skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To rephrase this, science is the only thing we know. Show me something that's not science that we know. Of course, you can't. You've given yourself the answer before you begin to ask the question.

Er, isn't that the entire point? Coyne didn't set this trap; Hughes did by contrasting science with ???, where ??? is some as-yet undefined way of apprehending truth. It's incumbent on Hughes to solve that dilemma, not Coyne. And, of course, Hughes doesn't. At all.

But since some theoretical physicists can't tell you why the universe exists and evolutionary psychologists still publish papers, the periodic table of elements, Maxwell's equations, and the theory of evolution are all part of a religion. QED!
>Ultimately, no food is bad in itself

I think that may have been true at some point. But I believe that we are now manufacturing foods that are legitimately bad. Unless you are not counting those things as "food", which I would totally agree with.

I like Michael Pollans's advice: "Eat food, not too much, mostly plants." And "food" here is defined as you would expect (hint: Twinkies don't qualify)
In the Michael Pollan definition of food, there is no such thing as bad food.
I lost about 50lbs this year. If someone told me to cut the shit I was eating in half, no way in the world a "diet plan" would have worked. Explain to your fat patients that a diet isn't eating less, its eating differently. And three words to end this: slow carb diet.
1) I am concerned that the excellent reputation Alan Watts deserves for his work will be diminished by those who cite him. So I will just fondly remember to myself his story of trying to mail water.

2) It is my understanding that 19th Century science would have asserted authority on the subjects of things like consciousness it should not have, and which 21st Century science does not assert. On the other hand at least the Roman Catholic church has withdrawn from over exerting its authority on at least some matters addressed by biologists.

3) non science has abdicated its authority on any non scientific questions by its assertions that no means exists that can assure that anything is true, because there is nothing to any statement but its social context. The obvious consequence of that movement should have been its instantaneous invalidation by its own social construction by Marxists, or as the observer Mandy Rice-Davies might have said, They would say that, wouldn't they?
IG is crufty. Most widgets had bit rotted. IG needs a next-generation implementation and marketing.
I wish more journals would follow this example. This is a really smart way to widen the reach of their ideas.
You just noticed that Google is into AI and Apple isn't?
It seems weird that he uses blog-centric companies (TechCrunch, etc) as examples of companies that do, and non-blog-centric companies (GitHub, etc) as examples that don't.

TechCrunch/etc cares about the statistics FeedBurner offers since that is their core product, whereas GitHub/etc probably don't care that much.
Ah, so you can scientifically replicate an arbitrary unique experience?

I'd like a slice of roast dodo bird please.
> come race me 100 miles on a road bike

Because that's exactly what people do every day and what they should always be prepared for. I keep my racing bike and a bag of rice right next to the emergency kit.

Some people are into thousands of miles on a bike, or marathons, great for you, but most aren't. And, beyond enjoyment, there's no reason to be into that, there are better, cheaper and less time-consuming ways to maintain your physical fitness[1].

Instead of 100 miles on a bike, you could do 20 pull-ups, 50 push-ups, some leg rises, followed by an inferno omelete[2], save two hours to do something else, and still likely get better results if you're so worried about that coronary disease.

[1] http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-short-intense-health-l...

[2] http://chefinjeans.com/2012/05/31/cooking-for-single-men-inf...
I normally dislike the term "fanboy," but I have to admit that when the shoe fits...
People who believe in science don't want to argue with someone who believes in something based on faith? Huh, interesting.
The Mediterranean, Inuit, and vegetarian diets (and presumably also the Pollan diet) are empirically well tested, because many people already live by those diets. This makes them conservative choices. There's no guarantee that they will work, but there is a high probability based on empirical evidence.
I can't say I have tried, perhaps I will later, but how about netcat piped to sed?
Also, check out burpsuite for most of that functionality.. just not cli based.
Because it has extraordinary explanatory power in a very wide diversity of settings. It is certainly consistent with the sciences, and anthropological science in particular.

