts to get employees to work harder for the same pay, and creating loyalty via T-shirts is one of the more transparent ones. I get really strange looks at work when I tell people I'd prefer to be recognized by my dress as a smart, qualified, but independent professional, rather than "I am assimilated to the hive of company X". I also find it strange that in a capitalist society nobody bats an eye-lid when the Communications Manager talks about employees "living the brand". I'd better go buy my copy of the Little Red Book.
http://www.dr.loudness-war.info/ is good for a large amount of albums, too.
In a sales organization you can tie people upto a similar performance incentive structure, because everyone (the majority) sell. The key being, the people you are incentivizing should have the ability to move the story forward. I find it odd about the entire co's bonus being attached to social, when the entire co is not allowed/designed to 'do social'.

What is the point of incentivizing gmail/maps/apps/search to do social? (some social widgets make not a coherent social strategy).

Its a textbook wrong move. May be implementation details differ - but that info is available in the article
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That's probably true if you're an adult, but how do you motivate kids to learn etmology? At least with Latin there is stuff you can read.
Unlike vim, I never use Emacs within a terminal. I use a standalone application, which has all the desktop chrome that comes with that. Including a quit button.
Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule
There is no/very little fiber and no/very little complex carbs, so your body reacts to it just like it would table sugar.

Refined flour has a high glycemic index, so do starches like potatoes.

It spikes your blood sugar levels very quickly.
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The gyms have an economic incentive to make people sign up, but not go to them. It's hardly a failure of people to want to go to the gym but stop, if the gym is purposely designed to be as boring as possible.
Virgin have transparent caching proxies between you and the web, which may explain why some HTTP results were faster - they didn't have to leave the Virgin network.
I agree that BMI is problematic, but that extra weight catches up to you sooner or later. Its extra stress on organs and joints.
to get things right, the first time...
If you get invited to a party for fashion designers, you'd better spend some time picking the right thing to wear.

If you get invited to a geek party, remembering to shave alone would put you above the 90th percentile.
> Its asynchronous, non-blocking architecture means it’s incredibly fast.

Those characteristics mean it can handle more simultaneous connections, but don't directly lead to more speed. I feel that is worth nitpicking about. Nodejs is pretty fast, but I think that has more to do with V8, libev, libio, and Ryan's http parser being really fast.
Private bus operators in India use the same model. It's very interesting.

Even furniture stores in India will sell you a competitors piece of furniture if he doesn't have anything you like in return for a commission.
It's really amazing that you are able to comment from the grave! :D.
Apples also have fiber attached to their fructose.
For a Western it is quite easy to understand Indians and Indian society.
If you meet anybody from India, ask him "What Is Your Caste?"
But what if Bing uses Microsoft's Facebook ties to bring social to search? Isn't that the root of "Google is scared by social" thing that's going on?

A lot of times when things seem to be dead, they are on the edge of killing everything else.
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I *heart* Technical Debt
Very pretty. Threaded conversations. Anyone know if there are plans to support domain names?
It is based on Fastmail.fm (which Opera purchased). I have been using (and paying) fastmail for years. I can highly recommend them.
Personally, few things rile me up like a manager giving me directives to 'evangelize' products to my family & friends on my personal social accounts. I am currently in this situation. I have no problem evangelizing on social accounts tied to the company (the company's official twitter, facebook, etc.) or writing posts on the company blog, but I do not use my personal social accounts for company business and don't plan on doing so in the future. Maybe I'm just old, but I need a separation between my business and personal life on the web.

I'm sure the techs who keep the servers running in the Google data centers love having 25% of their bonuses tied to social products they may truly dislike, don't use, etc.
I don't think that is surprising. Maybe people enjoy the 'bugs' in LPs.
You can also create your own tests for Glasnost.

Instructions here:

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No way to customize labels / star emails?
You think they care about the individual?
Ask HN: Is there a dual pane version of HN?
I find HN to be the most invaluable website I visit on a daily basis, however interacting with HN usually involves multiple tabs and flipping back and forth if I want to comment on a URL/story.

Has anyone produced a dual pane version of HN that puts HN on the left, and the clicked URL on the right?
You may not want to believe it, but this is not an engineering challenge.
Same here - I remember when I was a student, everyone would use MegaBus rather than the trains as they were always much cheaper.

