skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was in same group as Herval and he is a good guy. This said, I have a huge problem with this general mentality and I think a lot of today's entrepreneurs are spoiled brats that don't have their perspectives right.

I have had an awesome experience in Chile and it has been one of my best decisions I have made. I have met my girlfriend here, I have scaled my business a lot, I have learned to surf, I have met amazing people from all around the world etc. On top of this, my company got $40.000 free money. The reimbursement process could be improved, but generally I did not have that much problems with it.

The problem I see is that people expect everything on a silver plate. They expect everything to be perfect. And of course, if you expect this you will be disappointed by Chile and Start-Up Chile - - because it isn't perfect and they have a long way to go, but they are trying hard to create a good platform for entrepreneurs and so far I think they are doing a great job (and a better job than most other countries in the world).

Maybe this lack of perspectives is culturally/experience bound. For me, my dad's story as an entrepreneur gives me perspective that I have it good and that I have much better opportunities than he ever had. My dad was an entrepreneur that quit his factory job to start his own business in his early 20's. He worked 12 hours pr. day at least. He worked and scaled his business for over 20 years - - to provide education for my siblings and good life for my family. Then the Bosnian war came and we lost it _all_. We had to relocate to Denmark, a country where we did not speak the language (and I can tell you that Danish isn't an easy language to learn). What did my dad do? He learned Danish and started another successful business in his late 40's.

So when I see people complain about the process of getting free money or that the chairs in the offices are bad then I laugh, because I think they have no perspective of what it takes to build a business, how hard building a business is for majority of people or what struggles other people have.
> Technically, there was no fraud. They made a job offer, he accepted, and they (most likely) properly compensated him within the bounds of the offer.

Without having seen the job offer, or knowing what exactly he did for them, we can't really say, can we.
It will be a losing battle if the resource that destroyed your platform is cheaper than your platform. And while your're "disposing of the threat that just gave it self away," you're actually falling into my trap, for I've only sent that drone to get you to maneuver and give your other forces away, so my other disposable stealth drones can spin-up to high-energy missile mode and blow them up as well.

See, you can't just handwave stealth in space away. If you think you can, you just haven't thought it through quite enough.
Granted, I have commented on a lot of these stories but there are so many of them filling up every page of HN lately that if you look at the bigger picture I really have stopped because they all pretty much repeat each other. It's a big echo chamber.

Now, I'm not saying there's "no harm done" because they only redefined the terms. What I'm saying is that it seems like we're focusing so narrowly on one SOPA related story and missing the larger picture. Hasn't the GoDaddy story played itself out? There are other angles than GoDaddy and I'd be surprised if anyone is learning anything new or benefitting at all from these new ones. After the first 3 days of almost all GoDaddy/SOPA stories around here I think we've said all there is to say about it. At this point its gone from constructive discussion to just a lot of repitition and whining.

And yeah, I did mean not all the stories are true. Why do people have to nitpick? You obviously knew what I meant and I'm sure others are smart enough to get it too. The stories I was referring to we're the ones implying that GoDaddy wrote SOPA and that they gave themselves an exemption from it as if they're the only ones getting that exemption.

My original comment was a perfectly valid and reasonable point. If you start cherry picking tiny little details you don't agree with or that aren't perfectly worded then you're missing the whole point. Let me state the point very concisely and maybe you'll find you actually agree with me:

The GoDaddy stories have become repetitive and unproductive. The stories have been polluted with misinformation and false assumptions. We've said all there is to say and this is distracting us from stopping this bill from passing. Boycotting them is a great way to protest but let's talk about some other things we can do like we had been doing before the GoDaddy story broke.

This whole thing reminds me of how politicians use news cycles to their advantage. Sometimes you can't get around bad press so you pick out one aspect of a story to get the public all riled up this distracting them from the real story. What is the real story? I have no idea and I'm sure I couldn't find out on HN as it stands now because we're caught up in an infinite loop of the "GoDaddy wrote SOPA and gave itself exemptions" story.
is there a mirror?
The US ARMY and Apple have been in talks for years and it is clear that Apple isn't desperate enough for the ARMY's biz. That is, Apple doesn't want to bend enough to satisfy DoD security requirements for both mobile and desktop devices. The ARMY has had a big fat check with Apple's name on it for years.
Entertaining marketing is not sufficient as emotion and passion required
That's the thing - I don't agree with your premise that humans and robots/AI would be as seperate as you frame it. "Vanilla" humans may not understand the AI, but the people working with the stuff would surely be vastly enhanched humans, cyborgs.

I agree that we have to create AIs that share our values. However, I don't understand how/why we would/could not. We obviously create AIs to serve us and in order to serve us independently it without needing manual input of tasks (which would just make it an advanced computer) it needs to understand us.