BTW -- You (on average) ate through your belly button for months 2 through 9 of your existence. Just because you aren't using it _now_ doesn't mean it never served any purpose.
There is a line of philosophy, particularly popular among atheists and other people who like to call themselves rationalists, there is is some absolute morality which can be justified on the basis of the kinds of issues that you're talking about.

Just coincidentally, most people who believe in that come up with something like Western morality.

Now I grant, our desire for morality is indeed evolved. It is as much a part of the fabric of who we are as, say, the ease with which Stockholm Syndrome can set in to quickly adapt us becoming slaves. (Historically a very useful reaction to have from time to time.)

My point is that any attempt to justify current moral beliefs on evolution, game theory, and some sort of absolutes, is fundamentally flawed. We are equipped to have moral reactions. We are trained to have particular moral reactions. But we have no evidence that our current moral fashions are in any real sense fundamental.
Yes definitely as we get more traction
Do you really have nothing to offer about how intuition is useful or legitimate as a "way of knowing"? You want to just say the word "intuition" and have us respond, "huh, interesting"? Talk about intellectually engaging.
Holy f this completely blew my mind
Are you sure? As far as I know, none of those have testable explanations.
Hold the conspiracy theories: The real reason why Apple is slumping
Yes and yes.

The whole reason for existence of FeedBurner is analytics. The links are used to track clicks; you can turn it off.
Is it better to classify a rabbit by its meat or by its fur? It depends what you want to do with it.
There's also the distinction between "losing weight" and "losing fat."

The calorie in vs. calorie out method is great if you're simply focused on losing weight, but if you're interested in losing fat, changing your body composition, or gaining muscle definition, you're going to have to dig a little deeper than just calorie counting – you'll need to look at the quality & types of foods you're eating.
With a 30 second elevator pitch.
WCF on secure channel when load balancers do the security
Two Tickets to the Moon: Yours for Just $1.5 Billion
Is #10 actually going to destroy the AVR?

Method #10: Exceed Total Microcontroller Current

I'd imagine it would just temporarily disable it, but disconnecting the extra draw would put things right again... I don't think undervoltage or undercurrent physically damages the AVR?
> Ultimately, no food is bad in itself.

Unfortunately, this completely depends on what your definition of "food" is.
This is a bit of an old discussion.

I think it's a fair tradeoff for content-centric companies to have feedburner (now google) rewrite those links to get some very useful stats in return. This was already happening pre-acquisition and only got better afterwards.

Links get indexed quicker and get submitted to reader / google news for free.
Ask HN: Miracle acne cure?
If you are like me, one of the many unfortunate people who suffer(ed) from acne, what has worked for you?

This is a big deal! Its bothering me! I'm sure others would love to know as well.
Somebody bought the equipment and they're probably not letting people use it for free, that's all I'm saying.

Sparkfun owns a pick and place machine:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tn0EKtLOVx4

Presumably they're doing the reflow there too. No idea about the PCB manufacturing.

Adafruit is even smaller, I think, and they do their own QA:

http://learn.adafruit.com/how-to-make-a-pogo-pin-test-jig
King of the Hill is a terrible show. It looks like a 12 year apology for making office space. Where-ever office space attacks and mocks the traditional power structure, king of the hill carefully reinforces it. King of the Hill is not a little too dry it is a lot too stupid.

In fact if I were prone to more paranoia, I would suggest that some Hollywood honcho sat Mike down in some dark office and explained to him that he has done a terrible thing by making office space, and he has to suffer, and only if he suffers willingly and eagerly for more than ten years by continuously making this awful trash called King of the Hill, only then he will be back in the good graces of the powers that be. But of course that is just my imagination. I am sure nobody actually had to explain this to Mike Judge. He likely figured it out on his own.
> Sure, if you stop eating you will lose some weight, but, you can die of starvation while obese.

This guy[1] went for over a year on vitamins and water. He didn't die, and he did drop a lot of weight. Actually, "prolonged fasting in this patient had no ill-effects." Though it's probably one of those things you really shouldn't try at home.

