skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What's a punishment if it's trivial enough that it goes unnoticed?
A sufficiently powerful EMP could destroy all electronic circuits, even ones that aren't powered on. It might take a long time to recover.
I was hoping to do it with either a VM, but fall back to a hackintosh if I had to just to get going, then once I had some experience under my built an idea I wanted to really execute on, go buy a used mac, or a mini.

Not seeing a lot of positive experience with the VM approach, however...

Shame
It is funny how this site was DDoSed by getting to the first page on HN :)

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:D8sBZ4-...
I've been studying this peripherally for the past year or two. Nothing too scientific but, yes, methodical little experiments here and there. I might put-up a website to see if my thoughts help others.

I think I would say that my first finding is perhaps an obvious one: The very first requirement for weight loss is behavior modification. Obvious from the outside. But I think the reality is that from the inside, if you will, a person can focus too much on the wrong behaviors.

For example, if you need to work out for an hour a day, five days a week to loose weight the entire endeavor is destined to fail from inception. That is not a sustainable modification in behavior but for a few individuals for whom the new regime becomes a fun part of their lives. Health clubs make their money by signing-up ten times more people that will fit into their buildings and they can do this because they know that people will not stick with the program.

The other finding might be that fast weight loss is another formula for failure. My opinion is that fat loss should take one to two years. Many reasons for this. Perhaps the most important of them is what I mentioned above: behavior modification. Without permanently changing the way you do things, failure is guaranteed. Slow weight loss allows you to have a long "conversation with yourself", if you will, where you explore strengths, weaknesses, desires, success, failure, ideas, methods and, in general, converge on a path that is sustainable.

And that's the third idea: Converge on a long term sustainable solution. No solution is worth the effort and expense if it makes you do things that you can't reasonably do for the rest of your life. Signing-up for programs that ship you food on a weekly basis is not a way to live your life. What if you travel or don't have the money? Going to the gym 10 hours a week is ridiculous for most of us. That is not a long-term solution. Living on beans and lettuce and diet drinks is, well, not living.

A long and carefully managed process of converging on a sustainable solution has major benefits that can and should last for the rest of your life. You should be able to pig out during the holidays and have that slice of cheesecake or ice-cream when you want to. However, your long-term modified behavior should kick-in with enough regularly to guide you back onto that sustainable long-term path I was talking about.

I don't know what the motivation behind a lot of these studies might be. Sometimes it seems that all they are after is a pill or a new surgery they can sell you. Humans don't need any of that to maintain healthy body composition, they just need to do the right things, nature and biology will take care of the rest.
The Times E-Mails Millions by Mistake to Say Subscriptions Were Canceled
While I appreciate the fun of getting this to work, overall, I really wonder whether saving $300 for a Time Capsule is worth it if it means that your backup solution is now relying on you typing a command like

defaults write com.apple.systempreferences TMShowUnsupportedNetworkVolumes 1

The "unsupported" would give me pause when setting up a solution I will need to be there when the worst happens. There must be a reason for this preference to be there.

Granted, it could just be Apple wanting to sell their products and thus doing some public key magic for it to work without the switch. Or it could be that TM relies on some very rarely used feature in AFP which is not or at least not perfectly implemented in netatalk.

Are you willing to bet your backup on this flag being needed for the former reason and not the latter?
Perhaps some of the funds raised for these open classes could and would have been raised for other projects relating to proper Stanford students ?
Facing the Singularity
Yep, good point. Considering how much nutritional theory has been turned upside down in the past 10 years it's difficult to know when the body of research will more accurately reflect the numerous subtleties in the ways our bodies work.
This is the reason I prefer strongly typed languages. Allowing developers to play fast and loose with data types only leads to less maintainability down the road and makes code difficult to read.
Great for Vaidyanathan and all, but what I really dislike about this article is this "wrongful hire" neologism. Seagate committed fraud, and calling it "wrongful hire" makes it sound so much weaker. And maybe I'm just paranoid, but the author of the piece definitely operates on the employer's side of these relationships (read his bio), so half of me wonders if this is intentional.
All installable/downloadable software also shares code. It just happens to be machine code, which adds a little hurdle, just like a good javascript minifier does.
Hold diet fixed and start lifting weights. If you start at 6'5" and weigh 254lb, you might end up the same way. But you'll go from 45" waist and 12" bicep to a 34" waist and 20" biceps.

In my book, that's a victory.

(This assumes you eat sufficient protein - if the calories are all fat + carbs, this won't work.)

[edit: to address rdouble's point, a 6'5" 254lb man who plays basketball also needs to eat more than the 6'5" 254lb man who doesn't, and cut back when he stops playing basketball. I never meant to dispute this.]
I wrote this as a one-day holiday project. It is an experiment, and could use some improvement.
I've seen them before, but the price seems exceptionally prohibitive once you get into serious long term usage... I would imagine i'd use enough hours in a given week that before long, I would have been better off just buying a machine. But i'll admit, i'm mainly doing the math out in m head.