I simply don't understand how the default AI would be detrimental to humans, what purpose would such an AI serve and why would we create it?
How do you justify locating in center city philadelphia with all the taxes and the dysfunction of the city government when you can be 12 minutes away in conshohocken to avoid them?
All of those lessons you learned are important, but you didn't learn the most important lesson of them all. At least, when it comes to writing web based software.

The software package that I'm working on has about 100K lines of javascript. I don't obfuscate or play games. White space is removed, but that's to save bandwidth.

All of that code is object oriented, certainly, but it is still tightly dependent and interwoven. You can't take a single piece out and make it work by itself. All the pieces are dependent on each other.

Most importantly, that code is non-functional without the server-side components. Completely. The code is about 75% client-side and 25% server-side.

So for somebody to steal my client-side code, they would need to reverse engineer my server-side code to even start to use it. That effort would take them just as long as to write everything from scratch, if not longer.

Now, can they steal my design ideas? Sure. Copying is the best form of flattery and I enjoy being flattered. But, in the end, nobody can be a better you than you, by definition, so don't worry about copying. Either way, you don't own ideas. Where do you think you get your own ideas from, anyway? From a vacuum? No! From other people! Your ideas are simply improvements on ideas you got from other people.
Yeah. I guess you're right. But my point still stands otherwise. I can't really think of another way to word that eight now, it escapes me but you still know what I mean. I stand corrected on that point though.
Adding muscle is 1) extremely difficult (no, you cannot add 30 lbs of muscle in 30 days unlike the ads would make you believe) and 2) the effects are largely exaggerated.

Quoting Lyle McDonald, a noted leader in fitness science and nutrition :

"Some of this also comes from the still gross misconception that ‘muscle burns a ton of calories’ (a myth I took apart in Dissecting the Energy Needs of the Body – Research Review). That is, they hope to jack up metabolic rate by increasing muscle mass. Which is a futile activity because the effect is minimal (on top of the fact that the obese are already carrying extra muscle mass). A pound of muscle burns about 6 calories at rest, you have to add a ton to impact on metabolic rate (see also the next issue I discuss, low metabolic rate isn’t a problem). And that takes a lot of time, time better spent focusing on active fat loss."
It isn't to say a lot of people thought it was impossible, but it is just very unheard of. Anecdotally, most of the people I know hadn't heard of it either.

Slashdot, Facebook, Wikipedia, etc were the very large sites talking about what they used over the years and it was all about the open source stuff like Apache, PHP, etc.

Then I found out, on HN, that POF used IIS and it was mind blowing. You would think even Microsoft would promote its successful uses more like that. Until POF, I too had assumed IIS was only for 1,000 to 50,000 enterprisey setups. I didn't think it couldn't be used per se, but I just hadn't ever heard of it being used that way until POF either.
Can't see site, but it all "just works" if you can go to wheezy on your debian machine.
Huge portions of the Web vulnerable to hashing denial-of-service attack
Ping Services List Of The Year 2011-2012
I'm not trying to do the common "patches welcome" snark, but I'm trying to help. The poster might have some actual problem (eg "osm can't do directions") that I might know the answer to ("cloudmade do directions based on osm data").

Although osm contributing can be a lot of work, its very easy for lots of people to add some data, esp. about where they live or grow up. Is there a coffers shop, school, or path near where you grewbup that's not on the map? Every little contribution helps. People are often proud to see their home correctly represented on the internet.

Many of your complaints are mostly valid if there is a totally accurate alternative map available, but its not the clear cut. In many places osm is of better quality than Google maps, and considerably cheaper than the national mapping/ordnance survey agencies. There is no perfect solution.
It appears to be down. Here's the Google Cache http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:a7H_n-e...
Internal Server Error on YouTube (Firefox)
Got it at 1:15 PM; message content made me suspicious.

Searched Twitter: people with subscriptions were getting it, but also people who'd never subscribed, and people who'd used throwaway email addresses to subscribe (e.g. username+nytimes@example.org).

1:49 @NYTimesComm: "A spam message was sent broadly today with the subject 'Important information regarding your subscription.' This email was not sent from The New York Times. If you received it, please delete it."

At 2:02 PM, @NYTimes: "If you received an email today about canceling your NYT subscription, ignore it. It's not from us."

Headers indicate it was sent through Epsilon, the email service provider that was hacked in a widely publicized incident last spring.

The Times' denial that the email was sent from the Times would lead me to believe there was some kind of error (or another breach) at Epsilon.
It's not complicated, it's merely false.

http://wholehealthsource.blogspot.com/2011/08/carbohydrate-h...

There have been scientific studies out since the 30's entirely dismissing calorie counting as being effective.