[1] http://pmj.bmj.com/content/49/569/203.abstract
All drawing current does is cause components to heat up. Too much heat and the components start vaporizing, and then they don't work anymore because they no longer exist. (The effects may be more subtle than this, of course.)

So yes, it's definitely possible to damage a microcontroller in this way, but I'm not convinced it's as easy as the article suggests. (I'd try on an ATtiny right now and see, but my stash is at work.)
Can you briefly explain or point to something brief that explains the specific things that are significantly harmful or incorrect with relation to Descartes' Discourse on Method?

I agree with you that dogmatism is probably a negative thing, unless the dogmatism enforces being non-dogmatic. My shallow reading of Popper and Descartes seems to indicate that they are dogmatic about not being dogmatic, so I really quite like their dogma.

Any other problems with reductionism would be especially interesting.

Any answers to the classic regress argument would also be appreciated, I am not very clever and neither are my acquaintances - we haven't seemed to find anyone to convince us why "A proves B" is epistemically useful...though surely there is some argument

[C PROVES why "A proves B"], and surely some argument

{D PROVES why [C proves why "A proves B"]}, etc.

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

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_the_Tortoise_Said_to_Achil...
I was most struck by the line that "It easily becomes an interpretive blank check, permitting speculation that seems to explain any describable human trait." This has long been a criticism "real" evolutionary scientists (like geneticists) have leveled against the speculative nonsense often seen coming from sociobiology/evolutionary psychology [0].

Science works to find scientific conclusions. But the trappings of science are sometimes applied in ways that have little to do with actual science.

[0] http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2012/09/17/12091... -- note that sociobio/ev psych can produce real science. In my experience, though, most of what they produce is "just-so stories", as Gould's comment points out.
> And that's what we tried, but then the Taliban set up a safe-haven for Al-Queda and we got 9-11.

There are far easier ways of preventing another 9-11. For example, why don't we start by enforcing intelligence sharing between the various TLAs? After all, that's why we couldn't stop 9-11.

There's a HUGE difference between Israel's position and our's. Israel is right up against the border of the West Bank and Gaza. We're on the other side of the world.
As I understand it, one of the largest factors in low carb dieting is that carbs are less satiating per calorie than fats and proteins. Also that simple/highly processed carbs are even less satiating, largely because they lack any fiber. So if you aren't counting calories, you're much more likely to eat less on a low carb and high fiber diet.

Regardless of what you do, counting calories will probably be the most effective method for losing weight. And even then, calorie estimations are rough, change based on how the foods are prepared, and highly dependent on biological factors unique to each person.

I'm working on Eat This Much (http://www.eatthismuch.com/) as a way to automate my own diet. It still needs some work to get to the point where I'm never thinking about what to eat, but I've been using it to gain weight very successfully over the past few months. Gaining weight can be a lot simpler than losing it, but it still helps to pay attention to what you eat to avoid putting on fat as opposed to muscle.

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He's also completely overlooking the overfeeding studies that Taubes references in his books. Eating 10000 calories of cheese or pork chops is a lot harder than with ice cream.
Lua implements TCO, so it'll do just fine. :P
AskScience is also curated very well and can make for some interesting reading.
I bet even if things got more amazing (like we started traveling around in those smart chairs like in Wall-E) people still wouldn't be happy. I enjoyed reading this because I often forget how amazing smartphones are.
No on is suggesting /r/technology though. There are subreddits out there that are a lot better.
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Do you spend almost all of your day in front of a computer?

One more question, do you practice any sport regularly?
The fact is that ways the teaching is done will have to change. As things around us are changing at raid speed.
The calories in/calories out model does work as long as you properly count the calories going in. The number shouldn't be what's on the nutrition label since that assumes an ideal digestive system that can fully extract all the energy from the food that a person eats.

This number doesn't include factors such as the health of the person. If the person has digestive problems such an a malfunctioning intestine and can't digest and absorb the energy from the food, then amount of calories extracted from the food will be lower than what's on the label.