Also, the page has broken links when you go choose a plan, so it's hard to get more info.

But this is solid advice for someone who wouldn't need to use the system for many hours in a week.
The point I was trying to convey is that the "western diet" is causing obesity. Not whether it's the fat, the sugar or something else that's causing it.
Downvotes, really? Is it because I used one of the grown-up words?

[edit]And downvotes yet again. Look - This is growing into yet another HN meta-problem. I think I really did my best in having a discussion - the result is it being abandoned and me being downvoted. At least have the courtesy to give me a reason.
Reminds me of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, in which the protagonist has a similar problem.
This is not even a project, it's a shell of nothing. This is equivalent to building an entire blog around one seo phrase and writing junk so you can get money from adwords.
Thank you! I totally agree. The purpose of a startup is (or ultimately should be) to make money. No one is going to earn their living off of this site. Calling it a startup is an affront to those of us who are actually laboring to create a viable, revenue-producing business.
i'd be careful in extrapolating too much here. the cultural differences between argentina and chile are significant. for example, on the index of economic freedom, chile ranks 11 (just 2 below the usa at 9) while argentina is 138. similarly, on the corruption expectation index, chile ranks 22 (slightly above the usa at 24) while argentina is 100. those are huge differences - please don't tar chile with argentina's problems.

http://www.heritage.org/index/Ranking
http://cpi.transparency.org/cpi2011/results/#CountryResults
I do have an old (very old) dell laptop kicking around... But I would need to do some research on hardware compatibility. It's definitely nowhere near as good as an XPS-anything would be; The thing is seriously under powered.

I'll keep this in mind, thanks!
I haven't taken it; so I don't know what the difference is. However you might have to separate genuine concerns from threat of students elitism being taken away.
"Obviously, there is Github, and any startup that puts their code out there for people to learn from is an open web advocate in my book."

I'm wondering what her Github username is, searches there for her only turns up other people's mentions of her twitter username and her name.
Sometimes I wish people like you would move to Somalia. If lack of government is what you really want, you can have it.
Redis in the NoSQL ecosystem
L'Académie française has published such dictionaries: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acad%C3%A9mie_fran%C3%A7aise
No obfuscation? Heck you don't need any obfuscation -- most javascript minimizers will leave code that gives very few hints about what it does.

There once was a time when viewing the source of a website was a reliable way to learn to code Javascript -- that is no longer the case.
I'm sorry if I made it confusing, but it really isn't about whether I signed up for 229 or 229a, the point is most of my classes for the coming term are now under this new online format and it would be shame to see them lower their standards to fit the public.
Some courses are hard for the sake of being hard, because they are intended to filter out students who can't hack it. The degree is proof that you had the intelligence and determination to earn it.

When you're not awarding a degree anyway, that consideration is irrelevant, and the only requirement is to teach as clearly and effectively as you can.
If you are thinking of modern IIS (v7+) it is a complete rewrite so technically not "mature" software at all.

IIS 5.x was horrible which is what most people who have been around think about when we hear "IIS".
yeah for me I'd probably use it 5-10 hours a month, maybe it's worth figuring out how to get OSX running in an EC2 instance
Sigh. I disagree.

It's not about you. Math does not exist to exclude you. People who use math are not trying to exclude you, they are just trying to make their jobs easier. Math can be just as accessible as this ML material when taught properly.

If your point is that more effort needs to be made to teach advanced topics in accessible ways, well, duh. That's a straw man.

I'm sorry that you feel so alienated from institutions like Stanford that you feel the need to compare their students to "wall street elite" that "do not care about the rest of the population" who "deserve what they get" for "being dumb." I think this rhetoric is out of line on HN.

If the author wrote, "CS 229A lets in the riff raff, I don't like those people" then you'd have a point. But that's not what he wrote. He's simply looking to learn more and get his money's worth. As others here pointed out, he probably should have taken the full CS 229 instead.
Yes, I think I replied to that branch of the comments as well.

And again: No, they are not immune to criticism, they have just set up a way in which criticism is handled in a particular manner, ie. channeled into discussions or in hands-on fixing. If you don't use either, you don't need to act surprised that they don't appreciate your criticism.
>Thinking that legislation is the solution to everything is part of so many problem in the US. You can't stop fat gain with laws any more than stopping people from driving over the posted speed limits on highways (which are government legislated and policed).

Okay, let's do an experiment. We have two cafeterias, and randomly assign students to one or the other. In one we serve the standard fare, and the other 'healthy fare.' Assume we agree on what's healthy, and that it prevents obesity for most.

