skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Holy shit. That is very impressive. What calorie limits did you pick?

Regarding eternal counting, two things that may help:

Yoga and meditation have both made me much more aware of the experience of my body. Before I would eat long past the level that I now recognize as "full". Often because I just didn't notice. (Reading while eating made that especially easy.) Now I find it much more easy to keep stable.

The other trick is one from Carol Lay's graphic memoir The Big Skinny. She weighs herself every day. If she's within her goal range, she just eats without worrying. If she's above the limit, she goes back to counting. (Her system is simpler; she just tracks raw calorie numbers, not full food lists.)
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Sorry should be there now, not sure why it wasn't coming up before must not have updated (:
You could be under active, persistent public surveillance with no way of knowing it is happening, and this would be totally legal in many places.

Why is his behavior illegal? What law is he breaking? Public nuisance, maybe?

Your reaction depicts the typical attitude to surveillance. What this guy is trying to point out is that we are already under surveillance and we have no control over it and no idea who is doing it or how thoroughly they are doing it.
Basically, you're creating a cloud base phone book (a much easier way to pitch the idea btw) and simply granting access much like a fb friend request to be able to access that data, and when you have no online access, it sits native to the phone until the next connection for a push update, if any.
> So he responded to an actual argument with an appeal to emotions? And he seems to be proud of this?

Not only that; his question is flawed and ironically very dishonest. Anyone who produces music, movies, games or books knows from the beginning they will be downloaded for free whether the author allows it or not. He will not unexpectedly find himself in that situation as the article implies.

With that in mind, anyone who wish to product music etc. has to reconcile themselves with this fact, and find a business model that works in the real world, not some idealized result of wishful thinking. Anything else would be madness.

Therefore, the answer to the question should be "AWESOME! Everyone downloaded it." Your worst nightmare should be that no one finds it worth pirating.
Here's my $0.02.

Firstly, with regards to his actions outside of private properties, how are his actions any different to say, a journalist stood with a camera with a long range lense taking pictures from the highway to the office? The invasion of privacy is still clear, the only real difference is the knowledge of the situation.

After having security cameras follow around our every move (I live in the most widely covered town in England) we have become numb to it, it has just become a part of every day life to expect to be stalked by the police and other entities. I believe the uncomfortable feelings these people experienced were due mainly to the fact that he was also though, but that alone would not make them uncomfortable, if say, for instance he was stood in the street taking a video of nothing in particular, say, the other side of the road, people would happily walk by him with little or no discomfort.

The point where he started "invading privacy"[1] by following people round is where they began to feel uneasy, being followed by a camera man is unnatural, but I beg the question, how is this any different to paparazzi? How is this any less legal, say, they the topless photos of Kate Middleton, following Lady Gaga in to a hotel to get some exclusive shots or taking a photo of Madeleine McCann's parents while they are in their home?

The legality of this is in question by a few of the posters, but I feel this is totally wrong, it should not be the legality of whether or not to record audio, or whether the video can persistently track you, it should be a question of free speech versus privacy.

On the one hand you have an annoying man who isn't doing any genuine harm, on the other hand you have a person who clearly believes their privacy is being infringed, the question is, to whom do the majority of the rights fall.

I'm no expert on American laws, but from what I know, freedom of speech is protected by the first amendment, and you could argue that if he is trying to change peoples views and mentality with this video, it is in fact a form of speech and should be afforded the same rights, though a general exclusion is invasion of privacy, according to the Wikipedia page regarding the first [2], but if so, why is a security camera not an invasion of privacy?

I would be willing to bet a significant portion of this months wages that even if he followed suit with the security cameras and removed the sound from his recording, almost every person would still have felt uncomfortable, especially in the UK, where legally, unless you are suspected of having committed an illegal activity, a hand operated security camera can not track you for more than 5 seconds. [3]

[1] - If indeed, the right to not be on video while in public should be regardless as privacy, can you truly have privacy while in public?

[2] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time,_Inc._v._Hill

[3] - This number was given to me by an operator of the Blackburn with Darwen CCTV unit several years ago when I took part in a visit for high school and as such I have no proof, so take this point as opinion.
I recently split to two separate machines. My old laptop is my fun computer (which includes HN.) My new laptop is for being productive.

Physical separation has been great. It makes it much easier for me to remember which context I'm in, and it makes context switches obvious.
Prediction: service will be shut down way before receiving my letter to self
Could you please produce a link to this post? Google seems to think it does not exist. Given that you stated in a sibling comment that you posted exactly that post and search engines tend to be good at finding exact strings, I find that strange.
Furthermore, judging by this graph

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Usage_share_o...

it seems that Chrome's rise in popularity correlates with IE's decline.
I don't think refurbished means what you think it means.
Would you say that standard surveillance cameras have a good or bad attitude?
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Palm and RIM both straddled that divide.
Green threads are indeed very useful, and probably the right way to go. In Javascript, see Tamejs: http://tamejs.org/

NCD looks interesting, in particular the backtracking feature.
But I'm a bit concerned by your choice of developing a new language from scratch, with a very awkward syntax (at least at first sight). Why not extend an existing language?