If the person has metabolic problems such diabetes or certain other hormonal imbalances, then the energy will be extracted from the food, but it will be stored as fat rather than being used as useful energy. The person will feel tired even though they are consuming enough calories.

Reducing food intake or increasing energy consumption will help a person lose weight if all other factors stay the same. However, as a person consumes less food, they might end up feeling tired and crappy due to the body trying to compensate. Alternatively, changing a person's hormonal balance (e.g. by consuming low glycemic load foods to reduce insulin spikes and allow better utilization of energy in the food) will also cause a person to lose weight. This is the basis of the good calories/bad calories model of dieting, the Atkin's diet, and Tim Ferriss's Slow Carb Diet.
> Consciousness

Neurology has a lot of information about where consciousness comes from. It's not complete, but nothing we know is.

> experience, spontaneity

More neurology, from what I can tell that these words mean. However, they're vague, and can be defined in so many ways that I don't know precisely what you mean.

> 'the present moment'

This is amazingly vague. It could be related to time, to consciousness, or to who-knows-what.
Related, but weirdly cool: I can buy you an iTunes gift certificate, and you just hold it up to the camera on your computer to redeem it.

Much nicer in many ways than trundling vinyl discs around.
An introduction to proofs and the mathematical vernacular
Lol I am not entirely sure if you are trolling or not!
> How are you feeling right now?

Emotions, both feeling and decoding, are smack-dab in the realm of neurology.
Fingerprints provide roughness and grip to your fingers. Without them, you'd have a difficult time doing simple things like holding a beer bottle with your finger tips.
Google now offering ISP services but only to the KS City Area? Is this Legit?
Do not work for cost center. Work for profit center.
> I receive strong cues from my intuition about other people's feelings.

Those are your mirror neurons, I think.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/body/mirror-neurons.html

Or maybe not. We'll find out using science.
Thanks. I got this far after posting my comment. Figured out I needed NodePackageManager. I hate when instructions say npm and dont say what npm means. Now I am getting another error when I run mrt inside the telescope folder. I am working on it.. I love this. I spent weeks trying to get newscloud going, but never did...
Specifically, I was going to suggest:

http://programmers.stackexchange.com/

http://cs.stackexchange.com/

http://cstheory.stackexchange.com/

http://scicomp.stackexchange.com/

http://math.stackexchange.com/
Because it couldn't have been satirizing that traditional power structure.
setjmp and longjmp can be used for exception handling, if you want to lose your mind.
Thanks for your concern Matthew, I'm not very worried about this. That 13% of difference in speed is most probably due to the fact that Amazon has a Cloudfront edge location in Madrid, the city most of my traffic comes from.

I haven't really measured the speed from other locations but I will do it and file the ticket to let you know about it.
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> Ah, so you can scientifically replicate an arbitrary unique experience?

Not yet. Can you explain morality in terms of your favored philosophical framework?

> I'd like a slice of roast dodo bird please.

A fine example of what people do when they don't reason things through. How does this discredit science?
I agree with your remark, but would like to make an addition: apart from diet and exercise, there is a third variable that controls the calorie balance: culture/customs.
For example, the amount of clothing one wears and the temperature at which one keeps ones living quarters in winter affects calories 'out', as does what one does while waiting for a cab/train/appointment (standing still vs walking around). Those are areas where I think easy gains can be made, even when forgetting about the elephant in the room 'get out of your car', which, apparently, is very hard to do for many people.

And, as with all dieting related stuff, for most people, there is no need for drastic action. Gaining 3 grams of body weight per day brings you 20 kg extra body weight going from 20 years to 40 years of age; that is what happens to most people. Your diet/exercise plan, similarly, is good enough if it leads to 3 grams of weight loss a day.
and a node.js backend!

Man they don't even need writers, just read HN all day.
That's an awfully blanket statement which indicates to me you judge the show entirely by the cover, and have seen at most a few episodes. You probably saw a redneck family and immediately assumed the show centers entirely around the popular stereotypes and tropes of that subset of society. While it's certainly not lacking in the aforementioned, the show explores a far wider range of subject matter than you'd probably care to give it credit for.