Do you think the kind of food available has no effect on obesity rates? Will the obesity (and diabetes) rates be equal between these two groups of students?

Candy is dandy but liquor is quicker. I can't see how not giving kids the choice of eating junk food will lead to worse outcomes. They aren't going to go home and say, "OMG, I gotta make up for all the junk food I didn't eat at school now!"

I think increased deductible for the obese is a fine idea. But if that would work, so would a high tax on sugar (eg 0.5-1+ cents per gram), if indeed sugar is in part to blame for obesity as I believe. The benefit of a sugar tax is that it is felt before the person has gotten fat. The disadvantage is that even the slim and healthy must pay it. Even so, in a proper diet, sugar consumption should be well under 50g/day, more like <20g/day.

There are no nutrition labels on alcohol. On wine bottles, basic facts like the sugar concentration and the specific blend of grapes is often omitted, subject to local laws.

People often don't care enough to even get to the point where they can educate themselves. It's a bit of a chicken and an egg problem - if manufacturers don't disclose the information, consumers will never hear it, and will never ask for it in large numbers. Mandatory disclosure via government regulation solves that "information asymmetry." Once it's on the label, consumers can discriminate with regard to that information.
I am not a PL expert, but is this a strong vs. weak type problem or an implicit conversion problem? My layman’s (simplistic) model is that “weakly typed” languages allow entities to change their type at runtime, strongly typed languages do not.

But what we have here is an expression where entities are being implicitly converted into intermediate values, along with operators that do different things based on the values they are given. For example, the behaviour of the “+” infix operator in JavaScript could be replicated in any strongly typed language that has pattern matching:

x:string + y:string -> concat(x,y)
x:stringable + y:string -> concat(toString(x), y)
x:string + y:stringable -> concat(x, toString(y))
x:numeric + y:numeric -> sum(x,y)
...

I recall implicit conversion being one of the gotchas in C++. While its casts break strictly strong typing, a program with lots of implicit conversions can behave just about as mysteriously as the example JavaScript.

Back in the day when I wrote C++ (by gaslight, after I rode my penny farthing to the office), any one-argument constructor was presumed to be an implicit conversion unless you provided the “explicit” keyword.

UPDATE (and thanks to the hacker who pointed me in this direction):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strong_typing

It seems that the expression “Strong typing” subsumes both the concept of static typing (variables and/or values do not change their types) and of coercion. (Along with other issues such as whether programmers can deliberately evade restrictions).

If I were to rewrite my question, I would ask if this is a strong typing problem overall or just the subset of strong typing issues concerning coercion?

So part of the issue with this code is implicit coercion, which is not “strong typing,” but the other is polymorphic operators like “+”, which are independent of strong vs. weak typing.
Some probably mediocre product ideas being somewhat of an insomniac myself...

- Job posting for insomniacs - night shift jobs, jobs that require working with outsourced teams, etc.

- Application that tracks sleep and somehow deduces something useful from the data (patterns, correlations, etc. - there seem to be quite a few of these)

- User contributed product/content recommendations of things that genuinely help with insomnia
Sent, thanks
Generating the Mandelbrot set with LaTeX using TikZ
Godaddy Exodus: Not That Big
Yeah, but Argentina's a lot more lively. :-) I'd definitely do my startup there if my goal were anything that could be described by the words "lifestyle business" or "work-life balance". Come to think of it, that is my goal. See you in Buenos Aires.
Hmmm you know, that never occured to me as a possibility...

I'll look into that, as well

Thanks

Edit:

From a quick search, it seems as though it's more trouble than it's worth... Which seems to be the hallmark of what I'm reading about taking the "easy" way out overall...

Oh well
But none of these scenarios seem particularly pressing. 1) Population growth rates fall as living standards improve, the UN predicts a rise up to 9 billion humans followed by a drop to more or less back to 7bil. 2) It would be easier to work on reversing climate change than finding a planet that supports life.

The way i see it we 're still in 'space exploration' not colonization. Perhaps if we master biology, life and intelligence first, we 'll have our drones do that for us.
And that way you could use a RAID configuration of your choice, rather than being limited to what Apple provides in Time Capsules, which I don't think are even RAID.
"This all sounds reasonable, however they are held back by the idea that AI must look like a really smart human that is remotely controlling a robot/computer interface."

I think you misunderstood their position. The only assumption is that the AI must have some goal, and the point is that, if there's no term for humans in that goal, then we will likely be destroyed, not due to malice from any superintelligence, but indifference -- we are made out of resources that the AI could use to achieve its goals.

I think you're vastly underestimating how much better than us at achieving goals a superintelligence would be. A superintelligence would be a lot more powerful than any augmented billionaire, in the same way that a human is more powerful than the head of any wolf pack. The worry isn't about slightly augmented humans or slightly superhuman intelligence.