I've seen them remove unprofitable routes, but even then I can't figure it out, since running a fleet of buses must be a fairly costly operation.
That's an ongoing debate with things like gifted-student programs as well, especially at the earlier stages of education. The pro is targeting students with material suited to their pace, so there aren't students going much more slowly than they could on the one hand, or being overwhelmed on the other. But the con is that the giftedness-segregation itself might produce a self-fulfilling prophecy, as students not in the gifted track aren't challenged with the advanced curriculum, and also lose the benefit of interaction with some of their bright peers.
How is the incentive a blunder? Google employees can voluntarily devote a large portion of their paid time to any project of their choosing. By announcing this incentive, Larry is actually focusing the efforts of whole company into the market he thinks they need to grab.

I say the move is genious. There might be a little fewer tomato gardens on the campus at the end of the year, but he'll be leveraging the ideas and strength of the whole workforce into that single market. Zuck might very well have something to worry about now.
I'm too lazy to watch a 5minute video. Other than that, aesthetically pleasing. Good job!
The "Digital Compression" section feels misleading. Maybe that's my misunderstanding, though.

As I understand it, when we compress audio file, so from a 100s MiB of raw wave data it'll become a several-MiB file, we perform a (discrete) Fourier transform, get rid of less significant frequencies (thus compressing the data), and record the coefficients. Please, correct me if I'm wrong.

So I don't get the "rough edges you end up with in the digital recording" part. It is applicable to pre-compressed data, but that's another topic.
That only proves the point. I don't fully agree w/ the post, but JS is definitely making a big shift on the web.
In situations like these I use a site: http://www.bugmenot.com
I don't necessarily agree that social is a blunder, but I do agree with the analogy of comparing social to a party. Just like having a party everywhere, all the time is not appropriate, so having social elements everywhere can quickly get old.

I go to Facebook when I want to see what my friends are doing, but I don't necessarily want to see what they are doing all the time. Imagine if social elements were deeply integrated into Google search, distracting you with stuff from friends every time you tried to do a Google search on a programming topic.

The challenge I think will be to see if Google can properly integrate social aspects where people will appreciate them, and leave them out of places where they will just be a distraction or a frustration.
While their email service looks simple yet polished, their success will depend on how well they fight spam and the features that they offer (priority inbox etc)
Great to see attention paid, to one of the many lesser known women who pioneered computer programming.
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Aren't you Aaron's brother? I remember him showing me this a couple months ago.

It's a really nice looking app, both aesthetically and functionally. If I drank tea I'm sure I'd use it.
I disagree, it will depend on their ability to put the product in front of users. The "techy" crowd might care about features, but few of the 500m+ (?) MSN users will.
This is one of best writeup on current life in India.
There is a Chrome plugin that does this: https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/plldnnbdlbgbiknj...
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Turns out I have an Opera account so I logged in. It's much more simplistic than Gmail:

- it's 1GB, so too small for me

- no settings page (or can't find it)

- no filters

- no labels

- no automatic signature

- no multiple stars (but there's a pin)

- doesn't seem to auto-save contacts

- isn't completely AJAX, the Mail and Contacts tabs reload the page

- ugly colors (email headers are purple)

So, this isn't a Gmail competitor for power-users at this point.
How do I find good people to work with.
We have a small but well funded start-up with currently more demand for our product than our engineering team (me) can roll out. I need to know where we can find smart and motivated people to work with! Any suggestions are welcome.<p>Thanks,
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Am I the only one that feels that this article isn't HN worthy? Everything that is said is well documented in the official documentation and it isn't a guide at all.

The information in it will get a beginner nowhere without reading the tutorial and if he reads the tutorial the information in this article becomes meaningless to him.
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Universities in the local area can be a good start - where are you based?
FYI, most graduate students I know here in the US also consider the math section in the GRE to be a joke. But as a grad student in an engineering school I guess that's to be expected.

When I took the GRE, the hardest thing about the math test was having to remember long division, since we couldn't use calculators.
Also, it'd be nice to be able to queue stories I want to read, so I could single click through both item pages and the URL itself (left/right, queue at top in a third pane?) to optimize HN use flow on the days that HN has a lot of interesting things.

Although, I'll admit, that is really upping the complexity of HN.
This looks like a freaking awesome app and being a tea drinker it really pains me that I can't buy it because Apple doesn't want to take my money.

I want this app!

I'm assuming it comes with sane defaults, does it also allow tweaking the settings to get the steeping times and such perfectly to taste? What about sharing and cross-comparing these with friends?
We're based in London, probably should have mentioned that in the original post :)
One minor UX note: it wasn't directly obvious to me that clicking the small preview images below "Features" resulted in the preview on the right being updated.

