skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My questions are:

a) Were you considered obese or over weight before you started training for these races?

b) If exercising wasn't the problem, then was it food choices? Did you have to resort to something other than simply lowering calorie intake to reach (and maintain) a healthy weight.

Your also correct I haven't posted any references, my exposure to dieting/lifestyle changes and weight loss is little more than what I hear from colleague, what few articles pop up on hacker news, CBC radio and the little research I've done myself.

Also thank you for the book recommendation, I'll be sure to check it out.
I am very much a sub-vocalizer, and I have no idea how to pronounce a lot of fantasy words. What I find I do is I just don't sub-vocalize that word. I don't even think about it, I just don't have a way of pronouncing the word, so I "skip" it. Subsequently, I honestly couldn't tell you, were we to have a conversation about that story, what that word was. My comprehension of names I can't sub-vocalize is dismal compared to my comprehension of a) names I can and b) larger story concepts and whatnot that I can largely sub-vocalize.

When reading Crime and Punishment in school, I remember specifically saying, "I have no idea how to pronounce a whole bunch of stuff in here and I'm going to need to talk about it, so I'm going to specifically come up with a pronunciation." Without that conscious effort, I simply wouldn't have tried to vocalize the names whatsoever, despite that being my standard method of reading.

And to be clear, I can not sub-vocalize, but it's just... uncomfortable.
I suffer from a cross disciplinary illness, in which very few doctors have experience (because it doesn't fit into one of the major well defined specialties). You can't imagine how happy it makes me when a doctor tells me "I have to go look that up", as opposed to.. no.. there's nothing to worry about, you're just imagining that, or whatever
I would look for something local and don't try to be a full-fledged adult yet. You've got dues to pay, don't be a mucky-muck about it.

Ask you parents and their friends. Perhaps offer to help out doing IT things as a volunteer for a while. Could you get involved in anything locally in your city?

When I was 17. I fixed Macs. I mowed lawns. I watched neighbor's kids. I helped neighbors do a myriad of things and without want or need for financial support. Sometimes they would pay me, but most times the experience was just as good. In my 18th year summer I worked at my county's IT shop and did many little duties there. I was hooked up with that job from a friend's parent. I didn't get paid much, but it was edifying.

So start networking...offline.
Only if you consider ~450 billion dollars to be a rounding error.
In any industry dominated by a given gender, there is prejudice against the opposite gender. People fear what they do not know.

http://www.nurseryworld.co.uk/news/rss/1056170/New-calls-end...
Yep. I did say that that solution exists ^^. I just said that you couldn't do it without creating something to hold the merged result. Your solution does allocate a buffer to hold the merged result:
`self.array = self.a + self.b`

I wasn't saying you can't sort arrays in place (quicksort). I was saying you can't merge them in place. Somebody has to grow.
It seems us hacker news readers certainly love nitpicking. I'm not talking about traditional HIIT (spring, walk, sprint, walk, repeat until you're dead). I'm talking about very fast weight training (Vince Gironda ftw!) which gives gives you plenty of cardio. Done on an empty stomach this demolishes your fat reserves.

I read your article and this quote stuck out the most:
"The simple fact is that, given that most people train like wimps, if you get them to work harder for a change, good things usually happen." Going to the gym and talking with your buddy is not exercise, but it's exactly what the average gym-goer does.

Between that article and the other one I read which it linked to, Steady State vs. Interval Training: Summing Up Part 2, it seems to prove my point, which is that you can train high-intensity like interval training provided you give yourself enough carbs.
"Fat will make you fat if you overeat (because the fatty acid molecules from your food will be stored in your fat cells). It's not as easy as "more carbs" = obesity epidemic."

Insulin plays a role in regulating the patitioning of fatty acids in the body. The flawed thinking, that calories burned by the body is a fixed amount that doesn't vary based on calories consumed, is simply wrong. The key is that energy expenditures only rise when the calories consumed are not being partitioned for storage. Elevated insulin levels cause storage of fatty acids, and inhibit release of fatty acids from fat cells by triggering them to be bound up into triglyceride molecules.

I'm not some hardcore paleo/keto/Atkins dude, but reducing carbohydrate intake (particularly refined carbs) makes appetite control much easier, by virtue of several obvous and not so obvious reasons. The obvous is that proteins and fats fill you up more (satiety), and that could be accomplished with diets that aren't high in fat by simply upping protein intake, of course. However, the less obvious is the energy partitioning going on with low insulin levels. The fat cells are behaving as they naturally should, pulling in and releasing fatty acids in a balanced manner.
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It's almost as though you're saying one has to put effort and motivation to derive pleasure from something!