See CPC for instance, which extends the C language with a spawn primitive (disclaimer - this is my PhD thesis project): http://www.pps.univ-paris-diderot.fr/%7Ekerneis/software/cpc... and http://www.pps.univ-paris-diderot.fr/%7Ekerneis/research/ for more details.
I spent ages going over the hi-res image looking for any damaged cable sheath. Still wondering where that scrap of the sheath insulation tape they noticed on the ground in a photo a while ago came from.

No doubt the external, unprotected cables saved a lot of weight and assembly time. But it would really suck to snag one on a rover arm or something, and then be looking at pictures of the broken wire that killed some vital rover equipment. That Kapton tape is very thin.
What would I say if this guy came up to me and sat at my table as I was talking?

I'd say "hey, what are you doing?"

"I'm just taking a video"

"Ok, well can you go take a video from over there?"

"Ok."

He would move to another table, keep taking a video of me.

Then I would continue eating.

I am guessing movie stars have to deal with paparazzi all the time.

What if I was on some phonecall or saying something private?

Then I'd say "well can you go take a video of someone else?"

"I'm just taking a video man."

"Yeah, but you want to hear everything we're saying?"

"No, I'm just taking a video"

"And I'm just trying to have a private conversation."

"I'm just taking a video man"

(I tell the person on the phone -- hold on a sec brb, and
put phone on mute)

"What are you going to do with that video?"

"Nothing, just taking a video"

"Are you trying out that camera?"

"No, just taking a video"

"So how long are you going to be taking that video?"

"You seem confused"

"Do what you want" -- and I would move somewhere else, he
would follow me

"Why are you following me?"

"I'm just taking a video man"

"Okay but why are you following me?"

"I'm just taking a video."

"Of me?"

"No, just in general."

"But you're following me."

"Well, I--"

"Um, yeah. I think you've proved your point. Can you try it
with someone else now?"

"I'm just taking --"

"Yeah, I know, a video."

"Yeah"

"I guess I must be famous. You're not going to stop?"

"I'm just taking a video."

(I turn to someone who works at the store -- "This guy keeps
following me with the camera")

They turn to the guy: "Sir, I'm gonna have to ask you to
stop filming"

"I'm just taking a video"

"Well you can take a video outside."

"But I'm just taking a video..."

"Sir, please leave now."

(they escort him out)

(I resume the conversation and have a good laugh at what
just happened, still not sure what the guy's point was.)
My point was that Google chose to innovate by stepping outside of their core business and trying something new to them. By many accounts, this is doing well for them in their efforts with Android. There was nothing stopping Dell from doing the same.
In this application you typically use p-ch mosfets with gate pulled down to turn on, a resistor will provide pull-up of the gate to turn off.

So Ugs is the same as the rail voltage (3.3, 5 and 12v).
I thought startups are about first finding a repeatable business model that thrives, instead of surviving, before fine-tuning it?
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>Inflation by itself does a great thing: it reduces the real value of old debt.

Inflation rewards debtors and punishes savers. That's not an unmitigated good thing. In fact, I would say it's mostly bad.
Same here in Poland, I would have never seen clothes dryer if I weren't in the US few years ago.
Doesn't the use of such dryer make ironing harder?
I read this as vote by mail and was excited, voting by email is damn stupid.
I imagine he would react at least as negatively, given that he was bothered by surveillance enough to do this project.
> Why are so many people still buying contracts, though? Is it really just because of the subsidized phones? I'm not convinced.

Because in Verizon and AT&T (the major carriers, only option for most people), you don't get a lower price for bringing your own phone. Essentially, you can pay full price for the contract and get the phone subsidized, or you can pay full price for the contract and full price for the phone.

Is it surprising that most people choose the subsidized option?
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This reminds me of something in the philosophy of ethics:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolley_problem#The_fat_man

The more remote something distasteful is from us, the more we can tolerate it. Sometimes moral decisions come down to this. It's interesting to note how this experiment is related to that.
The entire field of economics is built on non-falsifiable assertions. Without them economists would be working the fry vat.
"Hacker News has become the source of the noise for me and I'm increasingly not coming here. I often block it in my hosts file, in fact, along with reddit and Facebook."

If any website causes you to often block it in your HOSTS file, then perhaps you should make a real effort at not unblocking it?