Other than that, looks very nice!
It looks very simple, definitely too simple. From what I hear Gmail looked like this at first, the visible features were later.
Http://www.shelfluv.com started as a hackathon project last year in September located downtown.
Looks like it could :
http://www.fastmail.fm/help/domain_management.html
(opera mail is based on fastmail, they bought this email service, but I'm not sure they offer the same services)
Do you think something like http://pubcentral.net could be useful in that direction?
By the statistic, underweight and obese have significant increases in mortality. Whilst the overweight (by the BMI) have an overall decrease in mortality compared to the normal weight.

Obesity puts too much pressure on your joints negating the lubricants. But underweight reduces the lubrication in your joints. Overweight seems to be the ideal, as it has for thousands of years.

Obesity is correlated with higher LDL cholesterol, and underweight is correlated with low levels of cholesterol overall, which can reduce vitamin D production and in turn increase your risk to virtually every disease and cancer out there.

For my body fat percentage, I sit in the low 20's, which puts me into the overweight category. Which, incidentally means I'm likely at a reduced risk of stress on my organs and joints, as I've seen little to no evidence of a correlation between muscle mass and arthritis or other weight-related disease.
Original article here is worth reading:
http://thechoice.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/03/31/remembering-wh...

Notes that... "of the 210 candidates who took its 1870 test the June before, 185 were admitted."

Also, according to the NYT, this is the 1869 exam, not the 1899 exam (maybe it was added to the library in 1899, hence the stamp?)
This is true. Due to mastering technology becoming cheaper and easier, artists are increasingly mastering their own records, or mastering each others records as part of the production process. Obviously they don't have the same incentive for over compression.
2-5 years is a long time for Kayak to make alternate plans.
I've actually found evented servers to be slower than threaded servers in microbenchmarks. This is because evented servers have their own share of overhead:

- an I/O multiplexor syscall must be called from time to time. Select/poll/kqueue/etc. These extra syscalls introduce overhead on top of the already required read/write calls.

- the event loop has some overhead too.

- the fact that read never blocks means that the kernel can't apply certain optimizations such as having the peer directly write to the receiver's read buffer instead of copying things though multiple buffers.

That said, I think microbenchmarks like this are bullshit. The overhead is so small that you never notice a difference in production. The benefits of evented architectures are clear: you can handle a much larger concurrency level and you use less memory thanks to not having to reserve so many threading resources.

However too many people seem to be ignorant about this and think microbenchmakrs mean something. All they care about is that 10000 req/sec > 8000 req/sec.

I am actually looking into switching Phusion Passenger to an evented architecture, but I'm a little reluctant to do so because I fear people would microbenchmark it, see that it's slower and conclude that Passenger X sucks and is slower than Passenger X-1 or $COMPETITOR.
Their limitation on cron jobs was kind of a deal breaker for me. They allow you to run either a daily cron job (free), or an hourly cron job ($3 per month), but I enjoy the flexibility of a VPS and being able to run cron jobs however I see fit. This is probably a pretty minor problem (if even a problem at all) for most people.
Casual users like to ask power users for help. And non-techies can become picky for something that they use every day.
Does anyone know if you can configure POP3 or IMAP?

I couldn't find it.
more comments about t-shirts than most posts! guess they do matter. Blekko may set a record for free t-shirts. giving them out to anyone who asks
http://blekko.com/ws/+/blekkogear
Boredom will make A students D students.
Interesting, but the video should have been played faster and made much shorter.
From people in the country I've heard that there is often a lot of violence that spills out of the slums around election time.
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Wow, I can't imagine the nightmares that this guy has left others to deal with in the future.

Yes, a startup needs a 'get it DONE' attitude, but that HAS to be tempered with doing things in a maintainable way, and not just duct-taping it together. If you don't, you're forcing a complete rewrite of the entire system, and that is a really dangerous thing to do.

So let's give some better advice for startup programmers:

1) Get it done. Just hack out that code and make it work.

2) Write some tests for the poor thing. If you -can't-, you'll need to do step 3 first and then come back.

3) Refactor/Rewrite that horrid, horrid code you wrote in step 1. Make it readable, first of all. Then make it intelligible. Then make it pretty.

If you work at that company in the future, you'll thank yourself. If you don't, the owners and your predecessors will thank you.

And best of all: Writing good code is a habit. Once you get into the habit, it will horrify you if you ever have to stop, even temporarily.
Harman debunks youthful music myths
Not really. It is actually the opposite. See: "Harman debunks youthful music myths" http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2427217
Dan - Excellent guide - very informative!

What isn't mentioned is the video side which would be interesting to understand but also how the whole link with the guests thing works would be very interesting to understand too.

PS: Love 5by5 - keep up the great work.