Spoonfeeding is the way of the future, and anything else is second-rate design.
This post until the problem is at least acknowledged, let alone addressed. Took me a long time to realise the problem was real ("it's a meritocracy, everyone is welcome in tech!"), and now I can't stand to look at the comments in threads like this http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5279118 without cringing.
When designed in the way described in the article junk food is pretty much a superstimulus. Those are problematic not just among food: http://lesswrong.com/lw/h3/superstimuli_and_the_collapse_of_....
True, but most funding mechanisms, short of no-strings-attached corporate gifts, have some rabble chasing you around, who may get angry in various ways if it doesn't pan out as they had thought they were led to believe. I'd rather have people on the internet disappointed that my research changed direction, than a DARPA program officer on the phone demanding an explanation for missing deliverables...
This is actually really cool. Gesture control outside the bounds of a video based recognition system is the next level imho.
How would this compare to Leap (https://www.leapmotion.com/) in terms of precision?

Also the introduction video nicely showcases the possibilities.
Strangely enough, I find that retention is always better (for me atleast) in casual reading of novels etc; I'm ok there with ~400-500 wpm. I do skim through reports actually, well mostly that happens when you approximately know the content so there just may be higher speeds may be achieved as you know what to expect. I think for me it is mostly prior knowledge that maybe makes a difference of 100-200 wpm
As a bystander who becomes aware of such behaviour of course it's your responsibility to get involved. But if we're talking, as the article does, about a woman and one man alone in an elevator, and that man happens to be an asshole, what can the rest of us realistically do to prevent this happening?
Having something on a security recording can be classed as "hard evidence".

The case in question was one of using circumstantial evidence alone to "statistically" decide whether she was guilty or not.

And yet, aren't all types of hard evidence really just probabilistic as well? For example, there is a non-zero probability that the murderer on the security camera is merely a person with an amazing physical similarity to the defendant. If we could develop an accurate mathematical model of human physical features, we could even estimate the probability that we're looking at a double and not the defendant.

Likewise, when a DNA match is used in court, the forensic scientist typically testifies to the probability of a false match. Once again, the evidence is probabilistic.

In both of these cases, the probability of a mistake is low. But it is non-zero, and it can be quanitified--if not with current technology, then at least in principle.

So, you will never get away from deciding cases probabilistically. And if you simply refuse to assign numerical probabilities to anything even when the circumstances readily permit it, you're not increasing your chance of being right, you're just sticking your head in the sand.
I reported this to Google about the same time, in June last year, and got a similar response. Interestingly, I published some notes on the issue almost exactly one week before the duosecurity researchers 'discovered' it ;)

http://grkvlt.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/google-tfa-security-iss...
This constant insistence on "hard data" is extremely tiresome, and throws a wrench in what would otherwise be interesting debates. I think, as intelligent people, we should be able to reason ourselves out of a disagreement without relying on data that may or may not exist.
That is a great response.

The next thing that entered my head is: How does the reading speed of deaf-from-birth compare to those who learned to read and then became deaf?
I would imagine "writes" are still being written to the database, which then triggers the re-generation of the appropriate flat-file(s).
Your primary problem is when you think of "women in tech" as being "sexually interesting people in tech" instead of "people in tech". All the rest follows from that. When you meet somebody at a professional conference, ignore their gender and treat them the way you would want to be treated.

Also, a nice person who is rude to the waiter (or barista, or retail clerk, or...) is not a nice person.
Don't confuse an effective single-payer system for what we have or what 'Obamacare' (I hate that word) is giving us.
Why all this "you want"? I realize it's just a turn of phrase that you are probably using without thinking, but seriously: don't you think grayrest knows what he/she wants better than you do? Structure editors are extremely useful and do not solve the same problem as templates at all.
Oh I think I get it, instead of waiting for a user to click on a page and then call the server to render that page, the flat file method renders all the pages at once w/o worrying about which pages the user will click on... Correct?
For example 1: The reason why the hospital charges so much is the fact that it gets stiffed for a lot of emergecy patients without insurance. Many hospitals are on the brink of bankruptcy especially in poorer areas. This does not always reflect in the huge disparity in prices people pay, but is a big factor. Hospitals try to offset their losses by charging paying customers more.

The real problems here especially with emergency care are that hospitals are forced to eat the cost of treating non insured patients, and that patients have no idea what something costs when they are there or if the people treating them will be covered by their insurance. Insurance companies spend a lot of time negotiating rates and making them somewhat uniform for them, but this is totally opaque to the patient. We need to make it more clear to the people being treated what things cost, and who is "in network". There have been times that I went to an emergency room "in network" and I was "balance billed" by nearly every doctor there due to them not being in network. What is a patient to do? Sit there with a book of providers and procedures?
Me too. What varies my speed in fiction reading (beyond plain badly written fiction) is the level of detail the story forces my mind to create to envision it. In a fiction book I really enjoy I'll spend more time 'dreaming' it then reading.