[citation needed. The actual studies please, not Gary Taubes.]
For easier dictation to congressional aides over the phone:

http://tinyurl.com/wyden-sopa
I see this as more of a continuation of the author's previous post rather than a commentary on borrowing JavaScript:

A Post About Why I No Longer Do .NET Development

http://www.sarajchipps.com/2011/10/this-blog-post-has-been-a...
7 Habits of Highly Effective Marketting
From those same guidelines:
"If you flag something, please don't also comment that you did."
Being new here means (in my case) that I re-read the guidelines each time I think they might impinge on a decision to post, because I'm aware that I haven't yet absorbed them into my general thinking patterns.

Also, to which guideline were you directing gregbair's attention? I fail to grok your meaning.
IANAL, but "bait and switch" is usually a specific thing; for instance, in Illinois, it's covered by the Illinois Consumer Fraud statutes. The general concept of "baiting and switching" is not automatically considered "fraud".

To win a fraud case, this person would need to cite specific material false statements provided by Seagate, and then additionally establish through a preponderance of evidence that those misstatements were made knowingly with the intent to trick him. Since they actually gave the guy a job and paid him for 9 months, that could end up being hard to do.

Note also that this cuts both ways. You probably don't want every business to find itself in the situation of having to fend off fraud claims any time it dismisses someone after less than a year's employment, or being in the situation of not being able to terminate someone for performance after having relied on that person in a sales process somewhere.
No, we can't, which is his point.

The parent commenter is simply observing that "fraud" is a harder case to make than a specific violation of a statute narrowly tailored to exactly this guy's case.

Given the obscure statute which won this guy his judgement, it seems reasonable to assume he had better legal representation than is available on an HN thread.
Agreed. It's odd considering that people have no difficulty accepting that alcoholics have a permanently altered relationship with booze.

Given that ex-fatties still have to eat, my idea would be to have the same meal every day, liquidized and diluted with as much water as possible, and to take no pleasure from consuming it. (Pleasure can be found elsewhere, e.g. in meaningful work.)

>For instance, after several days or weeks, people on strict fasts report not feeling hungry any longer.

That is true in my experience (I once fasted for 15 days).

In a fast there is opportunity for renewal of brain tissue:

http://www.cell.com/cell-stem-cell/abstract/S1934-5909%2811%...

Ofc, this approach won't work if the fast is too short (it takes other tissues several weeks/months to renew themselves, e.g. skin = 6 weeks). So some limited food intake is necessary. Also won't work if the subject develops, say, a cocaine or porn habit to replace food.
Other people have pointed out that the author's stated theory of calory intake isn't universally accepted

Very little in nutrition is universally accepted.

So why not do what's practically canon among modern athletes and bodybuilders - make healthy muscle development (or at least preservation) a primary goal of the diet/exercise regime. In other words, do the opposite of what all these beleaguered people are doing?

Because it generally doesn't work for weight loss. Each additional pound of muscle will burn about 3 calories per day more than that pound of fat. So if you lose 10 pounds of fat and add 10 pounds of muscle (no small feat), that will net about 30 calories per day. Less than about 5 minutes of jogging.

Adding muscle mass is great when you're already lean, which is why it makes sense for athletes and bodybuilders. But talk to NFL linemen who try to lose weight after they retire and you'll see that simply lifting weights isn't sufficient. They need to cut back on food and spend a lot of time running. And from people I know -- they'd much rather just lift weights.
I listen to some House music and electronica stuff most of the time. Other times some good rap or classical stuff can get my thought juices flowing. I find that listening to music that is too loud distracts me.
Like the passion and openness from Jason & team, great work.
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Most serious gamers battle with one problem throughout their lives. That is the fact that good games cost too much and tend to finish too soon
There are two goals with learning ML:

- Applying known ML algorithms to a real world task

- Coming up with new ML algorithms and research

It turns out (ahem) that the first goal, applying ML, is not only much, much higher in demand than the second goal, but is also much, much easier to teach than the content required to pursue the second. This dichotomy is the reason the split between CS229a and CS229 in both content and audience works so well. The demand for CS229 is low and the rigor is high (so it should be priced high), and the demand for CS229a is high and the rigor is low (so it should be priced low.) The author signed up for the wrong class. I think Stanford is teasing out subfields of CS that have this quality, and there sure are many.
No, they're both wrong, but his friend misses the more important point: self-discipline is necessary to alter the status quo, not consistency.
Sounds like a worse is better case study.
> People got fat at the same time flipflops and cheesy t-shirts became suitable public attire. Pure coincidence?

Yes, as before the 1950's it was common to see the working class wearing 'waist overalls' (AKA baggy jeans) and wife beaters in public. It was after the 1950's that they became a staple in teen culture and spread to the middle class as those teens matured.

