skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Delta-V = v_exhaust * ln( mass_initial / mass_final )
OK, I see you're from Belarus too, like me. Yeah cafes are recording only ID but they will get banned if they do not restrict access to the internet.

> Административное взыскание в виде штрафа (в размере от 5 до 15 базовых величин) может налагаться на должностных лиц пунктов коллективного пользования интернет-услугами (компьютерные клубы, интернет-кафе, домашние сети и иные места, в которых обеспечивается коллективный доступ пользователей интернет-услуг к сети Интернет) при нарушении законодательных актов об идентификации абонентских устройств и пользователей, по учету и хранению сведений о них, а также об оказанных интернет-услугах.

BTW, as of your 'propaganda'. Do you think our gov't has ever been fair at least for 1 second? They violate their own laws, they violate our rights, c'mon.
Was he really counting the calories as he was gaining weight? Counting calories is a tough job, especially for an engineer like me (and I like counting calories), just because I don't cook consistently, I eat out where I don't know how much I'm consuming. Get a burrito for lunch? That can vary 100-200 calories depending on how it's made day to day.

Losing 45 lbs is a lot of work. After all that, how can you gain 35 lbs and not notice or try not to counteract it? I weigh myself a couple of times a week and it's easy to keep a running average of that. 5 lb variation is noise, but when you're starting to hit 10+, you should be taking notice.

I am assuming the OP exercises (as that's KEY to keeping weight off). You need to treat it like a feedback cycle: are you starting to gain a little? Ok, then be a little more cognizant of what you eat (cut down amounts, leave that last bite on the plate, really make sure you don't eat candy or soda) and crank up the energy expenditure and exercise (try to walk an extra couple of miles extra couple of days a week, make sure you take the stairs every time, etc).

Calorie counting is a great tool, but is inadequate because your metabolism changes as you attempt to lose weight. Your body resists change. It's also difficult to truly estimate your caloric expenditure in a given day. Your daily pattern of activity may have changed slightly in a way that you now burn 100-200 fewer calories--that can add up.

Carbs are not the root of all evil and many factors affect your hunger and metabolism. Here's a great science-sourced article: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/health/fitness/exercise/... -- e.g. "the results showed the best predictor of weight loss was how closely the subjects had managed to stick with their prescribed diet"

Also, studies suggest that the more you exercise, the less diet matters: http://sweatscience.com/the-more-you-exercise-the-less-diet-...

So, make sure you're out there burning those calories. And follow the "feedback cycle" model. Weigh and react.
They have far more to lose through bad publicity, and even punitive damages levied by governments, than to gain from making things easier for customers.

The idea of a weak password so you can have more easily a nose around someone else's private details is frankly laughable. This is personal financial information, not Facebook, FFS.

A moment's reflection, and you can imagine the headlines.
This is such a great marketing site for Codecademy. I think if you can more people to think like coders that is a massive win. Since I got into ruby in a big way I have started to notice that I think more logically, more rationally, more clearly. For instance, here is some code I wrote to work out if I should text a girl back or not:

if text.response_time < 5
puts "She digs me!"
elsif text.response_time < 60
puts "She is vaguely interested."
elsif text.response_time < (24 * 60)
puts "Delete her number and move on :("
end

You may think it is pathetic (because it is!) but it is surprisingly effective.
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For the longest time I ran my mail/dns/web systems from home on a dedicated host. About 4 years ago, I moved and decided to retire my host, and switched to linode linux VPS to host my mail/dns/web/ssh, and have never returned. My home PC is nothing but a client these days. I SSH into my linode for practically all else.
I had no idea he was such a big deal. strange to see random people you've had conversations with show up in on the front page, much less an obit out of the blue.
They oversee R&D programs. They might not be good scientists, but they do a very good job running an R&D intensive organization. Unless your definition of science is "writes papers nobody reads about stuff no-one cares about while being payed tax dollars", industrial R&D can also be science. Of course, Facebook is a terrible example. Google would be a much better one. Intel or Boeing would be even better.

There'll be people who say that computer R&D isn't science, because it's just gimped math or hand-wavy pretend engineering, but they'd be the same people who say that most of the stuff computer science academics do is also crap.
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Yeah, but here we know about that because 22 years ago we had authoritharian government too.