All I'm saying is that if chewing on glass gives you discomfort, well, stop chewing.
Its interesting you made this comment because I've always considered IT (for right or wrong) a demeaning term because I often associate people in IT as really non-technical i.e. they can't actually code or anything, they're just more knowledgeable than the average.
This reminded me of an interesting episode ("The Entire History of You", s01e03) of the UK's Channel 4 series Black Mirror that touches the subject of recording our lives with a "Google Glass" type of device.

http://www.channel4.com/programmes/black-mirror/4od

Highly recommended if you want to take a fictional look into the subject of public surveillance.

pd: in case the Channel 4 video is not available in your country: http://www.tubeplus.me/player/1968872/Black_Mirror/season_1/...
this is a serious struggle i face, too. in my role i have to stay fresh and on top of large areas, new ideas, and what's coming next. curation, while tempting, leads to an echo chamber. i've built curation tools for the past ten years, mostly for myself (and they work really well, i share them with select friends), but ultimately i have to withstand the noise and dig out interesting stuff.

i just triage quickly, to be honest, and i try not to rely on other people to do my curation for me (either crowd-based selection or manual selection). i can stil avoid much of the same old noise and debates but i get to see new ideas, perspectives, topics, and things.

some of the links here have been great to see, however, and i will have to utilize them. thanks for sharing them.
I think you're rewriting history here.

CP/M was there long before Microsoft's dominance took off, powering machines from multiple companies (including the ones you listed). In fact, MS DOS 1.0 was a re-branded QDOS, which was highly inspired by (as in, an incompatible but extremely similar to) CP/M.

It was Microsoft's execution, NOT innovation, that gave them the lead. And IBM's lack of foresight, giving Microsoft control of the PC market.
Hmm, offtopic but I'm curious: there's a semantic difference between the two terms? So the FBI and the NSA somehow operate at different levels, tied to different entities? If so, what's the difference?
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Voting is stupid. Instead, you should take huge dump.
+1 for mobile app. It could be done very well as an iPhone app combined with the Rails backend.
We actually used to use Samsung EcoGreen drives in order to get more storage for cheaper, since our main use was backup: write once, read maybe. Unfortunately there don't exist 5400RPM 3TB drives; if they were as cheap as the 3TB Seagates, we'd buy them for sure. The 5400 rpm Ecogreens used to be the cheapest 2TB drives on the market by a large margin.

I never expected that paying more for a slower drive (but better power and less power-related issues) would actually make sense!
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why not... YEAH why not. why he has to have a reason to taking a video of other people? :)
The funny thing is, I'm not sure that the hot-swap circuitry is even necessary in the first place due to the connector design.

The SATA spec defines "pre-charge" voltage pins that are connected after ground, but before any of the other voltage pins are connected. The idea is that by inserting a small (10 ohm) resistor, you can limit inrush current to a tolerable value while capacitors charge and regulators start up, and then when the other pins connect a couple of milliseconds later, the drive gets the proper low-impedance power connection.

Do you know if implementing pre-charge via connector mechanics obviates hot-swap protection circuitry? Supermicro seems to have hot-swap protection on their backplanes as well, but I haven't had a chance to closely inspect it.
Really, people who spend their time, received some notion of credit for completing a class, and then praise it for quality represent the textbook case of biased opinion.
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Communities aren't doing this. Police departments are using warped interpretations of wiretapping laws or just outright lying to go after people who film them. The will of the public is not considered.
Can someone comment on whether or not he is actually breaking any laws? Especially when simply recording on public streets?

At least based on this article "Know Your Rights: Photographers" (http://www.aclu.org/free-speech/know-your-rights-photographe...) what he is doing is perfectly legal: video-taping while standing on public property. On private property it is not ok and you have to leave when asked, which he does.

The situation only gets tricky because of the audio, and in this case it matters what state you're in. Still, it seems like the legality hinges on "reasonable expectation of privacy", which someone casually sitting at a Starbucks probably does not, or at least should not have. Also, in all cases the subject is clearly aware of being recorded.

On the other hand, in one of the clips two guys call the police and he runs away trying to avoid confrontation. That seems odd.
Buy a heart rate monitor, they are dirt cheap, or just learn to accurately take your pulse. Then ensure you get your heart rate up to a set level for a set period. Walking burns next to nothing, it's good for your body for loads of other reason, and it's great for getting mobile, but will have a nominal affect on your body weight.

You don't mention if you are tracking food, which seems to be a major metric to miss out. I simply track approx carbs, which I find insanely easy.

Lastly other cheap metrics you could track are body fat (callipers cost next to nothing) which is easy to measure ESP with a friend helping, you can also track maximum widths. So what it the biggest part of you arm, leg, stomach, chest, neck, etc. just tracking weight is misleading as you could be dropping fat and gaining small amounts of muscle from your increased mobility.