I think another way to test to see how well someone speed reads is to have them pick out a concept out of non-indexed data. If someone speed reads beyond their ability they will skip over it, if they are not a speed reader it will take some time for them to find it.
The characterization of this as an industry issue is a red herring. This is a societal issue; the fact we're in the tech industry is simply a commonality.
Why I don't feel so bad
So this guy thinks he knows the full range of ideas, and that it's not possible that someone has thought of something he hasn't, that might just be good enough to warrant investment.

"I must confess that a man is guilty of unpardonable arrogance who concludes, because an argument has escaped his own investigation, that therefore it does not really exist."--David Hume
You can sell plugins and themes in markets.
You might want to make that Google lower case, because as it currently stands, it seems to suggest that the fastest programmers go to Google.
I get that. It's just a dead horse at this point. The only ones keeping it alive seem to be the defensive work-at-home people.
I don't see it that way. It's not easy to give up a comfortable future for the uncertain one, regardless of one's current position. If you'll notice, we did commit. The purpose of writing this article was to create a public declaration of that fact.

I do see where you reached that conclusion - thanks for the feedback. I'll try and be more clear in future articles.
I've said in the past that it's good to see a variety of groups trying to crack the science crowdfunding issue - it's tough, and differs from the more popular branches of crowdfunding in very important ways.[1]

The future of medicine, however, rests upon success; there's a lot of medical research that just doesn't get funded because the regulatory situation for commercial applications of research is terrible beyond all belief [2], [3]. The incentives there percolate back up the research chain to ensure that few people work on genuinely groundbreaking things, or on things that are intended to do something other than treat late-stage conditions in marginal ways.

Yet this is an era of plummeting costs and soaring capabilities in biotech - so much can be done now with a grad student and a few tens of thousands of dollars that 20 years back would have taken tens of millions and a whole lab, if it could be done at all. In recent years I've been privileged to watch the Longecity community work through the process of crowdfunding small research projects like microglia transplants in mice to evaluate prospects for neurodegenerative treatments [4], to pick one example. That is exactly the sort of thing we'd like to see better frameworks and a broader audience for.

In other words, work taking place in niche fields that are important but underfunded and underappreciated, but nonetheless have strong communities with a willingness to step up and help out.

But as I've said, it's really, really hard. You can't just kickstart a science project in the same way as for games, tools, etc. It doesn't work that way. So I'm hoping that one of these present ventures finds the key.

[1] http://www.fightaging.org/archives/2012/06/you-cant-just-kic...

[2] http://www.fightaging.org/archives/2012/04/the-fda-is-a-dest...

[3] http://www.fightaging.org/archives/2008/05/envisaging-a-worl...

[4] http://www.fightaging.org/archives/2012/05/updates-on-the-lo...
Your last sentence does paint a pretty clear picture - get back into hardware building, you said it yourself, we do now have YC and the startup culture.
It sure is, but It was 800 dollars less than a Duo 11. I figured it would have to be good enough until my ideal device is released. I mostly use it for reading programming books, so I still get a lot of use out of it.
The numbers are vanishingly small

Well, compared to what?

The odds of having your private health insurance rescinded in the US is also very small -- but it's quite likely among people who suddenly rack up big health care costs.

Similarly, if you compare Canada-to-US medical tourists to the Canadian population, I'm sure it's amazingly tiny. But how does it compare to the people of means who have a medical procedure denied by the Canadian system?

(I don't fault Canada for denying care in some cases. Sometimes it's not worth it. But the Canadian system would be better if people were still allowed to top off the denied care with their own dollars and didn't need to leave the country to get it.)
Well, it depends on your email usage. Mailbox imposes a certain way to deal with email. If you don't like that way, you will hate Mailbox (it's not too flexible). For now, Mailbox's way is fine for me, until someone comes up with a better email system.
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> If they can't find anything harder than a set of odds, then judges have no place betting on them.

But this is how our entire legal system is set up. For criminal proceedings, we have to find the defendant 'guilty beyond reasonable doubt'. What is 'reasonable doubt' if not a (theoretically) quantifiable or parameterizeable representation of our belief that the defendant committed the criminal act?

We don't explicitly quantify this threshold as, eg. a 95% chance, but that's still the exact same process we require a jury to undergo, even if we don't attach quantifiable numbers to the results.

The jury can never return a probability of 1 (in statistical terms, 'almost certain'), or else the entire appeal system wouldn't exist.
I remember that crash. A couple of those people were freaking out. And I think your price estimate is correct.

I'd much rather they start spending them within the BTC economy than cashing in for "real" currency instead. The biggest hurdle for BTC isn't even the hoarding, it's that they hoard just because it's still not seen as a real alternative by most folks so they're waiting for the "realization, spike" in prices (I don't think we're there yet).