BTW - Poland tries to do sth about Lukashenko (like sponsoring "Radio Free Bellarusia", and promising more trade and loans if he will be less opressive towards opposition). But I don't know if it works at all.

And knowing how government enterprises works in Poland, Radio Free Bellarusia probably suck :)
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This inspired me to clean up my Boxcar too, and therefore see how little Github is notifying me about....
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I really disagree about making it 'easier' to login to your online banking. Those who are savvy enough know what they are doing and can handle complex password / authorization combos. Until we have better solutions leave it complex and let customer service handle the cases where the odd person can't manage their login info. With banking, security is a far better requirement than usability. Having said that, my online bank has what I perceive to be a fairly secure 3-step auth system and if I don't have my info physically in front of me I can't get access. Emergency and can't login? I'll call them.
http://whynot.net/ is a good place to start.

My dog rental business idea was shot to pieces.. (its still a great idea)..http://goo.gl/yLNtU but it got 5000 views. years back

Yahoo Answers...

Final one, is to find the community that your idea is relevant to, post it on the forums of the web sites that serve it. .. so if you idea is relevant to people who make high temperature adhesives go to Adhesives World and look there, if you are writing about fashion accessories for Ruby on Rails developers go there, more work but more useful..

good luck

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Jesus Christ on a crutch, just set up your goddamn editor to replace tabs with spaces and get on with life.

People who find this problematic need to find another language or stop focusing on trivia.
If you collect emails with an opt-out method you shouldn't complain when some people flag you for spam.

Paying customers didn't unsubscribe because they obviously had a higher level of engagement with the service. Of course free users won't keep track of every service they've signed up for, ESPECIALLY if they didn't explicitly say they wanted to be emailed.

I'm not a fan of freemium either, but this is more of a knee-jerk reaction to a perceived insult than any real insight into the business model.
Mint.com is a good dashboard to watch your finances. I check my balances and trends etc from Mint and only log into my bank when I need to do a transaction. They are probably stealing all my personal information however.
Who thought that was happening with Dropbox? Did they ever make the claim that they would encrypt people's data?
I agree. The hard part is starting the actual bank. That's 99.9% of it. Creating an usable website is .1% of the work. Let's see an entrepreneur do both rather than go after the low hanging fruit.
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It's not the same as "all children are above average", since you're comparing a subjective evaluation (beauty) to an objective evaluation (e.g. reading skills). Neither am I saying that everyone is beautiful to everyone else, just that everyone is beautiful to someone.

After all, there are some niche tastes. Just look at the gay community whose tastes can range from Bears (big chunky hairy guys) to twinks (young skinny femmy guys). For straight male equivalents, look at BBW, to Asian, to MILFs, to femdom/dominatrixes, etc.

I am not advocating being unhealthy. There are many people who have a healthy lifestyle & fitness and body, and yet are not as skinny as many many models and 'attractive people'. The fashion industry does not promote healthy bodies.
yep :)

Pre-render steps (building the BVH/KDTree, caching transformed geometry, caching textures and building mipmaps) can take 2 hours before the rendering even starts :)

And this is on a machine with 32 i7 cores and 96 GB of RAM.

There's a reason SPI and Weta (and the other CG/VFX companies, although those two have the biggest) have huge renderfarms...
How about corruption or collusion, then?
We are trying to build a system that describes pricing rules for a set of products. After thinking about it for a while we have decided to use a table driven approach for capturing business rules describing the pricng structure. The columns capture the various attributes of the products/order form such as the territory it's sold in, the currency of the order, etc. The results/actions for each rule capture the prices. We choose to implement it this way for precisely the reason mentioned in the article - we want our end users to maintain the rules.
This is great. Last year I broke my shoulder and could not run or swim for 4 months. I got fat for the first time in my life. I was eating loads and doing nothing. After months of physical therapy on my shoulder I was ready to start getting back into shape. My regime was simple:

- Kitesurf lots (really fun and uses a lot of energy)
- Swim lots (if there was no wind)
- Never eat processed foods.
- Drink a pint of milk before and after exercise sessions.

Done.