Personally, I do slowcarbs (like low carbs but with pulses and beans) while weighing myself daily and taking body size and body fat measurements once a week. I've lost 15kg like this and dropped from 19 to 12% bodyfat. To get that drop I did no additional exercise, though now I cycle daily.
Someone should upload the zebrafish image to this.

http://v.jcb-dataviewer.glencoesoftware.com/webclient/img_de...
CP/M, in turn, was highly inspired by DEC's PDP-11 operating system.
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>Where political journalists’ information is evaluated through a subjective and nebulous professional/cultural sense of judgment, his evaluation is systematic and scientifically based.

Oh, bullcrap. Silver is hand weighting different polls based on whether or not he thinks they're reliable. That, in turn, is based on his own " subjective and nebulous professional/cultural sense of judgment".

In other words, he's doing exactly what the political journalists are doing and then smearing a thin layer of math over it. This isn't "scientifically based" at all.
Ken's compiler trojan is not invulnerable, and could here be defeated by checksums and versioning.

http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2006/01/countering_tru...
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We heard all these arguments before in various industries along with calls for protection(ism) and government intervention. Unsustainable, unfair competition, crushing the competition leading to lower quality and higher prices down the road. It just rarely seems to come to that, not for long at anyway. They never manage to actually hike prices.

Sustainability is a messy concept. What is the product that needs to be sustainable? How do you define that? Why is the handset alone necessarily the product that you want to be sustainable on it's own? Is a web browser a product that needs to be sustainable on its own? There are many businesses where the real product is not the gadget we hold in our hands. And every time those who try to make a profit from some individual component complain about unfair competition from others who sell a larger package and subsidise that individual component.

Let me ask a few questions about your Amazon example. You say no one will enter the market once Amazon crushed everyone else for fear of Amazon coming back with low prices.

But why wouldn't someone else cross subsidise from a different kind of business and successfully compete with Amazon? Google definitely does exactly that. Others may come up with more ways to do that. Oracle reviving its Java handset business, carriers + Mozilla, someone buying Sony and it's media business. Apple might well be able to do it through media subscription services or just keep selling into the high end luxury/fashion market.

Will Amazon shareholders put up with razor thin margins (even losses recently) forever or will they eventually ask for a payout?

What keeps another big retailer that doesn't carry the cost of giving away handsets from undercutting Amazon in the retail market? Or if it's such a good idea to give away handsets, why wouldn't WalMart buy Netflix and join forces with Samsung or HTC to do the same?

At the end of the day, I'm not concerned about any of this being just temporary. Smartphone prices will never go up. There are just too many angles from which a wannabe monopolist could be attacked.
I did.

I once dropped 50 lbs in about three months solely from returning to my previous running habit. At least according to my calculations, I was burning closer to 1000kcal/hour (more like 100kcal/km). I wasn't doing competitive-style twice a day training, either. Just one run, six days a week, usually for 60-90 mins at a BPM of <150. Once a week I ran 800m sprint repeats all-out, and two or three times a month I did a long run (which was increasing by about 10 minutes each time until I got it up to 4 hours).

All in all it averaged out to just over an hour of exercise per day, and the mental benefits more than made up that time in productivity. I didn't change my diet at all, except to eat a bit more after the long runs and possibly to eat a bit more cereal. And I lost just about every spare bit of fat on my body.
Here, I wrote about it on my blog: http://mgakashim.com/123/downloading-and-processing-a-list-o...
"We need an iPhone app for all our Android phones."

I mean, I get kleenex, hoover, and tarmac as generic terms - but "iPhone".

I even heard one kid talking about her Android BlackBerry - which meant her phone had a physical keyboard.
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The argument that

(a) camera technology won't improve over time

(b) no entity has an EagleEye-like ability to summon surveillance footage from various cameras

(c) employees, contractors and subcontractors of such entities won't abuse their access to sensitive information

is quite weak.
I think the point here is that the notion of privacy is actually quite a complicated one. If you asked people in a cafe or a supermarket if they knew they were being videoed then they'd probably say "yes" and be able to point to one of several nearby surveillance cameras, but if you dismount the surveillance camera and hold it manually close to someone then the reaction according to these videos is usually one of surprise shortly followed by hostility.

If the creepy cameraman keeps up his antics then sooner or later he's going to get arrested for stalking, and yet this kind of constant and very intrusive surveillance is going on online all the time, and with new laws it's probably going to become still more intrusive.

Why don't people react the same way to surveillance cameras in supermarkets, streets, offices, etc or to the even more extensive surveillance online (think "warrantless wiretapping" or mobile phone geolocation data)? I think this is primarily due to anthropomorphic factors, plus habituation. The online and CCTV surveillance isn't "in your face" and invading your personal space in quite the same manner as someone holding a security camera. Plus, in the early days of CCTV introduction in the 1980s and 1990s there were some people who reacted badly to seeing cameras watching them in stores, but gradually over time society has just become habituated to that being the normative situation.