See these two papers for good arguments as to why human-level AI will likely result in an "intelligence explosion":

Yudkowsky (2008), "AI as a Negative and Positive Factor in Global Risk" http://singinst.org/upload/artificial-intelligence-risk.pdf
Chalmers (2010), The Singularity: A Philosophical Analysis http://consc.net/papers/singularityjcs.pdf
I'm not sure why this would be a doomsday scenario. PC parts manufacturers gladly let you download drivers from their websites for use on any computer with a variety of operating systems.

In the end, don't parts manufacturers need Android more than vice versa?
Like I replied to another person, my hope was to get my sea-legs with a vm/hack setup, then once I had some experience and a solid idea to execute on, invest in a used mac.

But thanks for the advice
Just because there is a PDF (or ePub etc.) of a book exists doesn't mean there is an official ebook. Some pirates scan books and either upload those each-page-is-one-image pdfs or (worse) they OCR these images andc upload that text.
except that what the OP writes is what i experience anytime i want to pay for something with my SRL, renew my DNI, etc.... the cultural differences are of course vast, but in terms of government bureaucracy - they are strikingly similar.
(I feel like the author doesn't say enough to distinguish the personality differences between the example lives and the new "single" life.)

I'm all for reducing complexity in one's life but not at the cost of surrounding myself with people that challenge my own understanding and beliefs. They're not there to convince me to change my mind, instead they help me solidify my position better. Having different parts of one's personality is important to not become a narrow-minded or uninformed individual. Your own personality facets shouldn't be so divergent that you change so much in different social situations and never move beyond superficial communication.

If I only ever focused on one facet of my personality I wouldn't learn anything. That seems counter to the approach an entrepreneur/founder would need to be successful.
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As a point of clarification she uses it in this sense:

"Supposedly, Aunt Sue is coming down this weekend"

What she means is "My mom said, "Aunt Sue is coming down this weekend"

What I interpret this to mean is "Aunt Sue says she is coming down this weekend. But, She's so flakey we shouldn't plan anything around her"

The but could really be anything, and it all depends on context, shared knowledge of the situation or person we're talking about.
It would be a lot easier for handset vendors to upgrade all of their devices from the last 2 years if they didn't release a new phone with slightly different hardware every month. LG alone is upgrading 11 devices to ICS - that's over twice as many devices as _all_ of the iPhones ever released, and Apple has been selling iPhones since 2007.

Baring actual hardware limitations (e.g. the lack of NAND space on the Nexus One), most of the work in porting a ROM is the device drivers. Vendors are really shooting themselves in the foot by releasing a dozen different hardware configurations in a single year.
As the site appears down: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:D8sBZ4-...

You mean to say, that if you've configured PHP in a poor way, (max post size, max execution time not appropriately tuned ) then you are open to a DoS? -- If you've configured it that badly, then this is probably the least of your worries.
I wonder how people come up with this kind of code to begin with?
Are you late on the guy that calls you everyday's project? Did he add requirements to the project? If either of those are correct then you are within your right to polity tell him to back off.

The website upload guy is easy, give him the number of the server guy and tell him to pay the bill, you are in a third party situation there and you need to remove yourself from it. The bill needs to be paid, before you can perform your task, unless you signed up to manage the project, it is his issue to deal with.

With the student projects you need to get those done if you have committed to it, you need to set aside some time and complete them.
What is a low carb diet? Who sets the baseline for the ideal amount of grams of carbs consumed per day? I never understood this. I can see how people may argue for and against "low carb" diets, but what I fail to understand is how anybody can argue _for_ a diet higher in carbs supplied by cereal grain-based products like breads, cookies, cakes, muffins, pasta, etc and sugar. Following this logic, isn't every diet that consists of real food -- not heavily processed -- low in carbs? Honestly, how many cups of broccoli and kale can one eat to reach even 100g of carbs per day?

Note: by heavily processed, I mean foods like sugar and refined flours that are borne out of taking a whole plant, extracting only the palatable component, and repeating this process millions of times until you have enough of the component to package it. I wonder how those who eat higher carb diets rich in starchy tubers and rice fare versus those who eat high carb diets rich in dinner rolls, glasses of OJ, cereal, and flavored low fat yogurt.
Another data point. If you already have a regular Airport Extreme, you can plug a drive into the USB port, share it, and set it as your Time Machine target. I didn't see the need to spend the extra money for the Time Capsule.
http://github.com/sarajo maybe I should try to index it. :)
"As a parent of a 10 year old and a 12 year old I am intimately familiar with this argument as well."

Some people only learn by being shown exactly how it feels by mimicking their own actions back to them.

If you are the person that left those comments: you have a 10 and 12 year old, what were you thinking?
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You can down vote comments when you have a high enough karma.
Because BMI is a crap measurement and you are not overweight, you are muscular.