Going to the gym demoralised me. Kitesurfing is addictive. I think finding a form of exercise you love is akin to finding a job you love. When you love something you want to do more of it.

If you have to force yourself to go to the gym you will fail. I want to go swim because I have nearly drowned kitesurfing big waves in Ireland and never want to experience that again. These external pulls and internal pushes are what keep me fit. Not a New Year's Resolution.
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Agreed. While some of the opinions are valid and useful, the idea of intentionally setting up weak authentication for an online bank account seems absurd. (Did he really suggest accepting an e-mail address in lieu of a password?)

Banks often have you confirm recent transactions on your account to verify your identity (over the phone, for example), making this data pretty sensitive. But even setting that aside, I think most people would like their balances and transaction histories to be pretty private. It only seems reasonable to me.
I don't know - you read blog posts like the Spolsky one discussing this issue, and they claim that CS lecturers see a definate split between people that understand programming and people that don't, no matter how they try teaching the concept.

I personally believe that many people just can't grasp the ideas behind programming. But I would say that this is just because programming is hard - so hard that even those of us that are good enough at it to program for a living still struggle. It seems to me that the really good programmers are the ones that recognise just how rubbish they actually are at programming and try to do everything to make their code as easy to understand as possible. Functions that take up less than one screen, files that never have more than a thousand lines of code or so, using interfaces so that you don't have to understand implementation details, unit tests so that you can have confidence in a block of code and not have to doubt details when debugging, checking input values for functions. These are all things that you see in code written by those recognised as being good programmers, and yet they are all techniques that aim to reduce cognitive load when reading code. I don't think this is a coincidence.

So, if those of us that are good at this only just manage to get over the bar of adequecy, it stands to reason that there must be a lot of people that just don't make the grade, assuming a normal distribution of programming skill.
Is it just me, or is Facebook the furthest behind on all things user experience? Case in point: three clicks to remove access from an app on Facebook (1. Click 'X" 2. Click 'Remove' 3. Click 'OK'). On Twitter, it was one click, and if you want to change it, there's an "undo" button right there waiting for you.

Mix in that every incarnation of Facebook's own clients is almost completely different (iPhone vs. iPad vs. Android vs. Web), and you have a user experience nightmare. 90% of the phone calls I get from non-technical friends and family are "How do I do X on Facebook?". The first question I always have to ask: "Are you on an App or on the web?"
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this will simply push the use of encrypted tunnels to a new level. It's already a commodity service in China.
You are correct. Contract signed in September, which Apress was instantly in breach of since they didn't even bother to change it to suit the lateness, and payment for that one didn't happen until late November.
Facebook doesn't want to make it easy to revoke access to your data. They intentionally made it 3 clicks, just to make it more difficult. If it was super easy to revoke access to apps, developers might not be so interested in writing for their platform.
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"What Python needs is an alternative to WSB and can stay Python by still offering WSB to all those who happen to like it."

And that's an argument? Why not include static typing, or single inheritance, GOTO while we're at it? I'm sure there are those who happen to like them.

Well if anything, this is one of the most vocative trolls I have ever read. :)
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The insight is, offering something for free isn't worth it. And why? Because free users cost more money than paying users when considering the headaches and work they cause.
This isn't just a matter of girls who actually are kind of ugly having body image problems. That's still bad (they should value it less highly, they often underestimate how attractive they are, etc.)

But a lot of women, especially those around high school age, are just completely irrational in this realm. I know lots of women who are very attractive in conventional ways but aren't happy with their bodies. They think they're too fat because their stomach isn't totally flat, even though they look just as good as if they were that skinny, and they're only 5 or 10 pounds off. They think their breasts are too small. They fixate on small imperfections like a little bit of acne.

This all happens because society puts forward an airbrushed ideal of perfection that they're told to strive for even though it's totally unattainable. They see all of the small ways they could be better without taking a step back and realizing how attractive they really are. The fact that lots of men are interested in them doesn't convince them otherwise. They'll claim those men just like them because they're nice, or that the men are just interested in anyone who they think will put out, or some other mediocre excuse.
I have built systems like this (ones that worked, not just the anti-pattern described in my other comment). One caveat with EVERY “end users maintain this” system is that workflow rules, tables, DSLs, and everything else they “maintain” is CODE. It may not look like code, but if it drives the behaviour of the system, is code.