Few people these days actually hoard cash; instead, they invest in commodities or companies. But these people are hoarding for the value of the currency itself. It's like gold all over again.

I must confess though, the first time I heard about BTC, I did take it for just a very elaborate ponzi scheme. The irony is that the hoarding may, if left unchecked, turn it into exactly that.
Thank you! I'm not sure what you mean by "Apple-proposed modules", though. Please let me know more and I'll see what I can do.
I think it's all connected.

There are many reasons you don't see women speaking at tech conferences. Some is because they're passed over as non-members of the boys club. Some is because they don't want to attend and be part of the environment. I've had far worse things happen to be at tech shows - there's one I avoid altogether after being sexually assaulted in a hotel room - but like you said, there's a reason women don't feel comfortable talking about. i don't want to be the "token" harassment case. I don't want to become known for that above anything else I may do. So do I speak up or do I shut up.

That's just as large of an issue as how do I get that creep from putting his hand on knee. Arguably, it's bigger.
> Isn't it the responsibility of the people making unprofessional advances to stop

Well, yes, but if your plan to stop sexism is something along the lines of "Wait for jerks to suddenly become good people," you're doing a disservice to their victims.

> and silent bystanders to tell them so

I don't feel like it is my business to step in and speak for a woman who has not implicitly or explicitly asked me to do so. That seems like a really degrading viewpoint. If she clearly wants the guy to go away and he won't, yes, go up and help her. But the idea that it's my job to run around policing women's sexuality is just antediluvian.
>it's not just sexual harassment that's an issue

How does discern sexual harassment (between adults with no business ties between them) from flirting?

I ask because I've also seen flirting remakers being conceived as "harassement".

That "the place was not appropriate" or "it was uncalled for" is not a proper answer I think. There would be VERY FEW relationships and/or marriages if people never approached other people out of the blue and in non-appropriate places (in a conference for example).
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Exactly: that's the part I'd like to see a rebutted (if there is a rational rebuttal). The ad-hoc nature of their pricing model seems crazy.
It's not just enough to get women into tech. You have to get them to STAY in tech. Because that's becoming an even bigger problem. We're here. We're vocal. And then we leave because of crappy things that happen to us. It's a lot to ask someone to be put through that time and time again.
Try the following: http://www.quora.com/Which-is-better-to-work-for-Google-or-F...

The link provides Some great answers covering different points that might help give you the information you need without having to disclose more details here...
Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Facebook gave a talk about this at the 2011 Grace Hopper conference. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMVCSrm65kg

In my experience, lots of girls in CS feel this way. I convinced my ex girlfriend to major in computer science. She didn't think she could do it because she had never programmed or anything before college. I told her that it didn't matter, and that she had in fact programmed before. She used to love making myspace layouts.

As she neared graduation, she was constantly telling me how she felt like she couldn't do it. That she was faking her way through all of her classes and that if anyone actually hired her she would be a miserable failure. Honestly, a lot of that feeling was probably my fault. I was a few years older and already out of college. The amount of help I gave her on assignments would probably be considered cheating at most universities. I always tried to make sure she understood what was happening though. So she really felt like a fraud.

She had an internship writing code though, and even got a few raises while she was working there. I knew her coworkers and they never even hinted that she didn't know what she was doing. I just tried to keep encouraging her and telling her she knew what she was doing (even though I had doubts)

So what happened? She's a developer at Amazon now. As far as I know, she's doing quite well.
Are you being serious? Yes, when you're trying to get a job, you generally still have to prove competency (in tech fields at least). But the assumptions are still comparatively in your favor. What I'm referring to is more about casual settings, where there isn't already a process in place to judge competency. When people must make a snap judgement based on little or no information, a white man will have all the assumptions in his favor.
An unenlightened attitude. You use "closed source tools" every time you start your car, use your telephone, watch TV, or run on a treadmill at the gym. What's so special about FPGA development?
I do not think that it is sexism BECAUSE it is SEXUAL HARASSMENT or even sexual abuse in some conditions.
Sexism is when you are promoted or NOT promoted because you are a WOMAN. Or someone ask a WOMAN to CLEAN some spilled coffee because she is a WOMAN...
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>the fact that a man can think it's appropriate to put his hand on a woman's knee unsolicited is just a blatant, ugly manifestation of the underlying sexism.

Well, let's get real. How many men think that? I've never seen that in ANY company I have ever worked for. Heck, I haven't even see this kind of thing in the university.

It's like taking the example of a rapist (which this guy sort of is) and extrapolating it to some general trend about everyone.
This is a fantastic idea, reading the self-documenting code right now. This is like a cross between literate programming and a C preprocessor, with a sprinkle of build management.

I can picture a few powerful ways of using this. Thanks for sharing!