While any show running for so long has hit-and-miss episodes, overall the the show is very well rounded - it explores controversial subjects with care and grace, while remaining funny and heartwarming. And yes, the humor can be quite dry. It's not for kids with short attention spans and who need constant gag after gag, i.e. Family Guy. In most episodes it's difficult to discern whether the moralistic views are real "American values" or a parody of them. It's much more about episode-long deep satire than one-off jokes.
Thanks for your interest guys and gals. Would you be interested in talk ing tomorrow (Sunday) at 3pm PST on Google Hangout and discussing a possible project?
Try proactive, I used it when I was teenager.
Show HN: WantKeeper, An online wishlist.
My buddy and I got tired of the hodge podge of online wishlists currently available, so we tried our hand at it.

Pinterest was the closest thing we'd seen to functionality that was simple and also promoted sharing, so you'll notice quite a few cues taken from Pinterest.

We've tried to figure out how to simplify the wishlist and gift buying process, and we'd love your opinions and thoughts!

http://wantkeeper.com to sign up. It's free, you only need a Facebook account.
If you care, just load up your card with money and trade with someone else. Repeat until the tinfoil hat sense stops tingling.

Or just jump over the turnstiles.
Hi, I'd really like one too. Thanks. http://scr.im/mklnz
Not to sound rude but this is where I wished a down vote system existed. Unsure if this question merits a spot on the front page.
My buddy Jon and I got tired of the hodge podge of online wishlists currently available, so we tried our hand at it.

Pinterest was the closest thing we'd seen to functionality that was simple and also promoted sharing, so you'll notice quite a few cues taken from Pinterest.

We've tried to figure out how to simplify the wishlist and gift buying process, and we'd love your opinions and thoughts!

http://wantkeeper.com to sign up. It's free, you only need a Facebook account.
Accutane is pretty miraculous, if you want to risk the side effects and can get it somewhere it's available. It worked for me (~ 10 years ago).
What if they used Linux and were filling RedHat's pockets via support contracts? Would you adopt a "Red$Hat" spelling convention?

The "filling pockets" comment indicates that either you think making money is bad, or you have some other argument you should have made instead.
I think that is where we are headed.
I had no motivation to try to bump this to the front page. Just wanted some input. I agree.
If you're used to burning carbs sure, since you'll have high insulin levels. It takes time to build up to the point where you're able to burn fat easily.

http://www.endurancecorner.com/Fat_Burning_Essentials2

http://triathlon.competitor.com/2012/06/nutrition/inside-tri...
> Idicoracy is especially amusing because as the years go on, it only seems more prescient.

This is just you turning into a curmudgeon; that is, your mind ossifying and you being unable to absorb new ideas as readily.
Just think how rich the manufacturers of seatbelt latches are getting in this era of mandatory seatbelt laws. It's clear proof that all laws exist only to make special interest groups ultra rich so they can screw us over in some future dystopia more easily.
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I've heard, but never tried, eating a LOT of apples.
I have one extra ATMega168 and I will test some of these methods but I'm not sure if you can kill one of these chips just by doing some of these methods.

All I can say is that once, while programming one of these ATMegas, I accidentally swapped VDD and GND and left it there for 2/3 minutes. The chip got very hot and I burnt my finger but once I left the chip cool I was able to program it again and after 2 years it is still working.
If only there was a simple way to stop sebaceous glands less toxic than accutane.

Washing with soap a lot throughout the day and applying moisturizer with a small amount of salycic acid liberally has helped me a lot to control it on my face.
Two ways.

One - cover your pillow with a fresh clean outofthefdrier towel every night. Acme nuked.

Two - goto the bathroom. Run the hot water until it is steaming. Fold up a face cloth. Soak in the running hot water. Press to acne. If your eyes don't water, you're not doing it right. Acme nuked again.