I take the view that if it walks like code and talks like code, it must be subject to the same rules as code. It must be checked into version control where it can be diffed and reverted. It must be pushed through staging and production. It must be testable, preferably with some kind of declarative tests.

In one system, we built the DSL for rules AND a DSL for declaring test cases so the analysts could write new rules and write tests for them.

You may have the same approach, or not as you deem appropriate.
I've used decision tables before and I don't particularly like them. The only good use for them is if the end-user both understands the rules and has the ability to change them. Otherwise, you're just covering up a code smell (nested if-else blocks) with a different representation without fixing the underlying problem.
Unfortunately I've no idea how the various GCs deal with the trade-offs; my point is that (memory bandwidth / memory size) in these embedded things is high enough that garbage-collection is fast, contrary to popular wisdom. I was looking at OCAPIC for an example, which has a very simple stop and copy gc which takes 1.5ms to collect. The trade-offs would have some 2× impact on some metric, but not change the feasibility of the thing.
tl;dr; - troll posts long rant on why Python should do delimited blocks in addition to whitespace blocks, devs tell troll to take a hike.
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Have you tried it on recent hardware?
I knew someone would catch that. :)

It's dependent on your infrastructure and demands, of course, but I probably wouldn't bother optimizing that unless cache sets were prohibitively expensive.
Free customers are higher maintenance than paying customers ... when I sent a thank you email a couple of days ago to everyone who used the site this Christmas. Many free customers flagged the email as spam!

That is hilarious. I use LOL sparingly but: LOL
It's not "intentionally weak authentication" – it's optionally weak authentication, so users can choose how hard it is to see their data.

Something completely different is securing sending out money
For real transparency you'll have to allow a third party to provide your public uptime data
From the linked to article:

>As stated in an explanatory note published together with the Law, this act was issued to implement the Decree of the Belarusian President of February 1, 2010, on Improvements to the Usage of the National Segment of the Internet.

This appears to mean that the official justification for the law is to promote national providers of internet services. The most cogent consequence is that it becomes practicable to control the internet speech of most Belorussians.
How many times do people talk about their bank in glowing terms? How many people love their bank? How many people rave about their bank? I have never met anyone that would meet those descriptions. I think those are telltale signs that there is room for a Zappos of banks. I hope www.simple.com can be it. I wish www.mint.com had gone for it.
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I bet there were many reasons, but it boils down to being able connect virtual entity to a physical entity. No matter if this is competing business, or this is opposition reporter.

Officially they say they use it to prevent illegal activity. But in reality government just want to know who doing what in internet.

ps: in this sense it quite similar to all recent USA bills and "this is to protect our children" moto :))
First off, I kind of feel bad for Tyler. I've had a similar experience with a web app I designed, and it sucked.

Second, I'm inclined to believe he (and I) ran into trouble because our apps were one-time-use or occasional-use tools. The freemium model isn't totally useless—it just doesn't translate well to one-time-use services/tools.
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I'd like to see a requirement about respecting the "Don't track me"-switch, and not collecting any personal details, as well. Privacy is one of the reasons, aside from the ones mentioned, as to why I block ads.
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According to some fellow Belorussians of mine, Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four should explain it quite accurately.
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There are no educational "prerequisites" for working at a start-up. However, I would say that self-taught folks without formal education are extremely rare in technical domains start-ups or not. I have encountered no more than a handful in 20 years.

That said, educational backgrounds are all over the map for many positions in start-ups. What this means is that it is probably a bad idea to make assumptions about what people can or cannot do based on their educational background.

My degree is in Physics (MS-- bailed out of PHD to go to work). Don't use much of what I explicitly learned, but the problem-solving practice of experimental physics has served me well.
I think the argument is that the end users wouldn't be able to manipulate the table in ways other than flipping bits, and that the system should be able to support any combination of bits.

In reality (and I think this is your point) the consequence is that just because a system can support a particular combination doesn't mean it makes any sense for the problem domain. Therefore by exposing this to users without tests, they can screw themselves over, even if the system continues to "work."