I don't see how there's a difference between cheesy t-shirts and wearing a wife beater (technically underwear) in public. I actually think t-shirts are more acceptable, despite wife beaters being a staple, like jeans, in the working class back before the 1900's. They became acceptable footwear in the post-war period when soldiers returned from Japan with them.

Note that Japan has had sandals as a cultural staple for centuries, to the point that they invented the tabi(?) AKA toe socks to be worn with them (because, you know inventing real shoes that keep your feet warm was just an absurd notion). So despite being commonly regarded as thin compared to westerners, I suppose they've become grossly obese by their own standards since they invented the sandal.

It's quite frankly absurd logic. I might as well say that Americans are fatter than Brits because it's acceptable to wear a lounge suit to formal events, whilst in the UK its less acceptable and generally only a full tux is regarded as fitting formal wear.

Sorry, the reason Americans have the fattest arses in the world is because its government gives massive subsidies to corn growers. Corn incidentally is a great source of calories and low source of nutrients. This means poor people have to consume larger amounts of food to get the same nutrition. This means they tend to get obese, because despite eating copious amounts of calories, they're still malnourished.

People get fat because of the abundance of cheap, low quality calories.

The most likely reason why South East Asians are healthier than westerners is because their government subsidizes higher nutritional quality foods. Rice for instance is a better start than corn. Similarly subsidizing salmon and tuna as opposed to cattle farm beef is again better.

I'm not saying beef is bad for you, but the shit in a McDonalds patty is, especially when you can get 1lb for like $2. The stuff you're paying $15 a lb for is likely not as bad as the vegans would want you to believe.
It depresses me to see the results of people being misguided into caloric restriction. Good Calories, Bad Calories should be required reading at weight loss programs: http://www.amazon.com/Good-Calories-Bad-Challenging-Conventi...
I don't read him as arguing that there should be a simple "months on the job" test, but rather observing that if he had been employed for, say, 24 months before termination, he probably wouldn't have made his case; a reasonable group of people being likely to conclude that 24 months constitutes a bona fide employment relationship and not a parlor trick.
I added 25 lbs of muscle in <month. Since high school I'd never been able able to gain much muscle. Even lifting heavily and being quite strong and eating voraciously the highest I could get to was 163 lbs at 5'11" when I was 25. Earlier this year, I heard of the Gallon of Milk a Day (GOMAD) diet and tried it. I went from 152 to 177 in less than a month, while doing CrossFit three days a week, and one day each a week testing my 1RM max in the squat and bench press. I've never had any appreciable bodyfat (~12%) and I did not gain any during this time. I did not use any supplements of any kind, not creatine, nor steroids, nor insulin.

Edit: Incidentally, since it did indeed happen, the incredulity expressed by the down votes indicates just how proud I should be about it. ;) I never complain about down votes, but there is something mind bending about being down voted for something you know to be pure fact and to realize your down voters literally have no idea what they're talking about.
A lot of people exercise because its fun. In the same way that you should have a healthy diet because it will probably taste better. I would argue that weight loss on its own gives little immediate benefits. Doing sport because its fun has lots of immediate benefits, and gives a constant sense of achievement. Weight loss is just an added benefit.

If tracking weight loss doesn't lead to weight loss it is an invalid treatment for obesity.
Just wanted to mention that if any of this sounds interesting, Khan Academy is hiring both for full-time devs and interns. Here's the job post:

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I see what you're getting at, but I wouldn't call that "using stealth". Surely the demolition of one observation platform isn't going to raise an eyebrow. If I'm defending a solar system I have tens of thousands of observation platforms that get taken out by asteroids and comets from time to time.

Trying to create a diversion isn't really effective at the scale of a solar system (or greater). While I might send a small fleet at your drones, you still have to get at me from somewhere, and that probably involves destroying more drones. But why bother? Getting to my base at the center of the solar system is going to take you more than a few minutes, I'm going to figure out where you're really coming from.

It makes more sense to use drones for reconnaissance, and then just go at your opponent with a bigger fleet.
Ask them if they were using LuaJIT2; they probably didn't -- it's relatively new (only been stable enough for real work for less than a year).

It is ludicrously fast. It usually loses to optimized C / C++, but by no more than 10-20% -- and you have essentially no restrictions whatsoever on the Lua features you use; Furthermore, it's FFI makes interoperating with C / C++ a superfast breeze, dropping the FFI overhead to zero.

And even ignoring LuaJIT2 -- they probably took less time and got higher quality overall by going through Lua (assuming programmers were equally versed in Lua and C++, and the infrastructure was reasonable) -- it's easier to iterate and debug with Lua than it is with C++.